The sun. (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1905-1908, 1906-06-02

Experience Is dear school," says the old proverb
and we have often to pay for our knowledge not only
with money but with tears. 1t WE'LL then, that
wisdom gained in this hard school should be used
to the best and most practical advantage, and the
following from the Birmingham Age Herald, might
well be taken as timely advice;
"New Orleans Is getting rid of its mosquitoes of all
Sorts 1t is filling in low places and screening els
terms and drains and receptacles of water. BY the
middle of April that city has in past years been
fully infested by the troublesome insects, and yet to-
day, says the Times Democrat, the greater part of
New Orleans is entirely free from mosquitoes of any
kind and bars ordinarily up at this time of the
year, are unknown. In some sections where care
lessness and disobedence to the law has prevailed
there mosquitoes, but they are far scarcer
than ever before Is proposed hereafter to do the
work thoroughly. and to make the cost of it lien
on the property treated
"This country has two great and important bat.
ties to fght-the one against the mosquito and the
other against tuberculosis The latter is the more
difficult of the two. The former Is a matter of detail
and work in cities and the lesser towns. But the
preventing of the great white plague is full of diff
culties. The education of the people seems to be
allneedful first step. Old ideas must be rooted
out and the and better ideas inculcatcd. 1T u.s.
says the New York Herald, the question of being
able to resist infection at the beginning and to
come 1t in the end by sheer vital resistance of the
victim. II is doctrine that every one can under
stand and apply. II eliminates to a great extent
the senseess scare concerning the subtle, insidous
and mgsteriOusly dangerous tubercle bacillus by
placing it's conquest a rational and practical basis
The microbe on one side and the strong man on the
other. Plenty of good food abundance of fresh air
and sunshine answer all fundamental conditions OF
ultimate victory the unseen and otherwise for
mdabe enemy Each individual is to fight the bat
tie his account. Every of disease should
be considered a source of infection, and then should
be begun the fight against the disease. A generous
diet and hygienc surroundings will be aids in the
struggle, and IL good and courage are thrown
on the scales the fighter will assuredly win.
The two battles touch our national life at almost
every point, and our in them will show bet
ter than words what boosted civilization is
good for. We must at oil hazards drive out the
germ.bearing mosquito-all mosquitoes-and the
dread disease that all fear but fights against"
by surprisingly unanimous vote the Senate has
passed the free Alcohol BILL which is the bill removing
the internal revenue tax from denaturized grain
alcohol and has incidentally shown that IL trans.
act business with neatness and dispatch when it is
disposed to do so. Commenting upon this bill the
Boston Herald says:
The bill removing the internal revenue tax from
denaturized grain alcohol passed by the Senate
IN record time and without a single vote being re.
corded IN the negative. II time In the com.
mittee, but when the committee turned IL over with