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y v 4 V 3 V' W&t TO FENCE WIRE I SURGEONS IN SEA BATTLE • Herculean Task* That Wars FSMAHI Great Naval Fight Off 13 Jutland Bank. Itluatratlon •ROWS Exeellent Plan ami OtitliM of Device Ally Handy Man Can Make. v * «* v Something wrong If Satisfactory Crop is Not Obtained. ' r.;- .*•* ^ . * WEOTL 1EE DAYTON •C^/riShtT MM, by W. O. Chapman.) V- 'J**? " r '3r f> 'ifci tig?» >V " ' ->*?*. i -/-A; A?< * >*v- ' The tables were turned. I laughed abtright as I realized It. There, back la the timber, at a lonely spot which few would visit or pass, I had left a stalwart Mexican soldier tied band and foot. Certainly I was safe from lis pursuit until morning. ' The way it had come about was tfcls: For several days I had been lo- Ncftted at Mayena with the United States troops. I was taking photo­ graphs for a series of magazine ar­ ticles and had become quite well ac­ quainted with Lieutenant Harney Ros­ siter. Before coming to Mayena I had been for a week at Pulca. There I had met Miss Wentworth and her family. The impression made upon me by Miss "Wentworth was a lasting one. When Lieutenant Rossiter stated that he Jnfeew the Wentworths there was a friendly bond established between us at once. It suffered a severe strain ray last hour In camp, however. Ros- after came to me looking anxious and distrustful. x "You told me you were going back to Pulza?" he said, and Inquiringly. Tve got to," I told him. "I left :tll the views I took in Chihuahua there, counting on picking them up OB my homeward-bound trip." - I did not tell Rossiter, of course, that I was glad of an' excuse, as a return would naturally mean a second Meeting with the charming Miss IWentworth. "I got a letter about two hourssince faaw intfaa," said the Jteatenant, "J* • V - ' Irv • * »: ^ r t iy 3 ' -t $?< • f A & ' "I Passed No Habitation During the First Five Milea. • . ' . *^Whlch troubles me a good deal. Tou know the critical condition of af- 1 fairs at Pulza. I have received pri­ vate word that the native commandant there is about to be superseded by his former predecessor, Maceo. That. means trouble, danger for Mr. Went- 0 ' / _ Worth and his family." 1 , "Why ?" I asked, at once Interested. "Because Maceo 1* a rejected suitor Of Miss Wentworth, and it was ttirough Mr. Wentworth that he was relieved of his official duties. Under the old regime that would mean little. With the present factional lines nar­ rowing, it gives to the treacherous and revengeful Maceo the power of a ty­ rant, and he will exert It. "And your message to Ifir. Went- ^.•igtortli would be?" "To leave Pulza at once. To delay la to be caught In a net. Even you 5 Will not find it easy to evade the guer­ rillas. Within forty-eight hours they nay have their forces spread so that ,.\r **OBe Kouth of the river here will be f Completely shut in." ] "I think I understand," I said. "Ion are very kind to have all this consid­ eration for the Went worths, lleuleti- v.. ant" "Not when you reflect that I am en- gaged to marry Miss Wentworth." .:•» "Huh!--" 1 barely suppressed the ut- -vj, (trance of amazement and disappoint- ; nent Then there was no hope for me In that direction! It was rather a aorry mission I was undertaking for • 4 • distinct rival. However, I summoned Vp all my manliness and started on my f Journey. v;v J- I passed no habitation, met nob*«y during the first five mitt* of my ride forward. I had fancied I knew the route perfectly, as I had traversed it before, but at the end of an hour began to be confused. I lost the trail and did not catch It tip again until 1 came in sight of a lonely little cabin. It held a light. I was desperately thirsty, and, glancing in at the open window, I noted a water pail on the table and the only inmate of the desolate place, a little, undersized Mexican lad. about five years of age. He was seated at the table eating porridge. As I stepped through the doorway he sprang nimbly to his feet and faced me. I almost laughed outright The shrewd, impish expression on the face of the youngster was absolutely Irre­ sistible as Instantly he threw up both hands. ' Then, his keen eyes looking me all over, he uttered two words; • * "Sandoval Muerte!" I nodded my head. He waa reas­ sured. He went back to his porridge like one who has a duty to perform and had received a safe-conduct 1 drank at the pail and left the hut, turning the queer incident over in my mind as I rode along. Suddenly, lit Mexicans "Halt--who goes?" It was an inspiration thatcafoe to me, looking down the barrel of a lev­ eled carbine At once there flashed a thought through my mind. The par­ ents of the Mexican lad had tutored him for a critical occasion--nonresist- ance and the password. I gave it now. "Sandoval Muerte." "Pass on--to the left Yon are for the town?" . K I grunted an assent Again 1 laughed--this time to drive away a shiver, for I had met a narrow graze. The hour was late when I reached Pulza. At once I visited the Went­ worth domicile and had Mr. Went­ worth out of bed, explaining matters. He looked serious, and decided on im­ mediate action. It was wise, for a f»;w hours later the entire district waa onder insurrection domination. My daughters," he introduced a little later, when he led two charming young ladles into the room, who had hastily dressed at the tidings of alarm. My Miss Wentworth came forward with a welcoming smile. As I spok? of Lieutenant Rossiter, the other Miss Wentworth looked anxious and re­ lieved. For the first time I knew there were two Misses Wentworth, and pine, the younger, was not a fiancee. Thdt is, until we were over the border. We did not wait for daylight. My meeting with the Mexican sentinel few miles from town convinced me that the insurrectionists were critical- near. Our party was the last through the district without challenge. The doughty lieutenant had his El­ eanor and I my Daisy, who made of me to her friends a hero complete. F Got Lid at a Bargain. Mistress McHaudem is a very k£en hand at a bargain and few have ever been able to boast that they have "got the best o' her" in a deal. The other day she entered the village shop, where everything and anything, from a pair of spectacles down to an ounce of tea, can be purchased, and said: "Wad ye sell me a sugar basin without the cover?" ' "Oh. aye,"'said the merchant who would sell the shoos off his feet at a profit Hoo muckle Is this, then?" Inquired the customer. , "That's a shullln' complete." "An' whit for the basin wlthoot the »id?rt ' 'Eleven pence,* • ( •D'ye only tak* a penny a# for the Uor "Weel, the 114*8 no* worth malr nor penny." "Eh, that's guld news," ejaculated the lady, with a sigh of relief. "It's Jist the lid o* mine I've broken." And so saying she laid down a penny and walked off with the coveted Jld before the astonished shopkeeper had time to utter a word. It was late the next day when a shot , .*. Itolted me. It came from a thicket U7 horse fell, and before I could get my out from under him a brawny Mexican, 5*;. wearing the insurrectionist uniform, I J*118 at n»y si(ie, his carbine leveled. f}' „• He had the drop on me. and It wn* 'it, 4Wre death-to make a move to rexlst or escape. He bound my arms with a Li ; -*! ' * tted s lariat about my wuist, II?.» ^^Wng me understand that I was a ^ . prisoner and considered as a spy. and ^':vrnmd for hls camp ten miles ahead. * he mounte<l his horse. I had some --J, r rough tramping to do. YeU °? towar<fe dark when • | we came to a little settlement. * Mv ft c*pJor- boastfully parading me." rode # . k< * If tou th® general «<>re and celebrated S " ^ ' , herois,n by be,n« helped to half f v' ty a dozen strong drinks. Supplied with ? bott,e of the he resumed his t;(: ^..Journey. We had not gone two miles Pi' ^ V >vhen 1 noted hls drooping pose Over- F; , twe with the strong liquor, he was | - -l;" "»sl«H>P in the saddle, if* • ' The hor9e halted to browse and his ft, ^ f Uder slept on. It was my chance At fey ly ° ,,tandl,ti,, 1 cou,d work with 'some at my bonds. Soon I was free. M dispose safely of my captor was an ® ^ f >«easy task. 1 took his hat, his jacket ; wnd bis weapons. Then it was that I laughed exultantly, for there was 4>nly twenty-five milea between myself Naedleas Work. x ft la necessary. If one woaM avoid needless stains and soli, to train children to keep their hands off walls within and without their own homes and those of other people. The in­ evitable result of much play Is soiled hands, and it were a needless cruelty to expect children to be always im­ maculate. These fingers, fresh from balls and tools and stone, and all man­ ner of dust and muck, go thoughtlessly against your front door, your light- colored weather-boarding, your portico pillars or railings. They respect not the wallpaper on the stairway or else­ where ; out go the hands as their own­ ers pass up and down, and in and out, and everywhere there are deface­ ments. It is a simple matter to tutor your own children to refrain from this habit but you suffer from other boys and girls as well. Mothers in general should warn their children to keep hands off at home and in the homes of others. It is not pleasant to the tidy housekeeper to note, after housecleanlng, fresh finger - marks waiting to greet the first caller. Sa)t Mines Worth a Viflt " The salt mines of the Maramaros- Sziget district have been worked for centuries and man# Americans who have toured this part of Hungury^havo visited the deep galleries whose rock- crystal walls glitter as If studded with countless iridescent jewels as they re­ flect the rays of the electric lights. One of the most Interesting mines Is that of Ronaszek which contains a great subterranean salt lake having a depth of nearly 300 feet Proper indignation. An old couple had come up to Lon­ don on a short holiday, and while looking round one day they aaw over n shop a sign which read: "John­ son's Shirt Store." "Well, I declare!" said the old lady. "I wonder who tore it, and what do they want to tell people about It for? Cant his wlfa mend it?"--London Mall. ROM the desert back to the town, to "the world," to the hurly-burly of Cairo and the fleshpots of Egypt. It Is war­ time, the summer of 1015. The city is full of soldiers, sunburned Australians and New Zealanders who have not yet been In action but are being kept lest the Arabs should come out of the desert and strive to efface the English and French civilization of the banks of the lower Nile and so add more ruins to the ruins of Egypt, writes Stephen Graham In Country Life. The city is majestical with its broad streets, white stone palaces and state­ ly mansions, its wondrous river and its mighty bridges. The dryness, cleanness and whiteness of a city that knows ho rain; the city gleams In a vast supply of sunshine. The wind blows all the time from the desert, and wafts heat In the face as from a furnace. A city of life and gay en­ ergy. The fountain of life plays rap- Idly and brilliantly all the time, throw­ ing up all colors, forms, faces. There Is a sense of resplendent and tremen­ dous gayety. No one comes, to Cairo to be an ascetic and mortify the flesh. But every building,; every sight and sound says, "Life, life, life." All around is death--the desert which is death it­ self, the Pyramids which are tombs, the old cities and ruins which are the bodies of ancient civilizations passed away. But every sight and sound In the oasis of the great city says--Live, be gay, let the pulse beat fast, let the heart go and be glad, let the eyes sparkle and burn, let the lips form words of passion and pleasure. . There is a sense of an immense an­ tiquity which, in contrast with the little second of the present moment, makes the latter less Im­ portant less holy.' There Is a subtle smell In the air, an odor that makes the head a little dizzy and veils; Europeans, soldiers, hawkers, mendicants, post-card sellers, newspa­ per vendors. Along the' center of the broad sun-swept roadways crash the electric trams; the rubber-tired cabs and wide-hooded victorias follow pleas­ antly; the motor cars proceed; the military auto-cycles pant; and the heavy ox and buffalo carts of the na­ tive# blunder along at the sides. There is doing everywhere, happen ing, being. Voluminous and promiscu­ ous action floods and surges through the city with the traffic. It Is life everywhere. And yet mtngled with life there Is death. There Is plague in Cairo, and every now and then the eyes rest on a native funeral proces­ sion, one procession, two processions, five ^ processions, ten processions all following one another. They are in every street, and they go past with their strange pomp of death, with th« body and the mourners and the keen* ers and professional howlers. The brightly living crowd on the footways each side of the road pau«e a mo­ ment and think, "Someone has died/* and pass on, oblivious, Intent on life. In luxurious hotels gentle and beauti­ ful Nubians are handing out delicate fare, rich dishes cooked and served in thar sought-out and magnificent style that Egypt has inherited from ages of eplcurhbm. And a wonderful assem­ bly of officers and ladies, rich pleasure- seekers Mnd tourists from the Mediter­ ranean shores, invalids, receives--sit­ ting at flower-decked tables lj> great halls. A strange Impression, in the after­ noon, to go down the side streets 'and see the throngs of young men, un­ steady on their feet but bright-eyed and thirsty-lipped, greedy, eager; the strong-limbed sunbuVnt colonial sol­ diers dancing with Arab girls, the cafe chantants, shooting saiobnsi bars, bad houses, the barrel organ#, the smell of m the hands | little .feverish as you walk; it is the actual odor of antiquity, a finest dust in suspension in the wind, the dust of decay from past ages. Ail that dies In Egypt becomes dry, and- only after c-euiuries turus to dust and loses form. That which rots away In a year in our northern clime keeps Its semblance for a thou­ sand years In Egypt. The stones of the houses of native Cairo were many of them quarried by the ahclents; the wooden beams and joists have lasted from the days of the Pharaohs, and only now are gently crumbling. Here the very stones can he used to manure the fields. Subtly, secretly, the sev­ enth foundation Is always crumbling away and passing in dust into the desert air. The smell. In the air Is partly the flne dust of mummies, of the bodies that were once erect and nervous and vivid, gay nnd felicitous and moving, the mysterious flocking humans of thousands of years ago. Crowds in the 8treats. The streets roll forward with flock­ ing crowds--dark faces, brown faces, sallow faces; red caps apd straw hats and little turbans and smocks and burnous; negroes, Copts, Arabs, wom­ en in white veils, women with dark Human Giants Largely a Myth. There is no evidence* to show that men have ever had a greater average height than they have now. For a long time there existed In France, near the Junction of the Isere and Ithone rivers, a deposit of gigantic bones known as the "Giant's field." In recent times bones have been dug out there which were believed to be hu- n.an. and were said to be those of *Teu- tobodus, the king of the Teutons, who was overcome near the spot by Marius, the Roman general. The researches of Cuvler. however, prove that these bones, together with all the others, exhumed in the same place, were those of the Dlnotherlum glganteum, an extinct* animal of the tupir species, which measured about twenty feet in length. Tff£ AiAAAJ?7£R fiXXXyfr the air. Healthy Disease. Laziness is a disease, declares one of the eminent doctors. The surpris­ ing fact is that most of the victims of the disease always look so distress- i^lfiy healthy.--Proridence JooraiAt 1 ^ ; r; * ^ ?- - Elevator . Boy' Protasisi? "Rid you eve/ stop to consider the feelings of an elevator boy in an of­ fice building?" asks Marjorle Benton CoOke In American Magazine. ".'How'd you like to spend your days lu a cage, goln' up. comin* down, same bad air, same old shafts Night comes over the stately city, and the Europeans in their White clothes come In greater numbers into the streets. The great remote staring moon stands over the broad highway and arched bridges. Heat seems to be generated through the haze in the sky, but a light, dry breeze is ever blowing, and the pungent, sweetish odor of the city is. In the nostrils. In the contrast of darkness and night silence the clangor of eastern music Is more bir­ ring. It stirs the body, not the soul, nnd is like the sensuous music of Nebuchadnezzar, the music of cornet, flute, harp, sackbut psaltery and dul­ cimer. Dark women with gold orna­ ments hang out from curtainless win­ dows or lurk Just Inside doorwuys and dark passageways, ready to coil snake­ like upon a prey. In the roadways a shouting, calling crowd. In the tav­ erns the^ are singing "Tlpperary" and "We Won't Go.Home Till Morning"; some men are standing" on the tables, others are trying to put gawky Arab girls through the steps of a tango. The music Jangles. The whole street has a collective voice, a strange tink­ ling and murmuring uproar. slippin' by, never nothin' to see? How d'ye like it on a sunny day when you were dyin' to play base­ ball?' says the elevator boy. " 'I never thought about It at all/ the passenger answered. " 'Well, I have. I thought about It most of the time fer four years." Even the fellows In, Sing Sing gets out sometimes, but we don't. When I get to feeltn' I can't stand It, I think of block after block of office buildings in this town, every one of 'em with 15 or 20 cages, and, a fellow like me In every one of 'em, spendln' his life goln' up, comln' down, goln' up. comin* down--and outside the world goln' m, v / ' . a i l > • • • • ' • ^ > 1 I i J f - ' V . < L : vWwivCnt cxpecxanon. "The fashions for women are get­ ting more youthful every year,* com­ mented one man. "Does that meet with yvnr dlaap- proval?" "Not a bit If it goes on this way a few seasons more, my wife will be will­ ing to give up her automobile and ride in a baby carrlaaa." • • M Apply Remedy This Year and Pro. vent Repetition of Same Trouble Next Season--Supply of Fer­ tilizer IsNeceesary. How did yonr rhubarb bed do thta reason? Were 4he stalks short or slim? Were the leaves small -and ragged looking? l)td It turti a sickly color and the plants wither or dwin­ dle away in the middle of the sum­ mer? If you did not have a satisfac­ tory crop of this widely admired pie­ plant, something was wrong, A rem­ edy is needed, and since it Is not expensive or difficult to procure, sup­ pose -we apply It now and prevent a repetition of the same trouble next year. g, It requires no particular kind of magic to induce this plant to grow, and the earlier it produces the more valuable it is for either market or household use. I find the greatest thing for rhubarb is plenty of good stable manure put on Tit this season of the year, says a writer in an exchange. It is an excellent idea to cover rhe earth surrounding the roots to a depth of four inches. This not only enriches the soil, but protects the roots and* assists In producing an early growth. , I never pack the manure down close to the earth, for I think this helps to make the soft Sour, and also makes It more vtet, which, of course, will cause heavier freezing in severe- weather. A little straw with the manure will act as a mulch and produce better re­ sults. A very slight sprinkle of salt will do the beds good, but. be careful not to overdo this. ' If the bed is of long standing, dig up the roots, or at least a portion of tliem, and reset them in new earth in a new locality/ say, about three or four feet apart Set in good, strong roots, and be careful to have the root crown well covered with soli. Manure this new bed liberally, and it will pay you even next season for your trouble, but from then on, for at least five years, with liberal manuring, ft will yield excellently and the qual­ ity will be flne. SELF-FEEDERS ARE POPULAR Invention of Montana Man Permita Live Stock to Help Themselves --Device Easily Cleaned. Helping those who help themselves seems to be the lojt of the Lord, .or Providence, or whoever you wish to I Self-Feeder for 8tock. give the credit, of pigs as well as peo­ ple. Various feeding tests of the state experiment stations, notably Iowa, have proved this to.be true. Now every­ body is getting patents on Wlf-feed- ers for live stock. The one shown here is a recent patent of a Billing's (Mont.) man. There Is a corrugated feed roller at the proper point on the slanted bottom of the bin. /lelow this roller is a' feed trough, and on -the roller 18 an eccentric and feed rods having downwardly projecting prongs connected to the eccentric. This ar­ rangement makes it, possible to keep the feeder cleaned \>ut. so that old feed does not stick to the sides aud In the corners to spoil and harm new feed put into the feedw.--Fanning Business. _ ^ 5 ^ 5 SCREEN MATERIAL FOR BARN Cheesecloth Tacked on Wooden Frames Will Prove Satisfactory--Plenty of Light inside. Any sort of screening on the doors and windows pf the stock barn Is bet­ ter than none at all. But different kinds of screening material seem to result in fly elimination with varying degrees of effectiveness. One of the best methods appears to be to cover the window openings with a heavy-weight cheesecloth or some similar material. The doors can be provided for in the same way by either equipping them with sliding gates to which the. cloth is tacked or by using the cloth on ordinary screen door frames. There Is plenty of light In a barn screened In this manner, but It Is of a subdued sort which Is not attractive to the fly. He Is less apt to fly Into the barn when a door Is open­ ed for the reason that from the out­ side the Interior appears dark. Ordinary wire screening ;.nd the less expensive mosquito netting make little or no difference, In the character of the light inside nthe bara. It Is usual to find as a result that JB$jre flies succeed In getting Inside. , " MULCHING IS GOOD PRACTICE Keeps Down Weeds and Conserves % Moisture--Plan is Most Excellent In a Dry Country. * Mulching grapes Is a good way of keeping down weeds and holding the moisture in the soil, but once begun It should ,be continued. Unless one uses the very coarsest lowlgnd hay there ts no mulching that will last for two years, and so it Is a good plan to re­ new the supply every year. The rea­ son mulching must be kei* on after once starting with It Is because it brings the roots to the surface, and after that is done they must be kept covered. But where grapes are raised Iti a dry country and the patch la small the mulch plan Is about the beat way of raising tham. . . ™ , ~ V ' "yi' -t , r. , •" V '« >,V .'"W, V* The Illustration shows a good way to roll or string wire, writes Anton Schwetz of Cadot, Wis;, In Missouri Valley Farmer. The long boards In each side of frame are of 2 by 4. 5 feet long. The crosspleces are 1 hy 0. as long as the wagon box Is wfde. Pieces of 1 by. 0 are set upright In the center of each side braced with lengths of 2 by 4 The top of each upright is rounded out and an old shaft laid" in, i^lth a crank attached at one end. This wire roller can be put on a wagon. Take the wagon to one end of the wire fence, attach one end of wire at A, then turn the crank. This will pull a wire 50 rods long without moving,the wagon. The reel will hold ' 'Yt'Vtirfrir 1" i" , i r " ' • • • ; . ; / j Roller for Fence* Wire. 150 to 175 rods of wire. When string­ ing wire, tie one end to a post, hitch the horses to wagon and drive along the fence where yon want to string the wipe. CLEANLINESS IS BIG FACTOR Arrange Plenty of Clean Nesta for Layers--Keep Undesirable-Looking ^ Eggs for Home Use. An important factor In poultry suc­ cess is cleanliness. Arrange plenty of clean nests for the layers. Thin-shelled and dirty eggs should be kept for the home table and the clean, uniform eggs--and they nearly all should be this if proper care is taken--should be got on to some other table Just as foon as possible. If you onoe secure a string of customers who know the vast difference between a good egg and a one-month-old, you can keep these cus­ tomers just as long as you keep your product up "to the standard. But no matter how good nor how fresh the •eggs, these, customers will fall yon If you offer them dirty eggs. fcIt Is well to know the age of th« eggs sold, out unless you can put them In the hands of the user the day after they are laid, do not put the date on the egg, as most users had rather "go it blind" than use one that by the.date on the shell Is even two weeks old. KICKING COW OUT OF HEIFER Yourig Animal Resents Pulling of Long Hair on Udder in Milking--Clip Twice Each Year. Leaving the long hafrs on the udder is a good way to make a bad kicking cow out of n heifer that has the mak­ ing of a flne cow. When the nHlker clasps the teat during the milking process, the long hair surrounding the upper part of the teat Is Included, and as each stream Is drawn these hairs are given a hard, .vigorous pull. It Is no wonder, then, that the young cow protests with a lively kick. A common pair of clippers, such ar are used on horses, is the best for clip­ ping the hair from the cow's udder. The clipping should extend over the flunk and thigh on the right side. DEVICE FOR CANDLING EGGS Essential Principle Is Strong Light In Opaque Case--Sun Is as Effective as Electricity. Various device^ for candling eggs, or testing them, Is used, but all have for the essen|ial principle a strong light in a case, which is opaque, ex­ cept for an egg-shaped ' opening, slightly smaller than an egg. The egg is placed before the opening so the light can come through it Aa Sunlight Egg-Candling. easy way to candle eggs is to Use a heavy paper tube. Do the work In the bright sunlight and it will be as> effective as though using a strong elec­ tric light DIFFICULT TO PROCURE HELP 8erious Problem on Farme Where Mllkingvis Done After Men Have Worked Hard in Field. ^ In many localities the farmer who milks many cows finds It the hardest to procure help. Is this because the milking Is done after a full day has been put in In the field? Isn't milking as much a part of the farm work as cutting corn or pitching hay? It has always seemed so to me. The man who tries to get his milking done for noth­ ing by working the hired hands after hours need not be surprised if good hands travel around his farm when looking for work. AUTUMN RAINS INJURE BEETS Sugar Content of Plant la Rapidly Oe- strayed--'They Become Woodf s and Tasteless*^ . -- • -J>;V Sugar beets seldom do well in lo­ calities where there Is much autumn rain. When growth is stopped by dry weather In the summer and a new growth started by late rains the sugar content of the beeta is rapidly de­ stroyed. The same thing holds good with garden beets; let a second growth start and the beeta become wiwdy and taste- V £ -1*%, •' "During the battle of Jutland bank tie naval surgeons performed a ter­ rible task," writes the medical corre­ spondent of the London Times. He tells of the sudden emergency chat | confronted them, and the hasty trans­ fer of stores and equipment from the sick bays above the armor to the font and aft distributing stations below it.' "Soon in their station," he continues, ^hey heard the booming of guns, and& soon there crept down to them the fumes of the exploding charges. Fromt that time the stations became the^ scenes of fierce and terrible activity# "In one great ship bellying smoke fillet! the doctors4 rooms at the very- moment when the streams of wounded began to flow down to them, adding! suffocation to the thousand other per-" '- lis of the work. The ship reeled un­ der pounding blows,'she staggered in a difficult sea; the concussion of her ' guns was so great as to preclude thejj possibility of adequate surgical asslst-i,tJI ance. Wearing gas'masks, the doctorsafir* did what they could, bending their en-f * ergies selflessly to the great task, as£, ts the tradition of their calling. "In another ship an enen$ sfceH de-^| ^ stroyed the aft station utterly so that|gj * the whole work of relief fell on thes*^ remaining forward one. Hour after'.. hour, without reck of time or exhatis- £ tlon, the staff labored to overtake its'" great task. Another ship was holed#!' and had h6r electric light cut off. Thelfl medical station was In darkness; itpi$ was foul with the gas fumes from the|,»! ;; enemy shells; water poured in by the|*W holes In the vessel's sides. Here, single-e., handed , a young nava l su rgeon t o l l ed f ; by the light of an electric torch untiiy*^' be was ordered to get his wounded4!'C*i away because the ship was sinking.^,. And this task he achieved so Well that? not a life was lost. The doctors wlt- f ^ nessed strange scenes during these hours, and perhaps the strangest all was that which followed the an-:f nouncement that a German ship had' gone down, for then all the wounded, including the man on the operating table, began to cheer." , IS'" Biggest Water Wagon. The Russian duma has passed a MR making the suppression of vodka a% permanent national policy. The meas-@ ure prohibits the manufacture and salens- J of any beverage containing more thaal||] 1% per cent of alcohoL This barsSfgi' beer and light wines. .'X- "Under the difficult conditions of; wartime," says M. Bark, minister of J!* Ifinance, "we ventured to forego a huge; •' drink revenue and thereby most clear-";:"*, ly demonstrate that, with a return to < peace, when the state exchequer re­ covers all Its former sources of-reve- nue, and a sobered people fully devel­ ops Its greatly increased productivity In the pe&ceful field of labor, Russia calmly and confidently will be able to live with a temperance budget" The Russian empire comprises one* seventh of the habitable globe. Its water wagon carries some 175,000,000 people, who, despite the enormous bur­ dens of the costliest war of history, are Increasingly prosperous, more "fit" _ physically, morally and finandallylrE than ever before to serve their coun-4f ^ U, ; : . Inoas Were 8un Worshlper«. In religion the Incas were fond "of worshiping high places, flue views, and other striking natural objects, such as Irregular boulders, waterfalls and; ; springs; the wonders of the air and thefe .' 'V sky, such as fain, thunder, the starry firmament, the moon, and, above all." ' the sun. • * ^ "• In a cold, mountainous region llker-# the central Andes, i t was but natural f% *, that the sun, so essential to the ^ais- Ing of crops and the comfort of shlv- ; ering humanity, should have been yarded as their chief divinity. Of literature, as such they neces- '" sarily bad none. Their language waa probably the Quichua. Mr. Hardy of our expedition, wlio has been study­ ing It, says that "for one who has not ! learned it in childhood It Is difficult, because of the lack of any good gram­ mar In either Spanish or English."-- Hiram Bingham, In the National ^ graphic Magazine. • ;;; The Moat Vlrtuoua ef Birds. ^ S t o r k s , a c c o r d i n g t o s o m e a n c i e n t f ? writers (they can hardly be called au thorities), are the most virtuous and domestic of birds. One of them. Friar Bartholomew, says: "While the female liveth, the male keepeth truly to her In nest And if a male espy. In any wise, that the female hath broke spdusehead, she shall no ipore dwell with him, but he beateth and striketh her with his bill, and slayeth her if he may." The same writer retaarks that storks, In their oversea migrations, are convoyed by crows, who "withstand with all their might fowls that hate storks." An engaging characteristic attributed to these birds is that they ••nourish their, parents when oppreaaed with age."--London Chronicle. ' ---- Missing! ; ,t: Jt small girl, aged five, was studying fr*- Intently a picture of the Garden of Eden. At last she said. In a perplexed J|7 voice"But, mother, where Is the |» carriage?" " "Carriage!** exclaimed her mother in great surprise. "What can you mean. dear? There was no carriage In the ' ,r • Garden of Kden." "But," remonstrated the ehlld. **you told me that the Lord drove Adam and Eve oat of the Garden." : -- 1 Good Faith. can you say yon enjfoy woman's reading when ahe la so mo­ notonous?" "I do enjoy It. I am Buffering from Insomnia." ia Uncle Ebon. **Do man dat keeps his ear to do ground," said Uncle Eben, "natctteOy has to be keerfui not to git tired tf Ustenin' an' go to sleep." iiM Physically Impossible. ^ "The danger was so near me that hair stood up on my head" "Then yon oonldn't have had aodl • tioan.ahpvn^v • • -s-v-- ' " kV' "-V'-Tr.