The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-28
SNAP SHOTS HOME NEWS


Go long boss, an quit yo' foolin'-
D. all amt TN no Christmas STd mo S in de Mort sah
Dat kin beat ole Dixie LAM
| Ey'body's fire. an ekul.
| An each man jeS has his way;
| White er black-it makes no if'ence,
Way down Souf on Christmas day.
Does we go to chu'ch? oh, no. sab!
We don't have no time fur dat
| Twouldn't be no sorter Christmas
| Jes' to go whar meetins att
But 1 sho do BELIEVES in meetin's,
y Yet tt | wants EN- in DER PLACE,
Wouldn't suit dis culled race.
You jes' gimme little cidah,
An little tas'e Nv rye,
p Ont f fargit de rum Fl, fur aigsnog'
! Den you let de fiddle strike up,
| Let Miss 'Dinah step dis way,
An I'll show you how we shuffles
Way down Souf on Christmas day.
Christmas sho wuz made fur darlies,
An de law don't cut no ice,
White mems wild DER clubs an blucoats
1,I Lays ez low an. stun ez mice;
I ETry darS1 6 non fu rid sy n0pooy
An dey sho do ac like white folks
Way down Souf on Chris mas day.
To be sho at night we ems I'D
Wild gran Jim Dandy spree
One NV desc old fashioned cakewalks
Er a. big CON shuckin' bee.
An sab, eff it's one er t'othah,
IL
Den Wen go home wild de ladies
AT de break Nv mawnin' light.
OATS de way we spen's ouah Chris mas
You jes' shet yo' mouf up, man;
D. amt no Chris mas in de worl, sab,
Dat kin beat ole Dixie Ian.
An each man jes' has his way;
Way down souf on Christmas day.
-Silas * Floyd in Leslie's Weekly.
Nice assortment of frst-class mas
querade costumes for rent, 800 West
Twelfth street.
Yesterday afternoon Poor Commits
sioner Hale received many applications
from poor people who wanted coal.
How do you like 1.-The cold gray dawn
of the morning after the storm when
you go down stairs to start the kitchen
fire?
Judge Pollock spent Christmas in
Ohio. Two weeks preceding the hol-
lidays he held court at st. Louis for
Judge Adams.
The Third Presbyterian church made
contribution of $25 worth of toys and
other Christmas gifts to the work of
the Associated Charities.
]. w. F. Hughes will go to Norton
Vile where poultry show is in session
and endeayor to drum UP business for
the State Poultry show to be held here
in January.
county Commissioner SI6rnG received
a letter from a San Francisco deacon
yesterday roasting him for even sug-
costing that clerks salaries might be
raised SIS per month per new baby.
Topeka council, U. c. T., will have
special meeting Saturday, December
81. A lot of good cigars and refresh
ments will be on hand. The meeting
is called for the purpose of comforting
degrees and looking after some routine
business.
The general impression of the subur-
ban public is that the city railway
bought the new rotary snow sweeper
as special Christmas present for AL
bert Patten. Anyway he has had all
kinds of enjoyment running it.
Another squirt in the way of a
heavy traffic of packages took place
through the postofhce again on Tues
day after the lulI which came with
Monday afternoon. The mail carriers,
despite the bad weather, worked as
hard yesterday as on Saturday.
J. N. Wilkinson, president of the
State Normal school, is in attendance
upon the State Teachers association
here. Mr. Wilkinson is the authority
for the statement that a bill will be
introduced at the coming session of the
legislature looking to an increase in
the tax assessment for school purposes.
A theft was perpetrated yesterday
and the thieves are still at
liberty. A small bunch of sparrows
had been left unprotected in front of a
Kansas avenue fruit stand. The birds
were oblivious to everything, tearing
and pulling away in an effort to dis
lodge the tightly packed fruit, and in
which they were partially successful.
Probate Judge Hayden issued the
following marriage licenses Tuesday;
NJ. L. Massey of Muskogee, L T., and
Laura Tippen of Topeka; Clarence H.
Waldman and Mary Rabb, both of To-
peka; Fred Luttjohanna of Topeka and
Cora E. Davenport of Marietta; Albert
Eberhart of Lecompton, and Beulah
Flagstaff of Tecumseh; John T. Web
ster of Syracuse, and Anna B. Woody
of Topeka
Civil service examinations will be
held in Topeka for the following posi-
tons on the accompanying dates:
Railway mail clerk, January rs; local
and assistant inspector of boilers,
steamboat inspection service, January
25 and 26; inspector of mechanical
and electrical engineering, January Is
and IS; aid and laboratory apprentice,
January IS; assistant to the chief in
spector, January Is and 10; electro
typer's helper (foor hand), jan