The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-29
AYHAWKER JOTS

Dodge City has a new $4,000 soda
fountain and is putting on airs ac-
cordingly.
There has been little rain in Kansas
thls spring, but a farmer near Hope
lost twelve head of cattle by lightning
recently. One stroke did it.
An Erie woman planted her flower
garden carefully early this spring, but
not a sDrout has appeared. A neigh
Dor has convinced her that she planted
all the seeds upside down.
At Seneca the fire bell is wound ND
like clock and the telephone COM
pany releases the weight and rings the
bell when notified of a fire. The bell
is good one and the alarm perfect.
Near the tower is a water trough. A
farmer thought the bell tower wind
mill and to get water touched off the
machinery. He got a crowd who
thought there was a fire.
Conner Davies thinks the frosts J.
not amount to much. Wait" says
Conner, until some of his subscribers
to the Home Rule writes to him, tell
ing him to stop my paper am taking
more papers now than L can read, be-
sides L can get the Fireside Comfort
for ten cents year, and it has four
more pages than your paper Then
Burton will get sniff of a new sensa-
ton which some of us older newspa-
per men have known for a long time"
ing about the state papers to the eff
feet that Lawrence people are so afraid
of burglars that they have requested
the local papers not to mention it
when they go away from home, be-
cause they think thieves watch the
personal columns for information. This
is the kind of an item that gives a
town a black eye. We would like to
get very angry and denounce the out
of town papers that print such items,
but alas, we can not. The item is
true in every detail. This paper, and
presumably other papers. have heard
that request from timid citizens a good
deal lately.
Here is an extremely good dog story,
told by the Dodge GIobe-Republican:
Over month ago a stranger, probably
a mover, went into Sam StubbS' gro
Gerry to make some purchases. He was
followed to the door by a faithful old
dog. At the door the dog modestly
waited for his master to return. After
making his purchases the man left the
story by a side door. escaping the no
tice of the tired dog. The man got
his team and drove away, not noticing
that the dog was missing For
week the big white dog lay at the front
entrance of the store watching the
door intently. Every time any one
approached the door from the inside
he was on the alert, and he was visibly
disappointed VIXEN it failed to be his
master. At the end of the week the
of the people who pass that corner
often. Sometimes he would follow a
new made acquaintance across the
street to the other corner. but never
farther than that. Then he would re-
turn and anxiouSly take up his vigil
at the grocery door He is still there
Since the first week he seems even less
inclined to leave the corner. even to
go as far as across the street. He
makes friends with new people every
day but no one can coax him to leave
that corner. He does not watch the
door now in the same expectant man
ner that he did the first week or two,
but more as though he feels that his
master will never come out. Still he
is even more faithful since he has
reached this attitude. He Is evidently
determined to spend the rest of his
life faithfully waiting at the door
where his master disap peared. He is
only an old house dog, with nothing
but brute instinct to guide him, but
in loyalty and constancy one might
have a long search to find his equal in
the human family.