The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-01-16
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Hondo Murphy says in part: Thirty
odd years ago. when was an infantile
'microbe' was considered josh. like
Santa Claus by the wise members.
Now the word II q threat. And I'll be
ding-donged II l can remember any
OF now. And ought to know, because
attended all the outdoor events
known a. funerals"
Maybe Murph IL more or less right.
Something IL wrong with the System.
Millions are spent in the pursuit OF the
festive mfcrobe. but the per cap1tef
death rate sticks around the same
point. The writer can remember
certain can of salmon; it should have
been Sudden Death but it wasn't. II
was opened by a hunting party, left
half filled for ten days and then eaten
by member of said party who re-
turned to the lodge too tired to COOK
some eats. The salmon" was in all
probability. q section of Pacific white
prussic acid and preserved with
strychnine. 1t was twenty years be-
fore any pure food legislation had been
enacted. The COOP who ate that half
has passed pair of rigid examinations
for old line insurance.
There Is something either wrong or
foolish about the frenzied pursuit Of
the microbe. The microbe il an edible
animal. And the funny part of it IL
that the pursuit of the microbe IL
staged by the same department that
wages war upon benzoate OF tar, car
bOlfc acid, H2S04 and q number OF
SO unfriendly to the microbes that they
cannot stay in the same territory.
1t may be observed, as further
observation, that every time the NIL
crobe hunters go on the war path. the
hunger takes a jump.
''It amt warm and sunshiny vurry
long at time durin' the winter
months in Kansas."-(Quot from
the pessimistic Deacon SQuash.)
A Sedgwick county representative
has offered a bill to reduce the ex-
pense incident to running for either
governor or dog catcher. No provision
Is made, however, for the gent who 80
far forgets himself as to run for the
legislature.
This bill provides certain punish
than ten per cent of the annual pay
connected with the sought-for Job. To
the governor, it would mean a $3.50
limit: to the. dog catcher fawty-faw
dollars in currency, as an ultimate OF
campaign expenses. But how about
$4.67 per diem less than nothing.
Should he collect ten per cent of the
minus for offering himself as a cam
didate?
Topeka will have fortyfive
m
will Leavenworth have p
Leavenworth LaborChronicle.
The Chronicle has asked hard one.
But as a printers guess we would
make it about thirty-four shrdlu or
possibly tfiirty-three etaoin.
Or, possibly,-merely possibly,-we
have no desire to offer this as q final
guess. cmfwyp.
Here's hoping our effort to slip the
Leavenworth Labor Chronicle the de-
sired Information is not jamesed by
our esteemed linOtypfst. 1t 10 q serious
question and should be answered Sc
riously and without any typographical
errors.
What has happened to the old
fashioned bootblack who carried his
tools in small box and delivered the
goods on the main thorofare? Has he
joined the pug cog anu the QluOSauI
Rather short today, but plenty.
considering quality. Been visiting with
the Solons, and didn't have time to
paragraf.
A pair of Hutchinson goops, according
to reports made and circulated. will put
on 20-round rough-and-tumble for
maiden fair. The one who gets trim
med. may, some time in the future
reach the conclusion that he got of
easiest.
Some Garden City gent advocates the
meek and lowly Nancy goat as an an
swer to the milk problem. AS an au-
thority,-one who has dallied with the
pet fox,-one who has. in the past, kick
ed a specimen Of Americans Me-
phitis'' on the highway,-one who has
occupied theater seat behind the COOP
who was full Of booze and onions.-we.
thus experienced, beg to announce that
when the Nancy goat becomes milk
necessity. there will be no more milk
around our hacienda.
BOrneO Pirates.
Brunei, Borneo, is one of the
s<~o~~os< ci<ins in the world saws a