The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-04

Bailey himself than any other man in
Topeka. Some of the people present
thought it was really the governor.
Mrs d. o. Coe VIII give the lesson
before the Primary sunday School
Teachers union on Saturday after
noon. Mrs. Mary L. Nelson viii give
practical background drawing. Sub
ject for child study; THE WILL
A good Topeka authority gives out
the following recipe; If you boil a
dozen fresh. clean cOrncObs for half an
hour. strain the water and use it with
"C'' sugar in making syrup for your
morning cakes you viii have a
maple" that can't be told from the real
stuff.
The Emporia Gazette in speaking Of
Speaker Pro TEN Jones tilt with Cyrus
Leland says: Jones is a pretty nice
little boy but the Gazette predicts that
If he ever has sat down on Leland that
he closely initiated the boy in school
who found he had seated himself on the
business end of a hornet. He immedi-
ately got up, and for a while didn't sit
anywhere
The Eel Dorado Republican says. "A
legislative member from the short grass
country declared yesterday that there
are thirty-two drinks in a quart bottle
A Topeka member moved to amend by
making it twenty; whereupon a Wichita
man offered an amendment to the
amendment that there are but sixteen
and it carried"
The first thing for a legislator to do
is to get solid with the editors of the
papers in his district. The representa-
tive from Butler county understands the
game, for the Burns Citizen says: j. p.
Adams is one of the most prominent
men in the legislature this winter and
he's much influence in the shaping Of
legislation. He has a faculty Of landing
on the right side Of the question most
of the time"
The bill of exceptions in the case of
J. c. BrOwnfield. who was convicted Of
perjury in the Jessie Morrison case, has
been signed by Judge Altman This Is
the preliminary step in the hearing of
the application for new trial by the
supreme court. RrOWnfield is the itin-
Grant doctor, formerly Of Topeka, who
has been living in FL Dorado for some
time. and who was convicted of perjury
in the last Jessie Morrison trial Brown
field is now in the penitentary.
The Kansas City Star says "Creatore
is a marvel" and adds: so powerful
was CreatOre's influence over his men
that it seemed every note that issued
from an instrument was first portrayed
by a motion of his head or hands So
rapid was he in his gestculations that
at the conclusion OF selection he
seemed physically exhausted but at the
end OF a moments lntermisSiOn he
would issue from behind the e,44tain
fresh for other gyrations and acrobatic
performances.
Elmer L. AmeS. OF Norton, IS in To-
Del1a today on business. Ames IS the
man who housed Otis L. Benton, of De
catur county. during the Sixth district
Republican congressional convention
last spring. Ames and Benton were
supposed to be for whoever opposed
Reeder. Benton was asleep in Ames'
house when Ames went home at )
o'clock in the morning, woke him and
told him that it was AL up" that
Reeder would win. As soon as Ames
was asleep Benton slipped out of the
house and joined the Reeder forces, and
when the landslide came he was in the
band wagon
T. B. Murdoch, referring to the article
in the State Journal about Mrs. Ruble
who is a representative in the Colorado
1 legislature, says in the Ell Dorado Re
publican; THE whirligig Of time. Dan
Blush, who lived in Topeka in the early
sixties, had two daughters. Abbie and
Alice. The writer of this recalls thai
the first time he ever saw Cy Leland he
the writer, was sitting with Abbie Blush
/ in Leavenworth theater in 1853. John
! Wilkes Booth was on the stage, and the
play was Lucretia Borgia' But that is
another story. Alice NJ. Blush, the
4 younger sister. who was married in En-.
pOria, is now Alice NJ. Ruble, member oil
the Colorado legislature. and distin-
( guisher herself by nominating Henry NJ
Teller for United States senator"