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VAIVfP FIRES IN KURIDIFSTAAN.
The'fi'erce heat of an. Augu's't sun
• begins at last to diminish. As .we ride
over the mountain, tr'acks' towards
our camping ground, the beating of
the sun upon our heads lessetps grad
s'al'ly to an excessive glare; later, it
becomes a golden glolwing light, and
lastly a slanting nay of orange -color-
ed' sunshine which makesour shad-
ows on the hillside absu'rdly'elonga!t-
ed, until horses, dogs and men seem
to be :walking a'cro'ss the hills on
giant; stilts.
These signs of.'the coming of the
short Eastern twilight and the sudden
dusk make bhe wise traveler hurry his
horses ,pace; and; as he touches the
be'ast's sides with his heels, the ani-'
ma.l steps out willingly, leis nose scent-
ing for water, for 'it too is anxious to
reach his resting place for the night,-
'his, well-earned 'feed o!f bailey.
With our armed escort 'half' in front
;and half behind us, and our servants
with the tents and e'qunp'ment on pack
ponies, straggling along sense ,dis-
tance farther back, we plod on .the.
lash few moles ' of our eight-hour
march. We are gray with dust; and,
in any case, the stun has driven the.
color from aur shirts and left a'l'l our
clothes netttral and uniform in 'tone.'
Our faces, slhaded ,$no!m the sun by
ming air.
IBefore long our caravan (as ;the
.cavalcade of animals bearing our ser
vanes and our goo'd's is called) :cones
up with us and the work 'of pitching
our tents is quickly in hand. As we go,
to see that our horses are well wat-
ered and groome'd, and our dogs giv-
en a welcotne drink, we glimpse be-
,neat'h us in the valley an en'c'ampment
of.•a nomad tribe, the J'aff, so we send
a servant down to them to " ask if
we may buy fresh milk and eggs.
Their tents of black g'o'at hair are
large and long; . and,, as the blue
smoke rises from their camp fires,
we see the women in their long ,many-
colored dreslses milking the .goats
and sheep and cows, which are hud-
dded close, to the enoampment to save
.t!h:em from prowling beaslts during the
night. As thewomen ino've quidldy
from beast to beast, bhe sun catches
up the silver coins in 'their head
dresses and enriches the vivid color-
ing of their quaint medieval • clothes.
The SIM, dipping over the !noun-
tains, sinks, and leaves .as it passes a
serenity, a sense of peace, that the
ardors of the day are ended,
!Soon the camp fires of bhe tribe in
the valley beneath us begin to :be vis-
ible. As we watch the flame's taking
color and the wreath's of suet , blue
smoke' disappearing into the graying
dusk, the sound of a bleating of an
unwilling sheep is heard' a'pproac'hing
us. The head mon of the' tribe ap-
pears; andbelhi.nd him, bearing a vast
cauldron of milk, follow two great'
muscular ' and swarthy then. Behind
them again is a group of tribesmen
dne!ssed in long, colored robes, with
curved • daggers thrust into their
waistbelts; thencomes a 'timid > and
unhappy sheep; last of allour own
grinning servant, carrying in. his scar-
let handkerchief three :eggs.
We have . no alternative but to ac-
cept the offering of the sheep, which
is taken off, still protesting, to spend
the night close to our horses where
our broad - brimmed !Nabs, are pale they stand, intheir open-air stables,.
tethered' to the ground. We foresee.
from the heat, .while OUT hands are
having that the beeslt Will be added to' ear
a dusky brown friar caravan totn
orroley, to'tnarc'h with us
our reins under a s'corch'ing sun for
(we fear unwil!lungie) to our destine-
so,n•ma,,,-ny s'hoaourr's.s,a nt•mumd above a I tion; though this would be, no hard-
ship to an animal from the flock of
a nomad tribe which hos known no
settled p'a'sture.
,The 'last refle'ction 'o'f, the 'sun's
glow dis'appea'rs from the slay. .Be-
spring is at last in sight. My hue -
band and I leave the others and can-
ter over the rougth hlllislde to gho!ase
the site for our tents; the 'h'o'rses,
Ineighlbors.,Wa have little wh'ic'h they sion moves toward the 'Virgin and
would care .for, but Chance 'fo'rtun'ate- !Gh'idd, bows reverently and continues
ly on three '•hurricane damps 'and en its way t'h'rough the door 'to the right,
unused 'tin: of oil ',which are among which doses behind them as the
our equipment. These we dispatch music ceases;
with our ,com'pli'ments to a people The reason why the two .figures
'w'h'o know not 'how to read, though shoul'd engage itr mortal 'com'bat at
they speak three languages; who the hour Of twelve is explained by
have nollho'me, though they make the :fact that, in olden days, when
carpets 'for the world; and 'w'h'ose time was measured by water clocks
whole 'life is led .'moving from. :pas-
ture to pasture, from 'burning desert
to snow -clad mountain.
We 'watch our servant in the 'di's-
tance'deliver our gift and we can see
children, men and women, crowding
together to get a sightof the pres-
ent. As he returns, climbing 'the
stony ,hi'llsid'e t'o .rejoin his • fellows
round the 'bright "fire .wh'ic'h cooks
their meal, the 'right begins to 'fade,
atud..bhe stars 'come out like yellow
diamonds in a sky of deep !blue vel-
vet.
The tiny trickle of •the spring
melees its music; the s'ollt noises of
the lhorses, las' they scrunch their
barley and move .their :weight from
one deg to the 'ot'her, as heard, tran-
quil, satisfactory. The 'dogs, .weary
and content, curl 't'hemse'lves at our
feet. (The fires, which had lit up
rings of 'faces in the comp below us,
flicker and (fade, The noon rises
stealthily, and the hills sleep.
A MEDiIE'VIAIL . CLOCK.
At ' (Lund, in southern 'Sweden,
some min'u'tes before the clock strikes
the hour of twelve, a group olf peo-
ple assemble in the 'cathedral ; to
watch -the tournament and -pageant
which takes place 'ea'c'h day as :. the
clock strikes the four ,'quarters; on
two :bells, fol'lowed by the 'boom of
twelve heavier strokes. Many pairs
of eyes are 'directed toward. the top
of the clack, where 'fwo equestrian
figures engage in combat. A panty 'o'f;
school children gaze open-eyed, as the
sword strokes fall with measured
beat on ,the two : figures,
ticking all the while as it
since the year '1350,
But the pageant is yet
There is a slight pause,
reverberation 'of the last
the ,claole
has done
to come I
after. ,the
toll has
died away. Then' the two tru'm'peters,
standing on either side .of the se'a'ted.
figure 'olf ,the Virgin and ''Child, tiff
:their instruments,, and .the strains of
the old Ghais:tmas hymn, "In d'ulci
guessing now Ehalt their day's work iu'btlo, ,is 'heard. 'S•iled'ce follows;
g gFore we settle to '!the ease' of the then, a 'loud click, the door to the.
is finished, pretend' to be fresh and even'in's 'rest we seelc for .' settle left''of the .figure opens and
playful, t''ssieg their heads, and g some giflt $a 'her
which 'Kurdish ;etiquette dem'ande all apaeaea :followed "by',bhe three
drinking 'it as we do the -cooler eve- that we shah send to our generous Magi ,and their servants. The proces-
and, hourglasses,,:' the hours were
struck by the'watchman itt the tower
of the Cat'he'dral. This man, armored
with helmet and slword, had to be
ready at any time to warn the towns -
,people of the approach of en enemy.
His duty was also ,to strike the hours
with 'heavy hammer 'blo'ws on the
high belfry. Later, when the mechan-
ical clock was constructed, a 'figure
wearing helmet and sword like the
watchman was placed on the top of
the clack, armed with a ha'mmer ..to
strike the hours out. So far as can
be ascertained, -only two •medieval
clocks, those of Wells and Lund, exist
in Europe where the noon hours are
struck by armored horsemen.
The Lund clock has seen many
changes, for in 11620 it was supplant-
ed by a more modern one; and it'1537
the old clock was taken down and its
'figures and other, parts •dispersed,
only the uplper dial 'bein'g left. In 1013,
however, a Danish cl'ockmaker, !Bert -
ran -(Larsen of 'Copenhagen, after
much work, reconstructed it again.
Ten years later, it was •once more put
itt place at a :time'when the .Cathedral
celebrated i'ts eight 'hund'red'th &eel-
should be used.
Scene shrubs are propagated by di-
vision and spring is a good time to
do this. 'Stpirea van H'outtei is one
that can be divided easily.
The •perenpiail border will need
some attention at this time. • 'First, ail
dead stems and leaves should be re-
mo'ved and delphiniums, perennial as-
ters and phlox and other late bloom-
ing plants should be lifted and divid-
ed if necessary. Asters and .phlox are
bath more satisfactory if lifted' and
div:ided every two or three years. If
they are to go back in the sameposi-
ttion, fresh soil should be put in. • or
some well rotted manure or 'sheep
manure mixed in the soil in the bot-
tom of the hole. I'f there are no bulbs
in the ground the surface of the bed
between the plants can be lightly dug
or raked after removing all weeds.
If there are bulbs and • the places
nvhene they are planted ae'e not care-
fully marked one is very liable . to
cut off the tips of the leaves which
may be just below the surface of the
ground. Seedlings that .have been win-
tered over in cold frames can be
planted out in their permanent posi-
tions as soon as the frost is out of
the ground, At the Central Experi-
m'en'tal Farm, Ottawa, pansies and
Candenbury 'bells are kept in cold
frames all winter and transplanted
early in spring .andif the perennials
have not grown large enough to trans-
plant in the fall they are also wintered
in frames.
versary. 1,000 B.
FLOWERS' FOR THE
NEW YEAR
(Experimental Farms Nto'te.)
lin the d•u1'l days of win -ter it is en
teresting to make plans for the gar-
den for next year, so that as soon as
sprin'g comes the work can be"start-
ed with -out delay.
• I11 ifhe sthrub!bery bo'rder has become
overcrowded, spring is a good time
to transplant' some of the bushes so
as to leave plenty of room for the
others to grow to their .fu'l'l 'beauty.
When moving' a shrub or any other
plant, it is important that the rodts
shou'ld be daihaged as little as pos-.
stifile .and that the hole in the new lo-
eetion should be large enough that
the ro-ots can be spread out. The soil
at the bobbom' of the hole should be
dug out for at least 'a foot and some
very old manure or good garden soil
well mixed with the old soil, or, if
the old soil is very poor, all new soil
to see a menagerie. of bears and lions
main!tained as an attraction to shop-
pers.
IDhelr'screanis, and the roars of the
>fear-maddeed animals within 'the
iron cages, rang out above the shouts,
of firemen far below, and the craol-
ding and roaring Of the :flames.
Occasionally a body hurtled 'torp
ithe rootf,'through. the licking red
flames that shot out of windows, aid
through the -billowing smoke.
Fifteen battalions of fire engines
poured streams of water into the
building, 'but their efforts trade s'can't
headway. No 'laddiers were long 'en-
ough to reach the roof. Telephone
operators, still alive in the smoke-
Fielded uplper floors, 'frantically appeal-
ed to Central for 'help. rt was feared
they could not es'ca'pe through the
wall of fire below.
Girlclerics, apparently crazed by
fear, 'leaped to their deaths from the
windows, Deaths and injuries result-
ed from tragically futile efforts of
women trap'p'ed on the lower floors
to lower t'hemselv'es to safety. ;Some
were put into sacks by male em-
ployes, and 'attempts were made to
Lower the sacks by ropes. The rape
broke and the bodies dashed to the
pavement; Same girl clerks attempted
to esoa'pe alive by making ropes of
their "obis" but they, too, burned
through and let the girls drop. Obis
are wide scarfs about 1.0 feet long
Which Japanese women wrap about
:their bodies and tie in a conventional
liew at the back.
The 'Shirokiya was of a .magnifi-
cence which few New Yorkstores
could equal,
T1fi.E 'EFFECT OF RATES
OF SEEDING BARLEY.
(The Dominion Experimental Farm
at Ottawa has undertaken experiment-
al work in order to determine the
effect df different rates of seeding.
barley on the control of mustard.
sludging from two years' results it
would appear that the heavier rates
of seeding have less mustard and lar-
ger yields than are obtained from nor-
m -al rates.
This experiment was conducted on
an area badly ihlfested with mustard.
The barley was sown at the rate of
one, two, three and four bushels per
acre. When the grain was ripe the
mustard plants in each plot were pul-
led, counted 'and , weighed. After
weighing they were threshed and the
weight of themustard' seed 'obtained
'item each plot was recorded. From
the information obtained in this way
it is evident that in nearly every in-
stance the number and wei'gh't of the
,mustard plants decreased es the rate
of seeding barley increased and in
every instance the amount Of mature
mustard seed decreased by heavier
rates of seeding.
IFronn • observations of these plots
during the growing season it was evi-
dent that the heavier stands of barley... +'
were crowding out the mustard and
those plants that survived were very
spindly with few branches and incap-
able Of •paiaducing much seed.
'df the four different rates of seed-
ing b'anley that have been tried • heavi-
er seedin'gs up to three .bushels per
acre have proved the most effective
in 's'm'othering the mustard. It is in-
teresting to nate also that this heavy
nate o'f seeding produced a higher
yield of grain per acre. Further in-
formation regarding the control of
various weeds :may be secured from
the Field Husbandry Division, Dom-
in'ion Experimental Farm, Ottawa.
Before 'the !fire on Christmas iENe
tbwo youngish' ladies were chatting.
"'Mollie," • said the prettier of the.
two, "would a stocking htol'd all you,
would like for Christmas?"
"No," said the other. "It wouldn't.
But a pair of socks would."
Clerk: "What is your objection to
the holes in the Swiss cheese?
ICust'onaer: "I thin'k the ventilation
s'hou'ld. be in the Limburger."
IHe: t"I've .a sort of feeling . I've
danced with you before somewhere."
URiVED WHENlite: `^So have re T'pressure of
HUGE STORE BURNS. your foot seems ftn!iliarhel
Tokio. 1H•en'deed:s of Christmas
shoppers—Pos'sTly more than 1,000.
—seemed doomed' to death by fire
'to -'day as dlaitnes s'wep't the top five
savories of the eight -storey S'hirakiyb
department store, in the :heart of
'Tokio.
The store management said 1,300
employes alone had been on the
floors that were swept by flames, of
whom manywerefeared to have peri-
shed.
ILL was believed at t500 were
trapped on the roof' of the bu'ild'ing
While an inferno of flames roared'
through the gay tinsel tri:mmin.gs.
the artificial trees and the stocks of
Yuletide • merc'han'dise inside the fire-
proof walls:
IThe store was crowded with pur
ohasers at the time the fire started.,
Women and children made up most
of the crowd on the roof. Mothers
Siad taken their boys and girls. there
She was very well dressed, and, at
She walked into the fashi'o'n'ab'le mil-
liner's shop the manageress herself
came forward to serve her. "I see by
your a'dvertisement," she said, "that
you have just received 2000 hats from.
Paris."
"Yes, imadam," the res'pectful man-
ageress informed her.
"Good!" said the girl, taking off her
hat, "I wish to try them ou."
(Persian Bialm: 'the ideal toiletre-
quisite far every discerning woman.
'Period in results. Cre!atescomplex
ions of rare beauty and charm. De-
lightfully cool and refreshing, Never
leaves a vestige of sticki•neas. A ve:-
rety smooth lotion toning and stirn
olatitrg the skin. Making it truly rose -
leaf in texture. All dtainty women in-
variably choose Persian Bales. It int -
parts that subtle distinction' so char-
acteristic of the elegant woman. ,