The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-03
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS

If you fancy your hold on your fortune
is lost.
If you just missed the buoy some pas
senger tossed,
For. your find as you creep through the
Valley OF Care,
Where the pathway is rough and the fields
That the ssG man an Who hangs on is the man
who gets there.
There is nothing that's lost that is hope
lessly lost,
The prize we may win if we work for the
cost,
The man who courts failure can win it.
He has s'I but to give up and let the thing
But the fellow who wins must stand to
Get a grip.
I am preaching this sermon not only for
you,
For need it myself; I most certainly DO,
Get a grip.
know how it's played,
And the man who wins out IS the man
By the blow that another would lay in
Get a grip.
A. ]. Waterhouse in Sunset Magazine
Plum and pear trees are blooming.
Leslie Guild and Harry Donaldson
went to Kansas City Sunday.
Did you weather the grand opera fe-
yer without getting overheated?
Has Weatherman Jennings imported
his annual supply of April showers.
President Norman Plass is in Chi
cago in the interests of Washburn col
lege.
There is an epidemic of shingles in
town; not around waist lines but on
, roofs.
The second case. held over the Big
Four gamblers by County Attorney
/ Hungate, has been dismissed.
The street commissioners men are
/ out in the west part Of town today
cleaning up the paved streets.
City Attorney Charles Spencer, who
will retire from Office this week, win
open UP law Office at 531 Kansas ave-
nue..
DR.. John Outland, physical director
at Washburn, has located at 1924 Blu
chanan street, and viii engage in prac-
tice in this city.
F. G. Drenning, the Republican nom
inee for city attorney, says he had 20
/ carriages donated to help him get out
his votes tomorrow.
The Santa Fe railroad had a popular
price excursion to Kansas City yester-
day. About three hundred people took
advantage of the low rate.
The public is invited to attend the
free wrestling and boxing contests al
Topeka Athletic association tonight
There will be elevated seats.
William Wadsworth, playing II
Blanche Walshs company in The Wo-
man in the Case" will go to Australia
with the company next season.
1t is reported that the receipts fol
grand opera at Kansas City amounted
to upwards of s27, 600 At least 300 To
peka people contributed to the fund.
Dr.. John Outland, the physical direc
tor of Washburn college, has brough
his family here from Wichita, and hai
taken house at 1924 Buchanan street
The members of the Topeka baseball
team are due to report here on mex
Thursday. HOWE, Carter, Abbott ant
Brown are here now, and have beer
working out
The south end of Central park is be
ing beautified and improved. Superin
tendent Reinisch, of the city parks, /
giving special attention to this par
z this spring.
Everybody who went to Kansas Cit.
last week to hear the grand opera i
expected to rave today about the music
Whether you liked it or not, it is ap
prOpriate to rave.
> The saloons were closed in Kansa
City, Mo, yesterday in accordance witt
a Sunday-clOsing act, and the thirst,
had to go across the river to Kansa
City, Kansas for a drink
It was necessary to spend a lot o
s money this year getting the voting
t booths repaired. They had becom
- considerably smashed up in the cours
/ of their frequent travels about the city
n The entertainment committee Of tn
Commercial club held conference wit
- the United Brethren church people Sat
= urday, and made arrangements for tn
e big church conference to be held here
: Owing to the fact that two NOR
: spans will have to be added to tn
II street car bridge. it win take anothe
month to complete that structure.
= promises to be one of the handsOmes
: and most substantial bridges in tn
Il city.
According to the proclamation of tn
> Sophomores at Washburn, this is tn
= last day upon which the Freshmen ca