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BANDON RECORDER. THE MILK TEST. 3otv Yob Mny Discover If Your Dl Kcntlmi I Perfect. Milk is known to be out' of the few complete foods. It contains tin bono, muscle and fat producing elements and sustains the heat of the body. Tin milk of different classes of animals (mammals) varies in composition to stilt tlu different requirements: thus mare's milk is richer in sugar, but lucking in protein, compared with cow's nillk. Another fact of interest eonneetiil with milk Is found in the ditliculty with which some persons digest plain milk. It is safe to say that should any organ, secretion or digestive juice fail to perform its free duty the milk consumed will not be properly digest ed. The reason for this is simple. Milk contains such a variety of com pounds that all portions of the di gestive system are called into activity for the digestion of these varied ele ments. The gastric juice attacks the cheesy matter: the pancreatic and in testinal Juices digest the sugars and fats. This takes the milk through the stomach and the small intestines into the large intestine. The lower intes tine digests wood liber a!o. This alone of all the forms of food nutrients is not found in milk, because of the facts above stated the ability to drink milk Is a test of perfect ingestion in nearly all cases. Philadelphia Ledger. THE LEGEND OF JAPAN. Orltrtn of Dal Nippon, According to Shinto .Mythology. According t. the Shinto mythology, in the beginning chaos reigned, and in It were contained tin- germs of all things. From chaos was evolved a race of heavenly beings termed "ce lestial kami," of whom Izanagi. a male, and Izanami. a female, were the last. These two were instructed by the other deities to descend from heaven and beget islands, and to help them on their mission they were presented with a jeweled spear. .Standing on a bridge floating in the ether, they reach ed down and stirred the brine and then drew up the spear. The brine that dripped from this weapon was heaped up and became the island of Onogoro. and on it the pair desi ended and begat several other islands. The tirst of these was llirugo. but a it did not meet with the approval of the deities It was put into a boat and allowed to tloat away. The next was the island of Awa. ami so in succession were produced the remaining islands of the archipelago, now termed by Europeans "Japan." but by the Japa nese themselves "lai .Nipjwn." "The Great Sunrise." CAUSTIC CURVES. Why n Napkin ItliiBT Throw, u Heart Shaped Kelleellon. It is found that in concave spherical mirrors the reilected rays only come to a definite focus in the point, when the angular aperture of the mirror does not exceed eight o- ten degrees. With a larger aperture the rays reilected near the edge cut the axis of the mirror at a point nearer its surface than those from points immediately around the center. This being so. and the curve of the mirror being continuous, a corre sponding curve of successive focal points is formed in space, and can be rendered visible by the rays falling on a rellecting surface, such as a sheet of white paper or a tablecloth. The napkin ring is a cylinder and possesses the properties of the spher leal mirror along one diameter. The rays falling upon portions more remote from the center line are brought to a different focus from those falling near er the center, and this produces the peculiar heart shaped rejection. These figures are known as "caustic by rejection." and can be well ohscrvMl by allowing the light of a candle to fall on the inside of a cup or tumbler partly filled with milk. Cooper nnl the Poacher. James IVuImore Coojht. once upon a day. caught a man on his grounds stealing some of his best apples. At the sight of Mr. Cooper the man be gan to run away. Coop r hailed him. and told him that he was not only do ing wrong, but had wronged him. for if a stranger saw people slyly creeping Into his grounds to get a few apples or vegetables they would come to the conclusion that he (Cooper) was a miserly, ill natunil and niggardly per son. If he wanted any such thing he should come hijuldly at the front gate, like an Iciest man. till his basket and freely receive with the best wishes of an open heart Schoolmaster. The Word "Hoodie." Late American dictionaries acknowl edge "boodle" as a word. Dr. Murray quotes from an American palter of 1SS4, " 'Sinews of war.' 'soap' and other synonyms for campaign boodle are familiar." There, however, "boo die" Is explain-d as meaning only "stock in trade." kinship with the Dutch "boedel." a man's stock of busi ness or household gonls, being highly probable. JVrhaps "boodle." meaning a crowd or pack, as in the phrase, "the whole hoodie (or caboodle) of them." Is the same word. In that sen.-e "huddle" Is found In the early seven teenth century. No doubt it is only a coincidence that there is an o;d Scotch word "boddle" or "bodle." meaning a twopenny piece, and de rived from the name of the mint mas ter Bothwell. Genial Jane. Jane After looking at me for a min ute or two Harry said. "Do vu know, Jane, that a veil Improves you great ly?" Carrie Not very complimentary. Jane No, but what pleased me was the fine tact he employed in imparl itig an unpleasant thought. Huston Tran script HI Sole KcKrct. "You are not afraid to die, are you?' asked the weeping watcher by the bed side. "No," whispered the chronic kicker, "but It does worry me to think that I shall soon he with the silent majority when all of my life 1 have so enjoyed being in the noisy minority." I POLL! iM Of all the petty tilings in.this life that are calculated to make one's life miser able, it is the hab ! the worst little am t of nagging. 1 1 is ovance we have to deal with, for whili the continual nag- , ging and fatilt-liud ngeaii do no partie- iularor lasting hai ni it can cloud the brightness of mailv a fair day and make one wearv o living if von have to reside in the neighborhood of the nagger or fault-linger. It is a terrible habit to fall into :ind is very apt to grow upon one. I jilways want to beat m bast v ret rent win si I find that 1 have j fallen into the company of the con- tinned fault-tinder The most trilling that is not worth a and trivial incident second thought tl ey can dwell upon foi an hour at a time and even longer, and it does not lo; e anything by the sumes the propor controversy out a tions of a very ini'irtant and weighty matter to the natger. It is the wise person who learns to let them have their own way, am: if they swear black i- white never for a moment hold an a-'isc opinion. O ic word of dissent is fatal and they mus abide by the conse quences, for it hai helped to fan the tiny spark into a la.e that leaps into new life at evcrv word and consumes all the comfort and; pleasure of the con versa! ion. The n: igger will have the la-l word, you can iepciid upon it, and if the re-t of the 'lifty make some ex disc or other ai chancis are that d disappears, the you will hear the nagger finishing the oiu-siiled argu ment bv talking til themselves. Nine times out of ten tl you so. 1 knew ey will say, "1 told was right all the pay to argue the lime. It doesn't question with the i outiuual fault-find er, for you will ne er be permitted to They know it all vou onlv loe your score a -ingle point! roiu A to Z. and own self-respect and serenity of mind bv being drawn inio the conllict. The nagger is tii be pitied, for their presence is dreadci; even by those who love them best for pear something v. ill provoke an argum nl that will end .n marring the pleasure of every one pr s ent. Many of the jfault-fmdcrs reali.e that they po ess this unenviable trait ami have moment- that they spend in profound grieving lover the fault and making good resohjes to try ami break thciu-ches of the habit. The trouble with them, howcvijr, is that these mo ments of rcpentanW do not last long enough to bring ahjail any actual good. They forget altail it the very tirst mo ment that anything crosses them or they are a little tird or impatient over some tmimporluntj matter. "Heaven help the home where there is a nagging wife." 1 heard a, gentleman remark not long since, aul two of his neigh bors looked aercsjj the room at each other and smiled! knowingly. "His wife,' one of then! said afterward, "is known as a nagging gossip.' No one likes her, for she i constantly making trouble and keeping every I tody in 'hot water.' if you will excuse the expres sion. Ib-r home i not a happy one, I a ure you, and y hen her husband said, 'Ih-avcn help the home where there is a nagging wife,' he spoke from his own bitter experience. She is a terror, Uth at limine and abroad. I don't think any oij- can be very happy when they are nntjging at this one and tiiat one all the time. I often think that the onlv reu nil iv for this evil is to place a phonograph unbeknown to them in their vicinity and let it record their conversation for the day in their own bo y, impatient and qiieruloiir tones ami then sart it up when they are in a slate of niiiul to receive it. I can imagine how how i would shock the em, for they do not realize how rasping and unpleasant t Infer voices can get. If that did not cure tlicm nothing would. I was talking with a little woman the other ihiv who wal one of the loveliest characters I havij e ver seen. She is held upas a model of all that is good ami true and womanly in her own lit tie home circle. VHome is my altar,' -he laughingly safs, "and here I woi ship day and nigh. 1 1 is also my jew el casket and the jewels, more pricelcss t hail all the geiis in the world com bined, are my husband ami children I am guarding llii-ni well, for I know the day will conic when 1 shall be called to give upjthe custodianship of mv treasures, aiid when that time come- it is going, to be bitter indeed, and l want to show my appreciation of them while I have them with me to lavish my love uoii and show them by word and deed how dear they are to me. 1 want to -ay all the kind and loving things I have to .-ay now and not wait until after the hand-are quiet ly folded and the lovclight of npprccia t'oii has died out of their eyes that have e'o-ed wearily in their last long sleep. Word-of encomium said over a collin lid seem like a hollow mockery to mo, and I often wonder as I hear members of the family and friends speaking word- of praise over the dear one lyin. so -till and white before them if they ever gave expression to the words f praise that come so freely at such a time, when the silent sleeper cou'd appreciate the'ii and give expression to )W appreciation with a glad smile that vnild lw recompense enough. I don't want to have any regrets when I n called to give up my darlings. AH .. e kind words, all the praise, all the be stowing of smiles and Mowers, they shall have now. It is my study night and day what I can do to make them happy and our home the dearest spot in the world to my husband and my boys and girls. I f one should stray from the fold it will not be because their home was unhappy and no congenial spirits in it. Our home is a retreat from all outside cares and worries. "When my husband comes home at night there is a lively but good-humored skirmish letween the children to see which shall get his smoking jacket and slippers, and it usually terminates in their bringing jacket and slippers to gether, laughing in high glee because it takes so many to bring the articles, .lack, our oldest boy, is the dignified one of the lamily, he usually sees that the Unit jack is at hand, and at the same time, if it is in the winter season, brightens up the lire and sends a show er of sparks up the chimney because it makes it look more cheerful and brings out tlte merry, happy faces of his little brothers and sisters in its ruddy light. It pays, my friend, to say all the good things you can to your dear ones while you have them with you. If you love them dearly then tell them so. This is a beautiful, merry old world, and a glad one at that, if everylnxly was more thoughtful, loving and kind, slow totakeoU'ense, quick to forgive, putting the ('olden Rule into practice in their daily lives. That is our motto in our home life. 'Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.' " BRIEF REVIEW. Walking On The Ceiling. Few people probably know what it is that enables Mies to walk on the ceiling. It has been supposed that their ability to do so was due to the fact that each of their feet is a miniature air pump. This theory was found to be unsound, and it was then explained that the feat was made possible by means of a viseti ous substance which exuded from the hairs on their feet. This theory also was abandoned as being only partly :u -countable for the facts, and the pre ferred explanation is that Mies are en :..lcd to walk upside down on smooth -distances by the help of capillary ad hesion. An investigator has found by a series of nice calculations such as the weighing and measuring of hairs that a tly would be upheld by capillary attraction were it four-ninths as heavy again as it is. Kadi tly issupposed to U furnished with from 1(1,000 to 12,000 minute foot hairs; these exude an oily tluid, and it is ltecau.-e of the repulsion between a watery surface and this oily liquid that a tly funis it ditlieiilt to mount a dampened glass. What a Nation Eats. A committee of the I ova I Statistical Society of (! real Britain has recently been engaged in investigating the pro duclion and consumption of meat and dairy products in that country, and while they find that there ha- been in creased production, yet it has not been on a scale proportio nil with the in crease in population. According to its report, submitted at a recent meeting of the society, the average consumption per head in reijlJMtuinAi'aa.uf meat Il!I..s jyounds, of milk 1" gallons, of cheese 10.." pounds, and of butter is.o pounds. The amount of meat included " pounds of yea I, 27.." pounds of mut ton and lamb and Hi.S pounds of bacon and pork. In addition, the British people consume extensive quantities of poultry, game, rabbit.-, etc., which an not included in the above summary. The average of lo gallons of milk does not include separated or skim milk or condensed i it i 1 k , I h 1 1 1 of which are con sumed to an appreciable degree. In comparison with the continental coun tries, England consume.- much more meat, but considerably less than the Tinted States and Au.-tralia. A Nest of Bank Notes. The Bretons are a caution- people, and prefer to hide their money, rather than keep it in a bank. One of them the other day, having a .-mall fortune left him, could think of no better hid ing place than a drawer in an old ciip Uiard in an attic which he serenely thought no one would siispecl. (ioing one day to pay a vi-il to his hoard, he found his hank notes all transformed into a beautiful .-oft nest, harboring a family of young mice. Not a note was intact, not a number visible; the whole was reduced to a state of wool. Deepest Sounding. The deepest sounding ever made by any vessel was by the I'nilcd Stales .-hip Nero, while on the Honolulu-Manila cable survey. When near O'uain the Nero got ."i.-ii'.l fathoms, or il,il 1 feet, only i5 feet les- than six miles. If Mount Everest, the highest moun tain on earth, were set down in this hole, it would have above its summit a depth of lijfil'J feel, or nearly half a mile of water. The jackal is a greater destroyer of humanity in India than the tiger. Sta tistics published by the government of India show that while !J.S persons were killed by tigers more than 1000 children were carried away by jackals. tiermau medical journals are recom mending as a remedy for appendicitis walking on all fours twenty minutes four times a day. The exercise will Lreiigthen the abdominal muscles. The guiltier a man is the bigger il e lawyer he hires. Vou can usually tell the degree of a man's guilt by consid ering the reputation of tin? lawyer. Twelve years ago there were .,((X) Japanese in the United States. To-day there are IM.MO. Long Island sound lvoats are being generally equipped with wireless tele graph outfits. The world owes you a living; but you owe the world a life. Politics has made a few men and un made a great many. CHOICE MISCELLANY The Ship' .Master. It is a just and wholesome rule that a captain shall command his own ship, no matter who is on board. If he has the sense and spirit to enforce his au thority there Is the less chance of dis aster from pompous meddlers. V. C. tells a story of Emperor William which may or may not he trio, probably is not. but it illustrates tiie principle just stated. The story is that when the royal yacht was entering a port the kaiser noticed that the boat was slow ing down in accordance with the or ders of the pilot, an old Norwegian named Nordhuus, who knew the chan nel and Its dangers. The emperor rang the bell for full speed. Nordhuus placed himself In the way, leaned over the wheel and called down the tube to the engine room: "Half speed! Never mind the bell!" "Vou countermand my orders?" cried the emperor and gave the bell another jerk. "Never mind the bell!" called Nord huus through the tube. Tin? emperor drew himself up. "Co below," said he, "and report yourself under arrest." "Leave the bridge!" repeated Nord huus. grasping the wheel more firmly. "This ship Is In my charge, and I'll have no Interference with my orders from king or seaman." The ollicers on deck hurried silently aft, in their hearts wishing luck to the pilot. Nordhuus stood at his post, un shaken by threats, deaf to commands, and carried the yacht safely Into har bor. The next day the emperor came to his senses and decorated the pilot with the order of the Black Eagle. Cnntrnhamt Tobacco In England. What becomes of the contraband to bacco seized by the customs? The early practice was to bury it This senseless waste was suspended for a time by the happy Idea of distributing the tobacco among the troop ships. That did not last long, and next year we hear of the contraband being smoked in the "queen's pipe," a huge receptacle which could turn "hundreds of tons into smoke in a few hours." Again the misgiving of the waste trou bled the authorities, and they took to regaling the criminal lunatics in cer tain government asylums. Any tobac co that was left over was ordered for the use of troops sent on foreign serv i ice. Hut that luxury seems to have been cut off once more, although the criminal lunatics still enjoy their pipes and cigars. one attempt was made to throw the contraband when It was slightly dam aged on the market, but this caused an outcry from the tobacco trade. The whole story Is a pleasing tribute to the intelligence which administers the pub lic service. Macinillan's Magazine. Sturjceon Hare In (Irrcnn Water. A sturgeon weighing ''To pounds was captured by a gill net fisherman near Astoria a few days ago and sold for o. It has been less than twenty years since sturgeons of that size were al most unsalable, and thousands of pounds of the big lish have been car ried off the Portland docks for fertili zer after the consignees had refused to pay the steamboat freight on them. The prodigal waste of these fish a few years ago. when their value was not appreciated, has depleted the sup ply to such an extent that they are now almost extinct. It requires nearly as much time to produce a .'To pound sturgeon as It does to produce a six foot saw log. and the time Is approaching when the big saw log, like the big sturgeon, will pass out of evidence, with nothing growing up to take Its place. Port land Oregonian. Jump In Tin Sulillpr Trnde. The business In children's tin sol diers has increased about f0 per cent in the last three months. This In crease was expected. The manufac turers had prepared for it. The sup ply. In consequence, equaled the de mand. "It Is the war that has caused the jump In the tin soldier trade," said a toy dealer. "Whenever a war arises the martial spirit beats high in chil dren's breasts, and they must have tin soldiers to fight mimic battles with. During the Spanish-American war there was an increase of '500 per cent In this trade, and the factories hnd to run night and day for two months. My foreman, an octogenarian, says he saw the same thing during the civil war." A Valiant IVomnn. Among the many acts of devotion for which many women. Hussian and Jap anese, will be called upon before the war comes to a close few will he more noteworthy than that displayed hy '-.. ,o. '..n. ..Hue teiiiilieiT. who has . " . . . . i i 1 letl everything to act as a u - ( In. lci..r :it the front. T l s admirable lady acted In a like manner during the International occupation of China In ISioo, when she accompanied the Hus- chin re L'linonts on all their marches, even washing for the wounded and I sick. During the ('reeo-Turkish war nf i!i(;-!i7 she acted as u nursing sister for the Creek wounded ami at the bed side of her patients learned to speak C' reek. Tonthftontr EnKllnh. The following advertisement of a Japanese dentist In an English news paper Is an example of what may be perpetrated In the English language: "Our tooth Is a very Important organ for human life and countenance, as you know, therefore where It Is at tacked hy disease or Injury artificial tooth Is very useful. I am engage to the Dentistry, and I will make your purpose." Limited Ilenlre. The Sunday school class was singing "I Want to He an Angel," and the teacher said to one little fellow. "Why don't you slug louder, Johnny?" "I'm singing just as loud as I want to be an angel," answered the Incor rigible Johnny. He Wan Sincere. Friend What did he say to you when he proposed to yon? Miss Rox He snld life without me meant nothing. Friend ne waB sincere In that That's just what his Dossesslons amount to. ,W SHORT STORIES Arrested lliniHvlf. As ,:n instance of punctilious, not to say quixotic, observance of the oath of olliee the recent performance of Chief of I"o! ice Thomas A. Johnson of New port News. Va., a former captain of infantry in the United States regular army, shines as the evening star. While the most exciting mayoralty campaign in the history of that city was at Its height Mayor Allan A. Moss, candidate for re-election, met In the street Hubert W. Perkins, a former member of the Virginia legislature, and accused him of circulating for po litical effect certain rumors rellecting upon the administration. Hot words were exchanged, and a lively llstic set to followed, in which the mayor's brother. William T. Moss, also took a h!': I. Captain Johnson, appearing on the scene while the tight was in prog- Till: CHIKI' ANNOUNCED THAT HE, TOO, W UNIiEU AltltKST. ress. threw himself upon the combat ants, separating them, and placed the three men under arrest. This he ac complished only after an exciting struggle. In which the chief lost his temper and gave utterance to some In temperate language. Uecovering his composure, the chief announced to the gathering crowd as he marched his prisoners oil to the sta tion that he. too, was under arrest, and 'at the station he recorded against him self the charge. "Cursing and using abusive language in the public street." The follow ing day Captain Johnson arraigned himself with his prisoners in the police court. The mayor, the may or's brother and Mr. Perkins were lined $l.."u each for fighting, but the charge against the conscientious police chief was dismissed. The magistrate ruled that under the law of evidence the tes timony of the chief as a witness against himself was not admissible, as it must be necessarily self incriminating. lleantr .MI.HpInecil. Henry Turner P.ailey. until recently state supervisor of art of Massachu setts, savs there is a wrong and a right way to induce the children to love the beautiful, and he tells the following ; story as an illustration: A superintend ent of schools, during the vacation pe riod, made a beautiful garden in a school yard, thinking that if he made it beautiful enough the boys would not j destroy it. With September a lot of I energetic hoys came back to school, and in a few weeks the garden was tram jpled down and ruined. The towns i people were indignant at the rutlianly ; behavior of the schoolboys ami spoke of them in rather harsh terms. Karly Jin the spring there was a change of superintendents, and the new man j heard almost immediately of the spoil ed garden, lie went up to the school and made friends with the boys, and then he said. "Vou boys don't like llow ers. do you?" They declared emphatically that they dhl. "Then why did you ruin that flower garden?" he asked. "Well." said the spokesman of the crowd, "they ought to have known bet ter than to make it on our baseball diamond."-Pittsburg Dispatch. A Woman' Henon. "Speaking of the superstition of wo men," said Phil Thompson at the Wal dorf the other night. "I have a friend who lives in a studio building. Not long ago a man committed suicide in the building. She was distressiil. She was sure that two other suicides would he committed before the reign of dis- aster was finished and done with. She . ti-.io ifi-.iiil f li i would commit sill- I . . . """ ! ciue nerseii io imm- me moo, ,oou. "Later I met her. She had a more satisfied air. "'Well.' said I. 'how did it come out?' I " 'All right. she said Two of my the goldfish .'three.' " died, and that made -New York Times. IMcujicd, I'nilereiVMkl. Paderewskl s total festooned over the back of a carved oak chair at an even ing reception with the purring of much femininity around him. One insignifi cant woman, after alienating all her friends by snatching a three minute talk with him, prepared to move away. ( "1 beg that you will stay, madam." said ' Paderewskl, with the melancholy of Poland's snows and his own personal ennui patent In his voice. "You are the only lady in the room tonight who has not asked nie how I feel when I Play." A Trleft of the Trade. Many of the local curiosity shops planted In the back streets of most county and country towns are simply kept up by large Loudon linns who, from a prolonged study of human na ture, have discovered that people who are shy of buying old furniture or old silver in Hond street or Piccadilly are ready and eager purchasers of precisely the same objects, at a rather higher ' price, when they come upon them In ' the back streets of a country town. ' English Country Gentleman. f.; : all THE AGING PROCESS A .tied leal SiiKKentlon an to How It May lie Arretted. To drink the waters of the fountain of youth is still, In the opinion of some, within the range of possibility. A recent writer observes that man be gan in a gelatinous condition and ends in an osseous or bony one. He Is soft in infancy; he Is hard In old age. Aging Is a process of ossification. After mid dle life has passed a more marked de velopment of the ossific character takes place. The arteries become thick ened with calcareous matter, and there is interference with circulation, upon which nutrition depends. The whole change from youth to old age Is one of steady accumulation of calcareous de posits In the system. Entire blockade of the functions of the body Is a mere matter of time, and the refuse matter deposited by the blood through the sjs tem stops the delicate machinery we call life. The blood contains com pounds of lime, magnesia and iron. In the blood Itself are these earthy salts. In early life they are thrown off: In age they are not. Almost everything we eat contains these elements for de stroying life. Earthy salts .abound in the cereals, and bread Itself, mistaken ly called "the staff of life," Is one of the most calcareous of edibles. Vitrog enous food also contains these ele ments: hence a diet made up of fruit Is best for people advanced in j'ears. The daily use of distilled water Is, after middle life, one of the most Important means of preventing secretions and de rangements of health. Diluted phos phoric acid is one of the most power ful influences known to science for shielding the human system from the inconvenience of old age. Use It dally with distilled water and so retard the approach of .senility. To retain per petual youth, avoid all foods rich in the earth's salts, use much fruit, espe cially juicy, uncooked apples, and take daily two or three tumblerfuls of dis tilled water with about fifteen drops of diluted phosphoric acid In each glass full. Thus will your days be longer In the land. Medical Age. JAILS IN JAPAN. rjlNclplInc Im Military In Form, hut Heformatorj In Spirit. A Japanese prison is thus described: "Imagine a park or garden in the Jap anese style, with dwarf trees, surround iil by a hedge instead of a wall. In this park one sees a group of Japa nese houses like those occupied by the peasants. The prisoners are all at work, j - p.iitioned to their physical ability. oiuc are thrashing and grinding rice, in hers are weaving coarse cloth of a dark red color of which the prison uni forms are made. The eld and Infirm are separating leaves of paper. All of them receive a percentage of their earn ings. The younger prisoners are In S' hool. The discipline is military in form, but in its spirit reformatory. There are few evasions, notwithstanding the ease with which they could be effected. One reason for this Is the efficiency of the .Japanese police, which is said to be the best in the world. The prisoners are divided into three grades and are differently fed. according as they are Kile and refractory, amenable to disci pline or exceptionally well behaved. The only other punishment Is solitary confinement in a sort of dungeon, not exceeding five days. No prisoner may be discharged, however short his term of sentence, unless his family or friends assume responsibility for him. The re sult has been the organization of a large number of prisoners aid socie ties." FEVER HEAT. The Itca.sun Some Krultn Have the KlTeet of Cool In; the Illnod. In health the temperature of the blood is constant, and even when spots and rashes appear on the skin there is no departure from the normal tem perature unless there is a cause for fever, such as blood poisoning, the In vasion of some microbe or serious dis turbance of the nervous system. In fevers, when the temperature of the blood is raised, vegetables are never given, as they would not cool the blood, but might help to heat It. Some fruits have cooling properties, as they contain citric acid, and this forms citrates in the blood and In creases the perspiration. In serious fevers, however, it Is much safer to 1 give measured quantities of citrates to produce this effect than to trust to the uncertain action of fruit. Fruit and fresh vegetables are anti-sorbutics- that Is to say. they are ap posed to scurvy. The cause of this dis ease is not clearly understood, but It Is certainly due to an absence of these wholesome constituents from the diet. The flushing of the skin, with spots and ra.-hes. popularly called "heating of the blood." is relieved and effete matter l eliminated by their use. hence . ,;. Pi,rase that they cool the i . blood. SOAP BUBBLES. The .Method Xewlim Adopted In Jlcu- nriiiK TheNe Thin KIIiiin. Sir Isaac Newton studied the colored rings in soap bubbles, which appear white at first and then, as the bubble Is blown out. brilliant Iridescent colors appear in zones around the summit till It becomes black and bursts. These films Newton succeeded In measuring by their color, producing i them by a piano convex lens on plate glass. At the point tif contact was a black spot with some six or seven rings of light and dark colors alternately. The thicknesses of the dark rings he found proportional to the numbers 0. J, I, i". and of the bright rings propor tional to 1. X . The thickness of a sky blue film was found to be two inll lionths of an inch; of orange red, eight; of violet, eleven; of green, fifteen: of purple, twenty-one. ami of yellow, twenty-seven-mlllionths of an Inch. Messrs. Hucker and Helnold more re cently confirmed this by measuring black soap films, which they find aver age three or four nillllonths of an Inch. This. then, is a measure of the depth of water and the particle of soap which together make up the soap bubble film. The reason a man marries his sweet heart is because she is not like other girls. The renson he divorces her Is be cause she is. Illinois State Journal. FACTS IN FEW LINES Iron mountain, the highest elevation in Missouri, is but 1.S00 feet above the level of the sea. The Salvation Army is making marked inroads upon the Chinese col ony in San Francisco. The blind delight in races of all sorts. They do not run toward a tape, as the seeing do. but toward a bell that jangles briskly. In the cosit pocket of a workman who was discovered horribly mutilated at Vinceiines, near Paris, were found manuscripts of poems written by tim in Latin. Creek and Hebrew. One mesquite seed planted in Hono lulu In lSTIT has propagated antl spread until in the Hawaiian Islands today there are uO.000 acres of the famous plant of the alkali plains of Arizona and New Mexico. Wills & Hicks of Auburn, Me., are at work upon a unique souvenir, a napkin ring made from a piece of the brass speaking tube used upon the flagship Olynipia, which was in the engagement in Manila harbor. In the state of Massachusetts Boston has a population of D94,;i8; Cam bridge. DS.44-1; Fall River, 114,004; Lowell, lOO.loO; Lynn, 72.:iT0; New Hetlford, GS.t3T; Springfield. 07,42.'; Worcester. 12S.i52. According to a recent Hussian con sular report six years ago U.OOO chil dren attended the Hussian schools in Syria. The number is now 20.UOO. Hus sla has taken the lead in establishing missions in Palestine. Peterborough cathedral has the oldest working clock in England. It was erect ed about l.'llio and Is probably the work of a monastic clockmaker. Tt Is the only one now known that Is wound up over an oltl wooden wheel. Several facts that go to show Unit tilt aurora borealis Is of terrestrial origin and that It Is Intimately con nected with the other meteorological phenomena of our planet have recently been noted by M. II. Stassano. There Is an element of danger in the consumption of raw salad plants which have been grown upon soil that Is possibly infected with disease germs which may be present as the result of the application of stable manure to the soil. What Is said to be the largest electro magnet in the world has been installed in the Hridgeport (Conn.) hospital. It will be used for extracting pieces of iron antl steel from the eyes of machin ists and other metal workers who may be Injured. Japan is beginning to enter South African markets. Japanese press copy books, made of tissue paper, have driv en the C'eriuan article out of the Natal market, as they are sold at $1.52, whereas the Cerman make sold here tofore at 2.40. A warden of an old English church found in the lumber room an ancient jug which proved to be an Eliza bethan steup of-vii rare kind. It was sold in London at auction for $o.rll, which sufficed to make some long needed repairs to the church building. The loss of life from accidents and disa.sters in tfce Cnitcil States In 1!M)3 was: Fires. 1.792; drowning. 2.471; ex plosions. 7'HI; falling buildings, etc., 474; steam railways, 4.000; electric railways. electricity. l."ii; mines, 7SS; cyclones and storms, 4S7; light ning. 1 :',!. The butter from Danish dairies brings higher prices in England than any produced by the Hritish butter makers or any Imported from any oth er nation. The little kingdom on the north coast of the European continent exports also 2."OO.0Om. pounds of honey every year. In the National Review (English) a physician advocates the exercise of skipping rope as a means of maintain ing or regaining the health. He points out that this childish pastime not only exercises all tin muscles, but that It can be practiced most conveniently everywhere. In New York state Albany lias a population of 93.920; Auburn. 31.092; Hinghamton. 41.039; Buffalo. 3S1.403; Elmira. :;7.in;; Kingston. 2r.r10: New York. 3.7 10. 139; Newburg. 2.r.n01; Rochester. 170.79S; Schenectady. 43.f3S; Syracuse. 114.413; Troy. 7r.rw7: I'tlca. (n.097: Yonkers. f2.701. The local telephone company at SL Johns. Mich., which handles an exten sive rural service. Is seeking to make Its service Indispensable by furnishing subscribers with the government daily weather reports and other important news of the day. Signals are rung each morning tin ail farm lines, and all who desire may get this report. An English inventor has replaced the ordinary grooving of a ritle barrel with lines of small ball bearings, along which the hard steel project ilc( slips. Tne inventor claims that he gets 10 per cent greater average velocity, penetra tion and range than can be obtained with the same weight of projectile and charge from guns made on the old sys tem. Mrs. Hester Trudow of Lesueur. Minn., whose age Is ninety-eight anil who until lately had been entirely toothless for thirty years, began six mouths ago to cut her third set of teeth and has now a complete outfit of new natural teeth, both uppers and lowers. She claims that she has acquired her new teeth by eating each day a tea spoonful of powdered oyster shells. In the country districts of the south, excluding 242 cities that had a popula tion of 2.."00 Inhabitants or more, the negro population Increased 10 per cent between 1S90 and 1000 and In the cities 21.7 per cent. In the five southern cities having at least 100.000 inhab itants their increase was 2.".S per cent in that period. In the country districts their Increase was about two-thirds as rapid as that of the whites and In the cities five-sixths. It' Sometime That "Way. She was surprised when she heard of the engagement, and she showed it. "Why, 1 was perfectly satisfied In my own mind that you liked Tom bet ter than t'eorge," she said. "Well, to tell the truth. I did." re plied the engaged girl. "Hut you say you are engaged to George?" "Yes. that's true." "Well. I dou't understand it at all." "Why, it's very simple. You see, George was the one who proposed."
