Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-03-21
KANSAS TOPICS.

The dull inanity. the total disregard for
popular esteem. the high contempt for ira
ditions. which may sometimes seize a COM
munity. is thus brazenly set forth by the
lola Register: There hasn't been a game
Of horseshoes pitched in lola for more than
three years."
Frank Greenman and Alice May Williams
stood on the line between Kansas and
Oklahoma in a bowling wind the other day
and were married. If they hoped in this
manner to invite the united blessings OF
the two commonwealth, well and good.
but IL perchance they should get instead
the united troubles. may the Lord help
them.
There are four bankers in our city"
says the St. Mary's Journal, land each
of the bankers wives does her own house.
work" This undoubtedly was intended as
do their own Homework. but really 1t
forms a solemn warning to girls who think
of marrying bankers.
Miss Jean Crichton. bookkeeper in a
NNiCNlld SlOTGs IeCeully WOu tuc HE liz
for securing the greatest number Of SUBJ
scribers for an Eastern journal. She was
given the choice between an extended trip
to Europe and a deed to a fruit farm in
California. Before proceeding to the next
paragraph you lady-or-the-tiger people
might try your hand at a guess.
AS a matter Of fact Miss Crichton chose
the trip to Europe. And. without seeing
the fruit farm in California. who can find
1t in his heart to blame her? II there is
anything in the world which sounds fine
and seductive it is talk about a fruit farm
in California. But If there is anything
more deceptive it is not known to the thou
| sands of Kansas people who have been
| allured to the Pacific coast. only 20 come
back Door and crestfallen.
However. there is still another view of
this case. If this Wichita girl is matri-
monially inclined she could have no surer,
swifter arrow In her culver than the rep
utation of being n landed proprietor.
Whereas in less favored communities an
heiress is measured by the bonds her father
NoLh SAibs Ak ohIo k"S vi NhS
is of the earth earthly. In fact these glo-
rious years of Mckinley prosperity the
Kansas nan thinks of his wealth by the
acre. and the truly af1uent are those who
talk in manifestations.
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Observe here the manner in which Colo
mel Adrian Reynolds stands by home talent:
W. are in receipt of a letter from some
fellow in New York who wants to take
down sermons of New York preachers and
send EN- to US to print for a dollar
apiece. We wouldn't print 'em If they
came for nothing a dozen; and further
more. If Sedan didn't rave better preachers
that New York we'd quit going to church,
In proof of how strongly the mind OF
the Kansas man runs to agriculture we
give herewith an extract from a letter
written by a Neosho county boy a. Manila
General Otis asked one of our majors re.
Gently what business he would go into here
provided he was out of the army. He sait
he would either rent or buy a piece Of lane
adjoining Manila, collect a lot of this onior
seed that is being distributed by Uncle San
iiloi thC hatAsSs Ph"A " oooo
patch, say four or five acres. hire a few
natives to tend it for a song. and then 81
down in the shade and watch them grow
living in the meantime on rice and bananas
and after the crop was matured. sell then
right here in Manila for enough money t.
live comfortably in the States the res
of his life. They are worth s. a bushel. $
you see the major was not contemplating
an impossibility."
One of the Kansas colored boys with TIL
Twenty-third regiment in Cuba did no
come back with his fellows. His nam
Is John Allison. and an account of hi
troubles is given thus by the Fort Scot
- Monitor: ALLISON was tried before a court
martial. dishonorably discharged withou
pay and sentenced to serve four years i
. a military prison at Santiago. but after
wards the sentence was committed to tw
years. A~llison's wounds lave healed an
he has recovered. Mr.. Bright tells of All
X sons trouble. He and a number of other
S went to Santiago on a short furlcush. All
son entered a jewelry store and priced
diamond ring, but walked out with 1t will
.. out 1urtaer ceremony anu ran uoWH u
street. A Cuban policeman. attracted b
the fellows flight. opened on him and She
1 him four times. in the leg. hip, body al
,s neck. He was in a dangerous conditio
,e for some time. but has completely reco'
cred. The fleeing man. knowing that /
was caught, threw the ring away. whic
m was never recovered. Mr.. Bright. whit
n asked whether a Cuban policeman cou
IT shoot straight. replied that they new,
miss. 1t is understood that before leavir
Cuban soil the home company took up
collection and presented the u%nfortuna
a. soldier with $50"
The ST. Louis Globe-Demccrat has bel
gathering statistics 10 show what Mcki
Is ley prosperity has done for the Midd
West. II has reports from fifty-four tow
in Illinois. Missouri. Arkansas, Kansas al
Texas showing the new industries IN
r have been established since the inausur
or ton of William Mckinley as president, t
~ gether with the number OF hands they CT
pioy and the amount OF money paid o
Leach year in wages. The total for the
ne ffty-four towns land they do not inclu
or the big cities like Chicago. st. Louis. IA
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