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—— ————— ene eel | — ete Beacon Pevtiened vy the Prowe Publishing Company, No. M to @ Park Now, New Torm Hntered at the Pont-Offios at New York an Mecond-Ciase Mall Matter, VOLUME 47 COAL AS FOOD. | According to G, L, F Assist Culture, “the State of New York ts food products th has been practically a dead The sta t State Commissioner of Agri-| mping-ground for all sorts of | are barred fr Food law t4rasced to the commission which al Build-+ frankfurter sausage, The New York h hold table In the course of a has had on t almost as man) hes most of the color- fng matter. The coal tar which is one of the residual products in th manufacture of gas has been converted by expert chemists into over t hundred flavoring extracts and several score of colors. Since coal is a mineral and not a food, its use Is prohibited by the Pure-Food law. Also, how many housewives know that many smoked meats are not smoked at all, but or sentract 2! -A3:} Much easier to ap The manufacturers who are pleading with the Pure-Food Commi Sion to mitigate the stringency of the law claim that wore Hot fe a trigtt greet ta tittle copper were not dissolved with them, that preserved strawberries would not be red but a pale brown without the addition of coal tar, that butter would vary with color accord- | painted with a c ert Se 44 “tts ing to the season of the year and the diet of the cows were it not judi ‘dlously colored. But what of all this? Any canner can offer for sale a mixture of | peas and copper if he only states in large type on the ide of every can the nature of the contents. He can paint frankfurter sausages green if| he does not try to.deceive the public thereby. The law does not prohibit a man from eating red butter or drinking wood alcohol, or eating veal and calling it boned chicken, “but the law does provide that the consumer | shall not be deceived, and (hat if there is coal or copper or sulphur or any thing. else in the bottle or can or package than what purports to be there the consumer shall be unmistakably notified. u The Evening Worid'’s Daily Magazine, Saturday, September 22; 1906. 4 Pacification? ~NEW YORK THROUGH By J. Campbell Cory. } | (¢ No wonder the American people are sufferers from dyspepsia, w they have been taking all kinds of drugs and colors to interfere with the | Ppaint-shop to be unwittingly established in his midst The arguments agiinst the Pure-Food law, that it restricts trade ani interferes with legitimate business, have no possible foundation... The honest manufacturers, wholesalers and retailers whose'sales have been cut down and whose business has been interfered w “Nition will profit equally with the American public enforced. FLATTERY AND THE LION, A book of the week ts “The Russian Gran ss Won It is a volume of very old folk-tales put into Eng by Louise Seymou Houghton. The stories are simple, unless one shall ¢ to read t r which is ve by unfair ¢ mpe- in having this law tween the lines fully fresh. On the co’ Hare Imb trom limb. A Matter Isegrim, the Wolf i d all this, ¢ 4 the door of the ten. Hi ] 4 tmmediately put the same question to t truty and honestly, is it close in my “Neither, sire,” rey the ¢ “Oh, you ¢ r one or the oth tore him ta pieces Reinecke, the Fox, wa utside, and now he @ near to pay his respects. S See here, ) ecke, do you tell me now t “Pardon me, august m ery hur but by all L hold blessed 1 am 1 take 4 that, upon h 1 cannot fr ¢ bot of my heart.” yea And the Lion spared Relnecke’s tife attery, in trimming sail i Increas sition to the Delancey street “L” bridge boos noted & is true t the facts and theorls of public accomm ar a scheme, a ything or anybody be fo Betwee November and next spring $00 British teachers wil come ove * hm groups the schools of America. They will get a new idea of what fan be cover: the term public education, I, however, our teachers and school ("Os to muke Pathorities suller the learning to be op the side of the visitors they will B large opportunity, 7 ~ te> Faas Can any wise THE MEN IN THE NEWS — Straight A Prayer to the Pure Food Man to Put His Label he Cook Wo Opens It. Talks to Th working of their internal apparatus. No man wants a drug store and a| Not Only ont re Can, but on t aoe FIN 5, FUNNY GLASSES Irvin §. Cobh The Vendor of Mental Hot Waffles, GAIN referring to the various branches of the insect, A famfy to be found on our island we readily dis cover one of oir worst peste to be the dealer in y ne ete kine dred souls get together for the purpose of testing the espective merita of the beet products of Bt Louls and Milwaukee this ear-wig in bound to rise over the imme- diate horizon He dawns upon you in a great burst of rendy-to-serve repartee. Wherever as ma comle sup ment drilliancy, plercing you with his curd- ling rays of pilfered wit and «instantly turning all the wilk of Kuman kindness in your being to the steely- blue, palegreen clabber of hopeless hate Alack! that you eannot strike him down where he stands a-spouting! Hut the law says No. which is undoubtedly a great mistake; and, besides, be’s usually the sort of persen who would be a mnesy, messy remains ff suddenly stein, and hard to clean off the carpet. So you are compelied to grind your bieuspids in helpless rage while he churns out of his system a lot of moth-eaten humor Its worse than mere humor, | Call {t vocal eczema He is pacticularly numerous in that part of towu where the bright Lights shine Ike the gold teeth tn a coryphee’s smfle—where Broadway makes an acute double turn. whieh by some has been Iikened to the crook | of a lobster’s claw and by others to the expiring flap of ducker’s tall. It's a good stamping ground for him because he oan grab off his original flashes of wit Just as soon a+ they come over the footli¢hts. Any time the courts presec' ed poople for stealing Ideas, the same as stealing overcoats, he'd go up for grand larceny in the firat degree. But by the way he slaps ‘em off the griddie, ao criep and sizzling. yo | think, If you didn’t know any better, that he was full of intellectual batter cakes. Often some one in a. cartles’ moment has told him that he looks like Frank Daniels, and after that he always fries to force his eyebrows over the top of his head when he’s filpping the hot waffles of wit. Some- thing bright that was e tline exposure Job with the creator this pirate slams out as bis own Instantaneous snapshot He's so modest, too, and retiring! He's as rinking In publle as the bass tubas in a Waguertan orchestra and as unostengatior a wine agent openirg a few quarts of his own brand for a qt tthe chorus Distinguished company and gave subjects don’t feaze him. He'd etop & snappy sed came Into his mind, And he'd interrupt a serious ethics of statesmanship between the lresident 4 Prof, mus and impromptu Donmot fe {ng up nice on Broad- 1 dowager > the driver of the he a funeral and tell it rse any time somett regarding the conference on | Mike Donovan that he got from Lew Fields when Law wasn’t wat some purely sponta em—By Nixola Greeley-Smith. “ithleh “aya he chortles gladly—"Warner or Shattuck? They're yoeth on Broadway this season! "* for the salaries estigators must be | And you have to stand for it aN what will become of our hard-bought 5 THE FUNNY PART 7} 2 : nem Rr rees Samira ane Ge nadie: We all go on standing for it when we ruts forming a few vigilance Ke it table wit r n tt, ner- | f Etihad ag oa = ct ee My Mother's Song. t as k * the corner By James Conner Roach. sigs was ‘ i " zs at m: f Irela * woe , : ‘ bee x0 t Laat in oy end minor key the food question and : the a ft r w CHORUS. Love:her, my son. as your father did, weat her # ar heart. ‘ You # tient We Manos # to steal her I ¢ only stole B part ¢ aed f ; 4 hand | Ester ta her brain, he could not chain, her cause outlived his eight t : gh all the years of blood and tears she battled for the right. I ve 4 t—get her r seat - She stands unchanged by fire and sword, undaunted as of yore LETTERS FROM | 3s» THE PEOPLE. ‘Unlucky Looie. | P Her foe's decay now marks the way of edom to her shore. Fate Still \ pation we wittowtantt seein. her wt Pursues Him. ut By R. W. Taylor « standard ofthe matchless fight made by tha Irish race aor At Rag in-place ca dito pay b € “ the L t Pp Dear t trut ip it not ver close ghee Nobheries on Yes, ind f - t Lampe, the Hay as Star ear t 1a 1 this mishap. Trembling! approached t ‘ me, dear La t contrary, the air seems t 4 tty f (sunt! ri GNE YE A Go0D JOB WERE ON (He FARM, (me can 1 y ThE Wowk Al ian ae =) \.ee!. TWO-MINUTE TALKS ) | YOUR 4 WOME ESO WITH NEW YORKERS. By T. O, McGill. “ O PL Ef ranks of widows and orphans. yt think) “It's: the est thing in the world fyour end | to got a full fall from the sudden start of the game In the) of the triin If you're trying to split @iy’s work. Every | the difference between the. laws @f ling /eravity b@ng wo at by the earth's motirs going man is abd grunting for| action and a br his own siusage At Groes-purposes with tt covers without, “ANG the good nature of the guards any thought’ af and a desire to oblige people by that Au Unraly waya { such what reladion he! little favor of opening the @oors has nay bear to his | cost the company of money and fellows.” said Sub. | nvany feolish passengers pain and em- way Guard .08@ barrassment, We never know when an yoaterday ingpector in likely to be looking on rey There'h that| When we open the door and bust a fter the eo in the rule, and that meang @ 1 Central | reprimags and maybe the ‘can.’ tall fellow who woke up just rung. | “We ate not supposed to have any we got a lot of complaints about | rule ts plain, but the man who over- ular station plain | #leeps never thinks of that.” w that the people who go dreaming | over: thelr newrpapers may not lone think that we ought to call-boys By Margerct Rohe, 1d wake them up w, he woke up and came t and asked me to open the very plain be- | discretion in the matter at all. The -_ oo The Empire Girl, thelf trains, and @ jot people seem 1 was saying about that r him He looked Ike a good eliow { he asked me wo nicely that I was ready to fall for him, but J heard | No. @ rung. That's the bell in the moter car, and I told him I coukin't do He looked at me just as much as 10 aay, ‘I'd like to punch you In the Jaw!’ and I suppose he felt that way; but he forgot to figure what 1 stand 4 for and was only thinking of his own discomfort. a The company's rule about opening | the @oors after the bell has been rung ° put Dis arm around her waist is very atriot, It isn't meant to make Ber wr’. this ardent lover,