The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1902-03-21
Grip Has Let Up On Him and He
Feels Much Better.
GIVES his EXPERIENCE AS A PATIENT
During Trying "ordeal" He Was
cheered BY Good Company and
Loving Attention From
.4. the Children.

@Abs Atcl uellel-h good deal DETER /
Think / will write a verse or two Of
poetry, II sick man has good sur
roundings 1t beats medicine Good,
cheerful company to call and not stay
long-good children to sympathize and |
watch the clock for medicine time,
good grandchildren 10 come and kiss /.
you and 90 to and from and talk and
make noise; a good wife to scold you
and tell how imprudent you have been,
and a good doctor to look at your
tongue and choke you with spoon
handle so as to see away down the
esophagus. But nature has the best
OF medicines slowed away in the bless
ed sunshine that gives life and yigor
to everything animal and vegetable
and revives the dropping spirits of the
sick. 1t has been long and hard win
ter-the coolest and most disagreeable
one hundred consecutive days that we
have had for years. How | eny!ed the
good people Of Florida while l read
Tom Sawyer's rhapsodles in the Clear
Water paper over the advent Of spring
with its peach trees and yellow jes-
mine pertaining the balmy air with
their fragrant blossoms. But it is COM
ing-gentle spring is not far away now
and day like this is its harbinger. If
1t were not for the daily catalogue Of
horrible things that headline the daily
papers even a sick man could be calm
and serene on such day as this. An
aged country friend told me that he
had quit taking the daily papers, for
i. distressed him to read such things.
Il haven't long to live" said he, "and
/ don't wish to cloud my mind with
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 things we
look for They excite our pity or our
indignation or our wonder. Our child
uOOu bCGdn IAA0L way Al We hNNSA
tired Of. Jack the Giant Killer and
Rawhead and Bloody Bones and Rob
inson 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
in the mines-one hundred killed; "
Another railroad wreck-thirteen kill
ed, and then resumes the little anec-
dote that he was narrating to a friend
We are all growing case hardened to
pain and grief and suffering for the
same reason that tho surgeon becomes
case hardened to the pain Of his pa
tient
But ever and anon some new horror
comes along that shocks humanity and
astounds the world. l read three long
columns last night about the horrors
of adulterated food in Paris and how
18,600 infants died the last year from
poisoned milk. How the great incorpo
rated dairy companies in the suburban
towns have to deliver 100000 quarts
every night. 1t is skinned before /
is canned and then is watered 20 pc
cent before it is put on the cars. OF
arrival at their depots it is deliverec
IN cans to 800 milk boys (garcons)
who get S1.40 a night and as mucl
more as they can make by watering
the milk from the MIGRANTS that ar
supplied from the river Seine, the filth
lest river in all France. One hundret
detectives are employed to watc
these boys, but the boys have deteC
flves too. and are seldom caught or al
rested. The superintendent Of pole
says it is impossible for one hundre
men to watch these eight hundred boy
and he now asks for two Thousand
This watered milk quickly sours an
bv the true it is delivered to the r.
taller at daybreak it has to be watere
again with a solution of bicarbonat
IF soda. This is the milk that supple
All Paris. and is daily fed to infar
children and in a brief time the
take cholera infantum or diarrhoe
and die. The medical faculty all test
ead that this milk caused the death
over $4,000 infants In Paris in enc yea
and the mortality was on the increas
and this does not include the deaths
children over one year old. The'
eiobt hundred boys are organized In
nowerful syndicate for protectiC
and defence. Each pays into the
treasury s4 a week, making total
$4,000 month with which to p'
lawyers fees and fines and the wag
- tbose IN Jail and to bride the ci