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NIrtive Value of

certain sections of the country, among
the rural population, a staple suppe:
dish is cornmeal mush and milk. Inc
users may not know it, but this is one
of the best proportional and most eco
nOmical foods it is possible to find. 1t
is eaten because it is cheap, but 1t Is
well to know that it is also good.
While experience has been an accur-
ate guide in causing us to adopt GER
tain dishes, it has misled US in regard
to others. For example, the hoS anu
hominy' diet so general among the
poorer classes of the south and south
west is Unbalanced and deficient in
STRENGTHENING power. 1t contains too
little protein and too much fat. irish
potatoes offer the opposite objection
In endeavoring to learn how nearly the
diet of people throughout the country
conforms to the standard DroDoseu,
Professor Atwater and his associates
have applied results of the calorlmeter
experiments in the observation OF act
ual conditions. The government expert
nent stations and scientific institutions
in different parts of the country have
contributed to the work by making OBJ
servations in their own sections.
STUDIED THE DIET OF THE POOR.
In New York large number of Diet
ary studies were made in the CROWDED
tenement districts, with the aid OF
the Catherine mission, and in Chicago
a similar work was carried on in con-
junction with Hull House. Other studles
were made in Maine, Tennessee, New
Jersey. Minnesota, Missouri and other
states. Food chemists visited the
houses. weighed the food purchased for
the days supply, and took samples OF
it for analysis. This branch of the work
is by no means completed, but various
interesting results have been Cd
tanned.
For example, it was found that most
people eat too much. Food that is
taken into the body in excess of It's
natural requirements is not merely
thrown away. 1t is worse than wasted,
because it works a positive injury to
the health.
In the second place. the prevailing
diet among nearly all classes IS one
sided. The error is not always in one
direction, but in general it may be said
that the food has relatively too little
protein and too much fat, starch and
sugar. This is due partly to our large
consumption of sugar, which is greater
than that of any other nation, and
partly to the use of too large ouantl-
ties of fat meats. In the European
dietaries that have been studied, the
quantities of fat range from one to I'VE
ounces per day. In America the range
is from four to sixteen ounces. The
quantities of rbo-hydrates (starch
and sugar. in the European dietaries
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AGENTS FAIL TO AGREE.
Passenger Men Adjourn Without
Getting Together.

The conference of General Passenger
Agents Lomax, Cairns and Goodman
came to an end yesterday afternoon.
Mr.. Lomax said that no agreement was
reached, but that another meeting
would be held in the near future
The conference was for the purpose
Of putting on faster trains from Chi
cago to the coast. 1t is understood that
the reason why nothing was accom-
plished was the unwillingness of the
Southern Pacific to go into any agree
ment, and Mr.. Cairns of the North
western and Mr.. Lomax of the Union
Pacific were willing, it is said, to go
to almost any lengths to shorten the
time between Chicago and San Fran
cisco, but Mr.. Goodman, the Southern
Pacifics representative, was not pre-
pared to improve the service of his
-cG-.
Mr. Lomax thought the time should
be cut at least an hour, and possibly
more. Messrs. Lomax and Cairns went
east over the Rio Grande Western last
night, and Mr.. Goodman went west
over the same line by a later train.
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proportions. Sir Henry Thompson, the
noted English physician, said:
! 81 have come to the conclusion that
more mischief in the form OF actual
disease, of impaired vigor. and Of
shortened life accrues to civilized man
from erroneous habits of eating than
from the habitual use of alcoholic
drink, considerable as I know that
evil to be-
Secondly, the present investigation
touches directly upon the vital ques
ton of individual economy. Half the
income of the workingman who earns
$500 a year goes for food If the in
come is less the proportion spent for
food becomes larger, and it is likely to
maintain about the same ratio as the
income grows.
The present inquiry is likely to aid
in the solution of this question by
showing how the ordinary diet of ordi-
nary people may be made more eco
nomical. The most economical food, OF
course, is that which furnishes the
most nutriment for the least cost.
In order to approach the subject in
diligently it was necessary to Obtain
a standard of nutriment-in other
words, to ascertain what proportions
of various food elements are necessary
to enable an individual to work or to
sustain life. To determine this
standard Professor Atwater devised a
special apparatus which he calls
respiration calorimeter.
A MAN IN A BOX.
This is simply big box large enough
to accommodate a man without dis
comfort. The box is alright. No
heat or sound Denetrates the walls.
When the subject of the experiment
enters it he is in a little world of his
own. All the food and air that goes
to him are measured and analysed.
The waste products are carefully
weighed, even to the moisture alb
sorbed by his clothing. Special appli-
ances make record Of the amount of
energy impaired by his food, either in
the form of muscular activity of heat.
BY this means it has been found that
a man engaged in moderate muscular
work requires per day twenty-eight
hundredths of a pound of protein,
twenty-eight hUndredths of a pound Of
fats and siXty-siX hundredths of
pound of carbohydrates. These
amounts. it was found, represent fuel
value of $500 calories. a woman en-
gagged in ordinary house duties requires
about eight-tenths of this amount; a
child needs from four to six-tenths of
it. For a man whose occupation re-
quires less physical exercise the
amount of food necessary is less.
Protein, it may be explained, is the
brain, blood and muscle building ele-
ment Of food. 1t forms a large proper
ton of lean meats, chees and wheat
-four. The fats, pork, butter, etc, pro
duce fatty tissue and serve as fuel. The
carbo- hydrates are the starchy and
sweet constituents in which the cereal
foods and sugar are especially rich. In
the body they are transformed into
fats. and serve as fuel. The accom-
panying chart shows the relative pro-
portion of these elements in various ar
ticles of ordinary diet as we'll as the
fuel value of each.
Sugar, for example, consists almost
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combinations. The selection then be-
comes matter of individual taste OK
of cost. A quart of milk, three-quar-
tiers of a pound OF sirIoin steak, and
five ounces of wheat flour, contain
about the same amounts of nUtritive
material, but we pay different prices
for them and they have different values
for nutriment A man might live on
beef, but it would be very a one-sided
and expensive diet. Milk is much nearer
a perfect food. 1t contains all of the
elements of nutrition. But milk, though
it suffices for certain period of hu-
man existence, would pail as the staple
food of a lifetime.
PORK AND BEANS.
Experience has taught US and the
experiments of Professor Atwater have
proved the practical value of certain
food combinations. Bread and meat 60
we'll together. The Scotchman's oatmeal
and herring supply the needed elements
in something like the right proportion
Pork and beans balance each other
WELL because the former is rich in fat
while the latter consists almost entire
ly of protein and carbohydrates. In
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NEW COLORADO LINE
Denver, Northwestern & Terminal
Incorporated.
EASTERN CASH BEHIND IT
ROAD WILL TAP COAL AND
PRECIOUS ORE FIELDS.
Colorado & Northwestern May Be
Taken In By the New Corpora
tion-The Meeting of Passenger
Agents Fails to Accomplish Any
Material Result.

Denver, Colo, April 15.-The Denver
Northwestern & Terminal railway was
Incorporated this afternoon. The pur-
pose of the company is to build a rail-
road through the rich coal and precious
ore fields in northwestern Colorado,
operating in Arapahoe, Boulder, Grand
and Routt counties, and entering the
state Of Wyoming, where connection
will be made eventually with the Union
Pacific.
1t is understood the Colorado &
Northwestern railroad between Boul-
der and Ward will be incorporated in
the new line. Eastern capital is to be
behind the project. The incorporators
and officers are: A. Hermann Leck-
band, president; Adam Rittmayer, vice
president; Douglas Washburn, secre-
tary; w. Cressingham, treasurer; Louis
Grover, director
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meat when they could secure equally
nutritive kinds much more cheaply."
THE DIET OF A COAL LABORER.
I'm the investigations that have been
made, this state of affairs has been
found repeatedly. Lee Meriwether
mentions the case of a coal labOrer,
who boasted:
No one can say that 1 do not give
my family the best of flour, the finest
sugar, and the very best quality of
meat
He paid $165 a year for the incest
cuts of meat, which his wife had TO
cook before in the morning or after
$50 at night, because he worked all Day
in a factory. When excellent butA
was selling at 25 cents a pound he pail
90 cents for an extra quality. He spent
only $10S a year for clothing for his
family of nine, and only S72 year fer
rent in close tenement, where they
slept IN rooms without windows or clos
cts. He INDUCED in this extravaganza
of food when much less expensive food
materials, such as are regularly found
on the tables of men of wealth, would
have been just as nutritious, just as
wholesome in every way, and just as
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entirely of carbohydrates, while pork
is nearly as rich in carbon. Butter con-
tains hardly any protein, but cheese is
rich in that element. The foods that
contain the greatest proportion of fats
represent the highest fuel value. Ger
tain foods, such as oysters, fish and
meats, include large proportion of ref
use, while there is very little waste ma
terial in the cereals. All these matters
are to be taken into account in COM
putting an economical diet.
No one kind of feed affords perfect
diet. Bread and milk and some others
contain all the necessary materials. but
not in the right proportion. To obtain
the correct amount of nitrogen and car
bon from wheat or oatmeal or potatoes
requires too great consumption of car
bo-hydrates. The injunction to live
mot by bread alone is physiologically
sound.
The proper proportions of the food
elements may be obtained by various
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A BRAIN MAKER.

If one cares for good, sturdy health
with which to build up a business or
peacefully and happily conduct a
household, attention must be paid to
the food. Bad food or good food poor
~ cooked, causes dyspepsia, poorly
nourished bodies and general irritation.
People who use Grape-Nuts for
breakfast can depend on having the
highest quality of nourishment, and
that perfectly cooked, for the food is
finished at the factory and goes into the
packages crisp, fully cooked and ready
for instant use with either hot milk or
cream, or with cold thick cream or
syrup
Either form gives delicious dish that
one Graves morning after morning, and
brain-workers notice distinct gain in
mental power, for the delicatesparticles
of natural phosphate of potash taken
from the grains unites with the albu-
men and goes directly to rebuild the
brain and nerve centers.
To find the proof in ones own body
is the best argument. Try Grape-Nuts
ten days A good, sturdy set of braiDS
may start you into a great career.
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Do WE SPEND TOO MUCH MONEY FOR FOOD?
of various foodStudy of diet poor there perfect food?

Do we eat the right kind of food? Do
we eat too much or too little? Could
we obtain the same amount of nutri-
ton for less than we pay at present?
Is our diet properly varied for muscu-
lar and mental activity?
Five years ago the United States
congress made an appropriation to an
swer these questioIs. By so doing it
started an investigation of the utmost
scientific and practical Importance
The work has been under the direction
of Professor w. o. Atwater of Yves
leyan college, Middletown, Conn, who
is now ready to announce some of his
more notable conclusions.
Two important aspects in the matter
of diet are covered by this investiga-
ton. First, the relation which food
bears to physical we'll being. Too much
food is injurious; so is too little and so
is food in which the sustaining ele-
ments are not present in the correct
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ANoHER BIG BANQUET.
st. Louis Will Have Bryan as Chief
Orator

st. Louis Will Have Bryan as Chief
Orator.
St Louis, April 15.-It is announced
today that banquet viii be given in
the Coliseum here on or about May 25,
under the auspices of the Jefferson club
of St Louis. Colonel w. J. Bryan, Sen
ator Teller and Mayor Carter Harrison
OF Chicago are among the distinguished
guests to be invited. Plates will be
laid for from 1000 to 1000 persons.
There is no hotel or cafe with sufficient
cooking capacity within a short enough
distance of the Coliseum to make it
practicable to transport the food after
being cooked. 1t will be necessary to
transform part of the Coliseum and
two other buildings into great
kitchen. An army of cooks and helpers
will be employed.
The reason for the uncertainty about
the exact date is that Colonel Bryan
does not know at this time whether he
can be in st. Louis May 25. He will
determine when he returns from Chi
cago to New York. Colonel Bryan has
signified his Willingness to attend the
dinner, and the date viii be set to suit
his convenience.
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Emery Conference.

Especial COrrespOndence)
Price, April 15.--Quarterly conferences OF
the Emery stake of Zion will convene
at Cleveland Emery county, next Sunday
morning at 10 o'clock. The wagon roads
fine and it is expected there will be A
much larger attendance from Carbon and
Emery counties than at any previous con-
ference for months. President Reuben c..
Miller. with his cOunselOrs H. G.. MartiS
and John II. Pace and Bishop i. W.
Horsley of Price ward departed for there
today Fifty to seventy-five persons VIII
the session will last we'll into next week.
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The Senator Returns.

San Francisco, April 15.-The United
States transport Senator arrived to-
night from Manila As it was after
shutdown. the steamer was not boarded
by the quarantine officer, and she was
obliged to anchor in the stream until
morning. She brought only three re-
tarning soldiers, VIZ: Lieutenant Z.
3. Finley, First California; Lieutenant
p A Mccall First Idaho, and Guar
termaster's Clerk 4. Sanford.
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Railroad Notes.

P. B. McKeon, who is forwarding
agent at Milford for southwest freight,
was in the city Yesterday.
Notices have been received by traffic
officials of western roads that they Will
not be allowed to depart from the spirit
or letter of the interstate commerce
commission agreement for the main
tenance of tariff rates. This practically
shuts the traffic officials out of the
rate-making business
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Word From Dewey.

Washington, April 15-The following
cablegram has just been received by
the navy department from Admiral
Dewey:
Manila. April 15.-Secretary Navy
Washington:
wheeling arrived, six days from
Guam. Quiet and order there. Most
friendly to Americans. Native govern
ment established by Taussis working
we'll Native soldiers fine body Of men
Nanshan Omitted States naval trans
DortO in Guam"
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MAY CONTINUE TO SCALP.

Judge Brentano Holds Illinois Anti
scalping Law Void.
Chicago, April 15.-In the superior
court today, Judge Brentano rendered
a decision declaring the anti-scalping
law enacted by the legislature in 1895
was unconstitutional, as it sought to
deprive citizens of a means of liveli-
hood, on account of illegal acts of some
of the persons in the ticket brokerage
business. The court held that the OBJ
ject of the law was to give to the rail-
road companies the right to restrict the
business of ticket selling to persons
whom they wished to delegate with
written authority.
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Troops For Cavite.

Manila, April Is. 6:25 o. m.-The Fiji
ty-first Iowa regiment has relieved the
Tenth Pennsylvania regiment at Ma
lolos, and the latter has proceeded to
Cavite Pursuant to instructions from
Madrid, the Spanish officials and troops
destined for the Caroline islands dis
embarked from the steamer Porto Rico
today.
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PAY TOO MUCH FOR FOOD.

PAY TOO MUCH FOR FOOD.
in the selection of our daily food is that
! it is not economical. This error is
most marked among the poor classes
| of the great cities, where it should be
least. over and over again it was
| found in the course of the studies that
poor people buy high-priced meats,
which they cannot afford, in the beaaf
| that they are getting the best. In this
| they seldom do get the best cuts of
meat. and in any case they could OBJ
/ tain an equal amount of nutritive ma
! terials for about half the money, if
they would buy more vegetables and
| cereals.
This subject has been investigated in
the east end of London. 1t was found
there, as in the American cities, that
the poorest people buy meat of indif-
ferent quality, paying high price for
1t, in preference to purchasing the
cheap fresh vegetables. which they
could easily secure.
In order to correct this popular fall
lacy the London society which has con-
Quoted the investigation has issued
thousands of pamphlets setting forth
the advantages of a more general veg
etable diet. These tracts are distrib-
uted free throughout the poorer dis
tute vegetables and cereals, in part at
least, for the stringy and unwholesome
meat which alone they can purchase.
Professor Atwater says on this sub
ject:
There is no. doubt that a certain
amount of money will buy more nu-
tritive materials in the fora of vege-
tables than in animal foods. a quar-
ter of a dollar invested in the sirlOin
of beef at, % cents per pound, pays
for one-siXth of pound of protein and
one-ffth of a pound of fat, and sup
plies 1,120 calOrieS of energy. The
same amount paid for oysters at 80
cents a quart brings two ounces of ac-
tual nutrients. an ounce of protein and
230 calories of energy. In buying wheat
flour at 81 per barrel, the % cents pays
for six and a quarter pounds of nutri-
ents, with eight-tenths of pound of
protein and II 1855 calories of energy.
ION the face of it, the wheat flour is
by all odds the cheapest food. while
oysters are decidedly expensive and
uneconOmical. In the accompanying
chart is shown the amounts of actual
nutritive ingredients obtained in differ
ent foods for % cents. A brief COMPARE
son will show what foods are economi-
cal and what are not.
There is another factor that comes
into play here. Animal foods crafty
the palate in ways that vegetable foods
do not. People who can afford it the
world over will have the former and
will compete with one another to secure
them. In general the animal foods are
more easily and completely digested
than the vegetable. There is doubtless
good ground for paying somewhat more
for the same amount of nutritive mate
rial in animal foods of good quality.
The error to which Americans are par
ticuIarly prone lies in eating too much
meat and too few vegetables, and in
buying the most expensive kinds of
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Children deprived of fats
and mineral foods have
weak bones, tiabby flesh and
thin watery blood.
The milk Of nursing
mothers, enfeebled by chron-
ic diseases, or long contin-
ued nursing, produces the
same results.
SCOTS Emulsion is cod
liver oil partly digested and
with the hypophoSphites,
forms a fat food which acts
on the infant through the
mothers milk, giving rich
blood, strong nerves and
sound flesh and bones to both.
soc. and SI.oo all druggists.
SCOTT & BOVINE, Chemists, New York.
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TALK FROM THE JUNTA.
Say Commission Proclamation Is I'm
satisfactory.

SATISFACTORILY
Singapore, April 15.-The latest news
received by the local Filipino junta
from Manila describes the proclamation
of the United States Philippine COM
mission as vague and unsatisfactory. "
The F'ilipinos are reported as repudiat-
ing it, because their experience is that
American actions belle American prom
ises. and because the proclamation con-
tains no tangible guarantees of self
government or that the islands will
not be exploited by the syndicates, ad-
venturers and carpetbaggers."
The proclamation Of Major General
Otis, ACCORDING to this junta dispatch.
is considered equally injudicious." and
ii is asserted that no faith can be re-
posed in General Otis or Colonel Den
by"
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Experience is the best teacher. Use
Acker's English Remedy in any case
of coughs, colds or Group. Should it
fail to give immediate relief. money
refunded. % cts. and 80 cts. For sale
by u. C. NJ. /. Drug Dept.
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aTlinations and local treatment It cures
III the privacy of the home. It gives vigoT
and vlrllity to the organs upon which de
pends the perpetuation of the human race
Mrs. H. A. Alsbrook of Austin, Louoke Co.,
AZ <, writes; AFTER FIVE months of great suc
.ering write this for the benefit of other suf-
'eTers from the same affection. doctored with
cur family physician without any good result, SO
ny husband urged me to try Dr.. Pierce's medi
c!nes-which did. with wonderful results.
lin completely cured. I took four bottles OF
Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription, four of his
Golden Medical Discovery and two vials Of his
Pleasant Pellets.'"
Constipation kills slowly. DR.. Pierce's
'lrasan' Pellets cure quickly.
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Women Wrecks. Every once

-NN ~ q " Al
the newspapey
tell of some ono,
beautiful woman
who has beer
consigned to al
asylum, because
physical weak
ness drove her
to seek tempo
rary strength in
the alcoholic mix
lures that are
found on many
womeu's toilet
tables.
The story is an
old, but ever
II e w one. A
W o nj an fin d s
herself suffering
from weakness,
nervousness, dc
spondency and
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woman. DR.. Pierce's
Favorite Prescription,
which contains no
alcohol or other stil1u-
liant to inebriate, will
promptly put things
right, and make her
strong and healthy in
a womanly way. 1t
does away with neces-
SifE for nh.1nYiot,s e.
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Jackson, Miss, April 15.-Sam Wash
ington, a negro. was hanged at YazoO
City today for the murder of a planta-
Vember.
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Hanging al San Quentin.

San Quentin, Cal. April 15-ManueI
Chavez was hanged here today for the
murder of a woman in southern Cali
fornia two years ago. He died bravely.