The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-21

That there never was a divorce in a
family using it.
That it had FIVE times the enthusi-
asm of brandy at one-fifth the cost.
That a whole barrel of whisky didn't
contain the war-whoops of a single
bottle.
But talk was useless. and when I
found it so asked the crowd to fol-
low me to the hall where I was to ex-
hibit my moving pictures. Desiring to
let them understand that I was not in
the business for gain, and thereby re-
buke them, I announced that the show
would be free to all, including cross
eyed men. This put some life into
them, and they tagged on behind. I
opened the show by exhibiting a pic
ture of the Beef Trust raising the
price of liver 400 per cent. Wherever
else this picture has been exhibited it
has been greeted with dismal groans
as showing the feelings of the Masses
but in this instance q. man stood up
and swung his hat and shouted:
s'Hurrah for the Beef Trusti Long
may It wave. Let's have another 400
per cent raise
He was cheered for five minutes,
during which time several products of
the vegetable kingdom were thrown
my way. I then followed with a pic
tire of Washington crossing the Della
ware When this spirited picture was
exhibited in the town Of Come Off over
one hundred free Americans spring to
their feet and cheered until five
+ lengths of stove pipe fell Gathering to
the floor. During the excitement that
of 81, but I did not lay it UP against
him. I long ago discovered that when
an American citizens patriotism is ap-
pealed to he'll do most anything to
show his desire to die for his country
In this instance the picture did not
receive one single cheer, though 1 kept
/ it in front of the audience for five min
utes. When my looks expressed the
| establishment felt the mayor got up
Move him along. G. Wash is a
back number. Give US something up
/ to date"
I did. I gave them the picture Of
/ the congressman found guilty on two
| trials of stealing government land not
4 q hundred miles from their town. and
was about to deliver brief lecture on
4 the enormity of his offense when the
| crowd rose up and began to cheer and
/ hurrah. They said the congressman
was a bully boy with a glass eye. and
/ that they would sign q petition for his
/ pardon. I choked off my remarks. ana
| exhibited a picture Of an orphan girl
/ starving on the streets of New York.
/ Not one sympathetic sign did I hear
from the audience. I showed the same
/ girl dead on the sidewalk, and several
/ persons broke into laughter. showed
/ her entering the gates of heaven after
her trials here on earth, and the mayor
rose up and said:
This ere show seems to be a good
deal of a fraud. and if it don't i'm
I prove shall treat 1t as a fraud
I then exhibited a picture of 4 Trust
buying up all the butter, eggs aud
vegetables In the country and holding
/ them for a raise, while working men
and their wives and children were eat
/ ing burdocls to keep life in them.
Wherever that picture has been exhib-
tied it has been received with the
1 widest enthusiasm, and IN two cases
men have gone out Of the halls with
shotguns to pepper members OF the
/ Trust. and here It was q deal failure.
/ Nobody cheered and nobody groaned.
After q painful period of silence. a
red-hea ded man arose and said he had
a duty to perform. It was duty he
owed to himself. to his town and to
/ the country at large.
While was wondering what he was
getting at he came over and hit me a
swat on the jaw that rendered me IN
/ conscious. When 7 recovered I was
| being escorted out OF town by a band
of hilarious citizens. and before turn
/ ing back they made Il plain that If
ever entered the town of Getaway
! Quick again might lose my valuable
life.
| upon casting up the damages I
found they had injured me to the ex-
tent of $50, to say nothing Of the
humiliation to my feelings I was cast
down for an hour or two, but finally
charged it up to profit and loss, and
| the sons OF gladness came back to
nv couI. again. A Pilgrim is one Of the
/ feHers you can't keep on the grass
Copyright, 1905, by Mcclure.
/ Phillips & Col