Kansas City daily journal., 1896-12-19

Of the exorbitance OF his bill, but because
of another matter which, she significantly
interpolates, will cause her instant exon
Grafton when it is related to the courts.
She adds that she had paid the doctor
SOL IN eleven months without making the
slightest complaint
When the Salvation Army people" says
the Coffeyville Democrat. were contem-
plating giving a Thanksgiving dinner to
the poor children of this city, the mem
bers visited residences soliciting eatables.
Someone who did not love her Jesus baked
cake with ancient eggs, and when it was
cut the front and back doors of the build
ing occupied by the army had to be thrown
open, and the people on the inside held
their noses until the cake could be thrown
out in the back yard. The old saying is
that murder will out; so will the name of
the maker of this cake
John Speer said to the Topics man yes
terday that he had sold 1000 copies of his
history of Jim Lane and exhausted the
entire first edition. However, he has the
plates of the work and will set about print
ing more books. as he is convinced that
Kansas will furnish market for at least
an additional thousand.
On December q next Mr.. Speer will cele-
brate his 18th birthday. He is undoubtedly
the youngest old man now alive in the
state of Kansas, for neither his health
nor his faculties appear to be impaired in
the least. The manner in which he pro-
duced his history of Lane Is sufficient evil
dence of this. He purchased fifty pounds
of type year ago and carried it to the
residence of his son in Wichita, where he
proceeded to s'set up the book with his
own hands. Much of the matter he took
from his head without manuscript, and
so speedily did he proceed with the compo-
sition that it is said that he averaged from
the beginning to the end as much type
setting each day as would constitute a
.journeyman printers fair days stint. After
setting as much as possible-some four or
five pages-from his fifty pounds of type,
he would hurry the forms" off to the
stereotyper, and then distribute the type
and proceed with his setting. He pro-
poses to give this type to the Historical
Society, not only as memento of himself
and Lane, but also because he believes
that in the space of less than twenty years
machines will have superseded type en-
tirely and made the latter a curiosity.
By the way, it has always seemed to us
that in presenting in his history speeches
which were characteristic of Lane, Mr..
Speer has omitted the best one of all. 1t
was delivered by the grim chieftain' to
his nondescript army at Lawrence, just
before they started out to meet the enemy
in the "Wakarusa war;" and is vouched for
by Mr.. G. W. Hutchinson, now n resident
of Kansas City, but who was then a MEM
ber of the army. 1t is as follows:
Boys. we are going out to fight those in
fernal scoundrels and some of you may
fall; if you do, you will fall in righteous
cause and be gathered to Abrahams S
bosom. Boys, you are going to meet the
enemy out there toward Bull creek and
you will have to make this campaign on
green corn. The internal Missourians have
cut off our supplies, and it is they who
have reduced us to this extremity; and,
boys, you will make some of them bite the
dust-and how different will be their por-
ton from those who go to Abraham's
bosom. In hell they will lift up their eyes
and call on you boys of the Free State
party of Kansas to bring them a drink of
water. But you know your duty. Be true
to Kansas. to your wives and to your
sweethearts-and don't you bring the
scoundrels nary d-n DROP"