THE OVTER.
DARKNESS.
\ IBy SI-DMEV H. COLE. i
\ Copyright. 1907, by C. H. Satellite. \
auuu/u moveu his chair from the
comer that he might have an unob
structed view of Druslila's face. She
was seated near the piano lamp, osten
sibly examining the score of a recent
musical farce he had brought her. Her
chin rested in one little upturned palm,
and her eyes were !ix(\*#>onslvely on
the music In her lap. Ackroyd watch
ed her silently for some moments. He
was loath to disturb that pose.
"I saw Ted Brlggs today," he said at
length, and he said It with the evident
expectation of a flutter of excitement
on Druslila's part. In this, however,
he was disappointed. She turned a
page of the score without raising her
eyes.
"Did you?" she said calmly.
"I did," he affirmed. "Had a sort of
an all gone air about him."
Drusllla was silent.
"Looked as if he needed some one to
sympathize with him—or kick him,"
Ackroyd pursued.
Another page of the score was turn
ed, but Drusllla said nothing.
"Haven't seen him round here late
ly," said Ackroyd, and his tone sug
gested much.
"It's something over a week since he
called last," said Drusllla Innocently.
"NOW," SAID HE, HISrNG AND lIOWINO
GKAVEIiY.
Ackroyd smiled grimly, but Druslila's
eyes being on the score its meaning
TCOjutASt Oil h«J*
"Same old story. I presume," said he.
"What's the same old story?" she
Baid. with some emphasis.
"Got his conge, eh?"
"What are you talking about?"
"Ted Briggs."
"Well, what about him?"
"Ho seems to have been cast into the
outer darkness with his innumerable
predecessors," Ackroyd observed.
Drusllla shrugged her shoulders.
"I don't see why I should fret my
self over that," she said.
"For casting him there, of course," j
said Ackroyd severely.
"Admitting I did," said Drusllla with
challenge in her voice.
"Ted Briggs is a particular friend'
of mine," Ackroyd began.
"Must I marry all your particular j
friends?" said Drusilla with sardonic I
deference.
Ackroyd's eyes flashed angrily.
"You knew all the time he was tak-1
ing things seriously," he remonstrated.!
"You might have a little mercy on |
such chaps."
"Oh. don't let's squabble every night!
you come here, said Drusilla wearily. I
"Here's the 'Palm' song. Shall I sing j
it to you, Max?"
She seated herself at the piano and ;
sang with all her inimitable little droll
eries. When she had finished she
swung about to face Ackroyd.
"Did that soothe your savage breast, I
Maxie?" she asked sweetly.
Ackroyd scowled. "When will you
ever be serious?" he said.
"I was never so serious in my life,"
she asserted. "Indeed I am complete
ly weighed down with responsibility
and remorse. You don't Imagine he'll
take prussic acid, do you, Max?" she
ended in tragic tones.
Ackroyd looked at her with cold dis
approval.
"Between old friends"— he began. I
But Drusilla at once cut him short.
"Now, Max, I'm awfully sorry, but if
you begin to scatter any of that fa
therly advice about here you'll have to
go home, and I counted on a delightful
evenlng*with you here," she said ten
tatively.
"Nevertheless," said Ackroyd, "I
shall say what I set out to, be the pen
alty what it may."
Drusilla rested her elbows on the j
keys and looked at liim archly.
"I was about to remark," Ackroyd {
went on. "that In the social sea you j
are a sort of uncharted reef on which !
the affections of many serious minded j
young men are shipwrecked."
hat a metaphor!" she taunted.
"Their shipwrecks don't seem to be
alarming calamities, however. They
filirvlvn thxim "
"Ana mere are others who are in
danger of sailing straight onto the
reef, knowing all its dangers," said he.
"Dear me!" said Drusllla. "They
should take a course In navigation."
"The fear of ridicule may keep them
away for a time, but In the end they're
bound to tempt fate." he said.
Drusllla regarded him amusedly.
"I think It would be Interesting to
meet some of that class," said she.
"I can Introduce you to one," said lie.
"WhenV Drusllla Inquired eagerly.
"Now," said he, rising and bowing;
gravely.
"You!" she gasped.
"Even I," be said, unsmiling.
There was a somewhat emliarrassed
pause. Ackroyd broke it.
"I shall never be happy until I offer
myself to you. I don't expect to be
happy afterward. I shall merely Join
the others In the outer darkness, and
the suspense will be over."
Drusllla rested her chin on her palm
•rain. A bit of added color flushed her
cheeks. Her eyes were pensive.
"I've l»eeu very much u coward,"
said Ackroyd. "I was afraid you'd
laugh. That Is why I've been silent BO
long."
He leaned forward In his chair. Hia
manner was pleadingly earnest. Dru
sllla moved uneasily.
"Why don't you offer yourself, then,
and have It over?" she asked.
Ackroyd squared his shoulders. "I
do offer myself. Drusllla," said he.
"My silence has been such a long one
the laugh should be doubly merry," he
added bitterly.
Drusllla turned to the piano. She
ran her lingers over the keys la soft
little minor harmonies. Ackroyd wait
ed Impatiently; then he strode to the
piano and bent over her. Something
glistened on her lashes, and there was
a shining streak down either cheek.
"Good heavens!" cried Ackroyd In
sudden comprehension. He laughed
happily.
"It—lt—lsn't funny. I—l—d-don't feel
a bit like 1-laughlng," confessed Dru
sllla.
And Ackroyd was thereupon relieved
from any fears of"the outer dark
ness."
THE WORLD DRYING UP.
Possibility That the Hunjin Race Will
Die of Thirst.
Wo are to die of thirst. Compara
tively few persons know the suffering
Involved in a thirst for which there Is
no help at hand. The consuming thirst
more than the pain of any wound
makes the battlefield a hell. Yet death
by thirst is the doom forecast for the
race by grim scientists. Geologists
find that the fresh water supply of the
globe Is failing. They have data which
point to the gradual withdrawal of the
streams and other bodies of water
from t lie surface. Both in Africa and
central Asia and, indeed, in all the
great levels the water beds are drying
up. A great number of lakes well
known in the historical age have en
tirely disappeared. For example, Lake
Cliiroua, in Africa, has vanished with
in recent years, as has also Lake
Ngamj. discovered by Livingstone.
Lake Tchad is more than half dried
up. For centuries bodies of water in
central Asia have been evaporating
and tile deserts extending. Where
2,000 years ago great cities stood in
i east Turkestan there are found only
I vast and depressing stretches of sand.
! The river Tarlm, once a principal Asi
atic route, Is almost gone, and Lob-
Nor, formerly four times the area of
Lake Geneva, is now but a shallow
marsh. The same sad conditions are
noted in European Russia. Novgorod,
the most pushing city in the czar's dis
tracted realm, was surrounded by wa
ter in the middle ages. While we may
be sure that the fate which the geolo
gists suggest for humanity is very far
away, the facts recited to show the
drying up process are convincing proofs
of the need of preserving our forests
with more care. St. Paul Pioneer
Fress.
A Test Case.
"I'm a 'beauty doctor,' " announced
the stranger with the band satchel full
of cosmetics and massage machines.
"Do you think I could get any practice
around here?"
"Yeou make ugly tilings pretty, don't
yeou?" drawled the old farmer in the
speckled shirt.
"That's my business, sir."
"Waal, if yeou'll go down back of my
barn yeou'll find an old slate covered
cow with one eye and one horn and
wrinkles like canals all over her face.
She's the ugliest cow In seven states,
and if yeou can make her pretty I'll
agree that yeou be a 'beauty doctor' an'
give yeou a dollar."—Chicago News.
Apparent.
"Pardon me," began the new ac
quaintance. "but are you the Mr. Cad
ley Nuritch who wrote that magazine
nrtlcle last month for us?"
"Yes," interrupted Nuritch, "but of
course you'll understand that I don't
make a business of that sort of thing."
"Of course. I know that. I read the
article."—Philadelphia I'ress.
A BIT TOO SHREWD.
One Venture In Which the Captain
Overreached Himsel*
One of Uncle Sam's customs officials,
noted for his success in unmasking
smugglers, said the other day in a dis
cussion of a customs officer's duties:
"One must be shrewd, but not too
shrewd; otherwise one overreaches
oneself, like Captain Harrow of Isles
borough.
"Captain Harrow of Islesborough
was trading at Key West iu a small
vessel. Business took him up the coast
to Tampa bay, and lie bought twenty
dozen chickens from a farmer at $4 a
dozen.
"The chickens were all sizes—some a
few days old and no bigger than ca
nary birds; some fat and large, like
turkey gobblers. The captain expect
ed to make a lot of money out of
them. He was very shrewd at a trade.
"Well, at Key West a hotel man
came aboard and looked the chickens
over.
" 'They are fine birds,' he said. 'How
much?'
" 'lf you pick them out yourself,'
said Captain Harrow shrewdly, 'l'll
have to charge you $0 a dozen. If 1
pick them out, I can let you have them
for s3.'
" 'All right. You pick them out,'said
the hotel man.
"Captain Harrow picked out a dozen
chickens of the canary bird size.
" 'Here you are, twelve prime broil
ers,' he said, with a leer.
"Go ahead,' said the hotel man calm
ly; 'another dozen.'
"The next dozen was of necessity
larger.
" 'Go oiV said the hotel man. 'Keep
on picking them out'
"And the third dozen was larger still.
The captain looked at his patron anx
iously.
" 'Keep right on.'
"The next dozen was fine and plump,
and the next comprised the biggest
and fattest of the chickens.
" 'Keep right on picking them out,
captain.'
"Then at last Captain Harrow saw
how ho had overreached himself. The
hotel man bought his whole lot of
chickens at $3, and thus the captain
lost on the speculation S2O In cash, to
eay nothing of feed and labor." —Cin-
cinnati Enquirer.
UPLIFT FOR FARMING
University of Chicago to Instruct
on Scientific Lines.
STUDENTS WILL BE PAID.
Ten Gentlemen Agriculturists and the
University Have Co-operated to
Teach Pupils—Specializing and Rais
ing Standard of Products Are O ijectar
Promoters Have In View.
The University of Chicago and ten
gentlemen farmers of the community
have joined in an agricultural uplift.j
Between the two interests strong young
men with an honest Intention and well
browned bands are to be paid to study
scientific farming.
It is to be a guild rather than a col
lege or school of agriculture, says the
Chicago Tost The gentlemen farmers
will furnish the students with work
*nd means of sustenance; the unlver
»lty will give them lnc' lental technical [
and scientific Instructic i.
A pale student look a id a nose peeled
from overmuch looking in the pots and
kettles of a university laboratory in the
quest of a degree will not be so much
of a recommendation In the application j
for entrance as an honest if rough ap
pearance, along with an ability to read
ordinary everyday English and write j
it with only a little less ease.
The young men seeking agricultural
knowledge will be stationed at the
farms of the ten patrons of the guild
under the guidance of an experienced
manager who knows fields and their
products, animals and their ways, from
the practical as well as the scientific
standpoint
For the work they do they will re
ceive $25 a month the first year, S3O
the second and $35 during the final
season. Out of this—the salary of a
good farm bund In these prosperous
days—they give $5 a month for their
tuition and a month toward a fund
which is returned to them when they
are graduated. If the student keeps
up his course for three years, he will
have a bonus of S2OO.
This will carry him over the period
of work seeking. The founders of the
guild believe that hew ill not have to
look long or far. They think he will
bo worth at least $2,000 a year as a
farm manager within the Chicago sub- ]
urban radius.
Tho furrn owners in the guild are
At tuur .neeiier, genera i uuuiuger 01
Armour & Co.; R. R. Hammond of the
Deling Coal company; Samuel Insull,
president of the Chicago Edison com
pany; Professor P. I. Lillie of the Uni
versity of Chicago; 11. S. Keeley. traffic
manager of the Milwaukee railway; 11.
S. Ilart, president of the National
Dump Car company; 11. I. Miller, pres-
I Ident of the Chicago and Eastern 1111-
I uols railroad: J. K. Pering, president
' of the Dering Coal company, ami Ben
jamin Johnson, agriculturist and stock
i raiser. Tho head of the school or
| guild for th« university will lie Pro
fessor William Hill.
Already twenty students in the agri
cultural schools of the Universities of
Wisconsin and Illinois have asked for
enrollment. The guild will be able
to take 100 students, the work to be
gin about April of this year.
Professor 11111 says the intention of
the guild is to raise the standard of
farm product:!, form a marketing as
sociation to cater to the fancy trade
and send intelligent, well trained young
men to the country. Owners of spe
cialized farms will find men capable
of taking change of their places.
The farms of the members of the
guild all are in the vicinity of Chicago
—most of them near Lake Forest, Lake
Bluff and Harrington. All are spe
cialized along various lines. Students
will work on them in rotation so as to
gain an all around knowledge or if
studying along a certain line will be
allowed to remain on the farm best
fitted to the purpose.
The practical work of the students
will be divided into two classes—field
and laboratory work and campus
work. Many of the courses will be
given in the university halls, but most
of the instruction will be given on the
farms. Small dormitories will be built
on several of the farms if the number
of students is large enough. ilegular
tuition fees of §4O for a three months'
term will be charged the students.
Making tho Dirt Fly at Panama.
[A quartet has been sent to Panama by
the government to furnisli music for
the Isthmian canal diggers.—News iteT> 1
No longer repine in the blizzard bound
north.
Take a shovel and pick on your shoul
der
And toward the canal zone haste happily
forth.
To battle with sand bank and bowlder.
On tho ditch, as you toil the glad hour»
alone,
Tour labor's made light by inspiriting
song.
Prny. who could not work when a tune
ful quartet,
Perched on somo embankment or other,
Carols soft. "She's tho Girl that Tou Hopa
You'll Forget"
Or "Who Can Fry liver Like Mother?"
Tho puffing steam shovel puffs fainter
and finer,
And tho dynamite chords with eath bar
ber shop minor!
When under your pickax tho rocks seem
obtuse
As you work in the adamant section.
Tho singer, to aid you in Jarring them j
loose.
Will oblige with a Wagner selection.
For "Siegfried," well rendered by moutb 1
or by band,
ts a thing in tho nolso line no rock can
withstand!
Time was when rudo bosses, bull voiced
and profane.
Drove men at the rock builded barriers
By raucously howling, again and again,
"Git in there and drill there, ye tar- j
riers!"
But they didn't succeed, and they didn't'
know why.
Tou have got to havo song or tho flirt
doesn't fly I
—James J. Montaguo in New Tork Amer
ican.
"I observe," said Ilerlock Sholmes of
Now York, "that you have recently
taken up your residence in Brooklyn."
"Who told you that?" asked the oth
er, visibly startled.
"Nobody, but I notice that you blush
whenever any one asks you where
you re living."—Philadelphia Press.
OrTe Way.
Husband—l don't know how much
of an allowance to give you. . Wife—
You know how much you can afford,
don't you? Husband—Why, yes. Wife
—Then give me as much more a« you
can spare.— lllustrated Bits.
| NOTES
C.M.BARNITZ
RIVERSIDE
' CORRESPONDENCE
SOLICITED i\ Jff
\ life
COUNT YOUR CHICKS BEFORE
THEY'RE HATCHED.
! To save cussin' the cluck or kicking
that Incubator to kindling wood just
pass those eggs before a strong light
In a dark closet or room. It's fun. It
costs nothing, and you may save a
whole hatch and the oil. Mr. Farmer,
I we mean you too. If it's only one set
ting, to test Is best
A lamp globe of tin, with a hole the
i size of a half dollar and covered with
1 mica, will do. A bicycle lamp may do
the trick. Use a dark lantern if the
j policeman is tending bar. The invisible
! germ is developed by 103 degrees in the
! incubator. The germ skin (blastoderm)
j holds it on the top of the yolk. You
j may turn the egg, but you can't turn
the yolk, as it Is always kept In one
position, with the germ uppermost, by
the chalazae, which act as balancing
weights. This is remarkable, for egg
yolks beaten up with old rye, rich
milk and sugar will turn some men
Inside out and upside down.
Test white eggs the fifth day, but
let dark shelled eggs set seven days
before testing.
Sunday tests bring crooked chickens.
If you are a beginner, test the tenth
(lay.
Don't get nervous, but don't let the
eggs get cold, and always have your
hen ready (If siic's a saint) or your In
cubator warm to return the eggs.
Cover the eggs you are testing. If
there are many, take only about 100 at
.1 time.
Place side of egg toward aperture.
If fertile, egg shows red spider-like pic
ture; clear, no Kerm; black spot, dead
germ; red streak, ruptured Wood ves
sel; big air space
and black floating
tfT L/ \ cloud, rotten. Boil
f'v r \ clear eggs for the
I \i ) 1 chickens. If not
j jSI) 'f I certain as to egg,
V J mark (?) and re
\ jf I \ I turn to incubator
Y| tv / for observation. If
j\ / you crack an egg,
* y heal with black
court plaster. If it
FIFTH DAY. develops, wet and
remove plaster the eighteenth day. If
few eggs are tested out, don't crow too
loud. Some germs are weak and die of
marasmus before tlie tenth day.
By the tenth day the chicks begin to
TENTH DAT. caters.
By the fifteenth day the bird is near
ly developed. If there Is offensive odor,
you have missed a spoiled egg. "Take
it up gently, handle with care," for it
' 1 has vast
11,11 ioti s look.
FIFTEENTH DAT. \ ) w a y s
mark ten strongly fertile eggs for your
thermometer to rest on. Cold rotten
eggs knock out hatches as well as poli
ticians.
The chick now peeps. The white has
all entered into the growth of the bird,
but
TWENTIETH DAY. WAS BUP .
piled with oxygen by the allantols.
Birdie is old enough now to vote,
in " * He tr loves
does the
TWENTY-PIBST DAY. W ORK UE
spreads himself, gives a big kick, the
trap door opens, and he Is free.
DER DUTCHMAN'S LAY.
I lofes to cackle roun' der blace
Apout meln yaller hen.
Sho lays 80 many pis vtte egga
Down py der shicken's pen.
She sings HO many leetle songs
Afore sho goes ter lay,
I dink I nefer hear dor like,
Dey vas so sveet und gay.
Unci ven das leetle egg pops out
You dink she split der headt
A-slngin' Bveetly all der day
Und ven she shumps ter bed.
I ofen hears metn Katrine sing
Und often hears her scoldt.
Glf me meln leetle yaller hen
Vat lays der eggs of goldt.
C. M. B.
ALTERNATING MALES.
It Is tho stylo with some to decorate
their pens with two males. One rests
a day, while the other rules the harem.
This is a splendid plan If the birds are
brothers and well matched. A friend
was stunned by what he hatched by
using two Single Oomb Brown Leg
horn cocks of different strains. One
batch was perfect In plumage, shape
and comb, but had green legs, while
another batch had black speckled
plumage, flop combs and yellow legs.
Our friend was mad and sad.
He bad sold the egjn for pure stock
uau aiso naa no pullets tor oreeaing
nnd customers.
The one cock had game In him; but,
like our evil traits, it couldn't be var
nished over.
DON'TS.
Don't be euch a goose as to put
louse powder on geese and ducks.
They are vermin as well as water
proof.
Don't dust your chickens till 4 o'clock.
It will not stop the laying, and they
will carry the louse powder to bed and
stop the mites.
Don't get crazy on the broiler busi
ness. If you are anxious to burn your
fingers to see how It feels, we have no
objections.
Don't think you are the only one that
has bad luck. If you will just grit
your teeth, exercise your think ma
chine and shove ahead you'll not have
to hire a newspaper to puff you.
Don't get too smart and run your In
cubator on original lines. Of course
you never set a hen on her back—not
that big n fool yet Then don't reverse
your incubator rules.
Don't get scared if those eggs don't
hatch right on the exact second. If
weather Is mild and the hen is faithful,
the peeps may be all out the nineteenth
day. If the hen Is nervous and the
weather Is rough, hatch Is sometimes
delayed to the end of the twenty
second.
Don't tell your chicken troubles on
the street corner, Mr. I Told U So may
be present. When you're glum keep
mum.
Don't say "I have the best in the
world." In some back yard you'll find
chickens that make yours look like O.
Don't be surly to visitors. Looks as
if you have a dirty bug house or are
selling pure bred *jggs from cull stock.
Don't "eggsaggerate" in your adver
tisement. "Tell the truth and shame
the devil."
Don't forget that a fair and square
deal is what puts any business man on
the pinnacle of prosperity.
Don't ride a hobby till you're sure it's
not a hobbyhorse. Go slow on chicken
fads.
Don't get discontented with your
chickens every time you read that other
fellow's printed statement of egg prof
its. Remember the man who is get
ting there is too busy to take time to
sit down and write up his private egg
affairs for other people to gossip over.
AGAINST FERTILITY.
The main reasons for infertile eggs
follow: Overworked, overbred, overfed,
underfed, nearly dead, immature stock;
egg tonics, red pepper, cattle powder,
too mnnv hens to a t>eiL too rnanv
roosters to a nen. Eggs don't hatch
when they're oversized, undersized, ir
regularly shaited, chilled, overheated,
oiled, soiled, shocked, old, too young.
Eggs just laid must lose their natural
heat before being set. Eggs just ship
ped must stand ten hours to settle. Hut
follow the incubator directions, and
don't monkey with the cluck. If you
don't get chickens you will get the ex
perience.
FEATHERS AND EGGSHELLS.
The gasoline engine Is becoming a
feature in the poultry work. We grind
our own shell, bone, cracked corn,
wheat, charcoal, pump water, etc., with
a two and a half horsepower station
ary.
Since we grind our own feed the
mortality has been very small, and the
time nnd strength given to hand ma
chinery are put on something else.
Take $l5O and do likewise.
The bulldog is the proper policeman
for a poultry plant. Our dog sleeps
right iu with the chickens and runs
through the 170 foot scratching shed at
night. He Is gentle In the home, but
nt night recognizes no friends except
the members of the family. lie's a
bully burglar alarm.
A properly fed cat will not touch
little chicks. It Is a mistake to exclude
them. If a cat has a reasonable
amount of meat, he will not make
trouble. We hatch thousands of young
chickens, and our big tiger o:;t goes
through the brooders and even lies
down and lets the peeps crawl under
his legs and run over him, but never
even steps on them. lie and the bull
dog chase all other tomcats from the
place, and even the sparrows don't
bother us.
It is time for you to make out that
order for fruit trees. We have plant
ed over 100 young trees and expect in
a few years to have them pay our feed
bills. The Bartlett pear, the Burbank
plum, the Baldwin and Smokehouse ap
ples are the money makers.
When you ship eggs for hatching,
do not pack them in buckwheat hulls.
They are poor protection and too
heavy. Let excelsior be your motto.
When a man has a beautiful farm,
splendid buildings and a flock of mon
grel chickens, the picture's spoiled.
That's not thoroughbred.
Yes, you may have your idea of this
or that, and every other fellow has
the same right. However, don't act
the mule. You may be lugging round
a fragment of an idea that was ex
ploded a thousand years ago.
Aristocracy.
What subsists today by violence
continues tomorrow by acquiescence
and is perpetuated by tradition till at
last the hoary abuse shakes the gray
hairs of antiquity at us and gives itself
out as the wisdom of ages. Thus the
clearest dictates of reason are made
to yield to a long succession of follies.
And this is the foundation of the
aristocratic system at the present day.
Its stronghold, with all those not Im
mediately interested in It, is the rev
erence of antiquity.—Edward Everett
Satan Terrified.
There is as great genius displayed In
advertising as In the higher branches
of literature. No problem daunts the
modem advertising man.
In the window of a little book store
in Eighth avenue, New York, was re*
cently heaped a great pile of Bibles
marked very low. Never before were
Bibles offered at such a bargain, and
above them all In big letters was the
inscription:
Satan trembles when he sees
Bibles sold as low as these.
More than 30,000 specimens of fossil
Insects have been collected from vari
ous portions of the world. Of these the
rarest are the butterflies.
SCIENCE OF FOODS,
Eugene Christian's Plan For
Prolonging Human Life.
BASED ON SIMPLE PRINCIPLES
Value of Balanced Diet Explained by
the Founder of"Food Science"—How
to Derive the Most Nourishment
From What We Eat.
By FREDEHICK R. TOOMBS.
Food science is a subject that It
Just now attracting a great deal of at
tention In many sections of the United
States. Its founder, Eugene Christian
of New York city, the well known lec
turer on diet and health culture and
author of "Perfect Health" and "Un
cooked Foods," has at the same time
been widely talked of as a man who Is
doing work of tremendous value to
ward clearing up many of the perplex
ing dietary problems that confront the
public.
Food science paves the way for
and will undoubtedly lead to a com
plete revolution In the manner of liv
ing of countless numbers of people.
According to eminent authorities, It
should have appreciable effect In pro
longing human life and In a large
measure emancipating people from the
use of drugs in the attempted correc
tion of ills resulting from digestive
troubles.
The principles on which food science
is based are so simple that when they
are understood It naturally occurs to a
person to wonder why It is that at
this late period they are first reduced
to an actual science and publicly pro
mulgated.
When asked recently how he accom
plished his results Mr. Christian said
to the writer:
Naturally my work relates exclusively
to the stomach and other organs that as
slst in tho process of digestion and assim
ilation. The disorders of these orpans
are caused by errors In eating or drink
ing.
I study each individual case mlnutoly,
taking into consideration tho age of tho
person, temperature, environment, occu
pation, etc., and then ascertain the spe
cific chemical elements his body requires
and in what quantities or proportions.
Aa the body Is composed of fifteen spe
cific chemical elements, all of which are
well known to tho food chemist, we
should take each day such combinations
and selections of food as will reproduce
these chemical elements In their right
proportions. For Instance, a man doing
ordinary work would need two ounces of
protold matter each twenty-four hours.
If ho should take four ounces habitually
he would ultimately have trouble or if
ho would only take one ounce he would
suffer sooner or later.
The body contains tho fifteen different
elements arranged all the way from one
half of 1 per cent up to SO per cent of the
whole. The best fed man Is the one that
can como nearer giving the body all ot
these chemical elements In the right pro
portions. The man who gets too fat has
fed himself upon an unbalanced diet
too much carbohydrates and albuminoids.
Tho man who is too thin is lacking In
these elements and is taking too much
protolds, nitrogen, etc. In other words
both men feed upon an unbalanced diet.
Mr. Christian has spent almost n life
time studying the effect on the human
system of practically all foods. At
his laboratory in 7 East Forty-first
street, New York city, he has the serv
ices of a chemist formerly employed
under Or. Wiley in the United States
government's experimental chemistry
department In Washington, and some
of the discoveries resulting from In
vestigations directed by Mr. Christian
have done much to illuminate the
mooted question of how to derive tho
most nourishment from what we eat
One of the fundamental principles of
food science is that "chemical har
mony" should result from the foods
wo eat. Chemical harmony in this
sense means that the foods, when taken
into tho system, digest and assimilate
harmoniously. There is no conflict be
tween acids and the natural fluids of
the digestive organs. No gases or oth
er unnatural poisons result.
So striking have been some of the
beneficial results to persons following
the tenets of food science that they
have dispensed with tho services of
the family physician to a considerable
extent. As a result the physicians in
various parts of the United States arose
against Mr. Christian and called him a
"fakir." The New York County Med
ical society went further and had him
indicted on the charge that he was
practicing medicine without a license.
Mr. Christian was urrusted, tried, and
the lower court found him guilty, lie
appealed to the appellate division of
the New York supremo court, and re
cently the court handed down a unani
mous decision reversing the decision
of the lower court. The supreme
court justices said in part, "As upon
the whole case we find that no crime
was committed and that the defendant
was Improperly convicted, the judg
ment appealed from should be re
versed."
Inn recent editorial, commenting on
the decision in Mr. Christian's favor.
Dr. W. I{. C. Latson, the editor of
Health Culture,spoke in part as follows:
"This decision of course quite ex
onerates Mr. Christian, who deserves
not only the congratulations of all fair
minded men, but credit for his plucky
tight against the 'powers that be.'
Each nir.n has the right to select his
own nie ".i?al adviser as he has the
right to select his own grocer or car
penter. Only the patient should not
be deceived as to tha status of his ad
viser."
A Municipal Flag.
The city of Easton, Pa., has adopted
a municipal flag, said to be a copy of
the flag which waved over that town
during the Revolutionary war. The
tins has thirteen ret! and white strlpen
In the upper corner, and the remainder
of the flag is blue, with a circle of
eight white stars In the center.
Big Railroad'c Care of Its Employees.
Since the organization of the relief
department ot the Pennsylvania rail
road In February, 1880, $17,43-1,059.41
has been paid out In benefits. Of this
sum $10,31(5,090.50 was paid on ac
count of disablements and the remain
der in death benefits. These figures
are taken from the January report of
the relief fund, which %as Just been
compiled. In the month of Jnnuary
payments amounting to $166,785.16
were made—564,216.73 for death bene
fits and $102,518.43 for the relief of
members disabled or incapacitated for
work in the company's service.
TO TOUR AND BARTER
Object of Novel Voyage Planned
by a Financier.
OCEAN STEAMER PURCHASED
Colonel Robert M. Thompson of New
York and His Party Will Visit Indian,
Chinese and Japanese Ports In a
Floating Abodo of Luxury.
The life of a merchant prince on his
own ship, with the far east as his des
tination, is one that Colonel Robert M.
Thompson, a financier of New York
city, has chosen to follow, and he will
soon depart for the orient with a num
ber of chosen friends on an ocean
steamer which he has purchased ex
pressly for this purpose.
The vessel will carry a cargo of mer
chandise shipped to various destina
tions in the regular course of com
merce, for which the usual freight rates
will be charged, and the proceeds of
the carriage will bo applied toward de
fraying the expenses of the outward
trip.
This original undertaking savors of
the times of 1812, when fortunes were
made or lost on the high seas, but now
no dread of pirate crews can spoil the
pleasurable side of the enterprise or in
terfere with the commercial end of
the plan. Colonel Thompson has con
verted a tramp steamer Into a floating
abode of luxury, and every fitting has
been made as harmonious and comfort
able as wealth can make It, says the
New York Tribune. The trip will ex
tend over several months, for haste Is
not part of the programme.
Besides Colonel and Mrs. Thompson
and the Stephen Pells, the party will
include other well known New York
ers and several Canadians. Among the
latter will be Sir. and Mrs. Wallace
Nesbltt, who are residents of Toronto.
Mr. Nesbitt is a lawyer and for a time
enjoyed the distinction of being the
youngest chief justice in the Domin
ion, but he preferred a general prac
tice and is now an expert on mining
rights and claims. In the far east
mines are to be bought for a song, but
deals must be skillfully handled to be
without flaw In title or grant where
the orient is concerned.
Poking about all places of interests
along the coast to be touched will con
sume a certain amount of time, and no
opportunity for sightseeing will go
astray. At each place it is proposed to
barter for curios or more popular goods,
so that the return trip also will show a
profit balance. Tho weeks to be spent
In Indian, Chinese and Japanese ports
are looked forward to with delight by
all of the party, for, while the trading
and business side will take the fore
most place in the minds of the men.
the temples, the native costumes and
customs and the rare jumble of the ar
tistic and outlandish will appeal to
the women, who will doubtless be of
great assistance in the selection of
wares to return as part of the cargo.
Each passenger has all the space he
desires to spread his belongings in, and
all know one another so well that the
length of the trip is an extra induce
ment instead of holding the chance
that some one of them may end it
abruptly and return overland because
of disagreement. The voyage as plan
ned leads through the Mediterranean
and Suez canal to India and other parts
of Asia. Eventually a landing will be
made In San Francisco after a look in
at Alaska.
When the United States Is reached
and the ship and cargo are sold Colo
nel Thompson, it is said, expects that
the enterprise will have paid for itself,
the provisioning even included, and on
the sale of the steamer a profit is
thought probable.
An especially good chef has been en
gaged. who will, it is hoped, preparo
such food that even the "third day de
spalrers" will be tempted and recover
their appetites. The deck has ampin
space for the usual .ship games, and,
as more than half of those going are
bridge players of skill and much prac
tice, gray days will not be much no
ticed. Their friends hope that the
nlonsuras nlnnnorf win nil <•>-.■««
Pullman Cars to Be "Dry."
It is reported that an order is being
sent out from the offices of the Pull
man headquarters In Chicago to dis
continue the s»ale of liquor on cars of
that company in every part of the Unit
ed States, the order togo into effect as
soon as the liquors now on hand can
be disposed of without loss. It is ex
pected to begin In the east and to work
westward, anil the order may become
operative in New England and the mid
dle states about March 1. It Is under
stood that the company Is moved to
take this step because direct ef
fect that anti-saloon laws in the several
states have had upon Its business. Not
only have the changed conditions of
the last twelve months cut deeply into
the profits formerly derived from this
source, but on long runs liquor can lie
sold for only portions of the distance,
and the company is constantly in dan
ger of prosecution for lawbreaking
through carelessness of employees.
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