-1 HOW MUCH ONE FAMILY EATS. £ & Four People Consume Four Thousand SJ 2 Statistics kept by a Chicago man ehow that during a year his family, consisting of himself, his wife and two daughters, consumed 4047 pounds and thirty-eight varieties of food. The family lived under no economical re strictions, and their table was supplied as It has been dally for years with everything uesired by any member of the family. For this reason the statis tics, religiously kept and accurate to the ounce, have been pronounced high ly valuable by students of food statis tics and medical men generally, espe cially since the tables were kept In a casual manner, no influence being ex erted either to augment or reduce the amount or variety of the dally menu to which the family had been accus tomed. The table In gross amounts is as fol lows: Foodstuffs, in pounds 4047 Eggs, In dozen 112 Dranges and lemons, in dozens... 54 Milk, quarts CSO Borrles, quarts 125 Apples, bushels 0 The table of amounts consumed per flay Indicate that the human system is ■ BiMfc A si\\ ' f|> FOOD EATEN BY ONE FAMILY IN A YEAR. THE AMOUNT REPRESENTED ABOVE WAS CONSUMED BY A MAN, HIS WIFE AND THEIII TWO DAUGHTERS. capable of assimilating a considerable amount of food beyond what it has been demonstrated is capable of sup porting life. The table Is as follows: Foodstuffs, In pounds 11.08 Milk 3.53 pints Eggs 3.( iS Oranges, lemons I.SO Berries 0.(58 pints Apples 7.90 The varieties of cereals used during the year were large, and some of the amounts proved surprising, when, as month after month crept by, the amounts of the totals were observed. Crackers were used largely, much more so than would be imagined, and probably ton greater extent than is common to u great number of families. No account was taken of salt and pepper, they not being regarded us uecessary to the value of statistics. The tlour used during the year would make a loaf of bread so large It would take twp men to carry It. A chicken i.'2o pouuds, the amount of poultry used during the year, would be almost eight feet in height and according to estimate Its cackle could be heard four times around a city block. Closely pressing the poultry in amount Is the Item of tisli. A flsh welgnlug ISO would be almost as large us the llsh that always gets away. The meat total would supply a small- ' nixed butcher shop for a considerable length of time, and the <>T>o quarts of milk would require a Jar several times larger than the ordinary sized milk uian. A tbipjack made of the twenty eight pounds of pancake tlour would make u small-sized dancing boor, and the 1311 eggs. If made Into ouu large egg to lie colored for Kaster, would require lour buckets of aulliuc dye for the work. Tlie U'OO pounds of vegetables would make a New Unglaiul boiled dinner large enough for two full regiments, Iho fruits would start a fruit stand of no mean dimensions, while the uinc I ion teU of cheese, If turned loose, tVoltld iXeft, it Is estimated, about forty horse power. Chicago Times Ueruld. Tommy Alktn. Has IIW J„k». We gel occasional gleams of humor from Mouth Africa, *ays the Itostou Herald. It is related that Tommy At kins had Ink. ii a Hoer prinouer, and, the two getting friendly, talked about the pro* peels of the war. . "You may as well give It U)>: you'll tte v*r win." •aid I lie Hoer. "'Cos why 7" a»k>d Tommy. "lieeaitaa we've ihe l.ord on our shte," said the Hoel 1 . "tlo ou." said Tommy, "we've three lords on our aide, and one of 'am made a liloom'n' Itaaa vi luraalf ' Hazing at W ES * Point. "I have only one thing to say," re plied General Grant, when once asked to give his views on hazing at West Point. "It is the resort of a coward "DOINO SPREAD EAGLES." and the amusement of a bully." The so-called sport is generally excused on the ground that "boys will be boys." It Is hard to defend when It Is known that It Is practiced without any regard for a man's previous education, his natural mental or physical sensitive uoss, or physical danger from a sudden shock. They haze at Yale, Harvard, Colum bia and many other big and small col leges. There is little of it practiced at Annapolis. It is anywhere just about as funny as the spectacle of u big bully worrying a little man or a stout boy torturing a child. Some of the performances required at West Point by future defenders of the nation are: A UOXiAS.HKS RACE. Bracing Walking about in position of u soldier, chin drawn ID, chest forced out ami palms of the bauds turned outward. Chewing Chewing the end of a rope or string for hours. Monkey (.'limbing a tent pole and crowing like a rooster and chirping like a bird. Sammy Itace Two cadets blindfold ed. fcillng each other from a bowl of molasses. (Qualifying Kating eight slices of bread ami a bowl of molasses or con suming eighty two prunes a> ouu sit ting. Mvt.'iilng I.ylng In a closed tint wrup|» d iu blankets uud a mackintosh until fulnt. Cadits often lost* from 1 live to ten pounds in thirty minutes. Ilagllug Milling down on the toes and then ruiuu upon them and slttiug : down again i-ep.-ui list times, , These ure regarded us ekcrutlatlßg ly tunny Young lkiuglu»s Mac Arthur naively anys •"I here are Iwo reasons for huaiug -* tirst, aUiUM'UIeUI, uud second, lue de sire to reduce a man's rough edges. It Is tiu> only way lo p>tlUh the rough edges of UieU who I'oUlu from Ihe count r> " If some "country" chap treated In this manner should iintl II I'uuvcuisut to break the heads of three or four of the city men who think this way, haz ing might not be so popular. Young Booz, it is charged, >'. gold buDlur, in r -linut. packing kiug. Hum ill Htock lirlilg-, uiifidu I'uiiuiy, N. Y., May in, IK!.' AitemUd Ciiavnuvia Hciuliiury hi roiii'it't ii N'ttll,.-.1 in California at i-lgbiti-n; fuuuded bin furtum- tlu-r«« In mining IklHruMl u» tiioogiirldgf, w«ll to do. at iwi uiy lhrn*. located in Mll»uitki'«< aimrily after, tocomiug i luiritiaut I'anut to Chicago in l*>il lu i-nixr iiii- ixu'king huaiiM-»a. I.•-«! in«< Murlil in tliU lin«*. feeding moiv iliuu iiny other man u( bid tluie. Kiii|i luyi'd it* in,my of t'l.tum lumt, unnuul l>.i> mil »i..i**i.i*iii in #ll »,t rr..|HTiy Interval# fur wliUii bv utood n>ii»eivuthely catluiatt-d at llJn.inw.- mai, hi« ~\»u imtiiue ■ ' nil | m.nauaii. Armour tm.tiiiii«- a uioiiuii.i iii t«» lilm cliarlty, liln |>rl>aie Iwii>4i'<'Ui«i couut l< »*. but mil iiiilucfliiiliiiil». liuuieuac ly loyal to lila family and Crleuda, lined Utile cblldivu; fought bard lu bual- Wm» rhalra-a and belaid bl* (aikM Iwv uy again. Uud Januaiy 0. ltwl. "John Brown, what?" Thp freshman gasps. He la told to say "sir." Then he answers: "John Brown, sir." He gets a dozen ridiculous questions like this. Another trick is for hirn to walk down Chapel street. New Haven, with his trousers rolled up to his knees, and his bare legs blackened with burnt cork. Some are forced to run around on all fours and bark like dogs while their captors lead them with strings. A student named Rustin was killed at Yale some years ago A FIGHT IN THE OLD FORT. while being rushed around blindfolded by an upper class man. He ran Into a wagon pole and died later of perito nitis. A Cornell student while being hazed inn field was told to jump Into a canal. He did so and was drowned. It is the trouble of all this fool play. In college or elsewhere, that it invaria bly ends in the killing of an Innocent man, perhaps the sole strength of his family, loved by somebody anyway. Then when the killing Is over the cry goes up under the "code of honor" that there is no hazing, that it was only sport and that the sport of "gen tlemen." It so happens, though, that the only true, honorable sport ever legitimately permitted to any innn, can only be practiced under the glare of light, be fore all men, unmasked and without recourse to brute force or superiority of numbers. OEOROi! MASON I.EE TAKES WATER BATH Hazing breaKS ribs, knocks out teeth, breaks arms, weakens hearts and does several other things for what have been rightly termed the "monkeys" of the "upper class." Cadet Smith was dismissed from West Point for hazing Ulysses S. (Jrant, grandson of General Grunt. General Wesley Merrltt took his treatment In his day, and so have most of the prominent military and naval men. Public opinion, though, has driven the practice out of Annapo lis, and threatens to change the order of things at West Point. The colleges are also frowning upon the practice, and it seems as if at no distant time the words "gentlemen" and "cadet" or "college student" might be synony mous. Tile bravest are always the ten derest, and the loving the most dar ing.—Chicago Tlmes-llerald. One Thing Tlicy Dliln't Invent. Miles—"The Chinese claim to have invented nearly everything." Giles—"Well, judging by the way they wear their hair, they didn't invent football."—Chicago News. Railways use up over 2,000,000 tons of steel a year, almost half the world's product. That's the Way, Just a little every day— That's the way! Seeds in durkuess swell und grow; Tiny blades push through the snow; Never any flower of May Leaps to blossom in a burst, Slowly, slowly, as the first. That's the way. Just a little every day. Just a little every day— That's the way Children learn to read and write Bit by bit and mite by mite, Never any one I say Leaps to ku?wlodge and its power; Slowly, slowly hour by hour, That's the way; Just a little every day. —Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Kite Flying: in China. Kite flying is the great delight of the Chinese boys, though not of boys alone, but also of their fathers and grandfathers. And what famous kites they have, too. Some are in the form of beautiful birds, or butterflies, with wings cleaving the air; others are in the shape of men, or varous animals, dragons and centipedes. Occasionally a tiny paper lantern is fastened to the tall of a kite, and, be ing lighted, it has a pretty effect as it rises, shining like a star in the twilight. Sometimes a number of bird kites are fastened by short lines to the princi pal cord, and when flying in the air look like a flight of birds flustering round one common centre. The Man*acre nt Fort Michllmiicklnae. In 17G3, on the 4th of June, loyal British subjects everywhere were cele brating King George's birthday. Over here in at Fort Michilmack (nac, overlooking the beautiful straits of Macknac, the English soldiers were ln\il 1 by the Ojibwas and Sacs to watch a game of ball they were to play that afternoon. The Indian game was the same that is now known as lacrosse in Canada. Glad to celebrate the holiday in some way, many of the officers and soldiers readily accepted the invitation and not more than half of them remained at the fort. It seems a little strange that the sol diers should have responded so promptly to the invitation, for they knew that the Indians were very hos tile to the English. Their sympathies were with the French, who had orig inally occupied tho fort, and they were Influenced, too, by the Canadians, who regarded the English as rivals in the fur trade. The game took place on the plain In front of the fort. In the crowd that gathered to watch it were many sol diers without armg, many blanketed squaws, many Canadians and a num ber of Indian chiefs and warriors. There were two goals at opposite ends of the plain and eagh side tried to de fend its goal and drive the ball. All at once the ball was thrown high Into the air and fell very near the pickets of the fort. Then, in a moment, the Indians changed from interested ball players into the fiercest of war- Hors. Apparently in pursuit of the ball they rushed toward the gate, and before the English could realize what was happening, had entered the fort. The blanketed squaws had been con cealing hatchets and muskets all the time, and these they handed to the Indians as they ran after the ball. Some of the Indians fell upon those who had gathered witside, others at tacked those on the Inside. A massa cre such as the Indian alone is capable of followed, and thus by a clever ruse the important military post at Mack inac passed from the possession of the English into the hands of the Indians. Cocoanut Fountains In Tuba. Tho Cuban boy knows few of the Joys of the fizzy soda fountain. He is without orange phosphates to soothe his spirits during his year-long sum mer, but ho has one thing in the way of f'.rlnk which no American town, at least north of southern B lorida, can provide. He may visit a cocoanut "fountain." There are hundreds of res taurants and cafes In Havana and in all the towns of Cuba where an im portant item of the stock Is a huge pile of green cocoanuts, clad in their rich husks Just as they come from the trees. There are also many little shops very much like a familiar American lemonade stand where these cocoanuts are the main stock in trade. Tho proprietors of these stands are usually piratical-looking young men who chat and laugh with all comers. IV> you wish to try the virtue of a Cu ban cocoanut fountain? Step up to the stand and say: "Coco agua." (Cocoanut water.) The proprietor will instantly and with deft grace piek up one of his big green cocoanuts, seize a murderous looking niaehet) and hack off the end of the husk close down to the cocoa nut proper. Then he will bore out one of the little eyes of the cocoanut with the sharp point of the machete. si t before you a tall glass, not too clean, and p<>ur into it the sweet freeh milk of the cocoanut. Hits of the white meat of the nut will float annuel on top and at Hist you are not quite certain whether you will like "coco agua" or not Hut when you have tasted it a few times you coucludo with the Cu bans that there Is uo other drink in the world so cool, refreshing and satis fying in the torrid heat of the island a* this A full glass cost* the equva lull l of & cell Is or lea* The water of Cuba is likely to Con tain germs to say nothing of being warm and Insipid, but the coco agua is absolutely fresh and pure. In cross ing the island on a hot, dusty, weary day in a slow train one comes to wait with joy the stops and the sounds of the little Cuban boys clad only in thin trousers and thinner coats, chirping from the platform "coco agua, coco agua." Here while the train waits you may quaff a refreshing glass, or you may buy delicious green oranges, gua uos and other fruit or you may take home with you for a few cents a little green parrot, which a woman or an old man brings into the car to sell ae an American trainboy would sell gum. And yet in spite of the deliclous ness and the nutritive value of the co coanut, a large part of the Cuban crop goes to waste because the Cuban in his love of ease will not climb the trees and out down the nuts before they are too old. Still when one has seen a' big cocoanut tree without a limb for 50 feet and no end of little spines and ridges one acquires a fel low sympathy with the Cuban in his lack of energy. It is true that food may be had in Cuba for the picking, but sometimes the picking is far from easy work. There is something unique about climbing a tree when you want a drink instead of digging a hole in the ground as a northerner does, but having once tasted coco agua the northerner admits that the Cuban method has its advantages. The American lilltrrn. Nearly everybody who has been be yond the limits of stone walls and brick walls has seen flying over the known as the American bittern, locally fields at some time or another the bird called in places the swamp pump and stake driver, on account of its call. How many, I wonder, who are familial with this marsh resident when in full flight have ever seen it at rest? Not many, I venture to say. The bird will stand on the ground in its damp re treat, without as much cover as the ostrich when it pokes its head in the sand and imagines itself unseen, and one may pass within 10 yards of the si lent figure and even see it and yet never guess of a bird's presence. Sci entists have written reams about the protective coloring of the whip-poor will. wlWch enables it to become fairly a part of some lichen-colored limb. The white of the ptarmigan on the snowy heights and the brown of the partridge among the dead leaves of the forest have been commented upon time and time again as instances oi what nature does to make her htrj? children to become a part of their «nr rounding, that they may esca#e the eye of the destroyer. The way it which the stake driver of the swampy woodland stretches keeps his presence there a secret when a prowler is about seems to have escaped the notice of many naturalists. In May last, witt a companion, I was walking along a road at the edge of a swamp not many miles north of Chicago. A bittern rose from a point far to our left and flaiyjei its way lazily over the marsh to a damp place in a pasture covered witJi stumps, with a few standing trees scattered here and there. Through powerful glasses we watched the bird's progress and marked down the spot where he had pitched. We made di rectly for the place and then began a search for the bird with our glasses. Every spot of ground within 50 yards was examined carefully, but not a feather could we see. Finally my com panion, who had been looking steadily through his glass at one spot for what seemed fully five minutes, said, sud denly: "There he is. Look at the fifth stump." At the fifth sHimp I looked It was no stump at all, but Master Bittern himself, posed and making an almost perfect representation of one of the small blasted tree relics by which he was surrounded. He was only 15 yards away. His body was perpendicu lar, his neck and head were drawn well down into his shoulders and his beak was pointed straight upward, forming a prolongation of the line ol his back. "We will test his patience," Wits our decsloa. and we sat down qui etly, noted the time and stared at that devoted bird for exactly one hour. Dur ing all that time he moved not at all. No neighboring stump was more firmly fixed than he. It seemed as though he had control of his feathers as well, for the passing breezes that stirred the lush swamp grass beyond failed to ruffle any part of his brown plumage. Finally, half ashamed oi keeping the bird longer under such a strain, we walked toward him. Nit until we wera within n few feet did he move. Then he took four comically dignified steps away from us, and rising, flew down the little stream which in spring makes its way through the heart of the swamp. —Edward B. Clark, in Chicago Record. K|M»il«*