Show HIS RUBBERS HAD VANISHED Consequently Man From the Country Had Little Use for City Methods The benches In the waiting rooms at the Union depot in Kansas City are used for other purposes than to rest reston reston reston on by travelers tho the Kansas City Star enlightens us At every midnight the maids clean out tho the rooms They do not forget to poke under the benches for stray bundles left leCt by trusting trusting trust trust- ing travelers Sometimes after intervals the travelers trav tray elers return ret to claim their property Some time ago a red cap at the depot saw a man manin In a linen duster a felt hat and the manner of one who had spent his life me in a secluded part of the Ozarks pet get et down clown on his knees and peer carefully under several of the benches Lost anything mister the red cap queried Wall Vall no sonny not I left leCt lefta leCta a pair of rubbers here last January when I was on the way tew seen of em have you 7 The red cap explained that he hadn't and moreover that the room had been cleaned out several dozen times since last January Well I swan replied the traveler trav-eler blinking and stroking his beard The city methods do beat me me I |