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CO-OPERATION LIFE TO CITY
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Community Which Does Not Encour
age, Growth of Individuals and
industries Cannot Thrive.
Speaking before the gntlicriug of
business men of Baltimore at a ban
quet In his honor, Charles M. Schwab
said : " No large Industry can thrive In
ji community unless It enjoys the good
will and the support of that commu
nity." '
That statement is as true of tho
small Industry ns of tho largo Indus
try, and It Is true of tho Individual
business roan as well. t
" And there Is also truth In the state
ment that tho community cannot
thrive which does not give to the lndl
viduals and to tho small Industries as
well as to tho largo industries situ
ated therein every encouragement to
growth and expansion.
Co-operation is tho )lfe of the city.
"Without it there can be no city in tho
true sense. There may be an aggre
gation of houses, of businesses and ot
people but that does not make a city
.as wo know tho city today.
Tho true city of the twentieth cen
tury Is a place of schools, a place or
churches, a place of wide and well--paved
streets, a place of playgrounds
.and of parks, n place of beauty and a
l)lace of culture.
It is as well n place where every
an who is doing hfs share for tho
mutual welfare is receiving his sharo
of the credit and the profit; where tho
new industry is given local support in
the period when thut is needed nnd
still receives that support when it
reaches prosperous maturity; where
the farmer who brings in the product
of his labor may be sure of a market
at a price that is fair and just ; whero
the stranger receives every considera
tion and is not robbed.
In short, tho true city Is a place
.-where people can live in happiness and
contentment, secure in the enjoyment
of pleasant homes, loyal' friends and
prosperous business conditions and
without the spirit of co-operation it Is
impossible for a city long to exist.
About Uk Death fern
r ; fi
These filthy pests distribute amotig people germs
of typhoid and of her bowel diseases, tuberculosis,
infectious blood poison and even leprosy ::e-
gin your summer war on them now:: Clean the
premises thoroughly and burn trash
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SCHOOL GARDENING NOT FAD
Tendency In Somo Quarters Not to
Regard New Development Serious
ly Is Decried.
The federal bureau of education of
the department .of the Interior has is
sued a pamphlet, "Gardening In Ele
mentary City Schools," which covers
the progress and prospects of school
gardening. The testimony presented
hy school officials from cities of moro
t than 5J00O population in all parts of
the country indicates that while gar
den work is offered in the schools of
about four hundred cities and enthu
siastically praised by the school offl.
clals of these cities, there is still a ten.
dency in some quarters to regard it
merely as another educational fad.
This it certainly Is not. The United
States is still an agricultural country,
and the teaching of gardening brings
the schools at one point closer to the
real business of the country than any
thing else taught, says tho Indianapo
lis News.
But of course there must be some
system about teaching 'gardening. Tho
natural desire for a garden must bo
cultivated and conserved, so that tho
transition from play to work can bo
accomplished. This is tho problem of
Ihe educators. Many cities have com
plained that they cannot get good
tochers to undertake the work. The
school authorities will have to culti
vate teachers as the children cultivate
their gardens that is, if they are to
meet the demand. For it appears
from the government report that school
gardening has won its place. It has
developed the homo gnrden under
school supervision, nnd this has proved
not only its educational worth, but
also its eci'tiomlc worth.
A Civic Prayer.
For our comfortable living, for our
fair surroundings, for our many bless
Ings which tho poor must lack, Ave glvo
henrty thanks; and wo resolvo that
from what store wo have, a little morp
than wo can comfortably afford shall
be given to those servants of tho poor
who seek to cheer forlorn homes, to
lift up weary lives, to open the path
of opportunity, to remove old evils, and
to cure tho plague of poverty atlts
very sources. This Is done in tho hope
and faith that (our city) will thus
become a fairer nnd better home for
all alike, and that virtue, courage, and
peace will increaso visibly among us
and bless (our city) among all cities,
forevcrmore. Amen. Frederick Almy
in tho Survey.
HAT the common houso fly is the great-'
est menace to human Hfo in tempernto
. regions the highest medical and scien
tific authorities in the United States
and Europe are now generally united In
declaring.
The dissemination through this In
sect of the epidemic, Infantile paralysis,
which Inst year killed thousands of New York's
children is but one of the many counts in the In
dictment against the filthy Hy. Infantile paraly
sis Is peculiarly shocking because tt deforms chil
dren so cruelly, but In Its destruction of life It is
far' less serious than typhoid fever, which we
now know to be largely a lly-borno disease. Simi
larly the fly probably causes far moro mortality
through Its instrumentality in sprendlng tubercu
losis than as a carrier of Infantile paralysis.
All over the world scientists nro studying tho
fly, discovering new dangers to public health
caused by it and suggesting now methods of 'ex
terminating It.
Dr. L. O. Howard, the chief entomologist of the
United States government, now suggests that tho
name "typhoid fly" should be given to the common
house fly, because the latter name falls to suggest
the deadly character.
Mr. Howard tells how tho deadly character of
tho fly was proved by feeding files with puro Cul
tures of the typhoid bacillus. Material from the
bodies of the Insects and fly-specks made by them
wdre then examined and" found to contain the
Bacilli. This material was Injected Into animals
and proved to be virulent.
Files Carry Typhoid.
There were 250,000 cases of typhoid in the Unit
ed States last year, and over 35,000 proved fatal.
During the Spanish-American war flies which had
swarmed over infected mntter In tho lime-strewn
pits walked over the soldiers' food, leaving traces
of lime. Many cases of typhoid occurred, killing
far-moro than bullets. Officers whose tents were
screened- from flies showed fewer enses. Typhoid
disappeared In winter, when flies were no longer
about. Infected water was not an importnnt fac
tor in these camps, but a majority of cases mus.t
have been duo to the flies. More than 80 per cent
of the total deaths In tho war were caused by
typhoid.
The dnnger of Infection Is greatly Increased by
the fact that typhoid germs may remain active In
a person's intestines long after ho has recovered
from fever. Dr. George A. Soper recently discov
ered n case of a cook employed by several fami
lies in the vicinity of New York. She had recov
ered completely from typhoid fever, but she gave
the disease to members of every family whero she
was employed. Four other cases of this kind are
mentioned by Doctor Howard.
' Spread Enteric Fever.
During the Boer war 100,000 British soldiers
were laid up at one time by enteric fever, now
hhown to have been spread by flies. Profiting by
such lessons, the United States authorities on the
Pnnamn canal work protected refuse ngainst flies,
and this, together with tho careful screening of
houses, adopted primarily as a defense against
malaria, reduced typhoid to a negligible, quantity.
A long series of observations Is being conducted,
showing that flies play an importnnt part in
spreading Aslntlc cholera. The British warship
Superb, In the Mediterranean, suffered from an
epidemic of cholern, which continued while at sea,
but on the disappearance of flies It ceased. Pro
fessors Tizzonl and Cattnni of Italy, In 1880, found
active cholera germs in the deposits of flies caught
Jn the cholera wards at Bologna, Italy.
Cost Millions a Year.
Doctor Howard says the decrease In the vital
assets of our couutry through typhoid fever In., a
single year is more than $350,000,000.
The typhoid fly is nlso a disseminator of tuber
culosis. Dr. Frederick T. Lord, the Boston scien
tist, snys:
"Flies may ingest tubercular sputnm nnd ex
crete tubercle bacilli, the virulence of which may
last for at least fifteen days."
Matter from tuberculoid patients must, there-
Jill
JWmwm
t)ftrs
based on Professor Howard's experiments, hns
been made nnd shows that one fly can huvo be
tween June 1 nnd September 2S, 4,853,051,072,000,
000,000,000 descendants!
Prof. S. A. Forbes, state entomologist of Illi
nois, found that houso files breed freely In decay
ing animal carcasses, a point of significance In
connection with war conditions.
It is most importnnt to have an efficient flytrap.
One known as "the Minnesota flytrnp" appears to
be the best constructed. It is planned on the
principle of having a box with a hole beneath it, a
piece of halt under the hole nnd sufficient spneo
for tho fly to walk under tho box. The box Is
entered through a funnel that Is a decapitated
cone. The fly, having gorged himself on the bait,
will, according to his Invariable habit, fly upward
through the funnel and become Imprisoned In the
box. He will not fly out.
Health Officers Responsible.
The courts have passed upon the question of
dnmages for n sufferer from typhoid who could
trnce his Illness to flics feeding upon the filth of
sewage. A few years ago n man living In German
town, Philadelphia, recovered heavy dnmages from
the city for his Illness, which he proved was
caused by a stream flowing through his yard which
had been polluted by sewuge from a house ten
anted by a typhoid patient. The defense relied
upon proof that the plnlntiff had neither drunk nor
bathed In the stream, but an entomologist con
vinced the jury that heN had contracted tho dis
ease through the medium of files, which had car
ried tho Infection from the stream to the food
exposed to their, visits jn his house.
Scourge of European War.
A horrifying form of the fly peril 'has been en
countered during the present European wnr. This
Is the presence of myriads of files that have bred
on the bodies of the dead soldiers and carry
septicemia (blood poisoning), nnd other diseases.
Profiting by the experience of the Spnnlsh-Amer-Ican
and Boer wars, the military authorities pro
tected tho pits in permanent trenches and enmps
against files, but thousnnds of dead bodies are
lying In the shell-swept nren between opposing
trenches, whero it Is absolutely Impossible to carry
out saultnry raensuretf.
: IS DEATH PAINFUL? i
The London Lancet announces that tho spread
of typhus, an eruptive fever quite different from
typhoid, hns been traced to flics. Typhus has al
ways occurred In dirty nnd starving communities.
It bus been very prevalent In Itussln, and Is snld
to have been largely responsible for stopping tho
first Itusslnn Invasion of Austria, becnuse It killed
and prostrated so many men.
Tho sprendlng of Infantile paralysis virus on tho
feet and in tho gullet of the house fly, ub observed
by Doctor Flexner of the Rockefeller institute, has
already been thoroughly explained. Experiments
have nlso been made Indicating that the poison
of this dlseaso Is conveyed by tho bite of the sta
ble fly very much ns malaria Is convoyed by tho
bite of the mosquito.
Theso experiments are thus described by Dr. O.
E. WInslow, an expert on Insect pests, of tho
Amcricnn Museum of Nntural History:
Tests With Monkeys.
"Prof. M. J. Roseunu of tho Ilarvnrd Medical
school, succeeded In producing Infantile paralysis
In six out of twelve monkeys bitten by stable
files which had been allowed to feed on other
monkeys suffering from the disease.
"Professor Rosenau's work hns since been con
firmed by Doctors Anderson nnd Frost of tho Unit
ed States public health service. There Is, of courso,
no certainty that the dlsenso Is always transmitted
hy the stablo fly. The work of Doctor Flexner
nnd of the Swedish observers nnd tho occurrenco
of n certain proportion of enses In cold wenther
strongly suggest thnt sometimes infantile paralysis
may bo spread by direct contnet between human
beings or in other ways than by fly bites. On tho
other hand, it seems certain the biting stnblo fly
is one means by which 'the dlsenso is conveyed;
nnd tho seasonal and geographical prevalence of
the epidemics make It seem probable that this is
the usual and most Importnnt means.
"The habits of tho stable fly differ widely from
those of tho house fly. 'The stable fly Is a biting
fly, feeding on the blood of the higher vertebrates.
It is found In tho vicinity of dwellings, particularly
where horses and cattle are kept, but it is npt to
remain outdoors In warm, sunny plnces, and does
not come into tho houso much except at night nnd
before rain."
Another enso I remember of n young Tommy who
hnd a long, weary Illness from an awful wound.
He, too, no doubt, wns bound to die, but he, too, lost
heart. It was arranged that he should go to Eng-
GREAT DEMAND
FOR CANADIAN LAND
Americans Are Buyers and Be
coming Settlers Anxious to
Get Cheap and Produc
tive Land.
Reports nro to hand thnt there will
be a largo influx of settlers from the?
United States Into the Canadian West
during tho coming Spring. For a tlmo
there has been a falling off, on account
of tho fenr of conscription, which of
courso was not possible, nnd which tho
Canadian Government gnvo every as
surance would not bo pnt Into opera
tion. In any caso it would not nffect
tho American settler, nnd nioro thnn
thnt tho man who waa working on tho
farm, helping to produce tho grain
that goes to feed those-.who aro at wnr,
wouldf'not bo affected.
Tho excellent yields of tho Western
Canada crops, and tho high prices se
cured Is having its influence on thoao
looking for homes. Tho authenticated
reports that havo been sent out from
time to tlmo thnt this farmer and that
farmer hnd paid for their entlro farm
holdings out of ono crop hns reached
the cars of tho man looking for n form.
"When he hears that G. II. Bentty of
Nanton, Alberta, had 079 bushels of
wheat from 12 acres or an average ot
GG bushels to tho acre, ho becomes
interested. When ho lenrna thnt Sid
ney E. Phillips of Bcddeford, Alberta,
threshed ten hundred nnd flfty-thrco
bushels of wheat, tho average being
52 bushels per acre, his Interest is
further nroiised. Thos. Long of Loth
bridge had 120 bushels of outs to the
aero from n field of 25 acres, W.
Quinn of Milk River hnd 0,004 bushel
of wheat from 100 acres, an average
of CO bushels per acre, nnd Robert
Tackabcrry of Noblcford makes affida
vit thnt ho hnd an average of seventy
six bushels of wheat per aero from n:
field of 10.03 acres. Thos. Boulton of the
same plnco makes affidavit that from
fifty ncres ho had a yield of flfty-thrco
bushels of wheat per acre. Newell J.
Noble's affidavit of getting G4 bushels
per aero from 1,000 acres stands out
most strongly ns evidence of what tho
wheat grower can do. This affidavit Is
strengthened by a paragraph stating
that ho had 122 bushels and 80 lbs. per
ncro from 304.C0 acres. Mrs. Nancy,
Coo makes affidavit that on her farm
at Nobleford she threshed six thou
sand ono hundred and ten bushels of
wheat from ono hundred and fifteen
acres, or flfty-thrco bushels and eight
lbs. per acre, and from a flax field
(stubblo field) she got 20 bushels and
88 pounds per acre.
It cannot bo said that theso were
freak yields becauso so many had such
great success. When these reports aro
read, tho man looking for a farm" be
comes convinced.
Theso nro only a few of the reasons
thnt will cnuso n largo Influx of Amer
ican farmers Into tho Canadian West
during the coming Spring.
Tho farmers now resident In Mani
toba, Saskatchewan nnd Alberta aro
purchasing additional lands. Prices
aro low and Free homestead land can
be hnd In many districts nnd the home
steader is welcome. Advertisement
The Principles of Big Business.
First Surgeon Do you think $1,000
Is too much to chnrgo for taking out
Bulger's- appendix?
Second Surgeon No. But why
don't you wait? He's making money
so fast that you can get $5,000 out of
him In sir months. Life.
fore,' not be allowed to come in contact with flies, ..... aam ...! mml- bul ho nn(1 ccnsc'1 to cnrd t0 'lo 80' und ro"
,. ..... ....,. i a k .i fiitiiwi. The end enmo rnnldlv after that.
In a Model Industrial Tovn.
In Port Sunlight on the Mersey,
whero 4,000 tons of British soap are
manufactured each week, "kitchen"
cottages, containing threo bedrooms, a
living room, kitchen, scullery, bath and
Inrdcr, with a yard and outbuildings,
rent for an nverngo of $1.28 a week.
"Parlor" cottages, with two additional
rooms, rent for $1.80 a week. For
$1.25 n yenr anyone can havo an al
lotment of tm perches of land, with
water supply free. It is tho Intention
thnt there shuM never bo moro than
ten houses to the acre. Consequent
ly, there Is no lack of sunlight and
fresh air.
and the patients should be screened for their own
good and thnt of the rest of the community.
Drs. W. M. Esten nnd C. J. Mason of Storrs ex
periment station, Connecticut, who counted 550 to
0,000,000 bacteria on flies, observed that these In
sects cnrrled contamination from the pigpens to
the milk in dairies.
Life History of Fly.
"Tho only remedy for this serious condition of
things," they say, "Is to remove the pigpen as fnr
n3 possible from the dairy and dwelling house.
Extreme care should bo taken In keeping flies
out of the cow stable, milk rooms and dwellings."
Doctor Howard has trnced'tho life hlBtory of
tho fly, finding that 120 eggs aro laid by a single
female, and that In Washington In midsummer a
generation Is produced every ten days. In ex
perimenting he found that his files would breed
only In horse waste, but the evidence Indicates
(hat they breed In various kinds of filth, nis con
clusion, however, Is thnt tho vast majority must
come from horso stnbles.
As tested out nnd recommended by the United
Stntes department of agriculture, sprinkling and
soaking such a pest heap with a solution of one
half pound of powdered hellebore In ten gallons of
wntcr (stirring well and allowing It to stand for
24 hours), will destroy all the mnggots, eggs and
lurvae which aro then present. t Almost equally
good results, although not quite so certain, can bo
secured by sprinkling freely with powdered bornx
und then pouring water over, so ns to carry It
down all through tho mass. Tho amount of helle
bore solution required is nbout a gallon to the
bushel of manure.
A rqcent calculation of the fly's roto of Inc -jnse,
The physical pnln of denth depends, I suppose,
on the particular cause of death, says a writer In
London Tit Bits. Naturally, death from starvation
or cancer must bo very much more painful thnn
denth from old nge. Dying Is probably more pain
ful than death Itself. At some most painful death
beds there seems to come u period of calm when
the end draws near. I think it 1b a great pity that
for the sake of relations a death agony Is some
times prolonged by the use of powerful drugs. I
remember a doctor saying to mo at the death bed
of a young officer: "If there wero relations hero we
should keep him alive for a fewYhours." Why
should a dying man be kept alive for theso sentl- .
mental reasons?
I suppose a greut deal of tho pnlnfulncss of death
Is due to our struggling agulnst It. Just ns when
wo resist an anesthetic, it cnusos us great discom
fort, while If we meekly submit to It tho sensation
Is delightful, bo with death.
The reason we resist Is thnt wo cling to Hfo. This
does not necessarily menn thnt we aro afraid to
die, or that we have doubts nbout Immortality, und
wunt to have as much of this world ns possible for
fenr there Is no other. The greatest struggle for
life I ever witnessed wns on tho part of a young
spiritualist, who most certainly believed In tho
next world, lie simply refused to die, nnd did
literally live some dnya longer because of his de
termination. It wns rather splendid, this Insistence
on life, though It probably cost him a lot of pnln.
On the other hand, I remember n young Koldler
In France who died from sheer lack of wanting to
live. Tho doctor told mo that ho need uot have
died If he had only resolved to live.
fused. The end enmo rapidly nfter that.
1 think these instances show thnt much depends
on will power. My own father was a man of ex
traordinary vitality. A month before his denth his
doctor snld to mo: "By nil tho laws he ought to bo
dead now." It wus difficult to believe n few hours
before his death, nt the ago of ninety, that he was
a dying man. His ngaln was a case of tho most
absolute belief in tho other world, coupled with an
Intense desire to live und not die a moment too
soon.
Probably the greatest pain in denth Is mental
pain. I can cnncclvo a wasted Hfo,. n stupid life,
nnd, still more, n wicked life, making It very pain
ful for n man to die.
Early Days of Egypt.
Predynnstlc Egypt consisted of various petty
states ranged nlong tho bunks of the Nile this 4,
000 years before Christ. The Egyptians hnd al
rendy mnstered tho nrt of mnklng textile fabrics by
spinning and weaving, und tho men wore kilts nnd
the women long robes. Wonderful pottery wus
made, though this wus done by molding, ns tho pot
ter's wheel was unknown. Gold, stone, Ivory und
bone wero made Into ornaments nnd utensils. Boats
were used nnd tho art of sailing was discovered.
Human Resolves Weak.
What mockeries nre our most firm resolves.
To will Is ours,,but not to execute. Wo mup our
futuro Hko somo unknown coast, and suy hero
Is a harbor, thero a rock; tho ono wo will attain,
"the other shun, nnd we do neither; some chnnci
gnlo springs up, Hnd benrs us far o'er somo ud
fathomed sea. L. E. Lundon
IS CHILD CROSS,
FEVERISH. SICK
Look, Mother! If tongue is
coated, give "California
Syrup of 'Figs."
Children love this "fruit laxative,"
and nothing else cleanses tho tender
stomach, Jlver and bowels so nicely.
A child simply will not stop playing
to empty the bowels, and the result Is
they become tightly clogged with
wnsto, liver gets sluggish, stomach
Bours, then your llttlo one becomes
cross, half-sick, feverish, don't eat,
sleep or act naturally, breath is bad,
system full of cold, has sore throat,
stomuch-acho or diarrhea. Listen,
Mother 1 See if tongue Is coated, then
glvo a teaspoonful of "California
Syrup of Figs," and in a few hours all
the constipated waste, sour bile nnd
undigested food passes out of tho sys
tem, nnd you have a well child again.
Millions of mothers gtvc "California
Syrup of Figs" because it is perfectly
harmless; children love It, and It nev
er falls to act on the stomach, liver
and bowels.
Ask nt the store for a 50-ccnt bottle
of "California Syrup of Figs," which
has full directions for babies, children
of all ages nnd for grown-ups plainly
printed on tho bottle. Adv.
, Diplomacy.
Mrs. Green Your cook told mine
that your husband is getting n very
small Hillary.
Mrs. Wysc We Just tell her that to
keep her from demanding a lurge"""one.
1 "' i i .
Alfnlfn seed, SO; S !. "Sovurj $8.
J. W. Mulhall, Sioux Oi'.v. :.. jlv.
Frlendlc
"Nobody hrts any i
"Why?"
"1 lun't know. It
i html U'
jjmuso
wotly."