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Jed Horse Meat Packed in Jersey
WnTON, N. J.—That New Jersey
El baa within Its borders an estab-
sent engaged In the business of
saining or pickling horse-flesh, which
'siMpped t0 Holland for food pur-
* vu offlclally brought to the at-
[ijon 0 f the state board of health
T| U r ecent meeting In Trenton. The
rd referred the case to * *,Attorney
tert) Wilson, requesting him to
(E uch action as the clrcumgtancea
liroold warrant.
He complaint was presented by Dr.
, B yitzrandolph, head of the pure
■^ department of the state board,
: wu baaed upon evidence furnish-
f!tiJ tbe bureau of chemistry, of the
id States department of agrlcul-
wblch had tbe horse-backing es-
najhmcnt under surveillance.
Tbe government alleged that the
.got Insanitary conaltlons prevailed
gtbe plant, and that carcasses of dls-
wicd and emaciated animals were
fitted for tbe export trade. Accord-
to tbe evidence obtained by secret
service men, dead horses were cut up
for food on the same floor occupied
by animals which bad glanders and
other diseases communicable to man
kind.
The Investigation, started by Dr.
Harvey W. Wiley, chief of the gov
ernment chemistry bureau, had to be
practically abandoned by the govern
ment because of a leak through which
the officials of the company were
warned that they were being watch
ed. After this, It Is alleged that no
more shipments were made abroad
and the government, being left with
out jurisdiction, the case was turned
over to the state authorities for prose
cution under its laws.
The case worked up by the govern
ment was outlined generally In a let
ter from Acting Chief F. L. Dunlap,
of the bureau of chemistry, which was
submitted to the state board of health
by Dr. Fitzrandolph. In this letter
Dr. Dunlap said that on June 10, 1911,
his bureau was advlBed that the Elrm
exported pickled horde meat to Hol
land; that this iniat was entered at
Rotterdam and was distributed
throughout Holland for food purposes.
An Investigation was started and one
of the Inspectors testified that the 31
vats In tbe pickling room consisted In
part of animals that have died other
wise than by slaughter.
otham’s Domestic Relations Court
r YORK.—One year ago the Do-
I mcstlc Relations court was eBtab-
1 In New York and It bas already
| phed s place as bne of the perma-
1 at and most .necessary Institutions
dlhii city. The tremendous work of
i court arouses wonder that the
i bad not been adopted years ago
I that It Is not more widely emu-
I In other cities throughout the
■atry: Chicago and Washington are
a only two other cities where slml-
x courts exist
The Domestic Relations court Is es-
dly a poor man's court In Its
offlce, Indeed, It partakes of
It nature of a conciliatory c'burt, elm-
to the conciliatory courts of
through which all domestic
i pass before any divorce or
r serious case Involving domestic
dlclty, abandonment or non-support
s enter the courts proper. Like the
(tea of the conciliatory courts in
lice,' the judges of the Domestic
dona court In New Tork are chos-
afor their tact patience, knowledge
f unkind and sympathy with the
of men and women. Every
• that comes Into the Domestic Re-
i court these judges first try to
| dint without legal procedure.
In the next Instance tbe Domestic
Relations court Is a woman’s court.
In almost every cane that has ap
peared the complainant has been a
woman.'- It Is' Hot more than once In
several months that a man appears as
a complainant In this court. This Is,
of course, largely owing to the fact
that a man Is not usually i dependent
upon his wife for support, and even If
deserted by his wife a man Is' not
likely to be exposed to hardship and
suffering, as the case with a woman.
Furthermore, this court has no power
to grant divorces. It merely adjusts
differences, punishes abandoning hus
bands, and advises separation when
separation seems the only wlBe
course, and determines the amount ot
money that the man must contribute
towards the support of his wife, chil
dren or other relatives.
Jtherly Love Man Spanks His Wife
Philadelphia.—when a husband
u forms the habit, of spanking bis
• It Is not easy to Induce him to
He his way. Of this Mrs. Mabel
nr Is firmly convinced. Before
'at she had her husband, Geo.
a meat dealer, arrested for
I spanked her, but when he was
®ed before Magistrate Bpaton
1 tbe City Hall police court a few
p* later, she announced that she
I bet want him sent to Jail. He
» discharged.
,•» only one way to get
art* to do a thing," said Mrs.
lEr . In admitting that the court
f were not an entire sue-
fT" * 0< * that Is to have him make
I \J)*°*n mind to do It”
’ i— * ,lla *’ not yet on speaking
••‘I' her husband, Mrs. Baker
f cheertu "y certain that the ex-
IshaV?'"* 4 "'atlons will end. She
looked forward to more spank
ings. “When we make up,” she said,
“It will be useless *■* ask George to
sign a pledge to spank me no more.
He wouldn't make any such promise,
and wouldn’t even apologize for any
of the spankings of tbe past. He Is
not the kind of man who apologizes.
In fact. I’ve never beard him say that
he was sorry for anything he ever .did.
“We have been married about two
years and a half. He commenced
spanking me two weeks after our wed
ding day and has kept It up almost
weekly ever since. He has a temper
end so have I; and If we Jangle, a
spanking follows. Ho Is not a big
man and I am not a small woman,
but I am completely helpless In his
arms. His'muscles are like Iron.
“I can’t tell how many times I have
been spanked. At first, I endured the
humiliation of such punishment be
cause I didn’t want peoplo to know
about It. Then I threatened to have
him arrested. I suppose I threatened
so often that he thought I would
never do anything. But when he
spanked mo harder than usual I caus
ed his arrest It didn’t cost me any
thing, but George had to pay $10 for
a lawyer, although It seemed to me
that $5 would have been enough for
such easy work.”
Nez Perce -Indiana Adopt a New Creed
,. —, Wash.—Withdrawing
.JJ* the Presbyterian church on
{r^at of differences with the prei-
Is? 0Ter tt>° Pastor of the church,
Ijj'’” p«ce Indians hate joined the
gS*! Co»ner, tbe pastor of the new
■■vooaist church; Stephen Reuben,
Wperintendent of the Sunday
tnd Abel Grant, the leader of
^ ™>‘r, appeared at the Kenwood
^*t church Sunday. The two
. 'PoltA while the third sand
J'ttiiA 1001 PR* the native
protested to the presbytery a
Ume * concerning our pas-
** M * "W* Were not eat-
■ rtjjth him and wanted another,
i ,;' t . ou *^ cot do as we wished,
u ji a ~^jfMthe church and Joined
Mbm ? r nervation there are six
nbi«. n charc hes, with a mem-
1“ ore th “ MO- The Indians
converted to the Presbyterian
the Her. Mr. Spaulding In
kii ’jj,. ,lnc ® that time that church
i “**yt been the .fmrre.1 with
••cn the strongest with
the tribe. When we withdrew we
took our pastor and two ot the elders
Into the Methodist church with us.”
Reuben is a relative of the late
Chief Joseph of the Nex Perce tribe
and accompanied the old warrior on
his last trip to Washington, where
they were received by President Mc
Kinley.
“General Miles took Joseph and me
from Washington to New York t6 see
Buffalo BlU’s show “bald Reuben. “He
paid all of our expenses and ,wo had
a fine time. He also gave $25 to each
of us. The show was good.”
Reuben was a boy at the time of
the Nes Perce outbreak and remem
bers It well, bis father being one ot
Joseph’s warriors. He was educated
at Carlisle and Qrant at Chemewawa
Indian school, Oregon.
NEW NEWS of YESTERDAY
By E. J. EDWARDS
Big Loan Without Security
How John J. Astor Let Gerrlt Smith
Have $300,000 on the Latter’s
Word That He Would Exe
cute Mortgage Bond.
“I have often thought that the fin
est exhibition ot business confidence
of which 1 have ever had knowledge
was the lending of some three hun
dred thousand dollars to Gerrlt Smith
by John Jacob Astor simply- upon Mr.
Smith’s promise that he would, as
soon as practicable, Execute a mort
gage bond as security for the loan.”
So said to me a -few years before bis
death. In 1902, Judge Noah Davis, wbo
presided over the Tweed trial, was
chief justice of New York state from
1874 until 1887, when he resigned, and
In 1867 was beaten by Roscoe Conk-
ling for the United States senate by
only two votes In the Republican cau
cus.
"I knew Gerrlt Smith well, not only
by reputation as one of the tbe great
abolitionists, but personally." contin
ued Judge Davis. "He was , a man of
very great ability and very large
wealth, and he bad some very peculiar
Ideas about the ownership of wealth
which were almost those ot a soci
alist He lived up to his Ideas, too,
for he gave away much the greater
part of his Income and many thou
sand acres of land which be Inherited
from his father. I suppose that tbe
land which came to Gerrlt Smltb
would, If It were In the possession of
the family at this time (about 1896)
probably be worth from fifteen to
twenty, million dollars. If was situ
ated In central New York state, and
before he began to give away Smltb
was one of the country’s largest
land owners. And for all he was a
radical on the slavery question, be
was one of tbe three men—all New
dore. Vanderbilt being the other two
—who signed the ball bond by means
of which Jefferson Davis was released
from Fortress Monroe pending a trial
for treason.
“Well, Mr. Smith was very suddenly
brought Into grave financial peril at
the time of tbe first great national
panic, that ot 1837; he was then forty
years of age. He had assets enough,
for he was the owner of many thou
sands of acres of land, but he, like
many other men of wealth, wsb in
desperate need of ready money. In
his extremity he thought of John Ja
cob Astor, with whom his father bad
been associated In the fur trade and
with whom Gerrlt Smith bad had
some business dealings. Therefore
ho went to New York and saw Mr.
Astor, saying that he needed a large
amount of money, ready cavil, In order
to prevent bankruptcy.
“Mr. Astor, who was a very careful
man In all his business engagements
and always looked with especial scru
tiny ai security which' was offered to
him tor a loan, asked Mr. Smith how
much money be needed, and was told
that about three hundred thousand
dollars, which was a large sum for that
time, would be required. Mr. Astor
then asked what security could bo
given for so large a loan as that, and
Mr. Smltb replied that he would give
the security of bonds and mortgage
upon several thousand acres of land
which be owned In the vicinity of
Peterboro, N. Y.. his home..
"Now, usually Mr. Astor would have
required a search of title to be made
so that It could be known whether or
not tbe borrower bad good title to (the
real estate which he offered as securi
ty. In addition, Mr. Astor would have
Insisted on a good many other legal
formalities; It was unprecedented for
him to make a loan and deliver over
the money until be had the security
in band. But he simply sold to Mr.
Smith that be would lend him tbe
money and that Mr. Smith upon bis
return to Peterboro .could have mort
gage bonds made out and executed,
recorded and s sent to Mr. Astor. A lit
tle wblle later Gerrlt Smith started
home with the three hundred thou
sand dollars and Mr. Astor bad no
other security for It that Gerrlt
Smith’s word. But, he knew Gerrlt
Smith and realised that his word was
as good as his bond.
"As soon as possible after Smith re-'
turned to his home he had the
mortgages made out and executed and
Instructed a clerk to send them to
Mr. Astor. But through some acci
dent the mortgages were not sent to
Mr. Astor. They were overlooked
and then forgotten, fior did Mr. Astor
ever remind Mr. Smith by letter that
he had not fulfilled his promise to
execute and deliver mortgage bonds
securities for the loans.
"Nearly a year passed and Mr.
Smith was again In New York when,
meeting Mr. Astor. he spoke of the
loan, saying that he hoped to repay It
In tbe course of a year or two. Then
Mr. Astor said to him that be had not
as yet received tbe mortgage bonds.
As soon as Mr. Smith heard that be
returned to Peterboro, made search,
discovered the mislaid mortgages, and
then Instantly. Went back to New York
with the mortgages In bis pocket and
delivered them personally to John Ja
cob Astor.
“I don't believe,” concluded Judge
Davis, “that John Jacob Astor at any
other time In his career made a busi
ness loan to any one without having
flrs^ received tho securities, either In
the form ot mortgages, collateral or
well endorsed notes."
(Copyright, 1911, by p. J. Edwards. vAJl
Rights Reserved.)
Killed Lion With Pocket Knife.
With a pocket knife a Texas man,
Juan Morales, killed a mountain lion
a few days ago after .the beast had
torn his right' arm until It hung help
less. Morales bad Just left bis borne
and hearing the screams ot bis chil
dren returned to find the lion In tbe
middle of the floor over the dead body
of the three-year-old boy. The other
two' children were unhurt. Tbe lion
sprang at him, and Morales, maddened
with rage at the death of bis child,
managed to get out his pocket knife,
the large blade of which opened with
a spring, and with his left hand begin
stabbing tbe lion and finally pierced
Its heart
Big 8ls«ers and Brothers.
The Big Slaters Society Is the name
of an organisation In New York on
the same lines as the Big Brothers, a
society of Jewish young men. Most
of the applicants for the Big Sisters
Society are working women, willing
to sacrifice their time ot leisure to'
help less fortunate sisters.
Test of the Mind’s Ability
Yorkers, Horace Greeley and Common w A . Camp> Lonfl of New
York Clearing House, Demonstrated
the Limitations of the Best
of Mathematicians.
For nearly a quarter of a century,
or from 1870 until 1894, William A.
Camp was the manager of the New
York Clearing House hssoclntlon. He
was a little man with bright, dark
eyes, bushy eyebrows,- thick hair
which In the later years of his life be
came Iron-gray, and a grizzly beard.
Mr. Camp was a conspicuous personal
ity In the financial world of New York,
not only because he was the manager
ot the largest clearing house.associa
tion of'the world, but also on account
ot a delightful quaintness of personal
ity and the whimsical and odd way he
had of looking at life, and especially
the life of the clearing house.
"Although this Institution Is-called
the New Y'ork Clearing House asso
ciation," he said to me one day, "yet
It Is, In fact, the great clearing bouse
of the United States. I should say
that at least pne-balf of tbe commerce
of the' United States passes through
this Institution In the form of drafts,
cheeks and other negotiable Instru
ments. You would suppose, therefore,
that somewhere In the United States
I could find a young man who would
be able to count without assistance
of pencil and paper, In excess ot 1,000.
Rescued a Great Classic
James T. Fields’ Story of the Way
In Which He Came to Get "Tho
Scarlet Letter" From Na
thaniel Hawthorne-
One ot tho great American publish
ers of yesterday was James T. Fields
(1817-81) or Boston. As one account
of his life has It; “His charming per
sonal qualities, bis sympathy, his lib
erality to all with whom be dealt,; and
bis unquestioned literary Judgment
drew to him most of the best known
Anferican authors of tbe time, and be
became tbe publisher of Longfellow.
Hawthorne, Emerson, Holmes, Whit
tier and Lowell, besldea' Introducing
Tennyson and Browning to American
readers even before tbelr true worth
was recognised In England." Mr.
Fields edited the Atlantic Monthly for
eight years, beginning In 1862, and
the last ten years of his life he spent
In authorship and lecturing.
In tbe course ot a conversation I
had with this distinguished publisher
on tbe day of bis return from Europe
In 1879—his last trip across the At
lantic—I asked him If It were true,
«s I bad heard', that be bad rescued
the manuscript of Hawthorne’s “Scar
let Letter" from what seemed to be a
permanent burial place.
"Yes," he said, "and I have alluded
to that Incident In one of my lec
tures. I had been to see Hawthorne
at Salem; he was then an officer In
the custom bouse there, and although
he had done nothing In a literary way
to make him famous, 1 was In hopes
that he might have by blm a manu
script or that I might persuade blm
to write something which would be
available for publication. He told me
that be bad nothing, but juat -as I
was about to leave be opened a draw
er and took from It some manuscript,
saying to me that he was doubtful
whether it was worth publishing or
not. He also said that he bad been
occupied with It In hla leisure mo
ments while serving as surveyor of
the port of Salem.
"I tucked the manuscript In my
pocket and took It away with me. It
was the manuscript ot tbe ‘Scarlet
Letter.* All the world knows the rest
of the story. I bare always felt proud
that I should have been the discoverer
of that Immortal classic."
"But," 'said I, "I have heard, Mr.
Fields, that you wire so doubtful
about getting your money back from
the publication of the romance that
you actually ordered the work to be
stopped and the types distributed."
"There was just enough color ot
truth In that report to account for Its
circulation, and yet It was very wide
of tbe mark," said Mr. Fields. "In
those days (I860) we often printed
directly from type, not taking tbe
trouble to stereotype a book. After a
few thousand copies of The Scarlet
Letter’ had been printed we were so
doubtful about tbe work becoming pop
ular, although we were sure that It
would have a good sale among culti
vated people, that we did order tbe
printer to distribute tbe types. But
the Instant the hook appeared we
knew that It was to be a popular suc
cess; any publisher can tell by tbe
feel of tbe market whether a book Is
a dead failure or not. So we ordered
tbe printers to reset tbe copy as rap
idly as possible and tbe printing of
additional copies was begun In tbe
course of a few days. You can Judge
how accurate our forecast was when L
tell you that the book sold nearly six
thousand copies In a little over three
weeks. And the fortune and ths fame
of Nathaniel Hawthorne were by that
publication secured."
-(Copyright, lilt, by E. J. Edwards. All
Rights Reserved.)
But 1 have never been able to find
young man ot that capacity.
"I learned a year or two after I be
came an officer of the Clearing House
association that I could not count In
excess of 500 or 600 without haring
pencil and paper before me. And
when I learned that fact In reference
to myself, Jt occurred to me that this
Institution afforded a good opportunity
of testing ithe capacity of the human
mind to Count consecutively. There
are, of course, some phenomenal, al
most abnormal. Intellects which are
able to count without the assistance of
pencil and paper far up In tbe thou
sands. Zenas Colburn, the mathemati
cal prodigy, could do that, although be
never knew how he dll} IL
“One day there came to zee me a
young man from somewhere In the
west wbo had been recommended to
me highly because he was of excep
tional capacity as a mathematician.
“He asked me to test him with col
umns ot figures I made two parallel
columns, each one containing, I’should
say, 15 separate sets of figures, some
ot them In hundreds—as, for Instance,
895. Then I put the example before
blm, he looked at It a minute, and,
with a sort of whiff of his breath, set
down the correct answer, having add-
ed tbe figures almost In tbe twinkling
ot an eye.
"I tested him the same way with
complicated examples In subtraction,
multiplication and division and he
gave me the correct answers almost In
an Instant.
Well, I said to him that those were
remarkable qualifications, but what I
was looking for was a young man Rho
could count without assistance above
1,000.
"He seemed disposed to laugh at my
suggestion. Intimating that It was easy
enough to do that
"I told blm to go ahead, sit there In
my presence, begin with one and count
up. He got along all right until be
reached 600. Then be began to stag
ger mentally. 1 saw him eye a pen
cil and pad ot paper, but I would not
let him have these aids. You see,
having got up to 600, he wanted So
start all over again. He broke down
completely before be reached 700, al
though I think he went farther In hla
mental count than any young man
whom I ever tested.
"I presume that a young man of
mathematical ability can train himself
to count much higher than 1,000, but
my experience as manager of tbe
clearing bouse has satisfied me that
the average intelligent young man,
even though he be possessed of fair
mathematical ability, cannot count con
secutively without aid much above
600 or 700.
“Of course, from one point of view,
this is of no consequence In tbe man
agement ot this association. But I
have beard so much said about the ca
pacity of the human mind to grasp
figures that I have always tested that
capacity when opportunity afforded. I
think I have demonstrated that It la
practically Impossible for the human
mind to count consecutively and with
out aid much above 1,000. And I have
never found anyone—banker or em
ploye—whose mind has been able tc
grasp tho magnitude ot the figures
which' represent tbe transactions of
tbls association, for they reach far up
Into the trillions."
(Copyright, OIL by E. J. Edwards All
Rights Reserved.)
Sarsaparilla
Will purify your blood, clear
your complexion, restore your
appetite, relieve your tired feel
ing, build you up. It leads all
other medicines in merit.
. Get It today in usual liquid form or
chocolated tablet* celled Sorsatabs.
HfC WANT * food, lioneit man to repment n« is
*» S VIfin I uila county: good migca and stood?
employment. Add reel 4.T. lari * c#., rnawstlllr, lad.
If afflicted with)
■oro aye*. u*o j
Thompson’* Eye Watir
After a long, hot, and dusty Joruney
tt? I asure you a good time?"
Let me fall In trying to do some
thing rather than ait etill and do noth
ing.—Cyrus Hamlin.
•bowing It I. ilmplr Qulnliw and Iron In . luteins
form, ondItbe mint effectual (oral. For grown
people end children, (0 oontt.
As frost, raised to Its utmost inten
sity, produces the sensation ot Ore,
ao a good quality, over-wrought and
pushed to excess, turns Into Its own
contrary.—Wm. Matthews.
of Elixir Rubric ours for such ailments.
”1 have used Elixir Babek In my fam
ily for sixteen yeara and found It even
more than you.olalm,for It In tre&tlnr
eases of Chills or Malarial Fevers. One
member ot our family was cured of ’
Malarial Fever by It when given up to
die by physicians.—J. F, Oberlet, Vien
na, Va. Elixir Babek 60 cents, all drug
gist! or I^locsowskl tt Co., Washington,
He Balked'at That.
T poslUvely and absolutely refuse!"
cried the candidate with great empha-
“Refuse whatf” asked tbe campaign
manager.
"I’ve kissed all tho babies In my dla-‘
trict," he replied, "but I’ll be gum-
•woggled It I’ll- kies Mrs. Astorbllt’s
poodle, even If It costs the whole suf
fragette voteI"
\ A Superior Person.
F. H. Elliott, the secretary of the
American Automobile association,
woe talking about a somewhat super
cilious and conceited millionaire.
"He’s a very superior person,” Mr.
Elliott said, smiling. "Ho’a Ihe tort
of person who would be sure to go
to a horse show In a motor car and to
an automobile show In a monoplane."
Overheard In Venice.
"Isn’t It romantic, John, dear,” said
she, as they sat In the little Venetian
garden, "to sit here and listen to these
Italian troubadours alnglng their bal
lade bathed In tbe moonlight}”
“Yes, dear," replied John, with ‘ a
deep-drawn elgh. "But I sometimes
wish they’d bathe In something be
sides moonlight, don’t you. It might
less romantic, but It would be a
darn eight more hygienic.’’—Harper’s
Weekly.
Not In Circulation There.
An error of a new clerk In the mails
Ing department of an eastern publish
er was responsible, the other day, for
the mailing of a prospectus to a world-
famous statesman, who had been dead
for some years. The letter was re-
turned a few days later with the fol
lowing Indorsement: "In Heaven, .
1911. Gentlemen: Ae your publica
tions .are not permitted to circulate
here, I believe tt would be useless for
me to subscribe for them. Yours re
spectfully,’’ sod here followed the
name of the famous statesman.
A FINS NIGHT-CAP
The Best Thing In the World to Go to
Bed end Sleep On.
"My wife and I find that 4 teaspoon-
fuls of Grape-Nuts and a cup of hot
milk, or some cream, with It, makea
the finest night-cap In the world,” says
an Alleghany, Pa., man.
“We go to sleep as soon u we strike
the bed, and slumber like babies till
rising time In the morning.
"ft Is about 3 yeara now since we be
gan to use Grape-Nuts food, and wa
always have it for breakfast and be
fore retiring and sometimes for lunch.
I was so sick from wbat the doctors
called acute Indigestion and brain fag
before I began to use Orape-Nuta that I
could neither eat, sleep nor work with
toy comfort
T wee afflicted at the tame time
with tbe most Intense pains, accompan
ied by a racking headache and back
ache, every time I tried to eat any
thing. Notwithstanding an unusual
pressure from my professional duties,
I was compelled for a time to give up
my Work altogether.
“Then I put myself on a diet ot
Grape-Nuts and cream alone, with an
occasional cup of Postum as a runner-
up, and sometimes a little dry toasL I
assure you that In less than a week I
felt like a new man; I had gained six
pounds In weight, could sleep well
andtbink welL
"The good work went on, and I was
soon ready to return to business, and
have been hard at it, and enjoying It
ever since.
"Command me at any time any one
enquires as to the merits of Grape-
Nuts.' You will find me always ready
to testify.” ' Name 'given by Postum
Co., Battle Creek, Mich.
Reed the little book, “The Road to
Wellville,” In pkgs. There’* a reason."
Ever reed <he sWr* tetter) A xeve
m time te time. They