The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-07-04
Jayhawker Jofs

Hughes will be Charles the First in
the presidential chair, observed the
Jewell County Republican recently,
and the Burr Oak Herald cleverly
adds: Let's hope that doesn't cause
him to lose his head.
Carranza's reply to President Will
sons ''ultimatum'' appears to be of a
nature to invite an argumentatiye
answer from our government. Hence
President Wilson's ''ultimatum'' in
question becomes another of those
unique 'ultimatums' of his that didn't
ultimate" as Colonel Roosevelt ex-
presses it.
Musings of the Village Deacon in
the Osborne County Farmer: All of
us like taffy and some of us even ad-
ter with a 1-cent stamp on it takes up
just as much room as one that stands
chance OF transacting some business.
Just because a man gets a lot of
mail is no sign that he is doing a lot
OF business and making scads of
money. An editor gets more mail than
any other citizen in town.
Told for the truth by the Salina
Journal: A Salina man whose wife
raised fine garden this year was in
structed to pick a mess of peas last
evening. the first of the season. The
husband-man who has always boosted
or his farm life, proceeded to the gar
den and began on the peas. Present
ly his wife went out to assist him.
She was Mortified to find that the man
had pulled up the vines and carried
them to a soft grassy place and passed
the vines over his lap that he might
gather the peas the easier.
Doniphan county produced a few
Strawberries this year. The Troy
Chief is authority for the statement
that the Troy Fruit Growers associa-
ton shipped no less than SO carloads
of strawberries from Troy alone this
season, and it is estimated that at
least thirty carloads were left unpick-
ed in the fields. And all of these ber-
rtes, of course. are in addition to the
ones that were used by the homefolk
for short-cakes and SO forth and also
canned for use this winter
Observations by Obey W. Weaver, in
his Sedgvick Paragraph: F1attery
kills the goose it intends to kill. {.
In the business of being a gentleman,
so many of US are failures. Some
women are no longer retailers of gos-
sip-they are wholesalers. Moth
ing SO forcibly reminds a man of life's
brevity as a 30-day note. &. What a
great boon it would be if some one
would invent wireless politics. . .
What won't they tackle? A genetic So
ciety just now is trying to make the
pawpaw fit for polite society. eff
some of the men," says Josiah Jenkins,
| could think as fast as they can talk,
they would have astonished the world
before this time"
An interesting fish tale, as related
by the Smith County Pioneer: Fight
ing Joe,' the Harlan dam catfish, still
holds the fort after score of vicious
encounters with aspiring Isaac Wal
tons. A number of our boldest ones
have tackled "Joe," and on one or two
occasions barely escaped with their
lives Pat Egan, the mining man, has
the honor of two combats with the
big fish, the last one a few days ago.
Joe grabbed tempting crawdad
dangling on Pats hook, and was so
much pleased with the delicacy that
he didn't notice that he was being
decoyed into shallow water until he
was fairly under where Egan stood.
Then he glanced up, gave Egan the
once over and with snort of disgust
snapped the line and was gone 10 deep
water in a fifty. Egan says he had a
good look at Joe" at close quarters
and that he is fully as large as year
old colt. He has ordered an inch
steel cable and to this will attach one
of the heavy meat hooks used in Har-
woods meat market. A large turkey
will be used for bait.