The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-11
LAYK6 WKER JOTS

Roy Tapley refers to those Central
American republics as "countryettes. "
Boys digging for worms at Ottawa
uncovered a badly-rusted old musket in
the bottom of gulley recently washed
out by rains. 1t is supposed to have
| been left there by Indians.
The Hill City Republican is offering
a years subscription free of charge to
every young couple welded in the coun-
ty who take up their residence within
the confines of Graham county.
The Manhattan Nationalist has been
purchased by N w. Huston, who re-
Gently sold the Fort Scott Republican to
Henry Allen. 1t is of interest to note
incidentally that the Nationalist was
the first paper Mr.. Allen ever owned.
He sold 1t ten years ago when he went
to Ottawa.
'Oh, do hope We'll never get woman
suffrage" the Record quotes an Erie wo-
man as saying. after having cast her
first ballot. 1T would be just too dread
full. I was so nervous when I got into
that little booth Akin this morning
couldn't remember for the life of me
which one it was John particularly
wanted me to vote for, and so, to be
sure and get the right one, I had to
mark in all the little squares and rings
on my ballot"
Speaking of zephyrs, a Kingman coun-
ty boy writes this letter to the Leader
Courier: During the high wind Tues
day morning of last week l started over
to a neighbours and while on the way
my hat blew off and started rolling over
and over like a wheel. So put spurs
to my pony and followed as fast as L
could, hoping to catch it. I didn't gain
any on it or 1t any on me till we got
up to Pretty Prairie, when the hat jump
ed as If on springs and simply drew
away from me as if I'd been standing
still, and then we had it for one mile
and the strange part of it was it never
left the public road an inch. followed
far as Castleton, when my horse gave
out and / gave up the chase, so went
into the central, phone office and told
the farmers along the road that my hat
was going, told them to go out and
catch it. 1 don't know whether they
got it or not for 1 haven't received an
answer yet 1t was larpin good Stet-
son hat and I hated the worst kind to
lose it,
Deacon Walker: Some people who at
first drive the nail home in an argu-
ment hammer so long on the same nail
that they split the board Don't
worry so much about the hypocrite in
the church. He isn't fooling the Lord
any more than he is fooling you.
The best way to interest the young men
in a crowd of girls is to always send
them out under the wing of a chaperon.
A woman doesn't really care
how her dress looks If she is able to
boast that she got 1t at cost and there
are no others in town like it.
There is this much to say for the loafer:
He doesn't roast you for not shoveling
the snow off your sidewalk in the win
ter or for letting the weeds grow in
your garden in the summer
The joke business is expensive. 1 have
figured it out that every joke I have
unloaded the past ninety days has cost
me at least six friends. / am now out
-
please take notice and get another cir
culating medium. 80. You will
notice that it Is generally the cub
travelling man who is out being broke
in for his expenses who puts on the
most airs and plays the smart Alec in
small towns