The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-07-28
THREE BAGGAGE CHECKS.
By .Denala Allen.

I to saunter into the Central depot that | afternoon he never has been able to l explain except by laying it to Fate. He wasn't going anywhere, didn't want to see anybody in particular, and he all ways kept clear of passenger depots on account of fearful old women and l crying children. On this occasion he l had scarcely caught sight of one tear | full old woman when somebody caught sight of him.
 aAnd who on earth told you that l was going to Buffaio?" exclaimed a voice at his elbow, as he turned to go out It was Miss Remington. whom he had known fairly well for year past, and l who had sometimes struck him as be- ing rather good-looking and of engas- ing manners Just now she was looking unusually well In her travelling suit, and her eyes shining with excitement IT. came to say farewell" replied Lee with ready wit.
 How nice of you. My trunk was sent on half an hour ago ahead of me and must be in the baggage room know you will take my ticket and get 1t checked for me. Brother win said he would surely be here, but something | has happened to detain him"
 "It will be something to remember all my life"
 A 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 1t out with one hand while you show the ticket with the other and tell the nasgase- master that he must make no mistake and check 1t for oshkosh instead or Kalamazoo
 Harry Lee had that trunk identified ! and checked in seven minutes, and ne was feeling rather proud over the tacL when a plain loaking woman or forty | appealed to him. She wAas looking TOT | trunk with a broken handle, put mus far it had eiuded her.1t tried 10 eodge Mir Harry Lee. but in vain. He hao ms eyes on 1t In no time.
 Just at this junction a girl Of eight cen. dressed in mourning and iookine < | fearful and anxious, wanted heip. der | trunk was all right as to handles, but 1 she was afraid 1t had been checked to l Rochester Instead of Syracuse. Sne | gave the bachelor her check to see about It, and thus It came apout tnat he had three checks for three trunks | in his possession. Moreover. he put ! them in the same pocket Moreover l again he'd have walked back to Miss | Pennington with them had not the plain I looking woman and the girl In mourn l 'itae hesitantly reminded him Of ms | carelessness.
 seTen thousand pardons. ladies" he | apologized in confusion, and with Una he gailantly pulled out the three cnecks and made fair divide. There was Jus' i one apice and nothing left over | was train time now, and everybody ln | A hurry, and Miss Remmington's broth re came rushing in. and so with It al 1 no one made any discoveries, and tho | three women were hurried away VIII scores of other passengers.
 For the first time in year, so far a' he could remember, the club bachelor had made himself useful for few min utes. and there was something like ela' ton in his eye as he left the depot t' continue his saunter. Twenty-foui hours later he received a call Iron young winchesetr. who had an opei telegram in his hand, and who biuntls Inquired:
 fsee here. Lee what have you don'
 with my sisters trunkY
 why I checked 1t Tor Bunaio yes
 terday."
 another in the place of It."
 I "Rut. man. surely checked it.. ant
 you saw me hand her the brass. Thos'
 confounded railroad folks must nav,
 made another of their stupid mistakes. sfWeIi, we'll let IL rebt TUT d UoJt NfA'
 perhaps they'll rectify II"
 n,rin0 inc next twenty-four houri
 Miss Remmington sent two more tele
 grams from Buffalo. and the easy-lov
 ing ana complacent bachelor got
 move on him and went to the depot t'
 interview the president. vice presiden and general manager of the road beint
 told that they had gone on on a sun
 day school picnic, he decided to inter ! eke instead TneTl
 was dignity in his bearing as he se
 out to crush the worm under his feet
 The worm wasn't very busy just then
 ana heard him through, and then re
 taliated with: A..
 eve have two telegrams from tw'
 other women about trunks having gon'
 wrong. and it's all owing to your hay
 ing butted in here the othe daS' | Ie
 member you very well. You had thre'
 trunks checked at the same time.
 .Yes. sir, I did. and if the baggage
 darartment can't take care of th'
 trunks all at once 1t had. better e
 n@TS Did you hand the three cheeks t'
 three different women?"
 "Of course did.
 Are you sure you kept them sepa'
 aof course-that Is--that is yo'
 .Yes. knoow." smiled the baggage l n,aster ''You handed out any ole
 check, and as a consequence there IS
 mix. It's up to you to do some tele
 rraphing and straighten things out:
 MT Lee spent the whole day tele
 1raphine and receiving "collect" mes
 saees from Buffalo, Rochester and sy
 recuse but he made little headway
 His messages were inouiring and pa
 ci1c. his "collects" were vigorous anS
 rather threatening. At the end or th'
 dav he decided on making persona
 trip to straighten out the taneie. h'
 could remember the trunks and then
 respective owners. TT
 was sure that the girl in mournine
 with a humble looking trunk had nae
 ,t checked there Two telegrams hac
 "a esed and he had her address, In th'
 course of an hour he found her. Sn'
 hadn't quite so much mourning on no" |. ana was better looking than he hac | thought. She had received the Piaii P 1voYnan's trunk with broken handle ssha was A refined, ladylike girl and m
 mourning for an aunt who had lef'
 her s5O 900. but yet she used language III tinoed with acid Next time she went | travelling and had to appeal to man II for help she would make sure that ne II knew enough to check his own trunk Il and so forth, and SO forth woman H nav lose her sweetheart and say noth- \ Ing hut let her lose her trunk while II traveIing and 1t takes years to exhaust
 Mir Lee got away with his ears II burning. and yet he admired Mss \ strothers. He arranged to have the | trunk sent on to Rochester, and then | took the train for that city The plain ! woman was expecting him. She had Il oil waaHW fn nnint af hut III