The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-10
THE EVENING STORY
The Bunkoing of Professor schenker.

The Bunkoing OF Professor Schenker.
Professor Schenker occupied the
chair OF entomology. He had come to
America from German university
with q great reputation in his profess
all loved him, declared that all the
professor knew was about bugs. He
was as simple as a child. When he
Went out after insects, which was
fall into well or get caught by the
seat of his trousers in crossing a fence
and perish before being found.
One day the professor, after many
admonitions from Mrs. Professor,
went to the city to meet a man with
whom he had an engagement. The
man was apparently a farmer and
carried carpetbag of the rag va
riety, which he exchanged with the
professor for some crisp notes. They
were both Germans, and both might
have been taken for farmers. Indeed,
after the trade, on visiting beer sa-
loon to refresh themselves every ore
there spotted them for couple of
''hayseeds." AS they were about to
leave, man stepped up to the pro-
fessor and, Selling hfs hand, said:
my dear old friend, how do you
do?''
The professor did not remember
him, but the man had no difficulty in
they had met. and the three went back
for more beer. Then the newly found
friend introduced a friend. and there
was fine party.
what y got in your grip, ole man?''
asked the man who had introduced
himself. "Y' seem to feel afraid of
losing it,
st got a dreasure in dat bag" re-
piled Schenker.
By this time they had drunk good
deal of beer, and the newly found
friends proposed to show the strangers
the city in a hack.
"Y' don't want to take that bag
along. It wouldn't be safe. I'll leave
| it for y with the proprietor of this
saloon"
Through several mugs of beer the
professor saw his treasure carried
away without the power to protest.
Then he was hurried into the hack
! with the man with whom he had made
the trade, and the driver was told to
show them the city. Had they. i'm
bibed less beer they might have
entertainers accompanied them
In short time the professor. not
having continued his potauons, began
to be fearful for the safety of his
treasure and ordered the hackman to
drive back to the saloon.
| When the two men drove up to the
door, seeing a crowd about it., with
several policemen struggling to break
| ChrOugn ana go INSIDE, Jn6 pTOleSSOT
wrung his hands and moaned:
'Mein dreasurel Mein treasure!
Dere hat been fire. and all is burned
up"
! Leaping from the hack, he elbowed
| his way into the saloon. All was COM
motion, From a private room came
howls. and from the crowd, some of
whom were standing on the tables,
came cries of "Murder!" and "Policei'
! Suddenly the door of the private room
tnnann6 and the who had In
terested themselves in the professor S
! carpetsaek rushed wildly out, swing
ing their arms in a vain attempt TO
fight off a swarm of bees that clustered
communicated to the others, and there
was a mad rush for the door.
| When the saloon was cleared, there
| remained the proprietor, the two bee
stung men, the professor and a police
man. The farmer who had sold the
bees came in and, taking in the S1tua-
ton, hived them. Then came the ex-
PLANTATION. 1t did not require many
that it was a confidence game, in
which the misplaced confidence was
with the swindlers. He marched them
off to the station, taking the professor
along for his testimony, crowd OF
gamins following, shouting and jeer-
ing the prisoners at the condition OF
their swollen heads.
| When Professor Schenker returned
home that evening he was met by his
wife, who had seriously considered
sending out a lost child alarm
Throwing up her hands, she exclaimed
| my dear where have you been ?''
Then the professor told how he had
heard of rare variety of bees, how he
| had bargained for them by correspondence
and taken them from their owner to bring
home rounding out the story with an ac-
count of the attempted capture of money
and the reaping of a harvest of hornets.
| The story was published in an evening
| paper and was soon in possession of the
college The same evening a crowd OF
students came to the professors house
called him out, and one of their number
addressed him:
1--WE tender you and the land of your
adoption eongra tulationS on the noble
manner in which you have steered bunkc
steercrs into the open arms of the law
| where they will receive their deserts anc
be a warning to the rest of their craft
that il they try to bunko any one con-
nected with our college they will find Jor-
dan = hard road to travel.
The professor bluShed and tried to STAN
mer a reply but when it was apparent
that he was about to break down in his
attempt the students covered his retreat
| with the college yell and four of them
talSerR him on their shoulders, carried
/ him around the campus.
At the trial of the two swindlers Profes
Sor Schenker made a patheric appeal fol
| them, but it had no effect whatever or
the heart of the obdurate judge, who sem
them to states prison for two years each
| F. A. MITCHELL.