Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 9, Number 279, Decatur, Adams County, 28 November 1911 — Page 7

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HARDTACK OR PRUNES? DOUBT ABOUT THE BEST FOOD FOR NATION’S SOLDIERS. Varied Dietaries of Conquering Leglone of the Past — Japanese Armies Fight on Rice, Raw Fish and Vegetables. On what shall the warrior feed that he may gain that iron In the blood and steel in the muscles that carries on armies to victory? We had pinned our faith to hardtack and black coffee. But now hardtack has been put under the han, and the recent Illinois military maneuvers marked ths ascendency of the prune. Did not the much reviled hardtack save the nation in '6l-65? Could an army fed on prunes have done it? And what, Indeed, will be the army without that staff of life that has survived even the pricking of army poets’ pen points? As well Hamlet without the melancholy Dane —or the ghost, or the skull of poor Yorick. Though it was reviled, still was it loved by those who by dint of long necessity or perseverance acquired the habit; for surely hardtack is as much an acquired taste as the olive, cigarette or high-ball. We must admit that we are apprehensive about the prune; and still cling stoically to the opinion that more hardtack and less bully beef would have enabled us to come out of the war with Spain with a record fewer soldiers killed by rations served than by Spanish bullets. There seems, as we survey the ground, to be no hard and fast diet etary for conquering legions. The Spartans, according to Lycurgus, trained on game and wine; but was it not game and wine, and a few other things, that undid Hannibal's conquering legions in that fateful winter in Capua? There can be no doubt that the grand Old Guard fattened and kept up its fighting heat on via ordinare, and rather frugal fare. Still the Russians who met the rice-fed Japanese had almost the same fare —when they could get it. Evidently national temperament and early training must be considered. Washington's army fought rather badly and won very slowly on very little food. And then came in the long reign of the hardtack. The Japanese are the greatest fighting people of the east Their armies fight on rice, raw fish and vegetables; and this, well warmed up with curries, is the diet of the other great fighting people of the east—the great Sikh brotherhood, the military Spartans of the modern world. Slowly, but surely, it seems that the fighting world is falling Into two parts—the meat and the rice armies, and the wine that the Spartans and the French drank, Is being eliminated. But the substitution of the untried prune for hardtack seems to be a rash step that shatters all calculations on the strength of our striking arm.

To Marry and Keep His Work. Making good his promise to break bachelorhood before reaching the age of 40 years, and marry a girl half his age, Constable William G. Yearsley of Magistrate Hagerty’s office will in a few days wed Miss Lillian M. Ken dell of Clifton Heights, Pa. The bride-to-be is 18 years old. Yearsley is 38. They were introduced by Mrs. William Davis, a sister of the constable, who played tho role of matchmaker. She always counseled her brother to get married and have a home of his own. “I’ll get married before I'm 40,” declared Yearsley a year ago, at which time he had not met his fiancee. “And I’ll surprise you by getting a wife half as old as I am.” Eight months ago the couple were Introduced. It was mutual love al first sight. Yearsley won her consent to marriage several weeks ago. They will be married at the sister’s home, where they met, 155 North Fifty-sev-enth street. Miss Kendell is a graduate of the Newark, N. J., high school, and an accomplished musician. — Philadelphia Times. Census Inaccuracies. What relation does a woman’s age. as it is disclosed by the census paper, bear to the number of years she has actually spent in this vale of tears': It varies, probably, according to the fancy of the fair recorder. In the re cent Australian census the common wealth statistician became so distracted by the extent of ths variation that, acting in a manner which can only be described ns brutal, he caused Intimations to be inserted n the press reminding the public that birth registers exist, and could be referred to, even suggesting that he has actually had them referred to in a large num her of cases, with illuminating results. The consequence of this was a mild form of panic, there being a 50 pound ($250) fine or inaccuracy, and there has beep quite a shoal of communications from feminine correspondents, artlessly wondering whether they made a slip of the pen, and begging, if so, to correct. Powerful Stuff “Have you any hair tonic?” asked the stranger in the barber’s chair. “Yes. sir,” was the reply of the modest tonsorial artist, “but I hope, sir, you will not ask me to apply it on your head. If I did'give you an application you would accuse me of extortion, for 1 should be forced to give you at least three hair-cuts, and charge you for same, before you would be presentable enough to leave the shop, sir ”

HE HANDICAPS HIS CHILDREN Giving Each of Them a Million, Western Financier May Prove to Be Unwise Father. A man out west, described as the "pioneer financier" of his city, has Just kept an agreement or promise made fifteen years ago with himself as the party of the second part and presumably non-enfcrceable from lack of valuable consideration, that he would retire from business when he had u million dollars to give to each of his children. He had three of them when this announcement was made, and even that number rendered the self assumed task one that for most people would have made the day of retirement and dignified leisure to be sufficiently remote. The three children have since increased to six, but the requisite half-dozen millions are said to be now in hand, with a modest surplus for the pioneer financier’s own support in his work-declining years, though they be as many as he doubtless hopes and expects them to be. This man will of course be praised tor showing more moderation than a good many other millionaires and stopping acquisition when he had what he wanted instead of when he had all he could get. On the other hand, it can safely be assumed that in moments of franker self-communings he sincerely admires himself as a man '.v ho has “done well,” as the saying is, for his offspring. But has he? Unquestionably the New York Times remarks, he has acted as do all loving parents, whatever in academic discussion they may say about the ennobling and developing effects of hardship and poverty —that is, he has taken measures to safeguard his own children from both and has given them that long "start In life" which he himself did not have. But they will go through none of the experiences to which, whether rightly or wrongly, he no doubt ascribes what he no doubt holds to be his own success. Theirs will be quite different experiences and of the kind which all »ho wise ones, in talk and writing, proclaim to be —theoretically—most alarming. So one can express with a fair semblance of sincerity great wonder how this man can consider himself a good father —how he justifies himself in handicapping each of those six children with the heavy burden of a million—how he can expect in the manyhoured days before him to soothe his uneasy conscience. Dog in the Potatoes. John Di Silvestro, editor of La Voce del Popolo, an Italian daily newspaper of Chicago, tells of an old potato seller in the colony here who used a small dog to great advantage. “This old man retailed potatoes,” said Di Silvestro. "He went from house to house with his dog on his | shoulders, and if a person wanted anything from a peck to a bushel he could be accommodated. “One of my friends who had been buying regularly from the old potato vender was surprised one day when ! his wife told him that they were being I cheated. “ 'Old Giuseppe wouldn’t cheat,’ he j said. “When the old man delivered his next bushel of potatoes the wife called her husband and together they went into the kitchen and measured the poI tatoes. The shortage was a peck. “After that they watched old Giuseppe, and, much to their surprise, ! found that every time he came to deI liver the potatoes he walked out of | the alley, accompanied by a small dog. “This small dog, however, never I came in with him. “The man and wife became curious about this dog, and hid in the kitchen. One day they watched old Giuseppe empty his bag on the floor. As he did so the little dog jumped out. “The animal had taken up the space I of a peck of potatoes and was better than a false measure." Two Archaeological Finds. Two interesting archaeological discoveries have just been made in the Fen country of England. The first is a sequel to the partial opening of a low mound at Eye, near Peterborough, only a few feet high, but forty yards in diameter. The mound, known as Oliver Cromwell's Hill, was partly explored last year by Thurlow Leeds, of Eyebury, who found evidence that it was a burial place dating probably 2.000 years before the Christian era. . - Leeds now announces that he has bc-n ab'n tn complete his investigation, and has found ti c skeleton of a tall man. who must have been buried more than 3,000 year’ ago No pottery or implements were found near the body, but last year’s excavation brought to light a small hand-made pot of coarse ware, traces of a huge fire, aud some bones—possibly relics of a burial feast or sacrifices. The second discovery is that the district was a waste of waters. First Woman for High Honor. Mlle Lucienne Heuvelmans, the first woman in the history of the Academy of the Beaux Arts, Paris, to win the Grand Prix de Rome for sculp ture, was born in Paris on Christmas day. 1880 Her sculpture is "Electra Guarding the Sleeping Orestes." Two years ago she won the second grand prix. Her father is engaged in artistie cabinet work. She took up sculp»ur- seriously when she was 18. For -on e years she has been teaching di awing and modeling at the commural schools By reason of her award she will be the first woman at he Villa Medlcls since the French .-•! i>! in Rome was established, over IJCO years ago

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LIVES THAI ARE WORTH LIVING. One of Adams county’s farmers, whose wife has been sick with stomach, kidney and liver trouble for two years, after using one bottle of 49 General Tonic, says that that she has gained more under the one bottle of 49 than any other treatment she has taken, and Tuesday the 7th, bought six bottles of 49 at the Holthouse drug store. L. J. Bumgarner, railroad agent at Cheshire, Ohio, writes the Leah Medicine company, under elate of November 4th: “I cannot express my appreciation of your kindness in sending me your 49 General Tonic. My wife has taken it since March and our doctor would not believe that she could Improve as she has. She has gained

seventeen pounds and is feeling fine, but is hungry all the time. Life is worth living with 49 in the house. 49 has become a by-word to us. We use it for everything—colds, coughs, pains • —anything that ails us. We run for 49 Tonic. Mr. Vickers wants three bottles, and I am sending you *5.00 so please send me six bottles by express.” The above is a copy or Mr. Bumgarner's letter. His wife has been sick for five years, and 49 Tonic made her a well woman in six months wnich her doctor failed to do in five years. All druggists handle 49 Tonic. 264t6 Jacob Huser of Berne, who was in the city this morning on business, left this afternoon for his home.