The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-05-05

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A check book brings a new supply.
The bill collectors never knock
10 give the timid ones a shock
The only troubles on the mat
Ana even they have feeble power
ihey come out right in half an hour.
OF course the villain does not fare
90 wen. But who for him would care?
he only serves to emphasize
That virtue draws the curtain prize,
That the deserving wins the wife.
All. would that it were so in life!
Nashville American.
Presidential Courtesy.
Ii any president of modern times
were to exhibit the official indecency
that John Adams exhibited when JEFF
Ierson became president he would be
denounced by every reputable newspa-
per and Intelligent citizen of the land.
1t was then, as it is now, the accepted
duty of the retiring president to re-
celve the incoming president of the
White House and accompany him to
the inauguration ceremonies; but the
last official act of Adams as president
was the nomination OF a number of
what were called midnight Judges
the night before the Inauguration of
Jenerson and during the night he and
his family withdrew from the White
House, leaving none but the servants
to receive the incoming president
1t was President Polk who first had
| the courage to disregard the political
passions OF the times by inviting Henry
Clay, who had been his competitor, to
dine with him and Mrs. Polk in the
White House. It was near the close of
the Polk administration, during which
clay had been senator most Of the
time, and I well remember now it
shocked the Democratic sentiment of
the time when it was announced that
not on a state occasion, but had been
welcomed at the family dinner as a
friend. Clay was the soul OF chivalry.
and Polk was man of unblemished
character and high attachments, and
his example Of courtesy to Clay has
never since been broken.
When Cleveland was defeated by
Harrison in 1885, he wrote a very kind
letter to his successful competitor, in
viting him to give his views as to all
the details OF the Inauguration, and to
be the guest of the White House as
long before the Inauguration as he
could find convenient. When, in turn,
Cleveland defeated Harrison, the same
courtesy was exhibited, and no retiring
president could today exhibit any
measure Of dfscourtesy to his success
sor without largely FORGETTING public
respect.
When Garfield was inaugurated in
1881, General Hancock, who had been
his competitor and received within TO-
900 the number Of votes that were given
to Garfield in the entire country, COM
manded the military escort Of Garfield
to the capitol for inauguration.-Alex.
K. Mcclure in the Circle.
Hounds Long Chase.
Following close on the heels of big
gray fox, running for five days and
nights, covering q distance of probably
200 miles through the woods and along
the sandy shores of Cape Cod, only to
have the fox escape by wearing him
out, is the record of a hound four years
| old, one Of three valuable dogs that
a party of hunters recently took with
them to hunt foxes in the woods al
Wellfieet. The dog chased the fox, OF
perhaps several foxes-for it may have
switched off from one to another in its
travels-and did not show up after
hours for the dog to return the hunt
ers went back to the village, expecting
the dog would give up the chase. Night
came on and they became alarmed
| fearing the dog had been lost. A loca
ers into the woods said he would find
| the dog and ship him home the mex
day. Inquiries were made through
| the villages, but no one had seen thu
| dog and it appeared as If he must have
| been drowned in crossing the swamp!
| on the thin ice. At the end of five days
a dog was seen following a big gray
| fox through the village of East Ware
! ham. The man who saw the fox as Il
| limped through his back yard rushed
| into the house for his gun AS he came
out he saw a hound limping along ant
vainly trying to bark; the fox had dis
appeared, and the dog, which could
hardly stand, dropped in its track!
nearly dead from exhaustion. The mar
| gave the dog food and drink in small
| oy,ff nd in da ar
! to be all right. On the collar was thu
| name of the owner, to whom the mar
| wrote, and in a few days he came at
! ter it. It was then learned that thu
| dog started the fox in Wellf1eet AND
| for f1ves days and nights had beer
| chasing. He had been seen chasing thu
| fox at Ellisvi1le, on the shores of Cap
Cod bay, and near White Island in thu
| cranberry district: he had crossed thu
| harbors and rivers and had given III
| when nearly dead in East Wareham
go miles from where the hunt wal
mere skeleton and the fox seemed a:
| if he had been running for a month
Forest and Stream.
| Strange Struggle With Tiger.
| Two brothers, Khuda Bakhs ant
Shaikh Abdul CHAM Of Moradabat
| were dispatched recently to Rampul
on an errand, and while entering g
grove at Khadpura a tiger sprang upor
Khuda Bakhs, who, being an athlete
| warded off the blow aimed at him witt
his right hand and caught one OF the
paws with the other and maintained
his hold, though the tiger was maul1ne
the other hand.
/ Abdul CHAM now rushed up with 6
| stout stick, which he forced down ths
tigers throat, making 1t release nj!
brothers hand, when Khuda Bakh.
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