The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-06-30
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Who doesn't meet me at the train
| Ehciting remarks profane,
As home foot it in the rain,
| My motor.
Who's always getting out Of whack
ian cnaAes me work with wrench and
Until my hands and face are black,
Ny motor.
Who tried to climb wayside tree
And tumble backward onto me,
VINO broke my arm and sprained my
| My motor
Who pitched me from my seat pell-mell,
An4 mounted on me when fen.
So was weeks in getting well,
My motor.
Who costs me more for wear and tear
Than my collapsing purse will bear,
=" no taught me now to drink and swear,
My motor
Who is it drags me into debt,
And makes makes me, me fear the sheriffs threat,
My motor.
See SlnOthered Dog Revived.
An audience, composed of about
thirty men and three or four women,
| most OF the men being physicians, at
tended demonstration of Prof.
George Poe's machine for producing
artincial respiration in the library Of
the Kings County Medical society,
last night, under the auspices of the
First Legion Of the Red Cross society.
They all applauded enthusiastically
when the demonstration, Dr. William
Harrison, of Guadalajara. Mexico.
smothered small yellow dog gather
ed in from the street, and afterward
revived it by means of the respiration
machine.
The audience watched with eager
attention the convulsive twitchings of
the dogs muscles as it was slowly de-
prived of air. and leaned forward
eagerly when one of DIR. Harrison's
assistants lifted the limp body in the
air to show the watchers that no sign
of life remained. Finally, when the
machine did its work and the victim
of the demonstration was brought
back to life. the audience voted
unanimously, If its opinion could be
judged by the applause. that the
demonstration had been complete
success, although the little dog stag
gered as it tried to walk, and gave
every indication Of suffering.
The machine is the invention of
Prof. Poe, said to fbe a cousin of the
late Edgar Allan Poe. For many
years he has been government
chemist His machine is the result of
thirty years work. He conceived the
idea. it is said. when he saw a near
| iCldl1fo SQQQcIlly IcNlNe Wllnln TWO
hours of the time set for his burial.
The machine is a combination of
suction and pump, which alternately
exhausts the foul air in the lungs of
person nearly dead and pumps in
fresh air or oxygen. Its demonstra
ton last night was the result Of much
negotiation. for Prof. Poe has been
overwhelmed with requests to exhibit
its working.
DR.. Harrison, who had the demon
tration in charge, explained the plan
of the machine and its method Of
operation, and told how 1t was hoped
that much might be done toward cur
ing consumption by the use of the in
vention. Its principal value, however,
he said, would be in cases of drown
ing or asphyxiation.-New York
Times.
Catch Trout in Pear Orchards.
Game Warden Thomas Mullen, of
Yakima county, has called the sports
men Of this district together to devise
some way of protecting the game fish
which are now being slaughtered in
thousands by being dumped on the
orchards and alfalfa fields from the
irrigation bitches.
There is now no projection at the
intakes of the various bitches. The
trout and salmon enter the bitches
and then turn off into the laterals.
finally ending their life in the grass
where the water has played out and
left them. Attorney Ed Parker few
days ago caught a six-pound rainbow
trout in his pear orchard. Clinton
Shannon found several trout in his
orchard and numerous others have
reported similar finds.
Small boys catch long strings of
small trout by scooping them from the
pools with their hands. Game Warden
Mullen says that in some sections of
the valley the ranchers who want fish
angle for them in the irrigation
bitches in preference to the streams,
the bitches being more accessible and
the water slower and therefore bet
ter-North Yakima dispatch to Seat
tie acknowledgement.
Hard Times i'm Japan.
1.-THE business depression that has
been felt for some time in the United
States has done widespread damage to
the trade of the Orient" said Mr.. S.
w. Hazard, an English gentleman
whose headquarters are at Tokyo.
with the financial pinch in Amer
lea came diminished orders for one of
Japan's chief sources of revenue
raw silk, and when / left that country,
some two months ago, there were 49,
900 bales Of raw silk remaining from
last years crop. The crop of the pres
ent year is about ready for gathering.
and with SO much material on the
market at one time it is plain to see
that prices must decline. The guam
tity remaining from last year at the
present low rate of $500 a bale is
worth s2O,O0O,000, and to have that
much cash tied up for lack of de-
mand is a very serious thing for a
country that is already in bad finan-
cial straits '-Baltimor American.
Drops Three Stories Asleep.
Mollie Reggenberger, sleepwalker,
walked from the fourth story window
of a tenement at Forty-second street
and Third avenue early this morning.
fell to the first floor coping, landed
on the cornice and-slept on.