The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-26
ON TIE SPUR
or THE MOMENT
BY ROY X. MOULTON.

Prosperity. t---
Et's very plain fo' me to see
Dis yah thing called Prosperity.
Amt TO no common gink lax me,
What nevah has cent.
How kin All save. Aid lax to know,
When all NAH money has to go
Down to the conner grocery sto',
An what am lef', for rent.
When All has done dug up de price
Fo' gas an coal an meat an ice,
Nah salary will not suffice
To staht no bank account
Yo' talk about yo' wealth sublime,
Alive paid nah debts, single dime
Looks lax a large amount.
or Rockefeller he done say:
Save all yo' pennies an some day
Yo' will be rich" All yells ''Horray!
Thanks fo' yo' good advice
But when Ah'd anted TO de rent,
All didn't have a single cent
To put away on ice.
Eft sometimes seems feller's got
De very meanest soht of lot
In life an dat cts really not
What cts cracked up to be;
But when he comes to figger out
What he has been a-kickfn' bout,
He finds some other Teller mout
Be much wusS off dan he.
From the Hickeyyille Clarion.
Mr.. Angus Hostetter, the eminent
Is the statement
that he hooked large steel-head trout
the other day which dragged him four
miles up stream in spite of the fact that
he tried to grasp weeds and logs IN order 1I
right hand was full of weeds which he
had dragged up by the roots and he was
eral hours work he was resuscitated.
The way to go after Mr.. Hostetter's brand
of trout is with a Winchester rifle and
dumdum buIlits instead of a hook and
line HOSt0tfer might have saved him.
self wetting by letting go of the pole.
little presence of mind on such occasions
comes in very handy.
Hank Tumms has seen a blacksnake ten
feet long on his back forty, and still some
folks opine that the time amt ripe for
local option in our county
If ali the fellers who are tryin' to beat
Uncle Sam by usin' second hand pustage
stamps was took up by the police there
to carry on the affairs of this country.
No II, the fast express on our railrud.
struck Deacon Pringle's faithful dog. Ffdo
last Tuesday evening while on its head
long rush through this village and the en-
CINE was derailed. The dog was as good
as new. 1t is now proposed by the viii
lage council to have the dog stand on the
track and make every train stop here.
Some of the shirtwaists our gals are
wearin on the street this spring look as
though they might furnish some fine rag
time music if run through pianola.
Elmer Jones says he came burned near
milliner and she said NO If she had
said Yes" it would have been over with
by now.
When Hod Peters wants to git his land
plowed quick and cheap he gifts up a
plowin' race. This year he offered a pat
ent wringer for first prize and a dollar
watch for second prize. There were four
teen contestants and all of Hod's land was
nicely plowed by noon 1t cost Hold S39
in real money.
Hints on Canning.
When canning cherries be sure to re-
move the pits. It is too much trouble to
canned cherries in the winter and when
a man walks around with three or four
quarts of cherry pits inside of him he is
apt to rattle and it is easy enough to rat
tie any man without that.
The outer skin and the topnot of the
pineapple should be removed before the
pinapple is canned The skin of the pine
apple is very rough and irregular and is
apt to scrape the throat If it is not re-