The Topeka state journal., 1899-12-02

Newton viii have a poultry show next
week.
The Alliance store at Osborne is still
doing business.
The Horton Headlight is expanding.
An addition to its home will soon be
built.
The Thanksgiving number Of the
kirwin Independent has a healthy ap-
pearance.
Billy Deford is out in a lengthy edi-
toriaI favoring John Breidenthal for
governor.
A telephone exchange is being put
in at Caldwell and the people are clam
oring for electric lights.
In the good old German town of Hal
stead the mayor signs his official dOcu-
ments with the familiar German name
of Pat O 'Brien."
The Barton Beacon wants to know
what is done with the money collected
from the Great Bend joints. The city
marshal could tell.
A society in Salina is playing con
gress. It viii lay the foundation for
much trouble because its members will
all be candidates for the legislature.
There are only a few of the old
fashioned editors left who use the fist
to indicate the word hand" One of
them publishes the Scandia Journal.
This is the way a farmer expresses
himself in the Louisburg Herald, be
cause corn 'shucking'' time is almost
over: 4 am happy and glad 1 am
alive. Nv corn is nearly out"
J. c.. Humphrey of the BeHevilIe Tele-
scope and John Brown of the Cuba Ad-
vocate have been exchanging compi-
ments and they now lovingly speak of
each other as liar and skunk
The best crap shooter in Muscotah''
was captured in the act of burglarizing
a store the other day. Thus are the
members of the .sprOfeSh'' Sduelched in
the noon time of their brilliant careers.
Editor A. P. Riddle of the Mime
apOliS Messenger must have received
some recent religious inspiration. In
nine editorial paragraphs in this weeks
Messenger he calls upon his subscribers
to Praise the Lord
Wellington Peoples Voice: Congress-
man Chester Long announces that he
is going to make big fight for a
greater merchant marine If there is
one thing southwestern Kansas needs
more than another it is a merchant
marine.
Phillipsburz News: The Smith Center
band has reached the point where they
give concerts in which ghosts walk,
grOans are heard, chains are ratified,
the king ghost makes a speech-all in
music Of cOurse-and an admission is
charged.
Let Anna Gould de Castellane show
her face in Kansas if she dares after
this. Here is what the Minneapolis
Messenger says about her: IF accounts
from abroad are correct it would ap-
pear that Anna Gould had inherited all
of mongrel blood in the Gould strain.
Compared with her sister Helen she is
as a Digger Indian to a Greek Goddess
Salina Republican: Lieut.. Col. Little
gives the following definition Of the
soldiers duty Not to argue as to the
virtue of the cause but to be for his
country right or wrong, just as you are
for your mother right or wrong. It is
the soldiers place to do his duty on the
battlefield and it is our place to sup
port him as long as the fight shall
last"
Merited rebuke by the Newton Trans
cript: "A Newton doctor asked US to
roast the fake doctors who come to
town every few weeks. We might feel
who made the request was in the habit
of ever spending a penny with the
newspaper but he isn't. The travelling
doctors always come to towns where
the home doctors are too hide bound
to spend a cent in advertising their
business, and they usually reap a rich
harvest