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THE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GA., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1913. THE SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL ATLANTA. GA., 5 NORTH FORSYTH ST. Entered at the Atlanta Postoffice as Mail Matter of the Second Class. JAMES R. GRAY, — President and Editor. ’ SUBSCRIPTION PRICE Twelve months .....,! 75c Six months 40c Three months .**. Tlte 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 oy special leased wires into our office. It has a staff of distinguished contributors, with strong departments of special value to the home and the farm. Agents wanted at every postoifice. Liberal com mission allowed. Outfit free. Write R. R. BKAJJ- LET, Circulation Manager. The only traveling representatives we have axe J. A. Bryan. B. F. Bolton, C. C. Cpyle, L. H. Kim brough, W. W. Blackburn and J. W. Brooks. We will je responsible only for money paid to the above named traveling representatives. 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Dr. Melvin has returned, as our Washington correspondent reports, with much interesting and valuable information that should prove helpful to American farmers. His inquiries mark a practical step toward the upbuilding of live-stock interests in this land, where the neglect of cattle production is now sharply felt as a potent factor in the high cost of living. There are two means of reducing the almost prohibitive price of beef in the United States, and both should be applied. One is to take advantage of the lower tariff recently put into effect and to encourage the importation of beef from South Ameri ca. Dr. Melvin relates that Argentina cattle “which dressed eight hundred and twenty pounds sold for ?78.40 gold and that this grade of beef, which is of a very high quality is selling in England from eight to nine cents a pound wholesale.” When we reflect, in connection with this fact, that United States pack ers have successfully competed with South American beef in the English market, it becomes evident that high tariff duties have been measurably responsible for-the high price of beef In this country and that the reduction of these duties should open the way for a reduction in prices. This, however, is rather an indirect means of re lief. The ultimate solution of the beef problem in the United States must be the production of more cattle at home. If the live-stock industry is profit able in South America where prices are almost in comparably lower than here, it will certainly be profitable in the United States; and at the same time its development will lower our cost of food. The Government can render no service more practical than in using its educational machinery to encourage cattle raising. The Federal Bureau of Ani mal Industry, is already doing excellent work to this end. In Georgia, for instance, it is conducting a campaign for the elimination of the cattle tick which is one of the gravest impediments to the live-stock industry in this State; and is also, in conjunction with the Agricultural College, fostering interest in the planting of alfalfa and other cattle food. No part of the country i9 better suited than the South to cattle raising. Soil, climate and, indeed, every natural circumstance are ideally favorable to this important industry. Southern farmers in general and Georgia farmers in particular face a rich op portunity in this regard; they should make the most of it. In Defense of the Crow. An old lady who was so charitably disposed that she would never believe ill of anyone was asked, rather banteringly, what she could say in behalf of the Devil. "Why,” she promptly answered, “I think we would all do well to emulate his industry!” In like spirit the federal Department of Agricul ture seems determined to find good in everything. Having exonerated divers birds and beetles that bore unsavory reputations.about the farm, the Department now issues an engaging defense of the crow. Far from being the unmitigated rogue his enemies would have us believe, the crow’ is really a guardian of fiel(| and orchard against insect pests. That he will eat corn, if no other fare is handy, is admitted but he infinitely prefers grubs, grasshoppers and cut worms; and being “a huge feeder,” as Irving said of Ichabod Crane, his aid in patting down insect foes is unlimited. The testimony of the Department’s entomologists in this connection is noteworthy: ; “Npt long ago an* agent of the department v.£s watching a crow feeding in a corn field. It seemed that the bird was pulling the young corn and carrying it to a nearby nest to feed its young: After the crow had left the nest, the agent climbed the tree and secured the young bitds. An examination showed that instead of young corn, the older bird had been feeding the young ones with cut worms gathered from around the corn plants. There is, we are assured, but one danger from he crow; and that lies in his love of a large family. There is perhaps no other creature more devoutly ob servant of Genesis 1-28. If the crow population can inly be kept within the bounds of an insect food supply it may well he enco iraged to remain on the ’arm. To determine precisely when the stock of ;rows is exceeding the stock of worms may require some patience and skill. In all cases of doubt, how ever, the benefit should he given to tlte crow. Such is the happy vindication of this long maligned bird. Truly, as W. S. remarked, There is some soul of goodness in things evil. Would men observingly distill it out.” Prospects Brighten For the Currency Bill. Prospects for the early enactment of the currency bill seem brighter than at any time since the measure came from the House. The president’s recent confer ence with Democratic Senators who were disposed to delay was evidently fruitful. Washington dispatches,, now incdicate that the members of the banking and currency committee are Composing their differences and that the bill will be reported by the first week of November. It is not expected that the ensuing debate Will con sume more than thre weeks. No filibustering tactics are likely, for Republicans as well as Democrats real ize the country's urgent need of a more sound and serviceable currency system. The points at issue con cern matters of detail rather than of principle. The measure will doubtless be discussed in a national, not a partisan spirit. The President has expressed himself as agreeably surprised at the number of Republican Senators who will vote for the hill without demanding fundamental changes. In this respect tile currency question pre sents fewer difficulties than did the tariff. In-the case of the latter, there was a sharp division of party, lines, a deep-seated difference as to governmental policy. Banking and currency reform, on the contra ry, is admitted by all parties to be necessary. The main features of the pending measure are for the most part agreed upon. Compromise must be effected in regard to certain detailed provisions, such for instance as the number of regional banks and the membership of the federal board of control. The committee, it appears, is now ready to adjust such differences. There is the possibility of a unan imous report. When the bill is once squarely before the Senate as a whole, it will doubtless move speedily to enactment. ' * GLORY BY DR. FRANK CRANE (Copyright. 1913, by Frank Crane.) A man never makes a bid for notoriety when he does his duty. Don’t y«u feel sprry for people who are so per verse as not to like you? New York’s New Governor. Martin F. Glynn, now dovernor of New York, as a result of William Sulzer’s deposition, has assumed office in circumstances unusuually trying. For months the State’s executive affairs have been demoralized, almost to the point of chaos. This condition has ex tended through various departments, so that the sim plest as well as the gravest duties of administration have been confused and hampered. Merely to restore order and to set the wheels running smoothly again will be no easy task. / Besides this. Governor Glynn , succeeds a man whom thousands of people regard as a victim of Tammany, the most intensely and most justly de spised political ring in the nation. His course will naturally be watched with latent, if not active, sus picion by all who pity Sulzer or hate the machine. He will he expected to prove by extraordinary inde pendence that he was not a party to the scheme of Boss Murphy to overthrow a Governor simply be cause the Governor defied the boss. If we may judge, however, by the tone of New York’s Influential and independent journals, the new Governor will have the cordial support of right- thinking citizens so long as he shows a sincere pur pose to serve the State. Thus the New York Even ing Post declares: We have great hopes that Gov. Glynn, will rise \o the opportunity before him. We cannot forget that he made an excellent Controller, whose administration of his office was free from scandal. He has had a good standing within his own journalistic profession, and in’ the main he has spoken within his party for the better things. During these months of impeachment his bearing has been quiet, modest, and unas suming. Had he desired to make a sensation, had he sought to force himself upon the atten tion of the State by storming the offices of the Governor and using force, he would have em bittered a situation already tense.' Tffiat he did not; that he was content to await the outcome quietly; that he showed such respect for the quiet and orderly processes of the law—these are the best assurances that he will prove an executive not only law-abiding, hut in sympathy. with the true spirit of our institutions. Finally, it is a cause for thankfulness that we again have a man as Governor against whose private life no valid criticism has been uttered, even in .the heat of biftfer political campaigns. Governor Glynn himself made an assuring state ment upon entering office. “I will not bn a fac- tionist,” he said. “I will not devote the time which I owe to the State to partisan politics, within or outside of my own party. I keenly appreciate the high responsibilities that it is my duty to meet and to discharge, and I will try to give an administra tion in keeping with the genius and the diginty of the State.” If he lives up to this profession, he will earn a measure of public support through which he can accomplish in spite of Tammany those reforms of which his State is in vital need. There was never a time,, perhaps, when the people were so eager to uphold a truly independent Governor nor so ready to rebuke one who bows to Tammany. The oldest inhabitant will have to search a long time for his weather dates. Autumn tourists would,do well to postpone their aeroplane excursions until warmer weather. The State Fain By every report, ti e State fair which opened this week at Macon is a credit and encouragement to all Georgia. The agricultural displays are unusually varied; the attendance has been largfc and widely representative from the outset; all the elements of a successful and useful exposition are presept. The material for an interesting State fair was never more abundant than this • autumn. Through spring and summer almost every natural circum stance was favorable to good crops. More than that the farmers of Georgia have applied more earnestly and more broadly this year than ever before the principles of scientific agriculture; they planted a wider diversity of crops and worked with more busi nesslike methods. . ? The State fair reveals the wonderful result of this progressive thought and endeavor. Its influence should be stimulating as well as educational. The fact that it presents more than five hundred canning clubs exhibits i.nd nearly a thousand corn club ex hibits is particularly significant. It is coming to the point where Huerta will have no friends except perhaps Hepry Lane Wilson. And Tammany is got to be a Republican—that is, Tammany is now sailing argosy in which the cargo of the ex-G. O. P. is ventured. There never was another political society like Tammany. It was the invention —in a political way—of Aaron Burr, and named for a chief of the Delaware Indians who whipped the devil himself in a fist fight that beat that of Corbett and Sullivan, or Fitzsimmons and Corbett, all hollow. To our politics for more than a century Tam many has been a political machine formed after the order of the Prussian guards. It is like the southern negro in this—it has no malice for personal injury, and it has no gratitude for. personal benefit. It is for Collona, or Ursini, as fortune decides. It is a boss- ridden community with no eye for anything but spoil. Its history is a fascinating chapter. Its wars against DeWitt Clinton might have postponed the building of the Erie canal a generation. • • • And, by the way, DeWitt Clinton was a powerful personality. Had he been gifted with a tithe of the sublime patience that the good God' gave Abraham Lincoln he would have been president of the United States. But he could not wait, and thus got beat in 1812. His uncle, old George, was the greatest of the “war governors” of the revolutionary period. Subse- Quently he was twice chosen vice president, and he would have shone as chief magistrate of the republic. To show you what a “Jackson-of-a-man” DeWitt Clinton was, I may be pardoned for the relation of agi anecdote. One time he was called to * vae fiieiu wj: honor” by a Mr. Van Ness, possibly the second 01 Burr in the duel witn Hamilton. Be that as it may, Van Ness was a follower of Burr. As they took their places Clinton grimly muttered to nis second, *i wisn I had his principal thq^e,” meaning Burr. A shot was exchanged and Clinton slightly wounded his antago nist, who asserted that he was not satisfied, and de manded another shot. The second shots were fired and again Van Ness was slightly wounded and Clinton unhurt. A third and fourth exchange of shots were had and each time Clinton hit his man without being himself • harmed. Then Clinton’s second advanced and demanded of the second of the adversary if his princi pal was satisfied, to which the response was the same —that he demanded another shot. Then Clinton threw down Lis pistol with the excla mation: “Then, let him go to hell for his satisfaction; I’ll give you no more!” And he walked off the field. • o • DeWitt Clinton resigned a seat in the United States senate to be mayor of New York when that town was yet comparatively a village. He was elected governor of New York and forced the construction of the Erie canal. He died in 1828, I believe. Had he lived he might have been president. He was a man after the order of Benton. The lat ter was the real author of the railroads across the continent and it was Clinton who poured the rich har vests of the then “Ureat West” into the lap of New York City, making it our metropolis, and the state of which he was governor “Empire.” As a practical con structive statesman he scarce has a superior in *our history. He fought Tammany like th e lion that he was and beat it; but Tammany has more lives than the cat. It flourished when the constitution of the United States was formed and it may survive it. y"' • • • And Tammany, in 1913, looks to the Republican party for victory whence a hundred of its former vic tories came. We hear the canting and hypocritical cry that there is danger that Tammany will seize the state as it has the city, m fifty years it never got the city without Republican help. If its candidate shall be elected this good year of 19 io his majority, or plurality, will be made up entirely of votes lent it by the G. O. P., “the party of Great Moral Ideas.” Tweed was kept in place by Republicans, and in 1868, when Tweed gave the Napoleonic order that Sey mour’s majority in the state over Grant for president should be 10,000 a month before the election, the elec tion officials returned precisely 10,000 for Seymour, and it Is statistically and historically that. His Re publican henchmen gave him license to do that. A chapter on Tammany would make mighty inter esting reading. If - aid not have to grind out other stuff daily for food and raiment I’d venture to Write it—impertinent as it may seem. Washington, October 20. W,hat mankind wants most of all is glory#* It means the deed, the word, or the state'of being, which shines. The real hell of men and women is dullness, dry ness. humdrum. The old painters put a line of light about the heads of saints. It was called a halo. It meant there was something in the nature of. these superior souls that shone. Moses’ face shone when he came down from Sinai; Jesus’ whole form shone on the Mount of Transfig uration, and there is a legend of an Irish saint who when praying in his lonely hut filled it so with light that luminous rays were seen issuing' from the cracks of the wall. Buddhist lore is full of shining ones. All chis is an expression of the deep conviction of the race that the highest state of naan is when he shines. For this -cause also anything tljfft takes one “out of himself” has always been regarded by primitive peo ples as something supernatural. This is why the Greks worshiped Bacchus and imagined the toxic effect of wine' to be divine. And to this day men go to the bottle to get that semblance of uplift, to pro duce that illumination of the senses. A slang phrase suggests the truth of the matter, when it is said of a drunken man that he is “all lit up.” So the savage tribes everywhere have looked on in sane persons as God's own, as sacred. There is A great truth behind all these gropings. It is that the spirit of man graves something that will make it gloW. What we ask of you, poet, is to give us this. We care nothing about your w6rd-juggling. Give us the luminous word. Wflat the cnild asks of the- teacher is this; not facts and precepts, but that something that shall make the young mind burn. What we ask of the preacher and prophet is not in struction; we know a deal now more than, we can prac tice; but to make our souls “burn within us by the way.” What we ask of the novelist is not a clever plot nor' perfect literature, but the torch, the electric shock. The soul that giows does not live; it vegetates, as a cabbage. It is an apple with no flavor, a dinner of chemical compounds without savor, a drab rose, an odorless lily, bread without butter, potatoes without salt, an unlit candle. There has been much said of Dove, but the real rea son why we make so much of it is that it makes life shine. It puts a halo on a common face, it makes drudgery divine, it touches poverty with a fairy wand and makes it alive and rich. In a word, love has that thing for which all human creation is hungry and thirsty^—glory. If I wer e a g od fairy I should ask no greater gift than to have some flower juice, as Puck had, to squeeze on mortal eyes, so that the common things on earth would gleam like things of heaven. The G. 0. P. Tammany’s Hope By Savoyard Any fool can ask questions that will make a wise man hack pedal. So far no revolutions have greeted our ex-presi- dent and Bull Moose in South America. .‘(OUAJTRY 7 ;fjOME tppkS CmPOCTED WJIUS.UHJTLTOI UNPROTECTED WOMEN IN HOTELS AND DODG ING HOUSES. The violent death of a refined and intelligent young lady in a Thomasville, Ga., hotel jarid the mystery sur rounding the tragedy calls for public attention to the protection of women in hotels and authorized sleeping places for lodgers. The young woman’s mother and sister were in a nearby room on the same floor of tlie hotel, yet this violent death occurred in a stone’s throw (or much less distance), and the mystery is unsolved and. the public in doubt as to whether it was a ca&e of suicide or plain murder. At this distance, remembering she was near an in telligent mother and sister, it strikes me as a suicide case, despite the suspicious circumstances which sug gest murder, for suicide appears to be a raging epi demic from whicn culture and family solicitude often suffers the most, and which se^ms most unexplainable in the light of reason or provocation for self-murder. But the fact remains that women who seem best situated to care lor themselves are often the victims of violence in hotels and other places where guarus and inspectors are or should be always on duty. No hotel worth the title should ever be without a night watchman, nis trips around the halls should be accu rately accounted for with a time clock for the service rendered. Every hall or corridor should be sufficiently lighted to see from end to end at a single glance, and there should be som©j automatic signals which would notify everybody on duty early enough to have all places of egress promptly closed. The locks on doors should be so arranged as to make it next to impossi ble for burglars to enter at any time, especially in the nignt time. • * V THE PASSING OF MR. SULZER. I heard considerable talk about Governor Sulzer when I was spending a few days in New York City last spring. A gentleman and his wife (chance ac quaintances) who had known the governor since his boyhood gave me a brief story of his rise in politics, and they said lie was a true product of Tammany pol itics, that he had begun life in the slums (which was likely an overdrawn story) and had been a true Tam many disciple until he entered the White House at Albany last winter. They predicted a collapse in his fortunes, but they did not anticipate the sudden fall that came so soon thereafter. It would be unkind to say a word in re proach, now that he is down'and out, but the trouble grew out of campaign contributions and the snare that lurk behind them. There is a law in Georgia and other states that every candidate shall return to the proper authority a statement of the full amount of money that is spent in furtherance of his campaign success, and when I first read about this require ment I said to myself: “What a lot of white lies now ar e going to be told!” I call them “white lies” because these candidates, when so inclined, can say to their managers: “Don’t tell me anything about what you are doing. If I know nothing, I am not required to set down what I know nothing about!” Don’t you see? For instance, Mr. Thomas Ryan contributed $35,000 to Mr. Oscar Underwood’s presidential campaign, and Mr. Underwood did not schedule that amount because Mr. Bankhead did not tell him about it. Therefore, Mr. Underwood didn’t know enough to put it in his list of campaign expenses. Mr. Sulzer’s downfall grew out of his obtuse understanding of what his managers did for him, and his failure to schedule certain large amounts of campaign money. I was not disappointed in this law. or rather the workings of the law requir ing candidates to tell where the campaign contribu tions came from. You might as well expect that you would or could work the truth and the facts out of rail road lobbyists and other disbursers of graft money. The law is good enough, per so, but it is the human nature part of it that is defective unfortunately. Mr. Sulzer ran upon a snag and lost the governorship. • • • POISON TRAGEDIES. There is not a single week that our daily newspa pers d6 not give us a story of a tragedy in which poi son plays its part. Sometimes it is a husband who Is accused of poisoning his wife, and quit e as often it as the wife who* is placed on trial for poisoning the hus band. There is a trial now progressing in Massachusetts where a read admiral of the United States navy died very suddenly and his wife Is violently accused of poisoning him. We in Georgia are familiar with the McNaughton and Barron cases, both of recent date. It affords an opportunity for violent and false accu sations as well as subtle and secret murders. Th® in nocent have to suffer and perhaps some who are guilty escape. Since the days of the Medici, those notorious Ital ian poison murderers, there has never been more of such tragedies than at the present time. Like suicide there seems to be a prevailing mania for poison trage dies or poison murders. It is so easy to accomplish that it is popular. When a drop of hydro-cyanic acid can kill as quickly as a pistol shot, the self-murderer will perhaps choose the acid rather than the pistol. By the same token, those who propose to kill will prefer a poison dose to gun play, because ft can be ap plied in secret or in the dark and the chances for dis covery are less or more difficult to prove. But we should never forget that poison experts are human, and a mistake in th© autopsy may send an in nocent person to the chair or the gallows tree, and thus may inflict the cruelest injustice. The moral of the whole subject lies in the necessity for handling strong medicines with great care, and for withholding Judgment until the last effort has failed to save the accused. The inside of a human stomach is not often ex posed until after death and decay has intervened. Death and consequent decay will alter appearances very quickly. There should be no accusation without proof. 9 m 9 / THE DANCE QUESTION. Just like the card playing question, there will al ways be those who disapprove and those who approve or commend. Dancing, per se, cannot be sinful be^ cause it is exhillrating exercise performed with music, but it has its excesses, its voluptuous dance halls, and its tangos and bunny hugs that provoke unfriendly criticism. These are fascinating and oftentimes vi ciously alluring to the young and giddy. In these ex cesses lies the harm and therein lies the blame or con demnation of the dance question. There may be sections where girls had rather dance with other girls than with the other sex, and there may be communities when men and boys prefer to dance with each other rather than with their best girls, but such sections and communities are exceed ingly rare, if they can be discovered at all. This feature alone condemns the seductive dances that have become so popular in various towns and cities, and it is the sex allurement which contributes to their popularity, and therein lies their danger. It is not supposable that a young man and woman would ever promenade the streets or go up church aisles as they go together in ball rooms and at dinner dances. The outside public would hardly tolerate such em bracing with even bride or groom in outside places. The public would kick on it just as it kicks when a woman dons men’s apparel or men dress up in petti coats and appear in public places. The ball room is emphatically a public place, and yet these young wom en bare their arms and shoulders and then accept men partners who clasp them in their arms and they fling themselves around together for perhaps an hour at a time in a well-frequented ball room. Each might be willing to delay a tennis play or golf contest to dance a little, but I doubt if it would occur often with out door costumes. But the ball room must have accesso ries of decollete dressing and arm clasps to be popular. Yes, I hear you say: “Mrs. Felton is an old fogy!’* Maybe so, but I do not like thos© hugging dances. FOR PURER FOODS By Frederic J. Has kin “The bureau of chemistry will fail of its mission If it does not bring to the people of the United States a purer and better food supply, just as the department of agriculture would come short of its opportunities if it failed to give them a more abundant food supply.” * . • » • Thus speaks Dr. Carl L. Alsberg, who succeeded Dr. Harvey W. Wiley as the chief of the bureau of chem istry. He declares that the man who adulterates and misbrands foods and drugs deserves all the punishment that can be inflicted upon him, and that the work of ferreting him out and visiting upon him the penalties of the law will continue unabated. But at the same time he realizes that there are other kinds of food reg ulation with which the bureau can concern itself which will do vastly more for the public health than the mere prohibition of misbranding. * • • According to Dr. Alsberg, the worst food that can reach the consumer is that which carries disease-pro ducing germs, and that is usually the kind that is han dled and eaten raw. Milk, oysters, and some of the vegetables are the worst offenders, and they are very frequently—in fact, usually—beyond the power of the bureau of chemistry. Food cannot be reached by na tional law under the federal constitution until it crosses a state line. Then it gets into interstate commerce, and the bureau of chemistry can control it. As a rule, however, the bulk of loose foodstuffs is consumed with in the states in which it is raised, and it is only the lit tle fringe of territory contiguous to state lines that is aftected principally by national food laws. ... The remainder must be reached indirectly, and the bureau of chemistry has chosen two .methods of han dling it. One is co-operation with state health agen cies, and the other a nation-wide campaign of educa-' tion. Constructive co-operation with all health agen cies will take the form of an attempt to co-ordinate all these forces and to induce them to work in a haripo- nious way toward a common end. To this end a meet ing of all of the food and drug officials of the country has been called to assemble in Washington in Novem ber. At this meeting an effort will be made to frame a common policy which all of these agencies can pursue and under which they can co-operate. Then the bureau of chemistry, when it finds a condition within a stale which it cannot reach, can ad vise the food and drug officials of that state and through them get the reme dial action desired. Likewise, when a state official finds a situation which he cannot touch because It In volves Interstate commerce, he will tip off the bureau of chemistry, and it can bring the offenders to book. ... In carrying out the campaign of education the bu reau of chemistry hopes to place the knowledge it gathers in the hands of every housewife in the country, in such a way that shfe can apply it in her everyday life. For Instance, the bureau Is determined to eradi cate and destroy the popular impression that the label "Guaranteed under the Pure Food and Drugs Act’’ means that the government guarantees the food. Dr. Alsberg declares that the government Is In no sense the guarantor, and that the label Is put there by the manufacturer, not for the purpose of guaranteeing the product to the consumer, but for the purpose of pro tecting the retailer from loss in case the article does not come up to representations. • • • The label “Guaranteed under the Pure Food and Drugs Act” on a package means no more than If 'a maker of a hat guaranteed Its quality to the retailer. All sorts of frauds are resorted to under that label, and the confidence it inspires in the buying public is- not justified. Dr. Alsberg' wants the country to know that food or drugs wearing that livery may be just as bad and Just as dangerous as those bearing no label at alL Of course, this is not generally the case. Most manufacturers who guarantee their products live up to their guarantees, but some do not, and the bureau of< chemistry wants everybody to understand that the’ guarantee is that of the manufacturer, and not that of the government. , Sometimes the bureau finds the label "Guaranteed under the Pure Food and Drugs Act” In unexpected places. One purveyor of a notoriously immoral and criminal preparation put on the packages the usual guaranty phrase, and when it was brought, to the at tention of the bureau it was powerless to stop the making of the preparation. It had to go to the post- office department for means of suppressing It—by de nying the manufacturer the use of the mails and pun ishing him for sending Immoral preparations by post. • • • The principal weapon with which the bureau is go- ing to fight the man who violates the law is prompt and adequate publicity. The fines that have been Inflicted In the past have constituted no serious deterrent, but now, the minute action is taken the wheels of public ity begin to turn. As soon as a seizure Is made the newspapers of the vicinity In which it occurs are noti fied and the day final Judgment is rendered the newj is promptly and fully given out. A list of all the food and drug journals is supplied with all this informa tion and now the effort on the part of offenders Is to avoid the publicity that follows conviction. Fifty thousand news letters are distributed among the crop correspondents of the country, which contain informa tion as to all seizures of insecticides and patent medi cines. The Joy of Self-Mastery Shakespeare says: “Assume a virtue if you have it not” One of the rarest virtues in the world is to be able to hold oneself so perfectly in hand and have such complete control of oneself that nothing; can ruffle him or disturb his equanimity. I know a young busi ness man who never loses his temper or self-control’ under any circumstances, no matter how trying or provoking, and yet he is sensitively organized. He says that he has gained this self-mastery by years of practice in self-control. He early made up his mind that he could not control others if he could not con trol himself. His wonderful mind poise seems co u* largely acquired, for he says he was very quick tem pered in his boyhood. He has become a leader of men, and he says that no one who has not experienced it can have any idea of the great satisfaction, the ad vantage of being able to stand any kind of insult or abuse, and still keep a perfectly poised mind. He says it is an immense advantage to be able to say just what he wants to, the wisest, most prudent thing in a perfectly calm manner when the other man has lost his head completely and does not say what his wisdom might suggest, but what his prejudices, his spleen, his love of Revenge, his innate desire to “get square” with the other fellow dictate. The man who loses his temper and cannot say what he ought to or wants to until the fit of anger has passed or until the hot temper has cooled has a great respect for the man who can stand calm and unmoved amidst his storm of abuse—Orison Swett Marden in November Nautilus. In October October on a thousand hills Has lighted all her beacon fires, And in the twilight tide the winds Are as the sound of many lyres. And as we divine within the heart A longing which we may not name. A something with a pulse of song, A something with a pulse of flame! —CLINTON SCOLLARD, in New xork SUB. The best cantaloupe is as hard to select as the best automobile.