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1RDSSiA'S BRAOD NEVI NAVY
ODDITIES Of MAPLE SAP
so lliB THINGS THE SIT GAR
MAKERS THINK THEY KNOW.
OVER $5QO,000,O0O BEING SPENT
ON IT,
The Russians Are Not Fond of the
Soo, and Can't Build
Good Staips.
At the close of the Russo -Japan-
sea War, Russia found herselfe-
tically without a navy, for the p
of her fleets went out tend for them as Fate
o battle
with Japan—'a
willed it, there was no return,
It was . quite obvious that the
Russians could not afford to let
things remain in this state for any
length of time, and a series ofse Si
.
ffi
ocial announcema
ents by
Petersburg newspaper, that beim_
gentle -naval programme is g
prepared that will entail an ex-
penditure of 1,000,000,000 roubles,
or roughly, $600,000,000.
The largest item in the estimate
is expected to be an order hfoh
for
twelve Dreadnoughts,
$200,000,000 will be spent. The rest
of the hundred millions will
go n
torpedo-boat destroyers, gunboats,
submarines, and transpors.rule,
The Russians, as a general
have an unconquerable dislike for
the .sea, and for this reason they
have never been, and can never ex -
neat naval power.
"But a sugar camp nowadays is a
vastly different thing from what int
condays,
those Y
was in hal
small metal spile driven into the
trees conducts the sap into tightly
covered tin buckets and the crane
and kettle have been replacedby
the enolosed furnace and the iron
evaporating pan. curious things
"There are many n and they
about sap and its ways,
are present no matter whether the
old time or the new methods are
used in collecting it and changing
it into sugar and syrup. Sap w ell' peat to hal a g the sea is rather
run freely unless there aTe cold This aversion for by told
story •ta
as Y
mth illustrated tae
ar l u
w , 1 i
ofquaintly Ll
ndi
d co
mingled Russian
rid light. It likes best a still, dry, I of a high official at the Ru
It's Sweeter At Night ars Flows
Faster After Snow and a
Freeze.
"The art of maple sugar making'
long ago moved out of the methods
a,
ther's days,"
in our fa
it
to
applied
says a man who knows.
"In the old days we simply box-
ed the trees, cut a sloping notch in
one side of the tree a toot and a
half above the roots, the bottom of
the notch being cut three inches
deep in the trunk. When the hew-
ing was complete the notch was a
miniature trough gouged in the
tree. As it filled with the oozing
sap the sap was baled out with a
wooden ladle to be taken to the ket-
tles.
wasted
a
good
g
for
"Boxing sap
deal"of it, and:then an improvement
came in. This was the boring of
holes with a half inch auger into
the trees, slanting upward, and
about three inches
edeep.
elf o these
were inserted sp'l
tions of elder branches, the ample
pith being pouched out. Through
into
flowed
i s P
s
these
lethe sa
P
troughs hewn out of birch or other
sweetwood logs cut and split into
suitable dimensions.
"In the olden days the sugar
making season was a gala time,
looked forwardton with joyful ex-
pectancy by young a
al-
though it meant. weeks of hard
drudgery to all. Then, more than
under the present system, it was
frequently necessary when sap was
running free to keep the boiling
going all night. The grove, light-
ed up by blazing fires and peopled
by the flitting forms of merry girls
and lusty farm lads, presented
A PICTURESQUE SCENE.
"It was a most important part of
the sap boiling that a close watch
be kept on the sugary cauldron, fox
the sap was likely to boil over and
some one must stand ready with
hickory paddle to prevent the
threatened overflow by violent and
persistent agitation of the boiling
mass. Who made the discovery, or
exactly what potent charm there
was in the substance, are things
that no one ever seemed to know,
but a chunk of fat pork was the
greatest and in fact the only sooth-
er of an angry and determined ket-
tle of boiling sap that the sugar
makers of that golden age had at
command.
"Proper stirring of the sap was
of great importance in those rude
sugar making times. It would not
do to leave the sap long without
stirring, for there was constant
danger of its scorching and certain-
ty of its becoming too thick. The
work of stirring a kettle of boiling
sap was fatiguing. and required fre-
quent change of watchers,
"Testing the boil was important.
This responsible duty was always
in charge of some one long exper-
ienced in sugar making, a woman
generally. She went from kettle to
kettle carrying a gourd dipper con-
taining the water. Dipping a spoon-
ful
poonful of the boiling sap from akettle,
she dropped it into the water. If
there was snow on the ground,
which she preferred, she would toss
the spoonful of sap upon a clean
spread of snow. Instantly, as it
would also in the water,
IT WOULD COOL.
If it showed soft and waxy, while
being then a delicious condition for
lea
sin the palate, it was not yet
f5
P
fit for turning off into sugar. That
condition must be when the sap
eoolod brittle, or `grained' as the
chin
roe g
itPP
term
was. If was a
e
that state care had to be taken that
the fire must not be increased under
the kettle; in fact, it must be per-
mitted slowly to die down. When
by retesting the sap was found
to
be right for `sugaring off, the word
was given and the syrup was turned
off into pails and crocks and the
sugar residuum run off into well
g cups,
rase
ed shallow .sins,
bowls
d
t es
an
sorts
of
shapes all
P
f
fishes c
and d
patterns, moulds which gave to
Sugar that the consumer inthose
days bought at he store the odd
and varied forms he doubtless well
temeither e
n't
Used in Canadian honnes to produce
delioieus home -merle bread, and is. veep•
p1er ie always included lin $porterneae
and Campere Outfits. I)ecline
all imitations. They never
give satisfaction and cost Just
ste meas.
E. W. 4WLLETT0 0. t. TDtreat
Winnipeg Toronto,
Awarded MOW honor's of off
No. 211 XpoSit10,13.
point gave another reason for his
lack of comradeship for the Rus-
sian:
"He ain't clean enough.'.."—
Pearson's Weekly.
BACK TO. ORIGINAL TYPE.
Annuals Would Soon Go Wild if
Left to Themselves.
The domestication of animals has
to be kept up from one generation
to another, or they take on the
wild nature again, It is somewhat
the same with the civilization of
mankind. The basis of character
lies beneath all training, and it
essentially savage. We can study
he
nature best
in t
'
' i
•enc
le of
this principle p
case of :animals. Mr. O. E. W.
Bean in his recens book, "On the
Wool Track," has made some im-
portant observations on this point.
as he has studied the conditions of
sheep -farming in Australia.
Animals have an inconvenient
way, if left to themselves for a gen-
eration or two, of reappearing in
the form which their ancestors dis-
carded centuries back—like the
tame
• ma
' n stark. So
h African South
pigs wont wild, perhaps eighty
years back, on the Lower Macqu-
arie.
There is an animal there in the
reed beds still. But it is a fierce,
active brute, with enormous high
shoulders and light hind quarters,
with a hog's mane and a hump,
that
starts suddenly from his drink in
the marshes and glares up at you,
gnashing till the foam flakes away
from
its longcurled tusks.
Letundercattle
the
most carefully 3
run wild, and in a short time the
old bridles reappear amongst them.
In next to no time there comesback
to them the beautiful alert, head -
erect stare of real wild stock. The
tameness is easy enough to rub off,
hut the wildness is not.
One stock -owner told us of a calf
that he took from a wild cow in the
milk. He hand -fed it..
"But, bless you, he'd butt the
bucket about the yard8 r want of
anything better,
" he could always tell him afterwards,
when he grew up, and was feeding
amongst the others. As you came
near, his head would always com°.
up with a jerk, nostrils wide, and
hent e eeser offtyou tall long his after you
Y
had passed. I xemem
"Same way with sheep. re em-
ber two Border Leieesters, import-
ed from England on to a lull sta-
tion. Soon after carne a fall of
snow in the paddocks. Not those
rams, but their children,
1;othaa v tat he
d nseen snow,
snow away to .get at the feed un-
der it. None of the other cross-
breds did that."
—g,
MILK STREET, LONDON.
Milkmen Live There and Loney
Dealers en Roney Street.
a b
lease atmosphere, with a northwest
wind blowing.hifthere Then
ivis
i lrun
steadily p
PLENTY OF SNOW
in the woods, -with a freeze of
things at night and a nice thaw out
of them during the day. The sap is
never in better
But let a so
of a storm
in it
threat
with a
wi
along,
flow-
ing. s
pending, and the, sap P
ing. t rm
"If the stormis
court, who was
company Nicholas II. on a trip to
Copenhagen.
CAN'T BUILD GOOD SHIPS.
"How will your Majesty travell"
he asked •anxiously, that the
When the Tsar replied
u humor than hen.. journey would beer a e by ea the
uthvvest wind comet board the Imp htthe
craved humblypermission
mister
M
land.
to go by
Cioupled with their dislike of the'
sea is the ,act that the Russians
r
ommanded to'ac-
WHY NOT 1,000,000 YEARS?
FAMOUS LIFE ELIXIRS WAIpifl
UAVII NOT e,ELIXEP."
fro also vfsi
--_'_`_' _` ted by the detectives
GDARDIRD Kll��a GEORG[ V time to time
sidenoo, when wne ing
' , TIVES ARE DETAIL- sidenco at Windsor there are ueuac_
TWO DDT1;O l from twenty to twenty-five detec-
tives
eto
BI) FOR THE Dl1TX. t vl es- on duty. Eveby entrance to
the castle is watched by an armed
official, and throughout the long
corridors and passages there are
always several detectives on duty.
These elaborate precautions are
made -at Windsor Castle chiefly be-
cause it can be entered more read-
ily than Buokingham Palace. There
are several secret entrances to the
castle, whereas there are none to
Buckingham Palace.
None of Them Move Proved to be
lliedieinc of Valuable
Properties.
"From a cold in the head to care
oar, I can. prevent or +Jere diene
all l" says the famous Dr. Doyen,
spe+ikine of his new and ma Ivsecl'us
xnodioine, which, be saws,
posed of extracts front natural fer-
ments, Ras be ound"w'ret thous-
ands of alehemista and chemists
have been looking.for more than
two thonsand years'{
Unhappily, the thousand failures
of the past have shaken our confid-
ence, and even if Dr, Doyens re -
"suede is all that he claims for it•
years must elapse before the worlds..
at large recognives its virtues.
Egypt was the birthplace of elix-
irs
fie of life, and the Alexandrinebasks
monks published so many,
upon this subject,. and upon the
possibility of making gold artificial-
ly, that the Emperor Diocletian lost
patience and ordered all bbe vol-
umes to be
COLLECTED AND BURNED.
rom
"Windsor Castle is, however, the
most elaborately guarded royal re-
--- Ki is in re
though, and a freeze succeeds it• have never shown any spa
good and stiff, followed by a genial tude as builders of battleships.
thaw, then you will see the sugar There are, of course, a number of
makers wearing broad and happy dockyards in Russia, the most im-
smiles for the sap will immediately portant being near St. Petersburg,.
resume Business and with a vim but in going through the workshops
that will make up for lost time and of some of these a British naval ex -
with more saccharine substance in pert noticed that a good half of the
fB't-
Brit -
and
names
0
the
it than it had before the snowstormmachinery bore
and freeze up. Sap prefers a tap ish manufacturers.
in the south side of a tree; at least A well-known British Admiral
it will run more freely out of a tap has given an amusing account of
on that side than from one on the a Russian -built cruiser on its trials.
north side. Why it is more genet- The officials •seemed to think it was
ous with its sweets with its night more important that these trials
running I don't know, but it is a should produce a good impression
fact that sap gathered at night as than that they should find out the
it runs produces more and better defects of the new vessel. Accord -
sugar and syrup than the soma ink the trials were put off from
quantity gathered from the day day, to day until the weather eon -
r ditions were perfect ---nota breath
"Sap won't give you any more of of wind and the .sea without a rip -
itself through your tapping of a plc—and even then the coal was
good many contiguous trees than if hand-picked and a special crew of
you tapped only a few of them. That stokers was shipped.
seems a curious and paradoxical
thing, but the explanation of ibis THE RUSSIAN TAR, untar-
simple. Trees standing close unlike our own, does not vol
gapher divide she aggregate areae of it enlist for sea. Army and Navy
sop made possible, by the tin Russia are fed by conscription:,
wouldso
o they cover and that aggregate and having reached the age of
reonly just orhs same if mthany twenty-one, the Russian is summon -
were rhalf a quarter as many ed to serve his country, but he nev-
ienc draining the spay Exprt- er knows into which branch of the
treeed sugar makers say that thirty service he is to be drafted.
trees suchon an acre of ground is all Under this arrangement, you will
that an area for sugar uta be ng,ex- find on board the warships of Rus-
axiy m r sth n t abeing amwastet, sic men who, during the first twen-
ony more than that being a
of time and labor and sap." sawne years
or a theirdlives, never
a sail or bandied an oar. Many
of them had never even seen the
sea before they were summoned
FAILING BODIES. from their farms to fight their conn -
Come Down With "a Uniform Ac- try's battles afloat. With the ()f-
ederated. Motion." fivers it is, of course, rather dif-
ferent, and many of these are Fin -
All falling bodies, whether they ish gentlemen, who have known
be crystal raindrops or meteorites, and loved the sea from their boy -
fall with "a uniform accelerated hood. But even the officers are
motion" ; in other words, if a body not to be considered as anything
be moving at a certain velocity at like the equals of our own products.
the expiration of one second from Darin a recent visit to Russia,
the beginning of its fall, it will be 1 made a rather moving with twice that velocity at
the expiration of two seconds, gain-
ing in speed at a uniform rate
throughout the whole course of its
fall.
Careful experiments have shown
that the rate at which a body ac-
quires velocity in falling through
the air is 32 feet per second at the
end of the first second from sterl-
ing. At the end of he next second
it is going at the rate of 64 feet per
second, and so on through she
whole time of failint Where ti,o
velocity is known the space through
which the body has fallen may he
ascertained by mu;tipleing the vel
ocity at that perms' by the t:mnh.r
of seconds dnring which it has beeu
tilt
, ret
' fdui
* the by
and div
falling, b
two.
This rule applies, however, only
to bodies falling thr,ue;'i a vase
u•s-
� itttT
' of
CUT
i an..e
The
res st
num.
phere materially retards raindrops,
hailstones, aerolites aro all other
bodies which fall through it.
Fewer Persons Watch Over. His
Majesty Than Any Other
Sovereign.
Though King lxeorge, as Prince
of Wale", was continually guarded
by specially appointed detectives,
much more elaborate. arrangements
for watching over his safety have
been made' since his accession to
one.
the
the h there were only
At ]ltarlboroug
two detectives; at Buckingham
Palace there aro a dozen, and it is
no exaggeration to Bay that the sov-
ereign is .never out of sight of at
least two officers, except Perhaps
when his Majesty is asleep in bed,
and then the entrance to the per-
sonal apartments .• is carefully
gurded by two detectives on duty
for the night.
the
in
lock
0
c
day.
at nine Every
Y
morning, two detectives aro de-
tailed for the duty of watching over
the safety of the sovereign for a
certain number of hours.'Duringg
the time they are on duty,
must' be continually near the king.
When his Majesty is indoors, t ey.
remain in the passage close to
the
apartment in which the King may
be. When he goes out driving or
or
public an
e P
keep Y
to p
riding,
or>
r g' engagement, his Majesty's
private
guardians always follow their royal
charge at a distance.
ELABORATE PRECAUTIONS.
Elaborate and careful as the pre-
cautions taken to safeguard the
Monarch'. are, they are 'carried out
so unobtrusively and secretly that
those in the royal entourage, or
even the King himself, seldom have
the slightest idea of the whereab-
outs of the detectives.
The "chief" is the only member
of the detective staff at the palace
with whom the King comes into
contact, and it is doubtful if alhrs
Majesty even knows the appear-
ance of many of the others. in -
The "thief" is always kept
formed as far in advance as pos-
sible of the King's movements, and
lays his plans .accordingly. Say,
for example, that his Majesty want-
ed to go for a drive in the
ater -
noon, with the object, perhaps,
calling at the residence of a mem-
ber of the household.
The chief detective would be in
formed at least an hour beforehand
of the streets through which. his.
Majesty intended to drive, both go-
ing and coming, and messages
would be at once conveyed to the
men on duty by one of the station
sergeants, who then keep a epee -
jelly watchful eye on any suspicious
who may be loitering ab -
characters
POSSIBLE FOES. •
out
ab
nd
goes la
The Kiel in England
subjects
mato freely among
than any other sovereign is able to
do, but, nevertheless, his Majesty
is at all times carefully guarded.
Danger from his owe subjects there
is, of course, none; but there is al-
ways the possibility of attack. from
other quarters, and, but for the
fact that among those Anarchist
societies with which Eurppe is hon-
eycombed it is known how carefully
guarded,
,
is
g
h sovereign'
n hs
E
the g
it is more than probable, that hie
Majesty's life might be in greater
danger than it is.
From time to time the chief de-
tective at Buckingham Palace has,
ad interview with the King, when
he lays before the sovereign the
various ;arrangements he has made
for safeguarding his Majesty, for,
though the King never interferes
i es
tv
toe
de
the
with in any way w
plans, he always desires to keep in-
formed of them.
Carefully as Ring George is
guarded, fewer persons are employ-
ed to watch over his Majesty than
any other European sovereign
The, cost of guarding the King
amounts to about $60 a day. The
Kaiser's personal detective staff
costs' nearly -$125 a. day, and the
cost of keeping the Czar out of the
assassins' reach is at least $250 a
day. ed in
The detectives employ
guarding the King have to be very
careful to make themselves famil-
iar with the appearances of all
those who come to the royal residen-
ces, either as guests of royalty or
on business, for King George would
be excessively annoyed if any
any
such person was stopped
member of the detective staff.
!Next, the Arabs tackled the :sub-
ject, and in the course of their re-
searches made several valuable dis-
coveries, some of which still.pre-
serve their ancient Arabic names.
These aro alcohol, borax, an al-
kali.
- d
kali. The word "elixir" is purely
Ais
fab
not believing in all the magical gib
The great Roger Bacon, whilst
berish of the alchemists of his day,
yet had faith in the possibility of a
true elixir vitae. His idea was that
it should be composed of "aurum
potabile"-liquid gold; that is, gold
dissolved in nitro -hydrochloric acid.
Hie belief is still recalled by the
fact that this acid:is known to -day
as "aqua regia"—royal water.
e—
of the
tem
the Pope
0
Bacon told P
B
ac
and
tie
the
U
Nicholas IV.—of his ,
instanced a story—then universally
believed -that an old man of a uhtny
ploughing in a field' in Sicily
ed up a golden phial full of yellow
liquor, and drinking it, at once was
turned into a sturdy youth..
IN THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY-
a belief grew up thatsomewhere in
the world existed a fountain the
ner
confer would per-
petual
which
• of
waters
youth. In 1513 the famous'
Ponce de Leon set out from Porto
Rico on a search for this fountain,
and, as a result, discovered Flor-
ida. Alas 1 instead of youth, his
discovery .proved death. He died
from the effects of a wound made
by a poisoned arrow of a Floridian
Indian. fir^
To come to later times, Count
Mattei performed some marvellous
cures, and sadly puzzled the world
of medicine by "electric" elixirs
prepared from the saps of a large
number of different tines, includ-
ing the cedar, laurel, pine, fir, 1'f
elm, poplar, etc., and from certain
shrubs growing on the Apennines,
the names of which he rept secret.
A little later, Prof. Loeb mad j
the startling announcement that
common salt is the true elixir of
life, and that it not only keeps the
heart in action, but may cause it to
beat again after pulsation has ceas-
ed. It is curious that the famous
"quack," Paracelsus, a great many
years ago, gave careful instructions
for the preparation of
AN ELIXIR OF SALT,
an Englishman cur- i
ions discovery as to Russian ideas dilly
circus or Oxford circus, ye
on naval tactics. He was talking I yen would see only a circle where
about naval affairs with a Russian
four or flue streets meat. London
admiral, and in time r course of streets ase among the best made in.
discussion the Admiral made clear the world. To keep them clean
the difference between the Russian they are washed every morning by
and British naval tactics. a fire hose and cared for during the
RUSSIAN ADMIRAL'S MAXIMS. day by mon and boys who keep
them 6\v- -. 1
"He .spears to think that the
saidRussian'navy exists to be shot at," usually a sweeper,
said the Englishman afterwards;
"while the British navy feels it ex-
fists to shoot."
The Russian Admiral's idea is
that the warships in his squadron
have cost a lot of money, and he
must take care of them whatever
happens. Rather than risk losing
them Be will run into barba
r
ride
•---and
s
was done at Port Arthus
there at anchor until he can ven-
ture out with a surer ehance of
success, This feeling amongst the
' not
take
rat
—that
the
m
l
officers—that rs Y
the
•+bed a
a
been
dC9
C
1
-- a b I
risks—has s
fatal defect of the Russian navy..
When he Russian warships visit
any of aux dockyard ports
it
has
been remarked that while the Brit-
ish and Russian officers get on very
well together, Alexis and.Jack, of
the lower deck, never get on very
If some one promised to take you
to a circus you would be very hap
-
Py, for you would expect to'
wild animals, acrobats and chariot
races. In London a friend might
oke you to Ludgate circus, Picea-
DRINK PASSION AT ITS WORST
Age at Which it is Most Likely to
Overcome Mau or Woman.
At what age is the drink passion
most likely to overcome a man or.
womani At what age may thedan-
ger of such a fate be said to have
passed 1 The answers are found its
a bulky blue book dealing with Lon-
don (England) police statistics, is-
sued recently. Between the ages of
out. thirty and forty the largest num-
FOLLOWING THE CARRIAGE. ber of habitual drunkards
ate rs-
OLLOW aeived into inebriate
The two detectives acting as per- namely ninety-six, and between
sonal guardians to the sovereign forty and fifty the number fell to
are also instructed by the "chief"fifty-seven.
of the Ding's movements, and nioo
But it miiat.beborne in mind that
eptly his � ejesty leaves the pa these figures deal with the age on
they follow the royal carriage, pos- reception, and, in view of the re-
sibly in a brougham or hansom cab, luctance of magistrates to commit,
The detectives are always well dis- and the fact that.several convic-
guised, and their places for keep cions must take place before the
ing guard over the. sovereign are magistrate has the power to cone
constantly' being changed and al- mit, it is certain that each inmate
tiered, and are, of course, kept must have been an' habitual drunk
crossings tiers is strictly secret. They manage tlh: it .ard for many years before entering
At the street y, a home. It would seem, therefore,
into whose hat business very alo�er for without
that very - few persons fall a victim
hers often drop pennies or attracting the least attention they ink habit after the age e,
travel Yto the dr
half pennies or help pay for oe always keePsafetofrom the niomelnt forty-five, and practicallynone af-
sweet5 are work. Many LondonnI sovereigns Yter fifty. The ages at wheel the dan-
• is ` narrow, crooked and his Majesty Lsav�es Buakfngham Pal- falling a victim to the drink
soleaa s. axe until he returns. ger of g
join one another in puzzling vv y a habit is at its greatest seem to lie
+ , nc theThe detectives who guard. the
The re on u
Some eight or nine years ago Dr.
Albert Robin, of Paris, prepared a
"rejuvenator" which certainly had
remarkable results in certain cases.
Its main ingredient was glycero-
phosphate of lime. It contained,,.
also, sodium, potash, and kola nut.
In 1903 came the "adrenalin" dis-
coveries. £drenalin, an enormous-
ly expensive drug, is prepared from
the glands above the kidneys of an-
imals, and has •the property of in-
troducing pressure to the blood. By
its aid animals that have been ap-
parently drowned or suffocated
have been restored to life; and,
unlike the majority of co -called
elixirs, adrenalin has taken its
place in "Pharmacopoeia," while
no elixir has yet proved itself to be
a medicine of valuable properties.
—London Answers.
HOW CLOUDS i1,RIi COLORED.
Everything Depends en iiovv Sun-
light Falls liipou It.
'
much
Select a nice day with not m
wind. Wash and starch your cur-
tains and the'.. two together,
pin on, the el( s by putting .a
Stay
'tby
'J'1 P b people living in g duty ne
city have their homes mostly in King atnith� ovemng; if the Kmg
o'clock in
one neighborhood, the Germans in
another, and so on with the people
s
•con
countries,
from
other i
fa
• et
tie
s
Milk ,
milkmen
live on
M
The mi
and the dealers in honey are to be
found on Roney street. All day and
es
b
noir
the
most of the night
streets aro crowded with buses,
cabs, hansoms and motor cars, in
tact, vehicles of all descriptions,
which move three or four abreast,
In London drivers keep to the left,
instead of to the right.
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,n To Identify. -Write your name
li r
in o
lathes adhesive
c sell
P
tilt
side
of .
terms. coo
di he
• h- Tien t
„ trete f an
..cls Y
kt:e ethe
and dun
them 1 be stick o
steal fit ; To soma extent this may surgeon's plaster and at e
tokn. gat
them 'which israincoat,
ingwit c umbrella, r +
I xlt i
i ci lob ,
they will dry ft a fou minutes and rather language d !fi Y, inside of your i
will not have to be ironed fu••iless; les acute wharf the visitor and rubbers, then you will always
where the pins were) and will look is, say, a Frenchman, but one Brit find thaw,
like nova. ish tar who was consulted on the ,
t. at nl
out, one of the detectives re -
roes
d
Here
house vv
the
dutyin
on
anis
m
the King is:a guest until his Majes-
ty leaves.
This rule was not observed when
T
with
dine
d
in
ed
to
used ,- Ring the
tai.
Lord Knollys in St. James' Pal-
ace, but on such occasions • there
was always a' detective on duty
side Lord Knollys residers
When the Ring, becomes a guest
at a house party, a room is peovid-
ad for the detective staff in the de-
partments set apart for the rocep'
dh
is quite,
rte.
an
tion of the sovereign
All the passages at Buckingham
Palace are constantly being patrol-
to
deteetive
• o£
tl
ledb
Y
m
ern
leers
between thirty-five and twenty-five.
Crime figures were high in 1909,
and especially notioeable was the
sea
and
ndh
ou
a
inburglary
ae
urea
in
shopbrealring. Thus: in 1909 there
were 12,075 such cases, against 11,-
619 in 1908, 10,584 in 1907, and only
9,141 in 19
' 06. It
was estimated ated t
hat
therewereonly habitual
crim-
nais at large in Ap , 1909, against
4,256 the previous year, and 4,191
in. 1907, though it is pointed out,
1909 was a year of many c
rimes,
Debtors committed to prison num-
bered 19,155, while persons impris-
oned in default of payment of fine
numbered 92,699,
); that
on
Envy is ambition
staff,and the present apartments sour.
has turned
The color of a aloud depends on
the manner in which the sunlight
falls upon it and the position of the
observer. It will be noticed that
high clouds are always white, or
because
' i b
scat
I r and this
-
in coo
light
the light by which they are seen
is reflected from the ureter surface
by the numberless drops of mors-,
cloud.
t
h oto
form he
fur vvhio
e
g
i
Heavy Y ran clouds,1
io
nthe
other
a
hand, are found, much, nearer the
earth, and so the light falls on
them more directly from above,
giving a silver lining to the eloitd,
though the undersurface appears
black, owing to he complete re-
flection and absorption of the light
by the upper layers, Seen from
above by an observer in a balloon,
the blackest rain clouds appear of
,
the most dazzling brilliant white.
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