The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-10-19
JAYHA WKER JOTS

Reformed football has been respon-
sible for one broken collar bone at
Chanute thus far this season.
Speaking of good times in the wheat
country, a Salina jeweler has just sold
a thousand dollar diamond ring.
A farmer near Pittsburg raised a
thousand pumpkins on a half acre Of
ground, and many Of them weighed 70
pounds each.
Two plate glass windows in a new
building at Caney cracked recently,
and as a result the proprietor was
obliged to post this notice: Don
know what caused these glass to break.
That they are broken is bad enough.
without answering so many questions
about it. have something else to do
Direct your questions to the marshal
Yours truly, Tom Young"
Holton Signal: DeVere Rafter last
week was the recipient of a gift which
he prizes highly. 1t is the chair occu-
pied for many years by the late
Albert H. Horton as chief Justice OF
the Kansas supreme court, Mrs aor-
ton decided a good While ago to give
the chair to q young lawyer OF her
acquaintance, and she finally made up
her mind to let Mr.. Rafter have it.
Good reform suggested by the Sa-
lima Union There are a lot of school
children who carry crayon about with
them which they get at school, and
The postoffice and Odd Fellows block
have both been marred in this way in
the past two days, and the 1an1tors
have cleaned the marks from the
walls. This Is a misdemeanor and par
erts might save trouble by giving their
children q caution in regard to the
matter.
Agricultural notes from the Slum-
berville items in the Horton CONNER
ciaI: While up cornstalk gathering
foil
and sustained internal injuries which
may prove fatal. James Durham,
whose farm house burned recently, has
moved into large pumpkin which he
raised on his farm. We passed a
farm house the other day and saw a
lot of men digging with long spades.
We asked a man what they were doing
and he said excavating for potatoes.
1--WE have always been compelled, -
says the Horton Commercial, Ito be-
Iieve that the plain plug of a man is
the happiest man in the world after
all. His pants may bag at the knees
and he may not be acquainted with the
latest style OF chin WhiskerS; he may
not hold down a throne or the preSi-
dency of a railroad; he may not know
the JOY Of having a brand Of socks
named in his honor, but as he potters
along through life he gets about as
much satisfaction and calm out Of it
as his more distinguished friend. He
knows there is no crank hanging
around the corner to shoot a hole
through his anatomy or bury a cheese
knife up to the hilt in his person. He
knows when he sits down to his frugal
meal that he can eat his pie with his
knife with perfect impunity, for there
is no danger of its having been spiked
with rough on rats. No doubt 1t is lots
of fun to be hailed whenever you step
out on your porch and to have your
self continually misquoted in the news
papers and to know that as you hang
up your crown for the night and crawl
into your luxurious couch. that the po-
lice force Is standing out in your back
yard to keep the adIniring public from
throwing bricks through your window.
But notwithstanding all these ardent
Joys, the common, every day chap who
wears a hickory shirt and a hat that
is eight years old gets the most pleas
ure out of life in the long rum