The Advocate and news., 1899-03-15


candidates for president-the French,
the president after his election
Oberlin Eye: Germany is eating Amer
lean hog with great relish now and Is
learning something about hominy.
Osborn County Farmer: Friends will
never push you to the top OF the ladder
You must climb up by your own eXer-
tlOna.
Meriden Ledger: In Prussia the wO-
men do the plowlng and harvesting. In
this country they do the sewing and
grading.
Minneapolis Index: There Is one thing
that Is true OF widower: he Is always
wondering II he can bite at bait with
out getting caught on hook.
Concordia Kansan: A Kansas pOliti-
clan cannot lay claim to statewide intiu-
ence until he can use a finger-boWl In
Topeka hotel without blushing.
Belleville Freeman If 1t Is a good
thing for the government to own Its own
printing plant, why would 1t not be
good plan for Kansas to own one?
Rural New Yorker: The Kansas Ag-
ricultual College, expects to start
"buslness school" for teaching typewrit-
ing, stenOgraphy, etc. What mistake.
Marysville Advocate and Democrat: II
the summer Is as pr0portionately warm
az the winter was cold we will imagine
that only couple OF thicknesses Of paper
are between us and the other place
Oswego Blade A syndicate is buying
I'D the coal land Of Crawford County. 1t
has already secured options on about one
thousand acres in Washington township.
The land is selling for about $50 an acre.
Topeka Plaindealer: The American
Negro has a part in this great tropical
struggle; his labor will be demanded.
Let him prepare to do his duty as un-
flinchingly as a laborer as he has done as
q soldier.
Harrington Times: A good many years
ago when boy got licking at school,
ne got another when he got home. But
now the rule Is TO spoil the lad by taking
him out of school and giving the teacher
o good, lively blowing up.
st. Francis Eagle: The demand for
farm implements this spring Is simply
amazing. Two we'll stocked implement
houses at st. Francis are rushed to full
capacity and then can hardly supply the
trade.
Westphalla Times The lola and La
Harpe smelteurs and gas wells have been
sold to the Standard Oil company for
S2,000,O00. 1t begins to look as though
everything would soon be under trust
control.
Caldwell News: There is a Reno
County man who must be a regular
Sampson. He goes around stealing hogs
weighing over two hundred pounds.
That fellow seems to have a hankering
for the pen.
Southwestern Farmer: An exchange
informs us that Joaquin Miller has had
his hair cut. That shows that the re-
wards Of literature, though slow, are GER
tain. Twenty years ago he could not
have afforded such luxury.
Dodge City Globe Republican: Instruc-
tions have been issued to the agents on
the Santa Fe system to provide and
maintain small parks around the depots
where possible. The company will furn-
lsh the shrubs, blue grass seed, ETC., nee
essary, but the agent must do the raking
and watering.
Yates Center News: Speaker Reed Is
rapidly falling from the high place he
used to occupy in the minds Of the people
az his party by his unjust and undigni-
fled fight on the Presidents war policy
If II were not touched so much with sour
grapes the people would not think so
much about II.
wichita Beacon: Some years ago
Reeds congress was called billion dol
lar institution, because OF its enormous
appropriations. Care was taken at the
dine to show that the billion dollars COW
cred expenses for two years. The pres
erlt congress has almost reached the dis
tlnctlon Of being an annual billion dollar
concern.
Madison Index: The town that helps It