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Newspaper Page Text4 The Semi-Weekly Journal. Utmd at tbe Attests Posfefflee aa Mell Mat ter at rt»e Second Claes. JAMES R. GRAY, Editor and General Manager. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE. Twelve nrootbs »-• •tx month* y Three months •“* The Semi Weekly Jsornal is published oa Toewlay *nd Friday. and Is mailed by tbs short - est motes for early delivery. It cnatatns nene from all over the wwld. iMMUTht by special leased wires Into <n»r office. It aas a staff of dta'lnguUbed contributors, with strong departments of special ralne to lbs home sad the farm. Agents wanted at every postoffice. Liberal eoniniisskm allowed. Outfit free. Tbs only traveling representatives we bare aie i. A. Bryan. B. F. Bolton. C. C. Ca»* ; M. 11. GUreatb sad J. H. Barnhart. We will be responsible only for meaty paid to the shore tasted traveling represents tires. FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 5. 1908. ♦ NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS* ♦ The label used for addressing ♦ ♦ your paper shows the time your ♦ ♦ subscription expires. By renewing ♦ ♦ at least two weeks before the date ♦ an this label, you insure regular ♦ ♦ service. ♦ ♦ In ordering paper changed, be ♦ ♦ sure to mention you old. aa well as ♦ ♦ your new. address. If on a rural ♦ ♦ route, please give the route num- ♦ ♦ ber. ♦ ♦ We cannot enter subscriptions to ♦ ♦ begin with back numbers. Remit- ♦ ♦ tance should be sent by postal ♦ ♦ order, or registered mail. ♦ ♦ Address all orders and notices ♦ ♦ for this department to THE SEMI- ♦ ♦ WEEKLY JOURNAL. Atlanta. Ga. ♦ DR. WILEY'S WORK. The people of this country are beginning seriously to inquire If there is not a conspiracy on foot, aided and abetted by the president of the United States, to overthrow and discredit Dr. Harvey W. Wiley, enter of the bureau of chemistry, be cause he is administering the pure food laws with conscientious zeal which impinges upon some of the trusts which the interests would like to have protected. He has taken the position that benzoate of soda, used as a food preservative, is deleterious. He has made careful tests and observations on his own poison squad and the results have fully borne out his con tentions. But the president of the United States, moved by the appeals of the interests, has appointed another commission to investigate the matter and this commission reports that Dr. Wiley is all wrong; that ben soate of soda is not deleterious. *1 hey even leave us under the im pression almost that it is rather beneficial than otherwise. The discussion has aroused a number of partisans on both sides, but there are thousands of physi cians and chemists, by no means prejudiced in the matter, who in dorse Dr. Wiley's contention, and Indeed the weight of opinion seems to be with him. ' Since the findings of Mr. Roose velt s commission it has been sug gested that Dr. Wiley might feel called upon to resign. It *s hoped that he will do no such thing. He has the support of the country at large. The life and health of ths people is too important to be jeopar dised and if there is any reason to believe that the trusts are using a deleterious substance as a food preservative ft should be prohibited. Dr. Wiley is not on trial. It is the overzealous critics who are under suspicion, and it is hoped he will remain where he is and continue the work he has carried on so well thus far. No man is a hero to hla wife, not af ter the first year of marriage, at least. With the Georgia peach safe, it doesn’t so much matter about the Georgia 'pos sum. Mr. Bryan's disapproval of the raise la the president’s salary is certainly disinter ested. Whatever has happened to the other crops, there is no repot t of damage to the peanut crop. About the only thing the bliuard didn't . kill, was that annual speculative rumor about Crum. The government needs more revenue, ■ays a news item. What a human thing the government to. after all! Price of the New Orleans Taft banquet will be 125. Oughtn't to be that much difference between alligator and possum. The Memphis prisoner who suffers from a lapse of memory must have been a Standard Oil official at some time or other. Let’s wait and see what effect President Taft's advice to women not to be in to* big a hurry to marry will have on the June bride. Taft approves of the canal, and what ever Judge Taft says has weight. It is well for the canal, however, that he didn't put his foot down on it. True happiness would be a perpetual feeling like that when you wake Sunday morning, forget for a moment that it is Sunday, then remember that It isn't Mon day, or a week day, and take another nap. The Best New Year Resolution Edwin Markham. In "Snot-ess Magasine. The noblest reaointlou that any rltlxen cunld make tor tbe New Year would be the resolution tn lire store faithfully by tbe Golden Bole, that sublime principle of conduct for this world and for all wbrbla Faitnn- to live by this law causes tbe eiiief sorrow* and colllsiooe among earn. Let each earnest man search Into bl* word* and ways, determined to find tbe special man ner la which be break* tbe Golden Law—bl* epedal uablt that work* injustice or unbappUtewa la bis ebop. bia office, hi* borne, bia city. He will find, perhaps. that in tbe shop he la in tbe habit of misplacing tool*, and tbia binder* tbe wort of bis comrade*; that in the office be I* in tbe habit of being late tn keeping ap poiatment*. and tbna steel* other people'* time; that la tbe etsb he I* in tbe habit of belittling worthy competitor* and tboa Join* the*- gang* of thieve* who steal reputation*; that in the home be la in tbe bablt of mou.tpollaing the coosersatloa and thus fail* to draw oot the peuer* of other*; that In tbe rity be la in the Mbit of spitting on tbe sidewalk, and thus epoß* tbe comfort of bls townsmen, that tn buaitxM he is la the habit of misrepresent tag hl» goods, and tbu* robs under tbe cover us enstuni. The»e are prcb>m* lu the Golden Rule; and here are ample space and verge for New Year ;•*adtorinn*— -■ <ce and verge for building char acter. character which ia tbe greatest thing Hi jaau. THE TIMES' GROUNDLESS ASSAULT. Itie. New York TMMB, wfflch speaks for the extreme opponents of legitimate railroad regulation and supervision, publishes an editorial on -Mr. Harriman in Georgia ' wnich Is the most amazing conglomeration of misstatements yet put forward to the prejudice of this state. it refers to the campaign of Hon. Hoke Smith for governor and criticises his administration, it develops the fact that still in a number of states there are efforts to bring about further regulation, and admits that even in Albany, N.‘ Y.» this is the case. It declares that as a result of oppression brought to bear upon the railroads in Georgia "the unions (of railroad employes) besieged the railway commission in protest against ruling which made petitioners idle.• It then suggests that -possibly Mr. Harriman may succeed where logic failed. He offers a splendid bribe.” The campaign which resulted in the nomination of Governor Smith closed in the samraer of 1306. isolated sentences from his speeches cannot fairly be used to show the principles he urged. They were finally embodied in the Macon platform, and during the twelve months following the railroads of the state did the largest business in their history by more than three million dollars. « it is, therefore, unfair and illogical to seek to account for railroad losses in l»y« by references to the campaign of 1905-'U6. Let us come to the administration of Governor Smith beginning in the summer of 1907. What has been done which Harriman and his followers desire to change? We challenge them to the discussion. Tbe statement of the New York Times that the unions of railroad employes protested any ruling of the railroad commission is simplv false. Nothing of the kind occurred. The utter want of correct information on the part of the ‘New York Times is shown from the fact that the editorial contains the following statement: He (Governor Smith) appointed as one commissioner a man whose factory, taxed at forty-six thousand four hundred and seventy-five dollars, earned in a single year forty-seven thousand dollars, and whom the legislature had disqualified. * • • These gentlemen (the of the commission) exercised dictatorial powers, and the railroads were forbidden to appeal to the courts as to the justice of their edicts. Buch nonsense as this would not be creditable to tbe most me.igei iv informed newspaper in the country. No such commissioner as the Times alludes to was appointed, judge George Hillyer and Hon. Fuller Calloway, the appointees, are two of tbe ablest and best men in the country. The railroads appealed to the court from only one decision of the commission and the United States judges, after full hearing, sustained the commission. The acts advocated by Governor Smith and passed by the legislature will compare favorably with those of Governor Hughes and the New York legislature. No just complaint can be made as to the manner in which the laws have been enforced. The provision found in the Georgia law forbidding fraudulent and excessive stock and bond issues is also in tbe New York law Mr. Harriman cannot exploit a New York railroad as he did the Chicago and Alton, and he will not be permitted to so exploit the Central or The people of Georgia know that the panic which began in the fall of 19V7 was largely due to the misconduct of reckless stock and bond gamblers and that the course which Georgia has pursued will help to prevent a renewal of such misconduct. As tbe people of Georgia realize .who the enemies of Governor Smith really are they will more and more appreciate the service he has rendered them —a service which has continued since the nomination last summer with dignity, ability and tireless energy and with no suggestion of complaint at tbe injustice done him. Tbe people of Georgia realize today what they have lost in giving up Governor Smith's services. They will stand by the wise legislation be has helped to give them. They will not be -bribed” by Mr. Harriman or frightened by nis newspapers. v - TRUST CONTRACTS INVALID. What may properly be regarded as the deadliest blow that has yet been struck at illegal combinations in restraint of trade is the decision of the supreme court of the United States handed down on Monday tn the case of the Continental Waif Paper company against Voight & Sons, of Cincinnati, to collect a debt of fifty-seven thousand dollars. The plaintiff in this case, in the appeal from the circuit court, admits the fact lor present purposes, that it is a trust, organized in violation of the Sherman anti-trust law, and the supreme court there fore places its agreements in the class with those immoral contracts which are outlawed on grounds of public policy, such as gambling debts. The court holds that such a judgment as the plaintiff asks could not be granted without departing from the statutory rule, long estab lished in the jurisprudence of this country and England, that a court “will not lend its aid, in any way, to enforce, or to realize the fruits of an agreement which appears to be tainted with illegality.” This remains true although tbe effect of applying that rule might be to shield a defendant who lias got something for which, as between man and man, be ought perhaps to pay. The gambler's debt has been called “a debt of honor,” not because it was an honorable obligation, but because the payment of it cannot be enforced in any court of law, and the debtor is, therefore, simply "on his honor” to pay the obligation. As an immoral contract, con trary to public policy, it has no standing whatever in court. The principle seems to be clearly laid down by the decision of the court of last resort that combinations in restraint of trade between the states and betwween this country and foreign countries, when their illegality is well established under the Sherman anti-trust law, operate to vitiate all contracts and agreements, certainly for the payment of a debt, in order that such illegal combinations may not profit by their own wrong. This is the second important decision the United States supreme court has rendered within the past few weeks on the subject of trusts and other corporations the effect of which will be far-reaching and almost revolutionary. It was only a short time ago that the supreme court, in passing upon the case of the Waters-Pierce Oil company, which had been forbidden to do business in the state of Texas, an nounced in the clearest manner possible that a sovereign state not only has a right to enforce Its laws and regulations relative to foreign cor porations doing business within such a state, but can actually expel such corporations from the state altogether, and that is exactly what has been done. The prerogatives of a state were never before so well established since the great corporations gained headway in this country. But the practical effect of this later decision may be even more far-reaching and important than the other. To nullify the binding force of contracts and practically to deny illegal trusts any standing in court is calculated to paralyze such combinations in their most vital functions, if It is to be accepted as an established principle of law that debts owed to a trust are in the same category with gambling debts— that they are simply "debts of honor,” non-enforcable In the courts of law—tbe whole machinery of the business ot the trusts will be dead locked, and they will have no recourse but to dissolve and reorganize tn strict conformity with the Snerman anti-trust law. Without the full text of the decision It would perhaps be rash to say positively what the effect of the decision would be, but there is no other reasonable construction to be placed upon such parts of the supreme court decision as have been given out thus far. THE MENANCE OF •‘PELLAGRA." The development of the new disease known as “pellagra,” in the southern states, has been tbe subject of discussion for some time, and the discovery that it nas liecome very widespread has occasioned considerable alarm among physicians and the public in general. This disease has been known for a long time in the old world, where it has wrought great havoc, but until recent times it was not known that it had appeared in this country at all. it is an epidemic disease which is produced originally by the eating of corn which is unripe or spoiled and develops chiefly among those classes who subsist largely upon corn meal. The first signs of the malady are intestinal and nervous disorders which manifest themselves in the spring and summer, gradually passing away, to ail appearances, as cold weather approaches, until with the coming ot winter the patient seems to be entirely well. But a renewed attack follows In the spring again, and each visita tion leaves the patient worse than before, until in many instances the nervous disorder ends in insanity. To Fast Assistant Surgeon C. H. Lavlnder, of the public health and hospital service, is due the credit for the discovery of the disease, and after a thorough investigation he has made an exhaustive report to Burgeon General Wyman. , ( Whatever doubts may have existed at one time have now been entirely dissipated and it is known that the disease is identical with that which has been known among the poorer classes of Europe for a long time. The disease was no sooner identified than it become known that already it has a strong hold upon the people of the south and systematic efforts are now being made to familiarize southern physicians with it. it was a timely discovery and with the information which is now placed at the disposal of physicians it Is hoped that effective efforts may be made to check the inroads of the disease. The spread of this disorder is said to constitute a serious menace' to the whole race, producing an enfeebled intellect and general racial deterioration, in the face of facts like these it is high time, we gave the matter earnest consideration. THE ATLANTA SEMI WEEKLi JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 5, lfW». A SEARCH FOR CINDERELLA. "Her feet beneath her petticoat Like little mice stole in and out.” At any rate that was the kind of foot requisite to secure admission to the chorus of “A Stubborn Cinder ella," which a ’New York manager has just put on the stage, but Jf he ever recovers from the nervous pros tration superinduced by the effort to find an octette of such pairs of feet his next effort will probably be to stage “Big Foot Wallace.” in order to conform to the snug fitness of things it was decreed that every member of the chorus of the musical comedy in question should have a foot which could go into a shoe No. 13A. That isn’t much of a shoe. You could toast the bride several times from a slipper like that and not get very tipsy. So, naturally, It was not an easy matter to secure eight young maid ens in New York city whose pedal extremities were so insignificant. It is estimated that only one in thirty tnousand could meet the specifica tions. But the size ot the shoe was not all. She had to be exactly five feet four inches high and weigh just one hundred and twenty-five pounds. So the difficulty of finding these para gons was proportionately increased. After measuring and surveying scores upon scores of New York young women, only one was found who could meet the requirements. And then the news traveled to Chicago that a New York manager wanted girls with small feet. It sounded like a joke that anybody should go to Chicago looking for small feet, but as soon as the news spread abroad in the Windy City fifteen merry villagers who could wear a 13A boarded the train and went to New York. And seven of them were accepted. We were about to omit the impor tant specification that the candidate should not be less than twenty-one years old. On reflection, that was probably the hardest of all the re quirements to meet. Os course there are chorus ladies more than twenty one years of age, but they exist chiefly in the comic supplements of the newspapers. No one ever saw one on the stage or saw any one who had seen one. And yet this enterprising manager has succeeded in finding eight of them with the added charm of small feet, multiplied by the mystery as to how they came to be living in Chicago! The "Florodora” sextet was a bunch of beauties which made a name for themselves. They made enough noise in the world, sooner or later, to have beep the eleven thousand virgins of Cologne. But they have gradually passed from the public view, and now comes on the. "Cinderella” chorus, and no man knows the havoc which may yet be wrought by those twinkling feet in the shoes only No. 13A. WIDOW OF SOLDIER CALLS FOR AID Editor Journal: Mr husband, Wm. L. H. Hogan, enlisted in First Georgia regulars, 1 think, in IMI. near Palmetto, Ga.; was wounded at second Manassas. I don't know a living member ot his company or regiment to prove bis services, but I am ft widow in needy circumstances. Dock Jaekaon was in bis company, but is dead. J. C. 0. Carlton was in the company after husband was discharged. If this is read by anyone who knew him in the service, please write to me at Carrollton, Ga. MRS. M. A. HOGAN. Care G. W. Merrell. Poverty is the root of all evil. WHITE BREAD IS ABOLISHED TODA V IN THE UNITED STA TES By Order of James Wil son, Secretary of Agri culture. MINNEAPOLIS, Feb. li-By a ruling of Secretary James Wilson, of the depart ment of agriculture, which goes into effect today, white bread is abolished in the United States of America. The golden bread—the kind our mothers used to make—will be the result of this ruling—in place of the wheat bread our wives and sisters make. Beginning today the millers all over the country must stop bleaching flour. But the bleached flour still in stock may law fully be disposed of until June 9. There will be as much difference be tween bread made from unbleached flour and the present bleached flourbread as there is between angel cake and sponge NO MORE BLEACHED FLOUR. If fiour ot that extreme whiteness to which you have become accustomed is sold to you from now on you will know that it was ground before the first ot the present month, for an order issued by the secretary ot agriculture has forced the abandonment of the bleaching process. Bleached flour tor export will still be made and the millers will be allowed until next June to dispose of the bleached flour they now have on hand, but no more or It must be made. As indicated in a special article published in The Journal of yesterday, the millers contend that there is not enough sodium nitrate, used in the bleaching process, to harm a child; that, in fact, it a consumer began eating half a ioat of bread on the day he was born and retained all the sodium nitrate in his system, he would be fifty-five years old before he began to feel any harmful effects. But the dangers of the bleaching process are not the controlling reason for abolishing it. The agricultural department wishes to make the flour look natural. It is pointed out that while much of the wheat grown in the northwest makes a flour almost as white as if it had been bleached, the wheat grown in the southern latifudes, particularly in the neighborhood of St. Louis, makes a yellow flour. Not only is this true, but it is the custom to use a large quantity of durum, or macaroni wheat,, which is of an inferior quality, and this, after being bleached, is mixed with the superior kind. This durum flour is twenty per cent cheaper than that made from the wheat of the northwest, and the incentive to bleach it and mix it with tbe superior quality is therefore very strong. Under this new prohibition from the secretary of agriculture a customer will be able to know just what he is buying and no longer, under a system by which “things are seldom what they seem,” will -skimmed milk masquerade as cream.” The natural color ot the flour will give us a clear index as to Its quality. inasmuch as wheat-tlour bread, crackers and other pastry constitutes nineteen per cent of the total food of the average American, it is important that we should be able to know exactly what we are getting, whether it be specifically harmful to health or not. Tbe- M U RJ) E JE J EDGAR-ALLAH- “Tou will perceive,” continued my friend, spreading out the paper upon the table before us, "that this drawing gives the ,idea of a firm and fixed hold. There is no slipping apparent. Each finger has retained—possibly until the death of the victim—the fearful grasp by which it originally imbedded itself. Attempt, now, to place all your fingers, at the same time, in the respective impressions as you see them.” I made the attempt in vain. "This,” I said, "is the mark of no hu man hand.” "Read now,” replied Dupin, “this pass age from Cuvier.” It was a minute anatomical and gen erally descriptive account of the large ourang-outang of the East Indian Islands. The gigantic stature, the prodigious strength and activity, the wild ferocity, and the imitative propensities of these huge apes are sufficiently well known to all. I understood the full horrors of the murder at once. “The description,” said I. as I made an end of the reading, “is in exact accord ance with your theory. But I cannot possibly comprehend the particulars of this frightful mystery. Besides, there were two voices heard in contention, and one of them was unquestionably the voice of a Frenchman." “True; and you will remember an ex pression attributed almost unanimously, by the evidence, to this voice—the expres sion 'Mon Dieu’’ This was an expression of expostulation. Upon these two words, I have mainly built my hopes of a full solution of the riddle. A Frenchman was cognizant of the murder. It is possible—indeed it is far more than probable—that he was Innocent of all par ticipation in the bloody transactions. The ourang-outang may have escaped from him. He may have traced it to the cham ber; but, under the agitating circum stances which ensued, he could never have recaptured it. It is still at large. I will not pursue these guesses—for I have no right to call them more—since the shades of reflection upon which they are based are scarcely of sufficient depth to be appreciable by my own Intellect. If the Frenchman in question is indeed, as I suppose, innocent of this atrocity, this advertisement which I left last night up on our return home at the office of Le Monde (a paper devoted to the shipping interest, and much sought by sailors) will bring him to our residence.” He handed me a paper, and read thus: "CAUGHT—In the Bois de Goulogr* » early in the morning of the - inst. (the morning of the murder), a very large, tawny ourang-outang of the, Bornese species. The owner (who is ascertained to be a sailor, belonging to a Maltese vessel) may have the ani mal again, upon identifying it satis factorily, and paying a few charges arising from its capture and keeping. Call at No. —, Rue —, Faulbourg St. Germain.” “How was it possible.” I asked, that you should know the man to be a sailor, and belonging to a Maltese vessel?” “I do NOT know it,” said Dupin. “I am not SURE of it. Here, however. Is a small piece of ribbon, which, from its form and from its greasy appearance, has evidently been used In tying the hair in one of those long queues of which sail ors are so fond. Moreover, this knot is one which few besides sailors can tie, and Is peculiar to the Maltese. I picked the ribbon up at the foot of the lightning rod. Now if, after all, I am wrong in my induction from this ribbon, that the cake. The flour will be of creamy color instead of clear white, and the bread will be light golden In color. But there will be no dinerence in flavor. Millers think they have the laugh on Chemist Wiley, of the agricultural de partment, who is responsible for the rul ing against bleaching 'materials. They have figured it out that sodium nitrate, the chemical most commonly used, is so little harmful and is used in such small quantities, that the consumption of 10,000 loves of bread baked from the bleached flour would not kill a man—that is, the sodium nitrate wouldn’t. Figuring further, they say that if one began to eat bread on the day he was born, at the rate of half a loaf a day, and If he could retain in his system all the sodium nitrate, he would be 55 years of age by the time he had consumed his harmful share of nitrate. But Chemist Wiley gets back the laugh with the admission that the bleaching ma terials are not in themselves very harm- BY EDGAR ALLAN POE iimal “HE WALKED TOWARDS THE DOOR, LOCKED IT AND PUT THE KEY IN HIS POCKET.” Frenchman was a sailor belonging to a Maltese vessel,he will merely suppose that I have been misled by some circumstance. But if I am right, a great point is gained. Cognizant, although innocent, of the mur der,the Frenchman will naturally hesitate about replying to the advertisement— about demanding the ourang-outang. He will reason thus: ‘I am Innocent; I am poor; my ourang-outang is of great value —to one in my circumstances a fortune of itself—why should I lose it through idle apprehensions of danger? Here it is, within my grasp. It was found in the Bois de Boulogne—at a vast distance from the scene of the butchery. How can it ever be suspected that the brute beast should have done the deed? The police are at fault—they have failed to pro cure the slightest due. Should they even trace the animal, it would be Impossible to prove me cognizant of the murder, or to implicate me in guilt on account of that cognizance. Above all, I am known. The advertiser designates me ss the pos sessor of the beast. I am not sure to what limit his knowledge may extend. Should I avoid claiming a property of so great value, which it is known that I possess, I will render the animal at least liable to suspicion. It Is not my pollcy to attract attention either to myself or to the beast. I will answer the adver tisement. get the ourang-outang, and keep it close until this matter has blown over.” At this moment we heard a step upon the stairs. "Be ready,” said Dupin, “with your pistols, but neither use them nor show them until at a signal from myself.” The front door of the house had been left open, and the visitor had entered without ringing, and advanced several steps upon the staircase. Now, however, he seemed to hesitate. Presently we heard him descending. Dupin was moving quickly to the door when we again heard him coming up. He did not turn back a second time, but stepped up with decision, and rapped at the door of our cham ber. “Come in," said Dupin, in a cheerful and hearty tone. A man entered. He was a sailor, evi dently—a tall, stout and muscular-look ing person, with a certain dare-devil ex pression of countenance not altogether unprepossessing. His face, greatly sun burnt, was more than half hidden by whisker and mustach. He had with him a huge oaken cudgel, but appeared to be otherwise unarmed. He bowed awk wardly, and bade us “good evening." "Sit down, my friend." said Dupin. "I suppose you have called about the ful, but that the object of the ruling is to make the flour look natural. Evidence taken at the bleaching hear ings brought out the fact that the wheat grown in the northwest makes a flour almost as white as the bleached product. The first run of the mill, likewise. Is whiter than the later run. On the other hand, the wheat grown in the latitude of St. Louis and in the more southern states makes a yellow flour. Likewise it was brought out that the flour made from the durum, or so-called macaroni wheat, requires bleaching be fore it is mixed with the ordinary varie ty. As the durum wheat is about 20 cents cheaper a bushel, it is clear why the millers like to breach and mix this pro duct. The millers will continue bleaching flour Intended for the export trade. Foreigners are accustomed to the nice white appear ance of the bleached flour and will demand it. There has been protest in England against American flour, the complaint being that inferior grades of wheat and even whole wheat were being worked in to flour that, by the bleaching process, was made to appear as of highest grade. It has been calculated that wheat-flour bread and crackers, pastry and similar products constitute 19 per cent of the total food of the average Amerifean fam ily. Digestion experiments with healthy men have shown that the fine flour bread is more digestible than the breads made from the whole grain. ♦ WHERE DO BRAN AND ♦ ♦ MIDDLINGS GO? ♦ ♦ In the old days of the upper and ♦ -e- nether millstones the farmer took ♦ ♦ his own wheat to the mill and re- ♦ ♦ turned home with flour, bran and ♦ ♦ middlings. *■ ■a- Only the white part of the wheat ♦ ♦ went into the flour sack, and the ♦ ♦ bran and middlings—the hull and other coarser parts—went to the ♦ bins In the barn, to be fed to the ♦ cows and pigs. * ♦ Since the bleaching process was ♦ ♦ adopted the bran and middlings ♦ ♦ have almost disappeared from the ♦ market, while flour comes from the ♦ ♦ big city mills so white and cheap ♦ that the old millstones have passed ♦ Into the limbo of relics. ♦ ■e- What has become of the bran and ♦ ♦ middlings which used to go to the ♦ ♦ pigs? "* ♦ Is it bleached with the rest of the* flour and fed to us hungry Ameri- *• ♦ can citizens? ♦ ♦ «»♦*< M >♦»»♦< <♦»♦■* » l*M»* United States decides not to use auto mobiles in the army. It is just as well to; protect the army in time of peace, but in time of war the automobile could be et-l fectively used against the enemy. ourang-outrang. Upon my word I al most envy you the possession of him; a remarkably fine, and no doubt a very valuable animal. How old do you suppose him to be?" The sailor drew a long breath, with the air of a man relieved of some in tolerable burden, and then replied in an assured tone: "I have no way of telling—but he can’t be more than four or five years old. Have you got him here?” “Oh, no; we had no conveniences for keeping him here. He is at a livery stable tn the Rue Dubourg, just by. You can get him in the morning. Os course you are prepared to identify the property. “To be sure I am, str.” “I shall be sorry to part with him,” said Dupin. “I don’t mean that you should be at all this trouble for nothing, sir,” said the man. “Couldn’t expect it. Am very wil ling to pay a reward for the finding of the animal—that is to say, anything in reason.” “Well,” replied my friend, “that is all very fair, to be sure. Let me think! —what should I have? Oh! I will tell you. My reward shall be this: You shall give me all the information in your power about these murders in the Rue Morgue." Dupin said the last words in a very low tone, and very quietly. Just aa quiet ly, too, he walked towards the door, locked It, and put the key in his pocket. He then drew a pistol and placed it, without the least flurry, upon the table. The sailor’s face flushed up as if he were struggling with suffocation. He started to his feet and graspod his cudgel, but the next moment he fall back Into his seat trembling violently, and with the countenance of death itself. He spoke not a word. I pitied him from the bottom of my heart. “My friend," said Dupin In a kind tone, "you are alarming yourself unnec essarily—you are Indeed. We mean you no harm whatever. I pledge you the honor of a gentleman that we Intend you no Injury. I perfectly well know that you are innocent of the atrocities In tbe Rua Morgue. It will not do, however, to deny that you are in some measure Implicat ed In them. You have done nothing which you could have avoided—nothing, cer tainly, which renders you culpable. You were not even guilty of robbery when you might have robbed with impunity. You have nothing to conceal. On the other hand, you are bound by every prin ciple of honor to confess all you know. An Innocent man is now imprisoned, charged with that crime of which you can point out the perpetrator.” (To be continued.) W ’■ SECRETARY JAS. WILSON He Abolished White Bread. Aged Actress Taken from Squalor Mrs. Fannie Hunt, once prominent as aa English actres. who came to this country many years azo with Charles Kean, and who is now 90 years old. was taken forcibly from her little cottage at Ocean Grove, * because she refused to leave it of her own free will. She lived alone in the house in squalor, and though many person* offered to help her, *h* always refused to leave the place. At last lire. Susan Truax, who Jivea In the western part of the city, learned of the Old act less’ plight, and tried to get Mrs. Hunt to live in the Truax home, but the old woman refused. Recently the city ambulance was backed up in front of the Heck street cottage, and the old woman was bundled in~o it and taken to Mrs. Truax's home. There she will receive good care. She is helpless from rheu matism and old age.