Kansas City daily journal., 1896-07-05
surance company would give him a ten
years policy at low rates.
John q. ('arIIsIe.

John q. Carlisle.
! understand Secretary John q. Carlisle
Is Is, TO come to the conyention: Il so. there
@ BE- no sanS more s1Tkns dT nan In GhiGasc
barripE the fstness He He has has the ' maiarioSas; iSu;
complexion which you find among men who
his e s 'Gns bsen ahS sdaeS 10 rSfr
the miasmatic vapors OF the Potomac Car
q. calhoun's and Daniel Webstsr's. " II is is
sIasfsa sai END somhsr and attashed to his
sysryMShGrrS;, c,od;iS re, +. Carlisle is new slE6ty
he came to Washington something like
ysars ES h, Il, does not to
things trouble him. lie grasps knowleqse
he can use every bit OF brains he has. His
Ss Ss'g 1Sa that be played sOi,Hre
corry1s Ssr on Of this kna He a VII
standing many Democrats deny this. i had
an interview with him some time before
present proportlons. lie, said to me-:
himself. bIt ne money in which the
y, Carlisle Isle lives a, coylnston. Ky. Joe
lilatkbufn once SAID 10 MIN.
Carlisle, YOU live 800 yards too far south
United States"
made had Carlisle lived in Cincinnati In
stead of Covington. which Is, you know.
Would today be the greatest DE Democrat osr OF Of
ohan the state of 9 Ohio oid lie would be Meknieys
the head of the Democratic ticket.
AdIni nnd the Mule.
1t is wonderful how inahy big men there
are among these Democrats. l mean men
big in body US well as in brain. Boies, of
touch the 200 mark bland Is short, but
heavy, Genera! John n, Palmer Is six
something of a candidate for the presiden-
cy, stands seyenty-four inches tall In his
sitSsknss iIss a., and weighs ss,: pounds CIR.
strawberry blonde. for there is red
dish ,inse to what is left of his hair, and
threads of his heavy mustnche. Steven
son. like Carlisle, was born in Kentucy.
Tsi @ r"sdns Was DONE sss durns oGp lnepya. epy s
work upon his fathers farm. He had 10
nsh, ,S & for his ,a time & for reading, and heard
some OF i unknown TO his father. Ii was
in corn corn pi9wEinS psES time, gnd the farmers Of
Adlai I. stevenson had got his frst taste
OF Robinson crusoe." and he carried the
Rs fa,hara oneeye 20 @ mule mule Eohs sh1 WITH
plow corn, His father was in another part
OF the plantation, and during the old mans
absence Adlai rested ard read. Adiai's
father, however. knew something OF the
boys tricks. ana in order to be sure that
he was at work he fastened bell around
me mules neck and told Adlai he should
Know that when that bell stopped Ringing
he had stopped work. For some days.
however, he noted that the bell rang con-
tiruously but that there was little plow-
Ing done, He could not understand IT, and
he siipped quietly around to the corn Held,
came, When he reached the fence he
looked In vain for Adlai and the mule.
But the bell still rang. He followed lis
sound. and there in the thicket at the side
OF the held sat the re-footed future
"Robinson crns9e;' while his foot moved
Iesular,y 20 and fro, pulling at a string,
toe to-, and the other to the bell, which he
nal hung up on bush a few yards away
1t Is needless to say that Robinson crmsoe
and and his his man Friday were laid away for
father moved to Illinois. but the boy cams
PACK pa To- centre college. Kentucky, to Get
FRANK O. CARpENTrR