Fn nny THEY build OR
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AMAZING BUT RARELY SUSPECTED
TRUTHS ABOUT THE THINGS YOU EAT
l 0 r p e y d r '^ ht Mcc>n n b ) y By ALFRED W. McCANN
May tl> 1(1, Twelve Slaughterers
Were Arrested After Twenty Years of
Undisturbed Corruption, in Which
Public Health Officials were Induced
for Cash to Scatter the (cnus of Dls
ense Among <1,000,00(1 People—The
Guilty Officials Were Not Arrested—A
lieak from Headquarters Made It Im
possible to Obtain l.cgal Evidence
r " Against the Officials Who Accepted
the Guilty .Slaughterers' Bribes.
After a disturbing session of doubt
and suspicion Dr. Frederick Schone
weg. rehearsed daily by Johann and
Boyle, of Commissioner Wallstein's
office, succeeded tinally in re-establish
ing himself in the conlidenee of the
slaughterers. The manner of its ac
complishment cannot be described
within the limits of these articles.
The method employed in some of
YOUR SICK CHILD
IS CONSTIPATED!
LOOK AT TONGUE
Hurry, Mother! Remove poisons
from little stomach, liver,
bowels.
.Give "California Syrup of Figs"
if cross, bilious or
feverish.
No matter what ails your child, a
Ecntle, thorough laxative should al- I
Ways be the first treatment given.
If your little one is out-of-sorts,
lialf-slck, isn't resting, eating and act- |
Ing nrturally—look, Mother! see ifj
tongue is coated. This is a sure sign
that the little stomach, liver and bow- '
els are clogged with waste. When!
cross, irritable, feverish, stomach sour,
breath bad or has stomach-ache,
diarrhoea, sore throat, full of cold.
. give a teaspoonful of "California
Syrup of Figs," and in a few hours,
all the constipated poison, undigested
l'ood and sour bile gently moves out'
of the little bowels yithout griping, I
and you have a well, playful child!
again.
Mothers can rest easy after giving j
this harmless "fruit laxative," be-;
cause it never fails to cleanse the little J
one's liver and bowels and sweeten j
the stomach and they dearly love Its!
pleasant taste. Full directions fori
babies,' children of all ages and for|
grown-ups printed on each bottle.
Beware of counterfeit ttg syrups.!
Ask your druggist for a 50-cent bottle!
of "California Syrup of Figs," then
Bee that it is made by the "California
Fig Syrup Company."
OVER-WORKED MAN
Bank Cashier Almost a Wreck— j
How He Regained Strength.
I larrisburg people will realize that!
this is one more liqk in the wonderful j
chain of evidence proving that Vinol, !
which contains beef and cod liver |
peptones, iron and manganese pep-1
tonates and glycerophosphates, has no j
equal to create strength.
Mr. Chas. A. Ogle, Monrovia, Md., I
Bays:
"For many years I was a school |
teacher, then for three years was j
Deputy Clerk in Frederick County,
Md., and for the last three years 1 i
have, been Cashier of the First Na- >
tional Bank. My nerves got in such i
a bad condition, and with poor as- j
Bimilation of food, 1 was fast beconi- !
lug a physical and mental wreck. See- {
ing an advertisement for Vinol I pur- j
chased a bottle, and found it to be i
exactly what I needed. It has not I
Dnly benefited my nerves, but built
me up both mentally and physically, |
and I want to recommend it to anyone
Buffering as I did."
Try a bottle of Vinol with the un
derstanding that your money will be
returned if it does not help you.—Ad
vertisement.
George A. Gorgas, druggist; Kenne
dy's Medicine store,'32l Market street;
C. F. Kramer, Third and Broad
streets; Kitzmiller's Pharmacy, 1325
Derry street, Harrisburg. Also at the
leading drug store in all Pennsylvania
towns
SjqmoC Sxi£v&
REMOVES SKIN AFFECTIONS
Da packafa proret it. Sold sad
guaranteed by above Vinol druMbU
What Is Auto-
Intoxication?
The best and clearest definition is
"Self-Intoxication, or poisoning by
a compounds produced Internally by
oneself."
Physicians agree that the vast ma
jority of Jill illness is due to this
cause, brought on by accumulated
•waste in the Lower Intestine.
The one sure, natural and safe way
to keep the Intestine clean and free
from this waste is by an occasional In
ternal Bath with simple warm water,
Kiven by the "J. B. Iv. Cascade."
You will be astonished at your feel
ings the morning after taking an in
ternal Bath by means of the "J. B. D.
Cascade." You will feel bright, brisk,
. confident, and as though everything is
"working right" and it is.
Half a million Americans are now
using til is method, with resulting bet
ter health and greater vigor. This
method will be explained to you by
• 'roll Keller, 405 Market street, and
Geo. C. Potts' drugstore In Ilarrisburg,
who will also give you a most inter
esting book free on the subject by an
eminent specialist. Ask or send for
this booklet, called "Why Man of To
pay Is Only 50 Per Cent. .Efficient," |
jviulo Jit la on your, mind. j
MONDAY EVENING,
the establishments In paying the health
department officials was to pass them
a small part of their weekly earnings
each day, ono at a time, In a back
room. sums of money In a
lump were feared.
In other establishments the money
was placed in the pockets of their
street clothes while hanging in a
locker.
Schoneweg attempted to show the
slaughterers that by paying bribes in
this manner they took an unnecessary
chance every day, whereas if an or
ganized system were introduced "Cal
lahan" (Boyle) could do the collecting
for everybody and split it up on the
outside without incurring risk either
for the slaughterers or the health de
partment officials.
Finally arrangements were agreed
upon whereby Schoneweg, who had
become supervising inspector, was lo
recevie $l5O a week, while Callahan
and each of the other inspectors were
to receive $75 a week.
"But, there mustn't be any more
diseased cows or calves of any kind.
Everything must be pagsed," said the
slaughterers.
"The man who makes the daily
health department report of con
demnations will get a few dollars every
day, and he will continue to make re
ports the same as before. To make a
showing we will enter ten or twelve
condemnations every day."
When the other inspectors were in
formed of these arrangements they
refused to have anything to do with
them. Many of them were still firmly
convinced I hat the leak from head*
quarters meant that Dr. Schoneweg
was a decoy, and they insisted on a.
continuance of the oli system of pay
ments, with no third person involved.
Evidence fully corroborated had al
ready been obtained against each of
the twelve slaughterers. But the cor
roboration of a third party in connec
tlon with the bribes paid to the health
[ department officials, who refused to
| l>e decoyed by Sclioneweg's arrange
ments, could not be secured.
Director Brown's leak had made it
impossible to catch any of his own
men, and acting upon this conviction
| Commiijsioner Wallstein ordered his
I staff to close in upon the gang of
I slaughterers and let the officials go.
May 26, 191(i, one of the slaughter -
j ers, David Feinberg, while in the act
i of passing $25 to Callahan (Boyle),
was brought to Commissioner Wall
stein's office and examined.
At 4 o'clock in the morning Fein- j
berg broke down and made a complete
confession. 1 assisted in his exami- I
nation and a copy of his confession is
in my possession. Thus collapsed the |
wholesale graft system of the New
York city health department's meat
inspection service.
The following morning Health Com- :
missioner Dr. Haven Emerson revoked I
the permits of the five slaughterhouses I
operated by S. & H. Plaul, Robert I
Plaut it Son, Strauss, Schick & Fein- j
berg, 11. Braunschweig and H. Bulnlck.
; The revocation of these permits was |
followed within twenty-four hours by I
the arrest of Robert Plaut. Henry!
Plaut, Samuel Plaut. Arthur Plant, !
Simon Plant, Robert Plaut, Jr., David !
Feinberg, Philip Strauss. Aaron Schick, j
H. Braunschweig. Harry Parmer and j
,H. Bulniclc, proprietors of the slaugli- !
terhouses.
Eight veterinarians connected with I
the health department were dismissed j
from service. The tip which had put |
them on their gua # rd against Schone
weg saved them from prosecution.
The farmers of New York Stale, \
through their representatives, had op- i
posed all legislation intended to license j
country district slaughterhouses and i
to provide for the killing under expert [
supervision of the "dangerous animals
constantly being culled out of the
milk-producing herds of the country.
One year before, as we have seen,
a bill providing for the control of this
wretched situation has been viciously
killed in committee.
In their ignorance and cupidity the
farmers were laying a curse upon
their own children.
These wholesale arrests were not
comforting. They disclosed the dis
turbing fact that New York's cream
eries and cheese factories were using
in the production of cheese and butter
the milk of animals dying of disease.
They disclosed the fact . that the
tubercular milk of such animals, as
well as tiler diseased flesh, is sold raw
in all the cities of the state, as well
as ill all the states of the Union.
BVRIER IN SOLDIER'S I'M FORM
William Bishop, father of Rev.
George Bishop, pastor of the Busli
wick Avenue Methodist Episcopal
Church of Brooklyn, an old man of
four-score years and four, made a dy
ing request that he lie buried in his
soldier's uniform. The request was
granted, and his widow* of four score
years and his four devoted children
put his body asleep as a soldier under
the flag and among the flowers till the
reunion on the other side. Mr. Bishop
enlisted in tli'e Civil War at its begin
ning. and continued in it, being with
the Union forces at Appomattox. He
carried the colors in more than twen'y
battles, and the Stars"and Stripes were
woven into the very texture of his
soul. What a splendid symbol of the
soldier of the Lord Jesus Christ, with
the Cross as his standard and Christ
his Captain! one of the great moral
soldier heroes on leaving the world
said; "I have fought a good fight."
—The Christian Herald.
SCHOOL DAYS ** * By DWIG
The wise bir<l.
3-fe >
BUT WIS JS HOW HE DID IT
SEE HHPS.\ WANT \QO TO STOP GOING \
(AROUND AND TfcLUNG W IN BUSINES6
I'M A PIKER'— YOU KNOW VERY WELL TfrAT I'VE )
BIJT THIsS 1$ HOW HE.PIP IT;
WANTS PARENTS i
TO HELP CHILDREN
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Need of Proper Editorials and
Articles Pointed Out by
Young Man
Copyright, 1910, Star Company.
A young man in Greater New York
possessed of brains, heart and the
power of expression urges the need of
editorials and articles which, as he ex-j
presses it, "may save just, one little
troubled soul from jumping into a,
fathomless abyss out of which it can
never climb unscathed."
The article which lie wants written
is two-fold in its purpose, a warning to ;
parents and a warning to children; to
parents against continually nagging
their children about trivial matters un-1
til the home becomes a dreaded place ]
of punishment instead of a heaven of J
rest and peace; a warning to children 1
against, rushing away from home and ;
into the dangers of the great outside!
world.
The young man says:
"1 have the best father and mother
God made; but, though under thirty,:
I know a score of cases (i could truly |
say more than a hundred) where chil-1
dren have been driven lo the verge of'
desperation by parents who have for
gotten they were once young and who
utterly fail to comprehend their off
spring."
High Profession of Parenthood Least
Studied of AH at Present.
Just at the present moment the
young man is endeavoring to dissuade
a good girl from cutting loose from all
Dome ties because she is made so mis
erable by the fault-finding and fretful- 1
ness which prevail in her home.
Many times in this column has the
thoughtlessness, the lack of considera
tion, the blindness and the stupidity
of parents been discussed. The high
art ol' parenthood is the least studied
of all the professions open to men and
women.
Mothers live under the same roof :
with their daughters from the cradle '
to the maturity of the children and
yet know less of their hearts than
they know of the mental moods of
Hagar of the wilderness or Rachael
mourning for her children because they
were not.
The American fathers and mothers
are droll beings. One would think
them very amusing were it not that
the farce they play so often ends in a j
tragedy.
A young woman revealed fo the I <
writer of I his article once upon a time i
that she had become addicted to the
use of stimulants. 'T think mama sus ;
pects that I have this habit," she said,
"but she has never spoken of. it to
me and 1 have never had the courage
to tell her about it or to ask her help
to overcome it. She is always scold
ing me for every little thing I do,
HARJFUSBURG TELEGRAPH
1
j and I know she would have no sym
! pathy for such a big fault as this."
The daughter resembled her father,
who haft died from alcoholism, and yet
| this blind mother had not the sense to
; protect her daughter. The laws of na
' ture are constantly proving that daugh
ters more frequently resemble their
l fathers than do the sons.
| One would think that a man who
had passed through the whirlwinds of
passionate youth might consider the
sacred duty to carefully guide and
! tenderly protect his children over the
j dangerous reefs of life by giving well
chosen associates and talking freely
and intimately with them on these sub
' jects.
i Fathers ami Mothers Too Quickly
Forget Their Own Childhood Days.
But not one father in one thousand
1 is found who follows this course of
I conduct. Fathers and mothers so
1 quickly forget their own youth. It is
| incredible that the sweetest and most
romantic part of life, and at the same
time the most dangerous, should fade
j from memory so wholly, as it seems
! to do with the majority of parents.
| It is incomprehensible liow little
: logical, sensible thought parents give
to home-making. Parents will work
and slave and deny themselves the ne
cessities of life in order to give their
children an education and clothe them
well, yet they will make home uncom
fortable by fault-finding, complaining
and nagging and showing an absolute
i lack of sympathy and understanding
| for the tendencies and weaknesses of
youth.
Are you a good parent?
RAILROAD MUX II,AX STORE
Pennsylvania Employes Organize Co
operative Association
Altoona, Pa., Feb. 26.—T0 reduce
the high cost of living by eliminating
the middlemen, Pennsylvania Railroad
employes are organizing the Blair
County Co-operative Association, to be
modeled and conducted after the co
operative companies In England. C.
H. Williamson is chairman, F. L. Wil
son ' secretary, and Lewis Merchant,
treasurer, of the organization.commit
tee.
A promoting committee of fifty is
being chosen and a mass meeting is to
be held to form a permanent organi
zation under the act of 1887. It is
expected 3,000 will enroll as members.
Only staple foodstuffs and coal will
be handled at the start.
JAMES 11. WAI'GH BURIED
New Cumberland, Pa., Feb. 26.—A
large number of persons attended the I
funeral of James Russell Waugh yes
terday afternoon. The Rev. A. R.
Ayres, pastor of Trinity United Breth
ren Church, preached the sermon and
musical selections were rendered by
a sextet of male voices. The ball
bearers were Gordon .Vickie, llohart
Snell, Boy Millard, Fred Shimmel, Wil
liam Springer, Horace Stettler.
ELIXAIIETHVILLE 100 YEARS OLI)
Elizabethville, Pa., Feb. 26. A
town meeting will be held in the
school auditorium at 7.45 o'clock this
evening to organize and make prelim
inary. plans for the celebration of
, Elizabethviiie's centennial celebration
this year.
TRADING IOXGEVXW
FOR WEALTH
Life in Osaka la speeding up. with
the consequent wear and tear and de
struction. Its myriad factories belch
forth the smudge of modernism to
cloud the clear sky under which ag
ricultural Japan has slumbered to
long. The few manufacturers in
Japan have made great advances.
They ore as much at home In a limou
sine as any one. The war is pouring
profits into Osaka such as Japan lias
never known. Stock speculation is the
hobby of the rich and the hope of
humble servant girls. The public li
brary, the banks, the court house and
prominent business buildings proclaim
to the dullest that Japan is a modern
nation.
In tho last fifty years Japan has
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The Queen of Cooks
HP OMORROW the Public Ledger will inaugurate the most
* practical and helpful home course in domestic science
ever presented by a daily newspaper.
Mrs. M. A. Wilson, for .five years chef to Queen Victoria
and now dietist of the Mother's clinic at the Philadelphia Chil
dren's Homeopathic Hospital, will conduct the course.
Through her articles the Public Ledger will place within
the reach of every housewife, in simplified manner, the
expert knowledge and wide experience of a cook who has
achieved an amazing success as chef to a Queen and as dieti
tian to a children's hospital.
The value of an efficient kitchen routine can scarcely be
overestimated in these days of rising food costs, and every
homemaker will appreciate Wilson's thousand and one
aids to the solution of perplexing problems arising daily in
the domestic routine.
Read the first article in tomorrow's
PUBLIC ss&iSs LEDGER
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FEBRUARY 26, 1917.
proven her ability to assume modern
materialism. Osaka is the testing
ground to see whether Japan, with a
l.eathenpublic opinion and exploita
tion of human flesh in every form, can
survivethe temptation to worship
Mammon rather than the true God.
The progress of Japan is tho en
forced progress of an autocratic land
where tho many are the slaves of the
few. Osaka stands for progress, and
its men and women are tho weakest
in the empire. In Japan, according to
official investigations, the average life
of men was thirty-eight years in 1886,
and in 1910 was tliirty-one. But the
last six -years have seen more crowd
ing, more overwork and more disease
than did the decade before.—Maynard
Owen Williams, in The Christian Her
ald.
ALL FOR THE PRICE
OF TWO DRINKS
One day a youth poked at me a
bunch of roses with appropriate gar
nishings of green. 1 was not thinking
of flowers, but tho cluster he posed in
front of me, with the further informa
tion "only 25 cents," made the sale. I
was on my way home at the time, and
twenty minutes later those flowers had
taken the place of others that had
wilted, and were adorning our living
rooms. It was tho end of the third
day before there was the slightest sign
of wilting, and in tho meantime nine
roseshad opened their graceful petals
as if to say, "Enjoy the fullness of my
flower, for I have about fulfilled the
mission for which I was created." For
these days we did enjoy their beauty,
their color, their cheerfulness and
their fragrance. And all for the price
of two drinks.—The Christian Herald.
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