The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-08-17
THE REAL BASEBALL.

va. take me away from the baseball game
Wnere sctence is at the bat,
Ana the players play
In technical way
III a Rube can't tell what they're at.
When scores are highest when nothing
at all.
Where nobody makes
Any sort of mistakes
And everythfng's just In place.
Where spectators keep On the watch for
So close that it gives them a pain;
/ And whatever's done
- In hit. catch, or run,
Ihey scream at to take on the strain.
Oh, carry me back to the old-fashioned
Where the sides go in
With whoop to win,
And they don't do a thing but play ball.
Where twenty or thirty or forty runs
Are nkeiy as not to be made:
And the bags are hot
From many a swat
In games that are played as is played.
Where the catcher don't look like an ar
And the pitcher is not SO intense
EN- a little bit.
But bangs 'em down over the fence.
When something is doing that stirs up
About every minute or so.
with the home-runs made
And double plays played,
And the whole darned thing on the 60
Where the grand stand and bleachers are
And are there because they are there
10 see good game
Ihats good just the same
Though science be up in the air
Oh. take me away from the baseball game
where scientists have the call
And give me the play
That lasts half the day
HWrrah' that Is ball; that is ball!
A Lesson in Toxicology.
This Is the time Of year when ''pois-
on IVY Is most dangerous, for the
young shoots and newly matured
leaves are much better supplied with
the volatile oil that SO irritates the
human skin than they are later in the
year. 1t is also the time of the year
when people not familiar with the ap-
pearance and properties of the plant
are roaming the fields in the greatest
numbers, constantly exposing them
selves to the toxic substance, the eff
Iects OF which are always uncomfort-
able and not infrequently serious.
Rhus toxicodendron grows in con-
siderable quantities in the city parks
and cemeteries; it abounds in the sub
urbs, and is to be found almost every
where in the real country. Nobody is
altogether immune to it, while a few
1t can poison at a distance of several
or many feet Antidotes innumerable
nave been recommended from time to
time, and many of them are in more
Or less extensive use, but, as always
when medical opinion differs widely
and persistently as to proper treat
ment, the cause Of the disagreement is
the fact that none of the treatments
are satisfactory. After the irritation
of Ivy poisoning is once well started
pal1iation and abbreviation of the SUI
fering are about the most that can be
expected from any remedy.
The time to act Is immediately at
ter exposure. The hands, of course,
are most often affected, and the best
thing to do is to remove the irritant
oil before 1t has worked beneath the
outer layer of the skin. Water is use
less, since in it the oil is insolubie. but
alcohol, il promptly applied. is usually
effectnal with those not particularly
susceptible
For those who wish to make an ex-
pertinent 1t may be stated that the
New York Medical Journal quotes in
apparent hopefulness doctor who
writes in the Therapeutic Gazette, say
ing that sodium sulphite in super
saturated solution will cure rhus pois-
Oning I'm three or four days. even in
severe cases. Inc accord
ing to this authority, LEAVES the parts
with the appearance of having been
whitewashed," which is at least inter-
esting. 1T quickly relieves the burn
ing, itching and swelling. and causes
no irritation. The application is also
effective in the eruption, which is apt
to return each spring in persons who
have been once attacked."-New York
Times.
Dies of Rare Disease.
Hemorragica malaria. an unusual
disease in this climate, caused the
death of Mrs. Mary Rozum, aged A. of
death without an abrasion of the skin,
the blood escaping from the vessels,
forming in clots under the cuticle.
The disease is not unusual In the
Chambers. but it is seldom found this
far north. 1t is said to be contagious
and highly dangerous. Sometimes a
pint of blood will escape from the capil-
laries and form pocket under the
skin.
In some forms the disease is closely
akin to spinal meningitis or spotted
fever. In Mrs. Rozum's case the blood
escaped from the usual channels and
formed in big blotches all over the
body.
The disease is caused by a peculiar
form of malaria which causes a decom
position OF rottening OF the tissues un-
der the surface of the cuticle. The
blood then bursts through the capillar-
les or veins and collects under the skin.
giving the patient a peculiar appear
aHce.
Mrs Rozum had lived at Edwards
vile for Is years. She was a native
of Bohemia and the mother Of ten
children.
The Edwardsville physicians were
puzzled over the disease, as they had
never found a similar case in their
practice in that vicinity.