The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1883-05-03
How Long Ago was Its

the years have gone We are accustomed 10
speak Of Gen. jackson with familiarity, and
Prate abont who still voting for Jack
son. But jackson has been dead almost forty
years, aud anon. very oldest men re- those
who gave their first v"t. for jackson. Dayy
Crockett was noted figure in Jsckson's time,
and IL i not Gar irun fifty YEAR since hr was
killed at III. Alamo. then Catholic Mission far
from civilization. but now ia the large and pros
pernus city Of San Antonio 1t j. almost forty
years since Ih- Sonl-stirrins victories in the
Mexican war. which then regarded rs
among the great h1iilcs "f the world, hut cont
Par,-d With the battles Of she Rebellion were
mere skiriuishrs. II seems bnf the other day
that thousands "f Young men were enthusiastic
ally raiyins io east their first vote for John {.
Fremont, or sh"nl'icFiug their ShaTP's rifles to
have a hand in hr Kansas business: yet twen-
ty-seyen years have gone by. aud many Of them
have boys who have cas, their iTs; vote. The
events 0f the Rebellion talked about
currences Of yesterday; but it is eighteen years
since the ended and Lincoln was aSsassina-
ted. There thousands of men who voters
Today, who were net born when Sumter
fired uP"n or the battles Of Bull Run, Fort Don
elsOn, aud shiloh were fought. We know of
more than one man who reported killed in
battle during the Rebellion, but have since been
married, aud have sons that are voters. Do you
mind, only a few weeks ago, when poor old Hor
ace Greeley running for the Presidency, how
the Democrats boast ed of the triumphant cleo
tion that was awaiting him. and how the Repub
licans ridiculed the old man whose ambition had
led him astSay' OF course, you can remember
back so short a time. But that was eleven years
al, tl,a .i,, nll
died of shame, when he awakened and found
what he had done in his sleep.
You remember the pretty girl you knew, last
SUMNER at school, that yOu thought was the
Prettiest girl you ever saw, and how you gave
her apples, and flowers, and tried to write poetry
TO OF about her. and felt that you would just die
if you couldn't marry herr Well, she weighs
two hundred and fifty pounds, and has mons
tache, and big waIt on her nose, and has half
dozen daughters married to fellows who smell
of horse, tobacco. and bad whiskey. The fact is,
yOu haven't the least idea how very long ago it
that anything happened until you sit down
and 60 to counting it up. The years are not
eking terribly, Chaucer to the contrary not
wiihStanding. Five hundred years have eked
since he wrote that, and they will exc away
from yon, before You aware of IL.
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~ The remains Of the Cincinnati Gazette
have been sold, and will be used in publishing
Democratic paper. What an ignominious end
of great Journal, and what a warning it
veys! The Gd-ette the oldest paper west of
Pittsburg, and for generations was the most in
iuential paper in the West. IN its time, it had
Snch able Charles Hammond for its edit
or: and n number Of men who afterwards be-
came famous learned the printing trade in the
office. IL was Federal, then whig then Repub-
Iicau-aIways opposed to the party that has de-
scended To "uT day Is Democratic. Now the
paper is dead. and the material goes 10 print a
third-rare Democratic paper. The Ga-offe died
nf Richard Smith, who got control of il, and
persisted in forcing his Puritansm and Prohibi-
tinui-m into politics.
Iv Why can't the Wyandoite Gazette come
ont honestly aud candidly. aud admit the cold
strained facts Of The last State election instead
"f saving that ~. Johns defeat was caused by
stay-at-h"mc Rcpublirans. or those who refused
vote rnr that oflicr, All the other candidates
the Republican ticket were elected by large
naioritics, even McCabe. ia spite "f prejudice
against his color. -Stay-at-hOncs would have
defeated the whole ticket. il that had been the
irOubc. The vote Governor fell but 5000
short of that cast for the other offices, while
Clicks majority goo, that the fault
not there. -. John was defeated by Republican
votes, on account of his prohibition hobby and
the pT"hibitiO platform, and it is Of no use to
try to explain it in any other way.
IL The managers of the average college will
sell its brthright for q mess Of pottage. few
years ago, college started at Topeka call
ed Lincoln College. But the managers soon
sold the Ia a man named Washburn, for
s25,Om. Ashury University. in Indiana. the
Methodist college OF that State. and an old in
Siitutiun, was named in homer of one of the
founders aud the first Bishop Of the church in
America. Now the Trustees have sold out the
name to rich old fellow named Depauw for
II l,O0U,G0. and hsncefarth Asbury University
will he Depauw University-anes~ man
with more money is sick to have a college nam
rl after him.
gR- We read IA good deal about the Mutual
Admiration Society of the Kansas press. There
is one rule Of the S"siety that has not been
touched upon. When paper oheudS the Soc
ETY., by failing to treat 4 member with due rev.
erence, they just kill il with silent contempt.
They never mention it. copy from it. When
anything important happens in the neighbor-
hood. rather than copy correct acc"unt from
the paper. they will copy 4 hutchrred account
from other paper Published away from the
srcne. oh. they just ruin the offending paper.
- The latest strange STORY is, that the body
al a preacher, hurried some years agn IN Phila-
slelphia, has turned into n mulberry hush. How
wonderful are the provisions of nature. We
know dnfrns al preachers who have not enongh
life Ia keep the moths "u, of their odd corners
and " hen they die. and turn mulberry bushes,
these moths wall tnrn 10 silk worms. and have
their natural foad right at hand. 80 that even
preachers may lee oi some {" mankind after
they dead.
IRtsu CoSN NENu"x.-An immense Convention
nf Irishmen was held at Phils,Irpha. last week,
which was characterized hy much good sense
and calm delibcrsiian. The cool headed. sens-
hle Irishmcn "f the country took the thing in
hand. and nnceTrmoniou>ly suppressed men of
the o'Donovan Eossa stripe The name of the
organization aa, changed from Land League to
thai Of Irish National League of America. We
publish the resolutions adopted, in an"th"r col
uirn.
It' Somr wonderful, staiiStican has uaic the
discovery that there about io,Wn square
miles ol nnhr"ken forest in North Carolina. As
North Carolina embraces but ~ 5n square miles,
has eeru settled fer than tNu hundred
wears and contains million Of population.
we are iur'-,l io one ct iw" conclusions: that
all those people Ter many wears have lived on
a very small patch Of cleared ground. or that
lots OF people in North Carullnn run wild in the
w"od>.
~ w Notice that - magazine publisIc. by
the students "f the University, devoted chiefly
Ia the interests "f The institution. Is publishing
sloppy Free Trade essays. But with Free Trade
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