Tin * Per/ninoi ! CJomT.
The dentist's sleeve was smeared
fc-lth a pale/lust. He beat it with his
& > alm. : nnl a p ° rfimed cloud arose.
"Makeup. " lie said , laughing , "the
flay's unusual harvest of makeup. Why
the deuce , to front the fierce white light
of a dental chair , -.rill women come to
me with makeup plastered thick on
their pretty faces ? They all , or nearly
nil , do it. Their lips are reddened ,
their brows penciled , their cheeks
routed. : wl in a few cases the liny net
work of veins in the temples is outlined
in blue , regains away at their teeth.
I mop up all that makeup on my cent
lerve. I smear red over while noses ,
black over pink chel : . I'liew ! Look
oul ! "
And. hrushiiig Ii s < u.T agaii. he
leaped h-n-U fo s in 'lieueet . -'nell-
ing cloud thai filli'l Hi" air. - Khange. .
RATTLESNAKE AS A DIET.
3t I i neolari'tl lo Re a Succulent
UliIHInn < o the Table.
There seems to have been an unneces
sary amount of excitement aroused by
, the fact that rattlesnkaes were served
i&t a recent supper in this State at which
'a ' party of automobilists participated ,
, eays the Philadelphia Inquirer. The
icvent would have caused no comment
'tn ' the wilds of Pike County , for the rea-
eon that where the rattlesnake lives he
! is respected , lie is not fooled with be
cause his fangs contain poison. But
Tvhcn he Is once dead he Is a succulent
addition to the hible.
The point should not be overlooked
that in the last agonies of death the
rattlesnake has a way of biting himself
committing suicide to end his mis
eries. In such cases it would be , to say
the least , most imprudent to eat the
poison-impregnated llesh. But it Is sat
isfactory to know that in such cases
the Hesii turns green and can easily be
detected
The rattlesnake is one of the most
edible of his tribe. In the south he is
much esteemed as a diet. He lives on
squirrels and mice and birds , and is not
tie dangerous creature most persons
imagine. On the contrary , he is the
highest of all snake creatures because
, hc irives plenty of warning and does not
desire to attack or be attacked. Ho is
bes-t eaten after ho has been dried and
cured , much after the manner of cod
fish. In the south there is a fine way
of smoking rattlesnake flesh , with the
resuli that when you eat him there is
a sort of smoky , gamy flavor that Is at
leas-t enlivening especially when you
find out what you have been eating.
The snake is not a favorite with civ
ilized man because of a prejudice that
eeems to have lasted a long time. But
it is only a prejudice so far as the table
is concerned. Rattlesnake stew Is one
of the things that adds to the joy of
life There is an aristocracy about the
rattlesnake that all will appreciate
after they have eaten him. It is mere
low-down and ignoble prejudice that
leads people , to imagine that this sort
of flesh is discomfiting.
Peanuts Imported.
So many peanuts are eaten In this th
country that the native supply is not shwi
sufficient for the demand and about wiPi
$3,000 worth of the African nuts were Pipe
imported from Mar.se ffles in 190G and. po
cli
over $70,000 worth in 1907. The west
CO
coast of Africa produces quantities of 4C
peanuts. 4CR
ASTOU1SHED THE DOCTOR R
fate
faH
< Dld Indy Got "Well irith Chansre of
to
Food. '
A great scientist has said we can put thm
off "old age" if we can only nourish
fa
the ibody properly. eli
To do this the right kind of food , of eliA
course , is necessary. The body manu he
factures poisons in the stomach and in 5
testines from certain kinds of food
etuffs and unless sufficient of the right A
'kind ' is used , the injurious elements 1.ai
.overcome . the good. ai
'ttly grandmother , 71 years old , " la
li
writes a. N. Y. lady , "had been an in-
Talid for 18 years from what was called ga
vi
consumption of the stomach and bow viPi
Pi
els. The doctor had given her up to gt
Pf
"I saw so much about Grape-Nuts in
that T j > ersuaded Grandmother to try fn
it.She could not lieep anything on her ai
than minutes. so
stomach for more a few
"She began Grape-Nuts with only a sc
tl
toaspoonful. As that did not distress
bl
her and as she could retain it , she took blDl
a litllc more until she could take all of IK
4 teaspoonfuls at a meal. Cl
ClSi
"Then she began to gain and grovr Si
stroug and her trouble in the stomach tu
xvas gone entirely. She got to enjoy
good health for one so old and we know P'
Grape-Nuts saved her life. sin
"The doctor was astonished that instead suG
G
stead of dying she got well , and with suB
out a drop of medicine after she began de
the Grape-Nuts. " "There's a Reason. "
Na.me given by Postum Co. , Battle st
Creel : , Mich. Read , "The Road to Woll- the
yillein pkgs. a
Ever read the above letter ? A new to
one' appears from time to time. dr
They are genuine , true , and full of IK
human interest. sun
THE WEEKLY
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Mil ! tftt
JS34 Americans repulsed the British at
battle of Ly oil's Creek.
lSJ-"i Napoleon Bonaparte arrived at the
island of St. Helena.
IS20 : Spain ratified treaty ceding Flor
ida to the United States.
IS4'2 Completion of the Crolon water
works celebrated in New York.
ISIS ( > First public application of ether ,
to deaden pain in surgical opera
tions , made at Massachusetts gen
eral lictbnital iii Boston.
ISDO First national convention of ! the
Woman's Suffrage party met in Wor
cester , Mass.
IS.The ! bombardment of Sevastopol
began The Ostcnd manifesto , rec
ommending the purchase of Cuba by
the United States , was issued.
1835 : Grand Trunk railway opened to
Brot-kville , Ontario.
is : ! ) John Brown's raid on Harper's
Ferry.
IS * The Prince of Wales visited Bos-
ton. *
ISG.'J Gen. Grant nppointed to the com-
inaiul of the departments of the Tenfil
Cumberland and Ohio Bat
tle of Bristoe Station , Virginia.
1SGG Twenty-five hundred houses de
stroyed by fire in the French quarter
of Quebec.
18GS " The Oregon Legislature withdrew
its assent to the fourteenth consti
tutional amendment.
ISIS 1 Congress of American women met
in Chicago Dedication of the
Lincoln monument at Springfield ,
Illinois' .
1S7S Lord DniTerin laid the foundation
stone of Dufiferin Terrace at Quebec.
ISIS Centenary of the surrender of
Cormvallis at York town celebrated.
1SS4 Republicans carried the State and
congressional elections in Ohio.
1S91 ! Phillips Brooks consecrated bishop
of Massachusetts.
JS -A memorial to Sir John A. Macdonald -
donald unveiled in Toronto.
1S95 Milwaukee celebrated fche semi
centennial of its incorporation.
1S9G The dispute over the Catholic
schools in Manitoba was settled by
compromise.
1890 Gen. Jimincz elected president of
the Dominican republic.
3900 Lord and Lady Minto completed a
tour of western Canada to the Pa
cific. ' '
1905 Lutheran council in Milwaukee
adopted resolution favoring interna
tional arbitration.
1906 The W. C. T. U.'s world's congress -
gress assembled in Boston.
1907 The first regular wireless dispatck
for commercial purposes was sent
over the Atlantic ocean Philip
pine Assembly opened by Secretary
Taft The Hague peace conference
closed.
TRADE AND INDUSTRY.
The American Smelting and Refining
Company has issued its annual report for
the year ending April 30 last , which
shows a decrease in earnings , compared
with the previous year , of $3,810,770.
President Daniel Guggenheim , in his report -
port to the stockholders , said that the de
cline in business had not impaired the
company's surplus which amounts to $13-
408.219.
David Roberts , cousin of Gen. Lord
Roberts ( , ' "Bobs , " of British-Boer war
fame , who lives in Chicago , and Robert
. Cumming" , an elevator owner of Clif
ton , 111. , closed out September corn on
the Chicago Board of Trade with a half
million ; profit , thereby tying double ami
fancy sailor knots in the tails of the bear
element , led by such masters as J. Ogden q
Armour ; and James H. Patten. Their
holdings at one time were more than
5,000,000 < bushels.
Commercial failures in the month of r
August , as compiled by R. G. Dun were !
1.199 iii number and $23,782,378 in
amount of liabilities. In the same month n
last year there were 850 failures with
g
liabilities { amounting to $13,197,749. Re
garding the general situation , Dun's Re
view says that , despite the gradual im
provement in business and the pronounced
growth of confidence , the aftermath of the
panic of last October is extending over a
into the new year further than was at a
first thought. "Money has become easy
and high-grade commercial paper can be
sold at low terms , but loans are still ,
scrutinized with care. Erratic fluctuations -
tions in the prices of raw material , nota
bly in wheat , cotton and hides , have com
plicated tie situation. Improvements were
noteworthy in the lumber and building
class of industries over last August , the
greatest failures being in lihe manufac a
turing industries.
The Wisconsin ( Bell ) Telephone Com
pany has absorbed the Western Wiscon
: Telephone Company , which had 1 , . " > 00
subscribers and exchanges in Arcadia ,
Galesville , Trcmpealeau , Fountain City , a
Blair , Ettricl : , Whitehall and Imlcpcn-
deuce , Wis. \
Frost ami then warm sun rn\s dc- j
stroyed 20.000 bushels of ripe tomatoes in
g
fields on Muscatine island , causing ,
loss of $10,000 in one day. The toma
toes had been in a frozen state for three
days and were being gathered by all the G
help available. Thirty minutes after the t
shone the crop was a total loss. 1
The great white plague costs the people
ple of the United States over a billion
dollars each year. This statement waa
made by Prof. Irving .Fisher of Yale
before one of the sections of the tuber
culosis congress. lie estimates that
consumption kills iiS.JOO : every year in
the United States. This is equal to the
deaths from typhoid fever , scarlet fever ,
diphtheria , appendicitis , meningitis ,
diabetes , smallpox and cancer all put
together. Then again , it generally takes
three years to die. during which time
the poor victim can earn little or noth
ing. Finally the scourge picks out its
victims when they arc young men and
young women , at the very time they are
beginning to earn money. The mini
mum cost of such items as doctor's bills ,
medicines , nursing and loss of earnings
before death amounts to over $2,400 in
each case , while the earning power
which "might have ibeen , " if death had
not come , brings the total cost to at
least $ S.OOO. If this is multiplied by
the 138,000 deaths , we find the cost is
bigger than the almost incalculable sum
of $1,000,000,000. Prof. Fisher esti
mates that over half of this cost gener
ally falls on the luckless victim him
self , but the cost to others is over $140-
000,000 a year. As a matter of self-
defense it would be worth while to the
community , he shows , in order to save '
merely a quarter of the lives now lost J
by consumption , to invest $ .jf > 00,000,000. } I
At present only a fraction of 1 per cent j j
. , '
of this money is being used to light the j
disease. Five million people now liv- j j
.
ing in the United Slates are doomed to
fill consumptives' graves unless something -
thing is done to prevent it. As each
death means anxiety and grief for a j
whole family , he estimated that there |
will be over 20.000,000 persons rendered
miserable by these deaths.
It has been reported that District
Attorney Jerome of New York had
been asked by William Nelson Crom
well , organizer of big trusts and coun
sel for the government in the purchase
of Panama Canal rights , to investigate
charges of blackmail against one Alex
ander E. Bacon , who claims to have
found evidence that a part at least of
the $40,000.000 paid for those rights by
the United States went to Cromwell
indirectly. The story told was to the j
effect that American financiers had
bought largely the stock of the French
company prior to the purchase by the
American .government. It was said
that the Cromwell syndicate had net
ted ? 3G.oOOGOO in the deal. By order
of the Secertary of War an investiga
tion has been Ivgun at New York of
charges brought by Presidnt Brothers
of the Balanced Cable Crane Company
of Baltimore , who claims that he was
deprived of a contract for Panama Ca
nal work , although he was the lowest
bidder.
Ever since the passage of the pure
food law. manufacturers h.ne com
plained of the injustice of denying
. ,
them the use of the small amount of
preservatives necessary to Keep certain
kinds of food products from fermenta
tion or other form of deterioration.
Professor Wiley of the Bureau of
Chemistry in the Department of Agri
culture has appointed a pure food com
mittee , to represent the different States
having pure food laws , the e.bject of
which will be to harmonize the State
laws with the laws of the government.
The committe will also , wthout doubt ,
define what is a safe amount of preser
vative to be used. It is said that there
has been an increase of ptomain-poi-
soning since the pure food law went
into effect , but perhaps the statement ,
Jike some of the food products , can
best be taken with a grain of salt ov
of boracic acid.
'
After taking observations of the
Wright trial llights at Fort dyer , the
Navy Department has set forth the requirements -
quirements of aeroplanes that will be
acceptable to that department for use
in scouting and dispatch bearing. They
iin
must be able to tloat on the water and
rise from it without extra aid. They
jnrst be supported wholly by the air
without the aid of a gas bag. Each
machine is to carry two persons and a
eufiicient amount of fuel for a continu
ous flight of 2UO miles for four hours
at an average sX ] > ed of forty miles an
hour. They must be able to light with
out damage on either land or water
and float on the water without wetting
any of the supporting areas.
The Secretary of the Navy has writ
ten ( a letter to Robert Conklin , master
of arms at the United States naval
training station at Newport , commend
ing him for his fearless action in jump
ing overboard fully dresssed and res
cuing from drowning Woodward Pliel } " . * ,
G-year-old boy , at Newport , Aug. 29
last.
The army board of physicians which
was ordered by the department to ex
amine Colonel W. F. Stewart , Hie ex
iled officer at rod. ( Jranr , who came
under \ the displeasure of President
Roosevelt , has reported that Stewart is
suffering from heart disease , and is
blind in his right eye , these ailments
having been incurred in active service.
The doctors arc of the opinion that
the colonel is unfit for actire
rice.
Refugees from Aletz , Mich. , Arc
Trapped by Forest Fires and
a Score Perish.
FIFTEEN SKELETONS .FOUND.
Engineer and Fireman Have Thrill
ing Escape After Seeking Safety
in Vain in Water Tank.
Nearly a score of men , women ami
children , refugees from the Michigan
forest fires that have destroyed seven
towns and have caused property losses
estimated at several million dollars ,
were burned to death in a relief train
wreck Friday. The train , consisting of
box . cars , alter leaving the town of Motz
in the upper peninsula , struck a burn
ed out culvert and left the track. The
passengers were trapped on all sides
by the flames and cremated in a fiery
furnace. Fifteen charred skeletons
were found in the burned wreck.
The forest fires above Alpena. in
Presque Isle county , suddenly become
threatening Thursday , after it was be
lieved that the lu > avy rains early in the
month had extinguished them. They
spread rapidly and soon were menacing
ft number of towns along the line of the
Detroit and Mackinac Bailroad. The
village of Met/ , with about 100 inhabitants -
itants i ( , lay in the path of fhe flames.
Its situation became dangerous Thursday -
day night.
=
BELGIANS TO COME HERE.
Movement to Send n Flood of Tham
to United States.
The next great influx of Europeans
into the United States is likely to be
from Belgium. Leon ( Jcnnis , Belgian
vice consul at Havana , who was in
New York on his way from Antwerp
to Cuba , said there was a movement n
foot in Belgium to send a large part
of the country's laboring and farmer
population to America. It was not a
government project , but the govern
ment was looking into the matter to
the extent of finding out for the pros
pective flood of immigrants , which Mr.
( Jenis said might for a time rival the
influx of Italians into the United States ,
in what places they might best settle
as fanners and laborers.
Belgium , . Mr. Oenis said , was the
most densely populated country in Eu
rope and was suffering from the hard
times more than countries that had
more land to cultivate and lue on. The
present population is estimated as
somewhat under .9.000.000. and if the
State of California had a population so
dense she would be supporting much
more than 100,000.000 people. lie esti
mated that there was one person to a
little more than every half acre h : Bel
gium.
He is coming back here in March to
look OAcr the country to see where the
Belgian immigrants may best fit in. If
the congestion was not relieved , he
sclfl. there would be much suffering in
Belgium. The immigrants would make
very desirable citizens , being hardj
workers.
Mrs. Avlor's Soeinl .Standard * .
The woman who for many years has
bcon the recognized loader of the inner
elect of New York's fashionable society ,
and who is the oldest member of the Astor -
tor f.imily. has signalized her retirement
from that lofty semi-ofHcial station in a
frank interview with Miss Rebecca Ins-
ley for the October Delineator. Mrs.
MAP OF MICHIGAN FOREST FIRE SHOWING
WHERE RELIEF TRAIN WAS BURNED.
TJifB2JLC.ve.ttCS -
'
iv TT / t'\ \
The railroad sent in a relief train of
box cars. Household goods and
mercantile stocks were loadeel on some
of the cars and the people filled the
others. IJow many were taken aboard
is not known , nor is it known whether
any of the farmers from outhing
points had come into Metz seeking
refuge i from the flames.
With its load of frightened men. wo-
nien and children the train pulled out
of Metz about midnight and started
for the north , with flames along the
tracks on both sides. The cars pro
ceeded toward the north as far as
Hawk's station , about half-way be
tween Metz and Millersburg. There
the fire was sweeping across the track
so fiercely as to make further progress
I
in that direction impossible and the
train was headed back toward the
south for Alpeua. While rushing
through the fire ami 'smoke the engine
struck a culvert which had been burn
ed. It left the rails and fell into the
ditch.
Engineer Foster and Fireman L ° e
took refuge in a water tank , where they
stayed until the water became so hot
that they had to leave the lank and
run for their lives. They , with Con
ductor Kinville. realizing that the
train was hopelessly ditched and that
to remain with it meant certain death ,
started to Pos.cn. They left the wreck
and ebcaped by crawling along the
tracks on lUeir hands and knees , with
the forests , on both sides roaring fur
naces. Conductor Kinville is reported
to be blind from his burns , but Foster
and Lee are understood to be not
nevercly injured. There are reports
that several otlms escaped -with the
trainmen.
Astor expresses the hope that her influ
ence will be felt in discountenancing "the
undignified methods employed by some
New York women to gain a following , "
adding that they had given entertainments
that belonged "under a tent rather than
in a gentlewoman's house. " The ideal
of "societv" which Mrs- . Astor clings to
is that of the olel French salon and she
refers with praise to the better conditions
in England to-day , where statesmen and
artists grace the social functions of the
leading women. All her life she says she
has thought of doing the same thing in
this country , but was prevented by the
unfavorable conditions. Among these she
mentions tlie fact that we have only poli
ticians where the English have states
men. ' 'Many of our Senators and Con
gressmen .sPPtn to base their title to public
fa\or. ' ' she explains , "upon their uncouth
manneijs and lack of refinement , upon the
Lint that they once wore no socks or once
wore blue jeans. " And then she exclaims
that if they \\ere all like Mr. Roosevelt
"what a difference there would be. " lie
at least is not above "paying scrupulous
attention to his wardrobe and his man-
no rand any hostess in New York or
Newport "would ho proud to entertain
him. and the men in Washington like
him. " She next excuses her failure to re
alize the more democratic ideal in Amer
ica on the ground that here people are
unwilling to recognize any authority in
social matters , as they < le > in England ,
where the King is th" leader of society.
Here "each woman is for herself and
trying to outdo the others in hvhh dis
play and mad extravagance. " She ad
mits that the younger generation are in
clined to go to excess in their amuse
ments , but denies that they are degener
ate. She says that the women are "easily
trained in domestic matters , and taught
to appreciate their responsibility to the
poor , " and that tiheir charity work is au
important part of their lives.
JAPANESE lU AMEEICA.
Tha 00,000 Bachelors Here to
Furnished with Wives.
The 90.0 < J < > Japanese bachelors in th'i
United States are to be married offi
cially. Emigration Agent Shimanukl
of Tokio has made it his business to
provide them with wives from their
own country and to that end he has
established the "KyoKkokai. "
This weirdly named institution is a
sort of matrimonial agency for supply
ing Japanese brides to Japanese set
tlers in America. Of these it ia esti
mated there are 100,00) . of whom DO
per cent are wifeless. The proefeduro
is as follows : When a Japanese atiroad
wants a wife he sends his photograph ,
dul- certified , to the agency in Tokio.
This is submitted to all the candidates
for m.itriinony at the Itynkkokai , and
those girls who have been favorably
impressed ' ciul their photographs in
return , with a record of the- fitness and
general attainments of each. All the
girls entered at the Kyokkokai are in
structed how to lie useful wives to sx't-
tlei's in America. The main idea of
the scheme is that if all the Japanese
in America can be persu.ide'd to settle
there and futind families , their children
may become American citizens , tliui
tending to an ultimate removal of the
anti-Japanese feeling in the United
States.
Ohio Coiii ' > ry.
Ohio is going after the saloons with
a \engeanee. Already sixteen counties
have held elections under the Hose lo
cal option , and every one lias gone
"dry , " driving several hundred saloons
out of business. It is predicted now
that when rise elections are over nine-
tenths of the counties in Ohio will bo
so. It is planned to have elections in
the majority of the counties before the
presidential election , others wailing till
afterward for fear of the effect the
voting may have on the regular e-Icc-
tion.
oi the "White
One of the principal orators' at tin
sessions of the Intel-national Congress
on Tuberculosis in Washington tlris *
week was Professor Irving Fisher of
Yale University. lie said the annual
cost of tuberculosis to the United
States is over $5.000,000,000 ; that I.'KJ-
000 persons die of that disease each
year , and that 5,000,000 persons now liv
ing are destined to die from it unless
measures were taken to prevent. Tu
berculosis wipes out as many lives as
lo typhoid fever , scarlet fever , diph
theria , appendicitis , meningitis , diabe-
es , small pox and cancer all put to
gether. He strongly recommends isola
tion hospitals for the incurably af-
lieted.
Grt ut 7jOMH front Forest Fires.
It is feared that the total loss by
forest fires in the east this year will
amount to $50,000.000. Already the
forest fires of Canada have burned up
timber valued at $30,000,000. Destruc
tive fires are also reported from the
\rest , and , taking Canada and the Uni
ted States together , the loss from this
cause will probably amotint to about
$100,000,000. When It is considered
that the value of all the hog products
exported by this country in 1007 waa
only $130,432,473 , that the value of tha
corn exported for the same year was
only about $ -J5,000,000 , and that the
value of neither the oats , wheat not
f lour exported in 1907 came anywhera
near the hundred million mark , one gets
some idea of what such a great loss
means. { To be sure , it is divided be
tween Canada and this country , 'but '
our share of it is so great that thera
are comparatively few articles of do
mestic merchandise on the export list
which return us as exports the value
of that share.
NUBBINS OF NEWS.
Representatives of the coal miners < H
Washington and the coal operators met
recently and sizned an agreement for th *
present wage scale to be in force for tha
next two years.
President Roosevelt has told Israel
Zungwill , the playwright , who was hla
guest at luncheon , that the line , "Not being
American , hold troth * *
ing we our sacred ,
in "Tho Melting Pot. " was an unjust slui
upon American domestic life and suggest
ed that it be changed , which suggestion.
ZingwiH is considering.
P. T. Eker and S. Ecker were sen
tenced at Clarksburg. W. Va. , to foua
jears in the penitentiary for making spu
rious nickol.s. which were used to work
slot machine- .
Grand Duchess Elizabeth , widow ol
Grand Duke Sergiti ? . who was assassinat
ed at Moscow in 1905. has retired to a
Ru ian convent near Moscow. She may
decide to take the veil.
At a reception in the Lyric Theafer ,
> e\v York , under the auspices of the
United Irish League , John E. Redmond
and Joseph Devlin , the Irish envoys , were
given a rousing reception by a large
dience.
