The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-17
ON TIE SPUR
or THE MOMENT
~ ROY x. MOULTON.

Our Choice.
Oh Mr. Wilson, il you please.
While you are settin' at your ease
And maxim UP your mind Just what
you're goin' to give to me;
I'D like to go to imbuctoo
AS minister: it Is the SWEETEST job Of all
that kin see
The man who goes to Tinibuctoo
Has got a sinecure clear through, a..
He doesn't have to worry Ger the
articles of dress;
An old plug hat is all he needs
The rest of his apparel he can simply
guess.
He is one of the bowling swells;
The finest of the village bells
Stand round about him each hot day
b.v and tiD waSs snss Mhss
That he is simply out OF sight;
varied browns and tans.
The life out there is simply grand;
Teller Just sits in the sand ., ~.
And watches the graceful seaSun IN MS
native habitat
The natives come and make salaam
And bow their heads to Uncle Sam.
I never will be happy until I get job
like that
Far from the haunts of haznessed steam;
You do not have to toll away like any
common lob.
It seems to suit me through and through
There's not bit OF work TO do,
And that's why. Mr.. Wilson, prefer
that sort of job.
According to Uncle Abner.
What's the use of sayin' figgers
don't lie when every man knows tnat
his wife's does.
There is one good thing about bein'
a Prohibitionist. Prohibitionist is
never disappointed in the outcome of
a presidential election.
The railroad that runs through
Hickeyville buys a ham every year ana
that is enough to supply the ham
sandwiches along the line.
Any husband who lets his wife make
a monkey of him, is not entitled to
A Teller has got to have q lot OF
sand to go into the cement sidewalk
business.
A man may wear a gallon hat to
church on Sunday, but still take a
Widows home away from her on Mon
day.
Kickin,s on the street car service is
the Oldest form of amusement in this
country.
When a man starts to goin' down
hill there are plenty of friends ready
to help him along.
A Teller who has got the gift of CAB
gen'ally lands somewhere even il it is
only in jail.
The trouble in this country at the
s
dinner pals are too large.
Some OF the poetry a young Teller
writes to his gal certainly sounds fine
and dandy when she pulls it on him
ten years after they are married.
From the HickeyviIle Clarion.
There is a new electric clock in the
Huttel HickeyviIle- By gravy. it seems
runnin' it by electricity.
The new trimmer at Miss Amy Pringie's
millinery emporium expects to go on the
stage soon and marry some steel magnate
or other She says their is more fun
tTimmin' millionaires than trimmin' hats.
aboo, wis. dropped dead while gettin' on
train. BY jung, the people In our vicin-
1ty dies of old age waitin' for a train to
financial stringency makes folks work so
hard to make a Twin that they don't
have time to die. Foldin' chairs, for fun
erals, dances and other social functions
for rent, inquire Amos Butts, also livery
feed and sales stables.
1t is not known who win run for sheriff
ent writing is engaged in running away
from him. Elmer Jones got l1nockdown
Miss Amy Pringle says all the best
walters are Daughters of the Revolu-
Seems as If that kid had enough cheek
without that. Walks are some siickerish
today. Uncle Ezra IIarl1ins fell down on
whiskers he would have received some
bumps, which luckily he escaped. Before
he could get up, however. his wlliskers
froze fast to the ice and the boys had to
borrow a crosscut saw from Tibbitt's
store to release him.
Mrs. Ansel Hanks keeps boarders. But
not very long. Whoever saw an Indian
with whiskers? Arson Friby our barber
spent Thanksgiving and ten shillin' down
to the city. Mrs. Frisby has got a new
dress made outen mercenary silk.
Mrs. Arson Frisby got letter from
N. Y, day before yester-
day and now polite society is on the
oui vive, for it is expected she is going
to get a Morris chair or something
from a soap house. A woman who
lnarries a poet generally takes him for
better or for verse. ~