Decatur Democrat, Volume 37, Number 22, Decatur, Adams County, 18 August 1893 — Page 2

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Time flies fastest on the wings of a promissory note. There’s a married man’s scheme to Abolish seal fishing altogether. No seals, no sacques. Tins country is in danger of becoming conspicuous for rheumatism, both physical and financial. The rural tough poi-ons fishing waters and gets up charivaris. The city rough shoots and cuts, but he's no worse. The oddity about Germany's standing army is that through all the standing it's the people who ah* getting tired. Ik the sluggard gets tired of going to the ant lie might try the malaria germ, who seems so reluctant about taking a vacation. The only suspicion of crookedness In heaven < ame about when an astronomer discovered that, some of the stars had been fixed. , The most unnappy people in the world are those who are so well off that they are alwayS trembling at the thought of loss and ruin. The fool-killer's love of variety is discernible in the surf bathers who enter into deep water without knowledge of the gentle art of swimming. When Benjamin Franklin proposed to start a newspaper his mother tried to dissuade him, because there were already two newspapers in America. **Jack THE Clipper,” who creeps upon victims and cuts their back hair Off, may serve to remind the barber that such things can be accomplished noiselessly. Judging by report, there is a big opening for some enterprising party to start a soap factory in Mecca. The “holy places” of Moslemdom need nothing so .much as to be made clean. ______________ Russia is gradually approaching India from the northwest, and France is pushing forward her frontier from the east. No wonder the Empress and her representatives are getting nervous. ThE hotel-keepers of Chicago having had a lively time for several months past calling upon the railroads to make half rates to Chicago might turn in now and give visitors a dose of the same medicine. Mount Tacoma is the highest mountain in the United States, according to the six measurements taken by F. G. Plummer, a Tacoma civil engineer. He makes the mountain 15,000 feet high. Mount Whitney is only 14,898 feet tall. There is a new element of indignation in South Carolina against the new liquor law because it is discovered that the official quart flasks of liquor sold by the State are of short measure. The palmetto State’s official giogeries should not sand their sugar. __________ A Renville (Minn.) man without arms or legs has been arrested for not working out his poll tax as the law prescribes. Self-decapitation would seem to be the poor man’s only possible way of evading such a law, and as he has neither arms nor legs that would be difficult if not impossible. Professor Wiggins, who made his farewell prophecy about a year ago, has emerged for another farewell. He says that the country is going to see another comet this year. The farewell wave of the comet’s tail after its tour of the country is evidence that Prophet Wiggins has at last made a correct prophecy. A humorous young man who tickled an Eskimo girl under the chin at the Exposition regretted the act a moment later, for the darkskinned girl from Labrador suddenly twined both arms around his neck and planted a kiss on his ruby lips that might have been heard at the fisheries building. That young man will be more careful after this. iJiEAR Admiral Markham has cleared his skirts of responsibility forthe Victoria disaster; but how much larger he would have figured on the canvas of history if he had had the courage to signal back to Tryon, “I cannot obey your order,” and taken tlie consequences! The Victoria and her men would have been saved, and, let the court-martial have done what it might, that would have been glory enough for Markham. The advantages of civilization are shown in the case of Mr. Quanah Parker, the old chief of the Comanches, who has substituted marrying for fighting, and who recently brought his seventh wife into Vernon, Texas, to have her photograph taken. , He is quite wealthy, lives high, and is now looking for another wife. There is nothing whatever the matter with Quanah, and in adopting the methods of a great many white men he Is both happy and prosperous. s Ignited States naval officers accept the loss of the Victoria as one ol the incidents natural to going to'sea in an "iron teakettle,” as the modern fhU> of’war is disrespectfully called.

The ancient figure* of speech which " Represents a single plank oe- ' tween the sailor and death Is more nearly true of the ships built without planks than of any others, and every . sailor knows that, whatever the adI vantage of the iron ship as a fighting i machine, it Is a very ticklish craft in case of accident. ! I There can no longer bo any doubt that England D losing the grip she i has so tenaciously held for so many years upon the manufacture of iron ■ and steel. America and Germany are interfering very seriously with bet markets, both at home and abroad. ' The German manufacturers, it is ■ said, are now offering steel wire rods . 1 in Birmingham at prices so low that l it is thought the local wire trade there will soon be a thing of the past. It is very doubtful if England ever regains the position in the trade of the world she formerly held. The improvement of navigation on inland rivers is not altogether for the purpose of spending Government money. Alabama iron furnaces are now shipping iron to St. Louis by way of the Tennessee River, rather than pay the extortionate freight the railroads charge. This could not have been done before the United States Government deepened some shoal places that had always obstructed navigation. Railroads are discriminating against iron produced in Alabama, as they are interested in keeping up the furnaces in Pennsylvania, whence they get their own supplies. The Queen of England is closely guarded by detectives every moment of her life. When she proposes to ride abroad ti e information and the probable route that she will take are at once announced to her special police by the equerry on duty, and at certain points all along the road that she will travel police are stationed and the roads carefully watched. All kinds of queer people, lunatics, cranks and adventurers seek to gain her Majesty's attention, so that the utmost precaution is necessary, in order to preserve her from constant annoyance, if not from ac tual. danger. With the usual humorous readiness of ths cockney, the House of Commons is held up to ridicule since the late pitched battle in which black eyes and bloody noses were so liberally distributed, and is now looked upon as a sort of prize ring or Olympic Club, where fisticuffs take the place of debates. As the penny steamers pass up and down the river at Westminster the passengers make believe to square off at each other, and shout out: “Charley Mitchell should be speaker.” The disgusted member? leave the terrace indignantly to hide their diminished heads in the in< terior of the building. We are so accustomed to see the sovereigns and .rulers of the old world relying upon their retainers for protection against personal violence that it is refreshing to hear ol the Portuguese King not only engaging in a hand-to-hand encounter with a big footpad in a lonely road, but also proving himself to be the better man of the two. Don Carlos deserves particular credit for his victory, in view of the fact that tne fight was brought about by his interference in behalf of a young stranger, who was In danger of being murdered, and that he is probably the fattest monarch in Christendom. The human family has attained a certain amount of civilization, but it is constantly tripped into manifestations of its original savagery. Even civilization seems to delight in giving information to man that return to savagery may be expected at any moment. Every man-of-war bristling with guns is notice to the human family that after nineteen centuries of Christian progrees there is no Christianity such as the Master taught. Every soldier armed with a gun is notice to mankind that barbarism may be the rule at any moment. We make peace festivals, sc called, and celebrate thereat more particularly the achievement of a Krupp, and as companion for immense guns from Germany show the model of a battleship erected by the Government of the United and round the whole festival we i throw the protecting side gwords ol i a lot of Columbian guards, officered i by a man whose profession is that ol a butcher, for a soldier is after all a person employed to kill other per- . sons, and may hot therefore be in- -. aptly described as a butcher. We r are not yet’ safely beyond the bordei ; 1 ine of-barbarism. [ A Bad Case. i Once I was assistant to an elderlj 1 doctor.in Ofitario, who also ran a | drug store.; jp. was as peppery as a [ I cayenne pod, and from time to time ; customers and patients sprung jokei ' on him just for the fun of hearing him blow off. On one gccai-ion a well-dressed young fellow called at • the shop and asked the doctor to prei scribe fora breaking out and a rash - on his left arm. The doctor exam- ■- Ined the limb and pronounced it tc y be a bad case of psoriasis and eczema. i “I suppose, Doctor, you can cure It?" i said the patient < | “Why, certainly,” replied the doc 1 tor. T , _ '• ! “How long will It take to ge > i well?” e * “Oh, I guess about, two monthe,’ n I said the doctor. “Quite sure, sir—fs It a bad case?’ “Positively the worst I’ve seen.” “Then I will leave it with you and ' ! call for it again when cured,” soli emnly said the patient, slowly unfasa i tening his arm, which was an artlfln clal one arid painted for the occasion. U ' —Chemist.and Druggist.

jDUTY OF CONGRESS. I ■ DEMOCRACY MUST REDEEM ITS ' PLEDGES. ' Any Undemocratic Act la Dnngcrona — 1 Tariff and Finance Arc the QuMtlon. Before the People — Digging Political Graves Deeper—Give Us Belief. Democratic Responsibility. Whatever Is not Democratic is dangerous. Every Democratic voter has a share in the direction of the party; he boars his portion of the responsibility for what it does or leaves undone. Thus his personal interest and his pride of citizenship are enlisted. He has a regard for the consistent execution of laws he has helped to enact and for the redemption of platform pledges he has helped to make. Democracy is a body of highly trained political units. No professedly Democratic leader has been able to deceive his people. Other parties may obey leaders and applaud the act Vhieh belies the once applauded word. A real Demi crat trusts the principles he ba- adopted and fudges for himself whether they are followed or deserted. The Republican party can promise to reduce the tariff, and then raise it. Such a shameless violation of repeated pledges as that party committed in 1883 could not be imitated by a Democratic congress without an atonement which would consign to obscurity every guilty member. Each individual Democrat has in his memory and heart the historic struggle of his party against protective tariffs. Therefore’the McKinley law must be replaced with a tariff based upon the general welfare principle of revenue; tor the party is in power and pledges must be redeemed. No act of the party which lately controlled the Government is more unDomocratic than the Sherman law. The party is unreservedly under pledge to rqpeal it, and to substitute a measure for the coinage of gold and silver without discriminating against either metal. Such are the words ol the national platform of 1892, passed after the Democrats in every State convention had made the demand in language plain and well considered. For the Democratic party, in or out of power, nothing is safe which is not Democratic. To temporize with the McKinley tariff or to hesitate in suspending the operation of the Sherman act would be unsafe for a Democratic Congress. In principle, in detail, and in effect these two laws are against the thoroughly ingrained opinions of the Democratic masses. They were bought by special interests, and their design did not embrace consideration for the people. Both have disturbed trade and offended the natural laws of wealth, I Both have brought leases upon the I producers and consumers. Together they* have contributed to create the uncertainty wh h has contracted the movement of capital and crushed hundreds of enterprises. The tariff and money questions are not the accidents of the summer. The future of the whole American people enters into their settlement. The Democratic masses know the pledges of the party, because they voted upon pledges. How can the Democratic Congressmen face their people next year and endure the comparison of pledge with performance if they are capable of no better finance than a blind stand against suspending the purchase of bullion, and of no better taxation than a miserable, ineffectual, intimidated rehash of McKinleyism? These are considerations of import. The Democratic party has a history and a destiny. Its history is the story of its constitutional doctrine. Its destiny is the restoration of the spirit of the Constitution. If a Democratic Congress and a Democratic President can do no better than to put their bended backs under the Sherman and McKinley laws there w*ll be one -chapter which the Democrats of the next century will pass over in silence if they can. Whatever is not democratic is dangerous.—St. Louis Republic. Tlie Curse of Cheapness. In 1890' the Republicans were telling us that “4teap coats make cheap men,” that “cheapand nasty go together” and that “the cry for cheapness is un-Amer-ican. ” From such statements it would naturally be inferred that goods would be cheaper under some other system than protection. The Republicans did not like effect of this cry against cheapness upon the election in 1890. and in 1892 they were prepared to tell tis that protection lowers prices. The “tariff pictures” of the New York Press and of the American Economist were devoted to this idea for many months. The Senate Report on Prices was fixed up so that it was claimed that it showed this result—but it didn’t. Well, the result of the election in 1892 was no more satisfactory than in 1890, and the Republicans have concluded that they might as well, throw off their mask and tell the truth again. Hence they are everywhere asserting that the country is about to be ruined by the low prices which free trade will inaugurate. They say that it is because the country is afraid of itself on this point that wo are now in the midst of a panic. Os course, by country they mean manufacturers. Hear what the New York Press of Aug. 2, now says: To obtain cheauneaa for commodities Is the first and last purpose of the British policy of free trade which has been forced upon this country. To reach this end British agriculture baa been deliberately sacrificed by the rulers of England. That commodities might be cheapened in the United States, many Am< ricin. went to the polls in November last and voted to overthrow that system of protection to home industry under which the workman earned vastly higher wages with which to purchase the slightly dearer coat. The result longe l for by the Democratic voters andpromised by Democratic journals and politicians has been speedily secured. Before Mr. Cleveland bad been a month in office the era of cheapness had begun. A nation which was at the top notch of prosperity one year ago has been plunged into a condition of severe depression. Cheapness has come, but with it have come the compulsory idleness of thousands of men, the cessation of wage payments to great masses and consumers, the stagnation of trade and the substitution of apprehension, consternation and dismay for the buoyancy, cheerfulness and energetic movement of one year ago. The nation is having an object lesson from which it may learn by bitter experience the nature of the benefits that are offered by the cheapening of prices. Those benefits come solely to a few persons who are not producers of wealth. Thia statement should convince the most skeptical, that cheapness is a curse and that our only salvation lies in a return to protection and high prices. To make certain that wo will miss none of the possible benefits of protection and that we will not bo cursed by cheap oranges, lemons, bananas anil other tropical fruits, let us put duties on those articles so high that ah s, ‘eh products will be grown on our own soil. If hot houses aro necessary to do this so much the better. Think of the business booms, the valuable homo markets and the extra wages for American workingmen, to euw from the. building of several thousand acres of hot-houses—brick-yards) lumber-yards, glass factories, sash and door factories, carpenters, masons, glaziers and painters, would l>o more prosperous by such a law. This prosperity would spread and diffuse itself until it had extended to the humblest farmer in the sod-house on the prairie—for such are the blessings of protection and high prices. If then I we could induce to re-

„ w , — ~ verse their processes and invent ma • chines to make goods dearer, we would be on the verge of a millennium. It just now occurs to us, however, that > we are still living under laws made by the great McKinley himself—laws which were to guarantee high wages and prosperity tu all. Before wo de- - clde to outdo McKinley will the Press , kindly inform us what has upset the workings of this beneficent plan at least one year’in advance of its probable abolition? Was its hold on our industries so weak after thirty yeurjj of continual grip that it could be shaken . by a look from tho unrogenerate freet trade Democrats? If this be so, might , it not bo well to intrust our prosperity . to something less timid or fickle? , Possibly also the Sherman Silver Act [ may have some connection with our present troubles. We might investi- [ gate a little in this direction before , declaring that cheapness is an unmiti- , gated curse.—Byron H. Holt. Digging Political Graves Deeper. ' Certain Republicans, not satisfied 1 with the depth of their graves, are actively engaged in digging them deeper. The New York Press was ’ among tho first to agitato for deeper, graves by renewing the assaults upon' 1 the intelligence of the American people which caused the upheavals of 1890 and 1892. It will be recalled that Republicans everywhere then assorted that tariffs are not taxes; that they lower prices; that tho foreigner pays tariff taxes; that we can tax ourselves into prosperity with a protective tariff, and all such other nonsense. A few weeks ago tho New York Press dug up the Republican corpse and began to kick it, and to shout in its ears that the jig was not vet up if it would only perambulate about tho country telling the people that they were fools first and cowards last; that they were now scared at their own tariff declarations; that this fear is the cause of the present panic; that the Sherman silver law really has nothing to do with it; that it would exist without the Sherman law; and that blue ruin will stare us in the face after tho law is .repealed and until President Cleveland and the leaders of the Democratic party renounce all intention of disturbing the McKinley tariff act. The New York Tribune and other leading Republican papers had some doubts as to the advisability of attempting to “fool all of the people all of the time,” but as it was the last straw it reluctantly clutched at it, and the most of the other Republican papers and mon—not excepting ex-President Harrison—are now soberly telling us that the country is afraid of the Democrats and of free trade, and that this is tho cause of the present financial stringency. Where will these same journals and men be when Congress has repealed the Sherman law—as it is almost certain to do i —and the business of tho country has returned to its usual prosperous condition? Will they have sufficient confidence in the credulity and stupidity of the American people to imagine that they can again be deceived by any false cry? Are not these Republicans burning their bridges behind them when they bet their last dollar that this is a free trade panic? What if the panic ceases the moment that the Sherman -law is abolished, as Depew—the one rational Republican left—says it will? How much deeper will the country then find it necessary to bury tho G. O- P. corpse for hygienic reasons? And what I a sorry condition this same corpse will be in when the day of judgment arrives, and it must tell of the misery that, was caused on earth by its shameful abuse of trust and confidence! Give Us Relief First. The preamble and resolutions reported by the Committee of the Silver Conference are precisely what might have been anticipated. In other words they state the views of the promoters of the convention, which have been expressed time and time again in the newspapers, in pamphlets, on the floor of Congress and on the stump. After stating as facts a large number of disputed propositions, especially the charge that the act of 1873 was a “secret demonetization” of silver, the resolutions insist that the Sherman act, while an objectionable device of the enemies of silver, shall not be repealed except by a measure restoring the free coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1. It is asserted that the Government can keep silver at par with gold by its simple fiat. The experience of the country in endeavoring to do this by purchasing the equivalent of the entire product of American mines and issuing Treasury notes against it is not satisfactotw to the advanced free-coinage men. Doubtless, however, there are many persons who believe in the employment of the two metals for money who are willing to grant the business interests of the country immediate relief and to consider hereafter and at leisure what may be done for. a permanent remedy of its financial evils. —New York World. - * Two Brands of Reformers. One brand of tariff reformers think that protection is bad and that it should be abolished. They think, though, that as every change in the tariff unsettles business it is best not to shock trade by any great or sudden change of rates. They prefer to reform gently and to scale down protective duties at the rate of 2,3, or 5 per cent, a year, reaching a tariff for revenue basis in 1905 or 1910. Another brand agrees that protection is a curse and that anv change of duties disturbs industry. They think, however, the quicker the tariff can be reformed and protection abolished the quicker will be the recovery from the shock. If a tooth is bad they prefer to have it extracted at one sitting rather than at a dozen sittings, in which case the agony might be prolonged for two or three weeks. They say also that if protec- ; tion is abolished piecemeal not only I will business be panicky for many I years but the protected manufacturers will fight each step with all their power, money, and influence. Short, sharp action, which shall remove the poisonous fang of protection from industry, is what is needed. Business will then soon recover from the shock and will thrive as never before. Will Benefit Us. The American farmer is not to have the advantage of a European war, but 1 there aro evidences of a lively competition between Russia and Germany to ’ see which can lax itself the more in order to spite the other. Germany imports a good deal of grain from Russia, I and in order to retaliate on Russia for ' advancing duties on German ipanufactored goods, Germany is preparing ’ to exclude Russian breadstuns entirely and depend upon the United States. Already the United States has taken a large part of German trade from Russia. Wo can enjoy this tariff fight, knowing that, however hard it may be J on the German and Russian consumer, it will inure to our benefit. A German methodbf protecting iron ’ i and steel from rust consists of coating ’ I electrolytically with peroxide of lead. I! A suitable coating can bo applied in twenty minutes, and the temper of the ‘ steel article is not affected. 3 The Fribourg, Switzerland, Buspen--1 sion bridge has a span of 870 feet. 3 — i We want something we can't get and - do not even know what it is. " ''■, ' J ’ -w —j, • ■

-- —r-- 7— — ’ SOME SANITARY ASPECTS OF I BREAD-MAKING. BY CYRUS EDSON, M. D. (Health Commteeloner, New York Clty.l I It is necessary, if one would underi stand the sanitary aspects of bread- . making, to fully comprehend the present theory hold by scientists of germs , and the jiart played by them in disease. The theory or disease germs is merely the name given to the Knowledge had of those germs by medical men, a knowledge which is the result of innumerable experiments. Being this, the . old term of a "theory" has become a misnomer. A germ of a disease is a plant so small that I do not know how to express intelligibly to the general reader its lack of size. When this germ is introduobd into tho blood or tissues of tho body, its action appears to be analagous to that which t|kos place when yeast is added to dough. It attacks certain elements of the blood or tissues, and destroys them, at the same time producing now substances. But the germs of tlie greater part of the germ diseases, that is, of the infectious and contagious diseases, will develop or increase in number without being in the body of a human being, provided always you give them the proper conditions. Those conditions are to be found in dough which is be-

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ing raised with yeast. They are warmth, moisture and the organic matter of the flour on which the germs, after certain changes, feed. It is necessary to remember at this point that yeast is germ growth, and when introduced into a mixture of glucose or starch, in the presence of warmth and moisture sets up it fermentation. If the mixture be a starchy dough the yeast first changes a portion of the starch into glucose and then decomposes the glucose by changing it into two new substances, viz., carbonic acid gas and alcohol. Now the gluten, which is also a constituent of dough and moist starch, affords, with the latter, an excellent nidus for the development of germs of disease as well as for the yeast germs. The germs of cholera, as of typhoid fever, would, if introduced into dough, find very favorable conditions for their growth. I do not wish to "pose” as an alarmist, nor am I willing to say there is very much chance of the germs of typhus , and of cholera reaching the stomachs of the people who eat bread which has been raised with yeast. But I have not the slightest cause to doubt that other diseases have been and will be carried about in the bread. I have met journeymen bakers, suffering from cutaneous diseases, working the dough in the bread trough with naked hands and arms. I have no reason to suppose bakers are less liable to cutaneous diseases than are other men, and I know, as every housewife knows, yeast-raised bread must be worked a long time. This is an exceedingly objectionable thing from the standpoint of a physician, for the reason that the germs of disease which are in the air and dust and on stairways and straps in street cars, are most often collected on the hands. Any person who has ever kneaded dough understands the way in which the dough cleans the hands. This means that ahy germs which may have found a lodging place on the hands of the baker before the makes up his batch of bread are sure to find their way into the dough, and once there, to find all the conditions necessary for subdivision and growth. This is equivalent to saying that we must rely on heat to kill these germs, because it is almost certain that they will be there. Now, underdone or doughy bread is a form which every man and woman Cas seen. It is a belief as old as the hills that underdone bread is nnhealthful. This reputation has been earned for it by the experience of countless generations, and no careful mother will wish her children to eat bread that has not been thoroughly cooked. The reason given for this recognized unhealthfulness has been that the uncooked yeast dough is very difficult to digest. No one but a physican would be apt to think of disease germs which have not been killed during the process of baking as a cause of the sickness following the use of uncooked yeast bread. Yet this result from thia cause is more than probable. I have not the slightest doubt that could we trace back some of the cases of illness which we meet in our practice we would find that germs collected by the baker have found their way into the yeast bread,that the heat has not been sufficient to destroy them, tfiat the uncooked yeast bread has been eaten and with it the colonies of germs, that they have found they way into the blood and that the call for our services which followed has rounded off this seauence of events. I have already pointed out that the germs of disease are to be found in the air and dust. The longer any substance to be eaten is exposed to the air, the greater the chance that germs will be deposited on it. Bread raised with yeast is worked down or kneaded twice •before being baked, and this process may take anywhere from four hours to ten. It ha>q then, the chance of collecting disease germs during this process of raising, and it has two periods of working down or kneading, luring each of which it may gather the dirt containing the germs from the ' baker’s hands. As no bread save that raised with yeast goes through this long- process of raising and kneading, so no bread save that raised with yeast has so good a chance of gathering germs. What is meant by “raising" bread is worth a few wordsi The introduction of the yeast into the moist dough and k the addition of heat when the pan is ' placed near the fire produces an enor- ' mous growth of the yeast fungi—the ’ yeast “germ,” ifa other words. These ' fungi effect a destructive fermentation of a portion of the starchy matter of? the flour—one of the most valuable ! nutrient elements in the flour. The ' fermentation produces carbonic acid : gas, and this, having its origin in every little particle of the starch, which is itself everywhere in the flour, pushes aside the particles of the dough to give itself room. This is what is called “raising the bread.” It needs but a glance to see that it is, I in its effects ovt the dough, purely mechanical. The-'Aough; which was be- _ \ J

r - \ tore a close-grained mass, is now full of little holes, and when cooked in this condition is what we ordinarily call light. This porous quality of the broad enables tho stomach to rapidly and easily digest it, for the gastrio juices quickly soak into and attack it from all' sides. The fermentation of the dough, however, uses up a portion of the nutrient elements of the loaf. If it be possible, therefore, to produce a light porous loaf without this destruction and without tho “kneading” process, which fills tho dough with germs ana filth, and Without the long period during which tho raising process goes on, tho gain in food and the gain in the avoidance of tho germs is exceedingly plain. But while wo can easily see tho dangers which attend the use of yeast it is certain that the vesiculating effect {iroducod by it on the dough is to tho ast degree perfect. It is apparent that if wo aro to substitute any other system of breed making we must have one which will give us, first, moehanoal results equally as good, that Is, that will produce minute bubbles of carbonic acid gas throughout tho mass of dough. Now it is in no way difficult to S reduce carbonic acid gas chemically, ut when we aro working at broad wo must uno such chemicals as aro perfectly healthful. < Fortunately these

are not hard to find. Theevils which attend the yeast-mude bread uro obviated by the use of a properly made, pure and wholesome baking powder in lieu of yeast. Baking powders are composed of an acid and an alkali, which, if properly combined, should when they unite at once destroy themselves and produce carbonic acid i as. A good baking powder does its work while the loaf is in the oven, and, having done it, disappears. But care is imperative in selecting the brand of baking powder to be certain that it is composed of non-in-iurious chemicals. Powders ebntaining alum or those which aro compounded from impure ingredients, or those which are not qpmbined in proper proportion or carefully mixed and which will leave either an acid or an alkali in tho bread, must not lie used. It is well to sound a note of warning in this direction, or the change from the objectionable yeast to an impure baking powder will Iks a case of jumping from the frying pan into the fire. The best baking powder made is, as shown by analysis, the "Royal." It contains absolutely nothing but cream of tartar and soda, refined to a chemical purity, which when combined under tho influence of heat and moisture produce carbonic acid gas, and having done this, disappear. Its leavening strength has been found superior to other baking powders, and as far as I know, it is the only powder which will raise large bread perfectly. Its use avoids the long period during which the yeast-made dough must stand in order that the starch may ferment, and there is also no kneading necessary. The two materials used in the Royal, cream of tartar and soda, are perfectly harmless, even when eaten. But they are combined in exact compensating weights, so that when chemical action begins between them they practially disappear, the substance of both having been taken up to form the carbonic acid gas. More than this, tho proper method of using the powder insures the most thorough mixing with the flour. The proper quantity being taken, it is mixed with the nour and stirred a’fSund in it. Tho mixture is then sifted several times, and this insures that in every part of th© flour there shall be a tew particles of the powder.. The salt and milk or water being added, the dough is made up as quickly as possible, and molded Into the loaves. These are placed in the oven and baked. But tho very moment the warmth and moisture attack the mix-

iiliiljlKL BREAD WITBOUT TEAST—“THE MOST PERFECT OF AIA CONCEIVABLE WAYS OF RAISING IT.

Dllbau ture of cream of tartar and soda, these two ingredients chemically combine, and carbonic acid or leavening gas is evolved. The consequence may be seen at a glance; the bread is raised during the time it is baking in the oven, and this is the most perfect of all conceivable methods of raising it. Here, then, there is no chance for germs of disease to get into the dough and thence into the stomach; more than that, the broad is necessarily as sweet as possible, there having been no time in which it could sour.,,’ This involves the fact that the bread so made will keep longer, as it is less likely to be contaminated by the germs that effect the souring process. It will be strange Jf the crowds of visitors to the World's Fair do not greatly increase the number of contagious diseases, which we will have to treat. Under these circumstances is it not folly of follies to open a single channel through which these germs , may reach us? Is it not the part of , wisdom to watch with the greatest care all that we eat and drink, and to see that none but the safest and best methods are employed in the preparation of our food? To me-it seems as though ' there could be but one answer to quesi tions like these. I have shown the danger of using the yeast-raised bread, and with this I . have shown how that danger may be . avoided. The ounce of prevention,

1 which in this case is neither dlffionH i nor expensive, is oerteinly worth many 1 pounds of cure, and the best thing I about It is that it may bo rolled on all moat absolutely. Those who eat bread i or blilcults or rolls made at home with I Royal baking powder may lie sure they have absolutely stopped ono channel through which disease may roach them. , Nors.-HouwkMp u desiring information , in regard to .tlie preparation of tho bread, whloh. for eanlten- ien-<> ". Br. strongly urges for general use, rhoula write to the Royal Baking I’uwiirrlompauy. New York Ao Good as a Seashore Cottage. "Are you going to tho seashore this summer?" Jones asked of Brown. "N-not exactly," said Brown, “but we're going to accomplish tho same result without going from homo ut all." “What do you mean?" “Why, it's thia way: You see, when a person of my means tikes a cottage ut the seashore ho, of eourse, gets a iMxir sort of shi n’.y, because we can’t afford a large, finely finished and well-fui nished house. You know the sort of place the usual summer cottage is. Well, we’ve' decided to accomplish the result in another way. We're going to move up into the attic for the summer." “Move .up into the attic?” “Why, certainly. It is unfinished, just like a seashore cottage. The sun lieats down on the shingles ilnl raises the temperature above 100 degrees every sunny summer day; that's just like a seashore cottage, too. When it rains tho water doesn't beat through our roof, to be sure, us it dtxiH through the roofs of the seashore cottages, but we can remedy that bv poking a few holes through the shingles here and there, and getting the roof mended in the fall. It will smell a little stuffy, but that is eminefifly Ttkca seashore cottage. We shull koeplKolothes basket full of unwashed clam >liells standing in the corner to produqoa realistic effect. On tho whole we shhll be ever so much more comfortable in our own accustomed garret than wo would be at tho seaside, and we shall have this inestimable advantage, that when we get sick of it we can simply move right down into our own comfortable home. whereas if we were-at the shore and paying a high price for a cottage we should feel bound to stick it out to the bitter end. Ob. I tell you it is a great scheme!"—Boston Transcript. An Amusing Derivation. Lexicographers of other days were notoriously at fault with their derivations, and an amusing instance is given, as to how plausible etymologies may be concocted, it appears that the learned Porson wus staying at . one time with a well known Canon of Ely named Jeremiah King. One day at dinner, when they had got into a discussion upon Suestions of etymology. Porson gave a erivation which King considered so far-fetched as to bo quite ridiculous. “You might as well say that my name is connected with cucumber,” said King. Possibly there was a cucumber on the dinner table. “And so it is,” said Porson. “How so?” asked King. “Why, thus—Jeremiah King, by contraction Jerry King; Jerry King, by contraction and metathesis, Gherkin; and gherkin, wo know, is a cucumber pickled.” Person's definition of th6 moaning of the word gherkin is almost as erroneous, it will be observed, as his playful derivation, since gherkin is not a pickled cucumlier, but a small cucumber of a particular variety commonly used for pickling. ■Wonderful Helen Keller. Helen Keller, the wonderful deaf, dumb, and blind girl, who has been taught so much despite her triple affliction, has been visiting Prof. Graham Bell, in Washington. She has lately taken up the study of French, and already has a good knowledge of the language. In a letter to a friend she once wrote: “I am always delighted when any one writes me a beautiful thought which I can treasure in my memory forever. It is because my books are so full of the riches of which Mr. Ruskin speaks that I love them so dearly. I did not realize until I began to write the sketch what precious companions books have been to me, and how blessed oven my life has been, and now I am happier than ever because I dp realize tho happiness that has come to me.” This was written two years ago, when she was but 11 years old. A Georgia Marriage Ceremony. A justice of the peace in Sandersville, Ga., being called upon to perform a marriage ceremony, is accused of concluding with, “By the authority vested in me as an officer of the State of Georgia, which is sometimes called the Empire State of the South: by the fields of cotton that lie spread out la, snowy whiteness, around us: by the howl of the coon dog, and the gourd 1 vine whose clinging tendrils will shad® the entrance to your humble dwelling

place; by the red and luscious heart of the watermelon whose sweetness fills the heart with joy; by the heavens and earth, in the presence of these witnesses, I pronounce you man and wife.” Pat’s Wit Always on Tap. A son of Erin was coming up-town on the evening of Decoration Day feeling much exhilarated. He sat in the street car exclaiming at short intervals and in various keys: “H’rah f’r ouF Irelan’.” He said it when the con--1 ductor asked for his fare and he said it 1 when someone asked him to move along and make room; he said it when 1 he got off the car, and to the first man , he met he shouted: “H’rah f’r oul’ ; Irelan*. * The man didn’t sympathize ’ with his mood,'and answered surlily: ’ “Hurrah for h —ll.” The Irishman < faced about and laid a detaining arm on the other man’s shoulder. “Tha’s ’ jus’ w’at I’s ’bout t’ remark,” said he, ! confidentially; “ev’rv man f’r ’s own J country."—New York Times, > Blockaded by Bees. : A of bees entered the cab of 1 a locomotive at Huntington, Pa., drove 1 the engineer and fireman out. and stopped travel on the road until the r farmer owning the invaders appeared : and effected their removal. > Expebiemos teaches by disappoint- , ment and failure.