The Topeka state journal., 1904-12-30
SNAP SHOTS ATHoME NEWS

Over the wastes of Sitting snow
Glitter the suns last dying rays,
Where the shadowy edge of the twilight
play
Come in the years declining days,
Come with sob and a half-shed tear;
Ye who have courage enough to gaze,
Gather around, for the end draws near.
Age, Old Age. with his head bent low,
Mumbles and over the rosary prays.
Think how he watched the blossoms blow
When as he wandered in June's fair
ways:
But aye to so-.,e goal the traveller strays
And nothing that stirs can hnger here;
Poor old dotard! The price he pays.
Gather around, for the end draws near.
The years will come and the years will go
And minstrels will sing their roundelays,
And sweethearts will sigh for bliss. we
And poets will sigh for deathIess bays;
Dances the ghost of a somber Bier
Hasten, my friends, while December
Gather around, for the end draws near.
ENvOT.
Out of the Futures strange white haze
Send us, Father. a note of cheer
To soften the words the Reaper says:
Gather. around, for the end draws
William F. Kirk in Milwaukee Sentinel
This is the anniversary of the Iro-
quois theater horror.
The Y. NJ. c. A. gymnasium class will
give New Years day exhibition.
The next meeting of the Commercial
club will take place on January II.
Marion Laycock will begin his duties
as clerk of the city court January 2.
Tomorrow $3.50, 81 soft and Derby
hats will be sold for $L45 at The
Palace.
The Topeka Baseball association is
offering IS bonus to the person who
will put them next to a good catcher.
waterproof guaranteed shoes for $3.50,
black tan, will be special at The
Palace.
J. O. McNary, editor of the Craig
head Sun, published at Jonesboro, Ar
kansas, is visiting his father, Captain
]. r. McNary, assistant county attor-
ney.
Mitch Bundy is back on duty on
the police force again. For the present
he will handle the jailer's keys. He
sustained a severe fall about a month
ago and has been laid up ever since.
The teachers have been very quiet
and peaceabIe while in Topeka. They
were not expected to make half as
much noise as the auctioneers who held
a convention here at the same time.
The Palace will sell any fancy dollar
shirt in the store tomorrow for seven
five cents, bosom or negligee.
A number of football enthusiasts in
Topeka are talking of forming foot
pail league OIL professional players IN
Kansas and two or three of the ad-
joining states. 1t is probable that a
meeting will be held before long to
talk the matter over formally
James H. Guy was elected president
of the Interstate Literary association
which completed it's fourteenth annual
session on Thursday afternoon. The
feature of yesterdays pro- |
gramme was an address entitled Sen |
timental Progress" by G. E. Watson
of Fort Scott.
Police Matron Thorpe is still giving
out Christmas presents to the poor. On /
tn ursday a case came to her notice |
in which a girl of six had saved her
odd pennies practically throughout the |
year and thereby when Christmas
came had the small sum of 25 cents. |
She intended to, get herself something |
for Christmas. but her father corraled
the money and spent it for himself, /
The little girl was brOken-hearted and
told Mrs Thorpe her story. She will
get her Christmas on New Years day. |