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whole. Witness the anti-injunction bill
by which labor unions seek to tie the
hands of our courts and prevent the issue
OF any order to restrain the members of
that trust from attacking men or de-
stroy1ng property. Such a bill is per-
maps the most infamous insult to our
courts and the common people ever laid
before Congress and the Representatives
In Congress must be held to a strict ac-
c~ountability for their acts relating
thereto. But when bills come before
Congress that are drawn in the interest
OF all the people they should receive the
active personal support of the people
and the representatives be instructed
by the citizens. The Senators also
should be written to and instructed. II,
therefore, you will remember your priv
ilege and duty you will at once-now-
write to your Congressman and Senator
on this pure food bill. Clip and enclose
the copy herewith presented and ask
them to make a business Of following it
through the committee considering it.
Urge its being brought to a vote and re-
qnesting that they vote for it.
Some oppressively intelligent and
carplng critic may say this is simply an
advertisement for Postum and Grape
Nuts. 1t is true that these articles are
spoken Of here in a public manner, but
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1906-03-02
the bearded woman. and the fat Won

the bearded woman, and the fat WON
Al we're standing upon something,
holding up their dresses md ashaking
the skirts and screaming, ara when
the fat woman fell into fhe,arms Of
the bearded woman, ii q faint, ana tbs
bearded woman dropped the fat wom-
an, pa told the bearded woman he was
ashamed of her for screaming, cause
she ought to be more Of a man than
that.
Well, every III and rat In the
bunch seemed to be looking for women
to scream at them, and there was no
use trying to run a show with sucn an
excited audience. SO pa had the band
play Good Night, Ladies'" and he an
nounced that the performance might
be considered over for the afternoon.
Everybody made a rush for the exits
Each woman held up her skirts and
fairly galloped to get away from the
mice and rats.
They all got out of the tent finally,
and then the managers had a meeting
to find out who started the trouble.
and what it was best to do about t.
was sitting alone on a front seat.
' LIZ SSChCo VI LAC dlsSl-
noon, and wondering what the young
senator's son would do with the mon
ey he won Of me, and whether he had
depopulated the white house of rats
and mice, SO the president would no.
tlce it. | was thinking about elephants
and wondering if they were towards
by nature, or had acquired cowardica
by associating with mankind, when pa
came along and sat down by me, a pic
ture Of despair, cause Bolivar had
fractured one of his ribs, and the fat
woman had paralyzed his knees sit
ting on his lap while they brought her
to after she tainted when she thought
a rat was climbing into her sock.s
Pa sighed, and said: "Hennery, I
wanted an exciting life, to keep me
from brooding over advancing g
and 1 chose the circus business, but I
find it is rather too strenuous for me.
Each day something occurs to try my
nerves. 1 do not claim that you are
to blame for it all, but 1 think I could
enjoy my position with the show If
you would take the first train that goes
north, and leave me for a While. What
I need is rest. Go, boy, go!"
l felt sorry for pa, but I put my arm
around him. and I said: "Pa, do not
fear. I will never desert you, until
the season is over. Wherever you go,
I will go, and I will keep you awake,
don't fear. Now that we are going
into the sunny south, where every
man may have it in for you, cause you
we're a Yankee soldier, l will stay by
VOL, ond thare will ha things ,1O;no
that will make you think the past has
been a sweet dream. See, pal"
Pa sighed again. and said: This is
too much!' and he rushed off to find
the elephants.
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$50, and you can take all the bets you
can get. Why, this herd of elephants
would walk On mice. and rats, too. You
bet with him and tell him to bling
along all the rats and mice he can ind
in the white house, and you can turn
them into the ring Monday afternoon
when the elephants do their turn, and
II an elephant bats an w l will eat
his ears FOR mushrooms"
I went back to young Mr.. Senator
and too his bet, and told him I rad
plenty more money to bet the same
way, and he said the next afternoon
he would come with his mice and rats.
and a lot of money to bet that you
couldn't hold that flock of elephants
with log chains when he opened his
bag Of rats and mice.
Well, how it got into the papers l do
not know, but the next morning they
all said al Interesting experiment
would be made the next afternoon at
the great and only circus, to detern':
once and for all whether elephants
were afraid of mice, and that a SEN
ator's o and a son of one of the pro-
prietors Of the show would conduct
the experiment by turning loose a lot
of mice and rats in the rings at pre-
cisely $3.50 p. m.
Well, you Y saw such a crowd in
a circus as we had that afternoon. It
seemed as though the whole popula-
ton turned out. foreign ministers. ne
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Finally the trainer formed the whole
herd into a grand pyramid, with old
Bolivar in the center, each elephant
holding an American flag with his
trunk. and waving it, and the audience
broke out into a cheer that fairly
ripped the canvass.
Then 1 said to young MI. Senator:
Come on with your rats. now, and
win $50" All hands picked up the
baskets and bags and wsnt to the side
of the ring and emptied the whole
bunch of more than 500 into the ring.
The rats and mice rushed for the ele-
plants, and then turned and made a
rush for the reserved seats.
Oh, dear, what a time we had. The
elephants got down off that pyramid
so quick it would make your head
swim, and old Bolivar trumpeted in
AFFECT fear, and tried to break away,
but pa came along with a tent stake
and hit Bolivar over the head, and
told the trainer to put the elephants
back into the pyramid and hold them
there till the bell rung for them to
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1906-03-02

cease their stunt. The trainer couldn'.
do anything with them, and they bel
lowed and lodged mice and shyed at
rats, and Bolivar took his trunk and
swatted pa clear across the ring.
The elephants followed Bolivar to
the main entrance. each elephant try
ing to walk or the heels of the one
ahead of him, and all the circus hands
trying to head Off the elephants. but
they wouldn't head Off. They were
simply scared to death, and they
broke out the side of the tent near
the lemonade stand and went whoop-
ing out n the open air and freedom,
while the audience yelled with JOY.
Young Mr.. Senator said to me:
What do you think of elephants
now"
I told him to take his none and be
darned.
The audience was getting
so the band struck up "a Hot Time In
the Old Town." and they were quiet
ing down as the curtain to the dress
ing room raised and the horses for the
chariot race came out. Just then a
woman with red socks got up on q
chair in the press seats and pulled her
dress away up and yelled. Rats" and
another woman screamed and Jumped
up on a seat with her clothes at half
mast, and yelled that there were mice
on the seats. In less than two MIN
utes every woman In the audience. and
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ENCLlSHMEN IN DUELS.
Some Of the Famous Men Who HAYS
Fought with Swords~and
Pistols.

The earl OF Kimberley's much dis
cussed challenge to Col. Sapwell is a
reminder that though the days of duel
ing are considered to have passed in
England, the fighting spirit will still
break out on occasions, says the Lon
don Express.
Not so very long 6 Mr.. Winston
Churchill was challenged to an en-
counter a l'outrance by an irate con
%stituent at Oldham. One hesitates to
think what would AVE happened had
Mr.. Churchill had leisure enough to
resume his martial role.
Lord Beaconsfield once challenged
O'Connell to a duel, but the famous
statesman found himself bound over to
keep the peace in a police court in
stead of departing across the channel
to blow out the brains of his political
opponent.
O'Connell himself fought a duel with
Emons named D'Esterre and killed mis-
opponent.
Another fatal duel was that in which
Lord Camelford, one of the most con-
irmed duellists of his day and a man
who had the death of more than one
fellow creature on his hands, was
killed by Mr.. Best. Both were excel
lent shots, and one of the two pistols
used was supposed to be slightly more
perfect than the other. A piece of
money was tossed up to decide the
choice. Best won. and in the result
Lord Camelford fell mortally wounded.
The last duel fought in Ireland was
between a mayor of Sligo and a men,
Der Of the legal profession, but hon
ors were declared easy, for nothing
happened.
Mr.. Tierney charged Pitt with 'ob-
~structing the defenses of the country"
and that o%ratorieal observation sound
ed so terrible in the ears of the emf
nent statesman that he sent his Sec
onds to Mr.. Tierney.
The two met at three o'clock one
Sunday morning at Putney cath, not
far from the Kingston road, fired two
shots at each other and then returned
home quite well for breakfast.
Charles James Fox, Pitts brilliant
rival, ook occasion to make some
scathing observations on the powder
supplied by the war office and prompt
sly received a challenge from Mr.. Ad-
ans. Fox accepted, the duel was
fought n the statesman was wound
ed. Adams" he is reported to have
said on that lamentable occasion. 81
do believe you'd have killed me if you
hadn't used government powder"
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groes, society people and clerks. That
senator's son and the whole family,
and the neighbors, must have been mp
all night catching mice and rats, and
it took nine boys and three servants
bags of mice and rats. / passed them
all in and We lined up on q front seat
to wait for the elephant stunt, and
when the thing vas ripe we were to
empty the whole mess of vermin into
the ring.
1 felt as though something was
wrong, cause I saw the new moon
over my left shoulder the night before,
and now / wish l had died before this
thing happened. When the Japanese
jugglers went out of the ring I knew
that was the cue for the elephants to
come in, and when the dressing room
curtain was pulled aside and old Boil
var came IL at the head of the herd.
and they marched around the outside
of the ring, clear around the tent, my
heart jumped up into my throat, n
l felt sick.
The senator's boy said: when these
rats and things begin to chase your
old elephants, you won't be able to see
their tails for the dust thcy will kick
up"
Then I thought of the money pa had
given me to bet, and I offered to bet 1t
all, and a negro produced funds and
took my bets like a bookmaker.
Well, after doing a turn around the
big ring, the trainer steered the ele-
plants into the middle ring, and the
great audience leaned forward to catch
every trick the elephants did. Us boys
held on to the bags hat the mice and
things were in. waiting for u cue
The elephants stood on their heads
and hind, feet, and fore feet, laid
down, fired pistols, and did everything
just right. without making a mistake.
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Gee. but l must be an easy mark. |
have got SO l bet on a sure thing, and
when a fellow bets on a sure thing he
Is bound to lose.
1t was this way. The show arrived
IN Washington. D. c., on a Sunday
morning, and, as usual, all the boys in
came to the lot to see us put up
the tents. l vas around with pa and
the boss canvasman, and the town
boys could see | belonged to the show,
and they envied me and wanted to ge
acquainted with me, SO l would let
them walk around with me, and go
into the tents Sunday afternoon and
see the animals.
There. was one boy with a sort OF
rough rider hat on. and buckshin
fringe on his pants, and everybody
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1906-03-02

The people have allowed the slow MUIR
der of infants and adults, by tricky
makers Of food, drink and drugs to go on
about long enough. Duty to- oneself,
family and nation demands that every
man and woman join in an organized
movement to clear our people from this
blight. You may not be able to 20 per-
sonally to Washington to impress your
Congressman, but you can, in a most eff
fective way tell him by letter how you
desire him to represent you.
Remember the Congressman is in Con-
gress to represent the people from his
district and if a goodly number of cit;-
Zens express their views to him, he Sc
cures a very sure guide to duty. Remem-
Der also that the safety of the people is
assured by insisting that the will of the
people be carried out, and not the ma
chinations of the few for selfish inter
ests.
This pure food legislation is a pure
movement of the people for public pro-
lection. 1t will be opposed only by those
who fatten their pockets by %deceiving
and injuring the people. Therefore, if
your Representative in Congress evades
his patriotic duty hold him to strict ac-
co~untability and if necessary demand
equitable and honest service. This is a
very G1uefenC cOndltlOn than when a fac
ton demands class Legislation of the Con-
gresham. Several years ago the butter
interests of the country demanded legis-
lation to kill the oleomargarine industry
and by power of organization forced
class legislation really unworthy of a
free people. Work people wanted beef
suet butter because it was cheap and bet
ter than much unclean milk butter, but
the dairy interests organized and forced
the legislation. The law should have
provided that pkgs. of oleomargarine
bear the statement of ingredients and
then let people who desire purchase it for
just what it is, and not try to kill it by a
heavy tax. Manufacturers sometimes
try to force measures in their own utter
ests but contrary to the interests of the
people and the labor trust is always ac-
tive to push through bills drafted in the
interest of that trust but directly con-
trary to the interests OF the people as a
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1906-03-02

they are used as illustrations of a manu-
facturer seeking by example. printing ON
each pkg. a truthful. exact statement OF
ingredients, to shame other makers into
doing the fair thing by the common peo-
pie, and establishing an era of pure food,
but that procedure has not yet forced
those who ~adulterate and deceive to
change their methods hence this effort to
arOus public sentiment and show way
out Of the present condition of fraud, de-
ceit and harm.
The undersigned is paying to the pub
fishers of America about $40, 000.0 90 to
print this announcement in practically
all Of the great papers and magazines, In
the conduct of what he chooses to term,
IAN educational campaign" esteemed to
be OF greater direct value to the people
than the establishment Of many libraries.
That is held to be a worthy method OF
using money for the public good. Tell
the people facts, show them a way to
help themselves n rely upon them to
act intelligently and effectively.
The reader will be freely forgiven II
he entirely forgets the reference to
Postum and Grape-Nuts, if he will but
join the pure food movement and
do things.
c. w. POST.
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OF food.
Many pure food bills have been intro
duced and some passed by State legisla-
lures; many have been offered to Con-
gress but all thus far seem Objectionable.
1t has seemed difficult for politicians to
formulate a satisfactory bill that would
protect the common people and yet avoid
harm to honest makers and prevent end
less trouble to retailers. No govt COM
mission OR officer has the right to fix
flood standards to define what the PEG
pleshall and shall not eat, for what agrees
with one may not agree with another and
such act would deprive the common
citizen of his personal liberty. The
Postum Cereal Co.. Ltd, perhaps the
largest makers OF prepared foods in the
world, have naturally a close knowledge
of the needs of the people and the details
Of h business Of the purveyors, (the
retail grocer and, guided by this expert
ence have prepared a bill for submission
to Congress which is intended to accom-
plish 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
lake control of this matter and provide a
national law to govern all the states. A
copy of the bill is herewith reproduced.
Sec. l governs the maker whether the
food is put up in small packages sealed,
Or in barrels, boxes or otherwise.
Sec. 2 governs the retailer who may
open a barrel and sell h God in
small quantities. When he puts the
goods into a paper. bag he must also
enclose a printed copy of the statement
of the maker which was affixed to the
original pkg. and inasmuch as the
reailer ann undertake to guarantee
the statement of ingredients he must
publish the statement Of the makers
and add his own lame and address as a
guarantee of his selling the food as it is
represented to him which relieves the
retailer Of responsibility Of the truth of
the statement and throws it upon the
maker, where it properly belongs.
The remaining sections explain them
selves.
The Postum Cereal Co., Ltd, for ex-
ample, have from the beginning of it's
existence printed on the outside of each
and every pkg. Of Postum and Grape
Nuts food a truthful and exact statement
of what the contents were made of in Or
der that the consumer might know pre-
cisely what he Or she was eating. Aper-
sol desiring to buy, for instance, strictly
pure fruit jelly and willing to pay the
price has a right to expect not only an
equiyalentforthe cost but a further right
to a certainty as to what he eats. Or he
may be willing to buy at less cost a Jelly
made part Of fruit juices, sugar and a
portion of glucose. But he must be sup
piled with truthful information Of the
ingredients and be permitted to use his
personal liberty % seIect his own food
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Clearing for Action.

The Importance of removing all un.
necessary objects from the decks Of
men-of-war was emphasized on board
the Japanese Mikasa, on which %
men were killed or wounded by the
fragments Of an optic telegraph that
had been hit by a bomb.
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TENT OF PURE FOOD BILL.

EXT OF PURE 20 BILL.
IL IL meets approval ut it outs sign name IN address ad send % your
in congress. Buy w Or more publications from which you ut
TINS. Keep one fol reference III send h other o of III U. s. Senators
o you Estate. Ask one or VIC friends % do thu m and h chances or
Pure God will be good.
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VIA Ma

so she married that awful Jack
RcundW?~Why, didn't she know that
he had been blackballed by every club
in town.
"Yes-that's why she took him. She
thought there'd be some chance Of
keeping him at home evenings
Cleveland Leader.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1906-03-02

Senator's Sen Bets the Bad Boy
That Elephants Are towards =
They Let a Bag of Rats Loose at
the Afternoon Performance-The
Elephants Stampede, Pa Fractures
a Rib and General Pandenonium
Reigns.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1906-03-02
Fifty Years o b

Chief Rabbi Nell. of Trieste. recently
completed so years tenure Of ONCE.
The jubilee was celebrated in all the
3ynagogues. The chief burgomasteP
personally rendered his congratulations
to the chief rabbi.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1906-03-02
Extra Army Ratt21n

AL European armies have cerkain
ex1rasreskiy imthesway q Nod.
Sugar = Hrendn England andsFrance,
two gallons ot beer IN Russia, half
q gallon u wine IN italy, u1rsepounds
of fish in Spain. and five ounces of
butter in Belgium.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1906-03-02
Artificial Ears.

Burtsell Roe. eight years old, who was
born without ears. has been fitted with
pair at Bowling Green hospital, Toledo.
o. He always possessed the sense OF
hearing.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1906-03-02
High Finance

High Finance.
It is high finance when the law
isn't smart enough to catch you.-N.
Y. Press.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1906-03-02
EARLY Start.

Sir Oliver Lodge. whose name Is ia
nous in connection with psychical re-
Of Il
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1906-03-02
NEW FOOD LAW

People now demand the right to know
exactly what they eat.
To be told by maker or retailer that
the food is pure is not satisfactory.
Candy may contain pure" white clay
or pure dyes and yet be very harmful.
Syrups may contain pure" glucose and
yet be quite digestible and even bene-
fetal. Tomato catsup nay contain a
small amount of salicylic or boracic acid
as a necessary preservative, which may
agree with one and be harmful to an
other.
Wheat flour may contain a portion of
corn flour and really be improved. Olive
oil may be made of cotton seed oil.
Butter may contain beef suet and yet be
nutritious.
The person who buys and eats must
protect himself and family, and he has a
right to, and now demands, a law under
which he can make intelligent selection
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1906-03-02
Poor Man!

ii kOOT man!
What is a summer resort, pa?"
a mar entirely surrounded by a body
OF women.-Judge.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1906-03-02

Copyright By J. B. Bo ~iss.I
Luxemburger gazette. [volume] (Dubuque, Iowa) 1871-1918, 1906-10-02
Neue 8abm bis 9mbuane perldnsert.

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rift: Sic neile @aioline StraBe nnb
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@reat @eitern beeesnet. Son bier
aus ipirb Die 8abn gebnlt iperben
bis Sbannon, &anarf, Nt. Carroll,
N%ilebgebiIle, Goleta nnb Sterline.
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Gin, Stofton, @liiabetb unb Sanos
Der reiden. bon mo lie bis Dubuque
iiber @alena p%erldn9ert tperben
ipiro.
Na6 BEN eesentpdrtieen @niihten
lit es ntebr pie pabrideiulid, bab
es etfpas ans Der neuen 9abn ners
Den miro. Sieielbe nirb Die Inter
itiibung Iner finben, ipelhe bnpon
b0ren perben. 9eipnbers bier in
Der Stabt lit man lebr fir bieie
nere @ei6dfts5ufubr eingenommen.
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Bonn Tpbe ereilt.

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