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Show PLASTER ON WRONG MAN 1 ' SBSBBBBSSBBBBSSBSSaSBBBBBBBB Porter Obeyed Instrnc-j Hons, and Hen There Was Trouble. j - - - ST. LOUIS. Mo., March 2. John Kenny, Ken-ny, the faithful porter of the Laclede hotel, put a mustard plaster on the wrong guest by force In' the cold gray dawn. . . . Kenny is noted1 for his strict obedience obedi-ence of orders. Col. Pritchard told him 1 to go to room 17 and apply a mustard plaster, which had been ordered for one of. the guests by the doctor. The sick man was In room 36 on the night before, and had gone "down the line" In such lurid fashion that innocents abroad at a late hour thought an Aurora Borealis was on exhibition. Col. Pritchard told the porter the guest might object, but to pay no heed to his remonstrances. Kenny found) the door of 87 unlocked and his man asleep. With plaster ready in one hand he awakened him. "What la itr' growled the guest ""Tour mustard plaster. It is all ready to put on." "Mustard plaster the devil! Get out." "Oh. that's all right." smiled Kenny knowingly. "Come now, put It on." With this he turned back the covering cover-ing and deftly held bis man down while he applied the poultice. The guest was furious, and tearing it off. arose and dressed and went down to the clerk, and when he left Col. Pritchard had a vivid impression that he needed an asbestos curtain to fall in front of the counter In case of future emergencies. All the while the guest In the next room dozed on without the benefit of his musrtard plaster. |