The Batesville Herald. (Batesville, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 8, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 1, 1906 Page: 3 of 4
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Nature’s Way Is Best.
The function strengthening and tissue
building plan of treating chronic, linger-
ing and obstinate cases of disease as pur-
sued by Dr. Pierce, is following after
Nature s plan of restoring health.
He uses natural remedies, that Is
extracts from native medicinal roots,
prepared by processes wrought out by
the expenditure of much time ami
money, without the use of alcohol, and
by skillful combination in just the right
proportions.
Used as ingredients of Dr. Pierce's
Golden Medical Discovery. Black Cherry-
tark, Queen's root. Golden Seal root,
Bloodroot and Stone root, specially exert
their influence in cases of lung, bronchial
and throat troubles, and this "Discov-
ery" is, therefore, a sovereign remedy
for bronchitis, laryngitis, chronic coughs,
catarrh and kindred ailments.
The above native roots also have the
Strongest possible endorsement from the
leading medical writers, of ail the several
schools of practice, for the cure not only
of the diseases named above but also for
indtgestiou, torpor of liver, or bilious-
ness, obstinate constipation, kidney and
bladder troubles and catarrh, no matter
where located.
You don’t have to take Dr. Pierce’s
say-so alone as to this; what ho claims
for his " Discovery " is backed up by the
writings of the most eminent men in the
medical profession. A request by postal
card or letter, addressed to Dr. R. V.
Pierce, Bdftalo, N. Y.. for a little book
of extracts from eminent medical au-
thorities endorsing the Ingredients of his
medicines, will bring a little book free
that is worthy of your attention if
needing a good, safe, "reliable remedy of
known componUion for the cure of almost
any old chronic, or lingering malady.
Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets cure con-
stipation. One little " Pellet ” is a gentle
laxative, and two a mild cathartic.
The most valuable book for both men
— and women is Dr. Pierce’s
Common Sense Medical Ad-
_ viser. A splendid 1008-page
SJSfl volume, with engravings
STl and colored plates. A copy,
fjjl paper-covered, will be sent
I to anyone sending 21 cents
in oue-eent stamps, to pay
the cost of mailing only, to
Dr. R.V. Pierce. Buffalo, N.
Y. Cloth-bound, 31 stamps.
AFTER MANY YEARS
CAME ACCIDENT THAT ENDED
“SHOOTER S” LIFE.
The Reformer.
“In order to be sho’ nuff reformer,”
said Uncle Eben, “a man must be a
office seeker. An’ if he gets to be a
sho’ nuff office seeker, dar ain' much
chance of his bein’ a reformer.”—
Washington Star.
AWFUL PSORIASIS 35 YEARS.
Terrible Scaly Humor in Patches All
Over the Body—Skin Cracked and
Bleeding—Cured by Cuticura.
“I was afflicted with psoriasis for
thirty-five years. It was in patches
all over my body. I used three cakes
of Cuticura Soap, six boxes of Oint-
ment and two bottles of Resolvent.
In thirty days I was completely cured,
and I think permanently, as it was
about five years ago. The psoriasis
first made its appearance in red spots,
generally forming a circle, leaving in
the center a snot about the size of a
silver dollar of sound flesh. In a short
time the affected circle would form
a heavy dry scale of a white silvery
appearance and would gradually drop
off. To remove the entire scales by
bathing or using oil to soften them
the flesh would be perfectly raw, and
a light discharge of bloody substance
would ooze out. That scaly crust
would form again in twenty-four
hours. It was worse on my arms and
limbs, although it was in spots all
over my body, also on my scalp. If
I let the scales remain too long with-
out removing by bath or otherwise,
the skin would crack and bleed. I
suffered intense itching, worse at
nights after getting warm in bed, or
blood warm by exercise, when it
would be almost unbearable. W. M.
Cbidester, Hutchinson. Kan, April 20,
1905.”
Not on the Platform.
“Gents,” said the trolly car con-
ductor, “ you mustn’t stand on the
back platrorm. Yer breakin’ the rules.”
“Some of ’em ain’t,’* piped up the
little man: they’re standin’ on my
feet.”—Catholic Standard and Times
Not Disappointed This Time.
“I have been often disappointed in
the use of some widely advertised rem-
edy, claiming to cure this or that
trouble. Nevertheless, on the strength
of one of the testimonial letters pub-
lished, I decided to try a box of Hunt's
Cure. My trouble was eczema of the
lower limbs, from which I long suf-
fered. One box cured me. I have bad
a pleasant, peaceful summer, thanks
to Hunt's Cure.”
Mrs. Alice Fortune,
Shell Knob, Mo.
True Humility.
The only humility that is really ours
s not that which we try to show be-
ore God in prayer, but that which we
arry with us and carry out in our or-
linary conduct.—Andrew Murray.
Deafness Cannot Be Cured
ky local applications, as they cannot reach the dis-
eased portion of the ear. There Is on y < ae way ui
cure deafness, and tlist is by constitutional remedies.
Deafness is caused by an io(lamed condition of the
mucous lining of the Ktistacblau Tube. When this
tube Is Inflamed you have a ruinblinw sound or Im-
perfect heartn?. and when li Is entirely closed. Deaf-
ness Is the result, and unle*» the inflanituat iou can he
taken out and this tube restored to it« normal condi-
tion, hearing will be dftfttroyed foreve : nine <(aees
out of ten are caused by i aiarrb. which lsuothlng
but an Inflamed Condltlou of the lnticoti < surfaces.
We will give One Hundred Dollars for auy case of
Deafness (caused by catarrh) (hat cannot be cured
by Hall's Catarrh Cure, send f.*r circulars, free.
F. J. CHKNt V 4. CO.. Toledo, O.
Sold hr Druggists. 7V
Take Hall’s Family P1U* for constipation.
Valuable Orchid.
Two offers of $2,500 are said to have
been refused for a specimen of a new
orchid, the odontoglossum vuylsteke.
shown at the fortnightly exhibition of
the Royal Horticultural society ia
Westminster hall.
* nn\RANTEKI> CERE FOR FILES.
SSSSrB'3
On ounce of hard work is worth a
pound of physical culture.—New York
Times.
Mr*. Wluiluw'i Soothing Syrup.
A man has no right to have opinions
of the things of which he knows noth-
CANB'S detective agency,
non, Texas, operates the largeat lor
ce
:ta.
impeteot detective* tn the So«t_.
render written •pinion* in c«»t. not
led fcy them Kea»»n*ble rate*.
No woman can hope to remain young
ever—unless she is an actress.
ro CURE A COLD IN ONE HAT
ivsitfixy?" rrrsE- r*
IVK'I signature Is on each box. Kc.
Expensive Chickens,
company has been formed in New
k to supply pedigree chickens at
r pound.
Jimmie O'Hare's Long Defiance of
Death While Handling Nitroglycerin
—Fatal Moment of Carelessness
Bound to Arrive.
When Jimmie O’Hare was blown
into fragments at Chelsea one day last
week by the explosion of a wagon load
of nitroglycerin a prophecy was ful-
filled that was first made more than
twenty years ago and was reiterated
times without number in every oil
district in the country. For Jimmie
had worked in every district in the
country where the chug of the oil drill
has been heard, and in his life he
handled enough explosi\es to have de-
stroyed Port Arthur several times.
Daily he lived In close association with
hundreds of gallons of nitroglycerin,
and it was a common sight in the oil
country to see him rattling over the
hills on the seat of a wagon loaded
with the deadly exposive.
“He will get it some day,” the boys
In the Pennsylvania oil fields began
saying more than twenty years ago,
and have repeated it everywhere
Jimmie went.
But all these years Jimmie laughed
at the prophecies and, laughing, would
load up his wagon and rattle out into
the country to shoot a well, taking
with him from one to two hundred
quarts of nitroglycerin. But the trite
adage of the pitcher tells the story of
Jimmie’s end. As is usually the case
in such accidents, nobody knows or
ever will know how it happened. There
was an explosion that shook the coun-
try for miles around, and when an in-
vestigation was made there was little
to be found except a wide, deep hole
in the ground.
The man who was killed often told
of incidents that illustrated the freak-
ishness of the explosive he handled,
and it may have been some freak that
cost him his life. Jimmie used to tell
of the runaway in the streets of Brad-
ford, Pa., when a team dragged a
glycerin wagon the whole length of a
street, the cans ricochetting around
like billiard balls, and no explosion oc-
curred. Then of another case which
occurred in the old days, when the
glycerin box was located right over
the springs of the wagon. There was
a leaky can and three drops falling on
the springs caused the loss of two
lives. He told’of still another case
where a shooter on a spree hurled bot-
tles of glycerin against a rock. All
of the bottles broke, but not one ex-
ploded. He would close with his story
of that singular occurrence which took
place in Chanute last spring, when a
glycerin magazine caught fire and was
entirely burned without exploding.
And then he would say: “It’s the fric-
tion. man. it's the friction, and that’s
what I’m always looking out for.”
Maybe Jimmie forgot the friction for
once.
Jimmie had certain rules he observ-
ed when handling nitroglycerin. One
day while discussing explosives he
said:
“A man had better quit this business
when he loses his nerve. It is just
like handling a nettle. Take hold of
it and take hold strong. A nervous
or panicky fellow had better stay away
from glycerin, because something will
happen, and it never happens to a
shooter but once.”
Jimmie was known to nearly every
oil man in New York, Pennsylvania,
Indiana. Ohio. Kansas and California.
—Cherryvale Correspondence Kansas
City Star.
His Vulnerable Point.
A few years ago Col. L. M. Read of
Bellows Falls was a candidate for the
Republican nomination for congress-
man from the Second Vermont dis-
trict. At the convention the support-
er who placed Read in nomination ex-
tolled his virtues as soldier, citizen
and jurist, and in the course of his
speech said that Read was struck in
the mouth by a rebel bullet during the
civil war.
As the Read man sat down, an en-
thusiastic admirer ot Congressman
Grout, who was Read’s opponent for
the nomination, got upon his feet and
addressed the convention as follows:
“Gentlemen, the preceding speaker's
remarks were superfluous, especially
his reference to Read being wounded,
for, gentlemen, if any of you have ever
heard the colonel deliver a political
speech, to you I wish to put the ques-
tion: How under the heavens could
L. M. Read be struck anywhere with
anything unless it did hit him in the
mouth?”
Since Times Long Ago.
Times— they have changed some since
times long ago.
Weary the winter, and deeper the snow.
An’ gone are the friends that the heart
used to know.
Times—They have changed some: On
fields an' on streams
Somehow a new light that’s strange to
us gleams:
All that is left us is beautiful dreams:
Reautiful dreams of Life's love and
Life's light;
But the morning is gone, an’ the shad-
ows in sight
Are the shadows of rest, where the bells
ring "Goodnight!”
Swiss Machinery.
Switzerland's exports of machinery
and implements in 1904 are valued at
about $9,500,000. Electrical machin-
ery and machines used for weaving,
knitting and embroidering were the
principal items. As this little country
has no iron or coal, but must import
the heavy materials by railroads, the
exportation of machinery speaks well
for its industrial skill.
Raccoons Fish for Trout.
While walking along the banks of
the Little Lehigh river. John Bieber of
Salisbury, Pa., saw two enormous rac-
coons seated on the ice in front of a
big airhole, industriously fishing for
trout with their nimble, sharp clawed
paws. Bieber got his rifle and shot
them. Raccoons had been devastating
the trout streams at a great rate.
Foreign Mail Service.
The total number of letters, papers,
etc., forwarded by post in the German
empire last year was 6,986.000,000.
England and France come next, with
4.584,000,000 and 3,044.000,000 respec-
tively.
Cameo Effects on Lac:.
Women have brought out such a
pretty idea of cameo effects on lace
and net. These were suggested by the
rage for cameo lace and silks, which
is now at the top of style. Came* lace
is a tulle or net weave, with an ex-
quisite cameo worked in, like a medal-
lion. This is used in the center of a
chemisette, on the top of a coat or in-
let in the middle of a handsome
blouse. Suppose, for instance, you
want an original chemisette, and you
have not got a handsome piece of
lace in the house. Get net in coarse
mesh in ecru or white and embroider
a pair of broad outstretched wings
meeting each other in any vivid colors
that will give character to the gowm.
The design of eagle’s wings is popu-
lar. It looks like the German coat-of-
arms, omitting ihe head of the bird.
KNEW TRICKS OF POLITICIANS
5 Tons Grass Hay Free.
Everybody loves lots and lots of foddst
for hogs, cows, sheep and swine.
The enormous crops of our Northern
Grown Pedigree Seeds on our seed farms
the past year compel us to issue a spe-
cial catalogue called
salzek’s bargain seed book.
This is brim full of bargain seeds st bar-
gain prices.
SEND THIS NOTICE TO-DAT.
and receive free sufficient seed to grow 5
tons of grass on your lot or farm this
summer and our great Bargain Seed Book
with Its wonderful surprises and great
bargains in seeds at bargain prices.
Remit 4c and we add a package of Cos-
mos, the most fashionable, serviceable,
beautiful annual flower.
John A. Salzer Seed Co., Lock Draw-
er W-, La Crosse, Wis.
Special Teeth for Tars.
A dentist in the lower part of the
city was at work on a set of false
teeth that, to the casual observer,
seemed fairfully and wonderfully
made. Outwardly they appeared to
be all right; but on the inner side
the artificial molars were braced, riv-
eted and otherwise reinforced.
“They are for a sailor,” he explained.
“I have to make teeth unusually strong
for them. The ordinary kind would
soon succumb to the tough salt beef
and granite ship biscuit and leave him
toothless perhaps for a long voyage.
“As a rule sailors have good teeth,
and false ones among them are scarce.
Sometimes it happens, however, that
their teeth are knocked out by acci-
dent and then the false ones are In-
serted.”—New York Press.
Important to Mothers.
Examine carefully every bottle of CASTORIA,
* eafe and pure remedy for infanta and children,
and see that it
Tn Use For Over 30 Years.
The Kind Yon Have Always Bought
Farmer Buried $25,000.
In his eagerness to avoid paying
$600 taxes William Andrews, a wealthy
farmer living near Montrose, Iowa,
lost $25,000. When a tax ferret notified
him that he must pay back taxes on
his money, which he had not listed,
Andrews thought that he would be
foxy. So he took the money from the
bank in gold and greenbacks and hid
it. Nellie Crans, a servant, observed
this. She told her lover, Louis Voss,
and when Andrews went to look at the
money again it had disappeared.
Birds’ Academy.
A man living at Bow, London, about
six months ago started an Academy
of Music for Birds. He charges 2s. 6d.
to teach a bird three songs. There are
three rooms with a phonograph in
each, and the proprietor hangs his
pupils in each room in turn. It usual-
ly takes about three weeks to teach
the birds, and during the six months
he had only one failure.
Blue Batiste Waists.
A few very thin pink and blue ba-
tiste waists embroidered in white,
which have been imported and should
receive the approval of fashion. White
waists with a little tinted embroidery
are very pretty.
Keep within the proprieties, and you
must stand on your merits. But if you
want a short cut to fame, there’s an
easy way if you're unscrupulous
enough to take it. That way is to
shock.—Dr. Felix Adler.
Scotland Yard, widely known as the
headquarters of the London police, is
a historical place, said to have been
the site of a palace where kings of
Scotland were received when they
came to London.
That is not very much like New
York. Yet Paris was the birthplace
of the “flat” idea. The first apart-
ments built in New York upon the
now familiar model were called
“French flats.”—New York World.
RHEUMATIC PAINS
Disaopear When Dr. Williams' Pink
Pills Purify the Blood and
Heal Inflamed Tissues.
Rheumatism is a disease of tho blood,
caused by the failure of the body to cast
off certain poisons. External applica-
tions are of use only iu securing tempo-
rary relief from pain—the cure for
rheumatism lies iu purifying and en-
riching the blood.
Mrs. Frederick Brown, of 40 Sumptei
street, Sandy Hill, N.Y., was a sufferer
from inflammatory rheumatism from
the time she was sixteen. She says:
“It first appeared iu my knee joints,
then in my hips and waist. It became
a regular thing that I would be laid up
all winter. The rheumatism affected
mostly my bands, liips, feet and
shoulders. My bauds were all puffed
up and iny feet became deformed. 1
lost my appetite, couldn’t sleep and
sometimes I was compelled to cry out,
the pain was so intense.
“ For several winters I was under the
doctor's care and while bis medicine re-
lieved the pain for a little while there
seemed no prospect for a permanent
cure. I was confined to my bed, off and
on, for weeks at a time. My limbs
swelled dreadfully at times and I was
reduced almost to nothing.
“ In the spring of 1904, upon the ad-
vice of a friend, I began to use Dr.
Williams’ Pink Pills. At that time I
wasn’t able to do anything and could
barely eat enough to keep alive. I felt
a change for the better iu about a month.
I began to eat heartily and I suffered
less pain. Of course I kept ou the
treatment, using care iu my diet, and
in about three months I was cured. I
am entirely well today and do all my
own work.’’
Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills cured Mrs.
Brown by driving the rheumatic poisons
out of her blood. But you must get the
genuine Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills, sold
bv all druggists and by the Dr. Williams
Medicine Co., Schenectady, N. Y.
Official Waited to Be Sure That
Mayor’s Order “Went.”
Over in the city hall there is a
itory going around about a former city
official whom former Mayor Harrison
once ordered to attend to some im-
portant municipal business concerning
which complaint had been made. The
mayor called the official into his of-
fice and stated tiie case.
“All right, your honor. I’ll attend to
It right away,” said the official and
he went back to his office.
A few days later the mayor learned
nothing had been done in the matter
and he called the official to his office
again. Several newspaper reporters
were present. The mayor informed
the official that nothing had been done
in the matter he had spoken about.
“Well, your honor. I will see to it
that it is done right away,” replied
the official and again he went back
to his desk.
A few more days went by and the
matter was not attended to. This
time the mayor called the official into
his office again, and in the presence
of quite a number of persons alluded
:o the work he had ordered done in
uo uncertain terms.
“I want you to see to it that it is
lone right away,” said the mayor.
“All right, your honor.” said the of-
ficial with a salute as he bowed his
way out graciously.
Complaints were made the following
day again about the matter and the
mayor called his appointee on the
telephone.
“Say, what do you mean by not at-
tending to that, matter I ordered you
to look after?” asked the mayor stern-
ly-
“Oh,” said the official, “did you
really want that done. I thought you
were just giving orders.”—Chicago
Chronicle.
STOOD FOR TWENTY-ONE YEARS.
Charley Radbourn’s Great Feat of
Pitching Never Equaled.
In the twenty-one years that have
gone by since it was made, no pitcher
has ever equaled the record of Charles
Radbourn, the mainstay of the victor-
ious Province Grays when that team
won the championship of the National
League in 1884 for the second time.
The club had but two first class bat-
teries, Radburn and Giliigan, Sweeney
and Nava, and it seemed crippled when
Charles Sweeney was expelled from
the nine and the league in the twelfth
week of the season for conduct char-
acterized as disgraceful. After July
23 the bulk of the pitching fell on
Radburn, who before that time had
been at outs with the management.
But when he found that everything
depended on him, Radbourn worked in
a manner that has never been equaled
and never will be in these days, when
a pitcher feels overworked with more
than two days a week. He promised
Manager Bancroft he would face all
the opposing teams until the pennant
was won, and he carried out that
promise, winning twenty consecutive
games in August and September, and
twenty-nine games with but one break
in the run.
Courtesy to Children.
Parents are never too old to learn.
Jourtesy from a child is expected; but
In too many cases no thought is given
to the duty of returning the compli-
ment. Even the spoiled darling of the
most indulgent mother is at times
made the butt of her irritability of
temper, or the victim of a sudden
whim for discipline exhibited in pub-
lic that shocks his sensibilities cruelly,
says the London Mail. The wrong
way to remonstrate is to use rough,
loud tones and sharp criticisms. The
firm voice that is absolutely under
conti ol only should give orders and
correct faults in the nursery. And it
should be iu the nursery, or, better
still, in the mother’s own room, that
fault finding should take place. To
hurt a child's sensibilities by correct-
ting it, either by word or deed, before
a stranger is a great act of unkind-
ness on the part of the parent or
nurse. A certain father, of uncertain
temper and intensity of speech, whom
I know, unable at all times to keep
a watch upon his tongue, refrains from
visiting the nursery when his anger
runs high, thereby setting himself a
penance, for fear worse befall, that
other fathers might follow.
She Was Absent-Minded.
Near the subway in Park row. Man-
lattan, is a news and apple woman.
She is very absent-minded: also sym-
pathetic. A ragged urchin ran up to
her the other day and cried out in a
shrill voice:
“Say, Missus, your little boy has
just been runned over by a big truck-
in Williams street!”
“Where! Where! For goodness sake
where!” shrieked the woman, rushing
wilsHy down Frankfort street with her
hair flying. Down the hill she hast-
ened. and then she stopped suddenly.
“Pshaw!” she ejaculated, “what an
old fool I be. I have no little boy.
I've never been married.”
But in the meantime the street ur-
chin had stolen four red apples and a
paper of popcorn.—Brooklyn Eagle.
Would Reduce King’s Allowance.
Taking as his text the fact that the
President of the United States re-
ceives only $50,000 a year, M. Steja-
novics, a Nationalist member, pro-
posed in the Belgrade Skuptschina
the other day that King Peter’s civil
list should be reduced from $240,000
to $160,000. It will be recalled that
King Peter ascended the throne of
Servia through the murder of Kins
Alexander.
Save Your Oid Calendars.
Do you throw away your old calen-
dars? A Paris statistician has discov-
ered that it is a mistake to do so, and
being of an economical turn of mind
has discovered further that calendars
for 1900 will serve equally well for
1906.—London Daily Express.
Would Honor Washington.
The Milan Peace society, in accord
with the school teachers of Italy, has
petitioned the government to have the
birthday of George Washington pro-
claimed a public holiday, to be de-
voted to manifestations in favor of
peace
Manhole in Mid-Air.
The unusual sight of a manhole
standing like a tower, with its top thir-
ty-five feet above ground, is to be
seen in Washington, D. C., on the
site of the new Union Station, where
an enormous fill is to be made. The
design contemplates a large plaza
stretching out for some distance in
front of the beautiful building, and it
is here that the greatest amount of
filling is to be done. The sewers and
conduits through this land have been
laid. One of these, as stated, is thir-
ty-five feet above the surface of the
ground.
When Game Was Cheap In Kansas.
Even as late as 1886 and 1887 veni-
son was as cheap as beef in the fall,
the choicest cuts selling for 12J cents
a pound, while wild turkeys could be
had for 75 cents each when tame tur- j
keys no larger sold for a dollar, j
Brant or wild geese were hard to get
rid of, as no one liked their meat.
There was little fishing, not nearly so
good as now, and the fish were nearly
all perch or cat The fine herd of 200
head of deer iu Uncle Joe Lewis’ deer
park came from a pair he caught in
the early days and penned up in a
pasture lot.—Anthony Republican.
Truth Comes Out.
“Waiter,” said the guest in a cheap
restaurant, “is that a pile driver I hear!
in the rear?”
“No, sah;” answered the waiter.!
“Dat am de cook preparin’ you’ ten-1
dahloin steak, sah!”—Chicago Daily;
News
Man.
Man seen through his humanity be-
comes a thing of transcendent value:
the nature which has been put of God
to the most gracious of all uses is a
nature that can be no more despised
or mishandled.—Andrew M. Fairbairn.
Put Away for Good.
"A worthy widower up our way,”
said a man from St. Lawrence coun-
ty. “has had the misfortune to bury
three wives. He is now living with
his fourth, who has two boys by a
former husband. One day the subject
of divorce was being discussed with
some visitors, and one of the latter
quoted St. Paul’s remark to the effect
that ’He who putteth away his wife
is guilty of grievous sin.’ One of the
lads looked up and said, ‘Why, that
can’t be so, for pa’s put away three
or four, and he’s a deacon.’ “
Oldest Editor !n Iowa.
A. B. F. Hildreth, of the Charte*
City (la.) Intelligencer, is the oldest
editor in the Hawkeye state and pos-
sibly in the country. In four months
he will be 90 years oil, but is still in
good physical and mental condition,
not having had a day’s sickness in the
past half century. He was born on the
29th of February, and therefore has
had but few birthdays. Mr. Hildreth
has been a printer or editor for over
70 years. The first issue of the paper
he now owns appeared on the 31st of
July, 1856.
Rents in a Crowded City.
Paris is about the only great city
In the world where household rents
are as much affected by overcrowd-
ing as in New York. Yet in the French
capital 697,708 people hire appart-
ments costing less than $97.83 a year;
114,798 pay less than $194.66 and more
than $97.33. Only 62,426 families live
in apartments costing more than
$16.22 a month. Only 17,020 pay over
$778.64 a year.
The horn of a rhinoceros is not part
of the bone of the head, mut merely
grows on the skin.
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 "pare” 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 beneficial. Tomato catsup may
contain a small amount of salicylic or
boracic acid as a necessary preserva-
tive, -which may agree with one and
be harmful to another.
Wheat flour may contain a portion
of corn flour and really be improved.
Olive oil may be made cf 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 of food.
Many pure food bills have been in-
troduced and some passed by State leg-
islatures; many have been offered to
Congress, but all thus far seem objec-
tionable.
It 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 endless trouble to retailers.
No gov’t commission or officer has the
right to fix “food standards,” to define
what the people shall and shall not eat.
for what agrees with one may not
agree with another, and such act would
deprive the common citizen of his J
personal liberty. The Postum Cereal
Co., Ltd., perhaps the largest mukers
of prepared foods in the world, have
naturally a close knowledge of the
needs of the people and the details of
the business of the purveyors (the re-
tail grocer), and, guided by this experi-
ence have prepared a bill for submis-
sion to Congress which is intended to
accomplish the desired ends, and inas-
much 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 gov’t take control of
this matter and provide a national
law to govern all the states. A copy
of the bill is herewith reproduced.
Sec. 1 governs the maker whether
the food is put up in small packages
sealed, or in barrels, boxes or other-
wise.
Sec. 2 governs the retailer who may
open a barrel and sell the food in
small quantities. When he puts the
goods into a paper bag he must also
inclose a printed copy of the statement
of the maker which was affixed to the
original pkg., and inasmuch as the
retailer 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 i
upon the maker, where it properly be-
longs.
The remaining sections explain them- !
selves.
The Postum Cereal Co., Ltd., for ex- !
ample, have from the beginning of its i
existence printed on the outside of each :
and every pkg. of Postum and Grape- !
Nuts food a truthful and exact state- j
ment of what the contents were made 1
of in order that the consumer might
know precisely what he or she was
eating. A person desiring to buy, for
instance, strictly pure fruit jelly and
willing to pay the price has a right to
expect not only an equivalent for the
cost, but a further right to a certainty
as to what he eats. Or he may be will-
ing to buy at less cost a jelly made
part of fruit juices, sugar and a por-
tion of glucose. But lie must be sup-
plied with truthful information of the
for just what it is, and not try to kill It
by a heavy tax. Manufacturers some-
times try to force measures in their
own interests, but contrary to the in-
terests of the people and the labor
trust is always active to push through
bills drafted in the interest of that
trust but directly contrary to the in-
terests of the people as a whole. Wit-
ness 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 Represen-
tatives in Congress must be held to a
strict accountability for their acts re-
lating thereto. But when bills come
before Congress that are drawn in the
interests of all the people they should
receive the active personal support of
the people and the representative's be
instructed by the citizens. The Sena-
tors also should be written to and in-
structed. If, therefore, you will re-
member your privilege and duty you
will at once—now—write to your Con-
gressman 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-
questing that they vote for it.
Som* oppressively intelligent and
carping critic may say this U simply
an advertisement for Postum and
Grape-Nuts. It is true that these ar-
ticles are spoken of here in a public
manner, but they are used as illustra-
tions of a manufacturer seeking by
example, printing on each pkg. a truth-
ful, exact statement of ingredients, to
shame other makers into doing the
fair thing by the common people, 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
wray out of the present condition of
fraud, deceit and harm.
The undersigned Ls paying to the
publishers of America about $20,000.00
to print this announcement in practi-
cally all of the great papers and maga-
zines, in the conduct of what he
chooses to term “an educational cam-
paign,” esteemed to be of greater di-
rect value to the people than the estab-
lishment of many libraries. That is
held to be a worthy method of using
money for the public good. Tell the
peorle facts, show them a way to help
themselves and rely upon them to act
intelligently and effectively.
The reader will be freely forgiven if
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.
Text of Pure Food Bill.
If it meets approval cut it out, sign name and address and send to your
representative in congress. Buy two or more publications from which you cut
this. Keep one for reference and send tho other to one of the U. S. Senators
from your State. Ask one or two friends to do the same and the chances for
Pure Food will be good.
A BILL
ingredients and be permitted to use
bis personal liberty to select his own
food accurately.
The people have allowed the slow
murder 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 go
personally to Washington to impress
your Congressmen, but you can, in a
most effective way tell him by letter
how you desire him to tepresent you. ;
Remember the Congressman is in i
Congress to represent the people from
his district and if n goodly number of
citizens express their views to him, he
secures a very sure guide to duty. Re-
member also that the safety of the
people is assured by insisting that the
will of the people be carried out, and
not the machinations of the few for
selfish interests.
This pure food legislation is a pure
movement of the people for public pro-
tection. It will be opposed only by
those who fatten their pockets by de-
ceiving and injuring the people. There-
fore, if your Representative in Con-
gress evades his patriotic duty hold
him to strict accountability, and if
necessary demand equitable and hon-
est service. This is a very different
condition than when a faction demands
class legislation of the Congressman, j
Several years ago the butter interests
of the country demanded legislation to |
kill the oleomargarine industry and by
power of organization forced class leg-
islation really unworthy of a free peo-
ple. Work people wanted beef suet
butter because it was cheap and better
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 i
TO REQUIRE MANUFACTURERS AND SHIPPERS OF FOODS FOR IN-
TERSTATE SHIPMENT TO LABEL iSAID FOODS AND PRINT
THE INGREDIENTS CONTAINED IN SUCH FOODS
ON EACH PACKAGE THEREOF.
Be It enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United
States of America in Congress assembled, That every person, firm or corpora-
tion engaged in the manufacture, preparation or compounding of food for
human consumption, shall print in plain view on each package thereof made
by or for them shipped from any State or Territory, or the District of Colum-
bia, a complete and accurate statement of all the ingredients thereof, defined
by words in common use to describe said ingredients, together with the
announcement that said statement is made by the authority of, and guaran-
teed to be accurate by, the makers of such food, and the name and complete
address of the makers shall be affixed thereto; all printed in plain type of *
size not less than that known as eight point, and in the English language.
Sec. t, That the covering of each and every package of manufactured4,
prepared or compounded foods shipped from any State. Territory or the
District of Columbia, when the food in said package shall have been taken
from a covering supplied by or for the makers and re-covered by or for the
sellers, shall bear upon its face or within its enclosure an accurate copy of
the statement of Ingredients and name of the makers which appeared upon
the package or covering of said food as supplied by or for the makers thereof,
printed iu like manner as the statement of the makers was printed, and such
statement shall also bear the name and address of the person, firm or cor-
poration that re-covered such food.
Sec. 3, That it shall be unlawful for any person or persons to purposely,
wilfully and maliciously remove, alter, obliterate or destroy such statement
of ingredients appearing on packages of food, as provided iu the preceding
sections, and any person or persons who shall violate this section shall b*
guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be fined not less than
one hundred dollars nor more than five hundred dollars, or imprisoned not
less than, one month nor more than six months, or both, in the discretion of
the court.
Sec. 4, That the Bureau of Chemistry of the Department of Agriculture
shall procure, or cause to be procured from retail dealers, and analyze, or
cause to be analyzed or examined, chemically, microscopically, or otherwise,
samples of all manufactured, prepared or compounded foods offered for sale
in original, unbroken packages in the Disirist of Columbia, in any Territory,
or in any State other than that in which they shall have been respectively
manufactured or otherwise produced, or from a foreign country, or intended
for export to a foreign country. The Secretary of Agriculture shall make
necessary rules and regulations for carrying out the provisions of this Act,
and is hereby authorized to employ such chemists, inspectors, clerks, labor-
ers, and other employees, as may be necessary to carry out the provisions
of this Act and to make such publication of the results of the examinations
and analysis as lie may deem proper. And any manufacturer, producer or
dealer who shall refuse to supply, upon application and tender and full pay-
ment of the se’ling price samples of such articles of food to any person
duly authorized by the Secretary of Agriculture to receive the same, shall
be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be fined not exceeding
one hundred dollars, or imprisoned not exceeding one hundred days, or both.
Sec. 5, That any person, firm or corporation w’ho shall violate sections
one and two of this Act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon convic-
tion shall be fined not exceeding two hundred dollars for the first offense
and for each subsequent offense not exceeding three hundred dollars or be
imprisoned not exceeding one year, or both, in the discretion of the court.
Sec. 6. That any person, firm, or corporation, who shall wilfully, purposely
or maliciously change or add to the ingredients of any food, make false
charges, or incorrect analysis, with the purpose of subjecting the makers of
such foods to tine or imprisonment under this Act, shall be guilty of a mis-
demeanor and upon conviction shall be fined not exceeding one thousand
dollars nor less than three hundred dollars, or imprisoned for not less than
thirty days nor more than one year, or both.
Sec. 7, That it shall be the duty of every district attorney to whom the
Secretary of Agriculture shall report any violation of this Act to cause pro-
ceedings to be commenced and prosecuted without delay for the flues and
penalties in such case provided.
Sec. 8. That this Act shall not be construed to interfere with commerce
wholly internal in any State, nor with the exercise of their police power*
by the several States.
Sec 9, That all acts or parts of acts inconsistent with this Act are hereby
repealed.
Sec. 10, That this Act shal! be in force and effect from and after the first
day of October, nineteen hundred and six.
The undersigned respectfully requests the Representatives from his dis-
trict and Senators from his Stare to support this measure.
Signed........................
City............... Suit*.
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