Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 May 1896 — HE HAS HIS TROUBLES. [ARTICLE]

HE HAS HIS TROUBLES.

Trials of a Messenger Boy for the Telegraph Company. V A telegrhaph messenger probably sees as much of the other side of human nature as a doctor. One told an Atchison Globe writer recently that a woman never opened a telegram without hurtling pale, and, when the message was not alarming, they looked disappointed. -He delivered about two death messages a day,four birth messeges.'a great many business messages, and once in a great while a love message that makes him tired to carry it. He carried one recently to a young man in town that read: “How are you to-day darling?” The answer went promptly back by the boy and was to this effect: “lam better, love.” He* once carried a message of death to a colored woman, and after reading it her emotion overcome her to such an extent that she caught the messenger in her arms and soundly boxed his ears. Another colored woman refused to open or sign for a message, but walked the floor and beat her breast, and screamed, supposing it announced a death, When all the neighbors had come in, one more venturesome than the rest read the message. It was simply a notice that the woman’s sister would, come up from Leavenworth J.hat evening, to see her.