The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-05

vent the execution OF JeO6rd1 prisoner
rect or not. Let the school teachers de-
| eide. By-the-way. greatly admire the
~ 1 When the 'h ies Cream ere Pn0K was due due;
at the Captains dinner, all the lights
went ob rpd the ces s the tr~e
carrying grotesque lanterns, and dressed
in odd costumes They marched through
and the lights were turned on again.
While the ice cream, pastry, coffee, fruit.
Connection on vas was Brought ; on. n We pulled
the wrappers apart, which caused an ex-
put on. Then little rolls of red. white
a ana Of 6lue paper tt we're ep fron
left a thin strip of red, white and blue
paper from one end of the dining room
to the other. Soon the immense room was
full of these strips. and there was much
merriment,, and we promised to write
be friends as long as we lived. But Mrs:
Harker didn't invite me to visit her. and
I wouldn't have accepted had she invited
her husband.
1t soon became so cold that I went to
bed, and covered up with two blankets.
where dreamed that the supply of nat
ural gas had given out again
Saturday, February 10,
When I awoke this morning, the cold
bed. I was awakened by the ships ma
chinery stopping, and, as 1 imagined a
were we're near nea NeW YORK Ny desire to look
out of the window was finally greater
than 81 Hed dread cad OF the o S1 the w9ndP%
Houses were in sight, and I knew it was
time to dress. But how cold it was! I
found it necessary to put on clean shirt,
which was new one, stuck together with
pins. This shirt was in my trunk. under
my bed. and, when I finally found it, l
was compelled not only to remove all the
pins, which stuck abominably,. but to
change my buttons and studs from the
head. 1 found another pin in the sleeve.
All this time L was dressed lightly as
the divers who had surrounded the ship
at the various ports we had Xlsited IN tae 9
last, 1 had an idea: ring for the steward,
and ask him to turn on the heat; The
was comfortable. never think of good
thing until too late. Speaking of new
supply of clean ones having become, ex-
hausted and the ships laundry unable TO
ea a y my z dGGn kno% y shirts have
been provided for me by others SO long long
that the clerk was vas comPellgd TO measure
The other passengers were running ex-
citedly about the decks. but l stuck to
my warm ROOM In, except a short Interval VA
r9r Rrf the ';n1otEe into lier sip. ana
the sailors had gun out the PLANK, l went went
JOseph' The great room into
which we descended was cold as the
inside of an iceberg, and I founi radia-
tor and Rugged it. The stewards were
bringing off the baggage, and depositInG
the H pile, and the Harveys. HerkiIneIs 8.
Holidays, Harlzers. ETC.. were standing
stewards were slow in bringing off all
their packages. Thirty custom house men
diTtW Clothes as soon as We had all our
packages in one pile. Mrs. Harker was
voice. and, asked Harker why he didn't
Do Somethi7 Harker walked rapidly
presently and said there was really moth
ing that could be done. Which was The
fact, since the stewards were bringing
off the baggage as fast as possible.
A number Of railroad passenger agents
we're rushing about no grabbed New
and posted myself about trains, oonclud-
ing to leave for st, Louis at 2:45 p m
that would have landed me at home
Sunday, night, had just pulled out !. ;. :;
over to New York, by way Of the tunnel
under the Hudson river; ire New York
Central man had checked our baggage
am given good many subscriptions to
the the weekly Sl Vas reminaed OF getung
the Hudson river: four men gave me sub
scriptions to. the. weekly. By-the-way,
brought me a list of forty-three sub
scriptions to the weekly. and have other
addresses in every pocket Of INV clothes.
The price of the weekly IS 50 low that L
is causing me a good deal of trouble.
Some day am coming to New
York and spend two or three weeks 1t
is the most wonderful place in the world.
And living is not SO high at the best
hotels; Judge Walker had a double room
with bath at the Waldorf and paid only
So per day per person. I had a room
to myself, with bath. and paid only 81
per day. This. Of course, did not include
D. M, and found the Hudson river COW
cred from shore to shore with great
blanket of snow. But we were warm and
the way home, and didn't mind it.
There is one thing about the Americans:
they always heat their houses and their
railroad cars.
Sunday, February 60
We have travelled rapidly all day
through Ohio, Indiana and Illinois Train
men say 20 inches of snow fell last
Tuesday and Wednesday. Our trains is
the Southwest Limited, and we make but
few stops. 1t seems to me that every
eight ten minutes, we whiz through
country town. One of these towns was
nois- saw the name on the end of the
depot As we rushed through the town Of
Kansas, I saw this sign in front of a
cigar store: stop and Smoke with Billy
Henderson" What a genial soul Bill
Henderson must be! How I should like
to stop Off at the town of Kansas, and
hear Billy Henderson tell jokesi Prob
Someone in the town of Kansas. ILL.,, had
taken a horse-scrapers and removed the
snow from most of the sidewalks: I
noticed that too. as we dashed through