Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 February 1882 — Three Smart Alecs. [ARTICLE]

Three Smart Alecs.

Cincinnati Commercial. Miss Annie Louise Cary, who was to leave here via the Pan Handle road the morning after the "Messiah,” applied to the Sleeping-Car Company for a state-room. The railroad officials, always gallant, were anxious to oblige the great contralto, and finding that the car at the depot had uo state-room, "switched around” uutil one was in position containing the desired apartment. Ten minutes before the traiD pulled out of the depot, and when every birth was engaged, a big fellow stepped up to the Pailman ticket office and said: "Give me the state-room,” and threw down the price, sl4. “It is engaged to Miss Cary,” said the ticketseller. “I am her agent,” said the big fellow, freshly, and received the three tickets demanded. A moment later and "the velvet-voiced” appeared and asked for the state-room. "Your agent has the tickets,” she was told, and replied. "I have no agent.” ("I am only an American contralto, not a French soprano,” perhaps she added mentally.) An examination into the state of affairs showed three "drummers,” "commercial tourists” they would hall themselves, in possession of the stateroom, and what is more, they refused to vacate, showing their tickets for state room and passage, and defying the conductor to oust them. The train went out of the depot with Miss Cary standing in the aisle, but it is to be safely presumed that she soon received her lights, for Superintendent Walker telegraphed to the conductor (at the first station) on the car to use sufficient force to establish Miss Cary is possession of the state-room obtained from the road by others under false pretenses. "Rebecca, a drummer, Is the most innocent man in the ver-rold.”

Ii The color line has extended into Canada. Two citizens of Toronto were refused admittance to the skating rink because of their color.