The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1904-09-06


Agriculture; controller and dispenser oi
a large fund donated by the trustees OF
the Carnegie Institute to he consumed IN
food researches; and professor of chem
istry at Wesleyan university To keep all
these irons hot and give a practical out
put for the money Is no small job. ana
ing up and down the land by rail and
steamboat He is short, stout, well fed.
nervous man, with the same 'myster-
ious black eyes, which Henry Waro
Beecher during his famous trial. ac-
cused Frank Carpenter, the artist, OF
having Not so very long ago Prof. At
water gave afternoon lectures at the
National Museum, about food-what
man should eat, when and how much.
He would have a row of dishes on the
desk before him, each set out with the
scientifically proper amount of bread
beef, steak potatoes, sugar. butter, wa
ter. and other alimentary substances
Behind the speaker there would be won
derful charts, very Ike those in the Re-
port of the Isthmian Canal Commission.
amount of food would produce; how
many such units a man needed to keep
his heart-pump and his brains In action;
how much energy there is stored up in
certain foods. etc. Prof. Atwater was
searching for the best universal menu
to be hung up in public ellemcsynary
and penal institutions. as well as in the
kitchens of the poor. He would discov-
er the smallest amount of food, at the
liv. upon and perform it's daily tasks.
The good professor is still searching
Fortunately for the people of the United
States this minimum menu is not yet
necessity.
The latest news from Prof. Atwater Is
to the effect that he has taken a run
over to Cambridge. England to attend
the 74th congress of the British associa-
ton. BESIDES himself there will be no
other foreign scientists present. Abroad
Prof Atwater is widely known as the
man who discovered that alcohol is food.
He will tell his English audience what
he knows about Nutrition experiments
on man in the United States. RE will
deal with both the physiological and he
economic side of the subject. treating of
poor in large cities. There are those WAC
think that under normal condi'io ions in
the United States there should be no
very poor in the cities. or elsewhere
who need feeding. Let every man and
woman hustle TO earn living and the
food problem, so called, will take care
itself. No country in the world is so well
supplied with an abundance of cheap
food of all kinds as the Uni-ed States
The food problem is artificial, 1t Is a
problem of the readjustment of econo-
mic and commercial conditions.
Cabinet officers who have returned to
the city are already looking over the
situation regarding estimates for the
next fiscal year. so as to make their re-
ports to the coming congress. Post
of the rural free delivery for 1905 will
be about 10000, 900. and if the plan is
extended as the department now de :
sires, congress will have to appropriate
IS, ,0OO, 900 more. 1t is intended to increase
he total amount until $40. 900 becomes
the yearly expense. This vast sum pre-
cludes the idea of penny postage for
long time to come. Secretary Morton has
returned from his cruise along the New
England coast. delighted with all he
saw. He will soon begin to work on his
annual report. 1t is expected in view
| of the sentiments he expressed at an at
ter-dinner speech in Chicago. not long
ago that he will ask congress to make
very large appropriation for the navy
| According to Chairman ]. w. babcock
: OF the hepupslCdH CtHStcSSioildi YUM
mittee. who passed through this city
yesterday, he has a meek and neck
contest on hand. He says it is little
too early yet to get down to details OF
! the campaign. but that the conditions
are closer this year than at any time
/ since 1898. In some districts there Is
trouble about the kind of men nominated
/ for congress; in others the opposition
will unite upon a candidate for the house
and not bother about the presidential
campaign. In Nebraska nearly all the
congressional districts are close; In Wis
consn the opposition is putting up a
hard fight. Mr.. Babcock says he prin-
ciple issue he is waging is protection to
the business of the country. The chances