The Topeka state journal., 1908-05-26

In everything not sterile
| He has his water boiled.
As soon assit's selected
ana consequently spoiled.
Potatoes. beets and squashes
With antiseptic washes
He never fails to treat.
Henha He has a q most surprising
Ihinss that he means to eat.
It's all SO unavailinx.
His appetite is falling
HIS health Is sure to break.
And yet he has the gall to
suppose he has a call to
Warn me against my state.
Chicago News.
Flowers Garry q Message.
| A Bulgarian laborer was taken OF
q train at the Union depot last week.
HIS left hand was roughly bandaged
with rags and seemed to have al
most driven him insane with pain.
He was sent to the, general hospital.
where he now is-still unidentified
HIS hand had evidently been in con-
| tact with a buzz saw. The wound
had been neglected. The physicians
amputated two fingers. He is still in
dangerous condition.
The only words of English that the
man Is able to speak are Arkansas .
saw MILL" and me much sick" It
is thought that he was injured in a
lumber camp in Arkansas put on the
train by his fellow-workmen and
sent here. The nurse at the hospital
who has cared for the man has been
led to believe from his rambling talk
and actions that he has two daughters
somewhere in this country.
F. H. Ream, spiritual director of
the Helping Hand institute, took an
interest in the homeless man in the
land OF strange faces and strange
tongue. He happened to tell the story
to Miss J. e. Murray, florist. yes
terday afternoon.
II wonder If flowers would speak to
him?" asked Miss Murray.
She made large bouquet Of roses
and small bunch of violets to go
with them. These Mr.. Ream took
to the hospital and gave to the for
done nothing but nurse his injured
hand and moan with the pain Of it.
The man held out his. sound hand
for the flowers.
me e?-Me - was all that he
could say as he took the bouquet.
He started to give back the
fiowers-couldn't believe his eyes,
said Mr.. Ream. Finally convinced
that they were for him he buried his
face in them and cried just like a
child-at the same time murmuring
some soft words in his own patois.
There was a common laborer from
foreign land. You might think
that flower and a weed would be
the same thing to him. but you can't
tell me that bouquet didn't tell him
things-things about kindness and
syrnpathy-which nothing else has
told him since he met with his acci-
dent in the Arkansas sawmill No,
the language Of flowers is not a mat
ter OF sentiment. It Is a universal
tongue. e."-Kansas City Star.
Saved by Premonition OF Danger,
Feeling a premonition that danger
was threatening his parents, Jacob
Fellman left Providence Square. Mont
gomery county. where he had been
walked six miles to Norristown, board
ed a train and reached his parents
home. at 1888 Germantown avenue,
early yesterday morning just in time
to save them from being burned to
death. As he entered the house he
heard an explosion, and, running up
stairs, found his mothers room ablaze.
A lamp had exploded. and the burning
oil spread the flames rapidly. Fellman
carried hs two sisters, Yetta and Molly,
5-months-old baby. Then Fellman
turned in an alarm.-Philadelph
Ledger.
Says Adam Dressed in Light.
Ideas voiced by the Rev. Frederick
w. Farr, pastor of the Bethlehem Bap-
tist church, stirred the Interdenomi-
national Bible conference today in its
session at Temple Lutheran church
"The very existence of the tailor proves
the depravity Of man. said Mr.. Farr
Man Is the only creature that wears
clothing" continued Mr.. Farr, ''and he
robs other animals to provide raiment
fov- hi h4
that Adam and Eve were both naked
when discovered in the Garden o1
Eden, and that they were not ashamed
is sometimes regarded as strange; yet
we must remember that the first man
was made in the image of God and
a luminous garb, possibly an incandes-
cent raiment Just as soon as he
sinned he became a naked, Opaque
repulsive being g"-Philadelphia Dis
patch to New York Herald.
Reflection Saved His Life.
A reflection of impending danger in
a hotel window across the street saved
the life of Edward Cunningham, a
wealthy horse dealer. today.
Cunningham was walking leisurely
along when he caught the reflection
of something bright descending upon
him. Like flash he leaped into a
hallway. Just as he did so a great
sheet Of glass, which had fallen from
the fourth floor of the Boylan build
ing, hurled past his head, grazed his
left shoulder, sliced the tips off two
fingers of his left hand as clean as
though done with a knife, and
crashed to the concrete walk in small
particles.
The pane weighed about so pounds.
Cincinnati Inquirer.
QUAKER REFLECTIONS.
rFrom the Philadelphia Record
Sometimes an automobile won't
work for a scent