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Evening star., 1909-05-02
Soldiers Made Him . Hero

Soldiers Made Him . Hero
ON the following morning I rode into Fort
- Scott. delivered the mail. told my story
and proved it by turning the horses over to the
quartermasters department. was sent to the
soldiers messroom for food, and spent the rest
of the day and the following night in the SOL
diers' quarters
Next morning, while at breakfast heard
Where in hell is he?" Immediately a big
soldier came in and asked if that was my saddle
out here.
replied, ''Yes, sir, it is the one rode in
here"
Where did you get those colors?" he de-
manded.
What colors?" said.
He looked sharply at me and said, Young
fellow, don't you fool with mel"
. But what colors do you mean9" persisted
"Well, you good one; but don't want
any nonsense now! Tell me where and how
you got those colors!"
Very much perplexed. followed him out to
see what he meant. and found lot of soldiers
looking at and excitedly handling that piece of
bunting had torn from the flagstaff when the
Color Sergeant shot. In my flight had
entirely forgotten it. They all talked at once.
and demanded to know how l came to have it
in my possession. | told my story just
clearly as | could; then they took me up to
the regimental headquarters. where | had to
tell it again to the officers. When told them
how frightened had been, they laughed at me
and said, "That is too thni
| protested to the Colonel that it the
truth but neither then nor in all the following
years that served under him could convince
him that | had no right to the heroism with
which all credited me-
The story spread among the ranks and lost
nothing as it travelled 1t was soon reported
that had fought like veteran; that the Rebs
captured the regimental colors: and that had
been inside their lines three days recapturing
them: that | had killed eight Rebels and
brought their horses into camp with me; and
finally, an item of truth to hold the story to-
gether. that was not soldier at all. but just
a United States mail carrier. who happened to
get into the fight by accident, but that | was
too patriotic to allow the Rebs to keep the flag.
Now, you see, this nearly all false.
and it made me very uncomfortable. but the
more protested that had done nothing of the
kind. and instead of doing such heroic deeds as
they were crediting me with. l was scared half
to death and wished l was at home with my
mother. the more they said. "Oh. come now,
don t try to be modest!
Had to Bear the Laurels
WEARS afterward, during Grand Army Gel
ebration in the East at dinner given by
General Burnside at his beautiful summer
home island in Bristol Harbor, | was
again called upon to tell the story
l told it truthfully, just as have here: but
there were several present among them Colonel
Henry Inman, who remembered the circum-
stances. and all insisted upon correcting my
version and attributing to me an amount OF
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Evening star., 1909-05-02
Capturing = Fresh Mount

SOME Of their horses were hobbled and others
turned loose to Craze. dragging rope from
their necks. The idea struck me that if could
manage to steal one of their horses might get
away with it. The grazing horses had worked
their way some little distance from camp. and
not far from where l lay concealed, l carefully
removed the saddle from my dead horse and
carried it a short distance away; then | crawed
over near to the grazing horses, where. after
waiting for long time and feeling scared halt to
death, not only by the presence of the Rebel
soldiers but also at the act was about to COM
NIT, finally managed to get hold of rope with
a horse at the other end.
The horse gave a snort and for a moment
thought it was all up with me; but soon he be
came accustomed to my presence, and gradu-
ally crept away with him to where had put my
outfit.
| put it on him, mail and ALL for that was
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-29
CAMPAIGN EXPENSES.

Valid objections assuredly cannot be
raised by any honest man to the bill
which has been presented to the legis-
lature by Senator J. r. Overfeld OF
Montgomery county and which pro-
Yides that all candidates for offices, as
well as all chairmen of political COM
mfttees, shall file with the designated
public authorities the accounts of their
expenses during political campaigns
If there are excellent reasons why
political committees should make pub
lie the amount of money they expend
in a campaign and the sources from
which this money was derived as there
most certainly are, the reasons are just
as essential why candidates for office
should be compelled to do the same
thing. Under the new and more de-
sirable methods of securing nomina-
tions for public office which now pre-
vail in Kansas, it will often be the case
that men who are not allied with any
particular party organization will be
nominated for office. They will con-
duct their campaigns for nomination
and election on their own hook and
they and their friends will bear the ex-
penses of their campaigns. 1t is quite
as possible that men under these cir
cumstances will spend more or less
money in. such campaigns and the
public is entitled to know just how
much money they spend, just what
they spent 1t for and just where they
received it from. The same is also
true Of all candidates for office even
if they are allied with party organiza-
lions which help out in the waging of
their campaigns.
New York state was one of the first
to compel the treasurers or chairmen
of political committees to file accounts
of the expenses of campaigns, but
many years before this law was passed
candidates for office in that state were
compelled to file their individual cleo
ton expenses. And Kansas should be
no longer behind New York in this
particular regard.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-29
RAILROAD STOCK WATERING.

Among the many forcible utter
ances in the address of Joseph L.
Bristow, of Salina. to the members of
the Legislature on his election to a
United States senatorship, none was
more to the point than his arraign-
ment of certain of the high railroad
financiers for their excessive water
ing" of the stocks and bonds of the
properties under their control.
Two or more measures seeking to
curb this evil have been presented
already this year to congress, and Mr..
Bristow will take his seat in time to
lend his aid to the securing of
legislation along this line, which is so
sorely needed. OF course it will be a
hard problem to pass legislation that
will squeeze out the water that is
already so great a part of much of
the Indebtedness of many of the
large railroad properties and on
which they must make sufficient
earnings to pay dividends, or at least
to pay interest on bonds. But there
will be no trouble in framing legisla-
ton to prevent overcapitalization in
the future and that will be helping
out considerably. There probably
would not be much talk now on the
part Of railroads of the necessity for
increased freight and passenger
rates. if they did not have to meet
the dividend and interest demands of
overcapitalizations and excessive
bonded indebtedness.
But national legislation is not all
that is needed to cope with this sub
ject Similar legislation is also
! requisite in the various states to
handle the same situations which
might develop in railroad and other
corporations doing a business entirely
local to the respective common
wealths And one of the most i'm
portant of the features of the public
utilities bills which have been pre-
scented to the Kansas legislature by
Senator Clad Hamilton, covers this
very point.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-29
GLOBE SIGHTS.
[From the AtchIson Globe.

Some men, who are supposed to
work. have mighty little to do.
The fools are not all dead yet. and.
what is more, they never will be.
OF what avail if a man works to
save his country, and ruins himself?
Nearly every man says of his dog:
His father cost a thousand dollars
We heard it remarked the other
day that careleSsness is the first step
toward stealing.
A woman changes everything about
her husband, from his habits to his
middle name.
1t is all right to vote for the coun-
try's prosperity, but you must work
for. your own.
some that bull dogs are lately more
popular than ever before
The fashion notes indicate that the
exhibition of skinny elbows will be
less popular next summer.
Don't feel sorry for a man because
he Is cheap. He doesn't know he is
cheap; he thinks he is superior.
An Atchison woman who knows
how to cook, if she doesn't know
French, calls them Chicken crokay
balls"
When a party of men return from
trip. they tell great whoppers of
the mysterious things that happened
to them.
Mems night shirts should be made
long enough to touch the floor. If
there is anything homely about man
it is his feet and legs.
One of the things a man has to
wonder about is how so much COM
pany gets into the house when he so
rarely sends an invitation.
When a man goes to town to visit,
it is thought funny if he remains two
days. but woman is expected to re-
main at least two months, and have
parties given in her honor.
If you have tact, always call a lit
tie baby in long clothes "he." A
mother does not mind it when a girl
baby is called Che but it makes her
furious to have someone call a boy
baby ''she.n
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-29
Never Paid Peppercorn Rent.

Miss Sarah T. Nivison, who held a
piece of property at Orange and Flew
enth streets, Newark, for 81 years,
testified before Vice Chancellor Stevens
Friday that never in that period had
she paid to Trinity Church of that
city as much as one peppercorn. This
testimony was given to combat the at
titude of the rector, wardens and vest
rymen of the old church that the land
was simply leased, and that the title
did not pass.
1t was brought out that under the
terms of the old lease or sale as 1t is
now held by the present owner of the
property, the church was to receive
from the lessee one peppercorn annual
ly as payment of rental. By the testi-
mony of Miss Nivison that the terms of
the agreement were not lived UP to
because she paid no peppercorn. the
lease. is held to have been broken.
This is the contention of attorneys for
Theophile We'll, of Brooklyn, who pur-
chased the plot more than a year ago
for SIS, 900, and he is trying to estab-
lish his title.
The property came to the church
more than two hundred years ago, and
soon after the trustees to raise money,
gave the peppercorn leases, getting
$237 as the initial consideration and
peppercorn a year thereafter The
entire plot leased for the consideration
of $237 is now worth in the neigh
borhood of $250,000. The church
holds that the land was never trans
ferred, and could not be under the
terms of the gift to the church.
New York American.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-29
JOURNAL ENTRIES

If most peoples feelings jibed with
their looks they would be in a sorry
way
Many things which are chara cterized
as necessities are Inquiries in reality.
n " 4
The average hired man on a farm
might be more properly referred to as
the tired man.
If many men were as rich as they
look and act there would be more
millionaires in the world,
% " "a
Women certainly owe a heavy debt
to whoever was responsible for inject
ing the word because into the Ian
guage.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-29
AYHAWKER JOTS

They've got some hen Matched chick
ems in Chanute to wonder at these
days.
Henry Miller. of Lawrence. is alleg-
ereI in the Kaw. AS a Lawrence paper
says it is unusual to catch such fish
in the Kaw or any other Kansas
stream.
Colby newspaper says that there
| is a good deal of moonshine about the
stories of great quantities of stock dy-
| ing in the western section of the state
for want of proper feed. This is pro-
badly the exact truth.
The Kansas City Star says that
when Concordia and Salina do not
come forward with a story about the
mercury freezing and the cattle on
the range turning to icicles, weather
condition cannot be SO very serious in
Kansas.
Something in the way of a hog rec
ord is held by ]. D. Aeschliman OF
Sabetha. He shipped a carload of
Duroc Jerseys to market some time ago
and the average weight of these hogs,
which were not over eleven months old
was 1852 pounds.
The Norton Telegram is not in SYM
pathy with Ewing Herbert's idea for
the establishment of a school for
printers. 1t thinks Mr.. Herbert is Ia
boring under the delusion that print
ers are not very numerous. The Tele-
gram says that in response to a want
ad it inserted in an out of town pa
per for a printer 1T received 81 replies
There are several ways of express
ing your gratitude, but a recent ex-
ample is something new along that
line. During the fire Tuesday morn
ing, while part of the fire boys were
throwing water on the Valley House
to protect it from the fire, several of
them went into the hotel to get a
cup of coffee for which the proprietor
charged them five cents per cup
straight That's the way the firemen
tell it.-Great Bend Tribune.
Solace for the bald-headed men from
the Atchison Globe: About so years
ago J. w. Low was as bald as a bill
lard hall. The top of his head was
slick and shiny. He says that a friend
recommended that he rub prepara-
ton of one-third glycerine and two
thirds alcohol on his head. He says
that he actually succeeded in growing
rather thick fuzz which never left him.
He has considerable hair now on his
head.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-29
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
IFrom the CHICAGO News.l

From the Chicago News.
If bread doesn't rise in baking it's
a fiat failure.
Speaking of work, that's as near as
some men ever get to it.
1t doesn't take much of a carpenter
to construct an air castle.
From a dogs view point an ounce of
freedom is better than the pound.
A mans money and credit usually
disappear about the same time.
Wise is the man who discounts his
expectations at so per cent for cash.
Some girls who wear false hair have
queer ideas about women who have
false teeth.
Make the best of the PRESENT. you
are unable to exchange it for some
thing better.
1t sometimes happens that man
gets what he is looking for after he
has ceased to expect it.
A woman is always discovering
cheap hats in milliners' windows that
look absolutely fascinating on dunn
mics.
She is a wise mother who keeps well
in the background if she is anxious to
have her daughter married.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-29
QUAKER MFDTTATToNs.
From the Philadelphia Recort

IFrom the Philadelphia Record-1
Nell--"Maude has a job as a cloak
model" Belle-"What a trying situa-
toni
After a woman passes 80 she
doesn't observe her birthdays. but
her friends do.
The poet who sings of the modest
violet evidently never priced a bunch
about this time of year.
The peacemaker is applauded by
everybody except the fellow who is
getting the best of the fight.
When you ask a chronic invalid
how he is and he says he can't COM
plain he must be pretty sick.
There wouldn't be plenty of room
at the top if all the people who think
they ought to be there really were.
Starboard er-'"The landlady saws
fish is good for the brains" Ha1lroom
well, if she continues to give it to
US six days a week Wen soon know
enough to leave"
Hubbubs-"Do you have any DO
hce protection out where you live ?"
Subbubs-"Oh, yes, no trouble about
that We have a saloon on the next
corner and an Irish cook in the
kitchen"
Tommy-"Pop, a man is a bache-
lor until he gets married, isn't he %
Tommy's Pop-"Yes, my son." Tom
my-"And what does he call himself
afterward 2" Tommy's Pop-"Pd hate
to tell yous my Aon.''
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-29
HUNOR or THE Day

First Comedian-what's the difference
between beautiful young girl and a cod
Comedian-One has a chance to become
fall bride and the other to become a ball
fried.-Brooklyn Eagle.
Husband-Our little boy is sick, Doctor,
so please come at once Physician-I can't
book on 'sWhat to Do Before ore the he Doctor t
you get theren'-Harper' Weekly.
She-Anything that is worth winning is
ton is, will your father thaw out, or will
nave on TO d keep On W0Tki1S for you after
do you think that most men nowadays
as that, answered the ho mUH e% aI phil
osopher, but l will say that the love OF
money is seldom platonic. "-Louisville
The Angler-Is this public water my
Then it won't be a crime If land a fish?
The !nhabitant-No; tt'n be miracle
Sketch.
''AlasP' confessed the penitent man; 'in
moment of weakness stole a carload of
ness?" exclaimed the Judge. Goodness
man; what would you have taken II you you
strong?"-Boston Globe.
Katy, aged 5, and a resident of Aneri-
cas- seat of culture. ran to her father one
morning, exclaiming: Father. Brother
quired the parent, grirnly, reaching for the
slipper. What did he say?" He said
AMT" responded Katy solemnly.--Suc-
cess.
Pretty nearly all Ohio is now eating
about sixteen buckwheat cakes for break
fast and charging whatever physical ills
are suffered to the coffee.-Ohio State
Journal
The. Size of Tits dish-u-way. sah.''
explained old Brother Swank to a be-
fuddled friend, Orthodoxy am de doxy
dat makes muhse'f-dat Use de orthor OF
yo' understand? Uh-well, and dis yuh
hectordoxy am de udder mans doxy dat
he's allus uh-hectorin me wild. Do dat
make it cPar to yo' apprehension. Brudder
Taru?'-Puck.
His Regular Line-The palmist had been
arrested for swindling his patrons. Great
Scott!'' he exclaimed, impatiently, what
did they expect when they came to me ?'-
Philadelphia Ledger.
Removing Blot-'Mister." inquired the
tramp. would youse contribute a dollar
to help beautify your TOWN." whats the
tdea?' Fer a dollar I'll move on to de
next town."-Washington Herald.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-29

have seen His star. and are come to
worship Him."
feel that way?" she whispered.
YES"
'Not many men do. They laugh
at the deeper things"
And after another silence, Reggie
laughs. Do you think a woman
derstand the best there is in herr
Reggie loves me for my good looks.
because I amuse him-but the real
me-he doesn't understand
For a moment he let himself go.
little Child he breathed. little
child, woman like you had better
be dead than marry a man who can
not help her to reach the heights"
She did not answer, and presently
they went on in silence of the won
derful morning.
He found her shelter in the little
cabin, where the good people built up
a roaring fire and cooked q warm
meal, and then he went back to the
wreck.
He returned with a little child in
his arms and handed it to Dulcie.
1.-THE mother is hurt. They have
taken her to the nearest town" he
explained,
All the morning she brooded over
the child, and when at last he came
to her with bunch of mistletoe in
his hand and said, "a Merry Christ
How strange it seems to be here"
Poor child, you haven't had a
single Christmas gift"
Yes I have" she told him,
gravely.
'sWhat is it?"
1.-The gift of understanding. 1 am
not going to marry Reggie"
His pulses throbbed. ''Why not?"
Life seemed SO different out there
in the snow when the star shone."
eff dared-if it were not wrong
ing Reggie might tell you how
much life might mean to u.s."
"Don'tl" she begged, but a little
flame Of color crept into her cheeks.
He broke a piece of mistletoe from
the bunch and tucked it into her
FURNISHED hair. Then his eyes caught
the curious glances of the women
about them and he checked himself.
This isn't the time or the place."
he said in a moved voice, "for the
end But it is the beginning, isn't it.
Dulcie?"
And her radiant face answered
Copyrighted. 1909, by Assoc
ciated Literary Press.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-29
LIFE,s LAZY PERIOD.

meant to play Baseball last spring.
Ana swim each day in summer
And with long walks, as when q bow
Make autumn just hummer
l didn't do one of these
But spent my time in iazing
me which 1 did week after week
With faculty amazing
also meant, when winter came,
10 take again to skating;
Vet now that winters really here
find my zeal abating.
The radiator draws me more:
A pipe, a book a paper
Has strong appeal. while gone the wish
Upon the ice to caper
me fire for work and active sport
Has sunk into a smolder
From which, judge I'm growing wise
Or else am growing older
New York Press
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-29
PRINTERS AND TUBERCULOSIS.

/
While the subject of tuberculosis is
uppermost in the local mind because
of the valuable exhibition on the fea-
lures of this disease and the treatment
Of it which is being held in this city.
it may be interesting to know that one
OF the prominent labor organizations
! in this country, the International
| Typographical union, has been pro-
viding means for the past few years
for the treatment of its members who
are afflicted with this maIady.
This union is the only one in the
nation which provides a home for it's
aged, infirm and otherwise dependent
members. 1t is known as the Union
Printers home and is located at
Colorado Springs. For the last few
years a tuberculosis pavilion has been
one of the features of this excellent
institution and the consumptives of the
order have been treated there along
scientific lines and with wonderful
success. Since this particular branch
of the institution has been in opera
ton nearly three hundred printers,
who have been seriously afflicted with
tuberculosis in its more advanced
stages, have been treated. OF this
number eighty have been discharged
as permanently cured.
Surely these fine achievements by
the typographers of the country in
helping out so materially in the cru
SADIE against the great white plague
ought to be an incentive to other
powerful labor unions, which have
adequate finances at their command.
to engage in similar undertakings, the
worthiness of which is inestimable.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-29

Tt is perfectly proper for a captain
and his first officer to be the last to
leave sinking ship, to see to it that
all of their passengers and crew have
gotten away first, but it is surely only
heroic in theory for them to remain
after this period and until the ship
actually sinks into the sea. Their
lives are worth more than such a
grandstand play. when there is an
opportunity for them to leave the yes
sci in safety after everyone else has
been taken care of.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-29

A well-developed opinion appears
to prevail in national political circles
at Washington that after his bout
with the elephants, the lions and 9TH
er things in Africa Mr.. Roosevelt will
return to this country with an idea
that his proper vocation in life lies
in the United States senate and that
he will endeavor to succeed Chauncey
NJ. Depew, of New York, when his
term expires two years hence: Anoth-
er story is going the rounds that Gov
ernor Hughes of New York is also
likely to be a candidate for this po-
sitionf United States senatorial
contest witk Hughes and Roosevelt
as the contestants would certainly be
worth witnessing.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-29

steps are to be taken by congress
TO compel the equipment of each pas
ssnger steamship leaving the ports of
the United States with a wireless tel
egr9ph apparatus and an operator A
measure to this end should go
through with a rush, although it
would seem that such legislation
ought to be unnecessary. 1t is hard
to imagine that any steamship com
pany could possibly be so negligent
as not to provide its ships with such
essential equipment, the great. the
unreasonable value of which was
demonstrated so conclusively by the
recent collision OF the Republic and
the Florida