The Topeka state journal., 1905-08-03
LAYHxWKER JOTS

Clyde will invite all of northern Kan
sas in to help her eat watermelons this
year on August 81 and September L,
which dates have been selected for the
annual watermelon carnival.
Parsons Sun: The State Journal says
that nearly every fire alarm in Topeka
means two runs for the department..
Some one should turn in an alarm for
the Parsons baseball team.
Some of Bent Murdocl's philosophy:
''Charon, who runs a ferryboat across
the river Styx, says about one half his
passengers are ticketed to Gehanna for
being hypocrites; and he wonders how
the devil will find roasting room for all
of them"
An ottawa man who has just return
ed from the wheat belt tells that thou
sands of bushels OF harvest apples are
rotting on the ground in Mcpherson
county. He says he took load to
town for a farmer and couldn't give
them away.
Ralph TennaI, who has been working
on the Atchison Globe for years and
years and years and then some, will go
up into Iowa to run paper of his own
| Bert Howard, who is well known in
newspaper work in northeastern KAN
sas, is now working on the Globe.
An Emoporia fisherman recently
brought in 90 pounds of buffalo. carp
| and suckers. Two of the buffalo fish
weighed 10 pounds each. Now it is a
| on a hook, yet the fisherman claimed
he caught ali of these fish that way. He
says the fish are vegetarians and VIII
| not bite on meat bait, but he baited his
| hooks with sweet corn and that brought
'em. This is a fish story or not, just
| as you look at it.
Some Atchison young man is allow
| ing a grand prize in the matrimonial
lottery to slip away from him. If you
don't believe it, read this from the
Globe: "An Atchison girl spent the
month of July in making herself three
dresses, some lingerie, put up 80 quarts
| of fruit made $23 by collecting for
town firms, got breakfast every morn
| ing and dinner every evening for a
family of five, and assisted three weeks
out of the month in doing the family
| ironing
Alrnira Tood tells of an Erie man
who bought some quinine at drug
store and the druggist persisted in put
ting it UP in capsules, over the mild
protest of the purchaser. A few days
later the druggist asked the customer
how he liked the capsules "Oh. the
quinine keeps purity well in EN-" said
the customer, "but it's so darned hard
to get out" This is a reminder of a
central Kansas man who once bought
some powders put up in capsules. A
week later he came back to the drug
little bottles filled again"
w. Y. Morgan: The town of Tri-
berg is a quaint little place near the
| top of the mountain and apparently
about one hundred miles from No
where. l have had my first experience
with what I understand is not infre-
quent in old German towns. There is
a tax on strangers, thirty pfennigs a
| day or one mark a week, and our hotel
has to pay and charge in our bill.
Ministers of the gospel, and paupers
are exempt. In America if they had
a fool tax like that they would also
exempt newspaper men. The only
way 1 could get out of paying the tax
was to make affidavit that 1 was a
minister or a pauper, so I reluctantly
gave up the offer to dodge taxation
and the town of Triberg is fifteen cents
| to the good on account of our stay.
| However. there is a very fine waterfall
and we looked fifteen cents worth at
| that and called 1t even.
John Redmond. of the Burlington JEFF
! fersonian, is out in Washington on a
| vacation. In letter home he says:
| News from home is slow in reaching
us and it is a little late to congratu-
| late the JEFF on it's good Judgment in
| opposing the election of Tom T. Kelly
| as state treasurer of Kansas last fall. It
! was the first time / have ever oppoS-
1 ed a man on the Republican ticket and
later developments prove the assertions
/ made during the campaign and that
Kansas could not afford to knowingly
elect man like Kelly to public office.
! / admire a great many of Governor
| Hoch's principles and endorse most of
| his official acts. but at this distance
| it looks to me that If he had looked into
| the possibilities at the time he was
| helping Kelly get a denomination and
1 reelection, it would have saved himself
| and the state of Kansas lot of worry.
But as Hoch is now doing the best he
| can, every good citizen should help
him."