The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-10-31

There is a woman in wellington
who is so full of electricity that
watch carried on her person will not
run. That is to say, it will not run
long, generally stopping in from to
minutes. jewelers. say that such
cases are very rare.
Society note from Atchison: A sur
prise" party was given in South Atchi-
son, recently, and the man who ans
wered the doorbell had on no shoes or
socks, and wore pajamas. When he
saw the crowd in his yard, he became
frightened, and ran to the barn, where
he pulled on a pair of overalls.
The prices of all kinds of provisions
are going up so stea Oily that the gro
GERS of Howard, according to Tom
Thompson, are thinking of cleaning
off a place on the floor in each store
for folks to fall down on and have a
that the prices have raised again.
Sporting item from Wellington: A
boy came up town this morning and
reported that there was large flock
HASTE and Charlie Gambrill loaded
their guns and crawled a mile and
half through the mud. At a signal all
fired at once, killing %. But they are
not Dragging about it. It was flock
of mud hens and not a duck in the
bunch.
Early effort story told by the Gar
nett Review: Mrs. William Schoon-
over has a young hen, Matched in
April, which has laid a setting of
eggs, set on them, and Matched nine
chickens out of thirteen eggs. Who
can beat that? Come on with your
chicken stories. The fact of the mat
ter is, the pure, invigorating ozone of
Kansas makes Kansas chickens, as
we'll as people, get up and hustle. The
Kansas hen has passed the Missouri
mule and left him way behind.
Items like this from the Norton Tel
egram indicate why Wall street fur
ries do not affect Kansas: On the farm
of W.-D. Ayers near A1nena, sixty-five
acres of alfalfa yielded seven and
half bushels of seed per acre. There
is one hundred and fifty acres Of alfal-
ia on the farm, and the hay and seed
from this entire acreage gave total of
nine thousand seven hundred and fifty
dollars, which is going some. The
land is farmed by a renter. but Mr..
Ayers is pretty well satisfied with his
share of the crop.
Here is a problem sprung by the
Emporia Gazette: For convenience
suppose it is four miles between Kan
sas City and Topeka and four miles
freight train a mile long is standing
with the caboose in front of the Kan
sas City station. When the train
starts for Topeka the brakeman who
is on the caboose begins walking to-
ward the engine and just as he
reaches the engine it pulls into Tope
ka How far did he walk and how
far did he ride between Tope-
ka and Kansas City? When the train
leaves Topeka the brakeman gets on
the engine and starts to walk back
to the caboose and just as he reaches
the caboose it is pulled in front of
the Emporia station. How far did he
ride and how far did he walk between
Topeka and Emporia?
Atchison Globe: If a boy has the
proper stuff" in him, there is little
difference what sort of a start he gets
for he will come out all right. DR..
Quayle, possibly the most noted
preacher in the Methodist church in
this country, who lectured at the First
Methodist church Saturday night,
started out as poor as Jobs turkey.
His father was such a ranting Repub-
lican he couldn't live in Missouri and
had to come to Kansas When DR..
Quayle entered Baker university at
Baldwin he BACKED shoes, ran errands
for the other students and teachers,
and did his own washing, mending
and cooking in order to make a go of
it. Now he has reached the place
where money is not much of an OBJ
ject with him. DR.. Quayle is a won
der when it comes to using the queens
English. He mixes the simplest,
home-like expressions with combina-
tions of "the choicest flowers from the
conservatory of his SOUL