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Your.? Respectfully, C. W. PITCHFORD, Rooms to Rent. AT NIELD & HARRISON'S. ^??? DRY GOODS. Under this bond wo havo Flnnnols, Sorgos, Brillantines, Vonoclnns, Henriettas, Cashmeres, Ginghams, Cantons, Bleached and Unbleached Drills, Ac. NOTIONS. Under this hoad wovhavo Dross Trimmings in Silks and Volvote, Volvot and Silk Ribbon, Corset? for Ladies and Misses, Hosiory, Gloves nnd Underwear, Hut tons, Dross Ducklo*, &c. Tho largest and best solccted stock in Oconee. Como and seo latest styles and prices hoforo you buy. " - . ~ Of o very stylo from tho lowest grado to tho best. BOOTS AND SHOES For Mon, Women ? nd Childron. All kinds, from tho cheapest to tho host. Como and sec thom. Nield & Harrison -WATER Will Cure Your Dyspepsia. Oip OP ?IQftl?Y (S?SBS-?F LIVE?? ftLJD KIDNEY DISEASE GUPD. Mr. J. N. Smith,, for twenty years an ongineor on tho Greenville nnd Columbia H. lt.. savs : "Tue Crescent Mineral Water is curing mo of Moog standing Kidnoy Trouble, and I am better to-day than I havo boon for ten years, all through tho uso of this water, and my wifo, who for many years has boon obliged to tako medicino for hor livor, has had nb occasion for any medicino since using tho Closeout Wator, and now feels Uko a now porson." Loading citi'/.ous of Greonvillo add tho following: "Tho testimony of John N. Smith, re garding tiio wonderful curative offeots of tho. Crescont Minorai Water will ho of f;ro?t valuo. for no man's word is strongor n Greenville than his." C. II. Judson, President Furnian Uni versity. A. li.Curoton, Superintendent Cotton Seed Mill. Frank Hammond, President People's Hank. II. C. Markloy/Carriago Manufacturar. T. C. Gower, Proprietor Street Hallway. John H. Maxwell, M. D. J. W. llowoll, M. I). G. T. Swandalo, M. I). J. W. liarlo, M. I). John Forguson, Grocer. H. F. Allon & Bro., Grocers. J. 1?. Miller, Grocer. S. M. Snidor St Co., Jewelers. G. D. Barr, Stovo Doalor. John Hart, Contractor and Builder. Soud for book of testimonials. A Caso of Crescent Minorai Water, con taining 12 half-gallon bottles, will ho sent hy oxprosB, propald, by us on receipt of $1.00, and $1.50 a dozen will ho allowed for bottles returned at our oxpenso. If your Druggist has not obtained a supply, ordor direct of tho CRESCENT MI NIC HAL WATER CO., Groonvillo, S. C. July 3, 181)0 WANTEI Five Energetic Salesmen to sell Pianos, Organs and Machines. None but reliable men need apply. Alexanfler Bros. & Co., 107 and lil Washington St., GREENVILLE^ 8. C. NoTlCE is horoby glvon that I will bo at my office, near tho Norman Park Hotel, for tho wintor, whoro I desire all persons owing mo by note or account, to call and make immediate paym nt or satis factory sol denicul. J. P. MICKLER. October 23, 1800. 42-tf o. fl. WKI.I.S, j. f.. ouu, Groonvillo, S. C. ROBT, A. THOMPSON, nOIlT. T. .TAYNK8, Walhalla, S. C. Wells, Orr, Thompson & Japes, Attorneys and Counsellors at La\oy Walhalla, S. C. Special attention glvon to all business on misted to our enro. August 25, 1887. 84-a Wm. F. Ervin, Surveyor, Land Agency and Commission Business. O?lco lu tho Bank building, WALHALLA, S. C. Dyspepsia, Constipation, Sick Headache, Biliousness And all diseases arl Bing- from a Torpid Li ver and Bad Digestion. Tho natural roanlt tm rood anuatlta ami ??lt.! noon, noa* amall t ?fe*au? ly ?nur conf u? and o?ny to HWRIIOW. 80L' EVERYWHERE, -, tim ? STRENGTH. HAPPINESS. '?\f!f: ,':.f.,?nJ>"M resident W. CT. If "ilio KLHCTKUPfllSK in n pnnnceu for 'SUnOM hrnln fntlKUO nnd ?rnnrnl OnOIUtyr, . ll. a duty lo say: try tho H <0TItOI'O18K;,; li**, K. W. E?lrann?la.8nmtor,8. C,?ay/<: .? '. !.. Im* Moil tiftliiKtlio KbKOTUOPOISl-: for inna for (fVoral monilin, ?Hu nt present lier ..Ita in excellent," .'Vn\&.'i.?W*7? Fre?. Sibley Mill?, Ancrum, . ii inUrn, imilntiiomitliotiiMnu per cent, better. I .. ?t.-iiinu nd Its U80 toolUlmll?rly nacotcd." T. ,T. llfirUnwA/, Chnrlcaton, fl, c., niv.it brea week? uno of tim KI.KOTlloi'OlBK re' IWv?q mo of chronloBolatlco." Hr. Wm. N. Kin?. SU W. 44th Ht., Kow Vi rWOfiyiit "llmvntouml tim Kl.liOTUOlMlHI? II-, wonderfnlt .H'iMvft ?Kent. I would con iit?t,,,yi ? ollcnppluaimiocd with. IfOT.e. K.^t^rrmpr. |l?t?/hnpno vi? ?Ayr? Cur month*' usn of tho KI.kct?l0W)IBK :? ?torca mo to health from a complication of i '?? !it hltlB,frnt?rfh, riytipenttln, nnd torpid liver, lin i-, ftalq of 40tb?. In weight." SOUTHERN EUCTftOPOISE Co, 222 KING STREET, CHARLESTON, 8. C. Lee new Advt rthenunt next Imuo. COLUMBUS W?REI). Tho Mau Who'Found America Run to Earth by Bill Nye. TUM NOTORIOUS GRX?K8K SURPRIBAD WHI?.K IN A WAXY STATK AND ?N?. Y PARVLY CIiO'k'HKU-HKN.IA nm FBANKUN'B iiunaiiAUious TKN DKNCIUB AT I.A8T EXPOSED. Wandering about tho othor day and waiting for Otero to como forth and dance at tho Edon Museo, tho manager said, all of a suddon, as ho noticed that I . was being mistaken for a now wax figuro, and that I scorned embarrassed by tho way peo ple, especially strangers, wore feeling of mo and wondering if I woro hol low : "Como up stairs with mo. I want to show you something. Did you over go into tho work room whore wax figures aro mado V" "No." "Well, take tba olovator with mo. Otero will not dabee yot for an hour and you can soo tho whole business -studio, work shop, etc,-in that time, and you will enjoy it just as muoh ns you would remaining hero with that vaoant and guilolcss look, hoing constantly taken for Henry Irving or tho deathbod of Napoleon." JSo I'said yes wo would go. I had novor watchod tho process, and very fow people, as I understood it, woro pormittod to go into tho mysterious chambers whore groat mon were made and unmade oven quicker than tho newspapers could do, it. Tho principal works-wax works, I may .wy, or tableaux foundry - would scorn to bo faoing Twenty-third street, ono floor above tho entrance. Quito a numbor of people aro busy there all the timo adding now figures and tableaux to tho great collection in tho halls below. Every time a mon aroh croaks and a now President if elected tho genius of tho was sculp tor up th oro is called into uso, and boforo you knftw it^h? hoad of f now ropub??o, in a neat fitting suit of clothes, is inserting his nioe pink hand into the bosom of his frock coat and trying to look far away, While people arc watching him earn ostly in the great group of poten tates. I was first introduced to tho main wax worker and artist of tho whole establishment, whose name I wiso 1 had scoured, because ho was so cour teous and obliging. Ho showed mt all about it, so that I could now d< it mysolf if at any time I sh o ult decido to retire from literary pur suits and giyo mysolf up entirely t( art. Tho artist of whom I speak makei heads and hands and finishes up thc job, while another artist, whoso nanv I did not got accurately onongh t< print, unless I could at. once escape makes tho bodies. Tho process i very simplo indeed. Anybody couh do it. It is ns easy us running i paper or perfecting tho tariff so a to ho generally agreeable Tho soulptors were working on : group of Christopher Columbus Tho artist has seized upon tho happ; moment when Columbus ia just abou to discover America, and ho is dobat ing in his own mind whether or no there is anything in it. Ono cnn se readily by his deop, earnest look thn it is a problem in his brain which h has not yat settled whother it wi pay him to discover a country whic will introduco tho uso of pin tobacco and freedom. Columbia was at this timo ver poor. First ho had sought to scout a concession from thc Legislature. ( Spain, hut in Spain it costs ns muo to got n just appropriation ns it dot in Alhnny. Ho wont on to sho' f lint if ho did not discover Amoric somo ono else would, and that tl result would ho that somo less dosen ing and far plainer man would g< his pictures on tho American greei backs. Hut pooh ! pooh 1 said xl Legislature, seeing that Columbi had no moans with which to promo legislative action, and he hoing plain man, entirely ignorant of wh thor n bill lind to go to its finn! pas ngo or over to tho Smithsonion Inst t ut ion, wns guyed mid fooled wil by mon who should hnvo known bc tor until his money wns gone, ni our best Indian tribos woro waltli impatiently all tho time to bo di covorVJ. "Ailis lr somo gront chiof won 8ny nftor vainly sonrching tho hoi zon, "nnothor day lins went hy ai my peoplo remain undiscovered. A gront speech to tho pnlo fnco, whl I have prepared for tho Four Kondor, is still in manuscript for Day after day goos by and wo get reliable European nows. Uah I" y.-.-7vf-r ,,v,;i : i;| ; .,:J-i-i , m >77T"?i ii-,. --i,.- .?.T-,,. Ho would thou ont ? light break? fruit of maize, get married, and tak ing bis pross glin on ins shoulder go out and, shoot a onnvabbaok muskrat for his luncheon. Columbus, as ho will appear at the Edon Musoe, bas a dark but pleasant face and pleasant whiskers. I took bis lu??id hi my hand and iookc? into his stoady, gentle eyes. Also into his vacant head. The hoad and face of tho figures aro made.first in olay, as a soulptor would do:it. It is fun. I made ono. It was pleasing, but tho man it re sembled I novor mot. He was a stranger to me. When thc clay is HU Ilic i?n t ly hard to uso for that pur pose a plaster mold is made from it, in sections, of course, so that it may bo easily romoved; thou tho molted tlosh-colorod wax is poured hi until it has attained a thickness of from an eighth to a quarter of an inch, and thou it is allowed to harden. After sufficient time for this tho bust is removed and numbered and cata logued, so that it may bo again called into uso yoars hence if anything should occur to bring up this figuro to the publio notice. Tho World's Fair now, of course, at once attracts attention to Columbus and his group of rooky pic biters from Spain. Hero wo see them in all their wanton wilderness and freedom. Columbus had not got his olothcs on yot when I saw him. Ho has a good figure, though, and a nice pink torso. Ho wns 60 yerra of ago at the timo ho had this torso taken, I boliove. Tho bodies of thc ontiro Columbus group had been made, and with cheap ribbed underwear on them they stood in a little convention at ono ond of tho room. Sonto wcro kneeling, somo were standing and some wore in other attitudes that would havo looked heroic if the drapery had been a little more oxtonsive. The bodies and limbs are made as fol lows : First they aro modeled in clay in tho position exactly that tl oy aro KT asstimo" wh~?r?~"coinplct ed." ^Tio? tho mold is made from this and then tho wax is put in iirst, followed by a heavy coarso doth, three thicknesses of which aro used to givo strength and firmness of oharaoter to the sub ject. A lady was cngngod in dressing tho figure of Columbus. Sho at tonds to tho costuming of all thc wax people. She was just putting a wad of excelsior into his bosom as I entored. Another young lady has the somewhat, monotonous job of putting- on thc hair and whiskers, ono at a time. Many think that thc wax works wear wigs, but this is not true. Eaoh hair is put into tho wax by means of a little steel jabber, and tho wax pressed down again to hold it. It takes three days to put. thc hair on a man like Liszt or Olo Bull In gotting up a figuro of Col. Inger soll, of course, ono day would bt ample. In the Columbus group thort is one sailor who has not shaved foi a weok. This is effected by putting tho beard in full, and then dipping it to the propor length. Ho looki quito life-like, and his irregular tooti which, with his sandy, stubby board give his a regular sea dog look. Ferdinand will bo represented also I saw his bust in beeswax. Ho wai rather a plain man with a look o anxiety which I attributed to a fool ing of uncertainty about tho timi when his now clothes would read him from Grand street. Ferdinant rescued himself from oblivion b; giving his hand in marriage to Isn bolla of Castile, on tho 18th of Ooto ber, 1409. Fivo yoars later, Ford i mind was proclaimed king on th death of Henry IV, who was Isa bella's brother. It is ?aid that, he folks opposed tho marriage on th ground that Ford, could net givo th necessary bonds oven if ho got th office of king; but he did, and gav good satisfaction. In 1492 Fordinand drovo all tb Jows out of his dominion bcoaufi they would not ndvortiso in a papt with which ho was connected. ] was in this samo yoar that Isaboll fitted out two or thrco ships nocci sary for .Columbus to go in and dil cover A mo rica, and whon ho rcturnc Ferdinand and Isabella obtained bull from Pope Alexander coull rn ing their title to all tho torritoi thoy had then or might thereaftt disoovor in tho Wostorn hemisphor So Fordinand and Isabella had qui? a lot of wild land for salo at tl end of that year, which if they hi kopt would now bo very valuabl Take Minneapolis and New Yor for instance; both of theso towi wore then in their infanoy, and tl group was cheap. Take tho lan for, instance^ on which Trinity ob un and Daly's billiard hall now stand? Thoso lota aro worth nilUions of dob lars,'dod y ot a few. years ago, they wore secured by planting;tho Spon ish flag oh our coast or buying a State o? tho improvident red man with a schooner of Tokay wino and a red carnelian nose ring. Isabella's bust ns;it Will appear in this groat historical tableau will havo a brunette appeal ance with blKok hair. Sho will have a far off look: and hollow legs. Sho was- having heV mensuro taken for a throne on tho day I visited hor. Isabella died Novombor 20, 1604, and Ferdinand, af tor pawing, up tho oarth with his griof and making a perfect show of himself nt tho grave, procoodod to marry Germaiiio Do Foix* Sho was niece of Louis XII of Franco, and if sho had been a grass widow could havo boon called Do Foix Grass, whioh would havo been a bon mot. Ferdinand dieu January 28, 16?6, and had a marble prevarication placed over his tomb, whioh wont on to stato that it would bo a cold day boforo Spain had another king with as much pop and high purposes rna Ford. had. Tho eyes of. wax ligures aro of glass, and aro fastened in by means of rods whioh pass ?p through the intorior of tho head and fasten \ tho eyeball from the roar. Wax people are noted for dignity and repose. They have no brains, but they never forgot to bc dignified. I bato digni fiej^^olo. I novcr tried to bo dig nified buf ui.v>, and that was two weeks ago, I wore a handsome now frock coat and suit of dark blue, and a new, shining Russia iron silk hat, to drive my family over tho Finger Bowl road on Staten Island and on to South Beach. I was proud and haughty, dressed up, serene and mentally vacant in order to look dignified. People who saw us driving thus afterward paid mo n high compliment by telling my wifo what a dignified and thoroughly zh tfonrVjrjofo'ng^ Since that I have not tried to look dignified. We had quito a fright not long ago, and I might toll it here, perhaps, as well as elsewhere, for I think tho chief charm about a lotter, of this kind is its informality, truth and accu racy. My wifo is not easily frightened. She is a Chicago girl who married beneath her station, so I am told; but wo will lot that pass* Tho other evening sho was comparatively alono and reading "Throe Mon in a Boat." Sho likes English humor, because it is so puro and has such plain direc tions with each book. She was read ing it thoughtfully and, pray or full y-^ knowing that no ono could rood English humor and not go away a bettor man-when abo heard a heavy footfall al ug the hall. It-was not my footfall, for mino is light. It would not wilt a maiden hair fern-I tread so lightly-espe cially at a lato hour. Tho tread slowly approached. My wifo shiv ered and bolted hor door, Tho stop turned toward tho bathroom I Sho had hoard of burglars coming into a private residence, taking a bath, and then going away-after stoaling a few things. Later ?he heard him slashing around in tho bathtub at a great rate and she was thoroughly soared. She tried to call some of tho sorvar.ts, but could not teach them. Finally after what seemed like a thousand years sho decided to seo for herself. Sho could not wait. So with loudly beating heart she opened tho door of tho bathroom softly. * * * * * * * Thc light was low, but in tho bath tub, just above the water, was tho pale, still faco of a man ! lie had borrowed our bathroom for suicidal purposes. Whon I carno homo di was con fusion. I was never so woloome. In a brief excited talk I was told what had hadponed. I took my trusty Eif callibar and went to o door, listen ing to see if tho d. J burglar had revived. Ho had not. Slowly I opened tho door and peered it. To go back a little, I must add that wo have a bust of Benjamin Franklin at our houso whioh ovory year requires washing. Tho help had decided at a late hour to give Benjamin a bath, and with heavy tread had ?ourdit?tho bnthroon'i foi U ' "fi that purpose. So when the mistrese of tho houso wont thore to discovoi tho burglar alo found tho whit3 set foatures of tho great man apparently drowned in the bath. Try it some time if you think it improbable. You will bo surprised, So no moro at presont. BIM. NY IC. Merits o? Cotton Reert OiJ KXFBRT'S OPINION OF TDK VALUE OF COTTON IUJlil) OH. AS AN ART?Ol.? OV KOO?-TOR lWKJUDlCH OF A NAKlK-THU l>OS8imLlTIK8 OF T1?K COTTON - UK Kl) OIL INDUSTRY. In tho discussion pf tho compound l?rd bill boforo Cong?bss|th? r?lutivc morita of hog fat and cotton seed oil were thoroughly disoussod, and tho (Southern product oarao off thevici tor. Every expert chemical analyst and othor exports testifl?d to tho superior merits of cotton scod oil, to its excollonco for homo uso, to itB purity and to tho faot that it was healthy and ?Yeo from all deleterious compounds. Tho testimony of tho-Analyst of the NeW York Hoard of Health was to tho point, and ,ho reviewed at! length tho relativo moritB of tho two products, and tho various testimony on tho subject* as follows : COTTON SKKD OIL A3 AN ARTICbK OF FOOD. Tho main quostion, as I understand it, is, whother cotton scod oil, pro* porly extracted or refilled, is a whole some and nutritious article of food, and whother it is a proper substance to minglo ?Ith isrd obtained from the fat of hogs, or with other fats, in tho mun nf act uro of "lard nena pounds," table oil, and tho like, for uso as food or in tho preparation or manufacture of food articles. There doubtless exists on tho part of many peoplo a prejudico that lard should hp made of hog fat alone, and table or salid oil from tho frmt Of tho olive troo BOlely} but this opinion is in reality based on no good or sufficient reasons. Fats obtained from a variety of animals and a great numbor of plants havo beep used from time immemorial in the preparation of food, .and it is unreasonable to suppose that those particular fats and oils which we, in this country, or in this part of the doiDjJg,y.haye Jieon.-sceHgfAP)ed..LO, uso aro tho only suitnblo ones to employ. All over tho world vege table oils are obtained by tho expres sion of the seeds or fruit of plants and used as food. From the cocoa nut, Brazilian nut, walnut, almond, and a wido varloty of othor vegeta ble products, oils are oxtraotod and employed in the preparation of food? tn speaking of the vogotabio oils, t)r. pd ward Smith, in his well-known >vork on Foods* places cotton seed oil at tho hoad of tho Hst, and says : "Th?ro can be no doubt that wo Iiavo in this product of socds of plants, which soom otherwise to be ?solcss, a great storehouse of most valuable nutritive material, and if wo know but little of them in this climate, it is bccaURO WC have tho olive oil at hand, and aro bountifully supplied with many kinds of animal fats. It is, howovor, probable that tho choapness of some of these vege table oils, in addition to their ? deli oaoy of flavor, will ero long force themselves into notice and obtain a placo among our foods." This was written 1878, when tho manufacturo of cotton seed oils was still in its infancy. Professor. Wiley, chemist to tho TThit?d States Department of Agri culture, in Bulletin No. 10, on ?Food and Food Ad ulternnts, quotes iYom Allon'h well-known and standard work on Commercial Organic Analy sis, as follows J "Refined cotton socd oil is of a straw or golden yellow color, or, occasionally, noarly color less. Tho density ranges fr?m .922 tb .920, and tho solidifying point from Io to 10? C. Refined cotton seed oil is usually very; free fron? acid, and whon properly.propared is of pleasant taste, and admirably adapted for edible ard culinary pur-, poses, f?r which it is now extensively employed, both with and without its nature hoing acknowledged." As regards tho manufacture and refining of cotton seed oil, it may bo remarked that tho methods employed are not materially different from the procos made uso of in tho prepara tion of olive oil. That co/. on seed Oil lias for many years boon exported to Italy and France, in which coun tries it is largely employed for mix ing tho olive oil, is a well known faot. . Speaking of cotton seod oil, Dun ham J. Crain, Unitod States Consul at Milan, roported ns follows, under dato of Novombcr 10, 1888 : "Tho seed oil industry is assuming consid erable proportions. Soveralkinds cf this oil were exhibited at tho Milan exhibition in 1881, and classed among nlttytng'tnvur o\\s. TheYc v/crc some beautiful spooimens of sofismo oil exhibited. * * * Thc importa tion Of Cotton seed oil was fn*ro??t?d |n! 1882, sjneo which t!iC demand for oleaginous seeds h -4 ' increased. It is therefore urged tln.t a duty should bo imposed on all impo. ts of seeds and seed Oils if it is to ho continued on cotton seed oil. It is claimed that tho duty on cotton seed oil lins served no good purpose; that tho M? P??kens in 184g, Iii ?H i860, Destroyed by f^?re June Re-Kstab]l$hed August mixing of cotton oil willi olivo oil was ?>otprejudicial to health, and that tho mixturo is now inaajv with oils, from, lliix ami nuts, ami that Competition coming from cot ton oil hm? boon replaced by ? oils'' Of other seeds, and by nut oil*. * * * It is felt that, frauds dimih|?h, and tho public good bo promoted when projiuliees^Qgaiufit good soool oils disap^poar, and jjioy . aro sold under their truo names*' (U. S. Consular Reports, XII, 687.) I am ?loroly of tim opinan tb*t cotton seed oil, whether used alone or commingled with other oils, or fata is a porfeotly wholesome and nutri tious food, and as easily digested and assimilated.as any of the com monly .omployod fats/ In support of this viow,tho opinion of mnnbexlosa writ ??vs upon tho ?ubjoot, and 6f oxpoi ts; in ohomsstry and jdiyslology, , might bo adduoed, but I shall con tent myself with citing two or threo. lJattorshall, ? in his treatise on <4Food Adulteration, remarks : "As a result of tho publicity lately given to thc subject of food adul teration; a popular impression lias boon produced that any substance employed as an adulterant of, or a substituto for, nh?ther is to bo avoided per se. Perhaps tho com mon bbliof that for all purposes cot ton need oil is inferior to olivo oil, and oleomargarine to futter, is th? rtiost striking illustrations of thia tOndonoy. Now, as a .matte; of facV, puro cotton seed oil, as at pr?sent found on tho market, is loss hablo to ber onto rancid than tho prodnot of thc olive, and for many culinary uses it is at least quito as sorvicablo. * * * The siilo of these products under their true namo should ?tot only bo allowed, but under some cir cumstances oven onoournged." Professor Wiley statod before tho U. S; HOUBO Committee on Agricul ture, nt tho hoarlng on the compound lard bill in !?8S, iii ropiy to tho question whothorfr?m his knowledge of chemistry-, abd of medicino there is any property-, in cotton seed oil injurious to health, that th oro waa not so far as ho knew. In roply to the question, "Docs that statement also apply to bcof st?arine used in connection'with cotton seed oil in tho manufacture of refined lard?" bo ropliod, "Yes, sir; so far as I know there is nothing in it injurious to hoalth." Concerning jtjjdlgoatibilitv ?nd~th? caso wt?TvmMiit is assimi lated, ho instanced a onao in which n ni nt had boen glvon as a laxative and had undergone perfect digestion,"' shOwing. in his opinion, "that it was very easily neted upon by the ??toV-V tinal juicos," and '?vory easily assimi lated)' and ho added *hat "it seems to aot1 on tho digestivo organs like >livo oil nreoisoly. In response to the question, "Aro tho nutrifcl/o qualities of cotton soed oil conallo tko nutritive qualities of puro lard ?" ito ropliod, "I should say that there would bo little difforoneo as far as nutritivo properties aro concerned." Professor Wiloy analysed a largo itumber of samples of so-called refined lards compounded chiefly of [/Cef st?arine, cottonseed oii, and dog fat, and in responso to tho ques tion. "HaVo you any boliof that any if theso artlolos or spooimons * * * ivhcn used as foods aro healthful or iinhcaltbful to the human syatom?" replied, "I have no reason to believe iny of them are, any of tho ingrodfc ?nts in tho lards." And again, "As Far ns medical and chemical knowl edge extends those substances aro tot injurious to hoalth." In reply to ibo question, "What would yon my of cotton seed oil when used ?lone aa an article of food ?" Ito insworcd, "I should say that it was perfcotly wholesome," and-ho gavo ( it as his boliof that it was fis wno.lo lomo as olive oil or ihog lard or boef fat. Prof. S. Ps Sharpless, State assayer tor Massachusotts, and a chemist tvho has given much timo to tho study of Tood adulteration, stated luring tho course of tho sarao inves tigation that ho know of Up property injurious to hoalth ip cotton aced oil ir tho reflnod lards which ho had jxamiucd. Prof. Tl. Ogden Dolo rous, of Now York City, states thr.t refined lard mudo from stoam lard, tioof st?arine* and cotton seed oil is ;<puro and wholesome," and that, in bits opinion, "cotton tjcod oil is a wholesome article of diet;" and Prof, L. M. Norton, of thc Manya ahusott;. Instituto of Technology, states that tho compound lard mao)?, by a woii known firm "is a porfeotly ?ood food material" and "is unobjoo ttonablo in every rospeot, and does' not oontnin anything which cnn bo injurious to health." These aro tho opinions whioh scorn to bo almost universally held by thoso who have investigated this sub ject from a soiontific standpoint. So for as I. know there is no evidence worthy of tho namo'which remotely tonds to show that cotton seed oil fs not a wholosoino nnd nutritious food. Tt han, as a matter of foot, boon used for years both surreptitiously mixed with other oils and fats or openly ?mploycd on its morita asa palata blo and useful food. Throughout tho cottcu growing States, hv hits boon for n. long ' tit?o ..very, ?iyrgb?v* used and thc medical faculty of thc Arkansas Urvvorsity tftato tbatit is preferred1 to tether fats in many respects, "agreeing with tho moat d?licat? stomachs, whether utiod in baking or frying," and that "not one Instance bas over boen given of health being in any manner impaired by tho uso, however free, of cotton seed oil as food." fc'ONOrAWKW NKXV \Vt;KK.J