The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-25
HYHAWKER JOTS

A lesson in. bookkeeping from A. v.
Napier of the Blue Mound Sun: Don't
lend them
A theatrical note in the Mankato
Advocates: Those who attended Just
a Woman's Way" declare that the
woman't didn't weigh very much.
If a man still insists On talking poll
tics ask him to desist, counsels George
Tucker in his Eureka Herald; if he re-
fuses violent measures are justifiable.
We put hobbies on a horse to keep
him at home but the hobble skirt is
not intended for any such purpose, re-
marks the Galena Weekly Republican
Nine out of ten of the young men Of
today are looking for a salary harder
than they are for a job, remarks the
Smith County Messenger and it points
out: 1.-The one who is looking for a
job will eventually get the salary"
A high school note in the Osborne
Farmer: The freshies before examin-
ination: "Oh, Lord of Host lie with
us yet lest we forget, lest we forget"
Freshies after examination: THE
Lord of Host was with us not, for we
forgot, for we forgot"
Deserved respects are paid to a dog
killer by Gene Smith, who writes to
the Mankato Advocate as follows:
wish to say to the cowardly cur WIZ
shot my dog last Tuesday night that
he might prof1tably spend some time in
reading Vests eulogy on 1.-The Dog"
If he has the brain capacity which
God usually gives to even the poorest
and weakest Of mortals he would
know more than he now knows. While
this dog was of no particular breed he
was more to be trusted and better
and more intelligent companion than
the puppy who killed him. The coun-
ty pays a reward for coyote scalps yet
the coyote is a credit to any communi-
ty compared to the short bred mongrel
who crawls around under cover at
night shooting dogs, stealing chickens
and who would rob little children of
their candy. But the most cOwardly
trick of all, that of hauling the dog
after killing him, leaving him in front
of a neighbours gate, puts the dog in a
class far above the common trash who
did the shooting. Having belonged to
my father made the dog doubly valu-
able but of course the man who shot
him has no capacity for any of the
finer feelings of human nature.
There are any number of people in
Kansas and the rest of the world like
Old Bill Shiftless, one~of the cronies
of the Osborne Farmer, and especially
as to these characteristics which were
described recently by Brother Walker
as follows: Old Bill Shiftless has made
failure of everything he ever tackled
in the way of business. He has even
failed when he took a swing az re-
ligion. But Bill will argue by the hour
that if the people would just elect him
to office he would make a bowling
success and save the country tho first
week he was in power. He has al
ways howled that the success of the
other fellows has kept him down. Pill
has had a number of good jobs. but
he failed to make good. When he got
chance to put in a bill for services
he always padded the account and
tried to make his employers believe
that five dollars worth of work was
worth eighty. The people are getting
mighty tired of Old Bill and his eter-
nal bowling and abuse of decent citi-
zens, whom he hates because they will
not lend him money and Join him in
| his shifty schemes. When Old Bill gets
to a point where he can first reform
| himself a little along certain lines
| the people may decide to give him a
chance at doing something for the
| public