Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-03-07
Kansas Notes

few days ago, and the punsters are get
ting $4,000 worth of enjoyment out
of it.
An explanation is made by the Kins-
ley Mercury that the reason an oyster
supper there is advertised two weeks
in advance is so that the oysters may
be captured for the occasion"
The Topeka man who invented a
method of exterminating prairie dogs
by means of fumes, which fumes are
also an infallible cure for cold in the
head and lungs, has organized COM
pany with 100000 of Autographed
stock.
An Atchison man was being mari led,
but he wanted the marriage kept secret
for a few days. When the clergyman
said: DO you take this woman for
your welded wife," she responded,
Yes, but please don't say anything
about it,
Ewing Herbert is going to Washing
ton to invite President Roosevelt to
attend the Brown county fair next fall.
Congressman Reeder is going to in
vite him to the Beloit Chautauqua.
Mrs. Bloomheart of Chanute heard
burglars in her parlor. She escaped
by back door and aroused the neigh
borhood. An armed posse was soon
formed, headed by the sheriff and two
deputies. The house was surrounded,
and after some delay they ventured in
and found that a stray horse was the
occupant. 1t had kicked the front door
from it's hinges and made itself at
home.
IAN intelligent farmer of this COM
munity," says the Howard Courant,
''sent his whole family off on a jour-
ney. He bought them railroad tickets
and put them on the train, keeping the
tickets in his own inside pockets. 1t
is not certain just what happened when
the conductor struck the unsophisti-
Gated travellers for tickets, but a half
hour later there came a phone message
from Moline describing the predica-
ment. The old man was found and the
tickets were Jared loose from him
he thought they were receipts
the family after short delay, was per-
mitted to continue it's way
Most of the papers espouse frugality
and thrift, but the Beloit Call does not.
zone of the richest men in Mitchell
county, it says, feeds his family ten
cents worth of beefsteak at a meal,
and has meat only once a day. We
know a $40 clerk whose meat bill is
from SO to S12 a month. After all,
money is only a small consideration
in the things that really go to make up
life, and especially is this true when a
miser happens to get control of any
of the coin. The average Westerner
spends his money and lives like an
English lord-yet, occasionally,
lame duck will hang on to it and starve
himself and his family in order to get
more-and then dies without having
lived, hated and despised by all who
were so unfortunate as to know him."
81 am heartily tired of this talk
about not permitting children to
work. says DR.. Lucy Taylor of Law
renee. ct seems to me much better
to have children work rather than have
them loafing on the street. Work is
healthful and the legislature ought to
be ashamed to turn the boys of the
town on the street. Farm boys work
and are the better for it, but this SEN
timentality about child labor is de-
generating our boys. 1 hope the legis-
lature will come to its Senses
Smith county has the Meanest Man,
too. When he came to have settle
ment with his hired man few days
ago he deducted from his wages the
price of one box of matches, which he
estimated the employee had consumed
in lighting his pipe since the first of
| the year.
The original Drummer Boy of the
Rappahannock,' who is now a major,
has worked his way as far west as
Jewell City.
Lawrence has let a contract for an
$50, 900 county courthouse, to take the
place of the present ancient shack,
which was erected the same year as the
windmill west of town.
The authorities in Franklin county
are solving the mystery of the muir
der of Eliza Jackson, a farmer, by the
Sherlock Holmes method. Owing to
the fact that the faithful watchdog
was on guard the night of the muir
der, and made no demonstration the
deduction is drawn that the crime must
have been committed by some friend
of the family.
A member of the Blond & Brunette
club in Great Bend was kissed the
other night by a boy friend who hasn't
known her any too long, the Tribune
says, and she innocently protested that
it was without notice. well, did
you think 1 was going to serve
subpoena" was the reply.
Salina Union: Say, joe said
boy who had been to Sunday school