The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-07-24
SNAP SHOTS ATHoME NEWS

THE DAY AFTER THE CIRCUS
The doctors all busy with antidotes.
For those. who. the day VI be ,e2,enaas
And yearningly longed for more.
The children are playing with the slender
That once bore gay. festoon;
AND bobbed away in the wonderful pack
Two circles of earth in a vacant lot,
Are left forlorn and alone,
To o., mark the spot where the Gay oeiore
The well from which the :elephant's thirst
Was ,quenched by bucket brigade ,a,s
Whose entrance fee it paid
There's a. few. perhaps. with their wallets
TO take the place of the cash,
For bucling that game was rash.
The heap big Injuns have all gone nome'
All but the luckless few
Who slipped too much of the spiked lemo
And now have a fine that's que;
The village again is quiet and calm,
And work is resumed once more,
As if there had been no circus at all
In town on the day before.
The ice cream wagons are busy these
days.
The government thermometer got up
to SO Wednesday.
The Wallace show is carrying a sick
tiger along with them.
East Tenth avenue is popular drive
since it has been paved.
F. o. Popenoe is again reported to be
dangerously sick in Denver.
Many people are using the pond at
Cages park for a swimming hole.
The condition of the pavement at
Tenth and Clay streets is very bad.
James Campbell, of Liberal. Kansas,
spent few days in Topeka this week
The house movers left a large house
completely blocking Western avenue
north of Tenth
A. V. Lindell Of the state superintend-
ent's office has returned from an out
ing in Usage county.
Miss Gertie Mullen, of Oklahoma, sur
vived a dangerous operation at Christ
hospital yesterday.
United States Marshal Crum, who has
been i'll with typhoid fever at his home
in Oswego, is improving.
The regulation number of Indians
came to Topeka from the reservation
yesterday for the circus.
Topeka people have not taken the in
terest in golf this year that has been
shown in previous years.
William Vernon. of Larned, is located
in Topeka at the Republican state CEN
trail committee headquarters
Topeka Post No. IL of the G. A. r
raised flag pole in front Of the post
hall on East Seventh street.
The grading for the new pavement on
Fifteenth is nearly completed
State Superintendent Nelson. who has
attack of malaria, is improving.
Maggie Barnes filed suit in the dis
trict court Wednesday for divorce from
Robert Barnes on the ground of cruelty.
About two-thirds of the seats at the
Wallace show were reserved but the
charge for them was rs instead OF 80
cents.
The state board of railroad commits
sioners will probably start on it's tour
of inspection of Kansas railroads next
week.
Topeka will noN suffer for some time
with an epidemic d small boy circuses.
This is the most obnoxious feature OF
circus day.
County Clerk John M. Wright has
ern avenue and will occupy it as a
residence
Whenever you see a railroad man OFF
duty during business hours nowadays
it is pretty safe to assume that he is
out on strike.
sChas. L. Wood will make you a good
rate for the summer at the National no.
tel. Give your family a change during
the hot weather.
Dick Cooley, the Topeka Boston out
fielder, got the only extra base rap in
yesterdays game at Philadelphia. 1t
was two-bagger.
Wallace'S circus uses q cars to trans
port the outfit The Ringing show uses
60, but the Wallace show doesn't suffer
by comparison.
Arthur Chase had his hand amputa-
ted at Christ hospital late last night.
Gangrene had set in, making an imme-
date operation necessary.
c. H. Gaunt superintendent of tele
graph for the Santa F'e, returned today
from a trip of inspection which took
him as far west as Los Angeles.
Evan Hebrew, mem Der of the legis-
lature from Phillips county, was in To-
peka yesterday. He is the Republican
candidate for reelection.
The Woodmen expect to have a great
time at Westmoreland ton orrow. Con
gressmen Long and Curtis will botf
be there to make speeches.
When you ask a politician about {
| matter about which he doesn't want te
talk and doesn't want to confess igno-
rance, he says it's "all right
The life of the circus roustabout is 6
hard one About IL o'clock, while thu
tents were going up yesterday, two
| frowzley, rednosed young men stopped
| to talk when the boss had his bach