Yellowstone monitor. [volume] (Glendive, Mont.) 1905-1928, 1909-02-04
WASHINGTON LETTER.

! the opinion IS very general CnaC IL Is
better to be on the safe side on the
question Of food adulteration. A
very strong pure food sentiment has
developed in the country and there
is a wide spread belief that even a
little poison is a dangerous thing.
Tn the fight for pure food, pure
medicine, and even pure liquor, (if
we must have any at all Of the LAST
DR.. Wiley has served his country
and humanity and he will be defend
ed.
It is all very we'll for the Ruskins
and Tolstois to decry modern inn
provements and to insist that science
has added nothing to human happi-
ness and civilization. Those men are
great but very queer. Wireless tele-
graphy has just received a remark
able justification, but what good
would those urgency messages have
done flashing through the foggy air
il it had not been for the compass
on the ships and the steam that
turned the screws. Al these are
scientific improvements.
The President-elect is off for Pan
anna accompanied by seven eminent
engineers. They will be furnished
every facility by the engineers on
the spot familiar with the work.
The head of the government for the
next four years is not unfamiliar
with the canal conditions, but forti-
fed as he will be by this last up-to-
date inspection the country will
have the best assurance possible that
the work will be under the guidance
Of safe and instructed intelligence.
Suburbanites and other amateur
farmers and gardeners must not be
beguiled by this January sunshine.
The time for planting flowers and
cabbages is not yet.
There is no reason why this great
country with it's great resources
should fear war with Japan. Never
theless war would not be feared by
even the most tirnja were it not for
our advanced oUtposts in the Pacific.
The papers are already full of
slush about the wireless operator on
the Republic and if there were
judgment in hysterical acclaim he
would be awarded a bushel Of
medals. 1t appears that he did his
duty like scores Of others on the
ship; he flashed the wireless signals
that had SO much to do with the
saving the lives of others, but es-s
pecially Of his own. In "The Tenn
pest" the Duke reminded common
sailor Of the Importance of saving
his distinguished and titled life.
Remember who you have on
board. The sailor replied, there
is none on board that I think Of
more than myself
There is traitress to her sex who
is publishing how a woman's age
may be told by her wrinkles, but it
appears to us that we have read
somewhere recipe for obliterating
wrinkles.
The prediction that the automo-
bile would supplant mans best
friend, the horse, seems like most
predictions to have gone astray. A
bulletin just issued by the Agricul-
tural Department states that while
there were 10, $4,000 horses in the
United States last year there are
2O,640, 900 this year and their
value has increased from 1,876, $780,
900 to l ,974, 052, 900 this year.
Should actresses marry? asks a
Paris paper. Well they might ask
Lillian Russell or Nat Goodwin.
The experts are much troubled to |
determine whether or not benzoate
Of soda used as a. food preventative
IS poisonous. We shall not attempt
to settle the dispute but take plea
sure in informing our readers that
all Of them who eat canned foods
are partaking of benzoate OF soda, /
sulphur and a number OF
other things that are not mentioned
Il the bill of fare.
Congress has voted down prohibi-
ion in the District of Columbia but
hat body has way Of looking out
For its own interests.
The Senate has passed bill increas-
ng the President salary to hundred
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