WiAT TUBERCULOSIS COSTS Immense Monetary Loss Caused the Country 1 by Its Ravages now to Retain S Health nnr Rnriil v Vidnr fjg9fTflfflfe Cost of Tuberculosis Dr Harmon Biggs of New York American Medicine after a careful estimation places the annual expense of tuberculosis to the people of the United States at 3000000000 Ho first calculates the loss to New York city by putting a value of 1500 upon each life at the average at which deaths from tuberculosis occur This gives a total value of the lives lost annually of 150000000 But this is not all For at least nine months prior to death these patients cannot work and the loss of service at one dollar a day together with food nursing medicines attendance etc at one and one half dollars a day re sults in a further loss of S00000000 making a yearly loss to the munici pality of 23000OOOG0 For the whole country the 150000 deaths from tuber culosis represent in the same way a loss of 33000000000 Dr Biggs also states that the total expenditure in the city of New York for the care of tuberculous patients is not at present over 50000000 a year that is it does not exceed two per cent of the actual loss by death etc If this annual expenditure were doubled or trebled it would mean a saving of several thousand lives annually to say nothing of the enormous saving in suf fering Further evidence of this is afforded by the fact that in the last twenty years the total number of deaths from tuberculosis in New York has decreased instead of increasing although there has been an increase of 70 per cent in the general popula tion Oil Rubbing Clothing exposes us to great dan gers We wear too many clothes We dress too warmly so the skin be comes relaxed and loses the power to take care of itself and this is the rea son oil rubbing is necessary The simple removal of a thin layer of oil by a hot bath may be sufficient to cause a man to take cold so this must be replaced by a special oiling or some other treatment in cold weath er People who are very susceptible to cold should be rubbed with oil after each bath Oil rubbing is especially needed in cases in which the skin is dry through deficient activity of the oli glands of the skin Great care however should be taken to avoid too vigorous rubbing in the application of the oil as sweating is very easily pro duced to the disadvantage of the pa tient In the treatment of infants and children a marked and most favor able effect upon nutrition is produced by oil rubbing Application of oil after cold baths encourages reaction In most cases of chronic dyspepsia when accompanied by emaciation in diabetes and in most cases in which malnutrition with dryness of the skin is a prominent feature oil rubbing is a valuable curative agency Horrors of the Cocaine Habit The following illustration of bad ad vice in the lecture room is probably not an exceptional case A professor of materia medica lecturing on cocaine called it one of the greatest of all stimulants and perfectly harmless He cited his own experience of its good effects and advised the class to test it personally in debility and ex haustion Of a class of thirty two who listened to this advice five became cocaine takers within two years Ten years later thirteen of this class were drug and spirit takers In all prob ability the use of cocaine was the starting point of their addictions Four died from the direct use of this drug Evidently more than half the class had followed the advice of the teacher and were wrecked A few years after the professor became an invalid and retired from the profes sion a victim of his own counsel and confidence in cocaine When anything is growing one formatory is worth more than a thou sand reformatories Horace Mann Tuberculosis Rightly Classed The Health department of the city of Philadelphia has decided that in future tuberculosis shall be classed with other diseases that are dangerous to the public health such as smallpox diphtheria scarlet fever and other contagious maladies The law in Pennsylvania and most other States of the Unon requires that every case of contagious disease shall be reported to the Health department Hereafter all cases of tuberculosis must be so reported by the attending physician The purpose of this law is to enable the Health department to take neces sary steps to prevent the extension of this disease by disinfection of the apartments which have been occupied by the patient and by instruction of the patient and the patients friends how infection from the disease may be avoided This law is a good one and ought to be enforced in every civilized com munity Body and mind are both gifts and for the proper use of them our Maker will hold us responsible Simple Living and Longevity of the Brazilians According to a writer in a contem porary magazine the Brazilians when first discovered lived the natural orig inal life lived bv all mankind as fre quently described in ancient histories before laws or property or arts made entrance among men The Brazilians lived without business or labor fur ther than for their necessary food by gathering fruits herbs and plants they knew no drink but water were not tempted to drink or eat beyond common thirst or appetite were not troubled with either public or domes tic cares and knew no pleasures but those simple and natural in character Many of these were said at the time the country was discovered by the Europeans to have lived as long as two hundred years This was without doubt an exagger ation but that they were very long lived is evidenced by the fact that within ihe last quarter of a century there was an old woman living in Rio Janeiro at the remarkable age of one hundred and forty one years Beauty of form and face are the nat ural results of right living and to try to get them in idleness by the aid of massage drugs or physical culture is to undermine the foundation for all charm Nature intended that we should be of use whether we are genius or common clay and naturo rules We cant cheat her The Quiet Way Best Whats the use of worrying Of hurrying And scurryinff Everybody flurrying And bieakinR up his rest When everything is teaching us Preaching and beseeching us To settle down and end the fuss For quiet ways are best The rain that trickles down in showers A blessing to the thirsty flowers And gentle zephyrs gather up Sweet fragrance from each brimming cup Theres ruin in the tempests path Theres ruin in a voice of wrath And they alone are blest Who early learn to dominate Themselves their violence abate And prove by their serene estate That quiet ways are best Exercise gradually increases the physical powers and gives more strength to resist sickness Frequency of Tuberculosis From the Massachusetts Medical Journal we abstract the following At the second annual American Congress on Tuberculosis held in New York in 1902 Dr Pryor stated that 14000 per sons die annually in the State of New York of this disease One sixth of all the deaths in the world are due to this one disease Statistics show that in France 150000 die every year of this disease in Germany 170000 in the United States 100000 in Paris 11 000 in London 13000 New York City 9000 Of deaths between the ages of fif teen and forty tuberculosis claims one third between fifteen and thirty five one half The mortality from tubercu losis alone exceeds that of war plague cholera famine yellow fever and smallpox Plato called a man lame because he exercised the mind while the body was allowed to suffer HEALTHFUL DISHES Fruit Nectar Take Concord grapes or any kind of berries and put into a stewpan with a small amount of water boil ten minutes stirring oc casionally Strain first through a sieve and then through a cheese cloth Add one third sugar to two thirds juice and boil briskly for fifteen minutes Put in bottles and seal When used add either liot or cold water to suit the taste Macaroni au Gratin Break enough macaroni into inch lengths to fill a cUp and cook in one and one half pints of boiling water in a double boiler un til tender When done drain and sepa rate by dashing over it a little cold water Mix with the macaroni one cupful of cottage cheese one table spoonful of cracker crumbs rolled fine one fourth cup of cream and one half teaspoonful of salt Put in an oiled graniteware dish and bake until brown Grape Fruit Chill tlie fruit then cut it crosswise providing a half for each person Loosen the sections from the skin and remove the center white membrant Fill the cavities with sugar and serve with a couple of white cherries on top of each half Vegetable Bouillon To one and one half pints of bran pressed down add two and one half quarts of boiling water Allow this to simmer for two hours or more strain add one pint of strained tomato one stalk of chopped celery one large onion and one half teaspoonful of powdered mint in a muslin bag Let this simmer togeth er for from half an hour to an hour Add water to make two and one half quarts of soup Strain add one tea spoonful of salt or more if desired and reheat for serving On each bread-and-butter plate put a pat of cocoanut butter two nut cheese straws and a couple of bread or cream sticks tied together with yel low and white ribbon Golden Salad Prepare eggs by hard boiling them Cut when done into two parts remove the yolks without breaking the whites mash them and mix with enough mayon naise or boiled salad dressing to bind them Fill the egg white shells with the prepared yolks and stick the two half whites together thus forming whole eggs Cut one end flat and stand an egg on a lettuce leaf en each salad plate Around each egg put a circle of mayonnaise LEGISLATURE of NEBRASKA A Synopsis of Proceedings of the Twenty Ninth Gen eral Session SENATE After a very strenuous though humorous fight the senate on the 20lh in the committee of the whole voted to recommend for pas sage II R 75 by Foster of Douglas compelling dealers to paint gasoline cans red S F 88 allowing school districts to retire their bonds at the end of five years was passed The senate resolved into a committee of the whole with Wall of Sherman in the chair H It 00 the Foster dental bill was recommended for passage The following new bills were intro duced S F 207 by Bresee of Sheri dan that patent medicines containing 10 per cent of alcohol shall be deem ed an intoxicating drink and dealers shall be required to taken out a liquor license HOUSE The house went into com mittee of the whole on the 20th with Bartoo of Valley in the chair These bills among others were for passage H It 139 by Jack son of Antelope Authorizing appeals to the district court on tax levies and giving courts jurisdiction II It 191 by McClay of Lancastc To consoli date biennial reports of state officers and department These bills were passed II It 1G3 by Bacon of Daw son Providing for sale of peniten tiary lands control and disposition of funds and to create penitentiary lands fund H R 175 by Howe of Nemaha Making it mandatory instead of op tional for county boards to appro priate 3 cents per capita per annum for the benefit of agricultural so cieties S F C by Good of Nemaha Fixing the date of convening the State Board of Equalization on the third Monday in July making it after the county hoards equalization in stead of before H It 70 by Burns of Lancaster One of the Lincoln char ter bills SENATE The senate on the 21st in the committee of the whole inde finitely postponed the blacksmith lien law bill and recommended for passage the South Omaha sewer bill by Gibson The blacksmith lien bill provided that for work en any kind of vehicle or for shoeing a horse or other animal the workman should have a lien on the animal or vehicle should his lien be filed within four months Cady of Howard introduced the bill by request and spoke for its passage H It GO and II R S2 were passed The former regulates the practice of dentistry and the latter provides for the construction of a live stock pavilion and fish building at the state fair grounds1 H It G7 was indefinitely postponed This bill pro vides for the printing of the report of the State Board of Irrigation These bills were introduced and read a first time S F 20S by Meserve providing for the appointment of three commissioners to revise the in surance laws of the state for which each is to receive S a day the work to be completed by January 1 1907 S F 209 by Jones of Otoe providing that where a community gives a bonus of land for an industry the town or village shall have a lien on the property for twenty years S F 75 was passed HOUSE The house on the 21st passed these bills Transferring 20 000 from the clothing fund at the Hastings insane asylum to the repair and improvement fund emergency clause To enable the State university regents to condemn lands needed for university purposes The emergency clause failed to pass Empowering cities of the second class to grant franchises and make contracts with power plants To prevent printers from publishing more copies of books pamphlets etc than ordered Emer gency Regulating the amount of bonds which school districts may is sue Authorizing county boards to appropriate 100 a year for farmers institutes To allow surety companies to be surety for a public officer for more than two successive terms To exact a penal bond of 5000 from an applicant for a saloon license before such license is issued Permitting state and county treasurers to re quire guaranty bonds from depository banks whereas now they may only require personal bonds and it legal izes such guaranty bonds Requiring a uniform examination under direc tion of the State Board of Education for all applicants for state teachers certificates Appropriating 10000 for an agricultural pavilion at the state fair grounds Requiring school dis tricts to estimate the money needed during the coming year instead of making a levy Emergency clause To allow mutual insurance societies to amend their charters after twenty years so as to issue five year policies To provide for payment of outstand ing road district warrants and to liquidate all indebtedness against road districts Emergency clause Providing that any person insured in a mutual company except in case of notes acquired by this act to be de posited at the time of its organization may at any time return the policy for cancellation and on paying amount due on his premium note and be dis charged from further liability Emer gency clause SENATE In the committee of the whole with Gifiin in the chair the following bills were considered on the 22nd Senate file No 3G by don to provide for open depots in small towns recommended for pas sage Senate file No 112 by Bresee providing for a years residence for divorce applicants for passage Sen ate file No 133 by Wall permitting appeals n tax litigation for passage Senate file No 14S by Bresee to amend road tax collection statutes for passage House roll No 131 ly Smith to pay county commissioners 3 a day indefinitely postponed Sen ate file No 7G by Bresee dividing the Fourteenth judicial district for pas sage The following new bills were introduced Senate file No 214 by Thomas To provide for notice in tax saleJoreclosures Senate file No 215 by Thomas To provide for the pay ment of tax claims any time before foreclosure and fixing the rate of in terest at 15 per cent House roll No 3 by Windham to appoint three su preme court commissioners and form a commission of six was passed Sen ate file No Ill by Meserve to make adultery a felony was read for the third time and passed This measure is designed to regulate the conduct of the Indians in Northeast Nebraska HOUSE There was no suspension of business on the 22d Washingtons birthday Hunker of Cuming offered a resolution commending Kansas for its fight upon the Standard Oil trust pledging sentimental co operation and taking a shot at John D Rockefeller as the magnate of the most treacher ous monopoly in existence The re solution went over II R 210 by Clarke of Douglas was recommended for passage It is the bill which im poses a one year penitentiary sentence or a fine of 500 for the game of policy The bill to precipitate an un usual contest was H R 230 by Parker of Otoe It provided for the prohibi tion of saloons within 400 feet of any schoolhouse Jackson of Antelope of fered an amendment making it apply only to retail places of selling liquor The amendment was lost and the bill recommended for passage H R 2 by McMullen of Gage to amend the revenue bill so as to elect instead of appoint district assessors brought out much discussion The measure was finally indefinitely postponed H R 87 by Hoare of Platte prohibiting the granting of liquor licenses to any but the actual parties interested was recommended for passage Among bills introduced were the following Concurrent resolution proposing- an amendment to the constitution for a state railway commission of three to serve three years whose duty it shall bo to enforce laws of the legislature H R 333 by Perry of Furnas To de fine the rights of creditors of dece dents and to prescribe a manner for applying for an order of descent To repeal section 11412 of Cobbeys Statutes that provides for a clerk of the State Printing board Creating a commission of three to revise the in surance laws of this state To provide for placing Questions relating to amendments or the constitution con stitutional conventions and all other questions- and propositions submitted to the vote of the people on a separ ate ballot which shall be of pink color to be deposited in a separate ballot box also of pink color H R 337 by Pospisil of Saunders to amend sec tion 13 of an act approved April 4 1903 entitled Ant act to provide a system of public revenue and repeal articles i ii iii iv and v and sections 4 5 G 7 S 9 10 11 and 12 of article vii of chapter 77 Compiled Statutes of Nebraska for the year 1901 and to repeal said section 13 and all acts and parts of acts inconsistent here with SENATE In the senate on the 23rd in the committee of the whole with Mockett in the chair some important measures were disposed of One of these was by Epperson to repeal the law which creates the office of the state architect Epperson quoted statistics showing that the state would have been at less expense had it employed outside architects in stead of having a state architect The bill was recommended for passage H R 132 appropriating money for the building of a fish pond at South Bend was recommended for passage as were these other measures SF IS fixing penalty for jury bribing S F 15 fixing penalty for one who bribes a juror S F 125 fixing punishment of parent wro contributes to child de linquency as conned by the statutes S F 30 permitting all fraternal com panies to incorporate was amended so as to mclude Scottish Rite Ma sons S F 749 allows money now held by county treasurer of Douglas county to be paid into school dis tricts the same having been collected for tuition of high school pupils from outside districts the law later having been declared void by the supreme court S F 143 to allow the Omaha schocl board to elect a secretary for a term of three years instead of one year as at present Bills introduced were S F SIS by Gibson of Doug las increases Ihe salary of members of South Omaha police board from 100 to 300 a year S F 219 by Gib son of Douglas to allow the mayor and city council of South Omaha to refund the rrial paving tax to prop erty owners along Twenty fourth street between A and Q HOUSE In the house on the 23rd IT R 40 to elect no county assessors In counties of less than 10000 popula tion was indefinitely postponed Tho Hunker resolution pledging Nebraskas sympathy to Kansas in its fight against the Standard Oil trust came up was amended and passed Among bills in troduced were tho following A bill for an act to compel railroad compa nies in Nebraska to afford equal fa cilities without favoritism or dis crimination to all persons and asso ciations erecting or operating grain elevators and handling or shipping grain or other produce and to compel railroad companies to afford equal fa cilities as between individuals ship ping their own grain and freight and said persons and associations erect ing or operating grain elevators and handling or shipping other produce and to equally supply cars to indi viduals and associations and persons engaged in the business of buying and shipping of grain and other freight and to provide equitable dis tributions of cars between shipping points and between shippers at such points when the demand for cars is greater than the supply and to fix penalties An act to provide for he making of test borings or explorations for the discovery of oil coal gas or artesian water and other minerals in the state of Nebraska and to appro priate money to aid in such borings or explorations Appropriates 25000 An act making appropriations for tho current expenses of the state govern ment for the years ending March 31 190G and March 31 3907 and miscel laneous items Appropriates 1828 000 An act creating and making the county treasurer in any county in cluding within its boundaries a city of the metropolitan class treasurer ex officio of such city and also treasurer ex officio of the school district in sain city An act to allow insurance companies to invest their capital and surplus in stocks of incorporated Ne braska companies A bill for an act authorizing county clerks and record ers to accept printed books from wa ter users associations organized un der the national reclamation act and to use the same for recording stock subscriptions of such association SENATE Another bill to facilitate the movements of live stock shippers was slashed and cut by the senate railroad committee on the 24th Sen ate file No 152 by Senator Gould was dissected and the dismembered skele ton reported for the general file The original bill required a uniform mo tion of live stock of twenty miles an hour This was cut to twelve miles and the chances are that the bill will be indefinitely postponed for the same committee recommended a bill for a speed of seven miles not long ago Senate file No 112 by Good regulat ing the salaries or the bank examin ers was reported for the general file as originally drawn Senate file No 137 by Epperson regulating the privi leges of eminent domain exercised by corporations was placed on the gener al file Senate fiie No S7 by Sheldon regulating the cost in appeal cases was recommended for the general file Senate file No 152 by Gould regulat ing the rate of speed of live stock trains was amended by the railroad committee and reported for the gen eral file In the committee of the whole bouse roll No 8 the Omaha water bill was recommended for passage House roll No 117 by Hill appro priating 5000 for irrigation investi gation was recommended for passage Senate file No 37 by Beghtol provid ing for teaching principles of kindness to animals was recommended for in definite postponement by the standing committee In the committee of the whole senate file Xo 1S1 was recom mended for passage The bill by Gould of Greeley provides for a road tax of 25 mills when townships want it General Appropriation Bill The finance ways and means com mittee on the 22d completed the gen eral appropriation bill and Chairman Wilson will introduce it in the house at once The total appropriation for the biennium is 1720000 as com pared with 1828000 for the last ses sion a decrease of 108000 One of the heavy increases this year is the item for the National Guard 45700 The increase of nearly 20000 is to meet the demands of the militia many companies of which had been compelled to depend upon their awn resources for such expenses as arm ory rent Following are the various items Governors department t C100 Board of Public Lands and Buildings 420QO Board of Educational Landa and Funds 40000 Board of Purchase and Supplies 150 Commissioner of Public Lands and Buildings 2100 State library Commission 0000 Secretary of State 2000 Auditor T 300 Attorney General 7000 Treasurer 5500 State Board of Irrleation 3000 Commissioner of Tabor 2 SOf State Superintendent 30000 State Banking Board 6 30 supreme Court 3 rnn State Iibrarv 10 nm State Board of Charities 4000 State Fish Commission in State Historical Society 10 non Food Commissioner 4 4oo State Board of Health joooo Nebraska Natlonnl Guard 4 Too tniversitv of Nebraska 280 470 State Normal school Pvru 2 f0 State Normal school Kearnev 3S 700 Institute for the Blind Ne braska City 29 lOO Institute for the Deaf and Dumb Omaha 4S300 Boys Industrial school Kear ney 7S nr Girls Industrial school Geneva 24 290 Institute for Feeble Minded Youths Beatrice sfifiOO Hospital for the Insane Lincoln 170 TOO Hospital for Incurable Insane Hnstlnsri 31i0 Hospital for the Insane Norfolk S4000 Home for the Friendless Lin coln in 400 Industrial Home Milford IMOi Ptne renltetla v SoMiers pnd Sillors Home G and Island 1 1 2 i i 1 127 Sold s and SaHors Iloire ViliT rt Ai rIIf eilaneous iters A HEALTHYOLD ME OFTENTKEBESTPARTGFLIFE Help for Women Paoslngr Through Quango of Life Providence lias allotted tis each nfc least seventy years iu which to fulfill our mission in life and it is generally our own fault if we die prematurely jj JMnsMaryKoehn e l MniHM TIH i llf vnm mil m wmo rlV7 Nervous exhaustion invites disease This statement is the positive truth When everything becomes a burden and you cannot walk a few blocks with out excessive fatigue and you break out into perspiration easily and your face flushes and you grow excited and shaky at the least provocation and you cannot bear to be crossed in any thing you are in danger your nerves have given out you need building up at once I To build up womans nerv ous system and during- the period of change of life we know of no better medicine than Lydia E Pinkhams Vegetable Compound Here is an illustration Jlrs Mary L Koehne 171 Garfield Avenue Chicago 111 writes I have used Lydia E Pinkhiuns Vegetable Compound for years 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