Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-12-21
RETURNED THE V.
Agent N. j. Young Receives an
Unexpected Remittance.
MISTAKE OF LONG AGO EXPLAINED.

Southern - ticket agent at Oberlin.
Ohio, one evening in checking up
his reseipts detected q shortage Of
IS. The amount could never be &C.
counted for. The replenishing OF
the deficiency naturally devolved
upon him. This he did and as to
how the money disappeared always
remained unexplained. Being q
trivial amount, the matter vanished
from his memory long before his
coming to Rock Island and his cou-
nection with the Burlington as ticket
agent. His surprise when he opened
the following communication bear
ing the postmark of Burkett. Ind.
and the signature of w. M. Mendel.
the other day can only be imagined:
Having traced you to Rock Island
and supposing you to be the gentle
man am after / shall proceed a,
once with an explanation of my OBJ
ject. I should like to know if you
you were ticket agent for the L. 5. &
NJ. S. at Oberlin. Ohio, in 1sS0-8S.
II so. have you any recollection Of
checking short IS one day? l think
twas late in the summer or early in
the fall of 1881 (not sure) that
bought round trip ticket to Nor
walk from you, l suppose. giving
you Is bill, and you returned me
change for $40 in mistake. l dis
covered the error at the time, but
was then inexperienced in railroad
ing and not just as straight as l
ought to have been either, 50
thought the company would have to
lose it anyway and l would just keep
that s. while 1 had the chance. Now
il you are the very man l kindly ask
you to advise me at once and l shall
gladly send you the amount"
Sets Him to Thinking.
The contents of the missive set Mr..
Young to thinking. Going back to
when he used to sell tickets down in
Ohio he fina1iy recollected the &C.
currence. That day when he could
not account for the IS wildly flashed
up before him, and he answered the
inquiry afIirmatively. This is the
response he received from Mr.. Mendel:
Il consider without doubt that you
are the identical man from whom
dishonesty took the IS and very
willingly enclose q money order for
the same and humbly ask your par
don. / now understand that you
had to lose the money and believe it
sufficient reason for me to pay it
back like an honest man. But the
real fac's in the case are that
the Lord has blessedly saved me
from all sin. Icannot allow such
dishonesty to lie back while l have
an opportunity to make amends.
l do not know how much this part
concerns you, but must say, to the
dear Lord be all the honor and not
to me-"
From the foregoing it is evident
decided change has taken place 10
Mr.. Mendel, who has now risen to
agent for the New York, Chicago &
st. Louis Railway company at Bur
kett, Ind. He is now in position
to understand that the ticket seller
is responsible for all financial mis-
takes, and rs he intimates, the offense.
though occurring many years ago,
still haunted him, and he could not
consider himself an honest man until
he righted the wrong.
Talk Of the Track.
That engineers marriage is booked
for after Christmas. they say.
Charles Pearson, who presides
over the Rock Islands Is switch en-.
CINE, is laid up.
The Rock Islands 472, Daniel Nor.
arity engineer. 10 being repaired in
the Davenport shops.
James Wilkinson, Andy Solder.
strom. c. G. Pratt and Frank Mooney,
the Rock Island engineers, are tax.
ing vacations.
Fireman Daniel Marick, of the
Rock Island. has gone home to Chi.
cagO to spend Christmas. Joseph
McQuaid is firing the $40 during his
absence.
The Burlington has posted this
sign in its Rock Island depot: "Chil-
dren years and under 12 years
must be provided with half fare
tickets before boarding train. Chill
dren under years ride free; IL years
and over full fare. II this rule is OBJ
served you will avoid trouble with
conductor and save extra cost to
yourself"
Official notice has been sent out by
the G.. X. l. & F., c., 4. l. & T., B.,
&. r. & N. and Nj. & St. L. of q
change in the titles of their general
ticket and passenger agents to gen.
eral passenger and ticket agents.
The assistant general passenger
agents on those lines also have their
titles changed correspondingly. And
yet what's in q name?
Broke Out with Bolis.
81 had boils break out on my arms
aud shoulders and I suffered very
much in moving about. I saw
Hoods Sarsaparills SO highly recon-