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leaves. Coloring is common ana Is
called "facing." 1t generally consists
in coating the leaves with powdered
soapstone, with lead, or plumDaso' i
tbev are TO be black, or with the pow
dered soapstone with indigo or Prus-
sian blue if they are to be green. Olten
the facing adds materially 10 the
weight Of the tea. In England the use
of exhausted leaves is much larger
than It is in this country. Spent leaves
are bought up from hotels and coHee-
houses AT merely nominal prices ana
are dried and faced before being re-
sold. They are easily detected by tneiI
frayed and irregular appearance anu
by the small proportion Of soluble mat
ter remaining in them.
The substitution of other leaves ioi
those of the tea plant Is also more
common in England than in the United
States. Yet even In this country II Is
well known that foreign leaves can
easily be detected by spreading out
few Of the leaves from the bottom OF
the teapot. The lanceolate, spear-head-
like shape Of the tea leaf, together with
its serrated margin, distinguishes II
from that Of any plant used to counter
feltit. Asarule facings can be detected
only by chemical tests. Green teas are
oftener adulterated than black teas
Tea is often colored, and if the decoc-
ton made by the housekeeper becomes
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posed of such simple substances, but If
mineral matter be added the product is
often poisonous to some degree. A few
years ago in France the Government
seized factory which employed sui
phate of iron in it's mixture.
Imitation coffee beans can be distin-
gulshed easily from the genuine by a
careful examination. Nodded as they
are, the artificial beans present a uni
formity of structure, which is entirely
foreign to the real beans. Again, arti-
fetal coffee beans will nearly always
sink when put in water, while genuine
coffee floats. There are several simple
and good tests for ground coffee. When
n little of the coffee is taken and press
ed between the fingers or squeezed in
the paper In which it is bought, and it
will not form a coherent mass. it IS
pretty sure to be genuine, but If the
grains cake they are not coffee. Even
chicory grains win stick to each other.
for they are comparatively soft and
open, and adhere without difficulty
when squeezed. In water chicory and
cereals will soften quickly like bread
crumbs, while coffee will take long
time to soften; genuine coffee grains
will float, as will the whole beans, but
chicory or any other sweet root will
soon sink. Chlcory or caramel will
cause yellowish or brOwnish color to
diffuse rapidly through the water but
pure coffee will not tint the water for
n long time. Such tests are so simple
that there appears little excuse for not
trying them. Yet manufacturers sell
to dealers tons of artificial coffee.
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PURE FOOD SCARCE.
NINETY PER CENT OF THE SUP
PLY is ADULTERATED.
Startling Revelations Brought Ont by
the Senate Investigating Committee
Enormous Amount of Fraudulent
aud Poisonous Products Produced.

II there is any pure food manufac-
tured or sold In this country, the Senate
Pure Food Investigating Committee,
which took testimony IN Chicago, did
not come across it. The evidence In
the bands OF that committee tends to
show that nearly all the commoner
articles Of food are adultera;ed by the
manufacturers, and some Of them with
deleterious and dangerous substances
One Of the witnesses. DR.. II. IL. Wiley,
chief chemist in the Department Of
Agriculture, went 50 far as to. tell the
committee that 90 per cent. Of the
liquid and solid foods consumed by the
people of the United States are adul-
terated. And DR.. Wiley said this state
ment was based on his personal inves-
tigation. He had, so he told the com
mittee, examined and tested almost
every article Of food and drink bought
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paraitin; lard that was made of starch
and cottonseed oil and stearine, and
containing alum and caustic lime; mus
tard that was compounded of flour and
tumeric and ehromate and sulphate of
lead; artificial milk that was sold as
pure condensed milk" and made of
burnt sugar annotto and water; fruit
jellies that were made of gelatine and
apple parings and favored with arti-
fetal essences; mace that was made of
bread dust and venetian red; pickles
put up in salts of copper and alum;
fruit preserves that We're made Of the
common pumpkin and colored with
dangerous substances; sage made of
potato starch: powdered sugar, the
base OF which was rice flour. and
which contained also salts of lead and
tin. gypsum and marble dust; tea that
was made of common leaves and treat
ed with gypsum, china clay and soap
stone; vinegar that was made of burnt
sugar and sulphuric and hydrochloric
acids wines made of artificial alcohol
and water and colored with anillnes.
From the testimony of the witnesses
before the committee It would seem
that more time and ingenuity are ex-
pended in producing counterfeit arti-
Gle than would be required to get ma
ture to produce the real thing. The
profit is in producing 1t in large guam
tity from waste substances. This Is a
sort OF utilization Of the by-product
that the country cannot stand for any
length of time without serious deter
ioratlon Of the physical and mental
strength Of its people, ard the status of
these crimes and fit punishments for
them win undoubtedly be fixed as a re
suit of the report of this committee.
Many Adulterants Poisonous.
Many of the authorizations are of such
a character as to injure the pocket of
the consumer rather than the health.
[ Commercial fraud, according to the tes-
timOny Of the national and State gov
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The popular notion that person can
not have too much education" was
vigorously assaulted by Coils 7. Hunt
ington at the annual banquet to officials
Of the Southern and Pacific Railway
Companies held at San Francisco. Mr..
Huntington, In fact, declared that the
cause of much Of the distress IN the
country at this time Is Generalization
Of the masses" In the course Of his
address he Is reported as saying:
"While preparation for professional
life requires advanced knowledge, II
seems to me that the vast majority Of
our young people spend too many Of
their vigorous years of youth inside
schoolrOOms and not enough In the
practical work Of life" 1t is useless to
dismiss this declaration with the OBJ
seryatlon that Mr.. Huntington is not
an authority on educational matters;
that he is more familiar with finance
and railroadlng than he Is with the
theory and practice of pedagogics.
There is just enough truth Ia what Mr..
Huntington says about the distress of
Generalization" to entltle It to serious
consideration. Mr. Huntington's name
belongs In the long list Of Americans
who have achieved signal success IN va
rlous departments of endeavor-com-
merclal, political industrial whose
educational opportunities in early life
were very limited compared to those
that are offered to the youth Of today.
II is also noted In reading the blogra-
piles of men who have achieved sue
cess In this country that great many
of them enjoyed the distinction of being
at the foot of their classes In school or
college. The question raised by Mr..
uuntington's observation Is: Are we
gradually substituting big and ponder
GUS looking currlcula for the genuine
"education" that developed the best
men of our times? Is the modern high
school graduate, who has been loaded
with Latin, trlgonometry, botany.
chemistry and psychology, better "edu-
Gated" than the country boy who has
learned reading writing and arithme-
tic" but In addition to this knows all
about the birds, the beasts and the
crops. who has cultivated the mechan-
! ical and constructive instinct by daily
use of the implements Of the farm and
who has developed a strong body as
vehicle for receptive mind? The
question suggested by Mr.. Huntington
turns, therefore, largely upon the mean
ing Of the word education" II II is
mere book learning acquired within
/ the walls Of the schoOlroom without
much contact with nature, with men or
with business, It win hardly be denied
that too much of II is handicap rather
than a help In the battle of life. The
popular notion that book education" is
the sine qua non of success Is already
/ crowding the professions and purely
polite pursuits of life far beyond leglti-
mate demands. 1t viii take long time
to rid the public mind of the notion
that the boy that can carry home from
school the largest armful Of books is
getting the best equipment for the bust
ness of life.
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The Silver Lining.

She was a bright, Hght-hearted little
woman, and when her husband failed
in business, and they had to give up
their pretty house and go to lodgings
she tried to make the best of it, For
hours after receiving the sad news she
sought some compensation for poverty,
and all of a sudden gave a chuckle OF
delight
ooh, 1t isn't so bad being poor, after
ALL" she laughed.
Her husband looked at her inquirlng-
ly. "Why?" asked he, grimly.
Because" announced the little wom-
an, confident that she had chanceu
upon a shred of the silver lining to the
dark cloud, because we won't nave
any servants to bother about"
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and sold In the country, and he ex-
planned to the Investigators the results
Of his tests.
For Instance, he found pure" alco-
hOl that had been made Of menthol and
wood sap; brandy that had been man
ufactured Of burnt sugar and water;
bread that had been made of potato
-four, and even then adulterated with
alum and sulphate Of "copper" sub
stances dangerous to the health Of the
consumers of that sort of bread; cider
made Of tartaric acid and colored with
caramel; candy made of glucose and
artificial essences and cOlored with
poisonous substances; canned goods
which had been preserved with salts of
copper; butter which had been manu-
featured from ordinary animal fats
ana starch, and in which there was an
excess of salts; beer that had been
made of burnt sugar, licorlce, quassla
and grains other than barley; cheese
that had been made of OleOmargarine,
with salts Of mercury in the rind; cocoa
and chocolate that were compounded Of
sugar, animal fats, -four and starch and
ferruglnous earths; cayenne pepper
that was made of ground rice and flour
and salt and a sprlnkling of red lead;
-four that was made of alum and
ground rice; cinnamon that was made
Of cassia and plain sawdust; ginger that
was manufactured Of mustard and
tumeric; gin that was composed alto
gether Of mixture of water and sugar
and alum and turpentine; honey In the
comb that was made of glucose and
cane sugar, with the comb nodded Of
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a SHOT SOLDIER
It Is to BE Hoped that His br..
Came True.

It Is to BE Hoped that Hfa 1,r.
Came True.
"Of course" remarked the nevsD.
per man who had seen service in CHI
at is almost a chestnut now 70 to,,. -
the nerve displayed by our wounded
soldiers at Santiago, but / came ACROSS
an instance one day that was unusnoI
Lying outside of tent waiting his
turn patiently, for he had been thor
several hours, was an extremely brigbt
young fellow l had known M hon.
He was half doing when l first dis
covered him, but in an instant, on hear
Ing my voice, he opened his eyes and
feebly held out his left hand. smiling
by Jove, old boy said, Pm sorry
to see you here. Are you much hurt5,
al don't know how much he an
swered, with considerable effort but
apparently not much pain, but IT is
very frequently. Look me over min.
ute and see for yourself
81 had had some experience in that
sort of work, and after a short insnec-
ton l found half a dozen bullet holes
through his limbs and body, not count.
ing an occasional scratch.
"'You must have been in the very
thickest of it, said, encouragingly.
"'Thats where we tried to be- he
replied with pride. How many times
was lHt-sixY
"'Thats my count
This was mine, but l wasn't sure
You see, 1 had to guess at some Of
them
How do you feelY
He smiled.
"'Well, as mother used to say about
worn-out garments, guess feel lit
tie more holy than righteous
You'll pull through all right, old
fellow said, cheerfully, for his cour-
age really gave me courage.
az don't know about that, and I'm
not worrying over it one way or the
other. That's what we're for. and if
we get chucked it's all right. l had a
funny little dream about a half hour
ago. l thought 1 had got my dis
charge and was over on the other side.
and, knowing that 1 didn't have any
letters of recommendation, l was loaf
ing around the pearly portals sizing
them up to see if there was any chance
| for me to break in, when st. Peter
opened the gate and saw me. "Hello,
JIM" says he, whats all those holes
in your Bullets" says 1. "What
kindY says he. "Dons," says l. as
that SOP says he. "Well come right
in. You never would have passed 9TH
erwise, but we're needing a hatrack in
the hall and Wen just put pegs in the
holes and make you do till we find
something better. Come on in" And,
by gum, 1 was glad the Dons had
punctured my tire the way they did.
wonder if it will come true
Whether it did or not" concluded
the narrator, mo man knoweth, but
before two weeks had passed Jim had
| gone to see."
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Or. Herman. OF the University OF
KEEL has been feeling the wrists Of the
members OF bicycle club, immediate
" after they had pushed their wheels
up a moderate ascent In every case
abe pulse was beating at the rate Of
one hundred and atty to one hundred
and sixty strokes minute, and In one
man OF stouter build It mounted to one
hundred aud eighty. AS seyenty-eight
j. the normal average It appears that
this kind OF exertlon may quite double
che activity OF the heart The doctor
had previously observed this effect on
himself, after wheeling up the same
hill; and he gives warning that the
same result may follow ride too long
continued or over a lumpy road. lie
also advises the cycler not to smoke
when riding, and to keep his mouth
shut, SO as to breathe only through the
nose.
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which is accepted unquestioningly as
the genuine article.

which is accepted unquestioningly as
the genuine article.
spurious stuff Is Possible.
Both manufacturers and retail gro
GERS make enormous profits, for their
fraudulent coffee can be made for as
little as or cents a pound. Often
the -four, crackers or cereals which
enter into its composition are so badly
damaged that they could be utilized
in no other way. There is, besides,
much hucksterlng In real coffees, and
lower grades are frequently mixed
with the higher. Thus Maracaibo and
La Guayra coffees are mixed with Java
and Mocha coffee and the mixture sold
for pure Java or pure Mocha.
Cheap cream Of tartar has been
proved to be composed largely of tar
tarlc acid and terra alba. This terra
alba, or white earth, imported from the
shores of the Mediterranean, has been
used as food adulterant to fearful
degree. 1t IS, when pulyerlzed. a white
and almost lmpalpable powder. taste
less and looking like a fine starch. Its
presence is frequently detected in pow
dered sugar, which may account for
the fact that hOusekeepers do not find
powdered sugar altogether satisfactory
for cooking purposes. Pure cream of
tartar will dissolve In hot water. but
terra alba will not: therefore to test il
put a teaspoOnful into a tumbler of hot
water, allow 1t to stand for a few mo-
ments, and then see whether there is
any sediment. If the sediment is large.
terra alba IS probably present. If II
/ does not dissolve, leaving the water
clear. add a few drops Of tincture If
iodine to the water. If pure, the color
win remain unchanged; but if starch is
present the water win turn bright blue
The usual adulterants Of tea are
spent or exhausted tea leaves, leaves
of other plants like tea, sand and vari.
Gus materials used for eolorlng the
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highly colored after being boiled few
minutes adulteration may be sus-
pected.
List Practically Unlimited.
The list of articles adulterated and
their authorizations is practically un-
limited, as was stated by Prof. Wiley
in his testimony before the Congress
sional Committee. The adulteration Of
coffee and tea will serve as types. 1t is
stated that most of the spices sold are
wholly fraudulent, as are most of the jel-
lies. Perhaps half of the alcoholic liquors
are prepared from neutral spirits doc
tOred and colored to have the taste
and appearance Of the liquor demand
ed by the consumer. A type of this
adulteratiOn is the recipe given for
pure country cider" 1t is: To each
gallon of water add one-half pound of
graduated sugar, acidulate with tar
taric acid, and flavor with oil of apple,
previously put in alcohol, color with
caramel and to twenty gallons of the
mixture add two gallons of genuine
country cider.
Frequent cases have been reported
of late years of sickness arising from
the use Of canned meats. The cause
seems mainly to have been improper
methods of canning, or the use of meat
that was tainted before being canned.
According to A. J. Wedderburn, of the
United States Department Of Agricul-
ture, but little risk will be run by the
purchaser who carefully examines the
outside Of the cans which he buys. The
heads of the cans should be slightly
concave, which shows that they were
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Adyices from Manila announce that
our peace commissioners recently gave
a reception and dance notable for its
brllliancy and gorge0usness. We read,
however, with some misgiylngs that
''there was a display of gorgeous ma.
tive toilets and many Jewels were
worn" Now we do not wish TO be
captious OF hypercritical. and we sin
cerely desire To do everything possible
10 promote love and unity In our new
possessions but we cannot contem-
plate a possibility OF native toilets"
without a feeling of restiveness Some
OF the big newspapers have favored us
with a number OF views OF the new
sisters I'm their native costumes. and
we have no hesitation In saying that
they We're Tar more adaptable 10 the
requirements OF the bathtub than 10
the public usages OF polite society. We
know that the weather there Is warm
and that allowance must be made for
oriental social customs, and yet we
must contend that the thought OF a
Filipino executing the twO-step IN one
OF these native costumes In crowded
and brilliantly lighted room Is not a
pretty one. Indeed, we fear that the
fouchee-couchee VIII not be sanctioned
by the moral element OF this country.
Let us entertoin our new sisters and
brothers In a reputable, digniied and
Christian manner. If possible let US
have an Ice cream festival or a church
fair or a mite sociable, but no more
dances In native costume.
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An American sportsman out duck
shooting In Maine relates how he stop
ped to rest in an old hen field in which
there was an orchard. A flock of sheep
was feeding near by. 1t was not long
before his attention was called TO the
chirruping Of some squirrels In a
thicket. ana he was surprised 10 see
the sheep stop feeding and manifest
great excitement. The squirrels went
into the orchard. and. climbing into
one OF the trees, resumed their loud
clatter, evidently calling the sheep.
since the flock made at once for the
apple tree. Then the squirrels began
TO bite off the apples, which fell
among the hungry sheep who would
struggle for the fruit like So many
school boys The squirrels seemed to
enjoy the fun, and after they had
dropped a few apples from the first
tree they skipped to a distant tree for
which the sheep would make In great
confusion. After the squirrels had
thus enjoyed an hours fun with their
iieecy neighbors and supplied them
with a sufficient quantity Of the fruit
they scampered back 70 their haunts
I'm the thicket, leaving the sheep 70 re.
sumo their grazing Household Words
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The founder Of one OF our agricul-
tural colleges, who was more noted for
having the interest OF the public at
heart than for aptness Of expression In
speech, was once called TO be chairman
Of n meeting convened to consider the
necessity Of procuring ground for a
new cemetery. Gentlemen said he,
Il suppose you all know that there has
got 70 be new cemetery, and now we
are anxious to know how many Of you
are ready to go into itv'
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Recently published memoirs Of Hen
~ Reeve, who wrote leading articles
for the London Times ana was editor
OF the Edinburgh Review. give his
view Of a journalists responsibility.
His estimate of duty win inspire con
Rcientlous newspaper men. "To find
out the true state OF facts" said he, TO
report them with fidelity. 10 apply TO
them strict and fixed principles of jus
tice, humanity and law; 10 inform. as
Tar as possible, the very conscience of
nations. and to call down the Judgment
OF the world on what is false or base OF
tyrannlcal, appear 10 me to be the first
duties of those who write" Measured
by such standard. how reprehenslblc
Is lnaccuracy, how criminal Is faith
lessness, and how depraved the NAL
evidence which, for purposes OF gain,
makes a newspaper office treasury Of
baseness and falsehood,
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May ana Edith are sisters, 4 and :
selrs ola respectively. May had heen
very naughty and mamma had taI-on
her over her knee to administo, '"Ael'
POral punishment, when Edith sudden
ly pushed the door ajar and peen oe5'g IN
turning her chubby face as for ' ro,, -,
toward her sister as her peculiar nos,l
gravely: '''iu very
busyg" '0u see I'm
II is needless to add that mommo
granted a respite" H"inina
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the distracted parents. Does anyone
suppose for a minute that the crime
would have been attempted II the law
provided an adequate penalty for tn
Is II not evident that the lenlency with
which the Oifense is treated, together
with the possibility Of large financial
gain, Is an actual incentive TO con-
scienceless people to undertake It as n
business enterprise Is there any 9TH
er crime which promises so large re-
ward, II successful, and for the perpe-
tration OF which there is so little to be
feared II the offender Is caught? The
answers to these questions show the
crying need for a change I'm the laws
relative TO kidnapping. The punishment
should be commensurate with the Of
Tense. AS well might one say that
three months In the county jail Is n
proper penalty for manslaughter as to
contend that a years Imprisonment Is
adequate punishment for the abductor
Of q child. Nor can the matter be dis
missed with the assertion that the
crime Is of comparatively infrequent
occurrence. On the contrary, the rec
ords show there are many such cases,
and there must be a large number Of
which the public never hears. These
crimes, among the cruelest and most
dastardly possible, never will cease or
even be materially lessened in number
until It Is possible 10 make an example
OF the perpetrators, and that opportu-
nifty must be lacking so long as the law
presclrbes only fine and one year Of
imprisonment for them.
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hot when sealed. If the heads are cor-
VeN II shows that decomposition has
commenced in the can.
The total value of the food supply Of
the United States has been estimated
at $o,OOOOOO.OO0. According to DR.
Wlleys estimate, 80 per cent. of this 10
adulterated, or S450O,OoOOoO Accord
ing TO the American Grocer's figures
which are the most favorable. not mora
,han ~ per cent. of the adulteration IL
harmful or Injurious to the health
LaAing these statements. the result
snow" , that there is S45O,OOO,OOO worth
OF poisonous food products put animal.
y on the country and $4,000 OOOOo Of
fraudulent products. V'''0O u