The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-07-30
SNAP SHOTS ATHOMEN NEWS

And no victor's crown if the race be won,
Aye, all is vanity under the, sun;
II there's nothing beyond, beyond
'Tis a bootless struggle. oh. brother of mine,
II theres nothing beyond. beyond.
The shade, the flowers, the curse of wine
And the smiles of women may all be thine,
Then unto the present your heart incline;
II there's nothing beyond, beyond
tbs a strange, wild dream that we live. my
If there's nothing beyond, beyond.
If the clouds and gloom that surround us
Are never to lift and the sky be clear,
Then Hope is the child of a slavish fear; s.
II there's nothing beyond beyond
There is no error. ali things are right.
II there's nothing beyond, beyond
To walk a beat in the face of night
Is to cast your gage in a losing fight,
And reason and mind are double blight;
If there's nothing beyond, beyond
The drama of life had better been missed;
If there's nothing beyond beyond
It's folly-the knowledge to which we list
And the beautiful world which the sun has
Were better resolved to its primal mist:
If there's nothing beyond, beyond.
The purpose were better the grave of the
If there's nothing beyond beyond.
That darkness brOoded throughout all
space
And that sound and song, from before the
OF the Angel of Silence. fed. finding no
place;
If there's nothing beyond, beyond;
Grenola. Kan.
Mrs. L. ]. Witheren is seriously Ill.
H. c. Short was in Kansas City yes
terdav.
Ed Hoch. of Marion. was in Topeka
Wednesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lloyd Stanley have gone
to Iowa for fortnight.
NJ. B. Rice late of Mexico, Is a new
extra Santa Fe dispatcher.
The county commissioners will sup
ply the court house with awnings.
Chinese incense is said to be an anti
dote for the presence of mosquitoes.
Men are at work tearing up the street
car tracks in Topeka preparatory to re-
laying them.
E. Putnam. who was missing after the
flood, is safe. He went to EmpOria and
was married.
]. B. Brown has been awarded the
contract for building the new school
house in district 102.
The Take Art Embroidery club met
this afternoon with Mrs. Mary A. Brad
ley. 1147 Lincoln street.
George Hayden of Nemaha county,
was the guest of his brother, Probate
Judge Hayden, Wednesday.
Special Master Brock. who heard the
dollar gas case, will deliver his deci-
sion in the case in September.
w. NJ. Combs chief dispatcher of the
Santa Fe. is laying off for few days
on account of a Sprained back.
The Wilson'S. Kansas City baseball
team, will play the Nine Bees on the
Washburn grounds today and Friday
afternoon.
The charter board did not meet
cd nd Oh, rio inf
ed. All the members of the board are
out of town.
The ladies of the Topeka Orphans
Home society gave the children of the
home a picnic on z.Washburn campus
Wednesday night.
Governor Bailey has offered a reward
of S10O for the arrest of Lewis Jones,
man who killed Gideon Scraggs at COT
feyville last March.
The streets and walks committee of
the city council will meet Friday after
noon and review the proposed plumbers
ordinance preparatory to submitting 1T
to the city fathers.
Theodore Dice, aged IA years, was ar
rested at his home in Sherman county
by the federal authorities charged with
robbing the Edison postoffice. He got
some postage stamps when the postmas-
ter was not looking
r. w. Child and r. w. Page, the east
ern boys who have been here fixing up
story about the Kansas wheat har
vest have gone on to Denver and San
Francisco. where they expect to cover
other stories for eastern publications.
The maneuvers at Fort Riley this fall
will take place in October. The date
has been fixed later in the fall to avoid
what the war department terms "equi-
noxial storms" a ceremony which Kan
sas usually omits altogether
The extensive repairs. costing $1,1OO,
which will be made to the supreme
court room, were commenced WedneS-
day. The carpets and furniture were
taken out of the room, and the fres-
coers and painters are now at work
erecting ScaffoldS-
In response to the threat of the attor-
ney general to commence suit, Ellis
county has sent in to the state auditor
s5OS.1S in full payment for the money
loaned to that county by the state some
years ago to purchase seed. There is
still about 500 900 outstanding from 9TH
er counties.
II the government officials refuse to
allow the whole national guard of the
state to participate in the fall maneu,
vers. Adjutant General Kelsey Will call
a state encampment, and have prize
drill of companies. the best drilled com
panies being selected to form one regi-
ment to go to the maneuvers.
When Charles Dickens wrote his
american Notes one of the customs
of this country which caused him es-
pecial disgust was that of eating corn
from the cob. Other English writer's
also ridiculed this favorite American
method of serving green corn But now
roasting ears are as popular in England
as in America.
An inquiry was received by the attor-
ney general Wednesday from Nemaha
county. The authorities wanted to know
whether a justice of the peace has the
authority to commit to the reform
school. Three Nemaha county boys
were committed for stealing beer from
an express car, and an effort is being
made to release them on habeas corpus
proceedings. The attorney general
thinks that the justice has the neces-
sary authority, and, that a habeas