The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1874-10-30
From the Troy Chief.l
q CHILD'S INQUIRIES.
BY THE SMILING GOPHER

n ShAdA1ADS AINNSOBkAAES.
BY THE SMILING GOPHER.
CHILD.
Father, as 1 have often locked
Upon the sun so bright,
And watched the great round moon
come up
Above the hills at night,
Ive wondered If, by some mishap,
They e'er could topple DER,
And cease TO go their wonted rounds,
And rise and set no more.
FATHER.
We're told the sun for Joshua,
On Gideon stood still,
And in the vale Of Avalon,
The moon obeyed his will.
Ills my belief. these wondrous things
Will come to pass again,
When Cusey DER this Commonwealth
AS Governor doth reign.
CHILD.
I've often seen a falling star
Hume the midnight sky.
Or, shooting with a brilliant flash,
Across the heavens fly.
rVe wondered if il e'er could be,
That stars and planets all
Would lose at once their mighty hold,
And from their places fall.
FATHER.
We read. the stars together sang,
On great Creations morn;
And 1 remember once they fell,
Long years ere you were born.
That dire event Well surely see,
If life with us abides,
When DER the Senate of our State
Sage Harrington preSides.
CHILD.
Oh, Pa! how funny it would be,
Instead of custom now,
If they should find another plan
To milk our muley COW:
To stand her square upon her head,
And hang the wooden pail,
To catch the milk, upon her hooE,
And pump it with her tail!
FATHER.
i think, my son, that funny age
Will surely come about;
That people, IN the way you say.
Will milk, without doubt.
The sign to know when it has come
Even the day and date
When Abbott, honest Lott'ry man,
Shall sign him "Sec. Of State"
CHILD.
And, father, do you sver think
Bull-frogS will learn to swear!
That tumble bugs will go TO church,
And paper collars wear?
That elephants will walk on Suits,
And tadpoles hunt for mice?
That snakes will build their nests on
trees,
And fish-worms skate on iceg
FATHER.
My son, verify believe
That day the world shall see
A day of grand phenoma,
When all these things shall be.
IT'S coming, slowly coming on,
But coming, sure as fate
When great "'Gewhillikens'' shall sit
As Auditor of State.
And, father, have wondered il
The time would ever be,
When golden pieces could be picked
From vine. and bush, and tree;
When greenbacks grew like cabbages,
In garden beds aud drills,
And nickels gathered every day,
A rolling up the hills.
FATHER.
My son, that day will also come,
As strange things have before,
Unless the age of miracles
Is past forever more.
Twill be when Jimmy Watson holds
Our treasure and our bonds,
And writes upon our public scrip,
mot paid, for want of funds"
CHILD.
And fatlar Ihava soy,atiunaS dreamed
Or, may be. dreamed awake,
That all the queer and living things
In ocean, sea and lake
The big fish and the little fish,
The pOrpsises and whales,
Would float ashore, stand on their
And whistle with their tails.
FATHER.
My son, Pvc thought OF such tune,
And very nigh twill draw,
When Hallowell. of Cherokee,
Tells Kansas What is law;
When Douthitt sits on that high chair,
Serenely squints his eye,
Dozes through briefs and arguments,
And grinds out SyllabI.
CHILD.
Iheard 4 boy the other day,
Say that the time would be,
When biscuits, hot for breakfast, could
Be picked from every tree;
When roasted pigs would run around,
(The real thing, no sham,
And every one could take i slice
OF sausage or Of ham.
FATHER
Yes, even that may come TO pass.
For aught that we can know;
We see things daily, never dreamed
A thousand years ago.
That tine will come, (thOugh folks
Us who believe it tooIs.)
When Christopher, the ''Ham Fat
Man."
O'ersees our public schools.
CHILD.
1t wouldn't be q bit more strange,
| For cows to roost on trees;
For hogs to crow when morning comes
And turkeys to hatch fleas;
Or horses bark at pasSers by,
And sheep catch mice and rats;
And geese sing operate tunes,
In concert with the eats.
FATHER.
You have i comic fancy, boy,
For one so young In years;
But all these things the world shall
see,
Strange as it now appears
When PARROT, Of the silver tongue,
When Goodin, Hudson, all,
As Kansas Representatives,
Shall sit in Congress Hall.
CHILD.
: Father, do not want to live
In such u crazy world,
Where everything's turned upside
down,
And topsy-turvy hurled.
The things that we are used to now,
VIII then be done away,
: And We as prisoners on some
Strange planet doomed 70 stay.
FATHER.
Ny son, twill be grievous change,
Fraught with unrest and fear;
But let us keep our spirits up,
Until that time Is here