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f SEEING THE FAIR IN DETAIL Lessons In Food Poisoning From Sev eral States — Evidence In Material Form—Wood Alcohol and Aniline Dye Combined Under the Name of Pure Lemon Extract—Some of the Com mon AJuilerants and How They Are Used — Coming International Food Comic t—World's Fair Food Show. Mac! i'-.c.-;- Used In Food Preparation. Ar. L _ si> Confectionery Factory and a French Bakery In Daily Op eration. [SPECIAL CORRKSPONDENcE BY MARK BENNTTT.] A square yard of flaiAel colored pink with the pois >uou.s auillne dye extracted from u pint bottle of to mato catchup. Jars of candies colored with more poisonous aniline dyes. The beautiful orange phosphate that, looks like the real thing at the soda fountain found to contain benzoic acid, coal tar dye and no orange extract. A fluid labeled “Pure Lemon Ex tract,’’ made of the deadly poison, wood alcohol and aniline dye, contain ing no lemon oil whatever. libitum look down on you from ter races and shelves, tilling the eyes If not the stomach. Everything to eat that comes in carton, can or bottle Claims space and consideration here. A $9,000,000 HOTEL. THE ROSEBUD RESERVATION Be Among the food exhibits are the ma chines that are employed In the manu facture of foods. Among these Is the automatic candy puller. It has thrown out of a job the muscular man who used to stand on the dusty street cor ner and throw great ropes of glisten ing candy at a hook while throngs of dear little boys and girls with water ing mouths watched the mass grow white from much pulling. The ma chine, with clean steel hands, does the work without a hint of perspiration or fatigue. In the north end of the Agri culture palace a French bakery Is in full operation, and a throng is always standing about an extensive fancy Cake and confectionery factory in the British section. The foreigners’ ways of doing things are to be observed in many parts of the exposition. To com pare them with the American methods | is one of the delights of the studious visitor who likes to keep pace with the world. Product of Science and Art Em bodied In Astor Hostelry. ITS ARCHITECTURAL NOVELTIES. The art of “whooping It up” has its expert votaries in generous number here at the world’s fair. Japan blows | the bugle of commercial enterprise; with wind a-plenty, regardless of her j Down a long list we might go, tell- mostly war. Brazil makes a coffee show Ing the secrets of those who are put ting dollars into their pockets by putting poison into our foods. In a pavilion big enough and glorious enough to be the statehouse of a proud and prosperous commonwealth. The i If you want to have your faith in ! great German bans, a castle in name, mankind rudely shaken take the time to look about in the exhibit of the National Association of State Food Oommissiouers in the south end of the Palace of Agriculture. Kentucky shows a case of flannel rwatches colored with dyes taken from commercial foods which have been used as evidence in Kentucky courts against food poisoners and adulterators. Here are some of the original packages with the names of the manufacturers still on them, along with the certificate of conviction by state food commissioners and cbeiu- j ists. Threats of trouble have been made by the makers of convicted arti cles, but no trouble bas come and the condemned goods in their dress of glaring and lying labels still point a moral and emphasize a tale. Here are great photographs of micro scopic enlargements which leave on the mind the impression that commer cial lard is chiefly tallow and butter is principally oleomargarine. One must often wouder whither the good and the pure have gone. Maple sugar is chiefly cane sugar, honey Is glucose, maple sirup is glu- coso a little thinner with a color tone a ■hade deeper, due to burnt sugar. Vinegar is acetic acid colored with burnt sugar. Cayenne pepper Is a lit tle capsicum and a great deal of nut shells ground fine and colored with ani line dyes. All the . lulterators have a line on aniline. Jellies and jams are any old thing, from macerated pump kins to good apple sauce mixed with timothy seed and colored with aniline dyes. It is a sorry thing for honest mak ers of canned foods that such stories must be told, but sorrier still for the dimensions and splendor, is for social and state affairs only, but in all the great exhibit palaces Germany covers a vast space to herald to the world her; triumphs In all the arts of peace. The French pavilion is a great show house | 'jf the heirlooms of state—the richest of tapestries and the most exquisite of art decorations that the eyes of the common world may behold. Italy’s pa-; villon, the choicest ilower in this gar-! lien of architectural beauty, is but an expression of Italian art which in i many exhibit palaces bolds superior i rank. So each country to the number of more than fifty and each state and territory to the number of an even fifty more are here telling the world of the gold that awaits the digging and the riches that wait the coming of cap ital and organization to make them available for use and enjoyment. To win the world’s attention is the pur pose of all. To claim a place and prove the claim to that place in the sister hood of nations Is the determination of every one. And in this manner does the art of “whooping it up’’ have its de velopment. Fair Grounds, St. Louis. ■oath Dakota Land* Soon to Thrown Oprn to Settlement. The unallotted lands of the Bosebttfl Indian agency, situated in Gregory county. S. I)., have been turned over to the government for public allotment, and one more of the few choice tract* of public lands now remaining are to be thus thrown open. I'mler President Roosevelt's procla mation United States registry land of fices are to be opened July 5 at Yank ton, Fairfax and Bonesteel, S. D., for the registration of applicants for thes* lands. The registration books will re main open until July 23, and commenc ing July 28 drawings will take place to determine the order iu which the applicants will be permitted to make final entry and settlement. The final entry begins at Bonesteel, Aug. 8. No one Is permitted to register or make entry to l«nd by mail, but must be personally present at one of the three points named for registration and at Bonesteel for final entry. The Rosebud Indian reservation is probably, acre for acre, the richest piece of public land that the govern ment now controls. In fact it is doubt ful if any reservation ever thrown open by the government represented so high an actual average value for its lands on the day of opening. The lands In question comprise 382,- 000 acres, situated between the Mis souri and Niobrara rivers, in the j southeastern part of South Dakota, in the great eorn belt, where adjacent lands are selling at from $25 to $40 an acre. The gevernment will dispose of the public lands of the reservation at a nominal sum, in easy payments—$1 per acre in cash, 75 cents per acre at the end of two years, 75 cents more at the end of the third and fourth and within six months after the expiration of the fifth year, a total of $4 an acre. The Chicago and Northwestern railway extends to the reservation border at Bonesteel. FATE OF RUFFED GROUSE. Dunger of ExtermlnutinK Them Through Overprotection. Recently an eminent naturalist told me that in his country place, where he permits no shooting, wild creatfires are returning and flourishing In the leafy sanctuary, says Robert W. Chambers hi Harper's Weekly. Among other game birds, the ruffed grouse reappear ed, and, unfortunately, was almost ex terminated through overprotection. It occurred in tins way: The naturalist great American digestive system If we i built a high web wire fence around his are not put on our guard against the preserve; the grouse, flying by night unscrupulous. When state laws pro vide for the confiscation and destruc tion of adulterated foods and a term behind the bars for a convicted offend er the public health and private stom ach will be safer. The tendency of law making is In that direction. Another kind of fraud shown up In this exhibit is the deceitful package. Bottles that boast large contents and fall to keep the contract are here in all sizes, patterns and shapes. The bottle with deep panels and prismatic sides, the flask with a raised bottom, the cruet with a thousand facets, are all here in tie purgatory of the public gaze, like the prisoner in the stocks on the public street, shamefaced and guil ty or defiant and insolent. Right in line with the correction of food evils will be the international food congress which will meet in the Hall of Congresses at the world’s fair, Sept 20 to Oct. 1. This congress, the first of the kind, is the result of efforts on the part of the Association of State Dairy and Food Commissioners and Chemists, who meet at the same time. Fifteen to twenty foreign delegatee are expected. Three factions will com pose this congress—those who favor absolutely pure food, those who main tain that the use of such preservatives ns benzoic add and salycllic acid are necessary and not seriously harmful, and the third class, who demand that any food containing an adulterant, whether harmful or not, should be so labeled, stating what the adulterant 1* and what the proportion. An association of grocers sent a food expert to Japan some months ago to •tudy the preservation of foods tor army use. His report will be one of the interestlhg features of the coming congress. The brighter side to this great food question is the one which Paul Pierce of What to Eat has presented In bis magnificent food show. Mr. Pierce Is superintendent of the food sec tion of Chief F. W. Taylor’s great department of' agriculture. This sec tion is a veritable department of feast ing, for the crowds are fed on deli cious morsels dainty enough to keep all appetites keenly whetted. Health foods and breakfast food* are here for sampling. In the flour booths hand some girls in spick and span gingham and linen ore taking first lessons In breriU making. The aroma of cboiok teas and coffee.* tantalizes you. Tin ned meats and vegetables In pyramids and fancy shai»es threaten to fall oa| you. Condiments In bottles, mlnaral waters in huge flasas and wloeo a4 in their headlong fashion, came into violent collision with the fence. Home he found hung up, heads caught in the wire meshes; others were killed out right. It was a sad ending for the creatures which he had tried so hard to protect. I have seen the same thing in other parts of the country. A month or two ago I found a dead grouse under the window, squatting ns though prepared for flight. Not a feather was rullled, not a scratch appeared, and indeed for a time I stood watching the bird, ex pecting to see it wbir up and Uy away, so absolutely natural did it appeaf. But there could be little doubt about the manner of its death—a lightning head-on collision with the side of the house. Twice in my experience I have known of ruffed grouse flying through windows and falling stunned to the floor. This Is, I believe, not an unusual Incident, though, personally, I have witnessed it but twice. Dining; Knoni For Stii<l«*nt»—In I’lact- of n I'niiti (•nrilen In tin OrmiKerie. Imliiin Grillroom liiNteaii of Hatho- kollt-r—Automatic Fire Detector In Every Boom. Hotel Astor, Hie new hostelry which William Waldorf Astor lias built for W. (A Musclienheim in New York and which has recently been opened, is said to have cost $3,000,000, says the New York Globe. It is iu the French renaissance style and is ten stories iu height. It is constructed entirely of limestone and real brick, with a cor nice balcony on the ninth floor and crowned with a curved mansard roof of green slate and copper, with mass ive stone dormers. Extending back 182 feet on either side, the structure forms a solid block of architectural impressiveness. The hotel is considered a model of the most recent development in fire proof construction. The stairways are inclosed with fireproof material and doors, which make them practically fire esenpes. I '.(‘sides the usual lire appliances and alarms on every floor each guest r -i ; js provided with an automatic fire detector service, which notifies the o.H-c if the temperature reaches l.“: t degrees. Modern experience and investigation have proven that in the vast majority of cases people do not perish in acci dental fires through the flames and heat, but lose their lives through suf focation. It was with these facts in mind that each floor was divided into sections and isolated from all other floors by fireproof inclosures around the stairways and elevators. At the first sign of alarm the doors to these are closed, but not locked, by the turn ing of a lever in the ollice, thus cutting off each floor from the others and in suring the confinement of any fire and smoke to its original source. This is the first hotel where this principle has been applied. The hotel contains 500 bedrooms and 300 bathrooms, two large dining rooms, the largest cafe in the city and a score or more of smaller dining rooms. On the eighth tioor are the ballrooms and a series of small private dining rooms, one of which is unique among rooms of the kind. It is in the form uf a dining cabin on a yacht. The walls are decorated with a series of picture panels in oils, representing a water trip from the Battery to Larchmont. The hotel contains other architec tural and pmral novelties. In place of the time honored palm room is an “orangerie,” and for the usual German rathskeller is a quiet room devoted to the American Indian. The “orangerie” represents a tropical garden, on the Italian order and Is 104 by 75 feet In size and two full stories high. The f , g _ . lighting, which Is subdued, is through nfllll S VCgGlfluIC vOUipOUIlu. a vine covered ceiling. Balconies di vided into numerous booths overlook the main floor. The Indian grill room Is sixty feet long and is a veritable mu seum, supplied with photographs and Indian trappings by the Smithsonian institution. Still another novelty is the college hall, one of the series of main dining rooms. The walls are dec orated with panel pictures of college sports and with the arms of the va rious colleges flANCOCK’S vMAR^ Nature’s Greatest Germicide. A P*rt«rt SLLPtILB MMXMj Im Itc , , fUtlrtsKnl Ysvr Horn A Fo*tu*# Cur« lor Ecrrm*. Acr,. Iirh. Ringworm, Pimple*. Pneky H«*L Diphtheria, Catarrh. Sore M uio *nd Throat. Gr«nuUi*<J EyeluJ*. Ul cerated Condition*, Cut*, Burn* ' gnd Scald*, Dandruff and All c, D »—»— of the Scalp. jfrKEBP WELL PRICK ♦ ♦ GO CENTS. | MANUfACTUKCO 1 Hancock Liquid Sulphur Co. USA. HANCOCK’S Liquid Sulphur A podtive, guaranteed cure (or ail dneaiei oi the BLOOD, SKIN and SCALP for use i i hot or cold haihi. For ex ternal application, for internal use. Nature’s Greatest Germicide and constitutional remedy. For BATH and TOILET Beautifies the complexion, renew* the growth ol the ha;r and pre vents it turning gray. Hancock’s Liquiii Sulphur Ointment Prepared especially for Burns. Scalds, Open Sores, Chafed Parts, Raw Surfaces, Boils, Piles. Km one's aiMw For oi Face am Hands «:ile by amt all Skin ^ Brnggilt* Diseases. *4' Hancock Liquid Sulphur Co* Pa If--,o v. hfd. FOR Building and Plastering Lime, Coal, and Plaster Hair, Plaster Paris, Shingles, Portland Cement, Dynamite, Blasting Powder, Fuse and Dynamite Caps, call on LIMESTONE SPRINGS LIME WORKS. CARROLL A CO., Lessees. Telephone 57. Dr. S. H. Griffith, PHYSICAN - SURGEON - OCULIST. Former pupil of the celebra ted Oculist, Dr. Julian J. Chisolm, ot Baltimore. Has also taker special post-grad uate course in the Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Hospital of Baltimore. Glasses Fitted Accurately and Scientifically, Tlie Savoy Is the most magnificent restaurant in Spartanburg The Savoy is the successor to the Pied mont, but is under new management and will be run in metropolitan style, open day and night and catering only to the best element and guaranteeing satisfac tion to all. It is a high class restaurant for ladies and gentlemen, and it is the purpose of the management to deserve a liberal patronage by dealing liberally with its patrons. Call on us when in the city. Respectfully, G. E. WHEELER, Proprietor Auk. 21,1 mo This is what I said AND PROFIT GO in will give good Wheels v , ° r e $s AT WORK TALK W, T, Thompson P *©*OfTice in Cherokee Drug Co.. B’ldg. No. 321 Rutledge St. Gaffney, S. C. Many women are denied the’ happiness of children through derangement of the generative organs. Mrs. Beyer advises women to use Lydia E. Pink- “ Dear Mrs. Pinkham : — I suffered with stomach complaint for years. I got so bad that I could not carry my children but five months, then would have a miscarriage. The last time I became pregnant, my husband got me to take Id The Builders Supply Co. Fruits and Successors to L. Baker. Confectioneries* ydia E. Pinkham’s Vege table Compound. After taking the first bottle 1 was relieved of the sick ness of stomach, and began to feel bet ter in every way. I continued its use and was enabled to carry my baby to maturity. I now have a nice baby The lobby is a spacious colonnade of girl, and can work better than I ever cream colored, marble and gold decora- could before. I am like a new woman.” lions. Around three sides of the lob- — Mbs. Frank Beyer, 22 b. Second St., by is a gallery from which the entire Meriden, Conn. $5000 forfeit if original of ^ - about Ittttr proving genuineness cannot be produced. main tioor is seen. Ou the walls are four panels by W. De L. Dodge, rep re- FREE MEDICAL* ADVICE TO seating old and modern New York. ! WOMAN. The ladies’ lounging room, the reading Don't hesitate to write to Mrs. Will furnish you Building Material of the best that the markets afford and at the lowest living prices. No. I heart pine Shingles and Laths, and Devo’s cele brated Paints—guaranteed to go further and last longer than any other in the market. When in need of anything in the building line, call and see us; we’ll treat you courteously and mate your es timates for nothing. Go to the Kandy Kitchen, next to Postoffice, when you want Candies that are PURE AND FRESH. Everybody knows that SUBER makes the best. California Fruits fresh and luscious, will be kept when they can be had. Some nice peaches now on hand. Call and see what I have. 1^. Baker, S. R. SnDer Vice-President and Manager. Next door to Postoffice. A Moonllicbt Dinner. Mrs. Clarence W. Dolan gave a “moonlight” dinner u few nights ago at Newport that goes on record as one of the most original of this uneventful season, says the New York Press. The Dolans rent Le Chalet, a picturesque villa overlooking Bailey’s beach. On the terrace dinner was served, and the full moon gave all the needed light. No candles or incandescent bulbs spoiled the beauty of the moonlight. There were forty guests. A Baa the Tlabt Wad. PTwenty tflrls of Logansport, Ind., hav* •ent out a protest against tight wad beaus who refuse to spend their money on the fair sex, and hint at a boycott on all such.] There Is no show for the tight wad beau "With the Jndiknu honey. If he wants to shine he must get In line And ladle out his money, For a love that's deep Is never cheap. Says the Indiana beauty. And a first class plan for the Hoosier man Is to let his purse do duty. He must not dream he can shun Ice cream And never spend a nickel, Else he will find that he le blind And in an awful pickle. For the girl he wooes Is not a goose, And she will not love a dandy Who hasn't the spunk to blow a plunk For a box of taffy candy. You stingy beau, shell out your dough For Maud and May and Lizzie, For buggy rides and more besides. And let your j»elf get busy. It may surprise, but the girls are wise, And trouble now Is brewing. Unless you cough you will find right off Not a single thing Is doing. —Chicago Chronicle. ami writing rooms, the dining rooms, opening from the lobby, are all su perbly furnished In subdued colors. Throughout the hotel there has been no overdoing of color schemes. The bedrooms are all large and light and elegantly furnished. At the ends of the corridors are state chambers in suits, decorated variously in tbs styles of Louis XIV. and XV., Span ish, Dutch and Italian renaissance, in Florentine and Elizabethan and in colonial and art nouveau styles. The kitchen is one of the largest in the world, being 231 feet long and on an average 150 feet wide. The walls are of white tiling and the floors of terra cotta red. Everything has l»een done to make the sanitary arrange ments perfect. There are over 100 feet of ranges. The hotel also has the first crema tory ever established in a hotel. It will convert into ashes every sub stance, whether it he an empty box, papers, straw or garbage. Pinkham. She will understand your case perfectly, and will treat you with kindness. Her advice is free, and the address is Lynn, Mass. No woman ever regretted having written her, and she has helped thousands. The Gaffney Gify Land and Improvement Go. Offers for sale Building Lots In this flourishing town, Gaffney; also Farms ne by and in reach of the Schools of Limestone Springs and of this place, in lots of 30 to 100 acres on liberal time rates; also Agricultural Lands to rent for Farm purposes For full particulars apply to J. V. SARRATT, Agent. N. B.—All persons are forbidden to enter on. walk or ride through or over the lands of this company, cutting and removing timber, fishing or hunting, under penalty of law. FOR ALL COUNTY NEWS, IM PORTANT HAPPENINGS IN THE STATE AND EVENTS OF INTEREST IN FOREIGN LANDS, TAKE AND READ THE LEDGER. EXECUTOR’S NOTICE. All persons holding claims against ' the estate of L. M. Holland, deceased, ' are requested to file same, duly at- . tested, with the undersigned execu- ! tor on or before October loth, 1904, i and all persons indebted to said es- ; tate are hereby notified to make pay ment to Edward A. Trescot, Executor, RUBBER STAMPS Are my long suit. I make any kind except the bad ones. I furnish a Name Stamp and an Indelible Pad for Marking Linen for 4.Q CENTS, I have some other good things. jr. OIKliCSt-*, Typewriters, Office Supplies, Etc. 1334 MAIN STREET. COLUMBIA, S. C. Blacksburg, S. C. This coin- September IGth, 1904. l-aw-4t. plot os in every respect the sanitary features of the hotel, there being 110 p er80na || V Conducted Excursion opportunity for bad odors to arise, and j " World's Fair. to it also dispenses with an objectionable feature present In every hotel — the noise connected with the removal of garbage in the early hours of the morning. The capacity of the ice ma chinery is 120 tons. Instead of the old ice pitcher guests will receive their Ice water iu carafes. In which triple distilled water will be frozen. Triple distilled water runs through every pantry in the house. There are twelve passenger elevators. The Southern Railway will operate a personally conducted excursion to St. Louis (World’s Fair). Special train consisting of coaches and pull- man cars will leave Columbia, S. C., Tuesday, September 27th, at 7:10 A. M., and arrivp in St. Louis at 4:50 P. M„ next day, going via. Spartan burg, Asheville, Knoxville and Louis ville. This train will be in charge of one of our most experienced passenger agents, who will look especially after besides nine electric dumbwaiters and ladies and children traveling alone four electric conveyers, making alto gether twenty-five electric lifts of va rious kinds. This train will be a solid through train, and upon application in advance we will reserve for each passenger one whole seat, also accommodations and Popular Lantern Deai*n in japaa. hoard will be engaged at St. Louis, by A favorite design for lanterns used g ,vln K , In advance as to what rate desired, length of stay in St. In the processions to celebrate the Jap anese victories Is one having on It* four sides tiie rising sun, the union Jack, the Italian flag and the stare and •tripes. Louis, etc. For full information as to rates, schedules, etc., apply to , R. W. Hunt, Division Pass. Agent, Sep. 27. Charleston, 8. C. GETTING READY! Yes; we are getting ready for the Pall and Winter trade, and we want everybody to call and sec us. We have just received another carload of THE CELEBRATED BUCK’S STOVES AND RANGES which are the best and most economical made. Remember we guarantee everyone of these. Received and to an ive, carload of Crockery,Glassware, Lamps We want to sell every young lady in Cherokee County one of these beautiful Lamps. CARLOAD OF BED ROOM SUITS, EXTRA DRESSERS AND BED STEADS to arrive within the next few days. Goods in all other lines that go to make up a complete stock are coming in almost daily. We want your trade and will make it to your interest to see us, be sure you get to the right place, No. joy'and 709 Grenard Street, North side of railroad anil three doors from The National Bank. Yours truly, The Furnitare Co.