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KEEP FOOD CLEAN.
What ie the composition of dust?
• Tt has been described as a, little of
everything. In the paved streets of
cities and 'towns earthy particles
from the (roil are always presenh.
While tract dust in the country i:;
• largely made up of the powdered
earth of the road mixed with finely
ground manure, in cities its lighter
particles taro composed of several.
kinds of dirt sufficiently disgusting
to 'give ea a hearty aversion to dust
as an accidental accompaniment to
any article of feed.
The dust of rooms contains earthy
particles, minute fragments o£
clothing fibre, bits of abraded skin
and pieces worn away from walls,
floor and furniture; also mould
spores, bacteria and street dust in
greater or lase quantity, according
to the location.
The daily examination of the milk
of a certain model dairy revealed
suddenly a great increase in the
'bacterial count. The physician and
the baetcriolo'gist examined the
gremises and watched every process
in .a vain effort to determine the
cause, until it was 'noticed that the
milk pails were put to sun where
the dust blew on them. This cause
removed, the bacterial count re.
turned to normal.
These air and dust bacteria are
not necessarily harmful, but where
large numbers are present they are
likely to be among them those
which prodnee disease. A number
of eases of illness are on record di-
rectly traceable to fruit, but it is
difficult to determine whether in
such eases infection has come
through dust settling on the food
or throagh direct contact of the
fruit with infected human beings.
Bettor market inspeetion is need-
ed, better protection of food from
dust bete in transit and when on
sale, and a more rigid carrying out
of exist' )aw, but, above all, a
demand for clean food on the part
. of the buyer.
Precautions should also be taken
against dust after the food is de-
livered at the house. In modern
dairying mach stress is laic' on the
feet that sweeping the stable be-
fore milking fills tho air with bac-
teria which are likely to infect the
newly -drawn milk.
The same danger arises if food
and dishesare loft exposed in kit-
chen or ,pantry during sweeping.
Tests have been made to determine
how great this danger is in ordinary
household practice, and it has been
found not only that moulds, yeasts
and bacteria are much more abun-
dant in the air during sweeping,
but that those stirred up by the
sweeping de not settle back again
for -several hours afterward.
Evidently. then, it is not sufficient
to cover food and dishes during the
actual sweeping; they should re-
main protected for some hours.
Dusting with a dry cloth or feather
duster also stirs the micro-organ-
isms into the air ; for this reason a
damp cloth to which they will stick
• is greatly preferable for cleaning in
kitchen, pantry 'and china closet; in
fact, e,erywhere.
These considerations also show
the great sanitary advantages of
modern cleaning devices, of which a
number of sorts are now on the
• market, by which, the dirt is sucked
through tubes into suitable reeep-
tacles.
Bits of damp newspaper or damp
sawdust sprinkled on a, floor will
hinder dust from rising when the
-room is ewept, but the wooden or
linoleum -severed floor of a well-
kept kitchen and pantry should 1nr
• nish little dust. Large particles
•should be lightly brushed up and
the floor washed every few days.
A souree of disease, but one fre-
•quent}•y overlooked, is the pet ani-
mals of the household. The fur of
even the, meat cleanly cats and dogs
overt conve in contact with many
things which we would net care to
have touch our food. In many fam-
ilies where the animals are not al-
lowed in the living rooms for fear
of soiling the furniture they are
given free range in kitchen and
pantry, 'where the chances are they
will leave more or less loose hair
and dirt which niay find its way to
food utensils or to food,
CHOICE RECIPES,
Oatmeal Gruel. -Put two heaping
tablespoonfuls oatmeal in one
quart of cold water, stir until it
• commences to boil, then cook one
hour, stirring occasionally to pre-
vent scorching; season with salt,
sugar and any spite desired, For
latents and very .sick patients it
Must be •strained, and not salted.
Fig flaedwiches;-Chap the figs
very fine, add water, to make a thin,
smooth paste and cook gently until
of s readin •consistency. Add nut
P g
meats chopped flee, with orange
juice or extract to flavor, Or, if
preferred, nee grated candied le-
mon er orange peel with fresh fruit
ie erste. Spread bet' thin
lutes to t
'lees of butteredd weenbrown bread out
4n fanciful- shapes or between thin
ethics of angel food or sponge cake.
Num Budding. -Ono -half potted
flour, one -halt potted chopped suet,
one-half pound bresdorrimbf, one-
half pound raisins, ane egg, milk
and. auger,' Mix the flour, crumbs
and •a little sugar together, rub in
the suet, add raisins and egg and
milk to make a very thick batter,
Put into a well -buttered dish, and
bake in good oven for two hours.
Marshmallow Padding. -Dissolve
two tablespoonfuls of cern starch in
ono -half cupful of cold milk, add
ono -fourth teaspoonful of salt,
three-fourths cupful of sugar and
one-half teaspoonful of butter into
ono quart of boiling milk; stir this
rapidly. Remove from the fro and
divide into equal parts. Into one
part stir the stiffened whites of two
eggs; into the other four table-
spoonfuls of melted chocolate. Fla-
vor with vanilla. Put into a mould
in alternate spoonfuls and ,servo
with cream.
Making Cranberry Pie. -For the
pastry : Sift half a teaspoonful of
salt and 1% cupfuls of flour; acid
four tablespoonfuls of butter when
thoroughly chilled. Chop until like
meal; ackl cold water to make .a
stiff dough. Child; roll on a floured
cloth or moulding board into a rec-
tangular shape; fold enols toward
centre, double, turn half -way
around and roll again. This paste
is a superior one. Chill before roll-
ing for pies. Roll the paste one-
quarter inch thick. Cut paste an
eighth of an inch larger than plebe.
Cut strips three-quarters of an inch
wide for rim. Cut upper crust at
least one-eighth inch larger than
plate. Arrange lower crust on
plate, wet edges with cold water,
lay strips of paste on rim on this,
taking care to lap and seal the ends
with cold water. Fill the pie with
whatever material is to be used.
Cut little slits iii centre of upper
crust. Lay on pie; wet edges of
rim. Have all edges oven, leaving
fulness in centre to allow for
shrinking. Press edges lightly but
firmly. For the pie : For filling,
mix 1% cupfuls of chopped cran-
berries, half a cupful of chopped
raisins, one cupful of sugar, one-
quarter of a cupful of water and
one tablespoonful of butter. This
is sometimes called monk cherry
pie.
SOME STRANGE FOODS.
Delicacies Enjoyed by the People
of Sonic Countries.
If you go to New Caledonia or
New Guinea for your holidays
there is a chance that you will have
dishes 'of clay served upon your
dinner -table. Odious as the idea
may seem ,to us, it is a fact that
that there are many human beings
who feast on. clay. Travelers in the
Orient declare that the yellow races
are especially addicted to the prac-
tice.
After all, food is purely a matter
of taste. The Eskimos delight in
mice cooked in tallow. Then the
Chinese consider that alligators,
mice, and rats farm most excellent
foodstuffs. A certain tribe of In-
dians in California thrive upon
ants.
On the European Continent but-
terflies are •sometimes eaten. The.
Turkish enjoy goldfish, and in Ja-
pan a good deal of fish is eaten raw.
The South American Indians go'
hunting for caterpillars, kill them
by crushing their heads, and then
pack them carefully in grass until
required for "table use." Soma of
the natives of Australia live largely
upon the seeds of different species
of grass. They also eat certain
roots and bulbs and the gum ob-
tained from trees.
Another Australian delicacy is
the flesh of snakes, and a favorite
dish, called tninambe, is composed
of pupa cases.
WEATHER, PROPHET LEECH. ,.
A leech kept in a glass jar of wa-
ter is an excellent weather prophet.
The jar should contain about three
gills of water, which should be
changed oncea week in summer,
once a fortnight in winter. When
the leech lies at the bettom of the
jar, and curled up in spiral form,
you may reasonably rely on fine
weather. If, however, it creeps up
to the top of the jar and remains
there, rain is coming. When the
leech darts about its lodging with
great swiftness, it is not suffering
from a pain, but is telling you to
look out for wind. If a hurricane is
en its way the leech will be more
out of the waiter than in, and will
have convulsive mo'vement's:- The
jar, by the way, should be only par-
tially filled with water, while the
top should be covered with muslin.
When Jack Frost is going to pay
its a visit the leech behaves as when
foretelling fine weather i.e., he
lies at the bottom of the jar but
when snow is coming he climbs
right lip to the mouth of the jar
and sticks there.
MUNICH'S liElR RECORD.
erman
The capitalof B Bavaria, G y,
maintains its 'smarm/Icy tie a beer -
drinking community. Statistics just
published by the municipal seehori-
ties show that the Consumption of
beer per head of the population.
last year amounted 'to no less than
70% gallons. This is nearly three
these as much as the Tnglielenan's
aversge. Last year dl unieh's brew-
eries prndueed 81,752,000 gallons of
beer, of which 42,300,000 gallons
was drunk in the city, while the
rest was exported to other parts of
Germany and abroad. This home
consumption represented an in•
crease of 2,310,000 gallons es com-
pared with the previoae year.
11 THE MIGHT Y BRITISH BATTLESHIP LION
They call her H.M.S. Hellfire in the navy, because the heat from her funnels on the trial trip
warped the steel in the fighting -top. Britain's augmented fleet will be full of improved "Lions."
THE SUNDAY SCHDDI STUDY
INTERNATIONAL LESSON,
AUGUST 11..
Lesson VL A troubled sea and a
troubled soul. nark 4.35 to 5.20.
Golden Text, Psa. 46. 1, 2.
Verse 35. On that clay -The par-
ticular afternoon of the day on
which Jesus sat in a boat and
taught the multitudes in parables.
Unlike Luke (8. 22), Mark associates
the events so that he remembers the
very day.
The other side. - The eastern
shore of the lake, about opposite
Oapernaum.
37. Storm of wind - Greek, a
great squall. Matthew calls it a
`tempest" (8. 24).
38, The cushion -On the helms-
man's seat. The mention of the
cushion and other little boats indi-
cates the careful detail of Mark's
narrative.
39. Peace, be still -Silence, be
nuzzled. He addresses the waves
as though speaking to an unruly
ox. The Greek word carries with
it 'not only the meaning that the
sea should become quiet, but also
that it should remain so.
A great calm -"In contrast with
the great storm."
40. Have ye not yet faith 1 -This
question seems to indicate the prin-
cipal lesson which the incident is
intended to teach. In view of all
the preceding miracles it would
seem that these men, who had been
-intimately associated with Jesus,
should have been confident of his
power and disposition to care for
them, yet the incident discloses a
woeful lack of faith. Tho startled
appeal to their sleeping Master be-
speaks the distrust which .possessed
them when confronted with danger.
The stilling of the storm is one
more incident added to the long list
of miracles which were designed to
inspire the disciples with a constant
faith in Jesus as the master of every
situation.
41. Feared exceedingly -At first
on account of their danger, later
because of the mysterious power
which Jesus exercised,
Even the Wind and the sea obey
him -Recorded in all three synop-
tic Gospels, indicating the marked
impression made', that not only
were disease and Clemons subject to
Jesus, but the natural elements as
well,
o. 1. Gerasenes-Luke 8. 26 gives
this rendering, while Matthew 8.
28 reads Gadarenes. The city Ger-
sa, or Kersa, from which the proper
noun Gerasenes is derived, was
situated on the eastern'side of the
lake, about midway from north to
south, and about a .mile from the
shore. The shore at the point op-
posite is narrow and steep, drop-
ping abruptly from the high table-
land
able
land to the waters edge. Here
there is another heap of ruins de-
signated by the same name, The
proper noun Gedarenes, on the
other hand, comes from Garlara, a
city six miles southeast, bf the lake
and south of the Hieromax or Yar-
mak gorge, Gadara was fortified
in ancient tines and wits one if
the pr'incrpal cites of Dee polls.
Compare: verse 20. 'Because of its
importance it was known more
widely outside of Palestine than
was Gersa, and this fact may have
led to the substitution of arida-
penes for Geraseanes by some an-
cient copyists. When we sommelier
how often the mannscr'ints of our
Gospels were copied end i'eeenied
during the mans, euntur•iesprrcecling
the invention of printing, the won-
der is that more copyist's errors of
this kind than actually do occur are
net fiennd in tltc Gospels.
2, Siraischtwav--A common weed
in Merle's rapid steeteh of events.
Tombs --Caves in the limestone
cliffs in the vicinity of Gersa,
A man -Matthew: mentions two,
Lake, however, mentions only one,.
Itis not improbablethret there were
two of whom one was the fiercer
anal acted as spokesman. •
Unclean spirit -Compare Lesson
Text Studies for March 10 for note
on Demon Possession.
6. Worshiped him -Paid him rev-
erence. This was an act of obei-
sance which did not necessarily
amount to the worship of deity, but
was a common means by which one
person .acknowledged the superior-
ity of another. The demons clearly
recognized the mastery of Jesus
over them.
7. What have I to do with thee?
-The utterance of the man, impell-
ed by the demon, which had nothing
in common with Christ,
Thou Son of the Most High God -
As though he recognized the deity
of Christ. It is to be noted that
although men were slow in recog-
nizing Jesus as divine the demons
identified him immediately.
9. Legion -So called because they
were many. A legion was a depart-
ment of the Roman army number-
ing 6,000 men. The language of the
demoniac was of course figurative.,
It was as though he said, "I feel
as though I were possessed of a
thousand devils."
10. Ont of the country -Luke. 8.
31 reads "into the abyss." The
demons feared being driven into
torment, while the possessed man
feared he would be driven from his
asylum among the tombs.
13. He 'gave them leave -Mat-
thew 8. 32 records that Jesus gave
the command, "Depart." There
is no, intimation, however, that
they were commanded to enter the
swine.
TJJs,sgGhM nton ie shrdlu dlu uu
About two thousand -As esti-
mated by the terror-stricken swine-
herds.
14. In the city-Gersa.
15. In his right mind -No longer
oontrolied by demons.
They were afraid -Of the mys-
terious power which overcame the
demons and resulted in such de-
struction.
16. Declared unto them how it
befell him -Told a simple story of
the incidents and their results..
18. As he was entering into the
boat -The incident resulted in Je-
sus departing at once without hav-
ing an opportunity to teach.
That be might be with him -A. re-
quest prompted by both fear and
devotion.
19. Go to thy house -The demo-
niac became an apostle to those
whose doors were closed to Jesus.
20. Decapolis-A group of ten
cities ]wing south and east of the
Lake of Galilee.
.q.
FIND •$500,000 IN TREASURE.
Russian Peasants Unearth Relies of
the. Fourth Century.
While some peasants were digging
-in a field in the village of Militias
Russia, recently, they unearthed
an old chest containing treasure to
the value of $500,000. The treasure
was. in gold and silver coins of the
fourth century and several gold and
silver vessels of a later date. One
of these was a, large dish of damas-
cened gold with a richly embossed
rim encrusted with precious stones,
A Latin inscription chews that this
dish was at ono time in the posses -
:Sion of a Bishop who lived in the
eleventh century, .A similar dish is
embossed with the image of Sapor
IT:, a Persian monarch of the
fourth century, Other articles were
eleven solid gold Persian cups.
The laborers kept the treasure in
a cottage for a King time, thinking
it wss brass and lead. It was
through their efforts to make a bar -
Rein with,the owner of the field on
their .own valuation that the true
worth of the metal in the chest was
discovered, The estimate of valua-
tion placed on the treasure is only
what it would bring as bullien and
not what it would bring in the
world's 'great markets for milked -
ties.
ea-
Within
r),Within ,a period of fifty pears, .the
population of the. 'United States has
increased 380 per cent.
The tiereflllable bottle has eame
last. The uere:Sillabin pooket-
book We have always bad With tut}.
MARRIED BLUEJACKETS.
HAUNTED BY Ole,
These Figures Pursue London Man
Ilome and Abroad,
Sailors in British Navy reel In-
crease in Cost of Living.
One of the most important prob-
lems connected with the British
navy is that known as the lower
deck grievances. This problem may
be split up into questions of pay, of
privileges, of promotion and of dis-
cipline.
The question of pay is the great-
est of them -all. The pay of the
navy, both for officers and men, has
remained stationary since Nelson's
day.
Of course the sailor is lodged, fed
and clothed by the Government,
and the question of pay would not
be so important if sailors were sin-
gle men and had no home but their
ships. But the navy is essentially
a married service. Practically
every long service sailor gets mar-
ried, and of the men in the service
more than 50 per cent. have wives
to look after.
Marriage is 'encouraged in the
navy. The Admiralty recognizes
that it is a good thing for men who
remain from a dozen to twenty
years in the service to contract the
steadying tie of matrimony, but it
does nothing to help them to main-
tain their shore homes. They get
no extra pay and no separation
allowance like the soldier. Thus it
comes about that the recent rapid
rise in the cost of living has been
very keenly felt by the bluejacket.
As e rule the married, sailor makes-
an
akesan excellent husband.
In the matter of messing and of
quarters the sailor is better off than
he used to be; his food•is more var-
ied and it is better cooked, while
the new ships give him more light
and air and deck apace.
Unnecessary interference with a
curtailment of leave is another
cause of the discontent among the
men of the lower deck. When Lord
Charles Beresford took over the
command of the Channel fleet the
offence of leave breaking had reach-
ed very serious proportions. Every
Monday hundreds of men failed to
return to their ships, Lord Charles,
extended the privilege of leave and
gave the men liberty from Friday
afternoon to Monday morning. In
these two clear days they were able
to go home, that was what they
wanted, and leave -breaking
promptly peasech in the Channel
fleet,
To -clay the offence is more or less
prevalent again, for the Beresford
system has been abolished, not be-
cause it bad a bad effect on the
efficiency of the fleet, but because
the financial people at the Admiral-
ty complained about the cost of.it.
NO TIPPING IN. SWISS HOTELS
Extra Charges Will Be ]Made on
Toin'ist's' Bills Instead.
Joy undoubtedly will come to the
hearts of thousands of tourists who
visit Switzerland every year as the
result of the announcement that a
number of Swiss hotels are going to
do away with the tipping evil.
Wherever the tourist goes
throughout Europe he must leave a
trail of silver behind him, and in
Switzerland the demands of valets,
porters and others are particularly
exa.eting; So much se, in fact, that
if a tourist should tip sparingly or
not at all his hags and trunks aro
so marked that when he arrives in
the next resort town he is labelled
as stingy and mean. This means of
-course poor service. The methods
of "highway robbery" in practice
at the Swiss hotels have been a
source of numerous cornpiaints to
hotel managers and 11 was realized
that something must be done about
the matter,
The remedy proposed is this: A
specific sum ender the head of
"special services" will be charged
on the tourist's bill for 'polishing
shoes, handling baggage and other
such services.
Although it is not annouueed
which hotels will take irp the new
scheme, it is certain to become gen-
eral.
Harry W, Devonshire in a letter
to the London (England) 'Thum
says;
"During a residence of Some
seventeen years in the metropolis T
have lived at six different address-
es in the West End of London batw-
ing the number 31. Five of these
addresses I approached without
any preconceived intention of doing
so and on•e of them by design. Four
of -my intimate friends reside at
addresses in town, each house being
a No. 31. Five other friends live it
residences in London exactly oppo•
site houses bearing the number 31.
"If my taxicab should be held up
by congested traffic my vehicle her
times without number stopped ex
aptly opposite a No, 31, While
strolling..around a West End square
recently my attention was attracted
to one of the houses by reason of ite
original design, and upon ap-
proaching it for closer inspection 1
discovered it bore the number 31.
"Leaving the enclosure at the
London Aerodrome last Saturday
to walk around the grounds with a.
friend we were suddenly attracted
by Hame)'s remarkable exhibition
of flying. I led the way to one of
the numerous slightly raised foot -
rails which border the enclosure,
and when we stepped back again on
to the ground we both observed it
bore the number 31.
"I attended an evening function
a short time ago at ivhiclr over 300
guests were present and the disc
handed me in the cloak -room was
No. 31. I may state that not a sin-
gle person in .the building but the
friend who was with me and who
accompanied ine to Hendon knew of
these No. 31 occurrences, and his
astonishment was as sincere and
profound as my own.
"On Thursday of the present
week, in the cloak -room of a certain
West 'End house which was crowd-
ed to repletion with wedding
guests, the man servant• tendered
mea disc No. 31 in exchange for my
hat and stick and I refused it. I
was determined to attempt to break
the spell ofthis irritating and
ghastly No. 31 which .pursues me
everywhere a•nd upon occasion. I
may conclude these experiences by
mentioning that the entrance to my
club which I daily visit faces a No.
31,"
NEW WAY TO RILL LOCUSTS.
Invented by a French Scientist, Dr.
Felix d'Herelle.
During a visit to Mexico two
years ago, Dr. Felix d'Herelle, a
young acieutist of the Pasteur In-
stitute, noticed •that locusts were
subject to an epidemic disease, and
concluded that the best means of
destroying the insects would be to
spread the disease among them.
After careful research he discov-
ered the bacillus of the disease.
and, as the result of a, paper read
before the "leadenly of Science:: in
Paris, was invited to make a prac-
tical test of his discovery by the
Government of the Argentine,
where every year the plague of lo-
custs does incalculable damage to
the crops.
His first expea•iments were imme-
diately successful, a swarm of lo-
custs kept between barriers for ob-
servation purposes being extermi-
nated in six days after they had
eaten grass sprinkled with M.
d'Herelle's preparation. Within
less than a week dead locusts were
also found thirty miles from the in-
fected fields, while forty days after-
wards locusts bearing the mark of
the epidemic were picked up two
hundred and fifty miles from the in-
fected area,
The locust plague in the Argen-
tino threatened to be worse than
ever this year, and in the spring the
doctor set one accompanied by
mules carrying the disease -spread-
ing liquid. and sprinkled every
swarm of locusts that conid be
found in the Province of Rica,
where acre after acre of the in-
sects had just hatched. .After three
'veeks only one living swarin was
left in the entire district,
The doctor declares that his pre-
paration in no way affects the cat-
tle grazing in fields sprinkled with
the liquid.
Co?fViC'r'1'11tE,S ST'I'CiDE.
Nails, Scre.u•s, Glass. Lead, Ete.,
Found in Tlis Stomach.
A convict. who is undergoing a
longsentenee in the prison of Lenz-
bour'g, Canton of Avgovir, become
tired of life .recently, and decked
to hasten death by a carious meth-
od. He swallowed every piece of
instal, glass, etc., he mule' find in
the courtyard when the wardens
were not. watching him. This con-
tinued for weeks, and thee convict'
seemed to thrive, but the other clay
he was foiled writhing in agony,
and the fleeter, to save the man's
lite. performed an operation in
haste,
l+rom the ronvici's stomach were
extracted 147 nails of verities sizes,
69 screws. 24 pieces of glass, 9 bits
of lend, 22 brass hands of nails, h
collar hnttnns• and the brolren
blades of A knife and n chisel. The
operation WAS a snocess, end the
convict,,who has changed his view
oenternme his departure from this
world, twill iso ba well again,
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IVO Y
. The''l'i'agedy of a Teelter
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The boat was awful. Even the
birds were aabeep-the beasts had
gone ±0 eovol•. long age -and only
the reptiles seemed able to stanch
it. Thera was a chameleon lizard
on the front of a palm, who pul-
sated with •eoiors through ruby and
pink to green and back again; and
there was a snake whose livery res
,sembled worked beads en leather
such as Red Indian chiefs wear, and
Se, was coiled round the stem of at,
flower that resembled a nine -inch
horn of pure white wax. •
One lone vulture -hung poised,
wheeling in slow circles, as if on
wire, fair above the trees in a sky`
like a polished copper dome, and •
:hat was the only moving thing. The
reptiles were as still as -reptiles.
The very trees sweated. It was
like being in an orehi•d house at
Kew Gardens, Only there was leo
end to this orchid -house.
Everywhere were shadows,• Th
hlazing sun and branches slashed
great bars and blots, -pools and
bands and dappled curtains of al-
most black -grey and pure gold.
The sensuous, sickly scents of
great waxy flowers of many Tues
hong heavy on the air.
There was no sound...
Then one huge blotch of shadow,
which had been there for hours
motionless under a Spiky euphorbita-
tree, slid upwards -from its end, as
it were a bleak snake. The vast
shadow under the tree was an ele-
phant.
I cannot tell you the height of
that bull African elephant -dare
not. But there was a tree hard by,
where he ]fad been in the habit of
rubbing his hide. The bark had
been worn off, and the wood
smoothed to a height of fourteen
feet. It was iris tusks that had
given the flashing gleam; they
seemed to weigh down even him.
They weighed two hundred and.
twenty-six pounds apiece, were
slightly over ten feet long, and -.
were at the base as big round as a
fat woman's waist. -
Then he went. I have no hope to
convey to you the strange weird-
ness of that going. Removed he at
speed, breaking at once into the
swift shambling elephant trot, and
faded out like smoke. But' the
miracle of it all was that he made
no noise -not a whisper. A - lithe
leopard -cat. getting out of his way,
made a rustle. and a rat in his path
pattered audibly on a dead ;palm- •
leaf; but this living mountain -this
four tons or so of animated flesh I s,,
and bone passed like the passing
of
a thought,
Instantly, as if the whole world
thereabouts had turned into a -stage
of shifting scenery, the dense,
massed shadows all around began
to fall apart into huge units, and,
.gliding into the open, slid out oft;
sight and the path of the tusks like
ghosts. They were all elephants,
and the manner of their going -the'
absolute dead silence of that re-
treat -was
e -
treat was terrifying: i
One only remained behind.. She 1 •
had to. A little six -fent -high baby
elephant there was her property,
and made her dally, It was the in-. �.
stinot of a mother fighting for leer
child that made her stop.
Bang!
The short, butting, coughing re=,
port of the heavy ,470 Express
thundered through the virgin forestnc'
like thunder. The she -elephant spun .
about like a butterfly on a pin -all
as lightly -fanned out her huge
cars, rolled up her trunk, .tooted
out a ridiculous little sound like the_
blast of a small, cracked trumpet,
swayed, and crashed' to earth wcitli
tine catacysmal downrnsh of a fall- ti
ing tree.
The calf ran on blindly, sgttoalin
and grunting like a pig.
Half an hour later' came two of
female elephants, helping along';
and caressing a little agitated ale,
pliant calf. It was the orphan,!
They had adopted it. after the mur-
der of the old she -elephant,
But what week] you? That love-
ly. soft, yellow ivory'of the billiard -
balls is oracle from the tusks of fe-
male elephants, and themurderer
had to make a living somehow. -
London Answers,
SEWING MACHINE STORY.
That common and useful house-
hold article, the sewing-nuacliine,
has only been in :practical use some
sixty-six soars. Long before that,
laorvever, th e foundations of the
machine we use now were laic'. As
far back As 1755, as donbie-pointed
needle with an eye in the, centre
was invented, incl later -in 1790-a
roan named Tlrereas ,Saint devised a
machine for stitching, quilting, or
sowing leather. In 1930, a French-
man invented a machine which," he
este in his tailoring bu.sincss, but,„a
it was wrecked, owing to th.e dislike
of an ignorant crowd, Sixteen
years later the machine upon which
all sewing -machines are new based.
wiis constrmeted. Plias i=leil4; 'syr+ .:,•
American, was the inventor, . The
k'
improvement in his 'machine lay is
the introduction of the ourvcd eye -
pointed needle And• the rrnderr.
thread shuttle. Up to the time ol�
1115 deal h• -in 1867--41cwe received
over $2,000,000 in 1440'643c f