The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-03

this funeral and don't you go butting
IN Mr.. E. w. Howe editor of
the Atchison Globe tells a story about a
professional mourner in his town. He
was big. impressive looking man who
belonged to every white lodge in town
and never missed funeral An
itinerant printer came to Atchison and
worked on the Globe for a few months
but before he had been there long
enough to know or be known he died
However, because his widow had adj
mired him so profoundly, and was so
SrieVed at his death and so Inundated
at the thought of the modest funeral
of a man so little known in the COM
munity would have, Mr. Howe and the
other people on the Globe conspired to
give him one of the grandest funerals
that had ever been pulled off in Atchi-
SON. They started it just to crafty his
Wife whose devotion was really touch
Ing, but afterwards they got interested
in the funeral and added detail Oh de-
tail to make 1t conspicuous success"
Mr. Howe got all the big. distinguished
looking Prom. Cts. to act as pallbearers
and among them, of course the lodge
man, who is the hero of our story. 1t
happened that he didn't see the latter
in person but left message for him to
be on hand at such a time and place 70
assist" at a funeral and sure enough
the man was Johnny-on-the SPIT, with
frock coat, silk hat. white gloves and
a tube rose boutonniere. He arrived so
late that Mr.. Howe didn't have a chance
to have talk with him but from long
practice. his treatment of the situation
was all that could have been desired.
He Immediately took. charge of every
thing, tiptOed around the house, whis-
pering to the undertaken, the other pail
bearers the officiating clergyman and
the family of the deceased, mopping the
perspiration from his brow with his very
best funeral manner so that you would
have thought that he was a near rela-
tive of the dead man. From the church
where the ceremony was held the cor
tege went to the railway station where
the casket was put on board a train
after everything to the last. When
the body and the relatives who accom-
panied it to the burial place were final
Iy upon the train he tiptoed over to Mr..
Howe, still wiping his beady brow with
a large white handkerchief and whis-
pered hoarsely, who was he2''
e II IS.
Mr. Denton H. Painter is announcing
to intimate friends his engagement to
Miss Maud Ayers of Omaha. The date
of the wedding is still secret. Mr..
Painter who has lived in Topeka for
only a short time, but has made many
friends, is a special agent of the Liver
pool and London Globe Insurance COM
pany. with headquarters in Topeka.
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Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Addison Can
trelI of Benton, Ill. announce the birth
of a daughter. Dorothy Margaret Aug
ust 29th Mrs Cantrell was formerly
Miss Eleanor Thompson of Topeka.
Senator Charles Curtis will leave to-
morrow for Washington where he will
spend the winter and where his family
will join him later in the month Mrs.
Curtis who spent the summer abroad
has sailed from Liverpool and Will reach
the last of this week.
Senator and Mrs. Curtis will take
house in Washington for the winter and
Mr.. Harry and Miss Leona Curtis viii
attend school there. Miss Permeha Cur
tbs will return to wellesley college.
Mrs. s B. Smith has returned from
visit in Rockford, ILL.,, and is with her
daughter, Mrs Frank s. Crane.
Mr. and Mrs. Ross Majors OF Chicago
are guests of Mr.. and MRS L. >: WolVer-
Mr. William Dipple Gardner left to-