Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1910-05-13


nave appeared, and ideas have changed
as to the upperworks of battieships, Of
which there IS considerable in the Wis
consin type. The changes to make the
Wisconsin up to date will doubtless be
made largely above deck, as little alter
alton can be made below unles the hull
is cut in two and heightened, a process
that would doubtless reduce the ship
stability by altering the relation OF
length to width and depth.
Dr. George W. Coler, health officer Of
Rochester, has excluded pasteurized milk
from the infants supply stations of that
city after four years experiment with
the product. He declares that since he
has been supplying the central station
with raw milk, the mortality among in
fants has been lower, and states that
while the policy of pasteurizing reduced
infant mortality, it has been his obser-
walton that the farmer gradually came
to depend upon the process instead OF
taking precautions to keep the milk clean
and sweet. When DR.. COler ceased pas
teurizing and located the station on the
farm the death rate dropped below wuat
it was when the milk was pasteurized.
This demonstrates that cleanliness and
GOODNESS are the primary needs, and that
raw milk is all right if it receives the
proper care. But there is the rub. When
milk must be handled in large quantities
it is difficult to give it the care required
to keep it sweet; therefore for general
delivery pasteuriZing works improve
ment. Where milk is destined for in
fants, it should receive especial care at
the farm, and if DR.. COler has demon
strated this to be sufficient, the babies
will get a product that is better than
paSteuriZed milk.
The Lieutenant-Governor of Canada
has signed the new law of the Dominion
which provides that after Monday next
all timber cut on crown lands must be
manufactured in Canada. The term
manufacture in this case means CONVEX
sion into pulp or paper, into bales or
boards, or into any other articles of
commerce or merchandise which differ
entiate the product from timber i'll its
original shape. This affords considerable
latitude; and when the fact is considered
that of 100000 cords of pulp wood eX
ported from Quebec only 10000 cords
came from crown lands, and that this lat
ter product alone is affected, the situation
is better than it seemed at first blush. But
there is ground for dissatisfaction in the
fact that the international Paper COM
pany controls much leased crown land,
and has upward Of $7,000,OOO invested
in such holdings. Smaller paper con-
Germs fear that the new law will operate
to their injury.
Professor J. Laurence Laughlin does
not believe that the cause of high prices
is the increase of the gold supply. He
shows that increase of the gold supply
has occurred without influencing prices
that the gold supply has enormously
Increased in periods during which prices
have declined. His reason for disbeiev-
ing the gold and high price theorists is
a strong one. Another strong reason IS
that the larger production of gold has
been offset by the abandonment of the
double standard for the single monetary
standard. There is a larger demand for
gold as we'll as larger supply.
There were always, during the dark
est days of his imprisonment for murder,
kentuckians who held that Caleb Pow
ers was martyr, but the most enthusi-
astic of his friends would not have been
rash enough at that time to predict that
in this year of grace 1910, he would be
not only free but a candidate for con-
gress. Powers was three times convict
ed of completely in the assassination of
Governor Goebel of Kentucky. At one
time he was sentenced to be hanged
and twice he was condemned to life i'm
prisonment. Finally he was pardoned
after a mistrial. The present prospect
the congressional candidate of the Re
publican party by the district committee
he will present himself as candidate
at the primary. The district is Repub-
hcan by large majority, and if Powers
runs the chances are he will be elected.
His friends have always held his trial
and condemnation to be a dastardly con-
spiracy. Politics is very lively bust
ness in Kentucky.
Ella Wheeler now knows her London.
While Theodore Roosevelt has been fac
ing lions in Africa, Mrs. Wilcox has
been confronting the British lion in his
native lair. Her experience has filled
her with conjunction. She declares that
she has been prejudiced against the Eng
lish people all her life. but that now
her prejudice is at an end. She judged
them by the specimens she had seen
abroad. At hotels in Jamaica she had
observed that the treatment of Ameri-
cans by English folks was really hor-
rid But on her visit to England she
has judged of the English by the recep-
ton she has received in their tight lit
tie island" and their kindness has
warmed her heart. What she has ex-
perienced in England induces her to say:
Certainly the travelling Britisher is not a
good sample of the old country. How diff
ferent have I found them at home. l have
had delightful and surprising fortnight In
London. The English ideas, methods. vi
tality and spontaneous hospitality are all
wonderful
The crnstiest of Britishers ought to be
satisfied with that. 1t is Il glowing trib-
ute.
Wireless telegraphy is to be introduced
on the North Sea, to apprise trawlers of
the state OF the tsh markets and enable
them to judge as to staying out when
fish are plentiful and the market unfa
vorable or rushing to market enlivened
by urgent demand. If this is found to
be profitable on the other side of the
Atlantic. American fishermen may be
expected to utilize ethereal communica-
ton for like purpose. This will operate
in favor of both fisher and consumer, but
against the fish. which will suffer
steadier and heavier reduction in num-
hers: in which event fish conservation
laws will be more urgently necessary the
world over.