The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-15
AYHAWKER JOTS

| An lola newspaper worker has bought
| a restaurant, thereby insuring against
the troublesome other end of the news
paper business, comments the Ottawa
Herald.
The Dodge City Journal-Democrat
will drop the hyphen and Democrat.
The Democrat is used to being drop
ped in Kansas, sagely remarks the
Wichita Beacon.
An optician of southwestern Kansas
publishes his itinerary" the same as
bishop. and one of his advertisements
in the Medicine Lodge Index concludes:
Bring Your Eyes
Judging from the alibis they offered
the Wellington News concludes that the
Tennessee night riders were all in
Sunday school at the time the Reelfoot
lake murder was committed.
1t would be an awfully fine old world
to live in if every one Of us would only
find as many excuses for the mistakes
of others as we find for the mistakes
of Observation-Disclosures Journal
In c. S. Potter, lola is proud Of a JUS
tice of the peace who has served in
that capacity for Ia years and who has
two years service yet before him, hav-
ing been reelected for an eighth term.
The Milo correspondent for the Bar
nard Bee concludes: 1T is very evil
dent that this department has run out
of anything to say. But this depart
ment is not feeling so ALFRED lone
some on that account
One of the proofs of the fact that it
pays to advertise was secured by the
street commissioner of Salina who af-
ter publishing notice that he would ar
rest every delinquent got telephone calls
all night long, carrying promises to
come in and pay poll tax next morning.
1 met spectre in the lane; it grasp
ed me with shadow hand, and moan
ed and wept as though In pain, and
asked the way to No Mans Land. But
why this agony?" 1 cried; 'if I can aid
you tell me how; I'm past all help
the shade replied, IT am your friend the
New Year Vow."-Walt Mason.
The Lawrence Journal corrects itself
as follows: Our Douglas county poor
farm is the finest building on earth. 1t
is heated with natural gas, has hot and
cold water, is the best ventilated in
stitution in the city. Did we say the
conveniences? We beg your pardon.
we meant the new Jail has these things.
The poor farm has nothing. We pam
per our criminals, we punish our dest1-
tute."
Here is a story from the Leavenworth
Times that is worthy of being engross-'
ed on parchment and placed in gilded
frame: A ragged tramp stopped at
farm house near Iowemont few Gays
ago, and begged for handout. The
farmer asked him why he didn't go to
work, and told him that it wasn't nee
essary in these prosperous times for an
a BILE bodied man TO wear Sucn TdSSeQ
pants. This nettled the hobo, and
up, he said: My pants
may be ragged, sir, but they cover a
warm heart"
A complaint by the correspondent for
the Wilson County Citizen: 1T is said |
that some of those who spend consid- |
cradle time at the skating rink, paying |
cash. buy their meat on time;' that 9TH |
ers skate so late that they cannot get
ND in time to attend Sunday school and |
church services; that some of the boys
buy things at the stores and sell them
to get money to skate with; that some |
parents permit their children to go I'M |
attended to the rink and stay till it is
all over with; that the smell of whisky |
is one of the noticeable things that some |
skaters bring with them; that some of
those who skate owe bills around town |
that ought to be paid; that the loafers
who are most regular in attendance at
the skating rink know more than any !
one else on earth. They know how the |
preacher should preach and the teach |
er should teach, how the merchant
should merch CHATS not right but let |
1t go); how the barber should barb; |
how the doctor should dock; how the |
banker should bank; how the druggist |
should drug. and how the thinker should |
think In fact, they know everything |
except how to attend to their own bust |
ness and make themselves useful to the |
and world at large. AS was |
remarked before, if there is anything |
a bove all else that Benedict needed, it |
was a skating rink. Let's chip in and |
have another Ones not enough.