The Brussels Post, 1912-3-28, Page 6:BR1fISli ARMY ESTiMATEST
A. INCREASE OF £170,000 FOR
1912.13.
1stublisi stent of a School of Asia -
Coe Principal Cause for
Increase.
The British Army estimates for
the. year 1912-13 were issued recent-
ly, together with an explanatory
memorandum by the Secretary of
State for War. The gross figures
are: -
1912 -13 £27,860,000
1911-12 27,890,000
Increase £170,000
The increase, the memorandum
says, is duo entirely to the growth
of the provision made for aviation
services - the inevitable conse-
quence of the extension of the
sphere of national defence into a
new element.
Apart from this increase the pro-
vision of the neoessary funds for
several important services -'such as
the growth of mechanical transport,
additional horses for the cavalry,
and reserves of the new cartridge,
coming in a year when ,scarcity of
forage increases the charge for that
item by some £90,000 -has been ac-
oomplished only by the exercise of
the strictest economy in other direc-
tions.
On the important question of avi-
ation the memorandum says that,
after careful consideration by the
Committee of Imperial Defence, it
has been decided to establish a some domestic mishaps than to cry
joint Army and Navy School of Avi- or scold over them. Many homes
dial sights 'will be supplied as fast
ue they become, available by issue of
the now pattern to regular batter-
ies.
The strength of the army is set
out as 186,600, as compared with
186,400 for 1911-13. The strength of
the Territorial Foree oil February
1 was 9,385 officers and 259,092 other
ranks, showing a decrease of 304
officers and an increase of 101 other
ranks, compared with a year ago.
The annual report on recruiting
for the army for the year ending
September 30, 1911, shows that, ex-
cluding 140 re-enlisted men and 584
recruits for colonial corps, there
were 29,452, an increase of 3,018 on
the previous twelve mouths. The
recruits, excluding re-enlisted men,
joining ,the special reserve, were
20,616, au increase of 1,962.
The generally prosperous condi-
tion of trade and the activity in
emigration (says the report) tended
adversely to affect recruiting, which
was also to some extent interfered
with by the Coronation and other
festivities and by the unusually fine
summer. -London Daily Graphic.
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HUMOR IN THE FAMILY. •
Better to. Laugh OTer Mishaps Than
to Cry.
Good humor is rightly reckoned
a most valuable aid to happy home
life. An equally good and useful
faculty is a sense of humor, or the
capacity to have a little amusement
along with the humdrum cares and
work of life. We all know how it
brightens up things generally to
have a lively, witty companion who
sees the ridiculous points of things,
and who can turn an annoyance in-
to an oceasion for laughter. It does
a great deal better to laugh over
aticn, at which efficers of both ser-
vices shall be
TAUGHT TO FLY
before proceeding to the separate
army and navy establishments, at
which they will be exercised in the
more specialized requirements of
their respective, services.
A site for the school has been se-
lected on Salisbury Plain, and the
purchase of the necessary land will
be completed at the beginning of able, seeing what a brightener
April, Building, to plans already a little mirth is, to make an
prepared, will be pressed forward effort to have some at home. It
rapidly, and it is hoped at avery
early date to have accommodation
at the school for officers and men,
instructors and mechanics, as well
as the necessary sheds for aero-
planes and workshops kr their re-
pair and adjustment. Provision has
also been made on an extended
scale for purchase of aeroplanes
and other' necessary equipment for
the school.
Officers of both services will be
employed on the staff of the school,
and its expenses (other than cost of
land) will be shared between army
and navy votes.
The estimates further provide for
continuing the experimental and
other work of the army aircraft fan- vein of humor that cropped out to
tory, for further buildings required the surface.
for airships, for an addition of per-
sonnel to army establishments for
aeroplane work, and for a consider-
able number of aeroplanes as a first
installment of the equipment of the
field army.
THE TOTAL PROVISION
for the above services is as follows :
and lives are dull because they are
allowed to become so deeply im-
pressed with a sense, of the cares
and responsibilities of life as not to
recognize its bright, and especially
its mirthful side, Into sueh a
household, good, but dull, the ad-
vent of a witty, humorous friend is
like sunshine on a cloudy day.
While it is oppressive to hear such
persons constantly striving to say
witty or funny things, it is comfort -
is well to turn off an impatient
question sometimes and regard it
from a humorous point of view, in-
stead of becoming irritated about
it.
"Wife, what is the reason I can
never find a clean shirt!" exclaimed
a good but rather impatient hus-
band, after rummaging all through
the wrong drawer. His wife looked
at him steadily for a moment, half
inclined to be provoked, then, with
a comical look, she said: "I never
could guess conundrums," and then
she felt happy; and so what might
have, been an occasion for unkind
feelings and hard words became just
the contrary, all through the little
Army personnel for aero-
nautical work £ 25,000
Premiums to officers gain-
ing -pilots' certificates 3,000
Staff of school 5,000
Aeroplanes and materials161,000
Buildings, including army
share of school 38,000
Land for school 90,000
£322,000
Less Admiralty contribu-
tion to school ........... 14,000
£308,000
The increase for aviation com-
pared to last estimates is £177,000,
Lord Haldane next states that is-
sue of the new ammunition with
pointed bullet and of resighted
rifles has been commenced, and the
whole of the expeditionary force
will be equipped at an early date.
Increased provision bas been made
in the estimates for small -arm am-
munition, 00 as to provide at once
ample 110 r eaerves of the w cart-
ridges. e
ridges.
Investigation into the ques
tion of
automatic rifles is still proceeding,,
but no design has yet been pro-
duced which' can at present be re-
commended for adoption. Lord
Haldane does not consider it advis-
able to delay the introduction of an.
improved rite ane longer in the
hopee
of securing a satisfacto
ry
au-
tomatic arm. A new pattern of
magazine ride has therefore been
worked out, and a number of rifles
for extended test by the troops will
be part In band at
AT A VERY EARLY DATE.
Trials of a lighter pattern of
Maxim gun are in progress, and a
new pattern mounting for this gun,
for use with cavalry, is under con.
sideration. Aa regards Territorials,
all horse end field batteries are new
in possession of their full eomple-
ment of guns and howitzers, and
Some children have a peculiar
faculty for giving a humorous turn
to things when they are reproved.
It is just as well, oftentimes, to
laugh things off as to scold them.
Laughter is better than tears. Let
us have a little more of it at Home.
CZAR RULED BY IilYSTIC.
Gregory Rasputin Ousts a Former
Favorite.
Gregory Rasputin, of obscure
birth and with a turn for prophecy,
has become the, most influential man
of Russia by virtue of his control
over the Czar, writes a St. Peters-
burg correspondent.
He decides the most important af-
fairs of home and foreign polities,
and has supplanted the Monk Theo-
phile, a favorite for three years. He
is a reactionary, so that Russia's
policy in Persia is only likely to
change for the worse.
M. Resputin's actions are causing
more talk than ever, not only in
court circles but everywhere, and
his name is mentioned only in terms
of disrespect. His influence over
the Czarina is the worst feature of
his rise to power. He is expected at
the palace every day and there he
oonducts spiritualistic seances with
her.
He first came to St. Petersburg a
year ago, when Theophile's power
was waning. He had got into com-
munication with the court during
the Japanese war by wiring secretly
from Siberia prophecies of victories
that never came true. Then he got
the ear of Grand Duke Peter Nicho-
laivitch and then that of the Czar,
who now will listen to nobody else.
The result is that M. Itasputin is
run after by all the youth, and
beauty of St. Peetrsburg society.
Countess Tolstoy owes her grant of
$5,000 a, year to him. The Dowager
Czarina pleaded for her in vain.
The Countess cultivated Rasputin
and the pension became hers for
life.
M..Resputin is not courtly in
looks 'de manners. He is an elderly
man, with some strange, fascination
which makes women he meets do the
most foolish things. His "affini-
ties" in society are numerous.
Though nobody knows where he
comes from, he, is s6 overwhelmed
by invitations from grand ladies
that he often keeps the Czar wait-
ing for a conference on mysticism.
Several women have left their hus-
bands to be "with Trim always."
He arranges what he calls "mid-
night prayer meetings," to which
only young girls are bidden. The
lights are, turned out and the orgies
last many hours.
Bishop Hermogen of Saratoff, the
Czar's friend until recently, be-
lieved in M. Rasputin and asked
him to prophesy at Saratoff. But
the seer's behavior in a convent was
so scandalous that Hermogen, sent
him away and he refused the Czar's
request to make him a monk. M.
Rasputin has revenged himself by
persuading the Ozer to banish Her-
mogen from court and depose, him
from the holy synod.
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HARD TO DROP.
But Many Drop It.
SCIENTISTS' OPINION.
Say Broken Rails Are Not Caused
by Frost.
Broken rails and broken axles
have caused many accidents the
past winter, with its unusually low
temperature, yet certain scieptists
who are reported to be high author-
ities concerning strength of mater-
ial insist that cold does not cause
metal to become brittle, and that
the idea that such is the case is a
popular fallacy. Among the scien-
tists holding these views are Styffe,
Fairbairn, Kirkaldy, Webster, the
United States Government commis-
sion, and others; but they have
against them all the practical men
who have to handle tools or mater-
ial in zero weather. It is no super-
stition that induced a wood chopper
to warm his axe before beginning
work on a frosty morning; and it m
the teaching cf experience, that in-
duces the trackman to lighten his
blows on his cold chisel when the
temperatureand he is low, knows
it is not necessary to .cut so deeply'
'
into the, re, broken it to be xis
it
] i thedaywere arm,
would be f w
Civil engineers, as a rule, have in-
sisted that temperature makes no
difference to the resisting power of
metals,
notwithstanding that the
popular voice has always maintain-
ed that metals break more readily
in cold than in warm weather, The
correctness of the popular belief
concerning metal 'getting brittle
when cold was vindicated by tests
made by a member of the British
Institution of Civil Engineers some
years ago. A series of drop tests
were made on axles kept artificially
in a temperature of zero and on
other axles of the same kind kept
at 100 Fahrenheit. The results were
that the axles tested. warm exhibit-
ed an average of 58 per cent. more
resisting power than those tested at
this, lower temperature,
SOME FACTS ABOUT COAL
CANADA BURNS 1LOIU1 TURN
SUE MINES.
United States Leads in World's
Production, with Great Bri-
tain in Second. Place.
The big increase in coal consump-
tion began with the invention of the
steam engine.
In 1875 the world produced 277,-
531,000 long toes.
In 1910 the world produced 1,-
055,000,000 tons.
In 1875 only nine countries dug
coal, Great Britain contributing
one-half, the United States one-
sixth, and Germany one-eighth.
In 1910 the United States produc-
tion increased by ten times over
1875, and . equaled -one-half the
world's present production.
In 1910 Great Britain's produc-
tion was only double that of 1875,
equal to the world's supply.
The German inerease in 1910 was
equal to four times the production
of 1875, and equal to one-seventh of
the world's supply.
France, 18% millions to 37%.
Belgium, 15 millions to 23%,
Austria, 4% millions to 13%.
Russia, 1% millions Ito 22%.
Australia, 1% millions to
Canada, 1 to 11' million tons.
Japan, l to 15% million tons.
India, less than 1 to 12 million
tons.
COAL EXPORTING COUNTRIES.
Since 1885:
Belgium decreased' her coal ex-
ports.
Great Britain increased from 30%
millions to 54% millions.
Germany from 7% millions to 20%
millions.
The United States from half a
million to 13 millions,
Australia from 1 million to 2%
millions.
Japan from half a million to 2%
millions.
South Africa from nothing to 1%
millions.
India, from minus % million to
plus half million.
New Zealand, from minus 81,000
to plus 45,000.
Canada, from minus 1% millions
to minus eight millions..
RussiaSweden, France, Spain,
Italy, and•Austria-Hungary are in-
creased importers of coal.
Most of Brit'sh coal exported is
for mein ships' bunkers, only 4 per
cent. being for manufacturing pur-
poses. Hence her coal exports spell
prosperity.
Canada alone, of all coal produc-
ing countries, consumes more for-
eign than home -mined coal.
MARKETS FOR COAL EXPORT-
ING COUNTRIES.
Europe, and Mediterranean from
Britain and Germany.
South America (Atlantic side)
from Britain.
Africa (west coast), from South
Africa.
Africa (Cape), from India.
India, from Japan, Australia and
South Africa.
Far East from Japan, Australia,
South Africa and India.
Canada and United States (east),
from United States.
Canada, United States, and
South America (west), from Una*
and Australia.
Africa (east coast), frons South
Africa and India.
COAL AREAS YET UNWORKED,
.(M. E. Loze, Roy l CCommission Res
port,
A young Calif. wife talks about
coffee
"It was hard to drop Mocha and
Java and give Postum a trial, but
my nerves were so shattered that I
was a nervous wreck and, of course,
that means all kinds of ills, (Teo
contains caffeine -the same drug
found in coffee and is equally harm-
ful.)
"At first I thought bicycle riding
caused it and I gave it up, but my
condition remained unchanged. I
did not want to acknowledge coffee
caused the trouble, for I was very
fond of it.
"About that time a friend came
to live with us, and I noticed that
after he had been with us a week he
would not drink his coffee any
more. I asked him the reason. He
replied, `I have not had a headache
since I left off drinking coffee, some
months ago, till last week, when I
began again, here at your table. I
don't see how anyone can like cof-
fee, anyway, after drinking Pos-
tern'
"I said nothing, but at once or-
dered a package of Postum, That
was five months ago, and we have
drank no coffee since, except on
two occasions when we had com-
pany, and the result each time was
that my husband could not sleep,
but lay awake and tossed and
talked half the night. We were con-
vinced that coffee caused his suf-
fering, so he returned to Postum,
convinced that the coffee was an
enemy, instead of a friend, and he
is troubled no more by insomnia.
r
I, myself, have gaired 8 pounds
in weight, and my nerves have
ceased to quiver. It seems so easy
y
now to quit the old coffee that
achestake
caused our and ails and
a
tip Postum." Name given by Ca-
nadian Postum Co., Windsor, Ont.
Read the little book, "The .Read
to Wellville," in pkgs. "There's a
reason,"
Ever read the above latter? A new tine
appears from time to time. They are
genuine, true, and full Of human lnteroat
THE OLD MAWS IDEAL,
"What is society, pa 1"
"Society my son, is something
that ronuires as much money to get
into as ie does,hreins to keep out
of."
Shipping casualties of all nations
alities last year, totalled 108 vets
cels, with a tonnage of 114,231.
Sq. Miles.
China / 232,500
United States 200,000
Canada 85,000
India 35,000
New South Wales 24,000
Russia, in Europe 20,000
United Kingdom 12,000
Spain 5,500
Japan 5,000
France 2,500
Austria-Hungary 1,800
Germany 1,700
Belgium 500
Total 605,500
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A SINGULAR INSCRIPTION.
Under the Temple clocks, in Lon-
don, is a singular inscription, the
accident.
' Il was anae
f . hie
origin o w
ottg
Nearly two hundred years ago a
workman was employed to repair
and put a new face upon the clock,
and when his work was nearly done,
he asked the officials of the Temple
for an appropriate motto to' carve
upon its base. They premised to
think of One, and week after week
he came for their decision, but was
dayhe foussd
One
always put off.
them, at dinner. "What motto
shall I put on the clock, your lord-
ship)"
ord-ship)" he asked of a learned j'ud'ge.
"Oh, go about your business l" his
honor cried angrily. "A very suit-
able motto for a lazy dawdling
gang,"the clockmaker muttered
as he retired. Then he had carvetd
on the base, "Go about your bust-
noes I"
Russia supplies Great Britain
with the greater proportion of her
poultry and eggs.
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Heavili to Speculators on Bank Shares
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for the sole purpose of guiding pros•
Investors. and, if possible, of Bay
them from losing money. through .
it in "wild -cat" enterprises. The
mpartial and reliable character of the
Dformation may be relied upon. Tho
of these articles and the publisher
this paper have no interests to serve
a connection with this matter other than
hose of the reader"
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(sy "Investor").
Not long ago, a business man was re•
narking on the altered position whish
lank etocke occupy now in the 4anadian
markets as compared with a few years.
"Why,' be said, in 1897 or 1898 I
nada my. expenses to Europe by buying a
ew shame of one bank -which one I have
tow forgotten -but 15 I had bought the
lame stock only Ave years ago and held
t until to -day T should probably have
oat heavily,' -
Undoubtedly he would have loot, as a
ergo percentage of Canadian bank stocks
,re lower at the present time than they
Fero then.
There are several reasons for this, which
,ro not only not generally realized. but
vhich have a very important bearing 00
,auk stooks as investments,
Ten years ago the loan and truet corn.
!antes commenced investing in Western
arm mortgages., Up to that time they
vere satisfied with a modest interest of
rom 4 per cent. to 6 per cent., but the
lemnnde of the weer put the price up
o 8 per cent., and even to 10 per cent.,
,nd the loan companies. finding this a
rery satisfactory method of making
honey, naturally used all their surplus
.unde in investing out there, until now
lrobably a very large proportion of their
'uncle aro so loaned. The insurance cora.
,antes then followed suit, and now, in-
;tend of having large amounts of surplus
.uncle available for loaning in the mar-
cat -ss they and the loan companies for.
nerly did to a very considerable extent-
,hey out down the proportion of the money
,o used. They opened loaning offices in
he West, employed skilled valuators and,
,e would be very costly in the case of
en individual, took advantage of the high
rates, without taking any chance to speak
rf.
Now what eBeot had this on•bank etockef
As might be inferred from the first nava-
;mph of this article, in the 90's bank
,tock, were a popular medium of ,peau•
lotion, Men bought them on margin; that
le to Bay, paid for them by borrowing
money on the stock as security up to about
35 per cont. of its market value, and
themselves putting up the 15 per cent.
balance, which to known as 'margin."
One of the very stringent laws concern-
Inc banking in Canada prevents one bank
from loaning on the security of shares in
any other bank, or 'of its own• and so it
vee that the loan, the trust and the In-
anranee companies. and, of nourse wealthy
Individuals, alone could lend the specula.
tors In bank shares the. wherewithal to
buy them. And just here 18 where the
Western demand fax money altered the
position bank stocks wore to occupy
where formerly these oompanies could
get from 41-2 per cent. to 6 per cont. for
oall loans (ln thoea days marc than the
avaraee mortsage paid) on bank aharee.
they could now get 8 per cont. on western
mortgagee, and ao they naturals- no long•
or took the same interest in call loans.
they formerly did. As a result. loans on
bank shares became more and more
tat to obtain, nntll speculators
bank stocks by no means eatisfaotory,
and gradually thoy were left to Investors
altogether, with the further result
they did not get. the some attention
the market.
This is one very important cause
change in the poet few yearn, whish
moved bank stocks very largely from
realm of marginal speculations,
counts partly for the lower prices
stocks during the past few years.
There is another reason. however,
.the abank eaelstooness c in price vone ln'thir
the uneasiness sensed to nervous investors
by the failure of the Ontario, Sovereign
and Farmers. hanks. in Ontario,
couple of. small ones In Q;uebeal.
tario failure,'eepeoially-which'eaane;
surprise to all but a very few
made people. wonder whether their
investments. were safe, and so the
timid rushed {oto the market with
unquestionable shares as those
Bank of Montreal, Nova Scotia.
and a score of others. Nor did the
of the Sovereign and Farmers banks,
few years later, hole matters, and
people who had. perhaps. put money
Dr, Beattie Nesbitt's bank, who
have trusted him with a oent porsonall.v,
lost sight of the fact that the other
were different.
And so, bank shares have come to
strong hands at the present time,
is an important feature of an
meat.
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that i
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GREAT FINANCIAL INSTITUTION
The report of the business transacted
is 1911 by the Sun Lilo Assurance
pany of Canada, which the management
of that institution nlaaod before
shareholders and policyholders at
annual meeting on the Mx March,
one realize that Canada hie in this
Deny a concern big -even in these
of large undertakings,
Comparing the Lite Assurance
with that shown for 1910, an increase
over 'twenty-one millions of dollars
shown the total being over one
and sixty-four millions•
The Assets now stand at almost
four millions, an increase of
three•quarter millions of dollars over
-
year.
The income has grown to ton and
half millione. and the surplus is
short of five millions of dollars.
Such figures tell of prudent
aggressive management and lustily
confidence of the public.
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SOCIAL
Mrs. Green -"You
new of social -tact.
do you mean 1"
Mrs. Wyse -"By
mean getting familiar
of people
P p without
familiar with you."
TACT.
spoke
Precisely
social
with all
letting them
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Great Western
record for
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and ellen,
it walked
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he could find,
fro "Well
g•
a puzzled
lookingbird
off ye."
By possessing
railway lines the
Railway holds the
Britain.
An Irishman out
a bird on a hedge
lulu he had ]lit
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pick it up. All
goer Was a dead
,
lade," 118 said with
rr a was a foine
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Oi blew the fithers
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price they pay interest at the rate of 6 per cent. The best posted investors in
Canada and England have purchased these bonds. Owing to the security and
increasing demand of the products of the Company, these bonds will unquestion-
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The lHenaer aee�nd4,e et Cantos.
NCE A. NOBLE, THEN STOIRIEIt.
he Strange Story of a German
Baron.
Of German nobility dating to the
ourteenth century, Baron Preder-
ak Gunter von Salfeld, dragged
rum a high social position in Ber-
n and thrust into a madhouse. by
tis exalted fattier fax having talked
0o freely concerning the doings of
5 high prince, has brought up in
Seattle with a thrilling tale of out -
rings.
Two years a prisoner among the
nsane, two years in the bold of a
tramp steamship as a mai passer,
a wanderer through• the Middle
West as tramp and cowboy, then a
builder of pipe organs in houses of
worship, giving hypnotic entertain,
manes, aro some of the adventures
of the outcast Berlin social baron.
Seven times the young nobleman
tried to get away from his keepers.
Finally lie comntunioated with mem-
bers of the radical panty by throw -
ng notes from the windows. Thus
t was arranged that he should be
spirited to Antwerp and take the
ob of eoal passer to Rio,
His harraseing life has reduced
him from two hundred and two
pounds to one :hundred and twenty-
three. Poisons, he says, had been
sprinkled in his.hose, his clothes
and water for his bath. • These were
designed to leave' ne signs on his
body after death. He planned to
and his own life, by cutting his
wrists or hanging himself in his cell.
"Three 'guards," Salfeld said,
`were put watching me day and
night. My parents did not reoog-
nize me, and would not lift a finger
to help me escape, to foreign lands.
I did not value my life at a 'dime
from day to day. The doctors
smiled and pitied the 'poor insane
man' talking of 'bad imaginings.'
"A Radical obtained a position as
a keeper in the asylum, and one
dark night, the, fourth of July, 1906,
brought about a successful flight as
E result of dealing the keeper a
blow on the jaw with a heavy boot.
"Seventy-five guards and other
pursuers with guns and blood-
hounds sought to find me, but I
I the ferry boat of the
Northeastern Sea Canal, and after
1 reached the ,headgilarters at the
seaport Kiel the president of the
Radicals supplied me with money
and a false passport, advising me to
walk further to Neumenster and
catch the train to Ham1}urg,
"In Hamburg my own uncle, the
chief inspector of revenues,' iefused
1•telp and nearly delivered me again,
"I hired out secretly as a coal
passer on an English 'tramp steamer
and came after twenty-nine days'
hard and hot labor to Rio de. Jan-
eiro, Thence I worked by way of
Barbados, West Indies, to New
Orleans,
"From there I walked with a bag
of canned goods through Louisiana
and Southern Texas until I reached
Port Arthur. From there I went on
a petroleum boat under the disguise
of a new sailor to Now York. Feel-
ing not very safe here I shipped out
to Northern Canada to Cobalt and
Englehart, and returned in the win-
ter time by way of Montreal, Tor-
onto, Buffalo and Kansas City to
Denver. From Denver I went to
Butte, Mont., where I gave a 'hyp-
notic entertainment at the German
lodge to show how a weak-minded
fool could hypnotize more than. a
dozen gentlemen and ladies, and
now I ani here in Seattle.
"My story sounds like a tale of
old days. Such things are still done
oMy more s•ecrctly, If I should go
back to Germany I would not be
placed in an asylum, I would simply
disappear. Therefore I remain in
this country.°,
WHY THE WINDS BLOW.
It Is Because of the Sun's Heat
and Gravitation.
"Confound this wind )" muttered
the man as a great gust tarried his
new hat skyward, and then allowed
it to glide gracefully down into a
pool of mud. "I wonder why it
blows at all I"
He made inquiries. And he found
that the air consists of gaseous par-
ticles, all trying to get away from
one another, and that, under cer-
tain conditions, they can be tom -
smiled to• come closer together by
contraction, or forced to go further
apart by .expansion.
A quartbOttle, for example, holds
22 grains of ail: at a temperature
of 70degrees. .If thebottle could
be cooled by surrounding it with
ice the air inside eon era 's When
et , W leu
this occurs, more air rushes in
through the, bottlo'e neck. The
quart of air now weighs more than
22 grains.
If the bottle be heated the air it
contains expands,its tinyparticles
le
s
go further asuner,
and many of
them eseape from the bottle, alto-
gether, The quart of air weighs
less. The earth is ender varying
degrees of Ibe stin's heat, If the •
earth were equally warm at every.
par; flit. ;;nb lluNI at a constant
temperature, wince could not exist.
It blows because of,heat and gravi-
tation, In other words, air moves
from the place where its weight or
pressure 15 most, towards the plied
:e h•oxe its weight or pressure is
leans