The independent., 1907-02-21


TO be worth about $4,000. When he came
to Nebraska $3.50 you'd have covered the
yaiuc of his entire holdings
Alabama railroads arc having consider
able fur over the antl-pass question A
senator with a numerous turn or nina
saws he has been requested ny one OF
his newspaper constituents TO father y
measure ITO compel ali railroads ana
common carriers in the state to gravel
all roadbeds between the steel rams
The Montgomery Advertiser endorses
the proposed bill which would make
every railroad a gravel road. pleasant
for all walking purposes of newspaper
men and allied trades. one secton or
the BILL" the Advertiser says, will espe-
cially provide that no faroad shall use
Stag as ballast, as it is Known that sag
is the most difficult ching in the world
to walk on except ice And its mighty
hard on shoe leather.
One Of the deadly practices Of the time
is eating too much. The normal adult
stomach, undistended, viii hold about
pint and half Fortunately the tissues
Of that delicate and useful organ are
wonderfully elastic, SO that one may eat
and drink enormously without great
danger, but this filing Up 70 the limit IS
a diYeful and dangerous practice. Usually
the heaviest eaters consume lHelr Ioou
hurriedly. ii is swallowed without suf-
ficient masticaton, and the walls OF the
stomach are stretched to sGch a ten
sion that the digestive juices are scantily
and imperfectly secrcted, and the result
of this sort of thing continued day after
day is manifest in q variety OF abnormal
conditions. The food in the stomach
fermentS causing a sense Of ungrateful
fullness, pain, nausea palpitation OF the
heart and other disagreeable symptoms.
Observation-Disclosures food eanpQts 1sall 70
prSdec4 hlood IN sos1fe o. the
elements for the creation Of healthful
tissue, and so the trouble extends into
all departments of the human mechan-
ism. The nerve cells are poorly nour-
ished, SO there is & sense of WEAKNESS
that seems to come over one without
adequate cause, and there are omlnouS
forbodings by day and frightful dreams al
night that harrass and torment the soul
like the visitati0ns Of 4 relentless creditor
who saws you must whether yous have
the money or not You so to the doc
tor for prescription, but il you keep on
overeating and bolting down the provi-
sion as though it were necessary to get
as much as possible slowed away before
spring sets in. the medicine, while af-
fOrding temporary relief will rather tend
in the long run to further complcatc the
situation. If you ever really recover
YOU must first cease to do the thing
that caused you TO be sick. If you
start in to masticate your food thorough
ly YOU are not likely to eat more than
YOU can comfortably hold. Try "a slice
of dry buttered toast (not too much
butter), take a small 1nouthful and chew
it not less than forty times. 1t is Won
derfu what IA small amount Of food will
nourish the body if eaten in the right
way. DO not be afraid o. starving to
death. The only case of that kind that
ever came under our personal obServa-
tion was of a young man who ruined
hv a limit
and he pursued the habit of rapacous
eating until he literally starved to death
for the lack of nourishment. NotWith-
standing the famines that have occa-
sionaliy devasted the eastern hemi-
spheres a competent authority has
stated that where one person has per
ished of starvation for lack of food ten
have gone over as a direct or remote re-
suit of having too much.
We have just finished reading a recent
scientific treatise on Life and Death
n study in biology"-by DR.. t. Teich-
man, and are more than erer convinced
that our own university professor was
not so far amiss when he declared some
thing to the effect that all the real litera-
ture Of the word was OF berhah
origin" In his Introductory remarks the
doctor declares that there can be no
closed cosmical philosophy based upon
scientific knowledge. because ~ ~ not
possible TO truly gfaSn tho faets ~ ma
ture." And so he reaches the conclusion,
which ~ not entirely original. having
pern strongly hnted az ~ the late
Colonel Spencer aud others, that all
scientific investigation ends IN the uh'
kno,vahle" Aud then lie goes on 10 say
that what II called explanation ". In
The last anaylsis. nothing more than the
description OF one uuinteligihle iuct py
many others that are equally nnintei-
IIgibc" Then. after launching forth the
postuletc that the intellect ~ mankind
M this day is wholly lneapahle of com-
prchending the essence ot things. ne
waves his magic wand over the Vastly
sen OF prOtoplAsn and ynu see inc eso.
Ir,ion al orsanle life Ia an lls varied and
eofnp'ex FERNS from tha ansoeba 70 the
modern baseball pitcher. and the climax