The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-24
LYHAWKER JOTS

In it's professional directory the
| Kansas City, Kan, Globe runs legal
| department, with the cards of 46
| lawyers.
In the neighborhood of Arlington
there are 1920 rabbits less than there
were a day or so ago as the result of
mighty hunt held there.
Leavenworth's gas and water mains
are afflicted with electrolysis. The
| street car tracks furnish the cleo
| tricity which does this mischief.
Thursday night a box supper was
given at the Star school house north
east of Iuka, where one cake brought
$50. 1t was in contest and Miss Eva
Holland got the cake.
Two prize chickens have been killed
at Hiawatha by an automobile and the
consequent disturbance is greater,
possibly, than if a human being had
been killed.
And And speaking ing, Of nature tales; not
Globe tells of a rabbit than ran into
farmers yard south of the town fol-
lowed by fifteen coyotes. The rabbit
saved itself by running under the
house, where it was afterwards killed
by the family cat. The Globe is par
ticular to give its authority for this
story. the same being an individual
named Joe Fleiner.
The fact that Lindsborg is now build
ing sewer seems to furnish the wits"
OIL uIle newspapers IN the state WITH
grand chance to call attention to the
fact that this town is making bids for
fame with something besides the Mes
siah." Any old town can build a sewer
but as a matter of fact there are few
of them that can get within hailing dis
lance of Lindsborg when it comes to
producing the Messiah or any other
thing of musical magnitude.
Elmer E. Marshall is making rec
ord as receiver of the failed Arkan-
q III
seems to have the idea that his posi- !
ton requires that he be not only a |
receiver but a distributor. He has
paid the depositors half their money /
already. Another dividend is to be |
declared about the first of the year |
and the final one, giving every deposit |
tor the full amount of his deposit, be-
fore February 1. 1t will, be the best
job of bank liquidation ever pulled off +
in Kansas.-Hutchinso News -
OF Mr.. and Mrs. Isaac Maris, who cell
ebrated their fiftieth wedding anniver-
sary in Atchison last week, the En-
poria Gazette says: These fine old |
people have lived in Kansas practical
" all their lives, and, when they were
young, they experienced all the trials
and disappointments and burdens which
ell to the lot of pioneers; but they
we're not embittered thereby; they were
'ather filed with a greater faith in
and an all pervading kind
less for their fellow creatures. And SO
t came to pass in the fullness of time
hat this man and woman prospered, as
people do prosper who fear God and
10 the right thing, and labor diligently
n the vineyard; and they builded
themselves a stately mansion, which
eemed sumptuous, indeed, after the
cottage in which they had endured their
arly privations. This new mansion
lad all the conveniences that you read
# in the Orange Judd Farmer: and ev-
ry room in it was an invitation to re-
,ose and comfort. Not the least COM
ortable of the apartments was the
strangers Room, which was set apart
or such wayfarers as might desire a
lights rest. The house was fronting
we'll Travelled thoroughfare, and there
we're many footsore pilgrims, and not I
III of them had silver or precious
tones; most of them were Weary Will
les, tattered and torn; and, when they .
sked for lodging, they were not sent 1
o the barn or invited to hang them !
elves over the clothesline. or crawl I'M :
er the porch; they were given the
tranger's Room, and no questions were
sked, and in the morning they went !
way with full bellies and kindly wish
s, and invitations to call again"