Show THE STAPLE amusing experience of paymaster at an IN irish sh house I 1 babir in the when the kansas i division of the union pacific was waa called the kansas pacific maj E 1 D I 1 reddington who had served with distinction in the civil war was paymaster at that time the paymaster was the biggest nian man connected with the I 1 road in ill the eftim estimation aaion of tile the em cm aloyes and the people living in the towns along the line and his ar arrival in the pay car was usually the occasion for a groat great outpouring of the aco people one night maj Redding tons car pulled into the town of wallace the major and his clerks were given a grand welcome by the people the aliey were cs conel to a railto railroad d boar boarding ing house a and if treated as royal guests it was vas conducted by a buxom irish worn wom an who boasted that sho set the best table at any town along the roal road at supper that night every regular boa boarder rd er turned up at the table looking hs his best the irish landlady land ladr as tap they y called her appeared in a neat blue calico dress all ait primped drimped up a and na smiling tay r coffee she asked with a pretty court courtesy ety as she passed front from one guest or another the regular boarders understood it all and they answered coffee plase mum maj alai reddington however low was as a down east cast yankee and not much of a coffee drinker so w when 1 ien the question was put to him lie ho rep replied aed with ill his usual politeness 1 I wilt will have a cup of tea it iou please it almost r niest niost took tock her brea breath th away tile the look of ri on her face caused the regular boarders to titter then she flared vp up say coffee yo ye onia oma dahn fr we vie have no tay she said as she poured the majors cut cup full of 0 steaming coffee kansas kansas city star |