The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1906-10-05

know you will take my ticket and get
II checked for me. Brother VIII said
he would surely be here but something
has happened to detain him.
1T will be something to remember all
my life"
y child Of ten, bachelor of forty
or an old woman of ninety can check
a trunk when once the feat of getting
it to the depot has been accomplished
All you have to do is to point it out
with one hand while you show your
! ticket with the other and tell the bag
gage master that he must make no mis-
take and check it for Oshkosh instead
Of Kalamazoo.
Harry Lee had that trunk identified
and checked in seven minutes, and he
was feeling rather proud over the fact
when plain looking woman of forty
appealed to him. She was looking for
a trunk with broken handle, but thus
| far it had eluded her. 1t tried to dodge
! Harry Lee, but in vain. He had his
eyes on it in no time.
Just at this juncture girl of eight
cen, dressed in mourning and looking
fearful and anxious, wanted help. Her
trunk was all right as to handles, but
she was afraid it had been checked to
Rochester instead of Syracuse She
| gave the bachelor her check to see
about it, and thus it came about that
he had three checks for three trunks in
his possession. Moreover, he put them
into the same pocket Moreover, again,
! he'd have walked back to Miss Rem
ington with them had not the plain
| looking woman and the girl in mourn
ing hesitatingly reminded him of his
carelessness.
"Ten thousand pardons, ladies'" he
apologized in confusion, and with that
he CALAMITY pulled out the three checks
and made a fair divide. There was
! just one apiece and nothing left over.
1t was train time now and everybody
in hurry, and Miss Remington's
brother came rushing in, and so with
it all no one made any discoveries, and
the three women were hurried away
with scores of other passengers.
For the first time in a year, so far as
he could remember, the club bachelor
I had made himself useful for a few
minutes, and there was something like
elatiOn in his eye as he left the depot
to continue his saunter. Twenty-four
/ hours later he received a call from
young Winchester, who had an open
/ fnlD in ic, o,,I xt-I,
! inquired:
See here, Lee, what have you done
with my sisters trunk?'
"Why, l checked it for Buffalo yes
terday"
"She has telegraphed that she has an
other in the place of it,"
But, man, surely checked it, and
| you saw me hand her the brass. Those
COMPOUNDED railroad folks must have
made another of their stupid mistakes"
We'll Wen let it rest for a day, and
perhaps they'll rectify it,
During the next twenty-four hours
Miss Remington sent two more tele-
grams from Buffalo, and the ease low
ing and complacent bachelor got a
move ON him and went to the depot to
interview the president, vice president
! and general manager of the road. Re
ing told that they had gone off on
Sunday school picnic, he decided to in
terview the baggage master instead
There was dignity in his bearing as
he set out to crush the worm under
his feet. The worm wasn't very busy
just then and heard him through and
then retaliated with:
1--WE have two kilograms from two
other women about trunks having gone
wrong, and it's all owing to your hav-
ing butted in here the other day. re-
member you very well. You had three
trunks checked at the same time"
Eyes, sir, did, and If the baggage
department can't take care of the