The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-29

And yet labor, day by day,
fS Nv g naa to work pRss and earn my pay
The freedom Of the + WI" Universe sniio'
The chance to help-it might be worse
Chicago News.
How to Live Long.
A Paris contemporary has been in
structing it's readers how to live to
good age, drawing it's conclusions
from the lives and writings of dis
tinguished men. II
Michael Eugene Chevreu1, the cele-
brated French chemist, who lived 1O3
years, was always very frugal in re-
gard to his diet and considered a
happy disposition to be an important
factor contributing to his long life.
Victor Hugo had a tablet on the
wall of his house with the following:
Rising at 6, dining at 10, suppfng at
6, retiring at 10 make the life of
man ten times ten The secret of
Moltke's health lay in his great mod
Grafton in all things.
Sir Benjamin Ward Richardson
declared that those who wished to
reach a century must neither smoke
nor drink. They should eat sparingly
of meat, work as little as possible by
artificial light, trouble themselves
little about making fortune. and
never allow ambition to rule their
lives.-London Globe
Rattlers Terrorize Ship.
A message from the southern Pa
cific steamship Ell Alba, which de-
parted from here Friday evening
bound for New York, says that four
of dozen big rattlesnakes are prac-
tically in charge of the vessel and
that the crew has taken to the rigging
and refuses to come down. Capt.
Quick and two other officers, when
about rs miles from Galveston Island,
vainly tried to corner a reptile which
had appeared on deck and drove the
crew to quarters and other places of
protection.
The officers of the ship are anxious
not to kill the snakes except as a
last resort, but the sailors have
mutinied against coaxing poisonous
rattlers back into their cages. They
want the snakes killed before they
will return to their duties.
The snakes were captured in the
lower Rio Grande valley, and twelve
of the largest specimens were sold to
a. New York dealer. Six broke out of
their cages. Two were recaptured,
hut four big ones are now terrorizing
the ship.-Galveston dispatch to the
New York Herald.
Aeroplane's Real Use in War.
General Bingham is convinced that
the Wright aeroplane will be a great
cites the case of a prominent member
of that organization who in 1861
found that both strategy and tactics
required his rapid departure from Bull
Run, Va. what are you running
for?" inquired a fellow warrior whom
he overlook. Because I can't fly"
was the answer. General Bingham
thinks the aeropalne will fill long
felt want.-Waterbury, Conn.,, Ameri-
can.
Camel Scares Horse to Death.
Mistaking a mild-eyed, ambling
dromedary in a circus parade Thurs
day for a terrible beast intent upon de-
vourirg him, a handsome black horse
belonging to Flynn Bros, grocers, rear
ed in the shafts, plunged wildly for a
few seconds, and dropped to the
ground, dead from freight. The drom-
edary was scared SO badly by the wild
antics of the horse that 1t almost col
lapsed. When it had recovered partly
from it's fright it tried to bolt and was
prevented from doing so only by vigor-
Gus efforts of its keeper.-Elizabeth On.
j. dispatch to New York Press.
Where He Slept
A prosperous farmer sent his son
to New York to begin life as a clerk.
After he had been in the metropolis for
six months the farmer wrote to the
merchant to ascertain how his son was
getting along and where he spent his
night. In due time the merchant sent
a reply to the farmer which read:
your son sleeps in the store in the
daytime. don't know where he spends
his nights."-The Circle.
GLOBE SIGHTS.