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Show IN A PAINFUL SITUATION. Distinguished Traveler Victim of Mistake Mis-take of Bell, Boy. The train on which the distinguished distin-guished citizen was traveling for the purpose of fulfilling a lecture encarjs-ment encarjs-ment was latr and ho arrived at his destIna..ou only an hour or two before the tlmo appointed for tho meeting. Ho went straight to a hotel and wns shown up to his room. Ho was tired and dusty. "Hoy," ho said, "bring mo a whiak." Tho boy went to execute tho' mission, mis-sion, and a fow moments later a com mltteo from tho local socloty under whoso auspices ho was to appic. called upon him in his room. Ho was conferring with tho conv.nl'. too when tho boy returned, beaili.g a tray containing a glass of water ami a smaller glass with a red liquid In it "What's this?" ho demanded. "It's tho whisky you ordered, sli." "I didn't order any whisky!" He gasped. "I ordered a whisk broom!' But overy member of tho committee representing tho Turkeyvlllo Total Ah-stlnenco Ah-stlnenco Socloty will bcllovo to hit dying day that tho distinguished lie urer got exactly what ho had ordciPu on that occasion. |