The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-05-30

lola and Coffeyviile have followed
| the example of Salina and glove fac
tories are being established in both
towns.
In Pratt a young woman paid
$1.79 to a gypsy who told her fortune.
| 1t was a great bargain, she declares,
and was worth the full $3.50.
A quarter section of land in McPher-
son county sold last week for $11, 100
the highest price paid for a quarter sec
ton Of land in that locality.
Salina has something new In the way
OF search and seizure ordinance that
promises to make the business OF the
jointist and bootlegger as dangerous as
foohng with dynamite.
A cynical Kansas editor declares that
the "piece" In the Emporia Gazette ex-
tending a cordial welcome to a rival
daily newspaper reads like the letters
Mrs. Guinness wrote to the victims
| whom she was getting ready to crack
on the head with a hammer.
The volunteer firemen of the state
are getting ready for their annual
| meeting which will be held in Be1oit.
The firms which deal in red shirts
and helmets will do a good business
for a while.
Some dirty, low, degraded, SANDER
Gus. Matchmaking, virtueless cur or
curress has been sending to certain
members of the editors family i'm
moral, dirty, blasphemous cards and
letters.-Clark County Tribune.
Tom Morgan of Ottawa deplores the
| theory that there is any concerted ac-
ton on the part Of the railroads to in
! crease freight rates. He insists that
| the traffic managers all CHANGED to
| have the same happy thought at the
same moment.
Real humane people live at Perry. A
| steer belonging to a man at that place
wit pd
| chased the people around the town
| for an hour. When the maddened an
| imal had dropped from exhaustion a
veterinarian was called. He killed the
| steer with a hypodermic injection.
A CoffeyviIle woman could and did
stand abuse from her husband; she
| did not murmur or repine when he
| slapped her and whipped the baby;
she sat patiently while he "cussed" tn
| food she cooked; but when he cut her
the police court with determination
in her eye and had him put under
bond to keep the peace.
| "Shagnasta Jim came in on Satur-
day much perturbed," says the King
| man Leader-COurier. He says Tom
Tankfull is arguing with the people at
| the Ridge that the trusts have put
| up the prices of wheat and corn and
| cattle and hogs in order to help the
Republicans at the coming election. In
his lament over the situation ShagnaS-
ia Said If a man at the Ridge ships
carload of hogs and the market is
! off, Tom rushes to him with the
| story that it is the fault of Roosevelt
and Taft and Long. If another strikes
a good market he tells him that the
| money power forced the price up in
| order to make him believe times are
| good under a Republican administra-
| ton and that 1t is only roundabout
| way Of buying his vote"
There were IL members in this years
graduating class at the Garden City
| high school. One Of them, Herbert
| Fantroy, was a negro. In number OF
| petty ways he had been Disseminated
| against by the members of his class
| But he paid them back in a gentle re-
Duke that will probably make their
feel ashamed Of themselves for many
| a day. His graduating grafton was on
| True Politeness" and at it's conclu-
| sion he said: my classmates could
| have made it easier for me tonight by
| showing true poMteness. Imagine my
! feelings when I went to the class day
exercises and found there was no chair
for me- When my classmates sent
away for class pins, was not told
about 1t so that I might order with
them. Friends, this has made it hard
er for me. The teachers have been
very kind to me and some of my class
mates have been kind and I want tc
thank them for the true politeness they
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