The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-16
BY The WAY
BIZ HARVEY PARSONS.

It has been 10, these many moons
SINCE Hon. Ponce favored US with a
coIalnunlcatlon- We take it from the
tlon that the interim has been spent
IN waking from some point in North
era Kansas TO some foreign port, pre-
suhlaply Missouri We take it also
shat said Ponce is one of those low
proved Democrats who delight in toss
ing the big scare into the near Re
publican faction. Witness his wild
WarDle' Visualize his vicious vivisec-
VIII someone kindly ring the
gong and wake up Willie Taft?
m sure that he is feeling bad;
tnat cold has made him daft. The
hauonal committeeman have met
ana fixed it Up, and William is
the candy kid, if no one spills
the cup OF course Taft can not
WIN the fight they all Will tell you
that; but let me tell you some
thlnS Gwen, to place beneath your
nat II Teddy takes a notion, and
he takes them more or less; he'll
put the kibosh on the bunch, and
start an awful mess. The G. o.
rs would never dare repudiate
dear Taft; and yet with Teddy in
IN the ace-well-jump quick,
boys! The raftI
We wondered and pondered,"
and 1t really makes me blue; if
Ieddy takes a notion, what the
Hellephant will do? If they fail
TO hold up Howard, they admit
that they are yeggs, and their
darling golden gosling has been
laying brazen eggs.
once again I vainly ponder. and
likewise I also wonder, what in
molly living thunder they are try
ing to put through?
GIVE have with US tonight gen
h. -
Bill, who is this guy anyway?)
PONCE.
Rev. Richeson broke his engage
ment with Avis LinneI, and unless
some wop interferes, his engagement
with the Utah girl Will be broken with
his neck His engagement to Miss
Violet Edmands Will then lapse. thus
leaving the Rev. without any further
engagements.
The burning of Judge. Quinton s
house gives rise to the question: What
would you rescue from your home il
case of fire? We have figured it out
thus; first the dog. then the cat, then
the gold fish, and if there was still
time few favorite books.
What this country needs" says
Hondo Murphy. lis education in Ian
guage. (Observe that I didn't say
grammar This is a progressive
country, but the benighted south has
a better idea of language. What is
known way down south as the killing
word, and in some sections as the
fighting word is used in this country
as a filler for conversation. 1t is an
expression which has no use except as
a deadly insult. Go far enough south
and you will find that a man who is
called that name and beats the whey
out of the caller is liza BILE to be fined
SIS in J. P court for assault, because
at law an assault is an assault, and
there is no way out but, if the calI-ee
kills the caller, he gets before a Grim
inaI court with a jury, and no native
jury will find him guilty of anything.
AS a result. the vile expression is sell
dom used in the -long-leaf piney
woods. The same legal conditions and
4 few gun fighters would improve
Kings here by discouraging the use of
/ useless and vile expression
Ohio Battles has been pinched for
selling booze. The fact that the man /
las one foot in the grave makes little |
Inference to the officers.
Jack Johnson says he worked off 40 |
pounds in Paris dancing the Turkey
Trot and the Grizzly Bear. The infOr- |
nation. properly distributed. should do
more toward putting those forms of |
exercise on the fritz than all the pro- |
Mayor Gaynor could issue
n month.