The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-16
SNAPSHOTS ATHOMENEMS.


I've been off down on farmi
Look here where I've burnt the skin
More'n half way up my arml
1 could had a teeny pig
To bring home, but ma said no,
1t would get too awful big
When 1t onct begun to grow.
An saw EN- maxim hay
With cutter ten feet WIDE
When 1 wanted all the day
1 could sit on top an ride!
An onct, sir, the cutter stick
Cut a rabbit right in two
He went squeak, squeak like that,
An you ought to seen him-whew.
Farmers have no grocery store.
But they get their eggs IN mows,
An they don't need milkmen, for
They squeeze milk straight out of cows!
An my uncle-Uncle Jed
Onct when L was standin' by,
"Open up your mouth he said
But he squirted in my eye.
1 went round in overal1s
An had pie for breakfas'Egee!
An I rang the bell that calls
In for dinner an for tea
AT the table long with US
Country girls aren't s'posed to wait,
So ma didn't raise a fuss
I washed near the back stoop pump
In a basin with the rest,
An nobody tried to jump
On US when we splashed or messed.
Ma, she says that I'm sight
Cause 1 got so black-oh, dear
I'm afraid I'll get all white
Fore go again next year.
-Lippincotts Magazine.
The state fair begins three weeks
from next Monday.
Oscar Brown was declared insane by
a jury in the probate court Monday.
The county commissioners checked
up the books of the county treasury
Monday.
The suburbanites of Highland park
say that the hill was cooler Monday
than town.
Chief wilmarth is having trouble in
finding suitable horses for the fire de-
partment.
is now catching for the Rock Island
team of the Three L league
Dog Officer Younkfn has found his
canine city directory and now knows
the residence of every dog.
The Christian Endeavor delegation to
the state meeting at Wichita left this
over the Rock Island.
Julia F. Lyon filed suit in the district
court Monday for divorce from Thomas
Lyon. She charges abandonment.
The railroads run excursions to To-
peka next Sunday to bring visitors to
the National Guard encampment.
Col. Bent Murdoch, from Ell Dorado,
is in Topeka but he is done with max
ing remarks about Otis Hungate's fish.
Responsibility of Parents will be
the subject of Evangelist Overman's
sermon at the Central Park Christian
church tonight.
Between hauling soldiers, officers,
freight cars and citizens
over the Vinewood line this week, the
city railway is busy.
Charles H. Samson, secretary of the
state fair. has returned from a trip to
Kansas City to visit horsemen who are
coming to the fair.
The Aurora Oil company, owned by
Topeka men, shot we'll No. on their
holdings in the Chanute district Mon
day morning. The well penetrates fifty
feet of oil sand.
T. ]. Herndon while driving on West
Eighth street Monday was run into
by a runaway team. His buggy was
badly wrecked but Herndon escaped
with slight bruises.
Col. H. A. Heath, superintendent of
live stock of the Topeka fair, will go
to the st. Louis exposition soon to in
terest live stock owners in bringing
live stock to the Topeka fair.
Rain did not prevent school boys
from playing the national game. The
Hill Sluggers and the Polk
schools played on the soggy Euclid
grounds at 9 o'clock this morning.
The Cedar Rapids team of the Three
league failed to score behind Gill, the
former WaShburn pitcher Sunday and
the result was, Decatur 3, Cedar Rapids
0. Decatur made 6 hits off of Gill.
"Only two of the men who engaged
in the real estate business IS years ago
have lived it OUT said an old settler
land those two today are liv-
ing off of the profits of other years"
Mrs. Emma Upton Vaughn. who has
been staying for some weeks at the
home of Captain WEIGH, while having
ner new novel typewriter left for her
home in Pittsburg Monday. Mrs.
Vaughn's very interesting short story
book, 1.-The Lower Bureau Drawer"
can be found in the city library
The people of Topeka always take a
great deal of interest in military camps.
They are something of a rarity. Last
night the street railway was hauling
Dad after load of intereSte6s Topeka cit
zens to Camp Bailey. Brigadier Cen
eral Hughes states that the best time to
make a visit to the camp is in the