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and ceremony by his titled relatives.
One wing of the splendid castle, he told
her, had been reserved for their living
quarters, and only his mother and in
innate relatives would occupy the great
palace with them.
Lord and Lady harrington, as they
were known, went back to the hotel to
live, Their honeymoon was Of just q
weeks duration. In that time, how
ever, Miss Cochrane had written home
glowing letters of her happiness, tell
ing her parents how proud they should
be that their daughter had married a
member of the nobility. Alas! for the
poor girl!
Sentenced to Workhouse.
James F. Cochrane, her brother,
came down from Kansas City to inves-
tigate the record of his royal relative,
who pretended to be in this country to
spy on the British consuls. 1t did not
take him long to discover that Lord
Frederick Seymour Darlington was a
rank impostor. Cochrane met his new
brother-in-law in Mrs. Elliott's home
and confronted him with the facts his
Investigation had revealed. Darlington
was promptly kicked out of the house
and arrested. A charge of disturbing
the peace was lodged against him. He
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NEW FOOD LAW

they are used as illustrations of a manu-
facturer seeking by example, printing on
each pkg. a truthful, exact statement or
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
arouse public sentiment and show a way
out of the present condition of fraud, de-
ceit and harm.
The undersigned is paying to the pub
fishers of America about S20,O0O.OO TO
print this announcement in practically
all of the great papers and magazines, in
the conduct of what he chooses to term,
"an 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 none for the public good. Tell
the people facts, show them a way to
help themselves and rely upon them to
act intelligently and effectively.
The reader will be freely forgiven IL
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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st. Louis.-By affirming the decision
of tao lower court the Missouri SUI
preme court has sealed the fate of
notorious criminals of the age, and he
will be hanged on March Is for the
brutal murder of his friend, John P.
McGann, nearly three years ago.
George Frederick Barton, or as he
persists in calling himself, Lord
Frederick Seymour Darlington" has
had a most extraordinary criminal
career, extending throughout England
and half way across the American con-
tinent. He is only As years old, but
the police records show that he has
spent nearly three-fourths of that time
in prison. The record of his crimes
covers one successful and one attempt
ed murder, five distinct cases of big
amy. two cases of forgery, innumerable
proofs of burglary, cheating at cards,
obtlining money by false ~pretenses,
and even common pocket-picking.
Through it all harrington" has stout
ly maintained that he is an English
maj of high birth, with a brilliant
army record and a father whose es-
tate and title he would succeed. Not
one OF these statements is founded on
fact.
Bennington employed the English
lord game successfully to win the
hearts of three American women, but
when his story of unlimited wealth, his
marvellous word picture of his fictitious
ancestral home, rivaling in grandeur
and magnitude the rich architectural
beauties of Combe Abbey, Blenheim,
Chillingham, Walmar and other castles
presided over by wealthy American
girls who married titled Englishmen,
beguiled Miss Wilhelmina Grace Coch-
rane into becoming his wife, it was the
beginning of the enc.
In quick succession he was turned
out of a fashionable hotel for failure
to pay his board bill, kicked out of his
brother-in-law's home when his decep-
ton was discovered, sentenced to break
rock for six months in the city work
house, released by pardon, and then ar
Result, lIlcu anu COAflCICu " LIN Allul
der OF a man who had taken him in
and given him a home.
Life Story a Criminal Romance.
Barrington's life history reads like a
criminal romance, with one climax fol-
lowing closely upon another. We first
hear of him as a seven-year-old boy
in Tunbridge Wells, England, setting
fire 10 the commons. He was thought
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hign sounding title of Lord Frederick
Seymour Darlington, captain in His
| Majesty's Horse Guards.
Early in January he wrote his name
on the register of the Southern hotel.
The next day there appeared in the
local newspapers the following adver-
tisement:
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. English gen.
gleman (3S), of high social rank, desires to
| correspond with refined, educated, nom
mercenary, eligible lady with view to hon
orable marriage; no agents.
harrington lived at the hotel a few
days and then removed to a fashiona-
BILE boarding house conducted by Mrs.
R. r. Elliott whose beautiful younger
| sister, Miss Wilhelmina Grace Coch-
rane, of Kansas City, came to visit
soon after her English guest took lodg-
ing III her house. In less than two
weeks harrington had completely won
the heart Of the Kansas City girl, who,
he thought, was. the daughter OF a
wealthy pork packer. On January 10,
1903. the wedding ceremony was per-
formed by the pastor of one OF the
most fashionable churches in st. Louis.
harrington told Miss Cochrane
amazing stories of his wealth and
titles. He said he had millions In Eng
land and owned a magnificent castle OF
600 rooms in Brighton. He told her
thar after the wedding in st. Louis
| they would go to Washington and be
romarried in the British embassy, and
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too Young to merit punishment for the
offence. He first broke into prison at
the age of ten years, when, OF July z,
1870, he was sentenced to five years
and ten days in the reformatOry for
ENLIGHTENMENT. In the summer of 1875,
when he was Is years old, he was re-
leased from the juvenile prison, but
on September Z of the same year
he was sentenced to IL months i'm
prisonment for stealing his masters
watch. By good behavior he got out
on th%ree-fourths time, but before the
year was out he was in trouble again.
On July 10, 1876, at the Maidstone as
sizes, he was sentenced to ten years
penal servitude for burglary. After
serving four years of his term he pro-
cured his release upon forged pardon
papers.
He was at liberty long enough this
time to make his first matrimonial ven
ture. He married an English girl, got
possession of all of her property and
deserted her. 1t seemed impossible for
him to keep out of prison, and on Oc-
tober 81 he was again sentenced at the
Maidstone assizes to ten years penal
servilude and seven years police SUI
pervision for burglary. After serving
out the full ten years he made his way
across the Atlantic ocean to try MS
hand at crime in America.
WEEDS American Girl.
He turned up in Brooklyn as Sir
Frederick Sydenham Burgoyne. He
was suaye of manner and spoke Eng
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A thrilling story of how the side slip
ping of a motor car nearly resulted in a
man being roasted alive is told by
Ernest Esdale, in Motoring illustrated.
The incident occurred in Duhlia, a vii
lage on the road from Delhi to Bombay.
The a was being driven slowly past a
Jain temple, amid the whooping Of ma
tives and the beating of tom-toms.
"At the temple entrance" writes Mr..
Esdale, stood two priests, regarding us
with no friendly visage. Bang! and our
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river bottoms. Mighty trees grow there
and the underbrush grows thick. A
large quarry pond, abandoned years
ago and filled with water, stands near
by. A more lonely place at midnight
CANNOT be imagined.
After McCann's life had ebbed away
the murderer had to dispose OF the
body. The clothing wal stripped from
1t, and it was dragged through the un-
derbrush to the brink Of the 8O-foot
embankment overlooking the quarry.
One shove, and the body shot. down
ward. The splash below told the muir
derer that his work had been well
done
Fatal Circumstantial Evidence
A man trained In all the arts OF
murder could not have done the deed
more skilfully. No eye had seen him
fire the fatal shot. Only a faithful rail-
road Waterman a mile away had heard
the two reports of the pistol n the
dying appeal of Mccain for mercy.
But here his hand lost its cunning.
Cleverness of plotting gave way TO
bung'lng. harrington proceeded, with
appalling stupidity, to wind enough
circumstantial evidence about himself
to hang 20 men. Covered with stains.
wearing the murdered mans hat and
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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-
stroying property. Such a bill is per-
haps 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-
countability 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 it's being brought to a vote and re-
questing that they vote for it.
Some oppressively intelligent and
carping 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
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THE REMARKABLE CAREER OF
GEORGE F. BARTON. BOGUS
NOBLEMAN.
ABOUT TO HANG FOR MURDER OF A FRIEND
Life of Crime and Adventure Extending Over
Two Continents to End ON the Gallows-
His Quest for an American Heiress.

lisn. Spanish, German, French and
other foreign languages fiuently. He
was of a studious turn of mind and
had spent his years of prison life in
the mastery of foreign tongues. So
when he described, in his faultless
English, the beauties of his imaginary
villa in Burgess Hill, Kent, to Celeste
Elizabeth Miller, Brooklyn, she was
ready to believe him. That was in
1891. Miss Miller married him and re-
turrel with him to England, after
having disposed of all of her property.
She went with him to London, where
she lived with him for a few sad
weeks. He rented an apartment and
furnished it luxuriously, buying the
furniture on time payments and sell
ing it off in a few days to get the nee
essary money to keep up appearances.
He finally succeeded in getting the last
dollar his wife possessed, and then de-
serted her, leaving her with a small
child TO provide for. He was arrested
DOR after while paying court to a
clergyman's daughter, and sentenced
to another long term in prison.
The disillusionized girl made her
way back to Brooklyn and took in
washing to earn a livelihood for her
self and child. The next official entry
in Barrington's record shows that he
was released from the Dartmoor prison
on December 13, 1900. There is no rec
ord OF his movements during the next
two years, but we again get trace of
him III Brooklyn, where he reappeared
and tried to get his deserted wife to
take him in. But n experience was
enough for her, and she turned a deaf
ear TO his entreaties.
He was employed for a brief period
as a coachman in New York, but soon
drifted to Jersey City, and from there
to Philadelphia, where, in December,
1902, he married a wealthy young wo-
man. Her name has never been given
to the public on account of the promi-
hence of her family. Elaborate prep
arations were made for the wedding,
and she wore a $500 %trousseau when
the ceremony was performed. He lured
her on to Cincinnati, where he desert
tanning most of her costly wedding
outfit. Some of her clothing was found
in his trunks, which were held by the
Southern hotel, in st. Louis, when he
failed to pay his board bill.
Appears in St. Louis.
From Cincinnati he went to st.
Louis. There he appeared under the
ed and got away with her trunks, con-
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A TIRE BURST IN INDIA.

wbite-robed priests stand between us
and the inner sanctuary. But the three
of us are old football players; the priests
are down like ninepins.
Eve tear the curtain aside and stand
for a moment rooted with horror.
SEEKING the uplifted knife from the
nearest fanatic, we cut the leather
strings and lift the fainting sacrifice
from the altar. Then we beat the priests
off, regain our car, and ride away amid
a shower of missiles"
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back tire has burst-a deep rut in the
road has caught the wheel, too. In a
moment VIZ swerve round. and, horror!
smash right into the temple door. Alas!
we have committed shcrilege. and of
the worst kind.
"We set to work to repair the tire, and
just as we have finished a heartrend-
ing, ear-piercing shrek Rings out from
the temple Enclosure. we rush in,
brushing aside two juvenile priests, who
try to stop u progressl A crowd of
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HccurateIy.
The people have allowed the slow muir
der of infants and adults, by tricky
makers of food, drink and drugs to go on
ABOUT Ions 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 go 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 citi-
zens express their views to him, he Sc
scures a very sure guide to duty. Remem-
{ber 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.
I This pure food legislation is a pure
movement of the people for public pro-
tection. 1t will be opposed only by those
who fatten their pockets by deceiving
and injuring the people. Therefore, if
ybur Representative in Congress evades
ulS pau I uuCy AOAN AALu lOsotlANJ az
coNntability and if necessary demand
equitable and honest service. This is a
vety different condition than when a fac
tioh demands class legislation of the Con-
gr4ssman. Several years ago the butter
interests of the country demanded legis-
laltion to kill the oleomargarine industry
amid by power of organization forced
class legislation really unworthy Of a
frAe people. Work people wanted beef
sutet butter because it vas cheap and bet
ter than much unclean milk butter, but
the dairy interests organized and forced
THE legislation. The law should have
pHovided that pkgs. of oleomargarine
beSar the statement Of ingredients and
then let people who desire purchase it for
lust what it is, and not try to kill it by a
hdavy tax. Manufacturers sometimes
try to force measures in their own inter-
estA but contrary to the interests of the
people and the labor trust is always ac-
tiva to push through bills drafted in the
interest of that trust but directly con-
trarH to the interests Of tina people as a
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Extra Army Rations.

All European armies have certain
extras weekly in the way of food.
Sugar is given in England and France,
two gallons of beer in Russia, half
a gallon Of wine in Italy, three pounds
of fish in Spain, and five OF
butter in Belgium.
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Wise Girl.

80 she married that hwful Jack
Rcunder? Why, didn't shel know that
he had been blackballed bylevery 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.
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TEXT OF PURE FOOD BILL.

TEXT o p PURE FOoD BILL
If it meets approval cut it out, sign name and address and send to your
representative in congress Buy two Or lore publications from whichy you cut
this Keep n for reference and send the other to n of the u. S Senators
from u State. Ask n or two friends to do the m and the chances fol
Pure Food will be good.
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Early Start.

Sir Oliver Lodge, whose name is IA
nous in connection with psychical re-
search, was put in business at the age
Of IA.
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of food.

Of food.
Many pure food bills have been intro
duced and some passed by State leglsla-
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 Wouiu
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
food standards" to define what the peo-
pie shaIand shall not eat, for what agrees
with one may not agree with another ana
such act would deprive The common
citizea of his personal liberty. Inc
Postum Cereal Co., Ltd, perhaps the
LARGEST makers of prepared foods in the
wo1id, have naturally a close knowledge
of he needs of the people and the details
of the business of the, ~purveyors, (the
rstail grocer and, guided by this expert
ence have prepared a bill for submission
10 Congress which is intended to accom-
plish the desired ends, and inasmuch as a
L citizen of the U. S.. has a right to food
protection even when he enters another
State it is deemed proper that the govt
take control of this matter and provide a
national law to govern all the states. A
copy of the bill is herewith reproduced.
Sec. / governs the maker whether the
food is put up in small packages sealed,
or in barrels, boxes Dr. otherwise.
Sec. 2 governs the retailer who may
open a barrel and sell the food in
small quantities. When he puts the
Igoods 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 cannot undertake to guarantee
the statement of ingredients he must
publish the statement of the makers
and add his own name 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-
tcisely what he or she was eating. A per-
son desiring to buy, for instance, strictly
pure fruit jelly and willing to pay the
| price has a right to expect not only an
| capitalization the 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 to select his W food
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Fifty Years a b

Chief Rabbi Nell, of Trieste, recently
completed so years tenure OF office.
The jubilee was celebrated in all the
The chief burgomaster
personally rendered his congratulations
to the chief rabbi.
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High Finance.
II is high finance when the law
isn't smart enough to catch you.-N.
Y. Press.
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Artificial Ears.

Burtsell Roe, eight years old, who was
born without ears, has been fitted with I
pair at Bowling Green hospital, Toledo,
o. He always possessed the sense OF
hearing.
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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 n
yet be quite digestible and even 6ene-
fetal. Tomato catsup may 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
corr flour and really be improved. Ollve
oil may be made OF cotton seed OH.
Butter may contain beef uet 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
-y-. r.. ~.,I,@ ,fo1Iionnt c01npflOn
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Smith knew little of John Brown at
that time. but he liked the tone of his
letter q am something of a pioneer .
Brown had written. Il grew up among
the woods and wild Indians of Ohio
and am used to the ways of life thai
your colony will find so trying 1 viii
take one of your farms myself. clear it
up and plant it and teach my colored
neighbors how it should be done
viii give them work as I have occa-
sion, look after them in all needful
ways and be a kind of father to them
Smith accepted the offer gladly. with
the result that in 184S, while still con-
tinuing for awhile in the wool bust
ness, Brown removed a part of his
family from Springfield to North Elba
There they remained until 1854 There
they found shelter during those trying
times when their responsible head was
doing his best, even to the extent of
violating the laws of his country, to
keep slavery out of Kansas.
Let it not be forgotten also that John
Brown was a deeply religious man.
To eliminate that fact from the con
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ned at odd moments during the sue
ceeding years One of these is so
quaint in it's phraseology and so in
ofeative of his serious nature that it
may proftably be quoted here:
Ny loss was eomplete and perma-
nent. for Notwithstanding my father
married Immediately a sensible. inteln-
gent and in many respects a very es-
Unable woman, yet l never adopted
her in feeling. but continued to pine
after my own mother for years
From many references to the sub
jet found in Browns early papers it
would appear that he had made up his
mind while still a boy that slavery as
it was conducted in the United States
was something to be combated vigor-
ously. During the war of 1912, when
he was a lad of twelve, he was a guest
for few days at the house of a slave
holder who was the proprietor also of
temper that was likely at times to
react rather disagreeably on his
bondsmen. on one occasion during
young Browns visit he became en-
ragged at something and proceeded 10
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prosperous look He was regarded as
man of affairs. and he even went
abroad occasionally to look after GER
tain business matters.
But it was not to continue The
time came when all of John Browns
inherited New England thrift and So
lieitude for the main chance vanished
almost in the twinkling of an eye. and
he stood ready to plunge bIindly into
a scheme which was nothing less than
chimerical at that time. Gerrit Smith
who was then in the public eye as an
agrarian emancipationist ana was full
Of plans for putting an end to slavery
IN America, was the instigator Of the
sudden change.
On Aug l. 1916. the anniversary of
West Indian emancipation Smith Of
fered to devote 100000 acres of wild
land which he owned in the state Of
New York to the purpose of providing
homes for fugitive slaves and their
families. Two years later. when a few
Of these escaped -bondsmen had &C
eepted his Offer and had established
homes in the Adirondack wilderness,
John Brown volunteered to join the
colony and become its superintendent.
He wrote to Mr.. Smith and proposed
TO take up a piece of land at North
Elba just over the line from Vermont,
and TO build a house on it and make it
his home.