The Topeka state journal., 1908-01-27
AYKAWKER JOTS

Scott county farmers are worrying
about what they will do with their
wheat next summer. They are f1gur-
ing on 35 bushels to the acre.
A Kansas man, recently returned
from the national capital, tells how he
was looked up to as Croesus when
he fippantly displayed a two dollar
bill in real money in Washington.
The Kansas quail and partridge
has more names after the open sea-
son is closed, when you see him
on the big hotel tables, than the bird
would recognize if he was well and
hearty.
They're telling story around Gas
City to the effect that a bride Of that
place took a tub on her head and went
to a neighbor's house to do weeks
washing the day after her marriage.
The groom stayed at home with the
toothache.
winf1elds hay market has been
moved about so often that the papers
say it is on wheels. The farmers
have got so used to being moved that
they leave their hay outside of town
and hunt up on foot the latest stand
made by the market.
A California tourist. waking on a
sleeper, west bound here the other
morning. thought he had. arrived in
southern California, the air was so
sweet and balmy, garlanded, as it
was with the perfume Of the sand
hill breezes, says the Hutchinson
News.
l.. j. Schad, Of Abilene, had a rather
unusual experience few days ago. A
young man went to him and handed
him a dollar and explained that it was
for articles he had taken from Mr..
Schad's store four years ago. Mr..
Schad intends to keep the coin which
he calls a religious dollar"
Mrs. II. C. Glen, who lives in Wichita,
certainly is the victim of peculiar and
painful experiences. Twice within the
past year she has awakened in the
morning to find her collar bone broken,
the fracture occurring in the night
while she was asleep. No explanations
are given in the Wichita papers which
chronicle this event as to how the in
turies have been inflicted. One thing
is certain, Mrs. Glen is sound sleeper.
Robert Saylor, of Morrill,, had
twelve acres of alfalfa this year that
made five bushels of seed per acre,
and he sold his seed for $40 bushel.
Besides this he sold $240 worth OF
hay, which made the receipts per acre
$40. The labor connected with saw
ing these crops would be about $40
an acre, leaving Mr.. Saylor about $50
profit for each acre harvested. No
wonder Mr.. Coburn calls alfalfa a
mortgage raiser!
A political call to arms in the
Cimarron Jacksonian: Take down
the old Shibboleth from its hook on
the wall and sharpen it up. dust off
the Roorback, tune up the Slogan,
dig out the Gum Shoes, set the hair
trigger on the Landslide, for the dogs
of war have been let loose and the
kentry is to be saved once more yet.
Politics have come to Kansas to stay
until the dank, dark, damp days of
November. 1908. Trouble has done
busted OUT
A country correspondent writes to
the Ellsworth Reporter: "By the time
this 22 caliber epistle has reached the
public assimilator, the wise men OF
this glorious commonwealth, that was
carved out of the great American
desert by the hatchet or industry and
thrift, will have met in extraordinary
conclave, and a few other places.
Orators, who have been ruthlessly
torn from the bosom Of their families,
will have cut the cable that held them
to the shore of peace and quietude.
and speeches, political and non-politi-
CAL will be clouding the atmosph ere
like smoke from a switch engine. And
little pools of wisdom will be bubbling
and sparkling like geysers in the yell
Iowstone park, and methinks I see
the members of Senate lodge scram-
bling up the sides Of the band wagon,
like pack of hungry cats trying to
get at chunk Of fresh meat"