The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-02-01
On the Spur Z
Of The Moment


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By ROY K MoELToN.
The Days News.
sm ssa il. n sani . .sa atson patton
is sO1ourning, 20 re see.
In this land Of brave and free.
Shaw has never liked US much.
Thinks were boobs and chumps and such.
Chief OF literary friskers,
Shaw - noted for his whiskers .
And his pungent style of wit.
We have felt the sting Of it.
He's pessimistic rooster.
A Anx knockeE never booster.
Aught that's right excepting Shaw.
As he writes for sordid pelf
Gosh! How that man hates himself.
Britain sends NJ many jokers,
LADDERS. Liptons ana Boss Crokers.
But they do not berr . us
Just to show how much they hate Us.
Little other news, we fear.
None is needed Shaw is here.
Editorials.
One thing seems certain. Time and
eternity viii 60 on without Taft and
The attention Of the Society for the
spectfuiiy called to Genera viiia.
tain strict neutrality SO far as earth
When eggs are 30 high. killing hens
should be ciaSsed as murder In the first
degree.
Champ Clark says President Wilson vii,
be reelected IL his administration makes
good The man who put the word ''if in
the English language certainly did some
Colonel Roosevelt urges Law to save
the moose from extinction. But it doesn't
seem SO much egmatter Of law as a mat
Bankrupt -arttst in Connecticut said
many of his customers forgot to pay him.
Anybody can put it over on an artist or a
poet. s
Every day sees inventions to prevent
railroad wrecks. and 1t also sees wrecks
The trouble Ii that when flour goes up.
cornmeal goes up, too.
Nothing Coming Down.
All don't know what's de matter Of de
eatins nowadays.
De butchers in this town they seem t..
have an awful craze
OF chawgfn mob for poks chops than
they evan did befoah.
An the coal man am 2 hoistin'=up his
prices SO blame high
That peck of anthracite am all a COM
mon Gus kin buy.
And the later and the flour am suahly
both a-risin'. too
Almost every sort of needin's that fell
ler's got to git. 49,
There's surely something the matter in
dis town,
For it's all a-goin' UP and nothin' coming
down,
Excep' de snow.
All badly know
Why 1t is SO.
: Uncle Abner.
Hank Tumms has been so excited since
the war started that he hasn't been able
to do a stroke OF work. Hanks wife says
it seems as though there is always some.
thing happening to keep him excited SO
that she must spend all her time chasin'
shirts up and down washboard.
A s. suit that is pressed will get a teller
a lob ouickern q $50 one that is baggy at
'H Some mnes day some GUS is. going to. git up
q new stuntffor Vaudeville and then the
whole population of the United States will
pass away with apoplexy,- occasioned by
great sh H;as, and susP51se come h
the tire people this FEAR. He has learned
the secret OF making a set of tires last
r-re than a month: He has kept his car
in the barn since the first of October.
Lem Higgins and his wife want to give
their new baby a name that he will not
be ashamed of when he grows up and
they are hesitatin' between Coy and
Percy.
There are a good many other things
that will guarantee q man long life and
happiness besides writfn' love letters to
another mans wife.
Rev Hudnutt has turned his barrel up
side down and has started in on the ser
mons he gave nine years ago. he says
the first trip through the barrel didn't dc
the congregation much good, 5u0g1n d.
the suspender buttons and poker chips ne
finds in the collection plate