The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1902-02-27
BILL ARP FEELING BETTER,
His Experience as Grip Patient
Taking Medicine by the Clock.
Atlanta Constitution.

Taking Medicine by the Clock.
Atlanta Constitution.
This is bright and blessed morn
ing. l feel better-a good deal better
Think l will write verse or two O
poetry. If a sick man has good sur
roundings it beats medicine. Good
cheerful company to call and not sta
long-good children to sympathizo ant
watch the clock for medicine time
good grandchildren TO como and kis
you and 60 to and from and talk ant
make nose; good wife to scold yol
and tell how imprudent you have been
and a good doctor to look at your tongue
and choke you with a spoon handle
30 as to see away down the csophagus
But nature has the best of medicines
slowed away in the blessed sunshine
that give life and vigor to everything
animal and vegetable and rcvivcs the
dropping spirits Of the sick 1t has
been q long and hard wintcr-thC
coolest and m, ST disagrceablc one
hundred consecutive days that we have
had for years. How l cnvicd the good
people of Florida while read Tom
Sawyer's rhapsodles in the Clear Water
paper over the advent Of spring with
it's peach trees and yellow jcssaminc
perfuming the balmy air with their
fragrant blossoms. But ii is coming
gentle spring is not far away now and
a day like this is its harbinger.
If it were not for the daily catalogue
of horrible things that headline the
daily papers even sick man could be
be calm and serene Oh 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. (" haven't
long to livc," said he, "and l
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
hrcsist. They are the first things we
look for. They excite our pity or our
indignation or our wonder. Our child
hood began that way for we never tired
of Jack, the Giant Killer, and Rawhcad
and Bloody Bones and Robinson
CrusOe. And now the editor of the
press dispatches carclcssly looks over
the little slips that arc LAID upon his
desk and reads "Anothcr 4" explosion in
the mines one hundred killed."
" Another railroad wrcck-thirtcen
killed." and then resumes the little an
ecdote he was narrating TO a friend.
We are all growing case hardened to
pain and grief and suffering for the
same reason that the surgeon becomes
case hardened to The pam Of his patient.
But ever and anon some new horror
comes along that shocks humanl-
ty and astounds the world. | read
three long columns last night about the
horrors Of adultcratcd food in Paris
and how Is, 600 infants died the last
year from poisoned milk. How the
great Incorporated dairy companies in
the suburban towns have to deliver
500, 900 quarts every night. 1t is
skinned before it is canned and then
is Watercd 20 per cent before it Is put
on the cars. On arrival at their dcpots
it is delivered in cans to 500 milk boys
(garcons) who get &l.40 night and as
much more as they can make by water
ing the milk from the hydrants that
are supplied from the river Seine, the
tilthicst river in all France. One hun
dred detectives are employed to watch
these boys, but lhc boys have dctec-
tives, too, and are seldom caught or
arrested. The superintendent Of police
says it is impossible for one hundred
men to follow and watch eight hundred
boys and he now asks for two thous-
and.
This watored milk quickly sous and
by the time IL is delivered to the re-
taller at daybrcak 1t has to be watcred
again with solution of blcarbonatc
of soda. This is the milk that supplies
all Paris, and is daily fed To infant
children and in brief time they take
cholera lnfantum or diarrhic and die.
The medical faculty all testified that
this milk caused the death of over 49,.
600 Infants IN PARIS in one year and
the mortality was on the increase, and
shis does not include the deaths OF
children over one year old. These
clSHI Huuulcu Doys arc vi Sd'il"c" ibtI
powerful syndicate for protection
and defence. Each pays into thcil
treasury ST. week, making total OF
$l4 900 a month with which to pay
lawyers fees and fines and the wage:
of those in Jail and TO bribc the city
dete ctlvcs not to catch them whcl
watering the milk. They water i
while the wagons arc on the go jump
ing in behind with cans Of water. Th,
milk suspected is turned over to th
city chemists, who analyzc and rcpor
and If the boys are arrested most 0
them escape punishment in some cor
rupt way, but none arc discharged
They go back at once INTO the com
pany's service.
But Paris is aroused az it never ha
been and declares the dtath-dcalin
business shall be broken up if
takes two thousand detectives t
pursue The eight hundred bows
"Our children are fed on microbe
from the river Seine" is no,
on every tongue. Other cities hav
taken up the cry and Roucn and Dun
kirk show q larger death rate of infant