Uncle Sam Can Gauge Horsepower of Human Body
WASHINGTON.—If you want to
know your exact horsepower niul
the amount of energy you can gen
erate under any given condition, cnll
on Professor Langworthy at the
chemistry bureau, department of ag
riculture, and ho can give you the an
swer. He can register yqur horse
power os easily as the engine manu
facturer rates his engines.
To Professor .Langworthy tho hu
man body is but n machine. He is
the chief of division of nutritive In
vestlgatloriH, and solves the problems
of food values. Like any other en
gine, the human body has a maxi
mum capacity of so many foot pounds
of energy, and to generate this, a cer
tain amount of fuel In the form of
food Is necessary. Doctor Langwor
thy makes It his business to And what
food Is adapted for the best results
from the majority.
Ha described his unlquo depart
ment In his workshop, surrounded by
an endless series of laboratory instal
lments, ovens, graduated scales and
queer tubes and pipes whore cvery
Ithing under the sun la concocted and
leooked up, to see how many calories,
Ihow much nitrogen and how much en
ergy It will give the human body when
It’s eaten.
In thf laboratory Is a respiration
calorimeter, a chamber In which
Uncle Sam's scientists put subjects to
measure the energy which the subject
gives off while he Is engaged in dif
ferent tasks and while fed different
diets of food.
The calorimeter Is a valuable in
strument In many ways.' It enables
the government to recommend certain
diets ns being of- the greatest use to
men and women in different occupa
tions, and it enables them to recom
mend a combination of foods that nre
cheap, but at the same time sustain
ing.
The apparatus itself is six and a
half feet square and of the same
height. There is a window in the
side to permit light for reading or
studying, a couch, to permit the sub
ject to lie down; a pipe through
which air enters, and another through
which It Is expelled. The expelled air
Is caught and Its components ana
lyzed, for part of the food you eat
Is expelled with every breath.
The heat given off by the subject's
body is weighed and measured and
then carried off through a brass pipe
that has a current of cold water run
ning through it. The heat-absorbing
power of the pipe is enhanced by a
series of copper disks that are sol
dered to it. The method is merely
the reverse of that practiced in bring
ing heat into ^ room by the hot-wa
ter method. In one, the cold water
carries it away; in the other the hot
water brings it in. The exact amount
of heat expelled from the subject's
body Is measured by the flow of cold
water, one calorie of heat being nec
essary to raise one kilogram of water
one degree centigrade.
i Minqlinq Kis Politics With Virgil and Horace
ACCORDING to Arthur Krock, that
bright luminary of a favorite Blue
Grass paper, who loves to mingle his
politics with the classic honey of Vir
gil and Horace, Representative McDer
mott of the stock yards district in Chi
cago is lacking in his appreciation of
the beauties of the dead languages. Ar
thur, with a cigar one and one-half
yards long, In a voice which would
have soothed the raging brine, told
this yarn In the press gallery.
"Robert Gordon, who Is now ser
geant-at-arms of the house,” said Ar
uur, "studied Latin twenty years ago,
when ho was a schoolboy, and evi
dently he clings to a knowledge of It.
Two members of the house got Into a
wordy row a few days ago. They
reached the point where they began
•o roar at one another. Mr. Gordon,
sergeant-at-arms, sat nervously flnger
- Ing the mace surmounted by the In
toxicated eagle which Is the symbol
of his authority.
" 'If I had my way,' ho said to the
stock yards statesman, Td pitch them
out nolens volens.1
“ ‘You’d do what?' said McDermott,
whoso native tongue Is that of Me
Carey's Indians, near Sixty-third and
Halstead streets, Chicago.
“Mr. McDermott sought out a friend:
“ ‘That sergeant-at-arms is a Dago,,
he complained.
"The Chicago man explained the
situation. The friend, unable to recon
cile Mr. McDermott’s memory’ of what
Gordon had said with any language he
had ever studied, asked Mr. Gordon
about it. Then the friend went to Mc
Dermott and explained:
‘He said he would throw them out
nolens volens, which ii Arabic for
head over heels.’ ”
“Jawbreakers” Cause Much Laughter in Senate
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WHEN Henry M. Hose, assistant |
secretary of the senate, arrived
at his office the other day he wore a
harassed, hunted look. His mood was
P«t lifted when Senator Gallinger en
tered with a hearty "Good morning"
■sit-rnn apparently radiant emile. Mr.
Roae gritted his teeth and showed
symptoms of apoplexy. This was the
reason:
Secretary Rose, acting as reading
clerk, was struggling through the first
pages of the tariff bill the day before
when Senator Gallinger arose.
*'We have now reached paragraph
Old “Mammy” Is Entertai
FOLK who know William Gibbs Mc
Adoo, secretary of the treasury.
MB an austere, dignified person would
have been surprised the other after
noon to see him standing in the big
deception room of his office in the
1 treasury department engaged in an
*li}tliBat6 conversation on childhood
episodes with an old colored mammy.
Pjj After It was over the secretary frank
ly eoafessed he Just had enjoyed the
^ Most pleasurable visit he'd had since
Ae entered the cabinet.
The old mammy was Julia Gibson.
I daother of seventeen children and who
t- pflii lives In the McAdoo home town.
I |p— came to the treasury department
go eon on the secretary, and not only
| vrao she received, but she was enter
| isthed for more than an hour while a
crash Of business and visitors, as well
| oi treasury officials, waited.
I * Incidentally the secretary Is treasur
- jpg vrhat he believes to be an Invalu
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24," said the senator gravely. ‘‘Whil6
the secretary had been doing very well
I hope he will read this clearly and
distinctly.”
“Coal tar products known as anidine
oil and salts and various other ar
ticles.” began Mr. Rose, blandly aud
halted.
"1 protest." said Senator Gallinger.
"He is not reading the complete para
graph."
Mr. Rose appealed to Vice-President
Marshall, but the latter was obdurate.
Pitching his voice so it reached for out
side the senate chamber and with an
agonised expression on his face, Mr.
Rose called off the various items.
"Toluldine, xylidin, cumidin, blni
trotoluol.” he chanted. "Blnltrobenzol,
bensidln, tolidln, dianisldin, naphty
lamin, diphenylamin, bensaldehyde.
benzyl chloride, nltrobensol and nitro
toluol, naphtylaminsulfoacids—”
At this point the gravity of the sen
ate gave way and members joined the
galleries in a burst of laughter.
ned by Secretary McAdoo
able memento of Aunt Julia's visit.
She left with him an old-fashioned
brown daguerreotype of his mother
and father that Aunt Julia and her
mother had preserved for perhaps
half a century. It was to present this
gift that Aunt Julia called. Her moth
er was the "mammy" of the secretary
during his babyhood and childhood.
Aunt Julia departed with a picture
of the building autographed and with
a message from the secretary telling
of the joy her visit caused.
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ECONOMY IN CANNING SEASON
Odds and Ends of Fruits and Vegeta
bles That Have Lost Their First
Freshness May Be Utilized.
On# bright woman noticed that her
market gardener always had some
vegetables and fruit left over each
day; some days there would not be
ntuch, other days there would be quite
a surplus. She saw that he was throw
ing away vegetables and frujt& that
only lacked their first freshness, so
she made arrangements with him to
buy all this surplus at a very small
price, and in this way get a winter's
supply of homemade canned goods at
a much less cost than in the usual
way. J
She makes ripe tomatoes up into
catsups, dries and pickles green beans
and peas, dries and cans sweet corn,
puts cucumbers down in pickle,
pickles young beets and cans them
and cans fruit or makes it into pre
serves and butters.
She lias found that canning by the
fireless method is a great saver. By
canning in this way the house is kept
cool, fuel Is saved and she is free
from the fear of water boiling away.
Clean and prepare the vegetables as
for all canning.
Select beets of uniform size and
leave in the cooker three and one-half
hours. Cauliflower should be separat
ed into its flowerets and well washed
to free from insects. Leave in the
oooker three hours. Asparagus, peas
and young string beans do not need
to be left in as long as harder vegeta
bles. Fruits should be canned in the
same way. Soft berries should be ta
ken from the cooker in three-quarters
of an hour. Apples and pears should
be left an hour. Pineapple would take
two and one-half hotirs.
SUPERIOR EVEN TO GOOD PIE
Apple Puffa a Delicious Method of Pre
paring Dessert That Is Popular
With All.
Pare and slice six tart apples; stew
them and strain them through a col
ander; sweeten and add a pinch of
salt; let this cool while you make
your paste, of two spoonfuls of butter
worked into, eight spoonfuls of flour;
add ice water to make consistency of
bread dough; put on a molding board
and roll quite thin; scatter small
pieces of butter over this, and dredge
with flour, then fold it up and roll
quite thin again; repeat this operation
any number of times, always rolling
the paste into something like a square
form. Cut the paste into pieces four
inches squire, put a small spoonful of
sauce on one-half of the square, mois
ten the paste around it with water,
and fold the other half over it. Make
the edges perfectly smooth. Bake in
a dripping pan, lined with paper, in a
quick oven. When you take them
from the oven sift a little powdered
sugar over each puff.
Boiled Hank of Beef.
This Is a part of tl*e beef that most
people consider useless, but this way
it is all right. Wash the hank and
make a dressing as for turkey. Salt
the meat and spread the dressfhg over
it, roll up and tie by winding quite a
lot of string around it. Then sew up
in a thin cloth, a piece of cheese cloth
is nice to use. Put a plate in a pot
and lay the meat on it, put in about
six quarts of boiling water and boil
gently about six hours. When done
remove the cloth, but. do not remove
the string until cold. Slice thin and
I think you will say it is all right.
You can use the corned or the fresh
flank. If you use the corned, don’t
have it corned too much.
Bread and Butter Crisps.
For this a fresh loaf, baked so as to
give a square slice, will be needed.
With a sharp knife cut off all the
crust; butter one end sf the loaf and
shave off in the thinnest slices pos
sible. Roll each slice up tightly and
fasten with a wooden toothpick. Lay
on a flat pan, and place in a quick
oven until crisp and lightly browned.
Remove the toothpick, and serve hot
or cold; they are specially good with
a salad.
Sugar Potatoes.
Six sweet potatoes, one cup white
sugar, one-half cup water, one tea
spoonful butter. Parboil, peel and cut
potatoes into quarter-inch slices. Cook
the other ingredients to form a sirup.
Place the slices of potato In the sirup
and si miner gently for an hour, then
let the Blrup boil away until it is al
most dry. Serve with meats.
Salt Cutlets.
Soak six thin slices of salt pork in
milk and water over night. Roll each
slice in flour and fry crisp and brown
in lard. Then dip each slice in beaten
egg, roll in bread crumbs and re
turn for a few moments to the hot fat.
A good relish.
Icing Improved.
Icing for cake may be prevfnted
from racking when cut by adding one
tablespooqful of sweet cream to each
uneaten egg. Stir all up together,
then add sugar stiff as can be stirred.
To Whiten Feathers.
Plunge the feathers in naphtha,
rinse in second dish of naphtha, and
dry in the open air. Place in a closed
box and expose to the strong fumes
of sulphur. The box must be air
tight, or the bleaching will not be suc
cessful.
To Mend Matting.
Any torn place may be invisibly
mended. Darn back and forth with
raffla the color of the matting. Even
badly worn places may be successful
ly mended in this way.
CNE OF THE LATE A. N. BRADY’S ENTERPRISES
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Photograph of the Tennessee Power company s plant at Hales Bar, on the Tennessee river near Chat
nooga This is one of the late Anthony N. Brady’s enterprises, costing $S,000 000. The dam win bo coaph
in September 1913, and will furnish 56,000 hydro-horse-power. The government locks at this point are
largest in the world, except those in Panama. Mr. Brady’s investments in various enterprises around Cha
nooga represented an expenditure of $12,000,0%).
CAVE 20 MILES LONG
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Woodsmen Report Discovery in
the Olympic Mountains.
Strange Sights In Great Cavern De
scribed by Two Men Who Stum
bled Upon Entrance to Place
Quite by Accident.
Seattle. Wash.—John M. Gilgore and
Robert Reid, woodsmen, came to Seat
tle to report their discovery of a gi
gantic cave in the heart of the Olymp
ic mountains in the northwest part of j
the state.
They describe the cave as being j
about twenty miles long and half a
mile wide in places, with large rooms j
filled with amazing things. It has an
entrance and an exit and lies in a re
gion easyf of access.
The woodsmen were cruising, or
measuring standing timber, when they
found the entrance to the cave on the
south side of a small mountain. Pro
curing lanterns and supplies, they ven- j
tured in and spent fourteen hours
wandering from room to room, finally
coming into daylight twenty miles fur
th#r south and about one mile lower
In altitude.
They say they are the first white [
men to enter the cave, although In- |
dians or prehistoric men may have j
lived there, for there are numerous \
human skulls and bones in one room
near the south entrance.
The entrance is high enough to per
mit a man to walk in erect. Once
inside Gilgore and Reid found
themselves in a room with a low
ceiling, but which glistened like
glass and was and and damp.
They found the room to be studded
with stalactites, ten to twenty feet, |
protruding from the sides of the walls
The floor was composed of damp red
sand, and near one side was a small
stream, its bed worn out of the solid
rock.
Fifty feet further the low room
spread out Into a court and another
larger room with a high celling. Over
the floor and under the flat rocks ran
myriads of lizards and snakes. It ap
peared to be the wintering place for
all the reptiles In the, Olympic moun
tains. The lizards were of every land
species and of every size.
Hurryljng through this cavern Gil
gore and Reid, holding hands for mu
tual aid and to assure each other con
fidence, entered a wonderful rotunda
with a dome and walls of white silica
or lime rock. They estimated the
length of this room to be close to 1,000
feet and from 2.000 to 3,000 feet wide.
The ceiling ranges from 60 to 100
fept on the sides to several hundred
feet in the domed center.
The light from the lanterns would
not penetrate to the top of the domed
selUtig. This room was bare as far,
as curios were concerned. It remind
ed them of a monster ballroom await
ing guests. The floor was level.
Following the general trend of the
cave the men worked their way for
two miles over rocks, across abysses
and around pools of water of unknown
depth, until they came upon a yawn
ing pit Here they fllied one lantern
with a fresh supply of oil and threw
the empty bottle into the pit Reid
counted 30 before the bottle was
heard striking the rocks on the bot
tom of the pit.
Once around this deep black hole
the men found easy going and came i
upon another room filled with a
strange odor. This was believed to
be produced by'sulphur bearing rocks
In the formation of the walls. It was
very nauseating.
Believing that they would have to j
turn back because of this gas, the
men suddenly emerged Into another
room in which they felt fresh air blow
ing in a strong current through the i
cavern. They were unable to trace
Its origin, but were fairly carried by
the current into another separate
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room wjiere the lanterns were not
needed, because phosphorous rocks
made everything as bright as day. The
air was fresh and sweet here, evident
ly coming from an aperture in the side
of the mountain.
Ten minutes more brought them in
to a room where many skulls and h^
man bones lay in small piles, as if the
room had been used as a vault for the
dea^. Stone arrow heads and stone
mortars were observed.
Hand in hand the two men hurried
along and after more than 14 hours
came upon a straight, low arched
passageway and saw daylight through
a hole so tiny it looked like a keyhole.
The hole was really the south en
trance of the cave and the discover
ers found themselves in the mountains
again and fully 20 miles from camp.
With a party of students from the
State university they will again visit
the cave and obtain pictures and draw
ings. *
STAGE BEAUTY ON VACATION
Louise Dresser Picks Blackberries at
Her Summer Home, "Sun Crest,”
at Mount Vernon.
New York.—Now that the signs
"Closed for the Season” are posted in
front of the theaters, those who pay
good money to be entertained and
amused, are as much interested in
their favorite pastime or summer
(Photo, by Underwood A Underwood, N. T.)
Stage Beauty on Vacation.
haunts, as they are when the “Gay
White Way" is all a-gleam with bril
liant lights. That the inherent comedy
of those whose names appear as "head
liners” In the field of fun is with them
at all times, Is shown in this photo
graph of Louise Dresser, taken at her
summer home, “Sun Crest,” Mount
Vernon, as she was picking berries.
Sees After Fifteen Years.
New York.—Mrs. John McCafferty,
eighty-five, of this city, who has been
blind for 15 years, has just seen an
automobile for the first lime. She also
saw a number of hobble skirts, which
met with the old lady's instant disap
proval. Although several doctors had
declared the condition of her eyes
hopeless an operation for the romoval
of cataracts was successful.
Aged Couple Re-Wed After Divorce.
Philadelphia.—Jacob K. Dimmick,
who obtained a divorce five years ago
on the grounds of incompatibility of
temper, and Mrs. Anna Ross Dimmick,
both about seventy years old, have
been remarried. Roth declared that
single life was too lonely.
MAN HEAD FIRST INTO jjR
Six Others Hurt in Blaze; CockeiHn
Remains Until Tail
Takes Fire.
Kearny, N. .1.—V'hen fighting®
fire In the Kearny ({at compaaj^K
factory', No. 7 Sheridan avenue, Jq^Bl
Durkin of Hose Company No. *fl
tripped over a live wire and then
headforemost into a barrel of hflT
Durkin's life was saved only ifl|
cause several of his companions we^B
near him. They promptly seized hl^K
by the legs, and with great eSo^K
hauled him out of his sticky prisoflf
Tar covered his mouth and was j^B
his nostrils. Quickly the other fhi^E
men scraped the tar away from Du^B
kin's mouth so he was able to ggfl[
his breath. Then they called a stifle
geon, who found tho man had beefl
burned badly. IK
Six other firemen were injured, lOflf
men fled for their lives, and enginfl|
companeis were called out froiflj
Arlington and Newark to fight th^B
fire, which caused a damage of $25,fl
000. For a time it threatened tifl
spread through the town, and befl
cause of that extra calls for engine^*
were sent out. fl
Harry T. Boglln, general managefl
of the company, had just left his offl
flee and boarded a train for his aumfl
mer home In Asbury Park when thafl
watchman saw the flames on thefl
fourth floor of the flve-story strucB
ture. One hundred men were work-!
lng in the building. All of the womfl
cn employes had gone to their homeiB
The watchman turned in an alarm!
and then ran into the building and!
shouted a warning. A stampede of!
the men followed. In their haste to!
get out many fell down stairways and!
were bruised. j*
Several firemen were cut by falling*
glass when a large window on tha*
fourth floor broke. Huge pieces offl
glass fell into barrels of hot tar,I
which were in the rear yard of the*
factory, causing the stuff to spatter*
and strike three firemen, who were*
burned by It. 9
Throughout the Are a white Leg*
horn rooster was perched on top of
the building, crowing vigorously, It
spite of heat and smoke. Bets wer»
being made as to whether or not
there would be roast chicken, when
the rooster, its tall feathers singed,
flew to the ground and strutted awtj.
NEPHEW WILL WED HIS AUNT
Entanglements In the Family Tree
Will Be Something Awful to
Contemplate.
Los Angeles, Cal—Emil Orlva.
twenty-three, Lob Angeles, to b
line O. Orlva, twenty-three, P0™“a'
Ore. That’s all that was recorded o»
the marriage license by Clerk R.
Sparks, but later be drew up
flushed a few times and scratched
bead. Then he tried to figure out m
Orlva family tree. ^"
This Is what will happen when
marital knot unites Mr. Orlva and **»
Orlva: Miss Oriva’s brother win
come her father-in-law. Miss moth*r
slster-in-law will become hermotw
ln-law. Mlsa Orlva, by marriage to »
Orlva. marries her own nephew »
gets a husband at the 8ame tim^
Now for the bridegroom. His» r
father becomes his brother-ln-w
marries his aunt by marriage.
“Let’s see." said Sparks, why, W
the children will be sisters o
own mother.”_
Deer Ate Their Scarecrow.
New York.—Henry Davl* °* ^
Island, to frighten off d*er.th lblH,
ed his garden and ate his v g
made two men-llke scarecrows ^
appeared ghastly at n,^‘d rBC#Bt
glare of two lanterns. The ae ^
ed the new hay which PaddedtbgB1.
scarecrowB and came and
The deer then butted out -
♦eras and fled.