Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1904-06-02
KANSAS NOTES

Cnief Staahl or Topeka cast aside
his scrupies long enough To rald
"JolnL" ca Sunuay.
Ane aforementioned robber who gets
away wlLn 'ln-goCLen gains" suoie some
tnIAss III CuautauQua county last
Ween.
AS nearly as the Coolidge Enter
PRISE Can understand Inc German STU
aLIon, herr DeDel seems 10 be enc
horace Greeley jumper Of the Reich
sIaG.
rom the programme Of the Kan
sas Seml-CenLennlaI IN Topeka next
week, II is inferred tnat the Mooocs
are gong 10 sing almost necessarily.
AL one Tune Al the very early Jays
the whole OF southwestern Kansas
was Called "PekeLon county anu Lne
state historical society Is trying to
nnu out III eorlsln ol mat name.
| were IL mo- Ivr mat one lone game
whoa tue rUlL SCO.L Team o. Lne
Missouri Valley league has won this
season, it would be able to enter q
general and sweeping plea OF not
guilty.
There is danger that Oklahoma may
intrude and make itself third party
TO the Kansas Colorado suit, and ask
the supreme court to enjoin Kansas
from draining the Arkansas river.
Governor Bailey will address the
Saturday Night club in Topeka this
week on the subject, "A Glimpse Into
the Future" which embraces, in the
case of the governor, fertile and
well-stocked farm in Nemaha coun-
ty.
AS proof that "a prophet is not
without honor" ETC., the Ottawa Her
aid cites the case of Charles M. Har-
ger, who writes first class fiction for
Eastern publications, but runs boiler
plate" stories in his own paper, the
Abilene Reflector; and w. A. White,
whose best stuff never appears in the
Emporia Gazette.
George A. Clark, the state printer,
is having much difficulty in convinc-
ing his friends that he really caught a
nine and one-half pound black bass
at Lake ,iew. 1t reminds them Of
the story of Bill Sterrett's elephant
Bill awoke one morning and saw an
immense elephant in his room. He
was badly frightened and while he
was trying to think Of some way to
get rid of it, the elephant backed out
through the keyhole.
Senator F. Dumont Smith objects
to the practice of some Of the polit-
ical writer's of clipping his editorials
in mis- paper, the Kinsley Mercury, and
using them as interviews with him
self. There was time" he con-
fesses, when the writer had the in
terview habit. 1t used to tickle him
to be asked for his views and he
gave them freely, and it tickled him
to have them printed. Now we have
been in politics long enough not to
have any views. They are dangerous.
We have shed them"
Millinery note in the Eldorado Re-
publican: "Gwendolyn's new sum-
mer hat looks like basket phaeton
full of flowers"
During the trial of young man for
theft in Mcpherson TIE other day the
court ruled that while 1t is not neces-
sary for the prosecution to establish
any fixed value in larceny case, there
must be some value fixed to the ar
ticle stolen" What's the answer?
tom" Charles Of the Bellevilfe
Freeman has a way OF blending his
poetical and political flights Of fancy.
1.-THE chrysalis," he says, has flown
out Of the Populist cocoon, and the
Populist voters have left the old hull
and are now flying about the ethereal
atmosphere"
Mrs. Ben" Clover, who died last
: week, was the wife Of the late ex'
congressman from the Third district
and some of the papers are giving
, her credit for inventing the name
"Populist." The truth is that the
I name was brought into use by the
newspaper correspondents in 1892
during the first Lewelling campaign
because they found Peoples party
too cumbersome.
In Japan, when a man gives a girl
{ a present and she accepts 1t, 1t con
stitutes an engagement Not knowing
this until afterward, Salina young
woman who recently accepted a gift
from a Jap is greatly worried.
Abel RICHTER, the editor of the
q Coolidge Enterprise, refused to go tc
the st. Louis exposition last week be
I cause he is opposed to free editorial
junkets. Instead, he sent his assist
ant, Reed Cope, and the foreman
Mark Cope, with the Frisco's special
train.
Philosophy from the Sedgwick Pan
tagraph: If you have heavy load
to carry, kicking will not tighten It
Some people are 30 unlucky
that II 1t was raining silver dollars
score finally hit upon a plan to keel
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