The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-17
KANSAS COMNENT
A MEXICAN EXECUTION.

"A AEA1CAN EAECOIlON.
Mexican gentleman named Willie
gas was SO false to his wife and chill
oren as to fall in love with a maiden Of
the neighborhood He begged this
maiden to flee with him to some tropic
isle But she had more sense than he
nad, ana she told him to go to. She
reproached him for his behavior to his
wife, and urged him to be a nobler and
better man, and join the Y. M. c. A.
Whereupon he slew her. and resum-
ed MS evil courses. He was arrested
and convicted, Notwithstanding the eff
forts OF his lawyers; the lawyers in
Mexico appear to be as adroit and as
t1reless as those in the United States.
The president of the realm was ap-
pealed to in vain, and a few days ago
VlllegaS was requested to make his
toilet for his last appearance before
the public. And SO he arrayed him
self in all his fnery; for Villegas had
been something of dandy in his better
days; he wore q handsome coat with
silver ornaments; and there were little
bells on his sombrero and beads on his
footwear; and he smoked cigar calm
ly, and came from his cell as a BRIDE
groom from his chamber.
He was escorted courteouSly to the
execution ground; everybody was ex-
cessively polite; the executioner was q
Chesterfield; there was much bowling
and many apologies, and everything
possible was done to make the con-
BILE. When he was placed in position
the chief executioner observed that the
sun was shining in his eyes, and he
became abject in his apologies.
The doomed man stood there smok-
Ing calmly as though sitting for a tin
type, bestowing an occasional nod or
smile upon friends in the crowd. Sud
denly the signal was given, and sew
eral rifles parked simultaneously:
Villegas crumbled up and fell, killed
so suddenly that the smoke Of his
cigarette still issued from his mouth.
Since people must be killed to salts
fly justice, isn't this a better plan than
the barbarous, brutal American meth
cd, involving rope that often breaks,
and scaffold that often refuses to
work? The Mexican method never
fails; never prolongs the sufferings of
the victim. He is snuffed out as a can
no right to exact the agony Of strang-
ulation.-Emporia Gazette.
HONESTY PAYS.
The banker who has large amount
of money in his possession might east
| ly run away with it. but he knows that
| honesty will pay him better. However,
| dishonest he may naturally be, he
knows that 1t would be ruin to take a
dollar OF the great amounts in his pos
! session; he knows that keeping the
money safely for years will result in a
reputation lldl Will make MIN q SrSSloT
profit than he could possibly gain by
dishonesty. This same principle applies
| to everything in life: it applies to the
| transactions in which boys and girls,
as we'll as men and women engage.
| There is nothing in the lives OF the peo-
| pie to which this rule cannot be ap-
piled. It pays to be worthy Of the trust
| imposed in you. 1t pays not to tell a
| lie; it pays to refuse to do wrong. The
i safest men in the world are the men
| who live by this principle: that honesty
is always the best policy. No condition
can be imagined where dishonesty pays
All the little amiabilities Of life pay as
we'll as honesty; men and women are
wicked because they are ignorant. Most
intelligent men can be trusted.-Atchi-
| son Globe