Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-28
KANSAS TOPICS.

KANSAS TOPICS.
1t is evident that brides read no sgnifi-
canoe in name or Mr. Caress and Mr..
Slugger, of Reno county, could not each
have obtained one with what appears to
be an equal degree of facility.
Miss Ruby Fullerton, of Atchison, gave
what she called a horror party the other
night at which each little guest was eX-
pected to display that of which she had the
greatest horror. Three took castor OIL
three took mice, and others took gram
mar, Il spider, etc. One brought along a
boy, but that was a white lie.
Nobody seems to have heard from Mr..
Bryan as to his feelings over the con-
temptuous manner in which the Kansas
legislature treated his recommendations in
the case of Mr.. Atwood. of Leavenworth.
If the Pops We're really desirous of aboI-
ishing some of the useless offices in Kan
sas, they would commence with coal oil
inspector. 1t Is notorious that coal oil
is not inspected and it is doubtful if pint
of it was ever rejected 10y any Kansas in
spector.
Editor Mcdonald, OF the oxford Register
says that he knows a man who cured him
self when nearly dead with consumption
by eating dog outlets and dog soup. In
after years he preferred dog meat to beef
and was locally known as "Dog-eating
Smith" Mr.. Mcdonald adds that many
people hold the belief that dog meat is
cure for consumption.
An odd case is reported from Ottawa
where one Mr.. Bixler Vermillion was fined
$l3 for throwing beans in Salvation Army
meeting. Vermillion had no money with
which to pay the fine, but he produced
man who owed him and who was willing
to go to the rock pile in his place and work
out the fine. After considerable delibera-
tion the police judge decided that such a
procedure would hardly be consistent with
the spirit of the law and so rejected the
proposition.
After a systematic and critical recon-
noisance of the general situation, Bent
Murdoch inflated his lungs with Butler
county ozone last week and sent the fol-
lowing ultimatum bounding across the flint
hills like a roebuck pursued by his African
bamboo hunter:
Slide. Cleveland slide
Mckinley's at the bat;
Down went old PETER
Where is Weyler at?
Bill White is disposed to take despond-
ent as well poeticaI view of the situa-
ton. He speaks of "the long. weary
watches of the Populst night which is set
tlihg down over Kansas as though he an
pretended bogus reform would remain in
the saddle for two centuries instead of two
years.
TDn
miserable impostor who has been selling
salve about town which he guarantees
to remove warts. Everybody knows that
the only way to kill wart is to rub it
with piece of raw potato which has
hrst been buried by a cross-eyed negro in
the northwest corner of the graveyard at
the dark Of the moon. Salve, indeed!
The Holiness Association, which met at
Topeka the other day. resolved that each
member should spend one hour day pray
Ing that the constitutional convention may
be defeated in the Kansas legislature Aft
er the measure has been defeated it will be
Just like these selfish people to claim all
the credit to the exclusion of lot of toll
erably sinful citizens who couldn't tell a
prayer If they saw it coming down the
road, but who are working tooth and toe
lr receiving and accepting an invitation
to take free ride to Port Arthur, Tex,
at the date of its next annual meeting .he
Kansas Editorial Association is renewing
the halcyon days of its earlier organiza-
uon. Along in the seventies and UP to per-
haps eighty the association was the great
est junketing combination this earth has
possibly ever known. Kansas was invit-
INN nicrr.o fnr1 fI,n,,
were more than willing to furnish trans
portation to her editors anywhere, for they
hocmed the state and induced a vast
amount of westward travel. We are not
quite sure as to the following dates, but
they are very nearly accurate. In 1876 an
excursion was had over the Santa Fe out
to Colorado, the return trip being made
via the Kansas Pacific. In Colorado the
editors were taken to the outermost points
reached by rail and everywhere they were
entertained in royal style. In 1877 Gal
weston, Tex, was the terminus of 4 South
ern excursion. In 1883 n week was spent
at Put-in-Bay, o., and then the party
proceeded on to Niagara Falls and across
Lake Ontario by steamer to Toronto.
where they were shown all manner of
hoSpitalities by the Canadians. While in
the latter city an invitation was extended
to proceed on to Quebec and even across
the ocean to England. but the diminished
funds of the editors forced them to de-
cline. In 1889 the editors went to Chicago
by rail and then by steamboat, via Mil
waukee. to MaCinac Island. where a weeks
fishing was enjoyed. Returning, St Louis
was visited and Il special steamboat con-
veyed the party from that city up the
Mississippi to Hannibal. John A. Martin
was president of the association in that
year and more than one short grass
editor was forced to borrow money from
hin? to meet the little incidentals of a trip
which had been drawn out beyond all ex-
peCtation. In 1880 an excursion was made
over all the roads In Kansas during which
each of the state institutions was visited,
and with this year the association prac-
tically disbanded, either for social or 9TH
&c purposes. In 1893 the organization was
revived in consideration of the prospect
of a ride to the worlds fair, which was
ccnsummated. Since then the annual meet
ings have been regularly held. but with no
excursion feature. 1t is certain that next
years meeting at Kansas City will be the
largest of the reorganization and that
three or four hundred of the editors will
participate in the Texas excursion.
The first locality in which the peach
buds were killed this winter was in the Of
flee of the Dodge City Globe.
It must be humiliatingly confessed shat
4 bs Of Va nm bf.