The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1913-04-03

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EAT HEARTY IN SPRING AND SUMMER.
In the Health and Horsepower" de-
partment of the April American Maya
zine, DIR. Woods Hutchinson gives a
number of practical suggestions about
the health. He is radically opposed to
the old idea that it is wrong to eat meat
or other hearty food in the summer time.
On this subject he says in part:
''When you come to face the trials of
the heated term and the stewings of the
summer time, make up your mind that
you will meet them on three square
meals day, cutting down a little, of
course, upon meat, and particularly fat
or salt meat, but making your intake
match your output in the form of work.
1.-The only notifications which should
be made in the diet in summer time are
such as will meet the lessened amount of
work and exercise then taken. If this
latter be increased instead of diminished,
as is the case with country jewellers, and
should be the case as far as possible with
city jewellers, taking the exercise in the
cool of the evening, then the amount
eaten in summer time should be increas
ed rather than diminished.
mot a little of that sense of depres-
sion or 'all-in' sort of feeling which dis
tresses US in hot weather is due to actual
hunger from poor appetite and lack of
substantial things to eat That awful
thirst and sense of depression which has
made over-indulgence in alcoholic drinks
such scourge of colonists in the tropics
and sub-tropics may be, and often is, due
to an inadequate supply of food fuel
'One thing is certain and the rest is lies,
as old Omar sings, that if you have work
to do you must put fuel to correspond
under your boiler, winter or summer, or
you will suffer in consequence. Let the
table be we'll supplied at every meal with
fresh fruits and fresh vegetables in their
season, and an abundance of ice creams,
frozen buildings, fruit ices, and sherbets,
but don't forget to mix with them plenty
of fresh meat, of eggs, fish, ham or
bacon, cheese and good bread and butter.
Food which is taken within the needs of
the body, that is to say, which is used w.
in the production of working power and
vigor, does not overload the body or
raise the temperature to any appreciate
degree. Even the so-called heating effect
when more of it is taken than is needed
to supply the aaily energy requirements
and work output of the body
INTERESTING FACTS REGARDING DERE-
LICTS.
Salvage is one of those overworkei
words with half a dozen meanings,
writes James G.. McCurGy i'll the April
Wide World Magazine In a marine
sense it is Unfortunately applied to the
act of saving vessel from the perlls of
the sea, to the claim entered, and to the
final monetary award. On land it is a
term which, by common usage, has come
20 embrace the recovery of goods, of
whatever nature, that have been place in
jeopardy.
One thing is certain-there are but
few words that awaken keener anticipa-
ton in the minds of those who traffic
upon the deep than the magic term "sal-
wage" when applied to the rescue of
vessels floating helpless or abandoned
upon the waters. In sea parlance the
term has much the same significance as
the word treasure trove" has ashore.
There are but few mariners who put
to sea without the hope that they may
some day be fortunate enough to pick up
valuable craft in distress, and share
in the resulting salvage award.
Salvage is interesting from legal
standpoint, from the fact that it is pro-
badly the only case in law where per-
son may become liable to a claim upon
him for services rendered to his property
without his consent, expressed or i'm
piled. 1t also takes priority over all
other claims. The amount is determined
by the Admiralty Court, and is depend
ent upon the peril involved, the nature
of the service, and the value of the pro-
perty salved.
A curious point of law. long observed,
has but little weight to-day in determin-
ing salvage awards This ruling was
that as long as any domesticated animal,
such as dog, cat, or pig, remained alive
On a derelict, the craft was not called
abandoned, and the salvage award was
materially affected by the circumstance.
The origin of this ruling is obscure,
but the view probably taken in such
case was that. if the weather conditions
had been exceptionally severe after the
abandonment of a vessel, all life would
have persisted before the arrival of the
salvors.
Seeking for disabled vessel, when
her location is not definitely known, is
much like the proverbial hunting for
needle in a haystack. -" Within recent
years as many of the fat salvage prizes
along the North Pacific coat have gone
to tramp steamers that happened along
at the opportune moment as have fallen
to the numerous tugboats that spend
much of their time cruising off-shore.
Of the causes that place a vessel in
such a predicament that she becomes an
object of salvage, first and foremost, of
course, must be placed the force of wind
and wave. No matter how large the
vessel, she can never afford to bid def
ance to the elements, for without warn
ing something may happen to send her
to the bottom or leave her floating,
helpless derelict, upon the face OF the
waters.
TRAINING BIRDS TO CATCH FISH:
The wonderful ingenuity and patience
of the Chinaman is we'll shown by the
skilful wav in which he has trained the
cormorant to fish for him. The bird is
taken when young, and then, with in
finite care, taught to catch fish for its
owners A metal ring is placed round
its neck, fitting close enough to prevent
it from swallowing the larger fish, vet