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Show INTIMATE SKETCH OF UNITED STATE6 PURE FOOD CHIEF. Dr Harvev W Wilev, or "Old Dor Wiley the pure food man. is Interesting Inter-esting desciibed by O K Davis In the October number 'of the Hampton-Columbian Hampton-Columbian Magazine in an article entitled, en-titled, "Tho Case of Dr Wl'ey.. "Dr Wiley," says Davis, "lb a sprightly youth of sixtv-soven and a bridegroom of six months? There i3 nothing about his appearance or his moverrcnts to indicate that he is within throe ear' of three-score an 1 ten Ho jumps off a street car at the corner near hh office and sklos up the steps as lightly, as the youngest clerk n the bureau. But wnen his wrath is aroused and he jumps un to em-nhaa'ze em-nhaa'ze his words he looks bigger an I heavier than a heavyweight champion cham-pion "He takes a personal Interest in about everything that happened on the lound world And he hns personal views concerning most of It He is always giving freo advice as to what to do to get the greatest enjoyment out of life. "He was born In Indiana In 1S44 and grew up thoro, but completed his college col-lege train at Harvard. He had been professor of chemistry at Purdue uni-versltj uni-versltj for nine yoars, when ho resigned re-signed to become chief of the bureau of cbemtBtry twenty -.eight years ago. Since then he has had many remunerative remuner-ative offers from business concerns, but he has chosen to remain In the people s service " |