The Topeka state journal., 1908-07-14

And the sDringbok and the boar
ana perhaps thousand more
Wish some Noah would collect them and
go sailing In an ark.
IN his dreams at night each brute
Hears the tireless hunter shoot.
leap from tree to tree.
And the bold orang-outang
Fanc1es that 1t hears the bang
OF the gun that deals destruction Just as
swiftly as can be.
On sand bar in the Nile
Weep Weeps lonely crocodile,
win I'M no - more OF JOY turning on its huge
For it sees the fateful day
When within the U. g. A.
1t will furnish a memento of the hunting.
! with its skin.
Chicago Post
Treasure Old Clothes.
1T is remarkable how fondly a man
treasures his old clothes" remarked
woman at the Congressional club in
washington the other day. Instantly
tne business in hand went under and
hard 1T is to get rid of the old raj
ment OF her spouse
| one woman told a story about an old
| overcoat which the late Senator Hoar
cnerlsned and which he wore until his
Women-kfnd were heartily ashamed of
IT, One day his wife presented the
| coat to an old man who did some SER
vice around the house, and when her
husband asked for it she was afraid
to tell him the truth She knew it
| would be little short Of death If she
told the truth, so she just permitted the
| senator to think that the coat had
been stolen. Then she bribed the man
10 Whom 1t was given to bring it back
| other.
Mrs. Serene Payne told about a man
who came to her door one day, a Door
looking man who said that he had lost
q +
He asked for an old hat belonging to
her husband, and said he would cut
wood or do any odd job around for the
gift. Mrs. Payne laid the modest re-
quest before the mighty man Of con-
gress, but he seemed deeply displeased.
The idea OF giving away my hats" he
| made answer; why, 1 need my hats
Just give him some money and let him
get hat"
| When the man was gone Mrs. Payne
made inventory of the old hats which
incumbered his clothes rooms and she
found enough to stretch clear across a
large room, some Of them unusued for
! five years or more. Then spoke up Mrs.
Champ Clark and told about a pair of
| trousers which she had given away
| belonging to her husband, and though
| they were out of date, moth eaten, and
weather stained, there was nothing in
his wardrobe which the witty man from
Missouri priced so dearly.-New York
Press.
| Secret Of Long Life.
| John Brettschneider, a retired sea
| captain, announced last night that he
possessed formula by which one
may live a hundred years. Acting
upon the advice of a clergyman the
mariner, who is himself eighty-four
years old and who looks twenty years
younger, has begun negotiations with
| scientific institutions which may wish
l a Of
| At his home, 205 East Seventy-sev-
| enth street, last night Mr.. Brett
schneider said his father lived to be
eighty-nine years old, his grandfather
1O2, and other members of his family
had attained a long life through
sensible method of living and the use
of medicine made from herbs.
| when I sailed the Wilhemina-
Henrietta from Dantzig forty years
ago." said Mr.. Brettschneider, "I kept
myself in fine condition by using this
secret formula given to me by my
| father who in turn received it from
| his father When I was in the cotton
carrying trade from New Orleans to
London later I continued to use it.
Since coming to New York have used
it, too. T feel like a young man, and
I think SO highly of the formula that
I want to dispose of 1t to some insti-
tuition where it can be used with good
effect. I will not peddle it in small
| doses"
Mr.. Brettschneider said that fresh
| air and exercise were part of the re-
gime under which one must live to at
tain the century mark.
| 'T don't like to talk about my for
mula." he said. because there are so
many humbugs that I am afraid per-
sons who do not know me might class
mo as one. I don't need money, how
ever, and 1 won't dispose of my for
mula unless some institution assures
me that it will be used properly
New York Herald.
Snake Fights the Latest Sport.
| What is worrying the Humane So
| ciety is il 1t should consider the rattle
snake within the province Of ministra-
tive justice. The society has been ask
| ed to stop snake fights.
Laborers on the big railroad con-
tracts north Of here. foiled in their
cock fighting Sundays, have taken to
| snake fighting. The mountains are
| overrun with rattlers. The laborers
a pit, into which the rattlers are flung
to their deadiiest enemy, the king
snake. bought in the New York ami
NAL stores.
! Some of the battles between these
reptiles are desperate and prolonged.
The betting on the combats is heavy.
| The king snake first flirts with the
| rattler, then worries it into despera-
tion. Then the king snake pounces on
its adversary and the battle is on. The
| king snakes are nearly always the VIC
tors.-waterbury dispatch to New
1 York World.
Lives on $75 q Year.
In order that he may give his en-
tire property to the poor. Victor
Schmidt, a well-known Omaha musi-
clan, was today discovered living in a
cellar, for which he paid $15O a
i month. In his pocket were certificates
of deposit for nearly $4,000. Schmidt
| asserts that he lives on $75 a year and