The Topeka state journal., 1903-06-06


brought to the notice of the public by
the food, viz. that ''one touch of ma
ture makes the whole world kim and
that the oldest settler for once has been
nonplussed.
In a hundred ways the quotation has
been proven. People suddenly display
ed a kinship that perhaps never exist
ed before, or was only smouldering. and
in the hour Of danger it blazed forth
IN some cases the situation only served
to bring to light remarka bic attach
ments.
One case is that of DR. H. c. Miner
the veteran physician of the North side.
When the flood came he locked first
to the safety of his horse and his dog.
Escape was impossible. He took the
horse and the dog to the second floor
of a two story house and stayed with
them, refusing to be taken away in q
friends DR. Miner has driven the horse
for more than twenty years. The horse
can find his way over North Topeka
and the country north of the river on
the darkest nights. The dog, an old
hunter, has been lame for years but
for years and years he has been ia
miliar sight to the people of the North
side as he sat in the doctors buggy
guarding the property
Saturday afternoon. when the flood
was at its strength and communication
with North Topeka, on Kansas ave
J nue.. Was DN 1lEduS Oi bOntOOA BAA0E
and ferry, one Of the living things that
escaped was a mocking bird. North
side woman would not desert her song
ster. The crowd ON the south end of
the pontoon bridge saw policeman
on the north end of the bridge making
his way south and carrying something
large As he got nearer the object
could be discerned. 1t was large bird
cage. two feet wide. three feet long and
two feet high. 1t looked empty The
n
of the cage could be seen a little. red
bundle of feathers not larger than a
fist, and a small fist at that The crowd
cneered the policeman and the blrd got
its head out from under its wing ana
looked around 1t saw that safety had
been reached 1t Strengthened up shook
its feathers. began struttins UP ana
down on the porch and was as glad 70
see the crowd as any of the people Who
had come across.
Another policeman made rescue. He
was on the north end of the NAelan
bridge Thursday. woman was puI
into the basket and sent across Sne
carried a bundle. 1t looked like a baby
wrapped in a blanket and d quilt. The
| woman was clad in mighty thln ciotn-
ing but the occupant Of the bundle was
well wrapped. The policeman took thf
bundle from the life basket and viii
; / the woman following him he carried u
to the Rock Island depot Ihere ths
woman took the bundle and was ploAt&St
in her thanks. She unwrapped the bun
) die and out jumped pug dog Ihs
policeman was mad. Being a dog wa
, bad enough joke on me, he said. Du'
being pug dog, that was an Insult.
Another woman who was sent across
in the basket was fat. She was Sc
) heavy that she filed the basket like
load of hay. She carried nothing at al
Z but when she reached a safe place OF
! the south side she stopped. dove int
her pocket. or in some part of her cloth
ing and brought forth an Angora kat
ten.
: Two colored men We're coming across
within 100 yards of each other sunday
one carried big bull dog and the 9th
er carried little kitten. A woman wht
came across in a boat had a hen IN {
. basket and another had q hen and sew
eral chicks. There were hundreds q
cases of people saving the animals the.
owned The story was told Of mai
near Tecumseh who had 40 pigs on
/ raft The pigs wanted to bunch in on
place. That would sink the raft Tn
man didn't play pigs IN clover but n
played pigs on raft trying 70 keel
them scattered so the raft would not o.
sunk Another story IS of a COW whlci
was standing on a hay stack just out o
water. If the COW ate the hay sn'
would undermine her safe refuge and l
she did not eat she would starve.
TN to the last hour Friday night tn
old settler was supreme in his comfor
of telling of the floods that had been