Connecticut western news., 1895-01-31
THOSE SCREENS.
No Matter What MT. Dare Did. They Cane
 Rack.

VHOSE SCHEENS.
 No Matter What MT. Dare Did, They Cane
 Back.
 This is story of an express company, two screens and a name There was only one name, though there were two fam lilies. That nobody may know what the name was it shall be called Dare. The head of one family was M. Dare. The head of the other family was M. Dare.
 To the summer home on Staten Island of MT. M. Dare-Mr. Manley Dare 1t was came one day two screens from a New York dealer, express charges collect. l" The family wasn't at home, but one of the servants paid the express charges, and when Mrs. Dare came in she looked the screens over. There was nothing remark able about them, and she did not want any screens, but she set them up. That evening at dinner she spoke to her hus- band about them.
 My dear" she said, "the screens are very nice, and no doubt can make use of them, but what put 1t into your head that we wanted any screensf"
 "Screensf" said her husband. What screenss don't know anything about screens" And explanations followed.
 The next day the screens came down. They were bundled up and returned to the express company, with the suggestion that they must be for MT. M. Dare, but not MT. Manley Dare, if you please. MT. M. Dare, as we'll as MT. M. Dare-Man- ley Dare, if you please-was also living on Staten Island.
 About two weeks later, the family again being out of the house, there came a oou- pie of screens to Mir. M.-Mr Manley Dare if you please-Dare; the express charges were paid; the mistress of the house came home; the screens were pack ed up again and sent out into the cold world.
 The summer wore on, and it came time for the Manley Dares to return to the city. While they were packing trunks and box ing household property there came two screens, which were promptly elected.
 In New York Mrs. Dare-Mra. Manley Dare-going to call on her mother-in- law one day in the fall, saw two screens that seemed familiar
 Mother" she said, with something akin to horror, where stress on the ''where''-''didyo you get those screens,"
 Well, said her mother-i in law placid ly, "Nita wrote me several weeks ago that she was going to send me 6 very beautiful screen. Two or three weeks ago these screens came I don't think either of them is especially beautiful, but suppose as the beautiful one turned out not to be beautiful she sent me two. So set them up, and that is where got the soreens."
 Then, the horrible tale of the screens hay ing been told to the senior Mrs. Dare, the express company was once more called upon to remove them.
 The next afternoon saw the screens de- posted in the hallway of MT. Manley Dare, express charges collected from a serv- ant
 It was at this period of persecution that MT. Manley Dare resolved to settle the screen question forever. He sent back the two offending screens and then called at the office of MT. M. Dare-Mr. Maynard Dare.
 MT. Dare," he said, 1T am MT. Dare, the other MT. Dare. For a long time I have been bombarded with a pair of screens At one time thought they must belong to you, but as asked the express company to take them to you, and as I still keep getting the screens, presume they do not belong to you. But, MT. Dare, if you can throw any light on the mystery of the screens''-
 ''Screensp' said the other MT. Dare wearily. "Once several months ago Mrs.
 
 been tracing them in vain ever since"
 "Then," cried MT. Dare-Mr. Manley Dare-''we may solve this mystery. Will you, MT. Dare-will you go with me to the express oompany's ofioes"
 In the express company's office the Dares stood side by side.
 We are the Messrs. Dare, !" explained MT. Manley Dare to an officer of the com pany. This" pointing to his namesake, lis Mir. M. Dare I am also Mir. M Dare, but MT. Manley Dare. Your screens, ad- dressed to MT. NJ. Dare, have always come to me, MT. Manley Dare, who has paid the express charges. They should have gone to MT Dare here-Mr. Maynare Dare who win be glad to pay the express charges, We are each MT. NJ. Dare; but, as you see, we are quite unlike, and am very sure that I do not want the screens, and am happy to say that MT. Dare-Mr. Maynare Dare" he said in an impressive tone, lis willing to take them. Have I made the situation quite clearf"
 The official thought that he had.
 Are you quite positive, said MT. Dare MT Manley Dare, that you make tho distinctions l, MT Manley Dare, have no claims in the world upon those screens. I would not for anything under the sun touch them-except to put them out of my house. On the other hand, MT. May nare Dare owns the screens. They belong to him. He bought them. He paid for them. No one else has shadow of right to them. Will you," asked MT. Manley Dare, with great solemnity-''wil you send those screens to MT. Maynare Dares"
 And the man promised that he would.
 And now, MT. Dare, said MT. Manley Dare to MT. Maynare Dare, II congratu- late you upon the near recovery of your screens"
 And you, MT. Dare, 'said MT. Maynare Dare to MT, Manley Dare, II ask your par don for unwittingly having been the cause of much annoyance to you, and I congratulate you upon your escape from further bother"
 And they went away-Mr Maynare Dare with a hope that what was Casar's would be rendered unto Caesar; MT. Man ley Dare with joy for the peace he ex- pected.
 And on the next day there came to the house of MT. Manley Dare a pair of bat tered, travel stained screens. Where they are today MT. Manley Dare does not know; but, wherever they may be wandering, he knows that they will come back. New York Tribune.
 A Good Supply.
 "Oh, by the way, Henry," twittered