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

party papers first and they may he taken
from the lock boxes by their subscribers
sometimes twenty minutes before he gets
around to the opposition sheets. For four
years the Democrats have had the advaut-
age of first distribution. and now ii passes
! over TO the Republicans.
A few days ago a nestful of English
sparrows fell down the chimney and into
an open CRATE in the parlor Of John ].
ingalls, house at Atchison. The mother bird
made futile efforts to carry them back,
and then accepted the situation with ap-
parent satisfaction. She carries their food
to them down the chimney. and futters
back and forth as though she owned the
premises.
Some men have sand" enough TO plas-
ter a house. Jim Murphy. Of Alma, was
out in a field the other day, when a huge
rattlesnake struck at him. The fangs OF
the snake passed through his pantdlOOns
and stuck there, without ouChlng the flesh.
Murphy coolly reached down and clasped
the snake by the neck and carried it a mile
into town, where he now has it safe in
a coop.
There is something about this free silver
humbug that makes il a veritable fetish. A
dirty tramp can go out among It's vota-ies
and preach about il. and they will fall
down and worship him. Such a one drifted
into Smith Center the other day and Of
fered some Populist songs for sale, and
the faithful bought Of him literally. Later
he mounted an old wagon and delivered
the most execrable free silver haraEsue it
would be possible 10 imagine. after which
he passed his hat and took up a large col
lection. Still later he mounted the wagon.
opened an old CarpetsaCk and commenced
10 sell soap. The slaves and serfs crowded
over each other to buy of him, and in ten
minutes he hadn't a bar left, when the
crowd reluctantly dispersed imbued with
the idea that somehow or other they had
thrown of the shackles and defied the plu-
tocrats. In the meantime the tramp got
drunk and was lodged in the cooler. There
is but one prayer in Kansas: May God
hasten the day when her people will grow
sane again.
1t sometimes seems as though the strong
est characteristic Of humanity is TO jump
upon = fellow man when he is down. a
few days ago Banker W. p. Pierce. of Sa-
lima, was forced to close his doors, though
his assets are ample and all of his depos-
itors Will be paid. II was known that Mrs.
Pierce had just started on a trip to Europe,
and the newspaper commenced at once to
scoUrge the heartless wretch who would
send his wife on such a voyage at the eX-
pense of swindled and suffering fellow citi-
Zens. II now transpires that the father Of
Mrs. Pierce paid all of her expenses, and
that the tender hearted husband urged her
TO go SO she might escape the humiliation
that he knew was impending.
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There ought to be a law to punish the OPP
orators of vitascopes who intrude on pri-
vacy TO secure scenes for their public ex-
hibitions. While Ed Little was in Washing
ton recently he attended a vitascope exhi-
bition. One of the scenes was a family
bathing party at Cape May. There were
father, mother and several grown and near
ly grown children, who were plunging one
after the other from a low springboard in
to the surf. Ed watched the father, mother
and several Of the children take the plunge,
and then he was knocked almost senseless
when the figure of a beautiful girl ap-
peared. She was well known to him as the
daughter of a cultured and wealthy New
Yorker. who has spent most of his life in
travel. He had formed her acquaintance
while upon an excursion up the Nile in
and it was under decidedly roman
tic circumstances, too. for he had plunged
the deck OF the steamer one day when |
the party were bathing just in time to res
cue her from n monster crocodile. Though
pressed most cordially to call upon the fam
lily in New York. he had lost their adj
dress. and after the show was out in Wash |
he went around TO the manager and /,
II the latter knew anything about
the people whom he had just been repre-
upon the canvas. The manager
aughed, which naturally made Mr.. Little 1
offended and angry.