The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-07-28

New YORK, July 2S.-That old eggs
are really the best and that no one
should scorn the delicate hen fruit be-
cause it happens to be a few years of
age, or even old enough to vote Is the
surprising testimony just rendered by
an expert witness in a nearing now
going on to determine the status of 400
cans of frozen eggs seized by the gov
eminent three years ago.. The witness
testified that these aged eggs were
perfectly wholesome and as evidence
told of feeding them to his family and
workers in his laboratory without any
i'll effects. When the health sharps at
the hearing seemed ~incredulous the
expert explained that to keep eggs for
a few years is really nothing compared
serve them for indefinite periods. He
recalled that when Ii Hung Chang
visited America he brought with him
eggs 100 years old because there were
none in this country old enough to suit
his palate. While the eggs have been
ripening in storage In Jersey City the
federal courts have been wrestling
food. Judge Gross of the United
States District court decided that the
government had not proved it's cas-
againsttthe eggs. He was reversed by
the circuit court of appeals whose
Judgment was in turn set aside by the
supreme court of the United States on
the ground that it was without juris-
diction. All that now stands between
the eggs and the public issthe al of
an order of the state board of health
releasing them from storage. AS the
latest reports show that the cold stor-
age eggs on hand in the United States
amount to over 87,000,000 dozen, this
case has attracted particular attention
for more reasons than one.
OF the many odd vacations taken by
New Workers the most oddly charac-
t~eristic is believed to be a journey on
which 0 a bath shall be missed and
no tsroughing it" shall be endured, not
w~ithstanding that it will be from
Broadway to Fort mckenzie, the last
port of call on the Mackenzie river,
200 miles within the arctic circle. The
party will be able to cling to the lux
uries of sleeping cars until q trans
fer to a steamer on the Athabasca rfv-
er is made and will risk discomfort
only at one point, where for a stretch
Of rapids another transfer will be made
to York boats, which, being open, may
call for umbrellas on a rainy day. The
major part of the river journey, how
lever, will be made in steamers of the
fur trade up and down the great
Mackenzie for a distance of 1900
miles and this will be only a trifie
less comfortable than on a Fall River
steamer Sof the Hudson. The trip wa
proposed to- the astonished cafe pa
irons Of Americas most fastidious city
as a challenge to the deep seated
prejudice against yenturing westward,
out OF range OF push buttons n
sparkling vintages which come forth
In ~cobwebbed bottles. The opening OF
d rail-and-river route to Fort Me-
Kenzie fell upon needless a until
the thought was dispelled that hard
ship might Turk In the experience and
that coffee might be- breWed some
where on the route from a smoky pot
over d campfire and that pineboughs
needs must be slept upon instead of
soft mattresses and springs. The i'm
lplefion or b railroad the Canadian
Northern to Athabasca Sat the post
which b generations was the
fitting point for trappers, Athabasca
Landing, made this novelty III sun-
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