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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-08-05

From the American Journal of Health.
'Intemperance anticipates age" so said
the late Sir Benjamin Ward Richardson.
The more the social causes of mental and
physical organic diseases are investigated,
the more closely the origin of degenera tive
organic changes leading to premature de-
generation and decay are questioned, the
more closely does it come out that intern
perance, often not suspected by the person
himself who is implicated in it, so subtle is
its influence. is at the root of evil When
old age has really commenced it's march
toward final decay il Is he ST delayed by at
tention to those rules of conservation by
which life is sustained with the least fric-
ton ard the least waste. The prime rule;
for this purpose are-to subsist on light but
nutritious diet. with milk as the standard
food, but varied according to season To
take food If moderate quantities four times
day, including d light meal before going
20 bed: to clothe warmly, but lightly 50
that the body may in all seasons maintain
its equal temperature; to keep the body in
lair exercise, and the mind active and
cheerful; to maintain an interest in what
Is gong on in the world, and to take part
in reasonable labOrs and pleasures as
though old age We're not present; to take
plenty of sleep during sleeping hours; to
spend nine hours in bed at least, and to
take care during cold weather that the
temperature of the bed rooms Is main
tanned at 81 degrees Fahrenheit; to avoid
passion, excitement and luxury.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-08-05
USES FOR Liquid AIR.
Many Different Ways in Which This
Power May Be Utilized.

From the Engineering Magazine
1t would seem that certain uses NAV be
found for liquid air in which considera-
tons of cost not so important as is
the ability to obtain the effects in view
In warfare. for example the possession Of
highly concentrated energy stores under
control is very important. Liquid air can
be rapidly converted into compressed air at
six tons per square inch. This would
probably be useful in the protection of
high explosives. Compressed air is now
used for propelling mobile torpedoes, or
fish torpedoes as they are called. Dirigi-
Bile torpedoes either depend for power upon
compressed air or the electric energy of a
storage battery. Compressed air requires
high pressures and very strong and heavy
containing vessels. Liquid air can be
stored without pressure or at low pres
sure, while its bulk represents that of air
under 800 atmospheres. A storage battery
would probably be from five to ten times
as heavy as liquified air in receptacle for
equal available energy. But no storage
battery could be discharged at equiva-
lent rate.
Submarine boats and flying machines may
yet find use for liquid air In the subma-
rine boat it could be evaporated by the
heat of the surrounding water and, after
furnishing power, it would ventilate the
boat Before the final discharge it could
be burned with oil in fuel engine for
further power. We may find for it in
the flying machine. Fer emergency work
1t could in evaporating cool the cylinders
of fuel engine and yield power as a re-
suit. Moreover. control of the submergence
of boat could be effected by the use of
liquid air, easily gasified to add TO the
displacement The great feature of the
application of such power liquid air
would be its emergency value. BY this is
meant the ability to obtain al will sud
uSn output lar beVOn0 the normal Animal
power notably possesses this emergency
value, and the success of electric trolley
systems largely depends upon the fact that
When needed the station can be called upon
Tor temporary delivery to any single car
or tram OF power greatly in excess of the
rated output of the motors
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-08-05
Home of the Edam Cheese.

From the New York Tribune.
While the Edam cheese is a familiar Wis
itor on the table, not every one knows
whence it comes nor how its cannon ball
proportions and gay coloring have been
achieved. The northern part of Holland is
the seat of the Edam cheese industry, and
the consequent cleanliness Of the relish is
therefore doubly assured. In making il the
fresh cows milk is carefully strained and
the rennet added. As soon as the milk
curdles the whey is drawn off and the curd
thoroughly kneaded, is pressed into molds
This process is repeated until the whey has
all been extracted and the curd is compare
lively dry 1t is then wrapped in a linen
cloth and kept for ten or twelve days until
quite solid. Then the cloth is removed and
the cheese put into salt I've. Afterward a
little more dry salt is spTinked on the
cheese, until the maker thinks it is salt
enough to insure its keeping. 1t is next
put into vessel and washed with whey and
scraped to remove the white crust 1t is
next carried into a cool room and laid on
shelves, where it is frequently turned The
ripcning process lasts from two to three
months. the round balls growing the fine
yellow or reddish color peculiar to Edam
cheese. The cheeses intended to be ex-
ported TO this country are rendered still
more brilliant by dyeing the rind with
vegetable dye.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-08-05

was for some time in great danger of being
altogether wrecked upon the cliffs of the
berg, but at last succeeded in drawing off.
D'UrviIIe's Gallant Struggle.
D'Urviiles gallant battles with the ice
pack were worthy of that heroic French
man. On his first voyage he entered a
dense pack in latitude 63 degrees south, the
whole field glistenng like alabaster in the
bright sunlight. He tried to force his ship
through, but got hemmed in during the
night, wnen, to make matters worse, gale
arose, and he describes his ships as being
like two stays in a high-walled park pur-
sued by relentless dogs in the shape of
fragments of ice. The snow came on, and
the ships were butted and shaken by the
battery of floating iceblocks till he had to
choose between being damned and showed
up in the thick of it or making a dash for
the open sea. Choosing the latter course,
he cut his way out with levers and saws at
the rate of a mile in ten hours. The Amer
lean Wilkes also suffered severely in the
icepacks, of his ships, the Peacock,
being completely icebound in latitude 66
degrees south 1t was at this time that he
found some powders on the top of berg
and guessed they had come direct from the
great antarctic continent. In the same lat
itude Svend Foyn's expedition in 1896 was
completely icebound for a fortnight in
pack 500 miles in breadth.
The dangers of these belts of ice, coupled
with the terrible risk of running into bergs
in the heavy fogs which frequently OBJ
scure the southern seas, make the condi-
lions of south polar exploration almost
overwhelming even for modern ship
equipped with steam and other recent ad-
yantages. What the difficulties must have
been to Ross who had to explore without
steam, can be imagined. And when one
thinks of Captain Cook, who had not even
an ice-fortifed ship like those of Ross one
feels bound to accord to him the title of
the greatest navigator the world has seen.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-08-05
Hot Wave Philosophy.

From the Lewiston (Me) Journal
When all the sky seems blazing down and sun
shine curs the bricks
And General Humidity puts in his biggest licks.
welcome TO my eyry with moist and drip
placid old philosopher who runs a little farm
Who says Imagination helps a deal in keeping
And who to comfort other men makes this his
simple rule; ~
To talk Of piping. biting days. and drifting win
whene'er the weather pipes it up and gets too
They're better far than izz or smash or juIeps
snre's your born,
The honest little narratives of Frigid Weather
For though the sizzling summer time may boil
and steam and hiss
Who'd ever. think of it while listening to
this?
aidgc
Than In the year of sixty-one, the year that I
| never had hard a job attendn' to my biz
For everything twas frizzabie that year you bet
At last 1 done a caper that I hadn't done for
got little careless and I friz up both my
The roads was awful drifted and trod ten miles
And all the time that thund' rim wind did moth
Them ears Of mine was fruze hard. stuck out
h,oomin straight
And when at last hauled up home the missus
And hoiiered John. oh massy me, you're going
TO lose your ears.
Bat why, land O. goodness, 1 was cooler'n 1
be now
And he passed his red bandanna up across his
steaming brow
81 jest got out my Ratchet, and / chopped two
cakes of ice
And held EN- my friz-up ears-'twas Granny
Jones' advice.
didn't dare go in the house, but set there in
the shed
A-hodin' them two junks of ice to either side
Ivy head.
The chunks weighed fifty pounds apiece-that doc
torin' didn't cost
And SO got EN- big enough to take out all the
frost.
My wife at last come out to see what made me
keep still
And there | was, sah sound asleep and suorin'
At TO kill.
She got me in and give tea and helped me
inter bed
With that ere ice a-frozen tight and solid to my
head.
Twas sort of curtis, confess, but still I slept
COMPLETE.
A crystal palace on my head and soapstones on
my feet.
1t wasn't what you'd really call calm and rest
full night.
But when the ice peeled of next day them ears
came out all right
They're better far than fzz smash or juleps
sure's you're born,
These honest little narratives from Frigid Weather
john.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-08-05
THE FLEUR-DE-LIS.
4 Popular Symbolic Decoration for
-Four Thousand Years.

From Harper's Bazaar.
For 1000 years the fleur-de-lis has been a
popular symbolic decoration. 1t appears
on the heads of the most ancient Egyptian
sphinXes, and it was used by the early
Persian and Assyrian kings upon scepters
and crowns as an ornament symbolic Of
fruitfulness, honor and royalty. Solomon
in building the house of the forest OF Leb-
anon and the house of Pharaoh's daughter
sent to Tyre for Hiram, the widows son,
who was filled with wisdom and under
standing and cunning to work all things in
Brass and he made two chapters of mol
ten brass to set upon the tops Of the pill
lars, "and upon the tops of the pillars was
ily-work." And he made a molten sea to
contain 1000 baths. land the brim thereof
was wrought like the brim of cup with
flowers of lilies" This was 1,jOO years be-
fore Christ.
According to the legend, in 491 AID, an
angel appeared to Clovis. the first Chris
tian king Of France. and bestowed upon
him fieur-de-lis. From this time it was
considered as the emblem Of royalty in
France to which country is due its preser-
walton until modern times.
The fieurs-de-lis have been found in the
Abbaye de Saint Germain 3eS Pres and on
the tomb of Fredeeonde, who died in 597.
Several portraits of Charles lie Chauve ex-
ist showing him with fleGr-de-liS in his
crown. In $40 Lothaire for the first time
used a seal with scepter surmounted by
heur-de-liS Hugh Capet and all his sue
ceSSors Wore than, and he was but one of
fifty successive mOnarchs who used the lis
in France, where, though different races
succeeded one another in the countrys
rule, it remained the royal emblem for over
100 years. 1t was not until 11T9. however,
that the arms of France We're first for
nally mentioned. French kings, returning
from the crusades. brought with them
duczd in Europe, and coats Of arms were
adopted in imitation of Arabs and Per-
slams. Then Louis lie Jeune. arranging for
the conservation of his son, Philippe Au-
guste, at Rheims, ordered that his gar
ueutS be covered with fleurs-de-lis, and
after this the king wore them without
number.
All ecclesiastic and secular institutions
of royal foundation received the feur-de-lis
into their coats of arms. They were intro
duced as ornaments for the apparatus in
all military games; they were sprinkied
over the flags and standard of the army
they surmounted the helmets of princes
and decorated their armor and coats of
mail; they trimmed the heads and tanks
of horses in the tournament. In the days
of Louis XIV. XIV and XVI all the royal
ornaments, carpets, windows, the kings
prie-dieu, his throne, his oratory. the pull
pit and the pontitical robes of the high
priest. the vestmeUts of the bacon and
archdeacon, the bench of the peers and
the standards of grand dukes, all were
streWn with fleur-de-liS, embroidered or
wrought in gold. With the queen and her
ladies II was the same.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-08-05
NUTS AS FOOD.
Uses of Them for Culinary Purposes
in Some Foreign Countries.
From fba Na,- vorl


in Some Foreign Countries.
From the New York Herald
We have little idea in this country to
what a considerable extent the nut is used
for food in a few foreign lands. Our con-
suls have been sending information on this
subject from far and wide, and the facts
here given are condensed from a number
of these reports. We are trying to teach
foreign nations that Indian corn is an ex-
cellent article of food, but most of the
European peasantry still believe that maize
is fit only to fatten hogs and beef cattle
Many of these same persons sit down to a
dish of steamed chestnutS with much rel
1sh. and are content if they have nothing
else, which shows that tastes differ.
Throughout the center of France, from
the Bay of Blscay to Switzerland, there
are large plantations and almost forests of
chestnut trees. The nuts are very large,
resemble the American horse chestnut and
are extensively eaten by the peasantry and
animals. In the fall and winter the poor
often make two meals day on cheStnuts
They are steamed and eaten with salt or
milk, and physicians say they are whole
some, hearty, nutritious and fattening In
some parts of France wanutS also are a
regular article of diet, but they are losing
ground as an article of food because of
their comparative scarcity. Walnuts are
also used to make oil, and the convicts in
some prisons are employed cracking the
nuts and picking out the kernels, from
which the oil is expressed.
Almonds grow we'll in the middle and
southern parts of France, and while the
shell is soft, green and tender, the nut is
sold largely as a table article. The meat is
white and creamy. Hazelnuts are always
high priced and are a luxury. The peanut
is rarely eaten in France, though the taste
for it is growing. 1t is imported in en-
ormous quantity for its oil. A few years
90 Iaal nf f-ily OH ,,t
the merits of bread made of peanut -four
man army, where, for little while. it
was a part of the ration issued to num-
Der of regiments. 1t was declared to be a
too highly concentrated and an irritating
sort of food, and the soldiers didn't like it.
The use of peanut flour was accordingly
discontinued.
In Italy almonds are eaten while green
or soft as dessert by the well to do, but
the poor cannot afford them. Chestnuts
are the only nuts that enter into the regu-
lar diet of the people. Almonds, filberts
and walnuts are more of luxury and are
served as dessert or with wine at social
gatherings.
The chestnut almost takes the place, in
Corea, that the potato occupies in the
western world. 1t is used raw, boiled
roasted, cooked with meat, and in other
ways. In Syria nuts are not a part of the
of some popular native dishes. Nuts in
andretta may be classed as luxury, for
use as dessert and for consumption by
the natives at night just before going to
he'd
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-08-05

Norman conquest, or, II not, as early as
$780, But here, again. we have nothing
but tradition, supposition ana conjectures
to rest upon.
There is another at Cloutarf. in ireland.
which. on the same authority, we are re-
CURED to accept as the identical tree I'M
der which Brian Boru died I'm the year 1o14,
but 1t is only twelve feet in girth. Within
sight OF a yew tree standing at Ankerwyke,
near Staines, which one of our correspond
ents mentions, magma charta is said to
have been signed. other famous individ-
uais are the Borrowdale yews, immortal
lied by Wordsworth in what Ruskin calls
the most vigorous and solemn bit of forest
landscape ever painted The Patterdale
tree was blown down in 1893. but in none
OF these cases has any definite opinion been
veterans. 1t seems probable. however that
there are few yew trees still standing in
england, Scotland and ireland from GO
to 500 years old. though We are told by
dendrologists that there is no trustworthy
record of any one exceeding 200 years
According to the test proposed by the
Swedish botanist De Candole. which would
decide the age by the measurement and
the lines, some yew trees would be more
than 2,o9o years old. The Portugal yew.
in Perthshire, which is supposed to be
the olcest surviving specimen, would be on
that showing nearly 5000. But 1t Is strong
ly suspected of being composed of TWO
trees grown together, which would make
that criterion inapplicable. And it is be-
leVeu lnat the extraordinary grin. eN-
hibited by many of these ancient trunks
is the result of the same process. But
De Candolle's theory has been examined
by skilled inQuirers and is said TO be mis-
leading, except in the case of young trees.
lhere Is an immense yew tree in Wiltshire,
with hollow trunk, capable of accommo-
dating large breakfast party, which, ac-
cording to local report, was planted many
generations ago by the Arundel family. But
if We adopt De Candolle's criterion that
tree would be more than 700 years old,
taking us back to the third century, when,
we shrewdly suspect, there were no Arun-
dels in England.
Many theories have been propounded to
account for the planting of yew trees in
our church yards. But none seem alto
gerher satisfactory. The most plausible is
that the somber and funeral aspect of the
tree rendered it specially appropriate to
places of sculpture, and certainly the
yew looks more like a tree in mourning
than any other member of our flora. The
absence of precise knowledge as to the
age of yewS does not affect their character
as Singularly interesting trees. The eccle-
SiaStical associations connected with il, OF
course, add something to the kind of ro-
mantle melancholy which it inspires in us
while the lingering military reputation
which carries us back to some of our
good yew bough. The tree which has so
much attraction for the conservative Eng
fish mind belongs to the past more than to
the present life. And the roots and stumps
and hollow trunks of the patTiarchs that
still survive among us might tell a tale that
would add many a new page to the poetry
of history.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-08-05
Toward the Deep.
arles ]. Bayne in The Bookman.

aries ]. Bayne in The Bookman.
Let the lilies flaunt their graces,
Since the golden hearts which bide
In the folded buds embraces
VIII adorn a richer tide.
Statelter swans will sweep the lake
When the cygnets quit the brake
where the undines lave their faces
Cnaspied.
More melOdieus Junes are sleeping
In the lingering linnet's throat,
And brighter dawn is peeping
Where the sunset aureoles float:
When the plaintive minor dies
All the grand cresceBdGs rise,
Deeper rapture onward sweeping,
Note by note.
Il
And. as Sulla's rebel minion
yaunted more the rising sun,
Love may turn on ffstless tpinion
When the zenith we'll rs won,
Spelled by some fftineri glow
Which affection yen may know.
Since through eyeTG hearts, Hercynian
Danubes run. y
Hence 1 wait till, through the hnshes
Which thy latent passions keep,
Like some rosy dream that bushes
On the russell bengh of7sleep,
Love shall leap and greet my own
With an ardor YET unknown,
As the deep born riTer rnshes
Toward the, deep.{
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-08-05

4 curiosity at least is this compilation of
the deepest wells in the world: In Europe
one at Passy. France depth, 2,oO0 feet; at
Grenele, Paris. depth, 1,79S feet; at Neu-
salwerk. near Minden, depth, 22SS feet: at
kissingen, Bavaria, depth. 1.7S7 feet: at
Sperenberg, near Berlin, depth, 4,190 feet,
world: at Pesth. Hungary. depth, 3,1S2 feet
In the United States there are wells located
al ST. Louis. depth 3.S43 feet at Louisville,
depth, 20S6 feet; at Columbus, Ohio, depth,
2a.9k feet; at Charleston, S. c.. depth,
l.2.D feet.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-08-05
Pleasing the Baby.

T IVL III -DIIs
A few days ago two ladies, one of whom
carried baby, entered carpet shop and
s.gnified their desire to look at some car
pets. The shopman cheerfuily showed roll
after roll. until the perspiration literally
streamed from every pore OF his body. FL
nally one OF the ladies asked the other IL
she did not think 1t was time to go.
Not quite" was the answer of her COM
panion: and then, in an undertone, she
added: Baby likes TO see him roll them
out, and it is not time to catch the train
yet"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-08-05
Summer Dusk.

;. K. Munkittrick in Youths Companion.
From the sky the cslors fade,
And star, snow white
Hangs DER the lonely glade
On the brow of fight 81
Slow crumbles and disappears
The hill in the cleaning sea.
And swiftly the 1.-the bat veers
Round the silent tree.
The fireiy's elfin spark
1hIohs Ger the dewey mead;
The moonbeam silvers the dark
And the whispering reed:
And, while the lone looms, cry
Floats on the breezes cool,
Day sleeps and the purple shadows lie
And dream on the liiied pool.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-08-05
VENERABLE VIEWS.
Trees That Are Said to Have Lived
for 5000 Years.


From the London Standard
We have been publishing an interesting
correspondence concerning the age and the
dimensions of the yew tree. 1t is thought
that these trees exceed even the oak in
longevity. and the size of some specimens
attests, at all events, respectable an
tiquity. The yew in Crowhurst church
yard, in Sussex, is declared by tradition, to
be 1900 years old, but, as this is one OF
those legends which it is impossible to
trace to its source, We may dismiss it as
curious but scientific evidence. Such, how
ever, is all that the majority of the old
yew trees have to depend upon There
are some at Kinglye Bottom, also in Sus-
sex, which are said to have been there
when the vikings landed on the coast. The
tree in Iff1ey church yard. near Oxford,
is supposed to be coeval with the church,
which, it is believed, was built before the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-08-05

Fancy two plants being so unfriendly that
the mere neighborhood of one is death to
the other! Yet this is the case with two
well-kEown British plants. These are the
thistle and the rape. II a field is infested
with thistles, which come up year after
year and ruin the crops, all you have to
do is to sow 1t with rape. The thistle will
be absolutely annihiIated