The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-04-08
A PLACE TO GET WELL.
New Health Resort for Con-
sumptives Discovered.
It is the Orange Free State
South Africa.
EXPENSIVE TO LIVE.
Persons Should Come Prepared
to Spend Money.
EXPENSIVE TO LIVE.

WASHINGTON, April s.-A new resort
for consumptives has been discovered
in the Orange Free state, South Africa.
United States Consul Agent Lanfgraff,
in a report to the state department,
talks OF the beneficial result ex-
perienced by persons who have tried
it. He says: mo country on
earth can rank with the Orange Free
state as a health resort. Mr.. Patter-
son had been all over the world and
nowhere else found any relief. l could
give numbers of similar cases and that
so few people have come here is due to
the fact that the Orange Free state is
too little known and in most parts Of
the world believed to be a desert,
inhabited by brutal natives and
wild beasts. The country is pretty
we'll populated and cultivated. Liv-
ing is rather expensive and persons
coming here should command from $50
to $50 per month. A family of four or
five persons can live decently on 81 500
per year. Persons whose lungs are far
gone should travel by stages from the
sea to the Orange Free state-that is,
such persons should stay for a month
at Ceres, next at Beaufort West, ETC.,
dry climate of the Orange Free state.
A direct journey to BlOemfontein would
mean death to such persons. The land
ing place is Capetown."
ENGLAND WILL. COLLECT DUTIES.
WASHINGTON, April s.-Secretary
Morton thinks the purpose of the Eng
lish government in sending a battle
ship to the Nicaraguan coast is to en-
3O,.oa Io 5..1, 01,o1
soon be made for Naturalization on
account of the expulsion of Consul
Hatch. Ifitis refused, the Royal Arthur
will take the matter into hand and
secure the Naturalization by collect
ing the customs duties on Nicaraguan
imports. In that event, he thinks,
Nicaragua's wisest course would be to
convene her congress and pass a law
for admission of all importations free
of duty. In conclusion he said: 1.-THE
other nations would never consent
that their exporters to Venezuela
should pay duty to England in the alb
sence of tariff in Nicaragua, and
England's policy would be etfectually
blocked
NEWFOUNDLAND AND CANADA.
LONDON, April s.-The Times, in an
article on Canadian Newfoundland,
says that ''every commercial argument
used in Canada in favor of federation
with Newfoundland forces from the
1atter's point of view is an argu ment
against federation. Both Newfound-
land and Great Britain have some
thing to lose by the confederation of
Newfoundland and Canada. 1t is well,
in the interests of everyone connect
ed, that the opponents of federation
should entertain no delusion. To en-
deavor to shift the responsibility for
Newfoundland misfortunes to the
shoulders of the imperial government
and to continue to ask reproachfully
for help in form which circumstances
forbid is absolute childishness.'
CHOLERA DECREASING.
WARRINGTON, April 8.--The report
of Surgeon-G General Wyman for this
week shows that cholera is decreasing
in Austria-Hungary, and that it has
entirely disappeared from Galicia and
Prussian Silesia. DIR. Clearly, United
States sanitary inspector at Rio
Janeiro, reports a general decrease of
cholera in Brazil, except in the State
of EspiritO Santo, where there has
been a marked increase, ninety cases
occurring in one week in two villages