The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1902-02-26
BILL ARP FEELING BETTER
His Experience as Grip Patient
Taking Medicine by the Clock.
Atlanta Constitution.

Atlanta Constitution.
This is bright and blessed morn.
ing. l feel better-a good deal better
Think 1 will write verse or two OF
poetry. If a sick man has good sur.
roundings it beats medicine. Good
cheerful company to call and not stay
long-good children to sympathizo and
watch the clock for medicine time
good grandchildren TO come and kiss
you and go to and from and talk and
make noise; good wife to scold you
and tell how imprudent you have been,
and good doctor to look at your tongue
and choke you with spoon handle
80 as to see away down the esophagus.
But nature has the best of medicines
slowed away in the blessed sunshine
that give life and vigor to everything
animal and vegetable and reviyes the
dropping spirits Of the sick. 1t has
been C long and hard winter-the
coldest and most disagreeable one
hundred consecutive days that we have
had for years. How l envied the good
people of Florida while read Tom
Sawyer's rhapsodles in the Clear Water
paper over the advent of spring with
its peach trees and yellow jessamine
perfuming the balmy air with their
fragrant blossoms. But it is coming
gentle spring is not far away now and
day like this is It's harbinger.
If it were not for the daily catalogue
of horrible things that headline the
daily papers even a sick man coult' ne
be calm and serene on such day
as this. An aged country friend
told me that he had quit taking
the daily papers for it distressed
him to read such things. Il haven't
long to live," said he, "and i
don't wish to cloud my mind with a
daily record of human misery" But
most all people have to mix up with
the affairs of nations and of men and
keep posted about everything that hap.
pens. We can't skip the bad and read
the good only. There is fascination
about horrible things that we cannot
resist. They are the first thipgs we
look for. They excite our pity or oul
indignation or our wonder. Our child.
hood began that way for we never tired
of Jack, the Giant Killer, and Rawhead
and Bloody Bones and Robinson
Crusoe. And now the editor of the
press dispatches carelessly looks over
the little slips that are laid upon his
desk and reads " Another explosion il
the mines one hundred killed.
{" Another railroad wreck -thirteer
killed." and then resumes the little an
ecdote he was narrating TO friend
We are all growing case hardened Il
pain and grief and suffering for tn,
same reason that the surgeon becomes
case hardened to the pain of his patient
| But ever and anon some new horro
comes along tEet shocks human
ty and astounds the world. | reat
three long columns last night about th
horrors of adulterated food in Pari
and how 18, 600 infants died the las
year from poisoned milk. How tn
great incorporated dairy companies il
the suburban towns have to deliver
10000 quarts every night. 1t i
skinned before it Is canned and thel
is watered 20 per cent before it Is pu
on the cars. On arrival at their depot
it is delivered in cans to 800 milk boy
(garcons) who get 81 40 night and a
much more as they can make by water
ing the milk from the hydrants tina
are supplied from the river Seine, tn
lilthiest river in all France. One hun
dred detectives are employed to watc
these boys, but lhe boys have detet
tives, too, and are seldom caught @
arrested. The superintendent of polio
says it is impossible for one hundre
men to follow and watch eight hundre
B boys and he now asks for two thou.
: and.
This watered milk quickly souls an
by the time it is delivered to the r,
taller at daybreak 1T has to be watere
again with a solution of bicarbonat
of soda. This is the milk that supple
, all Paris, and is daily fed to infar
= children and in a brief time they tai
cholera lnfantum or diarrh@ and di
The medical faculty all testified th
this milk caused the death of over 1S
600 infants IN Paris in one year ar
. the mortality was on the increase, ar
] This does not include the deaths
children over one year old. The
eight hundred boys are organized in
q powerful syndicate for protectit
and defence. Each pays into the