The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-10

LINES are white at the window.
| Roses are red by the door,
| Garlanded maidens are singing,
Each with harp at her breast
| See! What is that they are shedding ?
Lo, it is wine for wedding,
| Strange and inScrutable guest
e. A NJ, in the Academy.
Fought for Stuffed Cat.
With his face. head, neck and arms
punctured and torn in more than
twenty places by the teeth of two bull
terriers, who fought him for possession
| of his stuffed cat, Arthur Bayer, 5
years old, lies swathed in bandages in
his home, 655 East End avenue, and
there is grave doubt about his recov-
cry.
For more than fifteen minutes the
child was at the mercy of the animals
which knocked him down and bit and
tore at his flesh until Mrs. James
Atchison, an occupant of the same
building, regardless of her own safety,
thrust her hands between the jaws of
one of the enraged brutes while he
had the boy by the throat. pried his
jaws apart and threw the boy into
the hallway of the house, safe from
further attack She then belabored
both dogs with a heavy stick until she
drove them away.
About o'clock the boy, whose par
ents occupy the third floor of the
house, was playing with a toy stuffed
cat at a rear window, when it fell into
the yard below. The boy went down
to the yard to get the cat, and as he
picked it up saw the dogs trying to
get through thin wire fence separat-
ing the adjoining yard.
| The animals at last threw them
selves against a frafl gate, which
sprang open, and dashed to where the
boy was standing in fear. The boy
|angered the animals more. They
! tried to get it out of his hands, and,
failing, sprang at him and knocked
him down.
One animal sank his teeth in the
boys cheek and tore the flesh from
the second dog fastened his teeth in
the lobe of the child's left ear and al
/ most tore the ear from his head.
The animals were almost noiseless in
their work, but the boy continued to
1 cry out for aid, meanwhile holding his
stuffed cat firmly. For a moment the
dogs desisted, but again they returned
j to the attack, this time more viciously
1 than before. One of them fastened his
teeth in the, boys throat as the child
Hay on the ground and was shaking
him as he might shake a rat when
Mrs. Atchison, who lives on the ground
floor of the building, heard the cries
of the little victim.-New York World.
Bottles Measures Your Drinks
4
the Tenderloin. took day off yester-
| day and was found strolling up
Broadway. He consented to pose for
a photographer. AS study in lines
he was model, and as he walked
along he got a welcoming nod from
| every refreshment establishment he
passed.
fThis isn't any new stunt Of mine"
he explained, t'but I'm glad to get
little public notice. If I am full
quart, am measured off into eighteen
drinks; otherwise into fifteen, as you
see me now. I am always placed on
the table full. Wait! Change that
/ full to filled The waiter doesn't
have to pay any further attention to
me until the party Is through with
me He then simply figures up how
many drinks have 1ost-the space
| between any two lines representing
a drink-and nu1tipIies that by Is or
20 or whatever that place charges for
| drink"
rs there any profit in your" asked
| the reporter.
WELL" he replied, you can figure
it up for yourself. 1 cost dollar or
less when bought wholesale. and you
can see how much more valuable I
get when I am parceled out.
That last drink looks like a long
one," commented the reporter, point
| ing to the space between numbers
IA and Is.
''Yes,; but it isn't" Mr.. Bottle re-
piled. ST have very graceful up
curve there that is deceiving. It's
the way I'm blown Come in some
night about three minutes to 1 and
I'll talk to you further. If the house
| is willing, you may have one on me-"
New York World.
Colossal Concrete Indian.
| The worlds biggest Indian now
/ stands with arms folded on a high
| bluff overlooking the Rock river, near
Oregon ILL.,, visible for miles around.
| In solemn, silent dignity the massive
| form rears itself boldly against the
skyline from almost every point of the
| compass, its height Of 4S feet. added to
| an 18-foot base, and the 250-foot emil
hence on which it stands, giving 1t an
| altitude of more than 300 feet above
1 the surrounding country.
| The Indian is made of concrete, and
marks an epoch in statue building, as
| it is not only a wo--- of art, but an