The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-08-28
JAYHAwKER JoTs.
wHEN OTrR BOYs CIR HOMI

WHEN OUR BOYS GIT HOME.
''There'H be joy all over Kansas when the
ThereI be shoutin' an all sorts of go
But there won't be. no one gladder in the
Than my wife an me to see our only son.
We've been readin' all the papers jest to
But it pears as tho it's hard to git
But Wen be that much the gladder when
they do git started home,
Bay.
As Shouldn't, when he is our only son;
He is ev'ry inch a soldier, and there ism
Any better in that Island of Luzon.
OF course we're awful proud of him and
brag about him lots
Couldn, help 1t If we Wuz to try all day;
But We'll feel a heap contenteder the min
That our boys are sailin into Frisco
Bay.
ITS been a dreadful strain on US sence
he's been over thar,
And it's made his mother feel most aw-
And might as Wen admit it, tho I come
through tOther war,
That it's also kind O. Worried his dad.
When they wuz on the hrin' line, four
months or more, I'm told,
A4-fightin' Aggynaldo night an day.
more satisfied
When our boys come sailin' into Frisco
Bay.
but now they've quit their shootin' an
they're comm home again,
So they tell US, an 1t makes US mighty
For tho he's been a-hghtin' for his coun-
try an the flag,
We want to see our boy most awful bad.
The times a-gittin' shorter an he'll soon
be comm back,
But his ma an me will always kneel an
That the Lord will keep him safely an
watch Ger him all the time
bows Frisco
Bay"
Colonel Tom Fitch wants to build a new
street car line for Wichita
rus LeIands motion for an extra session.
When the farmers get to Smelling their
in finding room to pile the cobs.
If that train load Of eggs that Kansas
intends sending east should get wrecked,
Wouldn't it make a great mess of scram-
The great army of unemployed will
makes no attacks on Sterling in the
future. A rock pile has been established
Editor Honey of the Adankato Advocate,
claims that Jewell county will raise
enough potatoes this year to make good,
rich potato soup out Of Lake Superior.
The fa&irs have one kick coming on
Kansas this year. There are So many
street fairs and other "doin's'' going on
that they can not cover them all, and
they hate to see any good pasture going
h D. Lee the wholesale grocery man
Of Salina, has been elected chairman of
the executive committee of the National
Groeers' association at a salary of SIS 000
a year, and will hereafter make his head
quarters in New York
Since that Wamego jointist has become
an immune by starting his joint on an
island in the Kaw it may be expected that
a regular crop of islands will be SPRING
ing up in all Kansas streams But It will
the prairieS.
Beloit Gazette: Capt. BoItwood of Otta-
wa, has knocked the stuffin out of the
wonderful Funston stories. He says the
young general has never led his regiment
or brigade with cheer or waving sword :
has always been in the rear where an
officer should be. commanding his men in
a gentlemanly and decorous manner. We
wish BoltwoOd had kept his mouth shut
According to the Lyons Republican a
trading vessel belonging to the great
great grandfather of C. s Barker and
Mrs Mary Cooper of Lyons, was destroy
ed during our troubles with the French
| 101 years ago Damages to the amount of
$1,000 have. recently been allowed in the
case and the Lyons parties have Just re-
/ ceived their share of the money, SIS each.