The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-18

MY daily task, knowing the things that irk
But what's the use? Is life worth living
when
A bard's no freer than a dry goods clerk?
And, if reincarnation's true-nnethinks
1t Is. because it seems so much the same
As Iife-why, must drink the self-same
cup
For ages. die. and wake and play the game
Again,a bigger round, that's all. By
wish Eternity would hurry up!
Cleveland Leader.
FIexner Cure a Success.
Dr. Simon Flexner. the director of
the Rockefeller institute for Medical
research, has now tabulated the re-
suits of his serum treatment in 712
cases of cerebro-spinal meningitis. His
hgures show the greatest mortality in
the disease is in the first two years of
more than AZ per cent of these cases, as
against only 10 per cent of cures under
the old methods of treatment.
The next highest rate Of death in
to years of age. The serum cured
nearly 81 per cent of the patients in
this class. When used in children from
to 10 years of age the mortality was
lowest of all-only 16 per cent. Persons
more than Is years old seem to have
cerebro-spinal meningitis of a type as
severe as infants. The serum cured
between 80 and SO per cent of the pa
IACI1lS AIOIIl 10 TO ~ years OF age.
Early injection of the serum, Prof
Flexner says, is the great point in the
serum treatment. The mortality
among those injected in the first to
third day was little more than 25 per
cent. Among those injected in the
Fourth to seventh day there was nearly
% per cent of deaths. The mortality
among those who were not injected unc
I'll the seventh day or after exceeded
AZ per cent.
DR.. Thomas Morgan Rotch, of Bos-
ton. has reported to the American
Medical association his experience with
the F'lexner serum in treating menin-
g1tls in children under IL years of age.
II reduced his mortality, he says from
~ to IL per cent during he first year of
It's use, and has not since gone above
70 per cent: There was an so per cent
mortality, he says. even under tha
diphtheria antitoxin treatment of men
nights: DR.. William Litterer, of Nash
vile. Tenn, reports ten cures out of
seventeen patients in the recent menin-
gifts epidemic there Two of the deaths
We're of patients who were moribund
when first injected.
DR.. Frank Spooner Churchill. OF Chi
cago, says he has found it is useless To
inject the Flexner serum under the
skin. 1t must be used by lumbar
puncture. Nor is the serum, he says
INTENDED for any form of meningitis ex-
cept the epidemic type. In severe cases
the dose has to be repeated every day
Tor -FOUR days; then a day of rest; then
-FOUR more daily doses. The Flexner
serum, he says. limits the duration OF
the disease.-New York World
Told in New Jersey.
Rush Gibbons, 12-year-old son of Will
lam Gibbons, truck farmer of Fair
field, recently found a dog lying be-
side the tu1 mike. The animal was cry
ing and whining as If in great pain, and
GIBBONS, who loves all dumb creatures,
n ais right foreleg was broken. The dog
had been struck by an auto
mobile.
Gibbons took the dog home in his
srlints. He nursed the poor animal
back to health, and soon it was as
risky as ever. His parents demurred
at first, but finally allowed the boy
tc Keep his pet. the dog earning his
keep by driving away tramps and fire.
cuently preventing thefts of fruit and
vegetables. Things. however, did not
p1 osper with the Gibbons family. The
was a Jonah.
He has brought US hard luck said
Mr.: Gibbons to the boy, land he must
CO."
Rush took the dog behind the barn
and then cried as if his heart would
break But it was not to be that the
dog must leave the farm.
The family was at dinner Sunday
when the dog scratched at the screen
door and the boy hurried to let the
Jonah in, although his father objected
The animal walked up close to the
elder Gibbons. and then to the aston
ishment OF all dropped from it's mouth
some money. which. when counted,
proved to be five one dollar bills all
new.
Where the dog got the money is a |
mystery ard one that will perhaps
never be solved
The result will be, however, that Mr.. |
Gibbons will keep the dog, as he be- |
ieves the bringing of the money will
likewise bring about change of luck |
Caldwell On. j. Dispatch to New |
York Herald.
To Reform 'Drunks."