The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-06

So sing it. softly. when the night
Filings shadows from the drowsy west,
For all its measures, shadow-light,
With comfort and heartsease are blest.
And it may be to some fair star
Will float an echo of some strain
To tell the two who bide afar
Chicago Post.
Pemmican Craze Now.
Delicacies which hitherto have been
confined to the frozen north will have
a place on every well-regulated table
during the coming winter, if reports
from the Chicago packing houses are
to be credited 1t has been an open
secret for some time that many of
the Broadway hotels and hunger huts
were stocking up with pemmican,
musk OK, and polar bear milk, but no
one had the temerity to forecase the
craze for arctic foods which threatens
to sweep the country. Pemmican bids
fair to be the most popular of all
the. dishes, and pemmican parties will
be in order from now on.
'If anybody had told me month
ago that 1 would be featuring pemmi-
can on my bill of fare. I would have
sent him to Bellevue for examination"
said one of the big hotel men yester-
day. fright after DR.. Cook discov-
scattering demands for it, but we paid
no attention to them. We thought it
was simply a novelty, and that it would
die out. Each day found the demand
getting more insistent. The climax
came last week when a fellow come in
and declared if he couldn't get penn
mican he'd wreck the establishment.
We had to use the greatest diplomacy
to get him out, and the next day we
laid in a stock Of it"
What does it taste like ?" asked the
reporter.
you've got to acquire a taste for
it. The first mouthful tastes like a
mixture of red sandstone and cold
ashes. 1t has peculiar effect on you.
After. you swallow it you begin to
blubber. The second mouthful starts
you exploring. The .nig--t 1 was in
itiated I was numbering and exploring
all night. 1 couldn't sleep until my
wife put cake of ice on my chest"
What is it made OFF,
1.-THE groundwork is lean beef from
which every sinew and tendon has
been removed This is dried and pull
verified Added to it are the best
seeded raisins and currants and a
quantity of the best beef suet. 1t is
pepper and salt. and put into her
metically sealed cans"
"Sort of trapped mincemeat?
That's it. It's served with a ham
washed down with cod liver oil
cocktail New. York Herald
Cross Ocean to Cure Dog.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harold T. Creighton
will go to Paris in a few weeks to
submit to the most noted occulists of
France the case of their toy French
bull dog Regent. Regent. prize win
ner and pet, is nearly blind. He can
see in the darkness much better than
in the light, and in this lies his only
hope. His master and mistress have
paid large fees to several New York
occulists to treat the dog, but Reg
ent's sight has continued to fail.
Mr.. and Mrs. Creighton have a /
country place at Deal, where they
have interested themselves in breeding
dogs of Regents race. but none like
him
Their home has long been his. and !
the quiet dignity with which he bears
his misfortune adds to the grief of
his master and mistress in witnessing |
1t. He trusts his life to their word, |
and leaps to obey their slightest COM |
but SO full of faith that their voices |
lead him as if he were on a leash.
All went well with Regent for three |
years, perhaps too well, for his pres |
ent misfortune is attributed to over |
feeding by servants. In Atlantic City |
last summer his conduct began to |
worry Mr.. and Mrs. Creighton. Reg
ent showed nervousness in going down |
stairs. He bumped into chairs and |
when Mr.. Creighton at last suspected |
the truth he found that he could pass |
his hand In front of Regents eyes
without making the dog even blink. |
Regent was taken at once to the most |
capable veterinary who could be
reached
"Going blind" was the verdict. The |
suggested that Regent be
put out of his misery Mr.. and Mrs. |
Creighton hurried to New York to
seek specialists whose patients are
human beings. DR.. Ella Prentice Up |
study of Regents case and diagnosed
it as paralysis of the optic nerve prob
ably due to a brain clot. To correct |
this condition the dog was submitted |
to treatment under the X-ray by a |
method newly devised for rehabilita-
Regent improved at once so far as
the appearance of his eyes was con- |
cerned, but his ordinary vision re-
NAMED unchanged. His pupils be-
came greatly dilated, and it was found
that in the darkness he could see. and |
to a considerable distance. but in the |
light he was practically blind.
Other occulists and famous special |
lists of New York were consulted, but
Regent. Veterinarians of the Bide a
Wee Hospital. whA have large expert |
ence, declared Reger, was blind and
incurabIe, but Mr. aaS Mrs. Creighton
declined to accept ti,.. verdict from
any source.-New York Herald
Lightning and Balloons.
The rapid progress of aviation has
caused attention to be drawn from a
new direction to the dangers of at
electricity. In an article in
the Elektrotechniche Zeitschrift, L. |
Zehnder discussed the danger to bal |
looms and aeroplanes of electrical dis
turbances, and the methods of avoid
ing disastrous effects. He points out
that the electrical conditions of the
air are subject to great variations
during thunderstorms. and that the
charges may change sud-
denly in sign. In clear weather an
ordinary balloon without metal parts
is not exposed to any danger 50 long