The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-29
PILGRIM JOE.
Not Every Man Is His Friend and
Well Wisher.

was driving joyously along between
the towns of Stop Here and Keep On,
and realizing how much I had to be
thankful for and what a poor critter
was man at his best, when I meets up
with a patriarch of about eighty win
tiers. His face was wrinkled and his
whiskers venerable, and when he held
up his hand for me to halt my outfit
saluted him with the utmost respect
L take it that thou art Pilgrim %
he queried as he leaned on his staff
THE same, man of years." 1 replied
MY principal pasture ground is this
commonwealth of Oklahoma, but 1 am
continually stopping over into other
states"
And is the object of your pilgrimage
to do good to your feller-men2"
Yea, sire. 1 have moving pictures
that I set up in town halls and use 'em
to pint a moral or adorn a tale. am
also the originator, inventor, COM
FOUNDER and sole proprietor of that
wonderful remedy known as the Pill
grim Pain AIleyiator. It alleviates
pains of the body and mental distress
with equal fuency. 1t will soothe
the same five mfnits The man who
backs up again a buzz-saw finds 1t the
best thing to heal the gashes and the
wilder grievin' for her late departed
takes it according to directions ana
And art thou a man of morals?'
asks the patriarch.
Heaps of en-"
And thy heart is soft and tender
and full of sympathy
so much so that all my pity goes
out for a bob-tailed COW in f1y-time-"
=" It's well, Pilgrim. mile further
on thou wilt come to a lowly cabin In
that cabin sits a woman. She Is in
trouble and there is no one to cheer
her Stop thy wagon at the Goor and
stay long enough to bring hope back to
her heart. It will be a greater deco
than voting five times at the same cleo
ton
promised. and we babe each other
eood-day and parted with lingerness-
It was but a chance meeting in the
wilderness, and yet we both apprecl-
ated each other. When I reached the
cabin halted and knocked on the
door. and a woman whose eyes were
red with weeping opened it. l would
that she had been fairer of face
would that she hadn't weighed omuch
into a hundred pounds of leaf lard.
would that her form had been like that
of the gazelle instead of the feather
bed However, trouble is trouble, no
matter to whom it comes, and one
should not keep sympathy locked up in
his breast on account or Iatness-
Hast hope left my. heart and peen
after taking time to cross my legs s9e1
would have make the floor more pre-
Until I saw thee driving. up had no
wish to live she answered.
'sIf nv coming hath brought ray o.
sunshine where all was dark as PACK
hog at midnight before, then do truly
rejoice and feel that have not lived IN
vain did not notice a fresh ana un-
marked grave as entered. but hatn
II happened that thine old man hatn
turned up his toes and gone hence
Now you are getting down TO pusl-
ness There is no grave, and no olu man
has turned W his toes He hath Simply
ouit his Job and gone off. and never
eVnect to see him again You must nave
met him up the road !, 1900.
ssyyas he patriarch in age ana appear
an IS reckon that is what you might call
with venerable whiskers and benign
look?"
whiskers a twitch before he got out of
'h put lutte he was full of JUNCTION and good
.s;That,s him. drat his hide. For two
years he's been full of JUNCTION and good
words and sat around the cabin and
smoked his pipe and stuffed his hide
whilst I nlowed and planted and reaped.
Thines came to a head an hour ago when
he h0gged all the 'taters and bacon and
left me nothing but bread and rinds- He
has departed to look for his ideal of
aAnd vou7~ I asked as she throwed