The Globe-republican., 1904-03-24

places, under threats to burn the re-
cipient's barns and blow up their
houses, Is teasing the farmers In the
vicinity Of Glen Elder.
"Mr. Subscriber" pleads the Green
leaf Sentinel, "the white paper alone
in your Sentinel for year costs forty
cents. Then we put in fifty'two weeks
work and ask you sixty cents for this
labor. Don't you feel small when you
beat us out Of it,"
Valuable Music Note in the Burr
Oak Herald: "A growing plant should
be kept in the room with piano, says
a piano tuner. As long as the plant
thrives the piano will. The reason
that a piano is injured by dry, over
heated room Is that all the moisture
is taken out of the sounding board"
Grant county has succeeded in kill.
ing most Of Its prairie dogs, and now
it is trying to find some remedy for
its other dogs.
John Gilmore has a theory that the
ownership Of an old fashioned bonnet
will keep a woman from church more
surely than spell Of sickness.
BAT" Masterson has been out OF
Dodge City so long that the people
have become tranquil. The Democrat
protests because he was received cor.
daily at the White House.
A national bank in Wichita adver.
tises 100 million dollars Of capital, but
the fault Is with the printer, not the
bookkeeper.
For some reason the man who ran
at large in North Topeka this week
carrying alarge hammer is thought to
be insane.
Governor Bailey has designated
April as Arbor day. >
The dramatic critic for the Emporla
Gazette finds fault with one Of last
weeks shows because no man ever
says Curse you!" to another man in
actual life.
The Jewell county woman who graf
ed $25 worth of horse radish by hand
within the last few months Is reported
to have shed enough tears to float
an auxiliary cruiser.
In Mcpherson the girls have organ
lied a Marble Heart club, but the
young men who have read the ac'
counts of the Baltimore fire are aware
that even marble is not fireproof.
All of the "rookies" at Fort Riley
rushed for the cellar when the dust
storm approached last week. They
had heard about Kansas cyclones and
they thought one was upon them.
Dust is a poor element to arouse
poets fancy, but it happened out in
Jewell City. The Republicans poet
sings: 1--WE like the dust, the sitting
dust, that bloweth every day; we like
these gentle moods Of March-if you
don't care what you say" -
The first fire escape in Manhattan
was installed last week. A local paper
explains that it consists Of iron steps
extending from one Of the west win
dows Of, the third story to within a
few feet of the ground" Del Valentine
is afraid some one may set fire to the
building just to see how 1t works.
According to the Topeka Capital,
+. Dumont Smith Is the only man in
Kansas who can afford to run paper
Just to give his wife an opportunity to
write club notes" His paper Is the
| Kinsley Mercury. Mr.. Smiths law
practice yields him $4,000 year, and
he Is a state senator besides.
The Pratt Union refers to a man
whose sanity was decided in the mega
tive as lacking in filling In his hat"
Among the other things the public
| is curious to know Is II Mr.. Trip, Of
Dickinson county is related to Mr.,
| Stubbs.
When a Salina man goes shopping"
| his friends are aware, Of course, that
| he means he Is going bucket shop
ping,
The Coolidge Enterprise refuses to
treat Mormonism in any other way
thsr as 'the comic supplement to the
Good Book
| Colonel Jeltz, Of the Negro Ledger
| Is pleased with the assurance that the
"venal equinox" Is only about ter
days distant.
1t is related as true that a young wo
man who was taking her first ride on
| a railroad a few days ago stayed on fol
sixteen miles. Then she concluded
that the cars we're running away,
and jumped off, She was not serlousl,
l,urt.