River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1905-10-05

went And now she is in Jail, her house
and furniture gone, and a horse doctor
has taken her horses for medical at
tendance when they had spavins and
epizootic, and she looks 20 years older
because the jailors won't let her have
any face cream to disguise herself with.
Let this be lesson to you, Hennery,
never to forge the name of any man,
poor or rich, to notes for $4,000, 000."
I told him l would never forge any
body's name to more than a reasonable
amount, cause was no hog. What
you crying about" said l, as dad broke
down and wept. ooh, was thinking of
poor Andrew Carnegie; the dear old
case of Scotch whisky and Quaker oats"
said dad, as he wiped his eyes and read
more about the Chadwick case. Here,
this woman charges that Carnegie was
her father, and gave up the notes to
square himself with his accidental
daughter, so she wouldn't squeal on him,
and queer him with the library beg
gars, who might refuse to take his
tainted money"
ct is too bad about Andrew" says
to dad, "but don't you remember what
a wink he had to his left eye, that time
we saw him. even in his old age?"
'Well, that woman is no gentleman,
or she never would have told on An
drew" said dad and he dried his eyes
and looked at another paper, and told
me to hush, and he kept on reading, and
finally he said:
"Well, if that wouldn't skin you," and
he put his hand to his head, and sighed
as though his heart would break.
What is it, dad; out with it, cause
we might as well know the worst. Has
Chauncey Depew attended another
banquet, and told that old chestnut
about"
"Oh. Hennery, it is worse than that,
if possible" said dad. "Lookahere,
church organization has refused to take
hundred thousand dollar gift from
Rockefeller, for use in the missionary
| business, because they believe John
came by his money dishonesty, robbing
independent refineries Of kerosene, and
John is heartbroken for fear all the re-
| ligious and educational grafters will
| boycott him, and refuse to take his
money, and it will accumulate on his
| hands until it ruins him. BY ginger,
| that is hard on john" continued dad,
as he kept on reading.
"Oh, don't you worry about Rookie
| Teller" said l to dad. 'He has only ac-
| cumulated billion dollars, and his son
has not got gay yet. A rich man can
always get rid of his money, in one of
three ways; by paying taxes, starting a
newspaper or letting his son get gay.
Rockefeller's young man has been kept
in Sunday school until he is full of texts
and parallels, and hymns, and he is
about due to get skin full of the water
| Of Joy, at SIS bottle, and give dinner
to the chorus of an opera. and when that
| time comes, and the youngsters back
teeth are afloat, and he sees double, an d
begins to realize that he is the greatest
case of 'it' in the English language, and
the chief chorus girl comes and sits on
| the arm of his chair and leans over so
she is almost all in his arms, and her
| two blue eyes look to him like the show
case in glass eye store, and her breath
comes in short pants, close to his ear,
and she puts her soft, manicured, veal
| sweetbread hand on his fevered brow,
and strokes his hair away from the fore
head that is beginning to ache from mix
| ing the canvass back and bulge, terra
pin and champagany water, and tells
him he is too good thing to be boss
ing a Sunday school, he will look