Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 August 1903 — Discovered the Secret. [ARTICLE]

Discovered the Secret.

Hfe la a young man with n blase air, who would not let anything surprise him for the world. As a matter of fact, he has traveled enough about the States to be impervious to surprise. The other night was the exception, for when the young man boarded the train which was to take him to New York he found himself on a compartment sleeper. The young man knows about bucking bronchos and how to eat asparagus vinaigrettes, and what is the proper thing to say when you tread on a a woman’s gown, but he didn't know about compartment sleepers, for he had never been In one before. He was very much attracted by tha prospect, however, and he looked over the ground with great satisfaction before getting ready to retire. “This beats an upper berth all hollow,” he muttered to himself. Then, the porter passing near, he galled to that functionary. “Come here,” said he, “and tell me how to turn this on,” pointing to a handle in the wall near the wash stand. “I have entirely forgotten b#w to screw the thing, and I’ll be sure to want it in the morning.” Tbe porter came as near smiling as a porter ever does. “Yessir,” said be; “yosslr, yo’ turn hit on 'die way. Hit’s not a water splckett, yo’ know; hit’s a place to heat curling irons.”' And after this tho sophisticated young man went straight to bed, hut be tells the joke on himself with much glee.—Baltimore News.