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.
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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."