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by being saturated in a solution of salt, or a 

 mixture of salt and sugar, and it is then smoked 

 by being suspended over a wood fire. In cook- 



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Water, 



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FOOD VALUE OF BACON 



ing it is usually cut into very thin slices and 

 fried, or it may be boiled in larger pieces. 

 Because of its delicate flavor, bacon is a favorite 

 dish in all civilized countries. It is largely 

 composed (60 per cent) of carbon compounds 

 and because of its heat producing quality as 

 well as its flavor, is a part of the regular bill 

 of fare in cold countries, especially in the lum- 

 ber camps of the United States and Canada. 

 Its value as a builder of bone and muscle is 

 about half that of good fresh beef. See FOOD 

 and its subtitles. 



BACON, FRANCIS (1561-1626), an English 

 philosopher, statesman and jurist, whose Es- 

 says also rank him among the greatest of the 

 world's writers. He was born of good family, 

 studied at Cambridge, and finished his educa- 

 tion with foreign 

 travel. That he 

 was a born cour- 

 tier is shown by 

 his reply to 

 Queen Elizabeth, 

 who when he was 

 but a boy asked 

 him his age . 

 Bowing low he 

 replied, "Two 

 years younger 

 than your majes- 

 ty's happy reign." If 



Admitted to 

 the bar when but 

 twenty - one, he 

 made an immediate reputation, and two years 

 later entered Parliament. In 1618 he was 

 created lord high chancellor, and in 1621 was 

 raised to the peerage as Viscount of Saint 

 Albans. He was accused of corruption as a 

 judge and on pleading guilty to the charge, 

 was heavily fined and sentenced to the Tower 



parts allure thee, think 

 how Bacon shin'd, 



The wisest, brightest, mean- 

 est of mankind. 



From Pope's Essay on Man. 



BACON 



during the king's pleasure. Subsequently his 

 punishment was practically remitted, though 

 not till he had suffered the full measure of 

 disgrace. 



Bacon's chief title to renown is in his devel- 

 opment of the inductive method of reasoning 

 (see LOGIC). He undertook to rearrange the 

 whole system of human knowledge, and though 

 his task was too great for him, he contributed 

 more to real scientific progress than any other 

 man since the days of the Greek philosophers. 

 The illness of which he died was contracted 

 while he was making an experiment with snow, 

 the success of which led to the cold storage 

 systems of to-day. His Essays, fifty-eight in 

 number, treating of a great variety of subjects, 

 are as bright, as fresh, as applicable to life, as 

 when they were written. They are so full of 

 meaning, so condensed in style and so logical 

 in arrangement, that they repay the closest 

 study. Some of these are generally included 

 among college entrance requirements in Eng- 

 lish. The one most read by young people, and 

 probably more appropriate for them than any 

 of the others, is Of Studies. It is printed in 

 full in the article ESSAY. C.W.K. 



BACON, JOSEPHINE DODGE DASKAM (1876- 

 ), an American story-writer whose humor, 

 original ideas and brilliant style have won for 

 her a wide reputation. She was born at Stan- 

 ford, Conn., educated at Smith College, and 

 began her literary work by writing poems and 

 stories for the Atlantic Monthly and other 

 magazines. An early success was The Madness 

 of Philip, which points out, in a humorous 

 way, the supposed faults of certain kinder- 

 garten methods. Her writings include Smith 

 College Stories, The Imp and the Angel, In 

 the Border Country, Memoirs of a Baby, The 

 Luck o' Lady Joan and The Open Market. She 

 also compiled Best Nonsense Verse. Miss Das- 

 kam married Seldon Bacon in 1903. 



BACON, ROGER (1214-1294), an English monk 

 and philosopher, one of the great men of the 

 thirteenth century. He raised himself far above 

 his age and added much to what was then 

 known of science and nature. Bacon attended 

 the universities of Oxford and Paris, receiving 

 at the latter the degree of Doctor of Theology. 

 About the year 1250 he joined the Franciscan 

 Order and settled at Oxford, where he began 

 a deep study of physics. Having announced his 

 discoveries in that science, he was accused by 

 his fellow Franciscans of dealing in the "black 

 art," the devil's magic, and was removed to 

 Paris, where he remained for ten years in 



