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Show PROPRIETARY PHYSICIANS At the National Capital OYER MILLIONS OF ACRES UP OUR SPRUCE FAST EATING FORESTS X Sam now administers more acrea of land than any other Institution in the world anil la the landlord branch of the Federal Government, haa just compiled Its report Joverlng statistic of grazing on the public landa of the great West. The figures will give aome Idea of the scale an which Uncle Sam haa gone Into the land business, and are very comforting because of their very size, for If the existing policy is unmolested the vast areas of forest and mountain now embraced In reserves will for all time be administered in the Interest of the entire people. There are now more than 156,000,-90acres of land in the national forests. Grazing Is permitted, but under strict regulations, made In order that the grass may not be destroyed by This, by the way, Is overfeeding. has caused most of the friction In the West Owners of flocks and herds In that section of the country for years have been accustomed to grazing without restrictions of any kind. Many of them In time came to look upon the public domain as their very own, in an important sense, and they were quick to resent any effort on the part of the government to con- serve either forest or grazing land. But this friction is rapidly disappearing, as the western people see that without such conservation the range and forest In time will be destroyed. A glance at the regulations governing grazing on the government forests ' will give the reader a very good idea of the government forest policy and how It is being administered. Stock-mewho desire to make use of the range apply for permits stating the kind of stock tby have, the quantity of it and the location of the range they want. The forest officers then proceed to make allotments, appoitlonlng the available pasture among the applicants on as equitable a basis as practicable. Sometimes stockmen who live near forests or have stock near them allow that stock to drift across lines. If this Is done carelessly or wilfully It is considered trespass and the offender Is subject to a fine and may also be sued for damnges. The number of trespass cases last year was 1S3, of which 163 were settled out of court The ' sum collected for these trespasses aggregated $5,576. These trespass cases have beeu another source of friction between the government and the grazers. It Is difficult for the west to realize that, the country now being thickly populated. It Is no longer possible to maintain the old time free range without destroying that range. The entire system of permits and fees Is for the purpose of enabling the government to know that the range within the reserves Is not being oyer-fed- . 0 n TRACTION AUTOS TO BE USED IN WORK ON CANAL are the automobiles TRACTION for the Panama canal, and their use, according to officials of the canal in Washington, presages the doom of the ancient and railroad velocipede, now used by track walkers and employes in charge of switch lights in sparsely It Is not bepopulated communities. In the of realm the probability, yond opinion of some of them, that the running of automobiles on railroad tracks will become a fad If the railroads will stand for it. The purchasing agent of the commission has advertised for two such machines for use on the railroad across the Isthmus of Panama capable of carrying ten persons each and able to make a speed of 40 miles an hour on a level track with the engine running at normal speed. The engine must he stout enough to climb a grade of eight per cent., and to Increase their speed to 25 er cent, above normal, or, In other words, to time-houore- d rapidity with which the Is eating up the American spruce foiests has caused some alarm among officials of the government, who have been looking into the thing. The conversion of spruce timber Into paper is going on at tho rate of 1,765,-00- 0 feet for every working day In the year. And most of this timber Is cut in the United States, although a few wood pulp logs are Imported from Canada. During 1905 the newspaper demand alone consumed 90'0,000 tons of manufactured white paper. This was of the output of all the paper mills In the country. To make It requited an army of 15,000 men, who drew $9,000,000 In wages. The mills used raw material amounting to 1,300,-00- 0 cords, representing the cut of about 100,000 acres. The present tariff on lumber causes this enormous drain to fall almost entirely upon the forests of the United States. It has been suggested that It would be a wise political and economic move to remove this lumber duty, and let tbe paper mills begin to eat Into the almost limitless forests of Canada, Incidentally the price of paper would drop sume, and the paper trust would not have quite tbe monopoly on affairs which It has Increased size of newspapers and magazines iff laid by government experts to tbe introduction of the typesetting machine. In 1890 newspapers and periodicals averaged 6.7 pages each, on a basis of weight, and In 1900 6.6 pages; 1903 they came to 8.6 pages. , . During the 25 years from 1880 to 1905 the number of newspapers and periodicals of all classes in the United States, practically doubled. During that time 10,000 publications were added. During the last decade tbe number of morniug newspapers Increased 7.1 per cent., while the number of evening newspapers Increased 11.3 per cent. . During the last 20 years the evening newspapers have Increased more rap A idly than morning newspapers. hundred years ago there were 359 newspapers In the, United States, hav Ing an aggregate circulation of copies per annum. TUB one-thir- d to-da- GOVERNMENT TO SUPPRESS TRAFFIC IN GIRL SLAVES SYSTEMATIC effort Is to b made by the bureau of Immlgra tlon to put an end to what Is popularly known as the white slave traffic," which, It Is asserted, has been conducted, especially lu cltlea on the Atlantic seaboard, for a long time. On recommendation of Robert Watchorn, Immigration commissioner at Ellis Island, New York. Miss Heleu M. Bullls has been appointed an lin migration Inspector for the particular puriose of developing information re gardlng this traffic. Miss Bullls re ,iently has been connected with the Travelers' Aid Soelety. and has done much work along philanthropic and sociological lines. Commissioner Watchorn says that despite the scrutiny with which Immigrants are examined as to their right to enter the United States many women of speaking races are being Imported for Immoral purposes. The method by which this Is accomplished Is so well devised that the victims of the Importtyt nearly always avoid detection by reason ot the thorough coaching they receive prior to their embarkation for thli country. Mr. Watchorn suggests that Miss Bullls Is in position to furnish the department conclusive proof of the existence of the traffic. This would enable the Immigration officials not only to deport those who have been brought unlawfully Into the country, hut also to punish those who are for this sort of A . miles an hour. The cur must Still Owed for Them. burn ordinary stove gasoline and have X couple of men were chatting in a a capacity to go 125 miles at full room about a friend and peed and load. It Is the purpose of club smoking the commission to place these cars his motor. He seems to be very vfell In the Inspection department for the satisfied with It," remarked one. "Oh, yet. Hasn't paid a copper In use of the chief engineer and his asall the nine months hes had now to have repairs on who rely sistants, he tells me." passing passenger, freight, dirt or It, "H m. I heard the same story from portal trains in Inspecting the work fulluw the who's done all the repair," along the canul. make CO SSI The press committee of the Proprietary Association of America will present at the next meeting of that body a report showing the number of accidental deaths caused by patents medicines In the two years ending June 30. 1907, as compared with deaths from other causes. Almost Immediately after the beginning of the latest crusade against proprietary medicines this committee was Instructed to collect data. This work was done through the clipping bureaus, which furnished accounts of all deaths, exclusive of suicide, due to the misuse of medicines, drugs or poisons. The result showed that only three per cent. Fould be traced directly to the products made by the members of the association. The greatest care Is suid to have been exercised In tabulating the figures received. Whenever the cause of death was doubtful, special Investigation was made, no matter where the case might have occurred. The work of assorting and prepnrtng the record was done In Chicago, and the original clippings and correspondence are In the possession of Ervin F. Kemp, 184 La Salle street, that city, the associations publicity agent. The report says. In part: A large number of accidents, resulting fatally or otherwise, were caused by the carelessness of persons who left drugs, medicines or poisons within the reach of children. A large number, also, were caused by persons going to medicine cabinets in the dark and taking down the wrong bottle. In no case reported was any medicine, patent or otherwise, held responsible for Injury or death except when left within the reach of children or taken or administered In 'gross overdose. The committee says that it Is unlikely that any cases of death from the use of patent medicine escaped the newspapers, but that It Is prok able that death from the causes tabulated did occur without receiving publicity. Physicians, of course, report the causes of death. The committee say 8 that they would be the last to suppress the cause If due to the use of medicine not reqularly prescribed. A recapitulation of the committee's1 findings show 4,295 cases of poisoning, of which 1,753 were fatal. The greatest number of cases, 1,636, with 803 deaths, Is attributed to medicines other than proprietary remedies. There are on the list 90 cases of sickness and 43 deaths due to patent medicines. Analyzing its statistics, the commit, tee finds 201 cases of sickness, with 143 deaths, due to strychnine tablets, which are among physicians' favorite remedies and are often left within the reach of children. Under the head of miscellaneous prescriptions are grouped 44 cases where, the report says. It has been Impossible after diligent Inquiry to ascertain the name or the character of the drug or medicine which caused Injury or death, beyond the fact that the medicine or drug was prescribed by a physician. Of these cases 18 Were fatal. The committee says: Under the head of All Patent Medicines' are grouped all those rem-edlwhich are recognized as patent medicines and which are advertised direct to the public for internal use. Competent authorities say that at least one-hal- f of the medicines taken in the United States are of the kind known as patent medicine, and yet In two years among 80,900.000 there have been but ninety people cases (forty-thre- e fatal) that have been re- -' ported in the newspapers from the use or misuse of these remedies." Not in a single fully substantiated case Is it ever charged that any patent medicine In recommended doses was Injurious. In this connection it should be understood that in making death certificates - and In reporting cases of Injury to the newspapers from which these cases fere secured, a physician had the final word, and In this connection is there any probability that the doctor will hide his own carelessness oi neglect or that of a fellow practitioner whose support he may want at some time, and is there even a possibility that he might hide any responsibility that could be thrown at a patent medicine? Ask yourself these quentlons. Then when you have found the answer, consider that duilng all this most thorough and careful Investigation covering A period of two years, In not a single established case was It shown that patent medicine In recommended doses was Injurious. The most remarkable case repotted was that of an Italian laborer In New Yotk who suffered from pains In the chest. A physician ordered a porous plaster which the patient ate, with futal results. . Would Run No Risk, Darling, said the young man as he bent fondly over her chair, I would die for you." "Well," rejoined the practical but otherwise fair ntald, the rates of Insurance are pretty low. Suppose you get your life Insured In my favor for $10,000 and then die for me?" "And By (OpyrltflH , NEWSPAPERS WASHINGTON. The Forestry Girl The Lockwood Harriet Hooker Show, of the Deaths from Misuse of Drugs In Two Years, Only Three Per Cent. Were Due to Patent Medicines, According to Figures Based on Medical Certificates. FORESTRY BUREAU RULES JA'nrT PRESCRIPTIONS Statistics Gossip of People end Events Gathered in Washington MVfRNMENT 0HA2IN6 lANDi REMEDIES VS. Uy Oallv Story Pub. Co.), lux-urla- not." A woman, 71 years old, accused at Feltham, England, of intoxication and disorderly conduct, said she had been "keeping up" her mother's birthday. Her mother was 98. . , head and dragged him down among Daniel Sution looked up impauentlj the sordid masses. I 'haven't heard loaded down. from a desk literally him speak of writing anything . In demanded. Well, what Is It?" he a months. She was Is this Mr. Sutton? "Well, marry him and lead him wIHow), and tall eieature, handsome hack Into the old paths," laughed Mis. an with masses of ted gold hair of Burton. nose that was the quintessence Florence Burton, If you were not a impudent sauciness. staid married woman, I should begin "Yes, thats my name," he replied am to think you had lost your heart to I more. sharply, "and what is the clever Dick," laughed Lillian, ris. husj." and pulling on her gloves. "So It would seem. said the gin, ing Sutton's first salutation on too are Manager "You quietly seating herself. enter his office the folLillian seeing occupied to even he polite was: He gave her a penetiating glance lowing morning do you want now? The What from beneath his heavy was earth? and for the first time noticed she those "Oh, no." replied Lillian serenely. above a station from evidently In quest of a "I came according to appointment, him to ! came usually I think was sure to learn to be one of a rabble. " (os'tion on the stage., lie mentioned hour you the that was her errand, he had seen too this is see you again." I never expected to one many to be mistaken, only this "I know you didn't: that's the reawa pretty, refined and possessed of a son I came, replied Lillian demurely, charming Impudence. "Look here, young lady, and the "Im Miss Lockwood. said the girl old fellow turned upon her a pair or "Lillian In answer to his glance. Cant You Is lb ulectio of a Rtie w Hmv r wetther ! Mving; why got fitinf now? Com to m now; and a stock of benutiful itou, your becoming one of our Met utlomert of STEWART Stotei. ajf Jj U-- .write : Itroubl yinMur Jet i got UM f Wagon that twinkled from beneath Youre brows. heavy, too , blamed smart for me: you've caught me. Dont you know there aint any rabble In this piece?" You said there was." Daniel Sutton chuckled and calling to a boy who at that moment came into the office, said: "Ask that young author If he wont step this way." Then, turning to Lillian, he went on: "Theres a young man whos bound to make his way, but in the beginning he was Just about as persistent and foxy as you are. Im, hanged If he didnt tackle me at every turn. I couldn't cat or sleep without having his manuscript stuck under my nose, 'until at 1 last In sheer It. to read agreed At that moment Lillian heard a Btep behind her, and the manager saying: "Mr. Morton, cant you find a part In your play for this young lady? She's tormenting the life out of me. She Turned toward the newcomer. "Lillian! Dick Morton !" I never dreamed that, that you When Nor I!" exclaimed Lillian. did you write it?" Why didn't you tell me that )ou liked the stage, that you wished to become an actress?" cried Dick,.lg noring Lillian's question. "But why didnt you tell me, tell Os, that you had written a play? persisted Lillian. I wanted to wait until It was a I feared success. you might might not think well of my efforts you know. Then they remembered Daniel Sut ton. but he bad fled. Suppose we make It a life partner ship, Lillian, said Dick, taking both her hands In his; "Ill write the plays and you shall play them. Is it agreed darling?" I think so," replied Lillian, shyly, amid blushes. From what Mr. Sutton tells me we are very much of a kind, anyway." eyes- -- hewn k Geo. I frii: ;bd not I bad I Mhdl U umi Ojdtn, Lay itj at FSalt Lab. allj and MontuVm. jhtlwoi tend 11 Idaho f 3 BE ON TIME! Her roar Wck ree rifkt, Irt Nt Ad ) to kte tninlttk, exptrto will either fi wiD. Oor m m Ikat Sxk it m luit at w ruMubto tkot fra moat ceuiief tin if m i ualin- - Iionk Olll than I j'rtlthat W made wber. 1 !::k book ynn to no q I Leading Implement Dealtri Utah id Id, George T. Odell, Geoeril Mtup Hea t intie & Maclir, Company over-hangin- g eral times before. Yes, replied Lillian, "If I am not mistaken this Is about the eighth time. Ive called and sent tip my card, only to be told that you were out, or too busy to see me. Apd who let you up this morning? "No one, I came up without permission. I was tired of being sent away. Well, now you are here, what do you want?" A position on the stage In one of your companies, replied Lillian, and I am willing to begin In a minor part. "There are no minor parts open, replied Manager Sutton, shortly In that case, I am very willing to begin at the top, replied his visitor quietly. "Hump!" snorted Sutton. What do you think you can do?" I think I can play the part of any one of Shakespeares heroines, said Lillian biting her lips to keep from smiling at the audacity of her reply. That was too much for Dan Sutton's patience. "Young woman," he fairly bellowed, I'm hanged If you ain't got gall. Don't you know that to play those parts you speak of requires great beauty and transcendent genius? No," replied Lillian, who was beI dont ginning to lose her temper. know anything of the sort. Ive seen roles people playing Shakespearian who didn't possess either one of the qualifications you mention. Then they had brass!" he cried, and there is a blamed sight too many of them. "But how do you know exclaimed Lillian, "that I dont possess transcendent genius?" Manager Sutton gave her a withering look. The girl did not wither. How do I know," he went on after a moment's pause, I've seen thousands Just like you. Tbe woods are full of em. Because you are pretty you think you could make a tragedy queen. It takes more than mere beauty to do that, besides a merely pretty face seldom has any brains behind It" "Oh, thank you, cried Lillian rising In hot wrath. Not at all, not at all!" cried Sutton good humoredly. You possess perseverance, If you have no genius, and then you cant always Judge by a person's looks. So, If yon want to try It, I'll take you on as an extra lady. There Is a drama being rehearsed now In which therd Is a rabble. You can come aud be a part of It." He was awful," confided Lillian to her friend Florence Burton, over their afternoon tea. but 1 huve agreed to be an extra lady". "An extra lady!" exclaimed Mrs. Burton. "You don't mean a supernumerary?" "Yes, I think that would be the correct word." replied Lillian. But Lillian, you wouldn't wear tights, would you?" gas'ped Mrs. Burton, turning pink and then white. "I haven't such a dreadful bad figure," and Lillian drew her bright face down into sober lines. "But have no fears, this Is a drama. I shall appear In rags and flown at heel. "Suppose Dick were to gee you? dont know that I amalw'avs bound to consider Dick Morton, and Lillians short nose took on an extra curve of sauciness. Besides. 1 shall wear a wig and a dirty fuce." "That's better," breathed Florence, "no one will know you In that guise not even your own mother, and If my knowledge of her serves me aright she would decline an Introduction." "Yes. poor mamma has always thrown cold water upon my thenrtical aspirations," mused Lllllun. "But to return to Dick," said Mrs Burton. Do yon think you are treat-Inhim quite right? You must have seen by this time how much he cares for you: everyone else hus." "Thats the part I dont like" cried Lillian. He carries his heart too much upon his sleeve." "Because you never give an oppor-tunltto lay It at your feet, along with his fortune: for Dick is generous to a fault." "Its the money I object to; before he Inherited that he was In a fair way of making something fine of himself. Ills poems and stories were beautiful but the money seems to have put every thing cf that sort out of his lnit coming. Or, cm w n4 all N with to meet yo- n- to our nntu Jtau for wo feel tkat careful MupcctuaJ famou STEWART Stovei will 1 w-- Lockwood." "Oh. so you are the Lockwood girl, he exclaimed. "You have called sev- be tc Careful eye-brow- y let some other fellow on the Insurance?" exclaimed the wise young man. Well, I guess . kffte bu ire from ner. yiilu 1 (tUe the lehen th oU ( it i tune their SALT LAKE CITY, 62,000 TONS OF -- i UX CURRANTS. Seem to Be Fond of Thin Dritons i It ban :tr by n Exception Fruit. tltb Our they had to pay g very high prk dried currants, considered then Indispensable to the contporntjlni those pies, furmltles and florwij which were the pride of every wife. Domestic catering must been an arduous undertaking Is days, for currants and other 4: fruits were not to he procured oil London except once a year, at tbe nual fair of the local market royal dish of plum pom which It was the privilege at 1 archbishop of Canterbury to w to a newly crowned sovereign composed largely of currants, tbe being stewed in strong beef m rlched red wine and red Now that the order has change! 1 simplicity Is the keynote of the 1 CBt class cookery, we Brltoni trebled our appreciation of the h and ,ly and wholesome currant: WAS WAITING FOR HIM. pon and pluin floren tines though t Mountaineer Would Have Missed the are dishes of the past, no leu ) erety go of tons 62,00(1 curran's Usual Fool Questions, to thp making of bread cakei, p' The traveler was well schooled In and puddings to tempt tbe Brltld the current literature concerning the petite. Ladles' Pictorial. natives of the Southern mountains Ip Dream That Came True which he was traveling. Consequent During a dinner to welcome ly when, about noon, he rode out of a fiancee a young man at Hostlm'. lonely woods Into sight of a small Prague, told of a dream be bad ' cabin he.approached It with a certair a ahot was fired In the bout. air of Jaunty confidence. The ownct father rose, as a precaution, to of the cabin was sitting on a bencl move a pistol from the wall by the door, sunning himself, with be touched It It went off and ti legs outstretched and hands clasped the girl. behind his head. He was the picture On the Death of Balzac. of ease. There can be but austere and The traveler reined in his horse b and cleared his throat. Then he said oua thoughts In all barti tnajfitk Its sublime makes Jocosely: spirit when "Waiting for the potatoes to dig trance Into another life, have long " who those themselves beings by thelt outgrowing above the crowd on the vlelblt land? til The mountaineer smiled a blund of spreading genius, which once mild smile. The Joker other wings went on en did not see, plunge cotiraged. "Bet haps youre Into the unknown. No, It l the sun It a to get hot enough expecting no, it Is not night. unknown; to fry your bacon begtw I the It Is not It the end. right on the hoga." Is not extinction, It Is eternity "Not just that," grinned the native It Or maybe youre true, such tombs a thl' lsklng for some not strate tiaveler to come along Immortality? la ,1,e and stub his of on Illustrious dead we feel the those stumps and 'hs "- -t forytm. Or even talk fast enoug! distinctly the .divine destiny to keep vour windmill intelligence which traverse going? The mountaineer rose, lie to suffer and to purify tt self towered we almost above tbe mounted call man. Vlctm UM tourist. Is." he said, Tve been wait-lWJ j Want for you while I digested my din The Indian government l. B J ner. A ter getting out at 4, considering the desirability fo V i an goat, feeding ten milking motor transport wagon plgs j .tJr at kl l ing two. chopping a heap 0' In moving produce of out , J ' .tinfut. riding five miles a back, an Naei districts to market. This I 4U ng that field there, I felt right huSgry. tlcable, considering the I ate a Mg dinner, so I reckoned Id the plains In India, and sit here a few minutes till somebody A problem that has perplewd ll ke yo" '" an' asked me eminent. lng Ww mm I my aem every day. digest In Doubt. Glad you dfi" 77 dir In vox-, Egyptian hyerogl)dl( -c, clan Is represented by Plcl J Hitin. duck. Philologists at th f ) Tru that yVomen, means whether this Buster, Ti... 1A clan In question was looked t00" "I?.1 ,n rcurl time a quack or that he last week. tX n.m, X , raised favorite gmong the fair the price ,Mr utsm the y'ri Chinaman of Sold Back, Jr.. est Chinese merchant to P , Ore., has been admitted dlirlct feedral tbe bar of the cult courts. qi ti ! h ' at g "" Motor-Transpo- rt ' S . $" j 3 Twr- iJ 14 - |