The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-07-07

the campaign hat stood well to the
front as if he was distinguished per-
sonage.
Ladies and gentlemen shouted one
of the men on the platform, i wish to
introduce to you" He got no further.
There he is.'
That's him.
The crowd recognized the famous
Friends and fellow citizens said the
travelling man as he removed his hat,
grinned and leaned over the railing to
the platform. Il wish to say that the
ggreat estate of K a $ a s." Just
then the air brakes went off with
whistle and away started the train.
The crowd cheered and the imperson-
ator of Teddy waved his hat He kept
each station spoke as long as the train
stopped. Those who saw him and then
the original got their moneys worth
A certain city official can vouch for
this story.
Bob is white bull dog whose home
is on the west side. He looks very
much like an ordinary bull dog but
through his veins courses the blood of
highly pedigreed ancestors whose feet
trod the soil of old England In the
eyes of his master Bob is an arlstocrat,
and on that account is accorded rights
and privileges which would not be al
lowed an ordinary dog or one of low
degree. It may be that this treatment
for he seems thoroughly imbued with
the idea that everything, not only in
his masters home. but in the entire
neighborhood, is devised, planned, built
or manufactured for his special benefit
and amusement. The neighbors do not
love Bob with that unalterable never
changing love that rhymes with dove.
On the contrary, they have contracted
an adhesive dislike for his dogship
which his master can not comprehend.
Why anyone should feel hard towards
barked when William the Conqueror
came home late and disturbed the
household, or why they should mutter
strange words under the breath when
the brute with authenticated line
age crossed into their yards, seems to
be problem too deep for Bob's master
to solve.
But the neighbors know why. They
say that Bob is incorrigible and they
would have him called before the court
only they dislike to acquire the ennity
of his master-they consider the enmity
of the dog sufficient They tell strange
tale of Bob's appetite for lace curtains
and mattresses and carpets, not to
speak of the thousand and one miscel-
laneous household articles that are
thoughtlessly left out of doors to the
great delight of Bob, and the lasting
sorrow of the neighbor. He viii pounce
upon anything that is not nailed down
and tear it to pieces growing furiouSly
at his imaginary rival. for he seems to
consider the inanimate object a rival
whose interior works he is diSSecting-
His favorite paStime, one in which he
takes supreme delight, is the destruc-
ton of the daily papers, and this par
ticular weakness on his part has caused
even. the meekest to anathematize his
blue blooded race. If the owner of the
property Bob has appropriated APP
proaches he will pause, wrinkle up his
nose and say in easily translated dog
language, Don't come any nearer"
and unless he is armed with club and
a strong determination to retake his
property the neighbor takes him at his
word a IL allows the dog to have his
day. Sticks, clubs and stones have few
terrors for Bob-he can dodge like
mud hen.
Bob had been doing as he pleased
until last week one of the neighbors
decided that the dog had lived his al
loted time on this earth and came to
the conclusion that he would procure
for Bob a passage to the dog hereafter
over the strychnine and arsenic route.
Accordingly he put out choice pieces of
meat, such as a dog epicure might
fancy, each piece being Favored with
neighborhood was Uttered with the
stiffening remains of household pets.
There was an increase in the dog and
cat death rate that, had it occurred
among human beings, would have frac-
tured the financial backbone of several
insurance companies and made assess
ments in mutual benefit associations as
thick as applications for divorce in the
district court But Bobbie lived through
it all--it never touched him. The neigh
Dor who had planned Bob's demise says
the plan failed because Bob was fed at
home at table with his master and that
he would not eat except from a china
plate set on a white napkin He is sorry
for the innocent dogs who were called
from their haunts and homes. so I'M
expectedly and he mourns for the cats
which did not have the discrimination
to distinguish between prepared ami
hilation and cat meat, but he says his
efforts We're made entirely for the good
of the neighborhood and that the chill