Show THE AUTOMOBILE AID TO FIRE FIGHTING announced not lung long ao ago that T WAR at last I IT g b which solved lul 1 the problem upon uon they the hud had been bt n at work tor or y f producing an ll fire n apparatus to supplant the steam engine and meet In Ia every feature the Ihl of a that should shul l go fO to R a lire n most mOlt and hate hale R a stream of water on ahead ot of all others They have Ave at lut lul produced an equipment talt has lIa the PatI Jan engineer In u perfectly that ht he Is III desirous of at radically th Ih entire system of at the French capital altal and fn DI 1 III n The TM renowned and Torn Tom my Atkins Atkin or common rommon English soldier ts II a kind hearted and u as rt et forth by Mr Ir Rudyard In hi hi hi famous poem about The Absent lInd ed ad ar hu many line fine qualities IS as aswell well u as little n us Is II patient and aDd enduring tolerant and In whatever haler part or of the world b he may be cam campaigning amt hi his for pets pet le IA a charming trait trail of i h his character There may have han b born ln of III his seeming cruelty when hen Y 1 f a TI I Id his blood teas 1 ag up In battle baUll but It was WaR not lie may bt be sure lUre and his 1111 II to tn th rho little or of and 1101 have hae bet been n frequently noticed d by the war corre dent The accompanying Iv shows 1101 n of the Queens n Own mad ont one of hi his most recent small lark black boy no higher hiher than haft his hau whom he be beto to be on moat friendly terms hale bae led in Ih the ra racy from the I beginning and aDd th first Ion long road Jour IOU Journey n ney for wu that trona Blom Parse Pari to Brest In mI 1691 years lat latr later er r I riM of auto AUlo races was u and la In uN ItH was the Automobile i club now nol contains more than 2200 members A recent places Via th the amount of capital eni In the of In France Francl alone aJon at more than and the number of nt workmen at This country I is pressing tho henchmen hurt hunt In the matter of and le Ile Kant as a well as AI In the aI T I L k y I i II t at 4 rh oC t t gale or of capital and skilled workmen 1 while England Is III a 11 eloP third In this production and rat of au The vast ut number of airel and men of In Ihl this oun coun country try Iry has hal given rl rise to numerous for the honor bonor of hating the great set elt number ot of chauffeurs or gentle genUe gentlemen men stokers but so 10 far Fran France ran can boast th the most daring and expert era In the world There Thre are of opinion at as to tb tike relative merit ot of th the mo motor tar tor Corcel employed and each type whether of the tam steam gasoline polln petru liquid Air or electric has haa its For long Journey It I is conceded that steam or rao gaso gasoline I line I I preferable but for territory where whre the radius ot of action I b not nal la I the distance to IG be eo does dOH not exceed 40 0 or 60 10 I propelled vehicle II bi III lent fur For hauling freight long 1011 I over good JUd roads the lb have gasoline ia 10 of great reat strength and COlt cast j which lIuch auch an Infernal noise that tall lone one would think a field ot of i had broken loose These ire excellent tor traction but for speed and abd Immediate availability or of as would be required In a tire An M MI the they have turned to electric electricity I The triumph of the r Y I Ir Iy I y 1 r I 41 I tt r l t the ho new inventions for the old which lie he now regards as 10 Inventive man has ha so 10 accustomed us UI to new and startling objects object and won wonder on dr der follows I wonder in hi auch rapid Su IU cedon that we have In a sense b blab from the actual impossibility of keeping pin track or of what scientific CI sue lua evolves It was WAI to be expected that In the natural order of development k until the w would bet stop whole domain of traction and dos 1011 by generated JIO paver er Mould be conquered and j u tta hitherto animals animal u euth as ae the horse horae mule ox donkey and andall all of that genus nUI should be relegated to toy I y the rear Hut But all ac le II usually the case when theory becomes III an actuality tile the they y t t invention wee 1 received with II a start Of is II aware of the immense Immen strides made hy by artificial locomotion la In latike Inthe tike the put two years yeara but few recall that while may now 11 be num bond by thousand and melt It b ICI al are to be II seen n on TInT every hand hana handa hanaa a Vr very automobile omnibus wu was running In Parse 26 years tarl ao ago The I trial fire apparatus came after a long genre 8 n or o and 1111 1 was I as oJ Inn on onI 1 I III that 1111 of th the autumn ul ut ere r the International vs ur of III at I I were ere carried 8 away a b by their enthusiasm It is II ur of course recognised that the I mOlt mat lien service Ice can lie be rendered bY the apparatus that ret gets to the sane of operations operation and that every ver win min minute ute ate count In the endeavor to prevent what may originally have been a small bias from attaining the proportions pro ot of ota ofa a veritable catastrophe ata It 11 I b believed that no further im improvement provement ran can be expected In the steam Are engine and Ind It is II well known that scarcely a lire Are occurs in III which minute Are not loot In getting I the pum pumps l at work even een If arrival at ANOTHER SOUTH AFRICAN HEROINES HEROINE t S Ik ss II III 1111 I jot If rIll y 3 1 i ii ii I t I It l t I r i If k II I r u Till fhe women who fought on the hoer side In the South African WAr are al almost 1 might be written about diem diemand and a chapter mention mo most t too numerous to and their do ds alone Indeed one author has hal devoted a chapter hapler to and his hll book was aa written before the war the Ih brave doln dotage or of the hoer women h had l well willi begun q BI that The latent to 10 claim our attention I Is Stirs Mra Otto the WIre wife of a pro bet ber husband throughout the who accompanied and fe hunter trapper beginning In Natal to the lat last skirmish in ID the entire campaign from tb the very verr Oran Orange Free lol state At the battle of e where It ts II admitted occurred some of the hardest of the war MeL w was by hi husbands aide ud and bore liar part art u OID fortunately Sleeping unhurt though al m III the thick of the t A As the from her latt lat rat eat photograph la young GUnc and comely In attin hardly tu to be taken tor lor a typical t amazon as w well I u as b by nature are ad the tire fire is II L All this I h I delay dela Is ob electrical which Is II ready ad for tor immediate actton the moment the lire fire la is The he motive mollY power I Is electricity which Is II furnished by a battery of accumulators In III I a tank suspended beneath benrath the bod body of the truck This Thill ts calculated to carry carr the machine from 16 to 10 to 40 mile mil I at a minimum I speed Md of 12 miles an hour without Till This I ts vastly more than will be bed of a are engine la In ordinary work and besides th the same aam electricity t that provides provide the motive power Ower work III the pump the change bet being effected ly from the Ibe trill tract in n force to tc tho rho pneumatic and connI IY To fact Itale rapidity of action th use h hose le myle m u rubber la Is la In wire so 10 that It be flattened out and can on be ii al Ways 1 kept lull full of wal watI even eln when on tl the reel as shown in III th the Illustration The engine wIlh II its of f three ml n when Oil on the weighs about 1104 I 5 Bo ft engine proper there Js a which acts as an being more heavily man manned a aed ned ed but though comp for tor Instantaneous action After Afler tb the engine is II on Ih the W f t bf r U K round ground this at arts as al a feeder an and l auX auxiliary I Illary The trio or of is II cum com b by Iho t hI I ladder truck which 1 It II nearl nearly pounds la III more cullY managed and I more molO rapid thin than the old kind drawn II b by animals and turns corners Orners w 1 Ith greater facility The rile extension ladders R are borne torn on a port of ramp or movable stairway by br wheel an and l and carried when en route rout In nearby a pull position It Ion These machines are destined to quickly qUick ly I luper supersede de all those thoat of the type II It If there Is II an any town lown or dt riy In this country that desire to purchase a tub or of French manufacture but It can probably hI he Br ac I by addressing IEM Ma MaJor Jor des de Parts Pam France Franl I our Ians II lOt II tit I IThe The Iron crown rown ot of Lombardy In the cathedral at al Mona the Ibe taus In which King was shot Allot lIon le on or of the mot most remarkable rel rei relic tc ic In the world II states that the Inner lIner circlet or of Iron around l whit h a band La of at goden plates WU was forget from nails nail or of the Ihl true cross eron sent lent from Jeru aim em by the Empress Helena to hr hor IOn eon Constantine about the year S 36 A D TIlt Th outer crown is II composed d ot of six golden rolden plates Incrusted with pee re clou cious tn which are so 10 l as to tit fit Ih the heads bead at the different soy tt 1 ho ma may be crowned with It while line Ih tho inner circlet ot of Iron has bu holes and rivets In order to make It corre Mot OAt famous of the kin kings ot of ItalY In modern times to 10 wear this Iron crown was napoleon apoleon I 1 A II uS 1111 1 Th phe Chin Chinese have tong lonK b been known knowli al AI scaler travelers hair great system ytm ot of and Inland having been used ud by them for purposes ot of for thousands of yeses yeR For trade and pleasure travel corn com bitted they make u use of a veritable houseboat which u this Illustration shows how ts Ia usually a Junk funk tight lIht of build and easily managed This par r craft oraf is In use on the Ibe up upper fit It ItI I I I I I h hI f I I I iI tiAre kny knyper per waters ot of the great flat river Avers the In China piles bet between chan 1010 1000 miles 1 from the th rivers mouth and tb the cities near the nit headwaters This houseboat I ii about 10 feet teel long and can carries lei a huge bue mast malt and at II It hu a cabin with a skeleton hou house aft for the captain The bows ire are uncovered In the Ibe daytime anti and protected pro l by bamboo matting matlin at al night A SCHOOL OF WHALES CAPTURED BY WOMEN 2 Ra r Perhaps the only capture of whales by took plate recently on an the coast ot of Ph Till The most of the little village II Ir were all away Ing when h n Into the harbor came a vast alt shoal ot of pulling headed straight for a small creek on shore hore well enough what to do o the sturdy collected the boal along the shore got ot between the wholes and 1 th the open sea eA arid b by keeping up a great Ireat hullabaloo contrived to strand nearly or of the monsters which their husbands brothers and fathers found awaiting them when the they returned from their fishing whale ashore If In the place It Il can be It 11 I is a simple Im ll matter to ret get a shown In this II a rather drIven near Illar shoal 1 water for tor the variety timid and tries to from the boats boat In pursuit especially It If A nol noise Is II kept klIt up III The cry Whales ahoy Is II a common ono one on the cant ot of Shetland and at the sound lound of It out rushes every man mall and child big enough to 10 teddie ted tod toddie die armed with every ver known variety or of harpoon lanes and tully or sea the whales as al their seaside sheep hp sad look knife on a bug pole The They upon sands I is cu caa which to the term they use for herding III them 1 on the drive u a flock of sheep I t S J 1 1 Opium has ha been known to the Chinese for tor nearly a years yere and they have used it for it Intoxicating effects I sine IIII I th the middle ot of the seventeenth I century Its Ulf use has hal constantly increased In I creased until today John Chinaman l lof is of the that he can An do without I many other things rather than give It up The Imperial authorities however I Z N I much the they may have been lI addicted to the use Ule ut of upturn opium themselves dill did not think Il t goal lood for tor the J people tople at large lare and Issued Interdict after arter Interdict but all to no aall u the n who were b by Its Introduction Into China r fought successfully against them In n tact fact the difference f or of opinIon Ion led 11 up UI to the famed war warI I which ended disastrously for tor the Chinese Chi ChiI I nese nele In ever every way wa Visible evidence of supremacy In the opium trade i I I ii furnished In the old opium hulks hulk I moored opposite the Ibe Bund Hund at hal hai Ire the pernicious drug Is I stored against demand closely guarded u it Il IlI itis is I In a some mt respects r more precious than gold 01 1 or diver The profit on the Imported Im ported Indian opium which U II that from which Weh the English realise so 10 largely hu his ot of late been greatly reo re reduced my br the raising of oe large lare U ties In western China ANCIENT CHINESE TEMPLE d s l k Here Hel II the ancient temple of Chotu China in III hrh about 35 are ara ago aro aroU U Hung Chang signed a convention for tor o several enral nc new treaty traly p port and I c favoring foreign commerce Titer are abandoned temples throughout China once attached to religious bodies that have somehow ad to exist or erected by br worshipers who have disbanded and these theM structures like tb the palaces of former lormer princes are so 0 numerous In the country adjacent to Peking that the often occupy them u summer ummer quarter ad Ira U hold picnics In the ample grounds b by which th they are surrounded AN IMPERIALLY LICENSED I 7 h 1 I li liI I Y YIl Il t I 1 jN I f I tl 1 n nt 1 I t r C e ei ei i cIl i I I II IcIl J r tt c I Ii 3 T J f fill r l ll l y 1 ax There 81 are beggars and beggars In China of both low anI and J 1 country whore la I curried to lu where Ihl I i d swarm by thousands even by millions there I is no escape from 0 for en an honest hont man especially If hI he be In The only w t I tIng In Ing business ruined and reputation permanently tl is 10 I t Ical tribute to a recognised royal and receive a ret Il t r I some IOme inconsiderate wretch Is II pretty prellY sure lure to 10 cast I himself tl tb I In front of the dwelling or store of the fated Individual ID tab lie tk 11 t I le e breath leaves leave his hll body The creature In this belongs to th the society of being Imperially e eby by la law entitled to expect to get lIet remembert InrI 11 i JO about half a cent while dI the ordinary beggar is II contented ur I I to be tit with I 1 Iron cash equal to one otan American cent Jilt ails fans A certain feminine Ij Iii 10 I pearl In the choice b by i I women omen durin during many pen name I put forth their I Ot One of the well known names or of this till class I is that of John 1111 1 which c was wal the nom plume b by Mrs y when she colt out th the census sensa tonal novel en cn entitled titled Some SomeI 1 I and 1 n d Moray because t she hl thought no would take It Ir if they knew It was wal written hy by R n girl of a mistaken however for h I I have made their mark II h 1 signed or whether sent o t e pea of man or woman I t 1 a Iver Is I I I v Ibo those who know lice her as aA I is I sweet natured woman r 1 I young deeply read and 1 The cut given herewith b ot of During Durin the I gold COld discovery In il i I II iest I est t production In the Ih 0 I J per annum A BANNER CORPS OF THE CHINESE ARMY ARMYn er r I n 4 1 I car carThe J T 11 n recently mn ThE illustration t I a reproduction of a photograph kwan that old town situated at the point where the groat I comes down from the mountains and plunges into Inlo the sea Ilea It I 1 I 1 1 II tt Interesting WI as showing some or of the vaunted banners which dl t II u us finest imperial corps corp from the common soldiery of China i cull I li II r Chinas million soldiers at While Abile them may 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