Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-05-29
SOME CAPITAL STORIES.
Kansas Congressman Tells a Tale
Out of School
How n Georgia Statesman settled n
Religious Controvcrsy-A Minne-
sotn Mans Impression of the
President
rspec,al washington Letter. !

congressman Miller, OF hanSaS, mas
just completed his first and last term as
n member of the national house of rep
rescntatives. One term was enough
for him, and he declined a renomina
tion. He says: II am going back to
the land of sunflowers, prohibition and
patriotism. There is no more whole
some climate between the Atlantic and
Pacific, and yet Kansas has its share of
diseases. Here in my pocketbook have
clipping which shows how many all
ments one man may have in Kansas.
and yet live. This slip shows how suf-
fering commercial traveller filed out
tickets at drug store, and the medi-
cine that he took to cure him in each
case:
John Smith. one-half pint whisky, dys-
pepsia.
John Smith, one quart beer, Indigestion.
John Smith, one-half pint whisky, brain
trouble.
John Smith, one quart beer malaria.
| John Smith, one quart beer, consumption.
| John Smith one-half pint whisky, apo
pleXy.
John Smith, one quart beer, cancer.
John Smith, one quart beer, heart dis
| ease.
John Smith. one pint whisky, delirium
| tremens.
John Smith, one quart beer, sore throat.
John Smith. one quart beer, paralysis.
! John Smith. one quart beer. liver COM
| plant.
John Smith, one quart beer, pains in
! back.
John Smith, one quart beer, chilblains.
John Smith. one quart beer. hives.
John Smith, one quart beer, insanity.
! EN-Coneressman Gambler, of Georgia,
who was born and reared in the noun
tains of that state, tells the following
good story, and is willing TO wager
an entire railroad which he owns that
it is true: During the war, and for sew
eral years afterward, the southern
darky could talk about little else than
Emancipation" and religion. y Meth
cdist darlly and Baptist darsiy would
get together on the shady side of house
or tree and argue for hours. An old
planter who lived on the banks of the
Chattahoochie river owned number
of negroes, and one cold day when they
were log-rolling and clearing up piece
of ground they began to discuss reli-
gion. The planter became tired of the
discussion. He polled the men as to
their religious beliefs and found II
Baptsts and Methodists.
"Now," he said, "I am sick and tired
of this eternal arguing, and as the Bap-
lists are in the majority the rest of
you must go down into the water" and
he ordered them into the river. They
unwillingly filed into the river up to
their necks, and as they stood with
chattering teeth the old man would yell
out:
Are you Methodist or Baptist?"
The freezing water soon brought the
Methodists to the Baptist belief, and
planter remarked that he hoped il
; would be n long time before it would
be necessary for him to have another
baptizing, and it was.
There are many lobbyists in Washing
| ton, and the frauds and shams in theil
number are not few. Exposure one year
does not affect them the next year, fol
they go on playing their same ole
games, with new victims. In prepar
ing the confederate war records, Col
Bob Scott used to call upon eX-confed
crate officers for information concern
| ing points of history which seemed OBJ
, scure; and hence many eN-confederate:
] visited his Office from time to time anC
at his request recorded their names
present residence and rank, in u regis
ter kept for that purpose. One da,
= an individual who had posed in ani
about society circles at Washington a
> an eX-confederate colonel, and on stat,