The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-11-28
LAYHAWKER JoTs.

There is an epidemic of scarlet fever
at Sedan.
It is a safe proposition that a week
~ paper wit ha good department OF
county news is prosperous.
The Thanksgiving edition of the Bar
ton County Democrat shows common
dabIe enterprise. 1t is a compliment
to Great Bend.
The fac smile copy of the Curtis-Bail-
ey agreement proves conclusively that
Judge Horton ought to take lessons in
penmanship.
J. N. Beaver of Glasco has hit upon
a novel method to keep ice. He is
building a cave to use as an ice house.
The new order for canvassing the
vote of the soldiers in the Dodge City
home has made a lot of useless trouble
and expense.
Ed Hoch is an old and experienced
editor but he still allows his paper to
say after the death Of a citizen: He
has been removed from our midst"
The Marion Record says that Admir-
al Dewey would have avoided a lot of
trouble by taking its advice as it plain
" told him not to accept the home in
Washington.
The sporting writer on the Emporia
Republican says of &. game of football:
"A football game is an interesting
sight, anyway. It looks like a lot of
crazy men trying to catch a chicken
Matilda Fletcher will lecture at Le-
banOn December 1 on the subject: rs
Man an Anger II MaIltQa attempts TO
prove that he is Will the male popuIa-
ton of Lebanon stand idly by?
POpuIist papers accuse G. c. Clemens
Of standing in with the capitalists to
bring cheap Filipino labor to compete
with Americans. It is q long step for
the only anarchist in Kansas"
Editor Anna Carlson Of the Linds-
borg News prints the fact. without
word of protest. that the American
army has captured Mrs. AguinaldO's
wardrobe.
Down at Ellinwood. in Barton county
a new saloon had an opening, a brass
band was engaged for the occasion and
everything was free. Ellinwood is in
Kansas.
Editor Garten of the Cimarron Jack
sonian almost falls on the neck of a
subscriber who brought him a load of
feed to apply on his subscription ac-
count.
An ex-cOnvict is touring Kansas and
furnishing advice on how to keep out
of the penitentiary. It is safe to be
suspicious of the man who parades his
own disgrace even under the pretense
of saving others.
Editor Snyder of the Mcpherson
Freeman tells of a man whipping his
wife who neither paid the probate judge
for his marriage license nor the minister
for performing the ceremony, and adds:
"Of course such a man has a right to
whip his wife if he wants to as he
hasn't paid for her vet. OF all the de-
ii is the man who whips his wife,
1t has been generally supposed that
the bride and groom are the most i'm
pOrtant participants in a marriage Ger.
emory but it remained for a reporter of
the EmpOTia Democrat to discover that
they are of no consequence whatever.
In an elaborate write up of wedding
in which the names of the attendants
and ushers are given the names of the
bride and groom are omitted. Here is
a reform in journalism which should
claim the attention of the plOdders in
the profession. A reporter who can
make an account of a wedding inter
esting without the names of the bride
and groom, might write up a funeral
and make no reference to the late de-
parted" or turn OUT a story about a
| football game without saying anything
| about the opposing teams or even star
tie the subscribers of his paper with a
| vivid account Of a murder and not tell
| who was killed or who did the killing
Young man, there is a great future for
you in journalism.