The Topeka state journal., 1899-10-26

alize that the battle is not always to
the strong.
Wichita calls Emporia. a. stchunr'' be
cause she claims she had a better street
fair than Wichita Emporia will now
come back at Wichita by calling her
a mean old thing.
Wichita is claiming that the biggest
crowd that ever assembled in Kansas
was at her street fair. That record will
be broken and far exceIled on Novem-
Der 2 at Topeka.
Kansas is winning on everything this
year. @. E. Sawyer, of Wichita, won
the prize for having the best photo
graph at the Texas state photographers
show the other day.
A prisoner in the Abilene jail tried to
commit suicide by stuffing a towel in
his mouth. If it had been the old leg
endary printing office towel he would
have stabbed himself with it.
The Lawrence World is authority for
the statement that the women are go
ing to vote in that town this fall be-
cause there is a proposition up to vote
bonds for a new school house.
J. L. Brady wants Sir Thomas Lip
and offers, if he will do so, to start a
boom for him for Office. That's a sure
way to drive him back home.
And he may be governor general Of
the Philippines yet" is an entire edi-
torial in the lola Register. It is not
specified who he is, but everybody
knows. when Charley Scott speaks that
way.
Since the statement has been made
that there have been 500 marriages in
Reno county in the past two years. the
Ottawa Herald announces that Hutch
inson is preparing to stock up on old
maids.
J. J.. Whitman, of Lyon county, won
prize of 800 for furnishing the Mary
land state experiment station with the
best strawberry plants There were
68 competitors from all over the United
States.
People who think Kansas is not up
on navigation, are simply ignorant
that's all. This is proven by the state
into dry dock in the Winfield ship yards
on the Walnut next week.
The franchise of the electric line be-
tween Joplin and Galena requires that
cars be run every day, but the quaran-
tine keeps any one from riding on them.
The cars run back and forth with no
one but the motorneer and conductor.
The EmpOria papers recently an
nOunced that Fred Trigg was married
down there. AS the United States dep
uty marshal was missing, his friend got
out search warrant for him, but when
found he proved an alibi. 1t was an
other Fred Trigg.
If the Columbia had been defeated it
would have devolved upon some Kansas
farmer to draw a little of his surplus
cash out of his local bank, build a new
yacht, and bring the cup back. Every
body couldn't do that sort of thing-it
takes a half million just to build the
yacht.
Denver Post: It is really sad to think
of the crop of old maids that will come
out of the ranks of those Kansas girls
who have vowed to marry none but
Funston soldiers. There are not nearly
enough boys to go round, and polyg-
amy would never be tolerated in that
moral state.
n
African controversy they may be on,
Kansas editors are unanimous in pro-
nouncing Sir Thomas Upton a gentle
man and a scholar, and in assuring him
that whenever he wants to come to
Kansas with his old yacht he will re-
ceive a hearty welcome.
How Newt Ury's friends will laugh
when they read this from the GaIena
Times: Newt. Try, the famous Fort
Scott politician, and a travelling man,
coming from Joplin, were put off of a
Frisco train at the state line this af-
/ ternOon by the quarantine guards. The
! travelling man sat down and did good
| job of cussing, but as Newt. doesn' t
swear, there was no relief for him. The
/ gentlemen took the train back to the
I smallpox town.
The banks of Kansas are doing busi-
+ ness all over the world now, as witness
/ the following from the Ell Dorado
| Times: The Citizens State Bank this
morning issued three drafts on the I'M
| perial Ottoman Bank of Beyrouth,
| Asiatic Turkey. They amounted to $500
/ and were purchased by some Syrian
/ boys who sent the money to their
parents. They have been peddling over
| the country in wagons. The drafts
! We're drawn in pounds sterling.
| Charles Hamilton a Coffey county
! member of the Twentieth, was up on a
! church tower one day over in Luzon,
| surveying the landscape for Filipinos.
( AS he secured the country with his field
/ glasses he noticed a war ship in the
I }, +I7o rv5A1,
! a sudden swerve pointed directly at the
| tower and aided by the glasses he could
/ look right down into the barrels He
! said afterwards that he thought his
| time had come and expected the old
/ tower to be tunbled to pieces. AS he
prepared a little prayer to say the guns
/ swerved again and sent their shells of
/ to one side. They had been getting the
[ range from that tower