The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1882-01-12
CORRESPONDENCE.
DON JUAN.
On the Wiaz-Tekes Trip g the state Can
itat-1sserestiag Csnfab with . RaI Pas-
senEer.

an
Leaving the Bagle i'm charge of a co,n,,.,sn, ,,,.
ager, / boarded q Santa Fe traip xes,ers,v .n5
was speeding onward toward the c.p;tal
The day was lovely as all day. are in this goro,s
Italian climate. A fat man, who sat ON the from,
seat and who vas inst fro,, w. VI -,
that the newspapers back East were the nfern,les,
that is the expression -infernalest Iars in the
world "when was getting ready To come tn Kan
sas,r said he, my friends advised me to bux n.;r
Of buffalo overshoes. q fur coat and can and extra
heavy underwear. and TO take along half n dozen
pairs Of blankets, as m extra precautiou: for said
they, Kansas s the coolest country on eartb.' Now
look at that bundle Of baggage there and that nie
OF Blankets, dead stock. if dead Ioss I've been
IN Kansas y week, and have been almost roasted
yes, roasted. sir, all the time Why last winter our
Eastern newspapers were filed with terrible ae-
counts Of the suffering by cold in Kansas. and vet
when arrive here, find il just like Florida sir.
How the newspapers do lie-
"Exatetly. Your Eastern newspaper. are the biz
sest liars on earth but here in Kansas such thing
Is not allowed. Why, my dear sir, a single lie ut
tered by Kansas newspaper would bring out our
cowboys on the warpath, and the unfortunate edi-
tor would be riddled by bnllets before the lie got
cold. Now, there Tom Perkins, of the Pottsyile
Echo, who hung Last week Tom WINS N first rate
fellow, and Published rattlng local paper but opr
day he thought he would publish n .ensat;o,al liz
just to how il would take In all his nexsnaner
experience, he had never published 40 mnch as one
little white lie. because he knew Kansas did not
approve Of it. But he out alta birthday party
night and came TO the Office ebock fplr of cider
at time when ehurch-yards are supposed to yavp.
Feeling jolly n mackerel, he sat down and wrote
the following item. which I have here in NV note
book, and will read to you:
Two hundred horses per month are consumed in Paris
maIrr If now eI the bologna sausage
perkins only meant that for :. har.,,... u,.,.
Joke Won see. but II ra.ed ,h,ni.,- '''
s.P.hawr' said the IN, man az 49,.
mad at that little sauib-
'An. nv dear sir. Won m;...ls ,l. .h.,.,.,.- =, ,-
-Ssee of iaybawkerx AsJ,a;I -. T~-" : 80
pie are 80 utterly o,no.od ., Ir;u, a.. r.
tolerate even the s,naIIe., .n,,,o.o,' ., =. w
butchers of the town and half e., -. -,
heavily armed. waited on p.rt;n. .n, 49, 81 81
insisted ,ba, he yos ar,,t L., - - -
really meant no harm IN arv .n. ,h. - "a, NJ
must swing. 'N "'
".Nake boIocr. s.,s.,.. .u. II
Yon miserable wbe,, y r.iI.a ,,a ,,,.L. .r
atIiuste,l the poose ,ror,d 80 p...;,., -.
sGuess vopu mo, ,.u - -, ,. -.
the hipopbooers s,,;,, hoo. -, .h--. -
will Won p .bo,ted ,b. oo,, r. '''
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os . ,r.. :, H. O., ii - p W .no '''''
ligbt with n hi, nI,.ar.l -, ~. -
e' " "s P"''a'" oh MS oody, which read:
The fat ma, ,,,.o1 LII -,
n@ ll' man n'aSed a"hiie' took a big pinch Of
anu '',iA'Aeu
iA"""'uhar' -'"y eh,raoruinary' why, our
"sP"Per' "t nome say hahsas editors never tell
That. INV dear friend !. hs.,,s. ,,.r -. ana,
my aeAr iriehu' Is because they are such
''-.is 'Hei"'e'eS Did you never notice tnnt very
'e' MA" Gan never see good IN any person but him.
ihe hh''iheS' men IN the world, presume, are
newspaper men with little ability, great deal Of
eheek' ana a head bursting with egotism. If they
nave any success they attribute it to their splendid
a"tes ~heh' IN iact 1t is altogether due to their
unlimited cheek This class of men never give a
"nter OF equai or more merit the praise due him,
nH' rather ry 10 pettie him IN every way possible
Now there's the editor oi the Trumpet, down in our
town. VINO has more cheek than skinned giraffe.
10 near nun TAX, ne IL the only editor in all this