The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-01-24
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What to us is time or space.
Hours or absence, day Of grace;
As we rule and reign alone
In a ingdo of our own?
Love like ours is UP to date,
SneerS at fortune, c~OnquerS Fate;
Makes the loves of early times
Look like three bright, shiny dimes.
Couldn't we, give cards and spades
To historic lovers shades?-
Easily our love can beat
That of Faust and Marguerite.
HeIoise and AbeIard
stopped to tricks that we'd discard;
Orpheus and E1rydice
Only knew a simple way;
Iauncelot and Guinevere
Wondering would our love songs hear,
ana a few things we might show
Juliet and Romeo.
Hero we'd give POINTERS to
Teach Ieander how to WOO.
l could coach Semiramis.
Trojan Helen a to kiss.
You'd teach Dante and Petrarch
DISTANCE Cleopatra'S Mark
On, the loves of bygone days
Were not up to modern ways!
Carolyn Wells in Smart Set.
The Kansas Bar association meeting
begin next Tuesday.
Have you compared Melba with Nor
dica, DeLussan, Innes, Sousa, Bartili,
ct al?
The senate chamber attracted many
out of town people yesterday afternoon
who were in Topeka to near Melba.
Mayor B~ergundthal has gone to Kan
sas City to attend a lumberman's con-
vention. He viii return Wednesday
morning.
doc Brown. the negro cake walker
who was well known all over Kansas,
is dying of consumption in a Kansas
City hospital.
The graduating exercises of the jan
uary, 1905, class of the high school will
occur Friday night at the high school
assembly hall.
Shawnee county hogs are going to
Kansas City by the carload. (This is a
live stock market note and does not re-
fer to passenger traffic..
w. j. Black, general passenger agent
of the Santa Fe railroad, is in Chicago
today attending a meeting of the West
ern Passenger association.
Al Sturgeon, of Silver Lake, will till
the soil of County Commissioner Sam
Haynes farm this year while Mr..
HAYNES helps run the county.
A. T. Coakley, pattern foreman of the
Santa Fe shops, and Chas. Frazier,
blacksmith foreman, have been over to
Atchison on business with John Seaton.
Mrs. H. B. Giddings. of Atchison. has
been at Christ hospital for several
weeks taking treatment for
prostration. She will return to Atchi-
son in a week
h storm is undoubtedly the result
of the special request of Ralph Brigham,
general manage of the Midwinter ex-
po., to Weatherman Jennings for mid
winter weather.
Mail n Breeze correspondent at
Sunnyside says: ''Wil say to our in
quiring friends that we have entirely
recovered from our mixup with a To-
peka street a recently. It cost US Sc
to get our buggy repaired, but as the
railway company gave US SO We are 81
to the good"
The cost of appointing the appraisers
and levying the assessment for the Pot
win sewer extension will be almost as
self. The extension will cost $475 or in
the neighborhood of 1914 cents for each
of the $500 lots which are liable for the
Improvement
Sergeant Kitty was played at the
Crawford theater in Topeka, matinee
and night, at the highest prices posi-
BILE. The prices for the afternoon as
well as the evening performance run
up to $1.50. At Crawford's theater at
Leavenwerth Sunday night the highest
prices for seats on the floor was 81,
according to advertisement in the
Times. Topeka evidently hasn't lost
its reputation as an easy town.
The registration at the commissioner
of elections office yesterday took a sud
den bound. About $50 new names were
added to the books in the course of the
day. Carriages We're out bringing de-
linquent voters to register as if on the
eve of an election. The activity is credi-
ted to the Street Railway company who
anxious that the bonds for the
Rranner street viaduct be carried at the
special election designated for the 18th
of February. The total registration is
now close to 1900 and of this number so
are credited to women voters.