The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-03-02

The telegraph man in a central office
on Kansas avenue closed his key and
walked to the rail as a man entered and
laid down a small parcel on he counter
7 want TO wire to Colorado Springs =
said the visitor
Yes. sir
The telegraph man drew Up a pad of
blanks. Blankly the man looked at the
WHAT'S that forg" he asked Innocent
"
Put on here what you want to send"
What for?''
so 7 can send it"
The man picked up his parcel care
fully and deposited IL gingeriy on the
PAD It was exactly the same size
book evidently, and he squared It up
even to the corners. His m;en was ser
ious and his manner grave.
.'What're you doing that for21 asked
the knight of the sounder and ticker:
You said | should put it on here.
You don't expect me To send that,
MANI" gasped the telegrarher, getting
blue in the face.
Certainly"
Cant do it"
You can't surprised.
No
See herei Isn't my money as good as
anybody else's2" The man was. begin
ming to get Indignant He thought he
was being trampled on
Yes Your money is all right, but
i know you've got q monopoly the
other interrupted. getting ready to
shout I believe in government owner
ship and all that, but 1 s.idnt think
grasping corporations had got to that
stage as to turn Down business that
comes TO them unsolicited. The people
have some rights yet, anyway. There's
some way of getting at you fellows If
you don't give the service that the pub
lie demands and I'll hunt ali year ana
ind it and make il warm fcr you Now
you send that book right away!'
But cant send il. It won't go
Why nct2's
why not?s' echoed the telegraph
man, in a shrek. We'll you can shoot
me for a Digger Injua If would We
thought that there was nan IN To-
peka in this twentieth century Come
in here.''
Then he dragged the innocent fndivsd-
ual behind the rail and showed him
how it worked" He showed him the
keys and the souHder, duplex and
quadruplex. batteries and wires called
Ks and made r talk over The wire just
to demonstrate how it was done
Much obliged to you" gratefully
ACKNOWLEDGED the man as lie edged his
way out L knew you could telegraph
money. if didn't know how you did it.
1 thought sure you could send other
little things and supposed. OF course,
you could send a book for me to Colo
rado Springs Good DAY"
A Santa Fe engineer had visitor
from Philadelphia last week, and as the
throttle Jerker- l-ad to catch forty winks
one afternoon IN order to get his share
of tired natures sweet, restorer and
Keep onto his JOB, he sent his guest off
one afternoon To shift for his own
house rs safe range in which to turn
himself and his intellectually Loose to
browse, without fear of nOlestation
from hostile Indians, wolves or coyotes.
ha 81 of h
erly Love nerved himself for the ordeal
Of y5nturiEg into the state capitol un-
guarded and went
He was gone all afternoon. In that
time he looked in on the Woodworking
bodies, observing the digni-
fed senators throwing the gaf' into
one another on questions of personal
and noting with what eIO-
quence the short grass members defend
ed the rights of their constituents
againse the Iand-grabber and every
species of octopus Then he went on a
tour OF all the offices.
At nightfaII he came back to the home
Of his host. almost hidden from sight by |
the arnfuls of books and pamphlets un-
der the weight of which he staggered |
Old Eagle-eye looked at his visitor ask !
ance. as he serted out Coburns agrieul- |
Iural reports, Barnes Peach and /
Cherry kansas Resources, and doz- |
ems Of other immortal works.
What in Sam Hill are you going to |
10 with an that truck. guest2" he man
ICED to interrogate at last.
Take EN- home, responded the /
Quakeritc. voicing neat tribute to the Il
lagne and fame Of the SuadOwer state. /
Kansas IS all right. I'm going to take
nese all home, and evenings when I'm i
t leisure I'm going to read up on KAN
as
Old Ea gle-eye is preparing to charter
ar. when the time of departure comes,
0 send his friend and his literature on
Kansas nome in