The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-11-20
.HYHAWRER JOTS

| 1t cost Winfield man $3.50 to kill g
few quail out of season.
The Belle PLANE Gazette has beer
! purchased by C. N. 1igginson and viii
be consolidated with the Udall News.
The Miami Republican thinks that
| possibly the Missouri Pacific figures
that it can get along entirely without
rails and ties soon, by putting in bal
| looms and airShipS.
! A rural mail carrier at ST. John has
bought one of these high-wheeled au-
| tomobiles in which to deliver his mail
the kind that looks like a buggy run
ming away of it's own accord.
Oberlin Times: The suspicion that
| Sid Moorish is a plutocrat became O
| sad certainty this week when it was
learned that three bushels of his ap-
/ pies froze. None but a plutocrat would
own SO many apples.
| Now why does Mort Albaugh want
| to say mean things about a respected
state official? Listen to this from the
Kingman Leader: 1.-THE Kansas uni
State Auditor Nation kills prairie
chickens
Clay Center Times: The governor
reached down into the conservatory
of his soul one day last week at Bur-
lingame and fished up this: did you
ever stand upon the deck of some great
ocean steamer far out at sea and try
to express the emotions which surged
within like the ocean waves without %
F. Dumont Smith says he wasted a two
dollar dinner when he tried to express
the emotions which surged within, and
even then did not get very far in the
express business. It costs too much TO
express the emotions out on the ocean
sailing.
Sabetha Herald: The money sfrin-
gency in the east seems to be pretty
we'll past. Around Sabetha it never ex-
listed. So far as we have been able to
observe, local banks saw no difference
in the movement of cash. And that
was a sensible thing. No one should
have money lying around the house.
1t is a temptation to thieves and is in
a way a danger to life, because murder
sometimes goes with robbery. We have
had an Illustration of that in Nebraska
only a few weeks ago when the thief
was captured by Sheriff Dennis, but
who afterward escaped.
A professional beggar who was in the
Sabetha Herald office last week COM
planned that he made less than two dol
lars day. He followed the marketing
of crops, he said. He had a schedule
which keeps him in localities where
crops are being marketed nearly all the
year round. He said his business is
nearly always good during the holidays
and that the week before Christmas,
when people soften up. he makes six
or seven dollars a day. He said he had
to work pretty hard for his living. Ask
ed why he didn't go to work, he said
he had never thought of that.
Lament of Walt Mason: Oh why
does the foolkiller languidly 1oll on
fowery cushions of rest? His harvest
is ripe and o bark to the call. for the
foolkiller's quickest and best. We yearn
for the wow of the man who asks
How" and never whimper is heard.
But most keenly we sigh for the fellow
to die, who drivels well, what's the
good word?" We'll, what's the good
word" is the idiots drool, to which no
foolkiIler's rifle so cool? The echoes
shout vainly, ooh why?" And it's o for
the hot and resonant swat of the fool
killers club to be heard, on the neck of
the jay who will merrily say: well,
h AIRY Jin-what's the good word"