The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-09
JAYHzWKER JOTS

Mr.. Bird, of lola, broke his ankle by
falling on the ice. This is not so bad
for a Bird, however, as though he had
broken his wing.
If anybody wants coal mine Jewell
has one that will be given to anybody
who will take it home and treat it
kindly, giving it all it needs to eat.
The Wellington News says that
certain brand of photograph that is
being advertised by mail order houses
for $3.50 is sold by two local dealers
for $40.
"Reminiscences by the Jewell Repub-
lican: Twenty years ago Jay Gould
warned the country that the mild in
terstate commerce law then proposed
would stop railroad construction. The
railroads are great buffers.
The subscription price of the Hia-
watha World has been advanced to
two dollars a year unless paid in ad-
vance. The Hiawatha World is the
aristocrat among Kansas weeklies, and
its circulation is said to be about the
largest of any Kansas local weekly.
Osborne Farmer: Just as soon as
preacher accumulates enough money
to buy a farm half his congregation
thinks he has lost most of his re-
Iigion. When woman
marries a man to reform him. make
up your mind that she has about the
same chance of doing it that 100 to /
shot has of winning a big horse race.
While there may be
nothing wrong in it, a big pipe in the
mouth of a 16-year-old boy never
makes him look any more the man.
William Allen White makes these
more or less personal remarks in the
Emporia Gazette: "a heart-searching
young gentleman correspondent for
Stafford county paper from Topeka,
writes to his home paper that the edi-
tor of the Gazette is badly overesti-
mated Perhaps that may be in To-
peka and in Stafford county. but here
in Lyon county, in Emporia and in
have the person in question cut down
to an equitable basis, with all the wa
ter, air and fiZz squeezed out. AS
result he gets the everlasting daylights
kicked out of him in about three pri-
maries out of five. and is used for q
door mat, whenever the fellows feel
that they should clean their feet.
favorite game uD in the ward is to pu!
the head editor of this great home
favorite through hole in blanket
and offer a prize for the fellow who
can hit it the most times in a county
convention-'every time you hit tho
baby you get a fine cigar And there
is always a scramble for throw. The
young gentleman from Stafford may
have the truth about the estimation of
the Gazette's editor in Topeka and
Stafford and other remote parts of the
solar system. but here in Emporia they
know the facts; what is more there is
an interesting family in the northeast
end of the Fourth ward that also
knows the facts-the cold. clammy,
uncomfortable facts. and there arc
times when the said family hereinbe-
fore described and aforementioned
does not hesitate to let in the light,
and a certain pussy little man with
the buff showing through the top of
his hair, is rudely and coldly exposed
to the whitening truth: at such times
the kink comes out of his backbone, !
the bulge out of his breast. the starch
melts out of his knees. and before the !
shrinking is done he has to tiptoe to
look over his shoe tops into hard dis !
enchanted world. If the Stafford |
journalist will come to EN- |
poria he can learn something to his |
advantage about this overestimation |
business"