The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-06
JANA WKER JOT.S

The Holton Recorder hands down
the opinion that the most silly and I'M
interesting thing a man has to listen
to these days Is one-sided converse
ton over the telephone between the
hired girl and her beau.
If the unregenerate scoundrel who
broke into the poultry dressing estab-
lishment at Stockton and stole some
hens the other night, had closed it up
after he got what he wanted. little
would have been said about it. But he
left an opening through which 800
escaped, and 1875 OF them are still
missing. But possibly the hens are not
sorry.
Belleville, shipped eight carloads Of
cold storage eggs to St. Louis and sold
them at p and % cents q dozen. He
bought them last summer at II and / 4
cents, it cost about a cent and half
per dozen to store them, and two cents
to get them to market. AS each car
holds 400 cases, or 10000 dozen, it is
figured that the profits on the deal
were something like $4,000.
Through a ding. says
the Leavenworth Post, well-known
LeavenWorth woman bought hog for
sixteen cents at one of the local butch
err shops this morning. The woman
entered the shop and seeing a num-
Der Of dressed hogs on the hooks, ask
ed what they were worth sixteen
right said the woman. II will send
and express wagon after 1t, and you
can just charge It to my husband" The
woman left the shop and In a short
time an expressman drove up to gel
the hog. He hauled it to the Woman'a
house. At noon when the husband
came home for dinner he was thun-
derstruck to see a big fat dressed hog
on the kitchen table. For heavens
sake" he said to his wife, what are
you going to do with so much meat?"
Well answered the wife. II got it so
cheap that I thought I might as. we'll
buy it. We can pack it away and-keep
it for winter 1t cost me only sixteen
cents" The husband was well nigh
Frustrated by this time, but he man.
aged to keep his equilibrium. On his
way down town. he stopped at the
butcher shop to find out all about the
hog transaction, and was shown his ac-
count, which read: ITO one hog, 21O
pounds at sixteen cents a pound,
$500" But the woman bought the
hog for sixteen cents, and will not pay
nenny more.
Sermon by Deacon Walker: Young
man, why don't you be decent? Why
not grow to manhood with honor and
credit instead Of stain upon your
character? It Is just as easy. 1t is
always easier to be a man than to be
a rowdy- Cigarettes and milling and
whisky have had many a wrestle with
boys long before you came on this
scenes and they have never vet been
thrown. Don't get the idea into your
head that you can turn the trick If
you don't want to be decent for your
self, be decent for others. There is
one heart whose sorrows should appeal
to you. There Is one who has faced
everything for your sake; one who has
TO bear the cross for your foolishness.
You don't want your trail through this
world stained with a mothers tears
The boy who turns a brozen face to
mothers grief never gets very far on
the road to happiness. When he gets
a little older you ind his name on the
police docket OF various cities, and
little later the dark shadows of stone
walls loom up across his pathway.
Without honor, home or friends. IT'S
a sad picture but it is painted every
day in every town in this broad land.
The pathway Of the transgressor is one
Of rocks and thorns. When you bruise
your feet the world Will laugh at you
just as you laughed at your mothers
appeals. There is only one system for
a boy to follow. Be decenh 1t always
pays dividends.