The National tribune., 1907-08-15


district comprises a large territory. with
$1,000 people. and his court is the only
one in that section.
Except for the fact that I am unable
to send my children to school, 1 have
found the Philippines desirable place
to live" continued Judge Jenkins.
There are plenty of schools for the ma
tive children. who are taught by Amer
lean and Filipino teachers. The better
class of people in my district are as well
satisfied as the people of any State in
this country. There is very little, if
any, abject poverty, and ii Is hard to
find a beggar anywhere. 1t costs at
least One-third more to live there than
it does in the United States, and for q
man of family the Philippines perhaps
is not as good a place to live as this
country"
Judge Jenkins has with him in the
Philippines his wife and eight children.
who, he says. make up the largest
American family that ever went to the
Philippines to live.
An unprecedentedly large amount of
money is pouring into the United States
Treasury for redemption these days, de-
spite the fact that this is the dull sea-
son. The volume of old and worn-out
currency received for exchange in the
month of July broke all records, and it
udS UeeH lOuHu uecSSSdTy tU CuTtdil tiS
leaves of absence of many of the De-
partment clerks and to employ addi-
tional counters in order to handle the
money. Usually a total redemption of
S1.500, 900 per day is considered normal
and if the amount were to be increased
to S2,000,000 comment would be eX-
cited. Recently, however. the average
daily exchange of new paper money for
old has been about sS,000.000, and on
one or two occasions has run up to
nearly s4,000,000. Never before has the
Treasurer's Office been so hard pressed
to attend to the work. Everybody con-
nected with Treasurer Treats Office is
astounded by the tremendous demand
for fresh bills. which is accepted as an
indication of remarkable activity in
commercial circles all over the country.
The banks constantly accumulate stocks
of wOrn-out and soiled paper money,
and these are shipped to Washington to
be exchanged for clean, fresh crisp
bills.
Oyster Bay has many diversions Chief
among them, perhaps. is automObiling,
of which the younger Roosevelt boys
have recently become devotees. They
are frequently to be seen driving thru
the streets in the big new car which is
kept at Sycamore Hill for the use of the
Secret Service men.
That special appropriation to stamp
out tuberculosis among the cattle of the
District should be granted by Congress
was well exemplified one day last week
at a local abattoir, when 40 cows of a
herd of 80 were killed. after responding
to tuberculin test by private yeter-
mary at the request of the owner of the
herd.
Apparently in perfect physical condi-
~
disease, the cows were submitted to the
test last week by prominent dairy
man. who intends to sell certified milk
to his customers. The cattle were in
oculated and a reaction was Immediate
ly noted, as their fever increased great
ly. The test was voluntary on the part
of the dealer. who. according to vet
erinaries. realizes the need of the tuber-
culin test.
The enormous percentage of appar-
emily healthy cows that were infected
shows the need of n law making the
tubercuiin test compulsory. health Off
cials say. and at the coming session Of
Congress a special appropriation and
laws to make the tuberculin test COM
pulsory will be asked for.
In order to sell certified milk ii is
necessary that the cattle receive the
tuberculin test. This examination, the
veterinarians say, is the only one that
will reveal the true physical condition
of the COW.
Much of the sickness in the District,
according to the health officials. can be
attributed to the laxity of physicians in
allowing patients to use milk from un-
clean dairies where untested cows are
kept. The same thing may be true of
any milch cow herd. in the country. 1t
would be a wise precaution to have the
milk of such herd examined.
That the Philippine Islands have been
entirely free of the plague since April,
1906. and that cholera has disappeared
thruout the entire Archipelago. is the
cheerful tidings which Surg. Gen. Wy
man, of the Public Health and Marine
Hospital Service, conveys in the last bull
letin issued by the service.
The report from Manila further says
that there has not been a single death
from smallpox in the city of Manila
during the entire year. 1t is pointed out
that in the provinces in which hereto
fore about 5000 deaths have occurred
annually from smallpox there has not
been one death from this disease report
ed during the past year
A similarly glowing account is given
of the solution of the leprosy problem,
which. according to the report has
pasesd from the theoretical to the prac-
teal stage. Two years ago it was esti-
mated that there were about 1000 lep-
ers in the islands. To-day the number
has been reduced to 2.S95. which shows
that the policy of segregation is accom-
piishing the eradication of the disease
much more rapidly even than was an
t:cipated.
Gen. Bragg, of Wisconsin, former
Consui-General to Cuba, was I'm the city
recently. Speaking of conditions in
Cuba. the old soldier and diplomat said
that his views on that subject were well
known to the country at large for many
years and had never changed. Gen.
Bragg, upon his retirement from the
Cuban post, was reported to have said
about autonomy for the Cubans that
they were no more fit for self-govern-
ment than pigs tall was fit for a whis-
tie.
There is only one way to bring about
contentment down there" continued the
General, land that is to provide suffi-
cient Offices with fat salaries attached
to go all around. Then we may have
some semblance Of peace. and not un-
III then. The United States does not
want Cuba to be part of this country
Races are too mixed in Cuba to suit me.
There is no line between the black and
the white: they intermarry and they
have children. To have people like that
as citizens of this country hardly think
anybody in all seriousness would advo-
cate"