The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-20
JUST "JEENIS. )"
He Has a Little Adventure in the
Windy City.

1 had gamboled into Chicago on the
kings highways, and was saunterinS
about and wondering why the original
owner of the site didn't hang on to il
until some one came along and offered
him a hundred, when a pedestrian just
| ahead of me slipped on a banana skin
and began to gyrate around previous
| to taking a tumble to himself.
He had that same honesty of pur-
! pose sprouting through the top of his
/ hat that is 10 be observed in so many
| senators, and his antics were without
guile. 1 instantly recognized the bond
| between us and prepared to save him.
L threw myself flat on the side
walk and let him land on me with his
175 pounds. He was a man who knew
just what to do in the way OF first
, aid. When he had risen like the
morning lark he stood me on my feet
and pressed the f1atness out of me
and then asked:
Friend. is it a case of self-sacri-
flee on thy part?"
you may take it that way, if you
WILL 1 warDIed.
Its the first I've seen in this town,
and L wouIdsc reward it and make it
a shining example for others to follow.
1 might offer thee base coin.
81 was thinking of that.
But / shall not
And 1 was thinking of that. too"
Hast occupation?
81 have pooled my interests at times
with brickmakers, farmers and pop
say that their loss was my gain
"Friend, thy cognomen?" he said
as he led me into doorway,
"Jeems, sir"
81 am waiting"
There is no more. 1 am just ad-
dressed as Jeems. You will find it
so on the register of many jails, for
1 have many times wandered from the
straight and narrow path"
How long canst thou be honest at
about sixty days is my limit"
Frankly spoken, Jeems, for the
next sixty days I take thee into my
employ and look strict to probity- My
nama is Amfbad SkiIlington. By birth
and preference am Quaker. some
times 1 fail into the language and the
yavs of the sinful, and thee must not
hold l. agin me. There are many
temptations in terrific city ike chi
cago."
"I'm feeling half a dozen this min
ute Just what is the job you have in
mind for yours truly"
"Jeems. am the proprietor of one
of those ed1fices termsd gilded palaces
of sin. There is no gilding-no sin.
II is a place where the thirsty may
drop in. and be refreshed-yea, great
w refreshed. There is water from
the lake. and there are other liquids
from other lccdllIISS-
Il have occasionally viewed the IN
terror of such edifices," 1 replied:
p our own make standard
"And found no sin. Jeems?
mot a cents worth. I merely saw
ward politicians who were there to
discuss the good of the public at
And over my gilded palace of sin
over what the unfeeling call the bar
room
Are parlors of retirement, Mr. Skill
ineton. Members of congress visiting
this terrific city-cattle sellers-alder-
noen-candidates for office-members
of the legislatu. call such can retire
to those parlors and mediate or buck
the tiger"
.'The same. Jeems, but none are
asked to mediate, and none are asked
to buck
''Didst ever serve drinks in such
placer"
IT am next
THAT will be your employ with me.
As my callers mediate or buck, a
thirst will arise and must be quench-
ed. 1t will be thy duty to serve the
ouenchers with grace and dispatch,
forgetting neither the price thereof nor
the collection of the coin. Dost dis
trust thyself?"
Not a distrust."
But there will be checks on thee
and no chance to graft. In the langu-
age of the sinful, if I catch you pocket