i - WHAT PEOPLE SHOULD EAT ; health and «ondition would amount = even otherwise to the healthy body. however, PROTEIDS ARE THE ABSOLUTE NEED. Here Is an Ideal Dict for Healthy Man Deseribed By a- Docter. Physiologists tell us that the food of man should consist of proteids, fats, carbohydrates, mineral ealts, and water; but that these are not of equal importance. The proteids, mineral salts and water are abso- Intely necessary to maintain life; while the fats 'and of their forms) can, in case of need, bo be manufactured within the body when proteids are supplied to it in sufficient quantity. These proteids, of which egg-albu- men is probably the most familiar example, are the chief source of energy within the body, and are employed at once in the repair and replacement of the cells of which the bodily tissues consist, and of the protoplasm which they contain, and which forms, as many think, the reat-of life.. They are broken up mainly in the muscular tissue for the productio n of physical see and it is said. that. some part of them is excreted from the blood as urea. without forming any part 'of| the cellular tissue. Where Proteids The proteids are present in vary- ing proportion in all flesh- foods, in milk and. its derivatives, and in eggs, as well as in cereals, peas and beans, and some other vegetables. They are practically the sole source «of the nitrogen required by man's! body, neither fats nor earbohy- drates containing any. we take a man of 154 pounds in weight as the, normal type, we find that when doing little or no work his daily output by all excre- tory processes is nearly one-half an ounce of nitrogen and seven ounces ef carbon; and it is therefore con- sidered that at least this amount is required to be taken into the body during ,a day. As, however, this makes no allowance for waste or for expenditure in the shape of. heat or work, nor for the storing up of Are Present. reserve in the shape of muscle or} fat, it is necessary to provide a somewhat greater supply. An amount of more than half an ounce of nitrogen to nine ounces of car- 'bon in the daily food is shown by experience to be what is necessary, 'and this for a man of average th part - This Solid Food, however, can evidently be adminis- tered in different forms. Oatmeal, which contains nitrogen and carbon in about the right proportion of one | to fifteen ought, theoretically, to suffice; but the large quantity of it which would have to be taken would throw so much work on the diges- tive organs as to make it impossible in.practice. Hence it is necessary, in order to get at a proper mini- mum, to combine with it some food, such as bacon, eggs or cheese, -- give a higher supply of nitro with less strain on the diiestion. Bread, again, which contains a pro- portion of nitrogen to carbon as_ nearly as high as oatmeal, makes an excellent staple of diet and is} open to fewer objections otherwise According to Dr. Waller, in his 'Human Physiology,' * an ideal diet for a man in good health would be a pound of bread, half a pound of meat, a quarter of a pound of fat, a pound of potatoes, half a pint of milk, a quarter of a pound of eggs, and an eighth of a pound of cheese every day is "probable, however, that neither this nor any other system of diet based on scientific principles , would keep a man for long in good} health. The organism demands va- riety, and if it does not get it, re- sents the fact by Refusing to Do its Work, It is a well-known fact that with most people any form of food in- dulged in day after day ceases to be digested, as witness the wagers stil] Jaid i in America as to the number of pigeons that a man can consume in the one of a week. For the same reason, prospect of a:future in "which tabloids, or very small -quan- tities of some jelly, will form all our food is an illusion, and not all} the talent of writers like Mr. Wells! éan make us believe in its realiza- | tion. Man's excess ed digestive organs evolved from his | beast-like forefathers would cer- tainly rebel with fatal against any such ethereal fare. The upshot of the whole matter is| 'that man demands a varied as well! as a sustaining diet, wne form of food should be adhered to for long. Hence even the occa-/ sional excesses of seaxons' like the! present probably have' their uses and if sufficiently infrequent may be beneficial rather than sight of, that 1 per cent. of one's jotal weight in solid food 'is' quite Sufficient, not only to support Jife, 'bnt to provide one: with all the lt should not be lost | neatly all the. F effects | and that no! that we should RES all be bet- we oa keeping as near to this hmit . ESSE ES Tae 2 PEACE CENTENARY. the Association, The movement for celebrating the Hundred Years of Peace be- tween the British ire and the} wid United States is, peas by @ cir- cular ame issued e Canadian Centen ascents ion pines rapid hold in "Canad, Great Britain aad the United States. The general proposals contain four main fea- tures, (1) Monuments and other memorials, (2) Thanksgiving Ser- vices in the churches, (3) Education- al Propaganda, (4) Festivities. The circular enumerates various sug- gestions regarding the erection of monuments, and states that the matter has been referred to an™In- ternational Committee. February 14, 1915, has -- been selected for Thanksgiving Services in all the churches of, the British Empire and the Unig States. This date is the nearest Bunday to February 17, 1915, the centenary of the ratification of the Treaty of Ghent. The educati propaganda; in- eludes several important features among which may be mentioned the gg ape 9 ion of a series of pam- phlets dealing -with the various | Proatien Which have made the long | peace possible, which it is intended | to send to. all the schools in Can- jada. Tableaux and masques are in course of preparation which will also be sent*go the schools for pro- duction upon hk date to be hereafter arranged. A somewhat unique pro- posal is that schools in Canada and the United States in places bearing the same name should be invited to exchange Shields. It is intended to arrange for the writing of com-} etitive Essays on Anglo-American relations and provision is being made for Provincial and Dominion prizes. About 100 centres have been chosen for special celebrations in Canada and strong local Com- mittees have been arranged for in majority of these. The cireular also reports the progress made in Great Britain and the United States and contains replies received Jast Christmas from World Rulers to a message sent in connection with the celebration by the American Committee. The Dominion Government has arranged for an appropriation to meet the preliminary organization expenses. The . list of members is a most peprese mieten one and contains the all ernors all the L a. Among those prominent in this Province who have identified them- selves with this movement may be mentioned :--The President of the Canadian Peace Centenary Asso- ciation is Sir Edmund Walker of } Toronto, and the Honorary Secre- tary Major Hamilton. Those désiring copies of the Cir- cular should address Mr. E. Scammell, Orguaiving -- Secretary, Hope Chambers, Otta -*F SUPPRESSING SLAVERY. Practically Abolished in Every Civilized Nation on Earth. There are some relics of slavery | vet in certain colonies, says the | Christian Herald, which the home | governments are striving earnestly to sweep away: It is reported that |the French Colonial Office has at | last succeeded in abolishing the) slave markets of Morocco, A Paris} | paper charges that 3,000 slaves are | 'imported inte Moroceo every year. | Recently Premier Asquith, of! | England, received a memorial sign- 'ed by such names as Lord Cromer, Lord Curzon and Mr. Bryce, asking for some government action to sup press this traffic, which is conduct ed over boundaries controlled by | England. Nowhere has our mod ;ern civilization or our modern | Christianity more powerhilly mani- | fested itself than in the destruction of physical slavery and the guaran- tee of intellectual, politica!l,. moral and religious liberty. God abolish ed the slavery of Egypt many cen- turies ago, when he took his-people from the bondage of Pharaoh. a | Outspoken Jndge. One of the famous English judges, after hearing a civil action, in which there had been some remark- ably hard swearing on both si j thus addressed the jury: "Gentle- men of the jury, if you believe the |evidence tendered by the witnesses called on behalf of the plaintiff you | jwill find for the plaintiff. If you! believe the defendant's you_will find for the defendant. like myself, you:believe none of | them, heaven knows what your ver- | dict will be.' ' Still more succinct was the summing up in the trial ofa ;man ¢ large with etealing some ducks. The evidence against him was overwhelming, but along. pro- cession of witnesses came to testify to his blameless life. "Gentlemen of the jury," said.the judge, "I think you will agree with me. that the plaintiff stole.the ducks, and that 'he is the most popular man -in If, { 'energy one needs for one day, and 7 the county." Four Main Features Proposed by. es witnesses | DR. re CONAN DOYLE. | Pepslar Writer Paying Visit te Former United States 2 widely known in the United. States than any other Engli This} is undoubtedly true. For there 8 hardly a man, woman or child in all America who is not acg with his name, as that of the creator of that world-f famed sleuth, - Sherl , United States and Canada. | of ae 2 With no eroubla; but -mueh tribu- tion, You soar, in company with the fe Deserihed and Analyzed. ew! it's hot!' a is! And so afe you. spire, and palpitate, r! mounting mercury, to the maximum of dilapi rt, and then to. the-te gag beauty--when you need- Holmes. But Conan Doyle, who is about to spend some tims in Canada, has many other claims to popular at- tention on this side of the Atlantic besides the conception of this great detective. It-is to him more thaa to anyone else that 'his compatriots are indebted for the creation of a Court of Criminal Appeal. Until four or five years ago there was no means in Great Britain of qu ing the sentence of anyone con- victed of crime through a judicial error. Judgment in civil suits could always be appealed. But the deci- sions of the criminal courts were final, and irrevocable. To-day there is, thanks to Conan Doyle, a Court of Criminal Appeal, where all wrongful convictions and judicial errors can be righted. If Conan Doyle was led to take a leading part. in the public mave- ment-for the creation ofa Court of Criminal Appeal, it ealiite: inter- est had been aroused by. the' fate of two victims. of judicial error, namely, Adolph Beck, and English citizen of Swedish birth, and a law- er--a solicitor--of the name of George Edalji, whose parentage was Eurasian, that is to say, his mothet was an Englishwoman, while his father was the son of a Parsee mer- chant of Bombay. After receiving his education at an English univer- sity, the father had entered the or- ders of the Church of England and had obtained the rectorship of a country parish in the Midlands In the face of almost insuperable difficulties of an official character, tage due to red tape and partly to the determination of the Govern- my Dr. : A. Conan Doyle. ment lawless of the presiding judge, of the* jnembers of the jury, and of the 'police to uphold their contention that they could not pos- sibly have' been wrong in the case of Ado!ph Beck, Sir Arthur-Conan Doyle ended by proving that it was a case of mistaken identity. Conan Doyle, indeed, stirred up so much popular feeling about the matter, especially when he was able | to show that the unfortunate Beck | | had had his entire business ruined / | through his arrest and conviction, ; that the Government was led to | make him a special grant of $15,000. | Doyle 'after graduation started | | out in medical practice at Southsea, }and there published his work. "A Study in Scarlet,"--in | 'which Sherlock Holmes makes his | \debut. 'The Adventures of Sher- lock Holmes" followed four years! later, in 1891, and the book proved | so much of a popular success that} Doyle to a great.extent abandoned | his 'medical practice and devoted | himself to writing novels and plays, thanks to which he is to-day a very rich man. Sir Arthur has been twice mar- ried. His first wife died after twenty-two years of wedded. happi- ness in 1906, and about two years later he led to the altar the present Lady Doyle, who was a Miss Jean Leckie. With her and with his two children by his first wife he makes his home at Windlesham, his charm- ing country place in Sussex near Crowborough, while in town he di- i vides his tame between the Athe- 'neum.and the Reform Club. e has always been an enthusias- |tie cricketer, is a veteran member (of that premier cricket organiza- 'tion the Marylebone Cricket Club, has travelled extensively to Arctic regions, in the west of Africa and in the Soudan, did a. quantity ef shooting in the Rocky Mountains twenty years ago, in the Selkirk Range, north of Banff, which he in- tends to visit with Lady Doyle be- fore. returning home, and takes. a leading part in all sorts of public movements, to which his personal} popularity and the gift of his pen are' invaluable, j jbe ou Hitak tee oodler" yout. wilt =a Don't drink, "but try earliest That's good for the winter, off. In June wrap . yourself" up héavily, pile the clothing on, and go for a quick, hard walk--four milés out and home. You'll perspire profusely, and by the excess of sweat on your brow you'll know your lack' of condition. Keep going--don't stop and get a -|chill--and on your ae have a tepid bath at on hree or four walks like that, ehis dunk bells or other exercise, and you wi get rid of your accumulation of fat. Alsé, the pores of your skin will be open, and acting, and that will en- alte it to "breathe." As a result, you'll pant and perspire less. Then. you must consider your Some colors attract the others don't. Black, mauve, and). brown are "hot" Vhhite, blue, and grey are * ose a cool color. Texture and ght, too, are impo rtant. So se a loosely-woven light cloth, sopething that-you can see through held up to the light. ear nothing tight or close-fit- at the neck, wrists, waist, or There's as much, if not more, dressiness in a studied "cool lessness" as in the orthodox barld-box style. For the neck a soft, loose collar, with a half-inch stud, to give plemty Pv play. For the wrists, wide links, not buttons. Let the cuffs et starched, not soft. | heat; Underclothing should be of the mebh variety, and of linen, not wool. Socks, to be quite hygienic an{l coo}, should have the toes cut off, Try that, and note the differ- enc ood, naturally, plays an impor- tatt part in '"'keeping cool." Por- ridge, farinaceous foods, meat, all foods, should be ked off, and fruit, fish, salads, and green vegetables eaten. ood is fuel, and you don't in hot wea- eecl. so much of it, and cer- ly not that, sort which produces washing your mouth out with warm walter and lemon juice. Plunge your wrists in cold water. Have your hair short, especially at. the back., Wear_a light and ven- tilated hat. Get your tailor, or your wife, to puncture sume small \holes under the armpits of your i coat, -- The '""eqol'? feeling is deli- cious. There you are! Get into condi- tion; wear the right clothes; eat proper food; drink but little; at- tend to the little hints given above ; ya this July and August you'll be as cool as a cucumber ! CAUSES OF CANCER. Infectiv ads. It often happens that the ravages of diseases the origin of which ap-|}- pears to be wrapped up in obscur- ity are eventually traced to the tsimplest causes, says Dr. Charles | Reinhardt. us consumption 18 | known to depend upon the repeat- ed inhalation of impure air, and its prevention and final extinction will | follow the general recognition o the value of fresh air. Scurvy, which once was the scourge of the sajlor, was traced to the use of | preserved and salted foods, and ma- ' larial-fever is now known to be due exclusively to the presence of mos- quitoes. ! Cancer is at once the most dis- tressing obscure of all diseases, and the continual increase in its preva- lence is becoming a most serious na- tional. menace. Pathological re- search has failed to throw any light upon the cause of cancer, and has led to no suggestion either as to prevention or cure. here are 'many, however, who have come to regard this disease as the result of persistence in dietetic errors coup- led with exposure to infection, and many instances seem to suggest that certain houses and districts are especially cancer-ridden. The € Thecry- is is Advanced--Old Wooden Bedstead | | recent publication of a series of caseg@oceurring in successive ten- ant an old cottage in' which there was a wooden. bedstead left there by the landlord points strong- ly to the accuracy of the infective the | theory. Now's the Time. 'A porter in London was, engaged in cleaning a luggage van when the door Swung back striking him vio- lently on the head. "Oh, Pat," he exclaimed to an Irishman standing on the platform, "I believe I've opened my head!" 'Well, now's the time to put something into it," was fate witty reply, - J Whole Art or. vdeicg Cool You} b if you et to the fair sex-- vel, the low level, of heat. but. bad for the summer. Train it f| electric sprinkling system acte % IMPEDENT Sw CaGLERS. Strange atuae on the 'English | . Coast in _ Olden Days. It was not 80, ever, ends the British smugglers o the -- eighteenth 'century. Their. effrontery was often amazing. In "King's Cutters: and Simu; Wwe revenue cutter which, after giving chase to a smuggling vessel, came up to the latter. Shots 'were ex- chahged, but the smuggler turned his swivel guns on the government craft with such hot -effect'that the revenue captain deemed it, prudent to give up th® fight and hurry away as fact as Lite after reins the positions were reve the smugglers gotusles chased the reve- nue cutter, During the year 1777, one of the English customs officials wrote sad- ly to the board that there was a large lugger off the coast, so well armed that she was greatly an over- match for even two of the revenue ernisers. It seems almost ludicrous to read that a smuggling vessel once came into a bay, found a reve- nue cruiser lying quietly at anchor, and ordered the cruiser immediate- ly .to cut his cable and clear out; otherwise the smugglers promised to sink her. The revenue cutter's commander didnot eut his cable, but he actually had to get his an- chor up pretty promptly, and qtear out as he was told, he treasury books and. papers tg this period show similar cases. 1 July, 1743, some smugglers had | ated the custom house boat at Do- ver, and coolly employed her for their own purposes in 'running tea. The custom officers deemed mat- ters to be in such a state that they begged for a man-of-war to be sta- tioned on that coast to prevent smuggling. Similarly, in January, 1743, during a skirmish near Arun- del between the preventive men as- sisted by some dragoons against a band _of smugglers, the latter wounded three of the soldiers, and carried off an officer and two other dragoons on board the smugglers' cutter. At Folkestone about this time three men who were trying to make an arrest were carried off by the smugglers, and the supervisor at Colchester was also carried off, but was released on promising not to mention the smugglers' names, tment i cictniaisiatmttin BED LIGHT FOR RADISHES,. ey st ties ~ Show "Bllect ~ Golered Lights on Plant Life. Market gardening by electricity, one of the many suggestions carried |? in the voluminous reports made at the United States Electric Light Association in New York recently, is a strange poembility of the pro- gress of the century. And it is a possibility that will be realized no doubt, in that day, when there will bevan electric switch on every post that-once served to hold the family 'clothes lines. With radishes it .was demon- strated that alternating high-fre- quency current, rained down from overhead wires, -made the best showing. The total plant weight of a bunch of, ten, was represented similar bunelr taken from the tro Lettuce showed an excess of al- 'most 2! grams for ten plants, by percentage a better result en was obtained with the radishe In Mr: £.°K.> Chatterton. -tells of 'al "| the 'visiting nurse activities second place, however, adiilives had tastes of their own, betraying | an affinity for the ruby electric | light. The dainty lettuce flourished | , second beat in the violet light, The in! every case as a retarding influence on the crops, but the outstanding | figures--the ones the experimenters | are not able to forget--are those | which show that the weight of the; lettuce crop was iggreased some 75! per cent, by the Wigh frequency | eels | It remains to be seen whether in the days to come, when the coal | 'supply is dwindling, and every Wo- | man demands her motorcar, Tel shall have an extra "juice" shower down from costly Seathead | wires in plain and) plebeian vege- | table gardens. And what would} happen if Katy, the cook, strolling of a morning in the-garden, should | walk into one of the charged beds} fo pluck a bit of a bunch of rad-| eis for breakfast? The dancing of | her would be wonderful, no doubt, | and the crop! 'Twould be neces- | sary to turn on the green light to | save it. | a o eeneetiabeeteemendl - | A Pawky Proposal. "You've been courting me now | for a number of years, George," re-| marked a girl 'to a young "man, ! "and I want to make a little leap- year proposal." am not in a position to m--marry just vet. stammered the youth, "'but-----"' "Who said anything about mar- riage?' interrupted the girl. 'I was going to propose that you.stop coming here and give sumeébody else a chance." | neage Bra to fly fast and far. | wards SCOTLAND NOTES OF INTEREST FROM HED BANKS AND BRAES. What fs Golog on tn the Highlands gud Lowlands of Aulé Seotis. : Asquith's expenses "in the! recent 'by-election in East Fife amounted to $1,710. It has been decided that no pic- ture shows shall be allowed 4 Sun- day at Buckhaven and Meth: w( start has been made iti the eastorren scheme of the old. Chureh of Buittle, near Dalbeattie. Milngavie Town Council has sent to the parks committee a proposal to construct an opén-air swimming pond, Dr. J. I. Craig, Kirkealdy, has been appointed certifying surgeon under the Factory and Workshop Acts for Kirkcaldy. r. James Ohristie, chief con- stable, Greenock, has recommend- ed an all-round increase for the lo- cal police force. A serious case of cheep-worrying is reported from the Arrochar dis- trict, where 16 lambs were killed by a dog that is still at large. The -statute labor committee « lasgow corporation has approve of an. important scheme' for -t! widening of Stockwell Street. At a meeting of the Glasgow Hig! School Club it was decided to pro- ceed with a scheme for the acquisi- Mr. tion of an athletic ground at An- niesland, Builders' laborers at work in, Blackfriar's Street, Carlisle, un- earthed two skulls, which are sup: posed to be those of two ' Black) Friars.' The annual report of the Zoologi- | cal Society of Scotland states that | there has been a surplus of $7,000 on the year's working of the Zoo-! logical Park at Corstophine. Altogether 1,140 passengers left) the Clyde on a recent Saturday for Canada and the United States, a total far sar that of the 'corres- f last vear. pie £6 al and villa, owned by G. T. McArthur of Chryston, near Glasgow, were de- stroyed by fire, and eight inmates tad a narrow escape. At Dumbarton, Henry Brand, a\ es was fined $15 for frighten- ing a pony by fixing a pail to its tail and causing it to run a distance offour miles along the road. » The death has occurred at Arrow! | River of Mr. James Mitchell, a na-}. the Dalmellington een closed for three i pe le to the prevalenee of scarla-! tina. en, Sn DAYTON ALMOST ELYSIUM. Pure Milk, Free Medical-and Legal! Advice For the Poor, Since Jan. Dayton, Ohio, been under 'ies care of city ager, with the result that.: A purchasing department has al- ready saved enough on supplies to pay 'all the -Vear's weeenaee of this branch of administratior Three baby clinics and, pure milk stations have. been established, and have has man been centralized. Five district physicians have bee appointed to attend to those wh cannot afford the services of a pri- vate physician. For giving free legal advice -- those unable to emp!oyv an attorney a bureau has been established with to very limited arropriation. Over one hundred eases received con- sideration during the first month of its existence. A fire prevention survey has re- duced the fire runs 20 per cent, Modern-ijdeas in sanitation, clean- liness. good food, personal welfare jand the parole system are heing worked out in the correcti iD. in- stitutions. , ARMOUR-PROOF PLANT. Pilot Seated Behind tiun-Experi- ments Satisfactory. French military officers are ex- perimenting with the first armored aeroplane, equipped with a ma- chine gun mounted over the en- gine. Bullet-proof plates of hard- ened steel protect the working parts of the aeroplane, and a V-shaped shield screens both the gunner and the ammunition. -The pilot seated behind the gunner and the gan is mounted | high enough te eliminate any pos- sibility hitting the prepellor when it is fired. The aeroplane it- ;se lf is of unusually substantial con- struction, designed toestand hard The experiments are direct to- ascertaining the influence of gun fire. upon the stability af the aeroplane, and sv far the results have been satisfactory. t is believed that the almored aeroplanes equ ipped with machine guns will be the most formidable aniagonist the military dirigible will have to face in the next arent. war.--Popular Mechanics. is uf | present