The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-26
HYHAWKER JOTS

1t occurs to the Gypsum Advocate
that the public will be very much re-
lieved when the Salina papers quit
talking about those 100000 ties the
Union Pacific is storing there.
If the average man spells a word
wrong, says the Mcpherson Republi-
can, he will argue he could prove it
was the way they used to do it if he
could only find an old dictionary.
The Hutchinson News extended
congratulations the other day to
Lincoln and Washington on their not
being able to see the pictures the Sa-
lima Journal has been printing Of
them.
Bert Miller insists that the sessions
OF the Masonic grand lodge have left
Hutchinson in some doubt whether
town enterprise should next exercise
itself in starting an apron factory or
a goat farm.
In England when rich men get on a
tear and spend SIS on champagne they
pay the government 10 cents revenue.
But when some door men spend SIS in
tanking up on beer it means a tax of
$1.5S. That is the way the free traders
treat the laboring man.-McPherson
Republican.
As Henry Allen puts It: mo man
ever did any good as citizen after
he got all the money he wanted; no
zens quit worrying about the future
of the town. 1t takes work and wor-
ry and diligence and enthusiasm and
faith and eternal boost to build a
city,
I'VE have a member of our flock
who is very much opposed to all
forms of gambling, reports the Village
Deacon in the Osborne Farmer, but
the other day we caught him making
pretty good sized wager. He had
stilled his conscience with the know
ledge that he had an immortal cinch
on winning
A barnyard fable for the benefit of
advertisers from the Great Bend Trib-
une: The merchant who does not ad-
vertise should read this little fable:
In certain barnyard there were two
hens, one of which, when she laid
an egg, cackled, because she knew
when she had good thing. and wanted
others to know it-that hen believed
in advertising. And many were the
breakfasts her enterprise supplied.
When the other hen laid eggs she dis
dained to cackle. What's the use?'
she said. Everybody knows lay
eggs and she cackled not. One day
the owner of the hens by accident dis
covered the nest of the Noiseless One,
and it was full with eggs. But They
Were Too Old to Use. And imme-
diately he cut off the head of the
H0A lHdI refused 10 Dc InOQorn ana
advertise. Mr.. Merchant, are your
goods becoming 'over-ripe'? Try
'cackling,' advertise"
Providing business administration
of city affairs is the long suit of the
commission form of government. And
so far as the Emporia Gazette is con-
cerned the campaign, which is to be
waged in its town for the selection of
men to establish this form of govern
ment which the voters of Emporia
have decided to try. is going to be
conducted strictly on business princi-
pies, as is evidenced by this card
which appeared in the Gazette re-
Gently:
announcements of candidates for
the primary nomination for mayor or
commissioner under the commission
form of government will be SIS in adj
vance. No writeup will go with the
announcement for commissioner.
Neither will any writeup be printed
endorsing any candidate for any mon
ey. But friends of candidates may
print signed articles favoring the can
didates at cents a line cash with the
order. No articles will be printed in
reading matter about any candidates
unless signed by the writer's. Display
ed advertising will be printed at the
usual rates. But cash must accom-
pany the order