The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-18
AYH4 WKER JOTS

Grant Gillette was In Topeka the
other day. $50 were several other I'M
| important persons" says Roy Tapley.
This, says the Wichita Eagle. is the
season of the year when the supply
houses are rushed with orders from tn e
country editors. all because the "devil''
set the roller too near the big stove
to thaw out and then forgot about 1t.
Proud boast by Ralph Tennal: We
may not quite have reached the spike
tail coat stage of social elegance in
Sabetha, but there amt town in the
state that can show a finer line of
fancy vests than is worn by us Sa-
betha men at society functions.
There is something wrong with
man, observes the Sedgwick Panta-
graph, who can enjoy himself toasting
his shins at the grocery store fire for
a half day at a stretch while his horse
stands shivering blanketless at the
hitch-rack.
The first permit to deal in dena-'
tured alcohol has just been received
in Lawrence. 1t is plain blue printed
certificate differing from the ordinary
licenses. No dealer, it is stated, can
til he gets a permit like this and drug
gists are held by the government to
be preferred applicants.
Prosperity story from the Jewell
Republican: When Geo. Treffer quit
working by the month he had $3.50.
He got hold of an eighty, got him a
No. wife and settled down to bust
ness. He is now clear of debt and
has a 160-acre farm that he could
sell for $4,000 any day. He made it
principally out of hogs and alfalfa.
Congressman Scott calls attention
to the fact that Judge Walter Sim
ons was one of the leading candidates
for United States senator at the time
Preston B. Plumb was elected and one
of the arguments used against him by
PIITr h Inf Col n
Thacher was that Sfmons was in i'll
health and it would be folly to elect
a man with one foot already in the
grave" Simons is still judge and the
longest-lived of his opponents has
been dead nearly ten years.
Story by the Leavenworth Post:
The various members of the family
party had been telling stories, and
when it came the small boys turn, he
told this one which he vowed was
original. but which others had an idea
they had heard somewhere. "Once
upon a time," he said, there were
four animals, a frog, a duck, a skunk
and a lamb. They all started to the
circus, and it cost four bits to get in.
The frog got in cause he had a green
back, and So did the duck, cause he
had a bill. The skunk couldn't make
it for he had a bad scent" ''willyi''
exclaimed his mother. That's all
right" said a masculine listener I'D
lamb" "Oh,' said Willy, cheerfully,
1.-THE lamb got in easy cause he had
four quarters
Deacon Walkers observations: 1
notice that after a man has been mar
ried awhile you never hear him blow
ing around town that two can live
cheaper than one... When a man
starts out to go down hill he won't
have any trouble in developing a
VIII ole lot of speed If he will just oil
the track with red liquor. ..I
know that am just like all the other
reformers. If old John D. Rockefe1-
Ter should make me a present of a
few shares of Standard Oil stock, ]
would accept them and the so per
cent dividend they pay. would
rather waste my time on book agent
than to have 1t taken up by a man
with jag and a secret. -. Another
easy way to get rid of your money is
to try and get something for nothing
with the aid of little leather box and
five dice. 1t Is my candid opinion
that a whole lot of family jars are
started by the women folks using the
Ratchet and then leaving it in some
out of the way place where the old
man can't find ill.,. The trouble
with a lot of men is that they get
their ideas by freight and their words
By lightning express