The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-01-30
II would wire to Kansas City
For car load of champagas,
Then hunt up Major Hudson
And sing .GoOd-bYe 'LiZer Jane !"

Major Hudson was at his desk In tne
state printing office.
Without hesitation he said: 81 would
take my usual bath, and with clear
conscience calmly sit and await GabriePs
summons.
~Of course I would regret that this
good, old world had not lasted longer.
81 would be most pleased to remember.
while singing Good bye old world, good
bye" that my fifth grandbaby was a boy"
Governor Morrill, said: 81 would try
to make everybody as comfortable and
happy as possible for the few remaining
days
my greatest regret would be that 1
must give up this fair world with all its
joys, SO soon.
81 should be most pleased to think of
the passage of the disability pension
bill, which has placed 100000 of the
brave men who fought for the old flag
upon the pension rolls of the country.
''To each one of US this world will
sooner or later come to an end. The
best preparation for the last great
change, is loving trust in the Infinite
Father and pure, true, manly life"
Chief Justice David Martin said. 81
JOURNAL which would contain Becky
Sharp's write-up of the last day.
Il would congratulate myself that l
would not be cheated out of as much
time as some people, having had pretty
good time for many years."
l met Mr. w. J. Black on the street
after repeated attempts to see him and
the others, and his answer made me
laugh:
take to the brush, "he said, laconically
and solemnly, "a thing I'm going to do
any way if my work'don't quit crowding
me-"
managed to see Judge J. B. Johnson
for moment. and he said: :Do? Stay
with the end and I suppose end with
the rest of the folks.
81 would regret that there are no rail
roads to sell in the hereafter.
II would be glad though that the med
ical students would have no more graves
10 rob-"
1 asked Mr.. Cyrus Leland but he
wouldn't consent to let any such thing
happen till he had succeeded in COM
pleting his political arrangements.
When l asked Professor Lewis Lind
say Dyche supposed he would also re-
fuse to let anything happen till he had
borne the north pole in triumph to crown
his Lawrence collection of curios.
But no, he said, 81 would rest from
now until then. 1 would regret that
have worked SO hard and finished SO lit
tie during the past few years.
s'Do you ask what / would consider
my greatest cause for self graduation?
That 1 had lived to witness the perform
ance.
THAT implies all that goes with these
modern times and includes the fact that
l have been permitted TO exist even un-
til the end came and have enjoyed the
very best the world has produced"
Mrs. Thorpe took an hour to answer
the questions or questions 1 put to her
and sent it to me.
sWhat would 1 do?
My useless bric-a-brac-poor memory's dears
I'd burn; and thus f unchan 6 the years
l would most regret
That nature had not furnished
len pairs of hands my one instead.
I should be most glad
That 1 should never trace again
In pauper face the lines of pain"
Ex-Governor Click said "the subject is
too serious a one to jest about" Now.
who would think that Gov. Click would
care?
Mr. G. c. Clemens said:
"What would | de if l knew the world
would come to an end next Wednesday,
~From Judge Hazens court. where
somebody would be king an injunction
to put a stop to the Unconstitutional
thing l would return to the prayer meet
ing where Tom Anderson would be be-
seeching Heaven, in case Judge Hazen
should refuse to act;tO postpone the affair
and not divide public attention until
after the Fall Festival should be over.
At night, would peruse in the evening
JOURNAL, the "papers" which Western
Sorosis would have 'read" that day on
the question whether the crack of
DOOM ought to be looked upon as a
progressive proceeding, As the
end would be SO near, on Sun
day I would go to church, hoping
that preachers being no longer afraid of
their salaries, but very much afraid of
something else, might that once, if dis
use had not made it impossible, preach
the gospel of Christ instead of somebody's
gospel about him.
"wednesday about noon, I would dror
into the hall where the Equal Suffrag-
lists, with more than their wonted non
partisan nuanimity, would be solemnly
resolving not to recognize Gabriel's
proclaim alton because it had no boomers
attached to it, and because Mrs. Gabriel
had not been given an equal chance at
the mouth piece of the resurrection horn.
"Then 1 would mortgage the furniture
to Christian loan-agent at ten per cent.
a month, and make arrangements to do
business with the new trust which would
by that time have been organized to con-
troll the supply of ascension robes.
PROFESSIONALLY, Nigh make some prelimi-
nary OBJ ectlonS TO sucn way OF running
a universe. but have no doubt that, being
an openminded man, my objections
might be finally overcome and l would
allow the proceedings to go on.
Isl would regret most,
doubtless, that the thing had not &C.
CURED before got into the world or been
put off till l had left it, SO that, in the
language of MIR. Sullivan. 1 might not
have been obliged to find myself up
against it, Other than this nv most |
serious regret would be that the internal
state of things we are pleased to call our
social order should be allowed to die |
peaceahly in its bed. as il were. Without |