The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-08-10

bered at me from behind his prison
bars. but We weren't making any prog
ress toward an understanding until a
special ofncer took me by the arm and
led me around a corner where I could
talk with the venerable man face to
face
I was positively awed by my sur
roundings- Everything was shining
steel and white marble. Large digni-
fed gentlemen. with opulent Waistcoa is
glided about conversing in low tones. I
think they had just finished cutting
their daily coupons. The venerable
prisoner in the iron and plate glass
cage asked me what I wanted. 1 re-
piled that it had long been my dream
to rent a safety deposit box. He re-
piled that l could realize this dream by
putting up the price and giving my real
name I said that would first like to
look at the So boxes.
The venerable prisoner let himself
out on parole, and we passed through a
doorway set in a steel wall and en-
tered the inner vault. A red carpet
covered the floor and the walls were
made of little drawers. l saw one Wo-
man pull out her drawer and take a
small vial from it. Something gray and
fluffy filed the bottle. The woman wepJ
as she looked at it, and an sure that
her husbands ashes We're in that vial.
Touching idea, wasn't it? And L saw
a man who was sitting diamonds
through his fingers as a child plays
with sand, and another man who lifted
a magnificent tiara from"
Would you mind restraining your
ina gination until we have locked the
door and looked under the couch2'' the
dental student asked.
And the girl said, without noticing
this interruption, I picked out a very
snug little box which the venerable
prisoner said I might have for my very
own. We again withdrew to his cage
and I stood without while he took my
name and address. Then he said that
I must make UP a password, which
would have to give every time came
to my box. Doesn't that sound mys-
FERROUS? Finally I settled on Popocat-
apetl as my password. The prisoner
gave me two keys. so that 1 can lose
one any time and not miss it, and
certificate showing that I had paid SO
for the rent of safety deposit box 1882.
1 was all ready to leave when l hap
pened to think that I hadn't asked
what would happen if I should get
married and change my name. Gould
I still get to my box if I got married.
I asked. The old prisoner-he was sec
rotary, too, it seems-looked quite
offended. Madam he said, we do not
conhscate your property if you marry.
So let the good work go on
SO that is why I feel 50 happy the
girl philosopher said Il have a safety
affiuent and opulent and all the other
synonyms for that wealthy feeling"
And what did you have to put in
your box? ?" the matron asked.
The girl hesitated
well, that was my only difficulty
she answered. THE only Thugs I
have found to put in so far are some
earrings that I don't wear any more
and my broken paddock bracelet and
the diploma that shows that I gradu-
ated from the West Division High
school, and my fountain pen that won't
write and my last will and
why didn't you have a rummage
sale instead of putting your things into
a safety deposit box2" the dental stu
dent asked.
Because the girl replied with dig
nifty, sit has always been the dream
and I am sure that to have a password
like Popocatapetl is alone worth So a
year,