The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-06-09
BALLAD OF PHornus oap.,rur

A|cscTVe0 the name of swell
NOT one was quite 30 recherche
AS Fnoebus Caramel.
H The coat nin Vas va ,. Fashions masterpiece.
AZ TOT ms tie and trouser-crease.
iney frequently broke hearts.
No other dude could raise HI. hat
vU ana pow to passing belle
~ *" 1Slesance approaching that
o1 Phoebus Caramel
But once. when. flawlessIy arrayed.
Cyon MS knees he Eopped
az. SPOKE OF marriage to a maid.
one laughed until she drOpned
II wed" cried she. no tailored dolt,
Ya o. pray. your ardor quell!''
9 1oqs-that was a thunderboIt
ror Fhoebus Caramel.
ne Tw 1osappeared the lady wept:
Nh Dc alarmed; her age has crept
Sot quite to twenty-four)
At last one day she gave a whoop.
"a happy. girlish yell,
'4v noa9ly striding up the stoop
"as-Phoebus CARAMEL
Hls cneek was tanned. his beard unkempt,
u;a 's ooots were trimmed with nails.
His 10 t.o was quite beneath contempt.
His trousers tapped like Sails
And 10! he told of toll and strife.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
WHICH he averred, had been the life
VI Fhaebus Caramel.
ne eh cried: my ragged coat Inspect;
ana not the gas-baloon effect
Ihey cause around my knees,
Low do you like me now?-confessr.
She answered slowly: "Weli.
Il o pG psosss;. G Ike yep less,
New York Times.
Massaging the Heart.
1t was in 1896 that the world was
STARTED by the report OF a case of sue
cessrul stitching of a wound in a mans
tneart- BY 1902 the operation had been
frequently attempted, and Of the
known cases there were nearly 40 per
cent OF recoveries. The percentage is
snghtly higher in the latest tabuIation.
So rooted is our belief that the heart
IS the most vulnerable organ of the
Dooy that we find it hard to believe
Inat II can be operated on successfully
yet the percentage of recoveries almost
equals that OF recoveries from bullet
we. WOUNDS In the abdomen. An injury to
tne most vital organ is. with modern
surgery, no longer necessarily fatal.
Perhaps the most marvellous case on
record is that of a patient brought in
with bullet wound in such a place
that the missile must have reached the
heart. The man still breathed, but
there was scarcely any pulse. He was
operated upon at once and as soon as
the heart was exposed a jet of blood
~ inches hugh spurted from the
wound. This was Immediately stitch
ed up, stopping the loss of blood. But
where was the bullet? Cautiously the
heart was lifted up. There was no
sign that the bullet had gone through
1t. 1t must have lodged in the heart
'tseH: An, the surgeon can feel 1t
plainly In the wall opposite the wound.
To leave it there means death.
Quickly the heart is trussed up half
out of the body, and with Infinite eau
ton an incision is made. But how to
get out the bullet? The surgeon dare
not use forceps for fear of pushing the
bullet back into the cavity of the heart.
Very gently and carefully he pinches
the heart between his thumb and fore
finger, and in moment the missile
drops out. The wound was stitched UP
and the cavity closed, and the patient
made complete recovery.
Handling the beating heart does not
seem so wonderful as causing it to beat
again after it has actually stopped.
This was done in several cases where
a wound In the heart was being stitch
ed, and only after a prolonged mas
sage was the organ induced to beat
again. But the modern surgeon has
gone even further. In cases where the
heart had collapsed from chloroform
tate to make an opening to reach the
organ by one of three routes and apply
direct massage to 1T with his hand
Broadway Magazine.
Our Gold Industry.
An eagle, a ten-dollar gold piece, is
just about one inch in diameter. I'M
agine a glittering yellow ribbon of ten
dollar gold pieces lying edge to edge,
beginning at San Francisco and ex-
tending eastward through the Sacra-
mento valley of California, across the
lofty Sierra Nevada mountains, span
ming the great American desert in Ne
vada and Utah, over the prairies Of
Wyoming and Nebraska, across the
green fields OF Iowa and Illinois, over
Indiana and Ohio, through the hills of
New York and Massachusetts,. and out
into the Atlantic ocean, half way to
the British Isles-imagine this con-
tinuous string Of golden eagles, edge
to edge. without break or interruption,
over this vast stretch of land and sea,
a distance which consumes at least
eight days in the swiftest express
trains and ocean steamers-and you
will be able to form some conception
Of the amount of gold that has been
produced in the United States.
It requires some such illustration as
this to grasp the immensely OF the gold
industry. to form some definite Idea
of the importance and magnitude of
the gold production OF the North
American continent
The profits from the gold industry
are magnificent. They are greater
than in any other department of COM
merciaI activity. The figures or the
worlds production are enormous. In
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