Decatur Democrat, Volume 49, Number 35, Decatur, Adams County, 2 November 1905 — Page 6

<= ' EGGS AS FOOD. notigh Nearly Half Water They Are Extremely Nutritious. The white of an egg is nearly seveneighths water, the balance being pure albumen. The yolk is slightly less than one-half water. These figures apply approximately to the eggs of turkeys, hens, geese, ducks and guinea fowls. To show how nearly alike the eggs »f various domestic fowls are in respect to composition, the following figures are given by the department of agriculture: Hen’s egg—Fifty per cent water, 16 per cent protein, 33 per cent fat. Duck’s egg—Forty-six per cent water, 17 per cent protein, 36 per cent fat. Goose egg—Forty-four per cent water, 19 per cent protein, 36 per cent fat. Turkey egg—Forty-eight per cent water, 18 per cent protein, 33 per cent fat. It should be explained that protein Is the stuff that goes to make muscle and blood. Fat of course is fuel for running the body machine. Thus it will be seen that eggs, though half or nearly half water, are extremely nutritious, containing all the elements required for the building and support of the human body. But the old saying that an egg contains as much nutriment as a pound of beefsteak is far from correct. It would be nearer the fact to estimate a pound of eggs as equal to a pound of lean beefsteak in nourishing power.—Saturday Evening Post. MAKING CAMPHOR. A Simple Process With n Still More Simple Apparatus. “To make camphor,” said a chemist, "you put in chips at one hole, and out of another hole you draw’ the crude product in coarse white grains like salt. “Wherever camphor trees grow you will find camphor distilleries. They are low buildings of mud brick, and their odor is so aromatic that it can be detected two miles off. “In each building there are a dozen fires. On each fire is a kettle of boiling water with a perforated lid. Fitted on the top of this kettle is an iron cylinder filled with camphor chips of the size of your little finger. Fitted to the top of the cylinder is an empty Inverted jar. “There is your whole apparatus, a simple thing which works simply. The steam of the boiling water passing up through the cylinder extracts from the camphor wood its oil. This oil, mounting still upward with the steam, settles like a brine on the sides of the in-' verted jar at the top. This brine, when the fire goes out, dries into a substance like frost or snow. “White and aromatic, the frostlike substance is the crude camphor. It is scraped off the sides of the jar and refined and pressed into those attractive balls and cubes that you buy at a high price everywhere.”—Kansas City Independent. STINGING MOSQUITOES. Bird. Sailer More From These Pests Thau Does Man. “Birds suffer more thafi man from the mosquito,” a naturalist said. “Frequently the mosquito can’t get at man, but birds he can always get at. “The male mosquito is harmless. He never stings. It is the female who does all the mischief. Male and female alike live through the winter. “After the mosquito's egg is first hatched, the creature that issues forth Is called a wriggler. The wriggler lives in water, in marshy pools, in the puddles and the ooze of low lying meadows. He is like a tiny snake, and he must come to the surface to breathe. “Hence kerosene as a mosquito exterminator. Ladle out kerosene on a pool of water and two tabiespoonfuls will spread until they cover effectually fifteen square feet. This oily covering is air tight as a skin. If there are any wrigglers in the water under it they must die; they must smother. “Some think mosquitoes feed on blood alone. This is a mistake. If a mosquito can't get human blood or bird blood or animal blood, it stabs plants and feeds on their juices Philadelphia Bulletin. Catching Cold. Very severe colds are caught indocas, the result of indigestion or foul air. A cold is frequently brought on by eating a hearty dinner, becoming mentally absorbed for two or three hours immediately afterward and retiring to a warm, close room. The food is not digested, the temperature of the body is raised by the exertions of the stomach, the sleep is broken, and the individual rises chided and ill. Had relaxation followed the dinner and the room been supplied with refreshing air, everything would have been different VL r asn’t Wholly Convinced. "Waal,” said the old lady, “if the airth is reound and goes reound, what holds it up?” "Oh, these learned men say it goes around the sun and that the sun holds it up by virtue of attraction,” he replied. *j "Waal, if these high iarut men sez the sun holds up the airth, I should like to know what holds the airth up when the sun goes down! That’s what’s the matter!” Ills Misfortune. **l can argue with any one here,” said the conscientious man fiercely. “I can argue”— "Ob. yes, you can argue,” said the quiet little man In the corner. “The misfortune is that you can’t reason.” MUJadtreU Him. lady A.—Here comes that dreadful nan who sat next to me at dinner. He hasn’t the manners of a pig! Mrs. B. —How funny! I thought he had.— Ton ch.

A CENTURY OF LIFE. •*- It Might Be Inconvenient if Every One Lived a Hundred Years. Suppose a man fifty years old, making a good income from his business, were to decide to live till he was a hundred and not to retire until he was ninety. The first consequence would be that he would have the opportunity of making much more money than if be died at seventy; next, that his children would have to wait much longer for it. Now, supposing him to have attained the age of ninety, the more money that he takes out of his business the less there will be for others to take. His three sons, junior partners in the same firm, aged sixty-five downward, and his nine grandsons, aged forty downward, will find very little to take out of the business between them. The business, in fact, would not “go round.” Even more distressing would be the ease of the family in which there was no business out of which an income could be obtained. The old baronet, aged a hundred, would still be living at the family seat, enjoying the income he had inherited. His son, wearing on to eighty and possibly still a great trial to his parents, would be eking out a precarious existence on very little more than he was allowed at Oxford and for his part quite unable to make his own sons any allowance at all, much less to tip his great-grand-sons when they went back after the holidays to the rate provided schools. These sons and grandsons would have to go into business. But into what business could they go? Possibly it might be found necessary to compel a person attaining the age of seventy to give up his money and his estate to his son and to live on a small pension allowed him out of the wealth he had inherited or acquired, or possibly there might be a rule that a man on attaining the age of forty might claim complete control of his father’s money and estate, provided that he undertook to house his parents and grandparents and to make them a small allowance.

But even then not all the inconven iences and uncertainties would be ended. Even if a man undertook at tht age of forty all those obligations and had housed, say, a parent, a couple of grandparents and possibly two or three great-grandparents in a number of £l5O cottages on the family estate and were making them allowances suitable to their respective ages it would yet be almost beyond his power to prevent them from reasserting themselves should they desire to do so. A man’s father, still in the prime of life at seventy, might decide to set up in business afresh, in competition against the old business be had just relinquished la his son. He might even, with his more mature experience, cut out the old firm altogether, and then all the difßculties and inconveniences would begin over again.—London Spectator. Why a Lobster Tarns Bed. Persons living at a remote distance from the natural home of the lobster think that red is the original color of that species of crustacean. The natural hue, however, is green, the beautiful bright brick color being the result of boiling to which such creatures are subjected. Two explanations for this change in color are given, either of which appears to be tenable: Their shells contain a large per cent of Iron, and the boiling process oxidizes that mineral, the change being almost exactly the same as that brought about in burning a brick. Such a change in jhe color of a lobster's shell can be brought about by the sun’s action, but never while the lobster Is living. As a rule, however, the sun's bleaching influence consumes the oxide almost as fast as it is formed, leaving the sheH pure white. The second explanation is that the original green color is due to the blue and red pigments, the blue being soluble and the red insoluble in boiling water. When the lobster is boiled, the blue pigment is dissolved, leaving the red to color the creature's shell. The Burial of the Living. From evidence difficult to dispute, it appears that in the Celestial empire old, incurably diseased and hopelessly depraved persons are frequently buried alive to rid the community of the burden and responsibility of their caretaking. This arrangement is the result of a mutual understanding, the victims assenting to and at times assisting in the preliminary ceremonies. The usage seems to have been recognized by the highest authorities, and the burials have certainly been conducted with the sanction of the ruling powers. Great preparations are made, and there is much ado and sometimes a show of grief, but a great deal of the latter is evidently perfunctory, as there is an all around feeling of satisfaction on the part of the spectators and more or less complacency on the mind of the victim, who is comforted by the assurance that he Is fulfilling a tradition and will earn the respect of his ancestors end gone befores. John Wesley and Tea. John Wesley wrote in 1745: “I could not Imagine what should occasion the shaking of my hand till I observed it was always worst after breakfast, and that if I intermitted tea drinking for two or three days it did not shake at all. Upon inquiry I found tea had the same affect on other persons of my acquaintance, and therefore saw that this was one of its natural effects, as several physicians have often remarked.” After a daily practice of tea drinking for twenty-seven years Wesley left it off. The effects of relinquishing it fully answered his expectations. “My paralytic complaints are all gone. My band is as steady as it was at fifteen. I save up /50 ($250; ■ year.”

MoMl Wives. In a wedding sermon entitled “The Rib Restored,” preached in St. Dioms Back church, Fenchurch street, in 165<>, by Richard Meggot, afterward dean of Salisbury, the preacher thus defined a good wife: “A help she must be in her family, being not only a wife, but a housewife —not a field wife, like Dinah, nor a treet wife, like Thamar, or a window wife, like Jezebel, but a housewife.” And another preacher about the same date, the Rev. Simeon Singleton, said that a wife should be at once like and unlike three things. “First, she should be like a snail, always keep within her bouse; but she should not be like a snail, carry all she has upon her back Secondly, she should be like an echo, tc speak when she is spoken to; but sb should not be like an echo, always to have the last word. Thirdly, she should be like the town clock, always keep time regularly; but she should not be like the town clock, to speak so loud that all the town may hear her.”T. P.’s London Weekly. Patiently Wait For Her. A Missouri contemporary rises to remark: “Once I was young, but now I am old, and I have never seen a girl that was unfaithful to her mother that ever came to be worth a one eyed button to her husband. It is the law of God. It isn’t exactly in the Bible, but it is written large and awful in the miserable lives of many unfit homes. I’m speaking for the boys this time. If one of you chaps comes across a girl that, with a face full of roses, says to you as she comes to the door, T can’t go for thirty minutes, for the dishes are not washed yet,’ you wait for that girl. You sit right down and wait for her, because some other fellow may come along and carry her off, and right there you lose an ang I. Wait for that girl and stick to her like a bur to a woolly dog.”—Kansas City Journal. Carious Bird Habits, It is a well known fact that if the young of almost any kind of bird are taken from the nest before they can fly the old ones will feed them attentively if the cage in which the little birds are inclosed is placed somewhere where the parents can reach it, and a popular but erroneous belief is current that they do this for a time, and end by poisoning the young ones. This, however, is a mistake, the fact being that at a certain stage of a young bird’s existence, when it is naturally able to begin catering for itself, the parent birds, also quite naturally, cease to attend It, and then, if the blrdlings are shut up in the cage and their custodian has not thought of placing some food at their disposal they necessarily die, not from poison administered by the parents, but from starvation.

The Storthing. Norway's legislative body is known as the storthing, which means the “great court” and should be pronounced to rhyme With “courting." The second part of the word is identical with the English word “thing,” as the Scandanavian languages, in common with Anglo-Saxon, have the same word for “thing” and “council.” In modern English a trace of the second sense survives in the word “hustings,” which came to mean the public platform upon which a candidate appeared at election time, though originally the “busting” was the council at which the candidate was elected, the “house-thing” or house council. How Thermometers Are Made. A small glass tube blown into a bulb at one end is partly filled with mercury. The mercury Is boiled to expel the air and fill the tube with mercury vapor and then the tube Is hermetically sealed and allowed to cool. The gradations are found as follows: The instrument is immersed in ice water and the freezing point is found and is marked. Then it is placed in water, which is allowed to reach the boiling point, and so 212 degrees is found. The spans between are marked by matne matical calculations. Monkeys and Knots. The monkey s intelligence has never been able to arrive at a point which enables that animal to achieve the un tying of a knot. You may tie a monkey with the simplest form of common knot, and unless the beast can break the string or gnaw it in two he will never get loose. To untie the knot requires observation and reasoning power, and, though a monkey may possess both, be has neither in a suffici it degree to enable him to overcome r.ie difficulty. Handing: Out a Hint. School Director (to teacher)—We were thinking of having a nice motto framed and put over your desk to encourage the children. How would "Knowledge Is Wealth” do? Teacher—That wouldn’t do at all. The children know how small my salary is, and they might draw conclusions of their own. Sullivan and Booth. It is a pathetic as well as a humot ous remark that Laurence Hutton in his reminiscence® attributes to John L. Sullivan. When the news came of the death of Edwin Booth the great fighter in sincere sorrow remarked, “Wall, there are only a few of us left!” Asliinff Too Much. He With the Whiskers—Say, feller, why don’t you wear two glasses instead of only one? He With the Monocle—Why, deuce take it, y’ know, a fellah has to see, doesn’t he?—Cleveland Leader. Never be grandiloquent when you want to drive home the truth. Don't whip with a switch that has the leaves en it if you want to tingle.—Beecher.

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No More Work. Hicks—l suppose Dremer is st'.l pot tering alone at his inventions. V icks— Well, he has actually perfected a great labor saving scheme at last. Hicks— You don’t say. Wicks-Yes; he’s going to marry Miss Roxlay.—Catholic Stand ard and Times. The Lesser Evil. “I don’t see why you asked Mr. Bohr to sing,” said the popular girl’s sister “I hated to do it,” was the reply, “but It was the only way to make him stop talking.” SIMPLE REMEDY FOR CATARRH Just Breathe Hyomei Four Times a Day and Be Cured. If a few years ago someone had said you can cure catarrh by breathing air charged with a healing balsam, the idea would have been ridiculed, and it remained for that eminent investigator, R. T. Booth, to discover in Hyomei this method of cure. Hyomei has preformed almost miraculous cures of catarrh, and is today recognized by leading members of the medical profession as the only advertised remedy that can be relied upon to do just what it claims. The complete outfit of Hyomei costs SI.OO, and consists of an inhaler, a medicine dropper, and a bottle of Hyomei. Breathe Hyomei through the infer a few minutes four times a day, and it will cure the worst case of catarrh. It soothes and heals the mucuos membrane of the air passages prevents irritation and effects a complete and lasting cure. In Decatur there are scores of well known people who have been cured of catarrh by Hyomei. If it does not cure you, The Holthouse Drug Co. will return the money you pay for This is the strongest evidence the can be offered as to their faith in the remedy.

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Opportunities in California The trade in the Orient is opening up. Our exports to Japan and China multiplied during the last year. There will soon be a tremendous increase in the trade of the Pacific Coast cities with the Far East. Big opportunities for the man who lives there. Why not look the field over? Only $62.50, Chicago to San Francisco or Los Angeles and return, May i, 2,3, 9, 10, 11, 12,13, 2 9’ 3°> 3b June 1, August 6,7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, and 14, 1905. Tickets good for return for 90 days. Rate for a double berth in a comfortable tourist sleeper from Chicago to San Francisco, Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, and many other points in California,only $7. Through train service from Union Passenger Station, Chicago, via the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul, Union Pacific and Southern Pacific Line This is the route of The Overland Limited, leaving Union Passenger Station, Chicago, 6.05 p. m., and The California xpress at 10.25 P- rn. The California Express carries tourist sleeping cars to California every day. Both trains carry through standard sleepers. Complete information sent free on receipt of coupon with blank lines filled. Name W. S. HOWELL, c , . Gent Eastern Agent, 381 Broadway, Street addreSS_ HEW YORK CITY, £ »r City__ • State ~~" F. A. MILLER, General Passenger Agent, Probable destination " CHICAGO. CALIFORNIA ——'

DO WE TALK TOO MUCH? A Plea For Enough Silence to Enable Is to Think. In the United States we are prone to talk too much We do not sufficiently appreciate the value and beauty of silence. During the after business hours, at the lunch and dinner table we talk on and on without ceasing, as though there was nothing worth thinking about. We invented the first talking machine, and no American '« consid ered properly equipped unletq he can talk at all times and upon all subjects. Information must be Imparted and Ideas exchanged; it is essential to mental companionship and develops our faculties of expression. But there is no necessity for the endless and eternal talk in which so many of us Indulge. There is a great force and value in silence. It enables us to think. It forms and expresses character. The great men of the world were relatively silent men; they talked only when they bad something to say, and the greatest of them said but very little. We should study the beauty of silence and develop our thinking power rather than our talking power.—Chicago Journal. A Famous Beauty. Mme. de Remusat had features so perfect that her contemporaries said she was worthy to sit as a model fol a Greek goddess. The flesh of het face closely resembled alabaster, and vet she was not pale and did not gi'e the impression of being In delicate health. Her beauty attracted universal attention to her, no matter where she went, and even in old age she retained most of her good looks. Simpler. Simpler—They are going to be married? Why. I didn't know they were engaged. Smarter —Weil, you sec. there are so many engagements broken nowadays that they thought they wouldn’t get * engaged—just simply married.London Answers.

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