The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-01-12
ng about nillions!''

"If you do not care to become our
buyer for the Mutton Broth company,
continued the Major after moment,
perhaps you would like the secretary
ship Of the United Pancake Organiza-
ton? It is an organization based on
the idea of bringing out a standard
pancake for the world. At the present
date every nation makes it's own, and
of whatever materials it chooses. Some
are round, some fat and some OblOng.
Some are thick and some thi11--some
brown and some blond. We shall set
the standard and name the materials,
and our canned pancakes will reach
every part of civilization before five
years have passed. Your salary as
secretary will be
.Will be nit finished the man with
a loud laugh. You can't do it, Major,
and it's useless to waste your breath.
'Then let me call your attention to"
stop right there, Major. I am here
to call your attention to something.
You beat nv sister out of ten plunks,
and you've got to shell out to me or
take thunpingl"
my dear sir, if you have a sister I
am ignorant of the fact"
''Then I'll post you Don't you
remember a little, red-headed, cross
eyed woman who came in here few
weeks ago to sell you subscription
book? It was either the lives of the
Il forget which. You said you'd
take ten copies, and after you had got
her all fiustered over her good luck
you offered her a place in the Great
company. 1t was a place worth ten
thousand a year, and all she had to do
was to travel around and locate cat
tails for use in place of feathers
When she said she'd take the place
you got $40 out of her to complete the
incorporation, or some other fool
nonsense. Don't deny it, you old
fraud"
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guage or leave my office!" announced
the Major with much dignity as he
rose up.
"Purty good, old man, but the bluff
don't go. Come down with the
dough-"
at has happened occasionally said
the Major as he resumed his chair,
that ladies have called here and ask
ed to be appointed to lucrative posi-
tions, and that have cheerfully pro-
vided them. It may be that your lit
tie, red-headed, cross-eyed sister has
been of the number. I have a dim
recollection of such person and of
giving her q place to look up cat
tails at ten thousand a year. Ali 1t
comes back to me now. The Substf- |
tute company was to have been float
ed the next week, but as it was presi- |
Dental election year the board of d. |
rectors thought best to hold it back |
for three months. Tell your sister |
to appear here January 1st to enter |
upon her duties. And by the way. |
why shouldn't you take a place in the |
tail grows there you will find the bull |
thistle. Why not travel with your
Ied-headed sister and see that she !
does not mistake one for the other |
Your salary for the first year
s'Come down." interrupted the man 1
as he crooked his finger.
eff your sister had called here
could have explained matters in a |
mi RaThonS haffnr r7cl7
tomorrow"
''Come down or take a mauIing!"
"If she objects to travelling in the !
cat-tail business have another open /
ing that may suit her better. I have 1
just organized and hoated The
Last CALL majori Come down or \
I'll play horse with vel"
- have just organized and foated |
The Great International Ornamental |
F'ish-Tail Company, limited. AS you 4
know the tail of every fish now
dressed for the table is thrown away. 1
or at best flung to the cat I have in /
articles of adornment for bedrooms /
and boudoirs, and the sales promise |
to be simply enormous. Our first or
der is from the emperor of Germany,
The red-headed girls brother picked
the major up and slammed him down
on the door and drew him around and
walked on him. There was no resist
some day, and now that it had come
he was taking his medicine like a
man. He stood the slamming and
iarnTnfn9 and walking without a word
Of protest, and the end came after
about ten minutes.
''There, durn ye, guess you won't
beat nobody else in hurry!" ex-
slammed the man as he got into his
overcoat and walked out and banged
the door behind him.
The major gave him five minutes
start and then rose up and locked the
1oor and sat down. He had just SO
n his pocket. He took it out and
counted 1t and holy calm stole over
his soul and a transcendent smile u