The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-23
JAYHAWKER JOTS

The Burton engagement at Emporia
was cancelled
Atchison has 5000 dogs, on 270 OF which
taxes have been paid.
An Ohio man has been fined 800 for
hugging a girl. Living expenses COM
ments the Greenleaf Sentinel, "are con-
stantly advancing.
The price of eggs is the lowest it has
been in two years. In some places the
farmers wives are getting only ten cents
a dozen for eggs. Cause: Overwork by
the hens.
Recipe of the Norton Champion: 1.-The
way to go to Sleep says scientist, is
to think of nothing" but this is mis-
take. The way to go to sleep is to think
1t Is time to get up.
Jewell Republican: A man lectured
here on India; and what made our wo-
men most indignant was to hear that
a woman in India never gets new
style hat, and that she always has to
walk 20 PAGES behind her husband and
do just as he says. The expression on
every face said as plainly as words, IF
1 were over there, I'd show him.
Not many years ago when we were
the owner in fee-smiple' of shirt-tail
full of type and an old hand press and
with the assistance of a dirty-faced boy
were getting out weekly newspaper,
says Bent Murdoch, our old friend
George Neiman was keeping bach on
homestead in Milton township, his
principal diet being cornbread, pump
still moseying along in the newspaper
business George is the main guy of a
bank in Whitewater that has 100000 on
deposit. Well it's all right, but at the
same time we would like to go to Eu-
rope and be a plute, and otherwise en-
joy life. This thing of having to work
ten or fifteen hours a day is wearing on
us-making us old and bald and wrink-
led and toothleSS-but then our ship
may come in, when we will join the
plutes and have good time along with
George Neiman and the Others"
Arkansas City Traveller: We are get
ting to be somewhat suspicious of Will
johnson, better known in baseball cir
cles as Home Run Johnson. Around the
Traveller office he is known as Bill john
dozen years ago as his Satanic Majes-
ty," and by Industry and faithfulness
has managed to climb up to the posi-
ton of foreman. If he hangs around
the office another dozen years and con-
tinueS to save his money, it would not
be surprising if he discharged the pres
ent owners. But to get back to the orig
inal proposition of getting suspicious of
1t was only yesterday that he
appeared at the office, all logged out
in his Sunday Best and a clean face.
He wanted an hour off in the afternoon
and got it. Afterwards it was learned
that Bill went and had his picture ia
ken. Reports received at this office to-
day say that all machines in town are
still able to do work. This morning Bill
appeared at the office again in that new
suit of clothes and the same clean face
that he wore yesterday. He gave notice
that he wanted off at noon. However,
when o'clock came, Bill was gone, and
it was asserted that he had gone to
Winfield. Bill also notified the office
that he would not show up for work I'M
til Thursday morning. This cratic con-
1ition and nervous state was never be-
fore exhibited in this office by Johnson,
and for that reason considerable suspic-
lon has been aroused as to what was go
ing to happen to Bill. No one believes
he laid off to bug his potatoes or to go
fishing