Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1905-03-23

.sTHEN HE GOT UP AND BEGAN TO
SHOW HIS TEETH AT DAD AGAIN
AND DAD GAVE HIM THE GRAND
HAILING SIGN OF DISTRESS OF
THE GRAND ARMY"
the world by the position he takes on
world affairs. The first day out OF
Chicago dad corraled the porter In a
section and talked to him until the
porter was black in the face. told
dad the only way to get respectful
consideration from a negro was to ad-
vocate lynching and burning at the
stake, for the slightest things, so when
our porter was unuusally attentive to
a young woman on the car dad hauled
him over the Goals, and scared him so
by talking of hanging, and burning in
kerosene oil, that the negro got whittier
than your shirt, and when he got away
from dad he came to me and asked II
that old man with the red nose and
the gold-headed cane was as dangerous
as he talked. l told him he was my
dad, and that he was walking dele
gate Of the Amalgamated Association
of Negro Lynchers, and when a negro
did anything that he ought to be pun
ished for they sent for dad, and he
took charge of the proceedings and
saw that the negro was hanged, and
shot, and burned up plenty. But ! told
him that dad was crazy on the subject
of giving tips to servants, and he must
not fall dead when we got to Washing
ton il dad gave him a $50 Oil. and he
must not give back any change. but
Just act as though he always got $50
from passengers. Well. you'd dide
to see that negro brush dad so times
O day. and bring towel every few
minutes to wipe off his shoes, but he
kept one eye, about as big as an onion,
on dad all the time, to watch that he
didn't get stabbed.
The next morning took dads pants
from under his pillow, and hid them
In a linen closet, and dad laid in his
berth all the forenoon, and had it out
with the porter, whom he accused of
stealing them. The doctors told me
must keep dad interested and excited,
so he would not dwell on his sickness,
and did, sure as you are foot high.
Dad stood 1t till almost noon, when he
came out of his berth with his paja-
mas on, these kind with great blue
stripes like fellow in the peniten-
tiary, and when he went to the wash
room / found his pants and then he
dressed up and swore some at every
body but me. We got to Washington
all right, and thought l would bust
when dad flshed out nickel and gave
It to the porter, and we got out of the
car before the porter came to, and the
first day we stayed in the hotel for
fear the negro would see us, as told
dad that porter would round up a gang
Of negroes with razors and they would
waylay us and cut dad all up into
sausage meat. Dad is the bravest man
Well, this morning dad shaved him
self, and got on his frock coat, and his
silk hat, and said we would go over
to the white house and have O talk
with Teddy. but first he wanted to go
and see where Jefferson hitched his
horse to the fence when he came to
Washington to lie innogerated, and
where Jackson smoked his corn cob
pipe. and swore and stormed around
when he was mad, and to walk on the
same paths where Zachatiah Taylor
lacked, Buchanan catched 1t, and Lin
coin put down the rebellion. and so we
walked over toward the white house. and
was scandalized. I stopped to pick up
q stone to throw at dog inside the
Serce. and when walked along be-