WORKING FOR THE GOOD OF FUTURE TRAVELLERS.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 1917, 16 April 1880, Page 3

WORKING FOR THE GOOD OF FUTURE TRAVELLERS.

"Down at Hornellsville," tbe tall, thin passenger remarked, " some of the boys were telliDg me about a young fellow who lost his wife. They took her remains to some remote point, her old home, I believe, for interment. On !their way back home, the bereaved husband, accompanied by the physician, stepped off the train at a dining station for a little refreshment. When they went in they saw a man at the Junch counter, his elbows squared, and his jaws working like an electric machine. When they went in he was standing about midway between the ends of the counter. The phyeician> and the mourner couldn't help noticing that everything on the counter below the man was gone —cleaned out, devoured; «nd everything above him was untouched. Steadily the man worked his devastating way towards the bountiful end of the counter, and the other passengers stood back to see fair play and give the counter a chance. In time the man worked his way clear and clean up to the wall; ho surrounded the last sawdust sandwich, he wrestled down the last piece of water-proof mince pie, he choked a little on the last plaster-paris cast of doughnut, but he got it down. TheD, with a profound sigh, gazing along the wreck-strewn counter, he walked away with the air of a man who had just sacrificed himself for the good of his fellowmen, saying in tones of triumphant satisfaction : " There, by gaul! The next fellow that comes along here will get something fresh !"