The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-07-20
OUR SUMMERS.

camp Is plenty good enough for me-Sure!
That's the place for giving care the
Brother Bin is or to California.
| Brother Tom is sailing for Hongkong.
| Pop-he's just a-going TO stay here ana
keep a-hoeing,
| Digging out the cash to help along.
(Kate'I spend the summer in a hammock.
Jane'n spend the summer in the hills;
| Pop'Il spend the summer just a-workin
Toilin' late at night to pay the bills.)
Governess is going to the mountains.
Taking little Sue to have a time
| How they'll like the pretty splashy foun-
CIIad to put that in to make it rhyme)-
Mothers going to take a trip to Europe.
| Sea airs what she needs to make her
strong
Pop-he's just a-going to stay here and
| keep on hoeing,
| Mailing out the checks to help along.
(Kate'n spend the summer in a hammock.
Mother'll spend the summer with her
| Pop'il spend the season in the Office
there's a reason:
Some ones got to work to pay the
bills.)
Richmond Times-Ddspatch.
Sea Serpent Bell Ringer.
Quite the perkiest sea serpent ever
| reported is now trailing up and down
| the coast, coyly wearing a bell buoy 1t
stole off Hatteras.
| This latest sea serpent has been re-
ported by the passengers of the City Of
Macon, of the Savannah Line. The
| City Of Macon got in yesterday, and
| the passengers were so full of the
story of the serpent that they found 1t
necessary to carry bottles with them,
| filled with a strongly smelling. amber
| colored substances, to which they had
| frequent recourse while telling of the
| big snake.
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the Savannah Line. stands for the
story stanchly and sturdily.
He asserts that the sea serpent was
| seen not only by passengers of the City
| of Macon, but by those Of the Ma
cooche as well.
| The City of Macon picked the sea
serpent up just 100 miles south Of
Barnegat Light, apparently headed
for Atlantic City.
| The snake was sixty feet long. big
around as a barrel, with long, pro-
jecting tusks, and a fearful beard.
| The head was raised at least twenty
feet out of the water, and around its
neck was lashed a bell buoy. which
the sea serpent rang coquettishly to
| attract the attention Of those on the
ship.
a sea serpent wearing a bell buoy"
said the captain Of the City of Macon
yesterday.
| II am sorry to learn that the sea
serpents have taken up the bell buoy
| as a personal ornament, as 1t will only
add to the troubles Of the lighthouse
board in keeping them properly plant
ed hereafter. Sea serpents are just
like women, you know. Let one Of
them get bell buoy and they will all
have to have bell buoys. As a fash
| ion 1t will have the merrywidlid
ashore skinned sixteen nautical miles"
| Nearly every passenger on board
! the City of Macon had a detail to add
| to the general description of the sea
snake. Some said it had legs like an
! alligator, while others gave it long fins
like a shark. There isn't the slightest
| doubt they all saw the sea serpent.
| however. The captain and the pas
| senger agent vouch for it--New York
Telegraph.
Operation Restores Reason.
An imbecile from childhood. a par
| alytic, and a victim of commissions.
Sarah Toub, twenty-nine years old, of
1105 South Reese street, is now on the
road to complete recovery as the re-
| suit Of an operation on ner brain at
Mount Sinai hospital. The woman
had been practically helpless for TWEEN
| ty-f1ve years. and was subject to con-
| vulsions as frequently as ten times a
day. Her entire right side was par
alyzed and her, mind was that of a
| child of four years. which was her
age when she sustained an injury to
her head that proved the beginning of
| her mtsfortunes. At the age of four
she struck her head violently on a
| chair. Her family had her examined.
| but her condition came to be regard
| ed as hopeless.
All her life she had been waited
| upon and had never progressed men
| tally. Recently she was taken to the
| dispensary OF Mount Sinai hospital for
| other treatment, and DR.. Max Staller,
| the chief surgeon, seeing her condi-
ton, asked for the privilege of ex-
| aiming her head. An X-ray showed
| a pressure on the brain, and an opera
| ton was performed two days ago by
DR.. Staller, who removed a piece Of
skull two inches by three and one
| half inches from the right side of the
brain, where it had become surround
| ed by water sac, which pressed on
| the brain.
After this pressure was released, the
| paralysis and commissions stopped and
the patient showed signs of returning
| reason, which had been lacking for
over a quarter of a century.
The doctors regard 1t as a most re-
| markable casee, but are confident of
complete cure. They say the woman
will have been treated as a child Of
four years in developing her mental
powers.-Philadelp Inquirer.
Freaks Hit Maryland Farms.
Something is wrong with the beasts
and birds of this section for four
freaks have turned up within a week.
A hen belonging to William Henry
of the New Bridge, deserted nest of
eggs and adopted three kittens. She
cuddles them beneath her wings as il
they were chicks.
A calf without tall was born on
the farm Of George Tenley; a hairless
calf appeared on Ned Cooper's place,
and a calf with six legs was born on
Stanley Hollands farm.-Rising Sun,
Md, dispatch to Philadelphia In
quirer.
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