The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-10
.AYHAWKER JOTS

Conner Davies thinks the wheat
shortage in April will turn into box
car shortage in August.
Goodland has 1900 people accord
| ing to the assessors returns. Two
years ago it had only LAO.
The board of health at Anthony
has ordered all school children to use
individual drinking cups at school.
Goodland is reported to have small
pox, mumps, measles and spinal menin-
gifts, all at the same time. Good land!
AS a sample of western pluck it is
stated that Mrs. Harry Stevens, a
Logan county woman, has out crop
of 400 acres of wheat, the most of
which she put in herself.
Smith County Pioneer: A Jewell
county farmer by the name of c. A.
Shinn, is having an electric light
and waterworks plant put in on his
farm The expense for these modern
equipments in q small way is not so
great as many people would think. A
farmer these days may have almost
every convenience and luxury that
dwellers in the town have, provided
he wants them bad enough to make
the effort. Especially does this apply
to the question of waterworks which
may with a comparative small ex-
pense be put into any home where
there is a sufficient supply of water.
Some of viii Palmer's wisdom:
This much can be said in favor of
Job. He never got up and said:'
Gentlemen of the convention. There
are no sore spots on me-. 1t is
hard to live up to the rules of the
Don't Worry club while you are alive.
After that it may be easier.
When man begins to get old and for
getful then on top of all the rest he
has to remember what he did with
his SpectacleS. Before farmers
combine to boom the price of wheat
and potatoes. maybe they better find
l. hn INH7vr
ers or sellers. ~. When a homely
woman wins your admiration she can
keep it; because the qualities in her
that you admire won't fade. $500. We
hear that woman is in danger of
losing quite a chunk of her religion
when tenderly watched incubator
venture results in a fiasco. The
best luck a young gambler can have
is bad luck.
Bert Walker: have wasted a whole
lot of time and energy in my day
running around and hollering my head
off for some other fellow who had an
ak to grind This fellow made me
think that his trouble was mine and 1
took my coat off and went to work.
Then when I had an ak to grind this
fellow was busy with troubles of his
own and I had no help at the grind
stone. 1 have quit that sort of bust
ness. Hereafter when my true friends
need my help they will get it, but
have gone out of the ak grinding bust
ness for every Tom, Dick and Harry
who comes along. 1 know that If I
attend to my own business properly /
won't have any time to give to the
other fellow. I will stick with my
friends and get out on their firing
line; I will defend their good name
and help put bread into their larder;
I will ask no more than I can give and
1 will give all I can. But I have quit
buckling on a sword and going forth
to war for every fellow who sounds
the battle cry. There is no money and
mighty little satisfaction in being a |
battle SCARED veteran for some fellow |
who forgets to even acknowledge your |
salute after the fort of the enemy has |
been stormed and won. I will make |
all the new friends I can, but I won't |
trade off any of the old ones. I figure |
that by following this creed there will |
occasionally be one who will not for
get and will come to my side during |
the dark hours and offer a word of |
cheer.