The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-06-17
"LIFE IN THE RAW.

"LIFE IN THE RAW
Oh. am kin to the desert folk
And the storm torn oceans child
nave dwelt unclad in the jungle's depth
And learned the speech of the wild.
From the time when the cave mans az
| Crashed into his brothers brain,
ana MS uncouth brood made holiday food
| or the relative he had slain.
Through the ages of stone and iron and
Till now. think you'll agree,
me strenuous livers were, one and all.
have followed the Sun and Moon and
Afar from the paths of men;
have taken my rest in the condor's nest,
And lodged in the grizzly's den.
l have eaten the roaring lion-ah. yes.
When savage hunger gripes
IL an easy part, for a man of my heart,
| To feed on his prototypes
have wrenched asunder the python's
| I have broken the tigers jaw:
1 nave thrashed the crew Of vessel or
And made my whin their law.
have dashed and strangled a buckle
And tossed his corpse to the sea,
Onaided I've worked full rugged ship
from the ruin that roared alec.
L nave swept the braves of Zulu town
l ha his n eoppered their king and trumped
And reigned on jungle throne.
have twisted the pine from Its rock
To batter my foeman's brains.
Then forward again, and left the plain
| All Uttered with their remains.
have battled with sharks in the tropic
And scattered their schools in flight,
have trod the ice pack with bleeding
Through months of northern night.
have heard the forests creak, as I lay
Pillowed in drifting snow.
And laughed as 1 turned in my soft re-
With the mercury eighty below.
have followed the call OF the primal
lust.
Along the she VOLTS track.
| thing
TIL her gaunt gray mate came back.
I have sunk my dirk in the jaguar's heart
My teeth in his painting throat,
And afterward bound my yawning wound
With a yard of his CORY coat.
And now. in the Iull OF events. rest.
Where the hungry presses roar,
Depicting these scenes for the magazines
And the cry is more. more, more
1--WE can't get enough OF your 'corkine
Whether in verse or prose,
They're tired of love and humor. you
It's Life in the Raw that goes"
New York Sun.
Women in Scottish Universities.
The ladies have done we'll at Glasgow
1 AT
! women and fifty-nine men being admit
ted to the degree Of NJ. A. Twenty
. years ago women in the class room
were a rara avis, and we have some re.
Edinburgh late in the sos. There were
; eight young ladies in Prof. Tait's class
of natural philosophy. He was explain.
ing the octahedron, parenthetically re.
marking that it had eight plain faces
One Of the sporting contingent in the
back row interjected the remark
Front BENCH" the ungallant reference
being to the eight stalwart young ladies
the pioneers of the woman graduates
Who occupied seats in the front row
rl-London Globe.
In His Head.
He was a great inventor.
, THE thing I am working at now,
he began, stroking his thin beard witt
a thinner hand will be a boon to ev
! cry family and will startle the Who'll
: world. In fact, it will put the Alarm
; Clock Trust out of business. The ide
Is simply specially prepared tablet
, that help you get up in the morning
. For instance, If you want to rise at
you take five tablets: If you want t
get up at 6 take six tablets, and S
on"
But how will it affect the Alarr
Clock Trust?''
8 why, these tablets will cause
ringing in the ears at exactly the hou
But the little crowd could wait t
: hear no more and hurriedly disband
i ed.-Harpers Weekly.
Cat Kills Snake to Avenge Kittens.
E To avenge the theft Of her litter o
six kittens, a cat of this place Tough
| a vicious duel to the death this after
noon with an old and SCARED blac
snake four feet in length.
: The battle occurred In klondyk
e Park in the heart Of the city, and wa
e watched by at least two hundred per
8 sons for fifteen minutes, when the ca
finally succeeded in severing the spina
: column Of her adversary. She had no
+ escaped unscathed but was bitten an
0 torn about the face and was so wea
q she could not walk.
r The cat Is owned by John Montgom
8 ery who conducts lunch wagon at tn
: edge Of the park, which is a series G
t rocky terraces at the edge of Norwal
d river. 1t is presumed that the snak
r came down the river, and tasting tn
e salt water retreated to the park.-Sout
: Norwalk (Conn.) dispatch to New Yor
. | World.
= QUAKER NEGOTIATIONS.
- from the Philadelphia Record.l
o IT makes small man feel big I
stand on his dignity.
= The thief who succeeds in Robin
. a bakery takes the cake.
n Perhaps the ocean gets angry bt
II cause 1t is so often crossed.