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6N A KERRY VI^.AG' IN A KERR TilIE historical and political im portance of Ireland has cre ated in the minds of many Americans an exaggerated idea of the island's physical proportions and the density of its population, two vital factors in England's task of sup pressing the rebellion which had its inception in the capital and largest city, Dublin. According to the Na tional Geographic society's bulletin the whole of Ireland embraces an area' slightly less than the state of Maine, but with a population almost six times as dense. In comparison with the governing country, it is three-fifths as large as England and Wales, with one-ninth the population. The island is one of the very few sections of the civilized world where the population has shown a marked decrease during the last century. The first census of the island, taken in 1821, recorded a population almost 50 per cent larger than at the pres ent time, while the census of 1841 showed the high-water mark of more than eight millions, nearly twice the present population of 4.375,000. This remarkable decrease, due largely to emigration, began after the famine brought about by the destructive dis ease which attacked the potato crops of 1845. This calamity resulted in the withdrawal of more than a mil lion acres from cultivation within two years. Incidentally the potato, which has played such an important role in the life of Ireland during the last 300 years, is not indigenous to the island, but was one of the food gold mines discovered by the Spar.iards in their conquest of Peru. The country is di rectly indebted to Sir Walter Raleigh 'TO.C CA5CADE for its "Irish" potatoes, as it was he who brought them from what is now North Carolina and planted them on his estate near Cork in 1585. Mountains, Bogs and Lakes. Ireland lies on the western rim of what was once a part of Continental Europe. It has numerous mountains. the highest being the McGillicuddy Reeks (3,414 feet), in the Killarney region, but there is no mountain chain or elevated "backbone." There is a more or less well deflued central plain, however, the distinguishing fea ture of which is its bogs-the black bog producing the famous peat fuel, NOT THE OLD MONTE CARLO War Has Had Decided Effect on the Great Gambling Resort of Europe. The noonday train draws slowly Into the station. A flood of passengers pours forth, writes a Monte Carlo cor respondent of the London Times. Leaving the station, the crowd surges tp into the marble steps and skirts the vast edifice which crowns the abrupt hilltop; it is soon swallowed up within the portals of the great building. It ts a shabby, dowdy crowd, moetly women. Can this be Monte Carlo? Can this crowd be hurrying so feverishly to tie.gm2g tables? The iahrlae is beanigly warm, the st brees fragrant with the mingled soeest of a thoumad flowers. Yet the termee is deserted. Now and then a wack figre pases hurriedly and dl, aesmrs into the casino, without lin blag tar an tinstant to enjoy the mlagic beauty t the scen I make my way Jlowly to the cUasno. sh doers of the amnig rooms are differentiated from the brown bogs of the mountains. If the whole island i were brought to a mean level it i would rise 400 feet above the sea. The lakes, or loughs, of Ireland are among its most widely appreciated physical characteristics, their scenic I beauty being the inspiration of poets. s painters and musicians. Nor have the r Irish rivers been overlooked in ap- B k praisals of the island's beauties. The I Shannon, which flows for 250 miles from the county of Cavan in the northwest to the Atlantic in the I southwest, is the longest water course I in the United Kingdom. It is navi t gated by large steamers for half its length, and is connected with Dublin by means of the Grand and Royal canals. Although coal is found in most of the 1 32 counties into which the island is divided, and there is considerable t iron ore, mining is not an important industry. Gold was being mined in a modest way in County Wicklow at the time of the rebellion of 1798, but the works were destroyed and the = source of the metal has never been re-discbvered. Industries of the Island. Agriculture and stock raising are the chief occupations of the inhabi tants. At one time the woolen manu factures of the island were formid able rivals of English factories, but hostile legislation gave the industry a check from which it has never recov ered. As the Irish have raised flax for centuries the manufacture of linen early became one of the important industries of the country. Irish whisky is an important article of ex port and one of the largest breweries in the world is located at Dublin. The island's production of beer is three 1 and a half million barrels annually. Shipbuilding in the great yards at Belfast is one of the most widely known of Irish activities, and the deep sea and coast fisheries afford a live lihood for many thousands. Thanks to the temperate influence of the west winds from the Atlantic, the thermometer rarely reaches freez ing point in winter, while the aver age for a summer day is 60 degrees. At Toor Head on the north the dis tance to Scotland (Mull of Cantiri) is only 13% miles. The Giant's Cause way, a short distance to the east of this point, is the outcropping basaltic formation which in a former age joined the two islands. Water Seemingly Flows From Tree. At Mount Lowe. Cal.. the thirsty vie s itor has only to turn on a faucet pro- 4 jecting from a large tree near the ho tel and water begins to flow. No wa. 4 ter pipes are to be seen, and curios ity is aroused at once. The lower part 1 of the tree is hollow, and the pipes are 1 run underground and up through the 1 hollow part to a knothole, where a faucet is attached. Around the faucet 1 the hole lIs plugged up with cement 1 which looks like the tree itself. Wise Practice of the Incas. The Incas, ancient rulers of Peru, f were one of the earliest authentic ex I amples of the high eugenic develop i, ment of the human race. Their sys r tem of choosing each year the finest r physical specimens of young woman a hood from all classes to become a "brides of the sun," or wives of the 1 ruler, having quite an opposite effect to that of the limited and unfortunate k matrimonial customs of present day 1, royalty. 3 thrown open by the familiar frock coated attendants. In the gloom-filled halls a somberly dressed crowd is clus tered about the gamin, tables. I go up to the first roulette able. The play ers seem to be chiefly hjusewives and a shopkeepers of the lower middle class, a recruited apparently from among the r. natives of the neighboring towns. Of-1 r icers and men of no matter what rank a of all the allied armies, whether in e uniform or not are rigorously exclud t ed. Today 80 per cent of the players n are women, unlike the old clientele; t plain bourgeois and peasant types of fy aces abound. The glitter and brilliance of the mul Is titude who gathered here in former o days has disappeared. The gold coin that shone so lustrously against the e green baize of the gambling tables has 4 vanished. The atmosphere of bacchic e beauty of this enchanted landscape, a of these hanging gardens which rise - tier upon tier above the sea, of this a- environment of sensauous splendor e which made of Monte Carlo a pagan sanctuary unique in the world, has a. faded away. Can it be otherwise when sIthe temule at JaUs staa Qet WHEN LOVE WAS YOUTHFUL IS The Little Girl With a Pigtail and Iii Skinny Legs Is Sweet Memory to Dayton Journal Man. Did you marry your first little sweetheart, she of the pinafore frock, th and, perhaps, the barber-pole stock- re Ings? It is certain that at times she m wore a cute little braided queue, though sometimes-when she was hr dressed up-her hair hung in curls TI down her slender back.' How the sun cc glinted in those curls, making them to nc shine with a splendor akin to that (t which lights the wing of drifting an- fir gels in the dreams of night! sa Do you remember where you stood Ri when you first kissed her? Of course, or you do, says a writer in the Dayton hi (0.) Journal. That is an incident gI which is graven in our memory .for- hi ever and ever. You felt thrilly and chilly and warm and were half scared TI to death. You saw God in her eyes tit and felt him in your soul. Wouldn't lo you give all you have, or ever expect to have, in exchange for the innocence w of your heart as it beat that day th against the little throbbing heart in (a her tender breast? tr But did you marry her? Some syn- P: dicate writer is asking the question, al and promises soon to tell us all about 1I it, provided a lot of people will first nt write letters telling her all about it. in Perhaps you married this little Ji woman of dreams, and perhaps you did not. The chances are that you tc did not. But you will remember the C sweet ache that troubled your soul in t. the days when you were wooing her - with a chivalry unknown to all who tl have passed beyond the heavenland n' of childhood. I When you think of her now your tt soul yearns backward to that never- a] never land. and maybe the moisture ti of sweet sad tears fills your eye. Did you marry her? Did you? b If you did, then, sometimes, when you take her hand, in the quiet of a summer evening, together you may is read the palmiest of memory, joying as it is given to but few mortals to E rejoice. H ;DANGER LIES IN BOILED EGG Scientists Discover Deadly Germs in Poultry Product-Buy Only Fresh Eggs. The fact that hens having certain b diseases well known to chicken fan- o ciers lay efgs from which come chicks that soon develop the parental dis ease led Dr. Leo F. Rettger, Thomas r G. Hull and Wiliam S. Sturges of the Sheffield laboratory, Yale university, and the Storrs agricultural exper- tl ment station, to investigate the possi t bility of such eggs being injurious to man. Doctor' Rettger is the discoverer of a the so-called bacteriem pullorum, which makes the hen sick, is in her egg when it is laid and then makes the chicken that is hatched sick. He and his associates report to the Jour nal of Experimental Medicine that adult fowls and young rabbits, to h which they fed infected eggs, soon h died, that kittens and guinea pigs it showed signs of poisoning, but that rats were unaffected. n They did not feed infected eggs to 11 human beings, but they cooked them in several ways ' td then examined s them for the bacteria. Boiling for five S minutes did not- destroy these. a Poaching made the eggs sterile. Fry- b ing on one side had no effect, but fry. ing on both sides destroyed the dis- t ease germs. Coddling was effective , only when continued for at least five a minutes. Cases of poisoning, sometimes on a p wide scale, after eating egs are quite d common. Sd Is the infection of fowls. I "Hence," say these experimenters in their report, "a large proportion of the marketed eggs is infected with bao. terium pullorum." They *warn con- ii sumers against any eggs but those h that are quite fresh, as the bacteria o in them develop very rapidly, espe- a cdally in summer. To Do Away With Old System. h The governndnt of India has decid- t ed to abolish the system of 'indentured a emigration to British colonies, but it ji - will be allowed for a further period of five years in order to permit the a - various colonies to adjust themselves t t to the labor conditions necessarily en- d tailed by the abolition of the inden- V Sture system. For practically half ac Scentury the colony of Trinidad had Sbeen dependent upon indentured la- e t borers from India, commonly known , as coolies, for the working of the d large sugar cocoa estates. Their la bor was the cheapest to be had, averag ing about twenty-four cents per day during the indentured periodr East E Indians now number approximately B 120,000 and constitute one-third of the j colony's population. Adding to French Wealth. Sixty families of the Maisons Alfort I t suburb of Paris have received assign- p ments of uncultivated land for plant. e tag potatoes and other vegetables, the F action being under a decree by the French minister of agriculture. This t is the first practical application of the a . measures adopted for the utilization a Sof all previously uncultivated lands. a A Looking It Over. A visitor to Indianapolls, who is Ssix feet four inches in height was Sasked by an acquaintance if he had I seen the federal building. "No." said the visitor. "I was in the d Sneighborhood, but I did not see it." p n "You probably overlooked it," was 1the comment of the acquaintance.-In a dlanapolis News. s SBad at Counting. '"1 see five times as many earth 1 quake shocks are recorded on the Pa cific coast of the United States as on n the Atlantic," said the New Yorker. S "Well, perhaps you Eastern people are like some golf players," replied Ic the Californian; "you forget to count." a Wooden Kind Only. SNewcomer-Can you tell me, please, r where I can find good board in this atown? SOld-Time City Dweller--Only in the a umber yard, I feer.--, IS SEVEN MYSTIC NUMBER? Here Are Some Facts Which Might Support the Theory That it Has Some Power. The Gerepans say .that "All 'good things are three"; but seven is also a remarkable, one might almost say a mystical, number. The little girl in Wordsworth's well known poem said: "We are seven." The days-of the week are seven. The colors of the rainbow are seven. The I otes of the musical scale are seven (the eighth one being the sanie as the first). There were said to be seven sages of Greece, and seven kings of Rome, and the city of Rome was built on seven hills. London city has seven hills also; Cornhill, Snow hill, Lud gate hill, Fish Street hill, Bread Street hill, Hlolborn hill and Tower hil. The world was made in seven days. There were seven famous cities of an tiquity: Rome, Antioch, Nineveh, Baby lon. Athens, Tyre and Carthage. There are seven wonders of the world, that is of the ancient world, and these were: The Colossus of Rhodes (a huge statue striding across the en trance to the barbor of Rhodes). the Pyramids, the=Nphesian temple ot DI ana, the maus1iltim kor tomb of King Mausolus. the remains of which are now in the Briftish fnuseum), the hang ing gardens of Babylon, the Statute of Jypiter and the *Plhros. There are ahs sevaen wonders of his tory. These a4: The Colosse,,m. the Catacombs, th~ Grfat Wall of China, ,jtpnehenge, the Leaning Tower of Pi sna, the Porcelain Tower of Naikin and the Mosque of St. Sophia at Constanti nople. Here are the seven new wonders of the world: Wireless, the. telephone, the areoplane, radium, antiseptics and an titoxins, spectrum analysis, X-rays. There are many passages in the Bi ble in which the number seven is men tioned, and it is on this account and the facts mentioned above that seven is considered a sacred number. EVIL AMONG THE PRISONERS Habitual Criminal Injures Wrongdoer With Better Aspirations-New Era Editorial. The habitual offenders released from prison, who continually persist in their criminal pursuits, are the men who bring disrepute on men now in and out of prison who strive to follow the straight path, says a writer in the New Era, federal penitentiary, Leaven worth.' Though these criminals are is reaping the harvest of their misdeeds 0 and their sins are steadily finding them out yet they cast a reflection on us that is a barrier to even better condi- p tions .within our walls. They are the men who shatter our hopes of a speedy a release by piling up statistics of dam- u aging record against us. They are the men who are responsible for the con r servative policy and cautions decision when our own lives are in the balance b e bf consideration for more privileges more paroles-liberty and freedom. e They are the men who wreck our u homes and tear down the structures of B hope that we have spent years in build- P ing. They are the builders of more P t prisons-architects of abuse--instru- d mentaaista of' barbarism in our penal e institutions. a Therefore we shOuld, with firm re- P solve, wreck the ambitions of our de s stroyers of salvation. We should unite t our forces and bring every pressure to bear to bring them to their right 6 senses of thinking, Society cannot, P through selfish economics, hope to e make better men out of habitual crimi- ti a nals nor reform even first offenders. a The habitual criminal is more to be n a pitied than censured. He must not be 0 0 deprived of his chance to make good '1 Sand it is society's duty to uplift him. V 0 improving Quality of Iron. c The variable impurities of the best 1- iron and iron-carbon alloys available K e have made unsatisfactory certain work t a of dihe United States bureau of stand- d ' ards. The working investigators, t therefore, have sought to produce ma- I terials of great purity and for this I t have adopted the plan of melting elec - trolytic iron with sugar carbon in i magnesia crucibles. The electrolytic 5 tiron was prepared. trom,.ingot Iron f I anodes in a chloride bath. Blowholes I Sand impurities in the ingot iron gave a 5 trouble in the beginning, but the dif- I fi- culty was overcome by melting in a ' vacuum furnace in specially made I a crucibles of very pure magnesia. Iron I i and a series of iron-carbon alloys were a - eventually produced, in which the im n purities did not exceed four-hun e dredths of one per cent. I Europe Has Shrunk. I Y An extremely interesting map of a t Europe, during the third interglacial 5 T pge, shoe land~ cending far into the I s Atlantic; with irtriv' where are now 1 the Engli'~ and Irish chahnels, the Shannon river beginning a little out a to sea from its present mouth and the a t Rhine Bow4ing into the Arctic ocean t s at a point twice as far from its pres t' ent pootti as the mnodein river is long. e What these river would be in the good I e year 1916 was not one of the things 1 5 that bothered the doughty piltdown e man, Ecanthropus Dawsoni, who i n scampered about Britain at that time, estimated at 100,000 to 300,000 years B ago. I s Grocer and Butcher. "I never worry over other people's 1 dtroubles." 1 "I do. There are a couple of men Sdown the street whose troubles give a me a lot of worry." "What are their troubles?' "My debts."-Boston Evening Tran script - Jenny Wren Is Particular, - Sometimes when I have mentioned - my wren family to a friend and told n how the pair came to the little house I almost as soon as it had been put up I e the frst time, someone has said: "I I h havd had bird boxes set up for years I and no birds have ever occupld them." I The reason for that state of affairs must be that the boxes are not In the I e, right bosttion.' They should face the I 1s south and are better, so I think, if somewhat sheltered from the rain and I ~ seat by overhanging eaves.-Philadel Pha Ledgse I WATER SUPPLY IS AN %PORTANT MATTER should be made sumclently strong to uphold this weight. Either wooden or galvanised metal tanks may be used. Wooden tanks may be obtained of almost any size, either circular or rectangular in shape. They are generally built of cedar or cypress, and are slightly conical. They are usually knocked down when shipped, and should be set up and filled with water as soon as received. The foundation should be good and solid and the weight of the tank should rest on the tank bottom and not on that part of the stave which projects below. A Flo k ank. C E-r b Gravity Supply Systm With 8tora Tank on Windmill Towe ravity Su lit' ut- Floor Gravity Supply System With Storage Tank on Windmill Tower-Gravity Sup. ply System With Tank in Attic-Pneumatic Tank Supply With Tank In Basement Supplied by Windmill Deep-Well Pumping Outfit. Farm water supplies may be divided into three classes, which in the order of their liability to pollution are sur face supplies, shallow underground supplies, and 'deep underground sup plies. The surface supplies are ob tained from streams, ponds, reservoirs and cisterns; both shallow and deep underground supplies are obtained from dug, bored, driven or drilled wells, and from springs. Surface .water supplies should not be used for household purposes or for washing milk cans. They should not even be used for laundry purposes unless no other supply is available. Rain water from the roof is often polluted by dust, leaves and the drop pings from birds. Any person who drinks water from suarface supplies 'edangers his health if such supplies are not adequately protected and then purified. Where underground waters are hard to obtain, cisterns may be used where the store of rain water and surface supplies will be filtered and partially purified. The cistern should be of water tight construction, to prevent leakage and to prevent pollution from the neighboring soil. It should have an overflow drain and a tight cover. There should also be suitable pro vision for straining or filtering the water previous to its entrance to the cistern. Unpolluted gprings are, as a rule, good sources of water supply, since the water usually comes from great depths within the rock or is filtered through many layers of sand and gravel. However, springs are subject to pollution from the same sources as wells, and should be closely watched in this respect. Farm spring supplies are often polluted by the drainage from buildings and stock pens. Spring water supplies from limestone are also subject to pollution from distant gar bage and sewage dumped in sink holes. The same precautions should be taken for safeguarding spring sup plies as in the case of wells, and in addition the spring should always be fenced to keep out stock. After a pure-water supply has been made available for the farm home the quantity of water needed must be considered. A suitable pumping equipment must be chosen and then a satisfactory means for distributing and storing the water must be pro vided. There are three general systems of storage and distribution which may be readily applied to farm conditions: the gravity, pneumatic, and auto pneumatic systems. In the gravity system water is forced into the elevated tank placed higher than the highest discharge cock. A storage tank may be placed in the attic, on the roof, or on a tower outside. The agricultural experiment station at Ames, Is., has designed a silo with a storage tank placed on top, Since there is considerableylctional resistance to the flow of watt through the distribution pipes, the tank should be placed at least ten feet higher than the highest discharge cock to insure a flow under pressure. Water weighs 62.5 pounds per cubic foot or about 8.4 pounds per gallon, so that in placing a tank in the attic or on the roof the supports -----------_-_---___ Clearing the .and. Stump pullers are now made in a number of sizes, suitable for all classes of work, and where conditions are at all favorable, it is surprising how much use can be accomplished in a day by their use. Where time is available, probably the best method is to cut off the trees one year and pull the stumps the next. A year's time for the stamps to die makes a great difference in the time sat labor required to do a given mnost of work. d The capacities of. circular tanksl. r may be found in the following: Ca r- pacity in gallons equals diameter in d feet, squared, multiplied by 0.7854, multiplied by the depth in feet, mul - tiplied by 7.48. One cubic foot equals v 7.8 gallons. When located in build- g' p ings wooden tanks are commonly t 4 made rectangular. They may be lined N d with tinned copper, but never with lead. To obviate the use of heavy o ,t planking, rods are used to rigidly sC r tie together the end and side braces. at The pneumatic tank system consists is of a force pump, an air-tight steel tank, necessary pipe. valves, fittings, n etc., and power for operating the to - pump. The system may be a smallb o one, operated by na..d, windmill or es s engine; or it may coUist qt a 0 a larke pamp operated by a ,powerful n engine with two or more tanks of large capacity. d The tank may be placed in the base- do e ment or underground, thus keeping e the water cool and preventing freezing. i y In the operation of the pneumatic system water is forced into the air r- tight tank, thus compressing the air ti e into a smaller space and creating an te air pressure which forces the water bi n to the discharge cocks. r. In determining the capacity of the o- tank, it is necessary that about one- !1 1e third of the computed storage capacity L1 be added to provide space for the com pressed air. e, In the auto-pneumatic system the ci :e water is delivered fresh from the well ca it to the faucets. This system consists n d essentially of an air compressor driven a, id by a small gas engine or electric o ct motor, an air-tight steel air-pressure o Ls tank, and one or more auto-pneumatic d Id pumps. No water tank is required., es since nothing is stored, but compressed te air. The pump consists of two sngall 18 metallic chambers submerged in the 10 water, and when a faucet is opened h .r- they automatically 1111 and discharge, ik owing to the air pressure from the c Id storage tank, thus giving a continuous P- flow of fresh water. in The auto-pneumatic pump can be be used in wells, springs or lakes where the water is free from sand and mud 'n and does not have to be lifted more ae than 100 feet or where the working st pressure does not exceed 65 pounds. PRINCIPAL EFFECTS OF LIME UPON SOIL : Sweetens Sourness and Corrects Acidity-Clammy Soil Does Not Yield Well. r ed It may be said that lime has two er principal effects upon soil. It sweet nt ens sour soil; it improves the physical a defects. Crops will not do well in sour ip, soil. This is readily shown in alfalfa ial and clover. The leaves turn yellow 6h and the plants look sickly when the 14 soil is sour. Such soil needs lime to an neutralize the acid. re Heavy, cloddy, clammy soil will not yield well. Such soil does net easily or admit air and water and does not sup er port soil bacteria so important in a in fertile soil. Use lime if you have such ts soil. Radishes. When radishes are pulled for use, I all if a seed is dropped into the soil I as which has been loosened by pulling I ag the radishes from the ground, a con- I ed stant supply can be kept on hand as long as you need them. ly es Salt for Chickens. it. Fowls, unlike eattsle cannot be al. e lowed a salt supply to at at will, as no they will invariably eat such qusati sa Le. as to case salt poleosing ad IN DEFENSE OF THE HUNCH Maybe It Ir Superstition, But If You Are Wise You Will Heed Yours Next Time. 1 "Play your hunches" is a good rule to follow. It is not a direction to the superstitious alone. Indeed, it is to be l doubted that the superstitious derive f much benefit from their hunches. They y have so many charms upon which to 1 place reliance that they look rather un e favorably upon such a practical help as a a hunch. The practical minded, no d doubt, will deny that a hunch has any f value, but that is because they are not I as practical as they think they are. e Common sense does not ignore hunches, and without common sense Sno cannot have practical sense. A hunch is an impulse to the judg ment, declares a writer in the Pitts burgh Gazette Times. It is an invol untary mental operation, an instan taneous appeal to and inclination of the judgment upon the outcome of which momentous consequences for weal or woe may depend. It may be instinctive or it may be intuitive, but it is an imperative demand for action. It does not always compel the right action, though usually it does. It is a sleepless outlook, an ever-alert moni tor within the human mind that sounds a warning and points the road of safe ty. In that case the unthinking regard it as a premonition. If the instant ac tion upon it avoids disaster to him to whom it comes he usually credits it to luck. Really he should know that he has been saved by a hunch. There is the case of that New Haven engineer who averted a serious wreck near Waterbury, Conn. Driving along at high speed he had a hunch that all was not right on the track ahead. His judgment told him to stop. He did. and only a few persons were injured when the train ran into a clogged switch. Had he not acted promptly on his hunch another terrible wreck prob ably would have been reported. There was good fruit from the teachings of safety first. An appeal to the judgment through a hunch (an unaccountable suspicion), right inclination of the judgment through practical sense in stantaneously, and wisdom to act without further knowledge. That's all there is to it. No superstition. No guessing. A complete vindication for the hunch. Better act on yours. CLUE TO CAUSE OF CANCER u Perhape There is Good Reason Why Moses Forbade Use of Pork to Hebrews. The latest scientific support for the Mosaic code is perhaps not a very g- reat matter, but it is immensely in teresting, writes the medical corre sd pondent of the London Times. In the last issue of the British Journal of Surgery there appears a paper de y scribing the appearances of certain blood cells in malignant disease (can cer). The author is a well-known ob server. Certain peculiarities of the cells of the blood were noted by him in capcer cases, and it then occurred to him that these changes might also be produced by taking- certain ar ticles of diet. He carried out various tests, and the following is his con clualoa: "It was found that one can repro duce the blood picture of carcinoma (cancer) in respect to -the nuclear pseudopods by partaking of certain articles of food-notably pork. and to lc a less extent other red meats." He i ads: "Incidentally, these observa r tlons uggest the physiological reason a for the dietary imposed upon the He er brew race (Gen. 9, 4; Lev. 11)." While no hurried conclusions must Sbe arrived at on the strength of what Sis, after all, only a very small item ty in the picture of the disease, it is yes " fair comment that "since one phase of the blood picture produced by cir he culating toxins of malignant disease l11 can be imitated by ingestion of highly Snilrogenous food (i. e., pork, etc.), it en suggests that long-continued overuse ic of the same may form an advantage re ous substratum for the subsequent tic development of the disease . . . SThis statement has only a speculative ed value." . . . ll The passage in Leviticus runs: he "And the swine, though he divide the Shoof and be cloven-footed, yet be he' cheweth not the cud; he is unclean to you." Things That Save. e "Saved by his spectacle case," was ud the report which went out following re the attack upon Colonel Roosevelt in Milwaukee three and a half years ago. "Saved by.a silver dollar" is the re port from Seattle regarding a man who would have been shot through the breast but for a protecting coin in his pocket. "Saved by a highball" Is the re L port of a near-tragedy of thirst in the ury belt. "Saved by grace" runs the old revival hymn. And "Saved by her--" but propriety bids us pause. Anyhow. It she was a woman, sad she was at tacked with a deadly weapon. But she wore an invisible coat of armor reputed not to be ujnasual among those of her sex. A salvage of good form wo waq reported.-- St. Paul Dispatch. cal Teach Girls About Electricity. ur That the girls who are being trained Sto be the housewives of tomorrow may w have a clear knowledge and under ja standing of the various and important to uses of electricity in the moder. household, the domestic science d': ot par'ment of the W'ash'ngton Irving l high school, New York city, maintains Sa thorough course in electric house up bold appliances. Eight hundre'l young ch women are enrolled in the domestic science department. S Montana's Capphire Mines. The stzte of Montana is one of the se, world's richest fields tor sapphire win oil ing. competing on fairly even terms ig with the great sapphire districts of the n- far East and has already produced as nearly $2,000000 worth of these high ly valued gems. Just So. al "Just what do you mean by classical g music?" It "Why, It's the kind of male you Ike Sbecause somebody tells yo ye ought to Ikte it."