Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-23

colds at the state house. Il suspicion the
,Hehlpers stay up too late at nights" sale
ne. MY observation is that members OF
the legislature come to Topeka and attempt
u pe sporty and get the hot end of it,
"Ss
The Pops of Kansas are all talking abou,
scientific money" but when the bandages
are removed the same old greenback sore
of 1872 is revealed.
Judge Doster scored again yesterday by
having his law partner, II. a. Mclean. an
p0iA'eu assistant supreme court reporter
1t cannot be said that the Pops have no
appreciation of literary talent, for they
nave retained Poet and Essayist Dewey to
INDEX the supreme court reports.
S. H. Snyder ought to be able to appre-
clate The feelings of the coryphee who
lnds herself too close to the footIights
when the curtain rings down.
what funny thing it is to find Anarch-
| lsI clemens, who avows the right of man
10 break every law. so closely connected
with the chief law court OF the state.
| senator Reaser has introduced a bill
Which permits women to vote on all ques-
tons involving the issuance of bonds In
|
ehise a Juster measure would be to restrict
| the right TO vote on such questions to act
| ual taxpayers, men and women,
When Jerry Simpson was introduced to
the single tax meeting in Topeka the 9TH
CT oay as Americas and Kansas great
est statesman" a lot of the Seventh dis
lrict members of the legislature were OBJ
served to cast furtive gIances at each
OIler, after the nP
corpse when the preacher is depicting his
Christian virtues.
senator Lucien Baker is a pretty good
lawyer and a fair sort of statesman. but
ne hasn't lick of horse sense. A few
months ago he sold a colt to o. NJ. Spen-
Ger, of kickapoo, for 500, and the same
animal, under the name of Captain Hanks.
has Just been sold to a New York man
for 5000.
Lutte Todd, an Atchison boy who is at
tending a medical college in New York
city is IN an alarming condition as the re-
SUIT Oh biood poisoning. He scratched a |
plmple on his face just after coming out of |
the dissecting room, where he had been |
cutting up a cadaver, and his sickness is |
the result.
Ex-State Auditor Cole is progressing fine
~ at the Santa Fe hospital in Topeka,
where MS hip was operated upon the other
uay. Inc surgeons carved and scraped and
chiseled for about two hours upon the dis
eased bones and they believe it will result
IN a perfect cure. Mr.. Cole Is cheerful and
comparatively free from pain, but callers
are not yet permitted to see him.
Mrs. Elizabeth Marzolf was the name of
an Old French lady who died at Cawker
CITY one day this week. She was 81 years
OLD, having been born on April %, 1903 the
day the Louisiana purchase was formaIlv
ratihed by Napoleon. She was the mother
oh nine children, the grandmother of twen-
ty-slx and the great-grandmother of fifty-
nine.
Charley Martin, not so long ago reading
,lerk or the house of congress- and during
ihe last administration a clerk in the sec ,
e'ary OIL states Office, has struck a singu-
ar sort of job at the Kansas capital. We ,
10 not know what.it could be called unless
parliamentary prompter' would fill the
,liI. He stands close behind the speaker in
ne mouse and prefnpts him as to the rul- ,
ngs he shall make. Speaker Street gets
liong very well by himself, but Speaker
>ro lem Weilep is self-confessedly ignor- !
mt Oh parliamentary law and refers almost
Verything to his coacber in the rear The
|
-esterday for example, a Western Kansas g
MEMBER rose with motion of some sort,
ihen Prompter Martin whispered rule a
i'm out of ORDER t
''Vd rule you oudt of order,, shouted t
peaker Weilep in the broad Dutch accent j.
'hich marks his attempts at English L
peaking. Fl
II demand to know why I am out of or n
err" shouted the member in somewhat p
eligerent manner n
Wy is he oudt of order?" inquired the 81
1eaker in stage whisper to Mr. Martin. il
Don't explain anything" responded t.
lartin. Just rule him out on general fe
rinciples and he will sit down." e,
We don't explain, nothingsr' shouted the 81
'eaker, as he hit the desk a resounding re
ow with his gavel. I've youst rule you ri
idt on sheneral principles and you will r,
t down. ~ -.
Sol Miller tells a story about a Hiawatha 10
an who had one leg about a foot longer Ut
an the other He went into a Kansas tr
ty beer hall one day and called for a Is
ass of beer, at this time standing on his al
ort leg with his face about even with Sc
@ top of the bar. The barkeeper turned Nj
vay to draw the beer, but when he came gr
serve 1t to his customer the latter was M
lnding on his long leg and his hat Just br
out reached the chandelier. The bar tn
eper looked at him n minute and then sp
i'd: What has become of that - little
= who was just in here and ordered tn
CT as
Rev. Pardue is the name of n brave " W
ung fanatic who is serving as pastor of ''''
3 Methodist church at Scranton He
es down into the mines to pray with the
ners and comes to the surface all oozy :
In mud and slime, but radiant with the
1sciousness of deade p.ou dora ne ~. ing
has been cord,,.+ino n Gaht - - to
ntkeepers, and last Sunday he created W
at excitement by assailing the mem- 80
s of his own church for their apparent 80 80
bod Ioa,, ~. - ,',I,1, nc s"o hur
fight ne would lose his job as preacher, co,,
- tha aaS,;I - .HLt ne Iiileiuea 10 bar
lrch or out. lie will have to go, just tea,
same. a preacher may fight the devil nor
he pleases on the outside, but when he Esl;,
1mences on the sinfulness within his was
n congregation he is doomed man. SON
nan
he appointment of a brother of General and
le5 b. Weaver, of Iowa, to be a police clas
missioner at Atchison recalls the crazy enc,
eme the Populists of the Sixth congress Gre
lal district had few years ago to i'm inte
t General Weaver and run him for con- it.
S.. The proposition was seriously made Hip
aim a few months before election. but ed &
declined. ne
- Her
Teryone will remember how the French of
'nalists translated Mark Twain's Jump from
frog story and what an awful mess kan