Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1894-01-11

1T will do very WE'LL" said the gen.
Hcman, Selling hold of me. lie prom
iscd to bring or send me back next day,
but II week passed, and every evening
found him strutting along the pier
with TIC IT. his right hand. Late one
afternoon however, when he was in
his wor.Ssh , making another pipe, the
student CT ne to the door and said
that he wanted his umbrellas Then
the gentleman received him Hospital
bly,, but declared that he had taken
back both umbrcllas three days before.
SO solcmnly did he insist on this that
the other knew not what to say and
went oil in a duze.
The next man knew was introduced
TO me, So to speak, by his wife My
owner had taken me To n dinner party,
and was in the umbrella stand when
two Of the company left They wcrc
the first to 90. and saw ut once that
they were husband and wife. The
gentleman was taking his own um-
rrclla fiom the stand tor he was weak
mindcd) when the lady handed me to
him saying: This Is u much better
one" Thus II was that again changed
owners. From this house was taken
toy the first gentleman that called, hut
hc lost INC ON the way. lie went by
rail, and another gentleman in the car
rage left, talking me with him lilo
was tho gentleman who had me In his
hand when we walked home from
suircc with young ladies. Three Of
them he told tbut ut different timcs)
that he loved them passionatcly, but
could not afford To marry; and they all
promised to he sisters to him. which
pleased him vastly more, think, than
II they had promised to marry him.
He LETT me at tn outside Of his door
one day because was very wet, and
there | was found by policeman, who
tool, me IN charge and ran me into the
police station. Tho magistrate picked
Ia out IA the best Of SIX and took mo
home, where lay flr u week, when
was nb,tractel from the stand by u
town councillor
lie took inc, the next day, To- meet.
Ing of his friends, when there was talk
, OF presenting something to an Irish
statesman, and ut first thought they
were 10 present me To him, but It turned
out to be something else. This town
councillor ] heard boasting that he
never carried any but the best UNI
| brellas, and he also boosted that hc had
not bought an umbrella since he was
sixteen years Of age. A councillor tool,
me away from the council chamber,
| aud had rim Of silver put around mo
with his name and address ON it, FOR"
he said, 'if you do not take some pro-
caution you are sure to lose your UNI
brclla, the public are SO careless or dis
honest" In his possession remained
for nearly month, but one day lac
took ne to n club, aud had not been
In the stand for more than five minutes
when u lawyer came out, and selecting
me with cure walked away with me
lie took the silver rim off with his
pockcti,nife. and then car led me of
To n shop, where he instructed the shop
man to put n band around mo saying
that | was presented TO John Smith
Esq, by his afrcctionatc son-in.law,
June -, 1850 My new owner was tn,
man who abused me because once wa.
open was reluctant 10 shut, for nov
| had become somewhat stim One,
he was in such rage at me tina
he hit me savngcly against tho hu
stand and that was how my first ril
was broken so badly.
was saved from this man by NJ
elderly lady, who took me away hc
meath her waterproof, thinking shoul,
do for an Office umbrella for her son
When they discovered, however, tina
the rib was in two and that was spot
ted with holes, they ragged together n
the old gentleman for owning such ~
umbrella. | was kept at the Office I'M
Ill one OF the clerks fell over me qnt
broke two more ribs. My owner now
declared that had been an admirnbl,
new umbrella when he bought me III,
week before, and the unhappy young
man had to give him another, where
upon he got me MS gift. was sorry
! for him, for he told his master that III,
.'w umbrella had cost him fifteen shil
lings, but soon | discovered that he hat
picked 1t out OF the stand Mt doctor''
house. lie tried TO mend me with
boot lace, but my appearance was nov
hopelcssly plebeian, and heard hin
tell his sister, who lived with him, tina
he was really ashamed TO be seen OF
the street with mo
One day our door stood wide open
and so did the door that was only sep
arated from ours by an iron railing; ~
she took me into the next house and
left me In tho umbrella stand there
taking away II new umbrella in cx
change. 1t is in this house | am lying
now They offered me TO the milltmar
and the postman, but neither woulC
have me; so was carried contemptu
ously into the closet, where now lie
j, NJ. Barrie, in Two of Them.