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Show SATCHEL WITH ROMANTIC HISTORY CARRIED BY AN EASTERN DRUMMER WORN and almost disreputable In appearance the ordinary clerk on his two weeks' vacation would disdain to carry anything so old a valise. In the possession of. Richard W. Underdown, who has been staying for the last few days at the Kenyon, has seen morcof life and travel, to say nothing of adventure, than the great majority of people. Its owner, who was formerly an officer In the army, values 'li so highly that he will never let It go out of his slaht. 7t Is of the kind very little seen. In this count it and known on the other side of the water as a "Gladstone." The color, once a bright yellow, is now a dark brown, and, in places where the paste used In sticking on the labels has stained It black. These labels cover nearly every portion- of the bag and have been pasted by porters on the railroads rail-roads of most countries that have labels, from little up-country branches in Australia to that of the Oriental limited, which runs through from Paris, France, to Constantinople, and the trunk linos of the United States. In two plnres iuite tlose to the lock are small irregular-shaped holes. madt by the rllles of the natives tn the Filipino campaign. Mr. Underdown had quite a discussion with a porter when he land- ed at I ho Rio Gmnde depot In Suit Lake bemuse the latter Insisted on being allowed al-lowed to carry It. and thl? the owner never allows any one to do hut himself, no matter how heavily it is loaded. The peculiar value of the treasure Is of a sentimental nature. Mr. Under-down Under-down was onco on a pleasure trip near cue of the Maine lakes. At a picnic he exchanged grips with a young English lady with whom he whs very much in love." Uy some mischance they were unable, to effect a re-exchange and soon afterward the young lady returned to England with her fgmlly and he never saw here again. Ho afterward prized this relic of his love affair and when he iwent to the Filipinos It went with him. Oie day when his company was on the march from Manila to a camp about thirty miles from the town they were rushed by the enemy and In haste a barricade was thrown up composed partly of the baggage of the company. Close behind his own valise Mr. Underdown look shelter from the missiles of IhC Filipinos, Fili-pinos, and when the engagement was over he found that two bullets, or rather rath-er slugs, had been warded off from. his own head, missing it by only a few inches, and the bag had been the means of saving him. Mr. Underdown has retired from the army some two years now and is traveling trav-eling for a large machinery firm in Troy. N. y. Everywhere his grip accompanies ac-companies him. |