The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-10-31
JAYHAWKER JoTs.
1rg has scarlet fever.

Pittsburg has scarlet fever
Wichita gained SIP in it's registration
this year over last.
The Wichita Eagle is acting as chief
coacher to the Beers these days.
Phillipsburg is to have a new -four
mill with a capacity Of 100 barrels
daily.
Now that his store has been robbed a
Woodruff man has bought a shotgun
and a bull dog.
GOodIand is preparing to get next to
goodness by laying the foundations for
a steam laundry.
Now that winter is almost here, OF
tawa is in the thrOes of an exciting
flower queen contest.
The Fort Scott divorce mill ground
out six divorces the other day, and in
every one of them the husband was the
plaintiff.
Calls have been received in the Pitts
burg district for miners in southern
Colorado and New Mexico, with fare
advanced from Kansas City.
Hunters down in southern Kansas
are threatening to backfire on farmers
who make them trouble. by compelling
the farmers to trim down their hedges.
Timely advice from the Wichita
Eagle: Funston will be in Kansas only
ten days, so if the women are going to
get Hobsonic they will have to hustle.
A Great Bend girl tried the Downs
plan of giving an ear of popcorn to her
him. He acknowledged the corn but
the roast didn't make him pop.
Dave Leahy: Gosh said a southern
Kansas farmer, between these DANCED
street fairs. county fairs, socials and
Weddin's US farmers won't get out corn
huslSed until plantin' time next
spring"
Charley Scott is to blame for this:
One Lawrence girl cut another out with
a beau in the pOstoffice and now a suit
will he Ipd IN nn 1aV a hon
taking mail not belonging to you from
the Office.
The Rosebuds of Newton had a
Dickens of a time the other night. They
played David COpperfield, and NIicaw-
Der, and Peggoty, and Little Emily, and
Mr.. Pickwick and Mrs. Bardell and all
the rest of 'em.
Noting the claim of Wichita that that
town cleared $780, 900 from her street
fair, Newton merchant says that he
did almost that well, and further that
he has record as a liar himself when
he turns himself loose.
A Kansas editor who once tried it
himself and has been wearing glasses
ever since, gives in the following testi-
mOny: There viii be a harvest for the
opticians next week treating the eyes
of Kansas society which became strain
ed seeking its name in the Kansas City
papers report of the horse show do
ings.
Sad experience. probably personal, by
Bent Murdoch; An old codger, who fit
into the war of the rebellion, which was
So years ago, like most soldier boys, had
a sweetheart; and he wrote her gush-
ing, spooney letters at the rate of about
four a week. By inscrutable means
these 1Ove-sick effusives have fallen in
to the hands of his children; and every
night they drive the old man crazy by
reading them. The first letter opened
up last night commenced as follows:
MY Darling Sweetheart" and it kept
getting worse for u pages.
If Helen Gould is really a philan-
thropist she viii make a public explain
alton of her intentions when she made
her recent visit to Kansas. Every Mis-
souri, Pacific town in the state believes
that she came to investigate that par
ticular town with a view to locating
shops, or at least a division there, or
of building some new line of road start
ing from that point All of these towns
are in an agony of suspense, and if she
is really as kind as she is said to be,
she Will put them out of their pain by
declaring her intentions in a loud, clear
tone Of voice.
A San Francisco correspondent in
closing an article on the achievements
of the Twentieth Kansas to the st.
Louis Globe-DemOcrat, says: Fathers
and mothers of Kansas, you thought
you We're sending out boys but they
were men, and the best the nation
breeds; better are not bred. They de-
serve more than the nest you can give
them. Eight days the regiment stopped
in Hong Kong. China, and every man
was given shore leave. yet there was
not the slightest rOwdyism. With two
months pay in his pocket a soldier
owns the earth. but not a man was in
tOXicated. Here. convenient to all the
vices of the most cosmopolitan city in
the western world. and surrounded by
all the temptations attractive to q sol
der just returned from the wars and
still 20e0 miles from the restraining
influences of home, your boys have con
Quoted themselves like gentlemen What
was your method of teaching when they
stood at your knee?" Could the kan
sas boys receive a greater tribute?