CALLS OXYGEN USELESS
Profettor 8ays Old Theory Is Wrong
and Carbon Dioxide Is
Not Fatal.
Minneapolis. D. D. Mayne, princi
pal ot Minnesota school of agriculture,
announced the result of an experiment
which he believes has exploded the
old theory that oxygen was essential
to life and that death would result
Irom breathing carbon dioxide.
To demonstrate this theory, Prof.
Mayne confined a steer in a hermetic
ally sealed stall and another in an
open Btall. The first animal was Bhut
nir from oxygen completely and at the
end of several days was found to be
In as good condition as the other. The
experiment was repeated, the steers
exchanging stalls. The result was the
same both animals could Uve in the
hermetically sealed stall without oxy
;en and neither suffered poisoning
from carbon dioxide thrown out of
their lungs.
"The school ventilating system Is
unnecessary," asserted Prof. Mayne.
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The Inventor of Ice Cream.
Dolly Madison was famous for her
feeauty, grace and social charm, but
he has never been given due credit
for her greatest achievement the in
rentlon of Ice cream. For the chron
iclers tell us that she was the first to
serve this national delicacy. The wife
of the president must have been a
wonderful woman, gifted in every
thing from diplomacy to cooking.
The men have long suspected that
some woman invented both ice cream
and matrimony, for men of genera
tions have ' been inveigled into both.
Let a boy end a girl go out walking,
Just anywhere, and suddenly the boy
will find himself face to face with a
soda fountain or an ice cream parlor.
It's just like a man who starts along
courting aimlessly who suddenly finds
bimself engaged. He doesn't under
stand just how it happened. But he
usually marches up bravely and finds
that he enjoys both matrimony and
Ice cream. Baltimore Sun.
The Honeymoon.
The honeymoon has no definite dur
ation but is longer or shorter, accord
ing as the temper of the high contract
ing parties determine, or their rela
tives, or the weather, or the mode, or
the comparative cost of traveling r.nd
staying at home. Briefly, it is that
Interval during which the man. going
out in the morning remembers his kiss
and forgets his overshoes, as distin
guished from the interval during
which he remembers . his overshoes
and forgot his kiss.
Where Dwell the Thoughts.
An old maids' club in New Jersey
was recently wrecked by matrimony.
This ds generally the case with old
maids and bachelors' clubs, but It is
not so strange after all, for the very
formation of such organizations shows
how much the subject le occupying
the minds of the members. And when
the matrimonial germ gets (into a mind
It is then that Dan Cupid sees his
chance to get busy. Baltimore Amer
ican. SURPRISED HTM
Doctor's Test of Food.
A doctor In Kansas experimented
with his boy In a test of food, and
gives the particulars. He says:
"I naturally watch the effect of
different foods on patients. My own
Jlttle son, a lad ot four, had been 111
with pneumonia, and during his con
valescence did not seem to care for
any kind of food.
"I knew something of Grape-Nuts
and Its rather fascinating flavour and
particularly of its nourishing and
nerve-building powers, so I started
the boy on Grape-Nuts and found
from the first dish that he liked It.
"His mother gave it to him stead
ily, and be began to Improve at once.
In less than a month ha had gained
about eight pounds and soon became
po well and strong we bad no further
anxiety about him.
"An old patient of mine, 73 years
old, came down with serious stomach
trouble, and before I was called had
got so weak he could eat almost
nothing, and was In a serious condi
tion. He had tried almost every
kind of food for the sick without
all.
"I Immediately put him on Grape-'
Huts, with good, rich milk and Just a
little pinch of sugar. He exclaimed
when I came next day, 'Why, doctor,
I never ate anything so good or that
made me feel so much stronger.' "
"I am pleased to Bay that he got
well on Grape-Nuts, but he had to
stick to It for two or three weeks,
then be began to branch out a little
with rice or an egg or two. He got
entirely well in spite of his almost
hopeless condition. He gained. 22
pounds In two months, which at his
age is remarkable.
"I could quote a list of cases where
Grape-Nutg has worked wonders."
"There's a Reason." Read "The
Road to Wellvllle," In pkga.
Brer read the above letter? A
aew one appears from time to time.
Xbey are genuine, true, and fall mt
i Interest.
The New "Sick
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MAHOMET V., WHO REIGNS, BUT
A "SLOW JOHN."
By Eliot Kays Stone. .
The Inhabitants of the Southern
mountains sometimes grind their corn
with an automatic miller known as
the "Slow John."
This contrivance Is very simple and
crude In form and workmanship, but
taking things slowly and easily and
working steadily, It turns out from
one to three bushels ot meal a day.
There are two varieties, the more
common one being constructed as fol
lows: A trough is fastened to one end of
a stout stick, and a perpendicular
beam to the other. The stick Is sup
ported In such a way as to make the
beam end remain down of its own
weight. But when water Is run Into
the trough end the weight ot the
water and trough combined makes
that end heavier than the beam or
hammer, whifh Is then lifted high
3
from the mortar in which it rests,
and which, contains the corn. As
the trough descends, the water runs
out, and then the weight of the ham
mer again brings it down Into the
mortar with great violence. This is
repeated day and night until the corn
Is ground, when the meal is taken out
and fresh corn put In Its place. An
other variety of "Slow John" Is op
erated by a water-wheel.
It can readily be seen that such an
automatic mill and miller is of great
value to a community where every
man Is needed In the field. Its cost
Is practically nothing. After the few
hours or days spent in Its construc
tion, no attention need be paid to It
beyond giving It something to do.
I havo never seen one ot these ma
chines save in a limited district In
North Carolina, Tennessee and Ken
tucky. That they exist there testifies,
I think, to the originality of these
secluded people, who have lived for
so many generations in their own
way, undisturbed by the shrill
whistle of advancing civilization.
Youth's Companion.
His Happiest Hour.
He "You remember the moon
light night, twenty-five years ago,
when I proposed?"
She "Yes, indeed."
He "We sat there for more than
an hour, and you never opened your
lips."
She "Yes, dear."
He "That was the happiest hour
ot my life." Cleveland Leader.
The Simplon tunnel was begun No
vember 13,' 1898, and the Swiss and
Italian boring parties met at 7.20
a. m., February 24, 1905.
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THRONE OF THE SULTAN OF TURKEY. .
When a new Sultan takes his seat here the ceremony of his lnatallatlon
ls noi yet over. His real consecration takes place later, when the scimitar
of Osman ls girded on him in a mosque which no unbeliever may enter. -
Man of Europe."
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DOES NOT RULE. OVER TURKEY.
The Maxim Gun Silencer.
The noiseless rifle invented by
Hiram Percy Maxim has caused much
discussion. Some declare that It will
be an aid to criminals, because they
can shoot without the noise from the
explosion betraying them.
Interior mechanism of gun silencer,
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the "reverse turbine," which prevent
gas from escaping rapidly, Is shown
in the picture.
Dresden a City of Pleasure.
Dresden Is essentially a city of
pleasure of fair, wide prospects, of
hearty river life, of zest In nature
and art. Even the public buildings
cluster about the Elbe, just as the
hutB of the first settlers clusterea.
A circle of Wendlsh herdsmen's huts
on the right bank, a line of fisher
shanties on the left these were the
unlikely beginnings of Dresden In the
sixth century. But the settlement
lay at the only point In the river val
ley where a ford was practicable,
tempting the Germans to settle on
the left bank between the Wends and
the swamps, or Seen, unlovely places
that have long since disappeared,
leaving behind only the names See
strasse, Am See and Seevorstadt. In
deed, the very name of Dresden la
iwived from the Slavic dresjen,
I which means "dwellers in the swamp-
forest." Century.
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TSETSE ONLY A, CARRIER
Famed African Fly Not Itself Respon
slble for Disease.
New York. The tsetse fly, the In
eeot that Jumped from obscurity to
public notice on the eve of Theodore
Roosevelt's departure for Africa, re
ceived a certificate of character at the
Rockefeller institute. Dr. S. J. Melt
zer, one of the affiliated specialists,
announces that the dreaded sleeping
sickness is carried by the tsetse fly
only incidentally, that is, from one al
ready effected to a fresh subject,
as the common house fly may carry
typhoid. His bite is not venomous,
Bays the phystciun, while the real of
fender Is the only disease germ
known to have the poer ot locomo
tion the trypanosum.
The microscopic organism has the
disease bound up in its system and
has heen exclusively used recently by
the Rockefeller institute to all the in
oculations of mice. The institute is
at work with a new serum for tthe
cure of the sleeping sickness, for
which it' has high, hopes, but no an
nouncement of its nature will be
made before next winter.
Since the sleeping sickness first
made its appearance in Uganda in
1901, 200,000 have died by It in one
district alone, and its toll from the
Congo Free State has been almost un
believably heavy.
BABY'S SKIN ERUPTION CURED.
Was So Sore, Irritating and Painful
That Little Sufferer Could .Not
Sleep Scratched Constantly
Cuticura's Efficacy Proven.
"When about two and a half years old
my daughter broke out on her bips and the
upper parts of her legs with a very irritat
ing and painful eruption. It begun in Octo
ber; the first I noticed was a little red sur
face and a constant desire on her part to
cratch her limbs. She could not sleep and
the eruptions got sore, and yellow water
came out of them. I had two doctors treat
her, but she grew worse under their treat
ment. Then I bought the Cuticura Rem
'edie and onlv used thpm twn weplcn whpn
"she was entirely well. This was in Febru
ary, bhe has never had another rough
place on her Bkin, and she is now fourteen
years old. Mrs. R. R. Whitaker, Winches
ter, Tenn., Sept. 22, 1908."
Potter Drug & Chem. Corp., Sole Props,
of Cuticura Remedies, Boston, Mass.
The Soul's Summer Solstice.
The soul must have Its days to
romp, to wade in the creeks and
swing from the branches of the trees.
If it hasn't. It will get hard and dry,
and you can't make a dent In it with
a line of poetry or the touch of a van
ished hand. Seeing a person in a
parlor or an office Is only half Beelng
hiin. You muct go out among the
dryads and the nnlnds and the sweet
Biiirits of the emeialrt outdoors, anil
talk to him with a mouthful of fried
chtcken and an earful of women's
voices.
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Spring Cleaning.
"Dad, I was simply great In relay
events," boasted the boy from college,
"Good enough, son. We'll make
use of them talents.- Your ma will
soon be ready to relay the carpets."'
Louisville Courier-Journal.
A feeling of security and freedom from
anxietv pervnHes the home in which Hum
lins 'ir.nrd Oil is kept constantly on hand.
Mothers know it rnn always be depended
upon in time of need.
Total Still Swelling.
Foreigner What was the total loss
of life caused by your revolutionary
war?
- Native American Nobody knows.
We keep adding to it every Fourth of
July.
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Largest Peach Orchard.
Arkansas claims to have the largest
peach orchard in the world and 1,000
men and 300 tennis harvested the crop
last year. The orchard is in Sevier
county and has 200,000 trees. It cov
ers 2,800 acres and 2,000 trees are
bearing. Five hundred freight cars
were used to haul the crop to market.
The Parisienne is always as keen
to follow fashions in Jewelry as in
frocks, and just now she has given her
undivided nffecWon to the tnrnuolsp.
These candy
tablets do just as
much as salts or calo
mel. But Cascarets never
callous the bowels. They never
create a continuous need, as
harsh cathartics do. Take one
just as soon as the trouble
appears, and in an hour its over.
Vsat-pocket box. It cents stdrus-stores. 855
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to reply that the race of American
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A wide sale Is therefore predicted for
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Not In His Lifetime.
A well-known scientist was lectur
ing on the sun's heat, and In the
course of his remarks said: "It is an
established fact that the sun is grad
ually but surely losing its heat and in
the course of some 70,000,000 years It
will be exhausted; consequently this
world of ours will be dead and like
the moon, unable to support any form
of life."
At this Juncture a member of his
audience rose, in an excited manner,
and said:
"Pardon me, professor, but' how
many years did you say it would be
before this calamity overtakes us?"
The professor "Seventy million,
sir."
' "Thank God," was the reply. "I
thought you said seven millions."
Success Magazine.
Hard Times In Germany.
Supplementing frequent reports of
hncd times in Germany are conflrma
tory census figures for that country
which indicate that the large cities
are falling off In population. Berlin,
for example, which grew very rnpidly
In prosperous times, contained 2,100.
912 souls nt the close of 1908. a fall
ing off of 4.419 in one year. Emigra
tion is largely responsible for the de
crease, and emigration is due to the
hard times and th military laws of
the country. In March, 1908, more
than 30,000 persons left the German
capital for other countries, most of
them going to America. ,
Sorry He Spoke.
Suffragette What is a party with
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Mere Man (flippantly.) A stag par
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Blr, would this nation be without
women but stagnation.
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