The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-08-31

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Indianapolis News.
Victories of Medical Skill.
| medical science is moving in rand
strides. One discovery after another is
| reported. Within week, II is declared
| py physicians that a serum for the cure
/ OF cancer and one for the destruction of
terra medica.
The subsection of tetanus to medical
| skill mas had its first successful test in
Plttsburg. Harry Gilbert, a youth
wounded by drecrackers on July 4, was
| taken to the West Penn hospital week
later with an acute case. The hospital
| surgeons did not think it possible for
| him to survive. Yet they did not give
up. With injections of antitoxin and
magnesium sulphate the boy recovered
NOW he is strong and is running about
| him.
In certain swampy sections of the
SOUTH where entire families have been
| known to be stricken simultaneously,
| with dengue fever, ii has been revealed
| that the malady comes from MOSQUITO
stings. Thus an old-time superstition
assigning stagnant waters, decaying
vegetation, ETC., as causes is surnmarily
dismissed. 1t has been less than a de-
cade that it was demonstrated that
yellow fever was not contagious, but
| was caused by the mosquito. Now that
plague, with a grewsome and CHASTITY
history OF former years, has lost it's
| horrors.
We are cleaning our milk vessels,
our cellars, and our yards. The bath
tub was never so popular. City gov
ernmeQts are ever at war with those
| who produce and scatter filth The
science OF cooking has advanced. Some
day soon our people will know that to
eat meat two and three times a day is
| dangerous. At last, most municipal
governments are supplying their peo-
pie with pure water.
1t has been a long while since the
| country was visited with a smallpox
epidemic. Diphtheria has ceased to be
| q ghost head around the nursery. Tub
erculosis can be cured. typhoid so
treated as to rob it, in most cases,
of the victorious grave.
Thus one malady after another loses
its skull and crossbones terrors Surely
the medical laboratories of the world
| are humanity's best friends.-New
| York American.
See Serpent Worth While.
Long Lake has a serpent. Upon
the authority of four women and one
man, the word has gone forth that the
placid little lake Is the home of a
monster about as long as a good-sized
street is wide, with the head of an
! alligator. the neck OF a turtle, and a
The serpent made its first appear
ance at the lake a week ago, when It
| was seen by William Delevan, of this
city, fisherman. AS Delevan return
ed to the city minus his bait after see
ing the sea monster, his story was
scoffed at until Sunday afternoon,
when the monster made its appearance
again.
This time four women, Mrs Clara
Wheatley and her daughter, Elsie. of
702 Grace street. and Alma and Ellen
Arnold Of 704 Grace street, had an
experience on the lake.
According to the women, the ser
pent appeared less than 5 feet from
their boat, raised its head above the
water, blinked at them two or three
times and then apparently frightened
by the screams of the women, took a
quick dive to the bottom of the lake.
1t has not been seen since.-Kalama-
zoo dispatch to New York World.
Horses Sense of Danger.
That a horse has the Instincts of
impending danger was demonstrated
the other afternoon when an animal
belonging to NJ. D. Swisher, county
road overseer, refused to act on the
bit, ran up the mountain side, and
saved it's rider from death in a cloud
burst
Swisher was riding along Box can
yon, a narrow gulch, when the horse
| from the ROAD, ana, paying no
attention to the rider, ran up the
mountain side and stopped on
a ledge twenty feet above.
Swisher was mystified until he saw
later about eight feet deep rushing
down the canyon, tearing up bushes
and upending everything movable. The
water was from a cloudburst about
half a mile farther up the gulch. and
the horse had heard the noise of the
rushing water before the rider.
Half mile of the Box canyon road
leading to Florissant was washed out
and bridges carried away. Swisher
| remained on the mountain side Tor an
hour before he considered it safe to
re-enter the canyon.-Cripple Creek
correspondence in Denver News.
Swordfish Fights School Of Dogfish.
A 400 pound swordfish engaged in a
| battle with a school of dogfish was
captured by the crew of the schooner
Galatea, which arrived at T wharf yes
terday.
| The Galatea was at anchor off
Chatham Saturday when the crew no.