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Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-03-02
Tha t;o veto :, tb;s horonob for


warm issue between the two candi-
dates. They were out early We'd
nesday morning with petitions, rum
mated conformity on the promises of
| their friends and the national holi-
day, wished that those friends had
remembered the story of the hatchet
and the cherry tree, made some of
them "take water'' when it came to
a public vote, and placed some of the
Democratic leaders i'm sOrrowful
plight which was amusing to the ex-
treme.
Hon. Thos. j. Ingham writes
home from Mt. Dora, Fla, that he
is again enjoying good health, and
on recent fishing trip with Mrs.
Ingham, caught the largest bass yet
captured in that section this season.
We, with hosts of others, are glad to
learn that his hate illness has taken
happy issue. He will enjoy the
southern cline until about the first
of April.
Our young sports now have
evening entertainment which wholly
absorbs their attention. They have
organized club, rented the Kennedy
hall. purchased boxing gloves and
amuse themselves by initiating each
other into the mystery of the where
abouts of the solar plexus and the
art of rejecting shadows over the
eyes, the latter being plainly visible
on several.
Not content with running the
borough in a manner to crafty their
selfish ambitions. the Second Ward
leaders are now taking up individu-
ais private affairs to handle. One of
them called on us lately and as we
understood it, proposed to edit our
paper. We couldn't view it his way
and have consequently lost sub
scriber or two. There is too much
of that vertebral column in us to re-
tain or build circulation ON such
methods. We take pleasure in favor
ing such people with Il final settle
ment.
One never fully appreciates the
privileges and blessings of health
and strength until experience with
sickness teaches him lesson. So
many homes have been invaded by
sickness this winter, and in not a
few cases death has resulted, that
one cannot feel too greatful that his
own health is spared, and that of his
family. The ties of long standing
friendship have called many of late
to the bedside of sick friends who are
held in high esteem. Among the
many is the very sad case OF. Major
Chas. Seeley of Forksville. From a
robust, vigorous manhood, an injury
and its accompanying pains have re-
duced the patient to IA condition of
PROSTATE weakness, painful to wit
ness as we'll as to bear, and although
we indulge a hope for his ultimate
recovery, we cannot but appreciate
his dangerous condition. How for
chilly the truth of the words is inn
pressed upon us:
"Tis but the wink of an eye, the draught OF
breath,
From the blossom OF health to the paleness of
death
We are not prone to indulge in
doleful dissertions, but cannot refrain
from giving utterance to the thoughts
inspired by this sac case which is
probably fatal, and that of C.E. Law
renee. We are all too apt to over
estimate our troubles and under-esti-
mate the blessings that call for our
fervent gratitude.
Hillsgrove.
The recent town election passed
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-03-02
II you Hppretiate
buying honorable house. which
the square, don't forget when n need dof
CLOTHING. SHOES, LADIES' C0ATS& CAPES

paronze the ognaors of the small profit system you
certainly regret taking advantage of guide upright
dealers Mercury has taken drop consequently drop
pointer and don't buy Overcoat Suit Shoes Furnishing
goods Ladies' Cloaks, anything
have first visited us.
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whenever she was in Make Believe
land. where she lived most of the time.
Surely it could not be more wonderful
than the country next door TO the
world, where old Mr. Rabbit and Mrs
Meadows and the looking glass chill
dren had their abode.
For a few days Mr.. Coon feasted. and
then the children thought he should be-
gin to pay for his board, first. by Civ
ing an account of himself, and next in
any other way that might be devised.
SO far as Mr.. Coon was concerned, he
was perfectly willing to accommodate
the children. He was never bad tenn
pered unless he saw cat or dog, and
such of these as were about the house
and yard soon learned to give him
wide berth, for his claws and teeth
were sharp, and he was a born fighter.
In Joe MaxwelPs rough notes, Mr..
Coon began thus:
IF ] had to tell my tale from the
talk think, as you talk your talk, I'd
talk no talk of this thing" AS this
would be hard to follow, ii has been
rendered into a free translation from
first to last.
IF ] had to learn my language out
of books, as you do yours" said Mr..
Coon, leaning back in a corner of the
playroom and rubbing his face and
nose with both hands, II wouldn't have
much to say about myself for 1
wouldn't know how to say 1t. My home
was in the hollow limb of tree. and l
can remember how nice il was too sleep
in that soft. warm place. There were
four others besides me. and we used to
sleep close together till our nanny
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Those In California Equal to the Best
In Europe

How many of those who go to the
European springs for their health re-
alize that in the one state of California
there are more and greater variety
of medicinal springs than in all the
European countries combined 1t is a
fact, however. There is no disorder for
which medicinal waters can afford re-
lief but that finds its natural remedy
in California. Every imaginable kind
of mineral springs there exists. some
hot and others cold There are splen-
did swimming lakes of naturally hot
medicinal waters of many kinds. AS a
rule, the yield of water from these CAL
ifornia springs is remarkably free, so
that no one is stinted- Scores of the
more noted are provided with comfort
able buildings and every other adjunct
for the comfort and cure of invalidS,
many of them being fashionable resorts
for people who really do not need the
use of the healing waters The charges
are moderate and the patronage large.
4 very important element of the pop
ularity and efficiency of California is
the delicious and healing climate No
climate so bland so generous. so in
vigorating can be found in any coun-
try of Europe. 1t is worth something
10 the mind and the body to be sur
rounded bv fruits and flowers every
day in the year, and TO be absolutely
sure or freedom from nalarlal poison
ing The climate possibly doubles the
healing value of springs. which in
themselves are the finest and most ben
eficial in the world
variety of California literature, at
tractively illustrated. describing it's re-
sources famous resorts and numerous
wonders: also maps and folders, show
ing routes, through trains and other
valuable information, may be obtained
by addressing d. r. Gray, general
agent Southern Pacific company, PA
Dooly block. Salt Lake City, Utah, or
T. II. Goodman. general passenger
agent, San Francisco, Cal.
rho,,sar5s ,.iII ba or Iogo,r cu,5av
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/ ETC., mean the thing at hand, or, to be
more exact, the thing under the nose
the thing talked about.
! 1t is a pity that Joe Maxwell, who is
responsible for these dry details, did
not take the trouble to write the Ian
| guage down from Buster Johns recipe.
| But he put it off from day TO day, and
notes of these stories, and some scat
/ tered fragments of explanation, one of
which is presented above.
Well Ito shoe all this away, Mr.
! Coon was highly delighted with his din
ner and was ready to curl up and take
nap, or was willing to join the chill
dren in a frolic So they led him into
their playroom in the attic, unsnapped
the chain from his collar and gave him
the freedom of the wide space.
First, Mr.. Coon must poke his nose
or his forepaws into everything. He
paced round and round the room,
smelling at or feeling in every nook
and Granny. When he was satisfied
with his inspection, nothing would do
but he must feel in Buster Johns
pocket He pulled out marbles, nails,
fragments of chinaware, which the
youngster used in place of money. With
few fragments of fine chinaware in
his pocket Buster John always felt
rich. With this form of currency he
had bought whole droves of ponies and
large arsenals of guns, pistols. swords
and war cannon from imaginary VEN
doris.
Piece by piece Mr. Coon brought Bus
ter Johns treasures to light and eX-
amined them carefully. The children
noticed that Mr.. Coon's forepaws were
very much like tiny hands, and that his
hind feet made tracks in the sand that
looked like those of a wee baby OF
course, ii was Sweetest Susan who
made this discovery. Whenever Mr.
Coon left the prints of his feet visible
one could almost imagine that some
small goblin in human shape had
passed that way, going on all tours
Almosti Why, Sweetest Susan did
imagine twas sure of it, indeed
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tnen, placing tiny portion of the
Hour, or, as il now stands, starch, in
a little tube, he puts it in solution. col
ors it with iodine a beautiful purple.
puts a drop between the thin pieces of
glass for his slide. tucks ii under the
microscope and there. swimming to-
gether side by side as purple as the sun
set in the land of the midnight sun. are
the two types of starch grains. hun
dreds of them, the one round. the other
angular, the one having concentric
rings on its interior. the other with
lines as Jagged as the greenish radia-
tons from a fractured pane of glass.
1t isn't question of theory, but one
of very cold. hard fact. The scientific
chemist, especially the agricultural
chemist, such a one as Professor Harry
Snyder of the state experiment sta
ton of the college of agriculture in
the University of Minnesota, doesn't
havesto depend upon any theories. He
takes sample of perfectly pure wheat
flour. tests it, finds the grains of starch
OF the one type. He takes a sample of
pure corn starch flour. the grains are
all of one type and wholly different.
He takes a sample of flour adulterated
with corn starch and the two types
appear. There is nothing left to
chance.
But the adulterator knows his bust
ness He has invented machinery
which so rolls and powders the corn
starch that. in some cases. the cell
walls are broken down and the corn
starch blends into the wheat flour
starch. This would seem to be a blend
ing beyond the power of the detective.
But it is not. Professor Snyder has
been carrying on experiments which
show that he will in the future-and. in
fact. has already reached some decided
ly satisfactory results-be able to de-
tect the fraud even here, for by an TO-
dine test he can tell the difference be-
tween flour composed of mixed corn
and wheat starch grains even after the
cell walls of the grains are broken
down. BY far the greater proportion of
all the adulteration, however is quick
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thing quite as interesting to tell the
children. From a negro whom he knew
ne had bought a raccoon, genuine,
full grown raccoon. This was news,
indeed, and so exciting in its charac-
ter that Aaron was compelled to an
swer, or to parry, volley after Volley
of questions.
''Oh, how old is it, and what does it
look like?'' cried Sweetest Susan.
And who is it to belong TO, and is it
tame. so tame that you can put your
hand on it," asked Buster John.
why didn't dey kill it an COOK It?
inquired Drusilla-
Aaron put his fingers in his ears
He couldn't answer all the questions
put to him. Finally there was a lull
in the excitement.
What did you give for him." Buster
John asked, after pause.
Something" replied Aaron, smiling.
But how much?"
Enough"
"Shucks" cried Buster John: eff 1
had known there was some great Sc
cret about it l wouldn't have asked
Aaron pinched the boys ears gently
and said, "Comei" He went to his
cabin. the children following. and when
they went in the first thing they saw
was Mr. Coon, pacing back and forth
the length of the small steel chain
which held him. He paused and re-
yarded them curiously, twisting the end
of his sharp nose about, and mechanl-
cally feeling in the cracks of the floor
with his forepaws. which seemed to be
as supple and as useful as boys
hands.
When Buster John went nearer, Mr..
Coon raised himself on his hind legs
and uttered a cry almost identical with
the scream of a rooster when a bird
suddenly flies over or hawk appears
in sight Buster John knew it was
warning, and so he stopped.
What is the trouble, Frog Eater
Tadpole- Catcher?' the Son of Ben Ali
sharply inquired.
You can't fool me- snarled Mr..
Coon. I've seen creatures like him
before. They poked my sides with
sticks and pulled my tail"
But this one is different, Bug
Eater" said Aaron
oh call me what you please. Son of
Ben Ali. / was glad TO come with you,
but / didn't invite myself here, did l?
If you were hungry and thirsty and
tied fast, and saw coming toward you
one of the creatures that had made
misery for you. would you grin and
say, Welcome friend?
Likely not" replied Aaron. But
you have been fed, FrOs-Eater. You
said you had enough"
Enough of the kind. Son of Ben Ali;
yes. and too much. If you want me to
eat corn. get some that is soft on the
cob and juicy. If you want me to be
nice. fetch me a couple of young
chickens-Or a handful of black
beetles"
Sweetest Susan shivered.
We'll. TadpOle- Catcher" said Aaron
"if you want good things TO eat go with
these friends. They have been touched.
They know everything you say, and
when you are hungry or thirsty you
have only to give the sign"
At this Mr.. Coon paced back and
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Prof Snyder Examining Flour With

caslonal use of various kinds of finely
powdered earths, etc, it is worth while
considering the kind of adulteration
now practiced in the manufacture of
flour, from which the American labor
ing man gets his staff of life.
No doubt the men who adulterate
their wheat flour with cornstarch con-
sole their consciences with some such
reassuring thought that the adulter-
ant is not only not poisonous. but unin-
judious in its elements, and yet they
are guilty of the most despicable piece
of robbery known since meannesS be-
gan, and those who eat it to the ex-
tent that the laboring men of the Unit
ed States eat bread simply enter upon
a certain and not so very prolonged
period of starvation.
How Adulteration Is Detected
But first, word or two as to this
adulteration and how the scientific
men are discovering it-how they are
working TO render such adulteration as
this in the future a practical impos-
sibility.
The starch of the flour of every wheat
berry and every corn kernel differ al
ways and essentially as they came un-
der the microscope. Take a sample of
honest flour and you will find every
tiny grain to the last hundredth that
comes into your field of vision as you
move the slide below the lens, round
ish in shape, every one of them, if cut
in twain. showing a series of concen-
trio circles. and a transverse section in
dicating the general form of a pair of
dumbells.
When the cornstarch. like the wheat
starch, has been washed clear of all
other elements. every grain, to the
fatherest millionth. instead of being
round. is angular. full of corners, the
fiat body of the grain usually show
ing from five to six sharp angles. In
the center of the grain the lines are
not circular, as in the wheat but
starting from well defined
spot in the heart of the grain of starch
and radiating out in perfectly straight
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heads and giblets. Mr.. Coon smacked
his mouth over them, and when he had
finished declared that he felt better
than he had for many a day, and re-
marked:
Egg liblum, aig loblum og iggle,"
which literally translated means: Big
dinner, bigger bed Freely interpret
ed, it means: IF 1 continue to get
such fine fare. I'll have to get my
clothes made larger
1t may interest readers who are no
longer young to know that in the Ian
guage of animals the root word lab
lam stands for things, and its varia-
lions, liblum, loblum, leblum, liblom,
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the dough from becoming soft and
sticky. The gluten as a whole is the
| iife-giving part of the bread. Now, sup
| pose the man who gets his corn for %
cents bushel puts 40 per cent more
starch into his flour than he ought to-
corn starch The man who eats bread
made from this adulterated flour is
robbed of 40 per cent of the ife-giving
powers of the bread, for the incoming
starch drives out the gluten. Very
| many Americans use bread as the
staple OF their diet. Professor Snyder
has demonstrated, by experiments
upon men in feeding them for days at
a time certain lines OF food, to arrive
at what is reasonable ration for a
man at work, that a man must have
where he has but little meat and not
many vegetables. at least two pounds
OF bread per day.
This must be honest bread, made
from the very best of flour, containing
not less than II per cent of gluten. In
case any per cent of this gluten is driv-
en- out. 10 that extent the mans dietary
is impaired Suppose you were living
on largely bread diet, as so many
American laborers are they and their
families. If suddenly. and without any
knowledge of the factor the adulter-
ated flour cannot be told by its appear
ance from the pure-your bread be-
came from Is to 40 per cent, or even in
u. u.
how long before your strength and the
strength of your family would show the
effects? And whether you are a Ia
boring man or not. a very large part
OF your food is made up from bread or
other articles of diet in which -four is
used. and to the extent that this -four
is adulterated with this corn starch,
to that extent you are robbed.
There is no theory here; it is plain
fact Anyone who wants TO test il can
go from a diet of two pounds of rich,
nutritious bread. made from honest
flour. per diem, with the few vegetables
and the infrequent meat of a good
many laboring men, to diet on adul>
terated bread containing one-third AZ
much strengthening power, and test,
it to their own satisfaction. If you
try it long enough you will not need
a diagram or a diagnosis to show you
what is the matter with you.
Some months ago, when the price ot
wheat was in the dollar region. COM
plants about adulterated -four We're
made from various parts of the west
ern and southwestern portions of the
country. So persistent and frequent
were these complaints that congress
sional action at last was invoked. Pro
feseor Snyder. at the head of the de-
partment of chemistry in the university
of Minnesota. has been called upon to
test many samples of these adulterated
hours4 Here are three analyses, one
showing what a typical honest wheat
flour is composed of, one showing what
an adnlterated flour is composed of.
and one showing the constituent parts
of rice flour 1t need only be said in
this connection that the sample of rice
flour, largely the food of the Chinese
laborer is practically the same as to its
food value as the sample of adulterated
flour which is only one of many which
Professor Snyder has recently been
testing.
The analyses are as follows;
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STEALING THE STAFF OF LIFE.
Fierce Battle Being Waged by States and municipalities
Secure Pure Bread For the American Working
man-By Adulteration Bread Robbed of 40
Per Cent of Life Giving Power.

and corn % cents bushel. 1t is a very
natural thing, following the bent of a
crooked mind. TO mix the corn starch
with the flour starch. The two are of
precisely the same character as to ap-
pearance. etc.
But the detective is there. too. and,
aided by that chief of all detectives,
mother nature. the scientific chemist
takes the adulterated flour, washes it
in cold water so that every part of the
gluten of the flour is cleared out, and
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ines. from three to five or six lines in

lines. from three to five or six lines IN
each grain.
Each one of these grains IN enclosed
in a wall of cellulose. The character
of the starch on the interior of each is
precisely the same, whether OF corn or
ybeat In the wheat -four. however,
as nature has given it to man in the
wheat kernel. there is just the right
proportion of starch for the needs OF
the human system, mixed with other
ingredients which go to give the sys-
tenn it's strength.
Why Adulteration Pays
When the men who want to adulter-
ate their flour find that wheat costs 81
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ly discernable by the other test
Is This Adulterated Flour Harmful

A good many people have asked this
question, but the answers have been,
in many cases. quite vague-just such
indefinite answers as would be apt to
suit the man who is collaborating.
There are three main elements in
the wheat flour which make it the staff
of life when it becomes bread-ash, for
the formation of bone; starch for the
heat of the body: gluten. or. in another
word, protein, for the production Of
muscle. The gluten is made up of two
substances, gluten and gliadin. The
gliadin binds the flour together and
makes it dough, the gluten prevents
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There are good many people in this
world interested in bread from the
standpoint of food as well as the stand
point of health. Adulteration in food
products is an offense. or, if you desire
a stronger term, crime, which is be-
ing fought by municipalities, by states,
and by nations with a fiercer determin-
alton than ever before TO bring the bat
tie TO finish.
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A Frightfui Blunder

will often cause a horrible Burn. Scald,
cut or Bruise. Bucklen's Arnica Salve
the best in the world, will kill the pain
and promptly heal it. Cures Old Sores,
Fever Sores. Ulcers. Boils. Felons,
ali skin Eruptions. Best Pile cure on
earth. Only % cents a box. Cure
guaranteed. Sold by z. C. NJ. l., drug
gist.
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forth very rapidly. This was the way
he showed his Impotence. He was anx-
ious to go with them. Aaron unfasten-
ed the chain and placed one end in
Buster Johns hand. The youngster held
it very gingerly and was inclined
to shrink when Mr.. Coon came too close
but he soon got over that feeling and
so did Sweetest Susan and Drusilla;
so that, in a little while, they were
more familiar with MIR. Coon than they
had ever been with any of their pets
They lost no time in giving him his
thinner, which consisted of chicken
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Part XII.
The Story of Mr.. Coon.

Aaron smiled when the children told
him how Mr.. Bobs could set crow to
catch crow. He said the same plan
had been practiced for many long
years. He had heard his father, Ben
Ali, tell about it. Indeed, the proba-
bility is that out of this practice the
saying, set a thief to catch a thief
had arisen, for nobody could trust a
thief to catch a thief unless the first
thief was securely fastened.
But Aaron, on his side, had some
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ySeS are as fOIIOWs:
Adulterated

Here is another sample, showing an
extent of adulteration more pro-
nounced. a sample not unlike many
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Coming-Georgia Up-to-Date Min
strels Lagoon, one week, commencing
Sunday, June 25.
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Minstrels = Georgia Minstrels = Ia
COON, Sunday. Free.
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following us wherever we went; and If
they followed us home they'd sit at the
foot of the tree and bark until a man
would come with a sharp cut-thing
and hit the tree until it fell.
''All these things we learned, and
great many more. but you know what
fools things, young things, are