The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-14
AYH4 WKER JOT.S

Oversight noted by the Wichita
Eagle: The Kansas legislature over
| looked few things. While it was rush
ing through a law prohibiting any high
school student from belonging to fra
ternity society, it overlooked law pro-
hibiting third-grade boys from putting
pins in the teachers seat.
Along the Southern Kansas road,
about two miles north of Arkansas City,
passengers may see the inscription
letters on the side of a hill about one
fourth of a mile west of the railroad
track. The letters are thirty feet lonf
and the inscription covers a length OF
more than 200 yards. The letters are
formed of white stones laid in heaps
upon the ground. The inscription may
be read from the train for more than
two miles. 1t was placed there by a
railway train dispatcher at Arkansas
City, who belongs to a religious sect
world with it's religion. Across the
river on a tall bluff. about one mile dis
tant from the Southern Kansas railroad
station at Arkansas City, is another in
scription in stone. 1t reads: Eternity
Where viii You Spend It?"
Clean from the Pittsburg Headlight:
Probate Judge Jos. Keys is new at the
job. He has only been marrying people,
that is making a business of 1t, since
this time last month. Consequently he
once in awhile. The other day a young
couple from Pittsburg was up to be
mitchell Judge Keys performed the
ceremony nicely, and the bride, who
happened to be carrying the purse, fork
ed over a couple of dollars. The judge
thanked them and started to attend to
some other business when the bride,
who appeared to be hesitating about
something, remarked: Say, judge,
haven't you forgot something's" Judge
oil Ia1I 20 he ste
to the bride and gave her a fatherly
smack on the cheek and said: Guess l
did forget it, The bride, with a scream,
retorted: II didn't mean that. L mean
you forgot to give me the change back
And she bounced out of the court room.
Deacon Walkers wisdom: Noah also
made a mistake in not going into the
ark in the winter time and then he could
have left out the two chiggers and the
two June bugs. don't know
we never have any trouble getting bass
singers if we are careful in our selec-
ton of sopranos. They must be young,
single and pretty. Having loaf
ed around the drug store, the grocery
store and the corners for sixty years I
have at last concluded that the real
crying need of the country is a court
to examine into the qualifications of
story tellers. The bad ones should all
be carted off to the asylum.
In the first place the Lord never in
tended that peas should be canned, but
here is my objection to them: can't
get them to stay on my knife. i
1 occasionally say something mean
about the women, but 1 hope I will
never be as big a fool as the Milwaukee
man who testified that he was 81 years
old and had never been kissed by a wo
man and never would be. That is a
matter for weeping, not Boosting.
You can't do much toward making a
man out of a young fellow until you
get the idea out of his head that it pays
better to loaf than to work.
Music may have charms to soothe the
savage breast, but I give warning that
no soother need monkey around me and
attempt to work the charm with an old
accordion.