The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-18
LAYHAW KER .JOES

There are only two men among the
106 school ma ams'' attending the
Cloud county institute. .'eHH f, s
Editor Harger, of the Abilene Reflec-
tor, has advanced to the plutocratic
class and bought himself an automo-
bile.
The editor of the Rice County Eagle
put in eight days in the harvest field
this year and then returned to the
'drudgery' of newspaper work.
The Larned Chronicle points out that
since John D. Rockefeller has packed
court room to testify he is now in
the same class with Thaw, Nan Patter-
son and Harry Orchard.
Victor Murdoch has been interview
ing the flea. I'm glad somebody has
attacked the Teddy bear" said the flea.
Il like to have starved to death finding
out what a fraud he was"
osborne Farmer: A Topeka minister
is being talked of for bishop, but the
papers there don't talk near as much
about it as they do about the baseball
player who will be fast enough for tile
National league next year.
Industrial note in the Bison Bee: c.
w. Frazier, the hair and whisker sur
geon, being tired of the labor and
cares of the barber shop. has been out
in the harvest field recuperating, and
he is getting his moneys worth.
The HaviIand Onlooker said that
the next week it would print the de-
tails of a ''hugging match recently
observed. Before the issue of the fol-
lowing paper the Onlooker had been
supplied with ice cream and candy by
nearly all the nice young ladies IN
town Evidently the Onlooker has been
unlocking when it ought TO have turned
it's head the other ways r- -et
Norcatur News: While John Boyd
was out on his mail route one day last
week his auto not working just right
he stopped it and began looking around
for the trouble, when the machine
started to moving. Boyd ran after it TO
get in but could not come up with IT,
Finally it ran through wire fence and
over a hedge into a draw where t
butted against a bank until it killed it
self One meets with some peculiar
experiences with these horseless car
riages.
Will Palmer: If a dog sees an auto
mobile coming soon enough he can us
ually get out in time to get knocked Zee
into the ditch. Ihe way OF thT
moor terminal facilities. Kansas
will go to bed at 10 o'clock and sleep
until 6 whether our fleet is in the Al
lantic or the Pacific; It is all the same am E
he has something important to COM
municate to the neighbors he sits up
ali night to howl. When 1t comes TO
attending to such business dog is no
shirk.
wichita Eagle: The Kansas farmer
stood in the midst of his reapers, head
ers threshers, corn shelters, binders,
moving machines, cultlVators ana the
rest. and every once in while shaded
his ewes with his hand and looked
anxiously up the road wondering If the
harvest hand, who had promised 10
come. would come. And when he had
about given up he said: Il remempeI
now that ten years ago 1 believed that
socialist lecturer who claimed TO me
that labor-saving machinery would
throw three-fourths of mankind out OF
work. 1 wish 1 had him here now e
put him to work
Ex-senator Burton's paper, Home
RuIe. referring to the condition OF rail-
way tracks in Kansas, says; we We're
talking with an engineer on the MIS-
souri, Pacific the other day ana ols-
covered that these men feel insecure ~
running their engines over certain parts
of the track of that company In Kan
sas. Last month, for instance, between
Kansas City and Council Grove ten
messenger engines went into the ditch
+ seems there had been slow orders
for many places along the line between
those points The slow orders Were
Cancelled last month and the result was
ten wrecks in that short distance. Much
of the track west from Council Grove
is in the same bad condition. 1t seems
| Incredible that the high officers OF tne
road can be acquainted with the act
ual conditions as they exist