Foot and Mouth Disease Spreads Among Animals
The University of California sends out the information regarding the foot and mouth disease among animals, that “cattle are most frequently infected. Next in order come hogs, sheep, and goats. Horses, dogs, cats, and even poultry have been in rare cases affected. But these animals, especially the last three mentioned, are particularly dangerous as carriers of the disease. Man is not immune to this disease, and children drinking raw milk from affected animals may develop blisters similar to those in the cattle. The affection in man is not serious, and recovery promptly follows.” Judge Willis Brown, of Salt Lake City, in a talk to students of the Northwestern University, of Illinois, said, “Cigarette smoking is a growing vice in our colleges and schools, and no smoker of cigarettes can achieve distinction in finance or statesmanship or any other useful line of duty.” Young men should take such statements to heart, and not place upon themselves the handicap of cigarette smoking. The wine grape business is not a paying one. Why plead for it? About the only profit seems to be, not to the grape grower, but to the wineries. Let it go. Other crops will pay better. It is stated that China will have the largest display of any foreign nation at the Panama-Pacific Exposition at San Francisco.