The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-28
AYHAWKER JOTS

Twin boys at Abilene are twelve
years old and live at 1900 Twelfth
street. They came mighty close to
being unlucky.
Joe Bristow takes comfort in the
thought that the people who are driven
out of Oklah oma by prohibition won't
come back to Kansas.
Political note in the Holton Signal:
The fact that B. P. Waggener failed 20
attend a colored picnic in Atchison the
other day is regarded by some of the
politicians as a sign that he will not be
a candidate for senator next year.
Bud Ball, who carries the Atwood
mail, drives twenty-five thousand
miles each year. When he has finished
his contract he will have driven a dis
lance equal to four times around the
globe. So far he has done all the driv-
ing himself.
Experience told by Editor bod Lum-
max in the Vinland Vine: In its
younger days the Vine used to take
considerable pride in looking over the
exchanges for quotations from its coll
umns. 1t noticed that the Mound VAL
ley Herald never quoted it. This
and the Vine set out to get quoted ir
the Herald. 1t tried everything that
usually goes and then thought up lot
of new ways. Five years were spent in
that way. The Mound Valley Herald
never quoted the Vine. We then stop
ped. That was ten years ago. The
Vine has never yet been quoted in the
Herald. We always think of this when
told that all things come to him who
is ingenius and who waits and works.
Confession by Frank farrell: Once
in a while people who don't know the
editor of this paper make the mistake
of writing to us to deliver an address.
They never invite US a second time. We
get stage fright before an audience
and our effort is very bum. All of
which recalls a sad personal expert
ence. Some twenty years ago We were
billed to make a speech at school
house over in Atchison county. We
wrote a very fine speech, ana commit
ted it. Bill Waggener, son of Bale
Waggener. put up a job on us which
pretty nearly broke US of the speech
habit. Waggener went to the school
house in the afternoon and arranged
with the teacher, who was a wag, for
complete programme of interrupt
lions for our speech. and the plot was
pulled off without break. We had
spoken about two minutes when the
school teacher rose in the rear of the
room and said he wanted to make an
announcement before the crowd left.
He said that Professor Snort would be
on hand the next night to organize Il
singing class, and proceeded to talk at
length about Professor SHORTS merits
as a vocalist. When he got through
we had forgotten where we had left
off and had to begin all over again.
We hadn't gone far. when another man
asked for further details about the
singing class, and the teacher explained
some more. At this second Interrupt
ton Waggener jumped to his feet in an
assumed rage, denouncing the attempt
of the hated opposition to break up the
He shook his head and
paved the floor, consuming more of
our time than did the teacher. The
teacher came back at Waggener and
they wrangled for about ten minutes,
and the constable. who was in the plot.
broke in with a long winded Speech
about preserving the peace. The re-
suit was that we got ratified. couldn't
rem ember our address, and had to sit
down. The villains who spoiled our
oratorical display sneaked out Of this
school house to laugh at our humilia-
ton.