The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-09-07
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Ottawa university confesses to forty
two years old.
A Butler county man has a crop of
millet with heads 81 inches long and
6 inches in circumference.
1t has been. fifty years since the first
settlement was made at Salina, but Sa-
lima doesn't really feel that old.
H. J. Hagny, of the Wichita Beacon,
attended the Bryan reception at New
York, and was taken by the Nebraska
delegation down the bay when it went
to be the first to greet the man from
Lincoln
Score a good point for the automobile:
A Pratt dog that had the evil habit of
running out and barking at every pass
ing vehicle, miscaIculated the speed of
an auto and went to the happy hunting
grounds.
Open confession by the Colby Free
Press: The editor of this paper thinks
he knows just how 10 say 40 but some
times he does not. Some time ago he
made a Arm resolution that he would
not donate a cent to the state temper
ance union this year. We are not in
sinuating that the officers of that in
stitution have been chartering any spec
ial train with our contribution IN years
gone by, but we have donated our mite
for some years past. Some weeks ago
when a representative of that Organiza-
ZION came TO CODY ana pIdlSeu DEO-
Hoch for his fight on saloons we got
mad. We thought a person who knew
so little as to endorse Hoch's action and
his play for popularity, first with the
temperance people, then with the joint
est was entirely too Verdant to handle
any of our donations. But last week a
demure and pleasant little lady tripped
lightly into our office, made her bust
ness known, collected our few copeks
and bowed herself out, leaving us abso-
lutely tongue tied, unable to enter one
kick against the institution That state
temperance union knows its business. If
it had sent around a big braWny man
We would have abused film 5ust as mach
as we dared to- But that ulittle WOMAN
she could have come back ten minutes
later and got another raise, provided
some one had come in between times
and left q little money. We sometimes
get chesty about our ability to take care
of ourself against these solicitors, but
at times we are not so many after all
It is quite evident that Frank Van
Allen, a Watervile young man who is
soldering in the Philippines, doesn't
think much of our islands across the
Pacific. Here is his opinion: The Phil
ippines are bunch of trouble gathered
together on the western horizon of
civilization They are bounded on the
north by wreck and destruction, on the
east by rain storms and typhoons, on
the south by cannibals and earthql1 lkes,
and on the west by hoodlums and SNUG
glers. The climate is a combination of
electrical changes and is especially
adapted to raising cain. The soil is ex-
traordinary in raising large clNps Of
trickery and Instructions The inhabit-
ants are Industrious in their chief occu-
patton. 1t being trench-building, manu-
featuring the bolo knives and reloading
Remington cartridges. Their chief
amusement is fighting. Their diet
consists of boiled rice. stewed rice, fried
rice and rice. Their penal ceremony is
very impressive. especially where the
wife is given the privilege of working
IS much as her husband desires
The principal exports are American
Inconsistencies. beno-- fields, rice and
wooden overcoats. Malaria is very much
in evidence here, and the islands on oc-
casions have been shaken with chill
The philippines would be an appro-
pirate gift to a deadly enemy. for the
climate is pleasantly healthy for wrecks,
tarantulas, alligators, boa constructors.
scorpions centipedes and snakes The
native is a friend at the point Of
Krag. The islands in general are a
God-forsaken. cannibalized. Aguinaido-
INFLICTED, blot on the face Of Gods green
aarfI,