The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-10-22
On the Spar
of the Moment
~ ROY K, 1EouLT04s.

L 49, ~~A~S >~>se
- -
FAN.
care not how the brides sing
Their charming farewell summer
lays.
1 cannot say I'm crazy DER
The beauty OF these autumn da.-s.
care not how the leaves may turn
From beauteous green to FURNISHED
gold.
care not for the glorious skies
| OF fall the poets have extolled.
There's just one thought harbor now.
A thought that stirs my very soul,
All else grows pale beside the fact,
I've got to buy my winters coal.
Uncle Abner.
If the war in Europe keeps up
every military expert in our village
will be discredited. About twenty
| five of 'em have predicted the ma
neuvers wrong. already.
1t doesn't make much difference
how much money a Teller has got just
so he has got plenty Of it, and a man
doesn't have to live to be $50 years
old to find that out, either.
A town without brass band Ii like
family without a photograph. It is
liable to worry along and have a pref
ty. good time in life.s
Another thing that Job never did
was to try to unscrew the top off'n a
glass fruit jar.
Bud Perkins is so stingy that he
stole ham go that he could be sent
to the county Jail and get a hair cut
for nothing.
Miss Amy Stubs, our village mil
liner. says competition is SO fierce in
her line that there amt no more than
500 per cent profits in trimmed hats
any more. and she is thinkin' Of goin'
out of business.
There is about as much secrecy
about courtship in a town of 1900
as there is about a magazine explo-
sion aboard battleship. AS soon as
teller and gal are seen together
In an ice cream parlor folks begin to
wonder when they are going to git
married.
If all the church members I know
are going to heaven, 1t sometimes
seems to me as though 1 amt SO
burned partickler about it.
1t begins to look as though corned
beef and cabbage is a partnership
that amt goin' to be dissolved in
some time-Or dfgested, either.
There amt no Teller who is so much
OF bore as professional optimist.
Every Teller wants to laugh most of
the time. but he has got to cry once
or twice year to sort of oil up the
machinery.
An Autumn Wall.
BY gum, I hate to go to school:
I'd almost rather be a fool.
got to set in there all day
Wnen ort to go, out and play
think it is a doggone bluff
10 make us learn lot of stuff
which we amt never goin' to use.
JUST look at all the time we lose.
VINO cares II Nero burned up Rome.
Or II the world is round. or fiat?
l don't. and I will tell you that.
have to get licked every day.
u somehow seeing to come that way.
II some kid don't perform the trick.
Inc teacher dOestit with a stick.
And when the teacher ticks me had
l always get~one more from dad
1neres nearly Always aOmethin' wrong
Rignt from the first tap of the gong.
mere ar no peace for any kid
VINO goes to school as I have did.
u makes me stubborn as a mewl,
pS gum 10 nave to go to school
The War in Europe.
(By our own Staff Corresnondent
f. A. Kerr.-Censored.)
AMSTEIs-7. Oct. OO-The cen.
sor mas begun to cut out all swear
n WORDS as VIII be noted by this dis
swear even
"A terrific engagement has taken
place two miles north of -.
AFTER the engagement. Gen.
OF the victorious army gave ont
the following interview. which will
go down in history among the ia
nous remarks of famous men:
We have met
- not for and
yesterday. The -has
for victory ia
at last
1t is officially reported that the
lost ----Een in the fighting
yesterday and the - lost -
The ----- are closing In on the fort
at -. which is expected to fall,
me --- is suffering from pre =
monia and is very i'll. but is feeling
perfectly well and has left for the
frontier. General
says t the troops are in excel
There is fighting along the whole
line. The drove the 49,
| back yesterday and then in turn the
l- drove the - back.
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
From the Chicago News.1
Love for money is never platonic.
A good conversationalist lets up oc-
casionally.
Women with the most cheek do the