The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-12-10

mo, 1n0ee0s Aunt S1mpys VIZ
Dick Tasraph. In the WaKeeney West
bill il not q proposition to substitute
glass for metal in our coinage. We 60
| broke easy enough already.
Some Kansas Democrats who missed
fine opportunity to get into the VIII
son band wagon when the getting va
good, now must be content. says the
Leroy Reporter. with being allowed to
carry the racks for the fellows with
the horns.
A symposium on man, in the Wa
lKeeney Western Kansas World: Any
, man can make a fool Of himself with
out getting drunk.-Old 81. And very
few men can get drunk without max
ing fools OF observation-disclosures Heck.
The men all look alike to me.-Aunt
Simpy.
Concluding an enthusiastic editorial
on the excellent wheat prospects in
western Kansas, because Of the recent
rains. the Oakley Graphic says: Jim
Je6ries and Theodore Roosevelt could
not come back" Only one fellow In
the world can come back and his
name is Mr.. Wheat.
John Masso, Of Arlington, claims the
turkey picking championship of Reno
county. He averages IS turkeys q day.
80
County Republican. says: So many
brave men and women carry q load
and smile while they carry 1t, that you
can't tell who is having an easy time.
Something unusual In the animal line
was shot recently In the vicinity OF
Waldo. It Is described ~ having been
three times az big as the largest cat
It's skin was sold AZ q badgers hide.
but some Of the expert naturalists In
ole fAAl H>Av
been a striped coon. Why not call It q
What-was-tt?
Twins. a boy and a girl. were born
| recently to Mr.. ana Mrs. Chris A. Hoff-
| man. Of Centralta. reports the Everest
Enterprise. Mr.. and Mrs. Hoffman are
both twins. and Mr.. Hoffman's father
Is twin. And the remarkable thing
about his father and his fathers twin
brother IL that they are both living
at the age Of % years.
| Related by the Osborne County
Farmer: A priest was giving a lecture
on the evils Of great wealth. In the
audience was a man the priest knew.
The man was the father Of seven girls,
and the priest pointed to this man az
an example. Think said he. "of be-
ing the father Of seven daughters.
Think who is happier. the man with .
| million dollars or tho man with seven
oaugnters. VIII ask MI. Sheldon.
who do you think is the happier?''
said: Father, think that the man
or his argument. The man arose and
said Father. / think that the man
with the seven daughters is the hap
pier. The man with the million. wor.
| f1es Tor more. A man with seven
daughters never does"
An old Pottawatomie Indian WA In
Topeka from the reservation the other
day and managed In some mysterfous
manner to get hold Of enough bug
juice to make him talkative. relate1
tho Shawnee Chief. He complained bit-
terly that the young Indians are trying
to keep the pace set by the whites and
that they are thereby making fools
OF themselves. ''Injun get more
IKE white man every day, "
his bean and want to do smart trick.
Him forget way Of fathers and want
TO put on style. Put shirt In pants and
cut his hairs pompadour. Squaw she
get too dam smart. She wear slit-em
skirt and peek-a-boo waist bimeby.
OLD 1nJun he go way back ana nit
down. He no like new way Some
day he get full silo Juice and 20 on
war path; knock 'em block Off neW
1ntun and kick UNI hell out suffraR-
cite squaw. Me make UNI good In1un.' =
A paper in Republic county printed
. photograph Of q naked baby ana
called It "A Little Dear" The Jame1-
town Optimist thinks It should have
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