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THE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL, v PORTLAND, SUNDAY MOANING, FEBRUARY 4. IZZX .- SSSSSS-aSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSaSSSSSSeSSPSlSSM nWBBg . ft IT seemeth' such a little way to me "v-v'-v" . ' 7 ' ii.i' Across to that strange countryi-the Beyond;' And-yet not strange, for it has grown to be v - TJie home of those of whom I am so fond ; ', ; They nfake it seem familiar and most dear. As journeying friends bring distant regions near.-. ' : , ' - ' -J;'' . 'So closp it lies that, when niy sight Is clear . - I think I almost see the gleaming strand, I know I feel those. who have gone from here ' i-Come -near enough sometimes to touch, my -'haml. . I; often think but for our, veiled eyes,,- j, ? : w snouiajin.ajjtieaTcn Tjgni rouna moouc usiies. , - . v rr: i -: y'-TJr " U9 YEAR OLl. jry I ' I prr,r-,',, TTT I " I ' : ' rtf i- Y II I I '..V LilrVnK -'Lf. . ' 0T ' ' ' most remarkable thing happened last I I W IV' ,- FT? Wtf rrVVTP!JL " Would you be- 'I'OI I V? I V :WTYl . I nevs ht it caueea some irritation, ana i . u i Vi r OREGON has three remarkable centenarians.' Of these j Mrs. Mary Ramsay Woods is the .most remarkable. . , Her 119 years seem to rest lightly on her, and one feels sort of awe itrtalkingto6newho "remembers; the "early history of the United States; who came into this .world be fore the constitution and who was a young mother when the Oregon country was explored by Lewis and Clark. y Next in interest to Mrs. Woods in Oregon's gallery of re- ' markable centenarians is Jasper Force, who with nearly 106 .years back of htm, enjoys going to a circus as much as the -youngest child. Not only does he enjoy the circus but is ' assisting even at this period in his. life in playing the part of cowboy, looking daily after' the feeding of a bunch of range Cattle. , : -" ' ': ' ':.,v., . t ...".) . ., V . .The third-centenarian is Colbert P. Blair, who is still active and hopeful, although he passed the century mark with tenamgjpxpiastjear. No state in. the union can remarkable old persons,- and while each of them lives in a different part of the state, they all attribute their longevity to the remarkable climate of Oregon. - V BOUT the "tlma that lha Amrl ean colonies realized tha nacea alt' of faderation, while, tha United Statea conatltutlon waa ' aa yet unwritten and the nation atlU un born, 'there came Into the world on a farm near Knoxvtlle, Tenneaaea, a girl abator., whin;. Jeatlped to, wltneaa the marreloua chancea that bava alnce "tTanaformed tha world and to aurvlve out of tha old time Into oura. The child that learned to Map when Waahlnaon waa president In the eighteenth cen tnrr. atllt Urea to talk of President Roosevelt in tha twentieth century, and -eyes that rear looked lovingly ' upon her first-born, today smile wlta a fading light upon the "child of her old age," a woman now paat 71. yHtUmsey Woods' U born ' aj I llarr Ramsey on Ma 30, 1717. Now in her Uth rear, aha la atlll quite ' active and maintains a lively Interest In the world and ita doings. Dally aha " walks about the garden or alta upon ' the porch la sunny weather to chat with neighbors, to sew, or to live over In ' memory soenes ef long ago.--And what a memory la hers I 'Bhe was a tiny maid ' when the French revolution was dyeing -the gutters of Paris red she was a laughing schoolgirl of T when Tennessee , waa admitted aa a state to the Union; he waa a bluahlng bride when the great F Napoleon ceded Lonlslsna to the United . States, and' a proud young mother when tiewt and Clark tramped over a contl ( nent to "where rolls the Oregon.' And she well remembers her father taking ' down his old gun, shouldering his . blankets and going but to fight the " battles of his country . in the war of m. . : " i- - Though probably the oldest woman In the world, her Intellect la still bright and keen, aa la shown by the fact that ThHTIaer Summer" nrSittmBfiy-aeCTaed a lawault and settled the title to prop- erty which was deeded over 44 yesrs aga : Her answers were to the point and ' . efforts to confuse her were unavailing. She testified regarding minute details, ' showing thst the years bava not dulled ' her reoollectlon. .,'' "One can (krcelfeanaehgTrigryelH oua ehangea that have taken place in '.the world during .Mrs. Woods eventful , life. When she : wss a child people literally lived tha "simple life," none -at the eooiforte -aad -opnvenlences of . today were la existence. . Oentlemen '' still wore the fancy eostvlme, knlcknr ... bockera. frilled shirts and cocked hats, while the common people wore home spun. Bhe was a babe of t yeara when ' this government began business. Bh ' was It years old when Robert Fulton first - plowed tha watera with his primitive steamboat, and 44 yers;old " whan the first railway waa laid. In those old dsys the spinning Jenny Waa not Invented and the trust a .thing un dreamed of. Trcm"T&l11ehSldck. A Mary Ramsey Woods comes -of goodibut aftsr I think a whils they straighten Md English stock. Her ancestors were II lonaMlved people. Her parents oame Trent England Just after their marriage and sashed on through the Carol Ins s to Tenneaaea. where they settled pon fans that was afterwards the some tt the derisive battle or the Faduoah lo ci is a war. . Here the couple settled and re their children were bora and reared. There were firs girls and three) boys to t familx, ad JUrx was tts six lb possibly boast of three such child, according to the old family Bible. - Kate Ramsey, the mother, died after a few hours' illness, at ths ags of 110, II years aga The day before her death aha had .walked a distance of five mllss. Knitting ail the way. aa waa her cuetom. A few years before therather,""Rlchard Ramsey,, had dropped dead from heart disease, tie waa a brlckmakar and con. tractor, and burned the brick used snd built ths first brick house in Knoxvllls. When Mary was 11 yeara old ahs joined the Methodist Episcopal church. for io yeara aha has been communicant and la still a devoted Methodist . Her folks were well-to-do, were slaveowners and possessed con siderable property. She was married at tha age of IT to Jacob Lemons, a happily together In ' their . Tennessee home for many years. She was left a widow Tt yeara ago, about the, time that Andrew Jackson was n earing tha end of his first term .as president Four children were born to the couple, Mary J. Liemona, who died In Tennessee two years ago at the ags of SI: Isaae Lem ons, who died In Kansas City, Missouri, 40 years ago; Nancy E. Bullock, who died at Hlllsboro II years ago, and Mrs. C. B. Reynolds, who is now living In Hlllsboro, and. who, though 71 year of aga, la devoting her life to the ears of her aged parent For the next 10 years Mrs. Lemons lived with her children, sometimes with ons snd sometimes with another. They were settled in Alabama, Georgia, Ken-J tucky and Missouri. snd tha, widow lived with flrat one and then the other. In. IIS! aha accompanied her youngest daughter, Mrs. C. B. Southworth, serosa ths plains to Oregon, arriving In HIHn boro In list. Bhe wss then I years old, but rods a bay mare the entire distance from -Tennessee, while her daughter and huaband rode In an oxcart - Ths party cams leisurely, bringing a dosen slaves with them, some of whom are still alive. -' After her arrival In Oreron Mra Lemons built the first hotel In Hllls boro. Shortly aftsr she married John Woods, -with-Whom- she lived -until his desth, a score of yeara later. The couple ran the hotel until 40 year ago, when they turned It over to their daughter, Mrs. C. B. Reynolds, formerly Mrs. Southworth. -her only- survirlns child For many years Mrs. Woods wag post mistress oi Hlllsboro. until advancing old ags compelled her to take life mors easily. Since then she has dons house work until ths last few years, but now confines herself to the ears of her per son, sewing or Knitting. , , Only III Once. : V V Mra Woods talks In a quavering voles, but very distinctly, with a marked southern accent la " speaking of her life, shs said: . "M jr ' sWBsB'gM"jra? 'atls jfoA, Sometimes things get a little clouded. out I have lived a quiet life and never had much excitement. I never had but one serious Illness, which was II years age, when I bad typhoid fever, and as a result lsst ths sight of my left sys. My third sight is wsll worn, and though I ean see out of hut ons sys, I can still thread' a needle and read large type. Since say Illness I have been hard of hearing, too, and you, have to shout 1 "X lest toe testa 41 rears vago. . a&4 . ml li..v--- ..r -w alnce then have worn false teeth. A most remarkable thing happened lest spring; I cut a tooth. Would you be lieve it T - It caused some irritation, and Is considerable annoyance. Interfering with the falsa, teeth, but It la there all right - I haven't tha least idea how . It happened. "My diet In recent years has been principally- vegetables, though I have not dieted myself. I eat three times a day, and have drank atrong coffee all through life, and -plenty-of rfc I have always- eaten - meat principally -pork, snd still est It occasionally. 1 waa never any hand for sweetmeats, such as preserves and cakes. "I weigh about ISO pounds, which Is pretty good for a woman my height, about t feet three Inches. I dress and cars for myself and do not need help from' my daughter, except when I have a sinking spell, as I do ones In awhUs when my extremities get numb. "Until late years I have always been In comfortable -circumstances. We had land and slsves, which were wealth in the south In ths old days. My daughter owns our noma, snd that is all that la laft of our property now. - - "I plainly remember ths war of lilt. My father fought-during the last-stx months under Andrew Jackson, but hs waa a paid soldier. Ws lived nesr the highway and I saw.1 Andrew Jackson driving from his home to Washington to be president snd waved to him. We were all Democrats, and ' are atllL haven't much use for the black Republl cana. . , ;, . '-..-. Things She Remembers. Tt bewilders ms to think of ths many things that nave happened. In my life. x can remember when there were no steamboats or steam cars, and It was only yesterday that the telephone and eteotiie light were Invented. - . "They called me an old woman whin wa came to Oregon, but I rode horse back all ths wsy. and that waa II years ago. I - remember - the Mexican war plainly, and the civil war seems like lsst week. I was 71 when-John Brown made hla raid at Harpefa Ferry, and although the news didn't reach ua for months afterward I remember the excitement it caused. In the ssms yesr Oregon wss admitted as a state. Why, 40 yeara ago they said I OUghrffTkg-TIItn so I sold my hotel to my daughter. "The friends of my youth hsve been aeaa xor hair a century, some of them a full century. My eldest boy would be a hundred this year if he bad not died two years sgo. Even the friends of my old sge are gone, and I have only my daughter left, ' I am hard of hear ing and blind in one eye, and yet I en joy life, take an Interest in ths world, snd try to be as little bother as pos sible until ths snd cornea, which cannot do long delayed now." Mrs. Woods can be found any sunny day walking about ths yard or sluing in ner favorite armchair at her daugh tar's home In Hlllsboro. Bhe Is slways glad to pass ths time of day with neigh bors, snd has a cheerful- "bow-de-do snd handshake for every one. For msny yesrs tns countryside has gathered up on her birthday to do her honor, and she greets all visitors cordially and magss tea ror tne assembisge. Jasper. Fores Put 105. Usually associated with a centenarian la the idea of senility and decrepitude. Ons who meets Jasper Force of Talent Oregon, on the road will not see him "totter o'er the ground," but will, see htm stride off with the rim of a man of 10. Tet ' the ' old man turned the century jnore .than five years ago. He la today assisting dally In feeding a bunch of range cattle, pitching hla full share of the hay. "baching" In hla cabin alona and taking the iame Interest in Uf e - aa hla neighbors. ..-,r,--. -Born of French and flerman aAv lm tha- village of Northumberland. Penn sylvania, on the twentieth dsy of Sep tember, 1100, he Is today as fine an il lustration or ths sturdy manliness sa can be found on the coaat In the full control of his mind, with not a single sense lacking or deficient his hearlns andeyeslght keen and quick, hla Joints ss supple as the. average man of 10, and hla head clear and bright one haa to be "showed" to convince him that he la . in the preeence of a man of the days when ths country was la Its in- f eneyt a man iwhe ean reeount incidents of the war of 1111 and the Mexican strife as glibly as ths old veteran we meet every day speaks of Stone river and Appomattox,- -....'.. r. When Rlngllng Bros, circus was at Medford last year the old gentleman wanted to renew the acquaintance hs had with the Rlngllngs In their boy. hood days st Bars boo, Wisconsin, and Incidentally to see the anlmala and hear the olden, golden Jokes sgaln. After Waller Rlngllng had recovered from the bock of, the Introduction he saldj . - j 1 1 n ; id f n III l l , ; 1 fir. ' i -B-U-m - i ; ii i r i ft i u i I I L II I CP KLAUS' vol "Whyr-old fellow, you don't look a day older than you did when I last saw you IS -years ago, and wo thought you I were older than anvbodv then!" "You have grown some, too," .said Fores. '. "What makes you live so long out here?" - . -. ; . "Oh, climate, good water and graham bread.' reepopdsd -Force- - "Do you think that removing to Ore gon prolonged your llfef "I know It If 1 had my whole life to live over I'd live it all here In the Rogue river valley," responded ths old tun. ' r ; . . . . l , . vhen Rlngllng did the right thing with a bit of pasteboard and recalled the famous remark of tha governor of North Carolina to the governor of South Carolina, the old gentleman declined the Invitation with thanks snd atatad that he drew the line at the demijohn, but had no objection to tobacco. Used Tobacco Since a Boy. V It baa been yeara since the old man had any-teeth, and yet hla digestion Is excellent and he atlll enjoys his tobacco as well as he did 100 years ago, for he contracted the habit when he was only C years old. Borne doubt has been ex pressed as to the truth' of his state ments as to his age, but since his resi dence In the vicinity of Talent begsn In ISO! he has always told ths same story as to Incidents In his career, and his convincing ths most skeptical of the truth ef his statements. He atates that hla father. Jonathan Force, waa- killed at the age tf 42 year at the battle which ended the war of 1113, Perry's victory on Lake Erie, and that he re membered the receipt of the aad news ef his father's death, His bosom swells with prlds today as hs recalls hla sen sation when his father nicked the Brit ish." , Jasper was : married December 21, 1ST!, to Mary Hartman In New Tork stats, and lived with her happily until a sultry day In the fall of 1811, when a terrible cyclone destroyed their home In Kansas, and not only killed Mrs. Force, but slso their two sons,. Jacob and David, and their only daughter, Mary Ellen, who chanced to be with, them at home on that fateful day, thus leaving the father .alona and desolato In ths world, with not a single near relative living so far a -he- knows. - After this terrible disaster, with his heart heavy ani ssd, already almost a nonogenarlan, the old "man turned away from the place where he bad spent three of the happleet yeara of his life and removed to the Willamette valley, Oregon, re maining there 11 years, when he cams to his present home at Talent Hera in peaceful, pastoral existence. In- the shadow of ths Siskiyou range, looking over one or the fairest scenes Of beau tlful Oregon, where nature seems to have done her best ts Disks a model home for ths human race, he hopes to end. His ills. . iv, Labors in the Field. With the agrarian Instinct aa atrong in hla bosom as ever, he labors In the fields and tenda the stock aa regularly aa ths ownsr himself, and looks from naturs up to nature's Ood with aa keen enjoyment aa a young man. Hs states he never owned sn acre of land In hla life, he only claims the privilege of working and living temperately and In moderation and he sees no reason why he should not live 10 years longer. He is not In any sense infirm, but looks rugged szid strong and hi" velna are full of rich, warm blood, and If he lived in the days which Scripture treats of. he might yet have been the progenitor of a host or Offspring. ; . . ... The secret of his longevity, hs says. Is temperance in all things. He wants his regular sleep, regular hours for work and rest, and an abundance to eat He doea not want much meat, but wants kit well cooked graham bread, good but ter, fruits In, their season, milk when he can' get It. plenty of pure water, not hot drinks at any. time, plenty, of o -yzj&k&qld. I bacco alweys--these are what make life I worth living to him. .He is planning ! for ths future. Just as he did 50 years !& Ha time nnnnlutl the n.rmannt exhibit, at, Medford a 'sample of his skin in weaving native grasses snd tim othy Into attractive forms, a trait which be undoubtedly Inherited from his Oer BhlneAayorlta-lorm In which W;?i"!'!';!?''-lr!! blends the timothy heads is into ths resemblance of a tree a unique and interesting; specimen, ' . . Keep House Himself. : Since the loss of his wlfs and family In ths Kansas eyclons hs prefers to be alone much of the time, and whh the exception of about II montha, when he was employed In a farmer's family, hs has lived .alone, doing his own cooking and waahlng bis own clothes, always Appearing in neat attire, greeting his fellowmea as their equal,- always cour teous end considerate and ready In con versation, qven apt at repartee... There Is a twinkle of amusement In his eye when he "gets ths best" of an exchange of badinage, which makes ons marvel that the. human . form .could so long maintain undlmmed a atrong, bright mind which, though untutored and un cultured, la yet a credit to the American race. " He comes of a longllved race, his mothsr dying at ths advanced age of II years in Clinton county, Pennsylvsnia, where shs served out her time ss wlfs orTnctoeT-Wanorirrefec6ha TTTius- band. ' iv .', Second only to hla lovs of country Is ths old msn's golden opinion of Ore gon. He descants upon Oregon s advan tages in matters of soil, climate and productions, especially 4 fruit as if hs were a veritable boomer. Could he mount the river of his years, he asserts, hs. would II vs all his long lifetime in Oregon. lie counts ss lost ths portion of the span which circumstances com pelled him to spend In Wisconsin" and Kansas. Whsn ons vlsws his environ. ment, with peace, plenty and prosperity apparent on every band, .one must con' cur In his wisdom. , , .... . . ';. ,' ,, C. P. Blair Passes the Century.. v - "Every one will get old If he lives long enough," is the 'aphorism framed by Centenarian Colbert P. Blair of Pen. dleton. - Mr. Blair's chief pleasure Is to relate sxperlences with ths Indians. Hs has no sympathy with ths red man, and even now grows enlhusTkstlc when Pair ing, of the Indian wars In which he served and recounting the number of warriors hs "fetched down." ' He served through the Black Hawk war In ltll- 14 and escaped unharmed. He was In the battle of the meadows of ths Rogue river Indian war in 1861-14, one of the fiercest rights with red Men on- record. In this battle he acquitted himself with great bravery, receiving high com men- oat loir rrom the commanding officer. . Rather Fight Indians Than Bat. "In those dsys I would rather fight an Indian than eat" aald he. "Some how, I never liked Indiana They were never fair, and for treachery, well, tbey bad a monopoly on that." - . .- Mr. Blair wak one of the flrat friends ths lata Senator Mitchell had in Oregon, While living In Benton county Mr. Blair waa ,. active In politics,,, having . been elected to the stats legislature In 1103. Later, when Mitchell commenced to be came a factor In Oregon politics, he found no truer friend and no stronger supporter than Mr, Blslt. - "Senator Mitchell waa one of the few great men of Oregon," aald ha, "He did more for the. state than any other man.- He was sincere and . conscien tious." - , Mr. Blair Is no burden to his grsnd daughtsr, Mrs. F. H. Bawtell, at whose home he has lived for IS yeara. Ha oc cupies an upstairs room and walks up and down stairs from six to ten times each day. He takes care Of the room himself, declaring that "no ' one ran make hl' bed to suit him." - He eats Ijcannot make it seem a When from this, dear eartty I shall Journey: out7 To that still dearer country of the deads ; iV And join -the lost ones so long dreamed . about. , , I love this world, yet shall I love to go - - . And meet the friends 'who wait for me,-i know. ' I never stand above m bier and see r'rr : The sear of death set on some well-loved face ' -' But that I think, "One more to welcome me , : ' , When I shall cross the intervening space : ' " Between this' land nd that one 'over, there': . One more to make the strange Beyond seem fair.". And so for me there is no sting to death, And so the 'grave has lost its victory! '." And white, set facea To find the loved ones , More beautiful, more precious that! before, ... l.cAnnyJings in Our Food t st From Field and Farm. HE cheap things are undoubtedly , the worst for ths poor are at the mercy of the small local ' dealers, but we are all of ua eating and drinking dyeatuffa by the quart Of (S samples of canned toma toes analysed by the government . ex porta IS were found to contain preserva tives. EoBin. a red dye. is used to color inferior tomatoes. Eighty-six out of ths tl samples of French peaa con tained copper, and so did 10 out of ths 43 cans of American peas.. String beans eras, canned eom is whitened with acids. Out of 41 cans examined 14 contained preservstlves. Of 14 samplss of molasses 147 con tained glucose and ons third or them showed the presence of tin. Sixty-three asm pies of maple sugar were adulter ated with glucose. One sample of honey labeled 71 per cent common syrup mai Tierxe tracted honey, was found: on analysis to contain no honey at all but II . per cent of glucose, colored with , coal tar dyes. Two hundred samples -of candy i contained paraffins. Candle grease la particularly . prevalent , . In -caramels, chocolates and molasses candy. A kind hearted woman ' invited a company of Italian girls who worked in a candy factor4ato a Christmas party. She had jur IJIVIU, iim .uiwii, witivr hums WW a bos of fins chocolate creams for each one. - When tbey went away every child fief t,, her box of candy on the chair be hind ner- . - "wny, aren't you -going to take your- chocolates' aald the sur prised hostess; "Oh. no," they ssld In a chorus, "ws make those." Chocolate creams are varnished to givs them that nics, glossy costing, and gumdrops and stick candy are Colored with red and blue aniline dyea. - Our butter gets Its nles yellow color from coal tar dyes, to say nothing of What -It- Costs - to Demands v t it ... ; (Continued from First Page, This" Seo- ments in New Tork in other oltles, too, for that matter for 1uat auch people. " One '"baclielur maid. daughter DT deceased Wsll street broker, pays IIS. 000 a year for her apartments opposite sn exclusive club. Not -far away a man and his wlfs en Joy the possession . of nine rooms st a slmllsr rental, and they recently spent If 0,000' to hav the place redecorated to their liking. A three-room suite In the ssms build ing may be had, unfurnished, for 14,000 year. At one of the new . hotels ef the metropolis a sitting-room, two bedrooms snd a bath will coat HJ.iOO m year. Larger suites may be had for 110.000 or I2S.000. - Theae figures do not . include meals, which may be made to cost anything desired. It is for balls, fetes, dinners and other entertainments thst revelers In the smart sst let , their money flow, like water..i. , '.; - Flowers for a single hall may coat $1,000. In season, a fashionable family will spend-tl.OtO a month for flowers for smell dinners, given about once a week: -,- '. . Novelty is always demanded to whet the sated appetites of thoss who follow heartily and says he Is always hungry. He has never been 111 a day In his life. Tf a "person wants to Hvs long." he says, "hs must be regular In his habits and get plenty of fresh air and sun shine. Irregular living and dissipation re sure suicide." r ' ' Over a Century Old.. '-. Mr. Blair was born In North Carolina December It, 1805, the year of the Lewis and Clark expedition. He says hs expects to llvs many more years, but as soon as he becomes1 a care to his family he win be ready to dla ' Hs is the rather or eight children. four of whom are dead. The living aret Jam.ee IC Blair and Mra Neeky Clapp of Lincoln coun.ty, T. J. Blair of Pen dleton and J. B. Blair,-who has been a resident of Lake county II years, but who-ls-nowon his way - to-Mon tana, where he will reside. A peculiar coincidence connected with Mr. Blair's family Is found In the sges of the members of four-generations. A great-grandson. Royal O. - Bawtell of Athena, 1s SS years old; a granddaugh ter. Mra F. II. Bawtell of Pendleton, is SO years old; a aorv-T. J, Blair of Pen dleton, Is 71 years old, and Mr. ' Blair himself Is 100 years old. Photo of C. P. Blair, by Moorehouae, rsndleton, ' day to dread . ; " ' little strip of sea, waiting on the shore: the' oleomargarine la It Ninety-five per cent of aU samples of butter, sub mitted were adulterated. We are sating practically no purs butter. Most of the Jams and Jellies of commerce are adulterated with glucose . and colored -with coal tar dyes, eighty per eent of 'the cream of tartar examined by the government 'contained alum, starch and calcium sulphate. Coffee la mads from all sorts of things, even from the sweep ings of bakeshopa. A large quantity of coffee waa held up recently because it contained a large proportion of com mon clay. One manufacturer of mustard has yellow oehre sent to his factory by the, Jon. Mustard is dyed with a poisonous form of coal tar dyes.- In a pepper factory one man has nothing to do but wheal -dirt, that being the cheap and convenient form of adulterant uaed thero foreground pepper. No' man can say what he Is eating when he tastes pepper. . .... ... .'-... The variety i ef things fauna m it make the head swim.' They include red sandalwood, - wheat -corn, buckwheat, aniline dye, grain bulla, lice, pea and bean shells, eornmeal. sago, eocoanut ' shells, olive stones, linseed meal, saw dust and sand." Ons may think to get ground" this fraud by buying pepper whole, but gets tapioca) dyed with lamp black. The earns adulteranta, with the addition of gypsum, tumeric, charcoal, bark and a few other thlnga. are found In spices. - Oround-Tock enters into baking powder and ..husbands complain because the biscuits re heavy. There is formaldehyde In ths milk and we peak of an Inscrutable -Providence which removes ths babies. One or the meanest forms, of adulteration is of blackberry brandy, because It la bought for invalids, aged and delicate persons -, who hops to get a little strength and -appetite from It Out of 100 aamplen examined 440 contained bo . trace of blackberries. They were made of crude spirits colored with coal tar dyea. Live Up to Society's fashion's round day after day. Some, thing new, something original, no mat ter what it .costs, is alwaya tha cry., A "white ball." given at Newport l said -to have coat the modest sum of 111,000. Ten thousand dollars Js de-' Glared no unusual expenditure for an elaborate function. were and deuuistlT dcalgna are re sponsible for the principal coot One hostess psld US sack for ISO unlquo little floral favors. Another, . determined to excel her neighbors, had a spacious snd gor geously decorated temporary -theatre built in her yard for one evening's per formance. The entire company of a New Tork theatre was brought down snd ths theatre in Ootham waa closed for that evening. . Enormous sums srs spent In dinner giving st fashionable hotels snd restau rants. No expense Is spared to secure Ingenious snd novel effects. -. At one of thess the banquet hall was transformed Into a rural landscape, with trees, shrubs and beds of growing hya cinths and tulips. Verdure concealed.the doors and win- -dows: the effect of long.'shsdy Isnes was gtvsn .by mirrors and sections of country fencing. . The floor wss covered with grass, and In ponds of water live ducks . swam placidly about. : ' " . ' -i From-$28 a. plate, for a moremodetJ dinner to 1X00 a plate for a reauy. picturesque and novel affair auch Is , the coat of theae gaatronomlo and social delights of ths very rich. . Constant and heavy demands upon fashion's purse are msds by ths fads and fancies of the sesson. A fortune may be required to win blue ribbons st horse shows this Is noted as one of the expensive predilections or Mrs. Burks Roche.'. Others spend thou aands at the races or hundreds of thour sands in maintaining raoing atablee. Then there are numerous extravagant follies. - The ladles-risk thousands at "bridge" ss readily Ss the men part with their tens bf thousands at . the fro , table or the roulette wheel. ' '""!.. Is ths fathsr of Mrs. Burke Roche . wrong, then. In asserting that a woman -In her circle of reekleaa living can main- -tain her position and enjoy life upon a smaller allowance than II7S a day? ' Vot en the Betiyed list. From ths Lsavsnworth Post A Leavenworth girl -up till recently was engaged 4o s popular officer sr. the "" post. Shs, however, deceived the at tention of tns msn in town, smi ner fiance objected. Finally, on-that ac count the engagement waa broken. One of her friends in talking with her after ward said: "I'm glad of It. Ton never were a bit suited ' to each other any- ' way."- 1 " "Well," aald the other, meditatively. T.wlah I'd had the pteeence, of mind . to ' resign from iho army Inatead of waiting till I was ' dishonorably dls- ehargo ' ; ;