Kansas City journal., 1898-02-20
nevertheless unalterably of the opinion
that the Chinese must go.

nevertheless unalterably OF the opinion
that the Chinese must so.
Bent Murdock has found lot of Popu-
lists down in Butler county who believe
that Webb McNall should be nominated for
president. There have been many of them.
but this Is the toughest story ever started
on Butler county Populists.
A weather prophet out in Central Kan
sas having issued bulletin in which he
says the wheat crop will be a total failure.
the Abilene Reflector remarks that If the
wheat crop is as total a failure as it ex-
perienced In collecting an advertising bill
from the weather prophet the county is
indeed on the verge of starvation.
Zounds and hemlock, Here was a gov
ernor campaign proceeding along the most
rigid lines of patriotism when Wichita
traitor, supporter of w. E. Stanley,
breaks In with this incendiary Scotch verse:
In SO wha will we haze
For governor and a that?
On. Stanley. on! and clear the way
For honesty and a that.
For a that and a that.
Will yet arrive, for a that.
Where legislative boodlers find.
Dishonest graves and a that.
There can be no longer any doubt that the
congressional campaign is on in the First
district. Case Broderick and Charley Cur
tbs are engaged in deadly war over which
can send the most seeds to the local editors
from the Washington agricultural depart
ment. Broderick led off with a package to
each editor in which was contained paper
of cabbage seed. / paper of turnip seed, /
nj hpe Of oh,
seed. With low cry of rage Curtis then
shot his wad. 1t contained l paper of cab
bage seed. l paper Of onion seed. 2 papers
of radish seed, / paper of vegetable oyster
seed, papers of lettuce seed, l paper of
carrot seed and l paper of rutabaga seed.
In the fight for the nomination in the First
district it is woful to contemplate how
both Of these gentlemen have gone to seed.
n. B.-This is a joke intended to make the
other candidates subscribe.
In one of his poems Oliver Goldsmith
said that man might measure the depth
of the ocean. but he could never probe to
the bottom Of a woman's heart. And most
of us are willing to admit that Oliver was
right. though it is pretty hard to admit
that man who played a flute is right.
| The other day one Nit Franklin was placed
| in the reformatory at Hutchinson. He had
| of larceny. He is a young fellow. which
accounts for the fact that he was sent to
the reformatory instead of the penitentiary.
| The day before his arrest he had been
married to an Emporia girl. After he had
| been sent to the reformatory she went to
| Hutchinson and rented house as close to
| the reformatory walls as she could. She
| is living there now and working for a liv
| ing against the time when her husband will
be released. Isn't that woman all over
God bless her?
| If the Wichita Eagle isn't up against a
row with Major Henry Inman. this item
goes for nothing: THE death of Captain
Henry Booth, of Kansas. removed another
| famous Kansan who in the early days
| picked Indian arrows out of his hide, and
risked his life on the frontier that men like
| Buffalo Bill. who can't tell buffalo grass
when they see it. might go about the world
| making money as frontiersmen."
Speaking of thoroughbreds, the Wander
| bits and Gouds are not in it with Kan
| sas people. When the New York plutocrats
| give a party they offer as prizes to those
who will guess something or another d
| painted fan or silver-plated thing-a-ma-
jig. In Kansas the prizes are the real
thing. At Drury the other day Mrs. D. N
| Gilbert gave cobweb party at which each
| one was expected to take up a thread ir
a tangled skein and follow it to its end
| Those who successfully followed the thread
found at the end an envelope containing
s25 in silver certificates. If that isn't blood
ed. pray tell us what is?
A Montgomery county man prints notice
in a local paper in which he warns all per.
sens not to trust his wife on his account
as she has left him. To this the wife re-
spends in another paper to the effect tha
If she could have found anybody wh'
would have given him credit for grub fol
the family she would not have left him
Say, isn't it awful the way those womer
sometimes carry on?
Speaking OF the way some people carr,
on, it is simply indefensible that the towI
of lola should put on so many airs as sh'
has done since the discovery Of natura
gas down there. The Register exultantl!
declaims that on the first day the cit!
police appeared in uniform. promnen
citizen was taken down with appendicitis
|
Dean Greene says he has as yet no evi
dcnce Of the identity Of the law student VIII
broke into the printing office at the stat
university and stole the list of questions t
be asked at the examination on Thursda.
morning. The law class was to have beel
examined on that day, but during the pre-
ceding night someone. presumably stud
enl, broke into the printing office and pos
sessed himself of the list of the questions
The examination was indefinitely adjourn
: ed. Dean Greene is feeling pretty ba
about it.
]. P. Pomeroy, of Atchison. sank a 10
of money in investments in Western Kan
sas along the line of Western kansa
J railroad, particularly in Graham county
. Yesterday the Atchison Globe recounte
the fact that Mr.. Pomeroy was enjoying a
. income Of $4,000 a year from an interest 4
the Lilly mine at Cripple Creek. whic
had not cost him a cent, and that he wa
, going to Europe to spend the coming sum
| mer Pomeroy is bright business mar
and the fact that he lost on everything tina
, he entered deliberately and won on thin
which came to him accidentally is furthe
Testimony to the fact that the spirit O
mortal should never be proud.
, The NJ. f. Laymen's Movement.
, | From the indianapolis Journal.
The Methodist laymen seem to be gettin
, in their work quite effectually. The propc
| sition for equal representation which wa