The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-28
AYHlWKER JOTS

I'VE are SO modest" says the Flor
ence Bulletin, 1--WE blush every time we
read about a harem skirt
Agricultural advise from the Ross
vile Reporter: Somebody try an acre
of peanuts this season and note the re-
suit.
A gentleman said to the Pratt Union
the other day: 1.-THE most attractive
lady know is one of the best bread
bakers ever saw
Poultry note in the Oakland Blade:
What shall do with it? I think you
had better wiring its neck
The city gardener is now getting in
his work, says the Dickinson County
News, but it won't be long before he
will have to go to the country to buy
his garden truck.
Timely and valuable advice from the
Atchison Globe: If YOU want to
go to war. join the regulars. They
may get less glory than the volunteers,
but they get better grub.
It's the opinion of the Osborne
Farmers Village Deacon that eff noise
were religion the baseball player who
coaches over by the third base could
qualify as one Of the twelve apostles ="
An item in the society column of
the Hiawatha World: A boy kept
nagging his younger brother to box
with him; finally his mother put on
the gloves and punched him good and
| plenty.
Some straight talk from the Gridley
Light: If you don't see your name in
the paper it's your own fault; you sit
like a knot on log and never do any
| thing worth while or go any place but
over to the neighbors.
A little colored boy called on St.
a
Pratt Union. and asked for one of
dem green emblems.'' The merchant
said: 'Why, kid, you are no Irishman -
The youngster thought a moment and
then replied: Use a smoked Irish
| man.
The first blacksmith bellows that
came to Cawker was discarded this
week by Thomas Hill, who set it up in
his shop in 1872. He made the lever
which worked the bellows from a cot
tonwood limb. and it has been worn
nearly through by his hand alone con-
tinually pulling on it for thirty-nine
years.--Cawker Record.
A few pointed words from the usual
| ly calm and sedate Bert Walker: A
certain man thinks I am an enemy of
| the great common people because &C.
| casionaIly take a shot at the insurgents
ries of this good brother any 1 will say
that the reforrners are no greater joke
to me than some of the fellows they
are fighting. Politics is alike the world
over. The insurgents are working 1.-The
peoples interests to a fragile. AS
long as it produces pay dirt and votes
they will work the mire. When it
plays out they will adopt some other
scheme. Some of the reformers who
have dedicated their lives to saving the
suffering common people refuse to
make Chautauqua dates unless they
are guaranteed SO much per afternoon.
But that old devil incarnate, Joe Can
non refused to lecture for even $500 a
night Old Joe Cannon is at least sim
cere and is not grandstandfng. I have
little use for the man who seeks to
elevate himself into office by playing
on the prejudices and passions of the
people. To such professional reformers
the balance of the worlG is dishonest
and crooked. The most crooked man
| 1 ever knew in my life was a reformer.
likewise, one of the Coolies, and pur-
est men I ever met voted the same
ticket. I detest the grandstander and
| fourf1usher.