The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-04

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Very busy times to which I'm not in
vited.
Gone are all the friends who love me,
Absent now in courts above me;
| I'm the only man who hasn't been in
dicted!
New York Times.
Armstrong Barred Out.
Friends and business associates were
smiling yesterday over an experience
| of Robert B. Armstrong, president or
the Casualty company of America, last
Sunday.
Because papers and memoranda of
Importance had been missed from the
| office, Mr.. Armstrong issued an order
| that no person should be allowed in
the office after business hours but the
cleaners, except on d written permit
signed by the president of the COM
pany.
! Remembering that there was an i'm
| pOrtant matter requiring settlement
| before the beginning of business Mon
day, Mr.. Armstrong went to his Of
| flee, at SO William street, last Sunday
afternoon.
Where are yez goin', young man ~
demanded the Waterman.
81 am going into my office" was the
dignified answer. please open the
door,
Have yez an orrdher from tn prisi-
dent of the company"
Certainly not. I am the president;
I am Mr.. Armstrong.
Him, yez ARE? All right, but Yell
how to show a permit"
II tell you that am Mr.. Arm
strong"
IT don't know whether yez are tn
president or not, but 1 do know Yell
show me tn orrdher or tn dure stays
shut"
Mr.. Armstrong pulled some paper
from his pocket, scrubbed an order for
the Waterman to admit Mr.. Armstrong
to the offices, signing it with his name.
This he handed to the sentry. That in
dividuaI studied it carefully.
80 that's. yure orrdheri-H m, 1t
don't 60 Where's tn sayle?''
Finding argument useless, Mr.. Arm
strong hurriedly left the building and
went up town, intent on finding let
the official seal had been impressed. 1t
was long hunt, but he got it at last
and returned to the office.
''Since yez ARE tn president" said
the Waterman, unlocking the door,
"why didn't yez how tn orrdher roight
in TIL first place ?''-New York Her
aid.
'The Remorse Motor" in Action.
The adjustable electric kicking ana
spanking machine on exhibition this
week at the electric show has planted
its first series of kicks on the human
form. There are four flying boots, |
which whirl in a circle, and Charles
Remorse Motor
Inspector Wheeler, of the Harrison |
street police station, furnished the re-
morse victim in the person of pris- |
oner Ed Bloom. He threatened to send |
Mr. Bloom to the workhouse for two |
months for smashing city ordinances, |
but being deeply interested in the |
kicking machine from a police point OF |
view, offered Bloom his freedom If he |
would submit himself as a sacrifice to |
the machine.
Bloom elected to be kicker rather |
than go to BrideweI. He baked when |
brought to the Coliseum and saw with |
what smoothness and precision the
machine delivered kicks within the |
zone of punishment.
That's all right, Bloom. Stand up
and take it like a man. said the in
spector. few scientists, anxious to
perior to the clenched fist. the club
or the beer bottle, watched the demon
stration. Finally Mr.. Bloom was put
In range and held by two men. The in
ventor started it up at half speed, and
Mr.. Bloom sustained a few terrific
swats and tried to escape.
He plucked up more courage ana
the machine was sent along at twenty
revolutions a second. Ten seconds
and Bloom was almost out. In that
time he had received almost 1000
kicks. His clothing was torn his flesh
was bruised and his feelings injured.
He was given his liberty. a new SUI.
Of clothes and some arnfca.
1--WE put slippers on for small boys
about No. g. said the inventor-Chi-
,ago Dispatch to the New York World
Saved $1,000 in Dimes
By saving every dime that came into
her possession and adopting the strict |
est economy. Mrs. Emma s. Shirley,
who conducts a rooming house at 2110
Eugenia street, amassed 81 200. This
amount, completed few days ago, she
has rendered to Mrs. Wainwright wife
Of the Rev Dr. Wainwright who is
president of the Methodist Missionary
college in Tokyo, japan, for the e-1dow-
ment of a kindergarten in japan.
When told that the interest on this
sum would support a Bible woman or
1eaconess in Japan. tears of joy stream
I'd down her face and she readily gave
q 900, every cent of ready money she
had.
Mrs. Shirley makes her living as she
goes. a days work making a days ex- ,
oenses- Most of the 81, 900 was saved in
1904, by letting rooms to Worlds Fair ,
visitors.
Il am a disciple of John Wesley" said }
Mrs. Shirley, ''in following his motto.
Make all YOU can, save all you can. !
md give all you cam st. Louis Dis {
patch to Cincinnati Enquirer.
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