Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-31

Governor Leedy neglected to state the
nature of the crime of which that doge
stood accused. but we have inside informa-
| ton that it was the appointment of a DO
ice commission in Venice who would not
| enforce the law.
Judge Botkin's bill. which provides for
the admission of the testimony of both hus-
band and wife in divorce cases. appears to
be somewhat paradoxical in view of its
further provision that neither of them is In
be believed unless the facts they testify to
nave been proven by outside witnesses.
One of the Abilene papers heads its ac.
count of the capture of McNaspy. the Her
| ington defaulter. with "A Woman at the
Bottom of It." Women appear to be at the
| bottom of nearly all of the troubles of man
IN this sad world-as, for example, that
| other Dickinson county man who last week
became the parent of triplets.
| In the eyes of n Kansas farmers wife n
| cabinet organ performs the same fashion,
| able mission which red lamp shade does
| in the parlor of her city sister. The first
duty which falls upon n farmer who has
prospered In the slightest degree is to buy
a cabinet organ for his wife and daugh-
ters. He is forced into it with the same
desperate disregard for expenses which
marks the city man whose family is out for
social conquest, and many n poor Kansas
farmer can trace his downfall to that pe-
riod when his women goaded him into the
extravaganza of a cabinet organ. These
few staccato thoughts were suggested by a
deal which was made at Abilene the other
day, by which an organ agent possessed
himself of one bull, two cows, two pigs
eighteen hens and a greyhound pup in re-
turn for cabinet organ which he placed
In the house of a nearby farmer
Yesterday" says the Atchison Globe
Governor Leedy made addresses of well
come to the Society for the Prevention of
Robbing Horses, the Stepdaughters of
Esther Association, the Amalgamated Pie
Eaters convention. and the Young Moth
ers Society. In addition. he attended the
meetings of the Legislature and was waited
up by fifty officeseekers. The people are
protesting about working Il willing horse
TO death. This is all work that Ed Little
should do, and he could do it in a haprier
way than Mr.. Leedy. Mr.. Lectiy doesn't
need secretary, but he does need an elo-
cutionist. and that is Mr.. Little's particu-
lar genius
Some supposedly modest and sensitive
women at Topeka are Just now engaged in
a singular sort of crusade. They are per-
sonally soliciting the members of the legis-
lature to vote for the bill introduced by
JhuSc bolkln. Wnlcn proposes TO infliCt a
horrible punishment upon a class of crime
which can hardly be discussed in polite So
ciety. 1t is an indelicate thing for woman
to step up to strange man and argue
with him the pros and cons of such a bill
and when the total uselessness of it is re- |
membered, there is precious little excuse
for her Any lawyer might inform these
oVer-zealous Topeka women that the Bot |
kin bill can be nothing more than an ill |
considered joke, for the constitution for |
bids the execution of all cruel and unusual !
punishments.
Among the Kansas men who have gone |
abroad and made an eminent success of |
their mission is Professor Shelton, who for |
a number of years was an Instructor in the |
agricultural college at Manhattan. Some
hve years ago the British government CON-
ciuded to introduce the American system
OF agriculture into Australia, as the cli
matte conditions there were very similar
TO those in this country. Professor Shelton
was chosen as the man 20 accomplish this
and four years ago he went away to Aus
tralia under a three-year contract which |
assured him $50 year and guinea a |
day for every day spent in the field. At |
the end OF this term he was re-employed
at an increased salary for another three
years. Shelton was a hustler and his work
was eninently successful. He taught those
Britishers some things about agriculture of
which they had never dreamed and gradu-
any ihsinuated himself into the confidence