The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-09
SNAPSHOTS AT HOME NEWS

AS it runs through the realm of tears,
With faultless rhythm and a musical
rhyme,
And a broader sweep and a surge sub
AS it blends with the ocean of Years.
How. the winters are drifting. like faxes
And the summers. like the buds be-
And the year in the sheaf-so they come
On the rivers breast, with it's ebb and
AS it glides in the shadow and sheen.
There's a magical isle up the river Time.
There's cloudless sky and tropical
And a song as sweet as vesper chime.
And the Junes with the roses are stay
ing.
And we bury our treasures there;
There are brows of beauty and bosoms of
They are heaps of dust-but we loved
There are trinkets and tresses of hairl
There are fragments of song that nobody
And a part of an infants prayer:
There's a lutte unswept, and harp with
out strings;
There are broken vows and pieces of
And the garments that she used to wear
There are hands that are waved, when
the fairy shore
By the mirage IS ilIted IN ar -, 4,,r-
Sweet. voices we heard in the days gone
When the wind down the river is fair.
Oh. remembered for aye be the blessed
All the ray of our life till night.
When the evening comes with its beauti-
And our eyes are closing to slumber
May that Greenwood of Soul be in
benjamin F. Taylor.
The state fair is but five weeks off.
]. S. Dean, u. S. district attorney, re-
turned Monday from his vacation in
Ohio.
The woodmen of the World took $40
people to Kansas City on an excursion
Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. D. G. Kline. of 400
Clay street, are the parents of a baby
girl born Sunday.
Goldenrod is in bloom. That means
the coming Of the melancholy days"
and the filling of the coal bin.
Major Frank II. Whitman, who lost
his life in the wreck near Pueblo, was
a graduate of Washburn college.
Captain Racket will be the attrac-
ton at the Vinewood Park theater to-
night and every night this week.
William Green and his son Hartley
are going to Pennsylvania and other
eastern states to spend six weeks.
"Uncle'' Ben Jordan, the colored
distributor of liquor, was arrested yes
terday for the first time in two days.
The master BARRIERS were defeated in
a ball game at WaShburn yesterday by
the journeymen BARRIERS by the score of
IL to 8.
Cider Smith announced a rain per-
iod, in his Saturdays forecast. from the
Sth to the 10th. He scored on this morn
ings rain.
Workmen are replacing the brick
pavement between the street railway
tracks on west Eighth street with cob
blestone.
The Wellington News says: "F. E.
Grimes came in from Caldwell today.
He will accompany the Stilwell special
tomorrow. 7ais'A
j. H. Maxwell has about completed
the grading for the pavement on Fill
more street between Thirteenth and
Fourteenth.
The Topeka sporting fraternity is
making another feeble effort to get up
a prize fight. This may cause some
people to yawn.
The new Baptist church building is
progressing rapidly towards compile
ton. The walls of the second story
are nearly finished.
Clements & Chaffee, when they were
IN the clothing business at one time
in the store next to the Greenwald
store. were burned out.
Mrs. M Parker Hughes, formerly of
Topeka, but now residing at San Diego
Cal, underwent an operation OH July
21st for the removal of a diseased bone
in the jaw.
Raymond Jones, the son of c. w.
Jones, division superintendent of the
Rock Island. has written a piece of
music which he has named "Along the
Kansas Nile"
Business is duh in the city Iegis-
of the council are out of town that it
is difficult to get a quorum to tran
sact business.
The Woman's Missionary society of
the First Congregational church will
meet at the home of Mrs. H. L. Shirer,
1857 Fillmore street, Wednesday after
noon at o'clock.
D j. Greenwald's burned out store
looks like the interior of a large laun-
dry Ropes have been stretched
soaked goods are hanging there to
dry out.
A doubleheader was scheduled be-
tween lola and Topeka this afternoon
at the new ball park. McCarty and
Carter were naIesed to do the slab work
for the Saints, and Morgan and Milton
were lined up for lola.
Neal Overman, the evangelist, will
use his subject Christian Unity at
the Christian church tabernacle at the
corner of Sixteenth and Clay street to-
night. A special song and praise SER |
vice will be held at o'clock with spec
ial music by the Ridenour singers.
Application was made Monday after |
noon in the probate court for the APP
continent of a guardian for John Me- |
Crow. Inability to care for his own |
affairs is assigned as the reason. The |
application was made by Winnie Nc
Crow.
Harry Larimer. and James Mcfarland |
affeetionately call each other DOC" |
md have been doing so for some sew