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Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1903-07-10

from filtered, sterilized water and
fresh beef. After standing for few
hours, the bouillon is strained, refill
tered and resterflized. For several
days, process of reboiling. steriliz-
ing and filtering goes on in white
dust-proof closets, by men dressed in
most immaculate white. 1t is kept in
sterilized jars, stopped with sterilized
cotton. When this bouillon has be-
come absolutely free from all germs,
it is inoculated by having the baciIli
dropped in from the point of a needle
of glass and platinum. The germs
multiply as rapidly as in a human
body, for the bouillon is kept in a
warm incubator for about ~ hours,
when it may be seen to be covered
with ghastly-looking. greenish
crust, a toxin which is hideous mass
of the disease to be treated, consump-
ton, diphtheria or whatever has been
cultivated 1t is then injected into
guinea pigs which die and are opened
and examined If it is found that the
toxin was pure, it is injected into an
antitoXin horse. Before one of these
horses is utilized for this purpose,
he is tested to ascertain if he be free
from all disease, by receiving an in
lection of mallein, a fluid which will
arouse into activity any disease
which may happen to Turk in his
system. If he be healthy, the mallein
will not affect him. Being proven
healthy, the first injection of toxin,
ABOUT one-half a thimbleful, or one
cubic centimeter, is introduced into
hiS l1lnOn from n Df ~rIo
silver by thoroughly sterilized, disin-
fected, white-clada clean-shaven physi-
clan, in a white enameled stable. For
three days, the horse is very ill, eat
ing nothing. His bones are sore. He
swells, then slowly RECEIVERS. In ten
days, he is quite well again, when an
other injection is given, this time of
three cubic centimeters. He becomes
ill. but less so than in the first in
stance. Ten days later, 90 cubic
centimeters are administered. The
effect of this is hardly perceptible.
By the end of two months, more than
one pint or 500 cubic centimeters are
given without producing any lief
fects. This dose would kill large
number of ordinary horses, but our
friend has become immune. that is,
his system is able to resist any num-
Der of live germs introduced, because
it contains so much of their own
poison, that they have nothing to
feed upon and die from an overdose
of themselves.
Now that this antitoxin quality has
developed in the animal, each month
eight quarts of blood are drawn from
him, while every teno days he still re-
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1903-07-10

ceives an injection of 500 centimeters
of toxin. Thus his antitoxic power 10
kept up. He suffers no Inconvenience.
His health is good, he exercises mod
erately and eats his sterilized grain
with relish. If he goes to pasture for
a month or two, his antitoxic power
is impaired and ne has to begin all
over again with his first dose of one
cubic centimeter of toxin which rem
ders him i'll as at first. After being
drawn from the horse, the blood is
sealed up and stands for several days,
when the serum, or thin portion, In
extracted by means of a force pump.
This serum is used on guinea pigs
and its strength thus ascertained. 1t
is now filtered and purified, sealed in
small walls and passes into the hand
of physicians in general practice,
who introduce it into the circulation
of such patients as are suffering from
the special disease from whose germ
it was prepared. Their systems are
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1903-07-10
ENJOYS OUTDOOR LIFE.
Julia MarlOwe, Queen of American
Stage, Spends Much of Her Time
in the Open Air.

Miss Julia Marlowe's outdoor diver
sions are golf, driving and automobile
ing. She does prodigious amount of
walking all the year round. Her love
of nature is almost primitive in its in
tensity. Asked once what was her
greatest ambition, she said it was to
lead such a normal life that l can get
up every morning in time to see the
sun rise" Often she will dismiss her
carriage and revel in facing wind and
weather on foot. An acquaintance ac-
companied her from her hotel to the
theater one March night in the teeth
of driving storm. The sidewalk was
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1903-07-10
GERMS OF DISEASES.
They A1e Now Being Harnessed by
Medical Investigators.
How Bacfzli sAre Isolated; Tested and
Propagated - Important Part
Played by Hsrses and
Guinea Pigs.
] Especial New York Letter.1

a Especial New York letter.
" HIS is essentially the age of an
titoXins, extreme cases of the
hair of the dog" curing the
bite. New discoveries are constantly
being made, both of the specific
germs causing certain diseases and
methods of utilizing them for their
own destruction: 1t is well known
that IS a person were shut up in a
room for an extended length of time
where no fresh air was allowed
to enter adeath would cnsue be-
cause the air in the room, breathed
over and over, would become charged
with poisons given out by the body,
and there would soon be no fresh air
to feed upon. In the case of a dis
ease germ much the same condition
prevails. 1t must have fresh material
to feed upon, as the juices it throws
off are a certain poison to itself.
Hence, if to the blood of a person
containing germs of disease, suffi-
cient quantity of the effete material
furnished by the germ itself be
added, the small pest dies because it
has nosfresh food, free from its own
specific poison, upon which to feed.
mon and yirulent diseases the bacil-
lus has been isolated and for their
treatment an antitoxin has been Sc
cured.
Nearly everyone is aware that the
antitoxins in general use are OBJ
. tanned from horses, and the meth DDS
of securing them are being constant
ly improved upon. OF course the first
thing to be- considered is the isola-
ton of the offending microbe from
the thousands of different variety
which surround it, This presupPoses
the fact that the, wicked one. is so
well known as to be recognizable;
that his portrait hangs in the germ
rogues' gallery.
After the bacteria removed
from a sufferer, they are more care
fully cultivated than most plants, the
usual medium being bouillon prepared
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1903-07-10
A MEAN ADVANTAGE.
John Was Pretty Smart, But When
Clint Came Back at Him He
Was the Victim.

John Bruce and Clint Pease were
.hums. Their stores adjoined, and
when business was dull the two
young merchants visited back and
forth. One cold, blustery day, when
customers were few, Clint sat behind
the stove Ia Johns store. young
woman came in and John stepped
forward to wait on her, states the
Brooklyn Eagle.
II am soliciting subscriptions for
an order for our church." said she.
Now, solicitors of this character
we're numerous in that town, and
merchants used to try to dodge
them. since it was not deemed good
policy to refuse to contribute So
John was considerably pleased with
himself when a happy way out of his
present difficulty suggested~itself to
ais quick mind.
"You will have to speak to the pro-
orietor about that" said he, politely
You will find him a very liberal man.
he is back there by the stove"
John grinned as the young woman
approached Clint and stated her case
''How much are the merchants gen
orally giving?" Clint asked, with
grave interest in the cause.
''Some are giving as much as dol
ar" she answered, ''but we are
grateful for any sum, however
mall."
John" said Clint. with an air of
authority. give the young lady 81
ut of the drawer
And John, OF course, had to do it.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1903-07-10

to produce antitoxin, the disease will
soon lose its terrOrs.
Upon the death of his grandson
from cholera infantum Rockefeller
donated 100000 to be used toward
finding a cure for that disease Two
students discovered, and isolated a
germ, and DIR. Simon FleXner manu-
featured therefrom an antitoXin
which counteracts it. 1t will come
into use as soon as the exact amount
for dose shall be determined. His
success has been the means of ele-
waiting DR.. Flexner to the position OF
director in the $15.OOO.00O Rookie
Teller Institute for Medical Research.
Prof. Behring, of Vienna, is also con-
spicuously gaining the attention of
the medical fraternity. first because
of his discovery of the diphtheria
antitoxin. which is yearly saving the
lives of thousands, and more recent
ly by his experiments with tubercu-
losis. The death rate from diphtheria
has been reduced to but 4 to 6
per cent. from so to 80, by means
of antitoxin. DIR. Behring hopes to
reduce that of tuberculosis proper
tionately.
WILLARD C. Apr
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1903-07-10

thus reinforced by a poison to the
germs whose demise rids them of the
disease which was preying upon their
tissues.
While some antitoxins have been
obtained with comparative ease, ex-
periments with typhoid germs have
proven very unsatisfactory. In 1884
Koch discovered the bacilli of ty-
phoid. They are rod-like and thick
with the ends rounded, and some
times joined in filaments. They pos
sess little hair-like projections called
fiagella and move very rapidly. They
are found in water, milk and meats
and gain entrance into the system by
various methods. Many experiments
have been made to secure an antitox-
in from bouillon, but to no great pur-
pose. 1t has been nearly impossible
to obtain the Juice between the
cells" of typhoid bacteria without de-
stroying the chemical action of
germs themselves. No really salts
factory results had been obtained
until, recently, DR.. Allan McFayden,
of the Jeaner institute of preventive
medicine, one of the leading bac-
teriologists of Europe, after much
research, has discovered a method of
manufacturing antitoxin for typh
which, it is generally believed, will
soon be universally adopted. The
microscopical cells of the typhoid
bacilli are SO small and pliable or
elastic that no mechanical agent
could destroy them. Freezing does
not injure them.
It occurred to DR.. McFayden to
freeze the cells by means of liquid
air until very brittle, then to crush
thousands of them together in a NOR
tar. This first and most difficult
step has proved a great success. The
mass now dead so far as its power of
communicating disease is concerned,
is allowed to become warm again,
and is still chemically alive as to
its qualities from which antitoxin
may be prepared Repeated injec-
tions into animals have produced a
serum, which, it is believed. will
prove efficacious. 1t is too soon after
it's discovery for a large number of
experiments to have demonstra ted
/ its successful use, but results so far
obtained are very promising. At
present about all one can do for a
typhoid patient is the administration
of baths. nourishment and stimu-
lants. If the new process be proven
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1903-07-10
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

The death rate from plague in In
Gia is generally over 20 per cent.
Three hundred and twenty-four sta
lions on the Trans-Siberian railway
are to- be furnished by a Berlin firm.
The French town of Fecamp pro-
vides free sterilized milk for one year
to every child whose mother applies
for it. The milk is delivered at her
h0me.
Rice growers in Siam are offering to
share half their profits with any far
ty who will pillow their fields and reap
and thresh the rice for them by ma
chinery.
In consequence of numerous COM
plants by peasants about the increase
of insects injurious to the crops, the
French minister of agriculture has
ordered a stricter observance of the
laws against the slaughter of birds.
Shortly before a recent election in
Dercolo, Tyrol, adherents of the cler-
zeal party cut some vines in the vine
yards and posted up warnings that if
the peasants gave the liberals a ma
jority all their vines would be cut and
ruined
have adopted a resolution urging upno
the government to establish Supreme
court of administration. The court is
intended to relieve the government
from the ever-increasing number of
appeals, especially of municipal chaS-
acter. and to relieve the supreme court
of justice from its present duty of
giving its opinion on proposed new
laws before they are discussed in par
lament
The center of the mother-of-pearl
industry is Singapore. The shell oy-
ster is six to ten inches long, the larger
one weighs as much as ten pounds.
It is found on hard-bottom channels
between islands. where the current is
strong. In gathering it a diver takes
with him bag of coir rope one-fourth
of an inch in diameter, which, while
suited for holding the shell, does not
impede his travelling along the bottom.
The apparatus for diving has not been
introduced in the Philippines, although
Mnaila shell brings the high price of
a dollar pound.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1903-07-10
WAS CHARMING HOSTESS.
Mrs. Harriet Lane Johnston Who Was
White House Mistress Under
President Buchanan.

The recent serious illness of Mrs.
Harriet Lane Johnston, and the an
nouncement that she will this sum-
mer visit various American resorts
in an effort to regain her health, has
again brought into the public Eye
one of the most interesting tsminine
figures in American history. So qui-
city has the famous niece of Presi-
dent James Buchanan lived in Wash
ington during recent years that the
general reading public has had oppor-
tunity to realize that a place is yet
occupied in the social life at the
capital by a woman who was the
most noted of antibellum days, and
the greatest of all the bellies of the
white house.
Mrs. Johnston has. since the ascen-
sion of President Roosevelt to TIE ma
tion's highest position, been several
times prevailed upon to assist in the
dispensation of hospitality at the
white house. and there is a particu-
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1903-07-10
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SCIENCE IN EATING.
Health and Produce a Good and
Clear Complexion.

Girls who value a good complexion
and cheerful spirits are advised to
eat plenty of spinach. 1t contains
salts of potassium and iron and other
wholesome ingredients. The iron in
it is easily assimliated. A vegetabl
not generally made much of by
less expensive kinds, it is put in first
place by the food experts and de-
serves more prominence in public es-
TEEN.
People troubled with poor memo
ries are urged to eat mustard. The
seed of the mustard plant is credited
with very quickening, livening prop
critics said to have direct influence
on those brain cells that have to do
with forgetting and remembering.
Nervous folks ought to partake
often of cheese, which acts as a soda
tive They should beware of eating
cheese to excess. however, as it is a
tax on the digestion. Only moderate
consumption is effica cious.
too steady diet of potatoes in
duces fatigue of both body and mind.
Apples are now held to contain
much sustenance for the brain and to
have an celebrating effect on the
spirits. Apples contain phosphorus
and also malic acid, which is most
beneficial for people under mental
strain or who habitually do work
which prohibits exercise. The apple
should not be munched between
times, but taken as a component part
of the regular meals.-N. Y. Sun.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1903-07-10

like the bed of a mountain stream,
and the winds made umbrellas a sar-
casm. She enjoyed every step of the
walk and reached the theater in gale
of laughter and high spirits. 1t is this
abundant vitality, this capacity for
getting fun out of things which annoy
or bore most people that give com
polling charm to her art. and rare,
sweet vivacity to her personality.
For time Miss Marlowe had a house
of her own in New York city, but this
she has now given up. Her only home
is her country place in the western part
of the Catskill mountains. This she
called ''Highmount,'' and from the
windows of the house there is a glori-
ous view of a dozen mountain peaks.
The house is a large one of colonial
architecture, part of which, the brick
terrace, the theater-going public sa"
reproduced on the stage without know
ing the fact, for the first tentative re-
hearsal of when knighthood Was in
Flower" was given on the brick terrace
on to which the main living-rOOm of
her house opens. This terrace was so
effective for grouping and for exits and
entrances that the architecture of it
was copied in the reproduction of a
Tudor brick terrace which forms a
part of the stage setting in the first
act of the play.
Her estate consists of 400 acres, and
only the smaller part of her large es-
tate is laid out in lawn, garden and
driveways. That portion of her pos
sessions which she has with admira BILE
taste allowed to remain wholly "unim-
proved" is by far the greater part of
the estate. Still in it's original wild
ness, it is criscrossed by mountain
streams, cleft by deep ravines, and
overgrown with network of vines
and forest trees that have never known
the woodman's AK Here the happiest
nours of Julia Marlowe's life are spent,
and thither she goes Immediately her
professional work ends for the season,
which is usually toward the end of
Nay. and there she remains until the
end of September.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1903-07-10

Does a little appreciation spoil
toI? 1t spoils most people.-Atch-
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1903-07-10

lar appropriateness, since Harriet
Lane johnson is, with the single eX-
ception of Dolly Madison, the only
woman who, while serving as first
lady of the land, entertained any
thing like as extensively as Mrs.
Roosevelt.
While there are many points of
similarity between the social methods
of Harriet Lane Johnston and Mrs.
Roosevelt, both having delighted to
entertain at the white house the mas
ters of achievement in the worlds of
politics, art, literature and science.
as well as their own personal friends,
the conditions under which these two
women have served as hostess at the
executive mansion could not well be
more divergent. Throughout the en-
tire Buchanan administration feel
ing ran high, owing to the gathering
of the storm which later broke in the
civil war, and it was only by her
possession of magnificent personal
ity, combined with rare grace and
tact, that Mrs. Johnston was enabled
to keep the social atmosphere of the
white house free from those clashes
of sentiment which pervaded every
branch of public life.
The particularly notable event of
Harriet Lanes regime in the white
house was, of course, the visit of the
then prince of Wales, now King Ed
ward. of England. The British royal
family has never ceased to seek
means to manifest its appreciation of
the kindness which Miss Lane showed
to her royal guest. and upon the oc-
casion Of her visit to England during
later years she has been made the
recipient of every social attention.
Particularly was this the case last
year, when she was one of the spe
cially honored guests at the corona
ton. The queenly young mistress of
the white house quite captivated the
prince of Wales not less by the elab
crate dinners and receptions which
she gave in his honor at the eXecu
| tive mansion than by the charming
comradarie spirit which she man.
tested when she danced with him OF
| the deck of the United States steam
er Harriet Lane. returning from Il
visit to Mount Vernon, and the teas
ing which she administered when
later she ANONYMOUSLY defeated the
prince in bowling contest.
Of late years Harriet Lane John
ston, who suffered Il double bereave
ment in the early death of her Eus
| band and son. has lived in a. quaint
old house in the fashionable section
of Washington. The house is FLIED
| with interesting art object and SOU
venirs, among which are the hand
some engravings which were sent tt
Harriet Lane by the prince of Wall.
after his return to England. Thest
pictures were the cause of some cor
troversy when Miss LaEe. al the coz
clusion of her uncle's adminiSt ra tioE
removed them from the white houS,
A portion of the public and nurafe
of newspapers declared that they hat
been sent as a gift to the American
nation and should remain in the pres
idential mansion. but the British gov
eminent FASTENED to send letter ex-
planning that they had been designed
as personal gift to Miss Lane. Mrs.
Johnston's household at the present
time consists of only herself and her
niece, Miss Kennedy.-Waldon Faw-
cett, in ST. Louis Globe-Democrat.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1903-07-10
Remedy for Chopped Hands.

The following recipe is said to be
an excellent one for chapped or rough
ened hands: Four ablespoonfuls of
powdered borax. one-half ounce of
glycerine, one block of gum cam
phor, one-half pint bay rum and one
pint of water.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1903-07-10

present
Northwestern Montana In they mighty
and mighty The buffalo furnished them with
of its
raising in
parativel of the Backfoot Indians left
their majority either Pegans
The B1ackfoot wealthy,
ton Of its reservation to the for ST
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1903-07-10
Eye Need. Tender Care.

A speck of dust in the eye can be re-
moved By pointed piece of paper or
a camePs hair brush. Afterward close
the eyes and bind soft pad over the
lids and allow it to remain until all
feeling o. pain is gone.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1903-07-10
rhe Morninx Reautx Walk.

Don't walk too far at first, when TAX
ing up outdoor exercise for the sake of
your complexion. Stop just short of
being tired.
Evening journal., 1903-08-25
FUNERAL DELAYED TO
AWAIT SONS ARRIVAL
Services Over Salisbury VIII
Be Held at Hatfield Next
Monday

Hatfield England, Aug. 20. - h'oru
salisbnry's coffin has been finally clos
ed. The servants and family will act
as bearers at the funeral, which VIII
be held here next Monday, when Lord
Edward Cecil. military secretary OF
the Egyptian army and fourth son OF
the deceased statesman, reaches Eng
land from Egypt.
The service will be held in st. Eth
eldredas Church. The interment will
be beside the body Of his wife In the
private burying ground adjoining. The
ceremony will be most private si-
multaneously a service will be held
In Westminster Abbey.
At the funeral service at Hatfield
the representatives. OF the king and
royal family will be seated in a pri-
vate chapel north Of the chancel.
The oak casket containing the body
now lies in the death chamber The
brass plate on the lid is engraved with
the dead statesman's full family name,
ais orders and degrees and the date
of bis birth and death.