The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-02-15
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS

He held himself splendidly forward
Both early and latei
The aim of his purpose was starward,
So he Wrought and he toiled and he.
waited,
TIL he rose DER the hordes that he hated,
And stood on the heights, as was fated,
Made one of the great.
Then lol on the top of the mountain,
With walls that were wide,
A city from which like a fountain,
Rose voices that cried:
He comes! Let US forth now to meet himi
In the city he built let US seat him
On the throne of his pride"
Then out of the city he builded.
OF shadow it seems,
From gates that his fancy had gilded
With thoughts brightest CLEANS,
Strange mines and chimeras came troop
With moping and moving and STOPPING
And he saw, with a heart that was droop-
That these were his dreams.
He entered! And 10! as he entered
They his name;
And led him where, burningly conferred,
An altar of fame
Made Iurid a temole-erected
OF - a form he detected,
The Love that his life had rejected
- va" Madison Cawein.
Three more weeks until the primary
campaign ends.
The jury began work again in the
district court this morning.
The county commissioners ordered a
new fywheel for the stone crusher.
Another delay necessary.
Miss Willard of Knox college, Gales
burg, ILL.,. has been employed by Wash
burn college as instructor in the acad-
envy. and has already commenced her
work.
L. E. Gordon was adjudged insane in
the probate court Saturday afternoon.
He was tried six months ago and found
not insane.
1t has been announced that c. H.
Kutz has Withdrawn from h race for
county superintendent. Mr.. Kutz was
forced out of the contest on account
of an attack of typhoid fever.
As a result of a severe attack of grip,
Mrs. E. B. Merriam of 1921 College ave
nue., is threatened with permanent deaf
ness. h has been sick for some time,
and is just recovering from grip.
This evening there will be a meeting
of the ways and means committee of
the city council for the of dis
cussing the proposed pipe organ con-
tract with the Pipe Organ association.
The Commercial Union Assurance
compan of London, which lost SIS, 900
in the Saturday fire. was one of the first
out of town contributors to the relief
fund raised at the time of the June
food.
The Pacheco family of Mexican aero
bats who performed here durirg the
Mfdwinter exposition are spending the
rest of the winter in Topeka, and in the
spring will go with the Sells-Downs
circus.
The result Of the basketball game be-
tween Washburn and Baker was an
other victory for Washburn. The score
was % to IA. The Washburn girls have
not been defeated this season. Next
Saturday evening Washburn will play
the State university here at Topeka,
and a hair-pulling time is expected.
L. Rheinstrom, the Santa Fe office
man who wants to go to Japan to fight,
has been a to persuade the Santa
Fe officials to give him a pass to San
Francisco, and is trying to get one from
some other. source. He ia he is will
ing to pay his fare from San Francisco
to the Orient, but cans afford to pay
the whole distance.
Topeka people will b. interested in
the announcement of the marriage of
Mrs. Mary Thornton Merriam, of kan
sas City to /. Macy Van Guilder,
which occurred on Tuesday, February
g. Mr.. and Mrs. Van Guilder VII be
at home after April l at 1900 East Ar
mOur boulevard in Kansas City. Mo.
Mrs. Merriam was formerly the wife
of Frank D. Merriam, of Topeka Their
divorce occurred a year ago last Au-
gust. Mrs. Merriam has custody of the
only child, a little girl.