Diet.
In much that Is written concerning
the matter of diet there are bo many
sweeping statements, Impossible rules
and foolish conclusions that It Is no
wonder that many persons brush the
whole subject aside as being too com
plex for them.
The trouble Is that there are too
many persons trying to enforce their
own personal Ideas on this subject
There are the "cranks" who must have
something to be cranky about In any
case, and a "crank" who has picked
up a little scientific Jargon and thinks
he has cured himself of something Is
a very persistent person. Then there
are those who have really been cured
of some ailment by a diet that happens
to suit their own Individual cases. They
go about forever afterward finding the
same ailment In everyone they meet and
offering the same remedy. There are
also the one-food people, who go about
seeking what not to devour, and who
would reduce every one to whole wheat
or pecans.
Whole wheat and pecans are excel
lnt foods and do much good, but so
do black-heart cherries, lobsters and
corned beef and cabbage. If John dis
covers that he has a nightmare every
time he eats lobster he does well to
renounce that dish, but he need not re
nounce It because Dick has the night
mare. Again, one hears much of the good
Judgment displayed by those persons
who rest for at least half an hour aft
er 'eating, and It would, undoubtedly,
be well If the world were so arranged
that we could all do so, but unfortun
ately the business of the day rushes
along, and most persons, at least un
til they come to their evening meal,
must go to work as soon as they have
eaten.
It Is true that this fact constitutes a
strong plea for light and easily digested
meals In the daytime, leaving the prin
cipal one till the work Is finished.
It Is absurd for persons who have
not made themselves somewhat famil
iar with the chemistry of foods to try
to talk learnedly about their action on
the human economy, and It may be
taken as an axiom that within the In
dividual capacity (which can be learned
only by Individual experiment) a va
riety of diet Is better than a monotony.
A diet that Is too strictly limited to
a few things trains the stomach to
'adapt Itself to those few, and It Is In
danger of losing Its power to digest
outside of that list Youth's Compan
ion.
RISE OF ILLINOIS CAPITAL.
Sprlnarflcld's Flrat Court Honae W'aa
of Log! and Coat $42.
The Sangamon River of Illinois
flows through the heart of a garden
as rich and fertile as the one which
the Euphrates watered In the far dis
tant days of Adam and Eve. The
County of Sangamon was formed out
of a vast, verdant solitude of 800 square
miles. Three commissioners were chos-
ILLINOIS STATE CAPITOL.
en to set In motion a county organlza
tlon of government, and they met with
out delay, at the cabin of John Kelly
on Spring Creek, a tributary of the
Sangamon. Kelly had wandered into
the State In 1818 and had built him
self a cabin on the edge of a green
bordered stream 'which he had named
Rnrlnc Creek.
The Sangamon officials sent forth
their report regarding the establishment
of a temporary county seat of Justice
and aereed that "It should be called
bv the name of Springfield." A con
tract wus mode at ouce for a court
house of rough logs to contain one
v room ample for court, and with plenty
of sriace for the offices or county om
tin la vhn wprfl already named. The
court house was completed In twenty
four days, and paid for In the sum of
fortv-two dollars and fifty cents.
As It was evident that a constable
could not exercise his functions without
provision for the safe-keeping of offend
ers, a Jail, to cost eighty-five dollars,
was next projected to furnish proper
support to the court house by holding
In check a population not yet arrived,
but hourly expected. These expecta
tions were not so absurd as they seem,
and within two years the county com
missioners decided upon niaklnu the
temporary county seat permanent
Courts In the log quarters were rude.
but Justice was administered with a
generally even hand and the early law
yers, Edwards, Kane, Thomas and oth
ers, were men whose learning and abil
ity were hardly surpassed In later and
more pretentious courts. There was an
indescribable quality about these early
administrations of law and equity that
somehow make them of untold Interest
to-day.
Abraham Lincoln appeared In the
Sangamon County about 1831 and the
broad footprints he left during his so
journ of thirty years may easily be
followed. For six years be was, by
turns, clerk In a country store, mer
chant, soldier, postmaster, student ora
tor, and last a full-fledged lawyer. Bit
by bit as the artist designs a choice
mojblc, this man was developing a
character whose bold outlines were to
stand out, an Illuminating beacon to
all mankind. In 1837 Lincoln became
a citizen of Springfield and began the
practice of law. He was elected he
same year to represent Sangamon Coun
ty In the legislature, and was also at
the head of a project to remove the
capital from Vandalla to Springfield.
As every other town In the State was
desirous of the same distinction the
scheme seemed doubtful or realization;
nevertheless It was accomplished.
While the delegates In convention as
sembled were here and there discussing
merits among themselves, Lincoln gain
ed the floor and called for a vote of
those In favor of the removal of the
capital from Vandalla. There was but
one dissenting vote Vandnlla's. Then,
without delay, or discussion, be called
for the vote desiring to remove the cap
ital to Springfield. He was answered
by such a majority as gave the legis
lature the prompt duty of passing a
bill for the removal, and thus Spring
field carried off the prize, as some rus
tic beauty has been known to do In a
social contest where a dozen belles were
concerned.
The pleasant hunting-ground of John
Kel'y became In those sixteen years a
capital destined to be the guardian of
those sacred treasures of our Nation,
the haunts, the home, and the tomb of
the Illustrious Lincoln. L. K. Becker,
In Four-Track News.
JAPANIZATION OF CHINA.
Mikado Planning; to Strengthen In
fluence on the Continent.
Japan's victory In her war with China
in 18&4-5 procured for her Indemnity
In money, the cession of Formosa and
the prestige of success, which was Im
mense, nays the World To-Day. From
that time on Japan has been strengthen
ing her army and navy against Russia
with tlie object - which has been
achieved. While at the same time China
has been cultivated with a keen appre
ciation of the fact that without the
moral, if not the material, control of
that country, Japan could not alone
accomplish the task she bnd assumed
of directing the destinies of the Orient
Japan has undertaken the Japanlza
tlon of China methodically by the es
tablishment In China and Japan of
schools military, Industrial and agri
cultural. Recently twenty-two primary
schools were opened In the Chinese
provinces, with 3,364 scholars.
Four of these schoojs are military,
at raollng, Outcbnn, Nanking and Can
ton, and are modeled after St Cyr In
France. The Instructors are Japanese
or Chinese educated In Japan. . The
school at Canton Is administered by
Japanese entirely. Every year 700
young Chinese, graduates of the schools
in Jupan, are assigned with rank to
the provincial army, Tte student grad
uates are all exalted and Imbued with
new Japanese ideas. "Actually there
are 2,500 Chinese students v In the
schools and universities of Japan. The
military mandarin, once a low-grade
and despised officer, Is now elevated and
honored. The literary class, heretofore
the special guardians of the honor and
dignity -of China, now recognize the
importance, even necessity, of organiz
ing a national army, solid and united,
capable of compelling respect for the
Interests and dignity of the empire.
Fonnd an Ancient Ulnar.
A laborer breaking stone recently on
the roadside at Wanborough, England,
the site of the old Roman camp, discov
ered a ring, which be sold for a few
shillings. Experts now pronounce It to
be of great Interest and vflue. An In
scription on It seems to show that It
was a betrothal ring belonging to Hue
cried, king of the Mercians, who mar
ried Ethelwltha, daughter of Ethelwulf,
king of Wessex, In the year 853.
Perhaps the reason short -calls are
fashlonnble Is that the caller who
stays less than fifteen minutes Is not
expected to ask the daughter to play
on the piano.
Yeast raises the bread, but the trust
raises the price.
IWfflS&lfA
SOLVING LIFE'S PROBLEMS.
By Rev. Andrew Hagerman.
Jesus salth unto him, I am the way
and the truth and the life; no man
cometh unto the Father but by me.
John 14:0.
These words of Christ to his perplex
ed disciple,. Thomas, are an answer to
doubters In every age. Jeremiah ex
claims, "Where Is the good way?"
mate cries out "What is truth?"
James asks, "What Is your life?"
Three burning questions, therefore,
In human experience are here present
ed to Us, viz: Whom to follow? What
to believe? How to live?
Whom to follow? We are blinded by
Bin, weakened by Inherited corruption,
befogged with an evil environment and
yet seeking and struggling for the right
path. Something within us is ever cry
ing out for the way of life, and the
promises of God all point to the fulfill-
iueiit of these doplrns.
But how can Christ be said to be the
way back to right living and to God?
Because he . is the revelation of the
great loving heart of God to us. The
fatherhood of God Is made plain and
real to us by Christ As he lived In
the Father and with the Father, so may
we. Be a follower of him, for a knowl
edge of Christ opens eyes, It never durk
ens them.
A second question facing us In dally
experience . Is what to believe. This
may not be nn age of doubt greater
than some previous ones, hut It Is a
time when many things are being re
stated and differently stated. Under
these circumstances ninny and many a
one to-day Is asking, and I believe with
an honest heart, "After all, what Is
truth?" Back to the Christ must this
generation go as all others have had
to do, If they would know what to be
lieve In the face of all the new dls
coverles nnd improved opportunities of
this century.
Christ's golden rule of putting your
self In the other man's, place, and act
ing accordingly, has never been set
aside. Christ exemplified that rule
perfectly. Do you ask, like Pilate In
bis bewilderment "What Is truth?"
point you with Joy to the Christ and
bid you accept and Imitate him, and
thus find a solution for all your doubts
and errors.
A final question In dally experience
Is, how to live and act. The lnsplra
tlon and power to live aright must
come from the same source the Christ
It Is his who prompts to noblest duty
and to the most philanthropic service.
The notions of the earth enn never ex
press all they owe to Christ and his
followers for what they are. The
world of trade and commerce does not
comprehend Its debt to him and his
flight of life thus brought to the re
gions beyond.
Christ is the life of all morality,
too. Sometimes morality descends by
Inheritance unacknowledged. Some
times It enters Into the life of a man
like contagion from his environment.
Sometimes a man's own selfish heart
convinces lilin that to be moral Is to
do the best-thing for himself, yet, in Its
final analysis, the great cause of up
rightness,- of purity, of self-sacrifice,
of disinterested love, Is the Christ
Christ Is the life, the rock of truth
upon which his church was founded.
his divinity as well as his humanity,
bis infinite power as well as his most
human love, must be acknowledged by
the church bearing his name.
Christ is the life of 'the home. How
often he sanctified the Joys thereof
while upon earth! And be has never
since ceased In such ministrations of
love.
But more Intimate than all this Is
his nearness nnd power within the In
dividual to you and to me in our
sweetest Joys and in our most dim
cult tasks of life. In our moments of
greatest hopefulness and in our sea
sons of aeepesx depression in our
days of largest Ingathering and in our
times of keenest loss, Christ Is In our
life.
DOUBTS. v
By Rev. Henry I Cope.
Trove all things ; hold fast that which
Is good. I. Thes. 5 :21.
He who does not doubt Is damned,
Intellectually and morally nothing Is
possessed until it Is put to the proof.
If you do not test things for yourself
they will be tested fur you by adver
sity and necessity. There Is no virtue
In taking things for granted. There
Is a greater reason for putting the
things of religion to the test since It Is
to take the supreme place In the life.
Doubt Is not disbelief; It Is not re
jection without examination. Neither
should It be the habitual dwelling In a
fog of uncertainty. It Is Inquiry and
examination; It Is the mental process
through which all things must pass; It
is a road that leads to faith. It Is
the attitude of mind tlint says: "I
have been endowed with reasoning
jiowers; It were an Irreligious act to
refuse to use them on all things."
The man who Is too Indolent to in
vestigate, too impoverished of Intellect
to examine doctrines and philosophies,
to appreciate truth and erudlcate error
that man finds It easy and convenient
to exercise his credulity and call it
faith. To him It Is a reprehensible
thing to unsettle established beliefs, for
It means that they must be carefully re
constructed and this Involves unnec
essary labor.
If he wants peace a man would bet
ter steal a kingdom than breathe one
word against the petrified formulas of
the fathers. No offense can be greater
than that of disturbing them and caus
ing them to do their thinking all over
again. To them Jhelr creed Is a key
to unlock the gate of heaven ; to change
Its shape In the minutest degree would
he to destroy its usefulness, and even
to Inquire whether there might not ,be
another key, Is to uiuulfcot the deprav
lty or one who would enter in as a
burglar.
All discoverers have been doubters.
They have refused to accept the Inst
word of the stuy-at-boines as to what
might be abroad. Their doubt led to
faith, a faith Bo strong and sublime
that it compiled them to leave eifse
and face hardship, to forsake friends
and face loneliness and hatred. Often
the bravest of all men Is he who con
fronts ancient opinion with the sword
of an Interrogation.
The, only doubts we need to dread are
those of the professional doubter, the
man who seeks darkness rather than
light or the man who delights In erect
tng Intellectual stumbling, blocks that
he may show how easily he vaults them.
Sometimes It would seem as though the
religious world were divided Into two
parties those who hope for salvation
by blindly -believing everything and
those who seek fame by blutadtly deny
ing all things.
But between the two there Is the
course of the sane man who uses the
reasoning powers he has, who doubts
all things only that he may prove them,
that good may be thrashed from bnd
and worthless. To him doubt is a path
and not a terminus, a method and not a
product ; he comes at last through the
testing of doubt, to certainty, to faith
founded on facts.
The wise man leaves many perplex
ing problems to themselves. There aro
difficulties not worth the solving, mere
matters of Idle speculation, becoming
diminutive beside real duties. There
are difficulties which, when laid away,
like a thnngled skein, seem to unravel
themselves. Problems of history and
of simulation come to have little weight
as compared with the proving of the
dally questions of present duty.
The great thing Is to find that which
is good, that which is worth holding
fust ; nnd that Is found not by specu
lative Inquiry, hut by plain doing of
the best we know. Don't worry over
doctrines. Do the deeds of the best
life. If there are things you cannot be
lieve, forget them ; go right on with
the business of building the life on
the things that are good, on the Hues
laid down by the life thnt ever has
been the light of men. The practice of
his precepts leads to the possession of
his principles. With these at base life
comes out of the shifting uncertainty
nnd takes on form, order, and meun
Ing, and finds enduring firmness.
Short Meter Sermons.
Sacrifice gives wings to our gifts.
Faultless iieople are usually forceless.
Yesterday's cloud is to-day's refresh
ing. , The demons are all afraid of a happy
man.
(The master's back shows the serv
ant's true face. t
Sin may be often covered, but It Is
never concealed.
No man ought to complain of the
pnln that cures pride.
To-morrow's shadow Is alwnys heav
ier than to-day's duty.
He who has no patience with children
has no power with men.
This Is always a good world to those
who are doing good work.
True courage faces any foe, but It
docs not forget Its firearms.
We can well afford to forego the for
tune that mokes you forget the good.
The length of life we cannot deter
mine, but Its strength and value we
may.
It is the sacrifice we make for
Ideals that determines the value of tilt
real
CITY VEGETABLE GARDENS.
Anybody Can Have One, Kven If II
Una It on the Roof.
"If anybody wants a garden he can
have It," said Dr. F. M. Ilexamer nt
the American Institute, in the Berkeley
Lyceum, according to the New York
Tribune. "I know a man who works
In a factory all day, and he has one on
the roof of his house. There he grows
the tenderest lettuce and Juiciest rad
ishes Hi boxes quite a little succession
of nice vegetables all summer long. And
the fun and the trouble he gets out of
them I
"You can get rotation of crops In your
New York City garden all right If you
want to. When I started my garden I
selected what I considered the most
convenient place for radishes, and de
cided to grow them there all the time.
The first year they were fine; the sec
ond year-they were poor; the third
year I didn't have any. Now I make
n careful plan of my garden and never
plant a vegetable on the same spot two
years running. ,
"And my land had been a swamp be
fore I got It and then they made It a
dumping ground. It was all tomato
cans and old shoes, and while they
make a fine soli for trees they're not
so Inviting a soil for vegetables. But
I covered them all up with soil and
fertilizer and, well, now the tin and
old leather don't make any difference."
Dr. Hexamer's remarks followed a
lecture by George T. Powell, president
of the Agricultural Experts' Associa
tion, who had spoken on "Garden Mak
ing." with especial reference to vege
tables. "There's no piece of ground which
can give more satisfaction than a vege
table garden," said Mr. Powell. "Even
In cities surprising results may be ob
tained from the cultivation of vacant
lots and back yards. The fact Is, there
Is an Instinctive love of the soli In the
human heart and when we bring to that
some knowledge of methods we got
something very satisfactory."
Then he went on to talk of the supe
riority of sandy soils over clny or loam
soils for gardening, of planting only
feeds of strong vitality, of the rotation
of clover with vegetables and finally
of the best varieties of asparagus, peas,
lettuce and sweet corn to plant.
U L. Allen of Long Island took ex
ception to almost every statement made
by Mr. Powell. He told Mr. Powell
that his theory of the rotation of crops
was as old as the Bible and as llttlo
understood. "It Isn't the character of
the soil so much as Its condition that
tells," lie affirmed. "It's how to work
your soli more than the character of
the soil. If you want good vegetables
plant your garden so full the sun can't
strike tho ground between them."
SOME ODD KINDS OF FOOD.
Auatrallan Aborln-lnea Are Fond ol
Ponnded Ilntterfllea.
In America horseflesh Is sold surrep
titiously, masquerading as beef. In the
markets of most European cities horse
and mule flesh is sold openly, in most
cases, however, being under the surveil
lance of the police. The (J reeks nto
donkeys, they say, and If donkeys were
edible, why not horses to-day?
A strong prejudice was manifested
against eating horseflesh when Its uso
was first proposed, but this feeling is
rapidly vanishing and hlppophngy Is us
common as beef-eating. The wornout
steed finds his way to the abattoir as
readily as the cow that will not give
milk or the stall-fed ox.
Frogs ore dearly prized by gourmets
the world over. Snails are devoured In
France and help to tickle tho Jaded
palate that has become cloyed with
swollen goose liver and decayed salmon
roes. The snails thnt are eaten are the
everyday, slimy lllttle mollusks thnt ore
to be found by thousands In the gar
dens, vineyards and woods of the prov
inces of Burgundy and Provence and In
Switzerland.
Australian notlves are fond of but
terflies nnd declare them to be more
nourishing than the flesh of kangaroos
or fowls. The butterflies are lioundud
Into a sort of coke.
The aborigines of South America and
Africa consider the guana, a largo liz
ard, a great delicacy.- These lizards
ore not unlike a small crocodile, but aro
more unsightly than that creature.
In Australia several kinds of snakes
are eaten roasted. They are sold to be
equal In delicacy and flavor to the
finest stewed eels. An English traveler
declares the steam from the roasting
reptiles Is by no means unsavory.
Some folks in Russia will pledge
their friends In a goblet of unrefined
train oil and not so long ago dwellers
on the American prairies esteemed a
glass of buffalo's blood the richest drink
on earth.
Onr Cnatoma.
"I should like to see something In
spring shirts," said the customer.
"Yes, sir," replied tho polite clerk.
"Here's something that Is worn a great
deal."
"Pardon me, but haven't you some
thing that hasn't been used?" Mil
waukee Sentinel.
Thnt man never lived who enjoyed
having a waiter stand around and.
watch him eat