Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 February 1918 — The Iron Age. [ARTICLE]

The Iron Age.

The best Informed sources give the period from 2000 to 2500 B. C. as marking the transition from bronze to iron, declares the Christian Herald. Pref, J. B. Wilson, in a recent article In the Princeton theological Review, presents pretty nearly all of the available evidence on the subject. The “iron age” seems to have begun earliest in Asia Minor, where Iron was used for various purposes as early as 2500 B. C. The people of NlppuV used Iron knives and arrowheads as early as 2000 B. C,

and Iron is claimed to have'been 1 in use In Babylon five centuries earlier. India is know* to have had iron in abup-„ dance in 1500 B. C, and the Chinese “Annals” mention it as having been in use there in 2940 B. G, or nearly 5,000 years-ago.

vegetable or fresh raw animal food and fat are the staple, a nowhere food and drink are unstimulating, fresh 41 nd cool —that Is, not far above blood heat, without toxic matter, says a medical authority. In all countries the highest comparative rates are In population* accustomed to alcohol, tea, or coffee In large quantities, or to excess of' food dbndiments or other irritants. Large increases have been noted corresponding to the increased amount of unnatural or Inflammatory food* eaten or toxic liquids drunk.