The Billings News. (Billings, Okla.), Vol. 6, No. 22, Ed. 1 Friday, February 10, 1905 Page: 2 of 8
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GOST OF OIL REFINERY
On 2,000 Barrel Plant It is Estimated
at $200,872.
OPERATING $59,925 A MONTH.
THE SOUTH IS ICEBOUND.
Nine States Are Covered With Coat ot
Frozen Sleet.
Ixmisville. K>\. Feb. 7.—Telephone
and telegraph service over a wide
art a of the south was almost com-
pletely crippled by heavy sleet. Rail-
road service also suffered, and in
some towns the lighting and street
car facilities were suspended. The
tie-up was the most complete in many
years, anti although the telegraph
Might Be Located on the Caney River . ....... ^ have large
in the Heart of the Oil Belt—
Scheme to Get Hold of Standard's
Pipe Line.
Topeka. Feb. 7.—M L. Lockwood,
a big oil producer at Independence,
who has be* n in the
forces of men at work it may be two
o»* three days before normal condi-
tions resume.
The storm, which covered with a
tHick ic> coat. Kentucky, Tennessee,
Arkansas. Oklahoma, Indian Terri-
tory. Mississippi, Alabama. Louis-
ville and Georgia, have revailed inter
initt«4prly for three days and the
his life, and who has spent mos; of
his time fighting the Standard Oil
trust, has supplied the legislature
with an estimate of the cost of a
state refinery with 2,000 barrels daily
capacity.
He says the refinery, if one is es
tabllshed, should he located on tin*
Fancy river. In the heart of the oil
belt, where water m plentiful, gas is
abundant and oil close at hand He
oil business all Wjn,s broke under the accumulated
ic»* Service from Louisville to Mem-
phis. Nashville, Chattanooga and
Birmingham was but little interrupt*
« <i South of these cities to the gulf
on! two or three wires were work-
in.; imperfectly tonight. The fall of
snow and sleet, varying from one to
three inches, extended as far north
as Louisville.
MANY PUBLIC BEQUESTS.
figures that it will take about thirty-
five miles of pipe line to supply the Washburn College, of Topeka, Comes
refinery with crude oil; twenty miles
of two-inch pipe and fifteen miles of
three-inch pipe. In addition it would
cost $1,000 for pumps. $1,000 for pipe
line fittings. $500 for hauling pipe.
$500 for right-of-way, or a cost for
the pipe line alone of $3,872, the lay
ing of the pipe line to be done by con
Wet labor.
The refinery plant he estimat<
in for $5,000.
Worcester. Mass.. Feb. C.—The will
of Kdward A. Goodnow. of Worces-
ter. filed for probate today, leaves
SlOo.ueo in specific bequests, and the
residue of the estate is left to the
American Missionary Society, of
New York. Among the public be-
quests are the following:
To Tuskegee Normal and Indus-
will cost $100,000: 'hat 1 tank |rial Institute, Oberlin college, Ober-
I in. 0.: trustees of Northfield semin-
arv; Hugenot seminary. Wellington,
South Africa; Washburn college, To-
peka. Kan. $5,000 each.
OKLAHOMA LEGISLATURE.
A Number Of Important Bills Before
The Council.
Guthrie. Okiu.. Feb. C.—The follow-
ing bills were introduced in the coun-
cil :
An act to amend section 117, arti-
cle IWilson’s revised statutes.
An act authorizing the Norman and
Chickasaw Bridge Co. to construct a
bridge across the South Canadian
river, near Norman.
An act to encourage the beautify-
ing of streets.
An act forbidding the sale, giving
cars to handle the refined product
will co. t $12,()0»; that barrels and
tankagi will coat $35,000, and that
the prison for the convicts will cost
$20,000. This makes a grand total
cost for both refinery and pipe line
tif $200,172. He says that (tie plant
should he so constructed that with a
slight additional cost It could he in-
creased to 5,000 barrels capacity [ter
day.
He has it figured that the pipe line
will pay $12,000 monthly for running
crude oil to the refinery. This Is the
price the Standard charges for run-
ning oil front the wells to Its tanks.
The cost of operating the pipe line, he
says, will lie $900 a month. This pro-
vides for a superintendent, two gang
ers, three pipe Hue workmen, -two
engineers at I he pumping plants, gas
for Hie pumps and team for keeping
lino In repair. The profits, he tints
figures, will be $11,040 a month, or
$122,480 a year, or mure than four , away and disposal of cigarettes,
times the cost ot (lie pipe line.
$500 OFFER IN LETTER.
Guard in State Prison Offered Tliio
to Carry Poison.
Windsor, Vi.. Felt. 0. Five hun-
dred dollars was ottered to Harold
Harpln. a guard in the stall' prison,
If lie would carry a package of poison
lo Mrs. Mart M. Rogers, convicted of
the murder of her husband who is tin-
der death sentence. The offer was
.made In an anonymous letter from
.Boston, containing $25n in bills which
IHarpin received recently. The writ-
s'!- offered to send the other $250 us
soon as the poison was delivered to
Mrs. Rogers. The guard turned the
letter over to Superintendent Oakes,
who showed it to Governor Bell.
Postal authorities have been asked
to Investigate tile letter.
World's Fair Asks $100,000.
Washington. Felt. I. Secretary of
War Taft has sent to the senate a
coumumic.il Ion requesting tin- pay
An act to authorize the town ol
Helena lo vote bonds for water
works.
An act authorizing Dicks township
to vote bonds for the erection and
equipment of the Woods county high
school.
An amendatory act exempting
property from forced sale.
An amendatory act relating tc
corporal ions.
An act authorizing the granting ol
i license lo sell malt, spiritous, vinous
1 til'd fermented liquors at- wholesale
! by corporations.
An net amending section 422, arti-
cle 7. and section 721. article 24, oi
chapter CO, laws of 1892.
The Judiciary committee reports
adversely on council bill No. 7. by
Alexander, providing that the elec
tion of H. D. Muse as probate judge
of Heaver county lie legalized. A
substitute by the author of the hill,
recommending that it do pass, (level
oped the fact that Muse is a harness-
maker. unit not a lawyer. I’ntler the
ment lo the Louisiana Purchase Ex territorial statutes, one mthti have
position Company of $100,000, ad- i
vanced to the government to prepare
the Philippine exhibit
DIAGNOSED HIS OWN CASE.
Boston. Felt. 4.- l)r. W. it. Read, a
graduate of Edinburgh I’nlvei-slty. and
of the Fnlverslly of Pennsylvania, Is
dead here, aged 70 years lie was
found sitting in a chair beside a table
upon which lay a nolo saving that lie
bud diagnosed ills own case us the at-
tack came on. It read as follows:
‘‘Nothing suspicions. I died of
rheumatism of Hie heart. My effects
go to my wife. Annie Read, of Hick
ory, N C. The pain Is terrible. The
rheumatism has reached the vital or- 1
gaits ’
Street Car Kills Woman.
St. Louis, Feb. 7. Dr. Augusta I
Smith, one of the most widely known
women physicians in 1 lu* Fulled
Stales. Is dead at Iter home hero as
♦ he result of being struck by a street
ear
Explosion Kills Five.
Wheeling. W. Va . keh 7. — Five
nun were seriously injured, two prob-
ably futnlly, by att explosion that
wrecked tile paint works of thu
Wheeling Corrugating company Tho
cuttse of the explosion Is not known.
Two Steamers Arrive.
(lhr Foo, Felt. (i. Two stemners
with 800 Russian refugees from Port
Arthur arrived here
Fire in Ship Yards.
Philndelpliiu, Feb. li. Fire In the
chart department of the Frumps Ship
Building plant destroyed valuable
blue prints, models und charts. Work
»n Hie haPleslilps Idaho and Mississ-
ippi und thu armored cruiser Tonnes-
•ee, the plans for which were de-
stroyed, will not be seriously Im
tpeded.
Abraham Lincoln
Long have I thought of one great man to
sing
Brflttingly. but ever do I stay
My buffi-'d wits gnil east tile song away
As a bold presumption; yet would 1 bring
Some tribute worth—yet would I touch
one string
That should the fullness of my heart es-
my:
One haf on ids high tomb my love would
lay
That should not fade with.fading of the
spring
Bnt how shall I proclaim Eternity,
or say. Behold the lustrous Pleiades?
My muse ran only wonder and admire
Sit back in awe. and. breathless, scan
the sea
Of Lincoln’ sou! In tts sublimities—
And drop a hopeless hand upon the lyre.
-C. G. B
practiced law at least three years
The substitute lost, and the commit-
li . s report was then adopted.
Racing at New Orleans.
New Orleans. Feb. 7.—The talent
got all tlic money al New Orleans
three favorites and three second
choice winning Weather cloudy
track last.
Will Lose Both Legs.
Abilene, Kan., Ft'h. 7. — WUlian
Jeffries, a farmer living ten miles
norlIt. was found nearly frozen in a
drift. He had started home from
Manchester afoot, tiad was overcome
by cold. He will lose both legs and
probably ran not recover.
Discovers Radiurft Mine.
Paris, Fell 7." An Important dis-
covery of a radium mini' in the de-
partment of Saotie Kl l.olre Is inter-
esting scientific circles. Professor
Curie's assistant Is conducting the
exploitation.
Egg Famine in Chicago.
Chicago. Fch 7 Chicago laces one
of the worst egg famines in Its his-
tory, neeordlng to Son I li Water street
commission men. and the price may
go to 50 rents a dozen or higher In a
few days.
Bomb Was Not Dangerous.
Paris. I-eli 2 An analysis mailo
at tin- municipal laboratory lias ills
closed tin' fact that the liontli found
I in front of the Hotel des Deux Mon-
des. on the Avenue I'Opcru. whs not
dangerous. B contained chiefly coal
i dust.
Retired on Life Pensions.
Terre Haute, Ind.. Felt. 2. Kvery
mini In the employ of the Vandnlla
lallriiHd who tins reached the age of
70 years was retired on a life
oeuidou.
Americans will
ever note the anni-
versary of Lin-
ieo 1 n ’ s birthday
with peculiar rev-
erence. As Emer-
son wrote of him
at the time of his
death, "he was the
true history of the
American people of
his time—a true
representative of
, Ills continent—the
er of his coun-
try, with the pulse
| if 20,000,000 throb-
Ding in his heart.
The thought of their minds was artic-
ulated by his tongue."
When Lincoln died, a grateful peo-
ple, moved by a common impulse,
placed him beside the immortal Wash-
ington. There he will abide. These
are our two greatest Americans.
"Born as lowly as the Son of God,"
sals Henry Watterson, "reared in pen-
ury anti squalor, with no gleam of
light or fair surroundings, it was re-
served for this strange being, late In
life, without name or fame, to he
snatched from obscurity, raised to su-
preme command at the supreme mo-
ment and intrusted with the destiny
of n nation."
Truly it Is hard for a man to divest
himself of the belief in "special prov-
idences" in the affairs of nations
when ho contemplates the rise of Lin-
coln. He seems to have been driven
on to tlio fulfilment of his destiny by
unseen forces till a tragic fate sealed
his Immortal glory.
I was in Washington, staying at Wil-
lard's hotel witn my father and
mother and three little brothers, when
Mr. Lincoln arrived there, on the 23d
of February, 1861. I remember hang-
ing over the banisters among a group
ot children and nurses to catch a
glimpse of the tall, awkward man
who, they told me was the new presi-
dent; and afterward 1 resented so vio-
lently the unkind criticism of a little
Southern friend that we had to be
separated and finally borne off weep-
ing, writes H. M. P., in the Boston
t’liristian Register.
Owing to a habit 1 had of standing
close to n.y father's elbow while he
and his friend talked, I uad gathered
that this new great man was one who
had an especially great and difficult
task before him; and I was rejoiced
and somewhat awed to learn that 1
was to be allowed to go down Into
tlie parlor the following evening when
a reception was to he held. The lit-
tle boys were envious of my promo-
tion—at least l inferred as much from
the remarks thgy made while Trudi
was curling my liair and tying my
blue sash; hut I paid no attention to
them and was very serious and full
of dignity. When mamma was ready
1 slipped my hand into hers and walk-
ed demurely down the long corridor
leading to the parlors. I remember
that Virgio. my oppom nt of the day
before, was lurking in a doorway to
Insult me as 1 passed; hut 1 held my
bend very high and refused to see her
"lie is our president, isn't he, mam-
ma?" I said. And mamma said. "Ves."
Mrs. Lincoln und her sister, who
itnd aecompanled Iter to Washington,
were standing in n lino with the presi-
dent. and ns lie had drawn a little
apart, talking earnestly with a group
of the Republican senators and mem
hots who made up most of the gath-
ering, my eyes were drawn first to
them. Very likely remarks 1 heard
then or afterward have tinged my
recollections, but it seems to me that
1 thought them stiff and ill at ease,
and dressed oddly in heavy velvet
brocaded silks ot the same pattern- a
noticeable one, hut of different colors
Mrs. Lincoln In blue and her sister,
who was taller, in dark red. The two
iuulfn took inj proffered hand, us
my mother presented me und dropped
It again limply, apparent > having no
time to waste on children, but ii mat
teied not nt all lo ntc. for my head
was thrown hack and tuy gaze riveted
on lhi> kind, dark face with ragged
features and sad, deep-set eyes which
towered .above me In a moment more
lie towering head had bent toward
me, and Mr. Lincoln lifted me Hi his
nrini, and, holding me while I gazed
gravely Into Ids eyes, kissed me Then
he set me down, smiling nntl mvlng.
in apology, "I always Ltss little
girls."
But he still held my hand, and so
entirely had I been won that 1 would
gladly have stayed by him the rest
of the evening. It '. as a comfort,
when 1 was drawn reluctantly away,
to feel that my new friend was not
loo busy with tlie men who were
eagerly crowding about him to remem-
ber to give the .ittlc clinging hand a
parting squeeze.
I was allowed no more public ap-
pearances, and had only glimpses of
my president—I no longer said "our"
—until the night of the Inauguration
ball. I don't know how it happened
that I was allowed to attend that
function; hut go I did. and had the
unspeakable delight of hearing the
kind voice, which did not sound harsh
to my ears, say. "Why. this is niv lit-
tle friend!” while the lank form bow-
ed as if on hinges above my curls, in
deference, as I thought, to the splen-
dors of my party dress.
Mrs. Lincoln wore a low-necked,
short-sleeved gown, and seemed less
attractive perhaps because, standing
near her, so beautiful that she drew
all eyes, ivas Mrs. Stephen A. Doug-
las. I gazed at that lovely oval face
with deep devotion—she was the im-
age of my favorite Madonna—and was
rewarded by a beaming smile ot rec-
ognition.
Another lady, who seemed to me a
sort of fairy floating about the ball
room on her wave of crinoline crested
w ith tulle, and wearing by way of a
crown a wreath of full-blown roses,
was Jlme. Bouligny.
I remember vaguely my interest in
finding a little girl like myself at- this
grown-up function—the daughter of
Mr. Charles Francis Adams—and our
peering at each other curiously around
the white satin and amethysts of her
mother. But the real joy of the even-
ing lay in the fact that my president
remembered me; that was something
not to he forgotten.
A few weeks later my grandfather
came to visit us, and prevailed upon
my mother to let him take not only
myself, hut my two little brothers, to
one of the president's levees. There
was a great crowd. As I was with my
aunt in the ladies’ dressing room, I
escaped the worst of it, and Lionel
was so small—only 5 years old—that
grandfather could easily carry him,
but poor Oliver was half suffocated,
and might have been seriously injured
if a quick-witted man in the crowd had
not lifted him up above his head and
given the word to hand him on to the
ladies' dressing room. Standing near
the door of that room, 1 watched his
progress down the long hall over the
heads of the closely packed men, now
head first, now feet, but always smil-
ing. however lie was tossed about. He
told me that in spite of himself he
gave more than one epauletted and
gold-laced general a rousing kick, hut
when his victim found w ho his assail-
ant w as he was greeted with a cheery,
"Oh. it’s you, is it?” and good-natured-
!y passed along.
I despaired of Beeing my president
that day, hut after a while I did. It
seemed to me that he looked very
tired—child as 1 was, I noticed it—
but ho did not forget to smile on his
little friend.
We children were passed behind the
receiving line into the Blue Room,
where we found Mr. Douglas, who
tempted us to a frolic, calling my
beautiful Mrs. Douglas in to see us.
That delightful old gentleman, Mr.
Francis P. Blair, who was an old
friend and had dubbed my younger
brother "Puck,” was there also, and
we enjoyed our now experience great-
ly. Finally Lionel was tired, and spy-
iug grandfather beyond the moving
line of people, he started to reach him
and, taking advantage of the first open-
ing that offered in the closely packed
ranks, emerged on hands and knees
between the feet of the president,
whose long legs might easily have
seemed to so small a hoy those of the
Colossus of Rhodes. Mr. Lincoln, who
had been shaking hands for two long
hours, must have been very tired, but
he laughed, picked Lionel up and set
him on his feet, crying. "Well, done.
Puck!" while grandfather made haste
to the rescue, and, gathering the rest
of us together, took us safely home.
Shortly after this we left Washing-
ton, and I never again saw my dear
preslder.i.
Lincoln Pointed a Moral.
This story of Lincoln seems to be
a new one. It was related at an old
antlers' meeting at Mount Pleasant.
Iowa, by the late Senator James liar
Ian of Iowa, who served as secretary
;if the interior under Mr. Lincoln, and
whose daughter Mary is the wife ol
Robert Lincoln, ex-secretary of war.
and now a lending lawyer anil capital-
ist of Chit ago.
Some politicians had called on
President Lincoln to urge the appoint-
ment of some of their friends to po
sltlons In n certain department. By
way of refusal the nresiadetit told the
follow tug story:
"Gentlemen, the conditions In tnat
department put me lu mind of the
time thut a young friend and myself
tried to court the two daughters of n
peppery widow living near our home*
The old lady kept a lot of hounds.
"Wo hud not been In the hotiHO
long before one ot the bounds wine
Into the room and lay down hy the
fire. In a little while another one
came to Hie door. He didn’t get In,
lor the old lady gavo hlui a kick,
saying;
“‘Get out of here! There's too
many dogs In hero now!’
"We concluded to court some othsr
girls " Youth’s Companion
Battle Creek! What memories that
lame conjures up—memories of other
Jays—even ihe pioneer days, when the
redmen of the northern lake region
bent the bow and smeared their faces
with keal—braided their flowing locks
with feathers of the porcupine and
wild eagle, that they might appear
more wild, if possible, than before.
And as they painted the cheeks and
braided the hair, the squaw-women
sharpened the flint arrow heads and
shaped new hows, that their lords
might do battle to the death with
other redmen.
And here at Battle Creek, way up
in Michigan, a great battle one day
did occur, anil when it was over, and
the sun kissed the range to the far
west, the tom-toms were muffled and
the squaw-women wrapped their heads
in varicolored blankets and wept, for
with the going down of the sttn. many
braves passed to the proverbial happy
hunting grounds.
But that was many, many moons
ago, as tho Indians measure time, and
a new era lias long since dawned.
True, it is "Battle Creek" to-day, just
as it was decades ago, hut, instead of
the cry of the savage, is heard the
hum of industry; the throb of life;
the greeting of men and women of
the Anglo Saxon race—the shouts of
happy hoys and girls, who know of
Battle Creek's former history only
by tradition. And here on the site
of the famous battle between the red-
men stands now one of the fairest
cities of the great Northwest; a city
sought out among thousands, for in it
dwell, month after month, as the
years come and go. men and women
who find within the charmed circle
that which they have long sought else-
where—health.
When one speaks of health, the
mind naturally wings itself to Battle
Creek, for up there health is to he
found as at few other places on earth.
Forty years ago there began in Bat-
tle Creek a teturn to nature move-
ment, with purposes and pricinples in
many respects similar to those which
led to the famous “Brook Farm Exper-
iment" twenty years before and to the
Grahamlte movement of that period.
This movement, while religious, was
avowedly non-sectarian, and was in a
broad sense philanthropic, altruistic
and reformatory. The immediate re-
sults were the establishment of a
monthly journal now known as Good
Health and shortly afterwards the
erection of a health institution called
"The Health Reform Institute.” The
chief features of the institute at this
early period were diet reform, dress
reform and the use of water as a cura-
tive agent.
In 1876 the present management
took charge of the institution and with
the consent and co-operation of the
Board of Directors (the institution
having been incorporated ton years
before), a thorough reorganization was
effected. Broader plans were intro-
duced. the methods of treatment were
placed upon a substantial and thor-
oughly scientific foundation, and the
name was changed to the Battle Creek
Sanitarium. Since this time the
growth of tha institution has been con-
stant and rapid.
Front year to year accommoda-
tions for patients and facilities for
treatments were enlarged lo meet
the Increasing patronage until Feb-
ruary, 1902, when a great fire swept
away the two principal build-
ings of the establishment. The erec-
tion of a new building was speedily
begun, and the following year. May 31,
1903, the present fireproof main build-
ing. erected at a cost ot' more titan
$600,000, was dedicated. The cost Of
the entire establishment, Including
equipment, twenty dormitories, cot-
tages and othci buildings has amount-
ed to more than $1,200,000.
The Battle Creek Sanitarium as It
stands to-day is recognized the world
over as the most complete and thor-
oughly equipped establishment of its
sort and the headquarters for physio-
logic therapeutics or natural methods.
Connected with the Sanitarium is a
Training School for Nurses, In which
from two to three hundred nurses are
constantly under training.
These principles and methods have
penetrated to the remotest parts of
the civilized world, and scores of men
and women who have*been trained In
these methods are devoting their lives
to medical missionary work in heathen
lands.
The Battle Creek Sanitarium may be
regarded as an epitome of the “return-
to-naturo" Idea In practical operation.
Its success in the restoration of sick
people to health brings to it annually
many thousands of men and women,
many of whom have been pronounced
incurable, but who, nevertheless, with
rare exceptions, return a few months
later to their homes prepared to enter
again upon the battle of life.
There are many sanitariums In tho
world, but few, if any. that are con-
ducted on the same plane as that at
llattlo Creek. This haven of rest und
health is in no sense a money-mak-
ing scheme, and every cent that Is
made from patients who nre able to
pay for their accommodations is used
to help those who have nothing but
broken health. All over tills country,
and even beyond the seas, branch In-
stitutions arc springing up creepers
from the mother plant nt Battle
Creek. One point In view Is down on
State street, In Ihe center of the me-
tropolis of the Middle West, Chicago,
when hundreds of the city's poor are
cared for as tenderly as It in the par-
ent Institution nt Battle Creek.
In a few brief paragraphs one ran
tell but little of the good work of the
Battle Creek Sanitarium, but a postal
card will bring pamphlets that will
toll all all except the knowledge ob-
tained hy actual experience, and that
experience must be had at Battle
Creek to be appreciated to Its full
worth.
This institution at Battle Creek was
not built up in a day—it took years
of toil to reach the perfected state,
and tlic work has hut begun—the great
work is to come from rising genera-
tions who are imbibing ideas from Ihe
Battle Creek home, and what it stands
for.
For Three Decades.
For more than three decades the
present institution has been the
center of a wonderful educa-
tional. philanthropic and reform
movement which has finally culmin-
ated in success undreamed of a few
years ago, and in this connection a
brief history is most opportune In
February, 1902. the two main buildings
of the Sanitarium were destroyed hy
fire. For a short time the days were
dark for those who had worked so
hard to build it up. But strong hearts
are not to be awed hy misfortune,
and a now building sprung from the
ashes upon the old site.
The dediratlou took place May 31.
and June 1. 1903. An elaborate pro-
gram was carried out and many men
of national .reputation made speeches
and highly complimented the managers
and their co-workers on their good
work. Invitations were sent to all
patients, rich and poor, who had ever
been at the Sanitarium. Many re-
sponded iu person, and hundreds sent
letters of regret.
One of the prettiest sights in con-
nection with the whole event was the
procession of nurses and matrons
which formed on the college grounds,
opposite the new Sanitarium building,
and marched through the audience to
reserved seats at the right and left
of the speakers' stand. The matrons
in their usual cream white uniform,
the nurses in blue and white, and the
gentlemen nurses clad in new white-
duck suits presented a sight which
moved the audience to one simultan-
eous hurst of applause.
Sanitary Ideas.
As before stated there are many
sanitariums in the world, hut none
just like that at Battle Creek, it being
the first of tfie kind, so far a$ known,
where an attempt has been made, and
crowned with success, to bring to-
gether in one place and under one
management all rational healing
agencies, giving special prominence
to those physiological or natural heal-
ing agents the scientific know ledge of
which has been chiefly developed
within the last century, especially
hyprotherap.v, electrotherapy, mas-
sage, exercise, diet, sunlight, mental
and moral Influences, rest, and gen-
eral health culture.
Of course the first thing to bo taken
into consideration was the construc-
tion of the building to be occupied,
for much depended upon that. But
after it had been discussed pro and
con a plan entirely satisfactory was
adopted and the structure to-day plays
no small part in the healing process
that goes on from day to day at
Battle Creek.
A Return to Nature Movement.
The philosophy of the Battle Creek
Sanitarium may he defined as the re-
turn-to-naturj Idea. The doctors teach
the use of natural foods, natural life,
the use of natural agents in the treat-
ment of disease. A great amount of
attention is given to dietetics. Fruits,
nuts and nut preparations, cereal foods
and easily digestible vegetables are
the basis for the delicious menus
which are daily served in the great
Sanitarium dining room, at which sit
down hundreds of intelligent n;en and
women from all parts of the United
States and even from foreign coun-
tries. Milk, eggs and other dairy prod-
ucts are also freely used. Great care
is taken to provide the very best and
choicest of everything edible, of which
the physicians approve.
During the year which has just
closed a vast amount of these things
were required to provide for the army
of patients who visited the sanitarium,
for several thousand sufferers housed
there during the twelve months of
19't4. As to tiie expense for tile past
year it was considerable, amounting to
a total of $327,189.99. divided as fol-
lows: Nut foods. 5il tons, $26,768.80;
cereal foods, 101,994 pounds, $9,521.19;
bread, 65,026 pounds, $2,057.42; canned
goods. 3,699 cases, $10,506.65; fruit
juices, etc., made on the place, 11,430
gallons, $2,0.30.90; fresh fruit, 5,783
bushels, $10,203.46; vegetables, 5,137
bushels. $3,695.20; sundry grocery
items, 41,558 pounds, $3,396.38; eggs.
25,301 dozen, $6,789.65; butter, made
on the place. 29,961 pounds, $5,951.59:
cream, 68,678 quarts, $10,323.70; milk.
57,366 quarts, $1,692.45; coal. 5.714
tons. $20,000.00; labor, $213,553.59;
total. $327,189.99.
The amount of charity dispensed
during the past ten years at this
sanitarium amounted to $585,610.
To rate for the patients an average of
725 men and women were employed
during each year, and on average of
550 patients nre under treatment at
this sanitarium every day In the year.
We have given our reuders only a
brief glance Ht tho workings of this
unique establishment. Another article
would bo required to give something
of the details of the dally routine of a
guest at the Sanitarium, and of the
methods which have given to this in-
stitution Its world-wide reputation as a
Mecca for sick folks.
Must Marry to Gat Prixa.
An artillery voluuteer won recentl
al a shooting mutch at Blnckpoo
England, a prize consisting of a wet;
ding ring, gratuitous marriage cert
ntony, a wedding equipage, a pollahe
cradle, ami a bassinet. But he mus
marry within twelve months to ge
the prize.
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