The Glenwood post., 1911-03-11

"A way with him and so his wife left
him and the woman who thought she
was going to get him found that he
could fool the women as well as the
Lord And that affair was over. OF
course, the church people and the goody-
goodies were excited; but who cares
for them. when the Lord ism t work
ing? If the people of the town didn II
like his gait, they could lump it, he
said.
He was the best dressed man in
town. and made connection with the
fellows who did things in politics at
Topeka. SO when. by a combination
nomination for the legislature, and
took his oratory out on the school
house circuit. he denounced the mud
singers and character assassins who
were bringing up his old domestic
trouble, and by weeping a few copious
lines in the school houses, got the
'uuullN Nplt. IbSl HIS UNu WdTu anu
went to the legislature. There he was
con the inside He got a good com
mittee and was a leader of the group
of politicians who put things through
with rush in the last end of the ses-
sion. Thus he came to have a little
reputation outside of his home county,
and went into state politics. The Lord
still seemed to be thinking of some
thing else, and his scandal with the
peka from a neighboring town during
the Legislature. had begun to smell
pretty rank.
And some way. the bright young
man couldn t come TO the next state
convention except on a proxy, and he
couldn't find even proxy to get him
into the convention after that. More
over most of his practice was in al
joining counties.
Some way, at home the juries refused
to weep and his creditors annoyed him
He got interested in number of stock
propositions that didn't pan out and
sold out some of his friends. He ae-
quired bad reputation at the banks
and changed bankers. He owed a lot
of bills around town and spots appeared
on his fancy vests Bue he was having
a fine time and when business was dull
ne would go away-some said to Kan
sas City. Others to st. Joe-and come
back rather the worse for wear. After
every big lawsuit he would lock him
self IN his office and corn up. ana for
day or two would go about looking
frowsy and bad; then take a brace, get
hold of himself. buy some new clothes
and, after having himself barbered and
massaged. he would appear on the
streets looking as fair as a May morn
ing; but he had a faraway look thar
made people distrust him. But he
WASH t punished The Lord apparently
WASH t keeping books on him 1t
didn t seem to cost him much to lie to
women, SO he tried it on men and WIS
known as a mighty slick proposition.
He gave his note freely, kited his
checks from bank to bank: kept within
the law, and if victim squirmed the
victim was told to test the matter ia
the courts
And so the years wore on. Women
couldn I fool him, so he did not marry.
he knew when he was having a good
time, and as he passed his fortieth
birthday his face grew hard, his eyes
shltty and cruel, his hand a bit nm
steady at times and his friends dis
trustful. They said he was smart a.
chain lightning and they had about the
same feeling of security toward him
that they had for chain lightning. For
he was just as treacherous. He was in
dorsed for high appointive office but
ms old trouble came up and he was
turned down. An equity in the best
proposition he had went 10 satisfy 4
ueDt, because he could not raise any
money at either bank; he finally mar
ried and the town smiled and his
clothes wrinkled and bagged, and he
shaved only twice week. Then he
grew cross and mean after his sprecs
and made enemies. He appeared more
or less in police court lawsuits. and
his outside-ofth the-county practice grad.
ually dropped, for he was found once
or twice on both sides of lawsuit.
So, in the wagonette, riding to the
graveyard, the pallbearers didn It really
have much to say about him. Each
was afraid to speak what was in his
heart fdr fear the others would repeat
1T. They planted him both wide and