The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-06-10
WITH TAFT AT YALE.

A friend Ct mine? Wei. should say.
From start to finish, and we TONIGHT
against all corners as we ought
On On, In 1or. While. fore and aft
iou see went to Yale with Taft.
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a trlend or mine? Take this from m.
Tbpo,eh one one there couldn't be,
In every SOFT SOFT 20 long years Of student life
We We We're as brothers of the craft-
1ou see went to Yale with Tar
IT.
friend of mine? Bv eur, ..
al other Friendships on the ! h ,Hlnk
Yo, he. PI IL, comes up for judgment and
Before psi = s m going to lend hand "'1
lou see went to Yale with Tar
When Bilf Or ann mine? Oh. happy days
DIV DIV oiten We have SAT sarera "~sS'
1Gemeatn the old elms en- the Craan.
Yo 0~ s o.ten we have chinned and chared-
went TO Yale with Taft.
Tbat.a OF mine? UNI, let me see:
Oh ves just a bit far back for me;
n, SSS' on, yes, / now recall
Az dl ne was dearer than them all,
You sec d oeaker we have quaffed-
see went to Yale with Taft
"a D. hampton in New York World,
Fatality OF a Bullet.
PEOPLE may jeer at fatalism and
POKE fun at all ideas which are en-
bodied in predestination," said sena-
tol Culberson. of Texas. at small
gatner1ng OF friends the other day in
washington, but sometimes man
ruos elbows with events which make
MIN less skeptical about such things.
A fine young boy near Dallas was
lodged SO near his heart that there
was not one chance in a thousand that
he could survive an operation. But
ne did survive, and the operation was
one of the things of which the sur
geons In the local hospital were very
proud. But the boys recovery was
tedious, and as soon as the fever left
him he was allowed to see his friends
and to play cards and generally to
amuse himself.
The bullet had been given to the
boy and occupied conspicuous place
On the table. Every caller saw and
handled the bullet, and talked over
his almost miraculous escape from
death. One day the boys mother was
with him and several relatives when
boy who had formerly gone to
schooi with the patient paid him a
visit, and, OF course, he wanted to
near all about the operation and to
The boy told it all with great vim.
ana then, taking UP the bullet, he
said: Here's the bullet that caused all
the trouble and now I shall bite It to
pieces to pay it back and he laugh
ingly put 1t in his mouth. Just then
ne was seized with a coughing fit, the
bullet slipped down his throat. lodged
In his windpipe, and in a few min
utes he had strangled to death.
THE poor mother was nearly crazed
with grief. but she afterward told the
pastor OF her church that she felt her
son was destined to die of that bullet.
and that she had little condolences of
his recovery, even when the oneration
was pronounced successful. She had
dabbled somewhat in the occult
sciences and she declared that the boy
had been predestined from all time
to die from that particular bullet, and
That nothing could save him from that
rate. New York Press. Is
Jubilee Causes False Hair Famine
Vienna hairdressers have received SO
many orders for wigs for the coming
festival in honor of the emperor's jubi-
lee that they are at a loss to obtain
the necessary hair. The hairdresser of
the Volks theater must secure 1900
heads of hair before next month, but
although he has offered fabulous prices
the number of women who have con-
sented to part with their locks Is COM
paratively small.-London Express.
Two Railroad Rides in 72 Years.
Mrs. Sylvia Merriman, Y, enjoyed her
second ride in a railroad coach yester-
day, the first in AZ years, visiting
niece in Ansonia. She had her first
street car ride today when she went
ChaGhfrn - I,ok r,;J1
birth. Mrs Amanda Bishop and Mrs.
Thompson. her relatives, ac-
companied her. Mrs. Bishop and Mrs.
have been neighbors for 30
years and acquainted, but neither had
ever visited the other. Samuel Bishop,
Amanda's husband, had never met Mrs.
Thompson until April 20, though the
two were own cousins.-Waterbury
Dispatch to New York World