Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1916-11-04

Pureina the Heart

freshin' jobs gushes foorth for thursty
but dishurvin' Dimycrats- He blows
on horn an ivrythin' falls for ut
If the people cali him iver so soft.
Little Samuel had no quicker ear. An
for sacryficin' what's dear to his heart.
Abraham had nawthin' on him. Sure
he is Dimocricy's shield an exceedin'
great reward
IT'S his Presbyterian bringin' up
I'm thinkin-' Furst he adopts a policy;
thin he thries TO justify it, thin he
sanctifies it wild phrase, while a choir
iv Dishurvin Dimmycrats sings
hymn. An there We are. Justification,
Adoption an Sankty-fcashun.
1.-The choir med great harmony whin
Jim Smith, George Harvey an Bill
Brine was all in ut. But wan be wan
their vices cracked an they passed out
iv the life iv the great IdayIist.
Harvey went back to edith an Bill
Brine wint in search iv the Howly
Kale. McCombs was canned, because
him an Billy McAdoo cuddent sing
duet, an Oscar Underwood was weak
on Tariff ragtime- But Wudthrow die
grated thin all. Wild f'what say We?
Wild the Order iv the Double Cross.
Ohio. l mind well the time at the
Manhattan Club, whin he kissed Brine
an kicked Harvey wild wan motion.
Now the choir has what Wudthrow
calls the vital stuffs iv life Stone an
McAdoo; Danyiels an Jim Ham Lewis,
wild Redfield for the high falsetto.
Wudthrow sits wild his hands crossed
while the stuffs sings songs iv praise,
an Col. House winds the Victhrola.
"Wudthrow is fond iv music, but
Colonel House himself is the quiet
man. Faith av he danced a Clog on
"a Washbiler ye'd niver hear a sound.
well, wan night in August the
Colonel come tiptoein' in through the
basement dure-
'How's the game, Colonel?' says
Wudthrow. $685. the Colonel says.
'Ye might round up a few more votes,
says he, scratchin' his ear wild an
absent air.
'Aint 1 got the full dinner-paiFs?
axes Wudthrow, anxious like. All
that's forgot the first two year and
a half says House pleasantly. 'Aint
l KEEP EN- out O. warp axes Wudthrow
PART o. tn time says House rubin
his left shin wild the felt-slipper on
his right foot. 'Aint my voice our
greatest liquid asset?' axes Wilson
earnestly. It's some voice says House.
| but n lot iv suckers can't tell q asset
| firm an li'bility, the Colonel says
"'F'what are We drivin' at says
| Wilson, four flushing a little.
ARE We watchin' the striker says
| House. Half a millyun votes might
| be useful says House, tiptoein' out
| through the dure, an cloSin' ut behind
him.
well, Sir, he left Wudthrow sunk
in profound miditashun. At last he
/ spakes. L hear he says, in a low
| sweet tone that vice iv the people,
| which is to me as the vice of Car
negie Penshun. Oh he says thrill
| lin in ivry nerve, must 1 indade sacry-
| flee wan more idol says he, on the
| altar iv me CounthryI says Wud-
| throw.
Twas not the Wan Turn Plank he
says; AN the Sugar Tax he says
| AN the Tariff for Rev'noo,' he. says
| am all me friends, beside says he,
sixteen per'fly good Mexican Policies
was not all thin enough?' he axes
in agony. But 1 will purge me Heart
| iv ivry pers'nal fought says he,
| startin' for bed. An before he re-
| tires, he takes a Heart Purge iv his
| own invinshun the way it III wurk
| while he sleeps. l dinnaw fwhat the
| purge is. IT'S secret.
I'm the morn he was puzzled. He
wanted a great sacryfise of pur-
| rinciple, dear to his heart, but he'd
| used most iv thin already, an he felt
| that this was no time for second hand
| or slightly damaged sacryfses. So
1 he sends for House. Colonel says
he, 'F"what pur-rinciple dyr think
wud be an acceptable sacryfise in this
] great morel imargincyT he axes
| anxiously.
whisper says the Colonel. And
| he said wan wurd in Wudthrow's ear,
and faded silently away through the
| dure.
For wan instant Wudthrow stud
| spellbound. Thin he burst into a
| whoop; "The Ram in the Bushes,
cries he wild tears iv ~.
Twas an impressive ceremony
whin the sacryfise was solemny-ised
| at the Capitol.
1.-The procession started fom the
White House wild the Prisidint walkin'
/ ahead carryin' the Ram in wan hand