The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-03
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The lola Record thinks there ought
10 be some suitable punishment for
kidnapping; something mild like boiling
In OIL or roasting over a slow fire.
A Coffeyville firm has taken a con-
tract to deliver twenty carloads of eggs
In New York by April 10. This ship
ment means a total of more than three
million eggs.
According to the musical critic of the
Manhattan Mercury. you can Away
tell II a recital is good by looking to
see If the music teachers have an en-
raptured look on their faces"
Alvah Sheldon recalls that the late
senator Plumb advocated the nonpar-
tlsan tariff commission plan eighteen
or twenty years ago, and was almost
Read Out of the Party for it.
An Oklahoma boyeas Joke on his
husband. But he won't play any more
such jokes, southern Kansas paper
adds. because he now has a stepfather
to spank him. The paper adds: Bet
ter not advertise for anything you
don't want
ABOUT the only secret some people can
keep is mean story on themselves"
The Ottawa Herald believes that the
Keno county man who reported a fat
bank account, fine barns, modern ma
chinery and fat stock to the assessor,
$25 worth of household furniture, set
tied questions as to Who Is Boss
The La Fontaine Banner rebuked the
Fredonia Herald for referring to the
Rev. ]. r. McFadden Familiarity as
Bro Mac" The Herald replies: up
calling the president sBill' and our
postmaster Tom and our editors
John and Ed, and if our delegation
lost out at the M. E. conference by
calling our preacher Mac we are truly
sorry"
Polk Daniels of Howard says if he is
ever rich enough to buy a farm he pro-
poses to put up sign which will read:
You are welcome to hunt, fish, trap
and picnic on these premises all you
want to. Will also loan you a good
shotgun and fishing tackle IL desired.
for you If need 1t. Pitch in and have a
good time. Call at the house for ice
water. or anything you may want"
Our Kansas congressman" says the
Jewell County Republican, ARE most
ly fighting free hides because hides
is Kansas product Nevertheless,
ten Kansas people wear shoes to one
who sells hides. It is the big packing
houses more than the farmers that are
being voiced in this cry against free
hides. Anything that cheapens shoe
leather benefits everybody, from the
schoolboy with his shining morning
face to the age of lean and slipper
pantalOons."
The young beaux across the river
seem to have the country districted,
and each one has exclusive rights
within his territory. There are three
districts between Detroit and Chap
man, and when a certain young lady
Went from Detroit to Chapman last
Friday night each young man took her
to the limits or his territory and turn
ed her over to the next one, who was
ready with his buggy to proceed on the
journey. 1t is reported that the young
lady enjoyed it.-Enterprise Push.
One of the Leavenworth Times edi-
tors who attended the wrestling match
in Kansas City last week doubts if
wrestling is the nice parlor game it
has been represented to be. He writes:
Instead of putting over a 'haymaker'
as they do in the prize ring, Mr. Gotch
used his elbow, effectively, neverthe-
less He didn't attempt to smash shut
the eye of his opponent; he merely put
his thumb in it, He caught the head
of Raoul de Rouen between two hands
and twisted 1t so badly that when the
Frenchman broke the hold and his
neck unwound the Leavenworth spec
tator saw his face pass at least twice.
The champion of France left the town
on crutches because he failed to yield
promptly enough to prevent broken
ankle"