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The BED arora A by the Prees Publishing Company, No. & to # Park Row, New Tors Butered at the Post-Office at New York as Second-Class Ma Matter. VOLUME 47... +. NO 16,464, —_f clhemcllT PURE FOOD. The Department of Agriculture is preparing the rules and regula-| a Ridns under which the Pure Food law will be enfor OF January. In the more general discussion of the Meat bill which | Congress passed at its last session the wider application and the more @xtensive value of the Pure Food law have beén overlooked | Several States have had State pure food laws."Httt since most foods @nd drugs are consumed o the State of their preduction, the Only fb) Way to regulate n jer the powers over inter- © State commerce given by th stitution to Congress. Henceforth all food dr rom one State to another must be pure and honestly branded The term food is defined t Confectionery or condiment by a) hensive { anc | drink, whether simple, | This would include all grains and cattle feeds, all spices, candies, wines, liquors, vegetables, fruits and canned 1 edibles of whatsoever | fe “all article used for food, th or other animal mixed npound.” or) packaged kind. For drugs it Is provided ry drug shall be of the stand-| d quality and purity recognized 1 the United States Pharmacopoeia or National Formulary, unless the are otherwise plainly stated | { the ¢ informed of the fact that! upon the bottle or box. drugs, but it requires In the case of ¢: of-any to health. In the case of food, it is prohibite abstract any valuable ingredient, or to mi a manner that damage or erior quali No preservative that ir added except as a remova package for the removal. No part of a diseased anin an animal that has died othe: than by slaughter or of any partly decomposed animal or vegeta be sold as food. Ali packages containing drugs shall be branded with the propoyt f alcohol, morphine, chloroform, acetanilide or similar drugs they ma Contain. Food packages shall not be branded inf imitation of any pth food package. Domestic sardines, for example, may not be branded French. Any labels which may mislead the putchaser are prohibited The contents of a can or box must correspond in weight or measure with the label. No label shall bear any false statement or picture regard ale of hali-strengtl substitute or ire food in s ny q covering ple th ble may . Ing the contents of the can or package. Wherever there is a mixture or compound the packag¢ must so state. | In order to hold the manufacturers responsible, retail dealers are | exempt from prosecution on proving who the manufacturer was and] producing the- manufacturer's guarantee of purity. Drugs ar ticle: %& Of food which are put up in violation of the law may be seized ar We Any violation of the Pure Food law i prisonment in addition to the confisc This act is of 3 Property ue to the f its terms should be c fully read by all retail dealer that may protect them and | join with the public in securing the pr and conviction manutaciurers or jobt CHILD Because Ts who were childless after five years of marriage q husband and wife on the upp ide ied t The < m: a new n the street “he it was talkec where it took place, called about in hushed voice: People who do not know that the qu tne m_of the folly whic of their own barren houses is pitiful will speak without qualifi 6uch despair will understand The age is not among us the golden one that it sh nuld be for the children. Not enough of us in the land are sufficiently proud of the 18,000,000 American boys and girls who tramp into the opening schools of this autumn seaso gh personal care follows them into the is ir There are oth me happy and some bereaved, wh e¢ home classrooms from not en intimate, loving, looking-to- | the-future thought is devoted to the m who will be pupils in coming Seasons. ? Writing on common Jucation and its shortcomings for the i Independence Rev Mr. R. F, Cholmeley says | The fault of the present day is the cor on Fault of all times when a great part of the c omfortab i—when, like Jeshurun, the middle classes | and, finding that they cannot both look after their ves, have decided ¢ themselves and let somebody As a race, we do dren; they intertere } with sport It is venient to send them to school and go| without them wre | If all J enoug behalf of and wi f the ea of Ame as of Eng find ourselves at t a f declares th Nothing fectually to the ¢ imagination to fce! that the life of our Own experience to guide It. this imagination is denied to, the many. They chose to en¢ now phe lives which were not to be continued through fresh births. Not in extreme step which they took, but in a certain urging to great tender- and vigilance on the part of those blessed with children, thelr tragedy to be found. , is the lesson after the first day) LESSNESS—A TRAGEDY. |- | ++ THE MEN IN-THE NEWS A Few Words of Warning to the Care-Fr.e Pigmy Who Is Threatened with Advantages of Civilization, e Evening*® Worlds Wail» Magazine. Campbell Straight Talks t EAR OTA BENGA: Not 4 “ an of B ame to town has - ky little ® bushman as w gates. Whe * a k Bronx F fall back M be « w I do . big oft where wou ou wer " res Joean't have to stop t five yyeara or 30 if you 4: ® zation, pods, Ota Benga, ° As p od wild for 5 decla t for the jot he Ta e sd vy atl : i ud si ce a 2 a hel aenwenaenngn saat s+ ay, Septe perenne eo ” Pvalegaens ee eng a) laade 1906. The Pacificator. By. J. Cory. —————— 4 tree-chmber” he rode all the way to the Bronx to offer © jeas than @ month, yet you're nelther fish, flesh nor good African You've been hi ring for the jungle before some one heads you for Tuskegee. you believe what people may you about our advantages can't help tt You We tel because we can. Roosevelt, to be sure, has done what he could to emancipate us ne of centuries have been too much for him. We are at s f ’ Ary. of the jandlord, of the janitor. of the “L” guard, of quick neh waitress and the soda-fountain queen e reason we don't €0 back to the Woods is because we have no woods to go back to You have. Long as the Congo flows to the sea you may awing your ha mock fr a bamboo tree. And that's a t reason than it is a rhyme fe your tak © first boat back to King Leopold's land You may lowe @ hand or two or @ foot or two If you don't elude service on King's rt antations, but if you do the whole wild world is yours Them Yankees ix great fUlks, Fust they freed the nigger, and then they freed the mew,” said a colored man who aaw a trolley-car for the first time. Possibly you may be inclined to agree with him. But tf you make the mistake of quitting your forest fastnems and take one of the jobs offered you you'll find out ‘your mistake. Equal ty. use Of Herr Conriet's tmpsr troupe the Departmy ¢ and Labor decided last laborers. week rus girls not as formerly » there. Mr. Mansfeld Mr. Drew pish, Julia Marlowe WASH HOME. ay me I'm ose lofty tones. IL James K. Hackett, stop that swage Don't look down on mm rat, yo equal o ull are we Courts won't recognise a difference =| [—— "Twixt the hig! nd low Beerbohm Tree and Sadie Spangies All alike, you know ME COLOR ashing ea De ” a ey paicasiu lll ala EE eases) ee % LETTERS FRO wins Hyde, of Co Slige peasant : esl what nation. , Man's place to Introduce jis companion | LAFFEY, | or was it mine, because I happened to It Was Your Place, know him, 7 peing # tady oP | be FAltor of The © Wor He Showld Ask Permission, To t 1 was seated with & crowd of my|o the Editar of The Ivening World: | trienda, Two @entiemen came up, both! Ie it proper wpon fret acquaintance President of the United @tates in sus to schools? * The only chance of freedgm you have is to taka to the woods before the land- lord, the janitor and all the other tyrants of civilization mark you. »» He Is Got to Keep a-Dancing While the Music Plays. By Jean Mohr, DIS AM DE STEP WoT BAILEY DLALOUS- 1 THE PEOPL lady to ask @ gentleman E. for a young cemion. B, says that he can ¢ to call or should tf gentleman ask] clected for two successive te for permission to cadl Gc. . a Wins, Send Him to Cooper Inatt To the RAitor of The ibvening Works ‘To the Eaieow af The Bvpaing Works: My son, just turned seventecn, wishes A. says that a min may be elected! to atukty electrical engineering. Can and serve any number of times as! your office give me acy information to Them—By Nixola Greeley-Smith. |PERCY, T la ED NEW YORK THROUGH By Tpvin §. Cobb Human Nature as a Local Failing. whether you belong to the Metropolitan Museum of Art or the Paul Kelleys like a vocalization lesson keeps his seat on » atfeet-car and lets the women stand or sit on the floor, whichever H* AN nature {s pretty much the same {n our town, The man whe can eat soup without making » nolse and the considerate person who ways oults them best arises with courtly grace and gives his place to the Indy strap-hanger fn the aisle goes home and bites his wife's ear off because the beef stew Isn't seasoned to sult him. T hothouse he-exotic who can feel perfectly at ease in a half-shel! waistcoat and a self-cocking Sat at | the opera is apt to have an incurable mania for going down to a basement | under a rag warehouse in Cherry Hill to sce a glove contost between Ria | O'Slaughter and the Horrible Hun; while the knob-jawed party who ts eo richly endowed by nature to shine at a mixed-ale function In the Gas-House | belt dreams of the ‘proud day when ‘he will be invited to talk the Chuck Connors Innguage in the palaial homes of the best soclety. There {s one trait held in common by all who live in the restricted di | trict that fs bounded by the East River and the North, the purling Harlent and the park-benched Battery. “Tis the overweening, inconquerable passion | of the resident population to get Interested in things that don’t interest | them In the least. This is a habit which ts acquired by constant practices, The chap who halts In the madding crowd to fix his collar Dutton fs @ } common nuisance, and other chaps step on his heels and everybody is glad of | it. But when a hired youth appears tn the window of a haberdasher’s shop 18 tton, then It's a hig and all the people who are in a hurry stop a against the glass to watch him, and pretty soon the sidewalk is blocked am@ navigation has to suspend in Broadway. To Mr. New Yorker, galloping to his place of business, a yellow ice wagon by the curbstone’s brim a siinple ice wagon were to him, andl nothing more. He isn’t interested particularly in ice anyhow. He knows that ff he’s rich he can have all the ice he wants in the summer, and if be's poor that he will have a blamed sight more than he wants in the winter. Be- sides, he's in @ great rush to reach his office and put his feet upon the desk and read in the morning paper all about what President Roosevelt's gentle lite children havé been doing {8 the matter of strangling bears, directing Prize-fights and stopping maddened teams of runaway horses. But let the yellow Jce wagon moult a wheel and collapse tn the street, instantly it becomes an object of deep personal conbern to all our people. We gather ten deep around the prostrate and sroaning form of the suffer ing victim and offer advice and uarrel with one another over the best method of resuscitating a fainting ice wagon and threaten to write to Gem. Bingham about it when a policeman tries to induce us to move on. THE FUNNY PART In our hearts we don't care a hang for all the collar buttons and yellow ice wagons that ever ministered to the wants of man. ——__ — -4e-_ BE PLIBG. HE TELLS ABOUT IT. | By Ruth Earle. uF LIRTING Isn't flirting unless you really propose. And. anyway, I don't know of anything that gives & fellow the creepy thrill of telling « girl he loves ¥ c 3 her won't e KH to him. “s t you know \ you actuafly care for a git iation ie owned 4n your anxiety about her me it's different ed, and if she doesn’t I'm relieved—fine both ways. I propose every time I meet a pretty, new girl, Of course { don't propose right away. I weit for the setting, and the mood, and everyt! 0 de just right “I proposed la: It was my 899th proposal, “The girl was a very dainty blonde, She wae lying Ino haenmock on the deserted hotel piassa, her eyes looking deep into the atarlit heavens and « 3B white doeskin pump Peeping from beneath Ler graceful skiris I had previowsty played wo games: of tennis with her and te vittage Tor #oda, so the way was paved for my declaration “Adjusting my trousers’ seams, and at the same time sinking on my (eft knee and taking her slender fingers in mine, I spoke “"You are more lovely than the night,’ I told her. ‘You are brighter then the moon that 1s going to rise at 1245, You are the only star in my firmament Ang I love you, love you, than any moth his star.’ “I always use a sort of tremolo shake on the last ‘love you.’ It intensifies romance, “And now that I have confeased my adoration.! I went on, ‘tell me, 4édrest, can I ever hope that you will care for me? I was disappointed in that blonde. She took away her hande ana pulled the rat straight in her pompadour “Then she yawned and said ‘TWO-MIN | love you mot ‘Oh, go away; I want to sleep!'* Ss UTE TALKS WITH NEW YORKERS. , By T. O, McGill. ft E of the man says he dropped eighteen tickets real New tn the box for gne passenger. Did he? York expe- “Bays the Ucket-chopper, "He dropped riences one cat @ some tn; I didn’t count ‘em! is to try to get to! “Go back and count ‘em. the —headquartera =; went with him, he took his wire anywhere on th ok ved at the tickets, and casual propositio er os more agreed there of the day,” said) were elgtteen Harry EK. Taylor | “After ten minutes more the thoket yerterda agent gave me a receipt and. long, Taylor is ~ New | legal looking document that said maybe Yorker who made|I was entitled to # cents. three or tour fors| “Then he told mé@ to go over to the tunes out of coal, | @ rin the Park Row Building, and. What the | bi kone so far, I decided to @o the partiou eadquarters 1 wet! f the way | tom’ we asked 1 went over to the Park Row Bufia- | phe subway,” sald Taylor. “It hap- |! and a husky looking fellow at the pened this way wate looked at my slip,and sent me On Friday 1 I got my hands |}@0WN the hall, where a very tired young | mixed ea I was tearing off a ticket from |™8? looked me over and ietened to my, rip of minotee kets, and deiib- |Complaint and laughed. pei eee ‘ Then | asked for the cashler, jerately put the supplus in the teket jan T couldn't mee enw damier adn ecolver and the single ticket I bad| have to take A tara as tne ‘inaow ns ime paokcet us hardly | Where they mottled such things. |! my pocket. It w mores | “TE gotdn Hine with a jot of lothes done ore Toame to and noted what 1) workmen walling before a wi an had done. The ticket chopper told me) apant another halt hour there. wen to tell the tleket agent about It. resecced Se pe man At Whew ‘Tie ticket seller aald he'd see about he gaye me my # cents in nicl r » he eo rual “Gett ™: conts bac! t when he got through with th a ~ hoan Gna so 1 waited minutes, and then he all by tl wee the ot tue tcket-ehopper, and said, ‘This