Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1899-07-15

Orship Is concerned. Cullom has made
, good. faithful servant in Washing
on. and I am for him for another
.erm''
New Jersey has been for some years
the question of polluted
milk from tuberculOus cows with u
view of determining whether such milk
was the cause of consumption among
the people who used 1t. The subject
was made one of those which the very
excellent State experimental station
attempted to dispose Of. For several
years the station has had In Its herd of
cows those which were unquestionably
affected with tuberculosis. but they
were separated from the other animals
and kept solely for the purpose of
making experiments upon the milk
they gave. An editorial correspondent
of the Rural New-YOrker, a high au.
thority upon agricultural subjects. has
given the results of these investiga.
tons, which IRE reassuring even II
they are not accepted as scientifically
correct The report says that the
milk from these cows has been tested
and analysed again and again. but
thus far no germs have been found In
1t. SO far as science can determine
these cows have produced elem and
hcalthful milk" In discussing the
subject editorlally the journal men.
toned says that although no germs
have been found in the milk 1T Is not
safe to say that the milk has never
contained any. The germs might be
found In one milking and not In an.
other. or in one single quarter of the
ulder. 1t Is difficult to discover them,
for the testing apparatus Is not yet
perfected. Still IL may be said that
the germs In such milk are very scarce
If they exist ut ALL" The statement
seems to explain one very well-estnb-
lished fact. which is that. while tuber.
culOsis In cows Is very rapidly increas.
ing. consumption in the human family
IL constantly decreasing. 1t Is believed
to be a truth that there are few herds
of milch cows that do not contain dis.
eused animals, and II the milk from
them serves to spread tuberculosis
among the human family the wonder
Is that such results should not be more
apparent. However, the people do moi
want milk from diseased cows, and
even II there IL great doubt us to the
extent of the danger In the use Of such
product 1t IL they and not the distem'
pcrcd animals that should have the
benefit of the doubt.
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The poem, Backward, turn back.
ward, oh Time In thy flight, make me
a child again Just for tonight" has Its
desired answer every summer evening
when In the cleaning the children en-.
net those singing games that never
change from one generation to another
1t IL a very blase soul that does not
respond to the strains of Here We &c
round the mulberry bush." while the
dangers and perils incident to the I'm
minent collapse Of London bridge thrill
the adult listener just as In the days
Of yOre when he or she puzzled long
over the choosing Of n gold house with
diamond windows or ruby steamboat
with silver seats. As we sit In the twi
light and the strains Of I'VE come tC
see Miss Jenny a.JOnes" float II
through the open window we Oblitcr
ate the past that intervenes between
childhood ana the present and entel
..,ttls 0.St esnt TIM M 4 N ~
woes Of the young person who begini
by being Every well, l thank you." ant
ends the week In a ghOstly chase aftel
her inquiring friends that is just a,
thrilling to the participants to-day u,
II was u quarter of a century ago. IVA
ter, water, wild flower, growing up 8,
high. we are all young ladies' and al
expect to die" etc, carries back to hel
childhood days the woman whose littl,
folks now shrllly chirp the funny OLE
rhyme ana she wonders what has he
come Of the youth whom she chose u
the singing of the lines "Fie, fie--tie FOL
shame. turn your back aud tell YOU
beau's name.' The necrOmancy OI
these melodies that never change II
themselves can change the grOwn-ul
to the child In the twinkling Of u re-
frain. Thoughts long banished, memo
ries dead, are revived rs the childish
voices In their uncertain treble sOunt
upon the summer night. We forget I,
light the lamp, we sit In the shadow ye
revealing In the sunlight Of days long
long ago before we Ind reached the ag,
when 1t was deemed consistent to pu
away childish things. We sit AM
dream. the noises In the street subside
the little ones have been called indoors
to bed. but Time has turned backwar,
In Its flight and for one night we hav,
been children again.
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The passion for cheapness and thu
greed for gain have proved too strOni
for the American conscience. Alto
gether too many manufactures ar,
turning out goods which pretend to b'
one thing and are another. This Is seeI
In furniture, In architecture, In paten
medicines, In drugs, In clothing, In jew
elry. In fOod-to name Mt random few
typical branches of industry. II Is wei
that Emerson and Carlyle. Holmes ant
Ruskln ana william Morris, have
ceased to rage against the hOllOwnes'
of a veneered civilization. What woult
they say to the vulgar, stone-facet
buildings with their filmsy walls ant
imitation woodwork? How woult
they endure the vanished rubbish tina
finds place in so many homes, and tn,
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