The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-06-05

Has Joined the bloomer girl, and she
In dull oblivion has to stay;
NJ, The ma,in-law lest had its day,
The rock-the-boat quip's lost its sway.
The joke is dead: the facts the same.
No more in print may any see
Church social-oyster jestings gay.
Nor read how many men there be
VINO churchly dues with buttons pay;
The didn't-know-'twas-l Jay
In print no longer takes his aim;
Smart children seldom have their say
The joke is dead; the facts the same.
L'ENvoI:
Prince, though you modify inveigh
Against the TESTERS ancient game,
To this you cannot answer nay:
The joke Is dead. the facts the same.
Wife Restores Lost Mind.
Suffering from a peculiar. malady
which he is unable to explain, DR..
Frank p. King, sixty years old. a
well known retired physician of Los
Angeles. stepped from the doorway
February % into new world OF
people he did not know. His past
swept from him, he forgot his home.
his wife, and his friends. He was
found by his wife last week. He was
sitting in Central park, not 100 yards
from his apartments.
Unkempt, haggard. and sick, he
gazed at the woman who ran up to
him and seized his hands. She
gripped him hard, and shook him.
He struggled to his feet, and with a
tired shake of his head he accom-
panied his wife to their apartments in
the Glengarry hotel.
King Is regaining his reason, and,
according to physicians in attendance,
he soon will be entirely recovered.
According to Kings statement, he
spent a good part of the time dur
ing his absence from home in a hos
pita1 in San Bernardino. He did not
remember even his name. He could
tell the physicians nothing about him.
self.
Only the face of his wife and her
earnest entreaties brough him back
from the condition into which he had
lapsed.
When DIR. King left his apartments
in February he had less than fifty
cents in his pockets. Reports were
received from San Diego that he had
visited in that city. Then came the
side. How he managed to travel
about the country without money he
cannot explain.
King was recognized in Central
park yesterday morning by a friend.
who was not positive of the Identified
IIOIl, however, D0CduS0 OI his CIldOSSu
appearance. This friend sent for
Mrs. King, and she saw at once that
the man was her husband. He gazed
at her vacantly and shook his head
But as he looked the light of recogni-
ton came into his face, and he arose
and followed his wife out of the park
and back home.-Los Angeles dis
patch to New York Herald.
Fate and q Name.
1t is interesting and somewhat cur
ious to note the persistence with which
misfortune has logged the name OF
John when bore by royal persons,
although no i'll omen seems to attach
to 1t in the case Of ordinary citizens.
For instance, King John of England
has always been regarded, whether al
together justly or not, as most fam
Gus prince. John Of France was taken
captive by the Black Prince, and John
Ballilol of Scotland was most thor
oughly despised by his countrymen on
the English. Robert III of Scotland
changed his name from John, but this
did not save him from his destiny. He
himself was a cripple and died of a
broken heart, the most tragic fates
having overtaken all most dear to him.
John I of Bohemia was blind. The
Pope John I was imprisoned by the
king of the Goths, and Pope John x
was driven from Rome by the Duke of
Tuscany. Pope John XII was imprison-
ed by his brother and is supposed to
have been poisoned, fate similar to
that Of Pope John XIV. Pope John XIV
was forced to flee from Rome and died
Of fever in Tuscany. John XVI. dub
bed the ''antipope," after a troubled
career, was brutally tortured and con-
signed to a dungeon for the brief re-
mainder of his life.
John I Of Constantinople was poison
ed. John II was killed while hunting
wild boar, and John III was dethroned.
his eyes put out, and he was left to die
in prison. John of CASTLE was killed
by a fall from his horse.
This is not by any means complete
list Of the unlucky johns, but 1t serves
to show the fatality which seems to
cling about the name in so far as roy
atty is concerned.-Chicago Record
Herald.
A Telepathic Dog.
A New York dog fancier, who has a
particularly vivid imagination when 1t
comes to spinning yarns touching on
the subject Of dogology, tells this one:
at don't know whether there is such
thing as telepathy between dog and
man, but I'm inclined to believe there
is. Let me give you an instance. Re
Gently I had a dog who used to bring
matches to me whenever ne saw me
take out a cigar in my own house. 1
would just hold the cigar up where he
could see it, and he would march into
the dining room. pick up the match
box that stood on a small table, and
bring it to me, though I hadn't said a
word to him. One day it happened
that 1 had a matchbox, but no cigar.
I showed the matchbox to the dog, and
he went straight into my bed room
and got a cigar from box I kept
among q half dozen others under the
bed. and brought it to me without SO
much as making 1t damp. Folks said
at the time that it showed that the dog
could reason. 1t showed good deal
more, for it showed that he could un-