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4 THE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1913. THE SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL JlTLAJTTA, GA., 6 NORTH FOBSTTH ST. Entered at the Atlanta Postoffice as Mall Matter ot the Second Class. B. GRAY, President and Editor. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE Twelve months Six months 400 Three months .;.... 260 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 leased wires into our office. It has a staf* of distinguished contributors, with strong departments of special value to the home and the farm. Agents warted t:t every postoffice. Liberal com mission allowed. Outfit free. Write R. R- BRAD LEY, Circulation Manager. The only traveling representatives we have art 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 tentative!. NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS. 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Such a plan would reduce the cost and increase the service of Georgia roads and would also furnish a basis and starting point for the development of a Statewide system of good roads, which is the paramount need of our highway in terests. Commissioner Patterson, the author of this sug gestion, has written to the officials of each county asking their opinion of the proposed enterprise. He explains that the engineers could be at the dis posal of the counties for at least ten days In eacn year and could assist them in locating, laying out, improving and maintaining their roads, in putting the proper surface on roads, in constructing bridges and in doing this work in the most com petent and economical manner. "We realize,” says the commissioner, "that most of the coun ties are unable to employ an engineer for all ot his time, however advantageous that would be; it has been thought, therefore, that this department could be of assistance In providing these four ex perts at the expense of the State, whose services the counties could use. This offer will doubtless evoke widespread re sponse, for, it goes to the pith of problems that concern scores of Georgia counties. Koad building and road maintenance are an art based upon a science. They call for trained judgment and ex perience. In the selection of material, the de termination of grades, the putting on of binders and in many other particulars, the advice of an engineer is indispensable, if the work is to be dur able and the .ax payers are to receive a due return from thelr'money. If It were possible, every county should employ Its own road expert; but since this cannot be done,/it is the State’s duty to shoulder this task in behalf of its common interests. Much money is being spent in Georgia for high way improvement. Some communities are voting liberal bond Issues for. this purpose, others are levying a special assessment and nearly all of them are alloting a fair portion of their revenues to road work. There is no lack of public en thusiasm but there is a very manifest need of sounder methods in the use of these funds. A dollar advisedly spent will go further than ten loosely applied. A road constructed on a scientific basis will last longer and be far cheaper than ten roads carelessly built. A corps of engineers would save the State and the different counties Incom parably more money than their service would cost. This policy offers another advantage even greater than that of economy; it would develop among the counties a sense of common needs and would thus lead eventually to the formation of a well connected system of highways. As con ditions now are in Georgia most counties are. build ing roads chiefly from a local standpoint, where as the value of every road depends primarily upon its relation to other roads. Because of this, there has been a persistent demand in recent years for the establishment of a State Highway Commission which could coordinate the labors of the individual counties and weld the separate links of roads Into a strong Statewide chain. The engineers suggested by Judge Patterson would go far toward serving this purpose. Their work would supply at least the nucleus of effective State aid and supervision. Being in continual touch with the needs and plans of all counties they could be of inestimable value to each county. Those States that are making most progress in the good roads cause and that are realizing the richest return upon their investment in this fieict have adopted in some form a State Highway Com mission. Georgia cannot afford to lag In this im- nortant enterprise. Is Sulzer Legally Impeachable? The impeachment trial of Governor ' William Sulzer, of New York, suggests an Interesting ques tion as to the exact nature and latitude of such pro ceedings. Is Sulzer, the Governor, subject to Im peachment for offenses which, If he did commit them, were individual and private rather than official acts? Is he amenable to a court of Impeachment on charges that relate to things done before he entered office and even before he was elected? The impeachment process Is distinct both In method and purpose from the ordinary criminal prosecution. It Is designed primarily to protect the State from official misconduct. The federal constitu tion provides that "judgment In cases of impeach ment shall not extend further than to the removal from office and disqualification to hold and enjoy any office of honor, trust or profit under the United States.” The constitution further provides, however, that “the party convicted ahall nevertheless be sub ject to indictment, trial, judgment and punishment according to the law.” The distinction is herein clearly drawn between impeachment and prosecution in the legal sense of the latter term; and the princi ple set forth in the federal constitution Is followed by most of the States, New York included. The mis deeds of an individual and also those of an official may be prosecuted, but impeachment is designed to reach and punish official misdeeds alone. On this theory, It does not appear that impeach ment is the proper or permissable course in the case of Governor Sulzer, so far as the main charges lodged against him are concerned. He is accused, in the first place, of having diverted to his personal use certain campaign funds contributed to his election and of having spent them in Wall Street speculations and, in the second place, of having failed to account for certain campaign funds in the report he filed, as required by the law, after his election. Other charges are made but they are of a relatively minor charac ter; it is on these two that the appeal for his convic tion mainly rests. Now, if William Sulzer were guilty of either of these accusations, he should certainly be punished and he would deserve the condemnation of all right- thinking people. They are unquestionably subject to legal presecution, if they have a basis of truth, but it is seriously to be doubted that they furnish grounds for the impeachment of William Sulzer, the Governor. The first offense as charged was committed before he was elected and the second before he was inaugurated. Neither, therefore, can have reference to any of his official acts. It is not the misconduct of a Governor but the misconduct of a candidate for office that is challenged; and that, it would seem, is a matter over which a court of impeachment is with out jurisdiction. Governor Sulzer’s enemies in the Tammany ring have resorted to divers scandals in an effort to in timidate him into doing their will, and among these was a breach of promise suit, alleging certain wrongs done years ago. It is evident that he would not be liable to impeachment on that charge, because it pertained to individual conduct and to incidents that occurred, if occur they did, before he was connected with the gubernatorial office. For the same reason, the later charges concerning his disposition of the campaign fund are scarcely a matter for impeachment, al though they may be for criminal prosecution. This is, to be sure, a speculative rather than a practical question; hut the proceedings of the New York court of impeachment, composed of forty-eight members of the State Senate and nine members ot the court of appeals, will he watched with mSuch iris terest for whatever light it may throw on this issue. Get Ready for the Canal. During his brief stay in Atlanta yesterday Mr. John Barrett, director general of the Pan-American Union, made a timely and cogent plea that Southern cities prepare promptly and adequately for the open ing of the Panama canal. Upon such preparation, depends very largely the future of the South’s com mercial and industrial welfare. If this section is to enjoy its due portion of the fresh advantages the canal will create, it must be ready to seize them and turn them to definite account as they arise. The opening of the canal will be not only a na tional but also a world event. Its opportunities are being eagerly awaited by all the countries of Europe and by Asia as well as America. England, Germany, France, Holland and Japan have been systematically studying the new trade routes and the new fields of business that are soon to he developed. They have sent embassies to Central and South America to cultivate the friendship and ascertain the needs of the peop'e in that region. They have built ships specifically with a view to handling and directing the new com merce. In short, they have prepared and are still preparing for the opening of the Canal. f, as Mr. Barrett says, the United States does not bestir itself to similar enterprise, it will find that Hamburg and Liverpool and the far East, rather than our own cities, will derive the chief benefits from the canal. Especially urgent is the South’s duty in this regard. By every natural circumstance, our section should be the prime beneficiary of the new commercial era that is soon to be ushered in. Our ports and our business centers are at the very threshold of opportunity but they must be prepared to claim and to hold what will he naturally their own. The truth, it is gratifying to note, is being real ized more and more keenly by alert commercial organizations in Georgia and neighboring States. It is to be hoped that they will lose no time in beginning a methodical and co-operative campaign in behalf of their common interests. Good Work for Soil Improvement! The campaign of education which representative fertilizer manufacturers are conducting in the inter est of soil improvement is typical of a new economic A Different Huerta. Mexico’s "Independence” day came and went tame ly enough. None of the predicted demonstrations against American residents materialized. There were parades at the capital and General Huerta made his speech. But the occasion was far from hilarious. To most Mexicans, indeed, "Indepen dence” day under the present regime must seem a broad satire rather than a national festival. There was one significant note in Huerta’s mes sage to Congress, a note of uncertainty and in decision- concerning himself and his spurious gov ernment. He took pains to emphasize Tiis willingness to surrender his power to a successor who is con stitutionally elected. This is a different Huerta from him who forced himseli into the Presidency through slaughter and intrigue and who spurned the peaceful sugges tions of the United States. era in the 3outh. The farm, though always recognized as the ulti mate source of our prosperity, has until years compar" atively recent been regarded as a thing apart from the daily concern of commerce and industry. But now the progressive merchant and manufacturer are get ting into practical, intimate touch with the problems of the farm and with its opportunities. This is evidenced in the liberal support given corn clubs by business men, in the demonstration trains sent out by railroads and in the co-operation of hank ers with enterprises for rural development. Particularly useful is the publicity campaign the Southern fertilizer men are now carrying on in behalf of soil improvement. The fact that they are helping themselves in no wise lessens the value of their work to farming interests. The spirit they thus manifest is admirable and is characteristic of modern business and the progressive South. Now it’s Indian summer. The Treasure of Pecans. Pecan growing Is bound to become one of tne most important branches of Southern agriculture, j If, Indeed, it Is not already so. The food value ot \ these nuts Is unusually high, the cost of producing { and marketing them is comparatively low, while the demand for them is worldwide. These three conditions form the basis of a permanent and profitable Industry. Mr. Alexander McKae, a successful horticul turist of Alabama, contributed to a recent issue of the Florala (Ala.) News an interesting dis cussion of the nutriment in pecans. In this con nection he uses a particularly pungent illustra tion. A quarter of a large pecan kernel, wnen lighted at the end as if it were a candle, will burn with a slow, clear fiame “as pure and Irae as a wax taper.” “Wheft a small portion is well charred, blow out the iiame and let the nostrils feast on the odor of the slender thread of smoke arising. Every meat eater instantly exclaims burnt steak.” The fact is the very oils which make up the rich sustenance in beef are contain ed in pecans, though in a far purer quality and far more abundantly. If, as some economists predict, a food substitute for meat must be found, because of the steady in crease in population and the decrease in the sup ply of meat, the pecan, ’ It would seem, will go far toward answering this need. Mr. McRae con tends furthermore that pecans, while serving the same purpose as beef, can be grown so cheaply and so plenteously and handled with such a mini mum risk or loss, that they are an ideal food . product both from the farmer’s and the con sumer’s standpoint. The pecan tree is hardy, ot rapid growth, of early fruition and its old age is even more bountiful than its youth. Feeans are not perishable, as meat or fruit or vegetables are. The cost of marketing and storing them is thus slight. In America the growth of the finer varieties of the pecan is limited to the lower South but tne demand for them extends over the nation and tne world. It is gratifying to note that this important industry is receiving more and more attention in Georgia. It offers safe and fruitful field of in vestment to business men and farmers alike; as a source of steady wealth and enterprise for tile State it is, perhaps, unsurpassed. Japan and China. Far different from Japan’s attitude a fortnight ago is that now assumed by some of her leading diplomats who disavow any intention on the part of their Government to force war upon China. Japan is simply seeking an apology and just indemnity, they say, for the death of certain Japanese subjects who were, killed in southern China during a battle between the regular and the rebel forces. They deny that ill-tempered or brow-beating tactics are to be pursued. It will he remembered, however, that'the original Japanese demand upon China was peremptory in the extreme and indicated that the young Republic must either accept the stipulated terms instantly and with out negotiations or make itself liable to military attack. This harsh and uncalled for ultimatum was thought to be due chiefly to feverish conditions at Tokio whose populace is in a ‘continual state of political unrest. The Government put on a blustering front, it was supposed, to divert the dangerous mood of its masses from domestic affairs, a device to which un easy rulers have often resorted. Be that as it may, something has evidently hap pened to sober Japan’s first pell-mell policy. It ’ is possible that her ally, Great Britain, has Jet it be known that China must not he bulldozed or embar rassed on trivial provocations. England’s and, in deed, all Europe’s interests in the far East are rather seriously involved in the destinies of the Chinese republic. The future development of China and its large commercial possibilities depend upon the sta bility of the new government. That government, though fairly well established and, in the main, effi cient so far as internal affairs arc concerned, is cer tainly unable to withstand the shock of a foreign war. Its finances are low and its home responsibilities are at present unusually grave. There is little likeli hood that the dominant Powers of the world would countenance a Japanese campaign against China. The New Business Era. R. G. Dunn & Co.’s commercial review of the past week is particularly encouraging. Busi ness confidence, we are told, is deepening and there is a pronounced tendency "to extend opera tions further into the future.” The volume of trade* is larger than at this time a year ago, more machinery is active and more people are em ployed. Especially significant is that part of the report which declares: “Less conservatism is manifest in the wool market. Buyers of leather are operating more freely. Pig iron reflects Increased firm ness, with heavy sales of Southern iron a fea ture. The strong statistical position of cop per has been reflected in a continued rise in prices.” These conditions are all the more noteworthy in view of the fact that they prevail immediately after the passage of a tariff bill which lowers the duty on a great many commodities and removes it entirely from others. Dismal prophecies that progressive legislation would disturb the coun try’s business have been completely belied. At no time since the tariff bill was introduced has there been a sign of depression and now that its terms are practically all known and are soon to become effective, industry and trade are pressing forward more vigorously than ever before, freed from sus pense and cheered by a .fertile future. The fact is the United States is entering a new economic era. Under the wise leadership of the Wilson administration, old barriers that discourag ed individual enterprise are being removed, old discriminations that fostered particular interests at the expense of general interests are being abolished. A tariff that is fair to the people and to business as a whole is soon to be followed by a banking and currency system that will be fair to the people and to business as a whole. The conditions of our economic life are being made more jus*, and for that reason they will inevitably be more prosperous and secure. Soon there’ll be another glad chorus—the fur nace rakers. Many a rusty looking overcoat has a stiver lin ing, as it were. The Horror of Jewels BY DR. FRANK CRANE. (Copyright. 1913, by Frank Crane.) You have read de Maupassant’s story, ‘'The Dia mond Necklace”? It tells of a poor and beautiful young wife who borrowed of a rich friend whom she had known in her school days a string of diamonds to wear to a ball. She lost the trinket. Her husband borrowed a great sum of money, had the necklace du plicated by a jeweler, and gave it to the rich woman, to avoid the charge of theft. The poor couple worked years to pay off the debt. The wretched woman, re duced to drudgery, lost all her beauty; became wrin kled, bent, old before her time. One day she met by chance her wealthy friend. They spoke of the neck lace. The poor woman told the tmtn about her experi ence. The rich woman said it was too bad—for the necklace was but paste. The tale is an artistic expression of what might be called The Horror of Jewels. Almost every precious stone of x great value, almost every $20,000 rope of pearls, or $1,000 solitaire dia mond, or extraordinary ruby, has a history that runs to the accompaniment of vanity, envy, lust, theft, hate and murder. Not one has produced any speck of real love or pure peace of mind. ' The devil probably weal's a million-dollar diamond ring. And his wife jewels running into the billions. They ought to. The desire to own, wear or collect gems of fabu lous value is akin to the lowest cravings of which hu man beings are capable. It is an advertisement of of fensive pride. It is provocative of unhappiness. Precious gems are the seeds of those passions that destroy content. To display them marks a certain lack of good breed ing, of that gentleness that makes a gentleman. They are the crystallized sap of the vicious inequity of privilege. * If one has money the worst form in which he can invest it is in the parade of gems. The queer part of it is that you never can tell. Once we could distinguish real pearls from imitation by the person who wore them; if it was a lady with an income of fifty thousand a year they were genuine; if she was a working woman they were false. Nowa days the wealthy classes lock their real jewels in safety deposit vaults and wear imitation. They can arouse all the detestable emotions desired by wearing the false jewels, and run no risk of losing the real. The paste jewel holds the same “legal tender” relation socially to the true jewel that the ten-dollar bill holds commercially to the gold eagle. Expensive jewels are of value to the rich as a quick means of squandering their money and creating mis ery. “To us,” says Gustave Tery, “there is no differ ence between a necklace costing a million francs and one costing three francs; but to the rich the differ ence is very real, since it comes, if I calculate cor rectly, to nine hundred and ninety-nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-seven francs. Which is not to be sneezed at.” PRAISE FROM WELL KNOWN AUTHOR. Sept. 1, 1913. My Dear Dr. Crane: Just a word of appreciation from one of your steady readers. You are doing the very thing that I, for one, have longed to see done: namely, the state ment of profound and essential things with such sim plicity that any one who could read the words could understand them. This is the idea of democratic writ ing, and merely follows the habit of the very greatest writers. Homer, the Bible, Shakespeare, Cervantes, etc. Your “Why Was I Born?” states a whole philosophy of life with a clearness and brevity to me remarkable. My own hearty thanks! Sincerely t JAMES OPPENHEIM. Quips and Quiddities A mother who was going to take her children visit ing with her had been instilling the old rule of “Chil dren should be seen and not heard.” “And now, what are you children going to act like?” she inquired as a last precaution. “Like movin’ pitchers,” came the ready resonse.— The Delineator. * * * Colonel W. F. Cody, otherwise known as “Buffalo Bill,” is responsible for the following: “At ono time for a few months I was at the head of a theatrical combination that did business in the middle west. During a tour of one night stands in Ohio and Kentucky business was bad. We finally dis banded in one of the Ohio towns, where only one per formance was given. This was a matine and the au dience was conspicuous by its absence. As I was hurrying out of the office, when the performance was about half over, I nearly stumbled over a small girl who was crying bitterly. I stopped and, bending down, asked: “ ‘Why, what’s the matter, little girl?’ “‘I want me money back!’ screamed the child, be tween her sobs. “‘Why, don’t you like the show?’ I asked. ‘You’ve seen only tjie first act, you know.’ * ‘I don't care nothin’ ’bout the show,’ howled the child. ‘I’m ’fraid to set in that gallery all alone!’ ”— Everybody’s Magazine. * * • He had just reached the philosophical stage when he slipped into a restaurant between bars for a bit to eat. He ordered. Then fie sat staring ahead, quietly thoughtful in expression, and waited. It is admitted he did some waiting, too. What hap pened to his order couldn’t be understood outside the peculiar convolutions of a restaurant kitchen, but he spent half an hour sitting there staring ahead of him. At last it came. As the waitress put the order be fore him, he started from his deep study, as if he had forgotten he had an order coming. Then, looking up at the fair transporter of edibles, he said: “You don’t look a day older!”—Everybody’s Maga zine. Holland for Woman Suffrage With the government of Holland pledging itself to bestow suffrage upon certain classes of w,omen. follow ing closely upon similar action in Hungary, the world wide character of the suffrage movement becomes more than ever apparent. Neither in Hungary nor in Holland are the women satisfied with half-way meas ures, however. Not less th^n a thousand protestants sent in a deputation to the premier yesterday demand ing that they be placed on an absolute political equal ity with men, and the premier thought it at least worth while to explain to them that this could be done as soon as the constitution was altered. The women, however, demanded t^at a pledge that this will be done should b e forthcoming now; These European de velopments are more striking than our own suffrage victories, because one expects vital political changes in a new country, and a democracy, and does not ex pect them, so readily where custom and tradition are so firmly rooted as they are in the smaller countries of Europe. The speed with which the movement has gone ahead in the last five years is simply amazing. No one would have ventured to predict such happenings ten years ago; now no one would dare to say that we shall not have a German government promising suf frage within the next deeade. At any rate, this Dutch women’s victory may be expected to cause further ire among their British allies across the channel, and Mr. Asquith will have to face the question why England should lag behind her little neighbor of the North Sea. —New York Evening Post. The.har^l that rocks the cradle usually also gets next to most of tl ~ “rocks” in hubby’s pocket. How, a girl does hate to have red cheeks just after coming out of a dark hall with a young man who needs a shave. THE CLEAN MILK CRUSADE III.—PRO TEC TING THE BABIES. BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. Sanitary science has shown that the two principal sources of epidemic diseases are milk and water. Com plex conditions of city life have tended to increase the dangers of contagion from milk and to decease those from wa ter. Municipal waterworks have served to narrow the supply to one source, making it possible to guard it against infection; on the other hand, the increase in population has multiplied the sources of milk to such an ex tent that the maintenance of a sanitary supervision over them all is next to impossible. * * * A case in point is that of New York. With its milk supply coming from 45,000 farms, lo cated in five states, and amount ing to 15,000,000 gallons a month, it is easy to see that the difficulties of controlling the production of the milk: are innumerable. Furthermore, while water, un der' present systems of distribution, is as pure when it reaches the consumer as it was when it left the source, milk stands a chance, of gathering contagion en route, besides offering nature’s best vehicle for the multiplication of the germs in it at the source. * * • The present system of milk regulation in most cities is fairly thorough, so far as the middleman, the doiiYman, is concerned. But back of him is the farm er. The dairyman may gather his milk supply from a hundred farms. He mixes all the milk he gets from them. Ninety and nine farmers who supply him may all be careful ttf a degree, but the hundredth on* may stray out into* the hills of indifference, and his supply may contaminate the whole dairy. In Oressoy, Pa., a few yeajs ago, there was an epidemic of ty phoid. Ten cases occurred in eight families. Inves tigation showed that they ail drank milk from the same dairy. The epidemic stopped as soon as the sup* ply of. this dairy was freed from contamination. • • • In Savannah, Ga., an outbreak cf typhoid was in vestigated, and sixty-three cases were traced to one dairy. This dairy itself was dean and wholesome. But it furnished milk for a baker shop, and there waS a case of typhoid in a room over the shop. The empty cans from this shop contaminated the whole dairy supply. In Newark, N. J., there was an epidemic of typhoid some years ago. Sixty-nine cases were traced to one dairy. It procured some of its milk from a farm where a man had been ill with typhoid. In Salt Lake City an epidemic of twenty-nine cases of typhoid was traced to one dairy, which drew a part of its supply from a farm where there had been a case of typnoid. In Palo Alto, Cal., 232 out of 900 milk user! from one dairy had typhoid fever. The milk cans from this dairy had been washed ill water from a creek that was contaminated with sewage. But if milk may be fatal to grown-ups in many; cases, it is nothing as compared with the damage im pure milk does to the health of infants. With tender digestive tracts, liable to be disturbed by the *east untoward condition, it does not require even contagion- infected milk to jipset them and endanger their lives. Dirty milk without contagion in it is more fatal to babies than contagion-laden milk is td adults. There fore* it is peculiarly important that the milk used inj the feeding of infants shall be clean as well as free from contagion. Hel-e is where the sanitarian encounters another difficulty. The majority of the babies of the present day do not come into homos where good milk entail* no extra burdens, but rather into the homes where, if sheer poverty does not hold sway, at least every cent that can be saved must be saved. The result is that in the homes where tne majority of babies are to bf found the poorest grade of milk is encountered—sim ply because it costs less. The death rate among infants is so high that one- statistician has calculated that the chances of a baby surviving are much less than those of a man of eightyf Of all the people who die in the course of a year one out of every six is a baby less than a year old. It has been estimated that half of this mortality is due to bad milk, and there are now innumerable milk de pots maintained where the supply of milk for infants is looked after by philanthropic societies. Th? best example of what these milk depots are able to do is found in New York. There Nathan Straus initiated the work, and it is now being forwarded by a number of organizations. The New York milk com* mittee, in 1912, formed the Babies’ Welfare associa tion, which became the central organization of 150 agencies dealing with the welfare of babies. Through their efforts the infant mortality in that city was cut from 111 to 105 per thousand babies born. Out of 1,350 babies born alive and supervised during the first month, only thirty-seven died, which was only a third as many as died where they were not looked after by outside influences. The main effort was to induce the mothers to nourish their children in the natural way, and out of the 1,313 babies living at the end of the first month less than 4 per cent of a hundred were forced to rely on cows’ milk. Yet 1,700,000 quarts of fresh, clean milk was distributed through the fifty- five municipal milk stations. The two efforts that are being made in all the progressive cities are to induce mothers to forego bot tle feeding for their babies, and, where this cannot be done, to see that the babies get wholesome milk. In Chicago not long ago there was published a cartoon entitled, “The Long and the Short Haul.” It showed one baby with a nursing bottle, the tube of which started at a farm sixty miles away. The milkman was milking dirty cows in a dirty stable and using a dirty bucket. Then came the haul to the railroad, then a wait, then the trip to the city on the trains then it was hauled to the dairy and thrown in with a lot other milk. From there it was taker* to tbs house* in a bottle. At each step the possible sources of contamination were shown, and it was stated that! the average bottle-fed baby had to draw its milk through this tube. At the top of the, cartoon was a modern Madh^ma with her baby, ana this was the short haul. % During the first year of its life the average baby; consumes 500 quarts of milk. When one considers that this milk may, under present dairy conditions, come from fifty or even a hundred dairy farms, and that any one of them may render the milk of all the others dangerous, ,t will be seen what a gamble with death the mother who buys milk from the average dairyman forces her baby to take. \\ hen it is re membered that babies who get their milk by the short haul show a death rate only a third as great as those who get it by the long haul, it will be seen what havoc tlie long haul plays. Under ordinary conditions thirty* five out of every hundred bottle-fed babies die, while only eleven out of a hundred breast-fed babies fail to survive. The Nuts We Eat The old butternut, a very rich and fragrant nut of the olden time, has almost disappeared. Very few peo ple of the present generation have ever tasted u but ternut. The black walnut is becoming fewer, and in a generation hence it will hardly be known. And yet it is a precious nut, lull of goodness and rare taste. Those old pans of cracked walnuts, in the, long win ter evenings, made up a family joy that has never been surpassed. The hickory nuts, especially the good old shellbarks, figured prominently in those nUtty days, and the chestnuts, too, including the hazel nuts and beech nuts; but they are all growing scarcer and have sadly strayed away from the human heart. The pecan is becoming the .great American nut. There are thousands of trees cultivated in the south, and the nut has become commercially important. Trees are reported bearing $200 to $500 wqrthVof nuts pot* acre. It is a rich nut, but quite too hard for the novice to pick out the kernels. There are, however, machines that do the work perfectly. But, after all, for rich, well flavored and grandt mouthfuls of nut, give us th* English walnut.—Ohio State Journal.