The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-30
JAYaAWKER JoTs.

Padssrewsld now insists upon PLAYING
with the light turned low. Prices at the
pcX oftlce remain as high as usual--PaI-
SONS sun
That portion Of Manhattan which isn't
nailed down viii be at the depot May .
70 see President oosevelt.-Manhattan
Nationalist,
Before making any donations for libra
rs Air. Carnegie should require the town
that seeks TO benefit TO give a bond not
to quarrel over the location.-Fort Scott
Monitor
lady-kller' may by the public estimate
Of PenneA. learn Just how such men are
regarded by decent peonle.-Hutchinson
Some negro haters in Missouri poured oil
on negro school house lately and set fire
to it. Are they afraid down there that
the negroes will get ahead of them in ed
ucatiou9 Chanute Tribune
A woman on the west side stands before
tRe era wing room and practices her daily
Kitchen prepares the family breakfast
Mcpherson Republican
The Kansas legislature should have pass
ed Il compulsory education law for New
England Another man has arrived at TT
Scout and been disappointed because he
diGn t lind any Indians.-Wic Eagle.
The bartcnders of Baltimore have organ
lied total abstinence society Could the
consumer desire amy better evidence of
the danger than Turks in the goods the
bartcnders sell2-Fort Scott Republican.
When weather prophets disagree. several
weather signals are run up. There were
four different kinds on the Innes signal
pole enc day this week and just to show
that il joke. had four different
kinds of weather.-Lawrence Gazette
Senator Burton is en- route home and
win stop at St. Louis so the dispatches
say. TO consult with the worlds fair eff
Gals. but We rather suspect it is TO try
his indicates he dumped in a get-rich-
quick schemc.-Concordia Blade and En-
pire
city papers might just as well cut cut
all ridtcule Of country papers for printing
uuimpOrtant news. In Kansas City name
for a new baseball park advertising
scheme) is being selected by vote. and
Kansas City paper is actually printing the
names of voters and their preferences. -
Atchison Globe.
Col f. c. Little Of Abilene had dog:
his neighbors had some chickens. The dog
killed the chickens. Then the dog was
killed and the colonel had to pay for The
chickens. He settled the damage by draw
ing a check. which read as follows: Pay
to c. c. Wyandt. or order. $3.50. in mem
or-y Of my dog.'-Concordia Blade
The last legislature declared the Sun
flower to be the official flower Of Kansas
and II must now be written with a big
and spoken of only with awe and re-
spect. However, it would have been a
good deal more sensible to have made the
Alma Patent the official flour OF the state
instead of the sunhower.-AIma Enter
prise.
William Harris Of St. Louis was last
week sentenced TO IS years in the peniten-
tiary for stealing seventy-hve cents. He
has just completed a term for ten years.
Had he stolen half milion-and finan-
cially ruined hundred peopIe-he would
have been acquitted and applauded for his
sagacity The little thief has to take his
medicine.-CaldweN Advance.
The Bulletin editors wife owns d horse
and dozen chickens She has owned
the chickens since last Christmas, but up
to this week the hens apparently had not
laid any eggs. The other day she discOv-
cred that when a hen cackled the old
horse would Immediately wake up. go to
hunting for the egg and eat it. Now she
has a foot race with the horse every time
a hen caclles in the barn lot Sometimes
tile wife wins and sometimes the morse
wins But the funny part Of it is. some
times neighbours hen cackes and when
the wife rushes out to the barn lot the
old horse stands demurely until she makes
a futile search for the egg then he gives
her what is known as the horse laugh
Anthony BulIetln.