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Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1914-11-20

"Brten the brave. " OF these, history records that
rs they were Interrupted in their return from the
battle Of C'a1trrp BY Fitzpatrick. Princeof O-sory,
.he wounded men a~r.raatal that they might be al
lowed to fght with tia rest: Let stakes (tbey
add be STUCK in the ground, and suffer each Of
us, tied to and supported by one Of these stakes,
to be placed in his rank by the side of a sound
man" Between seven and eight hundred wound
ed men -pala,e maaiatal, and supported in thisman-
ner appeared mixed with the foremost Of the
troops; never was such another sight exhibited"
History Of Ireland, book XII, Chapter |.
THE BEACON can feel little interest in the can
vass Of a candidate whose heart has room for the
hate the remark attributed to Mr.. 5tovall indicates,
And SO, as Tiny Tim observed, God bless US
every one = by no means excluding the Irish-ah,
"ShalI ask the brave soldier, abo fights by my side
10 tie cause of mankind, if our craels ageei
Shall ] give UP te friend / have valued and tried
II he knsaI no, before the same altar with me'
"Nol perish The hearts, and the laws that try
Truth, ya'ou5 or love by a standard Ike this
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1914-11-20
Perfect Hoyse-ShOeiu6 s.

Those interested in fine horseshoe
ing read in the BEACON lately the high
recommendations from Louisville in
praise Of Mr.. j. T. Jackson.
For a month now MIR. jackson has
been working in Macon and Ihave cave
fully scrutinized his work. | can saw
with candor that it is the best | ever
saw, IN fact perfect, Ne is a scientific
man, understands the horses hoof. its
conf rnation, needs, diseases. and how
to shoe 70 cure or avoid comes and 9TH
err foot ailments, His work Is perfect.
JOHN sTAgGs,
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1914-11-20
THE LORDS PRAYER
A Beautiful Version Made In 1928 and Picked Up
During the War of the Rebellion.
PUBLISHED BY REQUEST

The following beautiful composition va captured during the war at
Charleston, S. C. 1t was printed o very heavy satin, July 4, 1923. This
copy vas taken from the original, and was picked up by A. P. Green, of
Auburn, Ind, in COrinth, Miss, the morning the rebel forces evacuated it,
May 80, 1862
Thou t. the Mercy Seat our souls
To do our duty unto Thee. ....... OUR FATHER,
To whom all praise, all honor
For Thou art the Great Coo. 49,. WHO ART IN HEAVEN,
Thou, by Thy wisdom, rulst the
Forever therefore -. .HALLowED BE THY NAME.
Thy glorious grace, but ..........THY KINGDOM COME,
But let Thy commands opposed be
But thy GOOD pleasure and. .....TH WILL BE DONE ~
And let our promptness to obey be
Then, for u souls, o Lord, we
Thou would'st be pleased to .....G GIVE US THIS DAY
The food Of life, wherewith u
Sufficient raiment and 800. OUR DAILY BREAD,
With every needful thing do Thou
And q" Thy mercy, pity. :. .... AND FORGIVE US
All our misdeeds, for Him, whom
To make ar Offering for ....... OUR TREspAssEs
And, torasmuch o Lord, as we
That Thou wilt pardon US ...... AS WE FORGIVE
Let that love teach, wberewith
Thou dost acquaint US,
And though, sometimes, Thou
This love for Thee, yet help ....AND LEAD US NOT
Through soul or body want, to des-
Nor let earths gain drive US. -. INTO TEMPTATION,
Let not the soul of any true believer
Fall in the time of trial -. 80. BUT DELIVER
Yea, save them from the malice of
the devil,
And, both in life and death, keep US FROM EVIL,
Thus pray we the Lord, for that
of Thee, from whom
This may be had. 80. FOR THINE IS THE KINGDOM
This world is of Thy work, its
wond rous story
To These belongs. ............TH POWER, AND THE GLORY,
And Thy wond rous works have
ended never,
But will remain forever and. 49,. FOREVER.
Thus, we poor creatures would
confess again,
And thus would say eternaly :. AMEN.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1914-11-20
AN IMMORAL SLANT.

am continually puzzled by the mental
attitude of a good many men toward aqri-
cultural education. Some Of them shy at
any knowledge that has distinct economic
value and relates itself chiefly to the
worlds work, says Prof, Alva Aqee in his
weekly comment in the National Stockman
and Farmer. They value certain kinds
of knowledge lecause such knowledge has
been necessarily acquired by generations
of Old-llne college graduates in obtaining
mental culture They are accustomed to
seeing college men conversant with this
knowledge of ancient history and mythol0-
gy, language, etc, but do not quite see
how an educated man can know chiefly the
things most useful in the worlds work.
These people are good people-some Of
them-but they manage to do IotOf harm
Service to the world measures ones use
f~ulness, and there must be a practical sort
of sympathy with those who work. There
is little room on earth for those who want
to be considered as a class set apart
The man best educated is the man who
can help others the most. Thethjnps most
worth while are the things that concern
the people who are doing the work the
world needs. The attitude toward indus
trial education is largely pose and will
be dropped. Trained workers are the
worlds need, and the spirit Of service is
strong in the real leaders Of our education
al work"
Much of the foregoing is as true as gospel.
The attitude toward industrial education is fas
changing, This is notably the case, even now, il
the greater consideration accorded to 'book-farm
ing by the agricultural masses.
The day will soon be herein fact, is Iargal.
here, now-when in every country home will b.
found one or more agricultural papers that will b
read with so much interest and regularity. thai
weekly or monthly coming will be ljolsl farwar
to with pleasing anticipations, by every manbero &.
the family able to read and understand
The person who derives the advantages Of ii
dustrial education and denies the n..a Of i@aesIljo
ence and trained workers men t.a.l.l5D enulos
brains as well as brawn-on the farm, writes him
self down as an ignoramus and adyar.j3a5 his owl
Ignorance and the folly Of being wise in ones OWE
%contrait.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1914-11-20

1t will not occasion surprise if a big JAPANESE
army r%eintorces its old enemy Russia, in its invasion
of Western Germany. The little laps are anxious
to set into the general mix.up in Europp .1anan
has not forgotten or forgiven the Kaiser's internoSi
ton to force it to surrender to Russia the spoils Of
us thlnese war Pert Arthur Aberdeen Examiner
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NOTICE.

All those indebted to the Jones Drug
Drug Co. will please call and settle i'm
mediately as the business of the firm
must be closed up. All claims against
this firm will be settled BY F. F, Jones
at tAe HcYaq.s Drug Co,
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1914-11-20

Give us your order for Oys-
tiers. Place your order now for
Thanksgiving dinner.
CANNON & CO.. Phone 6
Young calf, in syE VITA
BfOeasviAe Mlss
TaÌˆgliche Omaha tribuÌˆne. [volume] (Omaha, Nebr.) 1912-1926, 1914-06-10
: Srudfsbt.r. Der aSrH.

9rudfebtsr. Der GGrIr
trat beuts nit einsm isItfomen gHs
Iiigen Dor ieiuen guraeiesten.
I'm drtsbsn. .ggie ssfGGt
Jbnen Sbre Tsae au9barin, Die
Jrau 9tbg"
bon mir besommen sic sein
@Ort bsraus; i'd ssaOrs ni9t su be-
men, bic nnberen 6rouea tiebles nd6s
rsOsu. Sd min nur OGs cine iussn:
5err BIB tut mir Isio!"
9reif +. Dos Gleif6, Sas
sic uus ssftern f4idtsn, mar 70 SGb,
odb mir ts felbft nit unTersn Wlsfs
fern nidt j1nsibsn icnnten.~
Gdld4ier: So, 10. Die GtnbIros
rem tDerOsn immes miisratfsr. @srs
Iu6.u Gle es einmnI nit einem gias
TiermeHsr.
Jn eintm bin. 5uberbausr
0um 5israrat, Madden Isbtersr Dem
9ubsrbauer feline trunis Rub turisrt
5af. 90, Orr Dpitss, jttt tSnnsn's
pisleidi ou9 tsnmal no1 msinsr
MLteH fsben, oie iIugt felt 9eisrn
iibsg Massni 9msrssu.
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9iefer 5dge purbe tn
Warmbrunn Der GabnentrGser bon
Metbenbnrg, 6sr iriibere Gs1oormss
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nigsgrennOisrrsOiu,elt in 2isgnik ala
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un0 erariff Bel BEN Gturm ouf b0B
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Naior b. auiisnbsrg, gefalen iu0rsl,
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bate bas Giisrue Rreu3 eEbaIlsH. gfn
benz @egrdbnis Ruhm cine MborOnung
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MannF9ufisn itlnss aIssn Regiments
NIT Der Msgimsnts lapeas tell. ana.~
49,
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Der @e6urtstao lam.

Der @e6urtstag fam.
Grau Sddrfig mar Der erite @rns
tuIant. Sic frat nit Iteifer G1ir5e
unb fril4gepIdttster 5ou6e an, briidte
I'm bic 5on6 uub plnfdts inn
Slid.
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tIeines patet ~osrbcrgeu, bus iie isbt
berbor3og.
sd babe bier Elm tlsiHes @eI9enf,
BAG i8 Sic bite, ni6t gu Deridmdy
ben
aBerte S6drfig1, iogte er gsrabrt.
bus III nirili9 Su bel. Dir tpurs
ben bph poriges Sdbr einig, bab sic
mir nihts identen IOlItsn."
cir Ieste ben aOpf nuf bic Geite.
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belheiOen.
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Iide So4e.A foSts fs.
CT begnnt ben @egenitonb ous
snbIIofen 96gsu aasSuipideln. Mbl
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lift @oIbes merit. peterIsn IdMsIse
Sitter uub Fngts, baB Ct fiA bds ge-
rabe oslDiinIdt bdttt.
~9as bab If gtpabs.. ass ils
Eiql3.
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NqN 3ulte Bdutrs
feiat ms. ben 8rohHra an hetuabren,
Nfan ma I'M iigcm oafrn tuht.
trrn bon @etahr NIB mohiaebnraen
qn maruIeT Vigbe treurr out.
fnbri aber bib purda W~eiicrinilmt
Gn9 &hiakal ionber Wnao mn0 Wunh-
MlA baum nod itph nno better bleiben.
aHb bac 1t cine idiuere ,lmitl
4ei6i iits Ia iabrm STieoeu Iebeu.
Mobnit ea IN fDler 9ieniden Areis.
&n leiner bon efS 0ntmni5 1iEateI
nuD bon Der i0lnUbgn GelbIiuht tpeiE.
Nluiu0i nber BIDS eeIn Cos ii Gpbdren
Ncn oieitr WUtCn iHdIcm Gunit -
anh bort IN ihfrm srienen iebeu.
an, Dos lr enc lianuere Nmitl
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Wfbtrfprnh. Mas BIZ
nisbsr fir f9iuoras 6dnbs baItl Du
Bit DirIIi6 bsr TsiH ne Gamabs
fint!"
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1914-04-27
MOVEMENT Of
GERMAN WOMEN
OVER A HUNDRED LEADERS
WILL BE IN ATTENDANCE
IoNAL COUNCIL OF WOMEN
IN ROME
BY ASSOCIATED PRESS

Berlin, April 25.-It is announced
by the League of German WOmens
associations that over a hundred lead
ers of the wOmanS movement in Ger
many will he in Rome next month for
the quinquennial meeting of the In
ternational council of women and the
general WOmen's congress.
Dr. Gertrude Baeumer, president of
the German league, will present a re-
port on the progress Of the movement
in Germany during the past five years
and will also deliver an address before
the council on The Value of the
Work of the Housewife"
Among the other German represen-
tatives at Rome will be Frau Ernst
Bassermann. wife of the leader of the
national liberal party. DR.. Alice
Solomon who as honorary correspond
ing secretary has done great share
of the preliminary and organization
work for the meeting of the council;
Fraulien Pappenheim of the Jewish
wOman's league and Fraulien Paula
Muller of the Evangelical woman's
league and F'raulien Israel, head of
a large and recently organized asso-
citation for female clerks and business
employees.
Only some twenty of the German
representatives can sit as delegates
and alternates at the meetings of the
council; the others can attend only the
public meetings and the subsequent
general congress organized by the
Italian women: but the presence of
more than a hundred German women
at Rome under these conditions is
striking testimonial to the enthusiasm
in Germany for the feminist cause.
The work of the women's organiza
tions in Germany since the last meet
ing of the council in 1909 has been
largely directed toward legislation, and
the league, with its more than half
million members, has become power
before the government and parliaments
have frequently had to bow. Petitions
and demOnstra tons have been launch
ed repeatedly against measures af
fecting the economic status Of women,
and this aspect of the program of the
Rome conference will receive the par
ticular attention of the German dele
gates.
The question of femals suffrage. on
the other hand. is for the German
women more a matter of academic in
terest. Practically all Of the organi-
cations connected with the league are
in favor OF giving the vote TO the
women, but ii is generally recognized
that this cannot be won IN Germany
in the immediate future, and attention
is concentrated on other efforts.
Women's associations have been or
sanized in most Of the political par
ties even among the conservatives, in
spite of their general attitude that the
proper sphere of woman is limited to
the ~three C's," children, church and
cooking.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1914-04-27
TOURNAMENT ENTRIES
MUST BE MADE BEFORE
NEXT SUNDAY.

The date for the beginning of the
Country Club tennis tournament has
been set for Monday May 4. All en-
tries for the tOurnam must he
handed to the committee composed of
DR.. Clarence Hutchinson and Mr.
Hunter Brown. before next Sunday. as
preliminary matches viii begin next
week.
Mixed doubles: Mr.. Wilmer Hay
ward and Mrs. William Fisher will
defend the title to the championship,
won last year.
Opposing members: Mr.. F'elo Tur-
ner and Miss Ada Hilton Green. Miss
Natalie Berry and Mr.. Boe1lard- Mrs.
Ellis Knowles and DR.. Clarence Hutch
inson \ number of other teams are
expected to enter.
In mems doubles, the following
teams have suggested their entries:
Mr.. Wilmer Hayward and Mr.. Brown
Mr. Davis IOnge and Mr.. Rogers. MI.
Lindsay and DIR. Hutchinson.
1t is expected from present lndiCa-
lions, that the interest will be even
greater than in the successful tourna-
ment of last year.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1914-04-27
SPECIAL MISSIONARY
SERVICE ON TUESDAY
TERNOON.

A special missionary service of the
adsden Street Methodist church will
be held Tuesday afternoon at $3.50,
in which the Womans Missionary So
ciety of the First Methodist church
will participate.
The Young Ladies Missionary So
Ciety of the Gadsden Street church
will also be invited TO attend, and
during the afternoon reports will be
read from the delegates who have just
returned from the missionary confer
ence at Evergreen. These are Mrs
W. NJ Curtis, Mrs. Ida McAllister,
Miss Mae Wilkinson, Mrs. A. c. Mel
ton.
Following is the program:
Opening hymn.
Scripture Iesson-Mrs. Chas Mayes
Prayer-Mrs. s. r. Johnson.
Vocal solo-Mrs. A. r. MCAllister.
Reports of delegates.
Duet-Mrs. J. c. Hester and Miss
Edith Lusk.
Closing prayer.
Social hour.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1914-04-27
CRESTVIEW.

Crestview April 26-Mr. S. y. Cox
and family from Milton spent last
Sunday, with friends and relatives
here.
Mr. and Mrs. w. r. White and Miss
Agnes Frater spent last Monday on
the banks of ShoaI river fishing.
Mr. ". J. Roberts bridge Crew, Jr,
is here on siding for a while repairing
Shoal river trestle.
Mr. L. Bush and family spent last
Wednesday in Pensacola.
DR.. Trammell ana family have
moved to Andalusia-
Mrs. W. X. Mclaughlin and son,
Kenneth spent last week with friends
in New orleans, returning home Mon
day
Mr. Samuel J. Mccall was down this
way the first of the week talking pol
itics and Dragging on the Laurel Hill
News
Mr. w K. Mclaughlin made a spec
iaI trip to MilHgan last Tuesday.
Mr. J. -. and Jack Cobb spent last
Sunday with home folks at Baker.
Mr.. Duncan McCallum from Mill
gan was in town last Tuesday.
Mr.. Sam Cults Jr, spent a few days
this week with friends and relatives at
DorCas.
Mr. NJ. e. Savage was visitor to
Pensacola last Wednesday.
Mr. J. d. Cobb spent last Wednes-
day in Laurel Hill.
Mr. r. j. Diamond returned home
Where has spent a week shrdlu
last Thursday from Tallahassee,
where he has spent a week vacation.
Some of our boys are working the
public roads this week TO assist the
overseer to make a living. He only
gets three dollar per day.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1914-04-27
VOX POPULI.
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SAYS DiSTlLLERY PRODUCES
ON UNSANITARY CONDITION
Pensacola, Fla. April %, 1914.

Pensacola, Fla. April Is, 1914.
Editor ensaCola Journal:
No doubt many of your readers re-
member that several years ago, when
the distillery was started in the west
ern part of the city, there was a
plenty Of mosquitoes here. Many per-
sons attributed 1t to the fact that the
dist1llery was emptying such quanti-
Ties of refuse into the creek near them
that empties into the head of Little
Bayou, that it had poisoned the wa
were either run out or killed and the
mosquitoes had full sway in propag ga
ton without molestation from their
natural enemies.
When the distillery was finally shut
down the water gradually resumed it's
natural state and fish were beginning
to be comparatively plentiful again,
but the distillery is again IN operation
and again poisoning the water so the
stencil arising from it is nearly as dis
agreeable as that from the fish ferti-
lfzer plant but not quite so strong.
So we may expect another plague
of mosquitoes this summer if the
proper authorities don't wake up and
stop 1t very shortly.
/ don't want to interfere with any
industry in our city but no person or
persons have the right to pollute our
streams and make conditions gener-
ally Objectionable to other people in
the neighborhood and IL can be stop
ped without much trouble and as this
case is even more Objectionable from
a sanitary standpoint than the fish
fertilizer plant was, I hope the proper
authority will get busy at once
Yours aruly.
e G KEYSER
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1914-04-27
CARRIERS.

Carriers. April 26-Mr. w. y Hart
grove and family attended the fun
eral of Capt. Asa 6. Ward at Mary
Esther Friday the 1Tinst.
Mr. J. w. Brooks Of Harris was a
caller at w. y. Hartgrove's last Fri
day.
Supervisor I. +. Eldridge started for
Camden. g g. Wednesday. He will
visit the OcaIa forest during his alb
sence. He expects to return in ten
days on two weeks.
Mr. and Mrs F. r Mckee and lit
tie Kate Crook went 10 Freeport last
Friday on the steamer Chas. L. Cess
ma Mr. Mckee returned SATURDAY.
Mr. s. NJ. Johnson was a Pensacola
visitor this week He went down and
returned on the schooner Idell Thurs
day.
Capt H. E Rutan did not go to Pen
sacoia either this or last trip on ac-
count of sickness in his family.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1914-04-27
GOOD MEN ARE
NEEOEDFORTHE
COM M|TTEES
THAT STATE CONGRESSIONAL
AND COUNTY COMMITTEES
SHOULD BE COMPOSED OF
ABLE CITIZENS.

Washington, D. c., April 23, 1914.
Editor Pensacola Journal:
The election of members of the
state, congressional and county eXecu-
tive committees is provided for by
section of the primary election law
of 1918, and is of so much Importance
that 1 trust that the papers of the
state will point out that it is very de-
sirable, from a Darty's standpoint, that
members be elected in the June PR
mary.
The state committee is required to
be made up of one committeeman
from each county, the congressional
committee of one member from ach
and the county committee OF one mem
Der from each election precinct or
district OF course these are largely
honorary positions, but not to the
extent suggested by some of the news
papers. It is true tina, the election
will not hereafter be held by the COM
mittees, but, aside from this, they
have all the powers heretofore en-
joyed. Good men will be required on
these committees as much as ever
and, for the following reasons:
l. In the first place, section 16 of the
act enables the state committee TO de-
clare the terms and conditions upon
which voters may be members of any
political party. This is a specially i'm
pOrtant provision for the democratic
2. These committees are authorized
to levy assessments upon candidates
of not exceeding 2 per cent for the
purpose of meeting legitimate party
expenses and maintaining party or
CARNATIONS" This also, is q very i'm
happen that opposition to the demo-
cratic candidates, for instance, may be
such, in a given county, as TO render
necessary united and official support.
1 believe it would be sood plan for
executive committees TO assist the
candidates in providing meetings for
the public discussion OF the issues al
ways arising in a campaign
RELIABLE MEN NEEDED.
5. 1t has been the custom of govern
ors in recent years to call upon COM
imttees for recommendations where va
cancies have occurred. If that policy
shall continue hereafter it is in the
interest of the people to nave reliable
men on the various executive commit
tees.
4 The primary act requires the
nomination of officers to be elected
by the people, but it leaves discretion
airy with the state executive commit
tee the selection of national commit
teemen, delegates to national conVen-
tons and direct nomination of presi-
dent and Eice-preSident and also leaves
to the discretion of the state commit
tee the question of whether state of
ficers appointed by the governor shall
be nominated. Judges of the circuit
court, criminal courts of record, states
attorneys, county solicitors, and. per
haps, other officials of importance Will
be nominated or not in primary cleo
lions In the discretion of the state exc
cutive committee.
Surely these matters are of great
Importance to the peoPse, and mem
bers of these committees will render
valuable service to the party, and to
the state. congressional districts, and
counties as well.
The fact that the holding of the
election, the fixing OF the date, and the
paying Of expenses is otherwise pro
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1914-04-27
The Tremendous Cost
of Vernin.

Many popular beliefs on medical
subjects seem to be based on instinct
without any facts to justify them, yet
increasing knowledge in new fields
frequently Justifies opinions which
have been held for centuries.
Rats, mice, flies, mosquitoes and
the various forms of body parasites
have always been held in contempt
and disgust, and always and every
where have been regarded as vermin.
Growing knowledge of the important
role played by these lower forms Of
animal life in the transmission of dis
ease is ample justification for this
feeling
The attention which has been called
to parasites and scavengers of the hu-
ing another reason why mankind has
always abhorred them. They are an
exceedingly expensive luxury.
The Journal of the American Medi-
cal association comments on a recent
article in the Farm and Fireside,
which discusses the amount of dam
age done in this country by rats, and
estimates that there are in the Uni
ted States at least 100000. 900 of these
animals, alike destructive to prop
erty and dangerous to health
Rats are said to destroy a hundred
million dollars worth of grain every
feed one hen for every man, woman
and child in the nation. The annual
cost OF rats to the nation is estimat-
ed at $3.50. o0o.0 600. In addition, the rat
population of the country forms a fer
tile field for the dissemination of
bubonic plague, which only needs a
starting point in any of our seaports
to spread throughout the country and
cause the loss of thousands of lives.
In the same issue of the Farm and
Fireside, but in a different depart
ment, appears an article on the cattle
tick, in which it is estimated that
the difference between the market
value Of an animal free from this para
site and one infected with 1t is about
So per cow, and that the cattle-tick
La today costing the stockmen Of the
country a billion dollars each decade,
or a hundred million dollars each year.
The discovery and development of
bacteriology showed that man had
been carrying on for centuries an I'M
conscious struggle with the lower
forms of vegetable life Recent addi-
tons to our knowledge Of the habits
and characteristics of vernnin show
that an equally relentless struggle
has been going on between man and
the lower forms of animal life.
=
Two forest officers in Washington
and Oregon, are writing popular des-