The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-07
HYHAWKER JOTS

"You are rich" remarks the Jewell
County Republican, when you quit
wishing you had more"
According to the Vin1and Vine some
body asked Bill Sincaller if ragtime is
| music, and he replied: rs Mother
Goose literature?''
On learning of the fact that a Mis-
souri, COW ate ten pounds of dynamite,
the Washington Republican cried:
Watch out for another rise in beef"
After devoting much thought to the
subject, the Newton Republican an
nounces that naturaf gas is one of the
greatest of modern conveniences. when
there is any gas.
The Hutchinson News is particular
to state that the story Making Vets
papers are running refers not to vet
Grams but to veterinarians.
Judge Smart of Troy says that a con-
stituent took him aside recently and
said: Judge, I've always been your
friend and always voted for you, and
drawn me as a juror" The Judge had
to explain that he had nothing to do
with the drawing of jurors.
A misplaced head in a Kansas town
paper has placed several people in an
embarrassing position. A heading, Got
Him at Last" should have been placed
over a patent medicine ad but by mis-
take it was run over the writeup of a
wedding which had transpired after
long courtship-Salina Journal.
A thirsty young man of Manhattan
stole five quarts of booze from freight
car, and was arrested and fined $25 and
costs before he had finished one bottle.
He arranged for the payment of his
fine quite cheerfully. but when he
found that the four bottles had been
confiscated he broke down and wept
like Rachel for her children. So long
as there is a camePs back, there always
will be a last straw to break it.-ETn-
poria Gazette
I'm counties where the farmers want
good roads they have them,'' says the
Jewell City Republican. I'm some sec
tons farmers count the road drag as
necessary a farm tool as the harrow.
When conditions are right they slip out
with it for few turns the length of
their road, and no work they do pays
better. 1t takes a pretty mean man to
stand out when all his neighbors do the
ship furnishes a drag to any farmer
Who will use it, and pays him for. the
time he puts in
Up at Harper the other night a young
man went to church and removed his
overcoat just before entering and car
ried it on his arm. AS he walked up
the aisle to a seat a deck of playing
cards which he had in his pocket COM
menced falling out and scattering as he
walked, but he did not discover it until
usher gathering up the cards later on
but held his seat until dismissed, when
it didn't take him long to get away
The Sentinel didn't give the young
mans name.-Ca1dwelI News.
Will Palmer says: We hate to see
bright and capable young men sitting
about evenings, playing cards to kill
time. Don't these young fellows know
that all the big places in the country
now occupied by elderly men must
soon have younger men to fill them ?
Why be content to be a third rater or
a fourth rater? Why not amount TO
something yourself? Great reward
these days for the young man who digs
for the young man who doesn't have |
time to loaf or play cardsi In the end
he will get far more solid enjoyment
out of his success and out of his
achievements than he can ever get out |
Of idle, time killing devices. It is a |
sin and shame to have brains and
capacity and yet never give them a |
fair chance, to have a ready hand and !
half train it to have influence and use
1t to help somebody into the straight- |
way.