Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-07-14

entertaining letters from Paris TO the Sail,
ma Republican. He says that whenever he
announced himself TO the French custom
house Officers as an American they searched
his baggage from top to bottom. When
he told them he was a Swede, they allowed
the baggage to pass without search. Mr..
swensson is fair enough to say that he
doesn't know whether a Swede escapes sus-
picion OF being a smuggler because he is
too honest or too stupid. The only thing
he found in France that reminded him of
Kansas was the cottonwood tree. He says
they grow in punches all over France just
as they do in Central Kansas.
49,
A burlington woman rushes into print
with an indignant denial of the talk that
linen pants grow longer with each wash
ing. She says she is sick and tired OF read
ing this newspaper lie. Her husband
bought a pair Of linen pants. and at the first
wash she had TO let out some of the three
inch hem at the bottom. At the next wash
she had TO let out all OF the hem and
face the pants on the inside with another
material. At the third wash she had to
piece the bottom with crash toweling.
and she feels sure that as the
summer progresses she will be compelled
to use up all the towels in the house, and
that in the end her husbands legs will be
lncased in rings like the legs Of a zebra.
s
4 correspondent writes TO Bent Murdoch
demanding TO know what the government
will do with all the money it raises under
the new tariff bill. I'VE think" says Mr..
Murdoch, that it is the intention of the
Republicans 10 give all the old soldiers 800
per month. After that when a private cit
lien arrives at the age of -. and has been
4 loyal man. the government will give him
a pension of 81 q day. This will keep the
money in circulation. and permit the old
codgers to join the never-sweat clubs"
Oklahoma Times-Journal: Tradition
among the Caddo and other Indian tribes
OF oklahoma gives an account of a can
nlbalstic tribe that once existed in this
locality. The other tribes finally agreed to
annihiliate such undesirable neighbors. and
at a time agreed upon. the cannibaI village
was surrounded. and every member of the
tribe was destroyed-not even a babe was
spared. Chief George Washington of the
Caddo tribe often relates this bit of ira
dition.
A man may own a dam, a mill. an opera
house; be an elder in the church. have an
bank account and always stand
in public gaze as a leading citizen, md
yet something is sure to occur TO dash his
AOptS dstu GldAt lie Il misery 10 MIN. I'D |
to a few days ago Mr.. ]. D. Bowersock. of
Lawrence, was supremacy happy in the
possession Of all these qualities and condi-
tons. On that occasion a delegation of w. |
{. T. L. women walked into his office. |
gazed upon him reproachfully for a few
moments. and then the spokeswoman de-
manded that he remove the pictures Of an
airy-fairy woman which decorated the city
billboards of which he was owner. The
picture was posted as a cigarette sign. and
II must be confessed that it was calculated
TO shock an intensely moral community
Lawrence. In fact. it was nearly as
as some of the female figures seen
in Mother Hubbards on the Lawrence
porches.
When It GENES TO distinguished ances-
says the Globe. very few Atchison
can put their feet under the same
table with Ex-Governor Click. His paternal
had a fight with Caesar and ate
'schmiercase' on the banks of the Rhine
for many generations. Five Clicks. broth
came to America nearly 200 years ago.
which ante-dates the governors recoIlec-
ton somewhat His grandfather. George
Click, was a soldier of the war 1912. and
George Sanders. his mothers father.was an
officer in the American army in the same
war. His father was Isaac Click. Of San
husky, o., and his mother Mary Sanders"
There is a romance connected with the
Heath of Andrew Mckeever at Atchison.
Mr.. McKeever was an old resident of the
own and had grown rich in the me-can-
lie business. but for the past few wears
he had been a hopeless invalid. He boarded
It the home of John Seitz. where he was
upon by Miss Bertha Schiebel. a
domestic in the family, who was very pa
lent and attentive under the task Of at
nding TO an irritable sick man. An at
achment grew up between Mr.. Mckeever
nd the girl, and this eliminated in mar
iage on July /, though both of the parties
we're fully aware that the man was fatally
II. McKeeve- said he wished to marry the
.irl so she might inherit his fortune. After
he marriage ne couple started for the
eashOre. but they got no further than
Il. Louis. when the sick man grew worse {
nd insisted upon being brought back TO '
Atchison to die. He left no relatives this
ide of ireland. The young wife is said to !
e an estimable woman. and no one in ]
accuses her OF being a fortune |
unter or begrudges her the good luck {
Thich has fallen to her portion. ,
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