Show 1 STAINPR00F iOuiOFliOKPiwr “CASTLE” is: Min CVZ i v vesn tSsi yym The climate of Aden the Red Sea port la dry and Intensely hot and water there la a valuable commodity The famous tanks of Aden are natural rock cisterns situated In a deep gorge behind the city and were used In the by days of medieval prosperity They have since been greatly Improved to prevent overflow additions connected and are by aqueducts masonry When an appreciable quantity of rain water Is collected In the tanks It Is sold by auction by the authorities and the purchaser retails It to the public ELECTRICITY AND CROPS Mr Priestly of Bristol university has again drawn attention to the reof markable results of the application to growing high tension electricity Not only is a larger yield obcrops tained which Is Important to the farmer but In the case of fruit crops such as Btrawberries the fruit ripens some days earlier a matter of the utmost to the market gardener Importance The present method of electrification Is by means of wires stretched some distance above the growing crops The effects may be described as an intensification of the action of the thundercloud and might be equally startling lo the heedless Investigator The electrification method of original was to water the crops from electrically charged cans and the effect ol t this says the University was similar to that of the thunder shower OF AUSTRALIA Here Is one of the wonders of the of Australia deep sea the It Is so richly ornamented with loose and flapping ribbons of skin that it one much of the fearsome reminds creature that has been adopted as the national emblem of China CENTENARIANS OF EUROPE QUEER statistics have been the British Imperial health department in the subject of It appears that there are longevity now about 7000 centenarians in Europe and strangely enough the climate and conditions most favorable to longevity appear to be the Balkans for Bulgaria heads the list with 3883 centenarians (nearly one for every 100 inhabitants) Roumanla follows Gerwith 1074 and Servla with 573 as many b’oasts only 76 centenarians against England’s 92 while Denmark makes a very feeble show with only a couple of these veterans The extraordinary figures given for the Balkan countries make one wonder whether veracity is as flourishing as longevity In the Near East though presumably the health department has Investigated the cases as far as possible Some collected curious tfy ' BURMESE SPELLS Some curious sidelights on the character are contained on a report on the work of the Archaeological survey In Burmah says the TimeB of India It Is stated that the highly prizes the following gems: Ruby diamond or crystal pear coral amethyst topaz sapphire emerald Collectively they ward and off sickness or danger The cat’s eye to secure invulnerability Is supposed In war Incantations are muttered over some or all of these stones and the water In which they are immersed Is drunk In order to secure immunity from all evil Spells are uttered over rubles and they are Inserted as amulets In the flesh of men who desire to be lpimune from wounds sword spear or gun WHERE LADIES inflicted by SHAVE of the East African ladles heads with small sharp knives first softening the hair with goat’s milk Other Africans keep It cut off to about two Inches in length and slick down with vegetable oils Girls of Fiji stiffen their locks with tree gums and soft fluffy hair is considered a curse Somehow some of the races that have the stiffest hair try to make it stiffer and those that have the softest try to make it like down and still other races do Just the opposite Some NUMBER 16 SHOE TOO SMALL of tremendous proportions reported to have passed through Winchester Ky the other day and aroused the interest of the shoe merchants in the eastern bluegrass city by attempting to secure a pair of He was on bis way to Join a shoes traveling sideshow and certainly merited a high position for his altitude was seven feet one Inch and weight 277 pounds When the Senegamblan Hercules tried to get a pair of kickSize 16 ers there was nothing doing proved too steep for the Winchester footwear fraternity to furnish so the Bhowman trudged on with sizable bits of carpet about bis feet A negro Is AN shave their ON PUGET SOUND On the summit of a high hill back the of Port Townsend Washington state’s port of entry and overlooking tbe town stands a unique building In the a castle much Resembling early days when there were no neighresidences the structures boring often underwent searching scrutiny by eyes aboard ship peering through binoculars or field glass as It does to thla day when some tourist picks It out as something distinct from the ordinary type of The "castle" as the strucbuilding ture Is called by the people of the town was built many years ago In boom times by an eccentric Englishman who through bis habits and eccentricities was known as a hermit There are perhaps few building cations in the United States affording views 88 grand as the one where this freak in architecture stands It stands nearly 300 feet above sea level a beautiful immediately overlooking little bay with numerous inlets and beyond great stretches of America’s and greatest inland water In Sound the distance way Puget are the green foothills and beyond the majestic Olympic range the year ’round and behind which a amid old Sol sinks from sight wealth of color month in and out death After the old Englishman’s "the castle” passed to the United States of land acquired by purchase for use as a military reservation The building Is of brick and is substantially built and well finished within AMERICAN AEROPLANE ‘ FOR TABLE — IIANS TUFT Pres CHAS LAM MERSDOUF A V HUISII Cashier Hans Tuft W H Brown DIRECTORS— Chas Lammcrsdorf gensen P C Scorup A V Huish James Farrell “At a formal afternoon tea” remarked the woman who keeps bachas she put the kettle on elor hall and filled an oval plate with cheese straws “whoever presides is generalon guard against spilling tea ly fairly on the embroidered cloth but when one baa it every afternoon as I do it doesn’t pay to use fine white linen and delicate needlework to array the table Yet one likes to have it attiac-thI had had two of my prettiest drawnwork tea clotha badly spotted before I had the Inspiration I wanted Then I deliberately stained a bit of white linen with the kind of tea I genThen I erally use and let it dry so took that tea stained bit downtown and searched until I fojind a heavy linen of that precise tint Itwas the old twilled weave that you see and I found the silks that harmonized with it for the simple drawnwork edge that you were admiring on this one for a s’callop with a design of maidenhair ferns above on a second and for a little running pattern of blosclover leaves and an occasional som that secures the deep hem of The dull of my third one the niaterlal and the clearer fern and arclover colors make a thoroughly tistic setting for my white china and bits of old sliver to say nothing of the antique candlestick and I have no more nervousness somewhen body’s hand shakes while lifting the freshly filled teapot” Chris Jor- First State BANK Saline of Drafts drawn on all the principal cities of the United States and Europe Banking in all its various forms Accounts Respectfully Solicited Four per cent interest paid on time deposits New Train Service VIA DENVER & RIO GRANDE In With Connection SANTA FE ROUTE ROUTE BURLINGTON THREE ROUTE ROCK ISLAND FAST TRAINS PACIFIC MISSOURI EAST TWO NIGHTS 10 CHICAGO LOUIS TWO NIGHTS TO ST fflOUSE THROUGH THREE SLEEPERS NIGHTS CHOICE OK ' PACIFIC UNION AllAROUND TO NEW YORK ROUTES TO further information ent or address For CHICAGO KANSAS ST CITY A I LOUIS Fs A 'see any D & R Salt GAPD PD BENTON WADLEiGH G Lake City Denver A Ag- Colo SAUSAGE Fine to Fresh and Like used L— ") Mother make j a Choicest line of J MEATS and GROCERIES The i'W ntnW wr I'W'riJWiiMimwMWHnJwnwywuwww— mien White W G Front LONG if 1 Use Electric Lights 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teaspoons boiling water stir In one cup confectioner’s sugar and use as soon as it will spread This icing is quickly made and has a sparkling appearance A little coarse ugar dusted over gives It brilliancy AMOY Charles F Brissel states that "cats’ eyes” are abundant In It Amoy and cost about $1 a bushel that these are imported Is reported Into Amoy from Shanghai and Canton from made and are and dyed TOP That Will Relieve Hostess Worry While Presiding at Tea Table A clothes tree on which to hang unfinished is a great congarments venience in a sewing room Do you know that by turning a cauliflower head downward it cooks more quickly and Improves in flavor? A favorite dish at a certain tea room consists of pate shells filled with a mixture of chicken livers and mushrooms in a cream sauce When powdered sugar gets hard Tun it through the food chopper This is an easier way of breaking up the lumps than using a rolling pin To thicken swies for pot roasts or stews put a piece of brown bread ID with the meat When you go to make the gravy rub It up for the thickening Clotheslines may be washed by winding them on a long board then scrubWith a view to solving the problem This prebing them with a brush of stability an American airman Wilvails them from tangling and makes liam P Gary has constructed a new them to wind once they are dry easy as our which aeroplane in a is enclosed shows photograph circle The motor is between the TO MAKE MARSHMALLOW LOAF and third planes and the pilot's Both en- Served in Slices With seat under the third plane Cream Whipped gine and seat are attached to a frameIt Makes a Most Delicious Light work The patent is in the hands of Dessert the Brothers Wright and the machine is said to have gone through its trial Beat the whites of four eggs until well very trips stiff Into them stir a ablespoonful of cupful gelatin dissolved In of hot water Add “YANKEE DOODLE HOUSE” cupful of cold water and one cupful of granuOld Fort Cralo at Rensselaer N lated sugar Beat well ard divide Into Y Is better known as the “Yankee three equal parts Flavor each part dif(or with the same flavoring II Doodle House” It is situated on the ferently bank of east the Hudson river and preferred) and color one part with one t with beaten was erected in 1172 It was in this melted chocolate building that the song "Yankee Do- yolks of two eggs (or leave It white) Let It odle" was comp-sIn the hall of and one with pink coloring this building an is imbed- stand until you are sure the colors ded In the staircase It Is said to will not run into each other beatnad now then it Dust ing a have been fired by an Indian when breadpan with powdered sugar put in the chocthis building was used as a fort olate part and sprinkle with chopped walnuts add the white pari English and more nuts lastly the pink $10000 IN WOODEN LEG After standing for a few hours the brick An old wooden ieg may not be much will turn out like Ice cream Serve with whipped cream — Delineator of a legacy but when it contains it is certainly worth having an inmate of thinks Jacob Randall Meat Hash the poor farm of Canadian county Oklahoma The leg was given to him 'Juiit plain plebeian hash Few can make It good Chop meat with a fourth by Alexander P Hamilton a supposed Its quantity of fat — corned beef Is pauper at the farm just before he died a few days ago Randall dis- best put in frying pan and fry slowcovered the $10000 in the stock of the ly while you chop equal amount of po tatoes Then acid to meat Salt artificial limb fiecussary pepper a little and stir well until thd whole has really fried a little Then add a little boiling water stir all well and make It Into a nice flat cake straight on one side Set on moderately hot part of stove tc crust one side Turn out carefully so as not to break it with crust side up Two beets added when potato is put in make an improvement of member Capt C O Rawlin the British expedition that recently describes Guiana Dutch explored what may be the greatest unbroken In the world It runs he precipice says for a distance of 80 miles from to the westward Carstenz Mount Its greatCharles Louis mountains est sheer height is at Mount Leonard Darwin The explorers were never In a position to measure with the a sheer height of this immense 6500 feet but exceeding precipice from many views obtained of it while he was climbing Captain Rawllng has no hesitation In stating that the greatheight is not less est perpendicular than 10500 feet or almost exactly two miles “CATS’ EYES” OF Suggestion of Much Siam Illustrated it a country of curious It Is a peculiar things to western eyes one of which is heie used especially for grinding rice Cream 8auce Mix to a paBte one tablespoon butter and haJf a teaspoon flour with salt and pepper and add to the JulceB In the pan Gradually add half a cu? milk Leather Goods' Harness Harness H Saddles Shop Ilorso full line of Men’s and Doys’ Our goods are the best and our line and be convinced and eawttiMaBHiHHMaHBKaaaMHi f Shoe Store Blankets Tents and Wagon Covers and a VVe want your trade Dress and Work Shoes our price the lowest Drop in and look over r- |