The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-04-27

three hundred dollars, his words had
the ring of truth and integrity. It was
only after I had waited for six months
and taken the brick to a Jeweler that
the brass of the thing was made plain
to me 1 wish he hadn't done it just
that way. l wish he had met me on
the highway at night and robbed me
1 should have looked upon a robber
as robher and not have been hurt in
my beliefs.
When I was a lad I worked for a
farmer named Jones' He was a good
man. He never went about knocking
his cows or horses right or left, and
/ never heard him use an oath or crit
icise his neighbors. His wife and chill
dren were we'll used and had plenty to
eat and wear. and he paid his hired
man a dollar more month than any
other farmer around. When I grew up
and started in the commission business
I bought two car loads of potatoes of
Uncle Jim and left it all to him to bag
them UP and load the cars. I shipped
them as extra choice and lost hun
dred dollars and had two lawsuits on
hand. Uncle Jim had worked his
poorest off on me, and when the poor
est didn't quite hold out had worked in
windfall apples and turnipS.
When I went to see where the mis-
take came in he grinned at me and
said it was all a matter of business. A
piano agent had swindled him and he
had got even by swindling me. after
ward SOlQ MIN 1lltiDOIlQ, anu the IoIll
went out three days later and caused
him loss of a thousand dollars, but I
didn't feel like chuclxling over it. What
I wanted was to keep on believing that
he was a square man.
When I had begun to get along in
| the world and could buy ten pounds Of
graduated sugar all at once, some OF
my friends thought I ought to go into
/ politics little. I happened to mem
| ton the mater to Judge Durgo, and he
took up the idea at once. He was on
] the bench and he had been referred to
! as fncorruptible. Some of the moral
lectures he had read prisoners before
sentencing them had been quoted far
and wide. The judges term was about
| to expire, and between US We came to
an understanding He was to run Tor
| state senator and for representative
on the same ticket and help each other.
| It was little trust of two. we helped
each others nomination and the cam
paign started off It wasn't week old
/ TO trade me off that the man on the
other ticket might be elected, and
! thanks to their scheme, he was elected
I heard rumors and rumors. and nnaliy
went to the judge and asked MIN III II
there was anything in them. He
laughed in my face. When / pressed
i the question he replied;
NV dear boy don't be an ass. IN
politics it is. may the devil look out Tor
s.F5ut your conduct is certainly rep
rehensible,'' insisted.
ssBoshi Nothing is repreh ensible IN
politics"
many similar ones. my son. that m
crusfy and cranky and kicker, ana
I want to warn you not to be Ike me.
Don't try to find out your fellow man $
/ weaknesses and WEAKNESSES. Think
well of him to the last notch. Make
all the points in his favor you can, ana
criticise less than anybody else.
If YOU have been counting what ap-
peared to be a pretty girl of twenty,
! and she accidentally falls into the river
and is dragged out baldheaded, the
+ color wash off her face. two or three Of
her eyebrows missing and her age sud
4 denly increased to forty. look astonish-
! ed il you will, but don't lose your con-
hdence in the sex Stand ready to fall
in love all over again. - Copyright,
] 1905, by P. c. Eastman