The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-12-23
SNAP SHOTS AT HOMENEWs'

Now it was Mary dreamed this dream,
Ere yet her Child was born
In that poor place in Bethlenem'
In that Door stan forlorn,
Before the dark of night had fed
And given place to morn.
She fell asleep and dreamed this dream
That hlled her heart WITH l,,Ies1f live
Whose life was very dear,
And that she never saw His face
Or dried His earliest tear
She dreamed that her own life went out
H, Her life diyinely sW wee i;++,a hands
Or kiss His little feet,
Or know the bliss that was to make
Her womanhood complete.
She dreamed she died before she knew
The trembling joy to say; ,ea
Il am mother. whose NE
So bleak was yesterday;
I know at last that perfect hour
For which all women pray.
Oh, strangely came this dream to her,
This dream of utter woe, -
While through the dark Judean night,
Above the wastes of snow,
A star famed in the midnight heaven
And set the East aglow.
And ere the pallid dawn had come
She weakened with a startled moan
And tears the bitterest.
And lol she felt two little hands
Clasped close upon her breast; .4..
C. NJ Knowlton is mourning the de-
mise of his pet postum
County Treasurer Bowen collected
SIC, 900 in taxes Tuesday.
County Attorney Otis Hungate was
hunting today near Richland.
E. S. Engle contemplates building a
house on six lots on East Eighth
street.
Just received a shipment of kodaks
and cameras for Christmas at S. & H
Drug Co.'S
Capt Joseph Waters was in Kansas
City yesterday to visit his brother and
his son Fred
Every stationery store in the city is
reporting large sales of Gavitt's Stock
Exchange for Christmas.
Ed McKeever is in Chanute, where a
new well has just been brought in on a
piece of oil land owned by him
The directors of the Grocers' associa-
ton have decided that all the grocery
stores in Topeka will be closed all day
Christmas.
w. H. Thomas and J. w. Ewing are
recorded by the Kansas City papers as
visitors in the town at the mouth of
the Kaw.
The Catholic parochial school closed
Tuesday. The pupils of the seventh
grade presented Sister Raphaella with a
fountain pen.
James Chumos is at Christ hospital
where he sustained q serious operation
for tuberculous glands on Tuesday. 1t
is believed he will recover.
The divorce suit of Mrs. M NJ. Will
cox against Frank Wilcox was heard
by Judge Hazen Tuesday afternoon.
He took the case under advisement.
The Orphans Home will have their
Christmas tree tomorrow morning.
Gifts will be very acceptable for the
children, so the directors announce.
The Topeka railway is still running
it's large cars without flags. Presum-
ably the patrons are expected to know
by intuition which way the cars are
going.
Charles Winbrun, the city sewer
cleaner, is working with the city engi-
neer's force for a few days, assisting in
measuring the depth of the manholes
in the old Auburndale sewer.
Governor Railey has given a turkey
for The Salvation Army dinner. The
Santa Fee office people have given an
other Music is to be furnished at the
hall while the dinner is in progress.
Mrs. Jennie Nichols has filed suit in
the district court asking for a divorce
from H. S. Nichols on the ground of
drunkenness. Mr. Nichols served one
term as councilman from the Fifth
ward.
A West Tenth avenue street car crash
ed INTO q morse ana DuSSy, IueSQdy
afternoon, driven by an old man. The
buggy was wrecked and the old man
was thrown out but not seriously in
jured.
The members of the Twenty third
regiment band have subscribed $3.50 as
a fund with which to buy flowers for
the funeral of the late G.Wesley Brown
Mr.. Brown was drum major of the
band, and one of it's most faithful mem
| bers.
General Hugh Cameron, the Kansas
Hermit, who lives at Camp Ben Harri-
son, Glen Burne, Douglas county, is
| looking up data to use in writing
sketches of the lives of ''Old' John Arm
strong and "Old' John Ritehey.
At the First Methodist church the
usual Christmas giving is to be turned
around and the people of the church
| and Sunday school will give things in
stead of receiving them. The gifts
money, provisions and clothing, will be
used in Christmas charities.
1.-THE Troubles of a Worried Man.
| the book of writings of the late Har-
mon Wilson, which was placed on the
market last Thursday, has met with
sucn unexpected success that only g
few copies OF the numbered edition re-
main unsold. A second edition will
probably be printed
Street Commissioner Snyder is work
| ing the sweepers day and night now il
an effort to get all the paved streets
we'll cleaned up before it gets too cold
to work. The paved streets were in