Evening Star Newspaper, September 10, 1898, Page 21

THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1898-24 PAGES. A PRIVAT FE HOUSE. THE CAPITAL OF CHILE The Queer Features of Life and Busi- ness There, { BIRD'S-EYE VIEW OF SANTIAGO eS Palaces Which Cover Acres and Cost Thousands. R HOTELS At E GOOD S. 1898. Is THE fe. It big as and in ANTIAGO apital of C most as hington from way to it is over the coa rangi , and you go from on like those n New Y n the ba cut in two } mac. is built wucia is per! any city of fort and « er, a walks where zing th stood upon of the idst of a nade of green. These vases, whic yout patios venue, jen Linden mount. cts a 1 ws an ne arbor heroes, hout its full i with pec viewed fi Santa Lucia t parks of Cousino and the or the Agricultural Col- ace course, ne’ and the v has recently been mg the >. The 3 o itself Is one « wonders. It is B than wide, it runs through the 2 distance of about this length its one, and its banks m: walls, which are now Uned with shade trees. A Strect Car Ride for a Cent. But let us go Gown from Santa Lucia and take a ride through Santiago on the top of one of the street cars. There is no better way of seeing a city than this, and the street car fares here are the cheapest of the whole world. The roof seats cost only 2 cents in silver, or about one cent of our money, and {t is worth more than that to get the smile which the pretty girl who acts as conductor gives us as she puts our money into the right pocket of her white apron. We notice that the streets are well paved with Belgian block. They are rather narrow, however, and the big oxcarts, which form the drays and freight wagons of Chile, are crowded almost to the walls of the houses as we go whizzing by. Ho- big the houses are and how low. Many of them cover acres and very few are of more than two stories, whiles the majority have not more than one. In the best parts of the city the houses have Greek fronts. They are al] of brick plastered smooth with yel- low or white stucco. Their doors are up- held by columns of stucco, and I am sure there are more Corinthian columns in San- Uage today than in Athens. Many of the residences are Itke Italian palaces, and homes, which have cost @ hundred thousand dollars and upward are many. I doubt whether there is a capital of its size in the World that spends so much money, and you two miles. ughout capital lies } River Ma- | and | have only to look at the well-dressed peo- ple on the streets and the fine turnou' rhich pass our tram as we ride through the that Santiago is a very The same thing is noticeable in ‘iness streets. There are fine as ‘Ss you will n an European the costli of diamonc windows. This mond markets, costliest _of all kinds of goods are in mand. The lows are well dress and San » see on our Ww: ral great s from one e the streets, another on one ci the pos er corridors at the ba self is a be -d with booths 2 K with fine stores. The pl utiful little park containing <6 eral fountains, palm trees and many :-opi- jetheir the weather just as our bureau at Wash- ington. It has the cheapest telegraph sys- tem I have ever met with in any country. The telegraph is owned by the government, and you can send a ten-word message to any part of Chile for about 7 cents of our money. There are now about 9,000 miles of wire in the country and all of the large cities can be reached by telegraph. The postal service is good. More than sixty million letters and newspapers are sent through the mails every year, and the mails are safe. Girls are employed as post- al clerks, and when I register this letter for the United States it will be a Chilean maid- en who will lick the stamps and give me the registry receipt. She will only charge mea sum eoual to three and one-half of our cents for doing so and the postage to the United States will be less than you will Pay our post office to send your letters to Chile. High Life in Santiago. I wish I could take you into some cf the big houses of Santiago and show you how the wealthy Chileans live. Every one here is now talking of hard times, and 1 am told that many of the supposedly very wealthy people are mortgaged to the eyes. How- ever that may be, they spend enormous amounts of mone and live like very princes. I nave b in houses here which had upward of fifty rooms, and which were furnished as expensively as some of th palaces of Europe. Many of them iiiiard rooms and ball rooms. hey ecnt fi paintings and statues and ele- gant furnishings. The curtains in one pal- ace on the Alameda cost $200,000, another house is a reprodnetion of the Alhambra in Spain, and a third, situated in a garden of five acres, has a series of beautiful halls, ending in a Moorish bath room, with a marble pool in the center of the flnor big enough to form ihe bath tub of an ele phant. ‘The most of these immense houses are of one or two stories, the rooms run- ring around patios or gardens. They have ceilings ich are fifteen or more feet bigh, and they are furnished with mor regard tc striking effect than to comfort. Much of the furniture is plated with gold leaf. and the general style of the hongings is French. There are no fireplaces nor stoves, nor chimneys with whieh they could be connected if desired. Still, San- tiego has a temperate climate. It is as cold here just now at Atlanta in the winter, and I am writing in my room at the hotel with my feet in a fur bag and a poncho over my shoulders. The Chilean fentlemen keep on their overcoats, and the ladies their furs in their parlors, ‘and it is rot ar uncommon thing for men to wear their top ccats over their dress suits when at dinner. What They Eat and How They Eat It. The meals of a rich Chilean family are different from ours. No one stairs for his first meal. This is served in the bed rooms, and is usually eaten in bed. s' of coffee and rells, without but- comes down extra spread In the way of jam. 1 is call mo. It is hardly considered am. am charged 10 cents a day extr: at my hotel. Break- fast, ce almuerzo, aken at 11 or 12 | o'cluck. It consists of a soup, som and some meat, th perhaps a’ pane and flowers. 1 walk or h is as b led floor of a W. Am »t Santiago, us go over there and enter the por- to wa yeople buying and sell- ing. This is of the ol tions of Santiago, and towa, you was |more than two centuries of age when Washington city was born. The portales ¥ stores much like those of the old citi € Spain and far different from the modern om th side of | Plaza. They are merel; in the wa and their floo! s of Kod: heir best walks ou n moving Many are desire for a good bargain keen here as at home. The most of women wear black gowns and their lad black antas. The tho: more style and intelligence the girls further north. But let u a look at the pri We t | many of the stores have their goods mark- ed and that among the lowest the figu! where the silk ind door is a shop where jadic selling for $10 and $1 however, are in C worth just about money one-third as rost of good same as home. All are higher. For insta esterday she paid $40 a American shoes which she imported |a lady ir for the ught in Santiago and that imported bon- i n ts coat $50 apiece. At the hotel where I » the price of a good room is $7 and upward a day, and this includes only two meais. It is the same in the restaurant and in host of ths stores. Books a pecially dear, and a Statesman’s Year Bock, which I’ usually buy for § at home, costs me here $10.50, or more than $1 more of our money. I can't get a -backed novel in English for less t and about the only things that are esp: sially cheap are the street cars and cabs. cab fares are on 7 cents of our e for an hour is A City of Churches and Schools. Santiago fs a city of churches and schools. Nearly all of the churches a Catholic, and the priests are many. There are schools here of alfferent kinds, from the University of Santi- ago, which has more than 1,000 stu- dents, down to th2 public” primary schools, which are found all over the coun- try, and which are attended by more than 114,000 little Chileans. This 1s, howeve: less than one-fifth of the children of school age, so that four out of every five remai: at home. I visited the National University. It has branches of law and medicine, as well as the ordinary collegiate departments. No tuition is charged, and the professors are paid by the state. Chile is proud of her educational system, and she is doing all she can to extend it. She spends mil- lions of dollars upon it every year. There are now public schools in all of the towns, and the larger places have Heeus, or high schoois. There are twenty-five of these in the country. ‘fhe National Institute, or High School of Santiago, has more than 1,000 pupils, and Chile has in addition 411 private schools and colleges, with an aver: age attendance of 18,000 pupils. Tnere are two American schools here, one for giris and another for boys. The girls’ school— I should say the girls’ college, for it is as geod a college as you will find almost any- where-—has been in operation for years, and it has a great reputation in Chile. It has a corps of eleven American girls who act as its teachers. It has several hundred students, and the daughters of many of the best Chilean famliies are among them. This school is connected with the Methodist Episcopal Church, although religious instruction forms no obligatory part of its tuition. The boys’ school ts un- der the Presbyterian Church of the United States. It is called the Instituto Inglese and it proposes to give Chilean boys an academic and collegiate education. It has handsome buildings and grounds and is fairly well attended. Santiago also has its normal schools and military schools. It has an agricultural college and an experimental farm. It has a fish commission and a weather bureau, which gives forecasts of se. This 1s the breakfast you also at the hotels. As a rule, wine is ta! th breakfast, and a small cup of cof ufter it. At 7 or $ in the evening c dinner. This is much like the break cnly much more elaborate. There sre ways win table, and the. -parately. entrees, roa ip with a rather heavy, as a rule, a big eater. His lent food of all ki is to eat too much. I have never dined tore generously than In Chile, « er visited a country whe: uniformly so good. A Butterfly Life. Put to return to the butterflies of Chile, for indeed the Hves of many of the rich people here ai most as idle as that of the butterfly. 1 am speaking, of course, of the ithy classes. Th rise at about er, and the hours from the time "y get up until breakfast are spent in ing or driving a: After breakt. between 1 attending to bus they take a rest and . they are ready to r At 6 every person a carriage goes to the are dressed in their best clothes, the men wearing silk hats, frock coats and well-cut suits and the women having on Paris-made gowns and bonnets or hats. At the park they parade in their carriages up and down the princi- pal drives and stare at each other. After about thirty minutes by a sort of common consent they all make for the Alameda, where they form a procession of carriages three or four abreast and parade up and down this street for a distance of about four blocks, still staring at one another. The driving is superintended and guarded A Chilean Aristocrat. by mounted policemen, and the scene is im- posing, although it seems rather stilted and fantastic to a stranger. The vehicles are of all kinds. There are high drags, victorias, landaus and four-in-hands, some driven by their owners and some by coachmen in gorgeous liveries. The parade continues for perhaps half an hour, during which time no one speaks to another, but merely bows to his friends. After the pa- rade all go home to dinner, some one car- riage breaking the line and the others fol- lowing suit on the trot. Santiago at the Theater. After dinner the swells of Santiago.go to the opera. There is here one of the largest opera houses on this hemisphere. It is known as the Municipal Theater, and it is subsidized by the government. Every year it has a season of Italian opera, the com- panies being brought from Italy. The s son lasts for eighty nights and nearly every person of prominence has his box for the season, which costs him $1,200 in Chilean money, a sum equal to about $400 Ameri- can gold. Each box will hold six people, and all of the boxes are taken, although two of the galleries of the large theater are divided up tn boxes. Ladies and gen- tlemen always wear full dress at the opera and the ladies are usually resplendent with diamonds. As a rule the swells pay but Hittle attention to the music, devoting most of their time to looking at each other. For this reason the lights are never turned down during the acts. The ladies take their hats off when they enter the boxes. The meo keep their heads bare during the act- ting, but as soon as the curtain goes down every man puts on his hat. Between the acts both ladies and gentlemen go out and romenade in the lobbies of the theater. Frere there are restaurants where the ladies can have ices and to which the gentlemen go to get refreshments, not Ices. All kinds of liquors are sold, and you can have any- thing of the sort, from a bottle of cham- pagne to a special variety of cocktail which was introduced into Chile by a former sec- retary of the American legation. It is the one thing American that now holds and that will always hold its own in Chile. During these intermissions there is visiting going on among friends in the boxes, and the whole affair: is indeed more a social occasion than a musical one. The Chileans do not have as close social intercourse as we do, and I have yet to hear of women’s clubs in Chile; The people are fond of dancing, and the president often combines a dancing party with one of his big recep- tions. At such. times the display of dia- monds on the part of the ladies 1s gor- geous in the extreme. Quarts of these pre- cious stones are dragged out of the vaults and their brilllancy vies with that of the electric lights. At a recent reception one lady wore eight diamond stars and another a large bouquet of diamonds. There were chokers of diamonds, buckles of diamonds, and, In fact, almost every kind of diamond ornament you can imagine. None of the ladies wore such common things as roses, though one or two had on bouquets of or- chids so rare that in New York they would have cost as much as jewels, Sunday Races. Another social feature of Santiago is the races, which are held regularly every Sun- day afternoon during the season under the auspices of the Club Hipico. This is the event of the week. Gentlemen come out dressed in tall hats, black frock coats, light or dark pantaloons and white kids. The ladies put on their handsomest street gowns and they call upon one another between the heats. The race course is just back of the Park Cousino, in the heart of the city. It is right under the shadow of the Andes and is one of the finest tracks of the world. The horses are exceilent, and a race in San- tiago is one of the great sights of South America. FRANK G. CARPENTER. sos SOME LESSONS OF THE WAR. Faster Battleships and Smokeless Powder Sirongly Advocated. From the Saturday Review. The naval lessons to be learned from the war are of importance only as regards de- tails. Nothing is taught that has not al- ready been emphasized at the Yalu, and there is no real information on the points where evidence is most needed at the pres- ent time. The immense value of armor, the importance of good shooting and the dan- gers of fire are no new story. All these things have been demonstrated again and in. ‘The moral diffe: ven the aanish and American seamen renders ar- guments based on the Santiago ba ative efficiency of varicus typ As there Ww: gross) misma nt in Madrid, as the gunners of th Spanish navy proved quite unable, with the newest guns, to hit the target, Spanish squadrons were alwa: ched to the tune of some 50 per 3 hot wonderful that this unluck has been wiped out. The distinctly good, erican material in excellent order, and the seamanship and fighting qualities of the American sailor were remarkable. Gen. Shafier's extraordinary mistakes before Santiago have lowered the prestige of the narmy, but Admirals Sampson and ey and Commodore Se. have shown they know their business, and have exalted the renown of their country Aiready the somewhat h deduct being drawn from the a an succes British fleet would go through the French as easily. For the annot speak, but the French disgrace itself as the The, French do go in fer tar- they have regular maneuvers. while this summer Ss been idjing away tour rou Russians or British in an ain French he ahead ble fit- carding combu. ) both “It is, indeed tifying to examine some of our new crui and battleships, which are crammed from to end .with wood fittings, and this in spite of the Yalu and all that ni been written on the danger of fire in the British technical press. The history of t French ai sea is different from that of the Spanish. The Frenchman generally fights weil, and is a fair seaman. In organiza- tion, and in the possession of a general staff and of a superior school of tactics and strategy, our neighbors are again before us. he blockade of Santiago was a very iking achievement on the part of miral Sampson, and was maintained with consummate skill. When the Spanish squadron rushed out, though the Ameri- surprise, fire was open- by the latter that Spanish Ts after the battle, stated that they supposed they had found their enemy at general quarters. Speed, too, was attained in the American ships’ with astonishing rapidity. The New York, for insta in three hours worked up from eight to six- teen and a quarter knots, though at the outset she had only two boilers lighted. The Oregon and the Texas engine room sta%s showed equal efficiency, and fairly rushed their ships along, though the suffer- ing of the stokers in the intense heat was extreme. At the same time the Spaniar by their inertness to ef- 3 of the blockade. They had two and at least four steam pin- ich might have been used for torpedo attacks; but no torpedo at ; e made. Again and again the Ame: opened a wild fire at night, some- on their own colliers or cru sometimes on rocks or seaweed, ofte contributed fectiven the their own boats. That the latter were not hit is at least an argument in favor of the torpedo boat. fhe strain of the blockade,” writes a correspondent with the American fleet, “was intens the Americans had five good battle s. two armored cruisers, six or seven eruisers, and as many armed yachts as torpedo boats. ‘They had against them four cruisers, of which but one had serious armor protection, and two destroyers. They outnumbered their enemy in displacement by something like seven to three, and in numbers even more decisively. Ships could at any time be detached from the blockade to coal ani rest at Guantanamo without any risk of leaving an inadequate force to watch Santiago. Contrast the condition of a blockade of Brest by a British fleet, with no secondary base available, and a’ force insufficient to maintain the watch, The fatuity of the Spaniards reached such a point that they positively permitted a bat- Ueship nightly to approach within a mile of the harbor and to play a searchlight steadily up the channel. Not once was the ship fired upon—a fact which surprised Ad- miral Sampson, as it well might. It is no slur upon American courage to say that a few 6-Inch or eyen 6-pounder shells would have sent the battleship hustling out of range. The Americans fought throughout with smoky powder, the British-built New Or- leans alone firing smokeless. The immense advantages of smokeless powder are now fully appreciated. It is amusing to reflect upon what might have happened had the Venezuela affair had serious consequences. With smoky powder against a British fleet carrying smokeless, the Americans would have been terribly handicapped. In scme respests the Washington Navy Department surpasses the conservatism of Whitehall. The heavy gun has_ performed: disap- pointingly thtoughput the war. Everything, on the othershand; points to the high effi- ctency in action wf moderate-sized rapid- firing weapons. Of these there were few in the American fleet; at Santiago, for in- stance, only eighteen were in line. But the intermediate battery of 8-inch guns which most large American ships carry, though slow firing, did great execution, and it is significant that in the design of the new- est American battleships these 8-inch pieces have been reintroduced, after they had been originally disearded. We may expect a movement toward a battleship armored much as was, the, Cristobal Colon, and equipped with»a primary battery of 8-inch quick firers. Ttaly, alert as ever, has al- ready designgd such a ship in the Bene- detto Brin. England will have to follow. Very remarkable is the feeling in favor of faster ships which is generally current in the Americar;navy. It has been said over here that thé failure of the Spanish cruis- ers to steam fast proves that superiority of | speed is worthless. I wonder that the pun- dits who write thus did not argue that, as the Spanish guns hurt no one—or only two men, to be accurate—guns were a useless incumbrance. Et should be noted as a sign of the times that becduse the Cristobal Colon was not a British design her perform- ance in the battle has been scarcely no- ticed or disparaged. This willful blindness is likely to have bad results. Her armor made common ‘shell useless, and: took the whole sting out of the American fire upon her. But the pundits. will not see. Apparently. Frem Puck. f “I suppose hypnotism is entirely unknown in Spain.” 5 “Why do you_ think so?" “It has not.been offered as an excuse for any of the Spanish defeats.” , tured forty miles back in the country. OUR FOOD SUPPLY What It Costs to Feed the People for a Year. INTERESTING FACTS AND FIGURES Enormous Capital Invested in Pro- ducing Each Meal. WHAT THE FARMS RAISE See ee (Copyright, 1898, by the S. S. McClure Co.) Written for The Evening Star by Geo. B. Waldry OUR BREAKFAST this morning was by no means elaborate. Ten million othor American families fared equally well. Yet that simple meal which cost you only a few cents repre- sented the combined labors of hundreds of thousands of workers and brought into us? capital ag- gregating thousands of millions of dollars. The oatmeal was Prepared from oats raised on a western bonanza farm and ground in a million-dol- lar mill. The cream came from cows pas- It was collected in cans from scores of farms, then whirled ov:r the rails at thirty-five miles an hour. After being skillfully “mixed” by the local dealer it was ered at your door in the early morning. ‘The juicy beefsteak came from a st>er raised by cowboys on a big Montana ranch. The animal was transported 2,0) miles to Chicago, there to be converted into beef by the most approved modern proc»sses in a five-millon-dollar slaughter house. Re- frigerator cars brought the fresh meat to your city “butcher” to delivered at your door. Your bread grew as wheat on a Dakota prairi> farm, was turned into flour in an immense Minneapolis flouring mill, then brought east to be fashion your use by the elaborate machinery of the bread trust. The sugar was grown on Ger- man beet farias, convertsd into the raw product in a million-dollar factory, then brought ”) miles across the ocean and made ready for table use in a huge Brook- lyn refinery. The up-country farm>r sup- Y iv- be ed to plied your potatoes, a village cr-ame your butter. The salt me from imme works at Syracuse, the pepper from the indies. Your coffee was brought from E zil and your fruit fgom Florida, California or the tropics Such a breakfast, costing but a few cents, is easily within t h of four- fifths of the American families. Yet it rep- resents a combination of men and money pssible only in the highly organism of tod, with a few othe’ sh, chee te t M erial imple, such e and common vegetables, e larger part of the natior const food. Value of the Food. If the strength of a country be measured by the abundance and nutritive focd, then the United States stands easily az the head of the dominant nations of the world. Not only can the farms, the mead- ows and the orchards supply the needs of our own citizens, but there is left an im- mense surplus to be skipped to other coun- tries. Take wheat, for example, one of the lead- | ing staples. s the nation’s w 465,000,000) han | 400,000,000 bushels in 183 to over 690,000,000 two years lier. The average ye: rerts of this v heat for the same de were 140,000,000 bushel. aving LIALLL for home ‘consumpticn. Excluding the wheat used tor seed and for purposes other n human food, the present consumption imated to be a Httle } than one bar- rei of flour per capita, or for the nearly means an annual consumption of 14,000,- 000,000 pounds of flow a buik which, puc into a singie receptacle, would re ire a barrel twice the height of Washington menument and correspondingly big of cumference. Were a it would yie' Reversing the me ermon on the Mount and “ aves would 7 de and extending ound the world. If bakery wago: ded each with 1,000 of the loaves, 000,000 would be needed to move the bre Tr would make a proce jon over & rl ex- miles long or eighteen abreast from oc to ocean. Of cctrse, not all the flour e into bread, since millions of pic kes and other products of the cook’s art come from these 70,000,000 flour barr Exporting Wheat. Last year the farms of the country raised wheat suflicient to supply this enormous demand at .ome, besides sending 143,000,000 bushels to other countries. Of this export two-thirds went to Great Britain and less than a tenth to the rest of Europe. Six bushels in a hundred went to our neighbor on the north and nine more to the other American countries, Australia and Asia teek 10,000,000 busnels and Africa 4,000,000 bushels. But unless the nation’s farms yield a larger wheat crop, less will be ex- perted in the future. At the present rate of consumption the increased population will demand the entire product in another decade. Wheat, however, is far from being the only grain used for food by the American people. The corn crop is about four times as large as that of wheat and some 1,700,- 600,000 bushels remain for consumption In our own country. But only a fraction of “this reaches the stomach of man direct. For the most part it is taken in the pork, beef, milk, butter, eggs and other products of animals that fatten on its substance. In recent years apparently the direct use of ccrn for man’s food is increasing with the “mixed” flour, the patent food prepara- tions, the brown bread, corn dodgers and like cookery. Whole sections of the south use corn almost exclusively in preference to wheat flour. ‘Then, there is the oat crop, averaging 700,000,000 bushels, most of which remains in this country. Americans are rapidly fol- lowing the Scotch in the use of oats as a table food; still only a small fraction of the total crop is consumed in the home. The average barley crop is 70,000,000 bush- els, all but 5,000,000 bushels of which re- mains within the country. The usual yield of rye is 28,000,000 bushels, very little of which is exported. But the barley and rye are largely reduced to fluid form before the American consents to take them into his stomach. Some 15,000,000 bushels of |, buckwheat enter each year into the com- position of our pancakes. For Human Needs. ‘The.exact amount of these various grains used directly for human food cannot be de- termined, but probably another 6,000,000,000 pourds must be added to the wheat flour, making a total of 20,000,000,000 pounds used each year as food. Large as this seems, in the aggregate it is less than three-quarters of a pound a day to each person—not a very ample meal in itself, but fully sufficient when taken with the abundant varieties of other foods. Another favorite food of the Americans is the potato. Its average crop in recent years has been “about 225,000,000 bushels. ‘The export_and import trade in this vege- table is insignificant. To supply his fam- ily with the average quantity the head of the hous? needs to purchase for each mem- ber about half a pound a day, or three bushels a year. Sweet potatoes are also a favorite food, some 45,900,000 bushels being needed for the annual consumption. The yield of peas is 6,000,000 bushels, of beans 3,000,000 and of onions 2,500,000 bushels. Over half a million bushels of onions are imported, most of which are of choice Spenish and Bermuda varieties. Three hundred milion pounds of rice are used during the year, one-half of which comes from other countries. This is only about four pounds a year to each person, against ten pounda in Great Britain, fourteen in Italy, 300 in Japan and 547 in the Indian province of Bombay. Our Sweet Tooth. America’s sweet tooth is said to be ab- nermaily developed. The consumption of gar reaches the astonishing total of 490,000,000 pounds; but only one-eighth of this Is raised at home. Last year near- ly a third of the supply came from Ger- many, and eight per cent more from the res: of Europe. The West Indies sent 24 bet cent and the East Indies 14 per cer Fully half the sugar impcried came from cetntries no better able to produce it than is the United States herself, Last year We raised 125,000,000 pounds of beet sugar There are those who prophesy that in other decade the entire amount of su; needed for home consumption will be pro- duced within our own borders. ‘The pre ent average is about seventy-three pounds a year each, or a pound a day per family of five. The dairy produces another important Part of the food supply. With the butter, cheese, milk and like products, the toral valve to the consumer is estimated to be t other ai sup- ply of not less than «0 pounds of butter. expe Besides, we : 000 poun Cheese is used to the ex of 240.000,.000 pounds annually. Made i one gigantic cheese ft would meas feet in diameter and half as many fe=t in height. More striking still is the use of the raw milk, which amounts to ro less than 7,000,000,000 quarts annually. Yet this is cnly a haif pint a day to each person Of this supply Chicago takes qvarts; greater Boston, 98,000, delphia, 96,000,000, and Greaier 34,000,000 quarts, Then there are the eggs, of which 8% 000,000 dozens are used during the year. Placed end to end they would gird the werld twelve times at the equator. Yet this use is not excessive, since it allo less than three eggs a week to each person. Millions for Meat. Probably no people in the world eat a: much meat as the America The s tary of Agriculture places our annual meat Dill at not less th 1,000,000, can be only ns. Figures sroximate, yet a fair esti- mate would place the beef consumed at 000,000,000 pounds, pork at — 4,000,000.000 and mutton at 800,000.00 pounds. With the povitry and game the total meat eaten an- nually cannot be less than 10,000,000,000 mds, which is nearly two pounds a day ece for each family of five 7 At the same time the expor product are enormous. Of beef went out last 8 consumed in’ G pork products re ounds. G To the meat suppiy must be ac ucts of the rive lake and ating prot ‘om ds of various k men alone in plac: Sof fish. The lion poun : J at $0,000,009 canned pound. Americans are drinkers as well Last year they used 10,000 pr cc , 1,000 pounds of tea. At the average strength offee in the cups would measure 1 00,009 gallons, and the tea 1.100,000,030 gallons. To these must be added beer, 1,200,009.009 gallons, wines 01,000, ‘and tilled spirit brandy and rum, 90,000,009 a total of over or about 48 gallons for cac’ man and child. If we ac . Mineral waters, ete., t luding plain water used for drin ly swelled to 4,009.0 na gallon other than A pers; weight of these drinks Three F dx a Day. All told the consumpti this one nation during the year un in its raw state to some —30,000,000,000 pounds, or a little more than three px ch person. This means that the pe at their own weight of food about once each month. The must be placed at not less than 000 a year, to which must other $1,000,000,000 for drink ad and drink more the er goid s Of this expenditure, roug ”) goes for Meat and fish, $70,009,000 eggs and dairy products, $5°0,000,000 for wheat and other grains, an equal amount fruits and i Mey for s ,000,000,000 about 1 Pr 0 and the chi pounds, so that on a Americans may be con pe As to whether this food is of the proper proportions to well nourish bodies is another question. show that this bulk .08) pounds, or more th. material, of nothing water. That liquid is & but may ore cheap! ed in fluid form. her 1,000,000,000 pounds is of mineral matter, much of which is needed in bone makin, Of th 21000100000 pounds that remain 5,000,000,600 pounds are what the chemis call protein, which goes to form muscle and to enrich the blood. Another 30,00 100,000 pounds are carbo-hydrates, su oh. In the converted 400,000 pounds of oth : food or: ly, serve for fuel and for giving strength to the muscles. Experiments show that the people would better nourished if fully 2.000,000,000 pounds of these carbo-! placed by an equal amount of protein. other words, the nation should gar and starch and more le whole wheat flour and beans. are inclined to sta: the machi stive to fat pro- lrates were re- In of their bodies while they put too much fuel | into the furnaces. oe Suspense. From Peck. Dora—“‘Can you keep a si Cora—“No; what fs it?” WwoovrkcK awS MARVELOUS PRAT Work With tte mB From the Baltim If you have read « story of the prisoner cen accord ing to a comic opera libr at his way through a stone wall with a penkr read this story, one of fact, and bel TH ts an achievement of the industrious red headed woodpecke On Harford avenue Line tunnel there wa: end apparently just soi a 1, well-rounded telegraph ound Passersby it was just a telegraph pole ing its duty like any of the army of ti i stretched along thoroughfa ¥ this pole would have never n of had it not t for an unusual rrenc ay morning. And is what happ. At 10 o'clock y Warning. like a great, str ; down by ¥ teart m fell to t five feet s mand wend cane, net even a brisk not enough sever s had weathered y Y wonders nations fol argument over the c: eated. Thi boys were tap) hile he notic Then somebody else remem « ena bird pecking aw : even they tho: caused s a great t a mall boy vol t he had seen 1 | was al the to. spe - Might where th the hollow t ont was d to possession of { walked back “I told you went te nt his ave hi Ail ¢ oner who chippe wall home hood days dewn on the and the man who I us a just and be convinced. Recause He Wes Bald. From the London Talexraph Not ofténls Baldness advar sen for refusing a room to a would have thought th plizd such p: f quictr ety of c > e served a a recommendatica to a landlady. This 1 be so with s but evidently thers. The latter apparently included ed a Mr. Myall for v P he was reques' she then h county room under When “M kept his hi ment and covered t a very whe ect. Her ng dinner new ha the > y His honer most rig?.t d that the d-f-ndaat had act- properly in leaving $o inho @ judgment in dis Seeice +e — Samon’s Snake Sivas, London Mail is known, ts one of the in the where nty Their indiffer most markedly Iva, on the Th habit of emy soral ador' them abou their wris! head- , festoon them in the nd tuck dresses, extra in t belt in readine e such as escape in the da At their best these sivas danced by; olting shows of s2y It can b y imagi th made no attractive by the vill maid and crew of : careering round adorned with an ass: ment of writhing red snakes, THE LIGHT SIDE OF NATURE. From Sketch.