The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-04-21
SNAP SHOTS ATHOMENEWs


TO fail the feeblest never,
And somehow this old earth remains
bright world, after all.
There's always love that's caring
ana shielding and forbearing,
keep our hearts in thrall;
mere home TO share together
IN calm or stormy weather
And while the heart fame burns 1t is a
good world, after all
The lisp of children's voices.
me cnance Of happy choices, 80, =,
The bugle-sounds Of hope and faith, through
logs and mists that call;
Inc heaven that stretches o er US,
The better days before US.
They all combine to make this earth a
Margaret e. sangster
City Attorney Chas. F. Spencer went
to Kansas City Wednesday.
Frank Grimes might try a little
absent treatment on Mr. Burton
Mrs. T. S. Williams, wife of the cleo
ton commissioner, is quite seriously
sick.
The new trolley wire which is being
put up on the Washburn car line is
about twice as big as the old wire.
Hacks were at a premium last night.
Cause: A big wedding, commence
ment at Washburn, and a wet, stormy
night.
The fashionable amusement this
week is putting back the stove which
was taken down because of the false
pretenses of the weather.
Street Commissioner Snyder has con-
| demned several more pieces of Kansas
| avenue sidewalk, where the hagstones
have become rotten and likely to cave
in.
Special cars were run to Washburn
college last night for the benefit of the
crowd which went to the graduating
exercises of the Kansas Medical col
lege.
Announcement was made last night
at the commencement of the Kansas
Medical college that the annual re-
union would be held next Christmas
here in Topeka
The police department has installed
| a rOgues gallery. The police do that
about as often as Topeka starts base
ball teams and the galleries last about
as long as the ball fever
The w. c. T. U. will give a social
tomorrow afternoon at the residence
of Mrs. Smith, 1907 Van Buren, street.
Mrs. Margaret Hill McCarter win
make an address.
Phillip Sprague, the janitor at the
city hail. is still unable to return to
his position, and ii is feared that his
disabilities may be permanent He I'M
derwent a surgical operation and has
never fully recovered
Mexican Herald: Mrs. w. ]. Veale.
who had the misfortune to sprain her
ankle some time ago, is improving. me
sprain, while not serious. is proving
a painful one, from which Mrs. Veale
will only recover slowly.
The big plate glass window ordered
for Flads- drug store arrived few
days ago. It had been broken in tran
sit, into about 476000 pieces, and the
store will have to get along with its
board front for a few weeks longer.
Chief of Police McCollum is report
ed to be visiting at WaKeeney. It is
also reported that Sergeant McElrOy
is in charge of the police McCollum
might just as we'll run the police de-
partment on the "absent treatment
plan"
Dr. George E. Cole, the highest au-
thority on Indian art and archaeology
in the country. viii this evening at
Washburn chapel deliver lantern lee
ture on Indian art and the cliff dwell
lers. The lecture is in connection with
the Indian exhibit of pottery and rugs
at the Reid-Stone school of art.
Assistant County Attorney McNary
and Deputy JamisOn began suit in the
district court Wednesday to have the
bond of Charles Hoffman. amounting
victed of selling liquor but before the
supreme court handed down man
date iE the case he disappeared.
The Omaha Bee says: THE mo-
mentous problem which Superinten-
dent Davidson is called upon to solve
at the very outset of his career in
Omaha IS whether the sweet girl
graduates of the High school shall all
wear high-heeled CATERS, lily white
gowns and bicycle wheel hats when
they appear on the stage in front of
a mountain of beribboned bouquets
J. NJ. Wilson. who passed a worth
less check on Eli UlamDerl entered a
plea of guilty in the district court
Wednesday and was sentenced to so
days in the county Jail. Wilson's con-
science hurt him and he gave himself
over to the sheriff at Red Oak, Iowa,
and announced that he had passed
worthless check in Topeka. Ulamperl
asked that Wilson be not sent to the
penitentiary.
Albert Griffin, 321 Kansas avenue, To-
peka, wishes to borrow a little money
to publish a small book, which he says
explains the only phase of the money
problem that has never been generally
discussed is full of startling facts that
affect everyone; makes it clear why
hard times come knocking at the
door, of SO many unnecessarily; and
shows how our monetary system can
easily be made really safe and sound.
Some time ago, a Topeka correspon-
dent for a Kansas City paper got what
he thought a good story from Judge
any rate one of the Kansas City pa
pers printed that the federal court in
Topeka held that the words of the
lease concerning gas and oil lands in
Kansas did not cOntrOl,and that parole
evidence must be submitted The fact
of the case was that Judge Pollock de-
clZred the wording of the leases to be
ambiguous. Clerk George Sharitt of
the United States circuit court is very
busy just now answering letters from
the gas belt, where the report, as the
Kansas City newspapers had 1t, stirred
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