Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1902-02-19
ARP FEELS BETTER.
Writes About His Experience As a
Grip Patient.
HE HAD CHEERFUL COMPANY.
Grandchildren to Watch the CIocsl
for Time to lake the Medicine
Reads the Papers.

This is bright and blessed morning
/ feel bettcr-a good deal better Think
will write n verse or two of poetry.
If a sick man has good surroundings
It beats medicine. Good cheerful com
pany TO call and not stay long-goOd
children to sympathize and watch The
clock for medicine time, good grand
children to come and kiss you and So
to and from and talk and make Il
noise good wife to scold you and
tell how impruGcnt you have been. and
a good doctor to look at your tongue
and choke you with spoon handle Sc
as 10 see away down the eSophagns.
But nature has the best of medicines
slowed away in the blessed sunshine
that gives life and vigor to everything
enlmai and vegetable and revives the
dropping spirits of the sick. 1t has beep
long and hard winter-the coolest
and most disagreeable ono hundred
consecutive days that we have had for
years. How / enviey the good people
OF Florida while | read Tom Sawyer's
Thapsod!es in the Clear Water paper
over the advent of spring with its
peach trees and yellow jessamine per-
fuming the balmy air with their fra.
grant blossoms. But 1t is coming
gentle srring is not far away now and
day like this is its harbinger. If it
were not for the daily catalogue of hov-
rible things that headline the daily pa
pers even n sick man could G calm and
serene on such day as this. An aged
country friend told me that he had quit
taking the daily papers for it distress
ed 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 re-
cord Of human misery" But most all
nCnTN1n 10 ~, 4, c,-,s,.
OF nations and OF men and keep posted
about everything that happens. We
can't skip the bad and read the good
only. There is a fascination about hor-
rlble things that we cannot resist. They
are the first things we look for. They
excite our pity or our Indignation or
our wonder. Our childhood 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 care
lessly looks over the little slips that
are laid upon his desk and reads An
other explosion in the mines-one hun
dred killed." Another railroad wreck
thirteen killed." and then resumes
the little anocdCte he was narrating to
a friend. We are all growing case
hardened 10 pain and grief and suffer-
ing FOR The same Teason that the sur
geon becomes case hardened to the
pain OF his patient
But ever and anon some new horror
come along that shocks humanity and
astounds the world. | read three long
colhrnns last night about the horrors
or adulterated food in Paris and how
lS,60O infants died the last year from
poisoned milk. How the great incorpo.
rated dairy companies in the suburban
towns have to deliver 500 200 quarts
every night. II Is skinned before it
is canned and then is watered 20 Der
cent before il is put on the cars. On
arrival at their depots il is delivered
In cans to 500 milk boys (garcone) who
get S1.40 night and as much more az
they can make by watering the milk
from the hydrants that aCe supplied
from the river Seine. the filthiest river
In all France. One hundred detectives
are employed to watch these boys. but
the boys have detectives. too. and are
seldom caught or arrested. The surer-
intendent of police saws it is impossible
for one hundred men to follow and
watch eight hundred boys and he now
asks fog' two thousand. This watered
milk quickly sours and by the time it
is delivered to the retailer at day break
IL has to be watered again with n solu-
zion or bicarbonate OF soda This is
the MILK that supplies all Paris. and
Us daily fed to infant children and in a
brief time they take cholera inantum
or diarrhea and die. The medical facul-
~ all testified that this milk caused
the death of over $4,000 infants iii
Paris in one year and the mortality
was on the increase. and this does not
Include the deaths of children over ono
year old. These eight hundred bows
are organized into powerful syndi-
cate for protection and defense Each
pays into their treasury 81 week
making total Of $4,000 month with
which to pay lawyers fees and fines
and tho wages of those in jail and 70
bribe the city detectives not to catch
them when watering the milk. They
water II while the wagons are on the
GO pun ping in behind with cans of
water. The milk suspected is turned
over 10 the city chemists. who analyzo
and report that If the boys are arrest
ed most OF them escape punishment i.l
some corrupt way. hut none are DIS
charged. They go back At once into tha
CompanyS service. But Paris is arOllg-
ed Gs il never has been aad declares
the death dealing business shall be
broken Up if IL takes two thousand de-
rcctivcS TO pUrsue tho eight hundred
boys. Our children are fed en- rn4croii-
es from the river Seine" is now on ev-
cry tongue. Other cities have taken
up the cry and l}Ouen and DunkirL
show larger death rate Of infantsthaa
Paris, and now thew say no wonder
the population Cf France is decreasing
instead OF Increasing. We arc poison
ing three fourths Of all the children
before they arc n year old and half the
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