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Show "Oath" CoiupllinentM the Legislators. Topeka Capital. "Did you como to Kansas, Mr. Town-send, Town-send, to receive impressions of our farmer legislature?" asked a Capital man. "No; I came to secure a little rest," he replied. "I have, however, visited the house." "Well, what are your impressions?" "I was disgusted by seeing such a nice looking body of men. Tho papers have given us to understand that they are anything but representative lawmakers, law-makers, but I fail to see any difference between them and other similar bodies which I have visited." "Is this your first visit to Kansas?" asked tho Capital man. 'Yes, this is the first real visit to tho stato. I was here once in an early day, but that was long before Kansas had attained at-tained its present standard." "I cannot forbear saying something about your state house," continued Mr. Townsend. "It is a very fine buildiug and well arranged. I like the architecture archi-tecture and tho arrangements and furnishings fur-nishings of the offices. This building impresses me more favorably than tho state house at Springfield." Ho here made an allusion to the cold, gloomy passageway between the completed wings of our slate house. "I started another novel some time ago," he said, "in which the capitol building of New York was to be described, in tho early days of our country. There were but two wings of the building then and I have tried to imagine what kind of a passage connected them. When I saw this it acted as an inspiration and I now realize what a contrivance was used to I connect tho two buildings." |