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
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♦ 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. I know several actors whe
claim to own fur overcoats
■ ; ;
CALUMET
ECONOMY—one thing you are
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I® ful saving in your baking. But it does more. MaTIIMm]
K'j It insures wholesome food, tasty food—uniformly raised food. *tI1
■ffl Ca,amet *s made right—to sell right—to bake right. Ask J j'EfSSl/fl
one of the millions of women who use it—or ask your grocer. I J
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M You don't sops money when you buy cheap or big-can baking powder.
M Don*the mislead. Buy Calumet. It's more economical—moreMlWntimc 11 %
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W.LDouglas make* and sells more $3.00,$3.50 & $4.00 shoes A
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THE STANDARD OF QUALITY FOR OVER 30 YEARS.
The workmanship which has made W. L. Douglas shoes famous the world
over is maintained in every pair.
Ask your dealer to show you W. L. Douglas latest fashions for fall and winter
wear, notice the short vamps which make the foot look smaller, points in a
shoe particularly desired by young men. Also the conservative styles which
have made W. L. Douglas shoes a household word everywhere.
If you could visit W. L. Douglas large factories at Brockton, Mass., and see
for yourself how carefully W. L. Douglas shoes are made, you would then un
derstand why they are warranted to fit better, look better, hold their shape and
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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<r;ll is growing wiser.
INTERRUPTED JOY
1^1
Willie—Say, sis, have you seen any
thing of my jelly tart I left on that
chair?
BURNED AND ITCHED BADLY
539 Lincoln Park Blvd., Chicago, 111.
—"A year ago I received a very severe
burn on my left arm. I caught cold In
It and it was all sore and ulcerated.
The sore wr.s as large as a Bilver dol
lar. It was all red and inflamed and
had pus running out of It. I suffered
terribly from burning pain; could not
sleep for two weeks it burned and
itched so badly. I applied - Salve,
- Salve and a salve my druggist
recommended as his own, but got no
relief. I then commenced using the
Cuticura Soap and Ointment. I bathed
the burned parts with Cuticura Soap
and applied the Cuticura Ointment on
a linen bandage. I got relief from the
first, and my arm healed nicely. I was
soon able to be at work again. Had I
used Cuticura Soap and Ointment at
first I would have avoided lots of suf
fering.” (Signed) Harry Junke, Mar.
9, 1912.
Cuticura Soap and Ointment sold
throughout the world. Sample of each
free, with 32-p. Skin Book. Add. post
card "Cuticura, Dept. L, Boston.” Adv.
Recognize Value of Sports.
The scheme on which King George’s
children are educated includes care
ful instruction in all typical open air
sports and games. Cricket, riding,
fencing, boxing, shooting and the like
,the young prince of Wales has been
carefully and scientifically taught b7
past masters.
Disturbing.
"Nora, is my husband home?”
“Yes, mum; he’s in the library,
workin’.”
“Then wake him and tell him I
want to see him.”—Satire.
Important to Mothers
Examine carefully every bottle of
CASTORIA, a safe and sure remedy for
infants and children, and see that it
Bears the
Signature of {
In Use For Over 30 Years.
Children Cry for Fletcher’s Castori*
On the Honeymoon.
She—Edward, don’t look at ths
scenery all the time. Look at me now
and then.—Fltegende Blaetter.
A man must draw the line some
where, but the chances are he will gat
on the other side of It later.
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