Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1912-06-13

collapsed into "a seat sprawling as
heIrlessly as mammoth oyster on a
tablccloth
The porter rushed to his aid and
hoisted him to his feet with an un.
easy sense OF impending trouble. lie
felt as II someone had left a mon.
strous baby on his doorstep, but all
he said was:
Tickets. please"
There ensued long search. fat,
habby hands Topping and tumbling
from pocket TO pocket. once more
the porter was the discoyerer
Il see II. Don't look no mo. Here
It is--up in 70 hatband" lie lifted
II out and chuckled Had It right
next his brains and couldn't remem.
ba'" lie took up the appropriately
huge luggage OF the bibulous wan.
derer and led him TO the other end OF
the aisle.
"Numha two is yours. san Right
heah-all nice and cosy, and already
made up"
The big man looked through the
'Al i1lhS ih'o tAt 'holhtu 'OhhhelhtuNi
and groaned:
That Haven't you got mans
size BERTH"
Sorry. sab. That's as big a bunk
as they is on the train"
Have / got TO be locked up In that
pigeon hole for-for how many days
is It 10 Reno?"
Reno" The porter greeted that
meaningful name with a smile. We're
doc In Reno the-the-mawnin OF
the 10th day, sab Yassah." He put
the baggage down and started away
but the fat man seized his hand, with
great emotion:
Don't leave me all alone in there,
porter for I'm a broken.hearted man. %
rs that so? Too pad, sab"
Were you ever a broken-hearted
man, porter
Always, sab"
Did you ever put your trust in a
false-hearted woman"
often, sab"
Was she ever true to you, por.
teri"
Never, sab"
Porter, We are partners In mis-
sis-ery."
And he wrung the rough, black hand
with a solemnity that embarrassed
the porter almost as much as It would
have embarrassed the passenger him
self II he could have understood what
he was doing. The porter disengaged
himself with a patient but hasty:
I'm afraid you1l have to scuse me.
got to hep the other passengers on
bode."
Don't let me keep you from your
duty Duty is the-the--" But he
could not remember what duty was.
| and he would have dropped of TO
sleep, II he had not been startled by
familiar voice which the porter had
luckily escaped.
"Pawtah, Pawtah, Can't you raise
this Lighter rather can't you lower
It? Pawtah, This light is so in
formally dim l can't read"
To the Englishman's intense amaze.
ment his call brought to him not the
porter. but n rising moon with the
profound query:
"Whass a III thing like dim light,
when the light of your life has gone
out?"
u beg your pardon?"
Without further invitation. the
| mammoth descended on the English.
mans territory.
I'm a broken-hearted man, Mr.
Mr. didn't get your name"
"Er-ah-I dare say"
Thanks, | will sit down" He lift.
ed a great carry-all and airily tossed
it into the aisle, set the Gladstone
! on the lap OF the Infatuated English
| man, and squeezed into the seat op
posite. making a sad mix-up OF knees
My names Wellington. Ever hear
Of III Jimmie Wellington? That's
! me"
Any relation to the Duke?"
| "Nagh,"
He no longer interested Mr.. Wedge
wood. But Mr.. Wellington was not
| aware that he was being snubbed. he
went right on getting acquainted:
Are you married, Mr.-Mr.-r"
MOT"
My heartfelt congratulations
Hang on to your luck, my boy. Dom
let any female take 1t away from you.
! He slapped the Englishman on thu
elbow amiably, and his prisoner wal
too stified with wrath to emit mor'
than one feeble "Pawtah!"
Mr.. Wellington unused on aloud
"Oh. II had only remained single
But abe was so beautiful and sh'
swore to love, honor and obey. Mrs
Wellington is a queen among women
mind you, and l have nothing to sa!
against her except that she has thu
temper OF a tarantula." He Italicized
the word with light FLIP Of his lief
hand along the back OF the seat. II,
did not notice that he flliped tn,
!, angry head OF Mr.. Ira Lathrop in tn
next seat. He went on with his POI
trait of his wife. she has tn,
Extravaganza OF a sultana"-anothe
slip for Mr.. Lathrop-"the zhealous!
, OF a cobra, the firtatiousness OF |
humming bird" Mr.. Lathrop was glar