The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-15
JAYHAWKER JOTS

One OF the things to be appreciated
| III this world, says the Pratt Union, is
that every morning brings a chance to
rise and do better than ever before.
! A proper rebuke to Congressman
| Reeder's remark that the Kansas peo-
| PIE are erratic is administered by the
| Wichita Beacon with these words: ut
| is & congressman's duty to praise not
to criticize his constituents.
Homer Robinson scattered about ten
| bushels of wheat on stony ground
Tuesday and it wasn't Intentional eth
er. He was hauling wheat to town and
when going down the street near the
Farmers State bank the endgate came
out of the wagon and he drove a couple
| OF rods before finding it out.@James-
town Optimist.
Kansas people are said by the east
ern press to be using cider and ia
maica ginger in combination as a sub
falsehood. Kansas people are using
right clothes instead of their boots to
sleep. in and a happy song instead of
the bust-head to get up with, as a sub
st1tute for champagne.-Ottawa Herald
! The Cloud County woman who was
so nearly torn to pieces by a herd of
hogs, brought the trouble on herself by
her sympathy. She heard a pig squeal-
| Ing and when she ran out it was fast
in the fence. She climbed the fence
to release it. but all the other hogs,
blaming her for their comrades dis
down and nearly tore her to pieces.
Hogs, as Central Branch editor re-
marks. are long on sympathy but short
on sense"
| The western state normal school is
| what the institution at HAYS is now
called 1t is really the branch of the
| state normal school, and also the seat
CT an agricultural college experiment
station. 1t confidently expects an en-
rollment of 500 this year. and probab-
| ly will get it. 1t was an example of
| the wisdom of the state in putting a
branch of one Of its useful institutions
| in the west end. Another will be To-
Gated at Garden City some day
Garden City Telegram.
| An incident occurred in Lawrence the
other day which shows that this in
sanity plea is an easy one to make I'M
der certain circumstances and that il
works quite as easily. 1t Is told of by
the Lawrence Journal as follows:
Charlie" Prentice arrested q man
named Sibley for series of petty
crimes. When arrested the man laugh
ed and calmly told the marshal he could
Lot hold him. Prentice was indignant
and demanded to know the reason. The
man said: Because I am a lunatic'
Sure enough, he had papers in his pos
! session proving that he had escaped
from the asylum at st. Joseph.
Fred and Alice used to be a very
loving sight-walked together, seemed
! to me. morning, noon and night
Couldn't separate the pair, really, if
you tried; locate Alice anywhere, Fred
was by her side. Everyone was glad
| to see Alice make a catch, and we
seemed to all agree it was quite a
match. But there was a quarter
where Fred was called a dub for his
| foolish love affair-that was at the
| club. There we took decided stand
against his wooing, which always left
| is short a hand at seven-up or pitch.
| My, but those were lonesome nights,
| playing solitaire, wishing Fred would
come to rights, quit his love affair.
Well, it's over, anyhow; all came out
all right. Fred-you see they've mar
RED now-is with US every night
Minneapolis Messenger.