The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-08-24
FRON OTHER PENS
UNCERTAIN MAGNANIMrTY.

When the powers" got together,
after the Boxer rebellion. to fix the
damages each nation suffered from
that event, the sum of $24,440.77S was
fixed upon as the amount China should
pay the United States. This country
protested at the time that this was too
great, as she had not suffered near
that much but the other nations In
sisted and the amount was allowed TO
stand. The disposition to ram the arm
as deep as possible into a public treas
ury is an International failing, as we'll
as a national or local one. However,
the United States concluded to correct
1t in her own way, so she agreed 10
take only s11,655,492, as that fully COW
cred the amount OF our damages. How
ever, there was a mysterious sub
sfdiary arrangement to this whereby
81, 600 900 more were retained for fear
there might be some damages omitted
in the estimate.
1t is now surmised this precaution
had a string to 1t. The facts are these:
In 1860 General, Ward, a citizen of
this country, went to China and bar
gained with the emperor to assist in
putting down the Tapping rebellion.
After two years fighting he presented
a bill of 100000 to the Chinese govern
ment. He was refused payment on the
ground that he had been paid all he
was entitled to, as the war went on.
He was killed in 1862, and the claim
went to the heirs. And so 1t has stood
for over forty years China insisting
that General Ward had been fully
paid. Now that old claim Is included
in the damages of the Boxer rebellion
and paid out of the 100000. This has
the appearance of a sneaking business:
This country undertakes to pay out o.
money conceded by herself to belong to
China an old claim that China con-
tends was fully paid long ago, AMI
~ account that THIS
country had nothing to do wfth.-Ohio
State Journal.
MARTYRS OF SCIENCE.
Once more science has claimed its
sacrifices. Two men lie dead at It's
affairs, four are dying and another. the
first stricken and the accidental agent
of death, has but just recovered after
frightful suffering. The immolation has
taken place at the University of
Cxernowitz, in Austria. Professor
Luksch while seeking an antitoxin for
| the disease of CHAMBERS. broke culture
tube containing the CHAMBERS bactllf.
cutting his arm severely. After
period of incubation signs or the dls-
ease began to appear, but PROFESSOR
| Luksch, by a series Of operations, man.
aged to save his life. Then came the
real tragedy. 1t was discovered thai
| the entire staff which had been work.
| ing with him was similarly attacked.
| Two of its members have died and
four are not expected to recover.
The history of scientific investiga-
ton in the last 100 years is marked by
these gravestones on the roadside. One
| of the co-discoverers of radium died
but a year or two ago of LESSONS
caused in handling the material. the
properties of which he was then learn
| ing at such awful cost. Several OF the
| experimenters with x-rays have lost
their lives, and one left notable rec
ord of his anguish. not to win SYM
pathy from posterity, but as informa-
ton valuable to the physician. One OF
the greatest Of the steel metallurgfsts
of laboratory explosion The finer
planes of nobility are reached by these
men who suffer in the conflict with dis
ease or perish in the attempt to raise
| the standard of NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Leader.