The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-02-27

ENnIll0 the waist or a naEaeSE girl
As over the dustless and mudless road
In a horseless carriage they whirI
Although for lunch his coinless purse
For them affords TO means
Save a tasteless meal Of bonelsSs cod
BY the SIDE Of stringless beans
YET he lights a to1accoless cigarette
And laughs a mirthiess laugh
While her father tries 10 cali her back
BY wireless telegraph
There VIII be no matinee at either Of
The theaters saturday
The government Thermometer ranged
+ between 80 and 80 Thursday
Three days more and March Is ex-
pectsd TO come in like a lion"
Z. A. Austin. trainmaster Of the San
Ia Fe. was in Kansas City Thursday
The indoor circus carried u men to
look after the horses and pitch the
tent"
Senator. Mcmillan should be sure that
Governor Bailey signs his snake bill be
fore March II.
Eugene is torn asunder by the pro-
spects Of machine oil being found under
the streets and yards
The Olympia Opera company plays at
Great Bend tonight 1t was expected
in Topeka but has not been heard of fer
some time.
There win be q matinee. performance
OF the Ships indoor circus Saturday
Children under i years viii be admit
ted for ten cents
Barbara FrietchIe" viii be at the
/ Crawford tonight It is one Of the
most melodramatic plays that Clyde
Fitch has written.
Some Kansas City people are expected
/ to attend the May musical festival IN
I Topeka There are 3 few musical pe0-
/ pie in Kansas City.
/ The members Of Ships indoor cir
I Gus were entertained Thursday noon by
I Mr. and Mrs. Frank Crane at their
home east Of Topeka
cider" Smith has not been heard
from lately. he is bldtng his time but
when he says something about the
/ weather he viii mean IT,
From the advertisements carried in a
highly moral Topeka paper it seems
I that not all the get rich quick schemes
\ have gone out of business.
4 Philip Billiard about whom the con-
( tr0versy concerning the use Of the Bible
in the public school arose is attending
the Catholic parOchial school.
ALI Wheeland. the man who played
/ Professor TWeedIepuueh in fF'Ior0-
dora" in Topeka died recently at san
Antonio, Tex, Of heart failure.
Dr. VIM Maclay Lyon. of Kansas
{ City has returned after d visit TO To-
/ peka Thursday for the purpose of con-
Quoting a difficult surgical operation
The Osawatomie Globe says. .-sena-
/ tor Mcmillan must have read the If
T teenth verse of the third chapter OF
Genesis when he thought Of that snake
bill.
General Wilder s 1Ietcalf the United
+ States pension agent actually works in
his shirt sleeves ike a real clerk and
not as an oflceholder might be expected
10 do
The members Of the indoor circus
no viii join the Barnum show so 70
New York City from Topeka. The cir
Gus opens there liz Madison Square
Garden in a short time
The performers say that the ring in
the indoor circus is always better than
the rings i'm the big circus tents for the
I reason that indoors they can always
be made solid ana level
The rain last night kept many away
from the indoor circus bur good
crowd was there nevertheless and the
indoor is given rain or shine" and the
performance was the same as usual.
Strange. weird sounds can be account
ed for tonight All the Mobiles Of Ao-
callah Temple OF the Mystic shrine are
in topeka and they have college. frat.
football and ping-ponS yeus just Ike
real Latin and Greek students.
First we have a feast and then a
famine remarked the general man
ager of Ships indoor circus Since
being in Topeka We have been tender
ed q dane by Mrs. Sells. q. dinner by
Mrs. Crane. a social session by the
L-iA- al-4 near AAA-AE ~ -24ttEAiE
The Osawatomie Globe. commenting
on the farmer who roasted C0burns re-
ports. says. There IS ne question but
several thousand of Coburns reports
are being used to prop the children up
TO the table. doing service in place of
an absent leg under sofas and filing
other duties in Kansas homes. Coburn
is quite an author but he never viii be-
come as popular as Josiah Aliens Wife
or the author of The Santa F'e Trail. ="
Alan Dale. the New York theatrical
critic went to see The Smart Set. a
musical affair being given in New
York by cdlored talent He said in
part The star is Ernest Hogan, of
Lamb, Lamb, Lamb renowu. Hogan S
humor is not gentle nor Fepressed- 1t
is quite obstreperous and energetic.
But it is the real colored hum0r and
you are not out for the refinement of
young Moulan in The sultan Of Sulu'
or Of Norris in The Country Girl You
get what YOU should expect-you get a
large and voeiferous chunk Hogan
is another Kansas negro. besides VII
Hams & Walker, who is making his hit
in the theatrical business He former
ly lived in Topeka
April is one of the best months IN the
year TO visit California Wait for the
Cclonist rates TO California points via
the Santa F'e, April i to June i. 1903.