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MAGAZINE SECTION. WI W5, ESTABLISHED 1844 PAGES 1 TO74... WINNSBORO, S. C., WEDNESDAY, JLLY 25, 1906. COUNTESS OF WARWICK. A STRIKING BEAUT Y OF ENGLISH COURT WHO IS FRIEND OF WORKINGMEN. Has Accomplished Great Philan P.- thropy, Foundling Girls' Schools in Dairying. Poultry, Etc.-Prominent in Politics. England has at least one titled woman wvhose wealth and position have not proved sufficient to blind her to conditions which surround less for tunate men and women. She is the Countess of Warwick. long the reign ing beauty of King x,,ward's court, and one of the most famous women in two continents. The Countess has recently come in to prominence through her par...ipa tion in the English elections and is a strong advocate and supporter of Will Thorne, candidate of the dock la borers for a seat in the House of Com mons. The Countess strongly sup ports the contention of the laboring element for a labor party in parliament and gowned in the most bewitching of Parisian frocks and in a red automo bile she has been stirring things up pretty lively in the forty-five parlia mentary districts in which repre sentativts of organized -labor were running for the House of Commons. SENT DELEGATION TO AMERICA. This very democratic Countess re cently sent a delegation of twenty-five women to the United States to study labor conditions here. Each -as in trusted with a different mission. One visited stenographers and typewriters, another went to tailor shops and still another to the factories where young men and women are einployed and the entire labor field was aaequately cov ered. The Countess defrayed all ex penses of the trip and is now using the material which her delegation brought back to her for speeches to the laboring classes. Not long ago the Countess addressed a tremendous crowd of workmen. Her stage was a tradesman's wagon and hundreds of workmen went without their dinners in order to hear her speech. She was given a -great ova tion, called the men "comrades and % TH'E COUNTESS OF WARWICK, friends" and urged them to strain every effort to get a labor party in parliament. "You workers are the'empire," de clared the Countess and this with a succession of spirited assertions she made were lustily cheered by the la boring men. The Countess of Warwick is one of England's most famous women. Be fore the succession of her husband to the earldom she was Lady Brooke and gained the nickname of ''Babbling Brooke" for having told some tV ugs in connection with the famous bac carat. party at Tranby Croft which proved one of the most s'ensational news stories of the year. The Prince of Wales, now King Edward V'II, was a member of thle party and a subse quent witness in the case. TO TEACH DAIRTING AND -CHICKEN GROWTH. .In the past few years the Countess of Warwick has devoted nearly her entire time to phi?;.nthropic and char ity work. She once manmged a linen and lace store but-the venture proved unsuccessful. Later she founded a school and daiiry work and poultry keeping for young girls, a home for crippled children and a technical school, CANDIED. FLOWERS. England Has Begun Strange De mands for Sugared Blossoms From the United States. One of the latest developments of luxury is said to be the candying of fragrant- flowers. The notion is not altogether new, for violets have long been made into confections for the palate, as well as into boquets fc-r the elfactory organs. At any rate, it seems that the fash ion has acquired a new impetus of late, and a candied violet is coming tn be regarded c6 an #CCePtable "bonne bouche" to be presented to a lady. There is also, it is said, a demand for sugared rose petals, which is being catered to by some enterprising artists in sugar. It can hardly be pretended that flowers made into "sweets" are of any medicinal efficacy, though damask rose leaves have long held a recog nized place in the materia medica. Whether the violet has any thera peutic qualities does not appear, though the leaves (not the flower) have just now some reputation-out side the medical faculty-as a cure for cancer. The best that can be hoped for, if flowers are to be eaten as well as to be seen and smelled, is that they may in all cases prove to be innocuous. It is a nice question whether the perfume is always a safe guide. Perhaps the modern craze Is, after all, only a form of luxury. A candied violet or a dish of rose leaves cun ningly prepared for the tea table could not possibly enter into the category of cheap sweets for the millions, and it is understood that the sugar trust is not interested. BREAKS BY CONGRESS Peculiar Mistakes Due to Tremen dous Amount of Work Transacted JustBefore Adjournment. In the hurry and bustle of "get away" day in Congress, a few errors slipped in to upset the calculations of party leaders. One of these was the signing of the agricultural appropri ation bill by the President before thai measure contained the signature of the Speaker of the House of Representa tives. Of course this oversight was corrected, but the question then arose as to the importance of having the bill signed by the Speaker and the Vice President. Their signatures merely certify that the bill has passed their respective houses, the important fact being that they have been passed by the House and Senate. For this rea son it is not regarded as being abso lutely indispensable that a bill should be signed by the presiding officer of the House. All that is necessary is tc establish the fact that it has been sc passed. Another "break" was the presiden tial approval of the sundry civil bill containing an item appropriating $3,000,000 for a site for a new de partmental building in Washington This item had been dropped out of the bill in conference but the enrollmeni clerks failed to notice the omissior and so included this item in the copy of the bill laid before the President for his signature. When the, error was discovered, a resolution was adopted by both houses of Congress repealing the feature of the bill making the $3,000,000 appropriation. It is not strange that these mis takes occur, as all of the erhiployes of both the Senate and House during the last few days of Congress have at enormous amount of work shoved upor them, so that when Congress actually adjourns many of them are ready to take to their beds for several days it order to recuperate. CANADIAN RECIPROCITY. Northern Sister Would Like Sucl Arrangement;. But Is Waiting Move by This Country. A letter from Ottawa, Canada states that the question of reciprocrity between Canada and the Unite. States is by no means dead, as was clearly shown by the recent debate or the Canadian budget in a number ol speeches, which, while they admitted that the United States did not appeax to care for reciprocity, it would if il could be brought about on mutually advantageous terms, oe a good thina for both sides of the line. - Many o1 the crown ministers and even Sir Wil frsd Laurier himself, the premier, and described in England as the foremos1 statesman in the British Empire, art favorable to Canadian-Americar. re ciprocity, if it can be had. Sih Richard Cartwright, minister of trade and commerce, said recent..y that there could be no better British policy that to do everything possible to encouragt good relations with the United States Senator Lougheed, the conzervative leader in the Senate, stated that he thought no higher work could be found by King Edward than to promote the good relations of the two peoples, and o bind more closely together the tw< Anglo-Saxon nations. He knew n< happier way of strengt:.ening the bont between the Anglo-Saxon peoples or the North American Continent thai for the King and Queen to visit the shores of North America at the pres ent time. If reciprocity is not visibly to th4 front to-day it is because public opinion in Canada reg rds reciprocita as unattainable and the position o: the anti-reciprocity men who are fo: the moment supreme, as unassailable Hence, and for no other reason, re ciprocity sentiment is put on the shel until called for again, and an ostentax tious appearance of ijidifference i manifested in Canada which will b stiffly maintained as long as th United States government makes n forward movement that public opinio in the Dominion can accept as sincer and based on a spirit of reasonablenes and fair play. To those who are able to~ read b< tween the lines, the announcement c the finance minister that the change to be made in the Canadian tarif when revision takes pace next sessiox must depend upon such new condition as may have occurred, is obviousl meant for the people at Washingto who stanid in the way of reciprocita and those in London who have blocke a mutual preference between tb mother country and Canada. It is warning and may mean much, or littl< as circumstnnees or conditions dictati A GROCERY IN CONGRESS. REPRESENTATIVE MANN PLAYS SALESMAN AND DRUGGIST TO UNMASK FRAUDS. Short Weight and Fraudulent Foods the Lure of Many Department Stores and Mall Order Houses. Honest Dealers Handicapped by Deceptions. When the pure food bill was before the House of Representatives a few weeks ago, intense interest was dis played by the .members of that body in a "grocery store" established by Representative Mann of Illinois. Mr. Mann had been given a special privi lege by the House committee having the bill in charge to demonstrate the manner in which the ordinary food V REPRESENTATIVE MANN. products of the country are adulter ated, and how the consumer is de frauded. The space in front of tie speaker's desk resembled a small section of a delicatessen store and a corner grocery with cereals, jams, jellies, tins of peas, tomatoes, corn, prepared spices, bottles of whiskey and wine, imnorted sausages, brandied cherries and other edibles and drink ables scattered over two tables. Representative Mann proceeded to demonstrate to the House through these various food products the neces sity for a national pure food law. One of the first articles taken up by the Congressman was the ordinary condiment-pepper-which to the lay mind is considered too cheap for any manufacturer to spend time in adul terating. He read circulars from nu merous concerns offering for sale a certain grade of adulterant which could be used to produce pepper or almost any other of the spices with some slight modification. As he scat tered a package of this over his desk the members in the vicinity started back in order to avoid the usual sneez ing which follows the inhalation of a small quantity of pepper. But they were reassured by the "groceryman" that it was not harmful, for while it was called pepper it was nothing but ground olive pits. He convulsed the House when he read- the price list of adulterants showing that they were offered to the trade for $20 a ton in five-ton lots, and that at that rate they were guaranteed to make the finest black pepper which, as everyone knows, is sold by the ounce. He made the statement that even the pepper berry itself was adulterated by a cleverly contrived manufacture of tap ioco colored with lamp black. Possibly the most striking demon stration of the afternoon was one with a bottle of red cherries. These cher ries, it was explained, were picked green, and that after being bleached out white by the use of a powerful acid, had been colored the brilliant red by the use of coal tar dye-a deadly poison if used in large quanti ties. Representative Mann dipped a piece of white cloth in the ''juice'' of these cherries, and it partook of a brilliant red as though it had just come from a dyers. Olive oil, explained Mr. Mann, is a product which is in most cases, adul terated. In many instances the coun terfeit is merely American cotton seed oil-a wholesome and satisfactory dressing for salad, but it costs about %4 as much as real olive oil, and the 'American buyer certainly does not care to purchase a dressing for 'four times its actual worth. HIVELESS HONEY. One of the freak exibits was a bottle of "honey" which, in order to complete the assurance of the buyei that the article was genuine, contained, as if by accident, the body of a real bee, yet the whole mess was pure and simple glucose, and had never beet near a hive, much less a comb. The hive probably was a ten story fac tory in one of the large cities. SA bottle of "Freezine" was exhibited by Mr. Mann, who explained that this remarkable article was guaranteed tc preserve meat from the action of thi air and stop decay. While he ad mitted that it would stop the action of nature on meats, he claimed that thn preservative itself was actually poison fous, containing suiphide of soda witi red coal tar dye and could not bi -sed safely upon human food. The public is unwittin'gly defrauded to a great extent through short weigh1 'and short measure in package goods explained Mr. Mann, and he lnsistei .that the manufacturers should be comn pelled to state on the label the quan tity contained in the bottle or carton In line with this was a dramatic demn ,onstration when the Chicago pure fooe .expert held up before the House a1C Co s bottle supposed to contain a quart of vinegar, which when poured into a large graduate did not nearly reach the quart mark thereon-in fact was three inches below it. Raisins, currants and numerous other articles of food are apparently put up in pound packages a'nd so the buyer considers, but in fact few of those on the market really con tain a full pound. DEPARTMENT STORE BARGAINS. "It is the department stores and mail order houses." said the demon strator, "which make profit from short weight cans and under-sized bottles. We are seeking to protect the legiti mate grocery. and the honest canner from men who are willing to make money by depriving the people of things they think they are getting. All that we urge is that an approx imate weight or measure may be put upon each one of these packages and then, if the public chooses to buy a smaller package at a smaller price it may do so, but the manufacturers and dealers must not any longer de ceive the people as to how much they are buying." BREAKFAST FOODS A DELUSION. On the tables where Mr. Mann, ably but silently assisted by Mr. Stevens of Minnesota, acted now as grocery man, now as druggist, and now as bartender, there were a dozen or more packages of breakfast foods with their familiar labels. A reference to table weights and skillful dropping of pack ages upon a balance scale in front of ,him enabled Mr. Mann to show that in a great many cases the public paid full price for an abnormal amount of pasteboard box. In scarce any case did the prepared food weigh twice as much as the box,- and in many in stances food and.package were in near ly equal proportion. Everybody knew, as Mr. Mann stated, that 25 per cent. of all the coffee used in the United States is sold as a mixture of Java and Mocha. He was prepared to show from official CLSITH figurs tht whle w use latya figres that awbileon pusdst cofea and while about 250.000.000 pound: were supposed to be Mocha and Java there were actually imperted into this country last year only a fraction ovel 2,000.000 pounds of Mocha and 10.000 000 pounds of JTava, or approximatel; less than 13,000,000 pounds. or only per cent of the popular blend. It !. staggering to know 95 per cent. of th< people who think they drink Moeli: and Java every day have been de ceived, and yet the facts seem to be rather plain. Figures like these, however. al though ordinarily impressive and con vincing, did not attract so much at -tention in the House. because th< members were so absorbed in the prac tical demonstration of the extent t< which fraudulent manufacturers o food products have been willing t< go in the way of swindling the public Praise. New Yorker-To tell the truth, we -are proud of thIs hoteL. Chicagoan-Well, I can't blame vol altogether, old man. I honestly thin: imyself that It's the finest betweel iChican and London. pyr igh-ted. 189,+.-By Harper I rnopsis of preceding chapters at end of this installmen t CHAPTER XI. For a time Sir Nigel was very moody and downcast, with bent-brows and eyes upon the pommel of his saddle. Edricson, Ford and Terlake rode behind him. The four rode alone, for the archers had passed a curve in the road, though Al leyne could still hear the he~try clump, clump of their marching, or catch a glimpse of the sparkle of steel through the tangle of leafless branches. "Ride by my side. I entreat of you," said the knight, reining in his steed that they mightIi come abreast of him "For, si nce it h tth pleased you to fol low me to the wars, it were well that you should know how you may best serve me. I doubt not, Terlake, that you will show yourself a worthy son of a valiant fa ther, and you. Ford, of yours, and you Edricson, that you are mindful of the old time house from which all men know that you are sprung. And first I would have you bear very steadfastly in mind that our settinsgo forth is by no means for the purpose of ga1ining spoil or exacting ran som, though it may well happen that such may come to us also. We go to France, and from thence, I trust, to Spain, in humble search of a field in which we may win advancement and perchance some small share of glory. But what is this among the trees?" . aIt is a shrine of Our Lady," sal Terlake, "and a blind beggar who lives by the alms of those ofho worship there. "A shrine !" cried the knight. "Then let us put up an orison." knd pulling off his cap, and clasping his hands, he chanted in a shrill voice: "Benedictus dominus Deus meus, qui docet manus meas ad proelium, et digitos meos ad bellum." A strange figure he seemed to his three squires, perched on his huge horse, with his eyes upturned and tht wintry sun shimmering upon his bald head. "It is a noble prayer," he re marked, putting on his hat again, "and it wasm tugh io me by the noble Chandos himself. But how fares it with you, father? Methinks that I should have ruth upon you, seeing that I am myself like one who looks through a horn window while his neighbors have the clear crystal. Yet, by St. Paul! there is a long stride between the man who hath a horn casement and him whois walled in on every hand." "Alas, fair sir !" cried the blind man. o- ve his capandcrlyasince hadsvhe mash aud preumht digtos meos had oI have squireen ecblied to uis huat horse with is bees ptred uch tht winmrsn shimeringmpn lthink tal 'head.lyI is vnole. prar," the anem maprke, putrisng ond hetis hagai"n ;fahee ieting ehd ethouldhv ruhi on th y sering' thatsel anm myeuce like onoe gift looks the kar window whee hsoeighor havnge hen a which trie between wthe manywh mubat Shornsasethrut away hinto his walled -n ronevery thand." issee ftrh . compans, asid credo them bld ma t Ihe pot wheren the blesed blune of hent yoen this twoattered yeithe site of th<i fls burpnyewa areadyh t0 we-igh thead.' fthe vilae been blin the knightahi ouraes loen pare them. thhat .strry cand fasrietvie foul ub t al!owe bys on ror our Cop-hste wlluthinkfron they aks ost thei captain Anothewint erlygit them vnure wthro the rea-guar whre evercyn mand lace ust hiso.ar Alenei shongleriang behind, bhhwa himinofithemerrimenrinBysthounse on thad solumnel bestoed ta sgle eade bwich thegr ishd throny utl Th' argumen his epstedtheiong hirl - od at tepo his hesloed aftewrie themspo wher the ftres frill olle:nt W4h orau ~esrglighme - fode is cttrd n ihe id cfmh S C.rot e7s. of abuse, varied by an occasional thwack from her stick, given with all the force of her body, though she might have beea beating one of the forest trees for aM the effect that she seemed likely to pro duce. "I trust Aylward," said Sir Nigel, gravely, as he rode up, "that this doth not mean that any violence hath been offered to women, If such a thing hap pened, I tell you that the man shall hang, though he were the best archer that ever wore brassart." "Nay, my fair lord," Aylward answered with a grin, "it is violence which is offered to a man. He comes from Hordle, and this is his mother who hath come forth to welcome him." "You rammucky lurden," she was howl ing, with a blow between each catch of her breath, "you shammocking, yaping, over-long good-for-naught. I will teach thee! I will baste thee! Aye, by my faith!" "Whist, mother," said John, looking back at her from the tail of his eye. "I go to France as an archer, to give blows and to take them." "To France, quotha?" cried the old dame. "Bide here with me, and I shall warrant you more blows than you are like to get in France. If blows be what you seek, you need not go further than Hordle." "By my hilt! the good dame speaks truth," said Aylward. "It seems to be the very home of them." "What have you to say, you clean shaved galleybagger? cried the fiery dame, turning upon the archer. "Can I not speak with my own son but.you must let your tongue clack? A soldier, quotha, and never a hair on his face. I have - seen a better soldier with pap for food and swaddling-clothes for harness." "Stand to it, Aylward," cried the archers, amid a fresh burst of laughter. "Do not thwart her, comrade," said big John. "She hath a proper spirit for her years' and cannot abide to be thwarted. It is kindly and homely to me to hear her voice and to feel that she is behind me. But I must leave you now, mother, for the way is over-rough for your feet; but I will bring you back a silken gown, if there be one in France or Spain, and I will bring Jinny a silver penny; so good-bye to you, and God have you in his keeping !" Whipping up the little woman, he lifted her lightly to his lips, '-I' LED WOMAN. and then, taking his place in the ranks again, marched on with the laughing Coma pany. "That was ever his way," she cried, appealing to Sir Nigel, who reined up his horse and listened with the gravest cour tesy. "He would jog on his own road for all that I could do to change him. First he must be a monk forsooth, and all be cause a wench was wise enough to turn her back on him. Then he joins a ras cally crew and must needs trapse off to the wars, and me with no one to batt the fires if I be out, or tend the cow if I be home. Yet I have been a good mother to him. Three hazel switches a - day have I broke across his shoulders, and he takes no more notice than you have seen him to-day." "Doubt not that he will come back to yote both safe and prosperous, my fair dame," quoth Sir Nigel. "Meanwhile it grieves me that, as I have already given my purse to a bergar up the road, I-" "Nay, my lord," said Alleyne, "I still hare some moneys remaining." I"Then I pray you to give them to this very worthy woman." He cantered on as he spoke, while Alleyne, having dispensed two more pence, left the old dame stan-i ing by the furthest cottage of Hordle . with her shrill voice raised in blesaings instead of revilings. IThat night the Company slept at St. Leonard's. in the great monastic barns and spicarium-ground well known both to Alleyne and to John, for they were almost within sight of the Abbey of