The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-01-17
Now, Then, What in Jerushy is All
This Hullaboo About?

"Quite by accident. In looking
around to see where the Coon would
probably try to break in I stepped
into one of the traps"
Il see. You wasn't after the chick
ems yourself"
How can you entertain such
thought"
Il can't, if you say it wasn't so, but
here is how I'm fixed: Ny old wO-
man wants a coonskin muf for the
winter, and if you'd kept away the
Coon would have come and been
caught AS you came and drove him
if she can't git coon fur she'll take
fox, I'll have to rap We on the head
and do the best I kim"
Moral: Never do anybody a good
turn if you can help it.
THE PEASANTS AND THE CADI.
One day as two Peasants. who had
long been friends and neighbors, were
digging in the field, they found a pot
1--WE viii divide it fairly" they said
in chorus. as their spades scraped
against the pot.
Half for you and half for me. -
thye said, as they lifted the pot out
and removed the lid
No sooner had the gold and silver
coins been poured out on the ground,
however, than one of the pair ex-
claimed:
"Ah, ha, but this treasure was
found on my land, and I shall there
fore claim two-thirds of it!''
1t was at least two feet on my
land" replied the other, 'and so 1 am
entitled to the largest share"
Don't attempt to swindle mel Any
one with half an eye can see that it
is on my land"
And don't think to rob mel 1t is
plain as day that I am the rightful
owner Of every cent of this find. If
give you any portion it is because you
happen to be with me-
Thus the pair disputed for half an
hour, growing more angry and deter
mined all the time, and the money
had not even been counted yet, when
a traveller came along and got down
from his vehicle and asked:
Why this disputing and quarrel
because he would rob mel" cried
one Peasant
Because he is a liar and a villain!''
exclaimed the other.
"Ah! you have a treasure here,
see- A pot of goldl You found it in
company, but you cannot agree as to
the division of it. Very well. Come
with me and the Cadi shall say who it
belongs to-
When they had come into the pres
ence of the Cadi and had told their
respective stories, the wise man lean
ed his cheek on his hand for a mo-
ment and then replied:
just decision in this matter. Under
the law all treasure found under
ground belongs to me. Under the
same law, any person seeking to de-
prive We Of my rights is liable to
death. shall not enforce the extreme
penalty in this case, as understand
that you are both hard workers in
every election campaign, but shall
order you a dozen strokes apiece and
advise you not to play the hog in
future"
Moral: The better way is to find a
pot Of gold when you are digging all
by your lonesome.
THE GANDER AND THE PEASANT.
The gander had long been ambi-
tous to be something else, and early
one morning before his master was out
Of bed he ruf1ed his tail feathers,
spread out his tail and took up his
position on the edge OF the pond and
INDUCED in strange cries. The peas
ant soon rushed out to see what was
the matter, and according to agree
ment all the other geese cried out:
Behold, master, there is an eagle
among usi"
AN eagle=where? ~
"On the edge of the pond
so there Isl An eagle among my