New-York tribune., 1908-06-18
THE TALK OF THE DAY.

Health recently calls attention to the dan
gerous character of the ordinary house y, accusing
that busy insect Of all manner OF onences against
the public health. The secretary or the boaru
writes: we have had occasion frequently to COM
ment In the columns OF this bulletin on the cause
and prevention of typhoid fever and. so long as
this disease continues to be living issue among
u.s. We shall continue to do SO. Water milk, oysters
and files have different times been spoken OF as
means of spreading this disease II is significant
fact that typhoid is most prevalent at the season
OF the year when flies the most numerous
These breed by preference IN stable manure,
but when this is not readily accessible. Will breed
also In garbage and other filth With cleaner
streets, the better care OF stables, back yards,
markets and cleaner garbage pals. the breeding
places flies will be limited and their agency In
carrying the typhoid and other bacli to the food
OF human beings will less marked. Meanwhile.
the screening Of our houses is not a luxury. but
a necessity.
HURRAH FOR THE FOURTH OF JULY!
Burn up powder Raise row!
Celebrate the rise
(Johuny's Independent now
OF his eyes)
Shoot your bombs, Our army wrurg,
Freedom from the foreign king
(Of the rule has Jimmy flung
Start the rockets, Let
Not the land that begs.
(Tommy is this minute free
Let YOUR cheers to heaven ring!
Light the skies with red;
Sound the ancient slogan, Bring
Out your dead"
Layton Brewer in Life.
A few years ago when the reform element threat
ened the various gambling places in Sara
toga and to make it less easy to evade the law at
the racerack. the proprietor of OF the notori-
ons places said: XIII gambling and you murder
Saratoga; give the sports show and Saratoga Will
get rich" The late Mark NJ. Cohn, who a
member OF the Saratoga Board of Education at
that time, said The gamblers may be right, but
they wrong also Saratoga was a popular place
before the sports came Its natural beauty and
its waters attracted the people of the country
and made It the annual cOngregattng place OF
Americas leaders business, politics and letters.
If you wanted to meet prominent citizen in the
summer time all you had to do was TO stand in
Broadway and watch-some time in the course of
the the would appear. The sports
did not make Saratoga popular; they chose 1t for
the gambling business because of It's established
popularity" The passage OF the anti gambling
law" said a Saratogian yesterday. may restore
our place to its re-Morrissey-Canfed condition.
Young Minister (searching for mirror)-Have you
Beadle-Na. na sir We dnna need glass;
jist TAX sOok DOT o tn bottle.-The Taller.
Max Winter in an account of the visit of the
BrookIyn Arion Society to the White House last
week says that the society more highly hon
there last year One additional song asked
from ne foreigners after their programme had
been finished, but three more asked of the
BROOKLYN singers. The President said that he had
never experienced so much pleasure in listening to
German songs, and he knew that II the Arion did
as well on their forthcoming visit to the father
land their friends In the Old World would be equally
well pleased.
'Bliggns is very inconsistent man.
what Way?'
The later he stays out at night the he
wants to sing Home. Sweet Home "-Washngton
Star.
A letter written by Count Grzymala. who
ardent adrlirer OF Chopin, has just been made
public in London by Eduard Zeldenrust. In IT the
las, moments OF Chopin thus referred to- "A
few hours before he died he asked Nine PotOcka
to sing some melodies by Rossini and Belini, and
this she did with sobs in her voice Listening to
her voice he passed away" Speaking OF the funeral
the writer says: ''Mozart's requiem and his
funeral march were performed with the assistance
of Iabache, Viardot and the concert society. 1t
was characteristic OF the times that the artists
should have asked 600 francs this last tribute
TO Chopin Ono would have thought that pride
would have kept them from selling their gifts
such occasion
IF / were you,' said tho old bachelor to the
benedict, I'D either rule know why
Well was the reply, "as already know why,
suppose that's half the battle!"-Atlanta Consti