The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-10-29
LAYHA WKER .JOTS


Mr.. Beer is a Jewell county auc-
| tioneer. Another sort OF beer also
sometimes augments the crowd at a
sale.
Elliott Clark of Phillipsburg. recent
~ gave the Post six potatoes weighing
pound each. Nothing small about
them.
According to the Record. an Erie
woman who has more decent buds than
most anybody, is gratifying the curious
public by meeting all the Sunday trains
with a complete change of costume
each time.
Roy Neeley. who was stenographer
in Concordia when the Spanish-Ameri-
can war broke out, and whose patriot
ism led him to enlist, is still in the gov
eminent service and now comes to the
front as chief clerk for Governor Ma
COON In Cuba. Thus does Kansas score
once more.
Opinion handed down by Bent Muir
dock: I'VE are not on the witness
stand are not competent authority
have but little artistic sense, and While
we have an abiding love for the beau
tiful. we can't always tell 1t when we
meet It; but then we are prepared to
saw that a short. fat girl, don't look
well on the highway astraddle OF a big
fat horse, especially when the wind IS
blowing
Advice from the Belleville Freeman:
If you should ever decide to try your
luck in a bucket shop and don't know
what to do, just walk in and give the
man your money; it doesn't make any
difference on which side or where or
how YOU place il. The only thing you
should be careful about is to take a.
receipt which will be 10 show you
where Your money Went OthefW1se
you will not know how you lost IT.
This story is told by Alnira Todd on
a Young man who doesn't live a great
distance from Erie: He was going to
be married to a sweet, rosy checked
Neosho county girl. me WeodlIls SUI
had been laid out, the license had been
procured and the preacher engaged
The important hour was near at hand
but the prospective groom was not YET
quite ready. He needed haircut, ana
needed it badly His mother had al
v,-fI-s attended to this little matter for
him. but on this occasion John insisted
that he preferred a tailor made hair
cut AS he had never had occasion TO
enter a barber shop he knew httle
about them and still less about the
price of a haircut He ventured IN,
however, and approached the artist III
charge and demanded their prices
When told that haircut would De
worth a quarter he twisted ABOUT uH-
easily and looked thoughtful w ell ?
ne said at last, 81 hain't got no time to
lew We. but quarter thunderin' lot
to nav to git yer hair cut, but III tell
ve xtrhat'U do. III set down mere an
votf can go to wurk an when We git
fifteen cents wurth chopped OF ye
en- quit"
Snake story by the Troy Chief; Bill
Judd. who is clerk, helper and short
hand man for Agent Maynard at the
st. Joseph & Grand Island depot In this
city. believes he had 8 narrow escape
| from being bitten by a snake which
| by some means had gotten into the
warehouse Of the depot last Tuesday
Judd says the snake was about six Feet
| long and when he went into the room
reared No on its tail and ran out about
| a foot of forked tongue at him. Blu
| had a Ratchet which he threw at the
snake. but missed and then the snake
made for him. Bill didn't wait to see
what the snake would do, but yelled
| murder and ran into the depot and
! locked the door between the office and
| the warehouse. He told Agent May
nard that there was q whole barrel OF
! snakes in the warehouse and that the
snakes were loose and had no shipping
/ tags on them, so the agent concluded
/ ia investigate He took the broom and
1 boldly. advanced into the snake den and
| there sure enough was the snake ready
| for battle Mr.. Maynard hit 1t clip
with the broom and dtsa bled II. A lew
/ more blows killed it and then 1t was
/ hauled out for. inspection and 1t was
about a foot long. It was dinerent
species from what Is found around mere
| and Is supposed to have been shippin In
/ in jug of election whisky winch
! sorehead candidate received the otner
dav and was trying to md its way pack
/ to Kansas City.