The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-05

Nearly every doctor in Salina has an
| auto.
The broken bottle is causing trouble
for the autoists of Chanute. 1t gets on
| the streets and under the tires.
The Kaw valley potato is certainly
some this year. From three acres near
Perry between five and six hundred
bushels have been dug, giving returns
j-of $3.50 per acre at present prices.
A Chinaman asked a Lindsborg man
on the train the other day, What is
smaller than a Chinese woman's foot?''
The Lindsborg man was not stumped.
The shoe that an American woman
wears" he replied.
A blind beggar at Norton went into a
bank there to change his days receipts
in small change into bills. He had ten
dollars worth of nickels, besides five
dollars in small silver. Norton must be
good picking in spite of the corn fall
ure up there.
It's nice thing to be cheerful when
it doesn't do any good to be any other
way. At the close of a piece" giving
some of the views Of Secretary Norris,
of the State Temperance union, the
Atchison Globe says: 1.-The Globe has
its opinion, but its opinion is not paid
much attention to, so there is no use
of presenting it in this matter"
Up at Solomon two young men took
their girls for buggy ride one ev-
ening recently. One of the girls lived
five miles in the country and she was
taken home first. While her escort was
taking her into the house, the other
couple, knowing from experience that
the goodnight process consumed con-
siderable time, went on for a short
drive by themselves. The other young
fellow finally tore himself away in the
course of an hour or so, but found no
buggy waiting for him. After waiting
for some time in vain, he concluded the
others had driven on home, and he
started to walk. Shortly afterwards the
r1kIa raf1 1od from haiT RI
which had seemed brief to then1-and
they waited awhile for the other young
man whom they supposed was still en-
gagged in saying goodnight. Then they
concluded they would leave the horse
for him, while they would walk on
ahead and let him overtake them. AS
result the whole party walked home.
Deacon Walker: Don't make fun of
the plug. He may be slow and awkward
and never get to the stable until dark,
but he is the fellow who in the end
will bring home the coin. The plug
horse that pulls the lister all day In
the field puts more money in the bank
for the honest farmer than the race
horse that goes out and turns a half
in so fiat and then loafs for two weeks
waiting for another race to be match
ed The old plug goes out in sunshine
and storm and pulls in a few dollars
every week. but the race horse waits for
the day when the track is good and
then generally loses more than he wins
the STEADY olo pug Keeps Inc WI
from the door, while the race horse
causes the mortgage to be forecloSed.
Just so with the man. Pin your faith
to the plug who keeps eternally at it;
the fellow who gets up every morning
and does so much, and is ready to do
it again next day. He lays up more
shining dollars in the bank than the
swift sport who lays around all sum-
mer waiting for Luck to come along
and turn a stream of silver into his
pocket. One cackling Plymouth ROCK
hen is worth a dozen screaming eagles
when it comes to paying off the mort
gage. The plug is the fellow who
steadies the ship and acts as ballast
when the boat begins to rock. the
plug is the fellow who lives contented-
ly and long, and when he passes away
the local papers say. He leaves his
family in comfortable circumstances.