4 * such another woma 5 pu you here in a half-hour: aS P lth ~ ' te Fre % sh From The Gar ee dens Sealed Packets Only = f B440 » Black--Green or Mixed sa CHAPTER XXVII.--(Cont'd.) Monte took af deep breath. Now-- it might be possible that he would count. It was so that his grandfather had counted. He had fought his way across a continent and back for just nas Marjory. Life "had been primitive™then. It was rimitive now. Men and women were orced to stand together and take the long road side by side. The blood>rushed to Monte's head He must get to her at once. She would need him now--if only for a little while. He must carry her home. She could not go-without him. He started down the steps of the bank, two at a time, and almost ran gold. Her eyes greeted him with the uick laugh. "When you need me ing costume she had worn when they been yesterday. say they must have gold." against her. She was on her way to _ the bank as he had been, in search of welcome her lips would not. "You see!" he exclaimed, with a 7 come." She was dressed in the very travel- left Paris together. She was wear- ing, too, the same hat. It might have "They refused hotel," she explained nervously. "They "Have you any?" he.asked. "One louis dor." jenough. 'That sum was a mere pit- itanee. Fate had her in a tight grip. | "Be sure to bring your passport, 'he reminded her. "Tt. is ten-thirty. 'll be here at eleven." Hurrying back to his. room, he took i what he could crowd into his pockets: | 'his safety raor and toothbrush, a few handkerchiefs and a change of socks. 'One did not need much on the open lroad, He carried his sweater---the ;old crimson sweater with the black |"H"--more for her than for himself. |The rest of his things he threw into his trunk and left in care of the hotel. She was waiting for him when he returned to the Hotel d'Angleterre. "You were right about Marie," she acknowledged. "She has two brothers }in the army. She has money enough for her fare to Paris, and is going /as soon as possible." : "In the mean while she is safe en- 'ough here. So, en avant!" | He took her bag, and they stepped }out into the sunshine, | CHAPTER XXVIII. The Cornice Road | This year the housekeeper who wishes to prove her thrift is finding another means besides canning to save the surplus of her garden 'or of the markets, Drying or evaporating of foods has taken on a new mariaten? owing to the shortage of cans and the | expense incurred in some of the usual. processes of food conservation. --| _ There is nothing new in this art of: dehydrating or evaporating fruits and vegetables; it was well)known and. practiced by our grandmothers, to! whom dried raspberries, dried -co and dried peaches were part of every Seahon's store. The advantage of drying vegetables and fruits is--in: addition to saving on cans--the small compass of the food in its dried form, the fact that it can be transported easily and that there is space in the city home for the dried article where often there is no room for a store of either canned or fresh products, There are two main ways of drying, one by the means of the sun, the oth- er by some form of artificial heat. The sun method requires more space and! takes longer. Some form of the sim-| plest \drier is preferable. Such con-! sists of a narrow wooden tray fitted! with wire netting to be hung over a stove or placed in a slow oven. Sev-| eral tiers of trays can be hung at the, same time. The Right Drying Temperature The theory of drying is to remove. moisture so that the vegetable or fruit will not mold. A temperature from 140 to 150 degrees F. is an aver- age drying temperature, which should be ascertained by a thermometer. ' Slow drying is better than quick, hot drying, which may scorch the outside of the product. Vegetables must be washed, pared and sliced into thin shapes or strips. Ordinary kitchen knives may be used, although if much A thoroughly It was the Cornice Road that he fol- lowed--the broad white Maritimes. As far as Monte Carlo he had walked it alone many the time : But he had never walked it with her, !so it was a new road. It was a new, road that) cial sl my check at the skirts the sea at the foot of the Alpes! *|}the drying process } ! "And I have ten," he informed her. World too, and as far as he was con-| She did not understand why he should be so exultant over this fact. "T have come here to get enough 'to pay my bill and buy my ticket. [ am leaving this morning." "They won't give you any,' plained, "Besides, they won't carry you on the train unless you put on a uniform." "Montel" "Tt's a fact." "Then----what am I to do?" She looked quite helpless--delicious- ly helpless. . He laughed joyously. "You are bankrupt," he said. "So am I. We have only fifty-five dol- lars between us. thing. Also there is the machine. That will take us "over the Italian frontier and to Genoa. I ought to be able to sell it there for something. Come on." "Where?" she asked. "We must get the car as soon ax possible. I have a notion that with every passing hour it is going to be more difficult to get out." "But I'm not going with you, Monte, Tt's--it's impossible!" "Tt's the only way, little woman." He gave her no time to argue about it, but took her arm and hurried her to the garage. It was necessary to walk. Taxis were as if they had never 'been They passed groups of soldiers | who turned to look at Marjory. The eyes of many hot with wine, and 'she was evry glad that she was not 'alone. | At the door of the garage stood a ;poldier in uniform. As Monte at- peenypbed to*pass, he was brought to a alt. : | "It is not permitted to pass," ex- | plained the guard. ». "But I want to get my car." "Dm afraid monsieur has no car," | "Rha" f "They have all been, taken for la | patrie.' { "You mean my machine has been | confiscated ?" : A | _ "Borrowed, perhaps. After the vic- jtory--" The guard' shrugged his shoulders. : . Monte shru Then he laughed. \ * "After all," he said, "that is little enough to do for France. Inform the authorities they are welcome." - He saluted the guard, who returned ithe salute. Again he took Marjory's 'arm, and turned toward the hotel. _ "There is nothing to do but to walk," vhe declared. f \ "Where?" : + She could nof understand his mood. 'Tt was as if this were a holiday in- stead of a very serious plight. "Wer the border. It is only -gome twenty-five miles. We can do it easily in. two days; but even if it stakes three----"' Even if it took a hundred, what did \it "matter, with her' by his side? And by his side she must remain until her credit was restored, Wi ith only one louis d'or in her pocket, she was mere- y a woman, with all the limitations of er sex. She could not take to the 'open road alone. She did not have the physical strength that dictated the Jaw for vagabonds. She must have - @® man near to fight for her, or. it would go part, Even Marie would be rotection in time of war. ee imbly she followed his paco until _ they reached the hotel. he place was in confusion and the proprietor at te wits' end. In the midst of, it, onte was the only one apparently un- moved, © : "Pack one small hand-bag," he ord- red, ; "You must leave your trunks "ere." sealed " "Yes, Monte," she submitted. - "Tl run back to the Roses, and Will wou be ready?" i>= "Yes. Marie will come with us, of Moprag? ] 62. He shook hié head. "She must walt here 'until she cum) ies 8. Find out if she 'has (y Asp 'ant her to come' with me," she if she will want to come our sa Pn dollars won't h y; e--we can's afford © ilashed at his use of the he said wa: YT doubt ny Way h i. ' Zz: But that is some-! gged his own shoulders, Nis s- ue | cerned there was no war. sky ovérhead gave no hint of war; Neither did the Mediterranean; er did the grasses and flowers: and , these things, with the woman at his whole world. It was the world originally created for man and w ;man. as |Servants and railroads~had nothing to do with the primal idea of cre _ They were all extraneous. The heav- jens, the earth, the waters beneath the earth, man and woman created He them. That was all. That was en- ough. the Adirondacks, Monte had sensed this fact. With a bit of food to eat, a bit of tobacco to smoke in his old brier, a bit of ground to lie down upon ' he exe Side, comprised, for the moment, his| ation. | be strun | iat night, he had marveled that men! 1 . 6 PE y i i ; ; found so many other things necessary | drying, cut into halves and lay into! 'to their comfort. But, after a week or two of that, he had always| grown restless, and hurried back New York and his club and his men servants. to| In turn he grew restless! ; there, and hurried on to the still finer | luxuries of the German linérs and the} Continent. That was because he was lonesome | The Island of Tristan da Cunba in the --because she had not been with him. | It was because-- how clearly he saw! it now!--he had never been complete. by himself -alone. He had been sat- isfying only half of himself. The other half he had tried to quiet with man- made things, with the artificial pro- ducts of civilization. to ally that deep, undefined hunger in him with travel and sports and the at- _tentions of hirelings. easy at first; but, keen as nimble wits had been to keep pace with his de- 'sires with an ever-increasing variety work is to be done a special commer-| icer or an ordinary slaw cut:' ter can be used. Everything about should be kept clean ,as dirty portions will spoil a' whole batch of clean products. In most cases the food should be. The blue, blanched or dropped into boiling wa- ter a few minutes before drying. This neith-' sets the color, cleans the product and hastens the drying. In many cases' also an electric fan may be used by setting it going near the trays so that o-| the' air current will gradually absorb All that he was leaving be-| the moisture, and leave the products | | hind--banks and hotels and taxis and' dried and in good condition. Vegetables like string beans should & sliced in half or quarters, | Lima beans should be gathered when young and blanched. Spinach may be picked leaf by leaf from the stalk. and spread carefully on trays. Beets, . : ' : ef + ; ; q } Once or twice, alone in his camp in| ¢@rrots, turnips, parsnips and oninos. should be sliced into one-eighth-inch! slices, spread carefully and dried slow- ly. Potatoes and sweet potatoes are partly cooked before drying. It is better to peel peaches before trays with pit side up. Plums should' not be pared, but should be eut into! EVAPORATING FOODS TO ELIMINATE WASTE. halves and the pits removed. I ed. without removing the pits, which oth- erwise would cause too much loss of juice. © : ; Very arge, fleshy varieties may be blanch- ' Cherries should be dried whole Sweet 'apples and the early sorts do not dry well, but the winter greenings and other varieties do excellently. Apples are to bé peeled, cored and sliced into rings or cut into eighths. Since they discolor quickly on paring, they may be dipped for a minute into ™ a cold salt bath, using one ounce of. salt to a gallon of water. Pears and quinces are dried in the same way. Herbs need not be blanched, but should be well washed and then dried in the sun or any form of drier. If you have not enough cf one kind of | Vegetable mix several kinds together after they are dried into a soup mix- ture, such as carrots, cabbage, celery, ete. é § ; Incubator an Excellent Drier Some ingenfous woman has discoy- trays could She cleaned ered that her incubator serve as a homemade drier. took oub the muslin trays, | them thoroughly and without any fur- ther effort the incubator became at once an excellent and retiable drier and evaporator. It is important to pack the dried article in a proper clean receptacle, Tin cans, pasteboard boxes or paraffin cartons all make excellent containers. All evaporated or dried foods must be kept in a cool, dry place. It would be very unfortunate to take pains to save products by this means and then allow them to be wasted by careless packing. Any one so fortunate as to possess a dry attic will have an ideal | place in which to hang the dried pro- ducts in paper or muslin bags, but plenty of air must be allowed or the products will get musty and insects be encouraged. Speaking of insects, it should be said that great care must be taken to prevent the hatching of caterpillars or the various moths dried vegetables and fruits. small moths deposit their eggs on the fruit when it is in the drier, and these hatch later, becoming a small, destruc- tive grub which ruins the food. There- fore do not store the products in a damp place or in one with little venti- lation. The smaller the quantity stored at one time, the less likelihood of damage there will be. The drying method should not, be | over-looked by those who have a sur- plus of food or organizations having the interest of a special group, like a hospital, orphans' home, etc., at heart. In one town the Red Cross has charge of a dehydrating kitchen to which it is requested persons send the surplue of their gardens. perly prepared by an expert and laid away as a winter store for a hospital and also for a settlement in the city. ! Also any housekeeper who wishes may go and use the community drier free, thus giving all the benefit of this in- expensive, additional way to practice) economy and thrift. | { { { | | Middle of the South Atlantic | This little island of Tristan da Cun- | ba in the middle of the South Atlan-/| tic Ocean is a lonely and barren little | heap of volcanic rocks. It is the! centre of almost incessant rains, the! He had thought: e had thoug 'clouds, and shunned by ships. It has been) of luxuries, he had exhausted them all, within a decade and been left unsalt-, ed | of breath the sweet air reached for the first time the most remote corners of his lungs. ;ed to the marrow of his bones. Muscles that had lagged became vibrant, He | ground. ;mile. He wondered when he would tire. His back and arm muscles ,ached for action. He would have jenjoyed a rough-and-tumble fight with ,some impudent fellow vagabond of the roa Marjory walked by hig side in sil- fence. That was all he asked-simply ndent upon him. Here was the of the matter. Always before she d nub had been able to leave him if she wish-| : i e 'eribed to be--would gladly*leave their, dtuins are set here." * There had never been a: ed. She had married him upon. that condition. ; | the coast. To-day it was as if with each intake | could hardly keep his feet upon the, He would haye liked to, run; to keep on running mile after! i He had never Gafore\2oo oy fi ' 4 om | 4 | had air enough. The sunshine reach huts' are 'unmortared piles of rough | vortex of fierce storms, enveloped by | Yet for the last hundred years it has been | inhabited by a strange race, made up} of English, Dutch, Irish, Italians and Americans, cast ashore from time to} time by shipwreck, and living on fish | and spoils of the wrecks that strew These people, who. number about eighty, and who include men, women' pe suffer almost inconceiv- | able hardships and deprivations. Their stones, thatched with. grass. The is-| land is so infested with rats from wrecked ships that any grain plant-! ed is eaten in the ground, and the only , source of flour is passing vessels, which may be intercepted only by! rowing many miles out to sea. There' is no government of any sort, no i | 'school, no church, The island has no- that she should be there on the left, moment, until now, when he had not! been conscious of the fact that he was | in no Way necessary toher. The pro- tection against Teddy and the others was merely a convenience. He had heen able to save her from annoyance, that was all. At any time on that ride from Paris she could have left|/ him and gone on her way quite safe- ily. ed done. It was to save her from the annoyance of himself that he had finally gone away. Had he been real- 'ly needed, possible. get alone without him Then when Peter had fone in was more betaise he needed her than be-, jeause she needed h'm that he had re-| his heart ha, Down deen i ever he may have rre- rafé en turned, knew that. hat tended. She everything except possible annoyance. With plenty of gold at her command, there was nothing that he could buy jfor her that) she could not buy for herself, ; Now she had no gold--except one louis d'or.- @ was almost jealous of that single plece. He would have 'been g) if she lost it. If he had 'geen it dro ave let it lie where it fell. (To be continued.) rt, Was | | } | | yy } Mie abhor Gveek capitalists plan to exploit the famous petroleum springs of that i country, which have been regurded as curfobities of nature for more than 2,- es ae Re ere es ough from, | At Nice, that was just what she: that would have been im-! But he knew that she could |, as she did. from her bag, he would] -- parent future. The people have no pros-' pect, except entombment there. You would suppose that these un- fortunates --intelligent, industrious, thrifty and temperate, as they are des- _ A British naval gun that has "got" many subs. -- ship.--Admiralty Official photogra x == rude huts, their terribl e hardships, their barren fields, their pitiful pov- erty and hoplessness to rejoin the world. But no! The British Govern- ment has renewed its offer to remove them an® their few possessions from the bleak island to any British soil that they may choose and to give' them means to start life anew." Not one 'will consent to go. There on that | bleak island are their homes,and there they. will stay. Saving the Eyes. The eyes were made to use with- out a doubt. So were the hands and feet, and all can be abused and_be- come sources of pain forever. <A life time of-just ordinary vision, just see- ing what goes on about us, is about all we can expect from a pair of nor- | mal eyes. Added strain like fine sew- ing, too much reading and poor light will*use them up so mueh sooner. Wage-earners have to sacrifice many - things, including eyes, but for absolute waste of, vision there is no excuge, ' Se That Scared 'Em. A gentleman made a rockery in front of his house in which he planted some beautiful ferns, and, having put up the following uotice, found it more efficient and less expensive. than spring guns and man fraps. The fear- inspiring inscription was: "Beggars, beware. Scolopendriums \and Poly- It is the ch ph. Crown Copyright. y which attack) Several | This material is pro-, . U \ P * . a : ief weapon of what is known as a 'submarine ISHERS OF THE AIR, | n Exciting "Spork Peculiar to a\ Secr fe thon of Italy. = It Is not often that one comes across a little place that has an ingenious and exciting sport all its own. At Cava dei Tirreni, in Italy, however, there has for 4 thousand seats alate a peculiar form of pigeon-catching. was introduced in 892, says Mr. Her- bert Vivian in Italy at War, and it has flourished ever since. At the begin- ning of every autumn great flocks of | pigeons migrate from Siberia to Afri- ca and pass over Cava and the Gulf of Salerno. They probably have other routes, but Cava is the only place where they are waylaid with nets: and slings. The season is at its height from the 15th to the 25th of October. The pigeon-catchers are mostly men of the lower middle class, who elub to- gether to form six societies, or "games." A game usually consists of three or four towers and a clearing where the nets are set up. One tower is probalby,a thousand yards from the net, and the nearest perhaps seventy yards, but the distances vary. The 4 FASHIONS aia '3 Ps. ' a 4 ----_ i Sages = at % EACH NATION HAS ITS OWN _ PECULIAR IDEALS. eee SES Wheat is Appreciated the World Over But Not in All Its Many _ + + \ Forms. Have you ever eaten candied grass- hoppers--"sauterelles glaces," as the French might cal] them? Probably not. ) : find them on the menu at a Paris res taurant. And yet they are a popu: lar delicacy in Japan. ' It is hard to account for the French liking /for snails. Likewise for the British appetite for moldy | cheese, with skippers. Or for the gastron- onvic interest of the octopus for Nea- politans. Fat tree-grubs (the offspring of bee~ towers are tall and slim, windoWless and weather-beaten. There are steps , about halfway up the inside, and a rickety ladder leads to the parapet at the top. Each society has also a neat | (fried) by African tribes; snakes and) | lizards by American Indians and rats tles) are relished by the native New Zealanders; likewise rhinoceros hide and mice by the Chinese. little clubhouse, usually near the chief tower. g In a merry mood the members take their places in the fresh morning ¢ Most of them are dressed in velveteen coats, top-boots and peaked caps. Two men ascend each tower and the rest are distributed among the nets. In { } each of the clearings stands a small | house from the centre of which rises | a tall black mast. To that two huge | nets are fastened, stretching right and | left to clumps of trees and spreading | out obliquely to the ground. sunite: | the house is a handle and a cogwheel for raising the \weighted nets. The | lookout place is a straw hut two or | three miles away in the direction from which the pigeons are expected. When the watcher sights a flock of birds he gives a signal on his horn, which other watchers scattered about the , woods take up. The birds travel at a tremendous |speed, always with a leader,~ and in | flocks of from thirty to one hundred. Everyone takes to cover, for the birds are easily freightened. The men on the towers are provided with long slings and whitewashed stones about the size of small hens' eggs. These | j they discharge with great force. The | pigeons, it is said, mistake the stones | for hawks and make frantic efforts to | avoid them, so the slingers must fling the stones where they do not wish the birds to go; yet when they | are flying high, a stone flung beneath -- them will bring them hurtling down- ! ward. Then, with loud cries, the | watchers drive them toward the nets, | The stone-slinging is the essence of the sport, and it requires strong ;muscles, a quick eye and a steady | aim. But the netting is also dificult. The man at the ropes is white and ner ; vous, everything now depends upon him. If he releases the weight at the tright. moment, the net comes down | -instantly and the birds are bagged. A moment too soon, and they see the | danger and avoid it; a moment too. late and they pass in Safety. It is a /matter of an instant, an many more flocks escape than are se ee The birds are gray and somewhat | smaller than the domestic pigeon. | They cannot be trained or tamed. The | sport is far from being profitable, for | even when they have good luck the | pigeon catchers never take enough | birds to pay for the elaborate prepara- | tion they have made. But the moment | when the nets whirl down at Cava is a moment of rare excitement. 'i / j | { | | | <p When We Honestly Try Economy Economy is still the word we hear constantly in our ears, and it is to ,be hoped that suggestions under that | head are received in the proper | spirit. now and in the right place, a little of it by everybody, means an immense saving in the future. Self-denial,- taken as a matter of course, is ; easier than self-denial grudgingly given and thought over for a long! time; also that trite epigram, "He | | who gives quickly gives twice," is | very truly put. So make up your | mind to economize and do it now. | Economize 'in the way that the gov-| ernment has indicated as most nec- | | | { essary, and this does not as a rule, ;mean save, it means substitute, even! [ it costs a little more. pe. Sees San Ge . The Worst of It, | John: [ hear noo that Sandy lost his arm in the recent fighting. Wully: 'Aye, man, but ye hae noo heard the | worst. He was wearin' ma wrist | watch on the arm that was lost, A good citizen is known by the food he eats. | was quickly popularized. | sands of acres to the cultivation 'oats, which furnish Eeonomy, just a little of it} . { ditected for apples. ~ What is the Explanation? How explain these curious tastes? You would hardly |. = SEY S OF "DROWNED "MOUNTA OCCUR IN ALL THE OCEAN THE WORLD. -- / *. Bermuda Islands are the Tops of Mountains Three Milles High, , Emerging Above the Waves. -The floor of the oceans is for the -- Dr. David Fairchild, head of the plant-introduction office of the U. 8! largely matters of fashion. | Take the familiar buckwheat, for. example. What is more delicious: than buckwheat cakeg for breakfast? | The cereal seems to have reached the height of its appreciation in this country about 1865. One might have expected it to gain steadily in use thereafter. But has it done so? By/ no means. On the contrary, it has! lost popular favor. The Japanese | grew buckwheat largely, but they are not acquainted with griddle-cake. make a kind of macaroni that wholly unfamiliar to ourselves. Sir Walter Raleigh brought the po-| tato from the New World and intro- | duced it in Ireland. } is The vegetable's | merit was indorsed by his great pres- tige as an explorer Spanish friars | carried it to southern Europe, lend- ing it the influence of the Roman Catholic Church. No wonder that it Sweet Potatoes Popular Another esculent root, the sweet. 'potato, was fetched from America by Columbia and offered to Queen Tsa-, bella, To-day it is a very important! crop in Spain. Portuguese seamen took it to Japan at a peroid when they | were the great and powerful foreign: | ers in the eyes of the Japanese, whose descendants at the present time cul- tivate it on a large scale. We in this country devote thou- of a staple break- fast food in Canadian homes. In Japan also great areas are given to ( , the growing of oats but not for hu« man food. The grain is deemed suit | able only for horses and cattle. Corn in northern Europe is viewed in the 'same light. It is there re- garded as food suitable for hogs and chickens, but not for people. This fs a reason (though not the only one) why, we are asked to export wheat and eat our own corn, The northern Europens have not learned how to cook corn in ways that make it pal- atable. Absured? -Yes; but how about us? Do we eat rice? A little--perhaps seven pounds per capita per annum. And yet this the principal grain of the world, far"surpassing wheat in total production. It is the staff of lite of hundreds of millioms of civilized people; and we have not even learned how to cook it properly, Do Not Appreciate Rice Because we do not know how to cook it properly we complain that it is insipid. Naturally, this is hard for Orientals to understand. But" already | 'the ignorance of Americans in this regard has led to the abandonment of most of the fertile rice fields of the Carolinas, in the United States. Fashion governg, Wheat, says | Doctor Fairchild, is appreciated the world over; but the delicious hard bread of Spain, made from "durum", wheat, is not popular to-day in Canada. | And in this country macaroni, the, form of wheat most. highly appreciat- ed in Italy; has until recently been re-j garded with no great favor. | EO OR ey ! VIBRATION OF CHIMNEYS. come. Structures That Sway With the Wind | Are Safer Than if Rigld. A soundly-built chimney vibrates, or swings from side to side, as a whole, under sudden and violent shocks of wind, and is in reality safer when it does so than) when {t stands in sullen and unmoved resistance. The yibra- tion indicates that the several constit. | uent parts of the structure are firmly compacted into one coherent, contin- uous, and, as it were, homogeneous mass, which can gway from side to side like a steel rod or spring, with- out any tendency to dissolve its con- tinuity and break asunder at some in- termediate point. The absence of vi- | I | | bration, on the other hand, means that } there is not this integrity of coher. ence, and that there are, so to speak, fissures of substantial continuity in the structure, at which disruptive strain is unavoidably developed. ~ Sud- den shocks of wind bursting upon lofty columns of brickwork in such cif- cumstances tend to break them acfoag at the joints where the interruption of vontinuity occurs. The movementg of vibration are there absorbed, and converted into the less desirable con dition of molecular strain. -- pence oe UC They Fool Themselves, . Some. people think they are never talked about becausé they never hear it. ~ \ \ | | Sree ' Dip peaches into boiling water long | enough to loosen skins, Men dip in } cold water and peel. Cuf\into halves or quarters, remove stones and dry as a ,to the east of Japan. 'it not unlikely that it actually i birth to the islands of the ;up" out of the sea floor. depths, nevet broken by most -part. a leval expanse--a vast -- plain over which, if the seas were | Department. of Agriculture, holds' the dried up, one could drive in an auto- theory that all tastes in food are! mobile smoothly and comfortably. It would be like a shell road, no matter : which way one might choose to travel, All the quartz sand and other héavy detritu' 'rought down by rivers ts de- Sesleertae or not far from oe coast finely divided material, boulN'S ST Rca long in suspen- si is carried even to 'the . gear the LS. Accordingly the. whole sea usor is covered with a sort ef ooze, composed of mud and minute the buckwlr*tsholls--the latter derived from "fora They use the grain ("minifera" and other animals that in life are-found near the surface of the sea. ' If, however, you were to make ex- tensive journeys over the ocean floor, which has a normal depth of three miles or nearly, you would occasion- ally come across hills and even lofty mountains, Thus, for example, on reaching in your motorcar a point about 900 miles due east of Charles- ton, your progress would be interrup- ted by the precipitous cliffs of moun- tains rising abruptly from the shelly plain. These mountains are more than three miles high, and their tops, emerging above the wuves, are the Bermuda islands. Mountains in All Oceans. If your auto trip started from Moi- terey Bay, in California, and you pro- ceeded directly westward, you would come upon a mountain two and a half miles high when you had traveled just 570 miles. But this elevation does not appear on any map of the world, for the simple reason that half a mile of water flows over it. Such "drowned mountains" occur in all the oceans. To go back to the Atlantic,: you ; would find yourself obliged for an op- posite reason to skirt Porto Rico on a southward journey, because, afew miles to the north of that island, the sea floor takes an astonishing dip inte one of the deepest sea holes in the world, the bottom making a sudden descent to a depth of nea rly five miles, Along the southern edge of Cuba, in the Caribbean, is an even more re- markable chasm, deeper yet and much larger. It has the shape of an elon- gated valley. United St 3 Admiral! Sampson's ships, when in 1898 they lay in wait for Cervera's squadron outside of the "harbor of Santiago, floated directly over this hole, There is a similat sult, much big than this and still deeper, ger immediately Geologists think gave Mikado's empire, which were threwn up out of it by a mighty volcanic convulsion, Deepest Hole in the World. Just such an occurrence probably accounts for the existence of the little island of Guam, which seems to have been at some remote period "courhed is merety rises pre- and which | tt the top of a mountain thai cipitously from the depths apparently derived its material from what is now a huge chasm close by. This chasm was first discovered in 1899 by the Nero, a ship sent out by the United States. Government to sur vey a route for the projected trang- Pacific cable. It ig the deepest hole in the world "Only sixty-six feet short of six miles! Everest, in the Hima- layas, the highest mountain in the world, might be sunk in it and its top- most peak would be half a mile under water, The brightest ray of sunshine never penetrates beyond a depth of about 100 fathoms. Consequently, all js inky blackness at 'the bottom of the sea, Even in summer in torrid lotitudes the temperature does not rise much abpve freezing. This. is because the cold surface water near the Poles sinks to the' bottom and Spreads slowly over the ocean floor into equatorial regions. There is an everlasting silence in the any sound, UNION MA OVERALLS SHIRTS & GLOVES |