The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-28
AYHAWKER JOTS

Remembering the weather this spring,
the Kinsley Graphic is inclined to re-
gard the historic Mayfiower as a myth.
Congressman Victor Murdoch was
born in Burlingame. He stopped on
there for a visit the other day, the nrst
in II years.
There is considerable satisfaction ex-
pressed by Kansas newspapers because
Harry Orchard never lived in this
state He isn't formerly of Kansas
A little Sabetha girl lately attended
her first comic opera Upon returning
home she described it to her grand,
mother. "Oh, Grandma" she said, all
the choir came out and danced.
The Emmett Citizen declares that
1.-THE new county proposition was born
in the throb of eternal progress, put
as the exact location of the throb is
unknown, the propositions birthplace
is still shrouded in mystery.
Catastrophe chronicled by Bent
Murdoch: A sweet young thing weigh
ing $50 pounds, fell in love with
mean old thing, Weighing but 80
pounds and when she sat on his lap
she broke his leg and he is now suing
her for damages while she is SUNG
him for breach of promise.
Deacon Walker: Some people don't
know what it is to be helpless. | did
mt either until 1 undertook to find a
present to send to the new BABY pc
longing to my sister That was one
place where the grand hailing sign of
distress did me no good. .....I have
kept track of the time for the past
year and figure that L have lost nine
hours and fifty minutes waiting for
men to walk across the floor, lift the
lid of the stove and spit out a COB OF
tobacco juice before they could tell me
what they wanted. 49,. When Love
first begins to sow her germs in
young fellows system he will waste as
much time tying his necktie as a girl
will in doing up her hair. To get
a real conservative idea OF values you
want to listen to the small boy COM
pare the college professor and the
home run hitter of the local ball
team. -. If you happen to like her
real we'll it won't bother you a bit
when she does make horrible play
in the game of whist when she's your
partner.
Love comes high sometimes, but it
ignores expense as well as laughs at
locksmiths, if its the right kind.
Nearly everyone in Empor1a VINO
uses a telephone according to the
Gazette. twas treated recently to
three-quarters of an hour long dis
lance love affair, that was the hottest
absent treatment that has ever gone
over the Emporia wires. The wires
were so badly twisted up by the wind
Saturday night that they leaked in a
thousand places, and everyone who
happened to be at his telephone at the
time heard a young man in Emporfa
make love, propose ana be accepted
by a young woman in Kansas City.
The young man couldn't have talked
a hotter brand of love if he had been
in the parlor with the girl, and the
rest of the family upstairs in bed It's
costing a terrible lot to talk to you,
honey the man explained, but don't
care. I'd spend a weeks wages just
to hear your voice. If you only
knew how lonely 1 am here without
you. I'm getting to the point
where L can't do without you. You
come down to Emporia and I'll buy
you all the clothes you want. ....
Why, make 'em yourself. ....Or If
you can't make 'em I'll give you the
money to have 'em made. II just
got to have you, no matter what it
costs The young man cooed over the
telephone in this strain for three
quarters of an hour, and the girl
finally gave up and said she would
come. The bill for a three-quarters
of an hour conversation to Kansas
City is $6''