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New-York tribune., 1907-06-30

sweeten the water. and to the sweetened water are
added anllne dyes or coal tar coOrs, in the pro-
portion Of one -hundredth II grain to glass
OF soda and citric acid and synthetic decoctions
OF ether which resemble the haVors of straw.
berries raspberries. cherries. pineapples and the
Ike, when properly mixed. Put up of pure quail
ties and In the right proportions the amount OF
deleterious matter taken IN each glass of soda
water is small TO affect II IL said Il child but
the average small dealer IS not a chemist he has
sense OF proportions not governed by the cost
OF the article and he buys the cheapest materials
to be had from small supply houses. which furnish
nm with chemicals and ADDS to tho cheap and
pure material purchased from reputable
MS own Judgment as 10 pFonts. When he puIs
the strawberry color into Ice cream he takes caro-
that enough Is there 10 add a true strawberry or
raspberry color-as the case may be--to the lips
and fingers of his customers. What the color does
TO the child's stomach "a matter that occasions
him no concern. The proportion of good syrup to
his own concOctons is about that of one gallon If
the pure TO ten OF the amateur chemical mixture
says q student of the methods employed.
Syrups made from fruits. II heavy and thick do
not spoil under ordinary conditions. but syrups
made very thin for the sake Of economy will
quickly sour. Syrups favored and without fruit
will sour If very thin. and how much fermented
and stuff is mixed into glasses of soft drinks
retailed at penny or two glass can never he
computed. Saiicylic acid and benzOate of soda are
the chief preservatives used in syrups and the
question has never been determined how much OF
these preserving substances may be indulged in
with safety 1t Is positive. however, that tho
large quantities OF either would prove injurious 10
the human system
Cnlldren, 1leS ana duSt mover over and around
the perpatetio refreshment counters Of the street
and the hotter II is the more the children demand
ice cream and favored drinks They their
parents may have heard that Of the gela-
tine in the cheap Ice cream was prepared Bar
Island and in scarcely more wholesome places
from cast off bits of hide bone and other material
from carcass; that cream does not play any
important part In the cold lump before
them than does vanilla in its 1avoring straw
berry in its color that cornstarch forms the most
wholesome part of the feast; but they know moth
ing of the sources from which cheap gelatines are
derived; they ignorant OF the authorizations
practised In making vanilla 1avoring, and they
more accustomed TO cornstarch than they
to cream II is cold and sweet, and the palate of
the tenement dweer is none too critical as 10 the
nature OF the article which pleases ii.
One dispensary on the West Side, in the tene-
ment district, has had annual cases OF illness on
the part OF little who have INDUCED too
freely In tempting and economical soft drinks
and ice At time epidemic of ice
cream poisoning took place the doors OF this
dispensary. and 1t is therefore greatly terested
in having the sale Of injurious stuff to children
stODped
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numbering several thousand having died between
the end OF January and the middle Of May. In
this instance starvation rather than thirst the
cause of the trouble. for while the cisterns and
water holes held out fairly well. the parched,
ashen dry ranges were guawed TO the very grass
roots by the hungry cattle. At the time Of my
visit fifty animals day dropping Off. with
prospects of worse 10 come and the vaqueros were
engaged at about the only work that was left for
them 10 do. that OF killing the dying animals and
skinning the dead.
The only bright feature OF the whole sad affair
has been the fortitude displayed by the sufferers
and their unshaken faith in the country. in spite
OF all the misfortunes that have befallen them
there. Many returning to the states. 10 be
sure. but in every such instance that has come 10
my attention II IS invariably with the intention Of
going back to their island homo things
take a turn for the better. The principal concern
or oil OF them IS In regard to taking precautionary
measures to insure against similar disaster I'm tho
event OF another drouth, and TO this end the eX-
ample set by the American farmers in and about
Guines will prove valuable object lesson to their
brother cOlonsts
Guines. fertile and long settled district IN the
south central portion OF the Province OF Havana,
was the only part OF Cuba provided with irri
CATION system when the dry 81 IL set in, and, rar
from suffering loss through the drOuth, II actually
reaped rich harvest OF profit throughout the
long period OF high prices that foowe,. the failure
OF all crops other points.
This irrigation system. while originally
stTucted by the Cubans. has been largely extended
by, and owes It's present state OF efficiency TO-
American farmers who bought land and settled In
that district after the war. prominent among
New-York tribune., 1907-06-30

grove "Ruenos d.es" shouted Holt IN a jocular
tone to a deeply tronzed fellow in tattered khaki
who was walking deJectedly about among the dying
trees Fine orchard you have there, Doyle; what
do YOU expect to pick this season.
Nothing but my teeth; and II returns don't come
IN nrettv promptly from my last shipment OF pines
I won't have occasion 10 do that oftenern once
week" came the quick reply from Doyle who, as
his name and answer would imply, OF Irish
extraction.
Holt laughed as drove on, and then looked
serious Not so wild statement as 1t sounds,
that of Doyles" he said 1T was somewhere
about the first OF the month that he told me that
he had been on a diet OF pineapples fo- week,
and that his supply was beginning TO run low even
then It's lucky he hasn't family like the rest
OF US"
One OF the oaddcst sights I saw in Cuba was in
Southern Santa Clara the rancho OF G. b. Fos-
ter formerly of Sioux city, Iowa Mr.. Foster, who
is a man Of some wealth. has gone In for fancy
stock raising well IS fruit and his latest i'm
portation was a bunch of twenty hlooded mares
from Kentucky. These, together with number
Of other highly bred animals when the grass began
To dry up from the drouth, were transferred to
remote but supposedly well watered tnclosure for
better pasturage. When the stream that
through this inclosure ceased flowing the herder
in charge die not report the fact because he
thought the sink holes would furnish fresh water
for week more longer. These latter however.
rapidly settlirg, turned bitterly salt IN short
time a fact W llch was discovered until all OF
the animals crazy from thirst. drank deeply from
t.Cm and went mad a result In spite OF ali
efforts 10 relieve them, the frenzied beasts dashed
themselves against the barbed wires Of the in
closure and continued galloping madly about until
death put end 10 their suifcTings.
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are changed" Another man thoroughly familiar
with these conditions states that only are large
quantities of soft drinks and syrups bottled in
a tenement basement living room where a family
resides and takes in boarders Here 1t does not
matter whether the bottles are clean or not What
difference does a little dirt make when there is
much 10 spare? The materials from which
the drinks made handled in a bet
ter imagined than described. The owner of the
corner stand and pushcart and his customers OF
the not particular. little extra coorng
matter will do much toward Disgusting dirt; little
extra acid acts wonderfully in promoting a dis
tinct flavor.
In his report DR.. Betz said that he found in the
stable and tenement house bottlers factories 'satu
rated. filthy floors: the ceilings and walls stained
and dirty. and offensive odors from the stable per
meating the entire premises" II was discovered
that most OF these small bottlers owned ilters-ap-
parenty part of their outfit, since they
kept in a condition calculated to contaminate
rather than improve the condition of the water
used archaeological tests revealed the fact that
a dangerous number of Coli commuhis bacillse
dwelt In the liquids bottled In such factories for
the consumption of the children OF the tenements.
Many small bottlers and dispensers Of cheap
drinks to the undiscrimlnatng poor buy from some
reputable house a few gallons of good syrup and
outfit for dispensing drinks In this way they
secure the advertising matter OF such houses and
this they freely 1T inspires confidence In their
customers and their pockets are the heavier aax
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whom IS William Ward former Californian I:
the lesson IN regard to the importance OF
steady water supply at all seasons. learned by Mr..
Ward while making a fortune raising musk
melons the border Of the Colorado Desert, that
led him to urge irrigation upon his neishbors and
thus bring them dollars instead OF disaster when
the drouth came. Mr. Wards experience will also
undoubtedly play leading part in putting tho
other American colonies nearly as possible on
equal footing with Guines in the matter OF
water supply.
The topography. we'll the general meteor
oogical conditions. Of the provinces of Pinar del
Rio. Havana, Matanzas and Santiago is favorable
10 the comparatively inexpensive construction OF
dam and ditch systems by which the surface wa
ter flowing TO waste may be conserved and
diverted for Irrigation purposes. On the plains Of
Santa Clara and Puerto Principe deep wells and
steam pumping plants will have TO be resorted
TO. the general slope OF the country being too
slight to permit Of the utilization OF surface
flow which is probably insufficient IN any
Many Of the shallow wells in that region turned
salty in the recent drouth, but at from to
two hundred feet inexhaustible supply OF clear.
fresh water may be struck at any point. Pumps
Of the type Of the great 250O0.0O0 gallons day
In IN irrigatng the Hawaiian cane fields
viii be necessary. Their cost OF operation will
be considerable. but. even IN normal seasons. the
benefit would warrant the expense.
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be transferred 20 new objects with no change In
the feelings themselves. IL touch SMELL voice. eyes
intelligence, are the decentric series.
now change In fashion. now in manners. now In
morals. and now In religion. which may each be
only a change OF fetch groups.
Normally these special preferences. no doubt
often consciously and still more unconscious!y
associated with liking for individuals. already well
developed, instinctfvely organized parts OF
large whole. that when who embodies In
his her own person most OF these fetichistio
traits is met with, love may suddenly recognize
and focus on its own Love Is IN this view the
practical elimination OF 5elf-knowledge which IS
aware of defects
- 'In six leading contemporary alienists md the
following definitions of love described in novels;
Ecia, psychic neurasthenia. psychic emotive OBJ
session and episode symptoms OF hereditary de-
generaoy. In any case. aesthetic taste Is uncon.
sciously being cultivated over wide range OF
topics
'Benals coynsss and reluctance or refusal Is 50
deep seated as to belle the Bible inputation that
this sex made the first advances. The world
to her the precious and primal motive OF reserve.
All through the animal series she leads.
III man loses his cue and becomes overdocIle,
interpreting the woman's state OF mind too subtly,
playing female parts in her costume with OIL, voice
and cadence. we have the germs OF inversion
Modesty is at root, mode and woman IS its
priestess
"It is on theso laws written and unwritten that
coquetry loves to play. 1t fees but fees in a
circle or TO excite pursuit; it resists. but so as 10
provoke conQUests
'Eealthful and sufficient society OF noble women
communion with whom at a young age rapidly
passed over 70 alteration. constructs nests OF high
and wholesome thoughts for old age.
Love can include the whole body and soul
The fact that woman IS a more generic baing
than man, closer TO the race, and less mutilated
by speclalizations by deformity Of body or soul
makes IL easy for to IN his chosen Helen
the entire sex. Every part OF her body and mind
Is attractive. Marriage be ideal infaIllbls
and inpeccaole without requiring any pIatcnic
supervision OF elders. Each sex is conscious or
Its own good points. but still more SO those OF
the othsr. Life, which has hithertoeore been mar.
ual. provisional and preparatory, now becomes
complete IN mutual spiritual appropriation and
mastery.
Defects are balanced and two bodies and wv,
souls are finished indus for the dsyelopment %
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DRINKING FROM NUTS.

It was Mr.. Fosters large ranch that took
Photograph OF a Cuban family Of eight, which. be-
cause its well had turned bTackish. had used no
water for a week. but queuChed thirst with milk
of the coCOauut. Rightly calculating that several
dozen trips to the tops OF their cooAnut palms
could be made with less exertion than a single ono
TO the mile distant ranchhouse, whore drinking
water stlu 10 be had. this care free little
bunch had calmly suspended cooking operations
and followed their form OF total abstinence
until their last cocoHnut was cracked and emptied.
At the time OF my visit things had come 10 pass
where the water wagon had to be brought out
again and because all the barrels about the place
had dried up and fallen apart for lack OF moisture
they were following q water butt out OF the trunk
OF pot bellied royal palm.
In cattle, the heaviest loss on the island has
probably fallen the big American owned San
Carlos rancho, CamaCuey. In the province
OF Puerto Principe. fully half OF a herd originally
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has been by means adequate to meet the eAl-
gencies of the situation.
drouth in tropical country, where the vege-
tation has always received and is practically ue-
pendent upon almost daily showers OF rain, Is q
far serious matter than in semi-arld regions,
like Southern California or Arizona, where dry
of at least six months is the regular thlhg
Moreover, in countries OF the latter character elao-
crate irrigation systems maintained TO tide over
the rainless SPELLS whereas in the tropics-and IN
the West Indies IN particular-artificial watering
is rarely resorted to.
Some idea of the condition OF things in the large
American colony Of La Gloria, on the north coast
OF the province of Puerto Principe. may be gained
from the brief story told me by one OF its men,
oers with whom shared my seat IN the Havana
train one day He had been barber in Spring
field, Mass, and in 1900 having saved $1,000. In
vested II in forty of uncleared land in La
Gloria Leaving New York with surplus of $780,
by the time he had landed his wife, child and
household goods at their destination he S25 In
debt. Before the end of the first week his wife
wanted return, to provide funds for which he
sold the most of their household goods. Then the
next sailing of the steamer cancelled. and in
the month of enforced delay they became recon-
ciled TO the situation and decided TO stick II out
Improvising a barber shop by inclosng his little
front porch with canvas he worked there at his
trade every morning, drove team for land
company in the afternoon, and at odd times and
in moonlight nights worked at grubbing out trees
and clearing his land. His wife took in wash
ing and dressmaking.
New-York tribune., 1907-06-30
MOUNT CLEMENss MINERAL SPRINGS

Detroit. June % (SpeclaD.-The first wells were
drilled at Mount Clemens In 1864 boring for oil
At 100 feet mineral water was encountered. The
presence OF so many different minerals made it too
costly TO manufacture salt from the brine. but the
mineral properties IN the water We're soon discOv-
cred. The water contains salts of calcium and
magnesium, with chlorlde or sodium, Sulphuretsd
hydrogen and the valuable medicinal agent, iodine
The waters soon became famous for the cure not
only Of rheumatism and neuralgia, but all skin
diseases. catarrh. metal poisoning, tedious
valescence resulting from grip and typhoid and
kidney and liver troubles.
Mount Clemens is really an older settlement than
Detroit the first cabin having been erected there in
175s- It Is city OF 5000 population and the
rest seekers and bathers make always several
River. two miles from Lake ST. Clair and twenty
miles north of Detroit. the busiest city in the
Middle West Two lines OF electric road with half
hour service connect the two cities The Grand
Trunk Railway system affords excellent steam
service between east and west The city is beauti
fully laid out. all the principal streets radiatins
from Court House Square 1t has every modern
appointment. and the water used for drinking pur-
poses is obtained from series Of artesian wells
and Is absolutely pure
Down the Clinton River at Lake ST Clair arc tho
st. Clair Flats, famed among spOrtsmen
cslled shooting and fishing grounds Several clubs
have their houses on the river near the lake, and
there great number of beautiful summer
homes.
Every amusement is available. especially boating
cycling. aUtomohiling. fishing and driving Ths
climate IS delightful: baInly breezes always blow
on the Michigan peninsula 1t IS an all year round
resort, having cool summer and a winter tenn
pered by the open waters of Lake st. Clair. AS
place for health and rest IL is not excelle in the
country. The cures wrought in this bath city aro
many and the popularity OF the baths is shown by
the record for the last twenty-five years. which
increased from soOa to over $4,000.
The hotel accommodations not exceeded IN
comfort and elegance in any CITY in America
There than two hundred hotels and
boarding houses some OF the former costing from
100000 to s4e0OeV. Eyery taste and purse be-
accommodated, prices range from S6 a week to
$40 day.
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BOARD OF HEALTH PROMISES.

The Board of Health states that it means to
keep a sharp lookout this summer for Offenders
against Its regulations to the purity OF food
and drinks, so far as these regulations cover the
subject. but well acquainted with the habits
OF the foreign population in the regions where
these abuses exist says that 1t will be a difficult
task In connection with summer drinks the
Board OF Health has a knotty problem hand
that OF fixing the status of druggists who sell
calisaya over the counter to people ignorant OF
the fact that they are not taking strictly tenn
perance drink. Such druggists must. in future
take out liquor license. rectifer's license or
else discontinue the sale of calisaya. which is a
decoction or cinchona bark and alcohol which Is
declared to be just strong as and more inIuri-
GUS than straight whskey, Astonishing facts
have come to light as to the great number of
women VINO drink caltsaya TO freshen themselves
up and brighten their eyes and complications and
of the many temperance men who drink freely OF
caiisaya and denounce the habit of drinking in
toxicating beverages The Board of Health wants
these happy innocents to understand that when
they BUY eaiisaya they get, practically whiskey
JUST as thess VINO buy penny glass lemonade
Get only metaphoHcal lemon.
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their regulations the lighter for such business

their regulations the lighter for such business en-
terprse
II has been proved to be utter impossbility,
said expert 10 q Tribune reporter last week,
for any to sell a glass of pure fancy favored
drink for penny two Such drinks never see
a drop of the juices OF the fruits whose they
bear. Pineapple sounds better, and isn't such a
mouthful. butyric ether, while tartaric acid
wouldn't tempt half the customers who swarm
around the stand which bears the legend that
strawberry and raspberry soda waters are to be
had there Neither do citrol oil and citric acid ap-
peal to the common fancy Wholesome In them
selves. they deceive the multitude into paying the
price for glass OF orangeade or lemonade which
has had no real acquaintance with those fruits
Ctrol oil is made from lemon grass. and ctric acid
is the capitalization of the juice OF lemons or
lines.
Suphurc acid, which small dealers use in soft
drinks is employed in such small quantities that
II is said no harmful results could follow from
drinking IL unless II contaminated with
senlc Most manufactures eliminate the
senlc but all do not and the average hokey- pokey
man doesn't care whether 1t has been eliminated
or ot
New-York tribune., 1907-06-30
a PLUCKY FIGHT.

- Ia spite Of mistakes and disappointments how
ever, and setbacks, from whatever causes Aueri-
can pluck was fighting a good battle in Cuba and
mere We're many who Were looking for the year
!SJ' 20 oTlng them their first substantial returns
from nearly decade of unremittng and unreUe rd-
ed IaooT, when what proved TO be the greatest
cFonth in Cuban history set iu Executing the
-aFsges wrought by her years OF warfare for IN
ueIenderce, this seven months drouth which # is
Loped mas been brought to end by the rains OF
tle @ 4aSt week or, two. inflicted the most serious
o~w llat the Island has ever received. From No
Hraber to the middle of Nav the average rainfall
20 an parts " the island little more than an
l-ll' a9a such showers have fallen since the
~ oale have been not nearly as heavy as In
-loIhal years. which, following so protracted
peTlod OF dry weather, that the precipitation
New-York tribune., 1907-06-30
Board Of Health Promises to
Punish Those Who AduI-
terate Soda Water.

The soft drink dispenser, whether he dsale o,,
ioanng soda from behind a gIistening counter or
iailas dripping glasses from a hokev-pokev wagon
Is DONG rushing business in New York these davs
Al fashionable soda fountains women are standing
'hlee deep imbibing fancy drinks, while children
swarm like bees around the street pedler. whose
customers want the worth OF their money IN
quantity and are by means particular as to the
quality Of the goods they pay for
Ahe fashionable woman pays 10 or Is cents for her
s-ass Of cooling nectaEs the woman with a shawl
over her head pays q penny. but she is happy in
uaats-e doesn't know that her ginger IS often
oecoction Of cayenne pepper and her fruit syrups
sAfui mixture Of glucose, synthetic favors made
TO" ether or chemical acids and a liberal supply
u water Sometimes she pays three cents a glass
aHu laen Size can for herself the Strawberries
,-oalhs IN her tumbler reposing upon the ton of
lef zee cream. True, they may have been picked
- Eso-tey wear the marks Of age and strife
nllh an p'kind World-but she doesn't know the
olitelFAcS and she swallows them and hands her
p@pg delectable morseI. satisfied that her thirst
80 - In quencl}Hd for the moment and that she
- 10 .ol . good sized glass OF strawberry soda for
'5Ieaier New York drinks between 100000 and
~'eyioJi gallons Of soda water In year-princinaIl,,
!" me tlree summer months. This is less than
@ ..al me quantity Of soft drinks consumed by the
satAe thirsty population, for every dealer In soft
o-nhs sells n lot Of deeocttons in which no soda
ater ls contained. Sixty millions gallons of soft
INKS sold IN public places alone sounds pretty
1ri IAai Is q conservative estimate for
.te'5 heat ridden Gotham. In Manhattan alone
are over three thousand druggists actively
s-E51 N dispensing drugs and soft drinks in
sinhler time and their rivals of the confectionery
store rEshcart and street stand variety outnumber
tnem considerably.
&c was time when even some Of the Iarg-
- dispensers Of soft drinks mixed at their coun-
ts-s cheaper limitations of the goods they vera
.erposed 70 sell That time has passed in con-
49, Win regulations made by the Board OF
5-1l, ana the druggist who dispenses pure soda
ns O-Iy one evil left to correct-that OF sloyenli-
heEss lio uhceanliness on the part Of the clerks
slrra l- iIlS sooa fountain. He does not, perhaps
go ess cannot watch them see that they pre-
.t,.a maximum Of cleanliness and so some
g,,.s Ley sIop out soda water from "A most dis
l.isIy dlrty undercounter, In glasses not half
,sa 'Sa "a ana with spoons and other articles which
cies ~ moi trouble themselves wash well to a
,arl~ - customers who. looking at the fair ex-
dysrt, - N!e fountain, never dream what they are
tbe-a ms condition, who has studied
dr,,,, t.~Ies says, obtains in great number of
clerks ,s properly equipped and merely needing
~-hs Win habits of