YOUNG WIFE SAVED FROM HOSPITAL Tells How Sick She Was And What Saved Her From An Operation. Upper Sandusky, Ohio. — “ Three yean ago 1 was married and went to house I keeping. 1 was nol feeling well and could hardly drag myself along. 1 had such tired feelings, my back ached, my sides ached, I had bladder trouble aw fully bad, and I could not eat or sleep. I had headaches, too, and became almost a ner .... voufl wrecK. My doc tor told me to go to a hospital. I did not like that idea very well, so, when 1 •aw yoor advertisement in a paper, 1 wrote to you for advice, and have done as you told me. I have taken Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound and Liver Pills, and now I have my health. "If sick and ailing women would only know enough to take your medicine, they would get relief. ’’—Mrs. Benm. H. Stans BEHY, Route 6, Box 18, Upper Sandusky, Ohio. If you have mysterious pains, irregu larity, backache, extreme nervousness, Inflainmation, ulceration or displace ment, don’t wait too long, but try Lydia B. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound now. Pot thirty years Lydia E. Pinkham’i Vegetable Compound, made from roots and herbs, has been the standard remedy for female ills, and such unquestionable testimony as the above proves the value sf this famous remedy and should give every one confidence. 1 FOR EVE ^_ DISEASES --!_._l Hard to Manage. “I never see you eat corn on the cob." "No. I always avoid laborious food." Matrimony In Australia. Bridegrooms in Australia last year ranged from sixteen to ninety-nine years of age, and the records show the youngest bride was fifteen, and the oldest eighty-two. One man of seventy-seven married a girl of eight een. It Is not surprising to learn that more marriages were reported from the country than ever before. American Tools Preferred. A favorite sport In New Zealand, as also in Australia and Tasmania, 1s competition in wood chopping and sawing; and in these contests, which attract a great deal of Interest, the championships are always won through the use of American tools. In faot, the expert woodsman working for a prise would never think of us ing any other kind of tools. Compensation. A fairly prominent local pugilist was injured several months ago In an automobile accident and had three ribs broken. Fully recovered, he was discussing the Incident recently wltb friends. "I got $100 out of the auto owner,” he said. “Had to give the lawyer half and it cost $56 tor doctor’s bills, but 1 made them pay $100 for the thing, anyhow.” One Universal Symbol. "Scientists at work on a universal language have one symbol to start with what already has the same meaning the world over,” a traveler said. "That 1b the skull and cross bones. Its speech Is even more uni versal than music or money. Musical values differ In different countries, so does money, but from one end of the earth to the other a skull and cross bones means poison.” RIGHT HOME Doctor Recommend* Poetum from Per , eonal Test. No one Is better able to realize the Injurious action of caffeine—the drug In coffee—on the heart, than the doc tor. Tea Is just as harmful as coffee because It, too, contains the drug caf feine. When the doctor himself has been relieved by simply leaving off coffee and using Postum, he can refer with full conviction to his own case. A Mo. physician prescribes Postum for many of his patients because he was benefited by it. He says: "I wish to add my testimony In re gard to that excellent preparation— Postum. I have had functional or nervous heart trouble for over IS years, and a part of the time was un able to attend to my business. "I vraa a moderate user of coffee and did not think drinking It hurt me. But on stopping It and using Postum In stead, my heart has got all right, and I ascribe it to the change from coffee to Postum. “I am prescribing It now In cases of ■ sickness, especially when coffee does not agree, or affects the heart, nerves or stomach. "When made right it has a much bet ter flavor than coffee, and Is a vital sustalner of the system. I shall con tinue to recommend it to our people, and I have my own case to refer to." Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. Read the little book, "The Road to WellvllleIn pkgs. “There’s a reason.” Enr mi the above letter* A new me appear* from time to time. Ther are seaalac. true, nad fall el hamaa tairrest, Adv. TOO MANY MIDDLEMEN SA Y NEW _YORK FOOD COST INVESTIGATORS Products Pass Through Greater Number Of Hands Than Is Necessary. CONCENTRATION IS URGED Having Investigated the present ac tual condition of the supply, market ing and distribution of food to the j consumer In New York City and the other chief centers of population In New York state, the committee on market prices and costs, the special sub-division of the state food Invest ing commission, has now reached defi nite conclusions and formulated them In its report with recommendations for legislative action. To meet the general complaint of the Increasing cost of liv ing the committee's main purpose was to examine how far In the marketing of food commodities prices are raised to the consumer by Inadequate and un economical facilities and methods of distribution. This involved public hearings with the ample means and opportunities afforded by the authority of tne state, a personal examination of the facts and a statistical investigation of prices from the terminal to the con sumer. A close comparison was also made between the various modes of marketing food at wholesale and retail by public and private organizations. The variety and universality of the marketing process in New York City afforded a most valuable field for the examination and demanded the great est share of attention, which it re ceived. The other cities of the state, as well as the country districts coming under the reflex or the cities as af fected In the regulation of market prices came within the purview of the committee and have proportionately re ceived due attention. Marketing Agencies. The committee found that the mar keting agencies of Clreuter New York, the second greatest consuming center in the world, are covered by 1.1 classes of food distributers ranging from the' municipal wholesale markets, the wholesale markets conducted by rail way and steamship lines and the farm ers’ markets, to the corner grocery and pushcart types through the Intermedi ate type of stores. Among these dis tributing agencies the markets com mittee reached the conclusion as the result of its minute Investigation that the large retail unit or food department store, buying direct, receiving direct, and selling direct, is the best economic type in point of efficiency, minimum of waste, satisfactory distribution and due rewards for management and capi tal. Towards the development of such stores the committee believes retailers, wholesalers, and private organizations should move. To compensate for the comparative neglect which the muni cipal interest of marketing has suffered In comparison with those of transpor tation, police, streets, docks, water and others the committee recommends that the charters of the various cities of the state be amended so us to pro vide for department of markets charged with the economic and sanitary super vision of food supplies used In the mu nicipalities. The department of mar kets, It Is further recommended, should be charged with the duty of publishing accurate statements of market needs and prices to be sent to producers of food supplies, so that they may be protected from extortion and offered facilities for marketing, the commit tee finds that the primary or whole sale prices should be fixed by sys tematic auction In lots suitable for pur chase by retailers. Th« Auction Plan. Such actions should be conducted under the auspices of the city or of a public organization, not for profit, so that this auction In which all parties Interested should have a voice would constitute, on primary prices, a pro ducers and consumers market. The system Is successfully practised In for 44444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444 ♦ Quantity and Value of Food | l Consumed Yearly in New York | 4 ♦ 4 Here Is the New York state food investigating commission's esti- 4 4 mate of the approximate quantities and retail values of some main food 4 4 products annually consumed in New York city: 4 4 1. Beef and other meat food products—880,000,000 pounds 4 4 at 20 cents...*176,000,000 4 4 2. Milk—800,000,000 quarts at 8 cents. 64,000,000 4 4 3. Butter—139,000,000 pounds at 36 cents. 68,650,000 4 4 4. Kggs—150,501,630 dozen at 30 cents. 45,150,489 4 4 6. Bread—900,000,000 loaves at 5 cents. 45,000,000 4 4 6. Sugar—400,000,000 pounds at 7 cents._. 28,000,000 4 4 7. Poultry ...:.... 20,000,000 4 4 8. Potatoes—750,000,000 pounds at 2 cents.. 15,000,000 4 4 9. Fish—150,000,000 pounds at 10 cents. 15,000,000 4 4 10. Coffee—45,000,000 pounds at 25 cents. 11,250,000 4 4 11. Other vegetables and fruit. 6,000,000 4 4 12. Cheese—28,956,009 pounds at 16 cents. 4,632,960 4 4 13. Tea—5,000,000 pounds at 40 cents... 2,000,000 4 4 14. Cereals . 6,000,000 4 4 15. Canned goods . 150,000,000 4 4 4 4 Tital.—....*644,683,449 4 ♦ 4 elgn metropolitan markets. Finally, the committee recommends that the rail road and steamship lines entering the cities of the state should be encour uged and required to provide adequate facilities for the prompt deliveries of food products for their sale by auction on the premises, for temporary storage, both cold and general, to carry over one or two days’ supply, for the pub location ot bulletins showing supplies to arrive. Adopting as a guiding principle the elimination of all that tends to the unnecessary stoppage In transit, as multiplied transfers and delays must Increase the ultimate cost to the con sumer, the committee expresses Itself adversely to the construction of pub lic market structures and terminals that might impose heavy fixed charges on the community and be Incapable of changing with altered conditions of population and habits. The history of New York city’s markets is given as a warning example. It Is pointed out that for the most part the buildings In the wholesale district where the trans portation terminals are located on the extreme southwesterly edge of Manhat tan are old, ill built, or 111 planned and none of them (ire located on railroad tracks or pier heads. If the matter were In the hands of a powerful com mercial agency, the wholesale plant, for food handling In the city would, with two exceptions, be "scrapped." Cut Distributing Cost. The fundamental aim, then, In seek ing the reduction of the cost of food is to minimize the cost of distribution. The committee estimates that the an nual food supply of the greater New York costs at the transportation ter minals $350,000,000 or over, and that it costs In the consumers’ kitchen $500, 000,000 or over. The testimony taken at the hearings, the committee thinks, shows that this addition of about 45 per cent to the price Is chiefly made by cost of handling and not by profits. In fact, the evidence showed that the smaller retailers are barely making wages, the corner groceries being ’gen erally a mere means of gaining a fam ily livelihood. The suggested substitu tion of large unit retail stores capable of supplying 25,000 to 60,000 people and each with cold and general storage fa cilities would, the committee finds, bring about a system of food distribu tion at a cost of 15 per cent without de livery and 20 per cent with delivery, as against a cost of'25 per cent to 30 per cent for the present separate wholesale and retail systems without delivery and at a cost of 35 per cent to 40 per cent with delivery. Witnesses before the committee gave actual fig ures of operation from which it is in | ferred that the total cost of wholesal ing, including profits, is probably about 10 per cent and of retailing 35 per cent, added, in both cases to the first cost. If the plans adopted by most successful agencies for wholesale and retail dis tribution respectively should be fol lowed in New York city at large, the committee estimates that the reorgan ization of the facilities and methods of doing business would result in a saving of $60,0000,000 per annum, or 12 per cent on the present retail prices. While seeking to minimize the inter mediary costs of transportation, the committee recognizes that a saving from improved facilities is only a part of the problem, and that the real ob ject of the city should be to increase the supply and especially the nearby supply of food products. Not the least valuable portion of the report is that devoted to the market supplies and prices of particular products. The in quiry brought out in a comprehensive form, such as it has not hitherto been possible to secure. Important informa tion as to the marketing of milk, but ter and eggs, and the effects of the cold storage system. From the socio logical point of view, many points of Interest are to be found in the sections of the report relating to the side Issues which have an important bearing on the main economic problem, since the habits of the people, their preference, customs and idiosyncracies have all to be taken into account. The influence of the telephone and motor truck upon changing the course of domestic mar keting has been immense and experi ence of store owners and consumers as related by themselves in testimony recorded by the committee, throws a flood of light upon the subject. Il luminating facts are given about the extension of suburbs and its revival by use of motor trucks giving a longer range of haul to market. That large returns are still possible is shown in the Instances quoted, a Woodhaven farmer realizing this July in the Oan sevoort market a gross return of $43 on a load of radishes, lettuce and small cabbage, the cost of marketing being 26 2-3 per cent; while a Staten island farmer made $50 on a one-horse wagon of lettuce and beets at a marketing ex pense of 17 per cent, and Buffalo farm ers bringing in produce within a radius of 25 miles, net from $100 to $150 a load, after spending in the cost of handling 10 per cent for all charges. The committee, which has as its chairman, William Church Osborn, consisted of. in addition to the chair man. Hon. Calvin J. Huson, commis sioner of agriculture, and Ezra A. Tut tle, and was assisted by Horace V. Bruce, expert investigator, and Ray mond A. Pearson, ex-commissioner of agriculture. EYES OF WIFE MURDERER WILL BE GRAFTED INTO THIS BLIND NEWSBOY i ~i nrr - - Atlanta, Ga.—John Cashin. blind newsboy. Is waiting for a condemned murderer to die so he can get the dead man's eyes. But Cashin may be disappointed, as Robert L. Clay, from whose warm body surgeons expect to graft the seeing eyes, Is fighting for a new trial on the charge that he killed his wife. Cashin submitted the plan himself and specialists declared It feasible. When he heard Clay was to die, Cashin said to a doctor: “Why can’t you take his eyes and put them In place of mine? He won’t need them. Why shouldn’t I have them'* He has lost his right to live, the law says, and why. then, not give mo his perfect physical vision, so that I may live as other men, not as a de pendent. Cashin has been disappointed once. The execution originally was set for July. Dr. Phlnsy Calhoun Is to have charge of the operation If Clay dies. Hero Is the plan: Clay's eyes will be removed Im mediately after he has paid the pen alty. They will be placed in a warm saline solution and hurried to a hos pital. where Cashin will be waiting. The cornea, the seeing part of the eye. will then be put In place of Cash lady had practically doubled any pre vious record In Mississippi, as th« greatest number of cans officially re ported in any sate was 1,036 from one tenth of an acre. This record was made in South Carolina last year, being only 20 cans in excess of Mississippi’i record of 1,016 cans. She states that a number of Mississippi girls are this year taking advantage of the fact that two crops of tomatoes can be grown on the same land in one season. To encourage such work several prizes are offered for the best exhibit of fresh ripe tomatoes shown at the Mississippi State fair, to be held in Jackson in October. The city of Palermo. Sicily, has 360. 000 Inhabitants, yet during the years 1908 to 1910 there were only 338 fires, which cost the trifling loss of $90,000 t jit a> •'—i r JOHN CASHIN AND THE EYES HE’3 TO GET. In's useless cornea. Then, Dr. Cal houn says, the optic nerve, long un used. will exercise Its function, and Cashin will see. Veteran Railroad Man Ratired. Engineers ready to depart on great (Chicago Telegram to the Pittsburgh Dls- trains (or the coast cities left their en ~ > *lnes to shake hands for the last time "Be dutiful. Be ambitious. Be charlta- with the "boss" of the yard. ble. B* honest." _ r m , "Honest Bill" Grady, his hair and heard A Young Woman's Tomato Record. snow white, Thursday gave this phllos- . , ophy to 100 employes gathered In the ... »attle»bu^ “a... News. Union station to witness his passing from ,h„ 'Llts1!? ' • 1 Passed through the service of the Pennsylvania railroad enroute to Mt. after 46 year, of service The veteran- tur A "for^,v,c° d®‘ive" y,da>' a lel" he was the railroad foreman-was pen- there. fMlss „ £ tn tg™gr^. sloned today having reached the age of alrla. Tomato cIub ia v encourag 70 years and employes, from ‘heJowly ing thls aeason There ar> * track laboreiw to the head station officials. enrolled ,n these cluba and the u* of. presented him with a gold-headed cane nclal reports received Indicate great and hoquets of flowers ..... enthusiasm and marvelous records for “I feel that l have done my duty, he this season. When asked If she had said. “I have tried to be a man all my heard of Miss Chatham’s achievement life. Through the hardships and perils of at Petal In putting up over 2,000 cans 45 years of service I never had an accl- of tomatoes from one-tenth of an acre, dent. Responsibility for the loss of rail- she said she had. and if the report Is I road property has never been mine." true it would mean that the young SAFE SUMMERTIME STORIES. "That actor claims to have Inherited the mantle of Edwin Forrest." "Those stor.es are safe In the sum mertime. 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CAUTION.—To protect you against inferior shoes. W. L. Douglas stamps his name on the hot. tom. Look for the stamp. Beware of substitutes. W. L. Douglas shoes are sold in 78 own , stores and shoe dealers everywhere. No matter where you live, they are within your reach. If your dealer cannot supply you, write direct to factory for catalog showing how to order by mail. Shoes sent everywhere, delivery charges prepaid. WX.Douglas.Brockton.Masa. b_-—-.-.-— FOREIGN BELIEFS ARE QUEER Spanish Wedding Is Ruined If One Person Appears Entirely In Black —Some Other Signs. In Spain the wedding is spoiled if one of the guests appears entirely in black, or if the bride looks into a mirror after orange blossoms and veil are fast in her headdress. When a person’s hair ends split, it’s taken by' the superstitious for a sign that she is either a witch or has been bewitched. As blond hair splits more readily than dark hair, all witches, spirits and sorceresses have blond or red hair, according to popular belief. Likewise, according to the standard ot art. On the marriage there is often much good-natured rivalry between the groom and the bride in the Slav countries as to who shall blow out the candle, for the person who does will be ‘‘first to die." It Is imposible to trace the origin of this superstition, yet it prevails in aristocratic society as well as in the peasant’s hut, even as like this, that "to insure the life and health of the children” the wom an must occupy the right side of the 1 bed. In addition, she must not smoke before her forty-fifth year. There is a superstition in this coun try and many others against burning a broom. The bud of birch broom Is used in southern Germany as a pre ventive against erysipelas. These buds, a piece of yellow wax and some other articles are enclosed in a pink si 1 k bag, secured with red silk and worn on the back of the neck. The person must change his shirt every Friday. Sang for Sultan. Mulai Hafid, the ex-sultan of Moroc co, while staying at Vichy, in France, made an excursion to Les Ardoisieres, says the Matin, where Napoleon Ill used often to go for rest. Three young girls, sisters, timidly approached the sultan and asked him to sign post cards. Mulai Hafid consented on con dition that they would each sing a song to him. Two of the girls at once complied, and the delighted Mu lai Hafid wrote on their cards words which, translated, mean: "Like Na poleon III- I have visited Les Ardoi sieres, where I have enjoyed, together with the calm and freshness of na ture, the grace and charm of the voices of Miles. Paulette and Clo tilde." The third girl did not know how to sing, but one of her sisters having sung for her the sultan added the name of Gabrtelle. Wild Ones. Charles Grafly, the noted sculptor, was talking at his summer home at Folly Grove, near Gloucester, about the quaint humor of the Gloucester fish ermen. "In Gloucester one day," he said, "as I idled among the shipping, an old salt began to narrate his experiences to me. " ‘Wunst,’ he said. ‘I was ship wricked in the South Bea. and thar I come across a tribe of wild women without tongues.’ ‘‘‘Wild women without tongues!’ said I. ‘Goodness! How could they talk?*” The political candidate who "also ‘ran’’ is unable to see wherela '-he, w