The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-19

| II were possessed of the millions
That Jawn D. has in his name
fou pet l would skip on far away trip
And I'd buy me two pairs of suspenders,
LTD, SIhe ones that have make me sigh
IS Sa what I'd DC, and say, wouldn' you?
Milwaukee Sentinel.
Professional Snake Fighters.
! Last year the number of men, wo-
men and children who met a terrible
oeath in India from the bite of pois-
onous snakes amounted to %, s37. Be
| by wild enthusiastically tigers; to say
nothing about $1,000 cattle Every con-
| ceivable measure has been taken to
nlltlgate this appalling annual destruc-
ton, but with little avail" So writes
w G. F1tz-Gerald. in The Technical
| World Magazine for May.
The Venomous snakes of India most
destructive of life may be placed in the
following order: First of all comes the
deadly cobra, responsible for nearly
n1ne-tenthS Of the fatalities; and then
the kraft, kuppur, Russelrs viper, the
hamadryaS, and Raj-Samp, The water
snakes kill a good maLy. as we shall
see, but they are comparatively rare
"A regular organized warfare is waged
upon Indta's myriads of reptiles. and in
each district a regular head-tax is paid
upon each cobra and other snakes kill
ed.
Last year the number of snakes de-
stroyed IVES 762,221, for which rewards
amounting 10 nearly 81, 600 rupees were
paid. The greatest destruction to life
appears to have been in Bengal, where
II, 13l~ people were killed, and nearly
LOCO cattle. In this Province alone 3d.
O54 poisonous snakes were destroyed.
The officials charged with this curious
work were scattered over the Whole
vast area, from the Himalayas to
Provinces; the North West Provinces.
and Oudh: the Punjab, Central Pro-
vinces, Burma, Assam, Hyderabad, and
others. The writer follows this with
upon the methods pursued by the
snake exterinators.
Flower Beds.
In making flower bed, consider we'll
where you put it and what you put in
flowers sake, the bed may be in the
rear of your yard or to one side, and
laid out like a vegetable garden But
if the bed is to be part of the landscape
picture, the flowers should be freely dis
tributed among the border shrubs as
edgings. 1t is seldom advisable to put
formal beds on the lawn. The place for
carpet bedding is the parks or public
squares which are devoted to that par
ticular purpose.
Flowers grown in the middle of the
lawn have little relation to other plant
ing and no background to show them
posed to the sun and wind and the grass
roots absorb food and moisture, max
ing it hard for the flowers to flourish.
Every effort must be made to keep the
formal bed prim, otherwise it becomes
adiSpleasings while If the flowers are
planted more or less prOmiscuously in
large, irregular borders or along the
edge of the shrubbery, the failure of
one of a dozen plants is not a serious
matter.
In making "a flower bed see that the
ground is well drained that the subsoil
is deep, that the land is in a mellow and
friable condition and is rich. Each fall
it should have a mulch of rotted manure
or leaf mold which must be spaded I'M
der deeply in the spring. Make the bed
as broad as possible SO the grass roots
from each side will not meet beneath
the flowers and rob them of moisture.
She Spanked the Burglar.
Young gentlemen of the dark lantern
and the Jimmy if they wish to avoid
spanking had better give a wide
muse ular housekeeper of the boarding
house at a01 West Thirteenth street.
who caught an intruder in her house |
yesterday morning. Mrs. Fitzgibbons
heard the front door open and some |
one creep upstairs. She followed, and |
saw a strange young man with a bunch |
of skeleton keys trying the lock of an
upstairs room.
what are you doing there?' asked |
the housekeeper.
The stranger swore, and doubling up |
his fists advanced to attack her. Mrs.
weighs close to 1875 pounds. |
The warlike preparations of the young
man did not dismay her. She rushed
past his guard and Selling him by the |
collar shook him as she would a sheet
on washday. He punched and kicked
until he was breathless.
Mrs Fitzgibbons then determined to
teach her burglar a lesson. NOW, SON.
n.y." she said when she had shaken the
fight right out of him, 'Tll teach you
not to break into my house."
Taking off her slipper, she placed the
Inundated burglar across her knee and
spanked him soundly. Then she put on
her slipper took her burglar by the
ear and led him out on the street,
where Policeman Wilkerson took care
Of him-New York Sun.
One Point of View.
Bart Kennedy, the English novelist
and sociologist, in the course of a bitter
attack on the senate, said in Washing
ton:
THE senate is true to the American
people Oh yes, very true to them.
Very true, indeed. Whenever I think
about how true the senate is to the
people, the case of Mary Miles comes
into my mind. Mary's husband was
a soldier soldier out in India fight
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