The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-03-28

get of the townsite for four months
engage in the most pleasurable occu-
patton of trying to run a newspaper
or letting it run him.
The Lawrence Gazette: There was
| one point where the Gazette's esteemed
| contemporaries, the Journal ana
| Wcrld laid il over us this week. Their
reporters are young ladies. and they
worked right along as though there
were no school ma ans in town
The Parsons Sun: A Minneapolis
woman drank a decoction of soap.
/ gasoline and ammonia by mistake but
/ was assured that it was harmless
Nothing but water is considered really
dangerous as beverage in Mime
apolis-
According to the Conway Springs
Star a young Miss in one of the
4 schools gave as the three most inn
portant events in life, marriage;
said the teacher. "but you have the
order reversed. Birth comes before
marriage Not in our family" was
the reply.
The Salina Journal: Rev. Bernard
Kelly is a candidate for the position of
presiding elder of the Ottawa district,
of the South Kansas conference, and
if he does not get it there VIII be a
boss buster movement started in the
Methodist church which will make
Bent Murdock's political uprising look
like thirty cents
The Fort Scott Republican: Some
OF the smart elecks are poking fun at
J. L. Brady, of the Lawrence World
for wanting to be candidate for
congress. As a matter of fact Brady
lacks a whole lot of being at the bot
tom of the list of those mentioned. in
the qualities that go to make up u
congressman. He would not spend his
time dividing postohice jobs nor de-
vote his energies to making grand
4 t. col Lori No
purpose of landing a better job for
himself. Brady would make a better
congressman than we have had in this
district for a dozen years
The Eureka Herald says that a new
Judge in delivering his first charge to
the jury after a rather hotly contested
case, In which the attorneys on both
sides made lengthy arguments, spoke
as follows: Gentlemen of the jury
charging a jury is a new business to
me, as this is my first case You have
all of the evidence as we'll as myself
You have heard what the learned
the counsel for the plaintiff has told
you. your verdict would be for the
plaintiff; but if on the other hand You
believe what the defendants counsel
has told YOU then YOU will find q
verdict for the defendant; but if you
are like me, and don't believe what
either of them said. then I'll be ID
If I know what you'll do. Constable
take charge of the jury"
Commenting on the fact that Phil
Campbell can never be president he
cause he was born on alien soil, Tom
Cordry of the Parsons Sun, remarks:
THE fact that Congressman Phil p.
Campbell was born in Nova Scotia
may prevent him from being president
of the United States shows how care
full a person should be in selecting his
At the time Campbell
probably never gave the subject
moments thought. or if he did he
never suspected that it would bar him
from the presidency. 1t shows how
early influences and incidents COM
mence to shape the future destinies of
men, There may be those who viii
claim that Phil Campbell is not to
blame. but he cannot shift the re-
sponsibility entirely. He should have /
known at the time that to be president |
of the United States it was necessary /
for him to be born in this country, I
and he should have made arrange
ments according. In not doing so he |
has wrOnged, not so much himself as
his friends. who are thus deprived of |
honOring him. and he has deprived /
Kansas of furnishing a president of /
the United States And now with the I
Kansas legisla ture on its death bed /
there is no way in which the ccnstitu-
ton of the United States can be /
changed or declare Nova Scotia a part |
Of the United States and Campbell is /
I'D against it.