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1 J imf IS' HIGrf 1 fltTHE r AIR GREAT : DESERT lflAUST ftAtlA iAAISSELF-SUFflCIENT t 4 ij, -im i i Hi ii i i - - i ' ii "i iilirniin ii i iii i mi i i ii ii -iii if ii- Hi rr -ir - ' ij ,1,.. Cwallor, CapIUl of Native v. Indian 8Ute. Built on Top f Rock 300 ' , Feet inHeloht. r South of Agra 'in the lifet Half-desert . country looms out of the butte. or central jinai a great nc. .expiprauouav.--Ausi4Tiuii:wuitu...-o i 61 the flat plains The maes',' chapter, In History ir wmcn tne uniwj as 1t would toe called in l ed States nas too parauei. rme pioneers i the Rocky Mountain ' country, ii'se who crossed the AUeghenies found; ter eheer for about 30Q feet and the area tile 'country beyond ; jthe trappers ana of Its surface is large" enough to sup-, traders on. our - northern boundaries uort a city. It Is about two miles long . were an country abundantly supplied by a quarter of a mile 'in breadth, r This is Gwallor, the capital of a na"-! pushed their way across ; the grea tiVe Indian state Under British domin- plains had forage and wajter for .their ation, and once one of the Strongest animals and Wild game for themselves, military positions in India. ' The forty-niners who crossed the des Two other cities are instantly called erts of -Utah and Nevada were en? to mind by the sight of Gwalior one, .couraged by the knowledge of Calif or- the neighbor city St C!hltor, perched on Its rock to the southwest, the other the Pueblo Indian village of Acoma, Just half way around the world in the Kfew Mexico desert. All three of them were picked for their military value, and all three have outlived their! use fulness. A narrow winding road cut out of the rock leads from the plain to the citadel above. At the top of the road Is the4eautiful painted palace, its ex terior tiled over with ornamented, high ly glazed tiles of a workmanship whose secret has been lost. Color and design are each perf ect after their fashion, making the palace one of the eights of India. Inside, alas, it is not a sight but a smell. The Hats, the multitudinous Indian bats, have taken possession ; they swarm here as in no other place for hundreds of miles around, and no Creature with a nose can remain to admire the interior of the painted palace. SEA WATER FOUND IN LAYERS Lower Strata Contain Less Dissolved Oxygen and This Has Influence on Fish Life. Land animals breathe in oxygen with the air. Fish get it, but less of it, of course, dissolved in water. Messrs. J. W. Sale and W. W. Skinner re ported in a paper presented at a meet ing of the American Chemical society that the lower layers of certain tidal waters contained less dissolved oxygen than the upper layers. They show this to be due to the greater specific gravity of the under layers compared to those above them. In other words, the water is found Sa strata, according to its weight, and fills prevents an up-and-down circula tion. When we recognize that the oxygen is also depleted by other agencies there is sometimes found to be very little of it in the lower layers. . 3T?ie depletion is greatest in Septem- Tidal . -waves .and storms bring vrecinitates which with the denletion of oxygen have a great influence on ton life. Substitute for Olive OH. The production of sim-slm of sem- (Sesamum iudicum) seed is an Important agricultural endeavor on the Cast coast and in the Interior lake districts of Africa.' The total exporta tk of this product from the protec torates of British East Africa and Uganda during the fiscal year ended Starch 31, 1915, (the last available de tailed statistics), amounted to 3,134,320 pounds, valued at $102,824, .of which amount about 20 per cent was pro duced in Uganda and the remainder on the coastal plain of British East Africa. , In that year 28 per cent of these ex ports went to India, 22 per cent to Aden, 18 per cent to Italy, 15 per cent to Italian Somaliland, and most of the balance to Zanzibar and Franca. In former'years Germany was the largest purchaser of .this product, which is a substitute for olive oil. ' These figures, it should be understood, do not repre sent the total production of sim-sim within the territory mentioned inas much as a very large amount is con sumed locally. Nature Smiles on Malaga. Malaga is perhaps the oldest of Spanish cities. Certainly she is in ma"ny ways the fairest of them all. If ever there was a lotus land, it . is here. The rich earth is fairly bursting with fertility, hidden under a wealth of semi-tropical vegetation, with here and there the green vine hills that bear the grapes for which Malaga is known all over the world. There are flowers, too, great, gaudy blooms, that go with the South sea appearance of the aloes and palmettoes and palms. In a word, Malaga is a city where nature smiles. Sometimes a year will' go by there without seven cloudy days. Something in the Way. "What are you going to do?" asked the sweet young thing. ( "I'm going to kiss you," rsald the man. "But don't you see I have a -chaperon with me?" "Yes, but she's deaf, isn't she?" "But she's not blind, and, besides, she has a very jealous nature." His Advantage. "A shoemaker is in no danger of having any of his stock left on his hands." "Why isn't he?" "Because the shoes he makes are all soled by the , time " he finishes them' ! ' A Doubting Texan. The ladies wh declare they will serve tneir country by working in the fields will be able to save their com plexions, but it will come pretty hard for many of them to learn how to cuss a mule effectively. Houston Post. i&iifferififf . Attend no ExD oratifattft mi v .7ti a tj-.rrM- D.iti i. . , 4i '7- United SUtet. : . As a record of human vendeVvor the with foodV and wa$er;the men who nia beyond. Only, the Spanish eac-r plorers from Mexico and pioneer, trav-' elers through the deserts of Arizona and southern California can v appre-; ciate the suffering and understand the failure of the heroic Australian scouts, says the National Geographic Maga zine. The center! of the great continent, which their, hopes had pictured as grass-covered .plains, "fertile valleys, lakes and timbered highlands, inter spersed perhaps with arid ' stretches, had turned out to be one of the most extensive deserts in the world, into which treams rising near the coast were lost in jV sea of rock, andvsand. It is as if the people of the United States should wake up some morning and find that all the land between the AUeghenies and the Sierra - Nevadas had been converted into plains like the arid stretches of Utah. SIR LAUNCELOT TO RESCUE But Gallant Knight Left Fair Damsel to Her Fate, According to Mod ern Version of Story. That's funny," mused Launcelot, one of the knightly boarders at King Arthur's table. "That's funny," he added, "I haven't rescued a damsel in distress for almost two weeks." At that moment, a- piercing, but sweet, scream issued from behind a clump of laryngitis trees. "Sic 'em, Semper Tyrannus," chuckled Launcelot, and spurred his good steed j Yea-Bo. Behind the laryngitis tree' herf ound a fair golden haired, dark-eyed female bound hand and foot, while a great hulking wretch was tickling her lovely nose with a feather. " . "What ho i Ho what," cried Laun celot, and prepared to spit the fellow on his lance, 1 "Nay, nay, good knight, good knight !" cried the dark, fair one's tor mentor. "Do) you give me leave to-ex-pain. .This wench is my wife, and many a time and-: oft have I. warned her It would go hard with her if I came home once more and found her at the 4runnies' Instead of home pre paring supper. And but Just now I came home famished to find no sup per and my wife at the runnies.,w "Give it to her good. Go to it!H vsakf Launcelot and hied him hence. Detroit Free Pressx New Type of Beat. A party which plans an exploring expedition in certain South American rivers has purchased a shallow water motor boat. The craft is 28 feet long, has an eight-foot beam and is equipped with an 18-inch propeller. The latter projects, less than ten inches below the lowest point of the keel. Is situated in a well or tunnel, and operates at all times in a solid column, which extends upward from tlW tunnel, draws the water up Into the latter and the col umn to a depth of at least four feet nine inches. The boat has a draft of but seven inches without a load, and when carrying 15 passengers draws approximately ten inches of wa iter. The motion of the propeller tends to lift the boat from the water. The boat is so shaped that it' produces practically no stern waves. The pur chasers believe that it will prove par ticularly adapted to exploring shallow streams and inlets. It is large enough to carry a good-sized party, together with their camp equipment and all needful supplies, for a considerable period. Popular Mechanics Magazine. Futility of "No Trespass" Signs. In the American Magazine David Grayson comments as follows on a farmer who covered his land with "No. Trespass" signs: ' "I did not need to enter his fields, nor climb his hill, nor walk by his brook ; but as the springs passed and the autumns whitened into winter, I came into more and more complete possession of all those fields that he so jealously posted. I looked with strange joy upon his hill, saw April blossom in his orchard and May color the wild grape, leaves -along his walls. June I smelled in the sweet vernal of his hay fields, and from the Octo ber of his maples and beeches I gath ered rich crops and put up no hostile signs of ownership, paid no taxes, wor ried over no mortgage, and often mar velled that he should be so poor with in his posted domain and I so rich without." . When Bread Was First Made. The earliest instance of the prepara tion of bread as an article of food iN found in the Bible in Genesis 18:6.' The grain employed was of various sorts. The best bread was made of wheat, which, after being ground, pro duced the flour or meal. Barley was ; only used by the poor or in time of scarcity. "Spelt" was also used, both in Egypt and Palestine. The bread taken br persons on a journey (Genesis 14:23; Joshua 9:12) was -probably a kind of biscuit. ' s " wwhumj Hp Isnv and; Independence Tnan ; x- hs.. tonti-Fofeian GoyernmenV . ft v;t ; " ) ,V'S " . Japaiiesef egoism Khas caused much i ri lirtir and . " trouble and misunderstanding. : ,It.hax doubtless" also 'caused : mhch a progress I to'5,Turkey-th'e! 'young -men from." Ar- i menia,, Persia, Syria; and. Egypt dare j notcall their 'souls their own." - Na-j tlonalism in the Syrian Protestant; col- ;lege has :to give way to "international jr ; brotherhboa, and no.matter how,much ! -emphasis is laid on' the 'development ? of the Individual talent for leadership in those small lands, which, are denied nationalism ' by the- powers not of j lieavenbut of Europe, there is little : hone that the vonnsr eraduate can ever really lead his "nation to better . uungs -yry . vr ,j Japan, thanks to the anti-foreign , government; has saved her national- t i ism ' and independence : and methods similar to those used in Turkey or ; China do not apply. If unity and ; strength come to China or Turkey, conditions there will become similar. -While we exclude, the yellow men . vfrom America, we cannot hope eternal-, Jy to dominate their souls at home. v! Christian money, sent to Japan, will be 'administered by the ones for whose use it is' -given, teaching democracy ana- not autocracy in a land which denies foreign domination in all things. Maynard Owen Christian: Herald. Willla"ms,Vin the CITY HALL 220 YEARS OLD Dungeon and Cell in Dundee Structure Show Severity of Punishment Two Centuries A,goV In the High street of the city and royal burg of Dundee is an ancient structure, within which the town coun cil till transacts the business of the city. This building waserected some 220 years ago and cost 4,000. In the underground basement is the "con demned cell," seven feet six inches in height and eight feet by" seven feet, and without -liglft, ventilation, or sani tary provision of any kind. In this gruesome dungeon the old-time" crim inal condemned to death awaited his end. In the upper portion of the build ing are 22 cells, once used for ordinary prisoners. One of these cells, under the sloping roof of the facade, illus trates the severity of methods of pun ishment two centuries agoi To a strong iron staple in the center of the apartment the unfortunate prisoner was attached by shackles on his ankles, the roof overhead being so low: that he could not stand upright. Only the. worst type of criminal, was con fined, in this cell. The ponderous key of fW heavily studded doof7 which ad mits one to the -cells has"' quite a: me diaeval appearance, being-eight Inches long, with wards of- 2 inches. Spare Convict's Hands. Now we know exactly what Justice Darting really thinks of violin players, says the London Globe. One of that tuneful craft appealed against 'doing hard labor for felony because It might spoil his hands. The court remitted the hardf labor and gave reasons. Justice Darling said that it was ex pedient for the convict to. have a pro fession in which he could do no harm. If his hands -became hard and he could not play the violin, he might again j take to practices of the kind of which j he had been convicted. " I This is quite a new view to take of I the uses of the violin. Playing the violin is useful, according to his lord ship, xbecause it keeps the performer out of mischief. We wonder if this applies to all music. The vocalist who. breaks out in song, we presume, less likely to break into a dwelling house. He who picks the banjo will be kept , from picking pockets. And the per former who blows the cornet with feel ing will not blow a safe with nitro glycerin. ' - Paid Wages Due 40 Years. Edwrn Fawce'tt, son of a former-paper manufacturer, surprised Corn-wall-on-Hudson, New York, by appeaf .ing there, distributing xto former em ployees at his father's mill in Moodna pay that had been due them 40 years. The elder Fawcett's eoncern got in financial straits after the panic of '73. When the mill closed in 1877 it owed wages to several employees, and Sam uel Fawcett told them they would get their pay some day. His son appeared with a list of for mer employees, including Charles D. Smith, who was a mere boy when the mill employed him. He received pay, with Interest, amounting to $65; his sister received $30 due to their mother, now dead.t Others were paid and, in ease the employee had died, his next of kin received the money. Little Things That Count I Go at your garden work with a wiU j and stick to it all during the sum- j mer; You may not raise much, but j every little helps. Everything that ; you raise for , yourself lessens the j drain on the general supply that must be provided for those who cannot raise anything. If you raise only a peck of r potatoes, that means that there will r be just one more peck of potatoes to i the world than there would have been ; if you had done nothing, and helps 1 the world situation-just so much. This i is a day of. big things, but it is also a day of, small things, because many of them are necessary to make a big thing. xour garaen is one of the lit tie things that is to help feed the world, so sfick'to It and serve both your country and yourself directly and importantly. Exchange. - t . , ' J K ' ' ... 1 - - - "... - ' f'- J " - v. ' - -.. --- ' :'r,.-'' .':,.-':- . - The time may come when ybu will wish you had some of the Money you are frittering away today. It is easy to save, if you but make up x your mind to do so. Will you make the start NOW by opening an ac count with us? .We pay 4 per cent interest on savings deposits. TFM In this Bank it GROWS We Mm SAW IT?- Have Said Enough "- . 1 - FARMERS - . - i - In your Pocket - it i . - " 3MW - lift
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