The Topeka state journal., 1904-12-31
SNAP SHOTS AT HONE NEWS

The New Year with its sweet child-face
Is looking in the door;
| 1t softly seeks to take the place
OF the Old Year gone before.
For the days that are no more.
The New Year creeps into our heart,
1t smiles into our eyes;
1t promises with wistful art
| Each day some glad surprise.
| Till 1t grows of our busy world q part,
And the past forgotten lies.
The little New Year has not long
Upon the earth to stay
| All, let US make its life a song
And cheer it while we may,
| But see that it bears no mark of wrong
| When It turns to go away.
| M w. P.
Do you feel any older today?
The city schools resume work Tues
day.
The Kaw river is very low and full Of
floating ice.
writing 1905
VIII you watch the old year out and
! the new year in
! Girls, this is the last chance, for leap
year ends at midnight. Hurry.
The w. c. T. U. will meet at the First
Methodist church at 3 D. m. Monday.
What has become of the old fashion,
ed New Years receptions in Topeka?
! A watch meeting will be held at the
tonight.
/ The entertainment to have been given
at Lincoln Post tonight has been post
poned till next month.
Unity club will finish reading "The
Divine Comedy tonight. With the
New Year the club will begin Para
disc Lost
Why does not the street commission
er, or the policemen, or somebody, COM
pei the cleaning of the sidewalks on
the side streets.
You will know when the New Year
begins even If you are asleep-for you
won't be asleep when the bells are ring
ing and the whistles are blowing at
midnight.
County Commissioner Frank Har-
living on Huntoon street near College
avenue. The Fifth and Sixth wards
are in his commissioner district.
Next week the Auditorium will be
locked and the general public will be
refused admission to see the men at
son, the foreman, says that visitors
bother his men and delay the work.
When Chief StahI appeared with
seven of his policemen in Oakland yes
in as deputy constables, a bunch of
kids hooted at the cavalcade by yell
ing: "Coxey's Army" Stahl has been
called about everything else except
Coxey.
This all happened at Auburn. says
wireless dispatch sent by rural route
carrier: William Shumway and Miss
Lorene Harr had a narrow escape from
drowning last week while skating. 1t
was with great difficulty that Lorene
rescued Bill; he being unable to swim.
They were promptly taken to DR..
Stahrs office where Bill was pumped
out, given some advice and sent on
their way rejoicing
Robert T,OI1fS Cteveneor,c r1raror off
quoted at New Years time, is: 1.-THE
day returns and brings us the petty
round OF irritating concerns and duties.
Help us to play the man, help us to
perform them with laughter and kind
races let cheerfulness abound with in
dustry. Give US to go blithely on our
business all this day, bring us to our
resting beds weary and content and
the gift of Sleep"
Out of the 1000 country correspond
entS of the Mail and Breeze. 99S of
them tried to get solid with the Editor
Tom McNeal by writing something like
this in the country chroniclings: I'VE
congratulate Editor McNeal on secur-
ing the private secretaryship to Cover
nor Hoch, and we are pleased to learn
that he will continue to edit the best
farm and home paper in the west, the
Mail and Breeze" You will find 99S
of these. more or less, in this weeks
Mail and Breeze.
Chief StahI deserted his home at
Auburn to come to Topeka to reform
the town. Now the Auburnites, in the
absence of the chief, are shooting dice
for pastime. A country correspondent
writing to a weekly paper from Au-
burn says: birds for Christmas were
probably never so scarce in this burg.
Day before Christmas found about half
the natives without a fowl to roast. M.
L. Harr managed to dicker for the
only goose in the township and sold
1I,
Dyche pinned on his rabbit foot threw
five aces the first crack and 'toted'
home the prize"
If you wish to keep awake tonight
to see the new year in study over this,
it will keep you awake: A young man
asked an elderly Brown county farmer
for his daughter in marriage. The an
swer was: go into the orchard and
bring in parcel of apples: Give me
one-half of the whole number and to
the mother one-ha1f of the balance
and have one apple over, and to the
daughter one-half of the remainder
and half an apple over, and have one
left for yourself without cutting an
apple. Then if she is willing you can
have her." He solved the problem
and how many apples did he bring?
The Shawnee County News. pub
lished at Rossville, says: A three
cornered fight occurred in the Maso-
pust pool hall last Saturday night in
which one of the participants had his
features greatly mussed up while the
gaping wounds of another are now
closed with basting thread. Brass
knucks, billiard balls, cues and knives
played a prominent part in the exer-
cises. From all we can learn whisky
was at the bottom of the affair. Mon
day morning the hostile factions were
penitent and as evidence of their sor-
row and good faith the trio deposited
pro rata the sum of $3.50 with the
police Judge. AS a result of the
"scrap" the esta blishment has been
balls will resound no more throughout
its spacious halls.