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T PASSAGE ROMANCES cavated from ono of the six prison
buildings under the walls to the
cottage. ' his•passage, was 280 feet
long, and large enough to enable
four men to work in it together.
The entrance was hidden by a flag-
stone, and part of the excavated
material was plastered on the walls
and whitewashed, part thrown into
a cavity discovered under one of
the buildings, and the lighter ma-
terial dropped into a stream that
intersected the prison.
Candles and oil were smuggled
inside, so that the tunnel could be
lighted, while the man who was out-
side began work from the other end.
Everything was already for the
escape when one of the conspira-
tors became frightened and inform-
ed the authorities. His reward waa
$1,250 and his freedom. •
Perhaps the most remarkable es-
cape from prison took place in July,
1903, when four .convicts •got out
of
PEEP , INTO SOME UNDER-
GROUND BURROWS.
Prisoners Confined in Guarded
Gaols Have Dug Them in
Order to Escape.
There is a fascination about sec-
ret passages that attracts every-
body. This can be amply borne out
by a case which caused a great deal
of excitement in New York a few
weeks ago. A poor young painter
watered the house next door his
own, made his way to the cellar,
armed only with a plasterer's trow-
el, and tried to burrow a way
through to a jeweller's shop some
distance away, says Pearson's
Weekly,
He was evidently bent on plan -
der, but his plans must have oris -
carried, as he did not live to reach
his goal. A few nights after his
first visit next door he went out and
did not return home. After three
days his family notified the police
of his strange disappearance. The
police made a thorough search and
eventually found his dead body at
the end of his own secret tunnel,
which had collapsed and suffocated
him.
Secret passages have all the
glamor of romance, for they have
been used for all sorts of purposes.
Prisoners confined in closely guard-
ed gaols have dug them in order to
escape, kings have built them as a
.refuge against assassins, and men
leading double lives have utilized
them for getting about unnoticed.
Perhaps the two most famous in-
stances of prisoners endeavoring to
escape by means of secret tunnels
were engineered by Americans.
During the American Civil War
forty Federal soldiers imprisoned
in
LIBBY PRISON,
Richmond, Va., dug a tunnel under.
the street and got clear away. This
achievement was all the more re-
markable as the men were impris-
nned un the first floor, and the tun-
nel was dug from a cellar in the
east end of the building, under the
street, to a carriage shed opposite.
All the work had to be done at
night, and as the men could not
reach the basement without being
seen, seventy-five bricks were taken
nut of the partition wall behind the others, {rho_ ve would ring this in case
replace, AS soon -as lights were a warder went below.
Food was collected and placed
ready in the passage, and water -
bottles of tin were made. Before
the escape James had broken into
the sower and found a man -hole
covered with soot. that communicated with a field, By
By means of knives and clam some means he smuggled a crowbar
shells a stone wall five feet thick into the tunnel for forcing this
was pierced and the tunnel excav- manhole. Then one pouring wet
ated, This was sixty feet long and day the four escaped. As soon as
sixteen inches in diameter. The the alarm was given the countryside
earth was carried in a howl to the was roused, and the Adirondacks
cellar, where it was spread evenly mountain, in which the prison was
over the floor and covered with situated, were thoroughly searched.
straw; The weather was awful, and on the
seventh day the men were found,
half starved, and worn out with the
exposure.
All remember the Druce case,
which called so leech attention to
the late Duke of Portland and his
marvellous underground ball -room
and riding -school, approached by a
tunnel at Welbacic Park, Then
there was the supposed under-
ground passage to the
BAKER STREET BAZAAR,
London, the actual use of which
has never been discovered. In Eng-
land there are hunderds of ancient
buildings which possess their secret
passages, and during excavatione
in London long forgotten tunnels
are often encountered. Underneath
Lismore Castle, Ireland, one of the
seats of the Duke of Devonshire,
the American prisoners of war con•- are one or two secret tunnels lead -
fined at Princetown in the war of ing to the spacious caven in which
1812. The tunnel was successfully
excavated, and everything was
ready for the escape, when one of
their number informed the Gov-
ernor the night before the attempt
witsto have been 'made.
One prisonor had got.away before
this, and lay 'hidden in a rottage
outside the walls. By means of the
country folk wlio entered the prison
to trade with the inmates be was IfIhe, housewife who makes bread
able to communicate with This will Beat it well with a large spoon
p
friends and between then ' aplan hectare she puts her hands fn it she
of escape was decided upon. will find. that her bread will be light
A tunnel through which the pris- and wholesorna, P,
CLINTON PRISON,
New York, considered one of the
strengess in the States. The tunnel
by which the escape was made took
ane man four years to excavate,
and the work was all done during
working hours.
He attended an engine in the
cellar beneath the tin shop in which
he worked, and the tunnel was car-
ried on during the few moments
he was below. By good conduct he
was allowed a little freedom with-
in the shop in which he worked
among other criminals serving life
sentences. Two warders were al-
ways on duty in this workshop, yet
Peter James, a bank burglar and
murderer, fashioned toots out of
the tin and dug his tunnel some
thirty or forty feet long under the
walls of the prison into a sewer
wnr•ch ran under the road outside,
First he loosened a stone, and
carefully balanced it so that he
couldtake it out and put it back
in a second. He even made himself
a suit of overalls lest his prison uni-
form got dirty. Once a wartier came
down when the stone was out of
place, but as it was in the dark the
hole was not seen.
When the tunnel got long he put
the engine out of order so that he
might have to remain below for a
longer time. Three other convicts
DISCOVERED HIS SECRET,
and their help was enlisted. By
some means a string with a bell was
laid from the workshop to the tun-
nel without being noticed. The
turned out the prisoners removed
the bricks and got down to the cel-
lar to dig, while others kept watch
to avoid a surprise. Every morn-
ing the bricks were replaced and
Owing to the difficulty of judging
distance and direction the tunnel
was made to come up in the wrong
place, and one man actually thrust
his knife into the street. A sentry
above heard the noise and called
• the attention of his companion to it,
but the latter said it was only a rat
At the end of seven weeks every-
thing was ready, and en February
Oth, 1804, 109 of the 200 men in the
secret emerged safely from the oth-
er end of the tunnel, but the Con-
federate sentries saw them coming
out of the shed, and sixty-nine of
them were recaptured.
In 1881, when some excavations
wero being made at
DARTMOOR PRISON,
a long -forgotten tunnel was found,
This was the secret passage dug by
Skeletons and uniform have been
found.
The oldest inhabited house in
England is said to be the Fighting'
Cocks Inn, St, Albans, which is
connected by a subterranean pas -1
sage --now blacked up -with the.
monastery 200 ,yards away,
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SCIENCE IN THE KITCHEN
I3 iIUDSON MAXIM, ENGIN*
Ill11B AND INYEN'1'OR.
Uit'es Some Scientific Adriee As To
lIow Cooking. Should he
Done.
It is far remote from justice to
look upon the work of the cook as
menial. The knowledge and skill
now beginning to be recognizes] as
culinary requisites are fast raising
the nook to a position or respect
and honor among other useful per-
sons to 'whom we bow as we pass.
I do not like the word menial, for
no work of humankind in service of
humankind is menial, Not long
ago all useful work was considered
menial. Science' for centuries was
held aloof from useful application
for fear of degradation. Architned-
es was severely censured for call-
ing science to bis aid in the defense
of Syracuse
THE COOK A CHEMIST.
At one time physician, dentist,
and barber were the same person.
In England, even to -day, some bar-
bers persist in pulling teeth, al-
though for them to do ,so is now an
infraction of the law. Primitive
dentistry was limited to the art ef
pulling teeth ; and medicine and
surgery were confined to incanta-
tions, bone -setting and bleed-let-
ing. The tremendous responsibility
of life or death and the attendant
rewards have stimulated the phys-
ician toward experiment and inves-
tigation, in order to widen the hor-
izon of his knowledge, until to -day
medicine has becomea profound
science.
The work of the skilful cook is as
potential for human welfare as is
the work of the physician and the
surgeon, for often culinary skill
may save us from the physician's
potion and the surgeon's knife. But
is there in the profession of cooking
room for as deep study and invest-
igation, room for such profound
knowledge as in the profession of
medicine or of surgery 1 Is there
not equal responsibility of life and
death i Certain it is that more peo-
ple die of bac] cooking. than of
either bad medicine or bad sur-
gery. Cooking is a noble science,
and need not blush among the oth-
er sciences,
The greatest of the sciences is
chemistry. It is the science on which
all others are founded, and cooking
is a child of chemistry. The chem-
ist is verily a Book. In his pots and
pans he has tried out of black coal -
tar all the colors of the rainbow,
and has converted dead, dull, waste
things into aromas and flavors that
make commonplace the perfumes of
Arabia and the spices of India.
The kitchen is the laboratory of
the home. Its proper place is not
in a dim corner at the rear of the
house, but in the front of the house
where the sunlight is. The kitchen
sould be large and commodious,
convenient and accessible.
There is bat one best way to do a
thing, and in this scientific age we
are guided less and less by guess-
work, more and more by accurate
knowledge. Cooking, like poetry,
conforms mere to taste than to
science. While the farmer makes
requisition on chemistry for the
anelgsis of his soil and for the com-
position of the fertilizers needed to
bring forth the best crop of vege-
tables, while he makes medicine his
ally for the health of his hogs and
fowl and cattle, his kitchen often
continues under the sway ef acci-
dent, guesswork and waste.
The automobilist who owns and
operates an expensive car'sees -to it
that all parts of its mechanism re-
ceive necessary inspection and ad-
justment, and the more severe the
work that has been imposed upon
the machinery, the more painstak-
ing is the attention that is paid to
it. The gasoline is carefully strain-
ed to prevent the entrance of dirt
or other £',reign matter.
THE PHYSICAL ENGINE.
Excellent oil is also provided in
liberal quantities to ensure the en-
gine against running dry. Yet this
same man will run his physical en-
gine, a far more delicate and im-
portant machine, right up to the
limit of endurance, with never a
thought of inspection ere adjust-
ment so long as there is no actual
breakdown or pain; and what he
takes in as fuel in the shape of food
three times a day or how he stokes
himself with it is of far less s.erinus
concern to him, as a general rule,
than is the character of the gave -
line or nil he ases with his autoino-
bile,
There are four particulars in
which the cooking of tls' household,
of the reetaurani', end of the hate]'
might be imps ewe :oat ..ffeetually,
These are econ, nsy, tee, :digest, -
Dailey and el:trait:a
As with roust ether things- the
den:nn 1 cnntr<,lr the prim of meats.
A select piers, d t,e-nderioin from
the hack of thee beef ntay vest thirty
cents n primed, inelsiiivc of the bone
and fat dint go with it. although
this soft and t". adie muscle is far
less nutritioua a11 therefore . loss
valushl' su a fr.',sl than are ninny
r,tbnp ,,ryptc ..1. 41,s beef. It is, in
;flet, u1 o..it. tree least nutritious. Phe
reason why it is soft and flabby and
tender is the leak of work performs
ed by su during life.
The most nutritious parts of an
animal are those highly organizer'
portions that during life have been
subject to the greatest variety of
uses and the most exposed to
strains; which they must possess
the quality of withstanding.
BROILING AND BAKING.
A beef shank costs on the avorago
about one-fifth as much es an equal
weight .of sirloin or tenderloin
steak, notwithstanding that its nu-
tritive value is very much higher;
but the meat of the shank is sinewy
and tough, and requires special
cooking. - When properly cooked,
it is far' more tender than any steak
and although of a different flavor,
it makes a dish equally palatable.
Hdw oto 'cook a beefsteak: The
first requisite to the palatability
of a beefsteak is the choice of the
steak itself. A good steak is the
exception, not the rule. It should
be from the proper part of a pro-
per animal which has been killed
and hung for a proper time,
A steak should be broiled 'over
white-hot coals, by placingbroiler
close to the coals and turning fre-
quently. The intense heat sears the
surface of the steak and drives the
juices back into it, instead of al-
lowing them to .escape and dry' up,,
The surface of the meat becomes
browned or caramelized, producing
'the delightful aromatic edor and de-
licious flavor. The cooking should
cease while the blood will still "fol
low the knife,"
A steak should never be salted
until after it is cooked, sinee.the
salt, by reason of its affinity for wa-
ter, draws the juices from the meat
to effect its solution.
Always serve a steak piping hot,
for cooling destroys its . flavor,
which cannot be restored by re-
heating it. After being cooked,
steak cannot be kept hot for long
without great injury.
How to cook a beef shank: Cut
the shank into small pieces and
place them in just enough water to
cover them. Cook slowly in a far-
ina boiler or other water -jacketed
vessel. Rapid boiling should be.
avoided, since it hardens the fibrin
and destroys the gelatinous proper-
ties of the sinews. The cooking
should cease when all the sinews
have become gelatinous and tender,
for if continued longer, they be-
come dissolved.
Thicken to the proper consisten-
cy with roasted flour. Add a piece
of butter about the size of a cup.
Then take some slices of stale bread
or crackers, pour boiling water up-
on tbem until they have absorbed
all they will, strain well, and put
them into the stew.
The result will be a dish of ample
quantity for several persons, and
of delicious flavor.
How to bake beans: The art of
cooking beans has reached, a fair
degree of perfection throughout
New England, but it is an art sadly
neglected in most other parts of the
country. Beans are more nutri-
tious than almost any other vege-
table food, and when properly
cooked they are among the most de-
licious of all articles of diet. I have,
experimented a great deal in the.
preparation of baked beans, " and
have obtained the best results by
proceedingher: in the following Men-
' men-.
-
Take two quarts of plump, airy
,beans, preferably those known as
torso -whit. Do not use any beans
that have withered, from.being pick-
ed before they were ripe. Cover the
beans with cold water and let them
soak for twelve hours overnight,
The next morning, between six and
seven o'clock, parboil chem until
the skins crack when blown across,
strongly with the breath. Drain
the water off and cover the bottom
of a farina boiler, or other water-
jacketted kettle, abort three inches
deep with the beans. Now put in
half a dozen small onions, or one
large Bermuda onion, pared and
used whole, one pound of solid -fat
salt pore from the bank of the ani-
mal, one pound of fresh pork loin
and one pound of beef shank.
Then add the remainder of the
beans, two tablespoonfuls of maple
syrup, a little salt, and fill up with
tomato juice obtained by rubbing
or sifting canned tomatoes or other
cooked tomatoes through a sieve, to
free them from seeds and skins,
Keep the water in the outer jacket
gently boiling until supper -time;
when the beans will be ready to
serve. While they are cooking they
will require no other attention than
the addition of a little hot water to
replace that lost by evaporation.
EGGS.
It is net necessary that beans
shrrnlcl he baked in an oven, They:
mere y need to be kept at a praper
heat continually for a sufficient;
period of time to cook them thor-
nul,lrly, also to effect the requisite,
.degree of hydration, or loose chem-'
ical combination of water with the
fiber of the beans.
How to scramble. ,eggs: The urinal
dish of scrambled eggs is a more or
less tough .and stringy prndtss tion,
with a greasy flavor that smells of
imrlit esti„n. The following is the
hest method fair their prrlinratioa
in making n dish for tvv s pertains,
break four rags rots a bowl, molt
a• piece of butter the sire of a wril-
nutin two tablespoonsfuls of hut
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water, add to the eggs, and beat
with an egg -beater, Then place the
eggs in a saucepan over a quick
fire, and stir with a spoon rapidly
until they acquire a proper gela-
tinous consistency. Care must be
taken to remove thein from the fire
as soon as dome, and to serve piping
hot, when they will be found to be
exceedingly pala$able, as pleasing
to digestion as to taste.
By this method the added water
combines with the albumen in the
egg by a species of hydration, and
renders it soft and gelatinous, pal-
atable and digestible.
How to boil eggs: There are two
good ways to boil eggs. One is to
place the eggs in cord water and
bring it to a boil, not too quickly
and not too slowly, when the eggs
will be found .to be cooked about
right,
The other way is to heat an earth-
en pitcher with boiling water, place
in it the eggs to be cdoked, and re-
fill with boiling water. Wrap the
pitcher with a towel or a piece of
flannel or other fabric, to aid in the
retention of the heat. At the end of
fifteen minutes the eggs will be
found well done, and although thor-
oughly cooked, the whites will be
soft and gelatinous, instead of hard
and tough, as when boiled in the
usual manner.
These few illustrations will be
sufficient to show tee manner in
which the kiechen may be conducted
on a scientific plan with . resultant
economy, and with increased palat-
ability, digestibility and nutritious-
ness of the dietary. -Hudson Max-
im in the Youths' Companion.
IS.
TIRE GLOVE AT CORONATION.
Dymokes are Stilt the Hereditary
Champions of England.
There is still a King's champion
or hereditary champion of Eng-
land. It was once his duty to ride
on his horse in full armor into West-
minster Hall at the beginning of
the coronation banquet. and 'three
times to challenge formally to com-
bat any person who disputed the
sovereign's title to the throne. The
champion flung his gauntlet down
es soon as the herald had announc-
ed the challenge.
On no occasion was any opposi-
tion offered. When the champion
took the gauntlet up for the third
time the sovereign drank to him
from a golden cup, which was then
handed to the champion, who drank
to his sovereign and straightway
became owner of the cup.
The last occasion on which the
champion appeared in Westminster
TXal1 to execute this magnificent
duty or .privilege, rather, . was on
July 19, 1821, at the coronation of
George IV., when Henry Dymoke
performed the ceremony on behalf
of his father, the Rev John Dy-
moke, rector of Scrivelsby, in Lin-
colnshire, who deemed the office in-
compatible with the functions of a
clergyman.
The Dymokes of Scrivelsby Court
are still King's champions, but pro-
bably the discontinuance of the
coronation banquet in Westmin-
ster Hall is the ,reason why they
no longer ride in splendor on a
mission so splendid as the corona-
tion of the kings and queens of
England,
Since 1377 for certain the office
has attached to the manor of Scri-
velsby, when Sir John Dymoko
claimed by virtue of his holding
Scrivelsby in right of his wife to
act as King's champion at the coro-
nation of Richard II. The Marrni-
ons were formerly King's cham-
pions, and had been lords of both
Scrivelsby and of Tamworth Castle.
Scrivelsby is situated in a beauti-
ful park not very far from Horn-
castle.. The present ehampion is
Mr. Frank Seaman Dvmolce.
4.
MIS GRUMPY IIOUR
MOH oil Irritable After hard
One woman knows how to man-
age her husband and she tells how.
Says she: "I heard once a wise
physician remark that there are
five minutes in every day during
which more marriages are wrecked
than in all the rest of the twenty-
four hours. Very soon' after mar •
-
riage I discovered that the most
critical period in the rclotions of
hushnncl and wife is, the home -com-
ing of the:husband from his work,
Every wife makes this discovery.
She finds that, however sweet -tem -
leered her lriisband may be at other
times, he is almost certain to be
irritable when he carnes home in
the evening. '
"Very naturally, the thoughtless
woman is disappointed. She expects
him to demonstrate his great pleas-
ure in rejoining, her, and finding
him grumpy, she feels slighted. If
she be a woman without the good
sense rind tact that make marriage
a success, she pays him back in his
own . coin, and they are both un-
happy for the rest of the evening.
Fortunately for me,. I had work-
ed myself before marriage,,. and
understood how physically low a
man or woman feels after a day at
business:
"At the beginning of our life to-
gether I acted on the advice of the
physician referred to, and always
have ready a small cup of beef tea
or chicken broth or hot milk, which
he has to take, willing or unwilling.
The effects are marvellous. I do.
not spoil him, quite the contrary”
END OF POVERTY IS SURE.
Professor Bases Assertion on Phil-
osophy of History.
Dr. Jacob. H. Hollander profes
sox' of economics' of John Hopkins
University, in predicting that a day
will come when poverty will be as
obsolete as slavery, based his op-
inion on his historical studies and
his personal investigation of char-
itable methods in vogue to -day. He
insisted that the modern -world is
wrong in believing that poverty is
inevitable, just as the ancient
aworble,ld has been proved wrong in
assuming that slavery was inevit-
"We have grown to look on pov-
erty as a permanent condition," ho
said, "but there was a time when
slavery was regarded as a neces-
sary condition. Even Plato in his
vision of an idea commonwealth,
included slavery. I believe same
day the future generations will
look back on :the poverty of our
day with the same astonishment we
feel in contemplating slavery. The
philosophy of history points in this
direction,"
The effort now being made to get
at the cause of poverty, he said, is
in the right direction. and will lead'
to a solution of the whole problem.
So deeply was the impression made
by his prediction that he was asked.
after the meeting if he had been
misunderstood. `No," he replied.
"I believe that the modern world
will see the end of poverty,"
EMPEROR OF JAPAN A POET.
Even the Poet Lanerate of the
ftfugdosn Praises His Verse.
The Emperor of Japan is 58 years
of. age. He has never been out of
his own dominion, and speaks only
Japanese. Thus, although much
has been written of him as an Em-
peror, very little has been sailer
is known of him as a man, says the
London. Standard. A Japanese
gentleman who has had many op-
portunities of observing' the pri-
vate life of the Emperor remarked :
"His favorite pastime, however,
is the writing of poetry, and he is
no mean poet. •'The official who in
Japan occupies something like the
position of your Poet Laureate often
has the Emperor's work submitted
to him for criticism and he has told
me that the imperial verse ranks
very high in quality. The Emperor
is in no way a sentimentalist, and
never by any thence touches on the
subject of love. His verse is gen-
erally in philosophic vein or an ap-
peal to patriotic sentiment, dealing
with the army or navy, It is but
seldom, however, that any of his
works finds its way tubo public
Briggs -"I suppose if I accept
your •;tvitaticn to go to that dinner
you eel] want me to make a
speech?" Griggs -"No, me _fear
fellow, :you tee it's this way : Ev-
erybody we have invited so far
wants to noise a speech, and what
I am trying to do now is to got to-
gether a. few listeners."
Sacrifice .and service santeify.
Many are praying ten' power who 1
only need to got up and perspire,
"What? You marry my daugh-
ter?" thundered old G.,ldbag:•.
"Tou, a mere clerk----.-"
"N
o,
s,r'' rcplc' titrg Myrtle, "tiot
a clerk, but a gt'ntlemcru now. ' •I
1'esi.sned my job the monk at ,your
deugiitcr accepted' me."
• 'l'UIE WOUNDED UiE1L
Easeialation of lauriauit--•flow the•
Iltail`alo Solictlinee nail's,
Perlmps some of the fascination
of tiger shooting lies in the sale-
ehiet that results from bud shoats
ing or methods, This entails is
carefulness which invests the sport
with a gravity, making is as apart
from ether shooting, says the 1114-
minton Magasine.
Fee first and foremost stands
the safety of one's companion,
whether they be beaters, trackers,
or elephants. "Shoot dead or
leave well alone" is re counsel of
perfection which should ever be
borne in mind, even if not alway'g:
attainable. With .a wounded boast
afoot the trouble "is hardly yet be-
gun save in the matter of getting,
beaters and such like up trees or
out of danger's' way elsewhere.
With elephans, especially howdah
elephants, pursuit xney begin at
once or be delayed, according too
circumstances. ' Without them am
hour 01'- two's interval or more ' Ori;
occasion should elapse before start-
ing on what may be a pleasant or ad,
unpleasant duty, according to the
sportsman's taste in these matters..
Bu. t a duty it (nearly) always is„
Wounded tigers are not a,tiele.s to-
les lightly left littering a place.
The interval 'before pursuit • al -•-
lows .of a chance of titles things—
and of one other wheel must be ao-•
cept,ed unwillingly. The wounded•`
tiger may die either'_directly from,
the wound or from the effects of:
drinking water on certain wounds.
The wound may incapacitate him,.
from loss of blood or stiffening, for
mischief. And his rage may have,
time to cool down, But he 'may al-
so get clean. away.
The pursuit begins. its methods.
must vary under the many circum-
stances possible. Sometimes a,
tracker is necessary, and he works
covered' by rifles under the trunk
of an elephant or -close to the.
sportsman if he be on. foot. Risk.
there is, especially in dense coun-
try, but with proper caution and'
precautions it is reduced to amini-
mum, such as previous reeonnors-
ance by hawk eyed experts np.
trees, stone throwing, the careful.
noting of the movements and
sounds of .animals, especially those.
of the ubiquitous monkey, pea-
fowl or crow.
The tired experts having "made•
good" a zone, it is traversed and
another started on. Sometimes if',
the covert is dense and impossible
and if a herd of buffalo or even of
goats be procurable they can be -
driven into particularly likely
places. Although buffalo have a•
wholesome dislike of tiger, still on
occasion they will face him en .
masse. Sometimes they perform:
their duties rather too well, and
with horn and hoof obliterate him,.'
dead or alive. More usually they
cause him to move, and so give a-
chance of a shot.
RADIUM FUEL OF FUTURE.
Its Energy One Million 'Times
Greater Than Coal.
Scientists will soon make the pro-
blem of the conservation of the
world's coal a deal issue, according
to Dr. 'A. H. Bucherer, a professor
of physics in the University of
Bonn, Germany. Radium, Dr.
Bucherer believes, will supersede
coal as the source of the world's
energy and heat,
"Some men of great imaginative.
power," says Dr. Bucherer, "have
described the situation when de-
prived of itb sources of heat and en-
ergy, the human race will gradual-
ly die out from cold, and when on
the earth's surface conditions vill
obtain similar to those on 'the face -
of the moon. But in radium scien-
tists have found an energy which
surpasses by more than a million
times anything that can be suppli-
ed by the combination of anylcnown.
fuel,
"Scientists all over the world are.
devoting their efforts to solve the
problems presented, and one of
these days they will be successful."'
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SELL
._—,t--SELL BIG ESTA'l.'E.
Duke of Medford Has Podded to
Sell Die Properly.
With the prospect of a lorrg,poli
tics] life still ahead of Mr. Lloyd
George English dukes and noble-
men of lesser degree are no longer
anxious es before to bold on to
their landed estates, and this is the
'reason 'why the Duke of Bedford
has decided to sell his whole Travis -
tock estate, rather than face the
possibility of having to pay tares
on it, Practically the ,entire town
of Tavistock will be included in thm
sale. The kcal authorities are tak-
ing' time by the forelock and nego-
tiations - aro how proceeding be- '
'ween them and ` the Duke. for the,
purchase by the town of valuable
proper ties, These include the mar-
kets, market rights, anti` tolls,.
slaughtot house, the buildings
g
Which adjoin the markets; iuclud
ing the town hall, the council
buildings, , swimming' bath, wharf'
strath of the canal, meadows, pleas-
use grmmd and frog meadow ad-
joining at, waterworks and water
I supply,