Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-07

the hip and he suffers but little incon-
venience in getting about on an arti-
fetal one.
The doctor attending upon Congressman
elect Callahan, of Oklahoma. reports that
his malarial fever is entirely broken but
| offers no basis for the hope that his free
silver tremens are subsiding.
Mrs. Dundon, the woman who shot and
nearly killed her doctor at Kirwin. persists
in the statement that the court would
eXonerate her if she told the real cause of
| the shooting. The woman may believe her
silence is leaving a great deal to the
imagination, but it isn't.
The good people of Paola are talking over
a curious coincidence which lately came
their way. The brass band of the town has
one tune which in certain portion reaches
an unusually high key. On the day last
summer when an aeronaut fell from his
balloon at the county fair and was killed
in such Il shocking manner the band was
playing this tune and had reached the high
key just as he lost his hold. On Christmas
| eve tine band was playing this same tune
| at the celebration in one of the churches
| 1t was arranged that Santa Claus should
| come down through a skylight in the roof.
He had proceeded down the rope but
short ways when the band reached the high
| key in its piece and instantly he lost his
| hold and fell to the floor, receiving injuries
which are serious. To make the coinci-
dence more remarkable it is related that
| the piece had not been played since the
| accident at the fair grounds.
In the January Century General Horace
! Porter relates that General Grant was alb
| solutely devoid of an ear for music. He
| quotes the general as saying: Il know only
| two tunes; one is Yankee Doodle and the
| other isn't" 1t is a frequent remark
among people who have no musical taste
| that they cannot tell one tune from anoth-
| er, but the only man Topics ever knew
| who was absolutely without the sense of
| harmony is eX-Representative Martin AL
| len, of Ellis county. Not only can he not
| distinguish one tune from another. but he
| is totally unable to separate discord from
| harmony. and to him the playing of Sou
| sas band would appear no different from
| the indiscriminate pounding of hundred
| hammers on steam boiler. He has a nice
eye for art and can assimilate the subtle
| essence of poetry but his musical sense is
| as empty and hollow as those state irri-
| cation ponds which are scattered about his
| home in Western Kansas.
Little Bessie Spicer, of lola. was partic-
| pant in an experience on Christmas eve
which probably never before fell to the lot
Oh any CHllu III AIUeTlCd. AT HeT IlIlSllIldS
celebration were present her four great
grandparents and also her four grand
| parents. Three of the great-grandparents
! were more than so years of age and one
was only few months short of it.
| Charley Scott raises an exceedingly per-
| tinent point in his lola Register. 1t will be
| remembered that the Populists in 1893 in
| augurated lot of fake contests against
cl.
| then asserted the right of the contestors
| to participate in the organization of the
| house. At the time Leedy, Doster, ASSoc-
| ate Justice Allen, and, indeed. all of the
| Populists, went on record in favor of such
a procedure, and the point Mr.. Scott raises
is that the Republicans ought now to insti-
tute a lot of contests and give the Pops
| taste of their own medicine.
|
Betrayed by Woman" is the heading
| to an article in Il Topeka paper which re-
| counts a remarkable story. In 1892 one
| Green Nichols was sent from Leavenworth
| to the penitentiary for twenty-one years,
| after conviction on the charge of murder.
| In 1894 he escaped and ever since has been
| living without concealment either in, or
| very near, Topeka. For Il long time he
| worked on the streets of Topeka, and he
relates that more than once he stood face
| to face with the warden of the penitentiary
| when the latter came TO the city upon Of
| fetal business. But he was never recog-
nized and might still be at liberty but for
| the fact that he was last week betrayed by
| a woman. The officers refuse to tell who
| the woman is or what wrong Nichols had
! done her TO call down her vengeance but
it is probable that without missing the
| mark any perceptible distance the reporter
| might have added to the heading of his
| story: Hell hath no fury like a woman
| scorned.'
I'VE notice an item going the rounds of
| the press says the lola Register. Ito the
| effect that our good Populist friend, w. L.
| Brown, secretary of the late senate, has
| recently sold bunch of steers for $36 a
| head which he bought last March for $11 n
| head. That is all right as a stand up for
| Kansas item. But how is it from the stand
point of exorbitant and outrageous prof
| its? Mr.. Brown admits that the keep of
| the steers was practically nothing. and yet
| he boasts of his profit of nearly 800 per
| cent. How do those profits compare with
| the profits of the hired man who took care
| of the cattle while Brother Brown saved the
| country with his mouth and his lead pen
| ell? And did Mr.. Brown dvy' any? If it
| is all right for Populist to clear 800 per
| cent profit in six months little cattle
| trade in which there was practically no
risk. how much profit should great rail-
| road corporation be allowed to earn? And
! If the railroads are getting rich SO fast that
| the state will have to pass 81 law to get
| hold of some of their money. what is the
| matter with setting the state onto Mr..