The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-10-13
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WORTH OSgOoQ
I only knew she came and went
Like troutlets in the pool;
She was a phantom of delight,
And 1 was like a fool.
One kiss, dear maid, 1 said, and sighed,
Out of those lips unshorn;
She shook her ringlets round her head,
And laughed in merry scorn
Ring out wild bells. to the wild sky.
ny, You heard them, Q my he. heart s+,a c,oc,.
Beloved, we must part.
Come back, come back," she cried in
my eyes are dim with tears.
How shall I live through all the days?
All through hundred years?
Twas in the prime of summer, time
She blessed me with her hand;
We strayed together, deeply blest,
Into the dreaming land.
The laughing bridal roses blow.
To dress her dark brown hair:
Most beautiful; most rare.
I cIasped it on her sweet, cold hand.
The precious golden link!
I Gained her fears, and she was calm,
Drink. pretty creature, drink
And SO won my Genevieve,
And walked in Paradise;
The fairest thing that ever grew
Topeka Day at the st. Louis Worlds
fair tomorrow.
There are a few roses still blooming
on the state house grounds.
Robert G.. Merrick has been at
Eureka Springs for a few days.
Sheriff Lucas and his wife have
gone to the st. Louis exposition
Lincoln post is planning a special
muster for next Saturday evening.
Carter and HOWE, pitchers of the
CN.,fV, IT,. .oI-- yT-l a.
Judge Pollock will return from the
Leavenworth term of court on Friday.
VIII Hilton has returned to Topeka
after spending a vacation in Pennsyl-
vania.
The quarterly meeting of the Sons of
the American Revolution will be Octo-
Der 10.
Assistant County Treasurer John NJ.
Wright has gone to the St. Louis ex-
position.
The beer business must be good. A
local dealer has just bought an extra
wagon.
Have the town cows stopped grazing
quarters?
Thee street railway company is
stringing new trolley wires on Kansas
avenue.
General Freight Agent J. r. Koontz
of the Santa Fe has returned from
Chicago.
The walls of the Emahizer & Spiel
man building on Jackson street are
nearly completed.
Beginning with next Tuesday. the
registration books will be open at
night for ten days.
Perhaps after Oakland grades her
streets that city council will pass
wide tire ordinance.
If this weather keeps on the state
will be ahead another hay crop on the
state house grounds. 80
Otis Hungate, w. w. Fisher, H. 1.
Monroe and A. w. Dana will speak at
303 East First street Friday night.
The Golden Rlue club is to have a
meeting Friday at the home of Mrs.
Edward King, 1850 Mulvane avenue.
The district court will not be in ses-
sion next week. The next trial of
cases will begin Monday, October "a.
The city scales in front of the police
coal will not weigh any more, however,
than before.
David N. Taylor, of Topeka, and Lola
B. Senter, of Kansas City, Mo-, were
granted a marriage license in Kansas
City Wednesday.
The Commercial club will be back in
its regular quarters in the Curry
building for its meeting on Friday
night, October II.
H. K. Goodrich, superintendent of
with his family for a visit at the st.
Louis exposition.
People who traverse the state house
grounds are anxious to know how tall
the spire on the Baptist church will
be when completed
The High school football team will
play the Kansas City manual training
school team Saturday. The game may
result i'll mauling training.
A gasoline stove explosion at 719
Chestnut street caused SIS damage at
o'clock Wednesday afternoon. The
house is occupied by Bert Waggoner.
The Holden Land & Live Stock COM
pany has sold 4,942 acres of the Holden
ranch near Rossville to the Interstate
Trading company, of Kansas City, Mo-,
for $83,675.32
r. B. Nelson, auditor of the Taylor
Grain company, will leave for the St.
Louis exposition today. Mr.. Nelson
will be one of the committee to dis
tribute the badges for Topeka day.
AS yet the county commissioners
held by the county on account of the
nonpayment of taxes. The members
can not agree on who will willingly
cut them.
Perhaps the reason for this warm
weather is that the government records
showed a loss in temperature for the
summer months. The weather bureau
even can't stand a shortage of any
kind.
The cross over and switches of the
street railway company at Sixth and
Kansas avenue are in a deplorable
condition. Repairs are now being
made and a new trolley wire is being
put up
Two women registered Wednesday
at the commissioner of elections office.
They want to vote on the Melan
bridge proposition. 1t is likely that
there will be quite boom in the fe-
male registration, especially in North