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Show ?HE SAUNA .Siim GERMANYS SHIPPING NOW RANKS SEVENTH Gains in Volume After Slipping to Eleventh Place. jt Hamburg, Germany. German shipping claims to be fighting against tremendous odds In Its attempt to regain its place in the sun. The loss of 90 per cent of the German commercial fleet through the war and the terms of surrender means that German shipowners practically have had to start anew. By taking up loans, buying back some of the ships delivered to the entente victors under the treaty of Versailles and refraining from paying dividends In recent years the shipping concerns of Germany have gradually worked up a postwar tonnage of 2,890,-00- 0 gross register tons, which is about one-lial- f the German prewar tonnage and which comprises 4 per cent of the total worlds tonnage as compared with 11 per cent in 1914. From eleventh place In 1920 among the shipping nations of the world, Germany has moved to seventh place by 1924 as compared with second place in 1914. Roedern Pictures Conditions. Count Siegfried Roedern, chairman of the League of German Shipowners and Freighters, In a prepared statement replying to specific questions, gave the following picture of shipping conditions : In 1914 the German merchant marine occupied second place among the merchant fleets of the world as far as actual tonnage was concerned. It then comprised 5,200,000 gross register tons and was surpassed only by Great Britain. In the course of the war Germany lost about half of her ships through seizure, sinking, etc. Next, in accordance with the terms of the Versailles treaty, she lwtd to give up approximately the second half. Included among the vessels that had to be turned over to the victors were all the larger passenger boats. By the peace treaty and the German legislation resulting therefrom German shipping was compelled to pay a part of the war bill Immediately in kind by giving up not only the ships already in the service, but also those under construction. It was the sense of the treaty of Versailles that this delivery by private capital was to be regarded as a payment on account by the German empire and hence to be refunded to the individual concerns by the German state. The financial condition of the reich made complete indemnification Impossible. An agreement was therefore reached between the government and the shipowners by which the latter were to receive an amount sufficient to rebuild but one-thir-d of their prewar tonnage. Inflation Makes Handicap. Because of the inflation of the last years the indemnity payments of the government did not suffice to rebuild fhe third of The old" Tonnage agreed upon. Besides, In distributing the government indemnity tie small shipowners were to be given the preference, so that most of the larger concerns were able to finance a replacement program of but 20 per cent of the prewar tonnage out of the funds furnished by the government. The fact that the larger concerns nevertheless built on an averof their old tonnage Is age due solely to their Watering their stock and assuming new debts. Due to the fact that a number of concerns were small and middle-sizeaide to exceed this program and that several new companies have been founded the entire German merchant tniirine has now, upon completion of the reconstruction program, been brought to 2,800,000 tons In other of the pre-wa- r words, to about one-hal-f tonnage both by new construction and through the repurchase of vessels delivered. Compared with the former fleet, the present comprises comparatively few purely passenger ships and more mixed vessels as well as freighters pure and simple. The fact that these newiy constructed ships are equipped with modem machinery'' does not counterbalance the fact that the total value of the ships has depreciated over the prewar value. Germany has taken up her principal former routes, such as those to North America, South America, the Orient, Dutch East Indies and Australia. The Indemnity payments for the merchant vessels delivered were continued only until March, 1923. Since that time no additional payments have been made by the reich for the uncompleted part of the reconstruction program. The building program undertaken as a result of the Indemnity payments is now complete to within four or five that for years ships. It Is to come the building pace of the last years of reconstruction or even of the years before the war cannot be kep! up. one-thir- d d Build Impregnable Vault The Bank of France has constructed a safety deposit vault which they believe to be absolutely Impregnable to raids from land or air. It Is surrounded by a deep moat and has a bomb-proo- f roof. Heavy steel girders, and concrete several feet in thickness, form the top, which Is impervious to explosives that might be dropped from aircraft. Over the moat, containing 12 feet of water, a sliding floor from an adjacent building provides access to the single entrance of the vault. When the bridge Is withdrawn, a steel door closes flush with the walls, guarding the opening to the deposit boxes as the portcullis protects the gateways to old castles. An observers chair, suspended above the moat from an overhead track, provides a seat for a lookout to watch for attacks from robbers or bombers. The plan was devised by an American architect, and has proved so success- ful that it is to be used. In the con- struction of other vaults. freght-and-passeng- self-evide- It Stevenson No Dandy is well known that Robert Louis had strange tastes in dress, but according to Mrs. R. L., it were better said that he had no taste at all; his dress was an accident, or, more corAs lie rectly, a series of accidents. was consumptive, the doctors had told him I fail to see why that it was advisable to let his hair grow long; to the remainder of his appearance One day he never gave a thought. he was to be seen walking down Piccadilly In a strange colored mackintosh, and a very small straw hat with a pink ribbon, and at his heels a little crowd of jeering urchins, whose surprise was Indeed great when a number of men, having caught sight of him from the window, rushed down the steps of the Saville club and welcomed him with astonishing effusion. From My Years of Indiscretion, by Cyril Scott. -- well-dresse- d His First Experience Typewriters in Orchestra In order to get the proper effect of the various sounds when shrapnel breaks and scatters and otherwise war is being carried on. a French soldier who has composed a new symphony entitled At the Front, has called for the use of 20 typewriters in the orchestra alongside the musical instruments. Even Youngsters Know The mother took her boy to the movie and when they were seated a man appeared on the screen picture and took a letter from his pocket, read it and scowled. I guess its his income tax, mother," the youngster said. To Church by Bus A southern Ohio rural bringing its congregation services by bus and so is a good attendance. Every of the small congregation those who have no cars. church is to Sunday assured of car owner calls for SAUNA. UTAli SUN. couple, recently married, had been riding with some friends. On reaching home the bride hurried the new husband up to the apartment with order to start the 'coffee boiling, while she made a few necessary purchases at a neighboring store. Her consternation at t he absent-mindeg husband was beand yond bounds when on hurrying into the kitchen she found the coffee boiling in the new electric percolator on top of the new gas stove, well surrounded by a high flame. A young d Mixup Somewhere I dont think your philosophy logical. Why not? You say that every man Is sent Into the world for a purpose that he has certain work to do. Yes, that I believe. And there you go right on and say that there is no man here that the world cant get along without. BRITISH HARD TIMES 'FILL AUCTION ROOMS Treasures From Country Homes Now on Market. i j London. Sir Rider Haggard writes to tln Times deploring that the roofs of old English country mansions are rotting and falling in because the owners cannot afford to keep them up and there is no one to buy them, and that with them disappears the old English country life of which they were the center. The contents of those old houses are pouring into the market as they have never done before, and popular belief is that most of these valuables are bought in by London art dealers for their American customers. Even some of the old families which are known to be immensely rich, according to English values, are taking advantage of the high tide of art prices. For example, for sale soon at tfie famous Christie auction rooms is a group of old masters of world reputation put up by the duke of Westminster, which includes three pictures by Rubens forming part of a series said to have been painted by order of 1hilip IV to dicorate a Carmelite convent; also a Virgin and Child by Vandyke. Many Other Treasures Sold. Other lots offered at Christie's, which combine the value of patrician associations with art, are: Old English furniture and needlework, the property of her grace, the duchess of Wellington, and carved oak furniture, t! u property of his grace the duke of Marlborough and removed from a farmhouse on the Blenheim estate. Also porcelains belonging to the Right lion. Earl llawe, G. C. V. O. ; the 8neyd heirlooms from Keole hall, Staffordshire, which have a romantic flavor and consist mostly of old silver, furniture and porcelains; a valuable .collection of pictures left by the late earl of Ilardwicke; furniture belonging to the carl of Sandwich; and a few old masters put up by the rigid honorable, the earl of Clarendon. I. C., G, C. R., G. C. V. O. Among the offerings at Sothebys within the iext month are valuable pictures, the property of Lady Edward Grosvenor, Sir John Ilipplsley, and other articles belonging to the countess of Gosford and Cora, countess of Strafford. Private Bargains Are Made, It Is many years since any of the duke of Westminster's collection of old masters have appeared in the auction roomL, although some star picture ha 3 occasionally been sold by a private bargain, and treasures from Blenheim have rarely been obtainable in the lifetime of the present duke of Marlborough. The belief that nearly everything sold goes to America Is not entirely true. The good old reliable but unin spired British landscape arflxfs of 100 years ago, whose works harmonized perfectly with the old country houses, are enjoying a boom in prices. The majority of them are practically unknown in America, and are not in demand there, yet the swiftness with which $2,000 or $3,000 are bid for pictures that went begging on the painter's hands shows that there Is yet money in England for art. Ferried East Indian Is Honored in England f Babylonian Account of Paradise and the Fall One of the most surprising discoveries of the German expedition at Ashshur was a tablet containing an account not only of creation, but also of the Babylonian Garden of Eden, the fall of man, his desiruo tkn and and the redemption of the gods by the death and resurrection of Marduk. G. A. Bar-te- a n shows Its relation to other myths, to the Egyptian myth ef the death and resurrection of Osiris, to the Book of Enoch, and to tfee Gospel accounts of the death and1 resurrection of Jesus. In regard to the last point, he concludes that, making the most liberal assumpth ns, end granting that in some unknown Way the Babylonian myth may he ihej rigln of certain minor features of the Gospel story of the resurrection,! the addition is so small and relates! to such unimportant details that it! atrlkes nowhere near the nerve of the1 historic facts which underlie the nar-- J ratives of the resurrection of Jesus. long-soug- F.nby-loala- j Scientific American. Lost When His Horse Von A noted horse owner took his wife nnd five other women to see one of Ids horses perform. Such was his confidence that he said before the race : Now I will lend each of you women one hundred dollars to place. If Hie horse loses, you will owe me nothing. If he wins, you will each have a memento of the day. The horse won. Nice offer you made the ladies, old man," suggested a friend. I thought so," said the horse owner. "But do you know, only one of them refunded the loan. Louisville Courier-Journal. Ideas of Mount Ararat V. Raman, famed East in Irof. dien, has been elected a fellow of the Royal Society of England, being tin third of Ills race to be so honored. from the Presidency eoileg at the age of sixteen and got his M. A two years later with record marks He became professor of physics In the Calcutta university In 1914. These Mice Swim Ia. Aquatic mice. Castle, capable of diving and swimming like porpoise, or running across the fields like other rodents, were discovered h the Pyinat lining wanip, Crawford county, by a group of 35 Pittsburgh scientists who visited the swamp re cently. Newr Near Catching Point It Is reported that American capital Is Interested In transforming Mount Ararat Into a pleasure resort. A railroad is to be built to its summit and shelter and entertainment for tourists are to he provided. Few mountains In the world are as familiar by name as Ararat, because of Its Biblicttl associations, but most peoples mental picture of It includes the ark resting at the exact peak and Its Immensely varied population disembarking while the waters of the flood recede below. Gales Prank prank was played by a of George Nelson residence at the gale of a small New England town. One of the chimneys of the house was blown off, while a hole was blown clear through the other chimney without disturbing the top bricks. A peculiar Gas Tax Growing This tiling is gel ting contagions," said a hoy who had several times been told to go to bed. What do you mean? asked his fa- ther. I mean that I shall catch It If I dont move on." More than $50,000,000 Is collected annually as gasoline taxes in the 35 states that require this revenue. 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