ALUM, FLINT AND
SULPHURIC ACID.
It Is reported that in many localities
houses are infested by peddlers trjing
to sell or introduce so-called "cheap”
or low-priced baking powders, either
directly or by an order upon a gioeer.
In most instances deception is used,
and it is claimed that the article is a
genuine baking powder and has ail the
merits of a pure article.
Housekeepers should be on their
guard against this danger to their food.
Alum powders are almost always low
priced. But they are well known to be
detrimental to health. In England and
in some sections of this country their
sale is prohibited by law. Congress
has forbidden the sale of food contain
ing alum in the District of Columbia.
The highest authorities condemn their
use. Dr. S. W. Johnson, for instance.
Professor of Chemistry at Yale Col
lege, says: "Bread made with a bak
ing powder containing alum must
yield a soluble alumina salt with the
gastric juice, and must, therefore, act
as a poison."
It is well known that these so-called
"cheap” goods are made from alum or
the very cheapest materials. One of
them was recently analyzed at Yale
College and found to be one-quarter
sharp pointed grains of ground hint.
Others are filled with sulphuric acid,
and salts of lead are also found in
them.
In baking powders be sure to get a
reputable well-known cream cf tartar
brand, and never buy from peddlers.
TYING THE KNOT IN ENID.
Okliilioma Ju»ttc<n of the Peace He
lifir in lusptMlitliiK ilu*iueas
of All Kintlft.
In Oklahoma, as everywhere else
throughout the southwest, here there
is little time for the practice of con
ventionalities and little disposi
tion to encourage them, the demand is
for men who are capable of rising on
short notice to every emergency.
The flourishing little town of Enid
is an example. There the majority of
the people are so busily engaged in lay
ing the foundation stones of an empire
that they have little time to bestow
upon matters of a purely social or sen
timental nature. Somebody, however,
must attend to the less serious af
fairs of the community, and that there
may be no cause for complaint on this
score a justice of the peace is elected
periodically, whose duty it is to pick
up and shoulder all the responsibilities
that his fellow-citizens feel like shak
ing off. Among other things, he is
required to perform marriage cere
monies. And he Is expected to perform
them with as little delay as possible.
Simplicity and expedition are the main
considerations, tor the contracting par
ties are usually in a hurry to get back
to their respective vocations, labor be
ing the most precious thing in the ter
ritory that hopes at an early day to
become a sovereign state.
Hence the ritual compiled by Justice
Shoemaker, oi:e of the earliest of the
general utility officials of Enid, is.still
closely adhered to. A couple enters the
Justice’s office. The expectant groom
makes known the object of the visit.
The justice goes to the door of his of
fice and cries: "Come into court.” Two
or three citizens respond. These act
as witnesses. The happy pair are com
manded to join bauds, and the justice
proceeds:
*‘John Alexander McDoughall, do you
take Mary Ann Eliza Smithson to be
your wedded wife? Answer yes or no.”
"Yes.” assents the groom.
“Mary Ann Eliza Smithson, you
heard what John said. Now, are you
willing to take him for your lawful
husband? Address the court and speak
loud enough for these witnesses to
hear. Answer yes or no."
les, answers the bride.
“Then, says the justice, "this is the
rase of John Alexander McDoughall
and --ary Ann Eliza Smithson et al.
and ex rel., and the territory of Okla
home, ss. I, George Washington Jack
son, declare and make these presents
known, that personally appeared before
me this day the parties hereinbefore
named, who, being duly sworn, state
that they will take each other in mar
riage. Therefore, by the authority
vested in me by the constitution of
Oklahoma, I pronounce you man and
wife. And let no man put you asunder.
You owe me $3."
Thus does the Oklahoma justice of
the peace rise to the requirements of a
people who have no time for the con
ventionalities. Later on, when they
shall have succeeded in building up the
empire, and when they may indulge
themselves in more leisure, doubtless
they will demand that more ceremonial
Khali be thrown around affairs of this
kind, but for the present the simple
ritual followed in Enid meets every
want, and is sufficiently binding to sat
isfy the most punctilious sticklers for
legal form.—Chicago Inter-Ocean.
Cruelty, like every other vice, re
quires no motive outside of itself; it
only requires opportunity.—George
Eliot.
He who is firm and resolute in "'ill
molds the world to himself.—Goethe.
BREAKING OF DOGS
The Skill Cannot Be Acquired from
the Reading of Books.
A Trnlnpp of Dors Point* Ont Some
of the Most Glaring Krrori Which
Prevail in Fitting a Dog
for the Hunt.
It is often said that half the books that
are written telling how to break a dog
to hunting are untrue, and that the other
half are written to prove them so. If
there be a measure of accuracy in the
statement, it must be concluded that the
way to learn to break a dog is upon the
field under the tutelage of a competent
dog trainer. It is not necessary to teach
a pointer or setter to point in a room be
fore introducing it to game. This is so
because the young dogs of these days, if
well bred, at least, point naturally, and
the last thing any dog ought to be taught
is to point to order. If his breaker knows
the better when the dog should point,
the obvious thing to do Is to leave him in
kennel, and go shooting without him.
This is not only true of private breaking,
it is true of field trial breakers. Indeed,
one of the most successful owners asked
me this season how it happened that a
certain field-trial breaker's dogs always
have a good deal of false point, or creepi
ness, about them. Of course. I did not
know, but it often happens that a man
who habitually has false pointers is one
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LESSONS IN DROPPING.
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who only half trusts his dogs’ noses, and
tries to supplement their olfactory pow
ers by his own supposed sense of know
ing, by the manner of the dog. more of
the locality of game than the dog knows
himself.
Nearly all the writers upon shooting
make this mistake. The instant a dog
begins to draw, up goes an arm, and
"Have a care” or a "To-ho” is uttered.
This is all wrong; no dog that is broken
upon a proper system is the better for
“Have a care.” He may be doirg one of
two things; either he is trying to catch
the birds himself, and deserves more
drastic treatment, or else he is trying to
make sure whether they are there before
he points them. Caution him. and he will
false point, and learn two bad things—
first, to rely upon his breaker to tell him
when to point; and, secondly, to point
before he is sure of game, that is, to false
point.
When he has been "To-hoed” into these
bad habits, take him home and shoot him,
for he i> quite useless. This may seem a
harsh thing to say, but it is not only that
a false pointer is himself useless, but
that he spoils every dog that is hunted
with him; for the best dogs are soon put
off thiir backing if they are hunted with
a false pointer.
I do not suppose a protest In a news
paper will serve to put an end to the er
roneous bookish education of the teach
ers of our shooting companions; but the
trainers who are most successful in pub
lic do not go about with windmill-like
arms, cracking dog whips, or shouting
“To-ho." They simply trust their dogs
to show them game, and for the most
part the dogs respond, and are found
worthy of the trust reposed in them. For
my part, I would never flatter or fuss a
puppy while on the point, until the game
was up, or I had seen it on the ground.
Remember that until one of these thirgs
has happened the point may be at a lark,
a hedgehog, a field-mouse, or nothing
whatever, and flattery, on the supposi
tion that he is pointing game, will make
him commit the same error at the next
opportunity.
The greatest trouble in all breaking is
to undo the errors previously taught,
possibly by inadvertence, probably by
a wrong system, and this double point
ing will generally last through life if the
breaker begin by encouraging it. Al
though, as I have said, the toxt-books
make these bad blunders, and the ma
jority of breakers follow them, the field
trial men know better; and yet they
know no more than the artists of a hun
dred years ago knew, for these men did
not make the blunders of the moderns.
The simple way of breaking dogs is to
talk to them as if they were children,
,u.,l to prevent them from doing wrong
•ts'often as is possible. It is wonderful
then what a very few minutes in the day
will accomplish; hut if. on the contrary,
dogs are started wrongly, and have to
unlearn, they will not be ready to start
the right way until their first lessons are
mute unlearned, a process that may take
ten times as long as the whole business
of teaching would have taken if a proper
start had been made.
Altars olive.
The Letter “T.”
Out of every 1,000 letters used in
writing English, T Is used S3 times.
Pride of II 1a Performance.
In a downtown church, as the story
F;oes, there was introduced a new hymn
ast Sunday, and, after the disposal of the
services, the organ blower found his way
to the player’s bench and asked in a meet
voice: “How did the music for that new
hymn go this evening?”
"Oh, very well, very well, indeed," re
plied the organist; “but why do you ask?”
“Well,” said the blower, “I’ll tell you
the truth. 1 was a bit nervous and a bit
worried about it, for, you see,” he went
on explaining, “I never blowed for that
hymn before.’—Philadelphia Press.
Those Kliitm,
The mother with her little ten-year-old
daughter was returning to her tiny tfat
after a call on a friend who resided in a
: large house, with spacious grounds about
1 it. As she neared the house she sighed
and remarked to her little daughter:
“Dolly, when 1 come back home after
visiting Mrs. Wallin J feel as if 1 had
come back to live in a hat box.”
Dolly gave a sigh exactly like her
mother's and said; dismally:
“And I feel as if L had come back to live
in a keyhole."—N. V. Times.
The Doctor's Statement.
St. John, Ivans., Nov. 16th. This town
has a genuine sensation in the case of a
little boy, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Wil
liam McBride. Dr. Limes, the attending
physician, says:
“Scarlet Fever of a very malignant type
1 brought this child very near to death and
when the fever left him, he was semi-para
lyzed in the right leg and right arm. He
also lost hearing in his right ear and his
mind was much affected.
“His parents tried another treatment for
a time and when I was recalled ’ found
that he was having spells very like Epilep
sy and was very bad and gradually growing
worse. I advised the use of Dodd's Kid
ney Pills and in a short time the child be
gan to improve. Inside of a week the
nervous spasms or epileptic seizures ceased
altogether.”
Mr. and Mr3. McBride have made a
sworn statement of the facts and Dr. -Jesse
L. Limes has added his sworn statement
saying that Dodd’s Kidney Pills and noth
ing else cured the fits.
A Charitable Hore.
Mrs. Widder— My first husband always
worried over the ice bills.
Mr. Widder—Well, let us hope he is where
he has none to bother him now.—Baltimore
American.
bish WasbinK In ^Vinter.
Housekeepers naturally dread dish wash
ing in winter, owing to the fart that rt
chaps the hands and renders them hard
and rough. Much of the injury, however,
results from the use of impure soap. If
Ivory soap is used in washing dishes and
the hands are carefully rinsed and dried,
they will not chap.
ELEANOR R. PARKER.
Young Salt—“How's the fish bitin’ to
day, uncle?” Old Salt—“With their
mouths, as usual, youngster.”—Harvard
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The richest purse often lias the poorest
contents.—Town Topics.
Selfishness is always shortsighted.—
Rum's Horn.
Piso’s Cure for Consumption is an infalli
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Samuel, Ocean Grove, X. J., Feb. I/, 1900.
One pugilist seldom strikes another favor
ably.—Philadelphia Record.
June Tint Butter Color makes top of
the market butter.
Don’t depend on your personal appear
ance earning your salary.— Atchison Globe.
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Y J. Hill, of Concord,
N. C., Justice of the
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very efficient
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ease. I n s e d
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dered kidneys
and backache,
from which 1
had experienced
a great deal of
trouble and
pain. The kid
ney secretions
were very irregular, dark colored and
full of sediment. The Pills cleared it
all up and I have not had an aelie in
ray back since taking the last dose.
My health generally is improved a
great deal.”
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