The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-30
.AyHAWKER JOTS

! Projected by the Lindsborg News
/ Vitascope: If the fool killer was on
his job all the time, most of us would
have to do some pretty lively dodg-
ing.
An explanation by the Galena Re
publican: The original purpose OF
public office was not to provide a
| job for somebody, but to proVloe
somebody for job.
| In this age of high prices, remarks
| the Wamego Reporter, it is difficult TO
see just what the merchants Will sell
US for those new half-cent pieces
which are to be circulating soon
Speaking of the best laid plans of
mice and men, says the Minneapolis
Messenger, it would seem that the
mice have a little the advantage, for
they have the women buffaloed.
The Greenleaf Sentinel calls the
women rooster-pecked who are
obliged to use an Old-faShioned cook
stove in hot summer weather, though
oil and gasoline stoves are cheap.
Something of a query propounded
by the Neodesha Register: Why is
it that a woman had rather see her
husband beating the dust out of an
old carpet than to see him reading
his Bible or working at a business
that will pay him SIS an hour? Does
she consider it a means of grace?
Something akin to the badger fight
which was SO popular in the days OF
long ago was pulled off recently at
the Union Pacific park when bull
dog was started after a swapping tur-
tie in the park fountain, reports the
Dickinson County News. The betting
was whether the dog would bite the
turtle or the turtle bite the dog. After
lot of Sparring, barking and snap
ping, the dog won by catching the
turtle by the tail.
The Wamego Times relates that on
one occasion, good while ago,
farmers wife, who wasn't as honest
as most of the farmers wives are,
brought some butter to Alma and sold
it to a local merchant for ten cents a
pound. When the merchant opened
one of che rolls of butter he found
stone in the midole- He was wise He
didn't make a roar or say word, but
when that woman came in the next
week 70 buy some coffee he put that
same stone in the package of coffee
and sold it back to her for twenty
cents a pound, thus showing first that
it is a long lane that has no turn and
second that it is a wise man who can
keep his mouth shut and bide his time.
A good one has leaked out on a
Holton man, which the Holton Signal
tells as follows: He and his wife had
planned to go to the band concert the
other evening when one of her
friends dropped in to spend the even
ing. AS he had another little matter
to look after he excused himself and
went to town alone. His business at
tended to, he strolled over into the
park and sat down on the grass to
listen to the band. When two or three
pieces had been played, he started to
shift his position when his hand fell
on the hand of girl, soft and white.
inadvertently in the uncertain light,
his fingers closed around the yielding
palm and his clasp was met with an
answering squeeze. He sat without
through the next two pieces
when he took a sidelong glance at the
face of the owner of the hand, and
was startled to find himself looking
into the cool gray eyes of his wife,
who with her friend had at the last
concluded to go to the concert, and
had slipped up behind him to sur
prise him. Why" he said. II
thought you weren't-when did you
but he had said too much
already, and the neighbors say that
she has the incest new Wilton rug for
the parlor and has cut her usual
summer visit from three weeks to
two days.