The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-01-28
81 ROY K. MOCLTON


Not.
love the berry wfter THE.
The tibe OF ice and dow;
To be It always seebs sublibe
Whed 9gry bhzxards blow.
I love 1t whed the bercury
A daily fan Is taking.
Whed grippe has tasted upon be.
Ad all by teeth are achig.
love 1t Id the wit'er tibe,
Wned the pipes are freezing;
To be it always seebs sub1ibe
To hear the people sdeexing.
Things to Think About.
Every neighbor knows how you should
run your furnace, but can't run his own.
The water wagon 10 encOunter1ng some
minutes.
It seems as though a Teller always
One train load Of people looks exactly
| like another.
One good thing to remember: No Teller
IL down and out while he is still fightin.
Hank Tumms has broke all Of his New
Year resolutions exceptin' the one about
piayin poker. but he expects to break
that one as SOON as he kin borrow enough
to buy stack Of chips.
EDITORIALS.
good baseball pitcher gets more Of q
| salary than il awarded the secretary OF
state. But. then, here isn't much OF q
chance for q pitcher to take up the Chau-
tauQua as q ddeline.
It would seem that the best way to get
grant Independence to them. After one
year of Independence and self-government
there wouldn't be-a Filipino left.
800 900 worth more Of goods than we
are buying. 1t looks a. though we have
at least q slight edge on the foreigners.
About % per cent Of the 'uneonfirm med
| what most folks though they were.
| One industry il apparently exempt from
age-Fuil-of- AUTOMOBILES movement
Several more German merchantmen
| taken by the English navy. Britain seems
to be still mistress of the seize.
Now that it Is broke, the Chinese gov
eminent seems to be real government
Dead Easy.
1t is q cinch to operate an automobile.
All q man has got to do is to:
| See that he has enough gasoline in the
| tank. water in the radiator and oil In the
! can.
Pull up at the right side Of the street.
stop has engine, get out run around the
car. open the door. put his wife in; shut
front seat, start the engine and proceed
Keep an eye on the speedometer. an
| OLn0r on the LTaIlc OHlCeT, AuOtucX Oh tAc
motorcops, another on the oil drip. an
other on the children on the sidewalk
! who are apt to run in the street at any
moment, another on the tires, another on
the throttle. another on the emergency
brake and still another on the road ahead
| Converse pleasantly with his passengers
on the Darwinian theory or Maeterlinck's
latest play and keep his mind on the en-
CINE and the caxbureter.
| Choke back profanity under the most
exasperating circumstances and explain
every noise made by his engine.
Listen to advice from every passenger
and hear tales Of automobile wrecks in
which they have figured.
| Use the diplomacy and tact OF Ches-
| terrified and the navigation prowess of a
Chicago river tugbost captain and dodge
steam rollers, bricks.et acks. glass bottles.
tin cans, street cars. ruts sand piles and
dog. NJ pf-7N
For if anything happens through a COM
bination' Of circumstances which could not
| be prevented by any power beneath the
sun. natural or supernatural, through his
| own fault or the fault OF anyone else
| within the radius of a half mile the au-
| tomobile driver Is to blame.