The National tribune., 1907-07-18

Tor instance. put up their goods in So
pound buckets and supply the bakersl
all over the country. There are very
| few bakeries that manufacture any of
their own pie filings. The cider manu-
facturers in the same way do a whole
: sale business with large and small stores
j.. all over the country, one of the .-auu
; facturers telling the board that it was
: not uncommon for him In the hight
of the season to turn out 10000 gal
Ions of cider a day.
| They all claimed that it was impossi-
} BILE to manufacture food stuffs in guam
tity and sell them in bulk if preserva-
tiyeS were not used. Their request was
for permission to use one-tenth of one
per cent of benZoate of soda, as they
claimed without this 1t was impossible
: to ship bulk goods such as they handled.
4 Written opinions were submitted from
a number of chemists to the effect that
DenZoate OF soda was entirely harmless,
and the manufacturers asked that in
view of the divided opinion on the sub
Ject they be allowed to use the quantity
mentioned till either the question of its
harmfulness was settled to their own
satisfaction or some satisfactory sub
stitute was found for 1t.
The State Department nearly han
heart failure the other day. Col. Pete
Hepburn is going abroad for a few
months. and he called there to get his
passports and some letters to Embas-
sador Reid. COL Pete announces that he
Is not seeking presentation at court, be-
cause he doesn't believe that knee
breeches and accompanimcnts would be |
becoming to his particular style OF
beauty. The State Department directed
one of its accomplished and versatile |
stencgraphers to write the letter, and
| the said versatile stenographer. who
must have brains to burn. began that
| letter after this fashion: Sir: This |
VIII introduce to you Col Pete Hepburn,
| member of Congress from Iowa" etc, |
| finished the letter up and brought it to |
| the State Department to hand to |
| "Col. Pete" Gin rickeys and things
were needed in about a minute by the
State Department. Be it known that
| col. Pete" is entirely nickname given
the distinguished Iowan by his friends,
of which he has mighty lot, but it is
not his name. His really, truly name is
William Peter Hepburn" you know
So that brilliant and versatile stenog-
rapher was ordered to write another
letter to ambassador Reid. and it read
like this: This will introduce the Hon.
William p. Hepburn, member" etc.
Just what ambassador Reid would have
thought of the other letter is problem
atical. He is stickler for proper pro-
cedure.
There's story af1oat that the Presi-
dent is ''out" with Consul-Gemeral
Wynne, and that he proposes to dis
place him and appoint in his place Pen
sion Commissioner Warner. Col. War
ner says. Thanks for the news: had
not heard of it before" and Wynnes
friends say it isn't so. and there you
have it. 1t probably isn't.
Miss Henrietta NJ. Kelley, who is en-
ployed in the office of the Director of
iC nnrt hn
been given a salary of $4,000 a year,
the highest salary paid to woman by
the United States Government it is said.
Miss Kelley gets the raise from $1,000,
1t is said, because she is an invaluable
assistant. This goes to prove that when
women make themselves as valua BILE rs
men their worth is recognized.
At last the District authorities are
waking up to the fact that water is not
the only germ carrier. They have in
spccted the milk supply of the District,
and find the conditions atrocious not to
say appalling. The dairies are in un-
clean places, close to stables in most
instances, and all the conditions sur
rounding the milk supply of the rich as
well as poor are just about as bad as
could possibly be- What Is true of the
supply here will apply to almost every :
dairy IN the country, and the conditions
surrounding the milk and butter sup
ply of the country homeS-well, those
conditions, if advertised alongside OF
the glowing pictures of sea. lake, noun
tain, forest and tree-shaded lawns !
would send the picturesque kicking the
ceiling. Every condition for poisoning I.
milk exists in the average farm dairy,
the first and most important being the .
f0ul-smelling caves. spring houses AMI
cellars where this milk supply is kept.
No matter how well scaided the tins 4
r. nj OF hnr mil
the place where the milk is kept is
damp. moldy, dusty, smelly, it is unfit
for the purpose, and the people who
use the product are liable to have ty-
phoid fever nine months in the year.
The Commissioner of the General 1
Land Office has received the report from
Special Agents J. c. Scott and J. b. =
Alton of an examination made by them
of land Enclosures of the Warren Live
Stock Company. in Wyoming. which
exonerates this company
from the charge of illegally fencing a
Government lands in that State. The
resident of the company is United
States Senator +. L. Warren.
The agents examined and surveyed I
every mile of fence maintained by th, I
company in Wyoming, and Investigated =
the title to every acre of land inclosed 8
In their report they state that with the
where fences are q few feet off the
proper line. thus inclosing an incOnsid- ,
erable and nominal area of public land
all 0f the lands incloSed by the Warren =
Company III Wyoming are its own prop
erty, or are legally held by it under the
lease from the State of Wyoming or the
Union Pacific Railroad Company
An official of the General Land Office,
speaking of this report said:
1t absolutely clears Senator Warren
and his company of the charge that
they have Government lands unlawful
~ incl0SeG, and in the general order re-
quiring the removal of Illegal fences the
Senator will not have to remove "a single
rod"
An assignment of queer Congo
snakes" has been received at the Ma
tional Geological Park, and will be
placed on exhibition as soon as practi-
cable These reptiles were sent from
Florida. and there was an even dozen
in the lot. The Congo snake" is not
:. snake at all. but a member of the liz
ard family, and its scientific designa-
ton is the Amamphiuma. The reptiles
are between 16 and IS inches in length
ana in appearance resemble the mud
puppy" or "hellbender," are much like
large lizards, and are not venomous. An
official of the Zoo remarked that in one
respect they resembled some human be-
inss. in that their only apparent purpose