The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1919-01-11

get it upon arrival, prepay ex-
press and send it to Munger on
the later train. 1t failed to show
up on that train.
cit must have gone to Sagi-
naw," declared the .Sornbergers.
The next morning, little girl
II years old and a little boy nine
years old got up before daylight
and prepared for a trip to Sagi-
nav to get the big, live goose
from dear old grandma. They
plowed a mile and a half through
deep snow and cold, reaching
Munger at $3.50 to catch the D.
NJ, & N. train.
Mama Sornberger parted with
enough of the small hoard of hard
earned missionary money to pay
the railroad fare but, when the
children got to Saginaw, the
goose was not there. In gloom
and deep sorrow they rode back
to Munger and then plodded
through snow and cold to a dis
appointed mother.
A duckless Christmas was fol-
lowed by gooseless New Years
Day. The Sornberger family,
thanks to the powerful American
Express Co., was disconsolate.
Neither ducks, goose nor a Balm
Of Gilead were their portion.
When father Sornberger was
in Duluth Thursday night after
the New Year he had heard moth
ing Of the goose.
eff we ever do get any word, "
he told the Rip-saw, II presume
it will be to the effect that the
fowl starved to death on the way
and that the express deliveryman
took it home for cat meat"
Later-the goose finally did ar
rive and was found at the Union
depot express office, where it had
spent two long, weary, needless
days.
Just a year before these har-
rowing disappointment, due to
incompetent, if not willful SER
wants of a soulless corporation,
good old grandma and kind uncle
sent a suitcase, containing two
plucked ducks, a goose, a few
toys, some wearing apparel and
a pillow that was an heirloom,
thoughtful grandma wishing her
little granddaughter to have a
family keepsake.
That express shipment never
arrived and no trace of it ever
was found. A nominal valuation
of So never was paid by the Amer
lean express company, either.
Perchance the soulless corpora
ton will get ready to liquidate
the claim in the Day of Judge
ment but, the Sornbergers being
a God-fearing family, will be too
busy with their new harps, crowns
and shining robes to care very
much about plucked ducks, geese
or even So On that Great Day.
Rev. wv. Sornberger is rapid
ly coming to the conclusion that
the American express company is
helping the Food Hogs by losing,
wasting and spelling shipments
Of food stuffs. In support Of his
feeling in the matter, he solemnly
states that shipments Of books,
clothing and other things unfit to
eat come promptly and in good
condition. After the late forest
fires, one shipment Of clothing had
express charges against it Of $l5.-
40 but there was no delay, short
age or damage to the box. More
recently, books were received
promptly and safely. But the
earnest home missionary finds it
very, very difficult, usually i'm
possible, to get service on any
thing that has a food value.
In further support Of his sus-
picion that the express company
makes food shipment special OBJ
jects Of attack, possibly to help
out the Food Hogs, during one
single hour that he spent in wrest-
ling over food stuffs that never
arrived or that came in a robbed
or damaged condition, he heard
twelve separate and distinct COM
plants from patrons of the COM
any concerning delayed, lost or
damaged express matter.
In one case, a woman refused
half carcass of a hog that spoiled