Show A KANSAS BIRTHDAY Kansas sassy and erra erratic ic child of th the hopper- hopper speckled grass prairie is not yet far enough adr advanced advanced ad ad- r a 1 ed in life to be ashamed of her age In fact 0 she is rather proud of it Imbued with that self- self contented spirit she celebrated her forty-first forty birthday birth birth- day at Topeka on Wednesday last and there was jubilation jollification and speeches Her neighbor and elder sister Missouri was present to do honor to the occasion and what there was to eat an and drink in the person of a Mr 11 McJimsey of Marys- Marys me in the State mentioned This was the first time that a non-Kansan non ever was permitted to at attend ate j tend these agreeable but his name let him in The speakers of the evening told again the story of Kansas history from the time of the exciting exciting I ing John Quantrell Brown-Quantrell campaign in the Fifties wh wb n n- n the he village streets flowed with gore to the i recent days when they carried earned rivers of rum from frome e yawning abysses of rum holes which the tile local Joan oan of Kan not not of Ark had had opened with her little hatchet And they mopped the shuddering earth with the Populists and the Democrats who had fused with them thus gaining a short and execrable execrable exe exe- crable Mary lary Ellen Lease of power to the detriment of the commonwealth and the elements of common commonsense commonsense commonsense sense and sanity therein contained These orators were properly reticent on the point that Republican skirts perhaps are n not t quite clear in regard to the the Carrie Nation Kation craze and outrages but such things j are are not to be recalled at a birthday party All hands predicted pk and doubtless truly that the short-haired short female and the wild-eyed wild male Kansans never again I would be permitted to make a laughing stock of the State from Alpha to Omaha cJ Colonel Rossington the repentant and conI converted con con- I Democrat and McJimsey from over the line j concurred in the prophecy that the elegist of the future wandering s reflectively ly through the Kansas political al graveyard would look in vain ain for any mem memOrial memorial me me- m morial rial of of- of Some whiskered like Uke the waving corn Some Simpson as the babe unborn |