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Rale+al ug Salads for Summer,
The meet a r e fre:ihing and withal
satisfying dish in summer is a well
- prcpnr(tl salad, and it sou are at
all given to e> l c t inn rti:ig you will
find there ie praetieatly nu limit to
he changes you can effect in c-cm-
bining material and dressing or
serving ailed:a For the next three
months at 1etet, iuora' salad' and
less meat should be the slogan of
the progr'eseive caterer, and be sure
i;a select salads suited to the differ-
ent occasions, sum thing light and
llisp for dinner, For tiie home
uneheo:e it at a late eeltpcer the
salad can be more substantial and
bo the plain dish, while at a com-
pany luncheon of afternoon tea a
chilled fruit salad ora novelty in
the ;elm of leit.ute hearts with fruit
dressing would be most appropriate.
Familial Salad D. essing.--Ingre-
dients : One -hall cupful of rich, stiff
mayonnaise; one tablespoonful .each
of minced chives, celery and red
and green pepper; one-half cupful
of stiffly whipped sour cream.
Method : The. mayonnaise may be
bought or a rich boiled dressing
made with tarragon and cider vine-
gar. Beat the minced greens into
this dressing, then beat in the
cream. Thee is delicious with re-
main, lettuce hearts or tomatoes.
Rieli Boiled Dressing. —Ingredi-
ents; Ono teaspoonful of yellow
mustard; one teaspoonful of sugar;
one-quarter teaspoonful of salt;
Yolks of three egngCPs;, three table-
;spoonfuls of eider vinegar; three
tablespoonfuls of tarragon vinegar;
one tablespoonful of olive oil.
Methcd : Rab dry ingredients to al
slnootll paste with the yolks•, lidd
Vinegar gradually and *oak in dou-
ble boiler, bearing all the time..
When cool add the oil and beet to
a smooth einulsian. This may also
be thinned with e. ,little more vine-
gar and used kr any salad.
Piquant Salad in Tomato 'Cups.
—Ingredients: One small cucumber ;
one teaspoonful of onion mace; one
half of weeded• green pepper; Five
ripe medium-sized tomatoes; one
tablespoonful of olive oil; three ba-
bleepoonfuls of vinegar; one tea-
spoonful of sugar; salt and ;pepper
to taste; a few drops of tobacco
sauce. Methor :Cut •a thin slice
from top of tomato and scoop out
the pulp ea as to forma a cup. Now
mince the pepper, grate the pared
cucumber on a vegetable grater,
not using the very center on ac-
count of the seeds: Add all this
to the tomato pulp, whieh has been
drained after being taken out Add
all the seasoning and toss together,
then fill the tomato cups and serve
on lettuce. leaves,
Green Bean Salad. — Method :
Remove strings and slice the beans
ill slanting slivers, boil until tender
then drain, Season with a little
onion juice, salt and pepper, pour
on a little melted butter or oil,
and vinegar to taste, adding a very
little sugar if liked.
Rosemarie Salad. — Serve with
walnut wafers for afternoon tea.
Ingredients for one helping; small
well -blanched .lettuoe leaf; six
strawberries; one tablespoonful of
ground pineapple ; three tablespoon-
fuls of powered sugar ; one tea-
spoonful of lemon juice; two ta-
blespoonfuls of whipped cream.
Method Place lettuce leaf on salad
plate, Wliip.the cream and beat in
the lemon juice and one spoonful
of the sugar, then mound eream on
leaf. On this pour the pineapple
and sift a little sugar over, then
arrange the sliced strawberries on
top and sift rest of sugar over.
Walnut 'Wafers. — Methed : Roll
chilled pie crust very thin, .stow
ground walnuts and a fine sifting of
salt over and press down with role
ling pin, then cut into small strips
or diamonds and bake in hot oven.
Fruit Dressing for' Salad.—Ingre-
clients: One-half cupful of boiled
dressing; tw•o tablespoonfuls of
orange ju oe; two tablespoonfuls of
pineapple juice, Method: Beat the
fruit jiuoe into the dressing, which
should be rather thick and not :too
' acid, Pour over chilled lettuce
hearts.
Hints for The Home.
To keep lemons, put them in a
stone jar of clean dry sand so that
they do not touch,
Silly petticoats eh•ould always be
hung up—not folded—if you do not
wish them to creek.
' The wise woman wears gloves
while oho turns the wringer and
saves her hands,
isle get any sort of thickening
smooth stir ib with an egg -beater or
perforated cake spawn.
Every kitchen should have among
its supplies a, saw for trimming
meat and some landing needles,
A water -proof apron is a good in-
vestment for washday An old rain-
coat may be need for ib,
If you wash or clean your giove,s
yourself, a flat wooden foran to
stretch them over is a great re-
source,
When making desserts, allow one
heaping teaspoonful of granulated
'ng+ar to etdn egg and half' a pint
Of milk,
To t'elnove t>llo) unpleasant odor of distaste)),ir
•
from the bands after peeling onions
rub them with salt and wash in cold
water.
Never try to glean yokes, collate
or muffs while sewed on the gowtl.
Sueli things should always be made
detachable,
When hanging pieturos, be sure
to keep them in agreeable level
with the eye. Pictures were meant.
to be leaked M,
Plunging dry linen into hot water
is likely to set soil and stains, It
should always be soaked In cold
water first.
If clothes are yellow .a teaspoon-
ful of peroxide of hydrogen put• fn
the water in which they are soaked
will bleach theme, •
To have hut foods perfectly sleev-
ed, the dishes ahuuld be scot, and it
pewter dish cover set ever the food
as soon as it is placed on them.
Wooden curtain rods are to- be
preferred to brass ones, which rest
and the curtains shuulcl be hung
with bone rings, which are wash-
able.
The curtains themselves should
be perfectly straight or hang in
ye: tical folds. Anything in the na-
ture of elaborate festooned drapery
offeete is merely a dost trap:
Don't have e lamp in the draw-
ing room unless it is to be used,
and ill any case avoid fragile chif-
fon trimmed or gathered silkshades
which harbor dust: •
A screen—if the room is u panell-
ed one, an •oak er tapestry screen—
may be placed in front Of the empty
fire grate, but the grate itself must
not be filled with paper shavings,
which form only another dust
trap.
To •clean white plumes, make a
paste of gasoline and flour, dip the
plume in it repeatedly;, drawing it
theough the hancl after each dipping
Take it out doors and .shake till all
gasoline has evaporated. The 'flour
dill shake out and the plume be
clean.
Q
UE. MEMORIAL HIGHWAY.
240 Miles From Montreal to Quebec
City.
The new highway linking Mont-
real with the United States border
is one of the first .fruits of the
'Good Roads Act," passed last
year by the Quebec Administration.
From Rouse's Point the highway
will be continued to Quebec. Cer-
tain portions of the road will con-
sequently cross baited States ter-
ritory, bub •sovle time ago 11 was
decided that the entire: stretch of
road should be maned after the
late King Edward is a memorial.,
This was considered a particularly
appropriate means of commemora-
tion in view of the Peacemaker's
friendly relations with bhe people
of the United States. At one time
it was suggested that only the
Montreal -Reuse's Point section
should bear the name of King Ed-
ward, but this was considered an-
omalous by the International High-
way Association, since the road was
to be continued on to Quebec. The
Governor-General, the Duke of
Connaught, in a letter to the Inter-
national Highway Association,
stated that a well -kept road be-
tween Montreal and Quebec would
be a fitting Mere -oriel to the late
King, and that Ring George would
quite approve of the proposal. The
total length of the road from Mont-
real to Quebec via Rouse's Point
will he 240 miles, The Quebec Gov-
ernment is paying all the cost on
bhe Canadian seetion except $1,000
a mile, which is being contributed
by the municipalities along the
route.
EIGLCTRITIED TPtETII.
Engineer's Experience With Effects
of Lightning.
An engineer resident in Paris,
France, had a curious personal ex-
perience of .the effects of lightning
the other night. Lightning illu-
minaked his room, and in addition
to noticing the characteristic odor
of ozone, the engineer observed also
a peculiar baste in his mouth, Twi
hours later, as he put a fork to his
mouth when dining, he experienced
a slight electric shock and his lip
was seared as if burned. The en-
gineer has two teeth shopped with
gold, and his theory is that when
the fork touch. his lip a current
passed' from the gold filling to the
metal fork,,..
4,
BIRRENJILAD SURVIVOR.
Last One of Famous Wreck of 1652
Died Recently in England.
The hob survivor of the famous
Birkenhead disaster in 1852 died're-
cently in England. The Birkenhead,
,a transport ,steamer, laden with sol-
diers and their families, struck a
reef off the coital; of Africa, The
women and children were put into
the boats, and the 454 British sol-
diers stood at attention on dale,
giving a great shout as orf vlotory
while the boat went down, Those
were the days of British discipline,
a quality, which it is to be feared,
has somewhat declined, though, as
the Kansas CityStar Says in a well
written article about the event i. It
is an old tradition that Anglo -Sax-
ons' may be depended upon to ac-
quit themselves' creditably in 'tittle
THE SON- AY SiCi191L STUN
INTERN ATI ONAIn 1,l; lC1li 1;
ALGt'S`i''2.
Lesson V.—The Triumphal Entry --
Murk it, 1.11. Golden Text,
Zech. 9, 0,
Verse 1, And =when they draw
nigh unto Jerusalem --Since leav-
ing Jcl leho, Josue and the company
of pilgrims With him had traveled
about fifteen miles. Part of this
journey was through a wikl and
dangerous country, the E•cane icf
the parable of the good Samaritan..
On the way, the iueidents of the
coming of the rich young :man to
Jesus and the heading of blind Baar-
tin:uses have taken piece. Of .hits
teaching by the wayside we have
already studied in this series. of
Lessons the parables of the laborers
In the vineyard and the pounele. and
the talents; also his pruphecy of
his death and his words to his. dis-
ciples about greatness through ser-
vile.
Betllphage—A place which cannot
be identified.
Bethany --A village on the south-
east slope of the Mount of Olives
and about two rnilea from Jeru-
salem. This wee the home of Laz-
arus and his sisters, Martha and
Mary. Here was.also the house of
Simon the leper, where Jesus was
anointed by Mary (Mark. 14. 3;
John 12. 1-3).
The mount of Olives—This name
is given 1'ro the range of hills east
of Jerusalem They are separated
from the city by the valley of Kid -
roil. The height( of the ridge is
about 2,600 feet above the Mediter-
ranean.
Two of his disciples—The navies
Of these disciples are not -given, but
it is supposed, from.the minuteness
of the description given by Mark;
that Peter, from whom Mark re-
ceived nook of the material con-
tained in his Gospel, was one of the
two.
2. The village that is over against
you—Matthew (21 1) .mentions only
Bethphage, and his account indi-
cates that thin was the village ill
which the disciples were sent. These
words seem to imply that the village
was off the road 'on which they were
traveling.
A colt—A .colt .of an .ass. In, the
East, the ass is larger and swifter
than with us.. In contrast with the
hsorse, hic11 had been brought from
Egypt by Solomon foe use in, war,
the ass was a e ynabol of peace, Froni
the words of the prophet (Zech.
9. 9) all Jews expected the Messiah
to enter Jerusalem riding upon an
ass.
Whereon no mash ever yet sat—
Matthew mentions (21. 2) that the
colt was still running with its
mother, and had therefore not been
used. Jewish tradition demands
new or unused objects for sacred
purposes, Compare 1 Sam. 8. 7,
3. The Lord hath 'need of him—
"Deed," or "Master," was the title
so frequently used by the dieciples
and others in speaking to Jesus that
its use here seems merely to indi-
cate in general his relation to his
disciples, It is quite possible •that
the owner of the colt was a. friend
of Jesus. and a believer. .
.And straightway he will send him
back hither—He prolnisea to return
the colt at once.
5, Certain of them that stood
there—Luke: says it was the owners:
that asked 'the question. Perhaps
the owners and others were stand-
ing near and ,saw the diseipies.
Cast on hien their garments—
Their outer rohes or • long 'coats.
As they had no trappings for this
colt, the garments would serve as
a saddle, though the set of the die-
eiples was also one of homage.
He sat upon him—This entry of
Jesus'into Jerusalem in this manner,
fulfilling the prophecy well known
to th,e Jews, can have no other
Meaning than that Jesus publicly
announced himself . as the Messiah,
er rather, he accepted from iris dis-
ciples and others the tibia which
they had long desired to give Min,
8.. Many 'spread their garments.
upon the nay—Po do honor to him
as a king (compare 2 Kings 9. 13).
Br:anche�s, which they hacut
from the fields—Matthew speaks of
branches being mut from trees, and
along, this Toad from Bethany to
Jerusalem grew palm, olive, and
other trees from which branches
might be cut; but the- word
"branches" used by Mark refers
rather to the leafy 'twigs or "lay-
ersof leaves," rushes, and the like,
whichwould enrolee a road easy to
travel, This was a form of homage
in ancient tinea which grew out of
a desire to make the road smooth
and pleasant for traveling,
0, Hosanna -Meaning, save now.
Taken from Psa, 118. 25, 20, a
prayer that Jehovah will be pro-
piitiotrs to his people, Here, ib is
probably a prayer that the salvation
which the Me :dela was exsected to
bring may now be accomplished,
speakh
the enthusiastic people
le
speakthe words with a shut el
Riming,
Blessed is he that cometh in the
name of • the Lord -In the thought
of the people, the Messiah was to
represent Jehovah and his king-
dom would be e viceregal -icy.
10, The kingdom that cometh--
Iiing 11 MI Queen Ittspeet Polo Cup.
International Trophy, won by the English team at the Meade
brook matches last month, won the admiration of their'Majesties u
on its arrival ab Hurjingliam.
Lv-
n-
The present tense is used. It seem-
ed to the .people that the kingdom
was in sight,
The kingdom of our father David
—These words are peculiar bo Mark
and show that the people, even at
this Hour, expected a kingdom
which, after a long lapse, would re-
vive the splendors of the kingdom
of David:
Hosanna in the highest—Or, the
highest places: The exclamation is
therefore a prayer for God to save
them in the highest heaven where
he reigns.
11. Into the temple—Upon 'enter-
ing the city Jesus passed at once to
the temple, the place which gave
the city its significance, while the
crowd, with dusty feet and gar-
ments, left him and dispersed.
Looked round about upon all
things—No doubt Jesus had gone
to the temple to worship, and the
things upon which he looked may
have been the traffic in animals for
the .passover sacrifices and the deal-
ings el the money -changers, both
of which 'were to .receive so sharp
attention from him the next morn -
Ing (see Mark 11, 15-18), Matthew,
however, places ,aha cleansing of the
temple imniecliately after to tri-
umphal entry.
He went out unto Bethany with
the twelve—At eventide Jesus walk-
ed in oompany with his disciples
over the road whieh he had eO re-
oently traversed amid the acclaims
of the multitude, In the village,
sureounded -by' his friends, whom he
loved, "his life lapses .again into
its quiet ways, ,and be becomes once
more the teacher and benefactor,"
F
RUSK -RAT IN GERMANY.
Ten Pairs Rave Multiplied to an
Alarming Extent.
The American musk -rat is invad-
ing Germany. He bas not come
directly ,from America, but by way
of Austria. About nine years ago
a large landowner of Bohemia lin-
Ported ten pairs of the animals
from America and turned them
loose on his estate, which lies some
twenty-five miles from Prague.
They propagated rapidly and soon
over -ran all •Bohemia. Recently
they have crossed the Saxon front-
ier into Germany, and now, it is
regarded as only a question of time
when all German streams and lakes
will be infested with them. The
spread of the animals is regarded
with alarm by fishermen, for ib is
claimed that, although vegetarian
in America, the musk -rat has be-
come carnivorous in Europe, and
brie whole tribe. of fishes, from the
delicate :brook -trout to the heavy„
mud -sodden carp, is preyed upon
by:bine indiecrimately. Another of
the evil habits of the animal is that
he burrows into the dams of fish-
ponds and lets out bhe raster. While
the American visitor was at first
regarded as a.vahoeible acquisition
to the fauna of the country, and
was protected against poachers,
there is now a general demand that
he -be declared an outlaw, against
whom everybody shall be invited to
make war.
k
40,000,000 Pounds of Gold..,
Despite the repeated statement of
political 'economists that .over -pro-
duction of gold, is the real cause of
the increased cost of riving through,
the lessenedpurchasing power of
the precious: metal, a .Breach news-
paper says that the actual volume
of the gold existing on the earth's
saltines is really remarkably emelt,
According to the latest eelcuiatin 38
the quantity does: nob exceed 40,-
0001000 pounds.
Most people have good memories
FOREST FIRES IN RUSSIA. -
Thous/utile of Troops Pressed Into
Service to Fight Them.
Russia is suffering from the most
severe 'heat :wave which has visited
the empire in half a century: Re-
ports to St, Petersburg from any
quarters recently brought news of
extensive forest fires and deaths.
The smoke from many fires is ap-
proaching St. Petersburg. Ob-
scuring the sun at mid-day and giv-
ing a sharp tang to the hot, lifeless
While -,forests are aflame, peat
beds on the moors are 'burning and
many villages have been -wiped out.
Enormous damage has been done
to Crops and the .suffering of the
people is pronounced:
A fire is burning around the great
Schlu'essbbur;, dynamite factory,
which covers several acres near Ne-
va and the plan is, in clanger of be-
ing destroyed.Five thousand sol-
diers are_ lighting the -fres, aided
by awhole army of peasants.
Bridges have been burned and
railway traffic stopped. 'Communi-
cation has been cut off from many
sections of the empire by the burn-
ing of telegraph and telephone
poles and the melting of the wires.
Famine threatens from the destrue-
tion of crops, The money damage
will be many millions of dollars,
With the destruction of many
hamlets and small towns the people.
have taken refuge along the shores
of lake and rivers or in the cities.
4.
A Lie.
A he, in its stricter sense, is the
affirming, by word or by action, of
that which is not true, with a pur-
pose of deceiving; or the denying,
by word or by action, of that which
is true, with a purpose of deceiv-
ing. But the suppressing or 'con-
cealing of essential facts from one
who is entitled to know them, with
a purpose of deceiving, may prac-
tically 'amount to a fie. The pur-
pose of deeeption enters into the
character of a lie. Concealment
may be, or may nob be, of the na-
ture -of deception. Concealment is
not right when disclosure is a
duty. Concealment of that which
may properly be concealed is not in
itself wrong. Efforts at conceal-
ment must, in order to be right, be
kept within the limits of strict
truthfulness of statement, Con-
cealment for the purpose of decep-
tion' is in the realm of bhe lie,
t7ut Englleh Letter
Imperlal Health Conference.
"Tu show what the spirit of soienoe can
do w•Iton moved bythe spirit of sympwthr,
and to call buck into being tate great plc-
turesnue days when urtaineetute hold its
1131,!'
These. wording. to Viscount Bryce and
the Mai -wale of Hallebury, aro tate dual
ob met,, of the Imperial flealtlt Confer -
once and Rxhibithsn, which Was recent)/
opened at the Imuperial Institute is Low.
don The body responsible for their or-
ganization is the victoria League, a non-
party organization of British ,Hall and
women, which exists for the purpose of
promoting closer 541/104 between British.
subleets living in different parts of the
world. Enthusiastic 'response has been
made by both official and unofficial Int -
dive! In (very part of Cho world where the
British flag aloe to the invitation to ex-
change knowledge and idents on such sub-
jects a.l garden elites and suburbs, work-
men's houses and model dwellings, in.
(alley and h n1lh, the school child and
the child as wage earner, There is no-
thing like an interchange of !dents for
understanding each other and practical
Imre Talism of this 'nature is lar more
effective than ',envie are generally .aware.
With Rubber Ago Comes Silent Clty.
Sir henry Blake, president of the fourth
International Rubber and Allied Indus.
4
Fort William District.
During the past twelve months
development work along agricultur-
al lines,in the vicinity of Fort Wil-
liam has grown to such an extent
that within a radius of twenty-five
miles of the city it is now an impos-
sibility for new settlers to obtain
free homesteads. It is now neces-
sary for 'the newcomer looking for
free land to go some distance into
the country. It is not generally
known that wibhin a hundred miles
area of Fort William there is avail-
able :half a million acres of land
suitable for agricultural pursuits of
all kinds. It is stated the Ontario
Government contemplates opening'
large tracts of unsurveyed' lands to
the north and south-west of the
city, which will lead to further de-
velopment on a much larger scale,
Mr. Benham—Why did that wo-
man keep you standing at the door
for half an hour? .Elie Talkative
Wife—She said she hadn't time
to genre in.
"Why WAS that young lady so in-
dignant? Didn't we have what she
wanted?" "No," said the time
clerk. She asked for love pow-
•..except iii regard to the favors del\ and got guild when I told her
done thein,,, there vas no such thing,"
tile.' Exhibition, looks forward 10 a day
when the strect8 of Louden will be paved xrnmher aif whom were employees.
with rubber and the brain fag consequent During the same per'iud 190,000 per,
sons were injured in railroad acci-
dents.
Rill 210,000 in 23 Years.
HIST ROADS KILL THOUSANDS•
DEPENDENTS CO ULD -OOLLEO'Ji-
-
MANY MILLIONS.
Commission. Takes Radical
to Put ft Speedy End.
to Danger,
If the railroads of the United
States were to pay the .maximum
legal indemnity of 810,000 for eaoh
life they took during the year end-
ing June 30 last they would dis-
burse Sk01,le:0,000 to widows, or-
phanetm,s and other dependents of the
•IC i
�
The report of railway accidents
for the last fiscal year now being
prepared .hv the Interstate Com-
merce commission 'discloses a 'death
roil of 10,301 persons, the greater
Steps
01011, the 1nteesaat noise of main than
ouglhfare0 will be minimized to the ad-
vantage of hundreds of thousands of
people.
when the exhibition was last held in
London, three 51tr0. age, the idea might
have been dismissed a-+ utopian, but since
then e.uch striking progrr* has been
made, both in the manutaetun and the
use of plantation rubber, that Sir livery
Blake's vision may well be 51111111 the
range of prat -Heal politics.
The exhibition itself, which has the of-
ficial
Lficial support of more than forty Govern-
ments, affords abundant evidence of the
Progress which has been made. One room.
—a 'writing room --lo completely furnished
in rubber. The waste are covered In rub-
ber skilfully disguised as wallpaper, the
-Mantes are mounted in rubber frames
and the carpet is of the same all con-
quering material. The tables and chairs,
the blotters, paper wei'01ts and letter
melee. theInkstands and the penholders
are of rubber, while the electric table
lamps are of vulcanite.
The housewife will probably examine
the window -curtains .carefully, for here
at last she will imagine the utility of
rubber breaks down, But nen matter.of
fact, the daintily curtains, like overt'•
thing else, are of rubber, attached to
rubber rings and hung ona rubber pole.
The debt of the sportsman do almost
every kind of field game to the grower
conte even more pronounced if the effort
to utilize rubber for lawn tonna courts
proves successful. A aneelmen court hoe
been built iu the annex at Agricultural
Hall in order that 111e experts may test
the rubber surface for themselves. The
court is made in square blocks of rubber
grown ou a British plantation and they
have been laid down so carefully that
the surface is almost as level as a billiard
table.
So, as Philip Gibbs, writing in the
Daily Chronicle ease, it is 0501' for the
man who will stretch his imagination
and give elasticity to his mind to conjure
up visions 91 a rubber age. working
out Sir henry Blake's leading idea to its
ultimate conclusions, one may grasp the
full meaning of the future. Disasters at
sea would no longer take their fearful
toil of life, for rubber built ships might
collide with no worse result than a can-
non off a cushion. A rubber capped avia-
tor falling head foremost upon a rubber
coated road would just bounce and
bounce.
A thousand accidents of grievous con -
trivial. The The waiter wrn ho would
de behsoup
over one's new 01111 wohild merely have.
to
ubber t000k ubb
hionsdofiwomen's
frocks changed from 011511 skirts to long
skirts -they could be stretched as easily
as elastic bands, or vice vertu. Old clothes.
old furniture, any old thing about the
house, could be sent to the manufacturers
and produced again in the foion of motor
tires, golf balls, hair combs or babies'
feeding bottles, according to one's im-
mediate requirements, beecause', rubber
never loses its essential qualities, and 'as
capable of numerous transmutations.
Talk at Two Gents a Second.
It will cost a. penny (two cents) a second
for London to speak to Berlin when the
clireet telephone cable has been laid down.
Estimating on the basis of the heavy cost
of the cable and the preamble amount of
traffic or it the Postmaster-Oenoral does
not at present see l.ow 53,1 cable can
Pay if a fee of leas than 14s. or 16e.
(853.50 or 541 for a three minutes' conver-
sation is charged.
"Both the London and Berlin general
post offices are anxious to dsave a direct
telephone cable," said a post office offi-
cial, "but nothing definite las been set -
tied. The scheme is to ran a telephone
cable of the most modern typo front a
convenient spot eu the Suffolk coast to
Emden. This will be an extrem015 costly
undertaking, 5114 a fairly high fee for
antsouswill
to make thea fee asuroawsonable
as possible, and the Postmaster -General
will 110 willing to lower it to abort IDs,
(S2
.50) if lie eau get• a guaranaee that
there will bo sufficient traffic to compel]•
sato for aha reduction."
Keats's Old House Found.
The 1101155 where !feats roomed when
visiting Cariebroolco Castle in the spring
of 1817 has just been traced by leo discov-
ery in an 0,111 elate bank of the name of
the poet's landlady, ,11rs. Cook. It is now
named Canterbury Boase and is in Castle
roacl, Newport. It was there that. Keats
began hie ' I a 14ut011.'
London, 1914.
a+
BACKWARD SWISS.
No One Thinks of Raising Poultry
for Profit.
Search as one will, it is not like-
ly that a hen, sat or lean, ,young or
old, will be found in the local mar-
kets, says a report from Switzer-
land. The only -chickens prepared
for the market are the young cocks,
the surplus of which are killed. The
pullets and :hens are kept for brood
purposes. If a hen, through age of
service, should cease' to be prolific
she, too, might be killed, after be-
ing fattened and offered'for sale,
but no one actually thinks of rais-
ing chickens for profit, and no one
knows anything about scientific or
profitable methods of raising chick-
ens,
Such it practice ea killing hens
,rafter their first season of laying is
unknown. In fact, so little is
known about chicken -.raising that it
is generally believed hens improve
with age h0 .their laving proclivities,
hence they are kept until tlrey be-
come as familiar and endeared to
the family as the horses and cows,
Next to nothing is known of raising
chickens by the- incubator and
brooder methods. Upon inquiry it
was ascertained that there is only
ono incubator in llasle, and that is
a baby hicitbator,.:.
During the last twenty -live years
more than 210,05:3 persons have
been killed on American railroads
and more than 2,001,000 injured.
The property loss due to wrecks
since 1507 totals $52,000,000.
"The ravages of war pale into in-
significance before these silent . in-
dications of the-destreeti•ou of hu-
man life accompanying the peace-
ful operations of our railroads,"
said an official of the commission,
discussing the forthcoming report.
"The causes of death and injury
are legion. They include derail-
ments, collisions, boiler explosions,
miscellaneous train accidents and.
industrial accidents to employes.
Most Victims Employes,
Under the present law, railroads
are required to report by telegraph
to the commission all accidents in
which human life is lost. There
are more employes killed then pas-
sengers, many employes losing
their lives in the operation of
trains in railroad yards. In wrecks
more passengers than employes are
killed. There are a surprisingly'
Iarge number of trespassers killed
on American railroads. This class .
includes persons not employed nor
passengers.
The Interstate Commerce Com-
mission is doing all it can under
present laws to prevent accidents.
It prescribes safety appliances and
enforces the law which limits the
hours of service of train employes
and telegraph operators- This law
was passed by Congress when it was
shown that many wrecks were due
to the overworking of train crews.
Great speed has been developed
on American railroads during the
last decade, .and this speed seems to
be in deference to public demand.
The weight of trains has increased
to such an extent that it has caused
terrific wear on steel rails, not-
withstanding the increase in the
weight and size of the rails. Ten
years ago rails of less than 100
pounds were largely used on Am-
erican roads.
Rail Weighs 110 Pounds to Yard.
Now the prevailing rail weighs
100 pounds to every thirty-six.
inches and on the large systems the
main 'line rail weighs 110 pounds
So the yard. In the recent hearing
before the Interstate Commerce
Commission 'Samuel Rea, president
of the Pennsylvania system, stated
that the Pennsylvania is making
plans for laying 125 pound rails on
its main lines.
The high speed of trains has de-
veloped a defect in rails that is
dangerous, particularly as the de:
feet cannot be detected under pre-
sent methods in the making of the
r'a'il or after it is completed, A
heavy train running at a high speed
develops the defect and ultimately
a derailment takes place that
causes loss of life and injury to
many persons, This defect is what
is known as transverse fissure. Its
elimination calls for better mill
.practice, the experts of the com-
mission say, and they are now en-
gaged on a series of tests that may
result in revolutionizing the malt-
ing of rails in the. United States.
Whenever a wreck is reported' to
the commission which involves the
loss of life an investigation is made
liy inspectors if possible and a re-
port published, "This ends the mat-
ter so far as the Federal Govern-
ment is concerned.
It is stated that the inherent
weakness of the train order system
is disclosed by the fact that of .forty-,
seven collisions investigated, twon-
ty-three were due to failure of con-
ductors or engine men to under-
stand or obey orders,
Origin of London Names.
How many- know that Piccadilly,
or a considerable portion of it, waw .
originally, known an Portugal
street? And the Portuguese ?tin -
case, Catharine of Braganza,
Oharle'n II, queen, afterwhom it
was named, in like manner was
honored in the Catherine street
near by, whish to -day is
slublaii
and Pall Mall,