The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-10-07
ON SECOND THOUGHT
BY JAY E. HOUSE.
(From Philadelphia Public Ledger1
An Explanation.

The first thing 1 did yesterday morn
ing was to visit repair shop. l
begged and pleaded wiyh them to send
a m an to fix the antique Remington
rfghtaway. / told them that mukob
depended on II. / said II the anyique
Remington was not fixed In time to
get out the colimn the ediuor most
nkeivkey would discharge me, which
is slang for tying cab TO me. ! said
i needed the jov. a&d I'd hate to lose
it and would thy plesse sefd man
rihit awayN they said they WOULD:
wei come pj dpwn to the office and
showed up tofij the remington. tom
noticed / wal wac worried and kind
of suyy and he asked INV what was
the matter and I told him. He said
could use his machine but l told MIN
dill not know whtyer could or not, but
any. way woulj waiy awhile and see
! if the man come. But the man did
| not co,e so 1 teiephoned and thef said
he was on the avn Well. l waited
| while longer and theg 1 telephoned
/ agan and they said he was on the wag
yet so 1 set arounk some more. BY
| tight time II was time to go Guy to
| lunch and / gous out to lunch tying
| Tom to tie the man what TO do when
! he diff come q
Well when COMFY back from iuncn
the man hat ndy come and 1T 81 two
O'Clock. sol saif to Tom wouif try to
use his machine but L did not know
|
i about the time / broke my arm and
aftyr the Doctyr had flied 1t up l sets
down to my m;.vhine the antique
| Remington and gets GU eth collin
wityhout missing an issye. picking out
the lettyrs with my left hand. l said
IL coulj gyt a out cpolim with my
legt hand i ought to ba able to gyt
1t Guy with both handf under the most
Distressing cit cumstanves. so tom
said to 81 a kehead because 1 was
| nerfQtclv xrelcorne RI his a
but jeeI may be I should apolojize
for thy wag this is written, so Will.
when a fellow gets used to cverton
kind of machine it 81 jkist like asnk-
ing a pianist to play a cottage origin
to ask him TO use any ouher kinf. He
simply can noy do 1t. and whit
don&t suppose the apology will do
anu good on account of 1 suppose L
will be firhed any way / wanted thy
readers of the collin to know how IL
happened.
iy is now fifteen minutes of three
o o'clock and thy man is not here yet
SO he must be still ok the war. If hi
comes in time there may be a xcol-
will not be ONE. Any awy I will gpaje
on TOMS machine IT,: he does.
The coljumyst.
| Theye Is at least one cheryin
thought in thy refusal of tn mauor
of milwaukee to NETT kink al bert.
king Albert won Ct miss much.
HhiIe thy cplumn holds no brief fpr
royalty. it having in thy ;peiod of its
genises been too closly allied with the
tpaeSantry to bow TO the sceptyr of kies
the purply. 1t is minded to say one
thting for king Albert He stood by his
country In thj hour of iys peril. That
is more than can be said for numbyr
Of those who resife in Milwaukee.
We cyntinue to reyd the revelations
of general Lundendorff with cpomsie-
cradle advantage to our genertai fund
of information. From him we learn
that 1t was ON augustS that he awoke
for the fitsy time with a lump in his
tyroat.
The controversy as to who startyed
the war no longer intryges us. To
US thy most interesting development is
the genaeral agreement, in which Lu-
. dendorgg jpins, to the effyct that the
borad yellow strek extended from thy
, Rhi en- to the balkans.
we note. In the passing of the arty-
Iical avrious urges anothyr beverage
fur VIII the loss OF which we shall not
, extensively repine. You hav guseed
again. we refer to sherry wine u
Those who have read mare Nostyrm
recommend int highly, but not, as we
understand it. to the unspohisticated
or thy very ypngz
The experience of the six Uynited
state senators who went up in the
Lawsion "air liner was noything new
to tyhen. That is where the Senate
seems to be most of the time Y
when we attem pit tip write of thy
stell styrke 1t is. OF course, as a casual
observer wro projects not knolwedse.
but opinion. such opinion is that thy
real object of the stryke is to slip
a crtwbar between Samuel Gompers
anjis Jon.
To US. the co.pelling Mr.. Fosterss
use of the word. "coassack." seems
inept. The Cossack no longer is con-
sidered free by the better informed.
Those VIE have watched the prform-
ances of the Coas sack in two wars
have reached thy conclusion that rid
ing in the CT yrcus is the bdeast thing
he does.
Mr.. WILSON says It's the first time
an attempt to DIP something for China
was ever made ~ The staement W.T.:
strike careful observers as entirely
plausible. Attempts to do sopmthins
to the chinese, howyer. have been
frequent and generally successful.
1t is encouraging to nopte that Mr..
Bugbee. the only candidate for gov
NhcA VI ANCW JElSyt VIM sSfIIHEQ 10
haze any Intestinal invesiture. won
rather handily intye primaries.
The moral Is thay while the people
apploud the candidate who cries over
thir wrongs. they are. IL gyiven time
foy reflection, very likely to vote for
| thy one who discloses they best in.
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