The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-11-28

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city which was on account of its
growth and development causing all
contenders to sit up and take notice.
Everything indicates a going back. It
is estimated there is seven thousand
vacant houses and that thousands of
people are leaving it annually. This
condition has been caused by the labor
agitation which has made of Colorado
an armed camp for several years and
by corrupt and grating politicians
who have fastened themselves like
leeches upon this community until the
life has been sucked out of it. Denver
needs a general house cleaning and
can hope to recover until it has
shaken off these 1eeches and installed
a clean, honest and capable city gov
eminent. Train time had arrived and
were about to enter upon the last lap
of a somewhat extended journey. AS
we boarded the Rock Island train and
steamed out upon the broad plains of
Eastern Colorado and Western Kan
sas we could not help recalling the
famous home song of Olcott in which
he sings:
You ask. me why tears arise,
To this poor wanderers eyes?
But when I hear that word so dear
Nothing can check these hertfelt
tears.
Home, home, home, o that word so
dear,
Home, home, home, be it ever so
drear;
When all else fails to cheer and atone,
Look back to that old spot, home
sweet home" -
The trip was without incident ex-
cept perhaps the fact that a young
man of about twenty-four ran across
Grand Master Crews and recalled the
fact that when the Grand Master was
a mere boy he used to be his com
panion and playmate. All this would
have been romantic if it was not for
the fact that the Grand Master admits
forty-nine summers and unmention-
able winters. It seems the young
man was living in fear of universal
prohibition and had made up his mind
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such a calamity should overtake his
race. The jack rabbits which they
saw grew in number and size until one
began to wonder just when the circus
parade would start. We listened to
their exchange of "reminiscences which
in each case grew more and more re
markable as the For Family Use
grow less and loco ayidaot A, tbo,
, talked l could not think of anything
else but the Irish private who APP
: preached his captain and said: Cap
tain, | have just had a letter from my
wife Biddy who is laying at the poinr
of death and is pleading for me tt
come home if l wants to see her alive
again and l am axing youse for a leave
of absence" The captain said: Pat
I ann OF going to give you the leave
for the reason that I had a letter
from your wife this morning tellin,
- me you wanted to come home TO ge
drunk and for me to not let you come.
Pat said: Captain | would like Il
express my real opinion if it was no
= for the straps you be wearing on you,
IoiOuiuCls bo dilCdl dL L give NOl
permission to say what you want t.
9 say regardless Of the shoulder straps.
Then Captain, l am thinking that vol
land l are the two most illigant liar!
: in the regiment because l have no wife
{ at ALL"
Just out of Topeka something hap
pened and we had to get a freigh,
locomotive to pull us in, and from
Topeka on we steadily lost time unit
. the delay became unbearable. George
called himself getting back to civiliza
. ton and became nettled at the pace
= which was being set by the RocF
Island. Kansas City is wonderful anC
! | want to record the fact that we die
y not meet a person who had ever livet
there who was not looking forward
to the time when he could get back
) We pulled into the Union Depot abou
. two hours late and said goodbye ant
u spoke the parting words. Ny story
- has been prosaic and dull and unim
bellished with fiction and having
. heard so much ~preachment from
= Crews and Love about the virtues o
. Adhodo NlIy IudI we are going 10 ash
our readers to indulge us in just one
: little story to illustrate a point. 1t /!
said that a Hebrew died and went t
heaven, After looking around at the
. sights and estimating the intrinsic
) value of the gold paved streets. ant
the starry decked crowns he grew
Il tired and lonesome and went up Il
c Peter and asked him If he could show
, him where he could find a poker game
y Peter told him to go to hell and gave
: hi ma round trip ticket. He was no
. long in finding a hot poker game afte-
u his arrival and stood around begin!
8 the boys to stake him and let him il
but they steadfastly refused to do so
Finally our Hebrew friend started on
to see the sights. He soon returned
and laid down a hundred dollars an
asked for a stack of chips. His friends
asked him how he realized so mucl
p money in such a short time n hl
: told them he ran across a fool VIII
u purchased his return ticket to heaven
alphabetically, let us suppose tina,
u theological dogmas could be so set a
e naught that George and the Crane
d Master should by some slip reach thu
e glory land and found there some for
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