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4 THE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GA., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1913. t THE SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL ATLANTA, OA. f 5 NOBTK FORSYTH ST. Entered at the Atlanta Postoffice as Mall Matter of the Second Class. JAMES X. GRAY, President and Bditor. OKTBSCRIPTION PRICE Twelve months 75« Six months 40c Three months 2Go The Semi-Weekly Journal is published on Tuesday and Friday, and is mailed by the shortest routes for early delivery. It contains news from all over the world, brought by special lea*sed wires into our office. It has a staff of distinguished contributors, with strong: departments special value to the home and the farm. Agents war ted ct every postoffice. Liberal com- -mission allowed. Outfit free. Write R. R- BRAD- # LEY, Circulation Manager. The only traveling representatives we have are J. A. Bryan, R. F. Bolton, C. C. Coyle, L. H. Kim brough and C. T. Yates. We will be responsible only for money paid to the above named traveling repre sentatives. NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS. The label used for addressing your paper shows the time your subscription expires. By renewing at least two weeks before the date on this label, you insure regular service. In ordering paper changed, be sure to mention your old, as well as your new address. If on a route please give the route number. -* We cannot enter subscriptions to begin with back numbers. Remittances should be sent by postal order or registered mail. Address all orders and notioes for this de partment to THE SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL. Atlanta. Ga. The South’s Great Opportunity In the Raising of Cattle The South’s incentive to cattle raising was never so urgent as today. Many Western States have suf fered severe drouths as a result of which there will be a shortge of corn and forage crops, followed un doubtedly by a scarcity of beef ana a season of un usually high prices. The problem of the country’s meat supply has been serious for several years past and from this time forward it will become continr ually more so. It is the South’s peculiar opportunity to relieve this situation and in doing so upbuild its own interests. ( The West can no longer be depended upon to produce anything like enough beef for nearly a hun dred million people. It is said, indeed, that the days of the great ranches beyond the Mississippi are draw ing to an end. The thousands of acres once devoted to this purpose are being turned to other uses. With in the past decad' the production of cattle in the West has steadily declined and indications are that within the next ten years the decline will be st’ll greater. Whten to this tendency is added the cur tailment of corn and pasturage resulting from the recent drouths, it is easy to see that the beef supply for the coming year will be exceptionally short. Experts on agriculture and animal industry de clare that the SoutH’s natural resources for cattle raising are among the richest and the most favorable to be found anywhere in the world. This is notably of Georgia. The soil is adapted to the growth of the most nutrious grasses. The mild and equable cli mate reduces to a, minimum the cost of winter hous ing. Ail the cond:tions necessary to the economic production of high-grade beef cattle are abundantly •present in this and other Southern States. The South should not sleep over so inviting an opportunity. By turning its attention to cattle rais- - ing it cannot only win a larger place in the economic affairs of the nation, but it can also solve many of its own pressing problems. The people of Georgia alone are now spending more than a hundred and seventy-two million dollars a year in buying from distant sections such food^supplies as beef and cbm and oats; and it is estimated that the total value of the State’s cotton crop lacks over thirty-seven mil lion dollars annually of paying its food bills. If Georgia raised her own cattle, how vastly dif ferent and better this condition would be! A fresh glow of independence and prosperity would infuse her agricultural life and reach all the hounds of her business interests. Her farms would be self-sustain ing, her merchants and bankers and manufacturers and railroads would thrive as never before; she would become an exporting rather tuan an import ing State and instead of looking to other sections for he- food, she worn be a great storehouse to which all the roads of merchandise would load. There are hopeful signs th it Georgia and other commonwealths of ait south are awakening to their oppe‘tunitibs in this regard. Every little while we hear of large enterprises for the establishment of cat tle ranges. Several syndicates with -his end in view have recently been organized in Texas and Louisana, while during the past twelve months stock raising on a modern basis has been undertaken in several Georgia counties. It should he remembered, however, that ambitious plans and much capital are not necessary to the gen eral progress of this important industry. Every farmer has at his command the resources from which to produce his own meat supply and other food neces saries; and,-if every farmer will take care of his own needs, the entire State will he wondrously en riched. The 'one great prerequisite of catttle raising is the production of a sufficiency of corn, oats, hay and other forage. It behooves our farmers to begin now and by cultivating crops of this kind lay a broad foundation for the cattle industry in which their opportunities are so varied and rich. Huerta will find that he needs something better than a'Mexican dollar to keep things going. Poor Eve must have found life awfully monoton ous with no other woman to envy or be jealous of. / Swift Work in Currency Reform. When the Hous. had finished voting Wednesday on all amendments to the banking and currency bill, the measure remained unimpaired in- any of its es sential provisions. There were changes, and changes for the better, in several matters of method or detail but principle of Government control and other distinctive features stood unshaken. This is assurance enough that a consistent, ef fective plan of banking and currency reform will be put through at the present session of Congress. Such amexdments as have been made in the House were constructive amendments by the friends of the bill. Efforts of the minority to strip the measure of its important clauses have been regularly and over whelmingly voted down. The bill is expected to pass the House today and go immediately to the Senate. From Mud to Millions. A newspaper correspondent recently made a trip through what is known as “the Black Swamp coun try” of northern Ohio, a region extending over five counties in the valley of the' Maumee river and, in years gone by, so beset with "bogs and overflows as to be untillable and practically worthless. “He traveled four hundred and thirty-six miles in all,” relates the Louisville Courier-Journal, “and he found that the farmers in that district were aver aging thirty bushels of oats, twenty-five bushels of rye, two and a half tons of clover and more than four tons of alfalfa. He saw dozens of fields of wheat that produce thirty-five bushels to the acre and dozens of corn fields that yield sixty-five bushels to the acre.” Indeed, the Black Swamp country, once useless and dangerous to public health, was found to be the most fruitful and profitable soil of the state’s entire agricultural area. The correspondent remarks that this is “an object lesson in getting something out .of nothing.” It might more truly be described, however, as an object lesson in putting thought and enterprise into a latent but fertile opportunity. Swamp lands are in fact a great treasury of potential wealth, a sort of All Baba’s cave, stored with all manner of hidden riches, awaiting him who comes with the open sesame of science and purposeful skill. It was only some two decades ago that this en tangled Ohio swamp was a serious problem to the state. When its timber had been cut away, the re maining morass was worse than useless; it was a source of malarial disease and a detriment to the value of all adjacent property. But a movement to drain the swamp was inaugurated. Competent en gineers were employed to make preliminary surveys. Then interested communities with the aid of the state undertook the practical work of reclamation. The land was steadily redeemed from its original con dition. Durable roads were built. Farms sprang up here and there, more numerously each season. The district became widely known for healthfulness as well as fertility. Every acre within its boundaries rose in value, yielding substantial profit to the indi vidual owner and an incomparable larger tax revenue to the state. Today the Black Swamp country is one of Ohio’s richest sources of food supply and pros perity. What an example is this to Georgia, whose swamp and overflow lands comprise one-fourteenth of the state’s entire area! What has teen done in Ohio has been done and is being done in many other parts of the country; and it can be done here witn equal ease and advantage. The state could make no sounder investment than to provide for the drainage of these now worthless but potentially valuable lands. It is estimated that Georgia’s swamp and overflow lands average less than a dollar per acre in value; it is said, indeed, that in many places they can actually be purchased at two or three dollars an acre. State Geologist McCallie has shown that if these lands were drained, the state, instead of re ceiving as it now does an annual income in taxes to the amount of thirteen thousand, five hundred dollars, should receive six hundred and seventy-five thousand, or nearly a million dollars. "It is true,” as the state geologist adds, “that \his estimate is made on the supposition that all the swamp and overflow lands he reclaimed, which will probably never be completely realized; nevertheless the ratio of increase in taxes to the state will hold good for every acre of land drained and put under cultivation.” From a purely business standpoint, it is evident that the state can ill afford to neglect this important and inviting enterprise. The increase in tax values alone would more than warrant a liberal appropria tion for drainage work; and to that increase must he added the incalculable good that would come to public interests in general and, particularly, to agri culture. The State Chamber of Commerce. The meeting of Georgia business men, held yester day at Macon to perfect the organization of a State Chamber of Commerce, is reported an abundant suc cess. Scores of wide-awake towns and progressive counties were represented by the type of citizens who know how to press forward and sustain a big public enterprise. There were in all some three hundred delegates, men of influence, of experience and of well- proved devotion to the best interests of their state. They agreed without delay on the purpose and gen eral methods of the new organization and, what is particularly to the point, raised among themselves a substantial fund for the preliminary expenses of the work. With so fair a beginning, the state chamber of commerce shpuld soon he in practical operation. The opportunities for constructive service through such a body are almost unlimited. The towns‘and cities of Georgia are unusually alert and each of them is en gaged in special efforts for its own development. By combining their energy and resources in a movement to enrich and extend that great field of common inter ests in which they are all equally concerned, they can quicken their own prosperity and upbuild the state as a whole. Indeed, the state as a whole must grow, If Its' component counties and towns are to advance. The State Chamber of Commerce embodies and proposes to put into effect the great principle of co-operation. It merits the hearty support of all good Georgians. Growth of the Parcel Post Congressman Lewis, writing in the Baltimore Evening Sun, presents an interesting analysis of the parcel post patronaage. Two-thirds of the post busi ness, he says, is drawn “not from the express com panies but from shippers who were debarred, by high rates and inadequate service, from using the express; at the same time, the post has made a handsome profit on business that the express com panies were unable to handle except at a loss.” This explanation accounts for the fact that the earnings of the express companies have been no less, but probably more, since Uie parcel post was inau gurated. The express traffic has grown, as has all other traffic, but the parcel post has grown prodig iously by creating new incentives and opportunities for traffic; indeed, it has established a new medium ■of exchange between sellers and ouyers and has thereby stimulated the entire country’s trade. The postal department did much to extend this particular field of the new service when it increased the weight limit of parcels from eleven to twenty pounds and at the same time reduced the rates within the first two zones. Though this change went into effect comparatively a few weeks ago, its results are already manifest. The volume and va riety of parcels has considerably increased. Many new patrons have been attracted and the govern ment’s revenue from this source is steadily aug menting. STRANGE! BY DR. FRANK CRANE. (Copyright, 1913, by Frank Crane.) “What fools * these mortals be!” said Puck. And w© are inclined to agree with him when we observe: That men toil their life long to lay up money for their children, when the worst calamity that can befall a youth is to be relieved from the need to work for a living; That a man’s pride and aim seems to be to keep his wife in idleness and luxury, and h© considers him self disgraced if she engages in useful work, when the greatest foe to female virtue is idleness; That all our greatness comes from struggle and danger, while we devote our lives to avoiding these things; That the only faith that is worth anything is the product of wrestling with doubts, yet doubts we con sider to be irreligious; That all the world is convinced of the waste, stu pidity, and madness of war, while each nation impov erishes itself still in the endeavor to prepare for war; That individually we love our children better than anything in the world, while collectively, as a city, we leave no spaces for their playgrounds, but compel them to romp in the streets among the horses, street qars and automobiles; That we lock men up in prison as an antidote to crime, and when they come out they are more hard ened criminals than before; That we gather in churches and worship Jesus, yet consider as perfectly absurd and irrational the teachings He most insisted upon, deriding His faith in human nature, His law of love, and His principle of non-resistance; while the thing against which He warned us most strictly, the heaping up of money, is tin one thing after which we are all mad; That those of us most favored by fortune are in the heated pursuit of happiness, while we know very well that nobody who pursued happiness ever found it; That we easily believe in selfishness and hate, which render us unhappy, while it is hard for us to believe in love and goodness, which make us happy; That man should “put an enemy into his mouth to steal away his brains”; That politics Is universally despised among us, while the only possible way to make a democracy suc cessful is for every citizen to take an active interest in politics; That the accepted method of preparihg our sons and daughters for life is to send them to institutions sooted with medievalism, and while but one person in a hundred is by nature fitted to become a scholar or literary person, we continue the useless effort to make scholars out of those who are to become mer chants, hand workers, salesmen and housewives; That we exert the greatest effort to be pleasant to strangers and mere acquaintances, for whom we care little or nothing, while we are neglectful, indifferent and often cruel to those we love most dearly; That most of our worry is about the past, which is gone forever, and the future, which may never come, while we omit to enjoy today, which is all that we have to enjoy, and That those who observe customs and conventions are called wise and safe, while those who believe in their reason, listen to the dictates of their heart, and trust their instinct are considered dangerous, if not wicked. Ill-Starred Maximilian N EITHER Europe nor America is celebrating an anniversary of great historic interest, the offer, fifty years ago this month, of the imperial crown of Mexico to Prince Maximilian, younger broth er of the Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria, at his castle of Miramar on the Adriatic. In that beautiful home built by himself Maximilian, who had retired a few years before from the vice royalty of Lombardy, was enjoying ideal happiness with his young wife, Carlotta, daughter of Leopold I of Belgium, when summoned at the instance of Napoleon IIL to a throne propped up by French bayonets. Napoleon had long cherished the design to establish a vassal empire in Mexico, and in our civil war he saw his opportunity. The story of French invasion and occupation is well known. Secretary Seward, as the war drew toward Its close, increased the urgency of his demand, repeatedly made, that the French should evacuate Mexico and leave the Mexicans free to set up their own govern ment. Napoleon dared not challenge the United States by a refusal. General Philip H. Sheridan was on the Rio Grande with a seasoned and disciplined army; other great armies of veterans were ready to obey the summons to battle and Generals Grant and Sher man would willingly have followed in the footsteps of Scott and Taylor. The French troops were with drawn. Maximilian, deceived as to the strength of his cause with the natives, refused to accompany Ba- zaine across the ocean, and the month of May, 1&67, saw the emperor shut up with a small force at Quere- taro, surrounded by an army of 40,000 Mexican avengers. In those final days of his life and reign the hap less Austrian prince exhibited a courage and nobility of character worthy of a descendant of Maria Theresa. He faced death with more than reckless daring; he, shared all the privations of his faithful adherents, and he was preparing to cut his way out through the host of besiegers when treachery delivered him to the enemy. Miguel Lopez was the Benedict Arnold of Quere- taro; personal immunity and 2,000 ounces of gold the price. Lopez held the key to Queretaro—-tl\e convent of La Cruz. Maximilian had been his friend and gen erous patron, and had appointed him chief of the im perial guard. Lopez discerned the approaching down fall of his sovereign and resolved to save himself by betraying him to the enemy. The Liberal troops were admitted to La Cruz, and the emperor and his officers were prisoners. In vain the Princess Salm-Salm, representing one of the proudest families in Europe, bent her knees before the Indian president of Mexico and pleaded for the life of Maximilian. “Boys, aim well—aim at my heart!” was - Maximilian’s request to his execu tioners. “Oh man!” was his last cry as he fell, the victim of his own folly and of Louis Napoleon’s per fidy. The volley which pierced his breast was the knell of the Bonaparte dynasty. Gravelott© was but little more than three years from Queretaro. Carlotta knew nothing of her husband’s fate. Crushed by the refusal of Napoleon to recall his or der for the wtihdrawal of the French troops from Mexico, she had become insane in the previous Octo ber, and has ever since been under safeguard in a royal palace in Belgium, having a 1 times lucid inter vals, during which, it is said, sh. writes her memoirs. She is now in her seventy-fourth year. With her death will be ended one of the most tragic chapters of history.—New York Times. A Talesman Too Steep The following method is described as one which is almost certain to woo slumber with success. On go ing to bed you assume a comfortable attitude In which every muscle is relaxeu but not the attitude in which you are accustomed to go to sleep, though something resembling it. Every movement, coughing, yawning, are strictly repressed, especially the desire to turn over. The same attitude is maintained without change, constantly resisting the longing to move or turn over. As a rule, by the end of fifteen or twenty minutes of this persistent maintenance of the same attitude you will find yourself growing very drowsy and then, just as theVlesire to turn over becomes absolutely un controllable, you turn with the least possible effort, and assume the position in which you habitually go to sleep and natural sleep follows at once. This method, it is claimed, seldom fails and should be given a thor ough trial, at least before resorting to a drug to bring sleep.—London Globe. ^OUAITRY riOME (SwOCTEP Eff.mS.UHJtLTOrt SUMMER AND AUTUMN. The hot midsummer, the bright midsummer. Reigns in all its glory now; The earth is scorched with a golden fire. There are berries dead-ripe on every brier And fruits on every bough. But the autumn days, so sober and calm, Steeped in a dreamy haze. When the uplands all with harvests shine, And we drink the wind like a fine, cool wine— Ah, those are the best of days! The poet prefers the autumn, but I am not so sure that he is supported in his contention. When autumn comes the most of people, especially the elderly ones, are jaded with the long heat spell and the weariness brings with it more or less of mental depression. The wind seems to moan and the foliage loses its fresh ness. The world looks tired, and you glimpse the “sere and yellow leaf.” The late autumn brings with it more vigor and vivacity, but when summer time be gins to change into early fall everything has a washed- out and faded appearance. You expect equinoctial gales and they are rarely omitted. It is too soon for winter clothes and old and young have a chilly* look in the well worn things that have done duty in the hot old summer time. It is gener ally too. dusty to begin fall cleaning, and quite too soon for fires in the grates and heaters. You hunt the sunshiny nooks early in the day and yet the noon day heat makes you weak, perspiring and uncomforta ble. You take enough cold to give you the sniffles, sometimes the sneezes. The toddlers pull off shoes and stockings in midday and by night they are fever ish. You hunt up last winter’s capes and jackets and sit indoors after dark rather than on piazzas. You find the mosquitoes like to do the very same thing, and you see the pesky flies on* the outside of the win dow screens asking admittance. I shall be glad when it gets colder, for many reasons. * • • A TON A SAY! If a man had to pitch a ton of hay every day he would think it quite a ehore. And if he had to move the hay in driblets 1 and small bunches while doing his other work he would be tired out and annoyed by the task until he would begin to look for sqme way of avoiding it. If he found that he could avoid it by some article purchasable for $200 or $300, he would buy the machine in- stanter, knowing that it would pay for Itself every year. * The president .of the Mississippi Normal col lege is reported to have said recently that the average woman doing her own work in a house without a modern water supply lifts a ton of wa ter every day. This Is the way he figures it out: A bucket of water weighs twenty pounds. It is lifted from the well, carried to the kitchen, poured out there for various uses and emptied out of doors. He counts the number of times it is lifted on the average at six times. Three meals a day call for ten bucketfuls, which lifted six times amount to 1,200 pounds of lifting. Add the water for washing, mopping, bathing and drinking; and the ton is easily accounted for. This assumed a well supply at the door. But It is often rods away from the door. It is often down a hill to a well or spring. In such cases the water supply rests much more heavily on "the woman than would the ton of hay on the man. The water supply in the house is the best first step toward improved conditions for the house which does not possess it. Many good systems are available and at reasonable prices—say from $200 to $300 for an ordinary isolated farm house. The outdoor water supply is the chief of all woman killers and home destroyers.—Exchange. My mind goes hack to the days when the buckets of water were toted up a hill from a spring and a back breaking job it used to be. The Mississippi teacher can easily count more than six buckets for lifting on the average day, even with a well In the yard. Thrifty, painstaking housekeepers are always long on plenty of water, and too often very disregardful of the back aches until the doctor has to be called in to look after the sufferers/ When there is much drawing of water by a rope apd windlass the men folks should take a little time early in the day and fill up buckets and tubs so that the woman who does her own cooking and cleaning can find the water in reach, unless It may be for drinking purposes. It Is granted that such painful drudgery Is the chief woman killers, if not home destroyers. THE PANIC OP 1907. The panic which fell on the United States in the year 1907 has always been a mystery to my mind. It was a time of peace. Times were very prosperous. In January of that year our exports were in excess of imports more than $250,000,000. Merchants were boasting .of increasing trade. Fac tories were running on fqll time. Building contrac tors were busy, money was plentiful, yet there fell on this country a money panic that threatened to bank rupt every great business enterprise In the nation. When the great Knickerbocker Trust company went to the wall the financial business of New York City seemed to reel and crumple* over like a rotten shed under a March wind. New York got to a place where It could not pay, and we all remember that our own banks paid for cotton In peculiar sort of certificates that were good in Georgia and not available anywhere else at that time. Yet there were billions of mohey, gold, sliver, na tional bank bills, etc., packed in the vaults and depos it boxes in New York City. Somebody—a good many somebodies—went in to “make a killing,” and the tremble of anxiety went over the nation from the lakes to the gulf and from ocean to ocean. The ship of state was in the break ers and ready to crash on a bankrupt shore. We remember, too, that J. P. Morgan and the great Standard *011 syndicate came out in front and handed down millions of dollars to the anxious men who paid as high as 50 per cent for some of that money to save their business from destruction. When it is st> easy to make a panic and to bankrupt the business of the nation we should try to send men to congress who have average business sense. Indications are that the currency measure is going swiftly to passage. If an extra session can do so much, what could not a regular one accom plish. A Song of St. Nicholas’ Clerks j Hide thee, white lady of the sky, Behind thy darkest veil, For Flemish merchants ride abroad Drowsy with London ale. And lonely is the road and long:, And thick the willows stand, And English gold the Flemings bear To their moist Flemish land. Foul shame it were that English gold From England should be borne! Foul shame on us, if we should fail ‘ To meet them ere the morn! THE CLEAN MILK CRUSADE BY FREDERIC J. BASKIN. When the leading milk authority of Chicago de clared that the people ,°f that city annually receive twenty-five tons of dirt id their milk he* astounded many W his fellow citizens, but when ’one comes to calculate how much this is to tne quart ind compare it with the amount Jf dirt that will be found by attaining the average quart of milk through a piece of absorb ent cotton, he will find that the statement was very conserva tive. The cotton strainer is a test of milk as simple as could he, and yet not one household in i thousand has applied even this st to its milk supply. • • • It is true, however, that enough of them have discovered dirt in their milk to lead enterprising dairymen to try to overcome the difficulty. And they uav e been provided with a machine that will take out this dirt. It ift announced that this machine takes out all hairs, particles of dirt, pus, and the like, leaving the milk clean and wholesome. It does leave it clean so far as the eye can detect. But, In point of fact, the sanita rians say, it is dirtier than before. It has broken up every little colony of germs, and has scattered them all through the milk, each, in turn, to form a new col ony. Such machines are widely sold and used, and yet milk authorities assert that they make the last state of the milk worse than the first. • • • People who patronize first-class hotels and restau rants frequently get as unwholesome a grade of milk as is sold in the tenement districts. When the New* York milk committee looked into this phase of the matter it found that in some places milk sold at 25 cents a glass was as full of bacteria as the milk sold in the Yiddish shops on the East Side. In some of the big hotels it was found that a practice was indulged in of serving a customer's milk order In a bottle, leading him to think that the milk was bottled at the source and kept free from all contamination, whereas, the fact was that the milk was very inferior in grade and poured into the bottle by a careless scullion in the kitchen. When these condition* were brought tp the attention of th e proprietors they usually hastened to remedy them. * * • In many communities there is a practice among milk wagon drivers to change milk from pint to quart bot tles, or vice versa, as they drive along, in order to meet the demands of their day’s trade. One investiga tor tells of a driver whom he* saw pouring pints into unwashed quart bottles and then licking off the mouth of the bottle to hide the evidences of the change. The caps he put into the quart bottles were drawn from his vest pocket. ( * * • How dirty milk sometimes may become was dis covered by Dr. M. J. Rosenau, one of the members of the milk commission. In 1907 he found that the gen eral market milk In Washington contained upward of 11,000,000 germs to the cubic centimeter. This is a larger number of germs than is td, be found in the sewage of the average large city.' In the sewage of Boston for a period of seven years the average num ber was less than 3,000,000, and In London the num ber ranged from 2,000,000 to 11,000,000. However, not all bacteria found in milk are bad. Some of them are good, as for instance, the lactic acid germ. But on the whole, milk with a large number of germs in it must be regarded as guilty until it proves Itself inno cent. • » • It is generally admitted that many crusaders In be half of pure milk draw a picture of the evils of Im pure milk that sometimes does more harm than good. Some of the statements made lead to the conclusion^ that nearly all milk Is dangerous and to be avoided, while others place the responsibility for all epidemic disease on milk. The conservative sanitarian says that bad milk is at least dangerous enough to Justify its being shut out of the market Whether it con tains contagion or not, it is certain to conain germs that do great damage to the intestinal tracts of ba bies, and Invite stomachic disorders in grown-ups. They do not say that bad milk is a virulent poison, but they declare that the man or the woman who uses it invites disease, if not death. ... The great trouble experienced ih furthering the milk crusade is the unwillingness I of the masses of the people to pay a cent more a q lart for pure milk than they pay for impure milk. |While there is a class of people who are willing 4o pay 10 cents a quart for the best milk when the prdinary kind sella for 9 cents, the great majority stick to the ordinary kind. The milk man thereupon asserts that he is giv ing the people all the protection they are willing to pay for. ... While the. main fight that the cities are making today is in the direction of pure milk, there is an eco nomic end to the milk question., jj well. While the old-fashioned way of pumping witier into milk is no longer tolerated anywhere, milkmoi with a touch of cupidity in their make-up have hi', upon other meth ods of taking advantage of the'.Consumer. Some of them have rich milk, richer thamthe law requires it 16 be. In order that they may rrlike an added profit they add enough skim milk to it .0 bring It down to the lowest standard, and thus selljthe skim milk they use for diluting purposes at regular whole milk prices. Others manage in one way and 'another to get any sur plus butter fat off of the milk. I . r j It has been found wherever tfe matter has been investigated that loose milk seldom measures up to the standard of bottled milk, either fiom a health or an economic standpoint. It is usually very full of germs, and equally often of a very poor g-ade. The constant dipping out of small quantities ’ introduces new germs and encourages the spread of those already there. At the same time it gives the merclant opportunity to dilute it with skim milk, an opportunity very fre quently improved. The investigations in New York all have shown that the cheap shops vhere loose milk Is sold usually handle a low grade both in quality and in bacterial count. So the trend of bgislation is In the direction of the abolition of dippered milk. This has brought forth a great complaint among those who deal in loose milk, and they assert thq.t it will make milk cost the poor man more. The saiiitarian admits that it may cost him a share more in tlh.immediate outlay of money, but that when resultan%L~oct°rs’ bills and cases of siokness that result from hose milk are taken lrto consideration, bottled milk wll prove infinitely cheaper. It is the belief of nearly all sinitarians that all milk should be Pasteurized. There Js a zone of tem perature between 140 degrees and ;160 degrees where nearly all germs are killed and yit where the taste and the constitution of milk is not disturbed. While Pasteurized milk may afterward have a large bacterial count, these germs are usually not of a harmful vari ety. Sanitarians Insist that Pastetrization shall not be used as an excuse for dirty milk, but rather that It shall serve as an anti-mosquito campaign serves iij defending a community from an epidemic of yellow fe ver—the quarantine may be depended on to keep out the disease, but the anti-mosquito measures prevent its spread even if the quarantine fails. With Pasteur, ization the sanitarian aims to kill the germ that may be undetected by systems of inspection. The question, What is brandy? Is more difficult to answer than a similar query about whisky, con sidering that brandy has been iesq .generally experi mented with by the ultimate consuiner. Then twenty crowns for every man, A led gown for his dame, And a candle for St. Nicholas Who helps us with our game! —DOROTHY MARGARET STUART in the Academy. It may yet be necessary for President Wilson to step in and take charge of the Thgjw case. Old King Cotton is a popular ruler these days.