The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-27
AYHAWKER JOTS

An Abilene melon raiser recently ship
ped q carload that averaged 33 pounds
each. The watermelon crop isn't a fail
ure this year even If some other fruits
are.
Startling chronological note from the
Hoxie Sentinel: A big flock of lightning
bugs was seen in our burg the other
night. Loud thunder accompanied
them.
Major Beck tries to be optimistic in
the HOlton Recorder. He says: 1.-The
farmers of Jackson county have lost
this year about million dollars by
not having 100000 acres in wheat.
However, the ground being in corn
they will make about a million and
a half, so there is nothing in the situa-
ton to grieve over"
Atchison Globe: Years ago, when the
late Frank Everest was claim agent OF
the Missouri Pacific, a bunch of cattle
were killed by a train near Stockton.
A Stockton LAWYER came to Atchison,
representing the owner of the cattle,
and said to Mr. Everest: Il am a rea.
sonable man. 1 know the railroad COM
pany is not made of gold. know that
many unreasonable demands are made
on the railroad company. Therefore !
want to be just, and make proposition
that you will recognize as fair, and ac-
cept. Give me $1,000, and will receipt
the claim The cattle were worth about
two hundred dollars. But Mr.. Everest
wasn't disturbed by the mans nerve;
on the contrary, he said: Il am glad to
me It man who is fair; who knows
right from wrong. We meet so few men
of this kind that 1t is pleasure to meet
you. Your fairness has impressed me
so much that am going to meet you in
the same way; indeed, I will show my
admiration for your unusual liberality;
1 will give you fifty dollars" Suit was
brought, and the claim finally settled for
$212, the lawyer getting most of it.
Il often wonder" says Deacon Walker,
how things are a-going to be around
here in a hundred years from now.
would like to walk down street some
evening in the year 2007 and see what
the inhabitants have to say. 1 know l
would meet the familiar old pessimist
who would say, Well, corn is about
gone. Unless we get a rain tomorrow
there won't be even fodder l would see
the young fellow standing on the corner
waiting for his girl to get through her
work in the store so he could walk home
with her. Some fellow would rush up
and try to get in the postoffice an hour
after closing time and then cuss the
postmaster because he wasn't attending
to his business. 1 would call up central
and ask how the train was The answer
would be something like this, Reported
an hour and ten minutes late l would
then wait two and half hours before
it got here. And 1 will bet hundred
dollars 1 wouldn't go a block before
would meet some chump who would try
to look down at me in q fatherly way
and say, Deacon, why don't you get
married?' Then that would be the last
thing he would ever say, for I figure
that my patience along that line isn't
good for another century's wear.
would see a bunch of fellows standing
on the corner and one of them would be
reading a piece out of a newspaper. L
would listen, and hear that it was a dis
patch from ST. Louis stating that the
Central Branch was to be extended in
the spring. 1 would hear fellows talk
ing about how many more people Os-
borne had than Downs and how better
our electric lights are than theirs, etc
q things wouldn't be so much differ
emit"