Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-26
KANSAS TOPICS.
Mr.. Gauze. of Garden City, must find it
mighty thin these cold mornings.

hANSaS IOPICS.
Mr.. Gauze. of Garden City, must find it
mighty thin these cold mornings
Speaker Pro Tenn Weilep is smarter than
he looks. Some one asked him the other
day how he liked McKinley's secretary of
state and he responded: oh We Scher-
mans must stand togedder.''
Lawrence is the only Kansas town which
has mixed in the Cuban war in a practical
way. Weylcr has some of his barb wire in
his trocha, though it goes without saying
that Lawrence would rather see it in his
trachea.
Then there is another patriot who failed
to land-Colonel w. F. Federman, who. as
secretary of the state silver committee
made more noise than either Turner or Nc
Nall. Federman will be back in the Re-
publican party very shortly now.
Pap Mead declares. as he looks over the
stampede to the pie counter, that even
Wells-Fargo could not express his feelings
Ed Hoch is of the opinion that for a
young man, Attorney General Boyle has
made an excellent start. He reversed the
supreme court in the state printer matter
before he had been in office four days
The Saturday night poet of the Abilene
Chronicle has discovered that about the
only words which will rhyme with Leedy
are needy. seedy and greedy.
The Popuist idea of fair distribution of
offices is remarkable, to say the least The
three new railroad commissioners are To-
Gated right along in a row in Southern
Kansas, two of them being in one congress
sional district.
The Atchison Globe thinks Senator Pef-
rapher's with u scythe in one hand and an
hour glass in the other, for the purpose of
decorating New Years cards.
George Martin and other members OF the
Kansas red-headed fraternity ought to
take considerable qualification out of the
declaration by Rev. Dr. Mitchell that no
red-headed person was ever seen in an idiot
asylum.
]. T, Headley, the noted author who died
in New York recently, was great-uncle to
Lew Headley, editor of the Gaylord Her.
aid.
Julian Moquet and Zelia Allard were
married at Girard last Friday. The groom
is 80 and the bride is II.
Speaking of works of supererogation, an
example may be found in that Abilene
parson who discoursed from the test. How
to find the places" The people of Abilene
already know how to find the places and
the visitor can always get himself steered
by the hotel porter.
Several of the Kansas legislators have
made loud talk about refusing passes and
paying their own way on the railroad but
none of them has displayed the good faith
of Representative May, of Oklahoma, who
proceeded to the capital in a covered wag-
on with his camp outfit tied on behind.
William Jenkins. who is a candidate for
governor of Oklahoma, is said to be smil-
ing and happy over a letter which he re-
Gently received from Major Mckinley. 1t
will be remembered that Jenkins is the
man who, as Kansas delegate to the
national convention eight years ago voted
on every ballot for the nomination of Nc
Kinley for president
Mckinley has been heralded as the adj
vance agent of prosperity in every direc-
tion, but it remained for the little 4-year-
old daughter of the editor of the Pleas
anton Observer to find an entirely new and
original instance The other day the editor
was hurriedly summoned home through a
cause not entirely unexpected to him. when
he was met at the gate by hislittle daughter,
who shouted with enthusiasm: "Hurrah
for Mckinley and Hobart! We've got a lit
tie brother"
As an illustration of how Kansas-West-
ern Kansas-has been oppressed by the
Eastern money lender, it is related that
the late Charles P. Woodbury., who recent |
ly died at Hartford, Conn. at one time |
$4,000 from his Eastern friends |
and loaned it TO the people of Clark coun- |
ty. He had lived for a time at Ashland |
and thus became interested in their well !
fare. OF this sum he received in return n |
trife less than $4,000, and in many in |
stances not even the first interest payment |
was met by the borrowers. Woodbury. paid |
as much of the debt as he could, and the |
Fasteners lost the rest.
Rev. Hartman is the name of a Methodist |
minister in Marion county who is advance
ng theory in theology which will get him |
INTO trouble If he don't watch out. He de-
,lares that it is preposterous to believe
that there is a heaven and a hell into one
Of which every person will be consigned or
admitted as soon as he dies. II that was |
so there would be no reason for the great
Judgment day Of which the Bible speaks.
1t is folly" says Rev. Hartman, ito sup
pose that a soul which has been in hell
thousand years will be brought forth for
Judgment. to ascertain whether 1t belonged
here or in heaven" He thinks that both
lell and heaven will be created after the
Judgment day. In the meantime all souls
will repose in place which he designates
IS 'hades." After judgment has been |