The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-07-25
STRANGE THINGS STILL
HAPPENING.
Must Eat the Kings Meat or
You Can't Live. The Old
Soldier Returns After
Vacation.
Jefferson City, Mo. e,

July 22nd, 1902.
"4ou can't tell what is goin to
happen these days" said the ola
soldier 81 used to think | wuz
some kind NV a prophet, but | don't
claim to be now cause just when
you think you have read the
wrltin' on the wall and understand
it, you find that things turn out
jest opposite to what you thought
they would. I don't spose I'm the
only one who thinks this way
either. | guess Judge Sherwood
Will bear me out since The Spring
field convention, you see | wuz at
that convention and in fact | have
tended all the conventions, that's
the reason that | haven't been
round fur sometime.
didn't have nuthin to say, but
wuz jest listenln' and they say
that | am always butt'n in where
| amt wanted, but | don't care for
that so | always gir next to "what
is dOin." | could tell that Sher.
woods chances wuz not very good
before ~ left here, but didn't
say nuthin" bout it. But that
State house mig went there to give
the Judge a back seat and gave it
to him, too. You see Sherwood
hasn't been obeyin orders very
we'll and that means they have to
go; the fact NV the matter is its a
case NV, elf you don't eat the
Kings meat you can't live" Its
jest like it is at Lincoln Institute
1t amt the question NV ability but
Nv obedience. You know that
whole board said that Clarke sent
IN the best report that had ever
been presented to them and that he
wuz jest the man fur the place,
but when he begin to talk about
putin good teacher at the head
NV them shops instead Nv black.
smith they soon told him to walk
the plank. And he had to walk,
and things is goin to remain that
way till they git that new Board,
and I'm mos certin that we will
git it, too.
You see Dockery and Stevens
amt speakin now jest about some
pintments Steven wanted to ma Ike
and Dockery amt libel to pint
any one back in office that Stevens
put in an the members of the Board
whose time is out next are Stevens
men and don't like Dockery,
cause they know he won't pint
'em back on that Board. You see
Dockery liked Clarke and when he
wuz maxim his talk to the BOYS
before given them their sheep
skins he said he wanted to build
up that school and wuz willin to
do any thing to build it up and
one Of the Stevens Board members I
wuz fillin one of the boxes at the
end OF the stage and when Dockery {
said that he had to go out of the {
hall, cause he wanted TO git I
drink and it "wuz so warm in
there any way" When Dockery i
heard that Clarke had been let out S
he called up one of the Stevens '
men on the Board over the i
telephone, asked him why he I
voted to put Clarke out and he t
said cause he wanted to, and t
asked if that wasn't reason en'uf. G
Dockery hung up the telephone C
receiver and looked out the win
dow in direction of the bridge and l
course | told you what
that means and there's somethin' |
else too bout things out on that
hill but I'll tell you right now | C
don't tend on tellin' you, less you
cross your heart twice and promise
that you amt goin' to tell it, course
it is family secret, and l jes'
found it out by buttin' in. You :
see the folks is jes' gittin' their
eyes open an gittin' on to things
out on that hill, an the grumblin'