The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-11-16
SKETCHESABOUTTOWN



Ali smart men are not in congress, nor
in Jail. Some of them are in the bust
ness of selling second hand stoves. There
is one in that business on Kansas avenue,
and if a slang term may be permitted in
this dignified department, he is a dandy.
Yesterday an aged couple, evidently
from the country, entered his store aud
asked TO look at a heating stove The
Smart Man had fifteen or twenty on hand,
and the couple went the rounds of them.
None of them suited exactly.
Guess we'd better get brand new
one" said the old man.
They cost SO much, john" said the
woman.
Eyes; Mary, but then they are so much
better" replied John.
John was about to spoil sale for the
Smart Man and the Smart Man knew it
and didn't intend to do thing but head
it eff
You are right, madam" he said, ''a
new stove would be the ruin of you.
Think of the repairs you would have to
put on it. These stoves have all been
tried and their weak points found out
and fixed up A second hand stove is
far superior to a new one in every way.
If We could just get people to under
stand tive ought really TO get more for
second hand stoves than for new ones.
Aud there is another thing you haven't
considered. Did you know that right
here in Topeka the other day man
found $1,000 in second hand stove? l
tell you you don't know what you are
getting when you buy a second hand
stove. Folks that owned it before had
put it there and forgotten about it. Lots
of folks do that. Stove is better than
bank. No thief would ever think of
looking for money in an old stove. And
then people are so forgetful. Nearly all of
them leave their money there when they
sell the stoves and its right there for the
purchaser to find often. I've known doz-
ems of cases OF finding money in stoves
The man that bought that stove in To-
peka the other day paid only $40 for it.
Cleared 5000 on one old second hand
stove. You can have this one for six.
Its older than the others and the chances
are better that way. We charge moth
| ing extra if you find $1,000 in that stove.
Oh, no; we don guarantee 81 600 with
every So stove, but you can't tell what
will happen. This stove? All right
Take it with your"
Aud it is an actual fact that he made
| the sale.
Contented and happy she lay on the
table in the Office of Rev. o. s. Morrow,
! president of the Children's Home socie
! ", at 621 Kansas avenue, with the one
sweetest of all names, "Baby," pinned at
the throat of her tiny white dress with a
clasp of gold.
Pretty little girl, with her clear blue
! eyes q nd golden curis aud laughing
mouth. Innocent little one without a
thought of wrong, or sorrow, or despair
Fatherless and Inotherless, bat knowing
it not, without shadow on heE forehead,
waiting 10 be taken to the Orphans
home. Waiting for future that might
mean sorrow and destruction; waiting to
be of some use in the world, perhaps to
make another happy.
What could she know, this little
BABY of the-.work and worry of the
world; tho heartaches, the sorrow, the
pain, the bitterness. the hate, the poison!
Lying there, smiling up at whoever
/ might look down and say loving word
| of admiration, perhapsto fondIe the hail
or kiss the rosy cheek, let hope be here
that she smile on forever.
And when the time comes, as it must
that the little nose is broken and the bail
pulled out, the pnint knocked off. the I'm
gers mashed ard the life-sawdust has
slowly ebbed away from the little form
let her be carefully buried in the ash
barrel with those that went before, anC
get another like her, for she only cost
quarter
$s&A Topeka man helped his wife clean
house for fifteen minutes one day THU
week.
He will never do it again. Not if his
wife and the neighbors TO the windward
can syndicate and hire good strong
man with club to keep him from it.
He went home to dinner on this day
which proved to be the turning point IL
his life and found everything in a muss
away to be cleaned, the furniture was al
out of place and things generally were
upside down.
My DEAR" said the wife, aud he knew
there was favor she wanted. There
was IL lot of straw under the carpet VI
stairs in the front room and it will have
to be taken out in the street and burned
have nothing to carry it down in but
washtub which is heavy. think there
will be three tubfulls. Will you get it
down for me?"
OF course he would, not stopping tt
change his coat, be rushed up stair,
three steps at time to &c: the job ovel
with
There was the straw. The tub wa:
full and it was heavy. The stairs were
narrow and the job began to look like
work. He began to look for an easy
way out of it, aud he found it.
ingenuity beats muscle every time,
he exclaimed. That's just the way with
"A woman. She would work herself tc
daath before she would stop to think
moment aud devise a way to Tighten her
labors. I'll have this thing done in quar-
ter the time"
So he emDtied the tub and swept the
straw iuto big bundle Then ne open
ed the front window and pushed the
straw out onto thu porch roof. OF course
this raised great dust but he suppos cd
that belonged to the bargain.
Next he pushed the straw to the edge
of the roof and let it drop
At least half of it reached the GROUND
beneath him. The wind caught the rest
In ten seconds every front yard anc
front porch in that end of the block, in