THE SUNDAY OHEGOXIAN, POJtTIAXD, OCTOBER 8, 1905,
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Subsists on Less Than Four Dollars a Month
For Years a Man Who Has a Twelve Hundred Dollar Position
Has Expended Thirteen Cents a Day for Food.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 2. (Special
correspondence of The Sunday
Oregonlan.) If you had a. Govern
ment position paying 51200 a year would
you live on $3jG1 a month, or 12i cents a
day? Well, that is -what" Ashblll W.
Riley, a well-known employe of the
United States Treasury' does. He Is 73
jjears old, too, and walks at least ten
miles each day.
The story of Mr. Riley is a marvelous
one: Crazy? Crank? Say what you
please, but he draws 51200 a year from the
Government, has a splendid, record as an
employe of the United States, and is like
ly to hold his Job for many years. Ho
has been living off no more than this for
six years, and he declares that he never
felt better in his life or more fit to earn
the salary the Government pays him.
Who Is he? Well, his father was Gen
eral Ashbill W. Riley, of Rochester, N.
T., who died at 93 years of age, and his
grandfather was Sergeant Ashbill W. Ri
ley, of the First Connecticut Regiment of
the Revolutionary War. Sergeant Riley
served for six years in the Revolutionary
War, and his discharge papers are in the
possession of the grandson. They look
as fresh now as they did 100 years ago,
owing to their preservation under glass.
The papers are signed by General Wash
ington; L Trumbull, his favorite secre
tary, and Zebulon Butler, the Colonel of
the regiment.
In the samo glass case with the his
toric Revolutionary document is an auto
graph letter from Abraham Lincoln to
the Secretary of State, directing him to
see General Riley. Tho result of the
visit was an offer of a foreign mission,
but General Riley's family begged him
not to take it, and he declined. He was
then nearly 60 years old.
"How did I get Into the habit of living
on so little?" said Mr. Riley, who Is a
most interesting talker. "To be perfectly
frank with you, it was poverty. Upon
the death of my father in 1SSS I was left
an estate worth $30,000, but I was swin
dled out of every penny of it Not only
that it was declared that father owed
some debts. I have, "been engaged in pay
ing off every one of these debts. I am
at last getting clear, but the habits which
poverty gave me have been so beneficial
I have not the slightest idea of changing
them now. Poverty brings good results
sometimes, and this was one of them.
My restricted diet now Is a matter of
choice, and I think it is the healthiest
and happjtst way of living In tho world.
I sleep like a child, and just last October
I walked up to Great Falls and back the
same day, reporting for duty the next day
as fresh as any young man in the place.
The round trip makes a total of 28 miles.
Of course. I am not carrying any surplus
flesh, and being out in the fresh air is a
great tonic.
Ho Docs Not Grow Hungry.
"Do I go hungry? Of course not At
first It was difficult to keop from yielding
to the appetite for everything that I
wanted, but 1 mastered myself and my
appetite has adjusted Itself to my simple,
refreshing way of living. No, I never
spend over 53.90 a month for my food, and
frequently it is much below that, I live
well on ' that sum. I just select that
amount to show you, because I happened
to keep an itemized statement of my ex
penditures for one month, which was
May last I prepare my own meals in my
own room, using gas, and rarely eat
outside. Occasionally T get something
in the restaurant near the office of the
auditor of the War Department, where I
am employed in the stationery room.
"How much does my gas cost me?
Vast Cost, of Education
Public Schools Cost Over Two Hundred and Fifty 3IillIons; Colleges Add
ONEY madness is the besetting sin
in the United States, according to
all tho rest of the world. And it
may bo true that here and there an'Amer
ican does like to make a dollar now and
then every day, possibly.
But the grand passion of the people of
the United States is for education, .not
money. With them tho educational mi
crobe has done its perfect work. In their
efforts for mental training Americans lead
tho world. The latest official and trust
worthy figures, tho only ones, in fact,
are furnished by the United States Bureau
of Education. Its last report deals with
tho school year of 1902-1903. When the
report was closed the total, to be exact
was 1S.187.918.
But even this vast total does not toko
in all tho Americans who aro strilvng
eagerly to improve their mental condition,
some of them with every ounce of en
ergy they have left after doing their
day's work each 24 hours.
For, entirely outside the 18,000,000, en
tirely unnoticed by the statisticians, come
the students enrolled for instruction by
the famous Chautauqua University, tho
30,000 who are regularly taking the Y. M.
C. A. courses, and the students of tho
correspondence schools, whose subscribers
number thousands.
Uncle Sam's Educational Problem.
This country alone, of all the countries
in the world, has, manfully attacked, and
for its own preservation must accomplish,
the herculean task of operating constantly
educational mills of such magnitude that
they can accommodate 18.000,000 pupils
and students fronf almost every race on
earth. ,
The pupils of the "common" primary
schools, including the city evening
schools, make up 15,750.000 of the grand
total of between 18,000,000 and 19,000.000
composing tho American school army, as
shown in the latest educational reports.
These 15,750.000 are put through our edu
cational mills without the cost of a penny
to themselves for tuition, and In many
states for books, even; each community
paying the cost of its, own schools in the
main, the Federal Government educating
only about 29,000 Indians. In round num
bers, and 2500 primary pupils in Alaska.
Now, what about the other millions in
the educational army? Well, rather more
than 1,000,000 are swallowed up by those
primary schools that aro supported by
private means.
A Million for Higher Education.
Broadly speaking, considerably more
than 1,000,000 of all the students who go to
school in the United States are intent
on some degree of the higher education.
This is ono in every SO of the wholo popu
lation (allowing that the 76,000,000 of 1903
have grown to 80,000.000 in 1905), by all
odds a larger proportion than can be
shown in the high schools, preparatory
schools, colleges, universities and profes
sional schools of any other nation now
or ever In history dwelling on the crust
of the earth.
Not to imitate the pages of a gazetteer
too .closely, here are the exact figures
showing how this army of higher educa
tional students, in America itself larger
than the army of Japan in Manchuria,
was divided up when the latest official
figures were made:
High schools, academies and pre
paratory departments (608.412 be
ing public hltrh school students).. 776.635
Universities and colleges proper... 125,834
Professional schools (law, medicine
divinity, etc.) 61.871
Normal schools 64,114
Total 1 1.028,454
That part of life covering tho U years
fore, and it was the same. "My gas bill
for cooking never exceeds 25 cents a
month," went on Mr. Riley, "and is
nearly always about SO cents. When I
first began the gas company was so sure
I was cheating them that they had an
inspector watching things for two or three
months running. I'll tell you how I do it
I never turn the Jet on full force. If
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AshblU W. Klley, Who Uvea on $3.00 a
Month.
Look at this bill." There was the bill
for August 1905. It showed that Mr.
Riley paid the gas company Just 20 cents.
He produced the bill for the month be
I did my cooking would be spoiled by the
smoke and the smell of the gas. I have
learned to barely turn the Jet on. That
produces a blue flame and gives the best
heat in the world. Thon I know when to
turn tho Jet off."
His Expenditure's One Month.
The itemized statement of Mr. Riley's
expenditures for May, 1905, showed that
he paid 30 cents for meat tLli for bread,
GG cents for milk, etc., -45 cents for fruits
and vegetables, and 51.46 for miscellane
ous. Naturally, you prefer a more detailed
account to see Just what this wonderful
old man did live on. Therefore, the list
of expenditures for every single item Is
given: Chipped beef, 5 cents; clams, 10
cents; fish, 15 cents; bread, 41 cents; cake,
CO cents; pie, 20 cents; pretzels, 3 cents;
milk. 20 cents;, butter, 30 cents; cheese.
6 cents'; bananas. 5 cents; apples, 35
cents; onions, 5 cents; riuls, IS cents;
lunches, CO conts; eggs, 4G cents; sugar,
12cents; tea, 10 cents.
"Now I will tell you how to do it" re
sponded Mr. Riley, when asked to go Into
detail. "To begin with, I do not believe in
meat-eating. I think meat is injurious
and contains lew strength-giving proper
ties. It is like a stimulant and its effects
are not lasting, by any means. In my
mind, pork, whisky and tobacco form tho
trinity that work more distress to Amer
ican people than any other three troubles.
I never drank whisky in my life, and do
net expect to. Tho 5 cents' worth of
chipped beef I bought in May lasted mo a
number of days, and I cooked it in various
styles with vegetables, which I think are
tho greatest health-givers In the world. I
am fond of clams, occasionally, and once
in a while Indulge in fish. I am not a
beginning with tho age of 15 and ending
with 25 may properly be considered the
"college age," and. roughly speaking, tho
number of persons included in these ages
in the United States when the last cen
sus was taken was 15,000.000. Extending
the college age limit for those who may
linger over professional and post-graduate
studies to 27, tho total would bo about
18,000.000. Besides the million and more
students in these high schools, colleges
and professional schools, there are about
150.000 young men and women (137,979 in
1903) attending business schools, and more
than 50,000 studying art, music and other
subjects in miscellaneous schools a to
tal, say, of 200,0)0 in round numbers who
are training themselves solely to earn a
living and without the slightest preten
sions to any aim at scholarship.
An Army of Teachers.
More than half a million men and
women from college prosldonts down to
plain schoolma'ams and schoolmasters
are kept busy as teachers throughout the
school year. The public school teachers
alone numbered 419.2S7 in 1903 enough to
peoplo a city like Buffalo and have suf
ficient overflow to make a city as larse
as St Joseph, Mo.
Everything in America, say the critics
of America, must ultimately be figured
down to the basis of the dollar. It is in
order, then, to 6ay that the total cost of
carrying on the public schools in the
country Is more than a quarter of a bil
lion a year (almost exactly that in 1903),
and that the yearly expense of running
the colleges and universities is rather
more than one-tenth as much rising
above 527.000.000 in 1908. The yearly ex
pense of carrying on all the other schools
In the country has not been computed.
But there Is no doubt that the total is a
good deal more than 5300.000,000, a sum
so big that the wealth of a Rockefeller
even would melt quickly if it were put to
the test of meeting It as a yearly payment
Including the students in the profes
sional schools and the faculties as well
as the students in the colleges and uni
versities tho division of the population
which may here be lumped as college stu
dents numbered about 1S7.000 when the last
educational report made. At the
opening of the college semester this Fall
it must number more than 200.000, or, to
make p. military comparison, only a few
thousand -less than the entire military
force of Great Britain and Ireland in
time of peace.
The United States leads in number of
colleges and universities as woll as stu
dents, there being more than 000 in this
country, as against less than 100 all told
In Great Britain, Germany and France.
Presidents and Their "Work.
But. on tho other hand, tho best of
our universities, our old established
seats of learning In tho East like Yale'
and Har-ard, Princeton and Columbia;
our newer fabulously endowed West
ern unH-ersitles, like Chicago and Le
land Stanford; our great coeducational
and state universities, like Michigan
at Ann Arbor, Wisconsin at Madison,
and Pennsylvania at Philadelphia; our
Johns Hopkins and our "Clark; our
smaller colleges and universities dat
ing back to the early days, vital with
tradition and scholarship, though nev
er rich or boasting students by tho
thousand, such' as Bowdoln, Virginia
and Williams, and scores and scores of
others, these each in its own way
may hold up their heads with the best
of the old world institutions.
Our college presidents as a class,
considering their number, probably aro
as Influential with tholr fellow citizens
as any other class whatsopver. The
great believer in butter, as it Is an animal
fat I do not use much of it and some
days go without It altogether. Bread is
the staple of life, beyond doubt I do not
eat frefh bread, and do not think any one
ought to do so. I wait until bread Is two
or threo days old, and then I buy It for 3
cents a loaf, two loaves for 6 cents. These
last me about 3& days. I' do not take my
luncheon with me to work always, and go
up to the restaurant occasionally for a
tapioca pudding of some kind. I believe
that eggs are very nutritious, and feel
sure that one egg equals half a pound of
meat for the human body.
"My favorite fruit Is the apple. In May
I bought seven quarter pecks of apples,
paying cents cabh quarter peck. I al
ways believe in having one fruit and ono
vegetable for breakfast and the apple is
the best of all, as well as the cheapest
For my breakfast yesterday morning I
had three peaches, three slices of broad
and one cup of tea. I do not use milk
with my tea, but like a small quantity of
sugar. For my luncheon th6 samo day I
had two slices of bread and a cake, of
which I am fond. The same day one of
the lady clerks who had made a pot of
tea sent me a cup, and I drank It For
dinner that day I had ono onion, one po
tato and bread and tea. I cook the onion
and optato together and they make an
excellent dish. I. put a little butter and
some salt and pepper over them. I am
opposed to the use cf mustards, sauces
and things of that kind. I am sura they
aro injurious. I do not like to use much
pepper.
Ijikes Peanut Butter.
"I am fond of peanut butter, if it has
been well put up, and use a good deal of
this upon my bread and in making up my
luncheon. "At this season of the year I use
a great many onions and many squash,
of which I am fond. I can get a quarter
of a peck of onions for 5 cents, and they
last me a month. X also Jlke almonds and
English walnuts, and buy them occasion
ally. "Oh, yes, I do my own marketing, and
naturally know where to buy the best
things at the lowest prices. I learned this
in the days when saving every penny was
a dire necessity with mo in order to pay
off outlawed debts. Every debt left by my
father has been paid, and I am now pay
ing off the mortgage on my homo in this
city.
"As I told you, I do not chew or smoke
or use tobacco in any form, and think to
bacco is most dangerous to human health.
I never used it in the days when I had all
the money I knew' what to do with. Nei
ther did I drink whisky. I was a clerk in
Washington from 1863 until the first Cleve
land Administration, when I lost my
place through an assistant auditor who
did not like me. During the 23 years of
consecutive service I went to Rochester 24
times to cast a Republican vote, and one
year the Republicans' secured tho city
government by Just one vote. My father
before mo was a great Republican. I re
member that he would not subscribe for a
Democratic paper, not wishing it In his
house, but he felt like keeping posted as
to both sides, and he used to go down to
a lawyer's ofilco and read the Democratic
paper there. It was this same lawyer who
helped beat me out of my property."
One of Mr. Riley's ambitions is to get
the autograph of President Roosevelt to
add to thae of Washington and Lincoln. '
Ho thinks it will complete the history of
his collection, and he hopes that President
Roosevelt will say something about his
father, who was one of the greatest men
of his day. "Father was one of the early
figures of New York, as President Roose
velt knows," said Mr. Riley. It was Gen- j
oral Riley who commanded a New York
militia regiment that asked President
Jackson to permit them to go down into
South Carolina in caso of a fight growing
-out of nullification.1 Riley and Jackson
were close friends.
in America
Twenty - Seven Millions.
names of tho most vlrllo among them
are names that the world will not for
get Indeed, not to mention thoso
whose work has been finished, thoso
now in the harness mako up a group
of mon who stand upon an extraor
dinarily high lovcL
Unlike the colleges and universities
of tho old world, moro than half of
thoso l tho new are privately en
dowed, there being about twice as
many students in tho private as in the
public universities in this country.
The Collcgo Girl.
Tho most truly distinctive feature of
American college life Is the American col
lege girl.
She is nearly 45.000 stronr. exclusive of
the normal students. She flocks by herself
in colleges established and conducted espe
cially for her use and tiehoof by tho thou
sand, and In coeducational colleges along
with her brother, her cousin, her sweet
heart and other young men by tho tens of
thousands. It would be hard to say
whether tho "co-ed" or the distinctively
woman's college girl Is the more desirable
product
In some quarters it Is thought that the
problem of college education for women
has been solved best at Columbia and
Harvard, where they may take the samo
courses of study, wholly or In part, un
der the guidance of the samo faculty as
the men. Somewhat similar schemes are
In force at Brown, the Western Reserve,
and Tulane Universities.
Nevertheless, the strictly woman's col
leges like Vassar, now 40 years old; Wel
lesley and Smith, ten years younger, and
Brvn Mawr, founded only 20 years ago,
but likely to last a century, are flourish
ing like veritable bay trees, and "so are
tho big "co-ed" colleges.
The woman's college presidents make up
a small class, but their influence is out of
proportion to their numbers. Two of them
are men, curiously enough, but the others
are women. Miss Thomas, of Bryn Mawr,
Miss Hazard, of Wcllosley. Miss Woolley,
of Mount Holyoke, and tho rest of them
are surely impressing a strong personal
Influence upon the young women students
uader their direction, and so. Indirectly,
upon the world at large.
Not only a very large percentage of stu
dents are earning their way through, as
self-reliant and as independent as any
one tn earth, but tho average of devotion
to study Is as high today In the colleges
of the United States as it ever was in
all tho history of college education, either
Jn America or elsewhere.
Western Colleges Forging Ahead.
The shifting of the college attendanco
within the last few years has been re
markable. Of the 54 colleges and uni
versities, each of which has an attend
ance of a thousand or more, 33 are located
In "the West" a surprising statement to
many, no doubt, but perfectly true, if the
old Eastern boundary of "the West" the
Alleghanies, be accepted. Moreover, tho
attendance as some of these new Western
colleges and universities is much larger,
in comparison with tho older Eastern
universities, than most folks suppose.
Harvard, with 5333 students, still leads,
and Columbia comes next, with 4S33; but
it is a Western university Chicago, with
45S0-7that comes third. Then comes the
Northwestern, with 4007; Ann Arbor, with
4O00; tho University -of Minnesota,' with
2900; tho University of Illinois, with 3594;
Cornell (Eastern), with S423; the Univer
sity of California, with 3405. and the Uni
versity of Wisconsin, with SISL.
Pennsylvania has only 2C32. only a little
more than 400 in excess of the 2255 In at
tendance at Washington University. St
Louis. Yale also falls below the COCO
mark, the number being 2995. while the
University of Georgia (Southern), with
2491. has nearly twice as many as famous
Princeton, with Its 1373, and the TJnlver
slty of Nebraska, with 2513; lacks less
than 100 of doubling tho Princeton figures.
The University of Texas, of which many
Easterners have never heard, almost
equals Princeton in attendance, with 134S,
and Leland Stanford University, with
14S3, has about ICO more than Princeton.
Other figures Just as surprising might be
given, but they aro as nothing to the
figures that will be needed to represent
tho future growth of the universities of
the West
Before the Day of the
Modern Clock
Curion.i ABsIeat DevIIce That
Our Ancestors Used to Keep
Track ot Tfrae.
rURIOUS it seems to find some of the
most ancient and nrlmltlvo rnnfriv.
fences for keeping time still In use
In these modern days. In many churches
as well as in monasteries and convents
the graduated candles, whoso invention
Is popularly attributed, though doubtless
mistakenly, to King Alfred, are even now
employed for reckoning the duration of
prayers, and the same may be said of
sandglasses, which, for the matter of
that are preferred by not a few 20th cen
tury cooks as a convenient substitute for
the clock In timing tho boiling of eggs.
As for the sundial, it is probablo that no
time-keeping invention dates back to so
early an epoch. It was well known to tho
peoplo of Babylon, from which great me
tropolis of the East tho first instrument
of tho kind was brought to Jerusalem
about 70) B. C.
It happens that many ancient sand
glasses havo been collected by tho Smith
sonian Institution in Washington, some
of them dating far back In tho mlddlo
ages, and tho scientists of that establish
ment, thinking it worth while to test
them, have discovered that they are very
inaccurate, soma of them varying from
correctness by as much as seven or eight
minutes in the hour, one way or tho
other. The obvious, though rather curious
explanation of this fact seems tn Vu thnt
when they were made they wore timed by
the candle, clocks not having been as yet
Invented and no better standard being ob-
lainaDie. such candles, llko any others,
were sure to burn more slowly at the be
ginning than later on, and hence their
lack of reliability.
Device of Savages
Candles of this sort were shielded from
tho wind by a screen of horn, and at- this
very day one may buy them, exactly like
those of long ago. In England and else
where In Europe. Curiously enough, the
savages of the South Pacific employ for
the same purposes a device very, similar
In character, which consists of a numbor
of tho oily nuts of tho candlenut tree
strung close together ,on the middle of a
palm leaf. The string thus prepared is
hung up and, the topmost nut being Ig
nited, I burns slowly downward. Beln? of
nearly uniform size, the nuts burn for Just
aoout ten minutes apiece, taking fire one
from another In succession, and thus six
of them aro consumed in Just about an
hour. It Is probablo that this primitive
method of timekeeping Is quite as ac
curate as the graduated candlo or the
mediaeval sandglass.
Somo of the old-fashioned sandglasses
wcro quite elaborate, being arranged in
batteries of half a dozen or more, to
record tho passage of an hour, a half-
lraur. a quarter-hour, fivo minutes and so
on. Very expensive ones were manu
factured in Nuremberg, and tho finest In
struments of ''"the kind" " were owned by
clerical and other dignitaries, the sand
used for the purposo being of a round
grained sort which could be counted on
to flow easily and with regularity through
the aperture provided. To show that faith
In tho usefulness of such contrivances
has not even yet passed away, the writer
may mention that in his own family, only
the other day, a newly employed cook,
being provided with a sandglass for tim
ing eggs, boiled tho glass with tho eggs,
for no reason that she was able to ex
plain, except that sho was, as she under
stood It "obeying orders."
The two oddest things, perhaps. In the
collection of ancient timekeepers at the
Smithsonian Institution are a time lamp
and a water clock of a pattern almost
unheard of. As might be supposed with
out explanation the former apparatus
contains oil, the burning of which,
through tho medium of a wjJck, marks tho
passago of the hours. The oil. it should
be said. Is contained In a small glass re
ceptacle, so graduated as to show by the
height of tho fluid tho quantity that has
been consumed, and hence tho time that
hag gone by. As for tho water clock,
some mediaeval Edison must havo in
vented It so wonderful Is the Ingenuity
of its construction. It consists of a hol
low metal cylinder divided into compart
ments by partitions which radlato from
the center and suspended by two strings
wound about tho ends of an axis running
through the middle of the cylinder.
The cylinder, which is hung by tho
strings from a sort of arch. Is partly filled
with water and Is wound up to the top
Of the arch by revolving It upon its axis.
Then, being released, it would promptly
run to the bottom, but for the circum
stance that the water it contains, trick
ling through small holes from ono com
partment to another, detains It, gravity
being opposed by the weight of tho fluid,
which has to be carried upward and
around as the cylinder revolves. So artful
Is the arrangement that the cylinder goes
round with an exceeding slowness, being
compelled to do so by the percolation of
the water from one compartment to an
other, and, in Its descent, its axis, by
coinciding with hour marks on a gradu
ated vertical scale, indicates the lapse of
time.
"Was Complicated Mechanism.
Having a beginning in this simple form,
the waterclock underwent a high devel
opment and wide dlfferentatlon. It took
the shape, among others, of a series of
vessels communicating by tubes that
nassed through figures of dragons and
other images, tho floats In some cases be
ing held by grotesque but attractive genii.
One apparatus of tho kind, which came
much later, told the time by the weight
of water that came from the beak of a
bird and which was received by a vessel
on a balance, every pound indicating a
certain fraction of an hour. At about
the samo time there was set up in the
capital city of Persia, on the terrace of
the royal palace, a somewhat similar
clock, consisting of a balance containing
12 metal balls, one of which fell every
hour upon a great gong. This wonderful
Instrument is said to havo been sent by
the King of Persia to Charlemagno as a
gift.
The Chinese, whoso Ideas on the subject
deserve respect by reason of their pri
ority, do not number tho hours as wo
da They have names for them, the 24
hour period being divided by the people
of the middle kingdom into 12 equal parts,
each of which is designated In their writ
ten language by a character. In this point
again, they aro far ahead of the Euro
peans, for whom the Invention of the
modern clock seems actually to have been
delayed some centuries by the difficulty
or splitting night or day into even frac
tions. To the ancient Greeks and Romans, for
example, this problem appeared Insuper
able, owing to tho wabbling of tho car'th,
which increases the length of tho day at
one season and diminishes it at another.
For a relatively latter-day gentleman
named HIpparchus was It reserved to
offer tho suggestion that the time from
dawn to dawn might bo broken Into 24
equal parts.
This, indeed, was tho keynote of the
difficulty, the final solution of which has
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FOR &iIE JLND GUARANTEED
appeared in the modern clock, in its
highest development, a chronometer that
keeps time within a fraction of a second
per week. On the m..n street In any clty
of tho United States business men may
be seen dally setting their watches by
such infalllblo timepieces in tho windows
of jewelers' shops, and even In the China
of today it Is tho custom for a gentleman
to carry two watches, which ho examines
anxiously at frequent Intervals, In order
to make sure that they agree exactly.
Tell Time by Incense Sticks.
And yet even to this day there survives
In China and Japan, to show tho persist
ence of such things, a method generally
pursued by the natives of keeping time
by the burning of so-called "Incense
slicks." which will burn slowly for half
a day without name. Tney are divided
Into lengths for the hours and being mado
of sawdust mixed with a certain propor
tion of gum may be counted on to resolve
themselves Into agreeably scented smoke
at a reasonably uniform rato per Inch.
Such Incense sticks aro sufficiently famil
iar in this country, but, clocks being
plentiful, arc not commonly utilized for
time-keeping purposes,
Tno Montagnals Indian of Canada
when traveling ahead of a party sets
up a tall stick in the snow, making
with his foot a mark to show how
RHEUMATISM
A NERVE-RACKING TORTURE
AN AFFLICTION OFTEN INHERITED
No other disease causes such, wide-spread suffering as Rheumatism. 1 It is a nerve
racking and excrutiating torture, and so thoroughly dominates the system that its victims
are complete slaves to pain. It afflicts the very young as well as those of middle life and
old age, showing that it is not only an acquired disease, but also a hereditery trouble.
Rheumatism is usually brought on by indigestion, Stomach troubles, weak Kidneys,
torpid Liver and general sluggish condition of the system. The natural refuse matter of
the body, which should be carried off by the usual avenues of nature are left in the system
to sour, and form uric acid and other irritating poisons, which are absorbed into the blood.
This vital stream then becomes sour and unfit for nourishing the body, and as it circulates
to the different parts, the poisons and acids with which it is loaded come in contact
with the muscles, nerves, tissues and bones.
The sharp, bitme: pains
nervous S3'stem breaks down from the want
of rich, pure blood ; the skin becomes fever
ish, swollen and tender, and every part of
the bod' throbs and twitches with pain.
As the disease progresses, the bones are
coated with an acid substance, and chalk
like deposits collect in the joints, drying up
the lubricating oils and seriously inter
fering with their working and movements.
One may be born with a pre-disposition or tendency to Rheumatism, because like all
blood diseases it can be transmitted from parent to child. With some it is manifested early
in life, while others who inherit the disease feel no effects of it during 3'ounger, vigorous
years, but when middle life is reached or passed, and all the vital forces begin to weaken and
decline, this taint, which has lain dormant in the blood since birth, takes possession of the
system and the latter years are made miserable by the tortures of Rheumatism.
The fact that the changes from warm to cold, or damp, foggy weather, or some slight ex
posure, increase the pains and aches of Rheumatism is not proof that it is due to outside
causes. RHEUMATISM IS AN INTERNAL INFLAMMATION. The entire system is fired
with the poisonous acids, and the changes in the weather are the matches which set the
circulation aflame and bring on the distressing symptoms of the disease. Rheumatism has
a well-laid foundation, and requires constitutional treatment. Plasters, blisters, liniments,
etc., can never cure the disease; the' relieve the pain and give temporary comfort to the
sufferer, but do not reach the real trouble, which is rooted and grounded in the blood.
S. S. S. is the proper treatment for Rheumatism. It goes down into the blood and
attacks the disease at its head, and by driving out every atom of the poison and strengthening
P IS R F I Y V F ft F T Zk R J F and the pain-racked sufferer is completely re
runc.1.1 U L I MDLL stored to healtK a & a builds ert
of the system by its fine tonic ingredients and carries to the weak, sour blood, health-giving
properties. S. S. S. reaches inherited as well as acquired cases, and completely removes the
taint from the blood. Book on Rheumatism and any medical advice desired furnished,
without charge, to all who write. THE SWIFT SPEC IRQ COMPANY. ATLANYA. GA
Danderine
WALLICE,
NEW YORK CITY.
B1
WOODARD, CLARKE & COMPANY.
far the shadow reaches. By the change
in tho angle of the shadow, his friends
on arriving- at the spot know exactly
how far ahead Is their guide.
To keen, time with reasonable ac
curacy must hnve been ono of the earli
est necessities of man. Hence the re
markable Ingenuity of many primitive
inventions for this purpose, the utili
zation of shadows an Idea which had
its final development In the aundtal
being- probably the earliest, as It was
the most obvious. The first sundial
must have been a tree, which may bo
said to have stood at one end of the
path of evolution In time-keeping ap
paratus, the modern chronometer rep
resentee: at the other end the final
development of such contrivances.
ROOSEVELT AND BACON
How Friendship Regan Through a
Boxing Bout at Harvard.
They are. recalling the story of how tho
steadfast friendship between Theodore
Roosevelt and Robert Bacon, the newly
appointed Assistant Secretary of State,
began In the gym at Harvard. It Is a
commence, the
anu enricmng me Diooa, cures Jtcneumatism per
manently. When the blood has been freshened
and purified by this great remedy, it circulates
to the different parts, dissolving and carrying out
the acids and irritating poisons responsible for the
I disease; Then the pains cease, the muscles re
gain their elasticity, the ioints' are limbered up
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good story, untarnished by Its repeated
tellings, especially Illustrating Roosevelt's
gnmeness. which we all admire, however
we may differ as to tho propriety of some
of hla daring demonstrations of It while
In the Presidency. Thus the latest ver
sion runs:
One afternoon In tha old Harvard gm
naslum several members of the 'varsity
eleven had returned to the gymnasium
and Bacon was attracted to a particular
ly spirited sparring bout In which one of
the participants was getting somewhat
the worst of the argument. This In Itself
was not so unusual as to attract atten
tion, although one of the principals w.-s
taller and much more powerful than the
other. But as the bout grew fast and
furious the bigger man landed a vicious
solar plexus blow on hla opponent, floor
Ing him. A cry of foul went up fr.'m
the handful of spectators, but It was .
lenced when the victim arose plucklV
to his feet and declared It was not a fiv,"
Quickly facing his antagonist, he earn--!
the plaudits of tho crowd by saying ' S
if you can do It again." The spe.
as Bacon learned on their being Intro
duced was Theodore Roosevelt, w;v-
pluck In the face of such odds was
basis of a mutual regard, which has eli
minated In tho present appointment
wenciemen: j? or over tour years i sunerea wun rtnen
matism. Tho Rheumatism first troubled mo in my hip,
then spread to my shoulders, head, and finally all over my
body. I became such an invalid that neither my family
nor friends thought it possible for me to survive long. I
had tried so many proscriptions given mo by physicians
(which contained so much potash), that my stomach. wa3
ruined, and there seemed no hope for recovery, I had
been reading in. the newspapers of S. S. S. and decided to
try It, and to my Joy, commenced to get relief before the
second bottle was gone. After using S. S. S. .a short
while I was an entirely different man; I felt that I had a
new lease on life.
Mt. Sterling, Ky. B. M. FRISBIE.