The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-10-03
o., the Spur
of the Moment
Bx ROY K MoULTON.

6x ROY X. AOULTON-
The kaiser's crop of sons must be
getting short Bloodthirsty war cor
respondents make 1t q point to kill
about three q week.
We all have an aim in life. but most
OF US are DANCED poor shots.
When the late Mr. avid remarked
that all men are liars, he had un-
doubleday just listened to the wit
nesses In booz- selling case.
In the war zone, but domestic animals
are not SO awfully safe in this coun-
try. Some one has Mr.. Capper's goat.
The gun-fghters in Europe may
think they are using improved ma
chinery. but the principal comedian
II movie show of recent vintage fired
SO shots from an ordinary three-bone
revolver without pausing to reload.
Shooters should look into this.
This high school cafeteria is not
such bad institution. from the kids
viewpoint. Said kid can spend some
get something to eat.
About the only thing unaffected by
war prices IL the brand Of milk used
by some Of the old-fashfoned babies.
The straight and narrow path is
narrow because T. is not crowded.
There is plenty OF room to travel In
dian file.
The man with gold bricks to sell
should seek as q customer the man
who thinks he knows all about wo-
men.
Jack Supp thinks he has discovered
the prize tight one of the town. He
is the COOP who stops his clock ev-
cry night to save wear on the pendu-
lum.
This is self denial week, and Hondo
Murphy has observed it by denying
himself the pleasure Of twisting the
nose of a particularly offensive citi-
zen. He discovered that said often
sive citizen was ~ pounds heavier
than himself, and had recently grad
uated from a correspondence school in
strong-arming.
Another tough thing about this war
is that so any of the war reports
are written by English journalists,
who begin their effusion thus: 1T
is related that
The women are going to hold a
cotton show" in Washington next
month. Some OF them do that here,
but a majority of those who climb
Jack Supp says there are two kinds
of women, those who start stories on
other women, and those who repeat
them.
The late Mr.. Samson's experience
differs from that of any other man
who monkeys with the eternal femi-
nine only in the method. He was
sheared; now they are merely picked.
w. Tom Brown Ia taking one OF his
justly celebrated vacations, but it is
cinch he reads papers every day.
and keeps in touch with the doings
in Przemysl and Petrograd, so that
when he comes back he can slip his
feet under the telegraph desk and re-
sumo his work where he dropped it.
For Tom Brown has been in the ser
vice as a telegraph editor longer than
any other man in the country. For
a quarter of a century it has been his
duty to kick the mixed scraps of wire
news into their respective piles, write
the headlines Ind correct the errors.
1t is an endless task, without glory
or glamor, but during all the time he
has been wearing out cords and cords
of pencils in writing heads and the
Mysterious signs that only a printer
can read. no one has heard Tom
Browns voice raised in a "holler.'
Gifted with remarkable memory
and quick grasp of things, this vet
eran of the force becomes the infor-
nation bureau of the shop. Instead
of hunting a printed compendium OF
history to see how many men were
killed in the battle of Thermopolae. the
reporter merely asks the telegraph
editor. He knows the name and his.
tory of all the people Of Importance
who came to the town over 80 year.
T. ago. Himself a pioneer. who beat the
railroads to Shawnee county ant
| spent his boyhood around Indianols
when that was busy town and To.
! peka was not, he has kept a menta
| catalog OF the early families. Whey
he taught school in the little temple
! of learning on the banks of Soldier
| creek. his classes contained the moth
| ers and fathers of some of the vel
known citizens of today. And he re-
members them all.
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