The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-07-21


About the cold; but tickle
Or not. squeal, too. when feel
The perspiration trickle.
can't prevent my discomfort;
1 try to overcome 1t.
But is this not too cussed hot?
I hate such weather. dunn 1t 1t!
Chicago News.
Appendicitis Plague Coming.
The United States is fast becoming
a nation of appendicitis victims!
This was the assertion the other day
of DIR. Jabez Jackson, prominent sur
gecn and member of the American
Medical association, during a discus
sion regarding abdominal surgery.
According to the present statis-
tics" declared DR.. jackson, sit will
only be a few years until every one in
the country is affected with appendi-
citis and is forced to undergo an oper-
alton in order to prevent DEATH"
AS a practicing physician and sur
geon in New York and the south for a
number of years, DR.. Jackson has
made a speciality of abdominal surgery
and has performed great number Of
appendicitis operations-more than
any other surgeon in the country.
some say.
High living, Yining and dining. late
nights and irregular habits were some
Of the causes attributed by DR.. jack
son for the rapid spread of appendi-
citis.
THE whole question devolves itself
into one of whether we are not ex-
ceeding the speed limit of living" he
said. II, for one, believe that we are.
In fact, it has been scientifically de-
termined that we are living too high.
And that is one of the greatest causes
of appendicitis, the malady which is
bound to grip everybody In this coun-
try If the conditions and circum-
stances are not changed.
Now, this idea of after-theater
suppers causes as much appendicitis
as anything else. What chance has a
mans stomach and appendix when he
rich foods late at night? None at all.
AS a rule, the appendix is one portion
Of the human anatomy that is peace
able and good-natured as long as 1t is
treated right. The minute it COM
mences to get crowded it rises up and
rebels strenuously.
"a large amount of rich food taken
into the stomach causes a certain dis
turbance and Inflammation to set in
which extends through to the intes-
tines. Then, with both the stomach
and intestines in poor working order.
appendix, much pain is caused. and
the quickest and best remedy is to
have it cut out just as soon as sur
geon can be reached."-Chicago Jour
nal.
Fortunes Cruel Prank.
A pathetic story q the pranks that
the tickle jade Fo<tune plays in her
most heartless moods came to its eli
max yesterday when Charles J. L.
Meyer, erstwhile a millionaire and
prominent lumberman and railroad
sion to the Milwaukee poorhouse.
Stripped Of wealth. of social station,
of business standing. Meyer. a patri-
arch seventy-seven years of age,
knocked at the doors of the Associated
Charities which was established. years
and years ago, in part through his
lavish contributions to charity. and
He was told that by his removal to
Chicago. two years since. he had for
feited all right to enter the Milwaukee
county poorhouse.
Being offered money by Gustav
F're,Ison, the agent, the septuagenar-
ian drew himself erect, saying that he
until Friday, and for his return to
Chicago, where. for two years, he has
lived in a small room at SO Aberdeen
street.
"l merely was seeking my rights as
a citizen reduced Ia pei ury." he said:
'bGt am not ssk.Dg for personal
aims"
81 will write Letters to your two
sons-in-law, who are men of wealth.
and will try to bring them to a sense
Of duty toward you.' said Frelison. as
his aged visitor with a sweeping bow
left the office.
Verify story Of fortune in its most
prankish form-one of the sort that
Balzac would have delighted to weave
into his "Comedie Humane"
Years ago. when the numbering in
dustry in Wisconsin was at its height.
Meyer, who yesterday was reduced to
the point where he sought a place in
the poorhouse, was owner of a big
sash, door. blind and wholesale lum-
Der business in Fond du Lac. He was
associated in business with the late
Senator Sawyer, Of Oshkosh, and was
counted one of the big men Of his
state.
He was a prominent figure in the
councils of the Republican party, and
twice was a delegate at large from
Wisconsin to national conventions
Apart from his station as a big
lumberman. Mr.. Meyer was a pioneer
in the building of railroads in the
Badger state. He helped to finance a
line connecting Fond du Lac with Mil
waukee in the sos, and for years was
president of what was known as the
Northwestern Union railroad.-Chi-
cago Record-Herald.
QUAKER MEDITATTONS.