Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 33, Number 21, 7 March 1908 — Page 2

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIU3I AND SUN-TELEGRAM, SATURDAY, MARCH 7, 1DOS.

RICHMOND MAY HAVE NO DAIRY INSPECTION LAW (Continued From rage One.) Eatlon should be provided to pay a skilled inspector to do the work well. The inspection should extend not only to the condition of the herd but to the surroundings which, with reasonable knowledge and care, can be made satisfactory. These precautions observed, constitute the remedy for much unclean milk, typhoid or scarlet fever, dyphtheria or other contagious or Infectious disease, if it is . present on a dairy farm, it should bo the duty of the physician, if one is in attendance, or if not, the householder, to at once iuform the health department, when the dairyman can be separated from the disease or if quarantined, a skilled substitute be placed in charge of the dairy and milk route, thus preserving the industry in tact until tho quarantine is lifted. This is the remedy in case of contagion in the family of the dairyman. I will liere admit that much complaint is thie to the lack of care in the management of milk after it reaches the consumer. I have not time to detail the results of much observation along this line. I will only refer to the reprehensible practice of connecting the ice box with the sewer, thus opening wide the gate for contamination. The remedy for this lapse on the part of the consumer is for the society to continue its crusade until all our citizens are awake to the dangers of the ice box. Now, a word on the subject of mlk Infected with tubercle bacilla. In the affairs of city government we display wisdom in many ways. Take as an example the subject of fire: "We liave two departments, the legal and operative. The fire department represents tho latter. In case of fire it proceeds with its apparatus and with sufficient water and pressure the fire is extinguished, but the legal phase, viz: an ordinance regulating the construction of chimneys and wiring for electric lighting results in the precention of a hundred fires where only one is required to be extinguished. Now, if we proceed in the eradication of tuberculosis in dairy herds we should adopt the same plan of two departments: the legal and the executive. Hy the executive branch I refer to the health, department whose duties toward unclean milk have been alluded to. While the other factor, viz: the prevention of tubercle bacilla in milk Is still in tho future. The plan is simple in outline and effective in practice. Indiana Must Wake Up. I will here refer to the frequency of tuberculosis in dairy herds. In Mexico 34 per cent are affected. In the Eastern states '-'I per cent; in the "fv'est. the proportion i.-s less. An examination of herds supplying Indianapolis showed only ('. por cent; the average, however, is 1 per emit. In ihree thousand examinations recently made.

749 were found affected, so much for1 its prevalence. Among the states that have more advanced legislation unon this subject than Indiana, I mention Maine. New Hampshire, Vermont, New Jersey, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania, Texas, Massachusetts, Iowa and Montana. Indiana should wake up. Here a word as to the consumption of milk containing tubercle bacilla. In one-third of all children dying under five years of age, the death is caused by tuberculosis. Seventy-five per cent of babes are fed on cows milk. Two hundred and eighty-one children under five years of age died of tuberculosis in this Mate the past year. So much for the result of feeding infected milk. Action of Disease. 1 will hero add that medical men1 are agreed that while there are ports! of entry at all ages for the germ of; consumption, recent data demonstrate ' that tuberculosis is contracted ofh n ! In infant lift sometimes remaining! aormant until between uv ags of 1", and f!5 ir seizes upon must of its victims and pursues them cmil death. Tuberculine Infallible. The remedy tor this destruction of human life in its most productive period so far as its ravages depend upon infected milk, is to eradicate the disease from daiiy herds. The tuberculine test is almost infallible, recording only 2 per cent of failures. Today the dairymen object to the test fearing great loss from condemned cattle. The dairymen cannot require a test before purchase as the dealer in milch cows fears the same loss. "Were all assured that no great loss would follow, the objection to the test would be removed. Any plan that will bring about this result should be fostered. Three states are already moving in this direction. While not practical to make the tuberculine test compulsory, an ideal plan would be for the legislature to set aside a specified appropriation to compensate tor loss occasioned by the application of the tuberculine test. It should be done under stato supervision and losses to individuals properly certified repaid. Whenever the people demand the test under the above appropriation the dairymen will consent and all will follow to retain their trade. 1 am aware that dairymen procure a portion of their milk supply from farmers along the route to the city; bur. when nil milk from untested cows is refused, the farmer will fall In line as readily as the dairyman, looking to the state to compensate him for his loss, if any. When it is desired to make additions to the herd it will be only tested cows that are purchased. The dealer will concede the test as his loss is also provided for. The state should prohibit the importation of cattle without their being tested. The state lino should be the limit. This plan would eliminate the disease from present herds and prevent future infection. When one state opens the way, others will follow and the area of safety be increased. When medical societies, health departments and societies of this character unite in a demand for this tet. a public sentiment will bo erousrd thai ill result in desired

legislation. To thus prevent, is far; better than to combat the infection in the milk. It strikes at the root of the , matter. Method not Visionary. Some may view this method as vis-' ionary but remember the state last year set aside thirty thousand dollars for the purchase of five hundred acres of land for erecting buildings and employing skilled persons to care for only a small fraction of the consumptives in this state. This appropriation will be increased annually. There are 25,000 cases of tuberculosis in Indiana and' this expense is to endeavor to arrest the disease in a few hundred at the most and with no assurance of Irmanent cure. Is it not reasonable then to assume that on public demand a sum will be set aside to prevent a disease so difficult to eradicate when once contracted. While the state is justified in doing all possible to arrest the disease in the adult, it would savor more of wisdom to throttle it at the state line and preserve the integrity of child. This is the remedy proposed to prevent infection from this cause in milk and any objection urged against the plan would apply to the present effort to control the disease in sanitoria. Compensation Advocated. The state has provided compensation for sheep killed by dogs. Why not for cattle found with disease that resulted last year in the death of 281 children by tuberculosis, children whose food was milk. Necessity of Test. Referring to the necessity of the test I need only speak of the recent disclosure in our own cit, where of I5& hogs, 154 were found with tuberculosis contracted from a herd on a farm and of 7 cows tested, 4 were found with the disease. Cattle never expectorate, therefore, the alimentary canal is deluged with bacilla and the hogs following the herd contract the disease. The milk cow in the barn on lying down and in other ways become soiled with the excreta and when it becomes dry during the process of milking falls into the milk pall. My opinion is that this is the most common way in which milk becomes infected. To be sure often through the udder (but not at all times) but more frequently in the manner described. Thus there are two avenues open for milk to become infected. The remedy until cows are tested and every afterwards as a matter of common cleanliness is to use in milking the comparatively closed can instead of the old fashioned open pail, which from its shape appears to have been designed to catch all the dirt and infection possible. Changes Needed. I voice my own sentiment when I say that in my opinion reasonable changes could be made and sufficient care exercised in the dairy business at very little expense so that clean milk could be delivered at. reasonable prices. 1 am averse to an ideal milk at twelve cents and ordinary at seven cents. It classifies our citizens and formulated, says the w ell-to-do, take

the belter and live, and to the poor, take the cheaper grade and die. This must be true If, as asserted, death lurks in seven-cent milk. With state supervision and reasonable compensation, guaranteed milk could be delivered at a reasonable price. Food Important Factor. I have in a few condensed sentences outlined a remedy for unclean milk. I have avoided detail in the plan, as confusing, but it can and will be accomplished. Other diseases have been overcome in part. Yellow fever, by the use of tho mosquito net and obliteration of the breeding pools, has been conquered. Maleria, by the same means lias been reduced to it minimum rendering possible tho construction of the Panama canal. Cholera, the dread of former years, is handi capped m its approach to America. Bubonic plague, with its five hundred thousand of victims in the Tar East, is receiving its dei-'i- blow at San Francisco. Sma!!-pi utce the black death of the nations, bus been t.tnied by vaccination. S. tuberculosis, attacked by the potency of scientific research, will, in the distant future, become; a tradition. To ibis end The avenues of approach of the infection must be closed. The world is awake to the work. I'lire food is the most important factor nnd today is the time for reform. Permanent Reform Needed. This effort should not be spasmodic. Permanent sanitary reform never results in the destruction of impairment of an industry, its demands must be reasonable, such as to result in co-operative efforts, that when the higher plane is attained, it affords standing room for all and assures profitable investment, without hardship to the consumer. Dr. Grant's Address. Dr. Grant said in part: Before taking up the discussion of Dr. Pavis's paper. I wish to report on the inspect ion made by one of the state board of health dairy inspectors. Of fourteen dairies that supply the chief amount tit' nn'.k consumed in UichnioLd. in order that this inspection may be free from the least shadow of suspicion of unfairness this inspector of the state board, residing in Indianapolis, was selected for the work for he has no axes to grind. While he has dene the work no better than it has been done in the past by careful local officers, the purposes of this investigation would oettor several by having an enure stranger perform the services desired. In making the investigation the following questions are asked of each dairyman: Name of owner. c ity or town. County. Street and No. Date. Number of cows. Condition of cows as to health. As to eleanliner.. Condition of cow s-abk. Co v tract ion. Means of vent iht lor.. Conditions to light. Nature of floor.- of cow stables. Means of drainage. Are cows bedded? If so, with what? Where hi manure stored? How often removed? Is hay stored where cows are kept ? Are horses, pigs and poultry in the same stable": General condition as to cleanliness. Water supply. Source, of supply for watering

stock, for washing cans. Is pollution possible? Probable? Milk Are udders cleaned before milking? It so, How? How is milk cooled? Where? Where is it stored? Has owner a milk house? Is it sanitary? Howfar from stable? Does owner sell milk? Make butter? Make cheese? Haul to creamery? Tllow much milk is sold? To whom is it shipped? Does owner retail? Are cans or bottles used? How long after milking before milk is delivered? Grade Excellent. Good. Fair Poor or P.ad. As the result of the-se; inquiries the following conditions are found to exist. Four of the dairies are reported good. One dairy was so clean that the inspector told me he would be willing to have his meals served in the cow stable. Seven are reported fair, one of these would undoubtedly have been reported good except for some minor defects, which have since been remedied. Two were reported poor, and one only, reported bad. The condition of the last dairy is such that the inspector says very much will be required before it can be brought up to the proper standard. As a result of this investigation several of the dairymen have already adopted suggestions made by the inspector and it will be reassuring to know that there is bo much good milk coming into the city. Of course, it is needless to say that the result of this investigation will be

absolutely private and none of the names of the parties will be made known. Agreed on Value. The first recommendation made by the preceeding speaker was that all dairy-cows be tested by the tuberculin test to determine whether or not they had tuberculosis. Some will object to this, with various reasons, honestly intended, and the result of careful reading of government and experimental station reports. But the entire sanitary department of every state in the country are agreed on its value. By this means one-third of the cows at the experimental station of Wisconsin that were suspected to be tubercular, were proven to have consumption and 9 per cent of those unsuspected were also found tubercular. In Massachusetts out of 21,000 cows examined at random, 50 per cent had tuberculosis. In New York 15 per cent, of the cows examined had consumption and in Connecticut 14 per cent. So it is fair to assume that about 20 per cent of our dairy head has consumption and that the tuberculosis test can prove it. It has been generally believed that the udders must be infected in order to furnish tubercular milk, but a confusing fact was encountered, when on careful examination by an eminent pathologist, 60 per cent of a herd of cows that had been proven tubercular by the test, and killed, showing they had tuberculosis on post-mortem examination, had not a sign of tuberculosis of the lacteal tract. Again, sometimes milk from the same cow, known to be tubercular, would contain t. b., and again in the same milk none would be found. Milk from cows known to have tuberculosis has b'eii carefully drawn and fed to guinea-pigs and injected into them without any sign of the disease appearing on the animal. So, the doctors began to believe that cows seldom transmitted the disease through milk, if ever at all, and at the last meeting of the National association for the study and prevention, of tuberculosis, in May, Dr. Henry L. K. Shaw of Albany, N. Y., said he did not believe that it had much to do with producing the disease, but another great investigator. Dr. Ravenel, of Philadelphia, has steadfastly maintained the opposite view, although, ho too, could not explain this very contradictory condition. But since that meeting, within tho present year, tho explanation of tho whole matter has been apparently made clear. i Human Affection. The human being afflicted with tujberetilosis ordinarily is affected in the lungs, and spreads the disease through his coughing and spitting and probjably this remains the chief source of uiie transmission of tuberculosis among human beings. While cows may have tuberculosis of the birrs they co not cough and ex pectoral in the same way that human beings' do. because they are ahvajs most! greatly affected in the sfomaCi, bote's and liver and their intestinal discharges contain the germs in most increditably large quantities. As can readily be seen, while feeding in pasture, one tubercular cow can soon infect a whole herd of healthy ones. j All this explanation has been made to lead up to one point, the immense imptrtance of keeping the manure away from the milking place; of ridding the cow's hide and feet of manure before milking her, and of using water to wash the vessels employed in collecting and storing the milk that is positively unpolluted by manure. They say old maid's children are always the best, so I suppose it i3 equally true that one who never was inside a milking stable but once in his life is the very fellow to tell you how such a place ought.' to be arranged. But since the whole problem of good milk is one of cleanliness, a doctor is capable of making such suggestions with propriety, because the chief effort of surgery is the exclusion of dirt : oi an Muas, in orucr to securer sucj cess. Ideal Milking Room. i Dr. Grant then explained the best j manner for conducting a sanitary milking barn and projvr manner of j handling milk after being taken from I the cows. QUARTERLY MEETING. ! The Whitewater quarterly meeting j is holding a session this afternoon at I the East Main Street Friends' church. Special Services will also be held to morrow. New York city has the largest sav- ' ings bank in the world with more than j j .i . n depositors and 'deposits lamontin to more than si."M.i.i.i.o. i.

CLOSED SEASON IN BLAZE OP GLORY

Earlham Basket Ball Five Defeated Rose Poly in a Sensational Match. ONE DEFEAT WAS AVENGED. THE QUAKERS WORKED HARDER BECAUSE THEY WERE ONCE DOWNED THIS YEAR BY ROSE EARLH AM'S RECORD. Earlham and Rose Poly furnished a whirlwind finish to the Quaker basket ball season last night at the Coliseum in the presence of a large number of the students and friends of the institution. The ending was most satisfactory to Earlham as the Fighting Quakers were able to even up with Rose for the defeat given by the Engineers at Terre Haute some weeks ago, and also to end the season with a victory. The score was V to Earlham has a record of seven games won out of a schedule of ten played. Was Fast Game. Last night's game was the fastest seen here this year and the start was declared by old timers to be the fastest they had ever witnessed. It soon became evident the teams were well matched, but in the first half Earlham took the lead through superior skill at throwing of foul goals and when the half ended the Quakers were four to the good 11 to 7. Early in the second period Rose got very busy and quickly tied the score and subsequently it was tied a number of times, but at no time could Rose get in the lead. The outcome was uncertain almost to the very last until the members of thf Earlham team were carried in triumph from the floor on the shbulders of their admiring friends. Game Hard Fought. The game was hard fought at every turn. Rose had a pretty system of passing the ball and on two or three occasions succeeded in working it out, but ordinarily Earlham was able to interfere. Earlham was at her best in nearly every respect and showed the hard preparation that had been made for this struggle under the direction of Coach Vail. With the season completed, the record of Earlham for the ten games is as folows. Won. From DePauw, Miami, Wittenberg, btate Normal, St. Mary's. Butler and Rose Poly. Lost. To Rose Poly, Purdue, DePauw. Lineup of last night's game: Earlham .". Position Rose Poly 25 Hotchkiss .. Forward Webster Wilson Forward Lindeman Chambers ..Center Gray New son ... Guard Lammers Hancock ...Guard Hadley Field goals Hotchkiss, 2; Newson, 1; Chambers, 1; Gray, 3; Hadley, 4; Lammers, 1. Foul goals Wilson, 12: Lindeman, 1; Hadley, C. Points awarded Rose, 2; Earlham 2. Referee Guedel. Umpire Hunt. MAY NOT BE IN Dispatch Says That Future of League Team There Is Not Bright. FEARS FOR MOM-SUPPORT. Anderson. Ind., March 7 The prostiect of Anderson becoming a member of the l.-O. Baseball League is less nattering at present than at any time since the negotiations begati. It was supposed that ;i ,-mck company eouM bo formed among the enthusiasts and the funds mc-ssary to finance the team be raised. After figuring on the proposition it was discovered that not less than $100 per day would be required during the season to pay salaries and incidental expenses of a team. At this figure it would require an average attendance of at least 400, at each game played during the season. Should a spell of unfavorable weather strike tho game the stockholders would stand to pay the expenses. This city has never been very enthusiastic over the game and it is the opinion of a large number of people that the city would not support a league team. LEAGUE TO FIGHT PROHIBITION HAS BEEN PROPOSES (Continued From Page One.) ness. represented in the bottle maker;., maltsters, coopers, box makers, machinery men. slave makers and others. Prohibition Hurts. The tremendous advance of prohibition legislation during the past two years is beginning to be felt very seriously by the liquor interests, and the leading spirits in the trad-?, in the liquor as well its brewing lines, are beginning to see as a result of such legislation a complete change in their business. The saloon Is their principal agency of distribution, and the elimination of the saloon by prohibition law, they assert, does not eliminate man's appetite for such refreshments .and he will seek to possess himself of the forbidden thinirs hy jlIcchI ui"an.

ROOSEVELT FAVORS CHILDJLABOR BILL Has Written to Indiana Association.

Washington. March 7. In response j to a letter of protest against the Bcv- i eridge child lalr bill. President i Roosevelt has addressed a letter to J the Indiana Manufacturers' Associa-1 tion in which he places himself in fa-' vor of the enactment by congress of a bill regulating child labor in tho Dis-; trict of Columbia and the territories. : if the states fail to enact suc.i laws. It is understood that the association is raising u fund to defeat the Revcridge bill. BALL FIELD STOKIES ODD INCIDENT THAT ONCE WON A GAME !N CHICAGO. A Backet of Paint Helped the Orlolea to liptire the aional Lnn I'cnnant The Importance of a "Color Scheme" In Batting;. One of the oddest things that ever happened on a ball held took place ou the west side grounds, iu Chicago, in a game against New York. Anson's men were playing the Giants, and the victory bung iu the balance until in the ninth inning, w ith the score even, Bill Iiuge faced Jouet Meekin and ranipsed a certain double to center. There were two out, and the crowd rose with a yell of delight wheu Lange smote the ball, which rolled past Van Ilaltren. That ball rolled on and finally disappeared. Van Ilaltren was on top of it, but instead of picking it up he suddenly threw himself flat on the ground, rammed his right arm into the earth and commenced reaching. Lange meantime kept on. He turned second, raced on to third, gave a look outward and then sprinted for home, scoring the winning run. The ball had rolled into a bole in the ground from which a post had been pulled that morning, and Van Ilaltren had been able only to reach it with the tips of bis fingers. The next day the hole was filled in. Upon what small things the results of baseball depend can be guessed when it is known that a forty-five cent bucket of paint won the National league pennant for Baltimore two years in successjpn. The men who composed the three times champion Orioles all admit the fact that the bucket of paint bad more to do with their pennant winning than anything else. The facts are these: The Orioles were not hitting. They could not find out why until one day Willie Keeler remarked that the ball when pitched from the pitcher's box was the same color as the center field fence and that the ball was lost to them against the dark background. The players set themselves down to figure it out, and in the end they figured that the reason they were not hitting was because there was a lack of relief in the color scheme of the grounds. The bat boy was sent in a hurry for a pot of white paint and a patch of the fence In center field exactly on a line with the pitcher's box, and the plate was daubed white. The paint made a difference of nearly forty points per man in their batting averages that season, and they won the pennant. After that the space in center on most of the big .league ball grounds was kept clear or painted In some color that would assist tbo team in its hitting. The color scheme iu baseball is more j important than the casual observer would suppose. For instance, the Folo grounds are one of the hardest grounds in the world for an outfielder. Back of the grand stand rises a huge bluff "Coogan's bluff" and the stand is built partly on the side of the hill. Naturally the shadow of the stand and the bluff lies heavy over the field as far out as Focond base in the late afternoon, end the outfielders have great difficulty In seeing the ball until It rises out of the shadow and above the sky line. The players learn to judge balls by the way they sound against the bat. but visiting players at the Folo grounds have a bard time Judging line drives. I or years the New York players have had the advantage because of the color scheme of their grounds. In center field is a panel of color to relieve the batter's eye and show the ball in relief against it, while to mitigate the effects of the shadow sections of the front of the stand and even the bowlders on the hillside have been painted. Those mechanical aids for batting are great things. Almost every home team has its grounds arranged for relief In color, so that they can by looking at a certain spot be crrtain to see the ball. It is not necessary for the ball to rise against the relief background, but it Is , necessary for the player's eye to be 1 filled with the color, so that when he looks at the ball it stands out In relief against the color which still is Imprinted ou the retina of Lis eye. One of the best bitting pitcters that ever lived, Walter Thornton, who was ' driven out of baseball because of the j personal dislike of an official of the National league to Lim, bad a scheme which worked well and which he claimed aided him in batting. He simply sat and held his fingers tight agalnt his eyes for several minutes before going to bat. Shutting out all light, bo claimed, rested his eyes after pitching a hard inninir. find he went in to bat . with eyes fresh and steady. j And how he did hit theui: How be' did hit them'. Tietro Gladiator Browning tried ev-! cry treatment possible for his eyes to i keep them clear. Smoking a cigarette , oa the bench was oue of bis ideas, and j be carried an eye wash with him which j , be poured into his eyes just before go- j j lug to bat. ; j Most of the schemes of players to i j keep their "eyes In," as they say, are S i ridiculous, but there is no reason why j a lot of players should not follow lit- j erallr the advice of the bleafherites I aud '"see au octiiist." Any good ocu- ; j list can devise a color beme that will ; licip tbe batter. Hugh S. KuIlTton i i 1: . c.

FIRST INDOOR MEET WAS SUCCESSFUL

Good Records Marked All the Events and Track Artists Showed Well. CONRAD WAS A STAR. LITTLE ATHLETE HIGH AND POLE VAULTED JUMPED WELLMILE RUN WAS ONE OF EVENTS ON PROGRAM. BEST The first indoor held in this city wu track meet t v r that of last evening at t.ie coliseum and proved to be a great success. Only a small crowd attended the meet. Owing to the small floor space the dashes and hurdle events had to be extreuuly short and as a result Coach Vail could not get a very good line on his cinder path artists. The time made for tho short distance track events, however, was extremely good. Conrad Shows Well. What gave Vail the most pleasure was the work of Conrad, the high jumper and pole vaulter. In the former event Conrad gave an exhibition which brought out the enthusiastic applause of the Earlham rooters. Using the "scissors" style Conrad has cleared the bar at 5:09. Coach Vail does not approve of tills style of jumping and has compelled Conrad to use tho regular style. Conrad has only practiced this new form a Bhovt time. A few days ago he cleared the bar at 5:02 and last evening he made the jump at. 5:05. With careful practice this young star is expected to equal the mar kmade by him while using the "scissors" form. Mile Event Interesting. The mile run proved an interesting event. Twenty laps to the mile were necessary and the runners did not have the advantage of a sloping track. Notwithstanding this handicap J. Jones went the distance in the fast time of 5:14. This young man promises to develop into a star distance runner. Nearly all the way he led the big bunch of entries and the last three laps to hold his lead, Jones sprinted the entire distance, finishing as fresh as a daisy. In the shot put no sensational records were made. "Turk" Guy it, a Richmond young man, hurled the sixteen pound weight a distance of 39 feet, 8 inches but this throw was dis qualified by a foul. The polo vaulting was poor. In this event Conrad I and Roberts tied at 9 feet. If EarlI ham intends to make a showing In ! this event this spring, better work will have to be done. The summary of tho events last night follows: Twenty-Five Yard Dash. First Francis. Second Murray. Third Hawkins. Tim.e :04. Running High Jump. First Trueblood. First Xanney. First Roberts. Heighth 5 feet. Exhibition Conrad. Heighth o:05. Twenty-Seven Yard Hurdles. First R. Stanley. Second E. Calvert. Time :07. Twenty-Two Yard Low Hurdles. First Xanney. Second J. Furnass. Third Calvert. Time :06. Mile Run. First J. Jones. Second Chappell. Third Fauguhar. Time 5:14. Pole Vault. First Conrad. Second Roberts. HeigLth 9 feet. BLEW SAFE IN SMALL OHIO TOWN Robbers Secured $500 Their Efforts. for Kenton, ().. March 7. Robbers blew the Mt. Victory state bank at Mt. Victory, south of here, early this morning. They secured ." in silver and escaped on two horses stolen from .1. X. Fisher, of Ridgeway. Nitroglycerine did not effect the large vault which contained much money. There is no clue. invested in There is $320.v. England's tramways. Only One "BROMO QUININE," that U Laxative JJromo Quinine ures vOia in one iiy, unp in ismy

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HUGHES THE CHOICE OF HISDWI STATE Republican Committee Took Action Today.

Nc York. March T. --The i cpubliaiT st. tie toimuittee Unlay uuauiuious-'y udorsed tiov. Hnght-s for the prttidcutial nomination. FINE PRINTS. Cara With Which They Are Treated fcy Amateurs and Collectors. How careful collectors and amateur, of hue engravings are of their treasures i illustrated by a written agreement that a local firm of dealers iu such things hail to sign reeeut'.y when they wanted to Narrow several nartlcujarv ratv entravings for an exhibition they were to have in their galleries. The owuer of the prints insisted that from the lime the bos in which th prints were sent to the dealers was opened in the shop no hands but thoso of the junior partner of the firm wero to touch them. The owner stipulated expressly that the member of the firm was to take them out of the box, franm them himself, hang them on the walls and when th bhow was over follow the prints back through theso various stages until a porter was ready t screw the cover of the packing box on again. The prints were so rare and fine that the Junior partner cheerfully agreed to all of these conditions for the sake of showing the cngra Tings. That the prints were extremely rare may be appreciated from the fact that before two of them In particular came Into the private collector's possession he made a special journey to Stuttgart. Germany, to see them, and when ho looked at them he left an open order to a dealer in that city to buy them, no matter what they coat He sot them, but he paid the highest price ever known for such engravings to brlnj. New York Tress. CRANKY METAL. Meeds and Mystery That Are Cm bodied In a Pieee of Steel. A cutlery company will make a hundred raaors from the same piece of steel by the same process, and part of the raaors will be good and part of them bad. It may be fifty of one kind or seventy-five or twenty-five nobody knowa. The maker doesn't know; the buyer doesn't know. Barbers say that even the price doeen't aeem te make ranch difference. Too may gt m good razor for a quarter or a bad one for $5. And the same rator -will get a contrary edge today, so that you can hardly shave with it, and tomorrow, without additional sharpening. It will work like a charm. One tap will go on a bolt easily and stay there. Another tap will hardly go on at all. A third may be screwed on tight and snog and yet keep coming off in spite of all that can bo dona. Sometimes men that work with machines have a premonition of comta; disaster, as do the men that sail on the seas or thread the winding paths of the big woods. Nature as well as pieces of mechanism seems able to communicate to man wby they are In a calamitous and threatening mood. Chicago Tribune. Madrid and Its Climste. Along the Mediterranean shore Spain presents a narrow ribbon of fertile, delightful country. Tv region 1 often called "the garden of oatn." It is a groat contra at to pass from theso tropical shores to the wind swept plains of Intartor Spain. The level country Inclosed by tbs Goadarrama and tho Cantabrlan mountalna forms in the west an extenaivo wheat growing region. Toward the east as tho rainfall decreases pasttirag encroaches npon arable culture. In New Castile, on the south of the Onadarrama and In about the center of Spain, the political capital has been placed. The level country In which It has been dropped, an if by accident. Is for the most part a waterless plain, swept in winter by tho piercing winds from tho naked mountains of the north, sweltering In summer under the effect of the sun's rays on bare rock and soil. The climste of Madrid has been tersely described by Us Inhabitants as "three months of winter and ulae ot hades." Honey Anta. Certain Mexican ants are selected by their kindred as storehouses of honey. They are fed with honey until the abdomen speedily becomes smooth and round and so filled with honey that the skin is transparent. These ants are doomed to pass the remainder of their lives as mere boney cells, from which their kindred extract the honey when it Is required. There are several specimens of these ants In the Dritisb museum with the honey still within their transparent bodies. The Mexicans raid the nests of these ants for the sake oi the boney that their bodies contain, and the ants are eaten raw as sweetmeats. The Portuguese government offers a subsidy of ?12,.V for earh voyage for

The mileage is the purpose of establishing a Fortuj gueso line of steamers to Urazll.

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Skating rvcry Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, morning, alternoon. evening POLO Look for announcement of BIG GAME, also City League Game Wednesday evening, March 11. Moonlight Souvenir Carnival, Saturday evening, March 7.