The Globe-republican., 1904-06-16
KANSAS NOTES

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that a person can "see" the st. Louis
exposition for s42 week, which In.
cludes every reasonable item of ex.
pense. The chief fault with the esti.
mate Is the allowance of 50 cents a
day for "incidentals."
In Mcpherson county a bride an0
groom are still referred to as "the
contracting parties"
| One Of the Chanute papers declared
as early as a week ago that pros
poets were good" for another flood.
One Of the Eldorado Republicans
hints on polite usage: 1T is no long.
er fashionable to faint at a wed.
ding"
Of the lO4 graduates from Bethany
college in Londsborg, this term, 1O2
of the names end with the syllable
SON."
The cheerful idiot who drops into
the newspaper office and says: 1--WE
got an item for you: It's raining"
is at large in lola.
The Click Stock company, just off
the kerosene circuit found 1t neces-
sary to disband Saturday in Atchison,
where the very name Of Click is one
to conjure by.
Deacon House has discovered ali
ardent Prohibitionist in Topeka who
will not eat anything that is cooked
on a chatting dish, because the chatting
dish requires alcohol for fuel.
One of two things are said to be
necessary in Salina: Either the street
crossings will have to be repaired,
or the atizens must become more
expert at the running broad jump.
There is much doubt If the travel.
ing evangelist who was arrested in
Enterprise last week for beating his
wife could get respectful hearing
anywhere in Kansas now-even in
Topeka.
The Girard Appeal to Reason is Of
ferlng steam yacht twenty-five feet
in length as the prize in a guessing
contest. The craft is called proudly,
1.-THE Flagship of the Socialist Propa.
ganda Navy"
E. W. Hoch has a department in the
Marion Record each week called
Thoughts We've Been Thinking"
This Is one Of last weeks thoughts
Like the sweet flowers that adorn
the roadside, filling the air with their
fragrance and cheering the dropping
spirits of the weary traveller, are the
friends with whom we pause in our
pilgrimage and enjoy even for little
while the perfume Of their presence.
And as we carry with us over the
rough places the memories of the
more beautiful landscapes where the
flowers grew so these tarryings by
the wayside with cherished friends
give buoyancy to spirit and elasticity
to step when the journey if life is
resumed"
Society note in the jamestown Op-
timist: "Mr Fudge took dinner with
G. Bray Friday
An Atchison woman, who has man
aged to get little money ahead, is |
suffering from what the neighbors call
nervous prosperity"
Joseph l.. Bristows father Is now |
the police judge in Baldwin, where a
police judge is needed about as much |
as troops at Christian Endeavor con.
vention.
Among the candidates whose ian.
nouncements" are made in the Clay |
Center Times are John Chestnut,
James Crabb, ]. A. Loader and e. T.
Hopes.
A young man was eating a frugal
lunch in a Wellington restaurant and
at table near by comely young wo.
man was enjoying her meal. The man
began a desperate filtration, which
was, however, all one-sided. Let the
Wellington News tell the rest of the
story; "She took biscuit from the
table and threw it with an aim not
supposed to be characteristic with the
women folks, and hit him squarely on
the head. Any one who is In the
habit Of eating or trying to eat restau.
rant biscuit will understand that 1t
must have been an awful blow. The
doctor thinks that with careful nurs,
ing the young man will recover. But
the restaurant will not be able to use
the biscuit again, as biscuit"
An Atchison man was arrested re.
Gently, the Globe says, and the next
morning he had smart lawyer in the
police court to defend him. The law.
yer brought a lot of law books, and
brought up one reason after another
to show why the defendant was not
guilty He launched technicality after
technically at the Judge, who fldgeted
and looked first in one direction and
then in another. Finally Judge Jack.
son said: Here, stop that; I'm tired
of 1t, If a man thinks the only thing
he needs to do to escape Justice In this
court is to hire lawyer for SIS, he Is
mistaken. This court cares nothing
about the Ninth Illinois, or the Sew
enth Massachusetts,, or Sixteenth Cali