The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-24

Ia Saving Up 10 go away
Last year I vowed that would raise
A rund for summer holidays;
III put bit away each week; ~ ~
But time flew by
With empty purse and grief. filled cup;
Scrimpins myself. but saving up.
Perhaps, by August 1, I may
Ana An then in some lakeside resort
| I'll cut dash
And spend my cash.
\ For after all this life, my friend,
Is just case OF save and spend.
! Detroit Free Press.
| New Cure For Cancer
The theory that fever and inflam-
1 nation are merely natures weapons
to fight maladies in the basis of an in
1 tereSting new medical system which
is being applied in st. Louis with re-
suits that have been astonishing the
| experimenters
In acting on the new theory regard
| ing fever and Inflammation a method
first devised by DR.. August Bier. a cele-
brated German surgeon, Is used. DIR.
A. Siebert, Of 1sz7 South Jefferson av-
enue, is convert to the new theory
| and q believer in the Bier method,
! which he is using daily.
| The method consists in holding the
blood in an affected part-the lungs,
the brain, or a gangrened finger
| long enough to permit the diseased It's
sue to take Up all the nourishment in
! the blood. This is done at frequent in
tervals, and is accomplished by means
| of bandages and vacuum producing de-
vices. The artificially produced con-
gestion is known in medicine as "hy-
peremie.''
in surgical cases, but DR.. Siebert has
| extended its use to so-calIed medical
/ cases.
When a Post-Dispatch reporter ask
ed DR.. Siebert to explain his use OF
the Bier method, he said that one OF
his cases is that of young man who
had suffered from epilepsy for years
experiencing one or more seizures
daily until the treatment was begun
This young mans head has been ban
| daged twice daily, the bandage being
so arranged as to force the blood tc
remain in his head and permit the
brain to take up the nourishment from
it. In fifteen months the patient has
not had a seizure, and DR.. Siebert be-
lieves he will be we'll In a year and 9
half.
The young man was struck on the
head with a baseball bat in boyhood
The lesion of the brain produced cpl
lepsy. His case was supposed to be in
durable, or at the best. durable only
through dangerous surgical opera
ton.
The use of the bandages about the
head and neck in this case in its re1a-
fevers is explained as follows:
/ Starting with the hypothesis that ma.
ture puts forth no useless or uninten-
tional effort. it was deduced that fe-
yer which Is present In almost all dis
eases, was only an increased ac-
tfuity of the blood In natures effort te
throw off the disease sort of hy-
peremie of the entire body. Ss
In another case breast affected
by cancer was removed entirely
"sloughing" off while new, healthy it's
sue. built up by frequent hyperemie
was formed behind it.-St. Louis Post
Dispatch.
Banks Guarded by Soldiers.
Like the Bank of England. the Banl
by soldiers. who do sentry duty out
side the building, a watch being like
wise kept inside its precincts. Blu
within quite recent times the Officials
at the French bank resorted to a yer!
novel method of protecting their bull
lion. This consisted in engaging mason
to wall up the doors of the vaults ii
the cellar with hydraulic mortar al
soon as the money was deposited eacf
!, day in these receptaeles. The waite
was then turned on and kept runnin.
until the whole cellar was flooded.
burglar would be obliged to work IL
a diving suit and break down a ce
ment wall before he could even begil
to plumber the vaults. When the banl
officials arrived next morning, the wa
ter was drawn off. the masonry tori
down, and the vaults opened. Curious
, ly enough, within a few months ate
this obsolete manner of protecting tn
banks cash was done away with, burg
lars did actually get into the vault
and decamp with about $45, eco in go1t
: coin.-Strand Magazine.
) Plan to Colonize 200, 900 Negroes.
A s1,5oo,ooe corporation with tn
| colonization of 100000 negroes II
southeast Missouri as Its object ha
) been organized in st. Louis after tel
) years of effort by E. B. Hale. ne
gro, of st. Louis county.
1t is Hale's plan to build homes 70
} the negroes on $1,000 acres OF land Il
/ Carter and Butler counties, on whicl
his company has an option. The com
, pany will be conducted on the CO. oper
) alive basis. All supplies for the com
murity will be handled by the com
; pany, and all produce will be sol
through it. A part of the land will b
, examined with the view of sinking irol
and lead mines.
! No white man will be permitted t
, live on the property.-St Louis dis
. patch to the New York Herald.
? An Astronomical Watch.
/. A firm in Coventry, England, ha
Z produced anastronofnicaI watch show
: ing the various functions of the heav
emily bodies. BY its aid it is possibl
to tell what consultations are visibl
at any particular time and the rela
tive positions of the sun and moon. ]
! shows the ordinary time and strike
3 the hours and quarters in the sam
: way as clock. The time of sun ris
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