The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-12-25


Eyes quickened by the wandering desire
That calls. the Seeker from his BARNS
Letters from home. and many a homely
To dim the eyes of bronzea and bearded
For in the Spring the ties of kith are
But Christmas. calls the Seeker horae
again.
Above the deaths head of sierra's SHOWS.
AT SEA
Christmas at sea-and still the ghost fog
Far are off Arenas throws her beacon light.
Or like angel lifts a glowing finger
To warn against the peri1s of the night.
The mists arise Old Ocean seems to lis
To catch the greeting of the kindly
The moon pours forth her scattered
Among the jewelied frost-points on the
o wife of mine in that far harbor wait
For my return on this Homecoming
Why Should the Sailor feel the Christ
with Fort and and Love such bitter leagues
away?
Star of the lonely Mariner. SO keep
Love in the world and Peace upon the
deep!
IN TOWN.
Christmas in town-a carnival of giving,
The tingling, juggling pulses of the time.
The feel of STOW on furs the joy of living,
The sound of sleigh bells bursting into
Through yonder pane the freight hickers
From happy childish face to tinselled
bough:
Even the pauper wears his sprig of holly.
Cold he indeed who, in the lust for treas
| Forgets the loving kinship of the race,
| Who feels no cheer in all the Yuletide
That Christ the Child permitted in His
grace.
Hear you the. children laughing through
The Sailor has returned, the Seeker s
home.
| wallace Irwin in New York CONNER
The offices in the court house were
! closed today.
Get an oyster stew of Thomas E. De
Pui, 122 West Eighth street.
Mr.. and Mrs. C. H Matson have gone
to Concordia to spend Christmas.
Probate Judge Hayden is spending
Christmas at his home in Nemaha.
Christmas will come on Sunday next
year. This is because 1904 is a leap
year.
One of Judge ]. S. Vests Christmas
gifts was smoking Jacket. He doesn'
smolza
Director Jennings will make no prom
/ ises as to when he will furnish some
good sleigh1ng.
The messenger boys could not keep
up with the rush of presents to be de-
! iivered this morning.
The express 7offieeS uera doiuo a good
business this, morning, but nearly every
theing else in town was shut
R. H. Knowles, of Las Animas, Colo,
IS visiting his parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
| Albert KncNfes, during the holidays.
| Poor Commissioner Hale says there
| have been fewer calls for aid than US
ual during the week preceding Christ
mas.
The December issue of the CONNER
cia1 Hotel Register contains a picture
Of James Chappelle, proprietor of the
Copeland.
Dan Mccoy, of Topeka, is the owner,
proprietor and angel of "Maloney' s
Wedding" booked for the Grand opera
house today.
Sheriff Lucas began taking the Sha
nee county insane patients from Bed
wells private asylum to the state in
sane asylum Thursday.
Hugo Miller and Ed Johns of Topeka
who went to Ottawa when the Keith
/ Decorating company, moved there, are
in Topeka spending the holidays.
City Engineer McCabe is sending out
notices to the plumbers requiring that
they repair the pavement where they
have taken it up to put in work.
Seems as if Ed Hoch's announce
ment not to be a candidate for gov
ernor would be a mighty pleasant
Christmas gift to Governor Bailey.
John Howterton, of Rossville town
ship, is being urged to enter the race
for the Republican nomination for rep
resentative to succeed J. B. Belts.
DR.. D. E. Ester1y gave newsboy a
IS gold piece Thursday thinking he was
| handing the boy a penny. The doctor
and the newsboy have not met since.
T. E. De Pui. 122 West Eighth street
| has all kinds of fruit for sale at the
lowest market prices. He also carries
the best grades of nuts and candies.
It will pay you to-visit him.
Estel1e Newcomb. of Topeka, and
George Thomas, of independence, Mo.
were granted a marriage license in
Kansas City Thursday. The bride is
the daughter of H. w. Newcomb.
Oakland's correspondent writing to
the Mail and Breeze says: with
Granville bridge in and the river road
macadamized from the city limits TIC
the Methodist church, Oakland would
grow as it never has before
The ten-year-old son of H D Nc
Nicely of Fourth and Lime STREETS is suf-
turing from a broken leg received last
Wednesday. The boy fell while Climb
ing out of a buggy and caught his fooi
4 in a wheel.
While you are eating your turkey
drum stick today pause and remember
the poor postal clerk who has to work
all day as we'll as a good portion of tbs
night sending out and bringing in the