The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-11-04
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The Puffer Sisters of Burlington
deal in millinery instead of cigars.
The Colby Free Press is eighteen
years old. For the last ten years it has
exceedingly prosperous appearing
paper.
Good correction in the Sharon
Springs Times: In last weeks issue
alfalfa seed crop netted him $40 per
acre. Mr.. Lacey came in at once to
correct the statement. He said that
from several acres he threshed IL ~
bushels per acre and received $40 per
bushel for the seed which netted him
Sis per acre for the seed and left him
crop of hay. The balance of his
alfalfa acreage netted him $50 per
acre from his seed crop alone.
Political observation by A. Croaker
in the Holton Recorder: "I have mo-
ticed that the political habit of read
ing a man out of the party has been
about discontinued. 1t has got SO
lately that it is difficult to tell when a.
are so crooked. Party lines remind me
of the farmer who made fence out of
such crooked rails that when, a hog
thought it had got out of the lot 1T
was back in the same old lot"
Bart Toogood tells the Colby Free
Press that he has about concluded
that poor man stands as much show
when it comes to succeeding In the
world, as hair-lipped man has at
whistling match. He says that he has
a neighbor that is poor like himself,
but this neighbor belongs to two lodges
and keeps up his dues and assessments
regular. besides that he paid ten dol
lars last year to the support of the
church in which he has membership.
Bart says that he can not understand
how he can do it, for he does not be-
long to any of these institutions and
yet he never has money ahead. ITO
plains the Free Press, "the difference
in their finances is not matter of
much surprise. Last spring Bart came
in and purchased new set of harness
and agreed to pay forty dollars for
them after harvest. When he brought
in a load of wheat to pay for them, 1T
was observed that one bride was gone,
the horses had gotten it under feet and
tramped it in the manure so that he
could not find it. One strand of the
harness was also tramped under but
1t was so large that Bart fished them
out and was using them, but they will
not last another season. When Bart
thrashed, he threw something like four
hundred bushels of wheat in an old
bin where the chickens eat on it OF a
daytime and roost on it of nights, the
rats have pulled out the rags that We're
used for thinking and whe Bart hauls
it off and finds that there is but two
hundred and eighty bushels, he will
accuse the elevator man of being a
thief and beating him on weights, for
he put four hundred bush els in the bin
at thrashing time. Then another rea-
son that Bart's neighbor can belong to
the lodge and church and do his share
in each is, that he has but one dog,
little feist that is pet with the kids.
while Bart keeps eight greyhounds and
three mighty common ours that eat
more than his family Bart says that ne
used to take a good deal of stock In
the coming of the millennium but since
he sees how the fates help some people
and hurt others, he is about to come
t. the conclusion If there is sue.
a thing as a millennium that the thing
is not headed this way.