The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-23

Alfalfa seed is worth $1,000 a bushel.
| 'Rah for alfalfai
Reno county is the banner wheat
county this year, even if 1T did, fall
down on apples.
| A Leavenworth man went to a public
| library and asked for THE Road to
MELVILLE" Who says advertising does
not pay?
The catalogue habit had such strong
hold on an Atchison man that shortly
before he died he sent for catalogue
and ordered his own tombstone.
Last year Senator LaFollette spoke
three hours at Lincoln park. This year
he played a return engagement and
spoke four hours and ten minutes. And
there is considerable that he hasn't
said yet.
In the opinion of the. Pratt Union,
the man who maws the weeds about
his place, keeps the old cans out of the
alleys, makes an extra flower or blade
of grass grow and trims his trees along
the sidewalks SO the limbs will not
bump your head has done much as a
public spirited citizen.
Noting that a great many curious ed
itors are manifesting surprise because
the woman who tagged that Santa F'e
train and prevented wreck didn't use
her red petticoat, the Hutchinson News
exclaims: Don't these editors know
that women don't wear red petticoats
in the summer time?" Editor Morgan
should remember that few other edi-
tors have had the privilege of being
in Paris on rainy day.
You remember, of course, remarks
the Concordia Blade, how wild and
lawless Concordia was five or six years
ago when six or eight saloons were
running wide open and fights, cutting
affrays and robberieS in these dives
We're frequent and drunken men were
a nuisance on the streets? How differ
ent it is now with no saloons. Marshal
MorisSette calls attention to the fact
that five weeks have passed without
an arrest for drunkenness and even on
Saturday and Sunday not a drunken
man has appeared on the streets.
Apology from the Great Bend Rust
Ter: A typographical error in the Rust
Ter the other day has been making life
item said that Bill Poster had occupied
a room at the county Jail over Sunday.
1t seems that there is but one bill
poster in this part of the country, and
as he is not in the habit of register
ing at the county Jail it made him
rather warm. The news item was writ
ten Bill Porter, and the changing of
the "r'' to an IS" made considerable
difference in the way 1T looked.
Conner Davies is downcast. He has
been waging war on his journalistic
rivals for many moons, but all in vain.
Listen to him: I'VE have consistently
and persistently poured the hot shot in
to the ScoundrelS who run the newSpa-
per down in the old bowling alley, and
thought we had, everybody thoroughly |
convinced and of the opinion that they |
are the villains we know them to be. But |
the other day we found that our printers |
swap favors by the back alley route and
that they paid no attention to the row !
between the fellows in the front end of |
their office-that made us feel pretty |
bad. but we lived it down and didn't say |
a word Now here is the thing that |
broke our heart entirely-yesterday we |
looked out of the front window of the |
office and right there before our eyes |
we saw our fine, thoroughbred dog play i
ing in the street, rolling over and over, |
having more fun than a niger at crap |
game, with G. Wash De Burro's mongrel !
cur. that we have insisted the marshal |
shall kill because he was town nuis |
ance. What's the use of trying to do |
your duty when you cannot even in |
f1uence your own dog to shun such nasty /
co-ananv ?''