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!'. . . - , .. i - i m 88 fe? VX SB I Columbus Journal By COLUMBUS JOURNAL Ca. COLUMBUS, NEBRASKA. General News i A rag picker recently died in Ga tham leaving a fortune of $45,000. I The Iowa senate passec unanimous ly the Newberry pore food measure. Charles H. Turner, once prominent in politics in St Louis, .died in New York. The health department at Havana announces that no cases of yellow fever exist in Cuba. The four upper floors of the office building of the Equitable Life Assur ance society at Memphis, Tenn., were gutted by fire. Ambassador White Minister Gum mere and Consul Sprague held a recep tion at the American consulate at Gi braltar in honor of Washington's birth day. George F. Castor, congressman from the Third district of Pennsylvania, em bracing several wards in Philadelphia, died after a long illness, aged 51 years. The mutinous Cossacks at Glagln skaia surrendered to the authorities after having been subjected to a bom bardment, and delivered up the chief agitators and regimental colors. Another very severe earthquake shock was felt on the British West Indian island of St Lucia. Slight chocks have been felt there at fre quent intervals since February 16. I The order transferring General Frank D. Baldwin, now temporarily in command of the Southwestern divi sion, to command the department of Dakota, has been temporarily suspend ed. The Ohio senate, by unanimous vote adopted the O'Rourke house joint res olution requesting Ohio's representa tives in congress to vote for railway rate legislation desired by the presi dent The Illinois supreme court has de cided that residuary legacies must bear their share of the inheritance tax incidentally after the death of the testator and not at the end of the pe riod of trust Although the Franco-German dead lock remains unbroken, the opinion of the delegates to the Moroccan confer ence fluctuates as to the results, the view being rather more hopeful that some solution is possible. The senate committee on public lands authorized favorable reports on three bills concerning national parks. Among these is the bill for the crea tion of the Battle Mountain sanitarium park of Hot Springs, S. D. - Although official announcement of the terms will not be made for several days, it is understood that the merger of the United Lead Company with the National Lead company practically has become authoritative. J. C. Hampton, a veteran of the Boer war, was arrested at Chicago, charged with being the man who killed and robbed the station agent of the South ern Pacific Railroad company at Dome, Ariz., early in January. Washington's birthday was honored in London under the auspices of the local branch of the Natal League of the United States at the Sevoy hotel. Ambassador Reld presided and about 150 Americans were present A membership on the St Louis Stock exchange was sold to William M. Louderman for f 8,500, making the record price for a seat on the ex change. The price Is an advance of $1,000 over the preceding sale. J. H. Hill, president of the Eden Park Coal company at Huntington, W. Va., was shot and killed by Erwin Porter, 18 years of age. Porter was captured. Hill and the Porter boy had an altercation over some matter about the mines. A dispatch from Teheran, Persia, an nounced that the reappointment of the Shah's fourth son Abdul Fazl Mirza, to the government of the province of Chilan, has aroused great dissatisfac tion among the merchants, priests and land owners. Dr. Walter Brinkerhoff of the Har vard Medical 'school has received offi cial notice of his appointment as di rector of the United States govern ment leprosy research hospital to be established in the leper settlement in the Hawaiian islands. Rear Admiral Sigsbee, commanding the second squadron of the American Atlantic fleet, has given permission to more than 100 sailors from his snips, which are now at Naples, to go to Rome on Thursday wnere they will be received by the pope. The directors of the Chicago & Northwestern Railway company have .authorized the issuance of additional 'common stock to the amount of $16, 267,400, which amounts to 20 per cent iof the total preferred and common stock now outstanding. John Mitchell, president of the United Mine Workers of America, re ceived a telegram from Peoria, ill., in which he was offered the democratic nomination for congress to represent that district Mr. Mitchell immed iately replied declining the nomina tion. A rupture in the relations between the building trades unions, represent ing 50.000 mechanics, and the employ ing contractors of Chicago has been caused by the sympathetic strike ques tion and labor trouble of wide extent in the building field are threatened for the near future. Major General A. W. Greely, recently promoted, has been assigned to tem porary command of the Pacific division with headquarters at San Francisco pending the return to the United States of Major General Arthur Mac Arthur, the regular commandant now in India. Thomas E. Sxnither, formerly assayer of the Denver mint died at his home in Denver of apoplexy. The marriage of Miss Hildgarde Mc Kenna, youngest daughter of Associate Justice and Mrs. McKenna, to John Legett Pnltz occurred at Washington, at the home of the bride. . ,"--.',. .y:'.'-itji.-S.i. j -, J- 5-. .:r -,".''. . .. r.-'- - . .- - -e-. THE NEWS IN NEBRASKA, NEBRASKA BRIEF Business men of Ashland nave or ganized a commercial club. Great Northern track-layers are now working four miles west of Oakland. Mrs. George Keller, of Ashland, dropped dead from heart failure. - Belle Kilsey is In jail at Broken Bow serving out a fine of $25 for shop lifting. Mr. and Mrs. B. T. Snyder of Loup City, last week celebrated their golden wedding. Ladies of the Presbyterian church at Plattsmouth realized over $100 from a "rummage" sale. After being closed nearly all winter the hotel at McCool has been again opened to the sublic. The authorities of Tekamah closed the churches and schools for a few days on account of diphtheria. Religious meetings in Fairbury con tinued five weeks, during which there were over three hundred conversions. The Christian church congregation of Beatrice will soon begin the con struction of a new edifice to cost prob ably $12,000. Blackleg has broken out among the cattle of western Cass county farmers, and a large number of the animals have perished. The right-of-way contracts for the Union Pacific cut-off connecting with Stromsburg are about all secured and the line seems to be assured. The fine new Congregational church at Ashland will be dedicated February 25th. The structure cost $12,000 and is practically free from debt An artificial Ice plant will probably be constructed at Central City in a short time, as it seems to be the only way of providing ice in that vicinity. The Nebraska National guard will be inspected beginning February 28. Captain Frank A. Wilcox of the Thir tieth Infantry will be the inspecting officer. This promises to be an unprecedent ed year for building in Cambridge. There are now $55,000 worth of build ings in prospect and under construc tion. The Southwest Nebraska Teachers' association will be held in Arapahoe, March 30 and 31. William Hawley Smith and Dr. Ross will deliver lec tures. Governor Mickey received from the St Louis exposition officials a hand some bronze medal, heart-shaped, and bearing an inscription commemorating Nebraska day at the exposition. At Auburn Dr. James L. Grady, charged with attempting to corrupt a witness and to induce hita to commit perjury, was held by County Judge McCarty to the district court for trial. The Updike Grain company of Oma ha has completed the purchase of a large line of elevators in Nebraska and Kansas formerly owned by W. H. Ferguson of Lincoln, who is a stock holder in the Updike firm. Governor Mickey has honored the requisition of the governor of Okla homa for the return to Logan county of G. W. Burton, "wanted" for dispos ing of mortgaged property. Burton is now under arrest in South Omaha. At Seward John Cox of Utica, charged with selling liquor without a license, had his preliminary hearing and was bound over to the district court His bond, was fixed at $500 which was furnished by Wallace Boon. The annual meeting of the stockhold ers of the Farmers' Grain and Live Stock company of Oakland, was held last week. The reports showed the company to be in a flourishing condi tion and a 10 per cent dividend was de clared. Frank Fulton of Wymore, has ar ranged for the publication of a month ly magazine in the interests of park and cemetery improvement societies. It is Mr. Fulton's intention to perfect a national organization or these so cities. Engineer Al Shearon of the Hock Island, while oiling his engine in the yards at Fairbury, slipped and fell with his left arm across the rail. The engine was moving slowly and the drivers cut off his hand and lacerated the flesh to the elbow. Milo Draemel, who graduated from the Naval academy at Annapolis, has returned home to Fremont, until March 10, when he leaves for Seattle to report for duty at the Philippine sta tion. Mr. Draemel is the first Fre mont boy to graduate from Annapolis. Fred Hinze. the sugar manufacturer of Chippewa Falls, Wis., who had pre viously made a proposition to the In dustrial company at Norfolk, looking to converting the old sugar factory into a new plant, with local capital in vested along with outside funds, ar rived in Norfolk, looked over the plant, expressed himself favorably and then made a proposition which the .company immediately declined. Rev. Knox Boude. pastor of the Os ceola Presbyterian church, has accept ed a position in California, and re signed his pastorate with the Osceola organization. He will leave with his family to assume his work on the coast March 10. An effort is being made by several leading citizens of Nebraska City, to have theMattes Brewing plant which was recently badly burned, pass into new hands. An effort is being made to form a new stock company and place the management of the plant in the hands of ex-Commissioner Theo dore Webering. J. J. Lynch, the Northwestern fire man who is alleged to have left Scrib ner with $400 belonging to a widow, has concluded to fight the case that will be filed against him In district court and has employed an attorney to look after his interest Lynch is in Jail. Last year the Farmers Elevator company at Odell bought 127,000 bush edls of corn, 46,000 bushels of wheat and 18.000 bushels of oats. At a re cent meeting of the stockholders a lib eral dividend was declared in addition to paying the highest market price for grain. 'JvpA .ia '"'fL'-T,tyi;trgTrgEr-L-f--i'.i"ii.j.":;. ji -. '---. -r-1 V; !. ".. . I x "., ,. " . ,. S, ...- .... i."- - - --. --! -win, -, -triTTtr- ;f-fc--T. .w-J-iftftlt T I V r-.-y-'-y.. i t : e - ' t. ,c - fiS'Jt T, - .-(, , &- ;jf ... . -,,.... ?i. .--. . -., ..,--; .; - ..... -.-' IMMHUIiiMt MMMfc . , . m . . mi. . T-'A'.V -' ' - '- -T" "!.--- . . AS TO INSURANCE COMPANIES. Deputy Pierce Believes They Will All Pay Up in Time. LINCOLN Insurance Deputy Pierce does not know officially that fire In surance companies are doing business in Nebraska without a license, though he suspects it as an Individual, conse quently he will not take .any steps 'at the present time to have the companies prosecuted. The licences issued to companies expired February 1 and those companies which have not paid the resiprocal tax in conformity with the decision of the state supreme court have not been relicensed. As there are only two or three .companies which have paid up, a great majority of the companies are doing business without a license. - "I believe all the companies Intend to pay," said Mr. Pierce; "and I do not intend to be very technical In constru ing the law. It would be a bad thing for the state to shut out all of these companies, especially as there is little doubt they will all pay the tax. In fact, some of the companies have written to me for the decision and they said they would comply with the law in the matter. "I don't know officially that any of the companies are doing business at this time. Of course if they are. they are technically violating the law, but I don't want to be too technical In this matter." DRAWING LINE ON MILEAGE. No Mort Vouchers to be Signed by Secretary of State and Auditor. LINCOLN. Vouchers for mileage books, filed by state officers, will no more be signed by Secretary of State Gaiusha or allowed by Deputy State Auditor Cook. This because Mr. Ga iusha asserts he has evidence in his possession that two at least of tne state officers have used mileage bought by the state for private purposes. A voucher was filed by Land Commis sioner Eaton for mileage books for himself and deputy and the secretary of state refused to sign. After a con sultation with the deputy auditor the latter concluded to refuse to issue any more warrants to pay for mileage books. Hereafter the state officer will have to pay his railroad fare and take a receipt from the ticket agent. Then if his transportation shows that he has gone to a town in which there is a state institution the officer will stand a good chance to get his money tack, but if the ticket reads to some place where the officer would hardly go on state business the money will remain in the treasury. SENT TO FEDERAL PRISON. Lieutenant Homer Lewis Begins Serv ing Sentence. FORT CROOK. Lieutenant Homer Lewis of the Thirteenth inrantry was taken to the Leavenworth federal prison to serve his sentence for dupli cating pay accounts and embezzling funds intrusted to him. The sentence is eighteen months, which good be havior may reduce to fourteen months. Personally Lieutenant Lewis has been most popular and his downfall is at tributed wholly to drink. About all of the enlisted men in the garrison were at the station to see him off. No Licenses Yet LINCOLN. Licenses to do business in Nebraska have not been granted by Insurance Auditor Pierce, though many of the foreign fire insurance companies withholding payment of their taxes applied for licenses imme diately after opinion sustaining the re ciprocal law was handed down by the supreme court Members of the state insurance department said today that the companies doing business in the state without a license were violat ing the law. Farmer Commits Suicide. AURORA. William Dart, a farmei living five miles south of here, com mitted suicide by shoooting himself with a 38-caliber revolver. Death was instantaneous. Buys System of Elevators. HOLDREGE. John W. Anderson, for seventeen years active manager of the farmers' elevator at this place, has bought out the system of elevators now owned by Titus Bros, of this city. Tnis system embraces elevators at Funk, Sacramento and Ragan. Train Kills a Jap. CLARKS. Union Pacific Los An geles train No. 7 struck and instantly killed N. Shimizu, a Japanese laborer who was walking- on the track, a mile east of the station here. Addition to Peru Faculty. PERU. Proefssor G. W. Silvers has recently been elected by the state board ot education as professor of manual and physical training in Peru normal. He will begin work at once. Campen Will Come Home. LINCOLN. George L. Campen, water commissioner for the Isthmian canal zone, has announced to his friends in this city his intention of re signing bis position. He sailed for home from Colon February 2. Farmers Do Well. SUTTON. The Farmers' Grain and Stock company of this city has made a very flattering report of the business done the past year, showing a decided increase in business over any previ ous year. . Boy Is Attacked by Hog. FILLEY Guy Yohe, 16 yeare of age, son of Wood Yohe, one of the prominent farmers of this section, was seriously injured by a hog while in a lot feeding the animals. R. H. Miller of Nebraska City Is making arrangements to head a party that state in June to attend the re union of old residents. He will carry with him a register of the names of all natives of that state who are at preesnt making their homes In that part of Nebraska. MAKING THE ARROWS PERFECT. Why GracvM- are Invariably Cut In the Shafts. In making an Indian arrow three small undulating grooves are cut on the shaft, running down to the head from the lower end of the feathers, says the Southern Workman. This has attracted the attention of some ot the ethnologists, who gave the matter considerable study and wisely con cluded that the little lines were made for the blood to run through or that they represented lightning. An old Omaha, who had the reputation of be ing very skillful In cutting grooves in arrow shafts, was called by the chief to do that work for him on some ar rows he was making. The chief him self was a fine arrow maker, but "he recognized the skill of the old man in this particular line. While the work was in progress the chief's son, who had reached the inquisitive age and was looking on with wide-eyed inter est, suddenly asked, "Venerable man. why are you making those crooked lines?" The chief gave a hearty laugh and said, "Father, tell him, for he will be making arrows himself some day, and he should know how." "Every sapling," answered the old man, "out of which the arrow is made has some defect, however faultless it may ap pear to be. The 'good arrow maker takes a great deal of pains to smooth out and straighten the imperfections by oiling and heating, but the wood in time will spring back because of its inherent defects unless these grooves are cut in the shaft soon after sea soning and straightening." TOOK NAP IN PERILOUS PLACE. Workman Asleep in a Window Twelve Stories from the Ground. The other day in New York, Morris Spencer, weary of window cleaning, calmly sat down and fell asleep on the narrow ledge of the twelfth story of a Wall street sky scraper. Before closing his eyes, he dropped one leg carelessly over the edge of the ledge and leaned his head back against the window frame; then he slipped off into dreamland. For three hours the window cleaner slept on his narrow, lofty bed, uncon scious of peril. A bad dream a sud den start and off he would have tum bled, to be dashed to destruction on the granite pavement 135 feet below The ledge was only two feet wide. A man in an office on the twelfth story of the building across the street saw Spencer. He telephoned to the ground floor for Policeman Ross ot the traffic squad, who was passing. The latter made his way to the win dow through which Spencer had pass ed to reach the ledge, grasped his arm and shook it gently. Spencer awoke at the first shake, got up silently like a cat crawled in side to safety and without a word went away to clean more windows. A crowd watched the "rescue" and cheered. Alas for the Polished Floor. "Aunt Louisa," as the late Mrs. Louisa Eldridge was lovingly called, was well known as an actress, but she was even better known as the organ izer of the annual Christmas festival for stage 'children at Pastor's theater in New York. "In presenting their Christmas gifts to the stage children," said an actress, "Aunt Louisa made the jolliest little speeches. I well remember what she said to me when I was a juvenile in presenting me with a crutch, for I had sprained my ankle badly in a snow scene. "She said she hoped I would Incom mode no one with my crutch, as hei cousin, a veteran colonel, sometimes incommoded people with his wooden leg. "Her causin, she said, was once din ing with a man whose floors were ol highly polished and costly inlaid woods. "The host got nervous as he saw the colonel clumping and clattering about on his expensive floors. He was afraid they would be scratched up. "'Hadn't you better come over here on the rug. colonel?" he said. 'You might slip out there, you know.' "But the colonel with a loud laugh struck the floor firmly with his wood en leg. " 'No fear of that,' said he. 'There's a nail in the end, you know.' " Moonrise. The fernbrake trembles In the lifting dark. Pale spangles glance along- the mellow gray. Above the ancifnt wood a rounded bark Drops Illy petals down a dusky bay. And cornerwise, and all a-slip betweer The trees, soft shocks of raveled sllvei lean. The cornfield chiefs make bold essay tc break The moon spears, with their tawn pointed shields; From mullein tent and grassy camps awake The moonlight pipers of the autumn fields; And moist, delicious fragrances of night Wind through the argent fleeces of the light. A still, black stream inlaid with cameo Asleep in dim retreat of sycamore. Awakes, with rills of laughter, just be low A curve, and from the crescent of the shore An old mill rises In the yellow mist And grinds, with silent wheel, a shadow grist. Harriett Whitney Durbin in Every body's Maeazine. Railway Employes. In the service of the railways of the United States to-day more than a mil lion and a quarter of men are em ployed. Of this multitude 52,451 arc engine men, 55,000 are firemen, 40,000 are conductors. The number of en gines in active use is 47,000, the num ber of passenger cars 40,000, and of freight cars 1,760,000. These cars and engines, if placed in line, would halt encircle the globe. School Children Drink Spirits. Out of the forty-nine school children in the lowest class at Nordhausen, Germany, the medical officer reports that thirtyreight had drunk wine, forty spirits and all more or less beer; while out of a class of twenty eight girls sixteen confessed to hav ing been drunk. Largest Gas Receiver. The Los Angeles Gas and Electric company is erecting what will be the largest gas receiver in the United States. It will be 210 feet in hight and 210 feet in diameter and will hold. 5.000,000 cubic feet of gas. World's Diamond Production.., The world's dlamoad production summed up show&tthat India has pro-, duced 10.000,600 icatatsv Brakili2, 000.000; Africa, 57,000,000. All the diamonds -la- the wond? uicfi&would hava a value of $540,900,000. Cold Storage Timet. A cold storage trust is one of the developments promised for the' near future in South Africa. All the ice and cold storage plants in the "sub continent" will be amalgamated if the present plans carry The One Cardinal Fault. "She's really not cultured. She says she can't understand Browning at all." "But one may be cultured and yet not understand Browning." "Of course, one may not understand it, but one should never admit it" Philadelphia Ledger. A New Exclamation. A new exclamation is likely to come Into vogue, according to Mr. James Piatt, Jr., in "Notes and Queries." The word is "hooshtah." and it is an im portation from Australia. NEW People now demand the right to know exactly what they eat To be told by maker or retailer .that the food Is "pare" is not satisfactory. Candy may contain "pure" white clay or "pure" dyes and yet be very harmful. Syrups may contain "pure" glucose and yet be quite digestible and even beneficial. Tomato catsup may contain a small amount of salicylic or boracic acid as a necessary preserva tive, which may agree with one and be harmful to another. Wheat flour may contain a portion of corn flour and really be Improved. Olive oil may be made of cotton seed oil. Butter may contain beef suet and yet be nutritious. The person who buys and eats must protect himself and family, and he has a right to. and now demands, a law under which he can make intelligent selection of food. Many pure food bills have been in troduced and some passed by State leg islatures; many have been offered to Congress, but all thus far seem objec tionable. It has seemed difficult for politicians to formulate a satisfactory bill that would protect the common people and yet avoid harm to honest makers and prevent endless trouble to retailers. No gov't commission or officer hi 3 the right to fix "food standards." to define what the people shall and shall not eat. for what agrees with one may not agree with another, and such act would deprive the common citizen of his personal liberty. The Postum Cereal Co., Ltd., perhaps the largest makers of prepared foods in the world, have naturally a close knowledge of the needs of the people and the details of the business of the purveyors (the re tail grocer), and, guided by this experi ence have prepared a bill for submis sion to Congress which is intended to accomplish the desired ends, and inas much as a citizen of the U. S. has a right to food protection even when he enters another State, it is deemed proper that the gov't take control of this matter and provide a national law to govern all the states. A copy of the bill Is herewith reproduced. Sec. 1 governs the maker whether the food is put up in small packages sealed, or in barrels, boxes or other wise. Sec. 2 governs the retailer who may open a barrel and sell the food in small quantities. When he puts the goods into a paper bag he must also inclose a printed copy of the statement of the maker which was affixed to the original pkg., and inasmuch as the retailer cannot undertake to guarantee the statement of ingredients he must publish the statement of the makers and add his own name and address as a guarantee of his selling the food as it is represented to him, which relieves the retailer of responsibility of the truth of the statement and throws it upon the maker, where it properly be longs. The remaining sections explain them selves. The Postum Cereal Co., Ltd., for ex ample, have from the beginning of its existence printed on the outside of each and every pkg. of Postum and Grape Nuts food a truthful and exact state ment of what the contents were made of in order that the consumer might know precisely what he or she was eating. A person desiring to buy, for instance, strictly pure fruit jelly and willing to pay the price has a right to expect not only an equivalent for the cost, but a further right to a certainty as to what he eats. Or he may be will ing to buy at less cost a jelly made part of fruit juices, sugar and a por tion of glucose. But he must be sup- plied with truthful information of the ingredients and be permitted to use his personal liberty to select his own food accurately. The people have allowed the slow murder of infants and adults by tricky makers of food, drink and drugs to go on about long enough. Duty to oneself, family and nation demands that every man and woman join in an organized movement to clear our people from this blight. You may not be able to go personally to Washington to impress your Congressmen, but you can, in a most effective way tell him by letter how you desire him to represent you. Remember the Congressman is in Congress to represent the people from his district and if a goodly number of citizens express their views to him, he secures a very sure guide to duty. Re member also that the safety of the people is assured by insisting that the will of the people be carried out, and not the machinations of the few for selfish interests. This pure food legislation is a pure movement of the people for .public pro tection. It will be opposed only by those who fatten their pockets by de ceiving and Injuring the people. There fore, if your Representative in Con gress evades his patriotic duty hold him to strict accountability, and if necessary demand equitable and hon- est service. Thls is a very different condition than when a faction demands I class legislation of the Congressman. Several years ago the butter interests of the country demanded legislation to kill the oleomargarine industry and by power of organization forced class leg islation really unworthy of a free peo ple. Work people wanted beef suet butter because it was cheap and better than much unclean milk butter, but the dairy interests organized' and forced the legislation. The law should have provided that pkgs. of oleomargarine bear the statement of ingredients and then let people who desire purcnase it j In Wall Street. In a Wall street crowd a Claciaaa tlan.aainking that he recognized a stolen umbrella under a fat man's arm, shouted: "Stop thief!" and instantly found the' teeming thoroughfare de serted and himself alone. Uncle Allen. "No," said ;Uncle Allen Sparks. "I don't take any stock in these filing machines. Too many men have made angles of themselves at least, that's the charitable supposition by trying to learn to fly." Saves the Spellbinder. At a political meeting in Brighton, England, a speaker, finding that the point of one of his jokes had missed, sorrowfully remarked: "I had hoped, gentlemen, that you would have laughed at that" A plaintive voice came through the silence: "1 laughed, mister." Then everybody laughed. French Jinricksha. In the French city of Beauvais a small vehicle, built with two wheels and drawn by a man or boy,' is in com mon use. It is called a vinaigrette. FOOD f or just what It Is, and not try to kill It by a heavy tax. Manufacturers some times try to force measures in their own interests, but contrary to the in terests of the people and the labor trust is always active to push through bills drafted in the interest of that trust but directly contrary to the in terests of the people as a whole. Wit ness the anti-injunction bill by which labor unions seek to tie the hands of our courts and prevent the issue of any order to restrain the members of that trust from attacking men or de stroying property. Such a bill is per haps the most infamous insult to our courts and the common people ever laid before Congress, and the Represen tatives in Congress must be held to a strict accountability for their acts re lating thereto. But when bills come before Congress that are drawn in the interests of all the people they should receive the active personal support of the people and the representatives be instructed by the citizens. The Sena tors also should be written to and In structed. If, therefore, you will re member your privilege and duty you will at once now write to your Con gressman cid Senator on this pure food bill. Clip and enclose the copy herewith presented and ask them to make a business of following it through the committee considering It Urge its being brought to a vote and re questing that they vote for It. Some oppressively intelligent and Text of Pure , If it meets approval cut It out, sign name and address and send to your representative in congress. Buy two or more publications from which you cut this. Keep one for reference and send the other to one of the U. S. Senators from your State. Ask one or two friends to do the same and the chances for Pure Food will be good. A BILL TO REQUIRE MANUFACTURERS AND SHIPPERS OF TERSTATE SHIPMENT TO LABEL iSAID FOODS THE INGREDIENTS CONTAINED IN SUCH ON EACH PACKAGE THEREOF. Be It enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That every person, firm or corpora tion engaged in the manufacture, preparation or compounding of food for human consumption, shall print in plain view on each package thereof made by or for them shipped from any State or Territory, or the District of Colum bia, a complete and accurate statement of all the ingredients thereof, defined by words in common use to describe said ingredients, together with the announcement that said statement is made by the authority of. and guaran teed to be accurate by, the makers of such food, and the name and complete address of the makers shall be affixed thereto; all printed in plain type of a size not less than that known as eight point, and in the English language. Sec. 2, That the covering of each and every package of manufactured prepared or compounded foods shipped from any State, Territory or the District of Columbia, when the food in said package shall have been taken from a covering supplied by or for the makers and recovered by or for the sellers, shall bear upon its face or within its enclosure an accurate copy of the statement of ingredients and name of the makers which appeared upon the package or covering of said food as supplied by or for the makers thereof, printed iu like manner as the statement of the makers was printed, and such statement shall also bear the name and address of the person, firm or cor poration that re-covered such food. Sec. 3, That it shall be unlawful for any person or persons to purposely, wilfully and maliciously remove, alter, obliterate or destroy such statement o? ingredients appearing on packages of food, as provided In the preceding sections, and any person or persons who shall violate this section shall be, guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be fined not less than one hundred dollars nor more than five hundred dollars, or Imprisoned not. less than one month nor mere than six months, or both, in the discretion or", the court. Sec. 4, That the Bureau of Chemistry of the Department of Agriculture shall procure, or cause to be procured from retail dealers, and analyze, or cause to to analyzed or examined, chemically, microscopically, or otherwise, samples of all manufactured, prepared or compounded foods offered for sale in original, unbroken packages in the Distrist of Columbia, In any Territory, or in any State other than that in which they shall have been respectively manufactured or otherwise produced, or from a foreign country, or Intended,, for export to a foreign country. The Secretary of Agriculture shall mIc necessary rules and regulatkis for carrying out the provisions of thbAct, and is hereby authorized to employ such chemists, inspectoricTerks, labor ers, and other employees, as may be necessary to carry oir the provisions" of this Act and to make such publication of the results of the examinations and analysis as he may deem proper. And any manufactcrer, producer or dealer who shall refuse to supply, upon application and tender and full pay- ment of the sealing price samples of such articles of food to any person ; duly authorized by the Secretary of Agriculture to receive the same, shall be guilty of a irisdemcanor, and upon conviction shall be fined not exceeding ' one hundred dollars, or imprisoned not exceeding one hundred days, or both. Sec. 5, That any person, firm or corporation who shall violate sections one and two of this Act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon convic tion shall be fined not exceeding twohundred dollars for the first' offense and for each subsequent offense not exceeding three hundred dollars or be imprisoned not exceeding one year, or both, in the discretion of the court Sec. G, That any person, firm, or corporation, who shall wilfully, purposely ' er maliciously change or add to the ingredients of any food, make falstitT charges, or incorrect analysis, with the purpose of subjecting the makers cH Mich feeds to fine or imprisonment under this Act, shall be guilty .of a mis demeanor and upon conviction shall be fined not exceeding one thousand dollars nor less than three hundred dollars, or imprisoned for not less than,'"' thirty days cor more than-one yeer, or both. 5 Sec. 7, That it shall be the duty of every district attorney to whom the Secretary of Agriculture shall report any violation of this Act to cause pro ceedings to be commenced and prosecuted without delay for the fines and penalties in such case provided. Sec. 8, That this Act shall not be "wholly Internal in any State, nor with Sec. 9, That all acts or parts of acts inconsistent-with this Act are hereby repealed. Sec. 10, That this Act shall be In force and effect from and after the first day of October, nineteen hundred and six. The undersigned respectfully requests the Representatives from his: dis trict and Senators from his State to support this measure. ' - Signed. City. The Original. "Match." Originally a "match" was any sub stance which burned readily and slow ly. The bit of stew-burning fcempea rope, steeped in a solution of saltpeter,! which the ancient bunner carried ia or der to discharge his arquebus, was av "match." It burned at the rate of about three feet ia an hour. British Columbia Rivals Oregon. Britisn Columbia promises to be come a dangerous rival of Oregon as an apple-growing region. During last season 00,000 trees were planted. Foundation of Idealism. James Jackson Jarves in his "Art Thoughts" says: "Idealism bases it self on universal and ideas than facts and action opposing imagination to perception, on which realism chiefly rests." Immense Tooth is( Found. Measuring twenty-two Inches in a. direct line and twenty-eight follow ing the curve, the tooth of an extinct African quadruped has been brought'' from Abyssinia by Baron Maurice def Rothschiiu. LAW carping critic may say this Is simply an advertisement for Postum and: Grape-Nuts. It is true that these ar ticles are spoken of here in a public; manner, but they are used as illustra tions of a manufacturer seeking by example, printing on each pkg. a truth ful, exact statement of ingredients, to shame other makers into doing the fair thing by the common people, and! establishing an era of pure food, but that procedure has not yet-forced those who adulterate and deceive to chango their methods, hence this effort to arouse public sentiment and -show a way out of the present condition of fraud, deceit and harm. The undersigned is paying to the publishers of America about $20,000.00 to print this announcement in practi cally all of the great papers and maga zines, in the conduct of what he chooses to term "an educational cam paign." esteemed to be of greater di rect value to the people than the estab lishment of many libraries. That is held to be a worthy method of using money for the public good. Tell the peorrle facts, show thorn a way to help themselves and rely upon them to act intelligently and effectively. The reader will be freely forgiven if he entirely forgets the reference to Postum and Grape-Nuts, if he will but join the pure food movement and do thinryg. C. W. POST. Food BUI. FOODS FOR.IN AND PRINT FOODS construed to Interfere with commerce the exercise of their police powers f State. i-tf &1 . r V ' V ! ii