The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-06-19
JAYHA WKER JOTS

Emporia is progressing. It is publicly
announced that a citizen of that town
has quit wearing celluloid collars and
has taken to linen.
The Emporia Gazette tried to print a
piece about some girls going to a pic
mic, but the cOmpositor set itup panic"
Perhaps the compositor was right.
Horton is making preparation for
/ big Bible school picnic there on June "A.
Governor Hoch is advertised to be pres
ent and about 500 Sunday school chill
dren from Topeka.
Speaking of the gasoline motors
which some of the Kansas railroads will
/ put on their branch lines, Bert Walker
! says some branches could put on a line
/ Of wheelbarrows and improve the pres
/ ent- service.
"A Topeka man. says the Osborne
Farmer, claims to have been present
when Lincoln wrote his now famous
| Gettysburg speech. Some day Topeka
man will claim to have written the ten
commandments" Sure. Several To-
/ peka men have written the ten COM
mandments. They used to be in the
| copyboOks and we had to write EN- ev
/ cry day.
Ewing Herbert is mad at Judge
/ Stuart, who sits on the district bench
1 in the Doniphan-Brow Nemaha dis
trict. So are the jointists. Judge Stuart
is the man who sent liquor man to
Jail in aDOniphan county for three
months and fined him five hundred dol
! lars for running a joint in the county,
although he had never been in the
| county until he was brought there for
/ trial. And the supreme court said that
/ Judge Stuart did just the right thing.
/ There are a lot of wrong-doers, as well
/ as the editor Of the Hiawatha World
| who hate Judge Stuart.
The other day the Salina Journal
/ mentioned in a somewhat dubious
way the oratoricaI abilities of Tom
I Cordry and William Allen White, and
! Cordry turns loose a declaration of
war, as follows: NOW, just when
there is every prospect of peace be-
tween Russia and Japan, Fred Trigg
of the Salina Journal intimates that
| William Allen White and the editor of
this paper are not orators. No sooner
is peace established or being arranged
in one place than someone stirs up
trouble in another. Still, we have
never considered Bill White much of
an orator
Osborne Farmer: Old Bill Shiftless
was IN town the other day and dropped
around to talk over the war between
Russia and Japan. Bill says he predict
ed that Japan would whip Russia every
time they got together and is glad of
IL. Ine fact is that when the war broke
out Bill said Russia would wipe those
yaller pig-tails off the face of the earth
in about two swiDes." Since warm
weather set in Bill has taken to getting
up and starting the fire for his wife.
He makes up for this heroism by TAX
ing good long nap right after dinner
BIZ says he feels a whole lot better in
the evening if he sleeps a little in the
day time Bill cut a. little bunch of al
falfa the other day and came near los
!hg II. There was ball game that g.
| ternoon across the country about i've
miles and as Bill didn't feel wen enough
to rake it he thought he would attend
the game. A heavy rain came up about
-, CLOCK, but Mrs. Shiftless had taken
! the Drecaution to get on the rake ae
5 soon as Bill left and get it in shane 81
} couple Of the neighbors could take
? care OF 1t. Bill says there is no use in
working yourself to death early in life
/ He intends to enjoy himself 4 little I'd
he goes along.