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Show HIS ONE WEAK SPOT. Prominent Minnesota Merchant Cured to Stay Cured by Doan'a Kidney Pills. 0. C. Hayden, of 0. C. Hayden & Co, dry goods merchants, of Albert Lea, Minn, says: I was so lamo that I could hardly walk. There was an unaccountable weakness of the back, and constant pain and aching. I could And no rest and was very uncomfortable at night. As mv health was good In every other way I could not understand this trouble. It was just as If all the strength had gone from my back. After suffering for some time I began using Doan's Kidney Pills. The remedy acted at once upon the kidneys and when normal action was restored the trouble with my back disappeared. I have not had any re- Expedition to Arctic in Scientific Interests Traveling In India. Notwithstanding the great distances covered the railways of India carry no sleeping cars. The seats can be converted Into berths, but travelers have to provide their own bedding. Nor are there any dining cars. CHESTNUT Much FLOUR OF CORSICA. but Produces Inferior Kind of Bread. The chestnut Is the wheat of Corsica, and its flour Is used In the form of bread or polenta by the peasants throughout the Island. The chestnuts sre slowly dried over a small wood Are and stored until required for grinding. The mills are of the simplest construction, and consist of a wooden water wheel Vhose axis turns a millstone which crushes the shelled chestnuts against a fixed stone. The cheaper grades of flour are of a dirty color owing to the presence of particles of the shells snd contain between 11 and 12 per cent of moisture. The composition of different varieties of the flour has been determined recently by M. Comte, who finds that chestnut flour closely approximates wheat flour In Its food value. It contains about the same amount of starch, more fat and cellulose, but less nitrogenous substances (7 to 9 per cent, as against 12 to 18 per cent In wheat flour). Chestnut flour attracts moisture very rapidly, and therefore soon becomes mouldy unless kept In vessels. It has also the drawback of not being easily Influenced by the action of yeast, and thus produces an Inferior kind of bread. Before the Age of Buttone. Persons who read much of historic romance cannot fall to recognize the request, "Truss my points, which has been used by every writer of English from the time of Chaucer. Perhaps everyone who read the phrase did not know that It meant. In common parlance, "face up my clothes," but that Is what It did mean, and the reason It ceased to be used In actual conversation resulted from the Invention of the button and the passing sway of the custom of fastening the clothes by lacing. Lcfflngwell and Mlkkelsens expedition to the arctic seas In search of undiscovered lands and for the purposes of study of geography, geology and other fields of scientific Interest is expected by professors at the University of Chicago to result In more real benefit to science than a dash In search of the north pole. Both men have figured on trips to find the pole and believe that undertaking Is unattainable. Among the various things which Lcfflngwell and Mikkelsen will attempt to study are the history of the Eskimos, the geography of the frozen north, the hydrography, meteorology, and the temperature and climatic conditions of the new lands. Our trip Is In the Interests of science first of all. and we do not Intend to go north merely for the purpose of planting thc American flag on an unknown land,' said Ernest D. Lcfflngwell In discussing the contemplated journey. "There is an abundance of land there which any one could have and which to my knowledge is not of much money value. My special work will be the study of the geology of the country, which I am practically certain. Whalers and Eskimos driven out of their course by storms have reported that a body of land was there. The character of the land is not like that of Greenland. It Is not covered with The amount of precipitaglaciers. tion la not sufficient, 1 believe to cause snow fields. "It must be for the most part a desolate country of wastes of bare rock, with little vegetation growing. Perhaps we may find a little moss. There surely Is, however, plenty of game. Muskoxen and reindeer exist there, I am sure. "Our chances of getting to the country are good. Every summer there Is open water in the proximity. Whalers have cruised near In the summer. Considerable copper has been reported there and we will make a study of the ore. "I do not know whether the land Is made up of Islands or Is another continent. There is plenty of room for a seventh continent, but I doubt If such exists. It is my Impression, although I have practically nothing to base my belief on, that there are a number of ialands rather than a continent." Princess With Money and Brains. of Fless, whose father-in-lahas just been raised to a German dukedom, is one of the most beautiful women In England. As ytws Cornwallis West her marriage !v-teeyears ago with Prince Henry of Pless, wljom she met at her first ball, Tnll and created a great sensation. fair, "Princess Daisy, as she Is known to her friends, possesses. In addition to her exceptional beauty, a lovely voice and brains. Her father Inlaw, Prince Henry XI. of Pless, Is the owner of large territories and valuablo mines In Silesia, being, in fact, reputed one of the three richest Individuals In Germany, the two Frauleln Krupp and Baron Blelch-rodethe Berlin banker. He has handed over Furstenburg. the ancestral castle, to his son and daughter-in-law- , where they entertain their English friends every year In splendid fashion. Suffers for Indjscreet Remark. Gifford Plnchot. chief of the bureau of forestry, not long ago appeared before a committee of congress and after expatiating on the necessity of preserving the forests he remarked to some of the clerks In his department that he did not consider the service of any woman worth more than S0 a month. Mr. Plnchot has heard quite numerously from the fair sex since his observations and among his correspondents was the Invincible Hetty Green. Mr. Plnchot has not all she said, but her letter divulged conveyed the Impression that any man who made such a superflcltl statement was not worth fifty cents a year to the government or the nation. He has received numerous scathing epistles from other noted women. Princess Henry n be-fn- g r, Irvthe Spring Vun mens fenev Often turn to thoughts Rinse. Engeioment Wo hevo ield beforo wo er vine leedors. Big veluoe for smell prices. Self Leke City. Vteh. Von Wll-ri- Is the recognized laurcato of the Biitlsh parliament BRAND I'SUITor SLICKER this Meson. M aVe no mistake Its the kind th it s guannln-- to you dry end comfortable In the hardest kj d storm. low. A. ule In Illitrk or Ycl SoUjjr ell reliable dealers. M J. TOWER BOSTON, U.S.A. TOWIt PAX ADM CO, tmut, HOWARD I BURTON, Ose. 0., ua "ZftlW Sperleiee prtrssi 0,.ld, Sliver. esr. 7Si Uold.eifli Zinnur Cupper,I.esd.eiiUuid.HIb si. t Tinirie Mete JUtlluf entelup. end full prlre list ten! e nppiie. tion, Cunind snd t nipire wr suiiriied. Lead VIIIS, Colo. lftreuce,CarlMai htlluail Seem eNo voun oaosne to thc D. C. MORRIS FLORAL CO. WLONSL OIBiaNS and dsoosations choici cut thos. woeoAv, oAMAseeplows eiTiAeoirr DEAFNESS C(JR ED OJ.UCF BOOK which I. W. 0, COFfCE. stilelnn Imw luourodenfneee Si Immoi lie froot write fur ti, geo. Cuter; Bid Ui Maher exists there, Doom of the Luncheon. When you go for a long tramp do not bother to take a lunch with you. Effects of Forests on Rivers. Just put half a dozen lumps of sugar At the recent meeting of the Inter- In your pocket and eat them when you national navigation congress at Milan, get tired and You will at hungry. some Interesting data were furnished once find your and freshness strength respecting the Influence which the de- renewed. This Is what Dr Lee. prostruction of forests exerts on the dis- fessor of physiology at Columbia unicharge of rivers. A summary of 'even versity, and author of several importImportant papers read at the congress ant works on thc vital processes of shows that It wag allowed by all the life, fit mly asserts. Fatigue, according authors of these rapers that the to Prof. Lee. Is a result of certain of forests, especially In hilly chemical changes In the body, due to countries, has a marked effect on the muscular exertion. water supply of the neighboring rivers. nally, arrests and Sugar, taken Interprevents these Where deforestation has taken place chances. The sugar, to be specific, brooks have disappeared and small replenishes the carhohjdrates that are rivers once furnishing power for mills wasted by exertion and causes the have ceased to lie sufficient for this fatigue due to this waste to dlsannear New York Herald. purpose. -- New York Mail. Parliamentary "Poet Laureate." It Is pretty well known that Sir TOWERS FISH Beginning to Doubt. "Sometimes," 6ald Uncle Jerry Peebles, "when I see these stories about graftin In high places I begin- to think, by gun, that there ain't any such thing as honor, even among thieves. Expensive Blrthdjy It Is a lucky thing for MeL relatives, remarked the Obs.' Events and Things, that hi birthday occurred before candi. Introduced." d poet He Is always on the lookout for "Incidents, the little episodes that enliven the dull routine of parliamentary life and that lend themselves to utilization ns a couplet or a quatrain. Ills extemporaneous verses make a circuit of tho house to an accompaniment of subdued chuckles. They are sometimes handed bv a minister to the speaker, who reads them with a professionally dignllled countenance ami then pns them the compliment of a momentary (winkle of his awful eye. Moltkes Taciturnity. Count Von Moltke. the great Prussian general, was a fine chess player and once wished to try his strength ngnlnst a famous professional. a match was arranged, but the profes-Moua- l was warned not to be talkative as Moltke hated people who had a lot to say. Whether Moltko overheard the wurnlng to tho professional or not Is not told. At nny rate, the match came off and tho professional was very careful not to utter a word. At last, however, ho took the liberty of saying one ominous word, "Mate." Moltke rose, went to tho door, opened It. and lK'fore going out turned round and said. "Confounded chatterbox." Wrinkle Comes From Mental Effort. Speaking of Ancestry, There Is a new wrinkle. It locatMr. Chase has such an exaggerated ed at the routers of the euS and it respect for the blue blond of Boston U a wrinkle which Indicates deep which runs In Ills veins that his man, thought. The w tinkle or the group ner Is slightly patronizing. Ho was of w rlnkles w lien first seen may seem Indicative of old age. Hut act- lately Introduced to a Syrian of good birth and education, who lives In this ually Hie lines me formed by study country. conand by reading, by thought by "And may I Inquire." ho said, blandstant snd i open led efforts of mentally. In tho course of the conversation, ity. "If you are of the Christian religion?" The age at which you may expect "My family was converted to Christ's these wrinkles naturally Is 40. lint, If nt the time of John's second teaching under Ihey appesr that, then U Is a visit to Iebnon." quietly replied ths mark of too much bruin work. Syrian. Youths Companion. Yonkers States (DOB for just what It Is, and not try to kill It carping critic may say this l( by a heavy tax. Manufacturers some- an advertisement for Postum' It Is true that the times try to force measures In their Grape-Nutown interests, but contrary to the In- tides are spoken of here In Candy may contain "pure white terests of the people and the labor manner, but they are used as mt clay or "pure dyes and yet be very trust is always active to push through tlons of a manufacturer aeektn? harmAil. Syrups may contain "pure hills drafted in the Interest of that example, printing on each pkg,P glucose and yet be quite digestible and trust but directly contrary to the In- ful, exact statement of Ingredient! even beneficial. Tomato catsup may terests of the people as a whole. Wit- shame other makers Into doing contain a small amount of salicylic or ness the bill by which fair thing by the common people boracic acid as a necessary preservalabor unions seek to tie the hands of establishing an era of pure W tive, which may agree with one and our courts and prevent the Issue of that procedure has not yet forced tl be harmful td another. any order to restrain the members of who adulterate and deceive toria; Wheat flour may contain a portion that trust from attacking men or de- their methods, hence this effon of corn flour and really be improved. stroying property. Such a bill is per- arouse public sentiment and sbo Olive oil may be made of cotton seed haps the most Infamous insult to our way out of the present condltim oil. Butter may contain beef suet and courts and the common people ever fraud, deceit and harm. laid before Congress and the RepresenThe undersigned Ls paying to yet be nutritious. The person who buys and eats must tatives In Congress must be held to a publishers of America about 20, 0 protect himself and family, and he has strict accountability for their acts re- to print this announcement In pJ a right to. and now demands, a law lating thereto. But when bills come cally all of the great papers and before Congress that are drawn In the zlnes. In the conduct of whitl under which he can make Intelligent interests of all the people they should chooses to term "an educational 4 selection of food. receive the active personal support of palgn, esteemed to be of greater! Many pure food bills have been In- the people and the representatives be rect value to the people than the erl troduced and some passed by State leg- Instructed by the citizens. The Sena- lishment of many libraries. 1W islatures; many have been offered to tors also should be written to and In- held to be a worthy method of jJ Congress, but all thus far seem objec- structed. If, therefore, you will re- money for the public good. Tel) member your privilege and duty you people facts, show them a wayloS' tionable. It has seemed difficult for politicians will at once now write to your Con- themselves and rely npon them tot to formulate a satisfactory bill that gressman and Senator on this pure would protect the common people and food bill. Clip and enclose the copy intelligently and effectively. The reader will be freely forglrs yet avoid harm to honest makers and herewith presented and ask them to prevent endless trouble to retailers. make a business of following it through he entirely forgets the reference If he will) No govt commission or officer has the the committee considering It Urge Postum and Grape-Nutright to fix "food standards," to define its being brought to a vote and re- join the pure food movement t do thing.. what the people shall and shall noteat, questing that they vote for it. for what agrees with one may not Some oppressively Intelligent and C. W. POST agree with another, and such act would deprive the common citizen of his personal liberty. The Postum Cereal Text of Pure Food Bill. Co., Ltd., perhaps the largest makers of prepared foods In the world, have If It meets approval cut It out, sign name and address and send to jc naturally a close knowledge of the needs of the people and the details of representative in congress. Buy two or more publications from which yon a the business of the purveyors (the re-- t this. Keep one for reference and send the other to one of the U. S. Seals grocer), and, guided by this experi- from your State. Ask one or two friends to do the same and the chancei i ence have prepared a bill for submis- Pure Food will be good. sion to Congress which is Intended to accomplish the desired ends, and Inasmuch 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 govt take control of this matter and provide a national law to govern all the states. A copy TO REQUIRE MANUFACTURERS AND SHIPPERS OF FOODS FORD ' of the bill Is herewith reproduced. TERSTATE SHIPMENT TO LABEL ISAID FOODS AND PRINT 1 Sec. governs the maker whether THE INGREDIENTS CONTAINED IN SUCH FOODS the food la put up In small packages ON EACH PACKAGE THEREOF. sealed, or In barrels, boxes or otherwise. Sec. 2 governs the retailer who may Be It enacted by the Senate and House of of the Unl'A, open a barrel and sell the food In States of America In Congress assembled, That Representativesfirm or corpca every person, small quantities. When be puts the tion engaged In the manufacture, preparation or compounding of food bj goods into a paper bag he must also human consumption, shall print in plain view on each package thereof nui Inclose a printed copy of the statement of the maker which was affixed to the by or for them shipped from any State or Territory, or the District of Coin original pkg., and Inasmuch as the bla, a complete and accurate statement of all the Ingredients thereof, defines retailer cannot undertake to guarantee by words in common use to describe said Ingredients, together with (It the statement of ingredients he must announcement 'that said statement is made by the authority of, and gusn publish the statement of the makers teed to be accurate by, the makers of such food, and the name and complM and add his own name and address as address of the makers shall be affixed thereto; all printed In plain typsoti a guarantee of his selling the food as it size not less than that known as eight point, and In the English languaga Is represented to him, which relieves Sec. 2, That the covering of each and every package of manufactory the retailer of responsibility of the truth of the statement and throws It prepared or compounded foods shipped from any State, Territory or Ik upon the maker, where It properly be- District of Columbia, when the food In said package shall' have been tits longs. from a covering by or for the makers and by or for Ik The remaining sections explain them- sellers, shall bearsupplied face or within Its enclosure an accurate copy its upon selves. the statement of ingredients and name of the makers which appeared open The Poatum Cereal Co., Ltd., for have from the beginning of its the package or covering of said food as supplied by or for the makers therecj existence printed on the outside of each printed In like manner as the statement of the makers was printed, snd ind and every pkg. of Poatum and Grape-Nut-s statement shall also bear the name and address of the person, firm or cor food a truthful and exact state- poratlon that such food. ment of what the contents were made ec That It shall be unlawful for any person or persons to purposely, of In order that the consumer might know precisely what he or she was wilfully and maliciously remove, alter, obliterate or destroy such ststemrt of Ingredients appearing on packages of food, as provided In the precetol eating. A person desiring to buy, for instance, strictly pure fruit Jelly and sections, and any person or persons who shall violate this section shall b willing to pay the price has a right to guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be fined not lea tin expect not only an equivalent for the one hundred dollars nor more than five hundred dollars, or Imprisoned t cost, but a further right to a certainty less than one month nor more Uian six months, or both, In the discretion i as to what he eats. Or be may be will- the court. to ing buy at less cost a Jelly made Sec. 4, That the Bureau of Chemistry of the part of fruit juices, sugar and a por- shall Department of AgrtcuflW procure, or cause to be procured from retail dealers, and analyze, tion of glucose. But he must he cause to be analyzed or examined, chemically, with truthful Information of the microscopically, or othenrlR of all manufactured, prepared or foods offered for Ingredients and he permitted to nse samples compounded In his personal liberty to so,.,.t his own or original, unbroken packages In the Dlstrlst of Columbia, In any Territory, in any State other than that In which they shall have been respective food seenrntely. manufactured or otherwise produced, or from a foreign country, or Intend The people have allowed the slow for export to a foreign country. The of Agriculture shall inM Secretary murder of Infants and adults by tricky e rKulatlona for carr)ig the provisions of this A makers of food, drink and drugs to go and Is hereby authorized to employ such chemists. Inspectors, clerks, 1W on about long enough. Duty to J oneself, ther empl loyeeB, as may be necessary to family and nation demands that every carry out the provlslotf make Bllch publication of tho results of the examination! ,nd ct. man and woman Join In an organized , movement to clear our people from he,may. dcPra proppr- - And any manufacturer, producer a this blight. Yon may not be able to go to supply, upon application and tender and full personally to Washington to Impress Eh? wPr oe 8arnplPS of aurh articles of food to any penoi your Congressmen, but you can. In a SocrPtary of Agriculture to receive the same, Ib? most effective way tell him by letter he cnmhAf nd Mpon convltlon shnll be fined not exceeds how you desire him to represent you. one hundred dollars, or imprisoned not Remember the Congressman is In exceeding one hundred days, or ho Congress to represent the people from ?' Th?1 any pPrson flrm or corporation who shall vlolata soctloni his district and If a goodly number of thiS Ac Bha11 b0 sullty of a misdemeanor, and upon convl citizens express their views to him, he tion aha'1 b Cn1rd not exceeding two hundred dollars for the first effenk secures a very sure guide to duty. Re0(TPn80 ,,ot three rl8U.bBl:fnt exceeding hundred dollars or N member also that the safety of the r one year, or both, in the discretion Is of tbs court assured by Insisting that ths people will of the people be carried out. and r8n Prm op corp(,ratl,,n- - bo shall wilfully, purpowfl not the machinations of ths few for or maliciously change or to tho Ingredients of any food Bd"sh Interests. h th J5cftJtSd.r to" flne'or of objec ting the inSkort ol Imprisonment under this Art, shall be milltv of a ml tectlon. It will be opposed those who fatten their pocke imny aays nor more than ono year, or both. reiving and Injuring the reopl fore, If your Representative d",5r of Pv'ry ,Il8'rrt I!1 Homey to whom tM gross evades his patriotic d any vl"lnI"n "J11 of this Act to causa P eemn.l fPport him to strict sccountablllty ceedln M t w.1 necessary demand equitable est service? This la a very b conatrucd to interiors cond'tlon than a hen a faction with commr whoRylntVrtaManL"11 B0P0t w,,h clasa legislation of the Cons lbo PaPrpla tbolr Stated pollc. pow.fl by ths Several years ago the butter of the country demanded legli TUt CU r pirU of nc,, repealed.9' lnnHlstcnt with this Act am beraM kill ths oleomargarine Industr power of organization forced DJ CffCt Um (station really unworthy of a d dT otO ctobitluri'ce UX-dVnVsTxC-. pie. Work people wanted I tiutter berause It was cheap a than much unclean milk butte dairy intcreats organised an th legislation. The law eho olw 10 "upport this measure. provided that pkgs. of oleott bear the statement of Ingredl Signed s a Vhen lot people who desire pu City aesessstessse Stats WH s. n Used air-tig- J People now demand the right to know exactly what they eat. To be told by maker or retailer that tho food Is "pure" Is not satisfactory. CO cents a Co., Buffalo, N.Y. FoKter-Mflbur- For a Weak Heart It appears, that the dtscT Is very helpful for a weak heart. Pain in the heart tary sabers of Europe find J1 Thence from organic heart disease will fre- to Germany. quently be very much relieved by sim- tributed all over the ply placing the feet for a short time lu savage tribes of Africa tnV a moderately warm footbath. It does rebels in Yenem, even Jk not need to be so hot that the pa- revolutionists. One Germ bought In one lot 20.000 tient can scarcely bear It. 0Ba French sabers. A warm footbath i turn of It " For sale by all dealers. ox. Ad on Tombstone. Tbls Is from a tombstone In an English church yard. It robs death of Its sting and the grave of Its victory: "Sacred to the memory of Nathaniel Godbold, esq., Inventor and Proprietor of that excellent medicine The Vegetable Balsam, for the Cure of Con-sup tion s andAsthmasd 1 A sup-plie- d ad ?' Yl, l SecrcfaryrAilul! .th s BILL |