Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1903-05-21
Kansas Notes

anu IhSiO arc lhAOV NhO dlO OfSl w. .
The big bass whistle on the Santa
Fe shops, by which every resident OF
Topeka has regulated his watch DUR
ing the last thirty years. was taken
down this week, permanently.
A Lawrence man who admits he
used to loiter around the stage door
twenty years ago for Cecil Spooner
is enjoying the New York decision
which speaks of her as young
girl"
The Wichita Eagle has theory that
the st. Louis sculptor erred in not
giving the sunflower, the grasshopper,
the chigger and the threshing machine
a place in the allegorlcal group, rep
Eesenting Kansas.
John Bell, county clerk at Ottawa,
believes his life Sld that of his wife
were saved by the family cat. He was
awakened at o'clock the other morn
ing by the cat pulling and scratching
at the bed clothes. He found the room
full of smoke and the house on fire.
The house was damaged to the ex-
tent of $500.
Atchison Globe: A drunken man
stopped a business man on the street
recently and wanted to talk. Ths
drunken man had hold of the business
mans coat collar, and he could not
escape. my time is worth money"
said the business man; this conversa-
ton will cost you twenty-five cents
a minute. In two more minutes you
will owe me dollar" The drunken
man paid the dollar, and. when time
was up he said he guessed he had
enough.
Prospects of an unusually large
crop" of honey almost reconcile the
editor of the Cherryvale Clarion to
the failure of the strawberry crop.
Evidently the Republican river,
which deserted Concorda year ago.
has returned. Two persons were
ulONHtu lutlt lulS Mtth'
The Tonganoxle Herald's printer
last week put the accounts of several
weddings under the pickup head NO
tees of Attachment"
Kansas has 100000 acres in alfalfa
which is ten times more than in 1893.
Yet alfalfa has neither bounty nor sub
sldy nor a prohibitlye tariff to "encour-
age it.
An election will be held in Kansas
City, Kan, May 26 to vote $l5O,OOO
bonds for school purposes. The sum
is needed for additional school build.
ings. There are 9,799 children of
school age, and accommodation for
only $40
"a prepossessing and intelligent
young man, a stranger in town, came
into this office last week on business, "
says Deacon Hoch of the Marion Rec
ord, land would have won our admir-
alton had he not marred his other
wise brilliant conversation with pro-
family. When will young men, and
old men too, for that matter, learn
that profanity adds neither emphasis
Lor ornament to human speech? It Is
coarse and offensive to all refined peo-
pie regardless Of moral considerations.
It is especially unwise in a business
man dealing with strangers. This
fact is so fundamental and so Obvious
that 1t seems like an insult to intel
ligence to argue It, but our visitors
case was not, we are sorry to say, an
Isolated or rare one. Hence this
preachment, which young men Willy be
wise to remember"
The government has set apart 49,
900 acres in the extreme southwest
ern corner OF the state for a forest
reserve. Jack pines, red cedars and
other trees are to be planted-lf they
will only grow.
The life insurance companies had to
pay the death losses amounting to
S122,9i7 in Leavenworth last year. The
loss was heavier than in any other
city in the state The total losses
were over 81 100000.
Disbarment proceedings had been
brought against ]. p Shuts. county
attorney OF Ellis county. but he re-
signed his office and the case was
dropped.
The Solomon Tribune explains that
a coachman gets a salary OF $50 a
month and his board for taking care
Of three or four horses. School teach
ers who are responsible for the edu-
cation OF forty or more children get
on an average S4755 and are COM
PEELED to pay board out OF that amount.
This is an argument for better wages
In behalf OF the pedagogues and all
will agree that they should be better
paid. The Tribune man continues:
1--WE cheerfully pay $1,000 a year to
a policeman that arrests criminals and
drunken men. Should we not pay as
much to the man or woman that as
an educator works that the future may
be freer from drunkenness and from
crlme?"
The transcript OF the evidence in
the case OF Wood against Fowler. from
Kansas City. Kas.. involving / million
dollars. will make 1000 typewriter
pages. II IS remarkable the trouble
o.. a. o.