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WHY CHILDREN ARE SPANKED

How the Settler Prepared the Young Ones for Christmas. ‘On the morning-of the day before “Christmas [ dismounted at the door of & North Dakota cabin to inquire the whereabouts of & man living in that neighborhood, and the sounds from ‘within told me that one of the childyen was *peing spanked. When the ”a; had been concluded the set“Shatea . -Hedy ¥ wle 03 Caniy. !

Sheltered within the hollow of her arm The Son of Man lay sleeping. On her ° . cheek : She felt his warm breath stirring, like -the faint ‘ And fragrant ktreeze that fans the silver leaves - 4 Upon the slopes of Olivet. Her eyes, Still shadowed with the pains of motherhood, | Dwelt tenderly upon the placid brow And cherub features of the infant Christ, L The babe in swaddling clothes, whose destiny ' Led to Golgotha’s summit, where the Cross Was yet to groan beneath the sacred weight | Of his perfected manhood. All the cave Was luminous with starbeams, and her - face, ' ) . Like some pale lily, drooping on its stem, ) ) And washed: with heaven’s dews, gleamed pearly white - S In that strange radiance. Somewhat apart ‘ And leaning on his staff, the carpenter, Joseph of Nazareth, musing, stood: ' . “Lord, who am 1?” he marveled in his soul, g “That thou shouldst deign from -thy exalted place ' To cast thine eyes upon me and to say ‘Behold! he shall be warden to this pearl, ' This pearl of perfect womanhod, more pure Than any of the daughters of mankind . From the beginning of the world and down Through all the ages that are yet to dawn! Lo! shelter she shall find, and sustenance And one round arm encircled the fair child As if the newly-awakened mother love Lay listless, with transparent fingers curved As though she clasped some blossom in her sleep— Some rare, sweet flower she was fain to keep And cherish always. Joseph took the hand ' And held it in his rough, toil-hardened palm, | Wondering at its softness, the blue veins ‘ That threaded all its whiteness, and the bloom That made a_sea-shell of each fingertip. But he forebore, though sore his heart did yearn, 4 To clasp the little sleeping new-born babe : - Whose golden head lay pillowed on her arm, » | Thinking: “It were not well for her or him ‘ That he should waken suddenly.” A~ sigh Heaved the soft breast of Mary, and her eyes, . Like heavenly blue flowers, opened wide, Meeting the gaze of Joseph, as he knelt In reverent adoration. Her low tones Thrilled like aeolian strains; her tender smile Flooded his soul like sunshine as she spoke: _ o “Joseph, my husband, | have dreamed a dream! 3 - The Angel of the Lord hath been again, . ' Saying: ‘Behold! that which thou hast brought forth : This night 1s the Redeemer of the - World— ; Even Messiah!’” But a grave voice cried i k As she ceased speaking: “Peace to all within!” 7 And, 10, there stood upon the threshold one Who bore much gold and frankincense and myrrh - In his two hands. And Joseph answered: “Sir, Peace be unto thee, now and evermore!” And, 10, there came ?wo others bear- _ ing gold i, And precious spices, who ‘likewise did say, “Peace and good willl!” And Joseph made reply: : “peace unto thee and thine forevermore!” . ; Then spake the foremost stranger: “Where is he, = : , Born King of Jews this night in Beth fehem? : £ .

tler opened the door and invited me in. I saw nine children standing up in a row, and the tenth one sitting down on the other side of the room. The man thought some explanation should be made, and he said: ' “It’s the way I do every Christmas time, and I had just begun when you rode up, Can you wait till .I have spanked the other nine?” - _“Of course, but may I ask why you

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Three kings are we that come to worship him, : For we have seen his star In the Far East Beyond the deserts. We have journeyed far, ‘ ; Star-led, and, 10, It standeth o’er this roof, A sign celestial!” Then each laid .aside His mantle ‘and hls sandals, bowing low : Before the mother and the holy child, Crying: “All hail, Redeemer of the " World!- : S King of the Jews, all hail!” and they ~did break Boxes of precious ointments, and the ailr Was heavy with the perfume of rare gums ‘ And costly spices, cinnamon and myrrh, And sandalwood and cedar, and the scents " Distilled from blooms in gardens of the East, . And ambergris and frankincense and . .nard, . : And they laid down their offerings of price, Soft yéllow bars and bags of shining dust, All intermixed with amethysts. and pearls [ And carbuncles and diamonds and the pale Lack-luster topaz. - And the foremost guest ‘ Unclasped the heavy chain of beaten gold ) That hung about his swarthy throat .and showed ¥ Its curious pendant, fashioned In strange wise , 4 And hammered f;om a hugget, soft and pure, { For uncouth semblance to a rugged cross, Speaking in awed, low tones of prophecy: “A voice cried in the desert wastes, ‘Arise! | Take of pure gold a nugget large and bright _ And hammer it into a massive cross Such as the common criminal, condemned To die, yields up his shrinking spirit on, And hang it to the chain about thy neck, And when thou comest to the journey’s end Lay it within the mother’s hand, that she . May read therein a sign.” Lo, | have done According to the word!” And Mary’s eyes : » Grew wide with terror, as her fingers closed About the gleaming symbol, for she saw, S As in a dream, three crosses on.a hill, And, nailed between two thieves of ’ aspect vile, Upon the middle cross, a tortured form That moved her strangely with a sense of loss And woe unutterable, for multitudes Surged round the sufferer and scoffed ~at him, Crying, in. mocking tones: “Hall, King of Jews!” But he that hung cast downward pitying eyes, Full of meek pardon and of tender Tove, , Gasping: “Forglve them, Father! Oh, forgive 2 : Thy children, for they know not what they do!” _ And in those dylng orbs.compassionate She saw a semblance of the holy light That shone within the eyes of her fair babe, , : And moaned: “Take it away—the cross of gold! : . | shudder at the phantasies it brings!” At which the strangers out of the Far ~ East : Arose and gave their blessing to the child : | And passed into the night. And Mary slept ' The sleep of sweet forgetfulness, while he : ; : Who stood in place of father to the ‘ babe ' : . Watched the sweet pair until the morn awoke . The songbirds in the clustering olive trees ‘ And tinged with light the roofs of * Bethlehem. : ! LILITA LEVER.

do it? They look to me to be nice, well-behaved children.” “They are as good children as you will find in the state, isir; but the spanking must go on.” “Yes, the spanking must go on,” added the wife., I couldn’t say any more, of course, and I went out to the gate and waited. The nine were called up one after another and put through the machine, and then the man, who was breathing hard from his exertions, joined me at the gate and said: = 8

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“There, the last one of “em ihas been licked, and now I'll show\you where Brown lives.” - . “Thanks, but would you take it amiss if I asked what your ten childfen had done to deserve punishment?” “You may ask, sir, and I will explain,” he. replied. “They hadn’t done nothing. I was licking 'em so they wouldn’t expect any Christmas presents in their stockings to-night!” All 'life is -music if we but touch the notes rightly and {a time.—Rus ] if & 3 SR F §it W

DIET AND HEALTH By DR. J. T. ALLEN ‘ Food Specialist _° ' Aprposss = het Kot Go."pelEo_:: flealtb. =

'.' (Copyright, by Joseph B. Bowles.) SIXTY DAYS ON PEANUTS AND LEMONADE.

On October 18, 1907, I began an exclusive. diet of peanuts and lemonade and subsisted on that alone for 60 days. What did you do it for? Do you still live on peanuts? How should peanuts be taken? Have you changed your mind about their food value? These are some of the questions that I am frequently asked. Such was the novelty of my experiment, which was undertaken as a scientific demonstration, that the average person refused to consider it seriously. The newspapers treated it iargely as a joke—except that many of them reported toward the end of the time that I had died—a result which many were expecting. For several years I had been testing the relative values of foods by living for a time on one alone and recording the results. Incidentally I had reached the conclusion, for reasons which I shall give in a later article, that cereal starch is the only element of vegetable food improved by cooking and that cereal starch is unnecessary in our diet, and frequently: injurious, particularly in the case of infants and children. I had found that cooking injures the most important element of food, albumen, from which the cells of brain and brawn are built, and precipitates, to a large extent, the mineral elements, sulphur, phosphorus, magnesia, potash, ete., so essential to vigorous, healthy life, so that they cannot be absorbed into the blood. I had come to believe also after much investigation that fruit should form a large part of our diet, and I had been prescribing in certain cases a diet of uncooked peanuts and gluten, uncooked, in small quantities. with fruits, eaten separately, aqd had seen remarkable improvement in some .cases.

One day it was: reported in an Aurora (I1l.) paper (I lived in Aurora) that &4 girl had died from eating peanuts and at the same time the chairman of the local board of health -attributed a case of poisoning to eating peanut candy.

To prevent an undesirable counter suggestion on the minds of those who were eatfng peanuts by my advice, more than to defend my own theories, I stated my view of these cases, calling attention to the great difference between cooked and uncooked peanuts, and to show the firmness of my belief in the correctness of my conclusions, I said that T would be willing to live for 60 days on uncooked peanuts and have the results carefully recorded daily by the board of health, and give my body for dissection and analysis, if I failed to survive the experiment. a

I had lived for several days on peanuts, on apples, on prunes, on starch, on nothing, and I knew that by fasting for a few days, when the indications required it, I should have no difficulty in performing the feat. But my friends begged me to desist, urging that I was losing my professional dignity and many of them accused me of insanity, which I was, they said, deliberately fostering by this strange freak! I had studied on my theories of feeding till I was half gone and now I was going to finish the job! The outcome, however, fully justifled the confidence with which the experiment was undertaken. I lost 17 pounds in weight but continued my usual work throughout the ' entire period, and in fact did a greatly increased amount of mental labor, necessitated by the increase in my correspondence, interviews, etc., and on the evening of the sixtieth day I gave an address in the G. A. R. hall of Aurora. on diet and morality, speaking for three-quarters of an hour, and followed that with a 20-minute talk to an audience at the Coliseum on the relation of diet to strenuous endurg,nce. ;

Of course the peanut is not a complete diet and to keep in good condition I fasted at intervals throughout the 60 days a total of about eight days. Probably the extension of the experiment to 120 days would not have reduced my weight to the point of physical collapse. My height is b feet 11% inches and my weight when I began was 165 pounds.

We live by what we eat; and the character of our living depends upon the kind of food we eat and the way we eat it. “You can make a man good or bad,” says Bishop Fallows, ‘“according to the way you feed him.” ‘“The building of braincell and mindstuff,” says Dr. Alexander Haig, the distinguished English authority on diet, “lies at the root of all the problems of life.”

The mind is the measure of t{le man; what a man thinks he becomes. But the mind manifests through the physical, and the character of the physical determines the character of the mental as certainly as the mental influences the physical. The body is the expression of the mind, much as a building is the expression of the thought‘sot'the architect who designed it. And you can no more build a sound, beautiful, enduring body without good food than an architect can build a beautiful temple without steel and marble. ;

. “A crook in the mind makes a crook in the body.” You cannot meet a stranger without forming some impression of what he is. You unconsciously recognize in. physical form and quality of body the character of .the man; and the trained physiog-

nomist, phrenologist and physiologist will undertake to read your character, pretty accurately, from its bodily expression. Now that body is material and the material is food. The Eskimo is built of blubber, the Scot of oatmeal, the Japanese of rice and beans. But the Eskimo could not become a Scot by eating oatmeal and barley meal for a thousand years. Food is only the material; the mind is the measure of the man. The Scot who has given us so much theology, metaphysics and science is the product, primarily of the mental stimulation of “Land of brown heath and shaggy ‘wood, Land of the mountain and the flood.” So when we say that you are what you eat, we do not ignore the fundamental importance of the mind. It is still true that as a man thinketh so is he—and that as a man eateth so he thinketh. We have heard so much lately of the influence of the mind upon ‘the body, that it is perhaps time that the pendulum of thought should again swing to the other side, the influence of the body upon tha mind, and in time we may arrive al the happy medium where truth lies, the knowledge of the = inter-relation the essential unity of, body and mind, the menta-physical constitution. Scientific authorities agree that vitality is a fixed quantity—that each individual is born with a certain store of vital force, and that when the stock is exhausted he dies. Vitality is expended in work, in restoring normal conditions when sickness occurs, ia defense against disease, and in carrying on the normal functions of converting food into blood, throwing off waste and poisonous matter. There is no means of estimating the extent of any of these expenditures, but we know that the energy spent in digesting and eliminating foed is eonsiderable. We know that it 48 impossible to do one’s best work after a heavy meal. : !

Now if a large per cent. 2f the energy ordinarily expended in digestion, including elimination, can be saved .without loss of nutrition, a gain in working capacity, in good feeiing, in length of life, must result. The practice of a simple diet shows remarkable gains in these respects. The severe mental work done and the mental strain sustained during the period of my one-sided peanut diet, indicates that the average person over-eats and eats too many kinds of food. . The first/ effect of sickness is loss of appetitey Nature then uses the vitality commonly used for digestion to repair’the defect, to restore normal health conditions. Here is indicated the natural cure. We know what elements different foods contain and what the body needs; and upoa this knowledge is based a simple, radical cure of the one fundamental disease, defective nutrition of which all “diseases” are but symptoms. This is the cure which the eminent Dr. Haig has said he has been “convinced by experience and experiment has lain" all the time at our doors while we have been using drugs as palliatives.” :

Some important facts were developed in contribution %o this science of radical cure by the peanut experiment.

Hundreds of letters were received during the test from people who but for an accidental discovery of the peanut diet, “would have been weafing a wooden overcoat,” while other§ asked “how to eat peanuts to avoid their bad effects”—which suggests the important fact that all foods are, under certain circumstances, poisonous, and the more concentrated, obviously, the more virulent when misused.

With a decrease in the daily food supply comes an increase in strength with loss of -weight. The vitality ordinarily expended in converting food into blood and eliminating the waste, often excessive, can be used in extraordinary mental work or in cure, even of deep-seated chronic disease. The fact that appetite is always lost immediately on the advent of sickness or mental derangement—violent fear, anger, joy, etc.—indicates that upon the regulation of diet, which implies fasting as well as dieting, must be based the true scientific cure of the one fundamental disease, mal-nutri tion, understanding that the term “nutrition” in its widest sense iucludes normal supply of air, water, sunlight, food, exercise, and right mental conditions. ;

Morocco’s Ruler Kept Busy.

. Mulai Hafid, the new sultan of Murocco, is a busy man. He rises with the sun, and, save for a short siesta, seems never to have any leisure time at all. He makes a point of attending personally to all state business, holds reviews of his troops frequently, recelves deputations from all parts of the country, listens almost daily to translations of long extracts from the European newspapers and wetes out rewards and punishments. He receives many presents. A Fez correspondent tells how the other day gifts in the shape of sacks of gold, bales of silk, spices and 'jewelry poured in through the palace gates and the sultan recelved the value of something like $125,000 in the course of this one morning’s reception. ‘Among the offerings was a splendid ruby ring, which seemed to take the royal fancy, for he forthwith put it on his finger and wore it during the remainder of the day. - -

Oregon Mushroom Breaks Record. W. B. Steele, who lives at East For-ty-first and Ivon streets, near the end of the Richmond car line, brought to the Oregonian recently a mushroom which he declares holds the record for gize in this particular variety of fungi. It is 14 inches tall and the cap is a trifle over 9 inches in diameter and 28 inches in circumference. Instead of one night, it required fout and an equal number of days for this mushroom to develop. It grew in the garden of the Steele home. Mrs, Steele says he calls it Taft becauseo it is so big and strong and so much superior to all.—Portland Oregonian.

Every Man a Debtor to His Profession. I hold every man a debtor to his profession; from the which as men of course do seek to receive countenance and profit, so ought they of duty. to endeavor themselves, by way of amends, to be a help and ornamest thereunto —Bacon. :

‘ar . , “UNCLE N. D.” ANNOUNCES COMING ,RETIREMENT. . Veteran Congressman and Friend of Lincoln, 82 Years Old, Has Had Enough of Public Life—Staked Fortune on Monitor. New Haven, Corn.—Uncle Nehemi;ah D. Sperry, dean of congress, has | served notice on his constituents that ihe will never run for office again. At | the close of the term to which he has- | just been elected he will retire from §public life, he says. - The passing of ! “N. D.,” as everybody kanows him, will | remove one of the few remaining close . friends and one of a mere handful of ;the New England advisers of Abra,ham Lincoln. Sperry was with Lini coln at the founding of the Republican | party, and he has since always stood [ high in its councils. : <~ i When “Uncle N. D.” takes his seat | in congress he will be 82 years of age, !several’years older than any other ;congressman chosen at the last elec“tion. He will, therefore, be 84 years lold at the expiration of his present | term, but he feels that he has several | years left of aggressive activity. - } He is careful to sign his initials “N. | D.” His political rivals used to say [ that the letters stood for “Nothing Do- | sng.” He admits that. such may be | their meaning, but he amends the sug- | gestion by adding: “for the other fel- | low who runs.” His fiiends say that ' the letters mean “Never Defeated,” and his record of §5 years.in public life bears out his claira to the title. “Uncle Nehemiah” never lost an elec- | tion. > @

Trudging into New Haven from Woodbridge, a barefooted = farmer’s boy, with his belongings tied up in a bandana handkerchief, he did chorgs for his board till he learned the trade of mason. He soon becanie one of the most extensive mason contracters

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in New Haven, and the firm of which Le is the head has built many of the most expensive Yale buildings. From the time when, as a Yale man of 26, Sperry entered politics and was elect: ed selectman, councilman and finally alderman of New Haven, he has been constantly in public life. In 1855 he was secretary of state for Connecticut. In that year he bolted the American party at its famous convention be cause he felt it was not right on the slavery question. In 1856 he was a delegate to the first Republican con: vention. In 1861 Lincoln appeinted him postmaster of New Haven, and he retained that office till President Cleveland removed him in 1885. Four years later President Harrison reappointed him, but he was retired again in 1893 by _ Cleveland. He entered congress in 1895 from the Second Connecticut district, and he has been re-elected seven times. “N. D.” is called the father of the rural free delivery system and is an expert on post offices and post roads. For several sessions he . has been chairman of the committee on the liquor traffic. The greatest sacrifice “Uncle N. D.” made for his country was to pledge his entire personal fortune in the civil war to guarantee the building of the Monitor. The national naval board refused to authorize the boat’s construction unless a bond of $300,000 was given, not only for the boat’s construction as specified, but also for the guarantee that it would whtp') the Merrimac. Dafel Drew of New York said that he “would sign a bond pledging that amount if Sperry would also do so. Sperry and Drew attached their signatures, and all day .on the fateful Sunday while the battle in Hampton roads was raging Sperry, with his friend, Cornelius S. Bushnell’ of New Haven, who backed Ericsson in the building of the boat, waited in the telegraph office in New Haven to learn the outcome of the fight. Finally the news of the Merrimac's defeat came over the wire, and Bushnell’s hand came down over Sperry’s broad back with a hearty “Sperry, your bond is safe.” : -

" Hluminated Projectiles. " The French navy has recently begun experiments with -the luminous shells employed for a year past «in America. These shells have a hollow in the rear end containing fireworks powder, which is inflamed as the shell quits the gun, and leaves a luminous trail in the air, enabling the gunner at night to follow the course of his projectile, and determine whether or not it reaches its object. Without some device of this kind it is very difficult in firing over the sea in the darkness to ascertain. whether the range is too long or too short. In the daytime a jet of water where the shell falls tells the story.a.

Concrete Boats for the Mississippi.

An engineering company in Kansas City has been testing concrete as a material for the hulls of vessels.. The results have been encouraging, and the idea of the company is to construct concrete river boats for navigation on the Mississippi and Missouri rivers.

NEGRO SPECTATOR ENJOYS CONTEST BUT FAILS IN EFFORT TO STOP CONTEST. New Orleans.—When Mike Eppson, a negro shoeblack, who has no legs, got tired of being chaffed by Henry Elkins, who has only two wooden legs, he told Elkins so and said that if Elkins did not let him alone and go about his business he would show him a thing or two, pugilistically speaking. ; . “You can’t,” said Elkins. “You ain’t got any legs.” . Witnesses of the fight, which immediately began, said that it beat any fight they had ever seen between men with the usual allotment of legs. It

was a whirlwind of activity from start to finish, and in a short time

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