Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1912-04-18

easy sense Of impending trouble. He
felt as If omeone had left a mon
strous baby on his doorstep, but all
be said was:
Tickets, please"
There ensued a long search, fat,
t1abby hands Topping and fumbling
from pocket TO pocket, Once more
the porter was the d%iscoverer.
Il see it. Don't look no mo-. Here
1t is-up in 20 hatband." He lifted
it out and chucksd. Had it right
next his brains and couldn't remem-
bal" He took up the appropriately
huge luggage OF the bibulous wan
derer and led him to the other end OF
the aisle.
"Numba two is yours, sab. Right
heah-all nice and cosy and already
made up"
The big nan looked through the
curtains into the cabined confinement,
and groaned:
THAT! Haven't you got a mans
size berth?"
sorry, sab. That's as big d bunk
as they is on the train
Have I got to be locked up in that
p~igeon-hole for-for how many days
is it to 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 br-oken-hearted man"
rs that SO? Too bad, sab"
Were you ever a byoken-hearted
man, porter"
Always, sab"
Did you ever put your trust in a
f~alse-hearted woman"
often, sab"
WAS she ever true to you, por.
teri"
Never, sab"
Porter, we are partners in mis-.
sts-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 If he could have understood what
he was doing. The porter d~isengaged
himself with a patient but nasty:
I'm afraid you'll 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-" Bat he
could not remember what duty was
and he would have dropped of to
sleep. # he had not been startled by
q familiar voice which the porter mad
luckily escaped,
"Pawtau! Pawtah! Can't you raise
this Lighter rather can't you lower
it? P&vtah! This light Is so In
fernally dim I cant read"
TO the Engli5hman's intense amaze
ment his call brought to him not the
porter. but d rising moon Win tbs
profound query:
"Whass a III thing like dim light
when the light Of our life has gone
e., out?"
Il beg your pardou?'
Without further invitation, Tx
mammoth descended en- the English
u mans territory
I'm a broken hearted man, Mr.
MIR didn't get your name
-'Er-ah-I dare say.
+, Thanks, | will ii. Gown" He lit
e.. @ great carry-aIl and airily tosse,
It into the aisle, set tie Gladston,
On the lap OF the ~infuriated English
man. and squeezed into the seat or
posite, making a sad m!X-up Of knees
MY names Wellington Ever hea
OF III Jimmie Wellington? That
me-
Amy relation to the DukeI"
"Nagh!"
He no longer interested Mr.. Wedge
r wood. But Mr.. Wellington was nc
aware that he was being snubbed, II
!" went right on getting acquainted
r Are you married, Mr.-ME.-T
u "No!"
S MY heartfelt co~ngrashlation'
Hang on to your luck, my boy. Don
o let any female take it away from you
u He slapped the Englishman on tn
d elbow amiably, and his prisoner wa
too stiied with wrath to emit nor
o than one fe3yle "Pawtah!'
Mr.. Wellington unused on a!ouc
"Oh, If had only remained singl
0 But she was so beautiful and 81
swore to love, honor and obey. Mr.
Y Wellington is a queen among Tome
% mind you, and I have nothing to So
against her except that she has u
- temper OF a tarantula.' lie italiclzt
a the word with a light FLIP OF his lie
band along the back OF the seat, /