The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-10-30
ON SECOND THOUGHT

I We CItult dI- Su4Ttes f. 1AcICSHs
of Fort Worth, with a new method of
/ approach. 81 do not receive any
salary" writes Mr.. Mercer. SI holds
units myself the same as you will. that
| Is the only way can make money.
I am playing the law of average, and
the law of average always wins
have had thirty years experience in
fthe oil business and never had a better
opportunity to make money than this
is. / am fifty years old. l have
brought to this. world two sons and
two daughters that I am proud of. I
! can look any person straight in the
eye. I am not out to cheat you. I
am out to make money for you as well
as for myself
We thank Mr.. Mercer for his inter-
est and his confidence. Coming, as
it does. from one stranger to an
other, it is unusual. But we shall
have to tell him. as we told the others,
that we are not out to make money.
We should not know what to do with
quarrel as to who should have the
privilege of taking it away from US
might result in a tragedy
We'd feel pretty funny if somebody
ger killed over money we had made
in a Texas oil promotion.
Sir-You've heard the old retort
coltish = originated by one of your
Philadelphia writers who had to go
west for story-namely and to the
point, when you call me that, smile!"
So l hope you called me a dub smii-
ingly. Otherwise shall be obliged to
solicit a corner appointment with you,
la Daisy Bell, and it won't be for
an exchange of cigarets.
intended sort of compliment. for
your column when I said you were
more interesting reading than meet
the prerogative-and arbitrary power
of a newspaper wit-of answering
anonymity with asininity. Attende!
BILL PEPYS.
We are not what we were. of-course-
NO man is at our time of life, But we
submit herewith our ring record with
the thought that Mr.. Pepys may wish
to study it:
Whipped by Bill Fought. Bill was
ten pounds lighter but had nasty left
We couldn't solve.
Whipped by Bill Fought.
Whipped Bill Fought and his twin
brother, Grant.
Went home the back way to avoid
fighting Nick Hartley.
Conceded Vern Harbaugh twenty
pounds and beat him up scandalously.
Hewas married the day following the
imbroglio, and those who witnessed
the ceremony said he was a sight.
Dodged Hack Mitchell for more
than year. One of the most uncom-
Portable years we ever spent.
Whipped John Todd after conced-
ing to him a loaded can and the first
blow.
Talked Charley Massengill out of it.
Massengill had gum in the right
hand pocket of his coat. One of the
finest public addresses we ever de-
livered,
Tried to throw John Bull Clark out
of the local room The project met
abject and humiliating failure.
Talked loudly to DOC" Boyne.
Bluffed Ed Towers.
A Woman Scorned.
Sir-Kindly say to A. c. that IL he
sends any more of those scandsIous
be the heroine of his next novel.
DAISY BELL.
Yesterdays mail was not without
its thrill. 1t brought to us another
automobile road map of Pennsylvania
and New Jersey, the gift of some
thoughtful friend. Notwithstanding
the fact that Bill Pepys contemplates
beating US up, this is a glad old world.
More than half of the forty-odd auto
mobile road maps of which we are
possessed were the gratuitous con-
trfbutions of wefl-wishers.
In fact. we doubt il we have pur-
chased more than ten such maps in
the two years last past.
We trust sincerely that Ernest
Mitchell, of Colchester. who skinned
quarter of a ton of Goldfish in fifty
tfree minutes. wasn't speeding up on
OUR account. We could have waited
indefinitely and would have done So
The acquittal of Peggy Beal should
occasion no surprise. In Kansas City
it is the custom to acquit both men
and women in cases wherein the
charge is no n.ore serious than that
on which Miss Beal was held.
The privilege of going downtown
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