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SARGASSO IS SEA OF MANY SECRETS Expedition Will Explore Mysterious Region. As if an enormous "giant hail put his finger into the sea and stirred it j round, the entire North Atlantic slowly revolves in the direction ot the ^ clock's ha tuls. j In the center is the Sargasso sea. a gigantic collection of Homing islands, j ma tie of seaweed and inhabited by countless living tilings. Nobody knows how Herodotus, in uticieut ? ritucs. came 1>y l lit* alarming stories he told of this- mysterious re gion. for it is ?>u;y during recent years that it has been- properly charted. Whctl O'luinhus and his men were drawn into tils oval-shaped vortex. his ship remained out ot coiftrol tor i > days, and the crew thought" they were condemned to perish in ?' watery . prison, closely- guarded bv seaweed barriers f ? > r IT' ?' ' square nulos. I?ut h strong wind luckily car'aed the >liip to safety. Supported in the water !?y small air baboons, the feathery wi-ds ?>( Sar gas#.o are mostly oiive -brow u m with blotches of white. Tife chief source of supply has heeri proved to be the Cuff of Mexico and tfie^l'arib- . bean sea. Sailors ,}o not like tl :> s'tvinge tract which iloats. aiii.iost Itke 'and. oil the hosotti uf the Atlantic. It i- reputed ? to he 'ho home of bar:>ar !i>h..ind -the hiding place of m> serious mon ster-* Animals drifting about on the stirfitiV1 of the sen. wit!; only the s> tered cover of moving -??awe.d. are exposed to many dai. get's. net only ?from t!;e hirds always1 hovering above, but from hungry tisb '.arising in the patches of uncovered sea, w.t :? "h s.- the bluest in the world. To protect themselves, all the living creatures imitatV; it; a remarkable vvav. '.lie color of their tioating' home. One grotesque .lilt i animal is cotispie uous owing *.o the il.spT' 'port ioitate size of its "head and jaws, j.nd resembles the lrog tish, sometimes >een near Kr,' ? -oasts. Jlals ; its nest of Seaweed- bound together <?> long cot-.ls of its own man ufacture. this singular creature com bines all the characteristics of an ani mal. a .tisls. and a bird. \ short -tailed crab of the shell less type swarms oti the Sargasso weed and is blotched with white to match the light patches on. its surroundings. These and many more peculiar crea ture's will he examined by Professor Heche. of New York, who recently set <j\ 11 to explore this little-known re ?' r ? A secret ambition ot the expeih!H>n is to capture a monster squill, a terri fying tish of the cuttlefish tatsioV. With fciack. eyes at least -1- inches in diam eter a bo.iy s.t fe^t in length. 'I'he bo. 1a of these giants, one of which the . vxpi-.rers M?e to capture. is wrapped L". loose mantle, from j,? opening in w j ? ' emerges t!*' ev il-b.'oking head with its share. parrot:dke; beak. Sa t'ga sso a.- ? ; s '. e r i> the tiger of rhe o, van. . like It striped couti ? rt ?t; lar.-V is -aid '.-> kill even whets not hungry ? fvr the sis.vr pleas ure 11 1 liUg. Victoria Invested Wisely T-i trough the good advice of Pisraell, , j,,.r ,.i,;ef adviser, tjueen V ictoria ot England. invested in Sue/, canal stock Mtid was thus enabled eventually to leave additional millions to her.chil d ri^n She also was one o; tit? oti^tin.il owners, of a share in the New River Water company which, provided the _ water supply for London. The water i siiaresj origit.Hlly worth a pound eainm-'ed in value t? when they .were worth millions. and ev.-n the richest of others like the Uoths hibls \v.-re . forced to be content later with a six- , teeijth or a thLrty-s* nd'.h of a share. Quake Made Trouble AM was peaceful and ?? 1 : i*-t Saturday night in the 'Springtreld police station When Patrolman t'lark. who was en tering something its the police .blotter. ? suddenly shouted: -For the love of Mike. Mitchell, stop shaking the table. How d>> you suppose I can write';" 1'a trolmati Mitchell indignantly denied ? that- he was shaking the table and at- : er.sed < " a r.k of being responsible. The ' argument was .waxing warm.' with each denying ami accusing, when the tele phone ratig and gave them their ttrst Inkling that .an earthquake was the cause of the table's strange behavior. --Huston tllobe. ? i China's Trade in Bones For many years, the economical Chi nese have pur animal bone to ;om| use for various ornamental and practical articles atul for fertilizer, but The traf tie -in fh.is -commodity in recent times has greatly increased so that now thev itr? said to he importing large <|uantl fies. I Miring the first six months of ] Shanghai alone imported nearly l.otxt tons of eovv bone valued at more than St-jttv.iKMi t>rincipally for tile game ' makers Fn 1!>'J"J. China exported more i than St l .i h m t.t.? m > worth <~t bone. ? Popu lar Mechanics Magazine. Sheet Covers Two Acres Near Fitzgerald, f I a., there is a large tobacco' field or bed covering two un broken acres, so that a large sheet containing rvvo acres of cloth bad to be designed to cover it. The bed is on the farm owned by 11- K. Sliglt. which is I on rhe Dixie highway. Use the Bath Spray You can keep your screens clean by giving them a hath every week with the bath spray. Then your curtain* win not soil so easily. Hilary Grahartv^ Bonner </*?? 1( SOME DAY The Lunch Basket. John had lie*'" promised that some day lie would be taken to Cow Bay. | Cow Bay was a must wonderful stretch of beach overlooking a. bay or arm of the sea. No one quite Knew why it had been called Cow Kay. There were no cows there. | True. you passed cows in pastures^ as you drove . down, or walked down to the bay. \ It was just a funny "old. old name thai hajl stuck. But some p p o p t e didu.t think it was a pretty enough name lot so lovely a spot and they called It Silver Sands. None of the people who had loved it for years called it anything else bur row l'.ay. Maybe the name w?s fool- | isli and maybe it wasn't a very beau tiful name. Hut if you've always bad a nam* for a place you become attached to it and even if it, isn't Just the right name, you don't want, to change ir. Cow l'.ay was really a gorgeous spot. It had a great wide, wide, bench, and it was very, very long. From one end of the bench to the other the surf rose and fell, tumbled in foamy white tumbles and came dancing up on the sunlit sand. . * , The water was always so deep and gorgeous blue. The loam so white and Huffy and as it came rushing in on top of the waves the sun danced a ^ rainbow dance through it. Behind the beach was a forest of low lir trees. It was quite far away from any place except some farms and people did not gather there in large numbers. So. when you had a picnic there, j you felt as though you almost owned the sky and the sea and the beach and ! the forests? there was so much of all. "Some day you'll go to Cow Bay. That's a promise." This was what John was told. "Some day we'll have a picnic at Cow Bay and you'll go, too." This was what they said to him. Then the days began to get warm ; and they planned to go to. Cow Bay. They planned the picnic they would ' have. John's faaiilj were going and Some friends of the family and an other little boy was going so John J would have someone just his own age with whom to play. They would have Urn h there and afternoon tea. There wounl be milk for John s?nd his friend instead ot afternoon tea. but thoy would have it | in the afternoon, so they could call it afternoon milk. There would be , cOcAies at this meal. too. It was splendid to see the lunch has- ; ket being packed with all the delicious j sandwiches which John's mother made. It was fun to start off in -the motor. First they went 'through the town where John lived: ? Then they took a ferry and it was . great fun to ride upon a boat right in the car and then stand still while the boat carried them all across the water . to the other side. At the other side they started the car again and went through a small town, then rhrough some woods and beyond some farms to Cow Bay. There it all was ? the biue, blue sea stretching way. way out as "though it knew it had all the room in the world, the banks ut each far end of the great wide beach; the surf. the clear, clean salt air mingled with the frag rance of the for ests?oh, what a heavenly place it. was. They ran races. the y went in w ading. the y went swimming, they ate. they rested, they had their pictures taken, they went , ? n wading again and swimming again and ate again, and they came home after a wonderful day the same w ay they had gone. But when they got home there was just one thing John couldn't under- j stand. They had said they were going to Cow Bay "some day," and now they bad gone on Tuesday. Why hadn't they gone "some day" ; as they had said instead of Tuesday? And then they explained to John j that "some day" meant any day upon which people did the thing they had planned to do "some day." They Went in Swimming. Ambition Kindly Old Gent? Well, my little man, what would you like to be when you grow up? Little Man ? I'd like to be a nice old gentleman like you, with nothing to do but walk about and ask questions. j. '.Prepared by the National (.ieotf taphlc So ciety. ^ M*lilnn ion. D.. U.v --^HINKSK or Kast Turkestan, tin latest country to attract an American scientific and big Kali 10 hunting expedition, is ? w itli the possible except inn of Tibet, lie most inaccessible region of eon adorable extent outside tlie frigid nines. Tibet is a huge Inft.v plateau i'rnni .which rises range .after range nf mountains. It is this hum' wide Tibetan mountain mass which blocks, the road from 'the south in Chinese Turkestan. To the southwest is the sea nf lijgh mountain peaks of I lie Karagoruin ninuntains .on the northern Kaslimir holder. I >ue west lies "the Knnf of the World." 1 he famous Pamir region ; and from the Pamirs the Thin Shan range and its connecting links to the Altai mountains sweep off to il.it* northeast separating ihe country from Kussran Asia. Inside this major barrier l be Tiati Slums curve round enfolding Chinese Turkestan on the north and almost completely walling it round with a rim u;f the world's loftiest mountains. It is nnly in the Kast that an open ing exists to- Chinese Turkestan, ami that is across 'extensive desert, regions, dwt ted with low mountains, which ex fend \ 'IT to China proper. Ceography. then. has conspired to make this re gion a Chinese province, b \j effectual ly feticin^ it from the rest of the world and by facing its one ?l< +?r toward China; and this in spite |>f the fact that the great majority ofl its Inhab itants are tint and never have been Chinese. \ Chinese Turkestan is roUghly miles wide, north anil south, and something more than l,(i"0 miles long, east and west. Inside tliel mountain walls the land slopes rapidly down to j what seems a very low, level plain ; which constitutes more than half ofl the ,0IM) square miles of the conn- j try. Although more than * 1 feet lower than the highest peaks that low er Over it, this plain is still several thousand feet .above sea level. Kveh the Hop Nor. the salt marsh-lake into w hich the water part of ihe. drain age of Chinese Turkestan.- finds its way. lies feet above the sea. Two hundred miles north of tlie I.op Nor is a small Asiatic "Death Valley" ::::o feet below sea level- Mus Tagli Ata. highest of the country's peaks, roaches a height of iM.-UMi.feet : so that ; there is a vertical range of more than j four ami a half miles. Much of It Is Desert. The snow-clad 'mountains of the l'amir region and the Tint) Sh.ins send down great quantifies of water which ? forms the Tarim river, Chinese Tur- ? kesta'ti's one great drainage system. I Ueginiiing in f.lie southwest this river Mows near the western and northern , rim nf the great plain, picking lip ad ditionaT streams and torrents In its I progress, and finally empties into the I. op Nor hear the eastern edge of die country. The heart of I'Liiiu se I urke stan, within the arc of, the Tarim, is ^ a great desolate desert, the iakla Makun, uninhabitable arid seldom penetrated. Since, the beginning nf history important towns have existed along the northern and western rim of the country ? through which con tact with the Kast is maintained. Among the mnr? Important <>f these are some well known by name even to those unfamiliar with Chinese Turke stan such as Vnrkand. Kashgar and Ak.su. tin the south side of the Takla Mnkan desert numerous streams rtow from the. great Tibetan mountain rampart. Most of these streams never enter the Tarim drainage system, but lose themselves in the desert. One. the . Khotan river, reaches the Tarim in times of Hood hut at other seasons conies to an end in the greedy sands many miles short of the big river. As on the northern and western rims of . the desert. oa>es dot the southern tini, j their lands irrigated from tlie many small streams that flow from the mountains on the border of Tibet. In this southern group of Oases. Khotan is the'- most important and the most famous city. The great majority of the inhabit ants of Chinese Turkestan are a mix lure of Aryans and central Asiatii Turks. The country is simply a con quered province nf China and there are only enough Chinese to hold the most important official positions, to garrison 'he chief cities, and to con trol certain lines of trade. Although the Chinese have been in control off and on for.- many centuries the people have never adopted the Chinese tongue nor have the officials learned trie .lagatai Turkish language most gen erally spoken. All Chinese officials are provided with interpreters. To the Chinese, Kast Turkestan is Sinrkiang,. or "The New Province." a name which advertises the westward extension of Chinese conquest many centuries ago. Sinkiang embraces also the division Sungaria. just north of Chinese Turkestan. The governor of the entire province, the "l'Utai, has his capital at Uruinclii. Ostentation Counts. P.ecause <?r the prevailing ideas of class importance and official prestige, European travelers in Chinese '1 urke stan are accorded consideration In proportion to the ostentation With which they travel. Those who walk are looked down upon. Everyone of any Importance rides, and the better the mount ine greater the respect di rected to the rider. Uniforms also c bring increased respect ? more or lesx in proportion to their showiness, One traveler tells how lie was rated as a very important personage, indeed, be cause when lie called on otlieials lie always got himself up in golf trousers, black leggings, a bright smoking jack et, and trinmu.nl his liat with bright colored doth. The road lo Chinese Turkestan from India leads not over a single mountain range and a single pass, liut involves crossing a hell of high mountains and deep valleys about i!00 miles broad, through several major passes- and numerous minor ones. The most di rect route leads from Srinagar, capital of Kashmir, as an advance hase, north l>y way of what is sometimes culled the Ilunza Pass into the Taghdumhash Pamir, the Chinese portion of "the Hoof of j lie World." This road leads over the filial harrier between British and. Chinese lands close t" the point where British,. Afghan and Chinese territory liave a common corner, and Kussian territory lies only about twen ty- miles away. From the Chinese I'jiuiir, a region whose valleys lie at an altitude of from MUHMI to feet, the route runs down some of the headwater streams of the Tarim through a rough mountainous region and foothills, to Yarkand. metropolis of Chinese Turkestan. The less direct route from Kashmir to Chinese Turkestan leads first to l.cli, remote hill town of l.adakh. about miles to the east. From l.eh eastward leads an important cara van road into Tibet, while to the north lies the eastern route to Chinese Tur- j kestan. The Karakorum I 'ass, over 1 Sfi h)0 feet high, the key to this route, is about 1<M? miles .north of I.eli. A short distance beyond Chinese terri- . tory Is reached and the w.'iy then leads through a rough country, following river gorges and striking across ridges, to the lowlands. Caravans both to K hot an and Yarkand follow this roiife. diverging In the latter stages of the journey. As a traveler approaches Yarkand after a trip through the bleak regions to the south he Is 'impressed by the fertility of the oasis in which this re mote metropolis is situated. Ibis H especial I /' true if he arrives at a sea son wht n the extensive orchards of apples, tears, peaches, apricots, mul berries n nd walnuts are in bloom or j fruit. The soil is a deep, fertile loess which n 'cds only water to make it ex ceedingly productive. Yarkand a Busy Place. Although a 1 afire community. Ynrk iind is An interesting. There are no structures of architectural value. The most] ues are devoid of beauty and . there is a sipiat sameness to tlie dwellings. The strut tures lining the principal streets have "sidewalks' protected by tlat tlmldied projections to afl'ord protect hm from the sun. Considerable business is conducted in the bazaars at Yarkand. 1 luring r!n* njifii M'lison in flu* iiiftiHltfliiw oara'vims art* . voustnutly coining in from India, China ami Kussian Tur kestan, and leaving for those coun tries. The various oases of Chinese Turkestan each have characteristic | handicraft products, and a selection of these are always available in Yark and: carpets, rugs. sfTk and cotton fabrics, metal work. leather goods. Most characteristic of the country are jade ornaments, for the mines of Chi- j nese Turkestan are l he most prolific source of jade known to the .world. ?Since conditions in China have been so disturbed in recent years, the out put of jade has fallen off markedly. K hot an. being nearer to the mines, is j the particular jade center of the eoiin- : t ry. Ka.-hgar, a hundred miles to the northwest of ^ ark and, has a popula tion only about half as great as Yarkand, but its inhabitants seem more prosperous. lis bazaar is clean er. its shops better and the streets are wider. Kashgar is not so fortunate. : however, in the matter of fertile soil ami must import some of its food st lifts from other oases'. Chinese Turkestan has a scientific interest for ethnologists and a sen t mental interest for all Westerners, for it is the reputed early home of the Arvan race. The Pamirs, which lay for centuries almost a mystical region, became well known during the Nineteenth century due to Kussian and British rivalry in that part of the world, and the dis patch by each of surveying parlies. When this activity began the Chinese, too, established military posts near their borders. Almost as effectual in clearing up the geography of the re gion have been the numerous expedi tions of big game hunters, chiefly Brit ish, who have gone into the region. The world long spoke of the Pamir re gion as a very high plateau. Marquess Curzon of Keddleston, then an M. 1 ?> visited the country in 1S!M. and was among the first to brand, this a miscon ception. and to describe the Pamirs a* very lofty, flat-bottomed mountain val leys. walled In by still more lofty peaks, in spring and summer grass grows luxuriantly on the floors of these valleys, a fact taken advantage of by a few nomad Kirghiz who bring in their flocks for fattening. Wild sheep and goats, yak. foxes, marmots, lynx, bears, ibex, leopards, wolves and wild dogs make up the ani mal life of the Pamirs. Fir.li abound in the lakes and numerous idrds are found. 1 AFTER HER BABY CAME Mrs. Hollister Unable To Do Her Work for Six Months Tells How Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Restored Her Health MRS. HENRY HOLLISTE3 WYANDOTTE, MICHIGAN Wyandotte, Michigan. ? "After my baby was born I did not do my own work for six months and could hardly take care of my own baby I always ' had a pain in my right aide and it was ho bad 1 was getting round shoulders. I would feel well one day and then feel so bad for three or four days that I would be in bed. One Sunday my mother came to see how I was, and she said a friend told her to tell me to try Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. So the next day 1 got a bottle and before it was half taken I Skunk Frozen to Track I". I.. IJiee. .1 1 1 1? ? i 1 1 ! >t ? l" nf 'lie seej in el'ew :it W'iiinlw ieh, ,\[;lihe. reported ? <i?e i!:i\ |;i>t winter tlial :i< the n:?*ii s(:irieil ?iver the iraek in ilie tn<>niiii^ rhey saw ;i sktltlk o.'l the ll'nek ;ilie:i<l ? if llieni. I n-awinu near. they tlisenv ereil I lull i| h:ld been eaitullt thiTe li.V its fur Iteinu frozen fe rlie frost \ rail IJiee killed t Si ?? skunk. ;i ri ? I then it was (|l]jte :i | Mill' t.< five it^ eaivjiss frnlu i lie rail. A Pessimist in New Bedford Tea< her Tell me. .lohitny, h*>\v malty mills make :i cent? .fohnny X'>r ,i one ?>f iheru. !!?>*? r.m Post. got relief. After I was well again I went to the doctor ari l he asked mo how I wan getting alum;. 1 told him I was taking Lydia E. I'inkham'a Vegetable Compound, and lie said it did not hurt any one to take it. I am always recommending the Vegetable Compound to others and I always have a bottle of it on hand."? Mrs. Hknky Hou.nsTKK, It. F. I). No. 1, Box 7, Wyandotte, .Michigan. Another Woman's Case St. Paul, Minnesota. ? "I have a littlo girl three y< ;.rs old ard ever since her birth i h.ive autfen '1 with my back as if it were breaking in two, and hearing-down pains ail the time. I also had diz/y spells. I had read several letters of women in the newspapers, and the druggist recommended l.ydia K. ri.'ikham'* Vegetable Compji.r. 1 to my husband for me. As a result of taking it my back has atoppc d aching and the awful bearing-dov.n feeling is gone. I feel stronger ami do all of my house work arid tend to my little girl. I have also taken l.ydia K. I'iriKham's Liver I'ills for constipation. I have recommended these medicines to some of my friends arH you may nso this letter as a testimonial it you wish. I will be pleased to answer letters of other women if I can help them by telling them what this medi cine has done forme."? Mrs. 1'KK K, 1 17 West Summit Avenue, St. 1'uul, M innesota. Queen Mary's China Olteeh M.irj I J re. 1 1 '?lt|e?|nr ?>( ? 'it i ll .1 . e-J >e. I:: ' ! ?. \\ . I atld "!! ("lie|??M. 1 1 ? ? iii.i i--'.. !..i- ursid i I . ? 1 1 v .ill! re-ilTaH-Mlt- lie' ehina at WinU-- il;e -|- i.il i.iliilot - ?r 1 1 .i ^ i t r- ? 1 1 1 ? tr.iin il.-ide al til.:!.! soJijftilM** a':t! rr lii'M.ili V Ii ? ?Its .ini > j.* ?< Writfli* < ? ?? . ? v*? Hvn|.toHi" an I i'.MTi . \ V A J /. Awful Girls ??Cee, 1 1 1 ??!???" ? :i ,r.? I'tjl !<i! '.'iris ?l liel; nil me." "Veali. I !; e \ aiij-t ??. ? .mi awful lot.'' Minile<.it,l Si.i^I \|;i!) RY for WWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW* MOTHER Fletcher's Cas toria is a pleasant, harmless Substitute lor Castor Oil, Pare goric, Teething Drops and Soothing S;. nips, e-;>e. iu!!v prepared for Infants in arms and Children all ages. To avoid imitations, always look for t!i- signature of Proven directions on cach package. Physicians everywhere recommend it "be again as healthy \ as you used fo be f The health and vigor you had in your youth can I>e yours again. Rheumatism, lumbago, liright's disease, and kindred ailments, are the result of weak, sluggish, impure blood, and the reason your blood becomes like this is because it lacks the iron which is essential to enable it to throw the poisons out of your system. It keeps on circulating these impurities through your body and these ailments steadily grow worse. They finally become dangerous. The most amazing tonic ever discovered, to give your blood the iron it needs, is Acid Iron Mineral, bottled just as Nature herself produced it. Physicians and scientists have never been able to duplicate A. I. M. It is the only mineral iron which can be taken up directly by the blood corpuscles. This is why it puri fies and strengthens your blood and so quickly gives you back that energy, appetite and vigorous health Nature intended you should have. For more than thirty years, this remarkable, natural blood tonic, has been bringing suffer ing men and women back to strength and health. It will do this for you. Go to your druggist today and get a bottle of Acid Iron Mineral. Also get ? box of A. I. M. pills. A-I-M Percolating Corp. SALEM, VIRGINIA
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