Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 July 1904 — HUMOR [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

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THE TRAVELER’S STORY. How u Kervnna Man Cna*ed a Severe St ruin on lII* Nerve*. “A traveling mail stopped at a hotel at Monticello. The proprietor told him he could not lodge him—not a room In the house,” said a commercial traveler. “The traveling man protested. lie must, have a room. Finally the proprietor told him there was a room, a little room separated by a thin partition from a nervous man, a man who had lived in the house for ten years. “ ’He is so nervous,’ said the landlord, ‘I don't dare put uny one in that room. The least noise might give him • nervous spell that would endanger his life.’ “ ‘Oh, give me u room,’ said the traveler. ‘l’ll be so quiet he’ll not know I’m there.’ “Well, the room was given the traveler. He slipped In noiselessly and began to disrobe. He took off one article of clothing after another ns quietly as a burglar. At last he cume to his shoes. He unlaced a shoe and then, manlike, dropped it. “The shoe fell to the floor with a 'great noise. The offending traveler, ■horrified at what he had done, waited to hour from the nervous man. Not a sound. lie took off the second shoe . and placed It noiselessly upon the floor. Then in absolute silence he finished undressing and crawled between the sheets. “Half an hour went by. He had dropped into a doze when there came a tremendous knocking on the partition. “The traveler sat up in bed, trembling and dismayed. ‘Wh-wha-what’s the matter?’ he asked. Then came the voice of the nervous man: ** ‘Blame you, drop that other shoe!’ ’’ —lndianapolis News.