The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-25

In all its loneliness were true
The piping meadowlark at morn,
And in The air the fragrant tang
And breath of all the blooming things
A robin sang
A robin sang. and 10, the Spring
Was fashioned in the dream he wove
As deftly as Minerva sprang
Full-statured from the brain of Jove.
In imagery / saw the fields,
And heard the clamor of gang
OF wild geese beating down the wind
4 As 5e0 louis lan ffost-Dispatch.
Administration Method.
Our observation-disclosures are as yet
very backward in comparison with the
antiyivisectfonists Of England In Lon
don they have established an anti
vivisection hospital, supposed TO ne
conducted without regard to the re-
suits of experiments on animals, ana
though it is still quite young it has al
ready won a unique reputation and
promises to be famous before long LOT
the originality of it's methods.
A short time ago a woman contracted
blood poisoning from a pin prick.
She went to the antivivisection hos
pital and. according to the testimony
of her son and daughter, waited about
two hours in the hope that doctor
might possibly turn up-a not unrea-
sonable hope considering the place is
advertised as a general hospital" Fin
ally nurse told her that the doctor
was not in," treated her to the best
Of her ability, and dismissed her with
the advice ito come the next day to
see the doctor" The woman was too Ill
to come the next day, and in little
while she died of the injury. The cor
oner said that this was the second
case which had come to his knowledge
recently where no medical man had
been at the antivivisection hospital
when patients were brought in, and
the jury censured the hospital authori-
ties for neglecting to attend to the pa
tient.
AS. soon as this case had been dis
posed of there was an inquiry into the
death of another patient-a child of 10
months, who had been badly burned.
| The mother testified that she took the
child daily to the hospital, but 1T was
not till the third day that any doctor
condescended to look at it. A nurse at
tended to it in the meantime. The resi-
| dent doctor explained that the nurse
drew his attention to anything part1cu-
| IarIv serious but afterward thought
better of 1t, and said he was supposed 10
see every case that came into the hos
pitaI." In spite of this supposition the
child died, and the coroner, comment
| ing on the evidence, said that the facts
disquieting," and that it was time for
the governors Of the hospital to consid-
er these facts and their responsible ty."
The NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. will doubtless
agree that the coroner was unreaSon-
able, for, after all, if the Battersea hos
pital has been unlucky in dealing with
| human patients 1t has never made use
| OF vaccines and serums, or been re-
| sponsible for the deaths of rats and
guinea pigs. You cannot look for per-
lection even in Battersea- Battersea' )
| hospital may be discredited, but Bat
/ tersea still can boast of the beautiful
| DEATH by the ''vivisectors."- New
York Evening Sun.
The German Idea.
| Prof. Edward Meyer. of the Univer-
sity of Berlin,is lecturing at Harvard
| as Exchange professor" and has ex-
pressed these views:
| eff, for example. the Monroe doc
trine were violated. the United States
would appeal to the sword. and not
| to The Hague. True. the United
States does not own South America,
yet they consider it to their advantage
foothold there. Inevitably this atti-
| tude must lead to war as the only
solution
| How happens this distinguished pro-
| feSsor of Berlin to select the Monroe
doctrine for a subject. and to illus
trate it by South America? The doc
| trine is also being expounded above
| our northern border. A few years ago
| the premier of the Dominion was
against entrangling Canada in the vor-
| tex of transatlantic troubles. but now
| he is sure th..t war upon England
! means war with Canada. and that
| means war with the united states.
| The Monroe doctrine means what
| Americans saw it means. 1t does not
mean what many foreigners say it
means. Nevertheless. discussions OF it
| by foreigners are always interesting,
and may illuminate American minds
| regarding their own thoughts. Such
| expressions as those quoted above are
useful if only in eliciting corrections
| of errors.
The United States is not a "con-
quering nation nor animated by
''land hunger" as Prof. Meyer asserts.
We rejected Cuba when we might have
taken it. and there are many of us
| who would like to reject the Philip
pines compatibly with our responsible
| tiles. There is no nation whose pos
sessions are not secure against covet-
BUSINESS. Contentment with our own
is the justification of our attitude re-
garding unlawful acquisitions of Amer
| lean territory. 1t is about equally use
| full that Germany should understand
| Monroeism and that we should under
stand the German Understanding
New York Times.
Damascus Garden City.
Damascus is a garden city touched
by the great desert. Under its roses
bling waters one dreams of the trem-
bling mirage. The cry of its muezzins
seems to echo from its mosque towers
to that most wonderful thing in nature
which is "God without man. The
breath of The wastes passes among the
poplars as that Bedouin boy passed
among the merchants when he came
and when he went. In Damascus one
hears the two voices. And when one
looks from the sacred mountain upon
that city of dream, Graded among the
woods, one sees far off the tawny be-
ginnings of that other magic. which
\ looks out from the Bedouin's eyes.
And though, perhaps, with the pill
grims from Samarkand, and one loves