The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-26

He has shown no indication
Yet OF paying up at all.
Chicago News.
Driven to Drink by Cats.
Cats" observed Mr.. Patrick F'itz-
simmons Wednesday In the Gates ave-
nue. police court in Brooklyn. sis all
right for them as likes EN-
Mr.. Fitzsimmons' presence in the
Gates avenue court was only indirect
ly due to his dislike of cats. The d.
rect cause was Mrs. Fitzsimmons. Cats
were not mentioned in the complaint
brought out in the evidence.
Mr.. Fitzsimmons appeared in court
on complaint of Mrs. Fitzsimmons,
who alleged that he had become
common drunkard. He lost no time
in blaming it on the cats.
Cats remarked Mr.. Fitzsimmons,
as heretofore recorded, lis all right
for them as likes 'em. But fifteen of
ems too many fer to live in the wan
t're-room fat"
"Fifteen!" exclaimed the court.
Are you sure about the number
Mr.. Fitzsimmons averred with en-
phasiS that he was right well assured
OF the exact number. He had counted
the drafted beasts both when he was
drunk and when he was sober, and
the tally was always the same. There
was no doubt about the number. Fiji
teen it was. He would not take off a
single cat-not even for cash.
Now. yer honor" continued Mr..
here cats in the house, dye mind? I
kin niver come in without I'm fallin'
over two or tree of them. Me wife
she's always got tree or four of them
in her lap, like. I kin niver go near
her fer ter give her a kiss, We'll say,
but one of these here cats puts up
its back like crokay wicket an
splits at me. Then like as not it's the
back of me hand fer the cat, an then
tbs the rough side OF the wife's tongue
fer me an no peace in the house.
Drink? Sure, I drink, mebbe more
than is good fer me, at times. What
else can I do with the house so full
of cats there's no room fer me.
There's no cats in the corner saloon,
or if they is an a lad gives it the
is in my house, He was remanded
to await trial.-New York Sun.
Vienna's Plague of Pigeons.
Vienna is suffering from too many
pigeons, and the authorities are at a
the nuisance. The birds, which num-
Der some thousands. have a privileged
existence; nobody molests them in any
way so that they flourish and increase
rapidly.
Recently so many complaints have
of the dirty condition of the facades
of buildings caused by the pigeons that
the Vienna magistracy decided some
thing must be done to reduce the num-
Der. In their perplexity the smagis-
tracy appealed to the Vienna Society
for the Protection of Animals to aid
them in a legal slaughter of the Offend
ing birds, always having regard, how
ever, to the provisions Of the new bird
protection law.
OF ~
be hardly consistent with their princi-
pies Of friendHness toward animals to
engage in a massacre of pigeons, and
therefore they must reject the official
appeal
The magistracy are now wrestling
with the problem alone. Perhaps the
unemployed of Vienna might help them.
Vienna correspondence in Pail Mall
Gazette.
Women Still Savages?
More than fifty eminent Oriental
scholars from the great educational
Institutions of the country attended
the opening of the 121st meeting or
the American Oriental society Thurs
day in the library of Columbia univer-
Sity.
Prof. Hopkins delivered an address
on "Exaggerations of Tabu as a Reli-
gious Motive" in which he said:
Simple vanity prompts the savage
animals are vain, and one of the char
acteristic features of savage life is love
of personal adornment. The reason
why a modern woman is so fond of
adornment is not only because she is
a religious conservative. but because
she is more conservative anyway. She
retains the race history-that' is to
say, she remains more savage than
does man, being in this regard on
par with a boy, who represents the
still undeveloped stage and shows the
same excess of personal vanity. New
York World.
The Chinaman's Retort.
They are telling in San Francisco,
with, much appreciation, story at the
expense of a certain 'pompous Brit
isher'' who crossed from Yokohama in
the steamship Korea. Among the other
passengers was Wong Kwong, Guilt
waited Chinaman, who is general man
ager of one of the most Important en-
cheering concerns in his own country
The unnamed "Britisher'' treated the
little Celestial with a patronizing air