Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-08-05

the rebels at once. In such an emergency
he could select no better commander for
the state forces than Bob SeInple. who re-
Gently advised the governor 10 whip the
whole United States rather than let the
United States courts interfere with Webb
McNaIl.
According to the Florence Bulletin there
is a pitiful object in the Chase county poor
house in the person of a simple fellow
known as John" His a~fiiction was brought
about through a sunstroke some FIVE or six
years ago. He is absolutely without Volt
ton. II given a job he will perform it thor
oughly and well. but will not know when
1t is completed. If he sat down TO a good
meal he would starve unless someone told
him to eat. On the other hand. he would
eat until he killed himself If not told 20
stop. The superintendent always has TO
start and stop him at the table. just as
though he were a piece of machinery. He
must be told everything and he will do
anything he IS told. Once started upon a
task. ne appears to bring 10 it an average
amount of intelligence.
$50
Sidney Hurd is the name Of a baggage
man who runs out of AtchisOn. In lSi5 he
was a member of an Arctic expedition in
search of Sir John Franklin. In 1866 he took
the FIRST carload of express through the
Kansas City bottoms. He has been I'm ad-
ventures of the most hair-raising descrip-
ton. He is a true and noble man. He has
never lectUred.
Monty Green is a 1i-year-oId Jewell coun-
ty boy who this season planted 100 acres Of
corn. and Is bringing it along TO a success
ful crop. The only assistance OF any sort
received by him was thirty-four days work
from another boy. Jewell county has pre-
scented many examples of what industry.
capacity and courage may accomplish on a
Kansas farm. Mrs. J.. X. Strand is a wild
ow who was left with mortgaged land and
a large family OF children at the death OF
her husband. Since then she has paid on
SEQ Of Indebtedness and increased the
farm 10 800 acres. Size has a herd of cat
tie. 200 pigs. lots Of wheat and corn in bins.
no debts. money in the bank and evidences
of prosperity on every side. She was saved
by her large family of children. She knew
how to keep them at work.
II might be supposed that the gamut of
accidents which may happen to a railroad
man had long since been run out. but it is
not so. Every day brings forth some new
peril to which he is liable. As a Missouri
Pacific freight train pulled out of lola the
other day Brakeman Brinkley mounted the
pilot of the engine to ride TO a siding five
miles out. where he would nave to turn a
switch. The train was running at full
speed when IT encountered a barbed wire
stretched across the track at such a height
hat it struck Mr.. Brinkley in the breast.
decorating his body and arms in a fright
full manner. 1t is supposed by the railroad
men that the wire was stretched by some
farmers who wished TO keep their cattle
from s~traying up the track, but it is scarce
ly necessary to say that such a supposition
must be predicated on the belief that the
farmers of Allen county are idiots.
.
II is said that the board of managers for
the Hutchinson r~eformatory does not APP
prove of the views of Teacher Hibbard,
who is delivering socialistic sermons to the
prisoners, but the members do not dare
say anything. They believe that Hibbard
stands in so solidly with Governor Leedy
that If they raised a row il would result in
Hibhard being permitted to select a new
board TO his liking. Here is one of the
things Hubbard said to the prisoners last
Sunday: Young men. il is through no fault
of yours that you are here and deprived of
your liberty. 1t is the fault of our ac-
cursed system of society,"" The Sunday
before he told the c~onvicts that 1t was not
only their right. but also their duty. to dis
obey some of the laws which the accursed
plUtocrats have fastened upon the coun-
try"
Infant prodigy item from the Florence
Bulletin: Charley Lobdell's daughter. who
is 10 or u years old, has been visiting her
grandparents, Rev. a Jones and wife.
in Marion. for some time. Rev. Jones is an
enthusiastic Populist 0f a man can become
enthusiastic in such a cause but he won't
argue politics with Tot, explaining to her,
Child. you do not understand these
things" The fact is. she understands too
well when in argument. But a man hates
to talk for a bad cause to a child. Tot is
as sharp as A tack. She knows all about
politics. Kansas affairs and Kansas public
men. We would be willing to match her I'm
a political debate against any Populist in
the county. with the possible exception of
Judge DOSter.