The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-14
JAYHZWKER JOTS

| The Goodland News and Republic
have been consolidated and VIII mere,
| after be known as the Goodlano
News Republic.
however" says the Salina Jour
nal in an optimistic tone of voice, II
we have only half a wheat crop this
year. there is the presidents assur-
crop of children"
/ When a Troy girl was married re-
Gently she wore a pair OF wedding
stockings" that were an heirloom in
her family. They had been worn on
similar occasions by her mother,
grandmother and Observation-Disclosures.
w. F. Hughes, who is making a
| trip in the orient writing to the
Plainville Gazette from Canton,
China, says that the first thing he saw
while steaming into the harbor at
Canton was the large tanks of the
Standard Oil company, and then ne
concluded that the Standard pene-
| trates every nook and corner of the
Leavenworth Times: A man out
near wichita says that there is money
in planting catalpa trees for posts
and that you can make a fortune cas-
lily on them. This may be new idea
for the farmers who have been going
after it for years with pillow instead
of a spade. Carl Friend out at Soldier
has an 80 acre farm entirely planted
to catalpa fence posts and railroad
ties.
IA man who has not been in Gar
den City long" says the Telegram, is
kicking because it gets daylight here
about $50 these mornings. He is un-
able to reconcile himself with the
fact that we are on the eastern edge
of the change from central to noun
tain time, and that o'clock here is
the same as 5 o'clock in Kansas east
of Dodge City. Those who have COM
plants of this sort should remember
that the sun must get up pretty early
to get ahead of Garden City"
This item from the Horton Com
mercial may be nature taking and 1t
may not. Judge for yourself: "a GU
riosity was captured on the farm of
John Burns recently and bought to
Wheatley's store where it was on eX-
hibition in the window Tor awnlle. AZ
was sort of cross between an owl
and monkey and one of the bird
books belonging to the late lamented
Joe DeWorth gave it's name as the
monkey faced owl. 1t possessed a
countenance that would make a go
riIla ashamed of himself in contest
for ugliness. A peculiar feature of
the critter is that it's beak and legs
ed it a Texas parrot, bur Todd Wal
lngford who is a pronounced author
ity matters of this kind declares it
is a 'wimpus,' and was originally cap
tured by Cecil near Muscotah."
Literary criticism from the ElDora-
do Republican: Looks like the Q.
Milksop Poddgeezers and the Jane
Spindleshank Soapsuds magazine
story writers have almost run out of
material An old pelican has just
printed a story in which the girl is
crosseyed and has a limp, but the
prince on horseback comes along He
makes the usual amount of love and
they are engaged. After a time they
go picnicking in the woods and while
fooling with a pistol 1t accidently
goes off and the hmpy girl is shot
through the calf of the leg. She of
course faints and falls over into his. i
arms His extreme modesty over
comes him for a time, but to save the
life of his sweetheart he takes out his
pocket handkerchief and proceeds to
stop the flow of blood when he dis
covers that she has a cork leg. But
that doesn't matter. They get mar
ried and live happily together for a
year and a half when they are d.
voreed. A year or two afterward the
young man marries a cousin of his
former wife and on the bridal night
he discovers that she has a club foot
and is spawned But they were liv-
ing together when the story ended. |
And this is counted a good magazine
story.