The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-11-13

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A Doniphan county Twentieth Kan
sas boy reached home at 4 o'clock in
the morning, but the first thing he did
was to get a big, fat slice of mothers
bread and tap jar of her blackberry
jam.
1T seems to have been an off year
on sheriff. remarks Ed HOch as he
looks over the returns and notices that
the Populists captured an office in Mar
ion county for the first time in their
history.
owing to the fact that Dell Valentine
was in Topeka last week attending to
supreme court business. the Clay Cen
ter Times came out with the death no.
times headed 'MatrimOnial,' while the
weddings were headed ''Morturary."
Another sign of an open winter,
which is pointed to by the weather pro-
phetS: The huSkS on the corn are loose
this year, sometimes not entirely COW
ering the ear. Last year the husks
We're thick and We're tight around the
ear.
Modest item by Henry Lifts: A cave
has been discovered on ex-senator IN
gals farm near AtchisOn. Every two
by-fOur editor in Kansas is trying to
use it as a text for some kind of a joke.
We'd try it ourselves, but we are one
by-four.
Tom CAVITY remarks Bill Hoffer as
his breakfast makes another attempt to
get away from him, gave the editor
a Manila cigar Saturday. After smOS-
ing it we can sympathize with Toms
attack of seasickness in crossing the
briny deep
You can depend upon a Kansas man
securing some sort of distinction wber-
ever he may be placed. Lieutenant
Colonel Cassius NJ. Moses, of the Col
OradO regiment, which gained diStlnc-
ton in the Philippines, was a Kansas
boy. He was raised down at Great
Bend.
While the country at large is prepar-
ing to back Yale or Princeton, Kansas
or Missouri on THANKSGIVING Day, cen
trail Kansas is getting ready for the an
nual struggle between Abilene and Sa-
lima and the six months debate which
will follow concerning the merits of
their respective football teams.
The Russell Record complains that
the walks leading to the school house
are too narrow to permit people to pass
the High school girls Nearly every
town in Kansas is afflicted the same
way, but 1t is doubtful if wide walks
would remedy the evil. A beVy of
pretty Kansas school girls isn't the cas-
lest thing in the world to pass.
A western Kansas paper, which is
very much interested in Washington
etiquette has figured it out for the
benefit of its readers who may want to
entertain him that Admiral Dewey
comes third in rank after the president.
The vice president and the British am
DaSSadOr are the only ones who take
precedence of him. Kansas people who
intend to entertain the admiral should
remember this.
No man in Kansas is getting more
pleasure out of the victories of the
Beers than Tom Cuddihy a Washing
ton county Irishman. When he was a
boy in Ireland, his grandfather SWOre
him to undying hostility to the British,
and he laughs all over whenever he
hears of q British defeat. He has serv-
in the navies of three natiOns-France
Italy and Austria-and he Joined each
OF them to get a whack at the British.
The Abilene Democrat prints a col
umn of "reminiscences of an Abilene
man who used to freight from Newton
to Hutchinson when the former was
only a village and the latter was not
even that much, and it adds: But
things are different now. A Santa Fe
flyer goes at the rate of a mile a minute
through a country that huns with in
dustry and OVerfOWs with the wealth
that enterprising people are sure to
WreSt from responsive mOther-earth in
this the bOnniest land under the canopy
of heaven"
down in Montgomery county the other
day. Two men went to a wealthy old
farmer and wanted to buy his farm.
While the matter was being discussed
another man, apparently a stranger to
the Others drove up A dispute arose
as to the farmer having money in the
bank, and wager was made that he
could not show $1,000 in cash. Instead
of going with him to the bank, the first
two strangers persuaded the old man
to bring his money to a certain point
IN the country me thlrd stranger ac-
cOmpanied the farmer to town. The
bank cashier found out what the old
man wanted of the money, and he
started the city marshal and several
other parties after him when he left
town with the stranger. After they
had gone some distance the stranger
became suspicious that they We're being
followed, and he made the farmer get
out of the buggy while he drove on
alone. Arriving at the appointed place
he took in his confederates and they
drove off at a rapid pace. Meanwhile
the pursuers We're gaining on them. At
length they became so hard pressed
that they abandoned the rig and took
to the woods. It was undoubtedly their
intention to rob the old man of his
mOney-if they had not been foiled.