Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 76, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 May 1907 — Umbrella Mystery Unraveled. [ARTICLE]

Umbrella Mystery Unraveled.

All is not wicked that seems to be in this world. Every circum-i stance looked malicious to Dr. Charles Yick when his umbrella was missing from the post office Friday, and he imagined that some demon of iniquity had beeh hounding his foot steps for hours, awaiting the moment that he loosed his grip on the family rain stick. Now the mystery is solved, glory to the tact that the Republican is so generally read. An honest man has been found, the doctor has recovered -his mental equilibrium, the public credit is somewhat restored, and the doctor has come onto his own.

N. W. Beeves, the express agent, started out to make a few collections that day* carrying his wife’s umbrella, with the details of which he was not very familiar. After a time it began to rain and he reached under his arm for the umbrella and it was gone. He began to revisit the places he hadrecently been, among them the post-office. There, euie enough, right where he had stood, was an umbrella. He made no doubt it was his and feeling that he could meet his wife with a clear conscience, he went homeward. It was some time afterward when he made a closer examination of the umbrella and found that instead of being his wife’s silk umbrella, it was of less expensive texture. Then he decided that some scalawag had traded with him while his umbrella was in the postoffice. He was giving the un known rascal many a silent malediction when be decided to make a further scearoh for his own umbrella. Sorely enough he found it at Bosenbaum’s restaurant. Then it was too late to return the post-office umbrella to its place with any expectation of its owner being the party to pick it up, and Mr. Beeves was feeling mighty guilty. At this juncture the Be publican came to his rescue, and the dilemna was mastered. A low bow and many boquets for .The Republican.