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FROM MONTE VIDEO. URUGUAY.
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Stitches ia, Time. . with a magneto„, asi tke *neat' e starts
tbest 'when magneto spark ie advenced.
Be emmlul to dry the spokes of sio Tim novice jaCks 'ep his wheel to
wire wheel after washing. As that „„t on a. ehoere_etet ae tae experienced
enamel chips off the meta' rust sterteiWoteriot There. ore two. ways of ap-
ing willeerevent this to a. great extent toyer the wheel,. the
iPlaing the chain. One is, te drape it
other i5. to lay it
Evert/ Ulna Yell change 4 wire whoa i ort -the ground and run the ear over it.
Put grusee en the metal"daces cir The latter method, *mart from the dif.
wheel spindle ethers the hub touchee t acuity of steering in etraight over
It. If this is not clone the wheat willl something you amnia sea tee the ad -
rust end stielc to the spindle andit!
wileae
l be trmely icult tseparate, diffo i a.ntage that the chain. on' a
Be metal that the spare tre on the indeuddddylisrdov
au is in had condition to
Mar of the ear doee not hide part of handle'. So drape it over the •wheel
d
thein. such a way that the points
number plate, and that the plate anyou *will hamuch cleaner job-
ve* properly lighted at night. The police Apply it
b
in many motions are enforcing the law of the cross links are aWAY from the
vera strictly, and you will find that'tire, so as to prevent them from cut-
laiYing a fine is a very expensive way ting into it.
learn of such raratekeie, , The roper use of the extra or spare
to
tire Winch evexyrautolfst • Should -carry
When following other cern on a, v411 enable lihn to make auCh of the service examine-
inoff the road. be used to replace one,
e sudden stop. Get in the habit of 1 tions and repeirs at th,e proper thne.
At regular intervals the extra tire can
runng the car !lightly
crowded ,equntry road, watch out for
if there is room, o that if
do not hold you will be ia no danger tires, and the one removed should be
athe brakes
of hitting the car ahead. gone over iminediately. AW the cuts,
cracks,. and beealcs should be sealed by
Among the necessaries *when tour-ivulcanizing, and the weak places re-
. ing should be a supply of tire valves inforcecl. 11 ri. car es in constant eer-
and caps. A slight leak in a valve vice, one tire exchange per Weeks and
will cause as much delay as a blow- in rotation, will enable one to keep
out A good valve is often hard to all the tires in is good condition as
obtain when on the road and consid. possible. Of course, this period de -
treble anpoyance can be avoided by pends upon the driver and condition
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carrying.'these accessories. .A. Valve of the roads travelled. By this, or -
tap and die should also be added. tangeMent the extra tire avill be kept
When using the seIfastarter be sure in good repair for einergency calla,
that the spark is retarded as a back with the emergencies reduced to a
kick may wreck the mechaniera. This minimum and in Most cases the tire
is not necerneiry if the car is equipped mileage will be almost doubled.
aad loosens "sore of it. Careful dry-
WRITING WITH LEFT HAND;
Sealable Methed Wideh Will be of
Vide.- to Many Soldiers.
The difficulty of educating * eight -
handed' Person te write with the left
hand, and tire best method of overctome
jag it, is described by Major Edwin'IL
Mahe, of the BritIsh Amy Medical
' Corps, in a letter te The Lancet: As
inana Onions, by leis -tin of an iniarY
to the rightarm or hand ;find them
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.selves beet', ittli this problera, what
Dr. Idarshe says' is important, • eePaeltd-
iy.as it is beeed*neepaapeeenaet. ex,
Pirience. • ; . .
Dr. laashe Undertook to treat
a thir-
teen bey Whose right side wee
paralyzed and „whohlid been glOcin up,
ae koPeless,by theateaeliets Of, Mealy
•scheices,- Be :tonna the trouble Was
thatatheteeeheria Unable to
tbeie lett hands, tried to .get the boy
to copY-viitli his left band the nioffoes
they , Were. melting vita their right.
Ilia brain Was unable to...perform this,
looking glass not of treauslation. • So
Dr. Nashe determined to leriinite(avilto
, with his left hand, and then to get the
•boy to cepa his motions. This- he did
With ,hiehlar ,5atiefactei7 result •• •
The eeeeet of success lies in exactly
reversing the right band' position. 'Of
.paper .end pnc1I instead of the up,
per edge of the paper slopingtip to the
. right, It shOUld elope an to..the left.
The: line O1. the writing should siope
down froin left to eight at an angle of
About , fifty ,degrees with the edge of
the desk, and the slope of the writingb• ould be backward at an, angle. Oa
„ Omit ae degrees'? to 'the Writing line,
, "In this nnithed'','WrItes 1k. Ntoihe,
"It wfli be found thet the Angers are.
• in the Most natural positiieyfer4iit-
: beg'. the aim and the Wrist being In a
' ettaleht line, and thee°, beteg a. Wide.
sweeping .Motion of tae wrist if re,
quireda'" Thistle much. easier to leaf*
than writing;straight across ; eiia re-
„aaisultainiese zra*Pleg-ef-the ofingersr-=
• : A 'fine- pen jg the tool: to use
litogdPeiaresulta in- 'biota beeetael.its
• point id cut for ifght.handed writing
• inidatliere must be no attempt at hiit-
, rY in•the begtheing,
She Ouschtle Know
,eahariesseniecUreiialiavinKiieeratol
lietiVeii, 'marched gide the. repot and
- said- 'Now, Miss. Baby, tell us- all
*boot heaven 'fore you forget :
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Why owe a letter interminably
when, after all, the, acted writing' of
-a the lettrnais no work at AB?' - 7
' The gveateet eel breeding farm in
the World is in, Italy, the industry hav-
ing' been carried on in a swan* for
nurrys CALL.
(Linea written on the death of
Angus lifcletesla of Port Elgin, Ont.)
'lay W. A. Sherwood. • ”
Vroni far-er farrn and celiege • hall
. they go,
Fleet at their cOuntres'!!
.'ca an
't
scarcely deem
A. 'matter of Much -consequence to show
The world, how Clnistian lads can
a 'cross life'd iteeten, •
• .oaoh-flowbighltie flood of raging tor-
rents
The length of days is net iikai
•metteurement,
Nee- years of toil; the- fulness- of the
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Nay, he whede Mincl is on'higii.'-Pura
pose beet . •
-Teeads , well life's Path; eke yeutiits
• fair morn in spent,
And wins the goal for which he early
• 'ma.
Thus do do ive 'sing' of those at Virny
Ridge; .... • a" . •
'At Lens and -other -Acids. of Martial
:a fame, ''' • .
Who at the calf leaped headlong ,e'er
, - life'S bridge, ' - • .•
Into the tide of death unstained by
:staine.,,' •a• -, •
With McIatoide we ..unk each glorious.
, • name.
Thus College hall and farm. will better
be, ' ' • .••
To lmovt that tyoiith sees still life's
1 holier waif,. • .
Though friends in sorrow waif.* Vain
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to tee . ' . •
His. fair young face, yet With these
' we say, _:: * . *
'Tis sweet to live with heroes such as
he.
Teanscendeutieith, that like the Deana
-leg star ' - . . , .
00*e-sti1l , more ,leeituteaue , -as.• -the
night departs,
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t Se. :veleta the darkness of this;
wicked
#. war . . . -• , '
Shell pass away, communion thee:, of
-hearts . - • ' a " :- - - !•
Will bind Us here in: lOve*that *one
. • can mar. •
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The persistency with Which the use
of cern-bread is being- urged lii order
to conserve wheat Stout, will no doubt
have the effect a keeping the price of,
•corn at it; profitable figure. -
„ To make fly -papers, melt 'some
lreein, and, while soft, add some sweet
,oil, so that when cold it is abouttlie
consistency Of honey.- • Spread the
mixture On nevvspapers and. 'bunt
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centuries.' when covered with flied. •
TO ENGLAND.
Amazing Voyage by One Who Wanted
te Crete* the Ocean for the ',Big
&rep!' in Flanders.
Xi thesb dnYe, of exieznY submarines
and mines any kind or sea, voyage ia 4
hazardous undertaking. What, then,
must have been a ebethousandenne
trip, *rough weather, on board a: tiny
tug? ,
Quite recently .the -writer undettoolt
such a trip. It occupied over eleven
week, , arid invelied enough hair-
breadth deatiadodgiug-to bat Win a
long Meanie. .
For aoMe tinie I had been in the •em-
pley of a meatecanning concere at
Monte Video, 1,TrugusY, South Amerie
'ear but for otiricius reasons,- both
national and personal; I wished to re -i
turn home, says Mr. A. M. Smith, in a
London. paper. In war -time, however.
gettin a. Passage to England was
neither easy rum cheap. After one- or
two disappointments I heard of a
favorable chance, and lost no time in
graSping it. Heroes were wanted to
take a tug to Oardiff, and: I, wire knevt
Uttle..ead thought lee§ et the _kind of
johl was rushing at, engaged for the
service. 1 rued only once, and that
was practically from the moment of
sailine until the day I set foot in. the
Welsh coal capital,
•, Bedlam Aboard.,
, Our "ship," some eighty-five feet
long, fifteen et *teen feet beam,. with
grOsS tern:lege of ninety; would have
been An ideal- heat for some ornamena
al lake la a' park. Perdiz was the
name she owned to, though I shall
Ways associate her with 'a similarly -
sounding word of three syllablea
Owing to the lack., of bunker -room
for coal our voyage Was to be made in
stages. . The first Stagewas to Rio
Janeiro, a distance of fast over one
thousand miles. We made', it ,in dis-
comfort, and six days.
'At Rio our skipper jeft us; and the
that -officer; a younk, fellow_ qialmut.
tWeamatwenty, took charge. I .a,f3s
certain he was many times Sorry alter -
wards that...he did. '
Pernambuco was tar next port,or
should: have been,, Mit, owing to
serious engine .trouble, We had to.' put
back Into Rio, and. stay there :for re
pairs four daYa. Once agniii
we -reached 'Duce all right, ancrathen
trouble -arrived in heaps. - ;
- It began anioeii the meraali Oeit
Mixed and lively" let Against thi3ir
own agerniment when 'signingion they
new -demanded shore leave andmeney..,
to sbetat.aAs an alternative to. Whole-
sale deseilion the alcipper save way to
them 4nd dlshed -oilt a sinall sunr.per
Mae; After that 'We '" 'find *Bedlam
'aboard,. and three men Were paid off
petturtiallMurderer& • -.
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trouble compelled the shipper to Madc
for Tenerfiffe instead.
Drifting Sideways and Backwards.
' °nee more It was the engines. The
boiler pipes would not draw, and all
attempts to make thew do eo prdving
Yalu, the enable -room hand* were
,forced to take strong meatures.
IDrawing the lire& they welted hours
for the better to cool, theu unscrewed
the door, and filled up the tuna with
water from -bucketi , RePlacrni‘the
door, the fires were -relighted and
stegui got up *gain. This leborious
proeess never took less, than fpuraind.
• twenty hourie and ell the thee our
vessel wail drifting, Sideways and
ineekWerche. .
Once we went through the -opera-
tion In a terrific gale, with four feet of
• water in the stokehold., *I thiek the
anti reason Why we did not founder
was that sone' member' of our brew
Iwas born to. be,hauged. - .
At Tenerife, which 'was reached en
the sidnth clay, taut allbut two of the
men demanded to be paldeoff. ' ()Atha
captain refusing .to comply, the dis-
eontente began to steal the ship's
stores and sell these ashore, with the
-ieSult,-.: that ,.. ane,er. two- ef .the: ring-,.
leaden found their way into gaol.
EVentualiR five were diecharged, so
that when we resailed we were more.
thee ever shorthanded.
As it happened; however, Waugh we
avere now in the war zoneshand en-
countered rough weather until we
reached home, the final stage of our
trip was almost without incidept. All
the Hanle, when we dropped anchor at
-Cardifianobodt felt regret at leaving
the Perdia and I em sure iiihie of us
vfould voluntarily Abourt disaster . in
such a 'tub again. •
TRUE TO,FOlthl.
Easier to be Heroes ,in the Trenches
YThati to be Herom at Heine.;
In France, nowadays, the soldiers
who bave wet medals are ' almost
ashamed; since they know that nearly
all of their comrades ineritthem. ‘!But
it is often easier for them to pe heroes
in the trenches than to be heroek in
their 43sn families. .
• One of 'the men in our hospital at
Itoyanniont, says Miss Kathleen Burke
In The White Road to Verduni had
Itleen in theetraraches during an attack.
A grenade throWn, by. one of ,the
,French, i soldiers struck the .parapet
;and :rebounded " among, the Dien. , With
that rapidity of thought that is part
:of the French Character, Jules Sat on
the grenade and extinguythed it. For
that act of bravery he was decorated
by theareraftele &Ferment, and wrote
'tome to tell hia' wife. I founa . him
sitting up in bed, gloomily reading her
rePly, and IInn-hired' Why he looked
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so glum. ' • . a
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"Welt • mademoiselle.," • he replied,
'I Wrote to inyawifit to' tell ter of my,
nevr honer, and see what she says:al/1y,
dear Jules. We are not surprised you
gotantedal for sitting -on a hand gren-
a,de; we have never known you to do
anything else exCept sib down at
ltome-i"- ----:-.1.- '
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BUI)I4DINGS OF CANADA.
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eventy Per Cent. Are t;ranne *itch
; -Makes Fire Reduction Difficult.
Riding the StOrni.,
From Iltico we next headed for St.'
Vincent, in. the Cape Verde Islands -aa eun of nearly seventeen hundred
miles; gate '.1!, might, mention a fact
which will illustrate the .reallrrisky:
nature of our voyage.
• The Minkel' capacity of our vessel
was not more, thee thirty tons, yet, to
reach at Vincent, we needed at least
eightrtoes of coal. To manage .this
we Stowed on.deck,=in Sacks„ fifty tons.
of fuel; a deka' proceediug at any time,
and in our circumstances exceedingly
• dangerous.- The everload sank our
craft until she was awash aft, aud,
when we 'ran into rough weatheia-as
we ilid two days out from 'Bueo-she
wasflooded from atm,to stern,„Cate4
In, gelleY, and engbie-room; wereadeep,
In Water, Our clotli,!ss and. nearly- all,
the foqd-being-ilienelied; so that 'we
could get neither a dry -change :nor
warm meala
„For sixty houraaveie rode the storm,
pineping until the pumps choked..
Then aye irrF twg. 43A -y6
aatioa MPrkei-tlitileft
several of the teen fell sick, and this
entailed extra work on the others; who
were already worn-out. Another -en-
gine breakdown seemed' to'presage a
cave, but somehow we managed. to
'keep on top. laimediately we touched
St Vincent half the nien, wereeput un.
der a doctor, which b saying enough,
Five days in port did all of us aa.
power �t good. More. hopeful, if not
exactly clieerfel, we started for Ma-
deira, but an avalanche of . fresh
• a
• approximately- 2• 000I 0,00 build-
MO:in Canada, leaa than one-tenth of
One per cent have been built with
proper consideration of safety from
fire. In the cities and towns from
BRITANNIA'S ROLL CALL.
As in e dream I eaw a 'host
Like sands beside the sea
And every man was but the ghost
, Of "died he used to be.
Yet still they Lurched with umetial
And answered, while with sobs be-
twBeers heeled and eripplee whole,
wileeena,
*Rennie celled the -OIL -
We are the men who died for you
From castle, ceurt and hall,
The gilded youth, the taw:Vend true!
- Who lied, and vote you all;
NobleSse oblige -at your command,
Through war's red gate aye' passed
To that strange unimagined lona
Wherein the first are last.
We are the men who diedfor you
In stiffing, baffling waves; ,
For mane -tears; as tribute dee; .
On peaceful churchyard graves. a
Instead, our weary bones are tossed
To alien diepeand boutrisa.
Where only for the loved and lose
The lone seabird- mourns.
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We are the Men who died for you,
From factories, shops; and terms;
We dropped the tasks we used tedo
And changed our tools for gams,
And in the inch by inch advance
Through.labyrinthseof eaves,,
We 011ed the ruined fields of France
With harvests a freslOgeaves.
WO are the men who diedlor you,
The disinherited; .
The low -born, shim -bred, reckless few
Who also fought and bled.
In life dishonored and denied,
With:the eleet we stand,
Theyanked us where we lived and
,died,.
We said --in No Man's Land.
We are the' men who died •for you,
Gathered frem ends of earth,
As Welcome aed as Jaya' too.
As men of English birth,'
We gave t6 serve our mothar's needs,.
Our love, our blpod, ourbreath, •
Of different breeds said different
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But -ebrreoethsers' all in death.
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We whore the gods love died for you,
By Water, air or, fire,
And shrvi
otirieeto to wild wreckage
'rent late ind"unitrimi fiat 7 —
Others shall bear your trumpets blew
, 'When victory ends Om strife; .'
We are conteat foe now you know. '
:16-4611."'°tr;--litettleiaS
• t'hi!Dininlfsem. ere:,
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a -FISHES -THAT cAngY VENOM.
Natives of ' the Southern coasts of
North AinericeaT
You Can Dor Your Bit
in preventing waste by de.
mending the whole wheat in
breakfast foods and .breitd.
Shredded liTheet biscuit
is 1.00 per cent. whole wheat
grain prepared in a digestible
form—contaixisrmore real nu.
triment-than nxeat or eggs or
potatoes and costs much, less.
Serve with milk or -cream,
sliced peaches, , bananas or
other fruits:,
Made
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CARVING FACES
FOR WAR HEROES
WOUNDS or BATTLE COVERED
.BY 314.§Ks,
War Now Makes Art a Supplement to
theSurgeon's Skill in Badly
N•
IViiitilated Cases. ,
An entirely new form' of art has
been produced by the •.war- that of
carving and painting' artificial faces
• for men whose features, have been
badly mutilated 'either in war or by
serious surgical operation. • Francis
Derwent Wood, A.seociate of the, Royal'
Academy and a. famous sculptor, Is
attached to the. staff.of the Third Lon-
don General Hospital as a Iieutentinie
and it is his work to make art supple-
ment surgery. ,
, In an article in tlieLancet, Lieut.
l tooddecribeshinethods.Wpre
aAugeo_leayeepxhebe1sis
"capes" are usually those Which plas-
tic surgery has been obliged to aban-
don because the grafting of bone and
muscle and skin has been' carried to
theelealteofaeueeibine and. the unfor-
tunate subject 'is left with his amen&
healed, but nosetess, _eyeless, some-
times with a deep hole where cheek
bones and '.jaws have been, a aole.
covered with grafted fleshand skin,
but that makes the faceSuch.a. hor-
rible object that even the truest 'of
friends would shader at the sight of
"Theleatures," writes LieutVood,
"May have been originally uglyor
beautiful. As theY were in -life so 1.
try to reproduce them, beatitiful Or
ugly; the one desideratum ii to make
them natural."
. If you a -fishing go anywhere along
t'he New England -coast, you are more
likely tharr.not _to -catch a Cape Cod
minister. „ , .
.
Such, one regrets toaay, is theatre-
• respectful mune giveretti a narticulat-
ly hideous 'kind of ; lisle': about six.
• inches lepg, that is an angler's
plague in those waters. It la moody
mouth, and nobody, so fer, asluicani,
'has ever tried to eat it. ,
Its other .name is "toadfish" -which,
• descriptively speaking, IF•not inap-
propriate. At worst, it is harmless.
But there- is another species -of toad-
fish, native to the waters along the
which statistics lire available, . almost , southern coasts of the United States,
70 per cent of the' construction Oa that is very dangerous; It carries on
frame. The. vaet Majority of briblc its back, just behind the head, two
buildings are structurallyy defective spines that are hollow and connect at
their bases with -venom glands.
The whole arrangement, indeed, is
structurally very 'similar to that of
the twin fangs in the upper jaw of a
rattlesnake, with the venom glands
thereto- pertaining.
Experiments' have 'proVed that pres-
-siirrotethadripifiereauseitheic iend-
ilSr. to eject their venom, :which
squirt for a distance of two feet.
There is no question qf the danger-
ous eharecter of the glandular secre-
tion, and Dr. Barton A. Bean of the
and inadequately •protectecl, and only
one in every 1,200 ie even nominally
fireproof; , .
With such Conditions prevailing, the
enforcement of measures regulating
future construction cannot inunechate.
ly .effect any substantial reduction in
the-volunie-of -fire waste. -Theree-are
sufficient combuitible buiYdings in
anada to supply the. present rate Of threwn out pith eucla---ferce- as --to
loss *definitely. • • -
Upon the average, fire occurs every
year iii ene oirtqf eiery,b0 buildings
ii cities and towps.„ prevention
is concerned, therefore, not only With . Smitheonian Institutafn, wir) hex merle
Ike4.1t1.-;:titgA o rah:. building -s, but with!!! study .of toadifeb, is inclined to
groatec-tTr, fitalak.11-rItfiT1-"Wettfinkt-'
portance-acorrection of ' the went
faelts in eaisting . buildings so that
'they inearbealessliable to destruction.
Strawberries hke good, clean culti-
vation, fertile sail, and that really lie
all they do teeuire.
Professor ---'"What planets were
known to the ancietits?" - Student-,
deaths eaueed by careless handling of
specimens "captared.
_ _
The loss tool:frit...lin caused by farm
pests -the rat the mouse, the 'house
sparrow, And the wded.pigeon-is es-
timated at 440,000,000 annually,
1913,'' South Africa imported 21,-
263,000' eggs. ThiS year it will he
"Well, sirathere-were Venus and Jupia found that over 2,000,000 have been
teraand"-after a pause: --"I think the exported, atter, local requirements had
earth, but I am not certain” been filled.
DID101) MAiL MV terrgaz.
foul NG 'TOM'?
-30-0-431.-
vom.YotiRe stapirg .1-r-ieck
Tam" $11;e1146 VOlialMaearee. I situ.
zo you wouLoWy FORGET rr SIMN6
-1 'Modal ar,
'A ilALV Dozet4
Titdies• ToDAI
y
Fiest ,of all a plaster-of-Paris cast
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" Silver -Plated Mask ,
of the patient's feee is =idea From
this a positive model is made. A mould
from this is built up te Match the.cor-
responding features . or, from, pre.
wound photographs. When this is
perfect and accurately fitted, an elec-
trotype is made) in cepper 142 of an
inch. in thickness. Such attachments
as glass eyes are added and the whole.
is silver plated. • •
The mask is usually secured to . the
face by means of spectacles; but.spirit
gum and ribbons have tometunes to
he used,yaiyieg with the 'character
of the wounded area.
Tlithe plitgettlkcillokrtiPextiliit.ed:AT%misateit
done in Pit eolore on a thin coatingof
creamicolOred- spirit enamel. - '
"I do not use false hair for eye-
brows and eyelashes now writes the. .+A„ of- her- area . hieeda a mamma .1.
sculptor. "The eyebrows -ire Painted' ""4".
to match and the 'eyelashes I make of crown, the front of her dress covered
with diranond nvinrs; while her hands' '
thin Soldeied
the piete„otihiely J337_14eiseemee4 vvre. otnc.a.seci with golden mittees-
fitatiattetrintele'raitilaratitethWiiin-P1-ia'-=,------
• glass eye -sections and paint the eye
match on the concave reverse myself.
Sometimes 1 do 'not use glees at all,
but paint a semblance to -match dlr.
eat upon the metaI reask.".
' Readjustments have to he made
from time to time, as the contotireand
•celdrie of the face change.• ,
'Cheese t
contains the same. flesh.
building material as meat, and can be
Wad in. place „of meat. - .
THE SULTAN'S
HIDDEN TREASURE
COLLECTED FOR CENTURIES Br
TURKEY'S RULERS.
Throne of Beaten4Ol& Adorned With
•Millione of Precious Ge'nso of
C.reat
In the Green -Vaults of the Porte
lies bidden away what le perhaps the
greateet treasure hi_ the world, collect.
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pre of any inquisitive mortal No-
one has Over been able to estimate the •
value of the Sultan's jewelee for the ••
treasures erteguarded day and night,
There are at • lease twelve sets of
heavilYabarred doors to pass before
' the actual entrance is reached to tide
Aladdin's cave. For every lock there
are two keys eutrusted to as many
enstodians _erich having twenty -lair
guarkliese -iiiii7suolihdedloasplea-a- -
on each other as well as protect the,
guardians of the. keys.
The jewers appeatato consistanaire .
ly of set and upset precious stories.
All information regarding tin, how.
ever, is kept secret, because Id the
ir fe.otivvrf ep titrhi stet; eue aciefeetufdrillioou;nlito of aft e. s'hc:e7:stvruyol _
tan's wealth was discovered certain
'un
Pasha and his. Young Turks'niight. he .
tempted to "break in and steal." The
'gossipers of Constantinople say, how.
eVer, that if a person offered $3,000,-.
000,00Q for' the Green Vaults and se,
cured their coutents he would make a
great hargain.
Golden Throne From Pe,rsia.
Perhaps the throne of beaten gold,
adorned with millions of rubies,
pea,r1s, diamonds, sapphires, and caner..
alds, set in mosaic, is the moot dazz-
ling object bailie treasury of the
"Shaclew of God on Earth," llow
Seim A ever brought it from Persia
away back in the fifteenth century,
when traveling was so difficult, is .
.quite beyond huMan comprehensicin.
• Nowhere in -the world are there pre-
cious stones to compare with the two,
great emeralds vshich-adorn the top:
of the Sultanstrathronea-One-Of -them- -
weighs 4 lb., and is as big as a
hand, the other 'being a trifle smaller. '
aOri a table of ebany and sandale-
wood, within ; reech el, the • throne,
Stands 1:';aiiiiii•itelelineldgir -tankard-
encrusted with' 4,000 diamonds By
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its inde- hereareplatterawrought
purest gold and literally. veneered
With diamonds. On the ground sur-
rounding thiii dazzlingsight are scat-
tered thousands of rubies, pearls,' tur-
quoises, 'and emeralds, mingled with
exquisitely -carved • diamond butters..
The magnitude of the whole thing ,
makes one gasp with amazement. , •
• There-areeefilgies-of.---thea-Sultans-----aa--
-clad iii-tobei of Statefrom1451, to ,
1839, with jewels on the feathers eta
their turbans, daggers, and swords
which are priceless; :as are the won -2
derful rubies -and ,eineralds ' in the
clasps of Ibraheim and. Solyman II. .
.Treasury of Useless Wealth.
No museum in the werkl can boast
;a richer eollection of armor, scimitars,
shields, pistols, ' saddles, -. sandals,
'canes, and the like, all bejeweled or
•wrought of gel& „„
When the Sultana.givps a banged, -
in her haremthe treasury•is 'generel-
lyareidedafor the Odbasioh. At one of
these irevels. • bouquets of diamond
flowers stretchieg from shoulder to
shoulder were worn by- the Sultan's
favorites: The Sultana herself was
adorned With ropes of pearls Of un-
paralleled gime and in her Ors. were
Veda thirsiie-of batterflieS Weldingin-
thk kith Th S 1-; •
e r bea s epar g gems. e u
tan% grand -daughter, at_niere Want
of eleven, used to be. tortured by hay-
ing her hair done up in a knot on the
stalEir
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ew are aware that the Sultan is in -
receipt of the largest income paid tie
*Ilya earthly__ sovereienaesemething_e_
like $5,500,000" a year-aapd has the
right to ask foe, more should his privy
puese tun short The treasuist- of
useless wealtlf:hoarded allfarin athe
Green Vaults, ff converted bin' cash
and used for national purposes, would
t4asforre the 'Miserable Ottomari
Empire IMO One of the rieliest poW-.
ers in the Avert&
F •
Knew What a Sapling Was.
An Americen ambulance driver late.
ly -eeturned from - fhe French front •
tellsastedeiting an instruetion cairip hi -
England befere sailing for the United
States, A gunner, be paid, Was learn -
int( to shoot lit targets, and the officer
In charge. daked_thanOvicet -
"You Bee that sapling on the hill.
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"No, sir,".replied the gunner after a
careful look, "I don?t, see no sapling."
"What," yelled the officer, "you see
no Sapling? Why, there'a one right in
front of youl"
'Aftet anothertaquirit the soldier ree
ported ad before,
"Look here," said the officer, "do
you know what a sapling isl"
"Oh, yes, sir," Remind the goin-Of.
"a young pig,"
Save the best potatoes be:A the best
hills -that is, from the largest and
meet peeductive plants -tor nett
year' seed. a
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