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PART TWO. GO MAD FROM MONOTONY. svKtem and the measure for the tax for president at the Chicago conven MAGAZINES AND BOOKS THE CANDIDATES. that the Sunday North American of Philadelphia has secured the exclusive right to publish it in this territory, and will print the first installment next Sunday, June 2G, with illustration worthy of the story. BORIC ACID IN FOOD.

Conclusions Reached After Government Investigation. ing nf the franchises of corporations marked his administration. in June 1900. asrainst his expressed tn mmain in office as eovernor of the state for a second term, he was nominated for vice president at Phil-delphia, when President McKinley was renominated. He made an extended canvassing tour, speaking in many places on a trip across the continent and back, and the result of the campaign was regarded as largely due to his efforts for the ticket.

In the first year of his term as vice president, on September 14, 1901, by reason of the death of President McKinley, by the hand of an assassin in Buffalo, he assumed the office of president. His first announcement was that he would conduct his administration as a continuation of that of President McKinley, and retained all the members of the cabinet, although in the last three years there have been many The plans for trust and tariff legislation were carried out, the Philippine policy was maintained and the construction of the Panama canal secured. The settlement of the anthracite, coal strike, the proceedings against the Northern Securities company, and the attitude of the president in regard to the appointment of negroes to office, that color is non-essential in fitness for office, have been distinctive features of his administration. As, the most active and conspicuous figure in public in this country, President Roosevelt has filled a large place in the public eye. James Bryce recently of him that he was the most striking figure in American life since Washington.

President Roosevelt has found time at tho intervals of official duties to contribute largely to the literature of the land. 'He is the author, among others, of these works: "The Naval ar of 1812," "Life of Thomas Hart lien ton," "Life of Gouveneur Morris," Jfanch Life and Hunting Trail," "History of New York City," "The Winning of the West' (in four vol umes,) "Essays in Practical Politics," The Wilderness Hunter," "American Political Ideals," "The Rough Riders," Life of Oliver Cromwell and "The Strenuous Life." His latest impor tant speech was delivered at Gettysburg on May 30. The degree of LL. D. was conferred on him by Columbia in 1899, by Hope college and by Yale in 1901, by Harvard in 1902 and by Northwestern university in 1903.

In 1883 he was married to Miss Mice Lee, who died two years later, caving one daughter. In 1880 he was irried to Miss Edith Kermit Carow, and they have five children, four of them sons. The family home is at Oyster Bay, Long Island, known as Sagamore Hill, which overlooks both he bay and Long Island sound. President Roosevelt is a member of ho Reformed (Dutch) church, and dentilled in membership with the Union League club, the Century asse rtion, the Holland society and other organizations of New York city. One of his favorite forms of exercise is horseback riding.

In September, 1902, the president al a narrow escape at Pittfield, when his carriage was struck by a trolley car and one of his secret-service bodyguards was killed. Owing to the injury the president received, he had to give up a trip to the northwest after going as far as Indianapolis. Last year he made an extended trip to the Pacific coast. Career of Senator Fairbanks. A son of Ohio, of Puritan ancestry, Charles Warren Fairbanks early attained prominence as a lawyer in Indianapolis, and has been a United States senator since 1897.

He secured his education by his own exertions and had decided on the law as a profession before he entered college. Senator Fairbanks was born near Un-ionvillo Centre, Union county, Ohio, May 11, 1852. He is descended in the eighth generation from Jonathan Fairbanks, who settled in Dedham, in 1 030. From the old Bay state the ancestors of Senator Fairbanks went to Vermont, and it was from that slate that his father went to OOhio in 1830 and settled on a farm and also worked at wagon making. When the future senator was a baby he was rocked in a sugar trough to which home made rockers had been attached, and as he advanced in boyhood he was taught that what his hand found do he must do with his might.

His parents were earnest Methodists and encouraged his ambition to secure an education. He diligently attended the district school, and in the summer he worked on the farm at his father's trade of wagonmaking. At the age of 15 he left his home and, with $41, which he saved from what his father had paid him, in the pocket of his only suit of clothes, he went to Delaware, Ohio, and entered the Ohio Wesleyan university. There he and his roommate boarded themselves and young Fairbanks found employment with a carpenter on Saturdays by reason of his familiarity with the use of tools, lie was also ready to! do any work about the college whieii I he could find to do, and in the summer vacations he worked in the harvest fields at his home. In his senior year he was one of the editors of the college newspaper, The Western Collegian.

He was graduated with the degree of A. B. in 1872, and went Pittsburg, where he began the study of law, at the same time supporting himself by doing newspaper, work for the Associated Press. A year later he entered a law school at Cleveland and did similar work. It was in 1874 that he was admitted to the bar at Columbus, Ohio.

While in college he had met Miss Cornelia Cole, who was a co-editor with him on the newspaper. In the same year that lie was admitted to th Sketch of Lives of the Nominees of the Republican National Convention. A' PRESIDENT'S GOOD RECORD Prom the Beginning of His Career as a Public Servant He Has Been Faithful and True. SERVICES OP SENATOR FAIRBANKS A man who has filled the offices of president, vice president, governor, assistant secretary of the navy, mem ber of assembly, civil service com missioner and police commissioner, has been a colonel in the army and is the author of a score or more vol umes on various subjects, has filled no unimportant place in the history of his country. Such is Theodore Roosevelt, twenty-sixth president of the United States and candidate to succeed himself.

In such a crowded career incident is heaped on incident and one notable feature treads close on the heels of another. The first of the Hoosevclts in this country came from Holland to New Amsterdam in 1049. His sou Nicholas was one of the aldermen of the early city of New York. Descendants served in the revolution, and there were Roosevelts named as sugar refiners, merchants, bankers, trustees of charitable institutions and public officials in the history of the city for the past two centuries. A Theodore Roosevelt married Martha Bulloch, of Roswell, in the middle of the last century, and to them was born a son, Theodore, on October 27, 1858, who is now president.

His birthplace was his father's home, No. 28 East Twentieth street, New York, and he is of the ninth generation of the family living in New York. His maternal ancestors figured in the revolution, and originally came from Scotland and Ireland, and there was some Huuguenot blood in his ancestry. As a boy Theodore Roosevelt was delicate, but he decided to be well and strong, if possible, and 'by active, vigorous exercise he succeeded. His education was begun in a private school, and when he was 18 he entered Harvard college.

While devoted to his books, at the same time he took a great deal of outdoor exercise, wrestling, sparring and running. In 1880 he was graduated, and spent a year in study and travel. While in Europe he climbed the Alps and took pedestrian tours in Germany, making an especial study of peasant life. In London he became a member of the Alpine club. Returning to this City in 1881, he was elected to represent his assembly district in the state legislature, and was twice re-elected.

He introduced the first civil service measure in the legislature, and it became a law. lie was an active associate of George William Curtis in promoting civil service reform. In 1881 he was chairman of the New York delegation to the republican national convention that put Mr. Blaiuo before the country as a candidate. In the intervals of his work in the assembly he went to the far west, the fascinations whose frontier life had appealed to him in the writings of Captain Mayne Reid.

lie was at the killing of the buffalo in the last big hunt in ISSo, and for several years thereafter spent a considerable part of the time on a ranch in North Dakota, living an outdoor life and gaining the experience afterward embodied in his books. In 1SSU Mr. Roosevelt was the republican candidate for mayor of New York, having received an independent nomination and indorsement by his party. His opponents were Henry George and Abrain S. Hewitt, the named being elected.

When President Harrison assumed oilice in 1889 he appointed Mr. Roosevelt a national divil service commissioner, and ho remained in that office under President Cleveland until May, 1895, when he resigned to accept the office of police commissioner under Mayor Strong. He was first asked to be street cleaning commissioner, but declined. In the police department he devoted himself to the work of reorganization and reform, the need of which had been shown by legislative investigation. The enforcement of the laws in the statue books was strictly carried out, and the salutary methods introduced were of marked benefit to the force and the city.

In 1897 Commissioner Roosevelt resigned to accept the post of assistant secretary of the navy under Secretary Long. He had much to do with providing' the splendid condition of the navy at the outbreak of the war with Spain. When that conflict broke out he resigned in order to see actual service. He had served in the national guard of New York from 18S4 to 1889, and from his experience in rough riding on his ranch in the west he decided to raise a volunteer calvary regiment largely composed of cowboys. Of this he became lieutenant colonel under Colonel Leonard Wood, of the regular army, and went to Cuba, where Colonel Roosevelt led the charge of the Ninth calvary and the rough riders up San Juan Hill at Santiago.

He shared all the hardships of his men, and when General Shatter's army was in danger from disease he was active in securing signatures to a round robin, which resulted in the recall of the army. He returned with his command, having been commissioned colonel for gallantry at Las Guasimas on July 11, 189S, to Montauk Point to be mustered out. In September of that year he was nominated for governor of the Empire state, and at the election he defeated Justice Augustus Van Wyck. Be- i tion, but when the nomination of Har- rison became evident the support of. Gresham with his consent, was trans ferred, to Harrison.

Mr. Fairbanks made speeches for Harrison and Mor ton throughout Indiana. He was chairman of the Indiana state conven tion in 1892, and again in 1898. In 1893 he was chosen by the republican caucus in the state legislature as can didate for United States senator, but the democrats had a majority on joint ballot and elected Senator Turpie. In 1890 he was delegate-at-large from In diana to the St.

Louis republican con vention, and served as temporary chairman. In 1897 he was the candidate for United States senator to succeed Daniel W. Voorhees (democrat), the "tall Sycamore of the Wabash," and was elected by ja. majority of 21 In 1898 he was appointed a member of the United States and British joint high commission to settle the differences with Canada, and he was chair man of the United States commission ers. As senator he ihas always been strict in his attendance on the duties of his office, and has made a most thorough study of all public questions He is a forcible and practical speaker and has been persistent in securing legislation in which he is interested He was re-elected a senator last year for the term ending March 3, 1909, Senator Fairbanks was an Indiana delegate to the republican convention at Philadelphia in 1900, and as chair man of the committee on resolutions reported the platform.

He was strongly talked of as candidate for vice president before the choice of Theodore Roosevelt was decided on, He was a close friend of President Mc Kinley, and it was thought he might be his successor. Senator Fairbanks is an active Methodist is a leading member of the Meridan street church, in Indianapolis, with which his colleague, Senator Beveridge is also connected. Since 1885 he has been a trustee of the Ohio Wesleyan university, whose president, Dr. Bashford, has just been eledcted a bishop of the Methodist Episcopal church. In 1889 Senator and Mrs Fairbanks built and presented to the college a fine gymnasium.

In personal appearance the senator is over six feet in height and extremely dignified in manner. He is most highly thought of by his friends, and by his opponents as a man who fights fair. Mrs. Fairbanks is the president general of the Daughters of the American Revolution. Their home in Massachusetts avenue, Washington, is the centre of generous hospitality.

Senator and Mrs. Fairbanks have five children, one daughter married to Ensign John W. Timmons, of the battleship Kearsarge, and four sons, one in business and three completing their education, one being an undergraduate at Yale. About Late Corn Planting. Those farmers who recently found it necessary to replant corn' may take courage from a report made by Thomas Kerr, of Georgevillc, Indiana county.

Several years ago Mr. Kerr was engaged by a farmer to replant a few rows of sweet corn in a two- acre lot in which the seed had previously been destroyed. Mr. Kerr suggested that the entire lot be replanted, but his employer thought it was then too late. The young man thought differently, and in order to demonstrate his faith offered to replant the lot and take the product in lieu of a week's salary- His proposition won the farmer over to idea, and on June 20 the field- was replanted, at the farmer's expense, however.

The corn grew and the fall season was favorable, in consequence of which the yield was a little over 100 bushels of corn to the acre. Had the farmer accepted Mr. Kerr's proposition the latter would have received 200 bushels of corn for lib week's work. Healthy Mothers Mothers should always keep in good bodily health. They owe it to their children.

Yet it is no unusual sight to we a mother, with babe in arum, coughing violently and exhibiting all the eynipiynns ol a consumptive tendency. And wby should this dangerous condition exit, dangerous alike to mother and child, when Dr. Boschee'e German Syrup would put a Htop to it at once? No mother nhould be without this old and tried remedy in the houee for its tiuitdy list! will promptly cure any lung, throat orbron-idiial trouble in herself or ber children. The worst cough or can be speedily cured by German Syrup; eo can hoarseness and congestion of thej bronchial tubes. It makes expectoration easy and gives iriBtant relief and refreshing reft to the cough-racked consumptive.

New trial bottles, 25c; large size, 75c. At all druggists. The Happy Medium. One great attraction of life at IJyswen is that your neighbor 'will be near enough, yet not too near. The people next door will not look into your dining room, nor will the maids gossip at the alley gate for there isn't any alley gate.

Yet there is no isolation, no loneliness, a pleasant stir is felt all the time, the city is near, yet you have quiet), blue sky and green grass surround' you yet you have all tho luxuries of city life. The combination of city and country is the charm that is drawing the best society of, cities to the suburbs and you will look long to find another suburb with tho advantages of Llyswen. Read their "ad" on page 2. A Frightened. Horse, Running like mad down the street dumping the occupants, or a hundred other accidents, are every day occurrences.

It behooves everybody to 4iavo a reliable Salve handy and there's none as good as Bucklen's Ar- killed Sterling Run yesterday, while driving logs. He was caught in a' mixup of three logs and crushed i so badly that he died about two hours afterwards, which was as soon as he could be reache'd by the physician who was summoned. The unfortu-' nate man leaves a family of sixteen children. Lighthouse Keepers Often Suffer From the Inevitable Isolation. People who read books and all do in this day will recall Kipling's story of the lonely lightkeeper who became mad from the monotony of his situation.

While the story was fiction, it nevertheless was in accordance with many actual occurrences. A correspondent submitted the question to the lighthouse board and found that, while there had been no such cases as that of Kipling's character. Dowse, there had been many which showed the maddening effect of monotony and isolation upon the human mind. The madness of the lighthouse is much like that of the desert, for they are traceable to a like cause. In the desert there is monotony of silence.

At sea there is monotony of sound. One is as bad as the other, since both derive their entire pain from mental effect. It is a fearful disease, not yet fully understood, though many noted alienists have made a study of it. This government maintains 1.500 lighthouses and about 100 of them are isolated, and communication with tho outside world may be interrupted "sometimes for months. If a man is taken from the ordinary walks of life, where he mingles with his fellow man, and sent to a lighthouse, where no human face is seen except that of tho ever-present assistant, and no sound is heard save the roaring of the wind and wave, he has been transferred from normal to most abnormal conditions.

In a remarkably short time keeper and assisfaut have talked out. Then they begin to wear on each other and soon they fall to quarreling. Sometimes melancholia attacks one of them and unless he is speedily relieved his mental balance is disturbed. When the disturbance becomes extreme it takes either a homicidal or suicidal turn; and tho unfortunate has to be watched closely and sometimes confined to keep him from doing violence to himself or others. It is well known that the Ledge light is noted for the number of men who -have gone crazy iu it.

and for that reason is an object of interest to students of mental diseases. It is, as everybody knows, a piece of engineering of the very highest order in that respect second only to the famous Eddy stone light. Mere than a year was consumed in getting a foundation for it, and so high are the tides and so terriflic the storms that the entrance to the light is more than forty feet above the water Then, one above the other, come the five rooms occupied by the keepers and used for storage purposes, then the watch room and finally the lantern. The tower being circular, and spaco greatly in demand, naturaiiy everything is made to conform so that no room shall be lost. Even the beds on which the men sleep are curved.

Everything is round. The government has done the best it could to make life there as bearable as possible and keeps live men stationed there so that they may go ashore as often as the chance is afforded without detriment to the service. Indianapolis Sentinel. RELIGIOUS NOTES. information of Interest to Those Who Attend Divine Services.

Rev. R. A. Hutchison, pastor of the United Presbyterian church, will preach tomorrow evening at. o'clock on the subject: "Sin Permitted," or "Who is the Author of Sin?" 'Why Is Sin in the World?" or "How Did It Get There?" This sermon will bo the first of a series of four "Sin Permitted." "Sin Committed," "Sin Transmit ted," "Sin Remitted." The evening sermon in tho Firs I Methodist Episcopal church tomorrow Vri'l bo preached by Rev.

E. V. Dubois, Rnn-in-law of Mr. and Mrs. George W.

Kessler, TJwelfth avenue, md now pastor of the First Methodist 'Episcopal church, Woosler, Ohio. tho same church tomorrow after-loon at :00 o'clock, tho pastor, Rev. B. C. Conner, will administer the ordinance of baptism to children.

Pointed reflections upon the appalling disaster by the burning of tho General Siocum, will be the timely subject of Rev. Warren J. Johnson's evening theme in Christ Reformed church tomorrow. Programme for Kundav evening ser vices in Juniata Methodist Epiwoj-al church at 7.45 o'clock: OrRu Voluntary Wciley Mr. W-.

H. organist. Nunc Dimittis Uhford Choir. I'ravcr bv Rev. K.

K. Hartrr. Soprano and Tenor Uuett, "Thy Will Bo Pone." ream Mr. T. I.

niid vr. J. A. Werner. and CI orus 'H)v Excellent Ik Thy Loving Kinihiefw" Noyea Scripture Uea'linK.

Tenor Solo, "A Closer Walk Willi Co Jerome Mr. A. K. IMvis. Alioona.

Solo and Chorus, "Jesus Tlieic Eyes Have Never Seen" P. A. Schnecker Sermon by the pastor. Anthem, "Our Kiilher Whieli Art In Hearen," (now i liv T. Ii.

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B. Kantner. Stewart'B restaurant open all night McClure for July a Capital Number. 'In the Bishop's Carriage" a Novel Which is Exciting Comment The Quarterly. There are real things in the July McClure's.

In the opening article-ex-Presidont Cleveland tells the inside story of "The Government in the Chicago Strike of 1894." Here for tho first time in print are the facts concerning this great industrial crisis and the manner in which it was met by the federal courts and authorities. It is a graphic story as well as most illuminating of the powers and duties of the government. Cleveland's insistence that the protectiion of interstate commerce and the United States mails was the natural function of the federal government, a position later sustained by the supreme court, marked a new way for the guidance of the nation. How this important end was reached he tells clearly, even dramatically. Ray StannarJ Baker, in his study of the labor problem, finds that today "Organized Capital Challenges Organized Labor." He describes the now Employers association move ment, its methods and meaning.

He finds capital fighting laboj- with its own weapons, with me result that in many cases peace has come through armed truce. In the fiction there is richness for all. The third instalment of George Madden Martin's first serial, "The House of Fulfilment," sustains inter est and fulfills the high anticipations felt for the author ot "Emmy Lou." Henry Wallace Phillips has a "Red Saunders" story, which pictures that worthy in the humorous dual role of presiding at a lynching bee and solv ing the labor prolixin on his sheep ranch. As usual, he unties the Gor- dian knot with a slash. Myra Kelly takes her little children of the poor away from the East Side to Central paik, "The Land of Heart's Desire." In "By Way of Loss" Mary Josephine Mayer illustrates the old adage con cerning clouds with silver linings iu a bright way.

A clever and comical s'ory by a new writer is "Hi dice's Hlorseo," by Clara Byrnes. Richard F. Wood tells a wierdly mysterious tale of the tragedy of a woman's death in "The Hinging of the Bell." Florence Wilkinson contributes a poem, The Far Country, and the number concludes with an editorial announcement concerning Miss Tar- bcll's History of the Standard Oil company, additional chapters of which are to appear tins tan, an to be included in a book to be published by McClure, Phillips Company. The Philadelphia Record. In these days of keen newspaper competition it is gratifying to observe that "The Philadelphia Record" still holds its place as the foremost newspaper of Pennsylvania, a position it has occupied with honor to itself and credit to the community for many years.

Not only docs it lead in circulation, but its influence to-day is even stronger than it has ever been before, which is saying much. In the matter of giving the news it is invariably first, in I ho field, while its editorial page continues to be a powerful cnampion the cause of the people. Editorially "The Record" ranks with tho pest. Us opinions are not only iound and scholarly, they are fearless ind independent as well. It truckles to no political powysr.

It is deliberate its judgment of men and measures affecting public life, and when those Judgments arc once formed there is no equivocation. What we most ad mire about "Tho Record is its back- 'OIIO. The success of such a paper is con-cqucutly not to be wondered at. It has the people with it because the looplo realize that when it makes a ight it is fighting for tliem. This lias ner been "The Record's" policy, to advocate the things that tend toward iliu public good.

There have been Limes in the past when it has seemed to even antagonize its own interests talcing the unpopular side of a con troversy, but has eventually demonstrated its farsightedness by bringing the public to its way of thinking. An illustration of this occurred more than a decade ago when, single handed and in the face of tremendous opposition, it advocated the introduction of trolley cars in Philadelphia. Looking back, it seems almost incomprehensible that such a condition of affairs could have existed. Many other illustrations of the progressive spirit of "The Record" could be cited, but the greatest lies the fact that it is appreciated to the extent of boasting the largest circulation of any newspaper published in Pennsylvania. The Most Original Novel of the Year.

The most competent judges have pronounced "In the Bishop's Carriage" the most original novel of the year. It is a tale about flesh and blood people; a story for men and women. "Uncle Joe" Cannon, speaker of the national house of representatives, is most enthusiastic in his praise of Miss Miriam Michelson's book. This is what he has to say about it: "I am in-receipt of a copy of 'In the Bishop's by Miriam Miehelson. I read the same wilh great pleasure.

It seems to me it ought to be a popular publication and one that will exert a good influence. Perhaps I can best describe it by saying that I commenced reading it early in the morning and finished it that night and the coming morning, and when finished I drew a longc breath and felt that I had forgotten everything else but the book and regretted that there was not more of it. With respect, etc. J. G.

CANNON." The story is something absolutely new in the literary line a theatrical romance that abounds in thrilling situations interwoven with genuine humor and human heart-burnings. In fact, the tale is so remarkably good The Quarterly. The holiday number of The Quarterly, of which Rev. Morgan M. Sheedy fs the editor, is on table.

It is an interesting number and in the editorials especially are found several timely articles. One of these, "The Better the Catholic, the Better the Citizen," will repay the reading. There are some good articles under the captions of "The General Reader," and "With the Young People," all of which will be interesting reading for Catholics. The Quarterly is on sale at all news stands. Price 5 cents per copy.

WHO ARE THE VULGAR? Underestimate Essentials and Overestimate Accidentals Our Social Life. "It is impossible to define'4 vulgar ity," says the Spectator, and then pro ceeds to define it iu large and vague and comfortable words. "It is," according to the Spectator, "a disease of character producing different symptoms according to the moral constitution upon which it fastens, and the social environment fthe sufferer. It may make a man overbearing, or it may make him obsequious, insolent or flattering," etc. Now, we imagine that it- is quite easy to define vulgarity.

To put it, in fact, in a nutshell. Vulgarity, we should say, is an underestimation of the essentials and an overestimation of the accidentals of our social life, and it quite naturally produces all the symptoms described by the Spectator. Vulgarity is caused by the abolition of well-defined class distinctions, by the merging at its two extremes of one class into another. We believe it would be impossible to-day to find a sharp dividing line anywhere in the social scale, from the dukes to the tramps. But everywhere in tho social scale you will find people looking up to and down upon each other and admiring or despising each other not for their merits or demerits, but for the trappings of their position.

We do not believe for a moment that there was such a thing as a vulgar person in the time of the Plan-tagenets. In those days men did, or didn't do, as the case might be, their duty in the state of life in which they found themselves; and the archer would no more have groveled before the belted knight, because the belted knight wore a suit of tin clothes, than the belted knight would have dreamt of despising the archer because his leather jerkin was frayed at tiio elbows. Each retained his self-respect, and respected the other. To-day the gentleman in the wholesale is very offhand indeed with the gentleman in the retail, and only bond of union is their love for a lord in the company promoting business. The wholesale gentleman sends his sou to Eton to mix with the sons of the Park Lane nobility, while tho gentleman in the retail sends hN sons Into the army to teach tho poor gentlemen in that profession the vnl-ue of money, while the poor gentlemen in return unconsciously teach their gilded companions in arms to despise the trade practiced even by the plutocrats in the wholesale.

It all sounds very sordid and horrible, but it works out all right in the ned. Classes join and break and join again, and up and down goes au endless procession of tho lucky and the unlucky, the deserving and the ludcserving. All states of civilization have the faults of their qualities. The fault or the Plaatagenot system was the inevitable waste of talent; Uie fault of our system is the vulgarity of the newly-risen, a vulgarity that has increased till to-day theonlv two men who could stand face to face with dignity and composure would be a happy duke anil an Australian iiiu-downer, neither desiring to be anything better. If the Spectator doesn't like vulgarity it must vote the Plantagenet ticket, there is no middle course.

London Lance. ITEMS FROM M'KEE'S GAP. Immediately after the wedding ceremony an elegant wedding supper was served. The ceremony was performed by Rev. W.

L. Spanogle, of Cone-maugh, formerly pastor of the Brethren church of this place. Word reached this place Sunday announcing the death of Samuel Snyder, of Conemaugh. Mr. Snyder had many relatives and friends in t.hi3 county who will hear of his loath with sadness.

The States family will hold a reunion on Saturday at the lion of Mr. James States. There will be a large delegation of States and a rood time if the weather man is inclined to be gentle. A pretty, home wedding occured Thursday evening at 7:30 o'clock at tho home of Mr. and Mrs.

Mussleman, McKee's Gap. The contracting parties wore Mr. Charles E. Marker, of Roaring Spring, and Miss Harriet M. Mussleman, daughter of the host and hostess.

The bride has been for several years a trusted employe of the Roar-Spring Blank Book and the groom is employed by the P. R. R. company. They both have hosts of friends who congratulate them and wish them a pleasant voyage over the sea of life.

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Stewart's restaurant open all night. Department of Agriculture Issues a Re-port Giving the Result of Ex-perimentg Mad Last year. Fr the New York Tribune. The department of agriculture has just isued a report giving the result of the experiments made last year in. the influence of boric acid and borax on digestion and health.

During a period of six months twelve young men submitted themselves to the observation of experts and gave a lest of the effect of natural and preserved foods upon the system. The trial seems to have demonstrated that, while the human body can endure considerable quantities of boric acid in food without serious results, yet the steady absorption of the drug is iinhealthful and especially likely to work injury to persons of a delicate constitution. The report shows that boric acid taken in food is eliminated from tho system almost entirely by the and that, as the maximum traces of it are found only three days after administration, the drug meanwhile is present in the circulation. It is not shown tiiat the boric acid has auy directly deleterious effect upon the kidneys, but anybody who realizes ihe prevalence of kidney disease under the unnatural strain upon those organs of the common mode of life, Willi its nervous tension and overeating, will feel it unwise to subject them unnecessarily to the work of eliminating from tho body a chemical product which lias no natural place there and willi which they should not be called upon to deal. The department further finds that the continued use of boric acid, even in-small quantities which' produce no immediate palpable effects and are not noticeable to tho taste, results in loss of appetite, bad feeling, fulness in the head and dis-! rcss in the stomach.

Persons using borated food tend to lose weight, and analysis shows that a smaller proportion of borated than of natural food is digested and made available by the body's uses. The report is thoroughly conservative. It makes no sensational charges that food is poisoned by borax. It admits that articles of only occasional use may be preserved with tho aid of boric acid without harm, and it concedes that meats shipped raw and not kept too long may without bad results receive an external coating of preservative which excludes germs of decomposition without penetrating far beneath the surl'at'e. Nevertheless, it is emphatic in its warning igaiiist the habitual use of preserved umds, and in its demand that such foods be honestly labelled that the may know what he is This phase of the subject is important.

The con-wrtuT is now at the mercy of the profiteer. If he is an invalid, he may be seriously injured by borated foods which he buys, supposing them to be pure. He should have a chance to know whether he is getting natural preserved food. If his constitution will sland the latter, well and jood. If it will not, what, is to him a ooisou should not bo secretly and fraudulently administered to It may be that for the preservation if some articles boric acid is necessary, or at least preferable to the chemical conditions which would be lev eloped without it.

The burden of on that point, however, rests upon I ho producer. Ho should bo Tompeilnd to meet tli is obligation, to pecify his use of boric acid and eom-nend it. to favor, and not allowed to. 3cll goods under false pretences. The report says: "It is undoubtedly true no patent effects niny bo pro-lucel in persons of good health by iio occasional use of preservatives of this kind in small quantities, but the voting, the debilitated and the sick must not he forgotten, and tho safe rule to (oliow is to exclude? these preservatives from foods for general consumption." This can only be done by compelling publicity in the use of Ihe preservatives.

Otherwise, in spite of all precaution, those who would be injured will unwittingly uso them. Bitten by Copperhead. From the Hiinlincdoii Iical News. Alfred Eckley, whose homo is at 303 Church street, was bitten by a copperhead snake on Tuesday afternoon about 3 o'clock. Mr.

Lckley is employed by the heading mill company to haul logs from their tract on Warrior Ridge to the mill. Whilo out in the woods about four miles from town, in the act of reaching under a log on the ground to place a chain around a log, the copperhead grabbed hold of the index finger of his right hand and as Mr. Eckley drew out his hand the serpent hung on and he was compelled to shake it loose. The snake was soon killed. After leaving his, finger bleed for short time some fellow workmen bandaged his wrist, then the unfortunate man started on a run for life to a physician, arriving at Dr.

Bogg's oilice, where the wound was cauterized, and it is believed that no serious results will follow. The pain from tho infused poison was yery great. An Altoona Woman III. The Mapleton Item says: Mrs. Peter of Altoona, came to Mapleton last Friday to visit her children.

She has not been in good health for the past two years, and Saturday night she had an apoplectic stroke. Sunday her condition was considered critical hut at this writing is somewhat improved. Concerning a Local Physician. This is what Editor Swope, of the Mapleton Item, has to say about one of Altoona's school directors: Dr. S.

L. of Altoona, was" in Mapleton Sunday on professional business. A quarter of a century ago thi doctor was located at Mill Creek an-1 at that time had an extensive practice in Mapleton. Professionally, socially and as a friend of liberal education the doctor is quite prominent in the Mountain City, bar they were married, and went to nica Salve. Burns, Cuts, Sores, Ec-Indianapolis to make their permanent zema and Piles, disappear quickly un-liomo.

The young lawyer was aided der its soothing effect. 25c at A. A. in securing a practice by his uncle, I Gartlaud's and David G. Hurley's William Henry Smith, who was in-! Drug Stores.

tues.thur,sat&wky terested in railroads, and he soon be-1 came one of the most successful rail- Leaves Sixteen Children, road lawyers in the state. With in- The DuBois Courier of June 2.5 creased income he became a resident says: Perry Burry, a logman, was of the most fashionable part of the city, North Meridan street. Senator Fairbanks always has been the manager of the candidacy of Wal- tcr Q. Gresham for the nomination coming the thirty-seventh governor of i an earnest republican, and in his ris-New York on January 2, 1S99, he de-1 ing days as a lawyer he was urged to voted lumself to tho administration accept the nomination for district at-of affairs of tho state with his accus-1 torney, but declined. In 1888 he was tomed energy and ability.

He set on i foot the investigation of the canal.