The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-06-08

This Is the Story Of a Reporter Who
Was Insulted.

"A lone reporter, tired and weary from
his days travels and dubious deduc-
tons, was standing in front of the
Ping Pong Girls tent at the GaskiII
Carnival shows on Wednesday night.
The sound of taps had been sfgnaled
Tor the night, because the hour OF u
had just struck. lie batted his blink
ing eyes few bats. and turned his
weary footsteps hOmeward to his lowly
eouch.
Just then a man tapped him on the
shoulder Eh," said the stranger,
come along. We need you tonight.
You're on. Follow me-"
80 the scribe tagged on behind. From
several other tents about the show he
saw actors and performers coming out
WIN their street clothes and all were
nabbed by this stranger, % in all. the
reporter making "A.
Halt" said the stranger as thew ar
&lVed at the junction of Kansas avenue
and Third street, you are all candi-
dates"
For what shrilIy trebIes out one of
the frightened females. Seven of the
Candidates" wore skirts.
Shut up, was the answer. you are
now to be initiated into the scored Uni
ted Order of the Raspberry. The pro-
gramme and proceedings will take place
uptown as soon as we can get up
there. Within the portals await more
OF your kind-bad actors who are show
ing themselves off and up at that
house"
So the procession was taken up again
The rendezvous was reached. All Of the
candidates were planted down in the dark
back stairs and there left to be brought
out by turn.
1t is too bad that the programme of
Initiation cannot be printed But by
fmmutable law the reporter who went
through the mill and is writing this
Eoe to 4 Il
writer shut Suffice it to say that his
bones are a-weary today, the hinges
an his arms and legs creak like rusty
gate, and a wicked disturbance is buzz
zing through the territory out of which
peep MS binoculars.
After the candidates had been sent
through the three degrees, about the
heaviest you can imagine, he was
placed in Sedan chair and on cake
OF ice In the parquet of the initiation
house to watch each of the initiated do
stunt one by one. The reporter got
out of it by saying that he would write
piece and that the on-Iookers could
read from his works today.
Then came the sumptuous banquet. A
keS of something, flowing and babbling
as free as AIRY" a brook, gushed forth
It's amber effulgence into the powder
and sulphur parched threats of the vic
TINS. Great gobs of cheese, Edam,
Limburger, Shweizer New York, hand,
and every old kind, copiously jacketed
by layers of brown bread was admins
tered into their Standardization appar-
atus in the shape OF nOurishment.
Now you would like to know when
this Bohemian seance ended.
Well, the ROSTERS down at the COM
mission houses were blowing their
blows because the regular hour for their
awakening had come-4 O'Clock. The
dawn was breaking out in big red spots
all over the eastern horizon. The hum
ming birds were already humming the
katydids bidding. the grasshoppers
hopping, and the cowslips slipping away
to pasture.
- Now this is not a fairy tale and il
Is too bad that it cannot be told just
as 1t happened. Suffice it to say that
the United Order Of Raspberries is an
actors organization much like the
White Rats. Bush n was organized
in Topeka last night Armaminta May
Click was The Big Raspberry and
handled the row. MOnieur Delmar. an
nouncer- of Oscar BabcOck, who walks
into the very jaws of he'll" twice q
day in the loop-the-gap at the Carnival
show, was interlOcutor. The two ran
the rumpus and ran it until morning.