The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-07-08

AND II IL gets familiar,
Why. slap it on the wrist.
If when You are not looking
To take a bite it tries,
Request the fly to kindly
Take some one of its slit.
Nashville American.
Contrast in Holidays.
Our threshing machines-prize
fighters, battleships. and harvesters
are the wonder of the world, at
once marvellous and awe-inspiring-
and SO assuredly is our national holi-
day. the Fourth. Nothing like it can
be found in any other country in the
world; it is ours, uniquely and solely
ours, and no international copyright
is necessary to protect our sole pro-
prietorship.
The Japanese are credited with an
initiative ability which enables them
to reproduce by the hundred any for
eign invention they covet, from loco
motive to camp kit, and to reproduce
with an exactness that preserves the
very factory number of the original.
But even the Japanese never have
initiated our national holiday; they.
supplemented people, go to war when
they wish to slay and MAIN
Within the week the first victims
of our Fourth have been listed and
within the week also European nations
have observed national holidays in
way that were we not always in such
hurry, would cause us to stop and
ponder the contrast afforded by the
spectacle of Norway and Austria Hun
gary celebrating their great days. In
Norway few days ago was comment
GRATED the anniversary of the coun-
try's emancipation from the Swedish
apron strings. The event was made a
"children's day" and was observed
with a sanity, tranquility and a
freedom from mortuary lists such as
no Fourth of July has ever known.
In Vienna on Friday another great
holiday was observed, the sixtieth an
nfversary of the emperor's accession
to the throne. The celebration took
the form of a great historical pageant
in which $4,000 persons participated
and which is declared to have been
| the most magnificent parade of mod
ern times. And no one was killed, no
one was manned, no property was de-
stroyed. We can hardly imagine such
a day.-Chicago Post.
And Still They Come.
James Allen Monroe, well known
among live stock commission men at
the stock yards as shipper of cattle
to eastern markets, and better known
on the South Side as the father of
! twenty-seven children, was the re-
cipient yesterday of enthusiastic con-
gratulations when his many friends
learned OF anOther adQltlOn TO MS al
ready ample family.
A lively baby girl named Virginia,
is the latest acquisition, and, al
though she was born three weeks ago,
Mr.. Monroe's business associates did
not learn the news until yesterday.
Previous congratulations showered on
the family had been so strenuous that
Mr.. Monroe decided to keep the news
of this last addition quiet-Chicago
Tribune.
Withstanding Heat.
The mental action of man is bet
ter able to control his temperature
in summer than in winter. Cold is
death, heat is life. The man who does
not fret in summer can always keep
cool. The mind controls the body
| more easily in July than in January
unless the brain gets overheated and
incapable of reasoning power. Every
| hasty, foolish, childish act causes a
rush of hot blood to the head, and
| sunstroke is likely to occur at any
| time. The wise farmer working in
| the field wears a moistened cabbage
| leaf in his hat, and the latter is well
punctured for ventilation. The horse
wet sponge in it.-New York Press.
The Latest Nature Fake
Attacked by huge catamount 10
miles south of Poplar Bluff, E.
Emory, a timberman, fired every bull
| let he had in a squirreI rifle without
| bringing the animal down. The cata-
| mount closed in on him and would
/ probably have killed MIN had not
Emory thought of his watch chain.
composed of bullets he had saved
| while a private in the First Tennessee
| regiment at Manila. Jerking off the
( chain, Emory loaded his rifle using
powder from his horn flask, and sue
ceeded in killing the animal just as
| it was lunging toward him. This is
| the story as sent out from Poplar
Bluff.-Kansas City Journal.
Whale Impaled on Pile Driver.
An immense Blacklist or finback
| whale thirty feet long located itself
under a pile driver at fish trap loca-
ton near the entrance to Deception
Pass a few days ago. The pile was
pushed clear through the huge body
| of the fish and was pounded into the
tide lands underneath by the heavy
| driving hammer.