The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-11
JUST TO BE A BOY, AGAIN


Free from all the ills I bear and from
sorrows free.
Round the corner lay boy, fretting in
Gee. wssht I was man." dismally he
said;
Every winter seems to bring some dis
ease, somehow.
Had the scarlet fever last-got the meas
les now.
Yes. I've had the chickenpox and the
jaundice, too:
'Spose I'll have the mumps the next-al-
ways something new;
When you're sick there amt no fun,
cause you feel SO bad;
When you're well you go to school-gee,
but life Is sad!''
with a sigh,
Free to frolic as 1 pleased. all things
| yet to try:
All. how small mems triumphs are what
For the little that we get we scheme
away.
-Chicago Record-Herald.
Wanted, Heirs and Heiresses.
Not the least remarkable feature
concerning the unclaimed wealth held
by the courts of chancery and others
! Is that in some cases the next of kin
have been missing for between 100
| and 200 years. There is. for instance,
nearly $4,000 waiting for persons who
| can prove themselves to be relatives
of one Edith Goddard, who married S.
Trattman in 1922; while there is
something of advantage to be learned
| by the descendants Of Ann, the wife
| of Joseph Mason, who died in 1776.
The descendants of James tombstone,
| too. who died at Daily, Ayrshire. in
] 1892, are also wanted.
| Unclaimed funds are due to the I'M
known heirs of many persons who
| died interstate in South Africa. These
include the estates of Edward Be-
van Thomas, f2,946; William Roberts,
| f1.974; Isabella Novella, f1.532;
George Neale. f1,445; Ernest A. Leh-
man, $1,000, and John VIII
| liams. f1,702.
| The trustees Of an estate in Sunder-
land. which probably belongs to the
| heir-at-law of Henry Moorhouse, who
would like to find the person who is
really entitled to the property. When
Lewis Moore. of London. died in 1873
| he left trust 1egacies amounting to
| $1,000. These have now become pay
able, but no one has come forward to
! claim them.
| Matilda Cotton, Harriet Cook.
| Amelia Masters. Elvira Weber
Smith, wife Of a lieutenant in the
navy in 1889, are being diligently in
quired for. They are all heiresses to
| considerable amounts. A sum of
Corner. last heard of in London in
| 1887, and Edmund Cooper, who left
England for New Zealand in 1868, is
an absent legatee.
Among other missing benedciaries
are Herbert Billen, who in 1888 re-
sided at Croydon; the children of
Mary A. r. Clay; the children of
| Henry Coe, brushmaker, who is said
| to have emigrated to Canada many
years ago; Hannah Felgate, who mar
fx,1o ~, ,,e-
Keen, who left for Cape Colony in
| 1898; John F. N. Murray, last heard
| of in 1879 in New South Wales, and
| John Nelson, son of David Nelson, of
Hatton Garden. in 1912.
Included among persons inquired
for by the courts of chancery may be
mentioned John Hobby, who went to
| Jamaica in 1847; Arthur Stevenson,
who left for Australia many years ago
| and went on an expedition into the
bush; Lieutenant c. w. Hill, last
heard of in 1926; the daughter of
| Richard Williamson, who died in the
| California gold fields; Henry North,
last heard of at Bristol in 1882; Har-
riet G. Mannion, formerly an inmate
of lunatic asylum; Martha Gibson,
| George Walker, who married Mary
Barber in 1S43 and deserted her, and
| David L. Jones, last heard of as being
an inmate of a hospital at Brisbane
| London Tit-Bfts.
| lawyers Fatal Mistake
Gresham P. Lyons, of San Fran
! cisco, discussed in New York, the
other day, the movement for the pro-
lection of witnesses in law courts,
| that he has recently inaugurated.
| But I saw one Of those contemplate
and insoIent lawyers worsted the
other day-by a boy, too said Mr..
Lyons Now, my son. the lawyer
remarked, haven't certain damaging
reports been circulating about your
father lately?' I dunno what reports
| you mean Isn't there a report cur
rent to the effect that your father
beats his wife and robs hen roosts 2
so you say the boy muttered, sui
1enly. so I say shouted the lawyer,
and now ask you If that report isn't
| true? Come, speak up! Don't stand
1 there like a ninny! Is 1t not true that
your father beats his wife and steals
| chtckens?' T donno, said the boy.
| You'd better ask him. He's settin'
over there on the jury "-Chicago
| News.
| Severed Fingers Pain Him.
| Leslie F'inkle, OF Roscoe, Sullivan
county, had his arm so badly mangled
! by the cars at Cadosia January 13 as to
| require amputation.
Mr. Finkle complained last week of pain
| in the shoulder from which the arm
| had been severed, as IL the fingers on
the hand were doubled up and could
not be Strengthened. The doctors at
the hospital it is said. wrote to Mr..
| Ffnkle's relatives, who had buried the
| severed arm near their residence odis-
4 inter the arm and straighten the fingers.
This was done and the pain In Mr. Fin
kle's shoulder ceased as soon as the fin
! gers of the hand had been Strengthened.
| The arm was then Roundabout Jer-
Wis dispatch to New York World.
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
| From the Chicago Newa1
| Slurs also come home to roost-
| A bird In the hand gathers no moss.