Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 10, 1888, Page 13

SIDEWALK PAVING. Pertinent Remarks Concerning the 3 City's Sidewalks, The Old Plank Sidewalk Mast Go— One of the Pavers Makes a Plain Statement of Facts for tion, A stroll about the business part of the oity #hows every day an increased activity among the pavers. Inalmost any 1on can be seon now sidewalks, among which the granolithic avement seems to predominate. In another month Omaha will be second to none in street and sidewnlk paving. It is & sattied fact the old lank sidewalk must go, in every few cities can hey be found except in the lumber conntries The writer of this article, whils strolling about the clty recently, had his attention attracted to a gang ot men who were Iaying & granolithicsid walk on one of our prominent strests and stoppe 10 watch the oparation, which is_quite inter ing, and when tinished makes as fine a sidewalk as can be found anywhere. While watching the paving process the writer made the ac- quaintance of one of the men, to whom tho writer is Indebted for the following narrative which is wholly true, and can be substantiated. The gentloman {n question is Mr. John Fried, of No. 1213 Cass street, he works at present for the Van Court and Benedict Paving company. Mr. Fried, has lived in Nebraska for over seven ears and for noarly four years he has Uved in )mahu, for three years he has worked for th Omaha'Barb Wire company, having recently left theiremploy, to work for tiie Paving company, Mr. Fried says: “For more than five years nave been a terrible sufferer,my head seemed to be acling constantly, especielly between the eyes,and my nose would stop up. first on one sido, then on the other, often hoth nostrils. Then 1 bejgan to notice Singlar nolses in my eurs — roaring or buzzing sounds they appeared to me 10 be, and sometimes sounas ke whistiing and hammering. About this time my throat also be. gan to giveme agreat dealof frouble. T would always bo hawking and hemming and trying to cloar my throat, often raising little hard Tumps, sometinies of a greenish, at other times of a yel- lowish color, 1 would often have pains fn the chost, tending to the right shoulder blade. m drawing & long breath I could hear a kind of wheezing noise in my chest. And sometimes it would seem to me as if [ was treathing through & sponge—I scemed to be able to liear the air pasuing thropgh. 1 began to fear that I was going into consumption. I was more firmly convinced of this when, before long, 1 com- menced to cough a kind of hollow cough. The slarp pains 1 my chest would extend around 1o the small of my back. to prevent it as 1 might, [ was forever eatohing fresh cold. I never was without them, Murtia would run from iy noso, and quite fro: quently my nose would biced. At my work | Tiave to stoop over quite frequently, und when T did so I would become dizzy and_everything seemod to swim beforo my oyos, A night my sloop did not refresh me at all, and in the morn- ing Would feol s tired and languid as when I went to bed, My stomach was affected. too. I would sit down to the table with what seenied a_good ap- tite, but after a mouthful or two my appetite ould leave me. Everything would seam to sour on my stomach. There would be almost constant belching, a disagreeabie, bitter taste m the mouth, and at last 1 got 80 1 didu't care to Took at food. 1lost flesh und strongth rapldiy and was ai ways feeling tired; had no ambition. Every ste Ttook and whatever work I_might do wis done witn an effort, and after workiug a while or walking o block or two my hewd would perspire and my limbs would ache as i£ 1 had dono some 'Ul'f\' heavy work, 1 find heard considerable talk about the success of Dr. McCoy in such cases and read several of the testimonials published in the daily papers and coneluded 1 would try him, with small ho swover, for 1 had tried soven dif ferent physicians and tried about a barrel of patent med and was about discouraged. 1 visited his oftice In Ramge block and consu him, Aftera careful examination he told me [ had catarrh and that he could treat me suc- cosstully for if, 1 was prassed with (e idea that he knew his business and started treatment and I have not beena bit sorry that I did, for he has I live o more rt, ex Me( ! y, and do not hesttate at all to re-ommend iim to'anyone who is suffering from catarrh. Mr. Fried, whose portrait graces the column above, resides at N, 3 Cass street, and 13 willing to corroborate this statement to anyono doubting it. TWENTY-ONE QUESTIONS, A Few Symptoms of Disease That May Prove Serious to ¥ou. Do,you have frequent fits of montal depres. Alon? Do _yon experience ringing or buzzing noises in your ears? ou feel as though you must suflocate when lying down? Arc vou troubled with a hacking cough and general debility? e your eyes generally weak and watery and froquently hiflamed? Does your voice have a husk, thick sound and a nasal sort of twang? 1 your breth frequently offensive from some unaccountable causer Huve you a di ally located over the Bo you hnve to hawk and cough frequently in the eifort to cloar your throat? Are you losing your sense of smell and is your Bense of taste oming dulled? Does your nose always feel stopped up, fore- fng you to breathe throiigh your mouth? 50 You_ frequently feel i purticularly when stooping to pic e floor? vy littlo draft of air and every slight Ave you Y y & and spit out an endléss quantity of phlegm? Do you rise from bed as tired and weak us you were the night. before and feel ay though you wanted to lle there forevor? 15 your throat filled with phlegm in the morn- Ang, which can only be discharged after violent conghing and hawking and spitting? Do you oceasionally wake from a troubled feol as if you had Just th by choking? st all fnterest in you business or former pleasures, all an and do you feel indifferent wh finds you all r dead” Are yon troubled with a dischurge from the Nhéad fto the throat, sometimes watery aud ex- cessive, sometimes mucus, thick, sticking <o T it touches, sometimes’ blood always putrid and offensiver above are some of the muny eatarrh and the llx‘uil)ll(l\nnr lung t one cuso in o hundred will have all o affocted will have & few or muj o freater or OEY Sorious your e more dangerous your condition, class of disease is troted successtully by Dr. MeCoy or his assoclatos. The many cases re- poried though the colunis of theulally papers proves thi iished 15 sub- Etantially th McCoy and & calling or ition gone, TO-MOITOW o trums, but cure disease by nation of the best known remedies, app the most opproved manner, and uing the Tatest and most highly recommended appliances known to the profession. They thus produce re- snlts thut sneak for themselyes (n the many pa- tients cured, and we assure our readers thu these eminent Physicians haye achieved u suc cexs n curing disease which fow or no other doc- tors can duplicate, DOCTOR J. CRESAP McCOY, Late of Beue!ln‘gs '?.”f!flfl New York, No. 810 and 811 Ramge Building, Corner Fiftcenth and Harney sts., Owaha, Neb., where all curable cases aré treated © 7 ‘with success, Modieal diseases treated skilifully. Consump- tion, Bright's diseaso, Dyspepsia, Hheumut and'all NERVOUS DISEARES. Al discascs cullar 0 the sexes & specialty. CATARK i CONSULTATION at oftice or by mad, Oftice hours—4 o 11 w. ., 204 p.1n., 7 to 8, ., Sunday oftice hours from 9 a. m., to'1 p. m. Carrespondence recelves prow it aftentiui Many diseases ury treated successfully by Dr. cCoy through the mails, aud it is thus possille r those wiable (o muke » Jourbey to obtain SBUCCESSFUL HOSMITAL TREATMENT AT THEIR HOMES. No letters anawered unless accompanied by 4o 10 stamps. ALty SOR L, Y OMAHA DAILY BEE SUNDAY, JUNE 10, 1888 ~SIXTEEN _&———_——-_——E—-asgsflg———m—‘ SLIPPING OVER THE BRINK. Stories of People Who Reached the Limit. Have A FAMILY OF CENTENARIANS. An Aged Georglan—Not Tired of Live ing at 120-Died at 102—-Lived 119 Years — Old Age Notes. Old Age and Alsohol. From the Nineteenth Century: The records of centenarians prove that many do well as total abstainers, but that many also do well who take alco- hol in some form or other, and for the fecble type of constitution which is never destined to such length of days certain moderate amount of alcohol stimulant is, perhaps, one, of the gr t blessings they enjoy. Of centenarians, who certainly were not ubstainers, the following instances may be mentioned: Cardinal de Salia, archbishop of Seville, died in his 110th year in 1785, with every faculty except his hearing unimpaired. He imputed his green old age to a sobor, studious life, regular exercise, and a good con- scionce, as well nsa pint of the best sherry at each meal, except in very cold weather, when he allowed himself a third more. Macklin, the actor, who lived 107 years, twomonthsand ten days, up to forty ' lived, his biographer states, very irregularly, drand hard, sat up late at night, and took violent exercise. Subsequent to that period he proceeded by rule. He drank tea, por- ter, wine, punch, and ate fish, flesh, fowl, ete., until he was seventy, but he neverdrank toexcess. His usual quantity was seven or eight glasses of wine. He was always moderate at his meals,never abstemious. At 70 he gave up tea be- cause it disagreed with him, and his drink with his meals for the last forty years of his life was white wine and water made very sweet. Philip Laroque, who “went to bed in- toxicated at fim\st two nights every woek till he was 100 years old,” and Thomas Whittington, who lived to 107 and wi habitual drunkard,” are two further instances. Whittington drank nothing but gin, of which compound, until thin a fortnight of his death, he took from a pint toa pint and a half daily. Wonderful Longevity in Oalifornia. On the subject of longevity some & markakle facts are given in Hube Howe Bancroft’s **California Pastor: The mission records show the date approximate age at which the Indian neophytes were baptized, and, there- fore, the statements given may be ac- copted as good historical evidence, Many of the natives reached the age of eighty or ninety, while uot a few of them numbered their years at over 100. Indeed, Father Martinez, of San Mi- guel, wrote that there were at that mis- sion several Indian women of more than 100 years of age. At Los Angeles, An- tonio Valdes died in 1859 at the age of ninoty-two, and in 1858 Guada- lupe Romero at the age of 115. An Indian woman, Maria Ignacia, reached the age of ninety-six, another Indian reachod 102, while a third died at 137, having danced at a fandango a short time before his decease. Maria Mar- celina Dominquez died in 1865 at the age of 107. When the Jesuits were selled from Mexico, in 1867, Ursula Madringa was twelve i’u old. He died at Monterey in stinno s, an Indian, who die: an b was baptized at that m in the entry of his bantis it is noted by the officiating priest that he was then at_ least forty f re, thus making him 123 at the time of , who died in 1878, claimed to be 140 years old, but did not seem so or present any satisfactory proof {0 sustain the claim; a careful ex- amination of the facts seems to prove that she was not born before 1760. i An Aged Pensioner. Jongressman O’Donnelt of Michigan is quite elated over a pension case, snys the Washington (D. C.) Capitol, whic is remarkable in its way. Three ago John Batchelder, who resides in Mr. O'Donnell’s district applied for a pension. His case was hung up in the pension office, and the prospec not bright. Two weeks ago the friends of Bateheldor wrote to Mr. O’Donnell and called his attention to the fact that the claimant is upward of 103 .years of age, and that his claim must be ad- justed at once if he was to derive bene- t from his allowance Batchelder claimed a pension as the dependent father of a young man killed at Pitts- burg landing. There was some flaw in the evidence, but Mr. O’Donnell soon ssary affidavits. The « s put through, Batchelder is on the rolls at last, and is the oldest man drawing a pension. h 'S An Aged Georgian, Those who have been residing in Bainbridge for the last forty or fifty years ave familiar with the bent form of an aged negro man, who indus- triously but h\‘Twl"mus)y crept about the cily, says the Mason, Ga., Tele- graph. His name was George McGill, and he was a former slave of Colonel Daniel MeGill, an enthusiastic agricul- turist and one of our most prominent legal lights. Colonel MecGill says George, who died last week, was about three-fourths Indian, and possessed many characteristics of the red man; while he was notoriously cruel to ani- mals, he was remarkably kind and gen- tle with children, often getting up by daylight, or even at midnight, to ap- hease their s with a mess of ‘‘big hominy,” pot or pe: A Family of Cente - Talk of longevi H is a well authenticated little story of a family of centenarians in Hungary, oil paintings of several members of wfnvl\ are now in the possession of a family at Aix-la- Chapelle. At the back of the life-size picture of the old gentleman there is an inseription in quaint old-fashioned German to thiseffect: **Janos Robin at the age of 172 years Graeci Ritus; has boen marvied 147 years, was born and lives at Szodora, his children, two sons and two daughters, are still alive; the youngest of them is 116 years old, and has two great-grandehildren, of whom ona is thirty-five and the other twenty- seven years old.” The inscription at he back of the old lady’s picture is ara, his lawlul wife, uge 168, born at 0do And this happy family ac- tually emigrated from the scene of his long labors as a tiller of the soil, and ended his days, if the old chronicles are right, in some corner of Silesia. Not Tired of Living at 120. There was & report going the rounds of the papers a few days ugo that Sylyia Dubois, probably as old as any person now living, was dead. A New York Tribune reporter, hearing several con- tradictory reports about the matter, went to her home on Sourland moun- tains, about ten miles from Flemington, N.J. The road leading to her house (which was-built for her by the Presby- terfun church of Flemington) is 4 mere bridle path, and the scenery in the -weighborhood is as rugged and wild as ifit were in the midst of the Rocky mountains, miles of the finest cultivated land in the state of New Jersey. Her daughter, who lives with her, came to the door. and in answer to & question veplied that her mother was in. house, which i3 a small structure, is dlainly but comfortably furnished. Seated by the stove in the one room of the second story was Sylvia hersoff. She is a colored woman about five feet nine inches in height, and weighs about one hundred and fifty pounds. She claims to have been born in an old tavern near Roc Mills, on Sourland mountain, March 5, 1768, Her parents were slaves, »r mother the property of Richard Compton, and her father was owned by John Baird. She was sold when about two years old to Michael Dubois, and stayed with him until about twenty-five year old, when he set her free. She was at that time living at Great Bend. Penn., with her master, and when she got her emancipation papers she started on foot through the woods, with her baby, about one year and six months old, in wrms, for New Brunswick, N. J. ‘here she found her mother, and hoH veral years. From she went to Princeton to work for Victor Tulane. She was there when Paul Tulane, who after- ward became distinguished as a philan- thropist, was born. After a long while she visited her grandfather, Harr, Compton, or, as he was better known, Harry Putnam, who had been General Rufus Putnam’s body servant and after- ward the noted coloved fifer of the Con- tinental army. At this time he was living at and keeping the old slmrting hotel on Smu'lnnr{ mountain, which was kuown as Putt's tavern, a most disrepu- table dive, where prize fights, dog fights and cock fights were almost of daily oc- currence. ' At Compton’s death Sylvia inherited the property and continued to ‘‘run” the hotel in the same way her grand- father had until a few years ago, when some one set fire to it and it wasburned to the ground with all its contents. Since that time she has lived at her present home with her youngest daugh- ter, whom she calls her ‘‘baby Li Ui “Baby Lizzie” is now eighty-six years old, and is upright and hearty. Al the close of the interview Sylvin was asked if she was not tired of living, and re- plied: **No, I ain’t; I'd like to live an- other hundred years yet, and Idon’t know but I will, too; my teeth are good, and if T can goet enough to eat, I don’t know why I should die; there’sno use in dying—you ain't good for anything after you are dead.” Died at 102, Fannie Massey died here re at the ripe age of 102 years, spatch from Parkersbu V. She was born a slave in old Virginia, freed some years before the proclamation of emancipation. For the past sixty years she has been blind, caused by being put to work too soon after the birth n} her daughter, now sixty years old. The two have been liv- ing near each other for many years, but the ‘‘old mummy” remembered her daughter only as a child of two weeks old, having not been able to see her since. The old woman had the full use of all her other powers up to the time of her death. She remembered distinctly all the prominent men of the fivst pa of the century, having belonged to pe: sons in Virginia whose homes were fre quent visiting places for the earl men of Virginia. At almost the sam hour Mrs. Massey died Pey ton, nearly as old, and also a former slave, was being buried. Lived 119 Years. A notable death, that of ndma Mary Barneman, occurred in our midst 9 adispateh from Ames, la. Her relatives claim her to have been 119 years old last March, having been born in Sussex county, Del., in 176 Up to within two weeks of her death would sit in her chair most of the and rest peacefully at night. It h only heen about two years since she re- turned from visiting her eldest son in Indiana, now nearly ninety years of age. For many years previous to that time most of the day would be occupied either with some kind of needle-work or her bible. She had been for over eighty years a member of the M. B, church. She always seemed pleased to have her friends call upon her, and until the last two years was at times quite talkati She seemed to remember distinctly in- cidents of the revolution and having seen the red coats and General Wash- ington. 01a Age Notes. But newspaper reports say that: The senior admiral of the British navy, Sir Provo Wallis, is 100 years old. Mvrs. Jane Bruce, who completed the 100th year of her life in April last, died at Hartlepool, England, on May 13 Jacko Martin, a vench-C! died at Keeseville, D Y night of old age, being 102 A peasant has just died Hungary who was 142 years of age. He left w son aged 115 years and a grandson of eighty-five. Thomas Bowman, known as “Uncle Tom,” the oldest man in Culberland county, Pennsylvania, died recently at Mount Holly, aged 109 years. Rosette Washington, of Lou claims to be 121 years old. She says her mother was half Indian and her father a native of Guinea. Mrs. Anastasia Parsells of Pamrapo, has just celebrated her 102d . She witnessed the funerals of Generals Washington and Grant. Charles Clendenning, near Bakers- town, Alleghany county, Pennsylvania, has just celebrated his™ 100th bir ) in the midst of his five children and all their hiving descendants, Averill, of New Preston, her birth- old, and, nadian, Tuesday s old. in Austria- ince she was five y ched the d t age of acentury upon her memor Dr. Agnew says thut no man has lived to be 100 years old since biblical days, and that all such reports come from ig- novance or mistakes. Out of twenty cases he investigated not one proved to be authentic, Mrs. Margaret Burnett of Red Oak, Ia., died recently in her 100th year, She was born March 13, 1789, Until the stroke of paralysis which came a few days 820, she was in full possession of her facalties and had never been sick. The death of Mrs. Phoebe Travis, frequently mentioned as the oldest pe son in New York state, took place at the residence of her daughter, on Travis creek, Steuben county, May 15. Her age was 104 years and 5 months. Au inveterate tobacco user in West Virginia, 111 years of age, who smoked a pipe every day since he was stxteen years old, has just died, and this sad event should teach American youths that nicotine will kill the strongest man—if he only uses it long enough. Theve was a very enjoyable e eently at Williamsport, Pa. It was the celebration of the venerable Adam Hart’s 100th birthday. Children, grand- children and great-grandchildren, toge- ther with a large wumber of friends, made the occasion one never to be for- gotten. Perhaps the oldest negro in Alabama is Unele Nero Koonce, who belonged in slavery times W the Koouce family, in 2nt re- instead of within a few | youngest | The, | Henry countyy, He was in town a few dayssince,and, upon being interviewed, stated that.he. was 108 years old, had been married nine times, was the father ildren, and had been preaching ix v He still has good use { himself, and about as active as a boy. His last wife is living, and is sixty- seven yoars old. Norman MacDonald, of Big Bras Dor, Cape Breton, is dead, aged 110 years. He was the last known survivor of Waterloo, having fought in that battle under Wellington, when thirty-soven years of age. - He was born in ihe Isle of Harris, Seotland, in 1778, After serving in the British army in various vts of the world, he emigrated to Nova Scotia in 1828 when fifty-five years old. Charles Crawford, who lives near Fai 1d, Benton county, Mo., was born in Baltimore on February 20, 1788, and is now in his 101st year. His third wife died last February, aged seventy-three. Recently he rode a spirited horse from his home, which is ten miles south of Warsaw, to this place, ate a hearty dinner, sat for his picture, chatted with his many friends, and, as evening ap- proached, mounted his horse and rode off on a canter as easily as a man of sixty. - Famons Painters' Nicknam es. Perhaps no class of men have been 80 frequently known by their nick- names, says the Chambers Journal—for in their case the designations deserve no better name—as the disciples of art, especially the [talinn paintors. It may be that the bohemianism of the craft, its unconventionality and freedom from coremony, lends itself especially to this practice. Certain it is that many of those who know something of the names at any rate by which' celebrated artists are usually’ known, would find their powers of recognition taxed to the utmost were they to see a catalogue of some famous gallery, the Louvre, for example, where the painters are all des- ignated by their real names and where, instead of the familiar Raphuel and Ti- tian, they must look for Santi and Ve- celli, and in place of Perugino and Cor- reggio, they find Vanurci and Allegri. Those may serve as specimens of too easily multiplied classes of designa- tions: the one to which we might add Michael Angelo and many others of lesser repute, showing the ox- clusive use of the chri tian name long after surnames had become customary; the other, in- cluding names no less famous than Da Ninci and Voronese besides a minor host, instances of local appellations. Claude Lorraine, the great landscane puinter, may be taken as an example of one of the many artists who combine these two somewhat commomplace sources of unconventioual nomenclatur Others inherit their names in a_some- what different manner from what is usual. Thus three names high in ar- tistic fame reveal to us the profession of the fathers of the most celeb beavers. The brothers of, Pohianolo, workers in metal as well as painte were, it is generally asserted, so callea from their father’s profession of *‘voul- terer,” which' this word si i In view of this circumstanc: . we may imagine that the familiarty with victims displayed in the paternal shop had something'to do with the exc lence of thé quail modeled by Autonio on the bron te of Florentine Bap- tistry, of which Vassari snys it wants nothing of life but to fl Another family trade, which would seem to promise equally little in regard to art, gave to Andrea Vannucehi, whose per- feet executi gained for him in_ his own day the title of “*the faultless,” the appellation of del Sarto (of the tailor.) Tintoretto, again, is the diminutive ap- plied in childhood to theson of Robusti, Venctian dyer (tintore A Modern Dick Tarpin. The lone highway robber must have wped from the clutches of Uncle as the United St 1 and th of her brave citizens were relived of their valuables by a smgle robber while on their way from here to San Angelo yesterday morning, says the Dallas {Tex.) News of May 18. 8 100 many passenger extra hack was sent with it. When the stage reached a point nov far beyond the 5 noon yesterday, ordered to b mained at a stand until the hack drove up, which was about one hundred yards behind, whereupon the passengers were ordered to dismount, which order was promptly obeyed, and standing up in i the robber, after placing eaps ads of all of them, quickly and uninterruptedly relieved them and the mail pouches of their valuable con- tents. After this was done he held them for ly four hours, waiting for the othe going from here, but on account of the bad and muddy roads it failed to make its appearance. The robber per- mitted them to depart on their way giving each enough money to buy meal at Willow Waterhole St Also a certificate written on a drum- mer’s card, in words as [ollows: I hereby certify that all of you ar honest and brave gentlemen, but that you are not armed and prepared to de- fend yoursclves. STAGE RoBienr. During the performance the bold rob- ber asked the stage driver what had be- come of that smooth-faced fellow who drove the stage last fall when he robbed it, and for which offense Mr. Newson was 8o unfortunately convicted by the United States distriet court at Waco. He also said: **They haven't got me yet. Iam adand, The robber and his norse were com- pletely masked, so it was impossible to recognize him or the color of his horse, but Mr. Ellis, the stage dri , who also drove one of the stages that was robbed last fall, says that. judging from the stature, pistol and voice, he feels conli- dent that he is the same mau. The rob- ber took money only. One of the pas- sengers saved $60 by socreting it in his mouth, where he had to hold it for four hours. The sheriff and three rangers left Ballinger this morning to see if it is possible to‘accomplish anything by pursuing the tobber’s tracks, which, on account of the pbundance of the re rains in this section and the mudd dition of the soil, ought to be v tinct and casy to follow. —_—— A Horsé Race to Help a Church, Macey Bros,, the well-known horse- trainers and liverymen of Varsailles, says the Louisville Courier-Journal, have a yearling by Messenger Chief, dam Cuckoo, that they are willing to wager any amount from 310 to $100 can beat any yearling in Woodford county on the track, and owing to the strictly religious community they make the fol- lowing novel proposition: Toany church member owning a yearling, who is op- posed to betting, they make the propo- sition that if their Cuckoo yearling wins the race the los is to come to the church attended by Mr. Macey on the Sunday following the race and deposit the specified amount in the contribution box. Should the Cuckoo yearling be beaten Mr. Macey pledges himself to do the same for their church. s Smoke Seidenberg’s Figaro and get the best 5-ceat cigar in the world. Max Meyer & Co. whoiesale depot. The Burlington takes the lead. (Burlinator Routi C.R& It was in advance of all lines in developing Nebraska. It was in advance ofall lines in establishing dining-car service between Missouri river points and Chicago. It was in advance of all lines in giving the people of Omaha and the West a fast mail service. It was in advance of all lines in running its trains from the East into Omaha proper. It was in advance of all lines in reducing the time of passenger trains between Omaha and Chicago. It was in advance, and is the only line by which you can leave Omaha in the morning and arrive in Denver the evening of the same day. It has been progressive in the past. It will lead in the future. Travel and ship via the Burlington. Ticket Office, 1223 Farnam Street. Depot on Tenth Street. TO GET GOOD MILK An Omaha Milkman Says Pay a Good Price. OMAWA, June 10.—To the Editor of Tie B! What a fuss about a little milk! The long article in Sunday’s B might lead one to think that a tor nado is coming which will sweep away every cow and milkman in the county that could not prove up a record of milky whiteness, if we did not know that all that is needed to produce a panic in any line of business is a smavt reporter and the never-lacking *‘tosti- monials.” The old saying is male true again 2o away to find out the at home 1ims to ‘‘always milk hisown “We always supposed it xed fact that milkmen’s milk is adulterated,” and adds the unqualified ertion, with not “the milk is adulterated.” a man talks like that there is lit- tle use to heed what he says, and when you sift out this element, and a few oth- s who are positively sure that ev devil in hades is or was @ t milkman, the balance can be with. Tho writer of this desives to “testify™ as sold milk for twenty fully half of that time here in that during all that time not a drop of his own production has he assed to a customer that he would not self drink if need be. Will our ex- commission man say as much of his eggs, chickens, fruit, et sold to Omaha people durinig busine: i Noone line of industry include: honesty or excludes all the dis- m not particularly proud of the motley conglomeration of humanivy en- gaged E g this town with that infantile n milk, yet exhibit B shows hy s that at least one dealer is honest enough to sell above the standard, and out of the hundred or move there muy be another, possibly ten, twenty or fifty more who ure just as square ommission” or ‘any other man. Poople mostly get what they pny for, and their expectations should be on an even plane with th outlay. One would hardly expect to stand before a 15-cent lunch counter and get the en- tinment of the xton. Cheap things if vociferously demanded will generally come at somebody’s hands, but ought the vociferant to complain if they are eadap all through. Modern society under our magnificent electric light system largely fashions its own members, Few people, and they arc year by year growing fewer, possess the moral tamina_ or social position to line out u course of action and grimly follow it in the f of all obstacles. The muss have their actions controlled as their thoughts by the to them unres ing course of events, honest i be, and anyway honest as they ¢ Everybody seeks to things it the very lowest -. the scramble for *‘business he can fashion a cheap thing into the sem- blance of u ¢ostly one, and make & st cess of it, is counted Smart by the sume »wd who would send him to the gal- lows or prison (Dr. Wood) if caught at it. To sell milk cheaply, and thereby please customers is the front end of this wail from people who have unwittingly, mayhe, tolled it on, The mural differ- ence between seller and buyer is mi- croscopic, and a ch of plac would hardly alter the situation. This may be best shown by facts with hi i Three or four “hest citizens” or manager, paraphren- alia for such things made and provided, emedy this evil of ly aud vile milk., With a great flourish of trum- pets a central office was established, suggesting an indeffinite number of branch wagons were built and num- bered, 5 given out that the town wi B supplied with delicious cream and _butter, sweet and wholesome milk, and all so The lucky holder of a share (price $23) was to have his pu t and wholesome milk carefull d at a his door, at the vate of twenty-two and half quarts for 81 —the public were in- vited to join, and rotive in short order the deceitful mitkman, and what is the result? Their secretary tells the story —skim, skim, skim all the time. {iu any milkman ever treated them worse than they treated themselves? This could not be vbjected to if only de One of the aggrieved, | a shadow of evi- | themselves were involved; but they so0ld this ‘vile stuff,” this slush,” to others not in the ring, and of course under the fraudulent representation of enuine goods. Send 'em to prison, Dr. Woods, it is a ar case, und the fivst one proven. Now about sick cows and powsoned milk. My experience is that about the first thing a sick cow doesis to stop giving milk entirely. Itisa provision of nature to ‘)rmuut her offspring. Sei- entists and theorists may find it differ- ent but [ do not. As the animal covers and the functions resume their normal action the milk returns, but then it is neither sick nor poisoncd. As to eating poisoned weeds, ete., [ never to my knowledge had an animal poisoned in that or any other way in my life and I have owned first and last thousands of them. Dairy cows to pro- duce milk 1n regular quantities must be fed to dainting nd then their own tastes and instinets are the all sufticient guard. Should one accidentally eat a Little unwholesome food it would be ex- rotod, not seereted in the milk., The trouble is not with the cows, but isin- cident to all towns, or as we like 's of the met- ropoliti brought from long distances is diflicult to handle a be run in on speeial eurly trai 30 4. m. instead of 10:30 as . When we reach -y likely the ronds will make this change, when this trouble will end to give place to some other. Troubles never end. While you are runningto the und one picee of villainy another is being hatehed. How to regulate this matter is not an easy thin 1t is certainly to the in- t dealer as well as the consumer, to have nothing but pure, wholesome, cavefully handled milk sold. A license and registration at a low cost, s0 as not to be burdensome to small dealers; a milk inspector supplied with the best obtainable instruments, and arrangements by which his sam- ples could be analyzed; the withholding alicense on second conviction, would seem to be a good startor, The chief protection is in dealing, as you would in any other line, with rep- utable persons, and if you have no con- fidence in anybody you must cut and try using the inspéetor and till your confidence i Don't hold your dealer v a caveless cook. ov for violent changes in the wher., Milk is a perishable commodity, and there i mountain of difference hetween 60= and 80 = in pre- ng milk. rht tin or earthen ware of a size suflicient to hold the milk in as compnet a body as possible, and small quantities never can be kept too close to a generous chunk of ice when the ther- mometer registers above 80>, With sufficient eare there need be no trouble in keeping twelve or n twenty-four Use 15 hardly a dealer of any ex- s who has not time and again kicks and compliments me ean of mill, It shows hce in people. as it may scem not one dealer in ten knows to any certainty the cost of his milk, He fi his price by his competitors and too many make up de ficiencies in “‘ways that are dark \L consumers may know somothing of the cost of producing milk the year through I give below both production and expeuses for the twelve mounths ending May 81, 1888; ciation of stock, etc Amount of milk produced, 55,345 Muking a cost at home of .5dlc per quart, which at sixtecu quarts for #1 len 0.94¢, or ninety four hundredths of one cent per quart for delivering, Beven cents per auart is us low as good milk can be retailed and jusvce done all around. MILEMAN. 2 A Sea Phenomena. The Anchc Jdne Anchoria, just ar- rived from New York after a quick run, says the Glasgow (Scotland) Chron- reports as follows: About s of the American coast, and on the borders of the gulf stream, the sel passed through & phenonena which, although frequent on a small scale, are extrer rare on such maximum grandeur of scale as that which en- raptured the observers on the Anchoria. After the vessel had been running twenty-four hours in a dense fog, the water around suddenly became so lumi- nous that the mile long shoals of small fish darting around the vessel sceking refuge from the sharks.and other devouring enemies, gave the sea the sp- Telephono Zio3 Roure” | pearance of a t cauldron of boiling jewels, while the furrows of foam from the great ship’s bows rolled m such blazing masses of light violet flames a8 rendered the smallest thread in the ship's rigging as cloarly visible as a bright sunshine. and enveloped the vessel in such & mass of dazzling light violet-colored glare that the engines had to be slowed a few hours until a storm of wind, bursting out from the northwest, cleared off the fog and broke the whole visible surface of the ocean into llying crests of flame-like foam of such brilliancy that the whole ocean seemed ablaze with the fleeting, flashing flame, the whole horizon hine having the appearance of an immense belt of light-blue fire. 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