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WHAT GERMANY IS DOING.
Some Reasons Why Her Sons Have
Ceased to Emigrate.
Twenty years ago Germany was
;losing vigorous And enterprising
mein and women by the hundred
thousand, who went to help the
States of the Western Hemisphere
Oval her commerce' and industry.
Vo -day through her system of vo-
tational training, she has begotten
a generation of tradesmen, me-
chanics and ` engineers that have
transformed her from an agricul-
tural to a manufacturing country,
and their dexterity has not only
captured for her an increased share
of international trade but has de-
veloped a home market that sup-
plies her proletariat with employ-
ment and has for the present ef-
fectually stopped emigration.
"And this," writes R. Fulton
Cutting in the North American
Review. "in spite of an increase in
population since 1870 of more !ban
twenty million. The ind istrial
development of Germany has cre-
ated for her a new economic life;
it is the phenomenon of modern in-
dustrial history. The genius of her
statesmen has conserved the re-
sourees she used to squander upon
.the the nurture and education of
the millions she exiled. Her people
now remain in the fatherland and
are the consumers of her own pro-
ducts.
-The scientific system in opera-
tion in Germany of contributive
insurance against sickness, acci-
dent, infirmity and old age is full
of significance. In 1908 $67,500,000
was paid out in sick benefits and
hospital service to wage earners,
of whim about 13,000,000 were in
contributive co-operation with the
Government. Since.1891 $330,000,-
000 has been distributed in old age
and infirmity pensions, $210,000,-
000 of which was contributed by
employers and employees and $120,-
000,000 by the ,State. The latest
returns show that 14,000,000 'indi-
viduals
ndividuals are insured in this class
and that the State holds a fund of
$350.000,000 for this insurance.
"The Mayoralty is a profession,
and municipal chief executives are
promoted from the smaller to the
larger cities as they demonstrate
their capacity for greater respon-
sibilities. For example, some time
ago the following advertisement
appeared in several Cologne news-
papers:
"'As the undersigned will be re-
fired under the pension law on Oc-
tole-.5 the position of Mayor
the city of lbach will there-
by heoome vacant. C,• ' 'dates who
'have passed the State ees7Mina
�+�-
tions for the higher judicial or -\
ministrative career, and who have
had experience in the administra-
tion cel 'a large city; are requested
to send in their applications by
March 20. The galaxy is 10,000
marks, with right to a pension, and
1,500 marks additional for expens-
es.'
"Legislative enactments are in-
tended to be genuinely operative
and not merely expressive of moral
sentiment. The measures are first
drafted by men' qualified by experi-
omeeas well as study and who can
be trusted to make the actual pur-
pose unmistakable."
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222,478 WERE BILLED.
Fearful Mortality From Snakes
Among Natives of India.
According to a statement pub-
lished by the Government of India,
the total number of persons .killed
by wild animals in 1910 was 2,400,
loinpared with 2,498 in 1909. Man -
hating tigers were more aggressive
in the Sundarbans portion of tho
3ili
" ulna district and this fact is at-
tributed to the diminution of their
natural food supply owing to the
drowning of largo numbers of deer
in the storm wave which accompani-
ed the cyclone of 1909. In the Cen-
tral Provinces and Berar, tigers
destroyed 07 victims, as compared.
with 102 in the . preceding year.
Six known man-eating tigers and
two pautltors:were killed during the
year in these provinces: The ab-
uor•ma.l number of deaths due to
wild pig in 1009 in Eastern Bengal'
and As=ton —16- -was not main-
tained. though 50 persons. -were vie -
Both in this province and in the
United Provinces a considerable
number of cases were treated with
the, Brunton lancet and perman-
ganate of potash, and a high pro-
portion of them are reported to
have recovered. No reliable deduc-
tion can, however, be drawn from
the use of this lancet, owing to the
lack of proof that the bites it was
used upon were really those of pois-
onous snakes.
Tho number of cattle killed by
wild animals was 93,074, against
94,207 in 1909.
Rewards are paid for destruction
of wild animals and snakes. In
1910, 1,421 tigers, 5,629 leopards,
2,292 bears, 3,114 wolves_, and "91,-
104 snakes were killed.
PROGRESS IN PALESTINE.
A. Jewish Suburb of Jaffa Built
With Western Vapidity.
No new colonies were founded in
Palestine this year with the excep-
tion of Kinereth, a large farm -foun-
ded by the Palestine Land Develop-
ment Company with the assistance
of the National Fund, which em-
ploys many Jewish laborers. It is
hoped that these laborers will be upon
come independent colonists by and
by. OUR FORMER METHODS.
Work has also begun preparing In other lines our progress has also
the land for the co-operative colony been very wonderful. We have a
of Dr. Oppenheimer, which was heavier-than-air flying machine,
named Merhabiah. A large num- and man has flown against the air'
her of new olive trees were planted currents, and it is undoubtedly to- i er'atron may be graduated so that
this year in the Herzel Forest, ward the aeroplane, the monoplane the trains may be slowly stopped.
says the Maccabaean, The Agu- and such other air craftthat theI It appears from the progress
dath Netaim obtained its charter world is now being directed. make our con We made in wireless telephony that.it
from the Turkish Government and desire to a q uest of the I is but a question of a short time
•o s r n to rm rove curl when we may speak to each. other
SOME GREAT INVENTIONS
SPLENDID RESUL'T'S OF. IWe
MAN INGENUITY.
The Veld of .App11et1 Solent+ Ras
Froflted Greittly by the C£cv',
erness of man,
Have we reached the limit of
human achievement 1 is a question
that one may well ask, now that so
many things have been• invented,
and it will be answered only by the
future, It is not a -strange Gies-
tion to ask, for in many lines of
endeavor inventors seems to have
reached the acme of all of our de-
sires. If we consider for amoment
the type of locomotive that is in use
to -day on the ,big railroads of the
country we feel sure indeed that
it cannot be improved upon. Ib
seems to contain- everything re -
(paired for strength and speed con-
sistent with economy and safety,
yet undoubtedly new parts will be
added even this year that will tend
to even 'further increase its effici-
ency.
Electricity seems to have been
successfully harnessed to all uses
for which it appears at this time to
have been adapted, for while it is
being utilized to further advantage
every day, yet it is along the same
lines which wb have been following
for: some time, and if we have but
lately discovered .that street cars
can be run by the aid of storage
batteries and without the necessity
of wires, yet'we have been using
both eleetrie street ears and stor-
age batteries for other purposes for
a long time. We have lighted our
railway coaches, sleepers and din-
ers with electricity ; we have instal-
led electric fans in these cars, but happened without eugineermov-
we had both the lights and the fans' .
years ago. We have not invented j ing a hand toward the throttle, lev-
er or air brakes, the device work-
s new use for'samething we already ing automatically,. The invention
possessed, and we have improved i,is operated by a third:rail the shoo
from the locomotive touching the
rail and receiving power through it
both for the operation of the emer-
gency brake .and also for a tele-
phone. The principle is similar to
that of the block system, the track
being. divided into zones. . The op -
acuity of preventing mes'sogee lo-
tended for one station from toeing
r'eoorved et another:. Tuts was late-
ly remedied by having the appar-
atus at receiving and sending ste-
t}ons tuned to varying keys so that
a wiroless suassagc projected in
waves of one key could only be re-
ceived by a station tuned to :asrmi-
lay key. In several European cities
()looks eentrolled by wireless are al-
ready in operation, From Norway
comes the news that Captain Hov-
land of the royal navy has practic-
ally completed a system for the
automatic recording in print, of
wireless messages,
Wireless is also adding another
safety device for the preteetion of
travelers on the railroads, This is
to be accomplished by means of a
device similar in prineipale to tho
aeroplane or automatic wireless
marine signal. In use on a locarno-
Live it will tell the engineer with
unfailing certainty of the approach
of another locomotive or any ob-
struction en a track for a distance
of two miles, . Wireless telegraph
on trains going at the rate of 60
miles an hour has been partially
achieved on the flyers of the roads
running between New York and
Chicago. A device for the preven-
tion of train collisions: has been suc-
cessfully tested on the tracks of
the Erie Railroad between Newark
and Nutley, N. J. The device is an
electric one and is intended to
obviate
HEAD-ON COLLISIONS.
When the fast approaching trains
equipped with the new device get
within a half mile of each other the
act brakes aio set automaticaly, not
with the usual i suddenness in an
emergency, but with a gradually in-
creasing force, the same as a skill-
ful engineer would put tnom . on.
Tho trains stopped far from each
other to avoid mishaps, and all this
is continuing to cover new land' an more sure an P
with all kinds of plants. Thus more methods of flying, and above all to
and more of the arid Palestinian make it safe, or as near safe as it
soil is being reclaimed to new life. may be.
Jewish immigration into the cit- Let us consider for a moment the
ies of Palestine is much more evi-
dent. Wealthy Jews from Russia
are visiting Palestine in large num-
bers. It is true that not all of
other things that we have had for
some. time, and are enjoying at this
very moment. We have of course,
the motor car, with its enormous'
them find the possibilities in Pal- power and its high speed; the mono-
rail,rail, the turbine steamship, wire=
estine which they anticipated, but
many of them, who are mare en- less telegraphs and wireless tele-
thusiastic and whose desire to set- phones;. telephotography for the
tle there is strong, succeed in find- transmission of pictures and photo-
ing various activities and they set-
tle there.
These Jews. who have been used
to a life of comfort in Europe, have
joined some of the old settlers and
have founded a new suburb, a new
town really, near Jaffa which they
named Tel-Abib. This town, built delivered every morning at our
on the American style, inasmuch doors the same as the bottled milk.
as it sprang out as if. by magic , We can buy music by the meter like
within one year of the sand of the gas or water, If you don't care for
seashore, Is very beautiful. It is the music box you can have a phone -
well planned, has wide paved graph, and if you don't care to go
streets lined with trees, every house to the opera or if you can't' afford
is fitted up with water pipes and to you can sit at home and write let-.
brooms, and they are 'built in a tees while Caruso or Constantine
spec'fied Oriental style, surround- sings for your amusement as many
a Arden. songs as you care for and as often
ed by �" r r- .s:
Tt is all someti�jhtg-bf which at" -75Y ��__^ _{ fyon cant Pelay the
^piano you can sit on a s1Tiw, . an4.1`
the Jews t j f' justly
l tr est ne are `work your feet on a piano board
proud. The Arabs and the Euro-
peen Christians were astonished at and have canned music by the yard,
the remarkable achievement of the or as many yards of perforated
Sews. and their envy is genuine.
All the residents of Jaffa, Christi-
ans as well as Mohammedans, take
their holiday It T 1 lb'b
in the various sections of the city
or eren in distant places. During
recent experiments conversations
have been held between persons
overland at distances ranging from
one to ten miles. Some of the war-
ships of the great powers have al-
ready held conversations with the
land over 100 miles away. A
development of the wireless 'phone
that is promised is the transmis-
sion of melodies •from the opera -
house direct into the home. This.
graphs by wire, and even without is to be accomplished by a large
wire; television, which enables one wireless transmitter hung directly
to see a perfect reflection of the over the stage, which will flash out
person with whom he is conversing; the musically charged electric im-
the telegraph typewriter, which 1 pulse that is to be caught up and
enables us to write upon a type- enunciated through a receiver in -
writer from any reasonable dis- stalled in the house.
Lance. We have bottled sunshine
ANOTHER WONDER
of the wireless is the transmission of
electrical energy or power. Experi-
menters declare that the time is
not far distant when the meters
supplying the propulsive force to
the .screws of aeroplanes will receive
their power through the air from
stations at many points in the coun-
try. We, already have the submar-
ine:torpedo that is controlled from
shore by wireless, its course being
directed hither and`ebn at,the.will
of the man in the land station with
absolute accuracy. We have plant-
ed in many of the great harbors of
the world' submarine mines that can
be exploded from shore at will, at
the approach of a hostile fleet. We
ear o r ay wa .cs in a -: r have huge electric magnets that pick
The gates of this suburb are depths up hundreds of thousands of tons of
closed on Saturela `s to prevent the sinking, •rising or traveling in any steel as though it. were but child's
y P desired direction. Securely hidden: play. These are installed in all the
entrance of vehicles, although tho below the •surface, the operator of great shipyards of the world. 'We
majority of its inhabitants, are not the submarine looks into his peris- 1 have the X-ray and the Roentgen
religious, but the Jewish Sabbath cope and observes all that is'going 1 ray, that pierce our bodies .and cure
is accepted by all ase, holy day of on around him .above water for a ` our ills without 'the necessity of a
rest. The atmosphere in Tel-Abib radius of several miles. 'We have surface incision,
is naturally entirely Jewish, and color photography and we have The discovery of telephotography,
the. Hebrew language in its beat- motion pictures, and, better still, the transmission of pictures by wire
tiful Oriental accent is heard on we have colored; motion pictures, to a distance, which was first made
every side. and a still further step in that practical in 1906 by Professor Kern
On the main street, the Herzl direction we have talking pictures, of Munich, foreshadowed' the dis-
street, that leads to the sort, was 1'EILP1rTU;1L 11IOTION taut possibility of an even more
built the Gymnasia Ibribb (the -t e- marvelous discovery—that of tele -
brew high school) of .Jaffa, a fine yet remains to be discovered and vision, or seeing .at. a distance. It
building in Oriental style. .A cep. the closest thing that we have to it seemed a dream when first suggest-
nerstone was recently laid in the is a timepiece devised by the Hon ed, this' instantaneous reproduc-
same suburb for a large synagoue, orab]e R. J. Strutt, the son of tion upon a distant screen of the
which will be owned by the, Jewish Lord Rayleigh of London. It con- moving features of a living face--
community
ace—
communit of Jaffa. Tel-Abib was eists of two leaves of aluminum, an the gestures, expressions and atti-
builtY ,exhausted glass tube and a fraction tudes of a person far. away, at the;
National lYroua;h clic. assistance gra ofnour of a grain r'f radium. The a ar- very moment that he was retaking
Fund, which granted a i•.':• P , PP v • y ha�
loan for this purpose of about a ani•• • inexhaustible radio-actiy ty of thorn. But even this dream, s
of million of,o the indium causes the aluminum been realized, Ernest Ruhreer of
be rep a mill os t leaves tit rnoc•r, 0000 1n. 5 mirote Berlin,an inventor already well
be rattail with interest in instal- and with a wiroless eoherer a bell known for his remarkable work in
mems. kno n
b r is�rings at each movement.: :For, telephony and wireless telegraphy,
A similar ,eu ,suburb now being 10,000 rears at least the wonderful' h marl the first apparatus which
built, with the help of the lv*to Tel- ever ry inhceent in the microscapi- actually solves the problem of
Fund, in close pro.•fmrty to Tel- 1 b, e f drvr virl t a v 1
r t . cruse e no, hata 'fey eaIcnlated. continue to act ant 710. ' '
now Jewish subuohs around the
paper music as you can pay for.
Transportation facilities both on
land and sea have improved won-
derfully. With the submarine man
has invaded the ofthe sea,
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lb'b 7 Im if
thing whatever needs tobe,dono to The first machine consist of a screen
old town built mainly by 3e,v,.+'r the cluck 011ca it is sc1; going, composed of 25.sections, behind each
tins tc these animals, teachers for their personal 113,3 wit]' o•tn t improve- v,ich e laced exceedingly see -
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29,478. An in- f being acquired by' Julys for bnilrl-
ro..r frum 21,36'1 to r !rued :nee receive messages eimul- react to the slightest variation in
(grass in Eastern Bengal and As -ling PuP„<es_Around 'thi sit() 01 010 teeeously from the same, aerial ata tate light 'shish strikes thein. Ono
sem is nbtribufed to snakta being ;Jewish ,at tenl Institute ard a tion, One of the first obstacles to o£, °v --•:>e acrrlrens in placed at the
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a ly with the corresponding sr.c- i LOST EMERALD MINE FOUND..
tion of the other.
Each variation in the light
and shadow which strikes the
sending screen—hence every detail
of the picture projected' upon it—
is transformd be the selenium into values of emeralds during. the last
electric waves, and these are trans- ten years—until at present they out-
soitted over the wirestothe receiv-1 rank diamonds—lendsconsiderable
ing station, where they are re -I interest," says. the Mining and
transformed into light rays, thus Engineering World, "to the recent
reproducing upon the receit,ng rediscovery of one of the old Indian
screen the image' at •the' far end of emerald mines in the South Ameri-
the wire. For a perfect apparatus,. oan Andes which was lost for over
10,000 sections,. each with its selen- a cenbnry•.
ium pile and its mirror gaivano- "The real emeralds, as distin
meter would be necessar • andi hSiberian tones which
y, t guys ed from s ,
is calculated that such a machine are not at all comparable in beauty
would at present prices, cost aboutto the South American gems, are
$1,900,000.
In surgery we have discovered,
beside the wonderful rise of the X-
ray, the Roentgen ray and the vio-
0'Id Spanish Workings in South
America Promise Many Gems.
"The continued increase in the
entirely proauced from one mining
district called Muzo, in the Re-
public of Colombia, South America.
"The gem was mined by the na-
let 'ray, how to cure 'tuberculosis. tive Indians for centuries previous
We have discovered the manner of to the discovery and conquest of the
grafting skin transferred from one plateau of Bogota in the Andes, and
the Indians operated three mines
widely separted 'geographically;
named Muzo; Cosquoz, and Somon-
doco.
"About 1555, under Capt, Pedro
de Valenzuela, the Spanish ,con-
quistadores took over the mines,
enslaved the native Indians, and':
compelled them to work the mines.
So eager were the Spaniards to get
rich quickly that atrocious cruelties
were practised on the Indian work-
ers, and this was carried so far that
finally the priests complained to the
Crown (King of Spain) that the in-
numerable deaths of the Indians
employed in the mines adversely af-
fected the ecclesiastical revenues.
'This resulted in the importation
of African:ncgroes, but eventually
the mines were partly ciosed Dur-
ing the War of Independence in. 1816
and later the 'whole region was so
desolated that two of the mines,
Cosquez and Somondoco, were en-
tirely lost, and Muzo has produced
all the gems since that time.
• "It has been prolific, but the out-
put has been steadily declining dur-
ing the' last ten years, and itocord-
ing to the very best information the
ultimate practical abandonment
must come in the near future, un-
less new veins are uncovered, which
months the whole house is covered is deemed improbable by the Eng -
up to the projecting roof with togslish engineers formerly in charge of
of snow, chinked in with frozen
earth and debris, the inmates being
about ten feet below the surface.
The most peculiar feature of tl.e
house, according to Fur News, is
the means of entrance. This is a';-
oomplished by scaling a narr'.w
spilt log, having holes cut in for
the feet and hands which extends
down from the roof at an angle of
almost 90 degrees. Gettinginside
is a feat which none but the experi-
enced native oan accomplish with
comfort.
The interior is reached' by
person to another: the transfusion
of blood, and there have been many.
cases where the heart has been tak-
en-ou't and opeiated upon and re-
placed in the human body without
bad results,
STRANGE SIBERIAN MOUSES.
One Enters by a hole in the hoof.
and Climbs Dewn a Pole.
There are many kinds of queer
houses in the world,, but for difficul-
ty of ingress and egress the huts of
some Siberian fur hunters, Koryaks
by name, take the palm.
From a distance these huoses
have the appearance of huge'fun-
nels rising out of a snowbank. The
crater -like top of the house, besides
forming a roof, is used as 'a gen-
eral storage place for food and all
sorts of articles. This slopes down-
ward to an aperture in the centre,
which serves as a smoke hole, vent-
ilator, and passageway, below.
A number of logs arranged in a
circle support the rickety frame-
work of the roof, the lower end of
which rests on a secondary pile of
timbers forming the walls of the liv-
ing quarters. For nearly nine
descending another perpeneentear
tree -lag. stei•ljtvay the -Hulas being
covered with a slippery coating of
grease and seat. A misplaced
step of any visiting white fur trad-
er or agent would result in his land-
ing in a pot of bludder always kept
boiling at the base.
The whole enclousre has a ground
floor, and is barren of anything in
the shape of furniture, A large
vessel for cooking seal and blubber
and a kettle used for melting snow
are the chief household utensils.
The diet is limited almost exclusive-
ly to raw and half -cooked seal and
whale flesh, with Russian bricktea
and American tobacco as an extra
auxury. '
Before entering one of these
Arctic .households it is customary
for the white visitor or trader to
send word ahead prior to his ar-
rival. On reaching, the house he
will usually find assembled on the
roof awaiting hint the host and all
his family, including dogs. Dogs
play an important• part in their
primitive religion, and are thought
to be a potent -agency fur keeping
away evil spirits and bringing good
luck in the hunting of for animals.
For this reason the stuffed form of
a dog is always kept dangling from
the rooftop of the houses.
SOMETIMES . HAPPE\ S.
Friend• --•"leu took your sen into
your establishment: a fele months
ago to tench him the, business, I
understand, How did he turn out 7"
Business Man (wearily)"Great
success. :He's teaching me the
business now."
l'itith, one foot in alio grave •
deeen't false a men len ; iu get
there with both feet.
the workings.
"For several years a Colombian
named Franisco Restrepo, guided
only by a few hints contained in an
oient Spanish parchment maps in
the Government 'archives in Pelio-
yen, wandered far and wide
looking for the losb emerald mine
of Somondoco.
"Senor Restrepo: knew nothing of
geology nor emoralds,yet in 1896 he
name upon traces of ancient work-
ings, and later uncovered very
extensive workings, which proved
to be the real treasure trove, ' the
lost.emeeaid, amino of Somondoco,
which gives every promise of dupli,
eating the wonderful record of
Muzo,., which probably was $2,000,-
000 to $4,000,000 annually for a
century and for unknown centuries
in pre -Spanish times."
TIIE HAPPY FA1IIIIEIt BOY.
Country :Louth's Daily Round of
Pleasure.
"I'd like to. be a boy again with-
out a woe or care, with freckles
:scattered on my face and hayseed in
my hair.
"I'd like to rise at four o'clock
and do.a hundred chores, flaw wood
and feed the hogs and lock the
stable doors, and herd the hens and
watch the bees and take the mule
to drink, and teach the turkeys how.
to swim so that they wouldn't sink,
and milk about a hundred eows.and.
bring the wood to burn,' and stand
out inthe sun all .day and client
and churn, and wear my brother's
east off clothes, and walk four miles
to school, and get a licking every
day for breaking some old rule, and
then got home again ab night and
do the chores some more, and milk
the aewo and feed the hogs an
curie; mules gelore, and then (trawl
wearily upstairs to seek any litilo.
heti, and hear dad say; That
worthless boy 1 . Ho isn't worth his.
bread.':
"I'd like in be a boy main --a
bro 1105 e 11113,11 Nil, His life is
11.4 ', mind of mirth trent rise • to
'31 ,.r "l11, 1"-1:c,•5 there's nothing
pleasanter than sic•ir stable doors
n,nl handing (tens rr 1 chasing bens
ro«,� .1 .;,:. r• ;:miuYlg chorea." -
FROM BONNIE SCOT��I�J.
NOTES OF INTEREST VROI11
REAR DANES AND BRAES.
What is Going On in the Highland'• r
and Lowlands of Auld
SGotla.
Diphtheria is epidemic in Kinglas�
slo.
AntllraX has broken out at Castle -
sample,
Paisley school rate has been fax
ed at es, par X.
Ayr police era agitating for sn u-
rease 'of wages,
Perth Town Council estimates r
show a large deficit,
• The water question is still a
bone of contention et Berwick,
Dunoon Post 'Office is to be re-
novated at a cost of $4,000.
Rothesay now boasts of having a
company of Girl Guides.
In Leslie the water supply it
scarce, and is turned off' nightly.
Wick is applying for a grant of
$75,000 to extend its harbor.
At Glenisla the other day a gold.
en eagle attacked two roe deer. e.
Port Glasgow poor rate has been
fixed at 25s. 21/2d. per pound.
The salary of Invernesshire chief
constable has been fixed at $1,875,
At Coldstream, a kitten has been
born with two heads, two 'noses,
three eyes, two mouths, two ears,
and four legs.
Fferring were selling at. Berwiek
recently from 14s, to 20a. per can.
All grades of Govan police have
got their wages considerably in-
creased.
It is said Perth new city hall will
cost the ratepayers $5,000 a year.
The inhabitants of Lochmaben
are feeling severely the scarcity of
water,
The total income of the Edin-
burgh Gas Commission :'last year
was $165,000.
The drawings of Ayr tramways
last half year showed an increase of
over $705.
There is $50,450 at the credit of
depositors in Tyvis Saving Bank,
Aberdeen.
Patrick fire brigade has added a
new motor fire, pump to its equip -
menta.
The Sanquhar and Kiroonnel Col-
lieries, Limited, have let the con-
tracts for the ereetion'u 100 new
workmen's cottages on the opposite
side of the River Nith from Kirk•
cannel village. i
Trackless trolley cars are, to be
introduced to connect Maryfie'ld and
and: Fairmuir, Forfarshire. _
The great dearth of water•-
Sanquhar is still causing consider-
able anxiety amongst the people.
Miss Grace Collins, of 3 Park Ter-
race, Glasgow, has given -a legacy
of 81,250 to. Dennyloteye Hospital.
Pollokshaw's Town Council have
agreed to take steps to have the u
notification- of tuberculosis made
compulsory.
Much excitement has been caused
by the proposal to build a new
school costing $10,000 to $15,000
at Muirhead, Forfar.
Wanlockhead Brass Band is mak•
ing an effort to secure new instru-
ments. The band has been in ex-
istence for a century.,
Owing to the continued drought,
Galashiels is suffering from s,
scarcity of water. The drought is
stated to be the worst experienced
in forty years.
Wishasr Burgh finances are now
in every satisfactory state. Last
year a profit of 83,250 was made on 1^
the gas accounts.
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BRITISH W 1RSIiIPS EXCEL. -
Comparison Between British and
German Fleets.
A comparison of Dreadnoughts in
Germany and England proves how
effectively the British Admiralty
has kept ahead of its ambitious
rival. If orders should be received
during the autumn by the home
fleet for a sudden swoop across the
North Sea, there would be sixteen
Dreadnoughts against eight, and
that would be practical evidence
that two keels had been laid for cue..
The evolution of the battleship
as a formidable engine of war 1.as
been carried to a more advanced
stage in England than in Germany.
The original Dreadnoughts had ten
12 -inch guns. German cleslgners 1n•
creased the number to twaive, but
allowed only eight to be nnicenlrat-
od for broadside fire. The tv'.
British super-Di'eadnougll',s :ss etch
aro about to be.commisei•med will
carry ten 1534 -inch guns ';0 a cen-
tral line, and can Iii e them tegeth=
er. Tho broadside tire ,,f the first
Dreadnought has bees
and every vessel in the C.ier.»an
fleet has been outclassed.
Not only are the new 70 -ton gents,
with thclr 1,250 -pound shells, sup -
(trier to any of the German fleet,
but the unproved British Dread-
nought has a larger tneasu a of
armor protection and deice ire
strength, withhigher-speed, 11lian
any battleship from the Kiel, 11.4nt•
burg or Bremen shipyards.
To wash and water the stii.^,ts
and courts of the City of Ln?liltln
last year, 65,963,007 gallons of water
were used.;
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