White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1868-01-09
6hOckey.
In August last. the following local
item appeared in the Chief:

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"A person weighing about $50 lbs. avoirau-
pois, stopped here one evening last week, and
undertook to lecture 10 . small audience, his
object being to prove that after death vas an
eternal sleep. His audience we're in snch SYM
pathv with the subject. that they soon Feiapsed
into q state somewhat RESEMBLING that deseri.
bed by the speaker. The latter, remarkingI
that everybody appeared 70 be asleep, suddenly
stopped; the charm was broken, and the CON-
pany dispersed
We had forgotten oil shout the man
and the circumstance. and did not know
but th.t he was enjoying the long nap
Of which he was wont to preach. But
now, after more than Eve months have
passed. a person who claims to be the
one sllnied to. writes Il communications |
to the Ws,heua Reporter. from Walnut
Grove. in this County. in reply. What
be has been doing all this time. is more
than We know. Perhaps he is like the
old woman who set up . bowling for her
husband. who bad died fourteen years
before. declaring she could stand it no
longer. Or, may be, like the man who
was felstiug his experience 10 6ghtins
the Indians. Hesaii, when he saw the
Indians. he commenced getting mad /;
the closer the Indians came. the msddsr
he got, until at last he got SO mad that
he made bad job for the washerwo.
mani We judge. from the signs. that
this is the case with our friend. who in
forms the public that his name is w. P.
Shocksy; and he writes-oh. what
communication Shockey starts out in
this wise:
aMr Sol ii your veracity for truth, fair
ness, liberalty and republicanism, be based
upon the piece of slang used in your sheet Of
last August, it h,s assumed an exceedingly
low status"
Now, We esll that fue writing-of the
serio.somnambulistic order. ]" Verscity
for truth" is good. But veracity for
fairness. liberality and Republicanism." l"
is sublime. II We had thousand sons.
we would tesch them to addict them
selves to verscity for truth and Republi.
canism, aud never to base it upon slang
Shockey disputes our statistics. He
says:
"lst. As to the avoirdupois $50 lbs it is
plus the truth l20 lbs, which applied to the
LII ,ab 10 har uloor uopk
hibits little over one half more than the
. truth"
, R.iher muddy. but good. We admit
tha. he may weigh only 2SO lbs. nett
| but as hs was alive when we saw him,
3 we gave his gross weight. But 230 lbs.
net. is very good. The ones Bailey kill
ed. this season. averaged only 2l0 nett.
Shockey next explains the nature Of
his doctrine:
"2d In your statement OF my object, the
principle is as far in excess of the truth as an
infinite is finite; instead Of it being to prove
tina: after death was an eternal sleep, as you
say. it was to show that man. from death until
the resurrection, was asleep and unconscious" "
Such being the case. how kind OF
Shockey to travel over the country tell
ing people Of it; bnt he don't say how he
found it out. l; is a prevalent opinion
that dead men are generally unconscious.
except when they are buried alive. You
might spit in dead mans face. or call
him q lisr. and be wouldn't 30 much as
resent it. We wers once present at the
opening of an Indian mound, supposed
to be many hundred years old. The only
human relic unesrthsd wss thigh bone;
snd we sctually don't believe that thigh
bone knew Good Friday from q cold ap
ple-6ittsr. In fact. its veracity for know
ledge had assumed an exceedingly low
status.
Shockey nov puts in sockdologer.
Hear him:
at was true that the audience evinced a
very somnambulent state, the cause Of which
| think was, that they we're as ignorant Of the
bible teaching on the snbject as wasSbl., when
igal of the peoples money, in causing law to
be made raising $4,000 excess of taxes, to pay
a somnambulent editor an excess for publish
ing delinquent tax"
There is science iu that We have
now learned that somusmbulism is caus-
ed by ignorance of the Bible. Somnam-
bulism is disease with some persons
To cure it, let them y" search the Scrip.
tures" On the other hand. there ore
persons who suffer from inability to sleep.
They know too much about the Bible.
But Shockey is unkind in telling on us.
The people have never found out that
State tax is levied to pay for publishing
"delinquent tax" Iuasmuch as we were
ignorant Of the peoples money, Shock:
ey should have permitted the people to
remain unconscious" OF our verscity for
gougins them
Shockey gathers himself for fual
lungs. aud comes at us " end-ways :"
"The next time the large person may call
in White Cloud to speak on bible matters, be
sure to be sufficiently normal to speak of him
in gentiemanly terms"
Tha. is as much as to say: "I've
skinned you alive. and guess you'll let
me alone after this" We cave.
Shocksy, we like your style. Suppose
Won write for us? Give us a few hun