The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-26
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thunder SOUNDS better TINS year. TO
Editor Palmer of the JcweH County
Republican, than a pipe organ.
The fellow who spends his money
like water doesn't stay in the swim
very long, remarks Bert Walker in
his Osborne Farmer.
Attention is called by the SeIden IN
dependent to the fact that most of our
troubles are homemade; very few OF
them are born with US.
Another time Old Noah was asleep
at the switch, thinks the Osborne Far
mer, was when he allowed those two
chiggers to sneak into the ark.
Das Unglueck list in der Regel
NIGHT so schlin vie die Furcht vor
dem Unglueck, says the Neue Kansas
Staats-Zeitung of Kansas City, Kan.
THE corn is growing so fast the
shooting keeps US awake of nights,
reports Missouri Bob" the East YER
digris correspondent of the Wilson
County Citizen.
The trouble with wild oats, re-
marks Anna Carlson in her Linds-
borg News, is that while it takes only
one man to do the planting, the entire
family is usually called upon to har-
vest the crop.
A lady says she gave certain fell
low a piece of her mind one day re-
Gently. says the Pratt Union, and
from her talk we could not help but
have been donated to some one.
Professional reform and gate re-
ceipts go hand in hand, insists Bert
Walker in his Osborne Farmer. The
reformer gets the receipts and always
Will, While the downtrodden people
furnish the money and the votes.
Don't let any reformer tell you diff
ferent story.
Editor George of the Cuba Daylight
is by this time popular man with
the fair sex in his vicinity. In last
weeks issue of his paper he remark
ed: Busy women are no worse to Cos
sip than busy men. and if the women
can beat the men at he job they have
to go some.
When bashful man gets married
| [ always have my own idea as to who
popped the question, says Tom
Thompson in Howard Courant and
/ then he quotes Sofy Daniels as saying
! that some boys who are painfully
bashful in company are brave enough
when she gets them off by herself.
A lady asked the Cedar Point cor
respondent of the Florence Bulletin to
notify the person who has purioined
all of her lumber, most of her chick
ems, and other things too numerous
/ to mention, that there are a few
lunches of dried grapes still hanging
on the vines. also some boards left in
! the walk back of the house that they
can get without waiting till the wee
sma' hours Of the night, but they will
please leave the house and cement
sidewalks.
The Alta Vista Journal quotes "a
southern Kansas paper as having re-
ported during the recent dry spell: 1T
/ is so dry here that wagons are going
around with their tongues out. Ice
has to be soaked in water all night
before it is wet enough to make lem
onade. The catfish kick up such a
dust in the bed of the river that the
river has to be sprinkled before you
can go fishing. A spark from an
engine set fire to a pond and burned
up lot of bull frogs before the fire
could be eXtinguished. and the ground
| is so dry and hard that crawfish holes
/ in low places are being pulled up and
used for gas pipes"
A sporting item in the Valley Falls
/ Farmers Vindicator: In catch as
catch can bout in front of Schiller s
store Monday Afternoon between Walt
Ell Sellers and Ample Delk. Ample
/ backed into the "Drapery'', plate glass
window. There was a crash and
time was instantly called. There is
great hole and numerous cracks in
the fine plate. It's q boarded window
now. Their first impression was Ito
run" but the boys. pale and tremb-
/ ling, fessed up and offered TO make
good A new glass will cost about
$50. Walter says he'll have to split
buns and pat ham burgers a year, and
Ample will have to scare up several
horse trades to pay out. Hereafter
they will take their scuffles to the
woods.