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Haifa,- Palestine.—Having given the world-Christianity, the one most near­ly universally" accepted 'religion, Pales­tine has now become headquarters of a faith, Behaism, formerly called Bab-Ism, i/which its 'followers and some writers in Europe and America, claim to be the-universal and final religion.

$1? Since 1 have found religion to 'be,', in practice, fundamental to my main the-sis in this series of articles, "The

( Awaking of the Older Nations," I rer Pa'red hither to the home of the head

St* -of the Bahists and its "Messiah," Ab-rfM dul Baha Abbas. v ,\f It was somewhat of a shock to be

told, when I made, inquiry at the large i Jfylt fray, stone, house here, that Abbas Bf-

fendi was away on a vacation for his •Mi *U, health. The house was full of people, MVitif - - -- - - - -/-}J as I could tell by the voices of scurry-4Ap*tag females in the echping-hall, when l-ltsJz'i'it I succeeded in making my presence

known at the knobless doorbell. There were several-children playing--in the • ^

Hj, large, unsodded yard, /and. doubtless fk one :of' these reported' the. stranger's

coming. These were grandchildren: for Abbas Effendi has four daughters,

- but no sons. The whole family, or group of families, live in the one house. Oriental fashion. An English governess, who. is not'a Behaist, lives with them to teach the children.

A "Messiah" at a Summer Resort. There are no disciples ,of the Beha­

ist "Messiah" in Syria,' except the -pilgrims who coote her®, and the num­ber of these is regulated by Abbas Ef­fendi himself. He is highly spoken of by his neighbors, and especially by the

• poor, to whom he gives presents, some­times standing-on the corner, andgiv-

; ing away a hundred garments. He is < enabled 'to do this 'by the rich pres-

- ents of his followers, who are said to number several million, in Persia.

:. Abbas Effendi. makes no claim to be tfiwc a 'healer, and he himself occasionally 'tVneeds the doctor's attention.; He is

simple in: his manner of life, as .jh-J steadfastly refused to take more than r|> | one wife, despite the fact that he has

|no son,/and that his'father before him, 8$|s3j The Blessed Perfection," had two

wives. His teachings permit polyg-^ amy, but they counsel against it.

Incongruous though it seemed to find a "Messiah'" gone away to a health resort, I followed Abbas 'Effendi to Alexandria, in Egypt, where I,' trailed him by trolley car from a huge 'sum­mer hotel to a magnificent private house which he has. rented, for his

t sojourn. There,. hospitably received, ' ffifl for Abbas Effendi is fond«of visitors, I

had a most Interesting interview with the man whom 'a considerable number of Americans and Britons, and: mll-

,3t. lions in Asia, call "Master," and hail ^ as the latest and fullest manifestation

fi»$|wot_t&e .Deity. ;. ,k, A New-Religion^and Its Martyr*. The' proof of martyrdom has been

abundantly given to Bablsm, or Beha-Jsm. The Bab himself was executed at Tabriz in 1850, at, the age of 31, six

V?.| years after he. had [enunciated his gen-tie doctrines, and' had called himself

; .,'}'"The Gate," < to knowledge, recalling kfm.v -• — - • the

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beard and shaggy iron gray looks, the same transparent. skin.

As he speaks Abbas Effendi opens wide his big gray eyes beneath his bushy eyebrows, and looks directly at one, giving an appearance of unsim-ulated interest and sincerity. He is a restless person—doubtless those 40 odd years as a prisoner have left their mark on his nerves—and through­out the interview he wriggled and twisted his body, sometimes revealing the folded red handana handkerchief -upon which he sat; sometimes cocking his fez to the back of his head, and sgaln to the side, and sometimes rak-ishly forward until it rested on the high bridge of his nose. All the while he was talking he twiddled in his long white hands a string of moth-er-of-pearls beads, such as gentlemen commonly carry in this part 1 of the •world. Altogether, he looks the part of a benevolent old gentleman with considerable force of character..

This positiveness was shown during the interview. A gentle-faced young Englishman, who looked fitter for eso­teric discussions than for the football field, had been doing the interpreting, Abbas Effendi speaking in Persian. The most difficult form of interpreta­tion is that of a discussion of abstract themes, and I early saw that the young man's renderings were inadequate; my host saw it, also; and peremptorily or­dered one other of his attendants to repeat what he said, sentence by sen­tence. • ' '

In the room during the conversation, besides the two men mentioned, was a Persian Pilgrim, who wore the green turban that marked him as a de­scendant of Mahomet; a keen-eyed old •fellow, who followed the discussion in­tently; and another .Persian in long fclack cloak and turban, who looked as if he might sit for an illuminated edi­tion of Omar Khayam; but he went sound;asleep during the Interview. The conversation lasted for over an hour, and I was cordially-pressed to remain and partake of a Persian meal; hut a journalist must be careful whose salt he eats, if he is to remain tree.

Behariats in America. After the pleasant generalizations

with which the conversation opened, I

prophet?" That word is often used as meaning any man with a new or help­ful message to his time; but yoa surely do. not put the prophets you. have named in the same class with; the ordinary writer, teacher or preach­er today?"

Here again the "Prophet" of the Be-hatsts showed his rare skill at eva­sion. He took up the -figure' of the mirror, and dwelt at great length upon that,-and would not be diverted; the prophet is the man who best, mirrors God. I could not get to him the sug­gestion that, after all, the mirror does not reflect or,impart life, heat or pow­er. Nor could I get past the inter­preter- the query whether this teach­ing is not a great comedown for those of Buddha, with his doctrine of man being part of the divine essence; and of Jesus,. who professed to give life; and who boldly declared: "I and the Father are one;" and of Mohamet, with his stern claim to be the very voice and representative of God. In­terpreters arq a great ' convenience, when there, are uncomfortable ques­tions flying around.

What Behalsm Stands For. A definition of Behaism, which to an

unsentimental westerner seems rather vague, is the hard thing to secure; so I asked Abbas Effendi, frankly, to give me a categorical definition of the dis­tinctive doctrine of Beharis'm, "some­thing with hooks to it, so that it will grasp the ordinary man." .This he pa­tiently and kindly did. . "First.: Behalsm believes that all men are brothers, and should so act.

"Second. Behaism believes that there should be no strife o( religious creeds. All are equal. No man need change his religion when he becomes a Behaist, whether he is a Moslem, a Christian or a Buddhist.

"Third. There should be no war between;, races ,or countries. Thpre should .be international brotherhood and - international peace." Incident­ally, ' the • retainer who had done the interpreting, • later' told me that Ab­bas believes that there will be a great war, and then world-wide peace. He also advocates .one language and one form of writing.

"Fourth. Behaism teaches its follow-

y^^^'the prophecies of the Bible and • •SKoran, concerning a coming one.

fteK<.i$the bitter . persecutions. by the MOB-hv-, k:*- ';ieras that; ensued, the followers of the

ig^pf^Sab met death'finely. There were few re^|_,arecantadons,.and in a single, year the

JU ^4>,asraany '^ lO.OQO. " " ' '

Bab, a grbiip^of leaders fled to Bagdad^ ~'S7among them Mirza' Hassyn All, whom

Two years after the death of tl ib, a grbiip^of leaders fled to Bagda< nong th'em Mirza' Hassyn All, who:

J^the. Bab had called "Beha Ullah," "The Glory df God." He spent two years in

®^f"*"?the mountains in seclusion and medi-rAftflr a Hma fin on

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|||tation. j, {After a time he announced to j&*a few of his closest friends, that he

IMwas the "Manifestation," of whom the i|i|»Bab had been the forerunner. In 1^81863 the Bagdad Bablsts were sent

H^Sinto exile at Adrianople. Five years ¥f%l®later Beha, who bad come to be gen-X;lferaUy accepted by Babists as the w'} '^ij.Messiah (although not without rivals), K1*?v|who thenceforth called themselves L|ST;*^l"Behaists," was sent into confinement 4]^;iat Akka, a few miles north,of Haifa, ft-5^|where he produced many writings, and

"ladled In . 1892. He was succeeded by fejii^his e--. Abbas Effendi, who is called

jS^T^'iby Bahists "Our( Master," and "Our Lord." He, too, has had. rivals—and

-c^the contentions of -aspirants for the .. leadership has been a blot on the his-

*v|tory of Behalsm, but he seems now to generally accepted by'nearly all

v - tprofessors of the faith. His "Tablets," or messages, are regularly read in the meetings of the faithful.

A Picturesque Personality. : The essence of Behalsm is .the doc­trine that messengers, or manifesta­tions, of God, are sent whenever the

0 x voice of their predecessor becomes ob-4| /. scured. These "Messiahs" are fre-

'H quently given; as Moses, Zoroaster, V Buddha, Christ, Mahomet, and the

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founders of the Behai faith. Of the JBehai man<'a<;tatlon8, the last is the

. . „af fulle"t -eyelation Of all. So I read in 'i ^th®' hook upon Behalsm which finds

most favor with the leaders of the ;,;cult. Of course this doctrine makes ^Abbas Effendi the greatest of all the

prophets and incarnations of God; is y-^tv i* »it any . wonder that I should want to "rtv" ' r8ee him?. Especially so, as all the ar­

ticles I have read upon him picture him as a very wonderful individual. ; In an elegantly furnished modern house I found. Abbas Effendi seated on a sofa, waiting for me. He is a striking, figure in any garb, and

g'-^when clad in a white tarboosh, or • ;fez, with a white cloth wound around Ujlt, Moslem Style, and a long gray outer

cloak of mohair, like a motor coat, : and two - white cloaks beneath it, he . would attract attention anywhere. He

.resembles, in appearance and manner, ' General Booth of the Salvation Army, more than any other man I recall. He has the £ame Roman nose, the same restless, 4iawk-like eye, the same silver I

Waited Long for Honor. Forty years to elapse before honor­

ing a hero is, to-say the least, a rea­sonable time. Few of his comrades will be left to say that the distinction is Invidious Tet this is what has happened to the man who saved the Louvre when Pails was in the bands of the commune in 1871. Maj Mar-tian de Bernardy de Segoyer was the hero of May "24, 1871, and the victim

• of the mob a day or so later He was In command of the Twenty-sixth •battalion de chasBeura-a-pied and was

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asked Abbas Effendi concerning the number of his disciples in America, for; this has been put as high as a million. He himself avoids the use of .the word "disciples," but does not object to its employment by others. I coultf.not get him to give even approxi­mate figures; he contented himself with saying that he had'many friends in America and that there are regular spiritual gatherings of these in Wash­ington, Boston and Chicago. It is evi­dently with these centers that he con­ducts his correspondence, for the names frequently recurred.

As to the number of Behaists In the world he was equally vague, but wholly honest. When 1 said that a friend from Persia had told me that fully half the people in Persia are Behaists, he promptly declared that he thought this number entirely too high. Equally candid was he in saying that there are practically no Behaists in Turkey; the following is found chiefly in Persia, and then , in India, America, Great-Brit­ain. and a scattering in other coun­tries. "Quality," he - remarked, "Is more important than quantity; better five diamonds than a hundred peb­bles." Abbas Effendi has considerable aptness in the art of illustration; this was further shown when, we got on the main track of the meaning of Behaism.

An All-Inclusive Religion. 'All religions," said Abbas Effendi,

"are substantially the same; there la no real difference. The difference is only in names. There were once a Turk, a Greek, a Persian and an Arab, to whom a piece of money was given In common. Each said in his own tongue what he wanted bought with it, and they had a long and angry discus­sion. Then along came a man bearing grapes—and lo, that was what they all wanted, but each had used a dif­ferent name for It. So Moses, Buddha, Confucius, Christ, Mahomet, were all prophets of God. They merely had different names. Each should accept the other."

When this important 'point was pressed, he affirmed that all Chris­tians should accept. Mohamet, as the Jews Bhould have accepted, Christ. •

"Do you really mean that all relig­ions are essentially the same, and that one is as good as another? Do you include paganism, and Idolatry?"

""Yes, they were all right at first, even Buddhism, which has deterior­ated, as all religions do." At this point my host's knowledge of the ancient and so-called "ethical faiths," proved so shaky that I abandoned this line of questioning.

He got on to firmer ground by say­ing: "There have been a thousand 'unknown prophets'in the world. They were truly prophets of God, but the world never recognized them."

"Please tell me what you mean hy

dispatched to occupy the Tuilerles garden. He saw the Louvre was threatened. In fact, the flames had reached the gallery of antiquities. He had no orders, but he took upon-him­self to send his men and in a short time the flames were under control.— London Globe.

ers to- love everybody. In Persia ther® are Jews, Moslems, Zoroastrians, Budd­hists, Brahmins and Christians, who meet in love and cohcord as Behaist®. It removes fanaticism from all-sects."

And I verily believe that Abbas Ef-dendi practices his'creed,-for he is a gentle, kindly man; who, however, haa no conception whatever of the high in-exorableness of truth. Gen. £ew Wal­lace's aphorism: "Better law with­out love, than love -Without law," would not appeal to, him. None the less, bis high, fine ideals, embodying as they do, the commonplaces of Christianity, are in consonance with the spirit ol the age, and we may expect to see Be­haism grow and prosper, especially among sentimental persons. Its claim to be the" final and universal religion is scarcely tenable, since it has not bones enough to stand the scalpels ol the scholars,

(Copyright, 1911, by Joseph B. Bowie*.)

Fully Prepared. When a certain little girl of Balti­

more was recently sent off by her mother to visit an aunt in Washing­ton, the youngster was cautioned that she must always be "on time" for breakfast while at her aunt's house.

"Don't give them any occasion to complain, dearie," said the mother. You're always so late for breakfast at htfpe."

When the little girl returned home, about the first thing she told her moth­er was: "I was down to the tabl® every morning just as soon as any of them."

"Glad to hear that, dearie," said the proud mother. "How did you man-age to be so punctual?"

"Every night," explained the young­ster, "I put on my nighty and slept in my clothes, so'® to be nice an' ready in the morning."—Llppincott's Magazine.

WRECKED BEFORE SHE EVER MADE A FLIGHT

7 F L Y A F T E R I T S P A L L

THE May Fly, a dirigible built for the British navy at a cost of about $200,000, met with disaster recently when she wa» taken out of the shed for her first trial flight. Fortunately there was no loss of life; although the

officers and men in charge of the vessel were for a time in an extremely: perilous position, during which they behaved with great courage and coolness. Almost immediately after coming out of the shed the airship was caught by the wind, heeled over,' and eventually broke her back. Her fate will probably cause thevabandon­ment of lighter-than-air craft in. favor of the heavier-tban-alr biplane or monoplane >

ASK NEW CALENDAR British Statesman Would Rear-

t range Months of Year.

Every Month Would Begin on 8unday —New Year Day and Leap Year

/ Separate—Many Other Novel • Features in Scheme.

Child Stories. little boy was asked how he

stood in school. "In the corner," • he replied. ,, Once upon a time a little girl was asked to define a moun-

Strength of Building Materlalsl The bureau of standards gives th®

following comparative compressive strengths of materials a square Inch when used in piers or columns: Steel and cast iron each 30,000 pounds a sqiiare inch; hard brick piers laid in cement mortar, 4,700 pounds, laid In lime mortar, 1,000 pounds; mortar, 1 to 1, 5,000 uounds; 1 to 3, 2,700 pounds; 1 to 5, 1,100 pounds; long-leaf pine, from 4,500 to 7,000 pounds a square inch; short-leaf pine' and spruce, 3,000 pounds, and Douglas fir, 4,000 pounds, a square inch. It should be noted that 7,000 pounds is an un­usually. high result for long-leaf pine.

Elizabeth One Bear, a Sioux Indian maiden, has brought suit against Ja­cob Abraham, charging breach of promise. She wants $5,000 as a halm for wounded affections.

tain rapge. She said " was a large-sized cook stove. ... A school teacher asked her class who was the mother of the great Scottish leader, Robert Bruca "Mrs. Bruce," said one little boy. ... A little girl went out on her back porch one morn­ing and found that a chunk of ice left by the Iceman was nearly • all melted/ "The ice Is -ibout all drowned," she told her mother. . . • . A teacher asked a little girl:-"What la the office of the gastrlc_ Juice*!' "Th® stomach," she said.

London.—Sir Henry 'Dalzlel, leader of the ultra-radicals in the house of commons, the ifather of the bill'which aims at giving Scotland local self-government had just had prepared a bill to alter the calendar. This bill, known as the fixed calendar bill, con­tains some, novel features. As the memorandum which accompanies it ex­plains, the bill purposes to substitute for the present irregular calendar a fixed calendar having regular periods, of which the week is the common measure. •/

In this, as in other features, It dif­fers from the calendar reform bill, in­troduced in the house of commons in 1909, but whiqh never got beyond the Becond reading stage. ,

That bill sought to make the months as uniform in length as possible, but as a difference in this respect is un­avoidable in a year with 12 months, it is thought better to Increase that dif­ference so as to allow of the week be­ing a. common measure of all months. This arrangement malces it possible for each month to begin on a Sunday and end on a Saturday.

A table giving the proposed fixed calendar shows that the months of January, February,-April, May, July, August, October and November would each consist of 28 days, while the re­maining months of March, June. Sep­tember and December would each have 35 days. "New .Year day" Is set apart, thus bringing the'total of days up to the requisite number o> 365 days, while for leap year a special day is set apart for "Leap day," which is to be intercalated between the last day

YANKEE ANKLES TOO BEEFY

"Better. Fifty Years of Europe Than an Instep of Back Bay," Para­

phrase® Briton In Boston.';.-

Boston.—Literary England doesn't like the ankles of the women of, Amer­ica: Alfred Tennyson 'Dickens, son of the novelist and godson or the poet, cries aloud in paraphrase of.his god­father: "~

"Better fifty years of Europe than an instep of Back Bay."

At the City club Mr. Dickens, told the sad story of how, "walking about, his eyes cast down, presumably through homesickness for London. be caught a glimpse of Boston ankles and bow his soul cried out in horror:

"Beefy! Beefy as Mrs. Micawber's own!"

- Mr. Dickens aald later he was only attempting to be a little humorous in a land where he'bad beard humor was lightly thought of. He gave his word not to touch on such a dainty topic again as long as he lived.

of June and the first day of July, as re­constituted by th,e bill.

A' clause In the bill provides that the New Year day and Leap day shall not be accounted days of the week, and shall not, except where specially

.mentioned or. provided for, lie held to De included in any computation of days, but shall otherwise be public bank holidays. The conditions 0* labor on these days, and the remuneration therofor, under the bill, would conform as far as possible to what prevails on Sundays. A fixed date, April 15; is se­lected for Easter day.

Finally, the bill, if passed by parlia­ment, will not become operative until the government decides that sufficient international concurrence has been se­cured. . .

MONEY ADRIFT THREE YEARS

CAT SLEEPS ON $16,000 RUG

Lives All Night In Waldorf-Astoria Safe, Which Is Supposed to B®

j jp; Airtight and Burglar Proof.

'New York.—When Frank Allstrom, treasurer of the Waldorf-Astoria, opened the inner doors of the big sate in his private office he was greeted by a stray black cat which jumped from a vault containing (16,000 In fresh, crisp bank notes.

Mr. Allstrom could not explain how the tramp cat happened to be In the safe. Although the massive steel vault is airtight and burglar proof, the cat seemed none the worse for its sixteen hours of Imprisonment.

"After unlocking the sar«," Mr. All­strom said. "1 reached Into the vault where I had placed the bank noteB. I was never more surprised In my lire than when the big. black cat yawned and looked at me as though to ask, 'Is my breakfast ready?'

"We have been unable to ascertain how the cat gained access to the safe, as the inner doors are at all times kept , locked. None of my assistants can recall seeing the cat In the office before we closed the safe «n Tuesday afternoon."

Pocketbook Dropped From Boat In Delaware Bay Comet Ashore and

$$§• Owner Recovers 'Valuables. ^

Lewes, Del.—Dr. Harry Hickman of Philadelphia has recovered his pock­etbook and $120 which it contalped. Three years- ago he dropped it from a launch into Delaware bay. The pocketbook was found by tbe little daughter of Ernest Lynch, wbo picked it up on a marsh where she was driv­ing a cow, where' it was probably washed by some winter storm.

Three years ago Dr. Hickman, wbo was visiting here, was In a launch par­ty and dropped his pocketbook over­board. Search was made for it. but no trace was discovered Some of the money found by the-girl was redeem­ed at the National Bank here and the rest, which was badly soaked and torn, sent to Washington for redemp­tion. Although the pocketbook con­tained Dr. Hickman's name in it when It was lost, the card was gone when it was returned to him. :"t

SNEEZE PLAYS GREAT HAVOC

Big Indian Elephant Performs Her Triennial Feat, Shaking Building

and Breaking Glass.

London.—Daisy, the big Indian ele­phant, which sneezes once in three years, performed her triennial feat the other afternoon at the Bostock Jungle, White City. As results of her sneeze;

Huge pieces of plaster fell from the; ceiling.

(Four' windows were broken. An-electric light cluster was smash­

ed. A party of thirty schoolboys were

watching Daisy, which bad been mo­tionless for more than an hour, when suddenly the animal gave a scream, reared up on its hind legs and. giving vent to a roar that shook the jungle to its foundations, spurted a stream of water over them, drenching them to the,skin. /

Daisy laid down Immediately after her sneeze and went to sleep.

Judge Is Expert With Needl®. Hot Springs, S. D.—Emmett B.

Cook, Justice of the peace, aged 61 years, devotes several hours every day to th£ making of fancy work. One of the features of the. exhibit at the state fair from this county will be a crasy quilt made by him.

Sewing is Mr. Cook's hobby. He learned it as a child. Although once famous in New York state as a ball player, he has become more pgtod for doing fancy work.

Since the death of his wife, a few years ago, he has lived alone. He de­voted several hours each day to hi® crazy quilt patch®®. jy

NEWEST THING IN COOKING -x-

From 'Paris Comts an Innovation Which Will Eliminate . Present

Clews to Menu of Host. -" ;>

Chicago.—And now It Is odorless cookery.

Straight from Paris, and also from a master chef of that epicurean met­ropolis, has come the latest item of elimination by which modern civiliza­tion makes its progress, and a bevy of Chicago matrons, young women who have "come out" and others soon to do the same crowded the instruc­tion rooms of the Chicago School of Domestic Arts and Sciences to learn of the newest thing In cookery.

For no longer are palates to be tickled and mouths to water on Thanksgiving morning at the frag­rance of roasting turkey, and the higher cost of turkey will not neces­sarily be responsible.

No longer are the breezes to waft more of frying onion and boiling cab­bage from your neighbor's kitchen tp your living rooms than that neighbor gets when his dinner is served.

And never more will houses become saturated With stale reminiscences of the failures and mistakes of cook® Who might have been more accom­plished in their vocation.

Investment in a few paper bags 1® all that Is necessary for the new style of cookery. It is almost utensll-less, as well as odorless, and the hours and energy employed in scraping pots and pans hereafter will be saved.

The greater part of an elaborate dinner was placed in a single com­partment of one oven by cookery stu­

dents of the School of Domestic Art® and Sciences this morning. And when onions, trout, bacon, baked ap­ples, potatoes, stuffed tomatoes and several other edibles were cooking steadily at the same time, a nose held so close to the oven as to be in dan­ger of scorching could not detect any odor whatever.

Mosquito 8aved His Llf®. Sharon, Pa.—A mosquito saved th®

lire or John Mahoney the other day. He was passing a building in course of bonstruction 4rhen a workman on the top floor accidentally dropped a heavy hammer. -

At the same Instant a mosquito tried to alight on Mahoney's nose, causing him to' Jerk his bead backward. Th® hammer grazed his face and chipped a piece out of tbe stone pavement.

Had the hammer struck Mahoney on the head it would bav4 crushed his skull. Mahoney declared that the mosquito's attack was so vicious that the pain had caused him to throw his head back, saving bis life.

RARE GRAPES GROW IN PARIS Miniature Vineyards In French Cap­

ital Have Old Vines Which Yield Well—One of Best Known.V-

Paris!—Though it does not, ' of course, take very great proportions, Paris has an annual vintage season which cfcnnot be entirely ignored. Many gardens of the French capital shelter fine vines, and some of these have quite a reputation.

One of the best known of the city's miniature vineyards Is that of the chamber of deputies. This was cre­ated In the reign of King Louis Phil­ippe, when vines were planted in the Auguesseau and Montesquieu court­yards of the Palais Bourbon. This year's harvest promises to be a par­ticularly good one.

The past few days has seen the gathering of the grapes in many other parts of the city. The church of Saint-Louis-en-lUe has a very produc­tive vineyard, and there is. also a good yearly harvest in a garden cloa® to the Sacre-Ooeu*.

The rue Saint-Guillaume saw a gay little fete when M. Trogan, editor of the i "Correspondent,"' entertained those who write for his review for the plundering of a very fine old vine. This 1b an annual affair, and It w4s as successful this year as on previous occasions.

FLIES BRING SIX CENT? BAG

Uniqu® Campaign Is Instituted by Public Health Committee «f Dublin

Corporation—Boys Like It.

London.—The novel campaign against flies instituted by the public health committee of the Dublin cor­poration Is providing sport for many boys. The health committee is issu­ing bags each capable of holding a quart of dead flies, 15,000 to 20,000 going to make up a quart, and 6 cents is paid for every full bag returned to the corporation dlslnCectinf depart-| ment. . .... ..,... . .. .

Suy Land by the Inch. Louisville, Ky.—Public-spirited citi­

zens of a. West Louisville neighbor­hood are buying a lot 250 feet square at tbe rate of about $1.25 a front Inch. When the lot 1® all sold it will be presented to the trustees of the Louis­ville free library as a site for a new branch, the money for which is in hand, but awaiting presentation of-a site. No site donor coming forward, the people devised a novel scheme to raise $3,800' for the site.

With each bag Is given a cardboard flapper or "slayer." Many boys are now engaged in clearing the flies from their own homes^ and those of their neighbors, and the sport is proving a source of huge delight to them.

Sir Charles Cameron, tbe medical officer of health, said that he had cleared his own house of flies by for­malin, a weak solution which attracts and .destroys the pests.

Run Submarine by Wireless.

Portsmouth, England.—Successful experiments with the wireless control of submarine boats have been made, but the details are kept secret It is known, however, that a submarine was taken to shallow water off Sel-' sey while the hertzian waves were worked from the cruiser Furious. Th® submarine, which was on the surface, was found to be entirely under th® control of the cruiser. Then the crew was taken out and the experiment was equally successful when the boat was submerged Similar experiments ar® being made, with torpedoes. . . , - -

THE MODERN KITCHEN ; 'J**;.'-

MANY INVENTIONS AND LABOR* £ 8AVINQ DEVICES IN U8E.

Large Kitchen I® Not by Any Mean® th® Most Ideal—Poor Economy^

^ to Stint In the Matter of . , ,V.'vy; Furnltur®.

In some respects our ideas of home making are not very different from those cherished by our ancestors. We build houses toiay after those design­ed a century ago' and consider our­selves lucky Indeed, if we possess fur­niture that has been banded • down from generation to generation. <

Tbe kitchen Is a notable exception. Housekeepers of a hundreds years ago would surely marvel to see the mod­ern kitchen with Its many invention® and labor-saving devices.

When - planning for an up-to-date kitchen it Is well to consider It first from an architectural point of view, although the majority of home-makers will have little to say in this matter.

The ideal location' for a kitchen. In tbe country, is on the north, with win­dows on the east and west. This al­lows the sun's rays to enter in during part of the day without giving undue heat in summer. The sun is the great­est purifier and, .destroyer of germs and its "Entrance into the .kitchen for even a short time, will do much to­ward improving the sanitary condi­tions.

For th® sake of ventilation window® should be placed on at least two sides so that a cross draft can blow away all odors.

Tbere should be as little wood work, as possible in the kitchen, since wood 1® a - harboring. place for insects and germs. Where it-must ba used. U

CANADA'S IMMENSE WHEAT FIELDS * 4 , THE ATTRACTION FOR THRBI

TRANSCONTINENTAL RAIL-. WAYS, 4 >

•»*.; •»,«}* Last August there visited the Can** "'/j;

dian west the vice-president of th® largest individual hardware company^ in the United States. As his firm hav®* a turnover of millions, and dealB ex-tensively with farm implements, this " ]•' man "took a deep interest in crop con-, ̂ ditlons in Canada, and on his return he embodied his findings in an artlcl® ^ i for the Hardware Reporter. This ar- « ticle should be of special interest to '''" farmers. ~ y

The writer speaks of the importance /'f of the spring wheat crop of Western

U Canada. He might also have Bpoken S of the importance of the oat crop and A > also of the winter wheat crop, as well Ar",, as'barley. Winter wheat during th® past few years has been a - great sue-cess, and experiments have shown yM'td that It can be grown with success in i almost any portion of the three provrj® inces of Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta. But apart from this, ! th® spring wheat crop is the one generally Ip! grown, and all who know anything of SMI grain, anyone who has had anything to do with markets, knows or ha® heard of the high character of this s

cereal and the splendid yield® that ar® ^ annually produced. Reproducing from this'article:—/

"In a land of such great sweep, and of such difference in soil and climate, there are many resources, but. non® .H are at present of the same overwhelm- fe; ing .importance as the spring wheat far crop. In the interminable pralirte K stretches of the 'northwest province® plf it is the one absorbing topic of inter-est and of conversation during it® growing and its harvesting, for upon its success or failure hangs the weal ||||l or woe of a large part of the Itemin- pp Ion. Its influence extends far down ||||j into the United States, drawing thou-Bands of farmers northwards with th® |§S.' lure of cheap lands, but likewise be- g^S yond tbe great lakes, even to the easy ||1| going maritime provinces, calling th®.|^g flower of their young men to its .op- |||§ portunities. Development In thes® |||| prairie provinces goes on at high pres-sure for everything ha^igs on the oat-come of spring wheat.V Success ha® emboldened the raisers of'this one all-' Important crop, and each year ther® is further Incursion into those north-era field® that only a short time ago ^3 were regarded as Arctic wastes; Th® t-i Canadian Northwest seems to be;on® of those modern agricultural example® ; %. set forth to drive the final nail in tb® gfe: coffin of that ancient Malthusian de- ^ luslon that population tends to outrun the mean® of subsistence, since th® only fear now among Canadian econ-omists la as to the danger of over­stocking the wheat market ' Only about two and one-half per cent of possible arable lands in the northwest. •'*' province® is now under cultivation, and this year the crop promises, to §|1 be close to 200,000,000 bushels, so g| that your imagination and your arlth- y ^ metic can easily supply the answer a® . to the possible or even probable out-come." . MM

During the monthB of- July and Au- w!5{| gust the weather was unfavourable and the production of a 200 million -4^ yield of wheat will not likely be real­ized, but even with this, the threshing reports coming to hand show that th® crop will be a splendidly paying on*

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should be of hardwood or pine painted and varnished, the varnish destroying those qualities in paint that are detri­mental to health.

Tbe size of a kitchen should be care­fully considered. A large kitchen is not by any means the most Ideal.

Oilcloth is to be recommended as a kitchen floor covering. The heavy in­laid linoleum is more durable, but, of course, costs more.

The furniture required for the kitch­en will depend largely on tbe archi­tectural "make-up." It will be poor economy to stint ones self in the mat­ter of kitchcn furniture. It is a short­sighted policy not to buy good makes of stoves, refrigerators and tbe like.

The kitchen table should be a stolid piece Of furniture on castors, placed In a good light and as far from the stove! as possible. There is a variety oft kitchen tables on the market, many of them wlth handy little drawers, and various devices for minimizing labor.

There should be at least one com­fortable chair in the kitchen, tome-thing low without arms that will be found useful and comfortable for shell-' Ing pen, etc. A stool will also prove a great help to those housewives who weary with much standing. Washing dlsbes is a lighter task when seated on a high- stooj and (the back -is spared many an ache. A twenty-four inch stool can be purchased for less than a dollar and will be found an ex­cellent-investment.

It spmetlmes happens that a hous» is built with little regard for pantry room. Where this is the case the kitchen cabinet should. cotae to the rescue. These cleverly designed pieces of furniture qot only relieve the congestion, but add to tbe attrac­tiveness of the kitchen In no small measure.

When the furnishings have all been purchased, it will required a consider­able amount of thought to place them so as to save unnecessary steps, an* to make the kitchen as comfortable and convenient as it is possible. .

Unsalted Butter. , The woman who entertains need

not despair if she cannot buy unsalted butter for her dainty sandwiches. The very nicest butter in the world Is made by whipping cream which is too warm to whip and Just a little sour. I once heard of a lady who would make her butter In the morning, shutting it tight in a fruit jar with a big Amerl-oaii beauty rose fresh from the florist, that her guests might think of roses when they ate the buttered slices.

/ Meatless Mincemeat. One peck green tomatoes, chopped

fine; drain Juice and throw away. Pour on three pints of hot water and cook five minutes. Drain off all juice. Do this three times. Add two and ofte-half pounds medium brown sugar, two pounds seeded raisins, one-half pound chopped suet, one teacupful of cider > vinegar, two level teaspoonful each of ground clove®,, allspice and nutmeg, one tablespoonful of salt.

Dustles® Duat®ra. A great deal can be saved by mak­

ing your own dustless dust cloths by the following recipe: One-third ounce oil of pariffin mixed with one pint of coal oil. Wash a piec;e of'black cheesecloth in this and you will have a dustlesa dust cloth harmless to any furniture. . The above quantity makes three yards.

To Lacquer Brass. Gum shellac dissolved in alcohol

makes a thin varnish which is applied with a 'small brush. Ten cents' worth of shellac is enough, also enough alco­hol to make It thin. This will lacquer a brass bed, can be done in less than an hour, and will come out as pretty

If sent to the factory to be done, and is cheaper.

Peach Butter. Take pound for pound of peaches

and sugar; cook peaches alone until they become soft, then put in one-half the sugar, and stir for one-half hour; then the remainder of sugar, and stir an hour and a half. Season with cloves and cinnamon.

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Keep Potatoes From Darkening. To prevent old potatoes from dark­

ening when cooked, let them stand in water before peeling, then put them on in cold water to oook.—Suburban Ur*

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1 Torture. "I wonder how Tantalus felt." sald^

the student of the classics. "Probably," replied Colonel Stilwcll,

"like a thirsty Maine man listening to th® election returns." >

i — ' <" Overdoing It.

"This Is the fourth season I hav® met you at this watering-place, Mis® . Brown, and every time you appear ten years younger!"—Fliegende Blaetter.

ARE YOU FREE —FROM—

Headaches, Colds, Indigestion Pains, Constipation, Sour Stomach, Dizziness? If you are not, die most effective, prompt and pleasant method of getting rid of them is to take, now and thai, a desertspooo-!ul of the ever refreshing and tnily beneficial laxative remedy—Synip of Fics and Elixir of Senna. It is well lmown throughout the world as the best of family laxative reme> dies, because it acts so gently and strengthens naturally without ini» fating the system in any way.

To get its beneficial effects it n always necessary to buy the genu­ine, manufactured by the California Fig Syrup Co., bearing the name of the Company, plainly printed CO die front of eveqr package, i •

Splendid Crops In Saskatchewan (Wtsttrn Canada)

800 Bushel® from 20 acre® ^ of wheat was the threshers

return from t Lloyd-| minster farm la the I season of 1910., Many I fields in that as well as I other districts yield-led from 25 to 35 bu* I shsls of wheat to the | aers. Other trains In I proportion.

LARGE PROFITS

H O M E S T E A D L A N D S ,( Waalara Caaa4a>

Thla MMllrat abowln® enm prlcM to «a**nce. Laid T«loe» •bouia double In two yean' tlm*. ' Uraln gTowliiiC,rou(ed farm-Inc. rattle ral»D> c Mid dalir-Inc am all proinabla.

! Homestead* of.l®0 acre* ara to ba had In tha very bast districts: ISO M» pr«-en>— tluus at *3.00 per acre— In certain areas. School sap churches In ^ every settle­ment, dlniate unexcelled.

-ema-wit% Is an® ettl£ ailed,

soil the richest; wood, water and bvlldlsf material plentiful. 89 for panlenlsra u to location,

low' settlers' railway rates and descriptive illustrated pamphlet. "Last Best West," and othor in­formation, write to Snptof Immi­gration, Ottawa, Canada, or. to Canadian Government Agent. '

C.».lwnMa,ug«rt«»tilM»M>al Bld(., Cktag* IlLi 8m. HH, Traillaa tailul Bid,.', I.«luspdl*l AM. i. Hall, 1212d St., •IhnakM.WIs.

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