THE WEEKLY BULLETIN
9
MAGAZINE SECTION.
COUNTESS OF WARWICK.
A STRIKING BEAUTY OF ENGLISH
COURT WHO IS FRIEND OF
WORKINGMEN,
Has Accomplished Great Philan-
thropy, Foundling Girls’ Schools in
Dairying, Poultry, Etc.—Prominent
in Politics.
England has at least one titled
woman whose wealth and position
have not proved sufficient to blind her
to conditions which surround less for-
tunate men and women. She is the
Countess of Warwick, long the reign-
ing beauty of King iuaward’'s court,
and one of the most famous women in
two continents.
The Countess has recently come in-
to prominence through her par...ipa-
tion in the English elections and is a
strong advocate and supporter of Will
Thorne, candidate of the dock la-
borers for a seat in the House of Com-
mons. The Countess strongly sup-
ports the contention of the laboring
element for a labor party in parliament
and gowned in the most bewitching of
Parisian frocks and in a red automo-
bile she has been stirring things up
pretty lively in the forty-five parlia-
mentary districts in which repre-
sentatives of organized labor were
running for the House of Commons,
SENT DELEGATION TO AMERICA.
This very democratic Countess re-
cently sent a delegation of twenty-five
women to the United States to study
labor conditions here. Each was in-
trusted with a different mission. One
visited stenographers and typewriters,
another went to tailor shops and still
another to the factories where young
men and women are employed and the
entire labor field was aaequately cov-
ered. The Countess defrayed all ex-
penses of the trip and is now using
the material which her delegation
brought back to her for speeches to
the laboring classes.
Not long ago the Countess addressed
a tremendous crowd of workmen. Her
stage was a tradesman’s wagon and
hundreds of workmen went without
their dinners in order to hear her
speech. She was given a great ova-
tion, called the men “comrades and

THE COUNTESS OF WARWICK,
friends” and urged them to strain
every effort to get a labor party in
parliament.
“you workers are the empire,” de-
clared the Countess and this with a
succession of spirited assertions she
made were lustily cheered by the la-
boring men.
The Countess of Warwick is one of
England’s most famous women. Be-
fore the succession of her husband to
the earldom she was Lady Brooke and
gained the nickname of “Babbling
Brooke” for having told some t' ngs
in connection with the famous bac-
carat party at Tranby Croft which
proved one of the most sensational
news stories of the year. The Prince
of Wales, now King Edward VII, was
a member of the party and a subse-
quent witness in the case,
TO TEACH DAIRYING AND
CHICKEN GROWTH.
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There is also, it is said, a demand for
sugared rose petals, which is being
catered to by some enterprising artists
in sugar. It.can hardly be pretended
that flowers made into “sweets” are of
any medicinal efficacy, though damask
rose leaves have long held a recog-
nized place in the materia medica.
Whether the violet has any thera-
peutic qualities does not appear,
though the leaves (not the flower)
have just now some reputation—out-
side the medical faculty—as a cure
for cancer. The best that can be
hoped for, if flowers are to be eaten
as well as to be seen and smelled, is
that they may in all cases prove to be
innocuous. It is a
whether the perfume is always x safe
guide.
Perhaps the modern craze is, after
all, only a form of luxury. A candied
violet or a dish of rose leaves cun-
ningly prepared for the tea table could
not possibly enter into the category of
cheap sweets for the millions, and it
is understood that the sugar trust is
not interested.
recat
BREAKS BY CONGRESS
Peculiar Mistakes Due to Tremen-
dous Amount of Work Transacted
Just Before Adjournment.
In the hurry and bustle of “get
away” day in Congress, a few errors
slipped in to upset the calculations of
party leaders. One of these was the
signing of the agrieultural appropri-
ation bill by the President before that
measure contained the signature of the
Speaker of the House of Representa-
tives. Of course this oversight was
corrected, but the question then arose
as to the importance of having the bill
signed by the Speaker and the Vice-
President. Their signatures merely
certify that the bill has passed their
respective houses, the important fact
being that they have been passed by
the House and Senate. For this rea-
son it is not regarded as being abso-
lutely indispensable that a bill should
be signed by the presiding officer of
the House. All that is necessary is to
establish the fact that it has been so
passed.
Another “break” was the presiden-
tial approval of the sundry civil bill
containing an item appropriating
$3,000,000 for a site for a new de-
partmental building in Washingtom
This item had been dropped out of the
bill in conference but the enrollment
clerks failed to notice the omission
and so included this item in the copy
of the bill Xtid before the President for
bis signature. When the error was
discovered, a resolution was adopted
by both houses of Congress repealing
the feature of the bill making the
$3,000,000 appropriation.
It is not strange that these mis-
takes occur, as all of the employes of
both the Senate and House during the
last few days of Congress have an
enormous amount of work shoved upon
them, so that when Congress actually
adjourns many of them are ready to
take to their beds for several days in
order to recuperate.
CANADIAN RECIPROCITY.
| Northern Sister Would Like Such
Arrangement; But is Waiting
Move by This Country.
A letter from Ottawa, Canada,
states that the question of reciprocrity
between Canada and the United
States is by no means dead, as was
clearly shown by the recent debate on
the Canadian budget in a number of
speeches, which, while they admitted
that the United States did not appear
to care for reciprocity, it would if it
could be brought about on mutually
advantageous terms, oe a good thing
for both sides of the line. Many of
the crown ministers and even Sir Wil-
frid Laurier himself, the premier, and
described in England as the foremost
statesman in the British Empire, are
favorable to Canadian-Americar re-
ciprocity, if it can be bad. Sir
Richard Cartwright, minister of trade
and commerce, said recen..y that there
could be no better British policy than
to do everything possible to encourage
good relations with the United States.
Senator Lougheed, the concervative
leader in the Senate, stated that he
thought no higher work could be found
by King Edward than to promote the
good relations of the two peoples, and
o bind more closely together the two
Anglo-Saxon nations. He knew no
happier way of strengt’.ening the bond
between the Anglo-Saxon peoples on
the North American Continent than
for the King and Queen to visit the
shores of North America at the pres-
ent time.
If reciprocity is not visibly to the
front to-day it is because public

In the past few years the Countess
of Warwick has devoted nearly her
entire time to phi.enthropic and char-
ity work. She once manag: 4d a linen
and lace store but the ven’are proved
unsuccessful, Later sh founded a
school and dairy wor) and poultry-
keeping for young girls, a home for
crippled children and a tecnnical
school, "
DIED FLOWERS.
England Has Begun Strange De-
mands for Sugared Blossoms From
the United States.
One of the latest developments of
luxury is said to be the candying of
fragrant flowers. The notion is not
altogether new, for violets have long
been made into confections for the
palate, as well as into boquets for the
olfactory organs.
At any rate, it seems that the fash-
jon has acquired a new impetus of
late, and a candied violet is coming
to be regarded as an acceptable “boune
opinion in Canada reg rds reciprocity
as unattainable and the position of
the anti-reciprocity men who are for
the moment supreme, as unassailable.
Hence, and for no other reacon, re-
ciprocity sentiment is put on the shelf
until called for again, and an ostenta-
tious appearance of indifference is
manifested in Canada which will be
stiffly maintained as long as the
United States government makes no
forward movement that public opinion
in the Dominion can accept as sincere
and based on a spirit of reasonableness
and fair play.
To those who are able to read be-
tween the lines, the announcement of
the finance minister that the changes
to be made in the Canadian tariff,
when revision takes p.ace next session,
must depend upon such new conditions
as may have occurred, is obviously
meant for the people at Washington
who stand in the way of reciprocity,
and those in London who have blocked
a mutual preference between the
mother country and Canada. It is a
warning and may mean much, or little,

as circumstances or conditions dictate,
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MOUNT JOY, PENNSYLVANIA, WEDNESDAY, JULY 235, 1906.
A GROCERY IN CONGRESS.
REPRESENTATIVE MANN PLAYS
SALESMAN AND DRUGGIST TO
UNMASK FRAUDS.
Short Weight and Fraudulent Foods
the Lure of Many Department
Stores and Mail Order Houses.
Honest Dealers Handicapped by
Deceptions.
When the pure food bill was before
the House of Representatives a few
weeks ago, intense interest was dis-

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played by the members of that body
in a “grocery store’ established by
Representative Mann of Illinois. Mr.
Mann had been given a special privi-
lege by the House committee having
the bill in charge to demonstrate the
manner in which the ordinary food
REPRESENTATIVE MANN.
products of the country are adulter-
ated, and how the consumer is de-
frauded. The space in front of the
speaker's desk resembled a small
section of a delicatessen store and a
corner grocery with cereals, jams,
jellies, tins of peas, tomatoes, corn,
prepared spices, bottles of whiskey and
wine, immnorted sausages, brandied
cherries and other edibles and drink-
ables scattered over two tables.
Representative Mann proceeded to
demonstrate to the House through
these various food products the neces-
sity for a national pure food law.
One of the first articles taken up by
the Congressman was the ordinary
condiment—pepper—which to the lay
mind is considered too cheap for any
manufacturer to spend time fn adul-
terating. He read circulars from nu-
merous concerns offering for sale a
certain grade of adulterant which
could be used to produce pepper or
almost any other of the spices with
some slight modification. As he scat-
tered a package of this over his desk
the members in the vicinity started
back in order to avoid the usual sneez-
ing which follows the inhalation of a
small quantity of pepper. But they
were reassured by the “groceryman”
that it was not harmful, for while
it was called pepper it was nothing
but ground olive pits. He convulsed
the House when he read the price list
of adulterants showing that they were
offered to the trade for $20 a ton in
five-ton lots, and that at that rate they
were guaranteed to make the finest
black pepper which, as everyone
knows, is sold by the ounce. He made
the statement that even the pepper
berry itself was adulterated by a
cleverly contrived manufacture of tap-
ioco colored with lamp black.
Possibly the most striking demon-
stration of the afternoon was one with
a bottle of red cherries. These cher-
ries, it was explained, were picked
green, and that after being bleached
out white by the use of a powerful
acid, had been colored the brilliant
red by the use of coal tar dye—a
deadly poison if used in large quanti-
ties. Representative Mann dipped a
these cherries, and it partook of a
brilliant red as though it had just come
from a dyers.
Olive oil, explained Mr. Mann, is a
product which is in most cases, adul-
terated. In many instances the coun-
terfeit is merely American cotton seed
oil—a wholesome and satisfactory
dressing for salad, but it costs about
14 as much as real olive oil, and the
‘American buyer certainly does not
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Copyrighted 1894. By Harper © Brothers.
Synopsis of preceding chapters at end of this installment.

bottle supposed to contain a quart of
vinegar, which when poured into a
large graduate did not nearly reach the
quart mark thereon—in fact was three
inches below it. Raisins, currants and
numerous other articles of food are
apparently put up in pound packages
and so the buyer considers, but in fact
few of those on the market really con-
tain a full pound.
DEPARTMENT STORE BARGAINS.
“Tt is the department stores and
mail order houses,” said the demon-
strator, “which make profit from short
weight cans and under-sized bottles.
We are seeking to protect the legiti-
mate grocery and the honest canner
from men who are willing to make
money by depriving the people of
things they think they are getting.
All that we urge is that an approx-
imate weight or measure may be put
upon each one of these packages and
then, if the public chooses to buy
a smaller pac-age at a smaller price
it may do so, but the manufacturers
and dealers must not any longer de-
ceive the people as to how much they
are buying.”
BREAKFAST FOODS A DELUSION.
On the tables where Mr. Mann, ably
but silently assisted by Mr. Stevens
of Minnesota, acted now as grocery-
man, now as druggist, and now as
bartender, there were a dozen or more
packages of breakfast foods with their
familiar labels. A reference to table
weights and skillful dropping of pack-
ages upon a balance scale in front of
him enabled Mr. Mann-to show that
in a great many cases the public paid
full price for an abnormal amount of
pasteboard box. In scarce any case
did the prepared food weigh twice as
much as the box, and in many in-
stances food and package were in near-
ly equal proportion.
Everybody knew, as Mr. Mann
stated, that per cent. of all the
coffee used in the United States is sold
as a mixture of Java and Mocha. He
was prepared to show from official
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CHAPTER XI.
For a time Sir Nigel was very moody
and downecast, with bent brows and eyes
upon the pommel of his saddle. Edricson,
Ford and Terlake rode behind him. The
four rode alone, for the archers had
passed a curve in the road, though Al
leyne could still hear the heavy clump,
clump of their marching, or catch a
glimpse of the sparkle of steel through the
tangle of leafless branches.
“Ride by my side, I entreat of you,”
said the knight, reining in his steed that
they might come abreast of him
“For, since it hath pleased you to fol-
low me to the wars, it were well that you
should know how you may best serve me.
I doubt not, Terlake, that you will show
yourself a worthy son of a valiant fa-
ther, and you, Ford, of yours, and you
Edricson, that you are mindful of the old-
time house from which all men know that
you are sprung. And first I would have
you bear very steadfastly in mind that
our setting forth is by no means for the
purpose of gaining spoil or exacting ran-
som, though it may well happen that such
may come to us also. We go to France,
and from thence, I trust, to Spain, in
humble search of a field in which we may
win advancement and perchance some
small share of glory. But what is this
among the trees?”
“It is a shrine of Our Lady,” sail
Terlake, “and a blind beggar who lives
by the alms of those who worship there.”
“A shrine!” cried the knight. “Then
let us put up an orison.” And pulling
off his cap, and clasping his hands, he
chanted in a shrill voice: ‘“Benedictus
dominus Deus meus, qui docet manus
meas ad proelium, et digitos meos ad
bellum.” A strange figure he seemed to
his three squires, perched on his huge
horse, with his eyes upturned and the
wintry sun shimmering upon his bald
head.” “It is a noble prayer,” he re-
marked, putting on his hat again, “and
it was taught to me by the noble Chandos
himself. But how fares it with you,
father? Methinks that I should have
ruth upon you, seeing that IT am
myself like one who looks through a horn
window while his neighbors have the
clear crystal. Yet, by St. Paul! there is
a long stride between the man who hath
a horn casement and him who is walled
in on every hand.”
“Alas, fair sir!” cried the blind man.

“I have not seen the blessed blue of hea-
CLOSE AT HIS HEELS FOLLOWED A L

care to purchase a dressing for four
times its actual worth.
’ HIVELESS HONEY.
One of the freak exibits was a
bottle of “honey” which, in order to
complete the assurance of the buyer
that the article was genuine, contained,
as if by accident, the body of a real
bee, yet the whole mess was pure and
simple glucose, and had never been
near a hive, much less a comb. The
hive probably was a ten story fac-
tory in one of the large cities.
A bottle of “Freezine” was exhibited
by Mr. Mann, who explained that this
remarkable article was guaranteed to
preserve. meat from the action of the
air and stop decay. While he ad-
mitted that it would stop the action of
nature on meats, he claimed that the
preservative itself was actually polson-
ous, containing sulphide of soda with
red coal tar dye and could not be
used safely upon human food.
The public is unwittingly defrauded
to a great extent through short weight
and short measure in package goods,
explained Mr. Mann, and he insisted
that the manufacturers should be com-
pelled to state on the label the quan-
tity contained in the bottle or carton.
In line with this was a dramatic dem-
onstration when the Chicago pure food
expert held up before the House a
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figures that while we used last year
more that a billion pounds of coffee,
and while about 250,000,000 pounds
were supposed to be Mocha and Java,
there were actually imported into this
country last year only a fraction over
2,000,000 pounds of Mocha and 10,000-
000 pounds of Java, or approximately
less than 13,000,000 pounds, or only 5
per cent. of the popular blend. It is
staggering to know 95 per cent. of the
people who think they drink Mocha
and Java every day have been de-
ceived, and yet the facts seem to be
rather plain.
Figures like these, however, al-
though ordinarily impressive and con-
vineing, did not attract so much at-
tention in the House, because the
members were so absorbed in the prac-
tical demonstration of the extent to
which fraudulent manufacturers of
food products have been willing to
go in the way of swindling the public.
rr — la.
Praise.
New Yorker—To tell the truth, we
are proud of this hotel.
Chieagoan—Well, I can't blame you
altogether, old man, I honestly think
myself that it's the finest between

Chicago and London.

ven this two-score years, since a levin-
flash burfied the sight out of my head.”
“You have been blind to much that
ig goodly and fair,” quoth Sir Nigel, “but
you have also been spared much that is
sorry and foul. But, by St. Paul! we
must on, or our Company will think that
they have lost their captain somewhat
early in the venture. Throw the man my
purse, Edricson, and let us go.”
Alleyne, lingering behind, bethought
him of the Lady Loring's counsel, and
reduced the noble gift which the knigut
had so freely bestowed to a single penny,
which the beggar, with many mumbled
blessings, thrust away into his wallet.
Then, spurring his steed, the young squire
rode at the top of his speed after his
companions, and overtook them just at
the spot where the trees fringe off into
the moor anu the straggling hamlet of
Hordle lies scattered on either side of the
winding and deeply rutted track. The
Company was already well-nigh through
the village; but as the knight and his
squires closed up upon them, they heard
the clamor of a strident voice, followed
by a roar of deep-chested laughter from
the ranks of the archers. Another minute
brought them up with the rear-guard,
where every man marched with his beard
on his shoulder and a face which was
agrin with merriment. By the side of
the column walked a huge red-headed
bowman, with his hands thrown out in

argument and expostulation, while close
at his heels followed a little wrinkled
woman, who poured forth a shrill volley
of abuse, varied by an occasional thwack
from her stick, given with all the forse
of her body, though she might have beea
beating one of the forest trees for aM
the effect that she seemed likely to pre-
duce.
“I trust Aylward,” said Sir Nigel,
gravely, as he rode up, “that this doth
not mean that any violence hath been
offered to women. If such a thing hap-
pened, I tell you that the man shall
hang, though he were the best archer
that ever wore brassart.”
“Nay, my fair lord,” Aylward answered
with a grin, “it is violence which is
offered to a man. He comes from Hordle,
and this is his mother who hath come
forth to welcome him.”
“You rammucky lurden,” she was howl-
ing, with a blow between each catch of
her breath, ‘you shammocking, yaping,
over-long good-for-naught. I will teach
thee! I will baste thee! Aye, by my
faith!”
“Whist, mother,” said John, looking
back at her from the tail of his eye. “1
go to France as an archer, td give blows
and to take them.”
“Po France, quotha?’ cried the old
dame. “Bide here with me, and I shall
warrant you more blows than you are
like to get in France. If blows be what
vou seek, you need not go further than
Hordle.”
“By my hilt! the good dame speaks
truth,” said Aylward. “It seems to be
the very home of them.”
“What have you to say, you clean-
shaved galleybagger? cried the fiery
dame, turning upon the archer. “Can 1
not speak with my own son but you must
let your tongue clack? A soldier, quotha,
and never a hair on his face. I have
seen a better soldier with pap for food
and swaddling-clothes for harness.”
“Stand to it, Aylward,” cried the
archers, amid a fresh burst of laughter.
“Do not thwart her, comrade,” said big
John. “She hath a proper spirit for her
years and cannot abide to be thwarted.
It is kindly and homely to me to hear
her voice and to feel that she is behind
me. But I must leave you now, mother,
for the way is over-rough for your feet; ~
but I will bring you back a silken gown,
if there be one in France or Spain, and
1 will bring Jinny a silver penny; so
gcod-bye to you, and God have you in his
keeping!” Whipping = up the little
woman, he lifted her lightly to his lips,
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and then, taking his place in the ranks
again, marched on with the laughing Cowm-
pany.
“That was ever his way,” she cried,
appealing to Sir Nigel, who reined up his
horse and listened with the gravest cour-
tesy. “He would jog on his own road fo
all that I could do to change him. First]
he must be a monk forsooth, and all be
cause a wench was wise enough to tury
her back on him. Then he joins a ras
cally crew and must needs trapse off t
the wars, and me with no one to ba
the fires if I be out, or tend the cow i
1 be home. Yet I have been a goo
mother to him. Three hazel switch
day have I broke across his should
and he takes no more notice than ¥{
have seen him to-day.”
“Doubt not that he will come back
you both safe and prosperous, my fi
dame,” quoth Sir Nigel. “Meanwhile
grieves me that, as I have already giy
my purse to a beggar up the road, I
““Nay, my lord,” said Alleyne, “I
have some moneys remaining.”
“Then T pray you to give them to
very ‘worthy woman,” He cantered on
he spoke, while Alleyne, having disper
two more pence, left the old dame st:
ing by the furthest cottage of Ho
with her shrill voice raised in bles:
instead of a ings,
at ni the Company s
Leonard’s, in the pr Dy lent yi
and spicarium-—ground well known

to Alleyne and to John, fi
almost within sight of the Abbe