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Show DR. WILEY The New York Globe eoinments on Dr. Ala-bcrg'a Ala-bcrg'a appointment to the bureau of chemistry. It h.vs that Dr. Wiley resigned boeause a law passed by eongrrsa, an order of the department of sericulture aud the eharacter of Seeretary Wilton united to irive Snliritor JlcC'abe so mu'h powrr thst Dr. Wiley eotild not effectively proceed pro-ceed flftsinnt nmntifsettirers of impure food and driius. The neroml thing to remember is that neither Seerelarj WiUon'a ehsracter, the department depart-ment order, nor the law has been changed. There is another thing thst mi?ht be remembered remem-bered in thst same connection, and that ia that Dr. Wiley, while a magnificent aeholar, is a hard man to get along with. lie ia as full of kinks as a darky 'a wool, ami his kinks come just at the wrong moment, nometimes. For instsnee, he was going to condemn some carlonds of mnunifWnt pruni's from t'sliroriiia last year bii-ause they were marked "(iermnn prunes" instcNd of "California "Cali-fornia prunes." They were ficrman prunes, r sided in California, but they were (lernuui only lu name. They were sh much American n n child of (ierman parents bom in the I'nit "I Ststes is an American. Of course, that smounts to nothing, except to show the order of the doctor's mind, which is of 'one Mho, while jrifted very highly, would strain at a gnat w hile he wss swallow inn a camel. |