PURE FOOD LAW.
A State Measure That Has Just
6one Into Effect
PASSED LAST WINTER.
This Law Makes It Illegal For Any
One to Sell in South Carolina Any
Adulterated Food or Drug or Sell
the Same Under a False Ijaltel and
Prescribes Heavy penalties for Violating
It.
The pure food law passed at the
last session of the Legislature went
nto effect last Tuesday. The law
feu a g marln f a onnnlAmanf 4-1*^
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rnd drug law passed by Congress,
nd is quite sweeping in its provisions.
The full text of the law is published
below:
Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of the State of South Carolina:
Section 1. That it shall be unlawful
for any person to manufacture
or sell, or offer for sale, any article
of food or drugs which is adulterated
or misbranded within the meaning
of this Act, and any person who
shall violate any of the provisions of
this section shall be deemed guilty
of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction
thereof shall be punished by fine
not exceeding fifty dollars or by imSrisonment
not exceeding fifteen
ays for the first ofTencc, and one
hundred dollars or thirty days' imprisonment
for each subsequent offence.
Section 2. That the terms "drug,"
as used in this Act, shall include all
medicines and preparations recognized
in the United States Pharmacopoeia
or National Formulary or U.S.
Dispensatory for internal or external
use, and any substance or mixture
of substances intended to lie used for
the cure, mitigation or prevention of
disease of either man or other animals.
The term "food," as used
herein, shall include all articles used
for food, drink, confectionary, or
condiment by man or other animals,
whether simple, mixed or compound.
Section 3. That for the purpose of
this Act an article shall be deemed to
be adulterated: In cace of drugs and
flavoring extracts: First. If. when
. a drng or flavoring extract is sold
under or by a name recognized in
the United States Pharmacopoeia or
National Formulary or U. S. Dispensatory,
it differs from or does not
conform to the standard of strength,
quality or purity, as determined by
the test laid down in the United
States Pharmacopoeia, National Formulary,
or U. S. Dispensatory, offl
cial at the time of investigation.
In the case of confectionery:
If it contains terra alba, barytas,
talc, chrome yellow, or other mineral
substance or poisonous color flavor,
or other ingredient deleterious
or deterimental to health, or any
vinous, malt, or spirituous liquor or
compound, or narcotic drug.
In the case of food:
First. If any substance has been
mixed and packed with it so as to reduce
or lower or injurionsly affect
its quality or strength.
Second. If any substance has been
substituted wholly or in part for the
Third. If any valuable constituent
of the article has been wholly or in
part abstracted.
Fourth. If it be mixed, colored,
powdered, coated or stained in a
mander whereby damage or inferiority
is concealed.
Fifth. If it contain any added poisonous
or other added deleterious ingredient
which may render such article
injurious to health: Provided,
that when in the preparation of food
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Iprooucis ior shipment they are preserved
by any external application,
applied in sucn manner that the preservative
is necessarily removed machanically,
or by maceration in water,
or otherwise, and directions for the
removal of said preservative shall be
printed on the covering or the package,
the provisions of this Act shall
be constrtied as applying only when
said products are ready for consumption.
Sixth. If it consists in whole or in
part of a filthy, decomposed or putrid
animal or vegetable substance or
any portion of an animal unfit for
food, whether manufactured or not,
or if it is the product of a diseased
animal, or one that has died otherwise
than by slaughter.
Section 4. That the term "misbranded,"
as used herein, shall apply
to all drugs or articles of food,
or articles which enter into the composition
of food, the package or label
of which shall bear any statement,
y design or device regarding such ar"4
tide, or the ingredients or substances
contained therein which shall be
false or misleading in any particular,
and to any food or drug product
which is falsely branded as to the
^ Qfoln fftryia* I- L! L
it 18 manufactured or produced. That
for the purposes of this Act an article
shall be also deemed to be misjK&i
In caae ?* drugs:
First. If it be an imitation of or
offered for sale under the name of
Second. If the contents of the
package as originally put up shall
have been removed, in whole or in
part, and other contents shall have
neen placed in such package, or if
the package fail to bear a statement
on the label of the quantity or proportion
of any alcohol, morphine,
opium, cocaine, heroin, alpha or beta
encaine. chloroform, cannabis indica,
chloral hydrate, or acetanilide, or
any derivative or preparation of any
uch substances contained therein:
Provided, that the package contains
more than two grains of opium, or
more than one-quarter grains of
'?j zajrphioe, ot more than ten grains
LEAPED FROM TKIAN.. /
A Prisoner Hurls Himself OvLw a
Cur Window.
The Augusta. Ga., Chromcle says
passengers coming in od lie Georgia
Railroad train on Thursday told of a
grim tragedy which ,Occurred half
way between Dearln^ and Sawdust,
and for which the railroad authorities
nor the officer in charge were in
any way to blame.
A negro prisoner was being carried
to Augusta by Sheriff Perry of
Columbia county. The man was handcuffed.
and sat on the inside cf a
seat, by the side of the officer. While
the vestibule passenger train was
bounding along at forty miles an
hour, and with no word of warning
whatever, the negro leaped from the
window of the coach, and was hurled
to the ground eight feet below.
The nearby passengers were horror-stricken.
Many on the same row
with the negro and his prisoner looked
far out the window to catch a
glimpse of the rash prisoner, and a
few saw his body strike the ground
with terrible force, bounce once or
twice like a hall and then the negro
is said to have fallen limp on his
side, as if his neck had been broken
by the fall.
of chloral hydrate in one fluid ounce,
or, if a solid preparation, in one avoirdupois
ounce: Provided, further,
that nothing in this paragraph shall
be construed to apply to the filling of
written prescriptions, furnished by
regular licensed practicing physicians,
and kept on file by druggists
as required by law, or as to such preparations
as are specified and recognized
by the United States Pharmacopoeia,
National Formulary or U.
S. Dispensatory, which are in accordance
therewith.
In the case of food:
First. If it be an imitation of or
offered for sale under the distinctive
name of another article.
Second. If it be labelled or branded
so as to deceive or mislead the
purchaser, or purport to be a foreign
product when not so, or if the contents
of the package as originally put
up shall have been removed, in whole
or in part, and other contents shall
have been placed in such package, or
if it fail to bear a statement on the
label of the quality or proportion of
any morphine, opium, cocaine, heroin.
alpha or beta ecaine, chloroform,
cannabis indica, chloral hydrate, ace*
~ ~: i: ~ ? j?
Ktiiiuue, or any derivative or preparation
of any stlth substances contained
therein.
Third. If in package form, and
the contents are stated in terms of
weight or measure, they are not
plainly and correctly stated on the
outside of the package.
Fourth. If the package containing
it or its label shall bear my statement,
design or device regarding the
ingredients or the substances contained
therein, which statement, dedesign
or device shall be false or
misleading in any particular: Provided,
that an article of food which does
not contain any added poisonous or
deleterious ingredients shall not be
deemed to be adulterated or misbranded
in the following cases:
First. In the case of mixtures or
compounds, which may be now or
from time to time hereafter known
as articles of food, under their own
distinctive names, and not an imitation
of or offered for sale under the
distinctive name of another article,
if the name be accompanied on the
same label or brand with a statement
of the place where said article has
been manufactured or produced.
Second. In the case of articles labelled.
branded or tagged so as to
plainly indicate that they are compounds,
imitations or blends, and the
word "compound,/' "imitation" or
"blend," as the case may oe, is
plainly stated on the package in
which it is offered for sale: Provided,
that the term blend, as used herein,
shall be construed to mean a mixture
of like substances not excluding
harmless coloring or flavoring ingredients
used for the purpose of coloring
and flavoring only: And provided,
further, that nothincr in this Art
shall be construed as requiring or
compelling proprietors or manufacturers
of proprietary foods which contain
no unwholesome added ingredient
to disclose their trade formulas,
except in so far as the provisions of
this Act may require to secure freedom
from adulteration or misbrandH^ection
5. That no dealer shall be
prosecuted under the provisions of
this Act when he can establish a
guaranty, signed by the wholesaler,
jobber, manufacturer or other party
residing in the United States, from
whom he purchases such articles, to
the effect that the same is not adulterated
or misbranded or within the
meaning of this Act, designating it.
Section 6. For the purpose of carrying
out the provisions of this Act
the State board of health, with one
licensed druggist, appointed by the
Governor, upon the recommendation
of the South Carolina Pharmaceutical
Association, shall take cognizance
of the interests of the public
health, as it relates to the sale of
food, drugs, spirituous, fermented
and malt liquors, and the adulteration
thereof, and make all necessary
inquiries and investigations relating
thereto, and for such purposes may
appoint inspectors analysts and chemists,
who shall be subject to its supervision
and removal. Within sixty
days after this Act goes into effect
the said State board of health shall
adopt such measures as it may deem
necessary to facilitate the enforcement
thereof. It shall prepare rules
and regulations with regard to the
proper method of collecting and examining
drugs, articles of food.
Section 7. The sum of one thousand
dollars is hereby appropriated
for the purpose of defraying the expenses,
if any, of analysis or examination
of any article of food or drug
as provided for in this Act; said
sums to be expended undet the supervision
and direction of the State
board of health.
Section 8. This Act shall go into
' effect six months aft^r its approval
by the Governor. *
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Graw Sends* Strange Latter.
I To the Rural Carriers' Association on 8
I the Carriers' Relation to the DeI
partment and to His Patrons.
I The subjoined letter from Mr. P.
V. McGraw, the Fourth Assistant c
I Postmaster General, is addressed to t
I the North Carolina Rural Letter Car- o
Irler's Association which met in Dur- p
ham the 3rd and 4th of July. It is a n
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tiear uuu ninety discussion oi tne carriers
relation to the Department and t
to his patrons, and is otherwise a s
highly interesting paper, having, as ?
it does, a thyee-fold interest?for tho
carrier, for the Department, and the
patron. It Is as follows: I
Washington, D. C.. July 2, 1907. t
Mr. J. McD Ballard, Secretary-Treas- t
urer. North Carolina Rural Letter
Carriers' Ass'n., Newton, N. C.
81r. Referring to your letter of t
May 13th, inviting a representative I
of the Department to attend the An- <
nual Convention of the North Caro- 1
Una Rural Letter Carriers' Associa- 1
tion, to be held at Durham, N. C-, s
on July 3rd and 4th. 1907, I regret '
very much that it has not been prac- *
ticable to have a representative of ?
the Department present at your meet- i
Ing, but I desire to take advantage e
of this occasion to express to the
carriers of North Carolina tho appre- 1
elation of the Department of the co- i
operation of the carriers in improv- I
Ing the service and increasing Its et- 1
fectlveness, and also my deep interest ?
In the welfore of the rural carriers. i
Organizations within the Postal l
servico to receive the sanction of the <
Department In any degree must have I
for their sole object Improvement in '<
the service or bo of a purely fra- 1
tornal or beneficial character. With <
any other purpose in view they are I
detrimental to the service, to their i
members and to the public.
It is the duties of the officers of the s
Department to Insist upon loyal and i
efficient service from every employee. '
as an individual and without any I
thought of his affiliation with any or- I
ganization. All questions as to the I
needs of the service or the compen- i
satlon of its employees are matters i
for the consideration of the Depart- i
ment; and the officials of the De- i
partment, aud not the officials of any I
organization are the proper persons i
to present the needs of the service to
Congress. i
The compensation of carriers after
July 1, 1907, will be adjusted in accordance
with the schedule herewith <
enclosed upon the basis of the length
of the routes, as phown by the rec
%ji ub ui iuc L/cpai iiuuiii. i. in mi- ?
possible to devise an absolutely i
equitable basis for the adustment of i
the compensation of rural carriers,
because of the varying: conditions
throughout the United States. These
conditions vary even in the same i
State, and it is therefore not possible
to fix different standards in various
sections. Under the reaujustment
effective Ju.y 1st, approximately
23,000 carriers whose routes are
2 4 miles or more mile in length, and
who have been reviving $720 per
annum, are now being paid $900 per
annum and a proportionate increase
in compensation has been provided
for carriers on routes of .ess length.
The chief beneficiaries of the new
law are those carriers who are serving
the longer routes and upon whom
the greater hardships of ...e service
fall, and a proportionate increase in
compensation has been provided for
such carriers. No increase is a.iowed
to carriers on the shert routes,
such as those running from 12 to i*
and 14 to 16 miles in .mgth, as they
now receive $504 and $.,a year
respectively, being proportionately
better paid than carriers on routes
of 20 or more miles. ?
The pay of substitute carriers will
also be increased in many cases. The
law formerly provided that substitutes
employed when the regular carriers
were on vacations should be
paid at the rate of $600 per annum,
regardless of the rate of pay of the
regular carrier. Under the new law
substitute carriers are entitled to receive
compensation at the same rate
allowed the regular carriers. <
With this increase in salary adequate
comnensation is nrovidf?H f??r
all carriers and this Biiould be an
Incentive to every carrier to strive to
bring the rural delivery service to
the highest standard of efficiency.
A recent order of the Postmaster
General which appears on page of
the May supplement to the Official
Postal Guide, makes it possible for
rural carriers tohave the checks in
payment of their salaries cashed at
any postoffice within the State in
which he works, provided the postmaster
at. the office where presented
has on hand sufficient funds for the
purpose, which doubtless will prove
to be a great convenience to the carriers
throughout the country.
There are now in the service about
37,613 carriers there being 1,170 in
4he State of North Carolina. During
th6 fiscal year ending June 30, 1908.
the rural delivery service win cost
upwi_rd of $35,000,000, of which approximately
$961,542 will be paid to
carriers in North Carolina.
The expenditure for rural delivery
has materially increased the cost of
maintaining the postal services, but
there is no douhf that this expenditure
is fully justified by the results
obtained. It is necessary, however,
that, the service be carefully and t
efficiently administered to the end (
that Its advantages will be sought
and used by the entire rural imputation
for whose benefit it is establish- *
ed. While the postmasters at the (
offices which are designated as dis- '
tributing offices for rural delivery ?
service are charged with the super- t
vision of the rural delivery the same t
as all other branches of the service I
still an important aid in obtaining t
a large patronagt is a live interest '
on the part of the carriers in the ?
faithful and satisfactory performance 1
of their official duties. The inspec- t
tlons which have been made of large f
numbers of routes during the past c
year indicate that in some instances *
the lack of patronage and Interest *
in the services on the part of the <5
patrons are duo to the indifferent and a
perfunctory manner in wnich the car- g
rier looks aftor the business of his ?
route. I
The work of rural carriers consists s
chiefly in the prompt and accurate c
delivery and dispatch of mall, the a
registration of letters and the sale of h
stamps and money orders. In per- ti
formliig this work cajy^MMre re- I
ed to do niaoMgflralg&SHLs and a
kcawar manvJH In
tnori)selves If
pains
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CAUSES TROUBLE.
he Farmers Need and Must Have I
Some Relief.
ome Effective Law Must Be Passed 1
by the Legislature to Enforce Lubor
Contracts.
The labor question Is being disussed
from one end of the State to e
he other, and the recent occurrences i
ver In the Fork near Norway are
Iguring extensively in the discussion, r
'he following letter from Columbia c
o the Augusta Chronicle will give 1
ome idea of how the question is re- t
;arded in all parts of the State: t
Federal Judge Brawley's decision c
mocking out the South Carolina la- *
>or contract law continues to cause t
rouble in the rural districts with
hat large class of negroes with whom 1
he big stick of a jail sentence has to !
>e used to inspire proper regard for
:ontractual obligations. And though .
t is confidently hoped that the fa"ners
will pull through the present
season without violence between the ]
aces, and that legislature will next
spring enact some effective relief
neasure, there is constant danger in j
various parts of the state of very
serious clashes over conditions that '
.he decision has brought about. The 1
tilling of Constable Valentine in Orlngeburg
county a few weeks ago,
followed by the narrow escape from '
ynching the negro had with ail but 1
i rior occurring among several farmers
gathered at the inquest in a
?eneral quarrel about farmers en- 1
:ouraglng negroes to Jump their contracts
since the decision; and half
i dozen other killings of negroes by ,
white men in widely seperated sec- '
Lions of the state, are but manifes- 1
Lations of how the danger spots are
showing up.
The effect of the decision has
jpread with amazing rapidity even '
nmong the most ignorant negroes. 1
The scramble of unprincipled farmers 1
for help has perhaps played a more
Important part in getting the negroes j
Informed than the publication in the
newspapers. The result is that the !
mean negroc has become infinitely
more insolent, and since he has got- 1
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.? ii ?v mvv iim ucnu iiiui uiu;iu otiiii
lias espoused his cause his proneness
to violence has become more marked. 1
There is no danger for the present
of calling into service the dreaded
Ku-Klux-Klan, hut farmers are freely
talking of taking matters into their
r>wn hands by means of community
bands, to stop negroes whom they
have kept from want for food ami
clothing through the winter from insolently
refusing to carry out their
contracts to work out their debts and
and spending the time getting drunk
and raising rows. Of course there
has been abuse of the law on the part
of some farmers, who have cheated
the negro and kept him in long servitude
after he had fairly discharged
his debt; but these are rare instances.
The great mass of South Carolina
farmers have no disposition to oppress
the negro, but they are insistent,
some of them to the extent of
taking the law in their own hands,
that he shall have the same respect
for his written contract as others are
required to have. When the Oraugeburg
farmers chose a spokesman to
tell the crowd in very emphatic language
that they did not propose to
stand for the acts of certain white
men in encouraging negroes to jump
their contracts or tolerate such conduct
on the part of the blacks, law or
no law, they gave expression to a
feeling prevailing in many counties
in the State. Your correspondent
gathered his impressions not only
from visitors to Columbia, but from
personal interviews with farmers in
half a dozen counties recently.
"We've got to have relief, and
promptly, or we are coming before
the next legislature in mass and demand
it." said Penitentiary Director
.!. O. Wingo, an extensive farmer and
former member of the house from
Oreenville county "There is going
to be serious trouble if we don't get
It."
<Iust what sort of law should be
enacted that will stand the test has
not bo far been definitely outlined.
The que8tion will be treated at i
length in Governor Ansel's message
next spring, though just what he will
recommend, he himself does not seem .
to have determined as yet. One ?ng- j
E?estion is that a thorough and effec- i
tive rural police system be estah- |
lished for the purpose not only of i
ridding the rural districts of the ne- (
?ro criminal but of driving the idle .
o the chain gangs as well. Some far- (
uers advocate hiring these convicts
o furmers and others, as was formerly
done with penitentiary convicts;
tut these sort of contracts were much \
ibused, and It Is not likely that the
egislature will ever again go back to '
his system.
One very hopeful sign in the pre- !
tent situation is the healthy growth
?f public sentiment against abuse of
he negro. Thesuperstitlon that it '
s dangerous to punish a white man
'or brutal disregard of a negro's
ights is rapidly passing.
John Armstrong Chandler, once
he husband of Amelia Rives, is a lulatic
in New York and a sane man
n Virginia, according to the courts ;
)f the two states, and he has impor- :
^nt business interests in both,
3ould any Oiing be more ridiculous. j
vith the rules are fill !y met, they are "
loing much towards insuring satis- .
actory service. Rural carriers are
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>unui uiiiniw iu rusiniMititrB ill (lis- (
rlhuting offices and should at all (
linos be amenable to directions and ,
>roper discipline. Instructions for (
he guidance of postmasters and car lers
in the conduct of the service '
ire now in print, and will be disributed
as early as possible. It Is
loped that a copy of the Instructions
nay be placed in the hands of all
:arriers, but in any event they will
>c required to familiarize themselves ,
vith the instructions, which will no .
loubt result in the carriers being
ible to discharge their duties with <
[reater satisfaction to themselves as 1
veil as to the department. Of the 1
arge number of carriers now in the
ervice comparatively few are effiient,
but the importance of careful 1
ind efficient service is imperative, j
ecause it is desirable that the whole 1
fody of carriers measure up to the s
tigh standard we are striving to \
ttaln.
With best wishes, I am.
Very respectfully, t
P. V.. DeORAW,
jourth Assistant Postmaster General. %
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MANY VICTIMS T
ire Claimad by Lightning Each |
Year in United States.
'ho Greatest Number of Casualties .
are in New England and the Middle
States.
An average of 800 people are kllld
in tho Uaited States each year hv
Ightnlng according to data collected
by the weather bureau. This
neans that about one in each 100,000
f population is killed in that manler.
The belt of most numerous visltaions
includes all of Florida except
he southernmost tip, the lower edge
>f Georgia and the southeast corner
>f Alabama. In that belt an average
>f forty-five thunderstorms a year is
ncperienced.
The zone of next greatest frejuency
includes the more northern
>arts of Georgia and /uabama, and
its annual average Is forty storms.
Thirty-five a year are experienced
In a somewhat irregular belt north of
Lhis, and including still northern
;>arts of the States named, as well as
Lho whole of Mississippi and Louisiana,
nearly all of Tennessee, the adjacent
corners of Illinois and KenLucky,
the southern part of Arkansas
and the eastern central part of Tex18.
Another belt of equal Intensity extends
throughout Central Illinois and
adjacent sections of ludiana, Iowa
and Missouri.
The region from the Virginia Capes
to Connecticut escapes with an average
of twenty-five storms, while
Boston is visited by only 20. The
frequency diminishes until the Rockies
are reached, and on the Pacific
Slope there are practically no such
storms.
The region of greatest danger from
lightning stroke does not coincide
with the zone of greatest thunderstorm
frequency, but includes Southern
Vermont, the whole of Massachusetts,
Rhode Island. Connecticut, New
York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware,
West Virginia, Ohio, Kentucky,,
Indiana, Eastern Illinois, Virginia
and the greater part of Maryland.
In this zone more than five
deaths to each 10,000 square miles
a year ago caused by lightning. Three
to five deaths In 10.000 is the rule In
a region Including Chicago. St. caul,
Des Moines, St. Ixiuis, Memphis, Atlanta
and Norfolk.
Between one and three fatalities
per 10,000 is the rule in a ihird zone,
including Eastport, Montreal, Duluth,
Bismarck, Huron, North Platte. Gal
veston, Now Orleans and Jacksonville.
In the country westward less
than one death to 10,000 occurrs.
Four times more persons of outdoor
pursuits than of indoor occupations
are struck. Men like animals,
are more apt to he struck when collected
in groups than when alone.
Out of every three persons struck one
survives, and probably more than
half would recover if means were
employed to Induce artificial respiration.
as in cases of drowning. More
than half the persons killed by lightning
are struck while standing under
trees.
SOMK TH1XC1 TO DO.
Destroy Hushes and Driers, and Shelter
Your Furut Implements.
Weeds around the yard and lot cau
be cut and got out of the way. This
will help the appearance of things
and keep the placo from looking so
snaky and besides will destrow thousands
of weed seeds.
Rushes and briars should be shrubbed
in the pnstures to let ine grass
grow. Many pastures are almost
worthless for stock on account of the
growth of other things than gruss.
Remember that grass does not grow
where briars, bushes and trees are
allowed to take charge of ...o pasture.
It is an acknowledged fact that
every farmer should raise all the lot
and stable manure possible and now
is the time to haul a large lot of
leaves and straw, if it is not desirable
to straw the lot all over It can be
hauled and placed in front of the
ntohln A*ww***. .? .w! i ..
All tools and farm implements and
machinery should he placed carefully
away under a shelter. The 01. can
and paint brush can he used on some
of it to a good advantage. Do not
leave any farm implements in the
held or out in the weather. It is
poor policy, after furnishing the farm
with such things, to let them he ruinad
by carelessness.
Now that farmers are nearly
through working their crops there
are some things needing attention
which have heretofore been put off.
Ml terraces should he ploughed to
strengthen them and to destroy the
weeds and grass on them. AfT breaks
In them should he repaired and the
lo'v or weak places should be built
up.
Si Ll'llt'lt BAT1I8 AT HOME.
I'liey Ileal the Skin and Take Away
Its Impurities.
Sulphur baths heal Skin Diseases.
Mid give the body a wholesome glow
Now you don't have to go off to a
tiigh-priced resort to get them. Put
i few spoonfuls of Hancock's Liquid
Sulphur in the hot water, and you
;et a perfect Sulphur bath right in
pour own home.
Apply Hancock's Liquid Sulphur
Lo the affected parts, and Eczema and
ithor stubborn skin troubles are
luickly cured. Dr. It. II. Thomas,
af Valdosta, Ga., was cured of a painfn
1 skin trouble, and he praises it in
the hichost terms Your rlriifriiit
jells it.
Hancock's Liquid Sulphur Ointment
Is the best cure for Sores, Piracies,
Blackheads and all Inhumation
Gives a soft, velvety skin.
"When Roosevelt gets through
vith it" says the Florida TimesUnion,
"our constitution will be fit
for the remnant counter." It was
cretty well used up when Roosevelt
took charge of it.
Having gobbled Korea Japan has
ceen too honest to talk about "manifest
destiny" or "thrown into our
aps by providence." That sort of
jtuff is left for civilized Christian nations
to indulge in.
He who relies on another's table h
ipt to dine late.?Italian.
The time is never lost that is deotad
to work.?Emerson
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REMEDY FOUND. I
Eastern Plant That Has Wonder- c
ful Healing Power.
CURES CONSUMPTION. '
Agricultural Department to Ik'Kin
System of Experiments With Fenurrwk,
an EuHtcrn Plant, Which In
Said to be a Cure and Preventative
of All Foriii? of Tuberculosis.
A special to The News and Courier
from WnKblnir?nn ? 4 "
?o W u oa/o OWIOltl 1/ I
Wilson, of the department of agri- >
culture, will soon begin experiment- i
ing in the arid lands of Texas on the |
famous food called fenugreek, which
scientists the world over are hailing .
as possibly an agency of nature which
will combat the ravages of consump- '
tion. <
The virture ascribed to fenugreek '
is its ability to build up the very tissues
that the germs of consumption (
tear down. Experiments with won- *
derfully satisfactory results in the 1
growth of this plant have lieen made '
in California. Nebraska and New
Mexico, and the announcement will I
soon bo made of its introduction into
the arid west section of Texas under
irrigation by the department of ag- '
rlculture. 1
But a short time ago fenugreek
was utmost unknown in America ex- <
cept as a constituent of condition
powders for grain and vegetable con- i
suming animals. For perhaps hun- 1
dreds of years, however, it has been
known in the East, where it has a
widespread use as a food and medicine
for both man and beast. Its
main use in that section of the globe
was what suggested its introduction
in this country as a cure for consumption.
Since time immemorial the Jewish
maiden of Tunis has been one who
desires much fat and such a dainty
weight as 2 50 or 300 pounds is a
thing to be desired. With her fat
is welcomed and she never complains
if she tips the scale at 3 50 or 400.
The time-honored traditions of their
lot have handed down the use of fenugreek
as a fat forming substance,
and even to-day it is still used.
Physicians recognizing the fact
that if they can, in treating a consumptive
case, keep flesh on their
patient the chances for recovery were
greater, came to the conclusion that
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them. Accordingly it was introduced
and many rei?ort that they have
used it with very satisfactory results.
The fenugreek plant itself is not
unlike common clover, and, indeed
is easily mistaken for that plant unless
the two are closely compared.
The seed of the plant is the part used
in the consumption cure, there being
several ways by which it can be piepared.
Perhaps the easiest way is to
put a tablespoonful in a tumbler of
water and let it stand over night,
drinking the water in the morning.
Another method is to mix a coffee
spoouful of the seed in strained honey
to kill the bitter taste, and then
eat the mixture. The women of Tunis,
in their quest for fat, eat the seel
in the form of a confection and mixed
with olive oil and in many otliei
ways.
Prominent among the few physicians
who have tried the plant in che
treatment of consumption is l)r. A. S.
Mansfelde, treasurer of the Nebraska
State Medical Association, wh >
has probably carried the experiment
further than any other American
I practitioner. He was the first to report
to the department of agriculture
the use of the plant as a cure in
this country.
Although Dr. Mansfelde has reported
concerning one case it was of
a nature to show the great possibilities
of the plant. The patient .in
question was a young Irishman, who !
was in the last stages of the disease,
and although in the end he eventually
died, his lungs being so far gone
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bunt ? in ,1 i.uuiu mn rtiimtuil HII> IHM11ly
vigor, he is reported to have taken
on tlesli and continued to do so for
several weeks until the end came.
David Fnirchild, agricultural explorer,
in charge of the seed and
plant distribution of the bureau of
plant industry, is responsible for
bringing fenugreek to the notice of
the American people. While travel- ,
ing in the East he was struck with
the prevalence of fat women and on \
enquiring into the cause got on the
track of the plant. He did not think
a great deal of the plant until later
when he lear .ed that it was one of '
the principal ingredients of condition
powders for stock. Putting the two
together lie thought that results well
worth the trouble could ho received
from the plant and accordingly Introduced
it into the United States. ,
It is claimed by some that the j
plant can he traced hack as far a^ t
the time of Nehuchadnezzer II, when '
it was in common use as a relish foi ,
meats and as a medicine. Many leg
ends have been founded 011 the plant's !
great medicinal value. It is evei
stated that Mohamet himself onc<
said that if the people knew the val
ue of fenugreek they would obtain it
even at the price of gold. Anothei
legend claims that if a bag of tin
seed was tied to a camel's back i
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WALKING TIGERS
Jaujht in Charleston by a Very
Peculiar Accident
k Woman Fell And the Crash of
Glass and (he Flowing of (loose
Was Coincidental.
Charleston is after the bltndttgorR
ind many of them are run In. The
*ost says the rural police think that
n the arrest of Sylvia Washington.
Fulla Davis and Amelia Rryan.
aught last. Thursday near the phos>hate
mines they have practically
iroken ii?? -? -* "
uuoiu?bs oi mo reauale
blind timers. These fcamale
igers have a queer place to carry the
lquor they sell. They line their
skirts with half pint bottles of cheap
>ooze and sell it by the drink or by
in bulk.
The woman were committed to jail
Thursday by Magistrate Hehrens. In
iefault of bond of $300, on a charge
>f violating the dispensary laws of
the county.
The system of Ik>ozc selling was
discovered in a peculiar way. One
;>f the women the other day had a
particularly large supply of whiskey
concealed under her skirts, in the
lining. It was contained in halfpint
bottles.
She was getting along swimmingly,
and was doing a good business
without much apparent fear of discovery
as to the methods of carrying
the contraband, but unfortunately,
she was not so sure footed as some
mules are said to be, and tripped up
among the rocks in the region of the
Charleston Neck.
When the feamale tiger fell, there
was a crash and a breaking of glass,
while her skirts took on a sickly
drenched appearance. The cat was
nut of the bag. so to speak, for it was
demonstrated that a living barroom
had been wrecked, as 'twere, and the
police were made wise to a brand newwrinkle
in the business.
They kept their eyes peeled and as
a result three arrests were made of
feamale tigers. Sylvia Washington
and Julia Davis were captured near
the rock fields of the Charleston Mining
Company, and Amelia Mryan was
placed under arrest at Fettercsso.
The feamale tiger is really something
brand new. and the skirt trick
is another new thing in tiger circles.
For some time this liquor peddling
business seems to have been in progress.
It is though that from now on
it will cease to And favor among the
damsels who were formerly engaged
in the business.
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Fenugreek Is planted in the fall
the same as winter wheat and rentes
up early in the spring. It attains a
height of about that of the ordinary
clover and. as stated before when full
grown looks about the same. The
odor of the plant is familiar to any
one who has ever handled condition
powders, such as are given to stock
At present there is but acorn paratively
small quantity of the seed in
the United States. The department
of agriculture, however, is able to
distribute quantities of some size on
applications made to the bureau of
seed and plant industry.
Speaking of the medicinal value
of the plant Dr. Mansfelde sa>s:
"There can be no doubt that beyond
the carbohyhrates and the bitter con
tents increasing the appetite, sonic
ting else must lie contained in Unseeds
that causes the assimulation of
fat and the deposition in the tissues
Possibly that something aids both
in the digestion and the assimulation
of fat and the conversion into fat of
the carbohydrates one of all these
processes." A Government has undertaken
to make as analysis of the
fenugreek seed with this point in
view. Much will depend on the results
which he obtains by the examination.
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