The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-03-04
DIDN'T TRUST THEM.
conscience Fund" Contributor Sends
Remitta nee to Two Officials.

6S0mlGCa nee TO Two Omc1al0.
H. E. R. Wood, treasurer of the Chi
cago & Alton railway. was surprised
and pleased when he found in his mail
yesterday the following letter from ST.
Louis:
Herein $50. currency, to pay any
possible old debts we may owe your
company. This mail sent $50 currency
same use. Please see that this 500
gets into the proper channel and con-
4iim same with him -
The letter was written on perfectly
plain paper and the only signature was
"Scrupulous Conscience" While Mr.
Wood was examining the letter for
clew to the writer his telephone rang
and this conversation ensued:
Hello. is that you. Wood?"
Yes; who are your
"Goodnow, general manager. Did
you get a letter today from St. Louis
with $50 in it ?''
That's just what I intended to ask
you. I got it,
That fellow evidently has turned
Eopest, but he isn't sure that we are
tt. be trusted"
That's so: his scheme of sending
ali the money to you and half to me
evidently was devised to make sure the
company would get the money, if
Either of us was dishonest"
Every railroad in the country keeps
conscience fund.- account. Fully 90
FER cent. of the contributors explain
that they have become Christians and
want to atone for having defrauded
h. Iailroads.
'Dowie is responsible for the sending
cf lots of money to the conscience
funds of the railroads. said Treasurer
Wood of the Alton. 81 recall one case,
though, where we got long letter
from one of his converts saying he had
beaten US out Of money. had asked the
Lord to forgive him, and wanted US TO
forgive him and pray for him. He neg
lected to send any money. however. so
1 wrote and called his attention to the
words of Zaccheus after bis conversion:
And if L have taken anything from
any man restore him fourfold.' But
we never heard again from that Dowie-
ite.'
One of Duke Parsons converts in
Chicago wrote the other day to the
passenger department of the Rock Is
land system: Il rode on a half-rate
ticket from Pueblo, Col, to Chicago,
when l ought to have paid full fare.
have salvation now and want others to
know it, too, so I send you $14.75, the
balance I feel 1 owe you
Some time ago the following letter
came to the Rock Island from Cleve-
saved through Jesus Christ, but last
summer I backslid. At that time I was
at Des Moines and wanted to go to
Grinnell, SO I 'bummed my way there
and back. I have been reclaimed by
the Lord and write to ask you to tell
me how much L owe you for those
rides, as I am now engaged in evange-
listic work and my conscience troubles
me-"
'I fear that fellow backslid again,
for he hasn't sent the money we told
him he owed u.s." said a Rock Island
official.
Last week man in Wallet, Col,
wrote to a general passenger agent
here: ''In June, 1894, I rode from Deer
Trail to Burlington and did not pay
any fare. In October of the same year
rode from Burlington to Denver and
only gave the conductor $2@which I
suppose your company never got. 1 am
a Christian now and will pay in full
for those rides, with interest, if you
will tell me the amount"
THE best letter we ever received
from a conscience-stricken individual
read like this" said a passenger official
of the st. Paul system: q I stole some
money from your road and my con-
science gnaws me. inclose SIS. If she
gnaws again I'll send you some
more
A Burlington official said: "I know of
one instance where a clergyman sent
to a railroad company a lump sum of
LOO. Nobody ever learned from
whom it came. "-Chicago Record-Her-
aid.