The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-09-26

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A friend of humanity is the dealer
who Judges on the number of peanuts
he puts in q sack. The unfortunate
purchaser will eat all Of the be-dashed
things, regardless Of the number. and
the fewer he gets the better it is for
his inner works.
Tho Investigation Of the higher cost
Of living shows that the consumption
Of soap has increased I per cent dur
ing the past month. HOndo Murphy
says 1t is because the new styles OF
hair dressing force the women to un-
cover their ears.
The most recent member of that
vast army Of oldest negroes passed to
his reward from Hutchinson.
A Mexican peso is now worth 10
cents. or % cents more than the
chance for peace in that crook in
| tested land.
| And while the imported detective
was getting newspaper space ana a
big scare, where was Detective Ar
thur? An importation Of the sort is
liable to cause professional jealousy.
/ The next best thing to being win
ner is to be a game loser.
One might suspect. from rumors
Enow afioat, that when the fighting
suffs from the far east start making
war medicine in our midst. they will
not be armed with endorsements from
our most influential suffragists. There
lis a tendency among the Kansas wo-
linen to worry along without any po-
|litical advice from the far east.
Hard work brings the greatest hap
piness in life, providing. OF course,
| Won are able to hire some one else to
do the hard work.
uondo Murphy says this 'sbuy-a-
bale-of-cotton'' club may be all right,
hut to the best Of his memory, no one
started q y-a-bushel-of-corn" club
when corn was selling for Is cents a
Ibushel in Kansas.
! Arthur capper boosters advise ali
comers: .Vote for Capper: he will
deliver the goods" Mebby so. mebby
SO. That Mr.. Capper has the goods
all ready for delivery. cannot be de-
MED by any one who has visited his
well-known department store. BIZ
white and others have caught him
with the goods on him several times
!, RECENTLY. So, as he undoubtedly has
the goods. maybe he can make said
delivery, as per advertisements.
l
II 1t is hard to make a fan believe
that If Billy Sunday had been much
Of a ball player he would be preach
, ing now.
The delay in beating it out of vers
Cruz seems to be traceable to trouble
in releasing the customs The Gus
toms of Mexico are very poor Gus
! toms. according to returned travellers
4 and the United States should be glat
to release them at the earliest oppor
8 tunity.
Hon. Bill Jennings Bryan may b
wrong on some subjects, but it shout
he remembered that he is the kind o
n nrohibitionist who doesn't drink
in his own cellar with the grade win
= dow covered.
He il also a ~peace advocate VIII
doesn't fight, and any one who prac
y tices his own preachings il entftle
q to an occasional boost as an unusus
preacher.
Among the institutions that hav
- disappeared from the face of tn
u earth II the bo0tjack. The only solr
70 ton to it's disappearance has been o.
y Tered by old fashioned cartOonfst
Iwho make Il q business to draw I
y least one picture per year, shown
I some one throwing the late lamente
r bootjack at cat
Il A rich mans will is frequent
4 tbroken after he croaks: poor man
- rule. soon after he y married.