Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-14

| tNit ''te iisntS OF the user commenced
10 De paramount to the rights of the own
e. in the Kansas supreme court instaIIa-
ton the other day.
In his lecture at Topeka on Tuesday
night Rev. John E. Roberts, of Kansas
| CITY, told story which brought down the
house He said that as a Sunday school
teacher he once gave every boy in his
class dollar and told him to see what he
could do with it in a business way during
the week The next Sunday he asked for
reports from the class. and the first bow
on his feet was Johnny Jones.
| We'll" encouragingly inquired the teach
er. what became of your dollar; did yol
lose it?"
| Nope" was the sententious response;
made anothe. dollar with it,
| Made another dollar with it-' eiaculat-
ed the teacher; well, that is indeed re-
marHable And now, boys. let this be an
ever remembered lesson TO YOU See what
true industry and determination can do,
! good business man is almost certain to
De good Christian" With this fiattering
| tribute to Johnny's capacity the teacher
| proceeded to the next boy in the line, with
the inquiry, What did you do with your
dollar?"
Lost it, replied the boy as he swung
his heels against the footrest and carried
an air which seemed to indicate that the
proceedings were not overly interesting to
| him.
Lost it? Well how did that happen?"
! inquired the teacher as he scented an op-
| portunity for another moral lesson.
Matched with Johnny Jones and he
won't
!
Ex-Governor Morrill, is probably the only
man in Kansas who is in possession of the
winding sheet which will be used at his
| own burial. 1t Is a large American flag
| and visitors to the state house may have
seen it standing In one corner of the gov
| errors private office. 1t was presented 10
| him by fifteen old soldiers from the Leav-
| enworth home about a year ago. 1t will
| be remembered that Governor Morrill,
! was instrumental in establishing the kee-
! ley cure at the home, and when the spokes-
man of the delegation presented the flag
| he said:
I'VE are fifteen old buns who have been
| reclaimed from drunkenness through your
kindness and liberality toward us. In re-
| sponse to the prompting of grateful hearts
We present you this flag which we fought
to preserve as a token of our remembrance
| of your efforts in behalf of fallen hui
| manity.''
The governor was greatly moved oy the
presentation and his voice was full os
| emotion when he delivered n response.
| Later he had the delegation dine with him
| and spent the day in entertaining them.
To a newspaper man he said recently:
Il prize this old flag, presented to me
| as it was by men whom I, in a measure,
| assisted from the gutter to mans right
| full estate, more highly than all the Of
! fcial honors that have been bestowed
| upon me. and after my lifes labors are
| finished I want to be buried with this
| emblem about my body"
The third party prohibitionists who
| worked so valiantly for the election of
| Governor Leedy may search his message
| from end 10 end without finding word
! on prohibition. Leedy is against prohi-
bition and nothing but fear of the political
| consequences prevented him from denounc-
| ing it in his first official document.
When the report reached Ike Lambert
that w. F. Guthrie. of Atchison. had gone
East to look after his chances for United
water gauge. afrbrake and sand box en-
his own boom and then pulled the throt-
tie little wider open.
Colonel L. C. Weldy, editor of the Galena
Republican, declares that he has never
solicited an advertisement or subscriber
| during the sixteen years he has been at
the head of that paper
Peter Chevalier is the name of a French
man who settled in Usage county in 1854,
but who never declared his intention to be-
come 4 citizen OF the United States until
last week.
II. F. Sheldon. the Populist senator from
Franklin county. has returned all of the
railroad passes sent him with polite note
stating that their acceptance is against
his principles
The marriage at Enid OF Mr.. Dollar and
Miss Nickel has escaped the testers of
Kansas or something would most certain
,y have been said about the unconstitu-
tionality of trying to make nickel pass
for dollar
In sending out annual passes to the legis-
lators, the Missouri Pacific folks accom-
panied each with smooth little letter in
which 1t was stated that the company did
not regard that the slightest obligation was
imposeT -lpon the acceptnr Of the favor