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Recipes nod Other Valuable information
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TOMATOES,
Spiced :Tomatoes, --Ono quart of
tomatoes, one onion chopped fine,
a red pepper, a teaspoonful of salt,
two teaspoonfuls of sugar, a cupful
of- vinegar, enda teaspoonful of
mixed spires, cloves, cinnamon,
and allspice. Boil the tomatoes and
the vinegar together for two hours,
then add the onions and the other
things and boil for another hour,
This is a good relish for Fold meats
of any kind.
Cream of Tomato Soup.—Creain
of tomato soup is made quickly and
easily if made by the following co
-
doe; Put two saucepans on .the
fire, In one put two and one-half
cups of milk and scald it. In the
other put two tablespoons of but-
ter When it is melted add three
tablespoons of flour and stir till
smooth and bubbloa. Then add the
milk and stir till thickens. There
pour into this one 10 cent can of to-
mato soup which has been heated.
Do not dilute the can of soup but
use full strength. Heat and serve.
This makes a delicious, cheap and
easily prepared soup.
Escalloped Tomatoes.—Put in. a
brown jar one quart can of toma-
toes, four tablespoonfuls of well
mashed rice, four teaspoonfuls of.
sugar, one green pepper sliced
fine, salt. Stir and add small piec-
esof butter. Bake rather slowly
for one hour. Stir occasionally so
the rice will notsettleat the bot-
tom.
Fried Tomatoes on Toast.—Dip
slices of ripe tomato pancake bat-
ter; fry until tender and brown;
place each fritter on a slice of warm
buttered toast and sprinkle with
salt and pepper.
Minced Beef in Tomato .Sauce.—
Makeany favorite tomato sauce and
when hot add' one cup of beef or
ary left over cooked meat whish
has been put through food chop-
per. Cook up once and and to
-table garnished with parsley sprigs.
CANNING.
Gooseberries. -To can gooseber-
ries to be nice and whole canned,
they should be cleaned carefully,.
then put as many quarts as desir-
ed into a vessel. Have ready a ket-
tle of boiling water, pour it over
-the 'berries, leave until they turn
-white, which is only a few moments.
"Skim the berries out and put into
the jars. Have more boiling water
-sal pour over them in the jars un-
til Berries are covered. Seal im-
mediately. They are thoroughly
'conked when opened and will keep.
To Can Rhubarb.—Wash careful-
ly, cut in small pieces, fill jars that
have been warmed (to avoid creak-
ing). Then pour boiling neater
over it until the rhubarb is well
eovered. Seal immediately,
Red Beets.—Cook beets, small
ones (if large, quarter thein, after
beingcooked);, have vinegar sea -
Boned with salt, pepper, a little
sugar, boiling hot, ready, and when
,beets are put into the jars, pour
the hot vinegar over them. See
that they are well covered before
sealing, but seal immediately. De-
licious when opened.
UNUSUAL RECIPES.
Substitute for Meat.—Put a can
of peas with a cupful of milk into'
pan. Let it scald,not boil; then
add a tablespoonful of butter, salt
and pepper to taste, and then add
a can of shrimps, The entire cost
is about 30 cents, and it makes a
meal for several ' persons. Serve
hot with toasted bread, crackers, or
croutons. Add more milk if more
giavyis desired.
Livor and Bacon.—A new way of
preparing liver and bacon is to
scald the liver, peel off all outside
skin, place in a baking pan, lay
strips of bacon over each, slice, and
bake in quite a hot over. The ba-
con bastes the meat and it is
sweet, tender and juicy. And it
also does away with spattering the
stove.
Mexican Eggs. ---Take throe sweet
green peppers, split lengthwise and
remove the core and seeds. Fry
very thin slices of ham and place
each piece on a slice of 'toast. On
each slice of ham put a piece of pep-
per, and put a poached egg on top
of both,
MEATS.
Roasting Mcats.—Take a gallon
crook, put in any kind of meat,, sea, -
son without water, cover with a
lid ; if the roast is too large take
another gallon crock and put on
top. This is especially good for
chicken; makes it tender.
Beef Loaf.—To two pounds of
rcund steak add to slices of bacon
and grind. Soak about one-half
loaf stale bread in hob water. Drain
water off bread and add to moat
wits, one small, or as largo as de-
au -.:d, onion cut. fine. Add plenty
of salt and ,popper, A little sego
can also be put in if desired, 1' crit
all the above until smooth; A po-
tato masher is as good as anything
to work it with, Bake in a loaf
about one hour, This is delicious
served hot or cold, served with to -
matzo sauce, This beef loaf is far
superior to the one with eggs ad -
cod.
THE S. S. LESSON
INTERNATIONAL LESSON,
JULY 3,
Lesson L Pictures of the Eingdonr,
Matt, 13. 31.0, 44.52, Golden
Text, Roan, 14, 17.
Verse 31. Mustard seed --A pro-
verbial emblem of an exceedingly
small quantity. Not the timber
tree, but the black mustard, a gar.
CLEANING, den herb, sown annually, is refer -
rid to,
Carved Furniture.—To clean:mem;
23. Less thanall seeds -Not of
deeply carved furniture use a soft, :curse literally sol rather byf 0-
radium -sized sponge. Squeeze as pular estimation, since in ordinary
dry as possible out of tepid water gardening no smaller seed was ever
and go over the carving.. It will sewed• "Small as a mustard
take up all the dust. Bub dry cec4,. was a common Jewish say -
with aloft cloth and you will bethe
delighted, with the result, I ing, sn which was exercised the
Car eta •and Rugs.—Eight ounces p4ove license often found in
of sasoda, four
powdered proverb.
borax one-half Olt of alcohol one 1 When it is grown—The impres-
pttind�'of white soap, five gallons of cion is not of rapid development,
rale water. Dissolve soap in one but of the contrast between the in-
gellon water by boiling, put in tub,' significant origin and the mature
then add soda and borax, mix, - product. The Christian believer
then add remaining four gallons eau afford to wait until the seed is
water, stir, and then put in also grown.
hob. Let stand an hour or two be- Greater than the herbs—It tow -
fere using. Use with hair brush,. cis above the pulse, parsley, and
scrub place about a yard square at mint( ten feet hnd drawn up
a time. .Take sponge, dipping in amongst brushes, and not thicker
ciear.water, squeezing out as dry than whip -cord , "as tall as the
horse and his rider"). so that, to
all intents, it has the appearance
or a tree.
as possible, and wipe surface of car-
pet or rug. Don't walk on the car-
pet or rug while wet.
THE SEWING ROOM.
When sewing with silk thread al-
ways use a new machine needle, as
a blunt one causes the silk to draw
cr pucker.
Curtain Hint.—In making sash
curtains of swiss, hem both sides
the width of the selvage; one turn
is enough. They will wear longer,
i''on easier, and look a hundred per
The birds . . - come and lodge --
An Old Testament expression for
the spread of a great kingdom, giv-
ing shelter to many (Ezek. 31. 8;
Dan. 4. 9-18). The application of
the parable is self-evident. From
a period of precarious life amidst
persecutions and toils, the kingdom
of heaven has gradually enlarged
its sway till it has become a world-
wide protector of the poor and op
pressed, and a power that can no
pent. better than with the selvage longer be neglected in any of the
edge. councils of men. During the nine -
Kitchen Aprons.—Take as many teenth century the number of the
widths and lengths as desired of ca- adherents of Christianity increased
lieo or gingham, sew together and more than in all the preceding cari-
llon' both ends. Draw a tape turies of the Christian era.
through one end to tie around the 33- Leaven — The fermented
waist; either end can be used to dough, lightens it. ,Scientists have
slaw tape through. When washed discovered that this effect is pro -
take out the tape and you have duced;by tiny living organisms
spread through the leaven in large
numbers. Inasmuch as leaven gives
a. disagreeable taste and odor to
the bread, yeast is now much more
commonly used.
Three measures—No significance
attaches to the number. The seah
was the recognized unit of mea-
surement especially in the case of
dry substances. It was equal tc
about one peck and a half.
Till it was all leavened—This
took place by the influence of the
A sprig of parsley eaten after on-
leaven, first `upon the particles near
flat ,work to iron. Aprons made
this way are made quicker than the
apron with band and strings, and
laundered in half the time.
Padding Embroidery Work. For
ibis lint cotton is much better than
thread; moisten the finger tips and
roll the cotton, size and length
wanted, and put in place and work
over it. No shrinking required, as
most thread does.
HOUSEHOLD HINTS.
ions or leeks prevents the offensive where it was hid, then, through
breath which is so annoying to these, upon all the rest. Such
other people. is the persuasive influence of
Milk may be kept from scorching true Christianity upon the life of
mankind. Beginning with Christ,
it has spread through, the apostles,
then through the early church, gra
dually working to transform, the
entire mass. The meal is the whole
complex life of Hien, art, commerce,
Totters, religion. The Christian
disciple must bring to bear upon
all these the force of his leavep-
ing faith and love, and penetrate
them with his ideals,
44. A treasure hidden in the field
—In the East it was nut unusual
for men to conceal their wealth in
this way, because of the uncertain
away the disagreeable odor. of the tenure of property. Often, because
cit, rub the door down with a of the vicissitudes of life, the
wealth would remain unclaimed in
its hiding place.
A man found—His coming by
sheer accident upon the treasure,
Take equal parts of rosewater, le- without seeking at all, is true to
mon juice and glycerine. Mix. lire Many a man finds himself
these thoroughly and bottle. Rub suddenly confronted with a noble
the hands liberally every night with truth, in the Bible or out of it, and
this preparation. It should be is obliged to take an attitude to-
ward it, either of receptivity or of
refusal.
Selletlr all --The man who is keen
enough to recognize the unrivaled
worth of salvation will experience.
only joy in paying the necessary
price. The test of sincerity, in ev-
eryone who comes face to face with
the truth, is simply whether he is
willing to give all he has and is in
order to make it his own. And
surely, that which alone fully satis-
li s the . longings of the human
heart, and fills up 'the whole mea-
sure of being, warrants the sur-
render of all those things which do
to t, and never can, satisfy.
should never outrun her love, I£ a Biryeth that field—It is easy to
child once feels that the day has uslt foolish questions in the inter
gone by with a lessening of the Pi Ration of a`par•able. Hors, for
Influence of one may .sale: "Can one
mother's love, the In
mother for good is dangerously purchase membership in the heav-
enly kingdom 1 Was it right for the
man to hide the treasure before go-
ing to buy the field " No parable
is to be interpreted to the remot-
est detail. Certainly,, salvation is
not a 'commercial oommodity, and
if the man's conduct seems like
shrewd practice, it is only on the
in 1819, he was born on the 9th,' his fringes of the story. The essential
marriage tools place in the year thing is, that he was eager to act
'63, which numbers welded the one toward that treasure as any man
to the other make nine; his reign ought, to act in tate 'presence of
commenced in 1901, he was to have great spiritual opportunity-hc joy -
been . crowned on the 27th, which fully parted with what was of small
figures added together make nixe, account in order to become owner
if the pan in which it 1s to be cook-
ed is rinsed in cold water before the
milk is poured in.
To clean glass globes soak them
in warm water and soda, add a few
drops of ammonia to the water, and
wash them with a well -soaked flan-
nel. Rinse in clean cold water, dry
with a soft piece of linen, and pol-
ish with a newspaper.
Finger -mark stains on doors and
cupboards vanish as though by en-
chantment when lightly rubbed
with a piece of flannel dipped in
kerosene oil. In order to take
clean flannel wrung out in hot
water.
To improve the color of the hands
if, reel, try the following mixture;
shaken before use.
Few people know how to hang
,sheets properly upon the line.
Shako them well while still wet,
and hang them with the hems to-
gether and the hem -edge pinned to
the line. This prevents whipping
t'ie corners and lessens the wear
and tear, while the sheet will need
lees pulling into shape for the iron-
ing:
The best means of encouraging
truthfulness in children is through
mutual -sympathy, which teaches the
child uncomplainingly to accept
mother's wishes as law. To win.
this trust a mother's correction
weakened. Undue harshness is one
of those irreparable errors we are
sure to regret.
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LATE KING'S LUCKY NUMBER
• King Edward's luckynumber was
nine, Both his parens were born
1
45. A merchant seeking --life ro-
prosents the man who devotes his
life to the diligent quest of truth,
Goodly pearls—There, ie oer-
'tain beauty and lustre to other re-
ligions, but they have no absolute
value; and if a man is in deadly
earnest to find the beat, he will not
stop with them,
46, Pound ono pearl of great
price --The end of all life is to find
for oneself this gem of solitary
al.lendor. What was the prleol All
that he had, Wad it too highf It
is no less for any of us, Life eter-
nal is a jewel of such tranee.end-
ant rarity, that nothing else will
match it except the unwithholding
renunciation of a human being,
47. A not -The thine, ar drag-
net, which is often worked by fast-
ening one end to the shore and
carrying the other end out to sea
in a wide circle and afterward
bringing it to the starting point,
thus inolosing all the. fish of eveyy
kind, as in the world are men of
every type and condition. Until the
final disposition of all, the good
and bad freely mingle.
49. The end of the world—As in
the case of the tares, the angels are
the agents of judgment.
52. Every scribe—By his use of
parabolic teaching Jestis has shown
how the disciples may become tea-
chers and give apt instruction in
the things of the kingdom. Like a
householder, who takes out of his
chest old things and new, so they
are to present' to men not only the
old truth in the old way but both
del and new in a new way, likes
their Master presenting all truth
through the vehicle of commonplace
facts and experiences of life and
nature,
TREASURE IN WRECKS
PliAN TO REGAIN $20,000,000
FROM THE OCEAN.
Captain Gardiner Gives Account of
Fortunes to be Won from
Neptune.
Previous to the opening of the
Suez Canal in 1870 all British
transports and East Indiamea
made the voyage to and from the
East by way of the Cape of Good
Hope. Many were wrecked. Most
of these wrecks lie' close to the
shore, and all attempts to salve
their contents were, until quite re-
cently, attended by great and in
roost cases insuperable difficulties,
owing to the inefficiency of diving
and salving apparatus and the
practical impossibility of removing
'he sand with which most vessels
submerged for some years are cov-
ered.
BETTER DIVING APPARA'T'US.
During the last few years, how-
ever, great strides have been made
in perfecting diving apparatus, and
it is now practicable to work at a
much greater depth than was here.
tofore possible. At the same time
the introduction of the powerful
centrifugal pumps now available
renders it possible to remove large
Quantities of sand in a very short
time.
An experienced mariner, Captain
Gardiner, is to superintend the op-
erations on the wrecks. Evidently
they are plentiful down south, for
it is stated that after an exhaus-
tive search in the archives of Cape
Colony the captain selected no
fewer than 137 of the more valu-
able and accessible wrecks and
succeeded during the course of sev-
en years, at an expenditure of
$20,000, in locating thirty-two of
them. Of these he has actually
surveyed sixteen and recovered
surfaoe property from four of them.
The government of the Cape of
Good Hope has granted licenses to
work these vessels, subject to a
royalty of 15 per cent. of the value
of property recovered.
In his report Captain Gardiner
says:
WRECKS WORTH MILLIONS.
"Although I have been able to
ascertain the whereabouts and
values of thirty-two wrecks, exhi-
biting assets representing a sum
er•ceeding 320,000,000, I should
mention that I am in a position to
Ircate other wrecks, many of which
ofler to the recoverer prizes whose
worth should figure at hundred of
thousands of pounds sterling:
"I will not anter upon a detailed
statement concerning the thirty -
too wrecks to which I refer, but
'fll confine myself to making men-
tion of four,
"No. 1 Wreck—It is reoor'ded'and
corroborated in a report from the
captain of this ship to directors of
the East India Company that her
cargo embraced, among other
things, 720 bars of gold, 1,400 bars
of silver, nine boxes of precious
stones and specie, the reputed ag-
gregate value of whielt is calculat-
ed to exceed $5,000,000, Tlie assets
should be recovered with great fa-
cility and with loss difficulty than
from most of• the other submerged
vessels.
She Resin fr6tn throe and a Half
to foot- and a half; fathoms of, water.
and he was actually crowned on the of what, comparatively, was of 10- The bull' is intact and thus her co
4th of August. finite account. Itwits are easily available. Mode
it
.centrifugal pumps would extract
the whole of the sand contained
within her in from, one to two
menthe. The total cost of salvage
should not exeeod 335,000,.
"No 2 Wreek—This vessel is in a
good salving position, Her eon -
tents, according to evidence , of a
thoroughly reliable nature, wore
valued at $1,000,000. I estimate
that the greater part of the specie
could be recovered in six months
at a maximum cost of 339,000.
MIGHT WIN $3,500,000.
"No: 3 Wreck—The worth of the
contents of this vessel represents
a value of more than 32,500,000 in
specie. She lies in twelve fathoms
of water, on an ocean bed cover-
ed by kelp. I am certain that with
a few expert divers and good, up
tr+•date plant, the greater portion
cold be recovered at a cost of 300,-
000 in a period of six months, as
there is no sand to extract from the
ship.
No, 4 Wreck—This vessel is in a
similar position to the one stated
above. She is in five fathoms of
water and is filled with sand. From
the investigation of authorized re-
cords I have ascertained she was
carrying $4,000,000 in specie when
lest; her bell and two other ar-
ticles, easily accessible, were recov-
excd. She would have to be worked
in a similar way to No, 1. I esti-
mate that in ordinary weather the.
expense of recovery would be under
$50,000. The time occupied in this
operation should not be over six
months.
"The above four wrecks I have
located and surveyed, as I have
twelve others. Besides these six-
teen wrecks, the contents of which
I have ascertained, sixteen further
Wrecks remain, all of which I have
located, but not yet surveyed."
Thus, only a matter of $399,000,
which the company desires to com-
mence business with, is needed to
collect untold treasure from the
depths of Father Neptune's realm.
.IL.
MILT -BOTTLING HLASIVEKu.
Has a Capacity of 7,680 Bottles an
'Hour.
The filling of milk bottles by or-
dinary methods is such a tedious
task For large metropolitan milk
companies that a machine to do the
work has become an absolute ne-
cessity. The latest, form of milk -
bottling machine is operated by two
men, one to operate the machine
itself, the other to see that it is
properly fed with bottles; it has a
capacity of 7,680 bottles an hour.
Each operation, which takes about
fifteen seconds, fills with milk
twelve quart bottles in one carrier
and twenty pint bottles in another.
With almost human intelligence
the machine picks up a carrier of
empty bottles, straightens it, if it
happens to be out of line, moves it
un der and lifts it against a battery
of spouts from which the milk is-
sues, lowers and carries it to an
apparatus which automatically caps
each bottle and then discharges
the carrier upon a car. This car
carries the filled bottles either to
a cold -storage room or a platform
from which wagons are loaded.
The machine is\claimed to be ab-
solutely sanitary, even the caps for
the bottles being sterilized after
they are placed within it. The rate
of operation may be regulated to
the fraction of a second by a speed -
adjuster, operated by a hand -
wheel. This is necessary because it
takes more time to fill a quart bot-
tle than a pint. Half-pint bottles,
which have a neck the same size as
the pint bottle, are also used, the
machine being adapted for cream
as well as milk, also for buttermilk.
Cream and buttermilk flow much
slower than milk—another reason
for the speed -adjuster.
MUSIC AND CRIME.
French Socialist Advocates Instruc-
tion in the Arts.
Marcel Sembat, a French Social-
ist Deputy, is developing the thesis
that society ought to make use of
music, which, the poet says, has
charms to soothe the savage breast,
for the prevention of crime through
its influence upon human character
in process of formation.
"1 firmly believe," he declares,
"that instruction an. art, and in
musio particularly, would turn
many young persons, especially
those of the laboring class, from the
evil way that leads to the wine -
shop and too often to prison.
"The alternative of virtue or
vice is presented at a certain age
before eaolt of us. Temptation to
crime is chiefly the desire to pos
sees the means of pleasing the op-
posite sex, The cultivation of
music or other arts will produce le-
gitimate . opportunities for the
healthful asseeiation of young then
and young women and will afford
the needecl relief from daily toil,
while giving to it a zest which is
now lacking, and will tend to arrest
the rapid growth of that class which
is the fruit cf n diseased and un-
netnrally restricted t ivilivation ---
the Apaches; '
"Ile has the bad habitofborrow-
it•g." '`And the worse habit of
neer' paying back."
ENGLAND IN EGYPT.
'lfevoarare 20 Theles as Great as When
British Control Regan,
When P,ngland assumed sole eon,
trcl in 1882 Egypt was still bank-
rupt, with a public debt of more
than 3500,000,000 and an ineome in-
sufficient to pay the intermit and
carry .on the Coverntnent.
The public t'cve4o i 1880ti 0e en v"crking numbers a quarter of a
amounted to 34,800,000; n .9 7 I million. This is only one .of many
$81,500,000, more than $10,000,000 tribes in Africa. Baoh has iia own
distinct language.
The people of this district are in-
telligent and when once they begin
to accept Christianity they grow by
Traps and bounds, One young man
cf 20 learned to read and write and
do simple arithmetieal problems in
six months, .'
"A man's wealth in the Congo is
knewn' among the natives by the
number of wives he possesses," says
Mr; Stahlbrand. "The kings, of
which there are eight os, ten in each
village, crowned by the people,
have 300 or more wives. The cost
of a wife is 200 brass rods, but 0
wife so sold may be bought back
BIIRY WIVIi'S ALIVE
Conga Natives Eat Ilunrin
and Novel' Wear Cloth
Converting man eaters into man`
lovers and saviors is the task of
ltev, Gustav W. Staltlbrand, a
Swedish Baptist missionary in the
Lake Tumber district, upper Cosi
go, has undertaken. The tribe
,among which Mr. ,Stahlbrand is
iu excess of the expenditures. On
January 1, 1908, the sum of 340,-
000,003 was in the general reserve
fund and the public debt was re-
duced in 1908 by $1,600,000; it now
is $479,000,000.
The cities and towns were with-
out any drainage or sewerage, says
The World To -Day. Only within
ten years even Cairo itself, with a
death rate of forty-six per one
thousand, has undertaken any -such
public work. In the country every
canal was polluted and stagnant
peels .of filth were near' every vil-
lage.
The annual pilgrimages to Mac -
ca were likewise the moans of intro -
by her relatives. Another
clueing many diseases. Cholera and again
other epidemics were of frequent way of paying for her is by 8,000
occurrence, and their ravages car- er 10,000 rods, or the equivalent of
ried off thousands and thousands of blankets, 'knives, pieces of ,loth,
the population.
Little by little the various diffi-
culties of the situation have been
studied and solved by the adminis-
tration, until now Egypt may be are paid this enormous price must
considered a reasonably healthy furnish another wife when the first'
country. Of course vast sums of cue dies, and so on forever to the
relatives of the first owner.
"When a king grows old he . is
throttled to death. Then anumber
of wives and natives are selected
to dig his grave. When the grave
hoes, axes, beads, fish-hooks, darn-
ing needles and a bag of salt. When,
a wise is thus purchased she can
never go back and the relatives who
money have been required to ef-
fect such a result.
At first enormous difficulty was
ei countered by the English in mak-
ing ohanges in the system of taxa is ready the wives and natives are
tion, because the people, so long put in the grave alive and the sore
accustomed to the betrayal of their king on toof them. Then the peo-.
interests, thought the plans pro-
p11
throw stones into the grave un-
posed were simply for the purpose til it is filled up. Going backto
of increasing their burdens. Little'
by little, however they learned that their village they select more wives
another era had opened, asd final-
ly their suspicions were calmed.
They then began to work with re
newed energy, and now, secure in
the fruits of their labor, they are
not merely improving their own
conditions, but are building up the
reputation of their country.
CROWN JEWELS PROTECTED.
Improvements in the Strong Room
in Tower of London.
The alterations in the strong
room in the Wakefield tower of the
Tower of London are nearly com- two in June when it may go do}vn
plete, and when the jewel room is to 75. In consequence of this the
reopened, visitors will find a great people have no real need of cloth -
change in the structure and inter- 1ng and so wear none. They never
take baths in water, but rub them -
solves with palm oil and when they
wish to dress up they put on camm
wood powder, which is red and has
a slightly fragrant odor. The .aver-
age life of a native is 35 years, but
until reoently the race has propa-
gated very rapidly. King Leo-
pold's cruelties and the sleeping
soleness has checked the growth."
A RESCUE VESSEL.
Germany Provides for Accidents to
Submarines.
The French navy's lack of ade-
quate means to rescue the sub-
merged Pluviose, which was run
and more slaves and these are be-
headed and cooked for a feast in
which all the people of the village
partake and which lasts six clays.
The only other time that the peo-
ple eat human flesh except at the
death feast of a king or very weal-.
thy man is when there is a fam-
ine.
"The land is very productive and
the women raise the Drops and do
all the work except clearing the
land and building the houses. This
the men do. The climate is one of
tl.e hardest in the world. The
humidity is registered at 95 degrees
the year around, except a night or
nal fitting. A fresh stone flooring
has been laid and a new steel grid
has been built to enclose the plate
glass showcase containing the re-
galia.
The bars of this grid are of tem-
pered steel, placed closer together
than the bars of the old ease. A
hiddenelectric alarm of the latest
type has been connected with the
new grid, so that if a bar be
wrenched even slightly a gong
sounds its warning through the
tower.
Every lock throughout the room
has been improved and made more
complicated, so that various keys
have to be used in the opening. The
iron lined doors have been streng down the other day in the English
thoned and additional electric Channel by the Calais -Dover mail
steamer, calls attention to the fact `•
that Germany alone of all nations
possesses a vessel capable of deal-
ing with such accidents, Although
Germany has only eight completed
underwater boats, compared with
Great Britain's 63, France's 56,
Russia's 30 and 18 of the United
States, Teutonic thoroughness has
already provided a rescue ship.
She is named the Vulkan and was
launched at Kiel in 1907. The ves-
sel, which has a length of 230 feet,
consists of tvvo separate hulls.
These are fitted with engines, which
give a speed of twelve knots.
At either end the separate hulls
are connected by a deck, so that
viewed from forward or aft the ship
presents the structure of a tunnel.
A large space sufficient to allow
the largest German submarine yet
designed to pass through, is left
dear between the two hails, and
over this are erected two steel gir-
der bridges, with two others con -
lights have been installed.
A scheme for constructing a trap
in the stone flooring of the jewel
room, through which the regalia
and .precious stones could if neces-
sary be lowered into the dungeon
beneath the Wakefield tower, was
found to be impracticable owing to.
the condition of the underground
cell itself. This dungeon is beneath
the level of the river and is very
damp. Nothing has been housed in
it since the Middle Ages, when
prisoners languished in the tower.
LUXURY IN AERIAL TRAVEL.
Salon of New Passenger Airship a
Marvel of Comfort.
The German Aerial Navigation
C nnpany is trying to ensure the
comfort of the passengers who will
travel in its airships. The passen-
gers' cabin for the L. Z. VII., the
east Zeppelin liner, has just been
fitted to the balloon now nearing netting them.
completion at Priedrichshafen. These bridges are fitted with a
.The cabin, which was made at
Stuttgart, is paneled in mahogany
inlaid with rosewood and mother
cf-pearl. The entire cabin, which
is thirty feet in length and from
six feet to eight feet in width, is
divided into five smaller cabiui,
each of these affording seating ac-
commodation for four people. The
scats are wicker armchairs screw-
ed to tho floor, but oracle to re-
vcive. There are a small anteroom
asci a lavoratory.
The windows are planned vary
spaciously to allow a good view,
and are fitted with glass in the fere-
part of the cabin, .The walls are of
thin mahogany, while cloors, cov-
ered with sail -cloth, lead forward
and aft and to the gondola of the
vessel.
THE WAY TO GO.
"Ile 10150 driven to his grave:"
"Sure he was, Did you expect
1111x1 to walk there i" •
powerful electric crane, capable of
lifting a weight of 500 tons, and
when a submarine has thus been
raised it can be rested upon mov-
able girders which can be placed be-
neath 1t.
The ship itself is more or less a
floating w rkshop. With the excep-
tir., of those directly concerned in
the navigation of the ship all those
en board are skilled engineers and
a number of divers are carried, so
that operations can be commenced
as soon as the vessel arrives on the
scene of an accident.
NO TRADE FOR HIM,
"When you are •grown ulr,>a
queried the visitor, "will you be
a doctor, like your father 1"
"Oh, dear me no? Why, lf.
couldn't even kill a rabbit," re-
plied the boy with great frank'.
0055.
The key to success doesn't look
anything like a night key.