The Northern Pacific farmer., 1882-09-21

grounds this AFTERNOON at 3 O'Clock.
The general is one Of Minnesota's
most gifted orators.
a trotting race. free for. all. purse
$40, will close the exhibition.
Unhealthy Milk
DIR. F. f. Brush, of Mount Vernon,
y. y. calls attention to the fact that
the sale of discussed and poisonous
milk is a matter Of more serious mo.
nent than that of watered or skim
milk. He suggests as :tn outline OF
III improved system of milk laws:
First, that all city milk dealers lie
compelled to procure 4 license from
tho Board of Health; secondly, that
all milk deale rs report to the Board
the quantity Of milk they sell and
where it is obtained: thirdly. that in:
the death certificates Of all children,
under two years of age, dying from.
certain specified forms of disease. the.
name of the mllkman who had sup
piled them he inserted. BY some
such plan the board would he read
lily enabled to detect poison Gus milk.
If certain form of infantile trouble
was found to exist among the custO-
mers of certain milkman. IN inspec-
tor could be sent to the source from
which the milk came to ascertain if
there had been an epedemic in tho
dairy: if any Of the cattle were suffer-:
ing from disease. and if the milk from
Il COW too SOON after calving were
sent to tire city. A few years of ob-.
servatiun like this: carried on con-.
scientiously. he thinks, would enable
the Board to propose intelligent laws
regulating tho sale of milk. OF one
fact he is thoroughly convinced-tlat
, the sale of poisonous milk in New
Y YOrk city pI oduceS more trouble than
/ if the whole supply wis pure: healthy,
skinned milk-U.e*t :rA Rural.
Upsetting Moses.
One Of the wits Of the National
Baptist has written \ ''S;.w-1nill Dis
sertation" on the subject of Upset
ting Mosee,' from which we take an
extract. Jim Nanley began the talk:
Il say, Deacon, Darwin's theory Of
evolution is Il little hard on the first
chapter Of Genesis. OF course We
don know yet how it will turn out;
but it looks little as though they
were going to upset Noses"
The Deacon made no answer. He
| surely must have heard Jim's re-
mark. Presently he was observed to
be counting his fingers slowly, and
with pauses for reflection between
each enumeration. After !, while
Jim ventnred 70 ask, Counting your
saw logs, Deacon, aren't you.''
No. said the Deacon; Ill tell
you. Your remark set me a-thinking.
l was just counting out how many
times in the course of human history
somebody has upset Moses. First Of
all. two old jugglers named James
and Jambres. undertook this; but
they failed. Then certain king
named Pharoah went at the work of
upsetting. lie must have found it
moro work than lie anticipated. for he
has not reached home yet. Then
three leaders Of liberal thought. ko-
\ j,.o1, 10 Ii;
job. They failed in the upsetting
, party; but they secured Il bit Of r,nche
for themselves which they and their
children hold quiet possession Of until
this day. Later on, 4 king named
Nebuchadnezzar entered upon the up
setting business. He did not succeed
either. lie spent seven years chained
to stump. and when he had served
out his time he had changed his mind
, and was a sa(der and wiser man. His
. successor met with still greater dis
aster III 4 similar attempt. Since that
time there have been no end of per-
sons who have tried to upset Moses.
Some ancient heather. CELSIUS and
Porphyry, and Julian the Apostate.
and lattcr)y these German critics. and
these scientists, 80 called. are 1T tho
same thing.
Years ago. when was in Boston. l
heard of meeting Of Freethinkers,
at place called Chapman Hall. l
could not resist the temptation to e"
just once and hear what they said.
l found about twenty persons there.
Three or four Of them were women;
all the rest were men. And what do
y6h think they were doing! They
were engaged in the old enterprise of
upsetting Moses. And yet Moses
hath to-day; in. the sylr,gogues of
Boston. more persons that preach him
than he ever had before. 1t is as
tonishing how much npsetting it
takes to upset Mos,>. 1t is like npt
setting granite cube. Turn it OH
whic!, face you will. there it stands
as solid rs ever. The cube is used to
heing upset. and does not mind it,,
1t always amuses me when hear I.
fresh cry from some new quarter,
avering that some man. whom nobody
has ever heard of. has found out i
sure way Of doctoring what all lothers
have failed in. And now here comes
Jim Manley; and Moses has to he up
set again. All, well-and the Dea.
con sighed. There was roar of
laughter which made the rafters Of
the saw.mill ring. and Ill Joined in it
except jim.
The Girls are Good Enough.
We have often noticed that the
young man who shrieks most fire.
quent]y and shrilly for an improve
nent in the character of our yOurr-