The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-10-26
TIE EVENING STORY
where jealousy won.

when it announced in headlines four
inches deer. that the spire Of the Bap-
list church ediftce was two inches out
Of plumb or that a spotted COW, show
ing signs of the rabies, had galloped
through the burgh at midnight, its
readers We're bound to sit up and take
notice
The announcements on this occasion
ran that Professor Gordon had arrived
IN town with his wonderful aggrega-
tlon5 Of wild animals and would stop
TOR some time, giving daily and night
y exhibitions at ten cents a head, and
lnat e caring burglary had been com
nlltteu the night previous at the house
OF MI. George Frazer, lone of our
Weafthlest and most esteemed citi-
zens.7
Barbersville was duly excited, and
the enterprise Of the Daily Herald was
duly praised. When an enterprising
daily paper gets hold Of one big thing,
it generally follows that another is
lying ready at hand It was so in this
case Another daring burglary fol-
lowed the first, and although the an
noun was made that the police
were active, it had to be admitted that
there was no clue. The clue, however, |
Jay IN the hands of pretty Jennie |
/ Wren, daughter Of the Widow Wren, !
4 but neither she nor any one else knew /
II at the time. Had the Herald paid /
strict attention to society events. which |
It didn't, owing to the fact that its one /
/ reporter couldn't spread himself over
more than five or six departments at |
once, som ething would have been said |
weeks before concerning the engage |
nent of Miss Wren and George Wat I
son. The latter was the son Of the
/ leading grocer of the town and its
| best catch" After having bestowed
his attentions upon various young lad
les he had finally and definitely fall
len in love with Jennie and asked her
| hand in marriage.
The Herald could have chronicled
this fact and claimed a great beat over
all other contemporaries and then,
few days later, it could have added
that sudden GOODNESS had arisen be-
tween the happy couple. It might
even have discovered that this cooiness
was on account of the fact that young
Mr.. Watson had met a girl from Bos-
ton who was a summer bOarder in the
town and was trying to get up firta-
ton to while away her vacation.
When his fancee heard that he had
stood on the dock with the Boston
4 girl for two hours while she fshed
and that he had baited her hook, ad-
vised her how to hold her hsh-pole
and assisted her to land q dozen sun
fish and one sucker, she gave him to
understand that such conduct could no
longer be tolerated. He had said that
he liked a girl with temper. He
found that Miss Jennie had one. He
, stood on his dignity, and she stood on
her rights, and so it came to pass that
he was seen no more at the house OF
| the Widow Wren.
There have been courtships and en-
gagements and marriages without
these ''tiffs,'' but they have been few
and far between. No matter what
your sex or how gray your hair, you
Z like to remember them The Daily
Herald didn't announce that Mr.
r George Watson and Miss Jennie Wren
had said goodby to each other, but
they had done so, and an hour later
both were wishing they hadn't
p5rf
still more, but then the difficulty of
: making up stared them in the race
She wouldn't write and he wouldn't
call, and how was the thing to be ef-
fected? And then he heard that she
had taken up" with the superintend-
7 ent Of the candy factory, who was an
] elderly man and a Widower, and she
learned that he had not only been
fishing again with the Boston girl, but
Z had taken her for row on the lake
and was sending her daily boxes of
candy.
Meanwhile. the burglar was busy
every night. The criminal was cute
r as well as bold. Sometimes 1t was
/ found that he had entered by first
floor window, and then again by sec
: ond story. Sometimes it was impos-
sible to tell how he had entered. but
( he had done his work in a thorough
Q manner. Money and Jewelry came
e first with him. Afterward he gath
cred up such knick-knacks as suited
MS fancy. a NlBlldAlCG COAAtA41AAACC H1SS
q formed to assist the police, but the
u robberies went on just the same. Even
Professor Gordon, sleeping IN the tent
= which held his wOrld-renoWned aggre-
? CATION. was one of the victims. AS he
slept and dreamed of greater aggre-
J.! cations to come. some one robbed him
Of a hundred dollars in cash
The six policemen of the town, each
one of whom was Vldocq IN ms owl
l. estimation, were simply stunned at the
daring of the mysterious criminal. Day
n by day the Herald came out with tins
i announcement. Another Daring
a Rurglary-Where VIII 1t End! ou
Il echo Where"
NOW It is said that when woman Ii
10 Jealous she is more Jealous than
man. She may not indulge in shooting
le or throat-cutting as often, but this mai
2 be because the opportunities do no
q arise When two weeks had gone o.
and Miss Jennie Wren had not heart
+ from Mr.. George Watson, except to nj
J. detriment, the demon Of Jealousy wa
aroused and she determined that n
N IshouId find out the penalty of toying
ID with rnaiden's heart She wanted t
meet him just once, and tell him VIVA
I. she thought Of him and then lay
r horseWhip over his shoulders. Sh
II didn't want to do 1t in q sensationa
7e manner, however. She simply wante'
re a settlement as between the two
. them
Her small brother bought her tn
whip of a harness maker, informed he
that George was calling at the hous
where the Boston girl boarded, an
r, one dark evening all was ready Mis-
/ Jennie attended the prayer meeting a
l. the Methodist church first. The sam
rs Course is recommended to every cir
ne S1Sbo Commentaries horsewhipping a re
calcitrant lover It will soothe an
lie calm and prepare her for the bushes
le in hand.
= When the prayer meeting was GU
Id +be gsrl vri+h fhe whin made her wa
I'D alone for half a mile and practiced a
sorts of cuts on the way. She mean
be to take George at the gate, red-handee
e. as it were. She was surprised to fin