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30 matter travel- classes White or Brown Broad. Nineteenth Century. The earliest agitator in the observed two years ago, when ing in Gloil v, that the laboring there live healthily and work well upon a vegetable diet, the staple article of which is bread of well-ground wheat meal. 3STor are the Sicilians by any means the only people so supported. "The Hindus of the Northwestern Province can walk fifty or sixty miles a day with no other food than 'chapat ties,' made of the whole meal, with a little 'ghee,' or Galam butter:' Turk ish and Arab porters, capablo of carry ing burdens of from 400 to 600 pounds live on bread only, with the occasional addition of fruit and vegetables. The Spartans and Romans of old time lived their vigorous lives on bread made of wheaten meal. In northern as well as Southern, climates, wo find the same thing. In Russia, Sweden, Scotland and elsewhere, the poor live chiefly on bread, always made from some whole meal wheat, oats or rye and the peasantry, of whatever clime, so fed always compare favorably with our South English poor, who, in condi tions of indigence precluding them from obtaining sufficient rnpat food, starve, if not to death, at least into sickliness, on the white bread it is our modern English habit to prefer. White bread alone will not support animal life. Bread made of the whole grain will. The experiment has been tried in France by Magendie. Dogs were the subjects of the trial, and every care was taken to equalize all the other conditions to proportion the quantity of food given in each case to the weight of the animal experimented upon, and so forth. The result was sufficiently marked. At the end of forty days the dog3 fed solely on white bread died. The dogs fed on bread made of whole grain remained vigorous, healthly and well nourished. "Whether an orignally healthy human being, if fed solely on white bread for forty days, would likewise die at the end of that time remains, of course a ques tion. The tenacity of life exhibited by Magendie's dogs will not evidently bear comparison with that of the scarcely yet forgotten forty days' won der, Dr. Tanner. Nor is it by any means asserted that any given man or any given child would certainly re main in vigorous health for an indefi nite length of time if fed solely on wheat-meal bread. Not a single piece of strong evidence has been produced however, to show that ho would not; and in the only case in which whole meal bread has been tried with any persistency or on any considerable scale among us to-wifc, in jails facts go to show such bread to be an excel lent and wholesome substitute for more costly forms of nutritious food. ment of the president's friends will Paying President Garfield's Doctors. Washington Dispatch to the Cincinnati Commercial. One of the first things that will be brought up in congress is the settle- bills incident to the late illness. Gen. Garfield's advocate the appointment of a committee to audit bills and make a statement to the secretary of the treasury, whom they will ask to be given power to pay the amount from any moneys in the treasury not other wise appropriated. It is thought that in this way the matter may be fixed uu quietly, without any undignified squab bling in congress over the precise amount of money needed. The phy sicians have been asked by the finan cial agent of Mrs. Garfield to sond their bills to her, but they have refused to do so. Dr. Bliss said that he would not think of taking from Mrs. Garfield what would be a mere bagatelle to the government, while it would sensibly reduce her income. He and the other physicians have declined to take any thing at all unless it comes from, the government. Dr. Agnew has figured up the direct loss to him through his connection with the case, and it amounts, it is reported, to $9,500. Dr. Bliss, in loss of practice and expenses incident to his devotion to the presi dent, amounts almo3t to some $10,000. This allows nothing for the constant service, anxiety and labor as nurse and s MATLACK OF- ARKANSAS CITY, KANSAS, Dcslros to cnll the Attention of stockmen find nil other residents in the Indian Territory to lifa Special Inducements in UI I 0tl J i 11 Jill I CAETtY THE LARGEST STOCK OF HTSlTTjl' M ii m b y MM iV-M U1B u 01! iliili Y If TH TD fJ IT II HT H T P B IX ARKANSAS CITY, AND IF Di JjUl i-Ml Pita Honest Deal! t Courteous Treatment Will Secure Your Trade, I am Determined to Win It. . .3 T". V. I HAVE A LARGE LINE OF HATS AND CAPS, BOOTS AND SHOES, ESPECIALLY ADAPTED TO YOUll WANTS, ALSO THE LARGEST STOCK 01 IN THE CITY, WHICH MUST POSITIVELY BE SOLD DURING THE 3Ta.ll a,xid Winter, REGARDLESS of COST! physician, night and day, for the long weeks of the president's illness. Drs. Agnew and Hamilton did not give all thoir time to tho case, or their loss would havo been much greater; but Dr. Bliss surrendered his entire prac tice of necessity. Drs. Agnew, Ham ilton and Bliss, it is expected, will con sider $25,000 apiece a fair compensa tion for their work. Drs, Barnes and Woodward are ofllcers of the govern ment, so that they suitor no pecuniary loss from their attendance on tho case. The physicians hope tho matter will be settled before the holidays, and Gen. Garfield's friends desire tho bills Fdt led before tho eulogies are pro nounced. Skimmed Milk. Dr. Koote'a J Ienllli Monthly. Dr. Brush, of Mount Vernon, N. Y.. has written to tho Medical Record a sensible protest against the wanton waste of skimmed milk, which is fre quently seized and poured into tho gut ter by the inspectors of the Board of Health. There ia, he says, no reason to regard skimmed or oven watered milk as injurious to health or innu tritious, and for babies and adults with weak stomachs, it is to be pre ferred to milk which is rich in fat. Ho quotes authorities who state that oven calves thrive best on skimmed milk not because in a state of nature their mother's milk would be too rich for them, but because as cows are fed and continually milked, tho secretion be comes unnaturally rich in solid and fatty constituents. It is further argued' that when children are fed on over rich milk, a portion of tho fat passes- through them unabsorbed, and conse quently Liebig proposed the use of skimmed milk of cows in the prepara tion of milk to correspond as closely as possible with human milk. Skimmed' milk sent to cities is not liable to be1 the product of diseased cows, for their milk cannot bo kept long enough for tho cream to rise in paying quantity. Therefore tho only possible objection to the sale of skimmed milk is that peo ple may be made to pay tho same price for it as though a part of tho cream had not been removed. Instead U .of confiscating and destroying it wiien found coming into a city, there should be some punishment for dealers who I charge a full price for it, and an extra fine put upon those who add water, for the dilution of milk to the require ments of babies can better be attended I to "at home." YOUR ORDERS ARE SOUOITED AW) wrr.T. ftBOBrVJB PBOMPX ANB CUBKITO ATZSSX30SL A Peculiar HaBitt' Di Poole's Health Monthly Dr. S. Weir Mitchell, in a work on nervous diseases, refers to an affection common to children and not uncommon in adults, to which he has given tho name "Habit Chorea " ll consists of a frequent spasmodic action of some muscle of tho face or body which causes a twitching of the eyelid, draw ing of the mouth one way or another, twisting of the head, elevation of one shoulder, etc., etc. There is a large variety of such movements which tend to make tho subject an object of curios ity or of laughter. It is well called a chorea habit, because it is something ef the nature of St Vitus' dance (chorea), and occurs generally in nervous organi zations, or when because of general ill health the system becomes debilitated and proportionately irritable. In the Medical and Surgical Reporter a pgysicimi relates his experience with a few such cases, and concludes that in many of them the fault may be over come merely by calling upon the indi Tidual to exerci80 his will power to prevent tho movements. In this the friends and relatives can be of service in frequently reminding him to bo on his guard and control himself TUfc longer the habit is permitted if) go on the more difficulty there will bu m overcoming it especially in children. When it is evident that tho movements can be controlled by the exercise of the will, it is important to urge them to check themselves early, and if there is any reason to believe that tho general health is impaired, this should aslo re ceive due attention. -Si xm p. ium