The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-21
NYHAWKER JOTS

A man at Marysville has discover
ed what he believes to be rich de-
posit of agate and had sold some of
| his samples to Tiffany of New York
for considerable sum of money.
Concordia is so confident congress
will give it new $4,000 postoffice
| building that the people are already
planning to ask for an appropriation
| to have it enlarged, says the envious
Ottawa Herald.
In Mcpherson county farm lands
are listed at forty dollars an acre. At
an actual cash valuation, the McPher-
son county farmers are not abused.
fer it to the land.
DR.. Crumbine. secretary of the
state board of health, proposes to
compel cracker manufacturers to put
| a pound of crackers in packages pur-
porting to contain pound. The
Douglas Tribune calls upon him also
to require the millers to put fifty
pounds Of flour in their fifty pound
Sacks
One of the latest women in How
ward, the Courant says likes to tell
how in the Lincoln campaign Of 80
she rode a white horse in a grand po-
litica1 procession with a lot of other
union. and that she wore the badge
of Rhode Island. She giggles yet
when she tells how all the boys used
to call her Little Rhody.'
Virgil Smith, love-smitten youth
at Fontana, paid for the following no.
tice in the News, the home paper:
Hereafter it will not be necessary to
publish my visits to see my sweet
heart each week, as I expect to come
whenever Providence permits, and
unless otherwise stated. take it for
granted that I am with her. I do this
to give the people a rest and to save
this space in the paper for a paying
ad or something new"
On January 13 the First National
bank of Jewell City lost a registered
package containing $1,000 in currency
in the depot fire at Kansas City,
where thirty sacks of mail were de-
stroyed. The bank carries insurance
On registered matter, and the insur-
ance company paid the amount less
the $25 which the government stands
good for on each registered package.
The insurance company is out 1915
by the loss, the government is that
amount ahead, and the bank is even
with the game.
Occasionally there is a woman who
is entirely too neat and particular to
be the right kind of mother for
boys, says the Atchison Globe. There
once lived a woman of this kind in
South Atchison. When her boys
came home from school she would
scream at them, How about your
feet ?'' Els there mud on your shoes %
go right around to the back door,"
What do you mean by tracking dirt
in here?" etc., etc. The boys grew
up, and found out on the way there
were places down town where no one
found fault If the feet of those who
entered were muddy, or tracked in
dust. Now that the boys have gone
to the bad, their mother sobs and Ia
ments and wonders why "the Lord
ever sent her sons like that There
lives near her, in South Atchison, a
mother who let her sons enjoy their
home; she was glad to see them and
didn't remind them that they might
bring in mud when they came home.
These boys grew up to love their
home, and have never found out that
there are places down town where a
boy is welcome, and never will. The
neat woman really shouldn't blame
the difference on the Lord: it isn't
"toting fair"