Diseased Flesh and Temperance Reform
By Editor
It is reported that hundreds of deer have died of pneumonia in the ranges in California during the past winter. One man counted 113, mostly yearlings, that he found dead. Some have thought, when they supplied themselves with meat from wild game, that they had something immune from disease; and without much question the wild animals are less diseased than the domestic. But even these, it seems, are not immune. The curse of sin is resting more and more heavily upon this earth, and even the wild animals of the mountain ranges are made to feel it. The time can not be very far distant when animal food will become so diseased that persons who eat it will do so at the peril of their lives. And there is enough danger at the present time from the diseased flesh that is placed upon the markets for consumption. THE Anti-Saloon League has received a donation of $50,000 for the purpose of starting the publication of a daily paper, and another $50,000 is "in sight." It is the plan to publish this daily in Washington, D. C., beginning at the opening of the regular Congress session next December. Arrangements have been made to start it off with a circulation of 100,000, and to push it forward as rapidly as possible to the 1,000,000 mark. While it will give the general news of the world, four pages will be devoted to illustrations and "right-up-to-the-minute" information concerning the great battle against intemperance. Every item of progress in the great cause of temperance should be hailed with delight. No part of the work of the University of California is any more valuable to the state and the country at large than its department of agriculture. It has its agricultural summer schools, its agricultural correspondence schools, and in every way is giving splendid service in the interests of husbandry. Those who are interested in any line of farming, stock raising, poultry culture, or what not, should state the subjects in which they are interested, addressing the University of California, Berkeley, California, Department of Agriculture, and they will receive interesting bulletins, suggestions, etc. THE advertisement by Elder M. C. Wilcox, of his home, in another column of this issue of the paper, is worthy of the careful consideration of any one who might be interested in anything of that sort. It is good property and in a desirable location.