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;N EXCITING PRESENT-DAY ROMANCE.
BY W€:ATHERBY CHESNEY
CHAPTER XXV.—(Cont'd).
"There, that's my philosophy. Hor-
ace. Probably you have skipped it to
get bo the practical part; but read it
through again, when you have nothing
to do; or better, let the girl read it
and see whether she doesn't agree
with evey word I say. I did not act
on it myself. and that is. why I am
anxious that you should not repeat my
mistake. I was just about as old as
you when I let my chance go. Don't
cio as I did,
"I say all this to you because you
seem to suggest a doubt whether you
can manage on what you have got.
You inquire whether my former offer
is still open. and you hint that if it
isn't, you have no right to ask the
girl to marry you. My boy, if you
love her, and have reason to believe
that she loves you, you have no right
to keep silent. Of course the offer is
still open—two offers, in point of
fact—but if I refused to help you by
so much as a shilling that would not
alter your obligation. I've preached
enoughNnow for the practical part.
"You can have a place at my city
office at three hundred a year, with
the prospect of rapid promotion if you
earn it; that is the offer which I hope
you will accept. The other is, possi-
bly, more to yo:u taste. I have been
investing largely in land lately, and I
want a land agent to represent me,
The salary in this case is £500 a year,
because the position requires that you
should make a certain amount of show
amongst my tenants, and you couldn't
do it on less. But it is a stationary
salary. Make your own choice.
"There is one thing more. When I
die, you will be mentioned in my will,
but net as my sole heir. The condi-
tions will be somewhat pecular, and
the amount which you inherit will de-
pend upon yourself. If you can prove
to my executors that on the day of
my death you were worth ten pounds,
you will receive something; if you can
prove a thousand, you will receive a
great deal more. As you know, I
preach the doctrine that nothing suc-
ceeds like success, and my will is to be
my last sermon to you on that theme.
The proportion of my property which
conies to you is, therefore, a matter
which is in your own hands; -ti;-,e sur-
plus will go towards founding a chari-
table institution of some sort, whose
nature I have not yet decided. Proba-
bly it will be an Ambler Home for
consistent Failures amongst 'Varsity
Men the most melancholy class on
earth, Horace!
"Gree my love to the girl. Tell her
there are no family diamonds, • but
there will be a cheque to help in the
furnishings."
By the time that Scarborough had
finished reading this characteristic
letter Elsa returned.
"I am ready, Horace," she said,
"Shall we start?"
"Yes," said Scarborough, and as
they passed out of the room, he whisp-
ered to Scott:—
"Ride a little in front, or behind,
old man, will you ?''
Scott answered with a grin.
"Uncle Croesus turned up trumps?
Are you going to win, as he cabled to
you?"
"I hope to win," Scarborough whis-
pered back. "Anyway, I am going to
follow Phil's example, and try." •
CHAPTER XXVI.
Sebe Cidades, the Seven Cities, are
seven small craters which lie in the
deep bowl of another and far vaster
crater. They are round ponds of
tinted water now, or shallow cups
filled with a crowding vegetation;
once they were volcanoes; but their
rage is spent, their furnaces have long
been cold, and on their ashes flowers
grow. Nature by giving a rich fer-
tility to the soil which their emblers
made, has covered with a garment of
beauty the scars of her former
wounds.
The sides of the main crater are
steep, and difficult of descent, except
in one place where the flowing lava
found an exit. At the bottom of the
great cup there are two lakes, the
Logo Verde, filled with brilliant green
water, and the Lago Azul, of an equal-
ly brilliant blue. On one of the many
tongues of land which stretch into
these lakes there is a tiny village of
white houses, nestling amid the trees..
"That is the Blue Lake which the
writing on the stone refers to," said
Scarborough, "and the Dripping Wel]
is on the opposite shore from here.
If only Davis's photograph had told us
how far from the well, instead of leav-
ing a blank before the word `feet,' we
could go down and begin our fishing,
I see no sign of Gillies."
The two young men and the girl
were standing near the edge of the
great crater, looking down. They had
approached cautiously, thinking it was
possible they might effect a surprise,
and by coming on the clerk and Mrs.
Carrington suddenly, win the secret
of the stolen plan from them. But
the waters of the Blue Lake lay quiet
and mirror-like in the evening calm.
"There is no one working near the.
Dripping Well,' said Scarborough.
"You go down, Scott, and find out in
the village if they have been here to-
day. Neither of the pair knows you,
so evert if they are there now, and see
you, possibly they won't think you are
ti
c" r, Better go to the yenta, hadn't we?"
z They went to the little inn, and
found Mrs. Carrington sitting in
rough. wooden rocking chair, clothed
grotesquely in country garments
which she had borrowed from the
padrona, and with a white bandage
wrapped about her head. There was
a .hot flush on her cheeks, she looked
very i11, but she received them with a
laugh,
"You are too late," she cried mock- ficial and private correspondence, in
mock-
ingly; "but of course I am glad to see ac -
you r Is Our Mr. Montague ith you
business When It'chad �servedin `rtsl pus-
Charming .leant I was sorry to have s
to part with him so rudely this morn-• pose it was thrown away,
leg."
Mother, are you hurt?"
asked Elsa'
anxiously. the early part of the last, century
"Don't be silly, child. Of course 1 Without attracting much attention,
amhart," was the ungracious answer, ieays the Christian Herald. The said -
"Do you suppose I wear this thing ars ofthose days were interested in
around my head as an ornament?" classical lore and literary remains,
after them. We will wait for you
here.'
Scott went off down the rugged path
which led to the lower ground, and
when he was' out of earshot, Scarbor-
ough said to Elsa:—
"Would you like to read my uncle's
letter for yourself ?"
"No," she said. "You have told me
what he says."
"Most of it" said Scarborough, "but
not all. He says that if there is love,
nothing else matters. You said the
same thing yourself this morning,"
Elsa did not answer, and presently
Scarborough asked in a low voice:-
"Elsa, is there love?"
"Yost,
The answer was lower than a whis-
per, hardly more than a movement of
the lips; but she had burned her face
, to him, and was looking into his eyes.
He heard it.
"My darling!" he whispered, and
bent towards her to take her in his
arms. But even now she drew back
from him.
"Ib is true that I love you, Horace,"
she said, "but—"
"But nothing else matters, dear!
You said so yourself."
She shook her head, saying softly:*
"There is one thing that matters—
disgrace."
"It wil I not come near you, he
cried. "You are not disgraced. The
crimes of others do not touch you."
"The crime was my father's," she
answered steadily.
"But not yours!"
Not mine, but the disgrace of ib
must be mine. And my mother is
committing the crime over again won,
perhaps has already committed it My
name is dishonored, and I should dis-
honor yours if I took it."
Scarborough took three steps• away
from her, and then turned, and be-
fore she knew what he was going to
do she was in his arms, and his
kisses were on her Iips.
"You love me," he said passionate-
ly; "you have confessed it! Do you
think thab after hearing you say that
I will take any answer from you but
'yes?' "
She did not resist. She had not ex-
pected his outburst, but she loved him
for it the more. She returned his
kiss, and was content.
Presently she looked up into his
face, and asked:—
"Horace, do you really mean that
nothing natters except love—nothing
—not even disgrace ? You say so now.
but will you say so always?"
"Always, sweetheart."
She nestled closer to him, saying
softly:—
"Then tell me again that you love
me, and in listening to you I will try
to forget the rest."
He told her, and told her again, and
it seemed that she would never tire
of hearing the words, or he of saying
them. They forgot all about Scott
and his errand to the Blue Lake; for
they were living through the supreme
moment of existence, the moment
when the first kiss .has been given and
returned, when Love has put the old
question, and has been answered by a
whispered `Yes.'
But presently Scarborough jumped
(to his feet with an exclamation.
"Scott is signalling something with
a glass!"
Down in the valley a point of light
was flashing against the setting sun.
Scott had a piece of broken mirror in
his hand and was using it as a helio-
graph, winking a message to them. in
the long and short flashes of the
Morse code,
"What does he say?" asked Elsa.
"'Are you asleep up there?'" Scar-
borough read the message to her.
" 'Mrs. Carrington is in one of the
houses, but Gillies has gone.' "
He took out his handkerchief, and
waving it like a flag, signalled back by
the same code "O.K.," the telegraph-
ist's sign that the message has been
read and understood.
"I'm going down," he said to Elsa.
"Will you come or stay here?"
"I will come, of course. Together in
all things now, Horace!" she said
with a happy smile.
They clambered down bhe rough
path hand in hand, and Scott, met
them at the bottom.
"Hullo," he said with a grin, "you
look uncommonly cheerful.. Scarbor-
ough! Anything happened? Been
baking the prescription Uncle Croesus
sent you? He was in rather a bad
way you know, Miss Carrington, and
so he cabled to England for advice.
Glad to see it has done him good!"
"This," said Scarborough, turning to
EIsa with a laugh, "is my fellow cab-
leman's uncouth way of congratulat-
ing me on winning the sweetest girl
in the world for my wife. I hope you
gather that, Elsa! Now, Scott, what
about Mrs. Carrington ?"
"She's at a little vents in the vil-
lage. I think there has been trouble."
"Have you seen .her ?'"
"No, but 1 a.sw a dress hanging on
a line to dry, which didn't look like a
native garment, and I asked a man
whether anyone had been upset on the
lake. He said that an English Sen-.
hor and Senhora had gone out in a
boat, and that the Senhora hacl been
found on the shore later, dripping wet
and unconscious. -She was at the vents
now, but the Senhor had gone, . I
didn't wait to hear More, .blit teleg-
SOME UORGtiwTTEN TREASURES.'
Studying . Life of Ancient Egy
From ~Cast Away
ay *'apyrus. •
It is. a strange story that reads
more like a romance than cold tact,
how the most intimate thoughts and
emotions of two thousand and more
years ago lay buried in the rubbish of
ancient .cities to come to light in our
day. Papyrus was the writing ma-
terial of ancient Egypt, used in of -
Much of it also was used to wind
the embalmed bodies of the dead.
Fragments of it passed westward in
"What has happened? And where
is Gillies?" asked Scarborough.
"I haven't the faintest idea where
Gillies is," said the widow, "and my
knowledge of what happened is vague.
The only thing I am sure about is
that we had a difference of opinion in
the boat, and that he struck me. I
don't remember any more. But as I
was afterwards found lying on the
bank, wet to 'bhe skin, and with a
bleeding cut on niy head, I think the
probability is that I fell ou'a of the
boat and struck my head against
something on the way. He seems to
have taken the trouble to pull me out
of the water; which is surprising,
because he was in a great hurry."
"Had you found the diamonds?''
(To be continued).
STORMS HIS MOTHER'S S HOME.
Son Knew Germans Had Driven His
- Parent From It.
The Chateau La Maisonette, France, ther Gemellus came I still had four
so often named in recent bulletins on hundred drachma'. They are all gone.
the Somme fighting, is the propertyI bought a team of mules. Send me
' of Mme. Fernet who has lived there I monthly allowance soon. When I was
for many years. The property is close with you you promised to send my
to Biaches and Peronne. The owner brother before I came to the garrison.
was there in August, 1914, when Von But you. sent nothing. You left me
Kluck's forces passed through during to go as I stood, nothing in the poc-
their rush upon Paris. She remained ket. Also my father on his visit gave
in her house and for months after- me not a penny. All laugh at me and
ward no news was heard of her. One say:. 'Your father is a soldier himself
of her sons, Victor Fernet, son-in-law and still he sends you nothing.' My
of Gen. Boisdeffre, although free from father tells me when he gets home he
military obligations, volunteered at will send me everything. But you
the beginning of the war, and the sent nothing. Why? There is the
hazards of wear sent him recently to mother of Valerius; she sent him a
and could not •foresee the infinite pos-
sibilities for studying the life of. a
past age from its private correspond-
ence.
Within the last decades, however,
interest changed "completely. Ex-
ploration parties were sent out to go
over every inch of ground and ga-
ther the remains, A host of scholars
set .themselves the task of decipher-
ing and interpreting the documents. !
But still an immense amount of ma -1
terial is stored away in Oxford, the
British Museum, Berlin, Paris and
other places.
In a group recently' examined there
ate three letters from recruits,
young men who had passed the mili-
tary examination and were taken
from simple home dtu r•oundings to
the cosmopolitan Roman army. The
first is a letter from a youth in Alex- 1
andria to his mother. He writes:
"Send me two hundred drachmas. I
have nothing any more. When bro-
the Somme front, where he has shar-
ed in all the attacks made.
A letter frrirn Germany had inform-
ed him that his mother, who had re-
mained until a short time ago at La
Maisonnette, had been sent away with
almost all her aged servants, so that
he was able to take part in an attack
which meant the destruction of his
home without the fear that his mo-
ther was still there.
The Germans made six desperate
efforts to retake La Maisonnette be-
tween 11 p.m. Sunday (July 16) and
Monday afternoon. Each was made
by at least a battalion, but each was
defeated.
3000 SHIPS UNDER JELLICOE.
Tightness of the BIockade Sur-
passes Expectations.
In an article in the current number
et "Cassell's Magazine of Fiction" on
British effort on land and sea, Mr.
Frederick Palmer, the well-known
American journalist and war corres-
pondent, tells that "including the re-
gular naval and the auxiliary vessels,
some 3000 ships are under Sir John
Jellicoe's command. Success in keep-
ing tight the blockade between Ice-
land and the North Sea surpasses ex-
pectations. It was feared that a
number of raiders might get by, and,
considering that the fog in the North
Sea is often so thick that a man can
hardly see his own Mand held out be-
fore him, it is amazing that only one
raider has got through at the time of
writing. The fuss made over that
single one is proof of the pudding to
naval experts, who realize the diffucil-
ties if the layman does not. It was
as unusual as in the case of the man
biting the dog."
Courage is a fine asset, but its riead-
ly unless accompanied by good judg-
ment.
pair of abdominal bandages and a
cruse of oil, a basket of meats, and
two hundred drachma. Send quickly.
I already went and borrowed from a
comrade. Also brother Gemellus sent
mea pair of trousers."
TITLES OFTEN DUPLICATED.
•
Various Lords Greys, Two Lords Mor-
ley, -Two. Earls. of Mar, Etc.
Sir Edward Grey will probably be
known by the title of Earl Grey of
Falloden. The peerage is already
well -stocked with peers of this name.
There is, of course, Earle Grey, for-
merly Governor-General of Canada,
who is himself Baron Grey of Howick.
Neither of these must be confused
with Lord Grey of Ruthyn, nor with
Lord Grey of Wilton, the eldest son oa
the Earl of Wilton, nor with Lord
Grey of Groby, eldest son of the
Earl of Stamford. And all these are
quite distinct from Earl de Grey, who
succeeded to his father's Marques -
sate of Ripton in 1909.
There is really no copyright in
titles. There are two Lords Morley,
an Earl and Viscount. There are two
Barons Monteagle, voting as such in
the Lords, though one is known as
the Marquess of Sligo and now Earl
of Clanricarde in the Irish Peerage.
Scottish Representatives Peers in-
clude the Earl of Mar_and the Earl
of Mar and. Kellie. . There are Baron
Clifford and Baron de Clifford (a
minor) ; while two other titles which
are often confounded because of the
spelling are Viscount Midleton and
Baron Middleton and the Earls of
Desert and Dysart. Lord Midleton
sits as Baron Broderick in the Peer-
age of the United Kingdom.
Giving up smoking brings one -great
compensation with it—the joy of be-
ginning again. This isnot to be de-
spised.
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COMPILING THE CASUALTY LISTS.
A): ftc;:ii British photc,grFut,h' ialceaz "somewlierc"'alone, the,ret,o.n of
,irivr. ?bowing a Brit;ch company, lined up for io,i-tall In ono
of the auvanccJ trenches FFfter the gruelling battle of July 14th... .
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Important to Wheat Growers
This is important to. you 'because it
means dollars to you, Ina short
time you will be preparing for the
seeding of your fall wheat, and ib is
necessary to keep in mind the danger
of loss :from Smut. Especially last
year, Smut was very general in On-
tario. Gram dealers advise me that
that it hasa Meant a difference of as
much as 10c. per bushel for the grain
delivered at elevators, aside altogeth-
et from making some of the wheat
unmarketable. This means a loss of
$3 to $5 per acre, while the cost of
treating to prevent smut and prevent
this loss is only a few cents- per acre.
Be sure this year amid treat your seed
for smut.
The method usually adopted is as
follows:—Mix one pint of formalin
with 40 gallons of water, or two table-
spoonfuls bo one pail of water. Place
the grain to be treated in a heap on
clean canvas or floor. Sprinkle .the
formalin solution over the grain, then
shovel. Repeat this until every
grain is moistened by the solution;
then cover the pile with sacking and
leave for three or four hours.' At the
end of this time spread the grain out
thinly to dry; ;shovelling it over three
or four times' will hasten the drying.
Forty gallons of the formalin solution
is sufficient to sprinkle thirty or for-
ty bushels of grain; smaller amounts
in proportion. Bags, machinery, or
anything with which grain conies in
contact before being put in the ground
should be thoroughly treated.
Immersing the grain in a bag is'
sometimes practised and is equally ef-
fective.
Of course smut is not as prevalent
some years as others, being influenced
to some extent by weather conditions,
Treatment, however, is a form of in-
surance. You do not expect to have
your barn burned down every year be-
cause you pay the insurance every
year, and it is equally important to
keep up your insurance on your wheat
crop. This is important at the pres-
ent time, nob only qn your own ac-
count, but on ac'couuit of the Empire,
which requires the maximum supply
of high quality foodstuffs. The ship-
ping of smutty wheat not only gives
this Province a bad name but reduces
the price you receive for your wheat.
Further information on the subject
may be secured for the asking, either
from the local office of this Depart-
ment in your County or.from th eun-
dersigned.—Hon. Jas. S. Duff, Minis-
ter of Agriculture, Toronto.
Cost of Raising Dairy Heifers.
One of the important things for the
farmer to know is the. cost of the
thing he produces, wheher it be a crop
or an animal. Profits are governed
as much by the cost of production as
the price for which the produeb sells.
One of the questions often discussed is
the cost of raising young stock. Sev-
eral of the Unibad States Experiment
Stations have taken up the question
of finding out what it costs to raise a
-heifer calf. The question is an im-
portant one and should interest Can-
adian dairymen. We would also be
glad to have the experience of any of
our readers as to the cost of raising
heifer calves forthe dairy herd.
hTe Ohio station has just conclud-
ed such an investigation. The fig-
ures given are the averages of the re-
cords kept on 51 heifers -29 Jerseys
and 22' Holsteins. This involves
large enough numbers to merit con-
sideration.
The items other than feed are aa
follows: Value at birth $5, Iabor
$11.50, bedding $4.50, service fee $1.50
tools, etc., $1.50, shelter $4, interest
and taxes $4.68, or a botal of $32.86.
Nine dollars is credited for manure,
leaving the net cost $23.68. To this
must be added the feed cost. The
botal cost of raising the Jersey heifers
to two years of age was $78.1.9, and
the Holsteins $81.80, the difference
being due to the larger animals eat-
ing more feed. They were charged
30 cents a month for pasture the first
year, and 90 cents the second. The
pasture had to be supplemented with
grain in order to keep the : heifers
growing properly.
The heifers were bred to calves at
twenty-six and one-half month of age,
and at calving time the cost averaged
$91.39.
The high cost of heifers as brought
out by these different • studies, clearly
shows the folly of raising inferior in-
dividuals.- It costs just as mach to
feed a heifer sired by an inferior
bull. as one sired by a high class hull.
The figures also show why dairymen
are justified in asking good prices for
well-bred dairy stock. As a dairy
farmer recently stated, they cannot
afford to sell really good heifers for
$60 or $70. The dairymen who insist
on buying only cheap stock will get
only culls, and would be better oft
without them. They roust expect to
pay good prices for well-bred heifers
that have been properly grown and
developed.
The economical thing for the dairy-
man who is just getting a start, is to
give the most careful attention to the
feeding df his heifer calves, saving
only those having the right kind of
parents. Even though the Cost of
bringing a heifer up to calving time
docs seem high, it is the safest and
most reliable way of. adding to the
herd and is '- :aper in the long run.
than to depend on buying, ribose
who are just making a start roust of
course buy their foundation . stock,
and it is inip.ortarit,$hat these be sel-
ected with care, A bunch of culls, is
not every good start in the building
up of a dairy herd,
This Oliio report also shows that
fall calves can be raised more cheap-
ly than can spring calves, This
should fit in well with dairying on the
general farm, for there is always
more time to devote to the cows and
calves during the fall and winter
months than during the busy season
when the crops are demanding a
groat deal of labor.
Pure Milk For Butter -Malting.
It is most essential to use only pure
uncontaminated milk for the produc-
tion of butter when the finished pro-
duct is to be of prime quality. In a
great many cases where' butter hasan
objectionable flavor it is due to the
milk employed being badly contam-
inated with undesirable bacteria.
Cream is ripened by bacteria, and
it is only when the right species of
germs predominate in the:cream that
it will. ripen •properly. The .germs
which produce lactic acid, and thus
ripen cream, have the power of over-
coming other species of bacteria un-
less the cream is very badly contam-
inated, in which case the cream-
ripening organisms could not perform
their functions.
Why Milk Sours,
Bacteria cause the souring of milk.
Bacteria usually get into milk in dirt
and the bacteria develop fast when
the milk is warm. To keep the bac-
teria out, keep dirt out of -the milk.
This means care in milling and care
to have the mills utensils clean. Keep-
ing the milk cool will retard the de-
velopment of the bacteria, that do
get into the milk. Cans or vessels
that have had,milk in them should be.
rinsed in cool water first, as hot wat-
er hardens the albumen of the milk
and makes it hard to remove.—W. C.
P., North Dakota Experiment Station.
Grain for the Skim -Milk, Calf.
Calves are usually fed w,hole milk
for two to three weeks, then gradually
changed to slcim-milk. About the
time of changing, begin to feed a lit-
tle grain, but do nob think that it is
necessary to use oil -meal or any oth-
er high-priced feed high in protein or
fat, or both. Experience at the Mis-
souri Agricultural Experiment Station
shows that a, mixture of two parts
corn and one part oats, by weight,
gives as good results as oil -meal and
ready -mixed calf -meals often purchas-
ed at much higher prices. Bran is
not especially good for the young calf
because it is too laxative. The grain
mixture should be fed immediately
after the milk, and neither should be
fed too..liberally, or scours may result.
4.
JERUSALEM IN WAR TIMES.
•
Dumping Ground for Young Germans
of High Family.
To Western minds the idea of the
Holy City serving as a base for mod-
ern military operations must be full
of incongruities. And) as a matterof
'fact, it was an amazing thing to see
the streets packed. with khaki clad
soldiers and hear the brooding silence
of ancient walls shattered • by the
crash ofsteel shod army boots. Here,
for the first time, I saw the German
officers—quantities of them, says
Alexander Aaronsohn in the Atlantic.
Monthly. Strangely out of place they
looked, with their pink and whiteness
that no amount of hot sunshine could
quite burn off. They wore the regu-
lar German officer's uniform, except
that the pickelhaube was replaced
by a khaki sun helmet. I was struck
by the youthfulness of them; many
Were nothing but boys„ and there
were weak, dissolute faces in plenty
—a fact that was later explained
.when I heard that Palestine had been
made the dumping ground for young
men of high family whose parents
were anxious to have them as far re-
moved as possible from the danger
zone. Fast's Hotel was the great
meeting place in Jerusalem for these
young bloods.
Every evening thirty or forty
would foregather there to drink and
talk women and strategy. I well re-
member the evening when one of them
a slender young Prussian ' with no
back to his' head, braceletted and
monocled rose and announced in the
decisive tones that go with a certain.
stage of intoxication:
"What we ought to do is to hand
over the organization of this cam-
paign to Thomas Cook & Sons."
Stark Idealism.
Mother (entering the nursery) --
Children, why' do you sit about look-
ing .so
ook-ing.so solemn and unhappy? Why
not play a game of some sort?
One of 'Em—We are playing. We're
grown-up ladies making .a call.
'Y
Wise is he who has the cage
ready for the bird.
The running track at the Canadian
National Exhibition is one of the few
on the continent 'giving a 220 yards
coarse straight-away. Many records
have been equalled or broken on
Athletic Day in past years.
CANADA'S GREAT C ;.
TELESCOPE
SAID TO BE THE LARGEST IN
TILE WORLD..
Instrument Is for Use of the Do-
minion Observatory at
Victoria, B.C.
The great 72 -inch reflecting tele-
scope designed : and constructed for
the Dominion Astronomical Observa-
tory at Victoria, B.C., ranks in size
as the largest yet completed .i i the
world. In design the telescoiiea is a
reflector 6 feet in diameter with an
equatorial type of . mounting, having
the main or polar axis pointing to-
wards the north star and swinging
the body of the telescope• in a plane
parallel to the earth's equator and
the apparent paths of the stars; and
a declination axis at right angles to
and passing through• the centre. , of
the polar axis, to :allow movelTient
north and south. The instrument
weighs 55 tons, and will rest upon
massive piers of reinforced concrete.
The polar axis is. 23 feet long and
weighs 10 tons, The declination
axis weighs 5 tons, is 14% feet long,
15% inches in diameter, carrying a
flange 41 inches in diameter and ' 4'
inches thick, to which the body of
the telescope is attached. The tube
is 31 feet long in three sections,yet
weighs 12 tons. The central cy
drical casting is 12% feet long, an
weighs 7 tons. The mirror cell,
weighing with counterpoises and'
mirror 6 tons, forms the lower end,e,
while to the upper end is firmly " at-
tached the rigid skeleton tube, made
of structural steel in tension. The
skeleton portion of the tube is 23
feet long, 7r feet in diameter and
weighs with attachments about two
tons.
Driven by Clock.
A driving clock similar( in design
to that which has been so successful
in the Lick and Yerkes telescopes,
moves the telescope east or west
with great precision, through an ac-` .
curately cut worm wheel 9 feet in
diameter mounted on the polar axis.
The telescope is moved from one
position to another, and is set and
guided wholly by electric motors.
Seven motors with : solenoids and
magnetic clntehes are provided for
these motors. With' the focal length
of 108 feet the guiding speed neces-
sary for a star image is 1,300 inch
per second.
The observer,' at either the upper
orlower ends of the tube can clamp t'`
or unclemp the teleseope, make the} ---
fine settings and guide the tele-
scope by means of push buttons on
a portable key board kept at a con-
venient place.
Weighs 43 Tons.
The engineering and mechanical
problems involved ire designing and
constructing a telescope of such
great proportions and accuracy will
be apparent when considering the
extreme rigidity necessary for carry-
ing the • optical parts invariably in a
their correct relative positions with-
out strain, and at the same time so
well poised and adjusted as to en-
able the telescope to be easily
pointed towards and accurately set
on any desired object, and to enable
the whole massive mechanism weigh-
ing 43 tons, to unvaryingly follow the
motions of the stars. The sun, the
moon, the planets and the comets all
have different rates of motion to
that of the stars, and all tb ateaaist
be provided for in the con clang
mechanism.
The revolving dome is 66 feet in
diameter, and is provided with a
double shutter having an opening
15 feet wide. Its weight is 120 tons.
All of the movements of the dome,
telescope, wind shields, shutters, etc.,
are by means of electrical motors.
The principal mirror is 73 inches
in diameter, 12 inches thick, and
pierced with a hole in the centre.
The mirror, weighs 21 tons; yet it
is so accurately poised that no flec-
tions can distort its surface, which
must nowhere deviate from the theo-
retical curve more than the two
hundredth -thousandth part of an inch.
The instrument is made to allow
its use in three forms, the New-
tonian, Direct or Cassegrain forms.
The secondary mirrors are 9 inches Are
in diameter.
This great engine of science, the
largest completed telescope in the
world, is now being erected at ,Vic-
toria, B.C., by order of the Dominion
Government for the Doiniriionbro,
nomical Observatory in charge of
Dr. Plaskett, Chief Astronomer, un-
der t'he late Dr. Ring at Ottawa.
Doing The Work Of The Army:
By a p'ece of good luck the new re-
cruit had been appointed orderly to his
captain and the latter was now giv-
ing
iving him his instructions.
"You 'are to rise at 5 o'clock," he
said, "sha:ve yourself and clean your
boots and equipment. Then you clean
my boots, buttons, belt, etc., shave rna
see to my horse --which you must,
groom thoroughly and clean the
equipment. After that you go to
your hut, help to serve out breakfast,
and after breakfast lend a hand wash -
frig up. At 8 o'clock you, go on par-
ade 'and drill. till 12".—
The recruit), ,whose face had been
growing longer and longer, then inter-
rupted.
"Beg pardon, a rdon sir, - but is there any
one else in the army . besides me."
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