The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-27
FROM OTHER PENS
MEDICAL SCIENCE ADVANCES.

MEDICAL SClERSh Adv <A4NNE1ko.
Whatever other lesson the mobiliza-
ton of the troops on the Mexican bor-
der has to teach, it has already taught
that medical science has made some
notable strides in the dozen or more
years which have lapsed since the
Spanish war. This fact was
brought out by President Taft in an
address of recent date before the Medt-
cal club at Philadelphia.
During the Spanis1-American war
there was a frightfm sick list and
heavy mortality at Chickamauga and
other camps where soldiers were held.
There Were 10000 cases of typhoid;
there was mortality off ], 400 among
the 120, 600 troops modified.
1t is a very different story which
comes from Texas and southern Cali
fornia incident to the present mobiliza-
ton. Two months have passed since
the troops were called together. Owing
to modern precautions for the guard
against typhoid, there has been but one
case of this disease found among the
entire body OF 20, 900 men modified.
1t is a very different story which
comes from Texas and Southern Cali
fornia incident to the present mobili-
cation. Two months have passed since
the troops were called together. Ow-
ing to modern precautions for the
guarding of health, including vacoina-
ton against typhoid, there has been
but one case of this disease found
among the entire body of 10000 men
modified
This showing is a tribute to med
ical science. 1t shows the results of
the unwearied study, the self-sacrif1ce
and the dangerous experimenting
which those devoted to the science of
preventive medicine have given in
such unstinted and loyal fashion. More
than this, with what has been accom-
plished in banishing yellow fever in
Cuba and on the Isthmus of Panama,
in checking cholera. the bubonic
plague. smallpox and leprosy In the
Philippines, it gives an earnest of the
time when medicine shall triumph
over most of the multitude of ills to
which flesh is heir.-Worcester Even
ing Gazette.
ANNIE LAURIE.
1t is discouraging to receive the
positive information that Annie Laurie
was a gold brick. She gave 'her
promise true'' to her lover, who had
to leave the country for time, and
then she turned around and married
a fat laird who owned most of the
braes in the Maxwelton neighborhood.
Armies lover was a young man
named Douglas. He was a chivalrous,
romantic individual who would make
an excellent hero for novel, and it
seems a pity that Robert Louis Steven
son overlooked him. He was the best
swordsman of his day. and would fight
at the drop of the hat. Like many
other romantic and brave but mis-
guided young Scotchmen he was an
ardent supporter of the Stuarts, and
took part in some plot tc restore that
family to the throne.
The plot was q failure, and Doug
las, in his wanderings, became ac-
quainted with Annie Laurie. Her reia-
tiyes were indignant. They were sub
stantial people and had no use for q
busted adventurer who was foolish
enough to plot and fight for the Stu
arts. In order to get rid of him they
put the officers on his track, and Doug
las had to leave the country. Annie
Laurie promised to be true to him till
the crack o. doom and the young man
went to France. It was during his
Journey there that he wrote the song
bearing the girls name-a song that
has inspired lovers all over the world.
1t is the sweetest and tenderest of all
such ballads. A girl who was immor-
taiized in such a way should have been
faithful, If only to preserve the eternal
fitness of things.
But Annie was cheap skate. Short
ly after her lover departed the fat
laird came counting. He told her how
many acres OF land he owned, and how
many hogs and cattle, and so forth,
and she couldn't resist the temptation.
She married him, and that's all that's
known of her. It's enough.-Emporia
Gazette.