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ONG FAST FOR HEALTH
. and Water Man’s Food
paring Forty-five Days.
obred habd all the time.
jH.tln Shaw of Brooklyn l.aat
Only Twenty-*** Pound* and Looks
If Hr Had Had a Vacation—In
«.
Tralnlme Three Yeari Hm Lenfrth
tn(d Periods Of Faatlns Until He
Thinks Fifty t»*r» Possible.
That a man can work hard, sleep
ell and be merry without anything to
it for forty-five days has recently
a proved in a most extraordinary
nani. r by J. Austin Shaw of Borough
>ark. Brooklyn, says the New York
jerald. From April 9 to May 24 Mr.
thaw looked not upon food that was
ooked or uncooked, or, if he did look
upon it, it was without any great
^temptation to eat It. This fast exceeds
pr Tanner's famous fasts and many
other self starving records.
In all that time Mr. Shaw worked
from twelve to eighteen hours a day.
land at the end of his forty-five days
without eating instead of being weak¬
ened and emaciated was, if anything,
I stronger and healthier than when he
I L , eg au to go without food. The expla
Ination I of this astonishing result lies
largely in the fact that he had trained
I carefully and scientifically for three
years in the seldom voluntarily prac
tired art of fasting.
Three years ago Mr. Shaw weighed
035 pounds. He was In fairly good
health, although he suffered occasion¬
ally from rheumatism. A hook on
"Perfect Health,” by C. C. Haskell, u
gospel of abstinence in diet, made him
a convert. It held that healthy old age
depended solely on the knowledge of
how to breathe, eat, drink, think and
sleep.
Mr. Shaw Immediately put the au¬
thors theories into practice. In the last
three years he has fasted at Intervals,
each fast being a little longer than its
predecessor, and he has lost sixty-two
pounds in weight and gained greatly
in strength and health. He has become
an enthusiastic apostle of starvation as
a means to long life and has a record
of his experience backed by photo¬
graphs taken every few days during
his last and longest fast.
Mr. Shaw was asked the other night
how he accounted for the fact that
forty five days on water had left him
sound and strong, while professional
tasters were generally fearfully ema¬
ciated.
“Fresh air Is the secret,” he said.
“You may say 1 lived during the last
six weeks on air. I gave up coffee and
meat and breakfast three years ago. I
never take anything but a glass of wa¬
ter before noon. I never drink with
iny meals.
"As to my fasts, I began with three
days' abstinence at a time, with two
weeks between fasts. Gradually I
lengthened the time of going without
food to ten days until recently I found
I could go forty-five days without eat¬
ing without the least discomfort. I
have no doubt I could have gone on
for fifty days or more, but I thought It
better not to make the test too bard.
“I mean to live to be 100 years old
and think I am on the right track.
There Is no reason we should not all
live to be 100 .
“The first two days of my fast were
a little hard, but after that It was easy.
I sometimes drank a little weak lem¬
onade and once In a week or so n
glass of unfermented grape Juice. The
rest of infc diet consisted of water,
both hot antrcold.
“Temptations to break It? They did
not amount to much. It wasn’t the
easiest thing in the world to carve for
my family when we had a particularly
good Sunday dinner, hut I did not real¬
ly feel the need of food.
“This brings me to the most impor¬
tant point of all, I had absolute eon
fidenoe In myself and knew I was not
In any danger. A doctor examined me
♦“very day. My pulse was normal, at
( 10 , and never went above 72 when I
"Printed for a train. Each day I re¬
ceived a letter of encouragement anil
wlviee from Haskell. My wife helped
n| e. too, by her faith. The mind plays
big role In health fasting. Faith and
fi'osh air are the important elements.
I took niy usual exercise and cold
b'itli in the morning and worked each
,ls ’y ' n the city from twelve to eighteen
•ours. My work keeps me out of doors
much of the time.”
Mr. Shaw intends to keep up his
periodical fasting for the rest of his
f o and to abjure meat at all times and
•tu.v food before noon. He Is connected
with a weekly horticultural paper and
a man somewhat under fifty years.
‘‘ 00 °f his daughters are on the
’’b'lgp. One of them was a pajama girl
J “ 1 he Liberty Belles.” The youngest
of iheni has forsworn tho hot birds and
! bottles which art; popularly sup
I’OMd to be the correct after theater
•Jot and is almost as ardent a vege
farian uoneater as her father.
■B” Shaw cautions those who would
^cl; ■'h odiously. food less health not to start In too
i Three days is about all
the beginner can stand. He himself
looks as fresh after his recent remark
fast as If he just returned from
!ln ideal vacation. He lost twenty-six
hounds, a little more than half a pound
11 day. hut there Is not a wrinkle to
h. He asserts that, though he
*'''"ked more than usual he did not at
feel the least fatigued.
An Prophecy as to Art.
art critic prophecies that the next
‘‘knement of European art—which he
links has exhausted the possibilities
? kfu tw| 11 sin—may take the form of a r*
to the principles enunciated by the
'■nloese n thousand years ago.
ART FOR AMERICA.
A National Salon and Galleries Sag
nested For Every State.
Miss Irma Komlosv, the Hungarian
flower painter, who came to Washing
ton some time ago under the patronage
of the Austrian ambassador and Bar¬
oness Ilengelmuller anti who returned
to Austria to be with her royal pupil,
the Archduchess Marie Therese, was
much Impressed with art possibilities
of the national capital, says a Wash¬
ington dispatch to the New York Trib
une. While In Washington 6 he was en
thusiastic over what she called her
“big idea,” and after her arrival in
Vienna she wrote of It to one of the
many friends she made here as fol¬
lows:
* ha ,I C * *»tff Idea—such a big idea that
onlj the United States can hc^. it. It Is
founded on different experiences In dif¬
ferent lands, and I will sketch It to you
In a few words, which I hope vou will be
so good as to approve. Rich people from
every one of your forty-five states must
put together some money—oh. a great
deal of money!—to form a capital that
must never be toucf^A Then a perrna
nent art building must oe erected in beau¬
tiful Washington, and there must be ex
hlbltlons every year.
Artists from all over the world must be
allowed to send one painting annually
free of duty. Each visitor on entering
the gallery will be presented with a cata¬
logue free and will be expected to check
off the forty-five paintings that most
please and return it at the door. Those
forty-five paintings having the greatest
number or approval checks will be select¬
ed. one for each state.
By this method the pictures are select¬
ed by the public, and in the course of
time each state in the Union will own Its
own museum of art. The capital fund
will buy those forty-five paintings an
nually at a good price, but the bulk of
the money will not be paid to the artists
but only the interest of the amount.
which will be theirs for life. Say the art¬
ist is a man. The widow will receive the
Interest, or his children, until they are
twenty years old, when the annuity will
cease and revert to the capital fund
That seems an ideal scheme, but
whether It will ever be realized is
quite another story. Miss Komlosy's
father was a well known Hungarian
painter, and she has two brothers who
have attained distinction in the same
profession.
GATHERS EGGS IN AN AUTO
Delaware Dealer Thus Hopes to
Avoid Lons by Breakage.
Hunting eggs In nu automobile is a
new occupation for one Dover (Del.l
farmer. He Is H. Ridgely Harrington,
who recently took his first spin in an
autocar, says a Dover dispatch to the
Philadelphia Public Ledger. He is the
agent of several New York and Phila¬
delphia soda water dealers and big de¬
partment stores in the collection for
them of fresh eggs, the white egg be
ing used altogether. Tu handling such
large quantities as 12,000 dozens each
day Mr. Harrington usually experi¬
ences losses because fractious horses
will persist In either backing too hard,
stopping too quickly or running off
with a wagon load of eggs. A ma¬
chine that will be stopped by pneu¬
matic action, be thinks, will facilitate
the egg hunting and egg handling busi¬
ness.
Thirty Tbonsnnd Year Clock.
A dock which will go for 30,000
years is the latest result of the dis¬
covery of radium, says a London ca¬
ble dispatch to the Philadelphia rnblic
Ledger. H. G. Strutt Is the Inventor
of this Instrument, which has been
pla«fd on the market. One-twelfth of
a grain of radium is suspended over n
small electroscope, consisting of two
thin strips of sliver. These, being
charged with electricity from the ra¬
dium, move apart till they touch the
sides of the vacuum tube In which they
are fixed. There they communicate
their charge to an aluminium wire,
which rings a bell, and, being dis¬
charged, fall together again to repeat
the process indefinitely.
Tli« Haruft Fleat.
The battleship's a thunderer that makes
the timid run
(Dependin’ on the actions of the man be¬
hind the gun).
The cruiser Is a hurricane that sweeps
across the waves
And strews the shore with wreckage and
the ocean floor with graves.
But It’s ware the wee destroyer and its
venom sly and neat
In the swarmin', swarmin’, swarmin' of
the little hornet fleet.
Of tho little hornet fleet,
As It flocks across tho blue
With Its flamin’ eyes and steady
And its business end all ready
To annihilate a crew.
You can mash ’em, you ran smash cm,
But they still keep on a-comfn’.
With the hutnmin'. hummln', hummtn'
Of the little hornet fleet.
A stately line of battleships, prepared and
cleared for fight.
Can keep away a navy If their gunnery
is right. discommodin’ and
But there s somethin’
significant of fate
When you see a million insect boats
a-comin’ at you straight;
With their stingers full of powder, most
discouragin’ to meet
Is the swarmin', swurmin, swarmin of
the little hornet fleet
Of the little hornet fleet.
As It: whizzes through the brine,
Every busy little devil
With his poison pbuc hes level
To disjoint a battle line
You can drown ’em. you can down cm,
But they keep right on n-eomln
hummln’, hummln t
With tiie hummln’,
Of tho little hornet fleet
Those sawed off. boiled down murder
ships are like the Japs a hit,
They’re quiet and diminutive—but, geo.
how hard they hit!
They. go directly at the point with all
their little souls mark
Until they’ve either nailed the or
filled themselves with holes,
And it’s safe to say the Russians owe tn
glorious defeat and the little
To the little hornet nation
hornet fleet.
To the little hornet fleet.
As ft whizzes through the deep,
Playing capers grimly antic
Round Its enemy gigantic, sleep
Winnln’ bottles while you crush
You can sqush em. vou can em.
Bnt they keep right on a-eomln
With the hummln’. hummln, hummln
Of the little hornet fleet. Olobe
Waiter* Irwin-In Hew .York .
—GEORGIA ENTERPRISE, COVIXGTbX GA FRIDAY JtORXJXG.
,
BETTERERfiFOR INDIANS
Plan to Safeguard Their Inter¬
ests and the Government’s.
POLICY ADOPTED BY F. E. LEUPP
How Commissioner of Indian Affairs
Will Award Contract. For Supplies,
Success of So Called Ration Order,
Which Has Compelled Ablebodied
Red Men to Corn Their Own Living.
Learning; Value of Money.
r rancis E. Leupp, commisiiiouer of
Indian affairs, has planned for him¬
self a busy summer, says a special
Washington^correspondent York Post. of the New
*Ie recently superintended
the opening of bids for supplies for
the Indian service at Chicago, St. Louis
and New York, and soon he is to go to
San Francisco to perform the tame
duty. lie will then start on a tour of
Indian agencies in the west.
In connection with the award of con
tracts for Indian supplies Mr. Leupp
has adopted a policy which he believes
will safeguard the interests of the gov¬
ernment and the Indians as well. In
the purchase of medicines, for exam
pie, the commissioner had all the sam¬
ples analyzed by a professor of chem¬
istry at the Chicago university to test
the purity of the drugs. Then he bad
a well known druggist examine the
goods and the price list to say wheth¬
er the supplies were offered to the gov¬
ernment at a fair price. Quality was
always placed before cheapness. Then
in order to learn whether the drugs
and hospital supplies were suitable
for distribution among the Indians
the commissioner had one of his agen¬
cy physicians, a man who has been
among the Indians for fifteen years,
pick out the kinds that the Iudians
could be most easily induced to take.
Indians are more particular about the
sort of bandage used to bind their
limbs and about the appearance of the
medicine they take than they are nbout
the food they eat, and Indian physi¬
cians have to respect many little preju¬
dices along this line. The same plan
was pursued with clothing and other
supplies, and Mr. Leupp believes that
he will get better materials, with less
loss, by reason of waste than hereto¬
fore.
The reeent appeal of Indian Agent
John II. Brennan at Tine Ridge agon
ey, South Dakota, for work for the
ablebodied male Indians under Ills
care calls attention to one of the most
Important steps taken under President
Roosevelt’s direction for the advance¬
ment of these wards of the nation.
This was the so called ration order
issued about two years ago. It pro¬
vided that where rations were issued
none should thereafter be given to
male Indians who were able to work,
but that instead 'tjdians should be
struction employed Work where^ \ i'reservations. possible In con¬ for
c ' r
which they wer^ to be paid regular
wages.
The new policy was successful from
the beginning. When the order was
first put in force there was some grum¬
bling on the part of the older Indians
because the young men were forced to
work for a living; but, generally
speaking, the younger men took hold
and aided the agents willingly. One
of the reports submitted relates that
some of the Indians were so taken
with the Idea of getting out and earn¬
ing money for themselves that they
neglected their farms and had to be
forced to attend to tbelr ©wn needs.
The application of this order foil gen¬
erally upon the Sioux and mostly in
the state of South Dakota. Major
Brennan, at Pine Ridge, has expended
nbout $80,000 during the current fiscal
year for Indian labor. At Roaebud, In
the same state, Dr. McChesney, the
agent, has paid the Indians nearly
$100,000 for work since July 1. 1904,
the beginning of the current fiscal year.
What the new policy has resulted In
Is shown by the reports of agents.
Ira A. Hatch, at the Cheyenne River
agehey. In his last annuul report said;
"The contraction of the ration policy
and the expansion of the labor policy
are doing more in a practical way for
the civilization of these people than
any plan ever before Inaugurated. It
lias brought them to a realization of
the worth of their labor, and they are
showing this most markedly In the in¬
telligent purchase of materials they
now make nud of goods for beautifv
ing their homes. The policy is tending
to make them Independent and self re¬
liant, and they eagerly seize the op¬
portunity of working whenever they
are able.”
Harry D. Chamberlain, agent at
Crow Creek, spent over $12,000 in In¬
dian labor during the last fiscal year
and in his report says: “It is indeed
gratifying to see so many of my In¬
dians anxious to work and earn their
own living. Even some of those over
fifty years of age who were permitted
to retain their ration tickets have come
to the office and surrendered them and
requested to be furnished with work in
lieu of rations.”
The agent at Ixover Brule says that
the working system has been carried
®n with success and that the Indians
are fairly good workers and are fast
learning the value of money, Similar
commendation is given the new policy
by other agents, and ah agree that it
has done more toward the advance¬
ment of the Indians than any policy
heretofore adopted by the government.
President Roosevelt's practical experi
ence wlth the Indians has been applied
in more ways than one 6 ince he en
tewed the executive office.
The Southern railway has lately »P
proprlated $40,000 for the erection of
buildings for the Young Men's Chris¬
tian association at division points.
(ALIFORNI k k i
i Do you want to live where thejclimate is mild the year round—
where labor is never oppressed by stress of weather, and where
animal vitality is never lost by mere conflict with cold?
Do you want to live in a region where the resources are more
varied than in any other equal area in the world, where the division
of great ranches affords a fine opportunity to get a small farm that
will assure you a competence?
Do you want to live where, with a minimum of labor, you can
grow profitable crops of grapes and small fruit, oranges, lemons,
olives, prunes and almonds, alfalfa and grain, where crops are sure,
business is good and capital easily finds profitable investment ?
Then go to California, where both health and opportunity await
your coming.
i The Chicago, Union Pacific and
North-Western Line
is the most direct route to the Pacific Coast, and there are two
fast through trains daily via this line, over the famous double¬
track railway between Chicago and the Missouri River.
throughout Special low round-trip rates are in effect via this line
the summer to various Pacific Coast points, and
colonist low rate one-way tickets will be on sale during Sep¬
tember and October, which give an unusual chance for settlers
to make the trip at a minimum of expense.
Daily Francisco, and personally conducted excursions are operated through to San
Los Angeles, and Portland without change, on which a double
berth in a Pullman tourist sleeping car from Chicago costs only $7.00, via the
Chicago & North-Western, Union Pacific and
Southern Pacific Railways.
W. B. KNISKERN,
P. T. M. C. & N.-W. Ey., Chicago, Ill.
Please mail free to my address. California booklets, maps and full
FILL IN THIS COUPON particulars concerning rates arul train service.
*
AND MAIL IT TO*DAY.
1 W 484
120 CONVICTS POISONED
Inmates of South Carolina Peni
tentiary Made Sick at .Dinner
on New Vegetables.
Columbia, S. C.. May 31 —One
hundred and twenty convicts were
poisoned at the penitentiary yes¬
terday after eating a dinner of new
cabbage and other vegetables. The
hospital was overcrowded and the
physicians were worked overtime,
and for a time it looked as if some
would d'e from shere nausea, but
all but about, twenty are out again
today.
Superintendent Griffith has
some desperate convicts working
among the vegesta jles, but he is
at a loss to to know how uny se¬
cured poison, if poison was used,
The pot used for cooking the un¬
fortunate meal had not bean in
use in some time, but it was iron
and the superintendent dues not
think the trouble lies there. A
quanity of soda given the cooks
by one of the guards was used to
make the. vegetables more tender,
but this had frequently been done
before; still the soda will also be
analized.
-
Thrown from a Wagon.
Mr. George K. Babcock was thrown
from his wagon and severely bruised
He applied Chamberlain’s Pain Balm
freely, and says it is the best liniment
lie ever used. Mr. Babcock is a well
Known cii-zen of North Plain, Conn
There is nothing equal to Pain Balm for
sprains and bruises. It will effect a cure
in one-third the time required by any
other treatment. For sale by all drug
j jn Covington, and Bibb Mfg- Co.,
Porterdale, (5a.
I KILLthc COUGH
wro CURE the LUNGS
,
: New WITH Dr. Discovery King’s
c GNSUMPTI0N Price
OUGfiS and 50c &$ 100
»LBS „:a.
Surest and Quickest Cure for all
THROAT and LUNG TROUB¬
LES, or MONEY BACK.
$ POLITICAL DOPE. 0
Nashville Herald: Col. Estill
says he will not become a candi
date for governor unless the pe>
pie call him out.
— o —
Brunswick News: Strange indeed
it is how many new counties in
Georgia seem to be needed right at
this time.
—o —
Savannah Press: According to
the Svlvjnia Telephone, three con¬
gressional aspirants were said to
have been present court week. My,
what a dangerous time !
—o—
Irwin County Courier: By the
legislature postponing their action
< ui the new county question will
show their disposition to to deal
f a j r aM d justly,
—O —
Telfair Enterprise: Joe Hill Hal! j
would agitate the political waters
considerably should he dive in for
the governorship after that “legis¬
lature convention” is held.
—o —
West Point News: It has not
been conceded by S. B. Miller’s j
opponents that lie is a sure winner
Asthma Sufferers Should Know
This.
Foley’s Honey and Tar has cured
many cases of asthma that were consul
ered hopeless. Mrs. Adolph Buesing,
701 West Third 8t., Davenport, Iowa
writes: “A severe cold, contracted 12
years ago, was neglected until it finally j
grew into asthma, The best medical I
skill available could not give me more j
than temporary relief. Foley’s ) Honey ’
and 'Far was recommended, and one
fifty cent bottle entirely cured me 0 ,- j
asthma which . , had , , , been growing on me
;
for twelve years, and if I had taken it;
at the start I would have been saved
years of suffering.” Sold by Brooks A
8 mith.
KcvEol Dyspepsia Durfl
BfeetkU what you ©at* I
for the president of the senate, but
a great many other people are oil
that frame of mind,
o —
Aiken Journal: With Hoke
Smith and Clark Howell as an¬
nounced candidates f or governor
of Georgia, and Editor Estill
“considering, » » there should bd
plenty of newspaper talk in the
next campaign across the river.
Macon News: A few years ago,.
ix bill to disfranchise the negro in
Georgia came up for,.passage in the
house of representatives. It receiv¬
ed only three vote?—towit—the
vote [of author, the yote of tbo
author’s room-mate, and the vote
of a representative in whose coun¬
ty negroes are scarcer than hen’e
teeth.
—o —
Marietta Courier: The position¬
ed internal revenue collector for
Georgia may be tendered to Harry
Stillwell Edwards, of Macon, so
the rumor goes. This position has
been held by H. A. Rucker for two
terms, and the president has decid
ed to appoint a White man to 813 C
need the negro.
MALE'S TONIC
A New ScierUific Discovery
for the
BL©©© aad N£KS¥E&
It purifies the blood by eliminating tho
waste matter and other impurities and by
<nfe;.t k.-troying th j f.-rna or microbes tic,'
the blood. Ic builds up the blou"
b Y reconstruct:.-.-.* and multiplying the red
corpuscles, j, (lie blood rich and red .
restores and stimulates the nerves,
causing a f 1 fr • • J!., - of nerve force
speedily throughout t • t* ilire nerve system. t
cures unstrung nerves, nervous
ness, nervous prostration, and all other
diseases of the nervous system,
RVDALE’S TONIC is sold under a posi
bve guarantee,
Trial size SO cents, family size $[.00
manufactured by
The Radical Remedy Company.
HICKORY, W. C.
For Sale by Covington Drug Co,