The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-07-15
wHAr eWEo rs SAVING.

A. A. Robertson OF Example township
called at this Office Monday and left
the herewith for a years subscription.
Mr. Robertson has our heartfelt thanks
for this favor, for at the time of his ar
rival we were just meditating on the de-
pleted condition of our excheQuer SUBJ
SeQuent to our celebration the day be-
fore and wondering what part of our
wearing apparel we could best dispose
of to realize the necessary amount of
the filthy lucre to purchase a few
stamps to enable US to ring up a few
delinquent subscribers.-Santa Fe Trail.
Our local columns may be a little
shy this week, but when our readers
learn that since our last, the celebra-
ton of our country's independence, the
fourteenth birthday of the paper and
the twenty-seventh milestone of the
editors career was passed, they will
pardon US for the discrepancy.-Hoxie
Sentinel
Confidence, prosperity or something
of the sort must have struck Eli Lahr
Saturday, and as he ratified up the
street behind a brand new Hodge
header he looked the very king which
every ruStling American citizen truly
is.-Dighton Herald.
Speaking of the rain last Saturday
evening one man said that a stand pipe
four inches high that is used for a
hitching post ran over, but how much
more it rained he couldn't say. An
other spoke up and said that was moth
ing-he saw man six feet tall run
over and he was not uniform in dame
ter, either, but bulged in the CENTER
Mcpherson Opinion.
There has been a great demand for
harvest hands the past week. So urgent
has been the call that at times we have
felt like giving the world a breathing
spell by casting aside our pen and go
ing out into the fields and discounting
the celebrated exploits of one Maude
Muller in the harvest field.-GoVe Coun-
ty Leader.
Jim Thomas is crackerjack at most
any kind of game. At Fidelity last
Monday in the ball game he knocked
the ball SO far that the players just
stood still and gazed, wondering if it
would ever return to earth. In the
gun shoot Jim could have tied with
three others for first money, but pur-
posely missed bird, as there was more
money in the second prize for him than
in the first when divided between SO
many.-Fairview Courier.
We have been invited to work in a
harvest field at $3.50 a day. Pending
the time which usually elapses between
delinquent subscribers and ourself We
will think the matter oYer.-BrOWn
County World.
Last Saturday while standing in front
of our place of business we were ac-
costed by one Ed Mcneil with blood in
his eye, caused by being in a small
scrap, who threatened us with dire ven
geance and total humiliation if we
published anything in the Clipper
about him, and we very promptly told
him, like we have several others, that
we published what we pleased and if he
did not like it he could go ahead with
his humiliation. Now Eddie will pos
Sibly learn before he is a hundred years
old that the way to keep from getting
that dreaded ''write-up'' is to let bad
Ticker alone and keep out of scraps,
and to court the friendship of the ed
itors instead of antagonizing them. We
did not intend to say anything about
the fight until Eddie made his bold, bad
bluff, but will now say it was all over
the election and a key of beer that
was on tap that day. The language he
used going up Main street was suffi-
cient cause for his appearance before
the police judge. He afterward came
into our store and we had to call the
marshal in and have him put out rather
than have any difficulty with him.
Clark County Clipper.