CONSUMPTIVES* HOSPITAL
PLANNED BY NEW YORK
A municipal hospital for the treat
ment of consumptives lias been pro
posed by the committee on the pre
vention of tuberculosis of the Charity
Organization society, and plans for
such an institution have been submit
ted to the Board of Health of New
York. According to the specifications,
the sanatorium proposed would cost
something over $100,000, but physi
'oians who have studied the problems
'of tuberculosis believe that it would
mean a saving of more than that
amount each year. The loss is com
puted, of course, economically.
Dr. Herman M. Biggs, head of the
pathological department of the Board
of Health, reports from statistics that
the deaths from tuberculosis in the
whole of New York city are about 10,
000 each year. He says that it may he
conservatively estimated that each hu
man life at the average age at which
tubercular deaths occur is worth to
the municipality $1,500. The cost of
each life at this ago is usually more
and with shrubbery to hide the build
ing. There will be also isolated pa
vilions tor contagious diseases, one for
men and another for women. There
will be a general division of the* insti
tution for men and women. Dividing
these sections is to be a large recrea
tion hall.
A private driveway circling around
below the pavilions, according to the
plans, will lead in a gradual ascent, to
the administration building, and fur
ther on to wliat is designated as a cen
tra! building. The latter will contain
physicians’ offices, the office of the
head nurse, toilet rooms and the staff's
and nurses' dining rooms and pantries.
In this building also w ill be the dining
room of the men and women patients
living in the tents. In these rooms
will be provided separate cuspidors,
flushed with constantly running water,
one for each patient, it is proposed to
make the recreation hall a general as
sembly and meeting room, in which re
ligious services, lectures, niusicales.
| pavilion., will be provided with ample
| iloiiei moms, baths and the like. The
entire institution will be heated and
lighted by a private plant.—New York
j Times.
LIFE IN THE METROPOLIS.
! Occurrence on Elevated Railroad
Which Points a Moral.
Somewhere between here and Bath
Beach, the dumping ground of Brook
lyn's Rapid Transit system, about 14o
passengers were put out to wait, for
the "next ear.” There was a lot of
savage talk. The hour was growing
late. Finally a MAN who did none ot
the talking went to the company's
telephone, called tip the superinten
dent. and said: "Send two tars here
immediately: people are becoming
restless; act in haste, else there’ll be
a riot. ' In a few minutes the two
cars arrived. The company is still
guessing who did the telephoning. If
his identity can be proved it is highly
BIRD'S-EYE VIEW OF PROPOSED SANATORIUM FOR CONSUMPTIVES.
KEY.—A—Administration Building. B—Bacteriological and Mortuary Building. C—Laundry and Disinfecting Build
ing. D—Isolation Buildings. E—Heating and Power Plant. F—Central Building. G—Recreation Hall. H—
Ward Hospitals. I—Private Room Hospitals.
than that. Hut this gives a total value
to the lives lost annually of $15,000,
000.
Considering; these facts, and what
their investigations have shown them
—that the spread of consumption in
New York city continues in spite of
their thorough work to check it—the
committee of the Charity Organization
society is firmly convinced that the
time has come when steps should be
taken for the erection of a municipal
sanatorium for the treatment of tuber
culosis. The need arises from the duty
to provide necessary care for those
who have the disease and necessary
protection for those who do not have
it but are exposed to it by the care
lessness of patients.
The plans provide for a combination
of tents and pavilions to be erected
near the city. The building and tents
together will furnish accommodation
for about 500 patients. The sanatorium
will thus care for more patients tiian
any institution of its kind in existence,
and according to careful estimate the
annual per capita cost will be less.
It js the opinion of physicians gener
ally that no specific method for curing
pulmonary tuberculosis or consump
tion is known. In fact, the committee
on the prevention of tuberculosis of
the Charity Organization society,
whose members include some thirty of
the best known and most reputable
medical men and women of New York
city, has issued a circular in bold-faced
type notifying the public that there is
no justification, in the opinion of the
committee, for the extravagant claims
of many so-called specific methods and
special methods for the cure of tuber
culosis, which have been and are be
ing exploited and widely advertised.
It is now conceded by medical men
'that tuberculosis is not contagious or
infectious as are smallpox and yellow
fever. The main agency by which the
disease is communicated is the spu
tum. It will be one of the principal
puriK>ses of the municipal sanatarium,
therefore, to educate. There will be
provided, of course, physicians, nurses,
and attendants as for an ordinary hos
pital, but inasmuch as slight reliance
is to be placed on methods, a main
part of their duties will he to instruct
the patients as to how to take care of
themselves.
The general plan for the institution
calls for a series of pavilions arranged
in a semi-circle. Each pavilion is to
be fitted up with private rooms for pa
tients, and at the southern end of each
pavilion is to bo a solarium. As much
dependence will bp placed on iresh air
the patients will be required to spend
much of their time out of doors, al
though the pavilions themselves will
be open and well ventilated. There
•will be a number of recreation parks.
In connection with the general hos
pital it is proposed to have a village of
112 tents, in which certain patients
shall live through all seasons of the
year. The tents are to be arranged in
streets, with wide spaces and beautiful
landscape effects, and with a recrea
tion park conveniently located. At the
end of each block of tents will be
placed a toilet and bath building for
the block, w ith paths leading to same,
and amateur theatricals may be held,
and the general social intercourse of
the patients take place. A stage is to
be erected at the end of the circular
apse for all these purposes. By con
structing the dome of glass this hall
may also be used as a solarium during
the day.
Extending from either side of the
main axis, connected by corridors, are
the pavilions for the patients. They
are two stories in height and are ar
ranged in fan-like form for the pur
pose of giving each building a maxi
mum amount of sunlight. The prin
cipal pavilion on each side of the
regular hall will he divided into sep
arate rooms, sixteen to each floor,
with the solarium at the south end.
Each of the ward pavilions, of which
there are three on each side of the
separate room pavilions, will accom
modate thirty-two patients, sixteen on
oat h floor. An allowance of 1,300 cu
bic feet of air per minute has been
made. These pavilions are so ar
ranged with a solarium at the end of
each ward that a patient in bed may
lie wheeled directly from the ward
out on the veranda. Moving screens
will lie provided for the veranda and
to shut off draughts. Each of these
probable that he will be invited to as
sume the direction of the road.
After the cars were filled with
grumblers and had started forward,
some of the mouthy ones began to ex
press sentiments. ‘‘First thing you
know some ‘mut’ will have his face
pushed in.” said one galoot, referring
to the MAN who had ordered the cars
and who stood within a few feet of
him. it looked as if the crowd was in
clined io resent the MAN’S interfer
ence in its behalf. Evidently he
thought so. for he broke out in a pas
sion of sweeping invective. "No won
der,” he cried, “the service is so poor,
considering the character of the mobs
that have to be hauled! You are a
common lot of cheap cattle, unfit for
decent cars to ride in. if I had my
way I'd (lack you in stock cars and
dump you out at Barren Island, where
you belong. You call yourselves men.
Iiali! You haven't got the courage
of sparrows nor the respectability of
rats! You arc worthless truck. I’ve
been fighting for yon right along; now
I'll drop you.” Much more he said,
fie had them thoroughly cowed. Hav
ing poured out the vials of his wrath,
he sat down, and in dead silence the
car passed on.— New York Press.
TENT CAMP FOR CONSUMPTIVES.
ill B
One of the Four Section* of the Camp I* Shown, with Form of Tent Conduc
tion.
COSTLY STONE IN OREGON.
Discovery of a Mine of Jade in the Far
Northwestern State.
A very important mineral discovery
has just been made in the Althousa
district of Southern Josephine county,
consisting of the finding in consider
able quantity of the sacred and rare
stone, jade. Several miners visitad
Grant's Pass recently, bringing sam
ples of the stone with them, says the
Kansas City World. These samples
were positively Identified as jade by
United States Mineral Surveyor H. C.
Perkins, of this city. The discovery
is of great geological importance, from
the fact that jade has never before
been found in any place in any of the
mineral districts of the North Amori
can continent. The miners who have
come in from the scene of the discov
ery report that many large pieces of
float jade of beautiful color and fine
texture have been and are being found
both on Althouse and Indian creeks.
Jade is the sacred stone of the Chi
nese and is used by them in making
bracelets, rings, vases, etc. It is a
tough, compact stone. Its color varies
from an almost pure white to a dark
or pale green. Jade was one of the
flrst materials used in the making of
weapons and utensils during prehis
toric times. There is a coarser or
more common variety of the stone
known as jadeite that was used in
making axes and weapons. The jade
was and is highly prized by the peo
ple of the Orient for ornamental pur
poses and carvings. The Chinese name
for it is "yu-shih," which means “jade
Btone."
For ages past the main and principal
supply of jade lias come from the Kara
Kash valley of Eastern Turkestan. It
is also found to some extent in New
Zealand, the islands of tlie Pacific and
South America; but this is the flrst
time tit at it has ever been found on
the North American continent. The
discovery in Southern Josephine coun
ty will tie thoroughly Investigated by
interested parties. It is of especial
interest to the geological world.
THE OLD-FASHIONED MOTHER
A Familiar, Loved Figure That
Will Abide With Us Forever.
"Where is the old-fashioned mother
who, with her innumerable duties,
found time to devote to her children;
who felt that they were entrusted to
her for a brief time only; that they,
in turn, were to be history makers ami
that she was responsible for their
early training; who was mother, sis
ter, friend?” Thus wails a Jeremiah
of the press, bemoaning the substitu
tion of hired nurses for maternal care
and attention, and continues;
“Whence will come the strong men
and women of,our nation if the moth
ers are to fritter away the futures of
their children at clubs and bridge
whist and social dissipation? The
queen-mother has abdicated the might
iest throne in the world, that of the
nursery, for a kingdom far other than
that where righteousness rules.”
To the old-fashioned mother the
mighty manhood of America doffs its
hat. Fur the old-fashioned mother is
still with us, and to stay, declares
Robert Webster Jones in the House
keeper. Modern science has wrought
many improvements that would make
our ancestors stare could they return
to earth, but one familiar figure they
would still find here; that of the old
fashioned mother. For she cannot
bo improved upon. Before the mighty
mystery of motherhood man stands
hushed in awe; this silken cord of
sisterhood that binds the mothers of
to-day to those of all the ages. What
i.as been the mightiest power since
the world began? The mother’s in
fluence. And is it likely that at this
late hour the queens of America would
willingly relinquish the Jewelled
sceptre for a torch wherewith to chase
the will o' the wisps of social de
lights?
SHE WAS NOT SATISFIED.
Little American Girl Not Pleased with
Nobleman’s Appearance.
There Is a certain English peer who
is noted for his homeliness. He is al
most ugly enough, as some people
would say. to stop a clock, and al
though he is aware of the fact it gives
him no uneasiness. Indeed, he is
rather inclined to make merry over
his ugliness. He tells the following
story, which seems to amuse him very
much, though he says the child com
pletely dumbfounded him at the time.
Ho tvas traveling in America, and at
a dinner party a little girl after eye
ing him intently came up and said:
“Are you the British lord?’’
“I am certainly a lord, my dear."
“Really and truly; bet your bottom
dollar?” ,
“Yes, my dear, really and truly. Are
you satisfied, now?"
“No,” said the child decidedly, “I’m
not satisfied. I’m kinder disap
pointed."
“Too Far Up the Gulch.”
President Roosevelt invited Capt.
Seth Bullock and his wife to the
muslcale at the white house the other
night. Capt. Seth was the first sher
iff of Deadwood and has a record for
eliminating many bad men from his
community by the simple expedient
of shooting them. He is an old friend
•>f the President.
After the musicale the President
said:
‘'Well, Seth, how did you like the
music?”
“It was too far up the gulch for
me,” Seth replied in the vernacular
of the West that delighted the Presi
dent.
“Next time you come,” said the
President to Mrs. Bullock, “you’d bet
ter take Seth’s gun away from him,
so he won’t shoot a fiddler.”—New
York World.
EXTEND HOME NEEDS
HOW TO ADD TO THE BEST OF'
ALL MARKETS.
Multiply the Earning and Spending ;
Capacity of the People and Thereby
Provide a Market That Needs Neith
er Ships to Reach Nor Navy to
Guard.
Col. Augustus Jacobson of Chicago,
a clear thinker and an able writer,
states un Important economic truth
when in the course of an interesting
article entitled “Our Arid Eldorado,”
in Gnnton’s Magazine for March he
says:
“Booker T. Washington is an edu
cator. Hut he is not only an educator,
ho Is a market, developer. Every
negro who goes through the course at
Tuakegee multiplies indefinitely his
earning and spending capacity. Negro
or white, the man who has come to
the point where he must have a tooth
brush or a napkin has started on a
career of consumption without, limit.
Men of that sort furnish new mar
kets, and these are onr most “valuable
markets of the world.’ It requires
neither army nor navy to open them
or to keep them open. No ships are
needed to get to them.”
Much the same line of thought was
followed by Andrew Carnegie in his
rertorial address at the University of
St. Andrew's last October when ho em
phasized the far greater value of home
commerce as contrasted with foreign
commerce. Said Mr. Carnegie:
“Politicians give far too much at
tention to distant foreign markets,
which can never amount to much, es
pecially in the tropics, and far too lit
tle to measures for improving condi
tions at home which would increase
the infinitely more important homo
market. If the people of the United
Kingdom could spend even one pound
per week more per year, her home
commerce would be Increased more
than the total value of her exports to
labor.” Ho expressed the belief that
tho rebate law would seriously affect
(he tamps at Stnckett, Sand Coulee
and Belt. Montana.
If such effects will follow' the re
bate lor a year, it is easy to see the
results of free trade or reciprocity
which would allow Canadian coal, lum
ber. lead and cattle and wheat and
wool to come into this country free
of duty, were the policy permanent
and not a temporary expedient for an
emergency.
Notwithstanding the assertions of
Senator Gibson and the Democratic
press, the people of the Northwest
Irrespective of party will vote for
their own interests, to continue in
force the protective tariff that has
done so much for their interests and
has turned adversity into prosperity.
—Helena (.Mont.) Record.
RECIPROCITY WITH CANADA.
Not Possible Under the Existing Sys
tem of Preferential Tariffs.
If it. is true, as asserted by Attorney
General Longlcy of Nova Scotia in an
article in the North American Re
view. that any and ail advances look
ing toward trade reciprocity between
the United Stales and Canada must
come from the United States, it is to
be feared that our Canadian cousins
will wait a long time. Reciprocity in
competitive products does not appeal
strongly to the people on this side of
the border. They prefer to reserve to
home producers the benefits of the
home market. But even if there were
a disposition—and there is not—to
make an exception in favor of Canada
and permit her competitive products
to come in free of duty. Canada is In
no position to enter into negotiations
to that end. She is bound hand and
foot by a contract to give to imports
from tho United Kingdom a preference
of 33 1-3 per cent below the tariff rate
imposed upon Imports from any other
country. While this arrangement re
mains in force Canada can make no
proffer of reciprocity that the United
Slates could by any possibility con
sider. Still less, with this preferential
all of Australasia, British America and
China combined. Truly Foreign Com
merce Is a braggart always in evi
dence; Home Commerce the true
King.”
Here are two thoughtful minds
pleading for the same cause—namely,
the conservation and improvement of
the home market through on increase
in the consuming capacity of our own
people. Col. Jacobson urges liberal
outlay by the Federal government in
the irrigation of the arid regions,
whereby a vast domain of highly pro
ductive lands may be added to our
arable area. These lands thus re
claimed he would have held and
owned by the government and leased
in small holdings to farmers, the
revenue therefrom to he devoted to
the cause of education In the common
schools and manual training schools.
In this way the money expended for
irrigation will be returned an hundred
fold in higher developments, larger
needs, morn exacting requirements
and an enormously increasing consum
ing demand in a market which needs
neither army nor navy to keep It open
nor ships with which to reach it. Tno
question of irrigation as a national
investment of the highest class lias
never been more forcibly presented,
while the ultimate result in the shape
of an additional home market is
brought into view with admirable
logic and directness. Messrs. Jacob
son and Carnegie are staunch protec
tionists both, which is only another
way of saying that they both believe
immeasurealdy in the value of borne
trade and domestic commerce, and
very little in that commerco with for
eign countries which costs more than
it is worth to get and keep. It is a
sound view, unquestionably.
The Northwest for Protection.
The claim has been made by Wash
ington people that the rebate of duties
on coal for one year will cost the coal
industries of the state at least two
million dollars and will throw at least
a thousand men out of employment in
the state. We have the statement, of
an expert coal man to verify this as
sertion, Mr. Bush, who has had charge
of the coal interests of the Northern
Pacific in the entire Northwest.. In
discussing the effect of the law re
cently passed, Mr. Bush said "that it
will affect Northwestern coal proper
ties to a great extent and it will even
be felt in Montana. American operat
ors cannot hope to compete with the
Canadian mine owners, who were per
mitted to employ Chinese and Japan
ese contract labor, which is efficient
and far cheaper than Americau
system standing in the way, ran the
United States make any proffer. We
are not saying that even if the British
preference no longer blocked the game
the United States could be persuaded
to take a hand, but certainly, as mat
ters now stand, it is idle to talk about,
any reciprocity dicker, least of all a
dicker in which the United States shall
be the first to open up negotiations.
Reciprocity with Canada is hopeless
under existing conditions and likely
to remain so.
History Teaches But One Lesson.
The free traders, who were all but
silenced by the great financial disaster
which followed the partial inaugura
tion of their theories in 1893 and who
were rendered dumb by the wonderful
industrial awakening resultant on the
re-establishment of the high protec
tive tariff, are once more taking heart
and venturing to parade again their
economic vagaries. We are told once
again that protection is wrong in prin
ciple and disastrous in practice, al
though just how it is so Is not made
exactly clear. We are told that the
country would fare well if she des
troyed the great wall which now bars
from our shores the pauper made
goods of Europe and the Orient. This
appeal sounds strangely familiar. It
lias been preached in this country be
fore and. sad to relate, has been
preached successfully. Time and
time again it lias prevailed, and every
time it prevailed industries were par
alyzed, business stagnated and finan
cial disaster precipitated. Every time
it prevailed, prosperity was dethroned
and in her place reigned discontent,
suffering, beggary and want. Never
has there been a defeat of the policy
of protection that has not been fol
lowed by industrial paralysis with all
of misery and misfortune it entailed.
Never has the policy of protection
triumphed that prosperity has not fol
lowed In the wake of victory. Our
national history teaches but one les
son as concerns protection. It is so
plain that the wayfaring man though
a fool need not err therein. He who
runs may read. And yet there are
those who rise in the light of history
and preach free trade.—Terre Haute
Tribune.
It Is All Right.
Prosperity has been general the
country over since the Dingley tariff
law' has been in effect. Even in Texas
where crops have been very short for
two years the people are more pros
perous than they were with a low
tariff and good crops. The present
tariff law is all right.—Valley Mills
(Texas) Protectionist.