The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-23
KANSAS C0MAENT
THAT AND0yER GANG

THAT ANDOyER GANG.
Now some of the old. K q boys who
are running neWspa pers in this state
mare up and stand amazed that the
people of Kansas should not know
who the Andover Band was2' They
recite It off hand now, since they got
Y from such an eminent authority as
biu WnIte and they know that Bill
caled Old Man Wilkinson UP and
found out for sure before he put any
ming IN the paper about It. Our old
friend Hansmann of the Kingman
journal tells about his personal ac-
qualnlance with Rev. Cordiey and
gives his history of the Andover Band
in matter of fact way We knew
rev (ordley, too, we have listened to
ms excellent sermons time and again,
Hved with family who had been his
intlmate friends from the time of the
QuantreH raid. and we never heard
anything about the Andover Band from
lnem We thought we knew some
lhlhg about the early history of Law
renee, we have sat by the hour down
~ the key room" in the basement OF
razler Hail and listened to "old Nate"
the colored janitor, tell the story from
the time the Blue Goats came to his
masters house down in Missouri and
helped themselves to the finest horses,
puiled MIN out from behind the corn
Grid set him astride one of them. lead
Ing the others and liked off to Kansas.
We nave gone with Nate up the river
Dank on Sunday afternoon to the little
draw where he hid in the brush the
morning of the Quantren raid and
stayed there for two days afraid to
show his head. We have talked it over
ana over and up and down, with Nate.
the coiored janitor, and he didn't
know a thing about any AndoVer Band,
we are sure of it. If Nate didn't know
H. II Is hard for us to believe that there
Is any history for it. We think the an
sWer for this has come from Bill
" nite's article which Was inspired by
Inc sweet small voice at tie other END
or the telephone when he called up old
Man BelleviIle Freeman.
A PRACTICAL SERMON.
Boys, here is the best argument
against drink You cannot take little
without taking more. Here is true
story, and there are thousands of SINH
lar cases the country over A man in
neighboring town had a position at
500 month for one of the big corpor-
atlons or the country. The man was
such a fine workman and so genuinely
reliable that his company never even
had him checked up. But the man got
to taking drink on cold mornings to
warm him up. Then he got to taking
another to give him an appetite. TO
this were gradually added ''nornings-
morning" .'night-cap'' and various
other drops for every hour in the day
OF course his company found If ont
one wants drunkard in his employ /
however straight he may be otherwise. I
The mans handsome home is now for |
rent, he is living with his wife's folks |
while he looks around for something |
TO DO But the man is all in, no one I
will even let him clean an alley.-Sa- I
betha Herald.
THE STRENGTH OF A CHEESE.
One Kansas paper says, 'Limberger I
cheese laid away in a cupboard will |
drive away ants" The truth of the |
matter is that It will not only drive |
ants out of cupboard, but It viii drive |
dogs out of lanyard. It will drive a /
hungry buzzard from a carcass: it will |
drive herd Of cattle through burning /
forest or through a barbed wire fence. /
It will not only drive ants-it will drive I
uncles, fathers, mothers. sisters, broth I
ers and OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES If they |
are compelled to remain within 20 feet |
Of it. It will almost drive a nail About /
the only thing It Will not drive is a I
bargain-and still there are some peo- |
pie who eat it.-Horton Commercial.
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