A Messenger Boy's Scheme

A discharged messenger boy ín Cleveland did a land office business by writiug telegrams and addressing them "collect' ' to well known guests at hotels. The clerks would receive them and pay charges, but exposure has come. A theatrical manager received a message reading: "Why did you not answer my last telegram? Mother and the rest of us are all well. ' ' For this he paid 46 cents. Another man, a bachelor, paid 39 cents for a message reading: "Baby has ent a new tooth and is doing well. Mary. ' ' The Western Union company has refundttd a number of these payments und ia investigating the case. -