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DAKOTA COUNTY HERALD: DAKOTA CITY. NEBRASKA. AMERICAN WOMAN VISITS QUEER CORNERS OF WORLD; SEES CONTINENT ON MULE Mrs. Harriet Chalmers Adams Cries When Mere Boy Goes to Bat tlo in tho Philippines During the Trip She Learns That Head Hunting Is Practically at an End In Ecuador. New York. Mrs. Harriot Chalmers Adams returned recently from a hasty survey of tho odd corners of tho world. Sho saw whlto raJahB, head hunters, tigers, pythons and all tho picturesque Horns of Ufo on tho othor side of tho globe. And being blessed with the consistent Inconsistency of a charming woman sho was most Im pressed by an American boy Just a kid of twenty-two or thereabouts the sort of youngster you can see on ev ery corner. "Ho was an officer of the Philippine constabulary," said Mrs. Adams, "In charge of a district In Jolo occupied by an unsubdued and piratical tribe of Moras. Wo approachod DagBak by boat" (Note: That namo sounds all right and looks all right, but It Isn't guaranteed) "ond as our steamer drew up to tho wharf we could hear tho rlflos popping In tho town. Wo know that a war had broken out" Cries for Young Officer. Anything may happen, and usually does, In Moroland. Tho Inhabitants are very handy with all sorts of weap ons, and havo no weak antipathy to blood. But tho twonty-two-year-old officer, In command of his ltttlo squad, six or eight saddle colored constables, hopped cheerily to tho pier, and waved his handkerchief In farewell, and then said: "H'rup." So that tho forlorn little bundle of brown men, their narrow shoulders bracing In imitation of tho soldiery swing of the white man ahead, trotted toward that small hell which was boil ing ovor in Bagsak. Tho boat squat tered and groaned away from tho pier Mrs. Adams wont to hor tiny cabin to havo her cry. There didn't seem a chance for that cheerful youngster over to get out allvo, and tho sacrifice seemed such a useless ono. She met him later, though. He had diplomatic ally bumped a few Sulu heads together. 80 thoy gavo him a feast, and aro likely waiting for tho chanco to stick him In the back. After all, ho was just a typical offi cer of constabulary, Mrs. Adams adds. Those youngsters they range in ago from twenty-two to thirty-two aro do ing that sort of thing all tho time, so that poaco has very largely fallen upon tho Philippines. She found Igorrotos wearing wildcat sklnB about tholr shoulders working out their road taxes. Thank tho constables for that Irony. An almost equally valuable Philippine asset Is the force of modi cal missionaries. "Salvation," says Mrs. Adams, "fol lows sanitation. Tho missionaries carry a Bible In one hand, but lu tho othor they have bottles of castor oil for the Interior, and coal oil for tho surface of tholr brown friends." With her husband, F. P. Adams, of the Pan-Amerloan organization In Washington, Mrs. Adams has crossed South America on muloback, lived for months where no whlto woman has ever been soen before, and had adven tures that would make a lifetime's talk for tho average sportsman. This be ing considered, It Is of a cortaln Im portance that she Is a very pretty wo man. On this year's trip she visited Rajah Brooko In Borneo, tho third "whlto rajah of his line and tho only ono left in the world. Ho lives In regal state, unbothored by telephones, In his jjrovlnoo of Sarawak. It adds a pictoresquo modern touch to learn that ho married into a flourishing Eng lish biscuit business. English Women Wonderful. "Thoso wonderful English womon In Borneo," said Mrs. AdamB In admira tion. "Thoy are tho finest frontier wo men In tho world. Whoro tholr teapot is is home. Thoy were preparing to go hundreds of miles by boat to the WIDOWED BY K ' -dBsiiiiiiiW pt,&&5f'5,' ksr biHbHbbWf x Mrs. Eugene M. Nowman (right), the eighteen-year-old daughter of Wil liam W. Cleary, town dork of Havorstraw, N. Y., who was widowed by hor father when he killed hor husband of six dayB. Eugene Newman (left) called on his fathor-In-law to tell him of tho secret wedding and ask forgive ness, when ho was shot and killed. GOLD MINE UNDER HIS FEET Alaska Miner Finds He Had Lived Over Golden Riches for Nine Years. Fairbanks, Alaska. Georgo Sharp, a, miner of Pedro creek, lived over a fortuno over nine years before ho know that the fortuno existed. Sharp, when ho first came to the Fairbanks district, located a claim on tho right UwUt of Pedro crook opposite No. 3, races at Josselton the groat event of the year. Not ono complained of con ditions. Thoy did oxchango fellclU tlons upon tho past season. " 'Hardly any pythons,' they said to each other, 'have como out of tho Jun glo this year.'" In Ecuador she Uarnod that head hunting Is at an ond, excopt when rop rosontatlves of museums encourage tho savago or nonsalt eating natives to acquire a strangor'e head and then reduce It to tho size of on apple by a secret process of tholr own. In Para guay she found tho vanished Arcadia. 'Tears ago tho Jesuits were expelled from ono district," said she, "but tho natives thoy taught aro still Industri ous and well behavod. Their pro flcioncy in some arts Is remarkable Thoy were savages when the Jesuits come to them." At Macao sho vlsltod tho Monto Carlo of tho East a magnificent town of gamblers, whoro no play Is too high. Through an open archway one may en ter old China. On the Haltl-Domlnl-can border she had the one experlenco that occurred to hor as an advantage. Thoy wore sleeping in the house of Captain Boalo of tho Unltod States customs forco. At midnight thoy heard a rustlo In the walls. Bealo was called. "Just a tarantula," said ho. "Prob ably tho inato of tho ono I killed this morning." Sometimes people dlo from the bite of a tarantula. No one ever forms tho. Filipino Constabulary. tarantula habit. In Harbin, Manchuria, It was oxtromely cold at tho time of her visit. Sho remarked upon the heavy and valuablo fur coats the pub lic coachmen wear. "Almost every night," a police officer told her, "some- coachman Is shot for his skins." Which is a bright light upon condi tions in Harbin. Sho admired tho tigers and Elephants of tho sultan of Jahoro and tho Jingling stnto In which ho llvos. But nothing elso on her tour appealed to hor as do thoso beardless college boys who aro carrying law to the Philippines. "Thoy are something between mag istrates and crusadora. Their days aro epics. And wo never hear of thom." Grasshoppers Invade Movies. Cincinnati, O. Several hundred men, womon and children stampedod from a moving ploturo airdrome when a Bwarm of grasshoppers took pos session. FATHER'S GRIME and prospected for gold on the claim at different timos ever since. Ho spent most of bis time searching for tho yellow stuff on his other hold ings, apparently noglectful of tho pos sibilities right under tho floor of his cabin, A fow weeks ago Sharp sank a Bhaft near his cabin, got somo pros poets and then tunneled on bed rook for ten foot or so. Ho encountered coarse gold, some fair sized nuggets being Included In the dust obtained after ululclng a small dump, CURRENT ON BALKY HORSE Recorder Dismisses Cruelty Charge at He Sees Battery Work In Court Room, Philadelphia. For using a small olectrlc battery to accelorato a balkj horso, Walter Lonhart of 2301 Soutt Sixty-seventh stroot, Philadelphia, and Walter Lonhart, seventeen years old, of Merchantvlllo, wero arralgnod In tho Camden police court on a charge of cruolty to animals. Ell Vanmoto of 1613 William street, Philadelphia, testlflod that ho saw tho horse balk in tho vicinity of Front and Vino streets, A gentlo tap of tho whip or urging with tho linos had no effeot on th beast, ho said, but now and then th horso would suddenly leap almost out of tho harness. Ho saw something that looked llko wire, and learned that electricity was being used to start th balky horse. The Lonharts demonstrated in th court room that tho battery was only strong enough to startlo the horso and not injuro it Recorder Stackhous could see no harm in the battery, hav ing ofton himself used oloctricity, but not for tho same purpose, and ho dis missed tho caso. FOUR BABIES WEIGH V4 TON Fat Family of Youngsters In Brooklyn Has a Record In Weight; Parents Are Thin. New York. Four babies total weight, 605 pounds; combined ages, eleven years wandered starving Into the Adams street police- station, Brooklyn, recently. They wero chap- eronod by their parents, tall, thin, sad-looking persons. The mother car- . ried an enormous bundle in her arms, which later proved to bo a mite of a child, six months old and weighing only 63 pounds. Tho othor throe youngsters followed a five-year-old child, tipping the beam at 187 pounds; a throo and one- half-year-old toddler of 173 pounds nnd a more babe of two years, weigh ing 82 pounds. Sergeant McCormlck noarly foil off hla chair. Tho tall, tired man announced that ho was Marshall Tanner. "This is my wife, Mary," ho said, adding with a sweep of his arm, "and this Is tho fat family." Tho woman woarily shifted the bundle in her nrms and sought to havo tho sergeant test its weight, but ho dodged skillfully. Sho uncovered tho baby, saying its name woa Doris and that, although sho only weighed 63 pounds now, sho had every reason to bellevo their daughter would grow up to bo a healthy woman. "Food! food!" exclaimed tho man. "Wo are hungry. Wo woro with a clrcuB In Chlcopeo, MaBB., and woro known as 'The Fat Family,' but tho circus wont broke and owed us $100. Wo had Just enough money to got to New York and wo came. Horo wo are, now. We havo no engagement, no money, no food, and no place to sloop. Not having food Is a serious matter. The children aro fond of eat ing." Tho police sont the tall, thin man and woman and tho four very fat youngstors to 44 Lawrence street for tho night "KING WOULD BE LOAFER" Kler Hardle, tho Labor Leador, De clares George V Destitute of Ordinary Ability. London. It was scarcely to be ex pected that Kier Hardlo would koep silent at this Juncture, nnd in tho cur rent issue of tho Labor Leader he Joins In tho attack on the king, and says: "Tho king casts In his lot with reac tionary peers and rebellious Ulster men. Ho Joins his Influence with the foroes which are working against and seeking to destroy tho commons and tho constitutional fonnB of parliamen tary government. Oeorgo Is not a statement. Ho Is not tho pleasure loving scapegoat his fathor was before him, but llko his father ho is destitute of oven ordinary ability. "If ho had been born In the ranks of the working class, most likely his fato would have been that of tho street corner loafer; and this is tho man who Is being made a tool of by tho re actionary olassos to break tho power of democracy and woakon and finally dostroy the power of parliament" Return Captured Plao. Verona, N. J. A Confederate flag captured by his brothor, William J. Johnson, In the Civil war, has been sont by Judge John L. Johnson to Governor Mann of Virginia to bti turned over to tho nearest kin of Gen. Uobert E, Lee. Pearls In Flounders. Stonlngton, Conn. Many Binall pearls havo boen found In floundora caught in the bay horo Joweteru pro nounced them valuablo. IRE GOIORT IN SILL HOUSE Architects Have Learned How to Make the Best Use of Allotted Space. PLACING DOORS AND WINDOWS Only Recently Have Matters Such as This, Which Really Are of Great Importance, Been Qlven the At tention They Deserve For Elghteen-Room Home. By WILLIAM A. RADFORD. Mr. William A. Radford will nniwer questions and givo aJvIca FREE OF COST on all subjects pertaining to the subject of building, for the readers of this paper. On account of his wide experience as Editor, Author and Manufacturer, he Is, without doubt, the highest authority on all these subjects. Address all Inquiries to William A. Kadford, No. 1827 Prairie avenue, Chicago, III., and only enclose two-cent stamp for reply. Houses today, In general, are not so largo as they usod to bo, when meas ured by slzo alono. Tho increasing cost of lumber, labor, and other build ing Items of expense have induced many economies; but Inventive archi tects havo mado better uso of the smaller spaco, so that an eight-room modorn house contains a great deal more convenience than an eiKht-room house built twenty years ago, although tho outsldo dimensions of tho older house may be very much tho larger. Twenty years' study In this direction has resulted In many improvements, both in design and by tho way of add ing a multitude of small conveniences. Formerly llttlo attention was paid to tho spacing of doors and windows In order to admit of placing the furnl turo conveniently or artistically. Only of late has the possibility of a small houso for comfort and convenience been recognized. It requires a spaco at least 4 1-2 by 6 feet to accommo I date a good-sized, comfortable bed; I and this space should not be inter forod with by placing windows or I doors In tho way. Tho advancing price I of coal Is another strong argument I for a small houso. It Is easy to be comfortable In the winter In a few well-arranged rooms, with a small fur naco under thom that will easily con sumo six or seven tons of coal; and It Is quite possible to be veruncom Portable in tho winter In a large house with a big furnaco that will eat up fifteen or twenty tons. I havo had experience in both directions, and I very much prefer the smaller houso with Its reduced oxpense and lighter care. Tho curso of this country has boon tho dcslro for show. As soon as a man gets a llttlo money ahead, he wants to demonstrate the fact In some conspicuous manner. Tho first thing he thinks of is a large, showy houso which usually gives him an endless amount of trouble, often worries his wife Into an early grave, and leaves a trail of dissatisfaction and disap pointment. Tho house whoBu layout and ap pearance aro hero illustrated contains First Floor Plan. eight rooms. It Is 27 feet wldo and 34 feet 6 Inches long, exclusive of porches. It has a good collar, Is full two stories In height, and has an at tic. Thore Ib a front and back stair, or, rather, a combination that answers the samo purposo; and tho houso Is arrangod for convenient, satisfactory, and economical heating. The outside entranco to the dining room Is a fea ture that may bo mado vory attract Ivo; and It may bo made to save a great deal of tracking through tho front hall, which, lu this caso, Is de signed for a recoptlon hall and may bo used for a lounging room. Tho op en grato suggests much comfort in this little recoptlon hall. There Is another advantage In build ing a house of this shape, nnd that Is tho case with which It may bo venti lated, ny leaving the door open In tho upper stairwny to tho attic, there la sure to be a current of air passing tin. whlrh will Unmi tlin ntmnanhnrn In Mm lionsn In fni pnnilltlnn Piirn nil" in a houHP IikVic. , nersonnl comfort 1 it lun, pi 1 Tr.nnntif.nt hnnlth nf- ' ..' Tl aMi s'.cre In many ' . iu 1 Uadod with itn - fJ'f' '"'" "? - ?' Vf,T$-w-Tp'r vV''TC'" .4 , Im I 1 ' II H AMUCVI I 111 ACTT"r0i III I w purltloB that persons confined to the houso for many hours at a time aro suro to contract that "tired feeling." For Bomo unaccouutnble reason, tho air that thoy aro breathing Is tho last cnuso thought of. Persons so afflict ed think that thoy havo boon working too hard or lmvo eaten something that did not exactly agree with them; and tho first step Is to doso themselves with medicine. Tho study of naturo is ono of tho most neglected. It will bo hard to convlnco a person who suf fers from soro throat, catarrh, influ enza, or kindred complaints, that tho cause Is probably to a large extent to bo found in tho wretched air that thoy are forcing themselves to breatho; but such Is very often tho caso. I like to boo plenty of windows for this reason, if for no other. Win dows never shut tight; there aro al ways a crack or two where puro air p o I 1 g -oet woo t S. .srp poom 1 If Kor yt ili j 1 1 1 1 1 j I I I Second Floor Plan. may creep in; but where windows art plentiful, thero is an Inducement to open one, even In cold weather, and this Is a greater blessing than sonvs persons realize. In building a house, the subject of ventilation should be very carefully considered. Another point that Is ofton over looked is In selecting a plan which ad mits of placing tho living rooms and bedrooms that are used the most, on, the south side of the house. The hall, stairway, and some othor rooms that aro not used so much may Just as well face tho north. Sunlight Ib a groat purifier. The direct rays of tho sun will kill disease germs, and they are the best disinfectant known. Besides this, bright sunshine Induces cheer- fulness, and a cheerful disposition la a godsend In any house. In this dining room, connection Is mado with tho pantry an arrange ment that somo housokeepers prefer to having a sideboard In the dining room. It provides more room, with an oppor tunity to get behind tho dishes to nrrango them on the shelves. This arrangement Is for utility, while too many sideboards are designed more for looks than convenience. This ar rangement, moreovor, looks all right; and it has tho additional advantage of not occupying any spaco In the room. Twelve by seventeen feet Ib a good slzo and a good shape for a dining room; it admits of a good, long dining table without wasting much room at the sides. A square dining room Is not so easily arranged to advantage. Young Kipling as a Mimic. Tho old postman at Westward Ho, near Bldeford in Devon and tho scene of "Stalky and Company," Is reported in T. P. 's Weekly as telling an Inter esting ancedoto of Iludyard Kipling, dating from tho time when Kipling himself was a boy at school at West ward Ho. "It appears that Beckwlth, tho aquatic expert, enmo to Westward Ho to give an exhibition from tho pier, which was crowded with the usual summer sightseers and a fair sprink ling of boys from the school. After somo evolutions In the water the swimmer commenced a series of div ing performances, and It was after a sensational dive from the top of tho pier that tho spectators were amazed to see a chubby, stocky boy run to tho edge of" tho pier and repeat the dlvo, with all tho mannerisms of the expert.- Inquiry elicited the fact that the boy was named Kipling, and It Ib by this Incident more than any othor that the Bldeford pooplo remomber tho now famous author." "Hoat Lightning" Merely Fr Away, When the distant horizon Is bril liantly illuminated with flashes of light on warm summer evenings old resi dents will explain that It Is caused by "hoat lightning." "Heat lightning" Is really tho reflec tion of ordinary lightning. Afar off thero Is a thunderstorm. Light travels at something more than one hundred and elghty-Blx thousand miles a soc- t ond, while thunder travels slowly through tho air and soon becomes In audible to our eurs. It is this light re flected upon tho cloudB or mist neai tho horizon which we see and call "heat, lightning." Sometimes vivid displays or northern lights, or the nurora borealls, aro erroneously callod "heat lightning." Thero Is, thoroforo, no such thing as "heat lightning," and this should proporly bo callod "distant" llghfc nlng. Neverl Success Is a lady who does not wear I U hobble Bkllt for tho purpose of lea- I senlng her ability to keep ahead of lho pursuers. VJ'VVJ'J'l'J'J'J'JWrn'C'JW.,'J'TJ... M 1- -- ---f ,, V. t W J i a ! Fnodamesital Principles of V V V C C v v V a Health t V V V V II By ALBERT S. GRAY, M. D. V J v (Copyright. 1914. by A. S. Gray) WHEAT FLOUR. Of the protoln substances used for food none Is of moro Importance than those contained In wheat. Next to rlco, It Is today the most largely used grain. The wheat berry is a fruit and not a seed. The actual wheat seed Is the germ or embryo, a kidney-shaped body which Is found at the base of tho ber ry and connected with tho root through the placenta, which Is In ef fect a cord Joining the berry with itB stalk. Botanists distinguish bIx skins on tho wheat berry eplcarp, meso carp, endocarp, eplsperm, tegmen and porlsperm. Wrapped up and thoroughly sealed within these many skins lies the floury kernel, the endosperm, in Inti mate contact with tho inner skin. The endosperm consists of starch gran ules hold In a network of minuto fibers of gluten. This glutinous portion is of great Importance to the baker. bo cause on Its quantity and quality de pends tho "strength" or raising power of the flour. The placenta serves to filter the food which tho plant sucks up from the ground. First the mineral and gluten skeleton is formed and then the berry fattens by extracting out ot the air under action of sunlight the carbon necessary to build up the starches and sugar. A good deal of the matter filtered by tho placenta Is mineral In nature nnd such portions as are not digested remain In tho crease. A grain of wheat Is com posed approximately as follows: Wa ter, 12 per cent; protein, 13 per cent; fat, two per cent; carbohydrates, 71 per cent; mineral salts, two per cent. These mineral salts consist of potas sium, sodium, calcium, magnesium, Iron, phosphorus, sulphur, silicon, chlorine, iodine and manganese. Until recent years the whole berry was broken up and triturated In one operation, and the flour necessarily contained a largo proportion of branny particles, In which cerealln, an active digestive constituent, was present In very sensible proportions. The patent roller process crushes the berry In such a manner as to chip off tho woody skins and flatten the germ. Thus their removal by me chanical means is made easily possi ble. In this way Is removed from the floury starch granules the bulk of the mineral matter and the digesttvo tor ments. This makes a better keeping flour and gives clear, white bread and cakes of fine texture, very attractive to tho eye. Moisture and the diastase cause the catalyzers to work and digest or de compose tho flour. It is In Just this difference between the contents of the whole wheat berry and the flour from which "the staff of life" is made that undoubtedly will bo found tho key to much of our trouble. It Is admitted that neurasthenia "Amerlcanltls," as It Is Jokingly called by the rest of the world Is due to some typo rvf "mal nutrition," meaning, ln,jlain English, starvation a lack of balance between tho energy expended and that devel oped. How much of this is duo to our devitalized food Hunt reports in bul letin 69, hyglenleilaboratory, Urlted States treasury department: "In ex treme cases mice after having been fed upon certain diets recovered from forty times the dose of acetonltrile fatal to mloo kept on other diets. It Is, moreover, possible to alter tho re sistance of thOBO animals at will, and to overcome the effects of one diet by combining it with another" the point ho was working to establish being that unnatural diets lower resistance and restoring tho diet balance raises re sistance. We do not know much about diges tion; wo do not know much about the "cause of many diseases cancer, for Instance. Cancer Is on a steady In crease and no man has yet been able to demonstrate the cause; but when tho cause Is located It will, undoubted ly, prove to bo closely related to some slight form of starvation, as is our other scourge tuberculosis. Tho future field of medlclno Hob along the lines not of determining how many organs may be removed from mankind without immediate destruc tion of life, not In discovering the par- RESEMBLES A CODE SYSTEM Ingenious Telegraphic Idea In China to Overcome Difficulties of the Language. It might well seem Impossible to send a telegram in a written langunge that has no alphabet, but Is mado up of a vast number of characters, no two of whloh are alike. Not only Is the Chlnoso language composed of several thousand different characters, but thoro are so many dialects spoken In China that there are moro than a hundred wuys of pronouncing each character, although the written Ian guago la uniform throughout the coun try. How 1b it possible to send a tolo gram in such a land and such a lan guage? The difficulties have been very Ingeniously overcome, and It la now easier and lees expensive to send a telegram In Chinese than In French In overy telegraph oftlco In China thero Is a dictionary, or special code, In which tho written characters aro listed nnd numbered. There aro places for 9,999 characters, but a number ot ttcular remedy required to overcome tho distress resulting from somo dis eased condition, but In determining and teaching men so to live that they may prevent the towered resistance that makos thom subject to disease how to maintain normal resistance to disease. INERT FOOD. Lifo In tho furnaco giving out Ufo conserving heat Into the houso means that something haB to bo contin uously "dying" In the furnnco. For to maintain that hoat some form of potential energy has got to bo continuously released in tho furnace, and this Is achieved by digesting, or decomposing, or In plain English, by burning coal or some other form of carbon In tho firebox. Whother It bo in your furnace or in your own body, In tho wheat plant or in tho Blngle celled amoeba, life Ib a continuous process of dying. All organic life exists in a state of continuous decomposition and rebuild ing, a perpetual state of mutation What Is true of the flro Is eaually true of ourselves, the principles being identical. As soon as decomposition ceases, reconstruction ceases; ns soon as wo cease dying, we cease living. Life in man, plant, amoeba or tho fur naco is merely vibration, an Individ ual transformation of potential ener gy that varies only In degree All living matter contains substances of peculiar molecular structure and composition far more complex than any compounds found in Inorganic na ture. But the difference betwoon thoso organic and Inorganic substances ia only a difference of degree, and many of the most characteristic of the sub stances have boen artificially made in the chomical laboratory. Butlt up out of the commonest ele ments on the surface of the earth these organic compounds are grouped Into threo classes: Carbohydrates (sugar, starch and cellulose), fats and proteins. Of these three compounds the proteins aro by far the most Im portant, for while the molecule of fat, or carbohydrato, consists entirely of various combinations of the three ele ment, carbon, hydrogen and oxygen, the protein niolecule always contains, In addition, nitrogen and sulphur. The carbohydrate and the fat, so far as we know, appear to be only heat and energy-giving compounds ex actly equivalent to the toal we burn in tho furnace or In the firebox of a steam engine. But the protelnu havo at least a double function to perform and probably others we havo not yet grasped for not only must thoy sup ply energy but also the structural ma terial, the brick, stone, mortar, Iron and other Inorganic material out of which our bodies are composed. It is no more possible for us to maintain our bodies In health without a generous supply of theso Inorganic elements than It would be for us to keep a gasollno engine running for an indefinite period of years by merely feeding It gasoline. Common sense tells us that the engine must bo token to the shop overy so often and the worn parts renewed If wo are to se cure continuous action or any sort of efficiency from the oil consumed. All organic life rests on one funda mental and vital fact which is that the seed bearing plants have, with few known exceptions, the exclu sive power ot absorbing energy di rect from tho Inorganic under tho stimulus of sunlight In tho action of chlorophyl (the green coloring matter of plant life analogous to the red col oring matter in human blood) In sun light undoubtedly lies tho key to the mystery of life. But with the sublime assurance of Ignorance we step In and deliberately break this cycle of life by discarding elements that offend our color sense or that Interfere with our business. If, for Instance, wheat flour will not keep, we remove the bran, the woody matter and the mineral salts, together with a portion of the protein matter and the germ; It makes a much whiter and lighter bread, anyway, and the experts tell us that it is more digesti ble, too; and besides, the "Insoluble by-products" make fine food for stock. Cattle, chickens and other forms of Evidently these "Waste products" have a vory profound Influence on the metabolism of the lower forms of life, but it is argued that that has nothing to do with man. We are still hitched to the Idea that man Is a thing apart from all the rest of creation and that if anything becomes the matter with his machine it Is because an ovll spirit gets in and he must pour some vile tasting combination down his throat to drive tho evil thing out Mcantlmo tho fact that some fifteen millions of our nlnetcen-odd million childron en rolled In tho schools are shown to be moro or less physically dofectlvo from Insufficient building material supplied in their food, and the fact that wo are experiencing a constantly Increasing economic loss through tho premuture death of our matured lives, do not ap pear to bo so important to us as that we shall have nice white foods that will keep. spaces are at present blank; thoy can bo filled with characters when that becomes necessary. Tho sender of tho telegram writes his message In the ordinary manner. The operator knows the numbers of most of the characters. If thore are any of which ho Is ignorant, he finds thom in tho cateiogue. Each number 1b composed f four Morse numerals; for example, 5913,0013,0414 signifies Yuan Shl-Kal, the namo of tho presi dent of tho Chinese ropubllc. It fol lows, tfcen, that the ton Morso numer als will serve to telegraph 9,999 differ ent Chlnose characters! Youth'B Companion. Why the Boiler Rumbles. That noisy rumbling and clattering In tho kitchen boiler after the gas water heater has been lighted for somo tlmo has scarod many a woman. The odt tor of Monthly Gas Chat says It need alarm no one, as It Is caused by tho expansion of tho water aa It Is heatod from tho top of tho boiler. The cold er water below, rushing up to displace tho expanded wator above, will often rauso a concussion. i t i