The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-09-18
IN HOTEL CORRIDORS.

/ of men chatting at the Copeland. Il was
talking with an attorney who is a friend
ard he told me how he secured the re-
lease Of client OF his who, If prosecuted.
would have been sent to the penitentiary
for a term of years. The client was a
young man OF good family, who had tried
/ TO maintain a rank socially that called
/ for a much larger purse than his As a
consequence he took unlawful means to
checks There was no doubt about the
young mans guilt, In fact ne confessed
why he had done it. His father. who was
an honorable man, came to me and put
the case In my hands. me only way out out
sympathies Of the men whose names had
been forged and get them to refuse to
little money, sufficient to pay the total
amount of the forgeries, and at once
the checks The young man had been
favorite with every one who knew him
know him. He had been hard working
boy and, prior to the forgeries, had done
nothing wrong. find that a great ma
man who has taken the first wrong step,
of the men agreed that If the amount
they had lost was made good they would
not prosecute, and they gave me written
requests to the county attorney asking
that nothing be done-an except one, and
nothin. that could say would move him.
despair. he said: John Wanamaker used
to make it a rule to keep account OF al, al
11c
store. and when a man was caught pass
ing bad paper on him he would make the
proposition to the man that IL he would
pay the total amount of those checks he.
Mr.. Wanamaker. would not prosecute.
ton As he was talking he reached in
drawer and took out bundle of checks
sustained in accepting bad checks The
total was something like $500 The check
which he had accepted from the young
man was $50. and to pay the 5000 was abb
surd as well as impossible. used every
was useless-the young man should go to
the penitentiary or pay $780, was salts
aed that the man had not lost $500 by
bad paper, and that he was simply taxing
advantage of an opportunity to squeeze
out few hundred dollars-a sort of
jobbing business, and as last resort
went TO about twenty of his customers.
secured their aid. The next day every
one of them told the old man that unless
draw their custom He came to my office
and with tears in his eyes explained that
he had experienced a change of heart;
that he felt almost a fatherly interest in
the boy and would not only refuse to
prosecute but would go with me and see
proposition with him, and his sympathies
were stirred in exact proportion as his
pocketbook was disturbed"
'If the negro question is ever settled
seuth,r said gentleman at the National.
THE people of Boston who read such
organized to solve the problem know just
about as much about it as they do of the
planet H. The riots in New York and Akron
show that the northern people have no
more patience with the unruly negro tna nan
display half the tact, for the southerners
have ten negroes to our one and every
day they have to meet just such con-
tingencies as arose in New York and
Akron The eastern papers are beginning
TO complain of the. negroes who come
there from the south. They say that they
do not make good servants and are a
who 90 north are not the better class;
they are usually the ones who are either
pioyment in their homes. or they are the
the Circulars sent out BY the Boston brand
of race equalizers. These circulars tell
how the negro is abused in the south and
exactly how he should be treated. They
tell of the schools and churches where
the negro associates on an equality with
the white and in other ways deceive the
first opportunity starts for the land of
promise The fasteners want house ser
work only to find that they know nothing
of their duties. As consequence the
negro and the negro is eating his meals at
the expense of the county or city. II they
have found labor in the fields such as
they were accustomed TO do and would
have been OF some use TO themselves ana
handicapped because they are not ac-
customed either to the climate or to the
labor expected of them OF course the
eastern cities can assinilate them, but it
seems to be a hard pill TO swallow The
Boston brand Of harpies should be sat
upon while the negro problem in the
south works its own solution, as it is ,
by people who know nothing of it. The
negro is much better off in the south than
can take care of them, while it is very
evident from the eastern papers that they |
are already considered a burden there
ssThat man should make a successful /
politician and I guess he is insofar as he Il
has gone said gentleman speaking Of Il
a prominent bankers in southern Kansas. |
I have known him since he was boy and, I
most trusted men in the state, he was i
about the toughest boy and young man
old there eH was nothing '. quite swift enough
for him in this state, and he would take
cago. His mother, who is a good Metho-
dist. sent him to Baldwin to school when /
them a shock that resulted in sudden \
close of his school career at that place
He was sent to three different schools be
fore he was finally located During all his
wild career his mother thought he was
one of the model boys. and his father was
ability to deceive them that remarked
fhas ne wo1l s1 h aK he wae 6t cPfd
I think about 13 years old, he was playing
in the back yard of his home with a lot
Of other boys-he had a turning pole, and
1t always drew the town boys who were
he glanced up and saw that
his mother and neighbor woman were
sitting near a window which overlooked
the playground. He got in a bit of fine
work right there that made me envy him.
He was the vilest mouthed boy in town.
but when one of the boys swore he at
once began lecture to the boys present
on the evil of using profane language
His talk would have made the good boy
In the Sunday school book turn green.
He piled it on thick and quoted freely
from his mothers teachings, and made a
zrandstand play that completely captured
IL 1nf he a7Rn17s manfred
Of the visitor. Ever since that day I have
been a great admirer of that boy, and I
still look for great things to come from
MIN If he gets a chance In diplomatic
ying he should equal Lii Hung Chang"