The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-30

lOok TO see VINO ne WAS.
But this Is a looking glass -
II see now she vhas. Well, dot
vhas all right. too. If can't find my
goat take some looks at myself in
glass. It vhas five years since
see my face. 1 vfas not some proud
fellers."
But I'm in a hurry" protested
Humpy, as he tried to get along.
$50 vhas I. like to see how I
have improved in five years. All, dot
vhas my face. He looks good to me.
He vhas der face of an honest. in
nocent man. No graft dere. Hello,
Schmidt, who you vhas und how you
get along? No. don't be in some hur-
ries, my boy. 1t vhas not good for
der health
1t was a quarter of an hour before
Humpy could regain possession of the
g ass. and then he had gone only a
block when he encountered an old
woman with a market basket on her
arm, who stopped him to say:
Now. If this amt Gurus Half an
hour ago man tells me that I'm no
lady, and now meet a boy with a
looking glass and can see for myself.
Stand it up and let me see my face.
I'm judge of lady, and If I'm not
one. then I'll go off and die.''
1--WE got to go to Chestnut street,
ma'am," explained Humpy.
But Chestnut street won't run
away. In two looks I can tell whether
pose someone had told your mother
that she was no lady. You'd give
her chance to prove that the man
was a liar
a billboard and the old woman peered
and peered and simpered. She kept
it up for 10 minutes and then final
ly said:
I'm a lady and 1 know it, and
I'm going back and kick that man in
the stomach
Then it was the grocer's boy. He
was measuring out potatoes at the
coor, but he had quit work and seiz-
ed Humps arm before his object was
Sonny, you have saved my reputa-
tion,'' he said as he struggled for
the glass.
$50 away-you can't have it,"
But I must have look into it.
Don't be a chump. Lay him on the
He was the stronger and he took
possession. After he had gazed into
the glass for moment he rubbed his
cheek and smiled and said:
TT was a false alarm and I am
saved. Half an hour ago a man comes
along and asks how I sells baking
powder. I tells him we hadn't any
baked up at present, and he makes
swipe at me and says I've lost
my cheek. My heart was standing still
when you came along with the glass.
Grocery boy all here--cheek all here.
Come in and have a pickle before you
co.
At the next corner was a livery
and three dogs in front he started
to cross the street. 1t was no use.
however. The man headed him off,
took him by the ear and led him into
the stable and said:
"Oh, no, my son-oh no. I don't.
care to look in your glass myself.
but I want my dogs to-
"But it'll get broker shouted
Humpy as he tried to pull away.
mot the least danger. 1 just want
these dogs to see how handsome they
are. 1t will make 'em proud. If you
were a boy with heart in your bosom
you wouldn't have tried to give me the
DODGE
wall and the dogs invited to look at
themselves. OF course they snarled
and growled and jumped for the other
dog, and it was not until they had
raised such hubbub that a police
| man came in that Humpy could get the
glass under his arm again. Then the
officer took down his name, age, resid-
ing place and the color of his hair
and eyes. and let him go with the
caution:
st haven't time to run your trail
down today young man, but remem-
Der that Justice never sleepsi"
"And that the hangman's rope
| awaits you'll" added the stable man
as a parting shot.
1t was only two blocks now to the
| number on Chestnut street, and Hum
py was feeling that his troubles were
at an end when he came to another
grocery. The delivery horse was
hitched at the door. He was old and
poor and discouraged. and he looked
at the boy as If he craved for sympa-
| thy. Humps heart was touched. He
felt in his pocket, but he had nothing
but three or four buttons to offer as
food. The old horse turned from them
with a sigh Then the glass was
not seem interested at first, but after
a moment he squinted his eyes, cock
ed his ears and was all attention. He
saw how he had been used, and to
what state he had been brought. and
he closed his eyes, uttered a sob and
fell dead in his tracks. Just at that
| moment the grocer appeared in the
| door and yelled, and Humpy drop
ped the glass and fed for his life.
He was pursued for two blocks. but
he could not be overhauled.
$50. Humpy dear, you are back
with the key?" smiled Mrs. Skinner an
hour later as her first-born entered the
| house.
IA woman asked me to carry a
| looking glass; he stammered.
| Eyes, and now IA woman asks
| you to step into the woodshed. Come
| along, dear It won't hurt over q
week."-Copyrighte 1909 by Assoc
| ciated Literary Press.
Parsimony and Thrift.
That there is a decided difference
between parsimony and thrift is
shown in the following incident: A
business man boarded an uptown