The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-29

amounts are estimated as follows
Great Britain. $175,713.5 800
united states. .s........ 14S,S9S,ssS
E E .;......... s se'6so'sae
france ......s..... 6b,16S,l2o
russia 5O,l4 4,loo
Japan ...-..'..... ...... So,Ule'i12
In the case of Great Britain, the ex-
penditure is practically the same now
AS six years ago. while France has av-
ragged the same for the last ten years,
although the amount voted for
new oonstruction-s28,00 900, 000-is the
highest in ten years.
Russia's expenditure has scarcely
''aried. although the amount for new
construction is only $9,000,000 this
year, compared with an average of
s15,000,000 yearly, With the excep-
ton of 1904, Germany has been adj
"ancing her expenditures year by year,
the present estimates being almost
treble those of 1900, while the amount
voted for new construction and arma-
ments has followed similar lines.
leaped from 35.S to 104.971 tons last
year.
The United States expended ST.
100000 on her navy in 1900-1s01, and,
to $122.500,000 in 1866. In the two
| succeeding years there was reduction
of about $4,000, goo. but in 1908-9
the expenditure Went up again to
S132. 100000. Included in the United
| States estimates this year is a sum of
| $50,075,5O5 for new construction and
ornaments. while the average under
this head for ten years was $32, 500
| eo0.-Foreign Exchange.
New York Disease Budget.
Cost of disease and death in dol
lars andsce is high in every modern
city Detailed estimates of the sum
! thus wasted in this city every year as
the result of preventahleF disease have
been made by the committee on con-
gestion of population. The total an
nual loss they place at something
over s166, 100000. figure but a few
millions below the city budget. =
| While this is manifestly the rough
est of OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES actual
economic loss, if it were. determinable,
| might be anywhere between $4,000
| 900 and $500,000,00e,- or any other
figures one chose to set doWn-the
committees estimate serves as well as
| any other to emphasize the fact that
| in this direction an enormous annual
drain upon the community might be
prevented ~
It is Utopianyto expect that all pre-
vetltables iseases every VIII be prevent
ed Fir1S' any community this side the
Styx but there is good and ample
reason for believing that consider
able part of 1t can and eventually viii
be eliminated from every civilized
city. Two things are essential before
any great improvement over present
conditions can be looked for. First
and foremost is a moral education OF
the people, which will instiiI into the
individual a. stronger sense. or MS duty
and obligation to his neighbor and the
community as a. whole. And: Seconoly,
a hygienic education that will inform
him as to how the infectious diseases
Lare spread about, how they are des-
lseminated bv the sufferer and con-
ltracted by his healthy neighbor, the
means to be employed for preventing
himself from Becoming a peripatetie
Epesthouse IL he have such a dlsease
land those for protecting himself from
others so afflicted if he. beSclean him
self-New York Press.
Yankee Ingenuity
The Yankees genius for inventor
loses none of its fertility by reason
Of the heavy, yield it produces year
after year. In point of FACT the pat
emit Office records show that there We're
4. 600 more applications for patents
last year than during the previous
year. bringing the total number grant
ed to date up to 100000. Three years
hence, unless there is an unlocked fol
slump the total Will nave passeu LAX
million mark.
u Does the invention pay? This ques-
, tien has been answered in the negative
Hby those best qualified to judge
| j d
, termine. What with reckoning the
time spent in devising a patentablt
article, often the work. of years, tht
outlay for models, attorney and pat
ent office fees, and. most OF all, 1ol
putting the invention on the market
, it looks doubtful that the grantees o.
the $4,000 patents issued last year
will, on the whole, reap pecumara
, reward. To this must be added thf
outlay of as many thousand NOR.
loot fR1ected. y
, few, of course will strike IT rich
|, but depleted pocketbooks and sore DIS
! appointment await the many.-Wash
, ington- Post.
Doctors Versus Lawyers.
, Most lawyers take a keen dehsn
! trying to confuse medical experts II
: the witness box in murder trials, ant
. citen they get paid back In tnelr oM Nv,
coin. A case is recalled where tn
lawyer, after exercising all his tang
ling tactics without effect, looked quiz
, ideally at the doctor who was TESTIFY
ing and said:
: times make mistakes. won't your"
, ooh, yes; the same as lawyers, wa
the cool reply.
: "And doctors mistakes are buried
, six feet under ground" was the Ia"
3 Yes he replied, land the lawyers
. mistakes often swing in the air.
Q Philadelphia Public Ledger.
n .Never Asain.- Saws burlington.
Booth Harrington, who is here o.
0 a visit, declared Wednesday that h
( had written his last novel, which ]
: an assertion considered treasonabls
d coming from a native of Indiana.
o "I never wanted to be writer,
: said Mr.. Harrington, land unless
s am absolutely forced to do so hay
8 written my last book. My ambition !
: life is to become an illustrator, and
r once thought I was in a fair way t
4 reach my goal.
d ct have but one ambition to max
i money enough to get out of this play
= writing mess and purchase nice farr
8 in Indiana, where I may lead the III
l. az q cn11nfr.r oanfiapn n with ius