be false or misleading, in any particular: Provided, That an article of food which does not contain any added poisonous or deleterious ingredients shall not be deemed to be adulterated or misbranded in the following cases: First. In the case of mixtures or compounds which may be now or from time to time hereafter known as articles of food, under their own distinctive names, and not an imitation of or offered for sale under their own distinctive nanies, and not an imitation of or offered for sale under the distinctive name of another article, if the name be accompanied on the same label or brand with a statement of the place where said article has been manufactured or produced. Second. In the case of articles labelled, branded or tagged so as to plainly indicate that they are compounds, imitations or blends, and the word compound,' 'imitation' or 'blend,' as the case may be, is plainly stated on the package in which it is offered for sale: Provided, That the term blend as used herein shall be construed to mean a mixture of like substances, not excluding harmless color ing or flavoring ingredients used for the purpose of coloring and flavoring only: And provided further, That nothing in this Act shall be construed as requiring or compelling proprietors or manufacturers of proprietary foods which contain no unwholesome added ingredients to disclose their trade formulas, except in so far as the provisions of this Act may require to secure freedom from adulteration or misbranding. "Sec. 9. No dealer shall be prosecuted under the provisions of this Act, when he can establish a guaranty signed by the wholesaler, jobber, manufacturer or other party residing in the United States, from whom he purchases such articles, to the effect that the same is not adulterated or misbranded within the meaning of this Act, designating it." The remaining provisions of the Act provide the methods of prosecuting offenders and destroying goods imported or offered for import which are adulterated or falsely labelled. The National Meat Enspection Law. IN the Act making appropriations for the Department of Agricuiture for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1907, approved June 30, 1906, appear the following provisions regulating the inspection of meat foods either in the hoof or carcass or in canning and packing establishments: For the purpose of preventing the use in inter-State or foreign commerce, as hereinafter provided, of meat and meat food products which are unsound, unhealthful, unwholesome or otherwise unfit for human food, the Secretary of Agriculture, at his discretion, may cause to be made, by inspectors appointed for that purpose, an examination and inspection of all cattle sheep, swine, and goats, before they shall be allowed to enter into any slaughtering, packing, meat-canning, rendering, or similar establishments, in which they are to be slaughtered, and the meat and meat food products thereof are to be used in inter-State or foreign commerce; and all cattle.swine, sheep, and goats found on such inspection to show symptoms of disease shall be set apart and slaughtered separately from all other cattle, sheep, swine, or goats, and when so slaughtered the carcasses of said cattle, sheep, swine, or goats, shall be subject to a careful examination and inspection, all as provided by the rules and regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of Agriculture as herein provided for. "For the purposes herein before set forth the Secretary of Agriculture shall cause to be made by inspectors appointed for that purpose, as hereinafter provided, a post-mortem examination and inspection of the carcasses and parts thereof of all cattle, sheep, swine, and goats to be prepared for human consumption at any slaughtering, meat-canning, salting, packing, rendering, or similar establishment in any State, Territory, or the District of Columbia for transportation or sale as articles of inter-State or foreign commerce; and the carcasses and parts thereof of all such animals found to be sound, healthful, wholesome, and fit for human food shall be marked, stamped, tagged, or labelled as inspected and passed;' and said inspectors shall 4abel, mark, stamp, or tag as inspected and condemned,' all carcasses and parts thereof of animals found to be unsound, unhealthful, un wholesome, or otherwise unfit for buinan food; and all carcasses or parts thereof thus inspected and condemned shall be destroyed for food purposes by the said establishment in the presence of an inspector, and the Secretary of Agriculture may remove inspectors from any such establishment which fails to so destroy any such condemned carcass or part thereof, and said nspectors, after said first inspection shall, when they deem it necessary, reinspect said carcasses or parts thereof to determine whether since the first inspection the same have become unsound, unhealthful, unwhole-' some, or in any way unfit for human food, and if any carcass or any part thereof shall, upon examination and inspectior subsequent to the first examination and inspection, be found to be unsound, unhealthful, unwholesome, or otherwise unfit for human food, it shall be destroyed for food purposes by the said establishment in the presence of an inspector, and the Secretary of Agriculture may remove inspectors from any establishment which fails to so destroy any such condemned carcass or part thereof. "The foregoing provisions shall apply to all carcasses or parts of carcasses of cattle, sheep, swine, and goats, or the meat or meat products thereof which may be brought into any slaughtering, meatcanning, salting, packing, rendering, or similar establishment, and such examination and inspection shall be had before the said carcasses or parts thereof shall be allowed to enter into any department wherein the same are to be treated and prepared for meat food products; and the foregoing provisions shall also apply to all such products which, after having been issued from any slaughtering, meatcanning, salting, packing, rendering, or similar establishment, shall be returned to the same or to any similar establishment where such inspection is maintained, For the purposes herein before set forth the Secretary of Agriculture shall cause to be made by inspectors appointed for that purpose an examination and inspection of all meat food products prepared for inter-State or foreign commerce in any slaughtering, meat-canning, salting, packing, rendering, or similar establishment, and for the purposes of any examination and inspection said inspectors shall have access at all times, by day or night, whether the establishment be operated or not, to every part of said establishment, and said inspectors shall mark, stamp, tag, or label as inspected and passed' all such products found to be sound, healthful, and wholesome, and which contain no dyes chemicals, preservatives, or ingredients which render such meat or meat food products unsound, unhealthful, unwholesome, or unfit for human food; and said inspectors shall label, mark, stamp, or tag as inspected and condemned' all such products found unsound, unhealthful, and unwholesome, or which contain dyes, chemicals, preservatives, or ingredients which render such meat or meat food products unsound, unhealthful, unwholesome, or unfit for human food, and all such condemned meat food products shall be destroyed for food purposes, as hereinbefore provided, and the Secretary of Agriculture may remove inspectors from any establishment which fails to so destroy such condemned meat food products." Other sections of the law provide for the sanitary examination of slaughtering, packing, and canning establishments, and the labelling of all such inspected articles of food. Record of Events in 1906. Jan. 22. Steamer Valencia was wrecked off Vancouver Island, 129 lives were lost, 29 saved. Jan. 25. The Simplon tunnel was opened to the public. Jan. 25. General Joseph Wheeler died alt New York. Jan. 30. King Frederick VIII. acceded to the throne of Denmark. Feb. 10. British battleship Dreadnought was launched at Portsmouth. Feb. 17. Miss Alice Roosevelt and Representative Nicholas Longworth, of Ohio, were married at the White House. Feb. 22. The report of the Armstrong Insurance Committee of the New York Legislature was presented. Feb. 27. Prince Eitel of Germany and Duchess Sophie of Oldenburg were married at Berlin. March 4. Meridian, Miss., was visited by a destructive cyclone. March 7. The Rouvier Ministry in France resigned. March 8. Six hundred Moros were killed in battle with American troops and constabulary near Jolo. March 10. Mine disaster mear Pas-deCalais, France, killed over 1,000 miners. March 12. United States Supreme Court decided that witnesses in anti-trust proceedings cannot be excused from testifying against their corporations. March 16. Thirty-five persons killed in train wreck near Adobe, Col., on Denver and Rio Grande Railroad. March 17. Earthquake in Formosa killed thousands and destroyed $45,000,000 in property. March 19. Ex-Lieutenant Schmidt, the Russian naval mutineer, was executed at Sevastopol. March 27. The Moroccan conference at Algeciras reached an agreement on policing Morocco. The conference adjourned April 7. March 31. Anthracite mine-workers in Pennsylvania began a strike. April 5-12. The volcano of Vesuvius was in violent eruption, causing destruction of lives and property. April 12. Greene and Gaynor, Government embezzlers, were found guilty at Savannah, Ga. April 14. President Roosevelt made an address at Washington on the "man with the muckrake," and advocated an inheritance tax. April 18-19. Earthquake and fire destroyed a large part of San Francisco. Loss, $400,000 000. April 19. Professor Curie, discoverer of radium, was killed by an accident at Paris. April 22. The Olympic games began at Athens, Greece. April 24. The remains of John Paul Jones were reinterred at Annapolis. April 27. Benjamin Franklin Bi-Centenary was celebrated at Philadelphia. April 28. Stage jubilee of Ellen Terry was celebrated in London. April 29. The International Exhibition at Milan, Italy, was opened. May 2. M. Witte resigned the Russian Premiership. May 8. Anthracite miners accepted proposals of the operators in Pennsylvania and ended strike. May 10. The Czar opened the first Russian Douma. May 14. Carl Schurz died. May 15. Rev. Dr. Crapsey, Protestant Episcopal clergyman of Rochester, N. Y., was found guilty of heresy. May 19. Woman Suffragists made a demonstration in Lardon. May 20-30. Revolutionary disturbances in Macedonia. May 23. Henrik Ibsen died in Norway. May 24. Reunion of the Presbyterian Church North) and the Cumberland Presbyterian Church was effected at Des Moines. May 26. International Postage Congress alt Rome adjourned. May 26 Aug. 30, Strikes, bomb throwing, assassinations of officials and other insurrectionary disturbances prevailed in Russia and Poland. May 31. King Alphonso of Spain and the Princess Victoria of England were married at Madrid. June 1. American miners were killed at Colonel W. C. Greene's mines at Canacea, Mexico, June 11. Vice-Presidents Granniss and Gillette, of the Mutual Life Insurance Company, were indicted at New York for forgery and perjury. June 11. lion pupils, Public schools, with half a milwere opened in the Philippines. The President signed the OklaArizona Statehood bills. June 16. homa and June 18. Governor Pattison, of Ohio, died. June 21. The United States Senate ap proved of the lock canal for Panama. June 22. King Haakon VII. and Queen Maud of Norway were crowned. June 25. Harry K. Thaw assassinated Stanford White at New York. July 1. Railway wreck at Salisbury, England, killed twenty-three American passengers. July 4. A son to the Crown Prince of Germany was born. July 8. Hostilities broke out between Salvador and Guatemala. July 12. Alfred Dreyfus was vindicated by the French court of last resort and restored to the army. July 16. Japanese seal poachers were killed in Alaskan waters. July 20. A treaty of peace between Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala was signed at San Jose. July 21. The Czar dissolved the Russian Douma. July 22. July 23. Russell Sage died. Fourteenth conference of the Inter-Parliamentary Union began in London. RECORD OF EVENTS IN 1906-Continued. July 23. Members of the dissolved Russian Douma issued a manifesto from Viborg, Finland. July 23. Pan-American conference of American Republics was opened at Rio de Janeiro. Secretary Root addressed the conference July 27. July 31. Mutinies of Russian troops in Tinland suppressed with great loss of life. Aug. 8. The Standard Oil Company was indicted at Chicago for receiving rebates. Aug. 13. Riot at Brownsville, Texas, in which negro soldiers of the United States Army killed and wounded several persons. Aug. 15. King Edward arrived in Berlin on a visit to the Kaiser. Aug. 16-17, Earthquake and fire at Valparaiso, Chile, caused great loss of life and property. Aug. 24. The Standard Oil Trust was indiated by a Federal grand jury at Jamestown, N. Y., for accepting unlawful conces sions in railroad rates. Aug. 24. The President ordered a simplified form of spelling in the Government Printing Office. Не withdrew the order Dec. 14. Aug. 25. Bomb explosion in the residence of the Russian Premier, Stolypin, killed and wounded 54 persons. Aug. 26. Russian General Min was assassinated by a girl at Peterhof. Aug. 28. The Real Estate Trust Company of Philadelphia failed, with $10,000,000 liabilities. Aug. 30. William J. Bryan arrived in New York from abroad and was given a popular reception. Sept. 1. The Pope issued an encyclical concerning the law in France separating the Church and State. Sept. 2. The Emperor of China issued an edict promising constitutional government. Sept. 8. Great naval review off Oyster Bay by the President. Sept. 8. President Palma appealed to the United States for intervention in Cuba. Sept. 8. Massacre of Jews at Siedlce, Poland. Sept. 29. Secretary Taft proclaimed United States intervention in Cuba and himself as Provisional Governor. Oct. 2. The Sugar Trust was indicted at New York for accepting railroad rebates. Oct. 6. Automobile race for the Vanderbilt Cup on Long Island was won by Wagner for France. Oct. 9. Adelaide Ristori died. Oct. 10. Contractors were invited to submit proposals for the completion of the Panama Canal. Oct. 12. The Shah opened the first parliament of Persia. Oct. 12. Charles E. Magoon assumed the Provisional Governorship of Cuba. Oct. 13. The legislative assembly of Western Australia voted for secession of the State from the Commonwealth of Australia. Oct. 15. Rehearing in the case of Senator Burton, of Kansas, was denied by the United States Supreme Court, and his imprisonment began. Oct. 15. Japanese were excluded from the regular public schools of San Francisco. Oct. 16. Mrs. Jefferson Davis died. Oct. 17. The New York Central and Hudson River Railroad was convicted at New York of rebating rates in violation of law. Oct. 19. The Standard Oil Company, of Ohio, was convicted at Findlay of violating the Ohio anti-trust law. Oct. 28. Eight hundred persons were drowned by wrecking of 266 fishing boats off Boto Island, Japan. Oct. 28. Drawbridge railroad accident near Atlantic City, N. J., caused the loss of 70 lives. Nov. 8. President Roosevelt departed on a visit to the Isthmus of Panama. He reached Washington on his return, Nov. 26. Nov. 15. The President visited the City of Panama, the first time a President of the United States passed beyond the jurisdiction of its flag. Nov. 18. The Mayor of San Francisco was indicted for extorting money from restaurant keepers. Nov. 21. Negro batallion in the 25th Infantry, United States Army, concerned in the Brownsville, Texas, riots, was disbanded by Presidential order "without honor." Nov. 21. The President landed in Porto Rico. Nov. 29. Wreck on the Southern Railway near Lawyer's, Va., killed President Samuel Spencer and others. Dec. 11. The law separating Church and State in France took effect. Dec. 13. The New York "Daily News" suspended publication. Dec. 13. Emperor William dissolved the German Reichstag for refusing to vote supplies for the war in Southwest Africa. Death Roll of 1906. Age at death is given in parentheses; vocation, place, cause, and time of death when known follow. Adams, "Al.” (60), gambler, New York City, suicide, Oct. 1. Adams, Henry Cullen (56), Representative in Congress from Wisconsin, Chicago, Ill., July 9. Adams, Robert, Jr. (57), Representative in Congress from Pennsylvania, Washington, D. C., suicide, June 1. Albrecht, Prince (69), Regent of Brunswick, apoplexy, Sept. 13. Almodovar, Duke of (54), Spanish Minister of Foreign Affairs, Madrid, June 23. Alvey, Richard H. (80), ex-Chief Justice of the District of Columbia, Hagerstown, Md., Sept. 14. Ambler, Jacob A. (77), former Representative in Congress from Ohio, Sept. 21. Anthony, Susan Brownell (86), Woman Suffragist, Rochester, N. Y., heart disease and pneumonia, March 13. Appleton, Nathan (63), author and traveller, Boston, Mass., Aug. 25. Arthur, Joseph (58), playwright, New York City, Bright's disease, Feb. 20. Asserson, Peter Christian (68), Rear miral, U. S. N. (retired), Brooklyn, N. Y., Dec. 7. Ad of Atherton, George W. (68), president Port Bayliss, Sir Wyke (71), artist, president of the Royal Society of British Artists, London, England, heart disease, April 6. 'Beit, Alfred (53), South African financier, London, England, July 16. Bell, William H. (72), Brigadier-General U. S. A. (retired), Arvada, Cal., Oct. 18. Bennett, Johnstone (36), actress, Bloomfield, - N. J., tuberculosis, April 14. Bispham, George Tucker (68), lawyer and author, Newport, R. I., July 28. Blanco, Ramon (74), soldier, last CaptainGeneral of Cuba, Madrid, Spain, April 4. Boyd, James E. (71), ex-Governor of Nebraska, Omaha, Neb., April 30. Breslin James H. (73), hotel proprietor and president of the Hotel Men's Association, New York City, Bright's disease, March 31. Breton, Jules (79), painter, Paris, July 5. Brown, Arthur (63), ex-United States Sen ator from Utah, Washington, D. C., assassinated, Dec. 12. Brown, William L. (66), journalist, former publisher of the New York News, Great Barrington, Mass., Dec. 13. Brunetiere, Ferdinand (57), author, member of the French Academy, Paris, Dec. 9. Burden, James Abercrombie (73), banker and ironmaster, New York City, Sept. 23. Burnett, Swan M. (59), author and physician, husband of Frances Hodgson Burnett, Washington, D. C., Jan. 18. Butler, Robert Gordon (46), New York journalist, South Ashfield, Mass., Sept. 24. Campbell, John (84), Brigadier-General U. S. A. (retired), Cold Springs, N. Y., Dec. 25. 1905. Cannon, Legrand B. (91), retired New York banker, Nov. 3. Cassier, Louis F., publisher of Cassier's Magazine, railroad accident at Salisbury, England, June 30. Castor, George A. (51), Representative in Congress, Philadelphia, Pa., Feb. 19. Cayvan, Georgia (48), actress, Flushing, L. I., Nov. 19. Chichester, Sir Edward (57), Admiral Royal Navy, Gibraltar, Sept. 15. Christian IX. (87), King of Denmark, Copenhagen, Jan. 29. Church, Francis Pharcellus (67), author, New York City, April 11. Clarke, George (66), actor, Norwalk, Ct., diabetes, Oct. 3. Cieveland, W. N. (73), retired Presbyterian clergyman and brother of ex President Cleveland, Columbus, O., paralysis, Jan. 15. Craigie, Pearl Mary ("John Oliver Hobbs") (39), novelist, London, England, heart disease, Aug 13. Cropper, John (56), Assistant Secretary General of the Order of The Cincinnati, Washington, D. C., heart disease, Dec. 7. Cross, Joseph W. (98), oldest Harvard graduate, Lawrence, Mass., Aug. 18. Curie, Pierre (47), chemist, discoverer of radium, Paris, street accident, April 19. Curzon, Lady, of Kedleston (36), wife of the former Viceroy of India, London, England, heart disease, July 18. Dam, Henry Jackson Wells, journalist. Havana, Cuba, cancer, April 26. Damon, Esther Sumner (93), last surviving widow of a Revolutionary soldier on the pension roll, Rutland, Vt., Nov. 11. Danforth, Elliot (56), Democratic politician, former State Treasurer of New York, New York City, Jan. 7. Davis, Varina Howell (80), widow of Jefferson Davis, New York City, pneumonia, Oct. 16. Davitt, Michael (60), Irish agitator, Dublin, Ireland, blood poisoning, May 31. Delany, John B. (42), Roman Catholic bishор of Manchester, N. H., appendicitis, July 11. Doremus, Robert Ogden (82), chemist and inventor, New York City, March 22. Dresser, Paul (47), song writer, Terre Haute, Ind., Jan. 30. Dunbar, Paul (34), negro poet, Dunbar, O., tuberculosis, Feb. 9. Dwight, William (73), professor at Vassar Eaton, John (77), educator, Washington, D. Erwin, Robert G. (52), ex-president of the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad, Saybrook, Ct., heart disease, Jan. 13. Field, Marshall (70), merchant and multi-millionaire, Chicago, Ill., pneumonia, Jan. 17. Fitz-James, Duke of, Edouard Sidoine (78), Haute Saone, France, Sept. 25. Florence, Anna Theresa (76), actress, New York City, Bright's disease, Feb. 18. Forsyth, James W. (70), Major General, U. S. A. (retired), Columbus, O., paralysis, Oct. 24. Garcelon, Alonzo (93), ex-Governor of Maine, Medford, Mass., old age, Dec. 8. Garcia, Manuel (101), singing master, London, England, old age, July 2 Gary, Joseph E. (85), Justice of the Illinois Supreme Court, Chicago, Ill., heart disease, Oct. 31. Gatacre, Sir William F. (63), British General, England, March 6. Gilchrist, Charles A. (73), Brigadier-General ist, Amherst, Mass.. heart disease, July 25, Gorman, Arthur Pue (67), Democratic statesman. United States Senator from Maryland, Washington. D. C., June 4. Grenfell, Sir Harry (61), Rear Admiral Royal Navy, London, England, Feb. 20. Haff, Hank (69), yacht captain, Islip, N. Y., June 30. Hall, Henry H. (60), fire underwriter of New York, East Orange, N. J., heart disease, April 9. Harper, William Rainey (50), president of the University of Chicago, Chicago, Ill., cancer, Jan. 10. Harris, Thomas M. (93), Brigadier-General Harrison, Lynde (69), jurist, New Haven, Berlin, June 6. metaphysician. in Herring, George, philanthropist, London, Hogg, James Stephen (55), ex-Governor of Houghton, Henry O. (50), founder of Riverside Press, Swampscott, Mass., pneumonia, June 14. Hughes, Aaron K. (85). Rear Admiral, U. ex president of the National Academy of Design, New York City, April 18. Ibsen, Henrik (78), poet and dramatist, Christiania, Norway, apoplexy, May 22. Irving, John Treat (94), author and lawyer, New York City, Feb. 27. Jacobi, Mary Putnam (63), physician, New Jewett, Daniel T. (99), ex U. S. Senator from Ketcham, John H. (74), Representative in Ketchum, George A. (S1), dean of the Medical College of Alabama, Mobile, Ala., May 29. Kodama. Baron Gentaro (51), Japan. ese General, organizer of the army staff in the war with Russia, Tokio, July 22, Langdell, Christopher Columbus (80), professor of law emeritus at Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., heart disease, July 6. Langley, Samuel Pierpont (72), secretary of the Smithsonian Institute, Aiken, S. C., paralysis, Feb. 27. Lapponi, Giuseppe (45), physician to the Pope, Rome, Italy, pneumonia, Dec. 7. Lawson, Sir Wilfrid (77), British statesman, England, July 1. Lister, Samuel Cunliffe (Lord Masham) (91), inventor, Swinton Abbey, England, Feb. 2. Lockwood, Daniel Newton (56). lawyer and former Representative in Congress, Buffalo, N. Y., diabetes, June 1. Logan, Walter Seth (39), lawyer, New York Lovell, Caroline (89), oldest American ac- McClellan, Thomas N. (53), Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama, near New Orleans, La.. heart disease, Feb. 10. McDonald, William H. (56), actor, one of the founders of the "Bostonians," Springfield, Mass., pneumonia, March 27. McIver, Charles D. (46), president of North Carolina Normal and Industrial College, Sept. 17. McMahon, Martin T. (68), Justice of General Sessions, New York City, April 21. McMichael, Morton (62), ex-postmaster of Philadelphia, Philadelphia. Pa., April 17. McNeill, George E. (70), accident underwriter and labor leader, Somerville, Mass., May 19. Mack, Frank W. (45), journalist, Santa Ana, Cal., Oct. 24. Malone, John (56), actor, New York City, apoplexy, Jan. 15. Marshall, William Edgar (71), painter, New Martin, Luis (60), general of the Jesuits, Miller, Edmund Howd (37), professor of analytical geometry at Columbia University, typhoid fever. New York City, Nov. 8. Mims, Livingston (76), fire and life underwriter, ex-Mayor of Atlanta, Altlanta, Ga., March 5. Mitre, Bartolome (85), ex-President of the Argentine Republic, Buenos Ayres, Jan. 19. Mordaunt, Frank (65), actor, Bedford City, Va., Oct. 15. Morris, Benjamin Wistar (87), P. E. bish p of Oregon and Washington, Portland, Ore., April 8. Morrison, Lewis (61), actor, Riverhead, N. J. (60), ex-Governor of South Carolina, Winthrop, Mass, asphyxiation, Dec. 11. Most, Johann (60). anarchist, agitator, Cincinnati, O., erysipelas, March 17. Neill, Henry M. (68), cotton expert, killed by street car accident in New Orleans, La., Sept. 12. Nevin, Robert J. (67), former rector of the American Protestant Church in Rome, Mexico City, Mexico, Sept. 20. |