The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-06-04

The Salina journal thinks that many
a college widow has a string Of victims
as long as that OF the Widow Guinness.
Meade has an elevator in process Of
construction and 1t is a race between
the carpenters and the wheat crop to
see which is ripe the sooner.
A Salina mule, whose name was not
Maud. cut it's throat on a barb wire
fence. A veterinary surgeon happened
to be on hand, and he sewed up the
animal in such a workmanlike manner
that 1t is going to recover.
A BeIoit woman, aged 80 years, died
recently, and a few days ago a pension
claim she had filed 80 years ago was
allowed. Her husband was killed in
an Indian uprising about 40 years ago.
Her heirs will have 5000 to divide
among themselves.
old, living at Haviland, early developed
the mother instinct and adopted a
large and troublesome brood Of chicks
whose mother had been carried Off by
some fatal malady. She clucks con-
stantly all day long, scratches up the
choicest flower beds and in other ways
displays signs Of becoming model
hen.
A Hill City young man married a
Lawrence girl and they arrived in the
home of the groom one night last week
few hours ahead of cyclone which
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| the lumber yard owned by the young
| man. They escaped with their lives
and their night clothes-very little
more than they had when they came
into this world Of woe. But they have
each other. which proves that the Lord
tempers the wind to the shorn lamb.
Mrs Mary McCreary Parkman, who
manages and edits the Emporia Week.
ly Times very creditably. is a Demo-
crat and before her marriage was
twice elected county superintendent.
Her husband, Harrison Parkman, Is
county surveyor and a Republican. The
Times, in an explanation Of why Mr..
Parkman's name never appears in that
paper, says: I'VE and our husband
agree on literature, religion, art, the
nebular hypothesis, the proper method
of poking the fire, the value of break
fast food as brain builder. paving
municipal ownership and the facts in
the Guinness case. But we disagree on
politics. We think our husband has a
good deal of sense-for a mere man--on
lots of subjects; but on politics. he
doesn't know much. He is a Republi-
cana black Republican, a mean black
Republican, and as such has no claims
On us either as a molder Of public opin-
ion, fellow citizen or as a wife. We
will cook for our husband: we will
mend our husbands clothing; we will
darn and brush him, and keep him up
as our husband. But as an officeholder
Of vile, venal and corrupt organiza-
ton. an emissary Of Wall street and
as an oppressor OF the poor, our hus-
band has only our unspeakable con-
tempt. He should thank his lucky
stars that we do keep his name out. of
the Times. We know enough on our
husband. should he attempt TO press
this matter too far. to mike his vote
in this election little more than scatter
ing. But up to the present, we have
said nothing. We think a good bit of
our husband, first and last, and in one
way and another. but we will permit
no foolishness from this Republican
county surveyor. He Is a bad lot and
we withhold certain matters In this at
fair, on account Of the responsibility of
the parties concerned"