Show HIS RUBBERS HAD VANISHED Consequently Man From the Country Hid Little Use for City Methods Tho benches In tho waiting rooms at the Union depot In Kansas City aroused aro-used for other purposes than to rest on by travelers the Kansas City Star enlightens us At every midnight tho maids clean out tho rooms They do not forget to poko under tho benches for stray bundles left by trustIng trust-ing travelers Sometimes after Intervals the travelers trav-elers return to claim their property Some tlmo ago a red cap nt tho depot saw a man In a linen duster n felt lint and tho manner of ono who had spent his life in a secluded part of tho Ozarks get down on his knees and peer carefully under several of the benches Lost anything mister tho red cap queried Wall no sonny not znctly I left a pair of rubbers hero last January when I was on tho way tow Emporoy Haint seen nuthln1 of cm have you The red cap explained that ho hadnt and moreover that tho room had been cleaned out several dozen times slnco last January ° Well I swan replied the traveler blinking and stroking his beard The city methods do beat mo I |