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Show GREAT LEADERS EARLY RISERS It is a strange thing that almost all men who are taking a leading part In the groat European war have formed tho habit of leaving their beds at an early hour. The kaiser once remarked: remark-ed: "The Hohoenzollerns don't wear dressing gowns," and, as far as be himself is concerned, it is no idle boast. For even In times of peace, ho led tho Spartan Ufo of a soldier on the battlefield. His bed was that of the camp (patterns and his clothing precisely that supplied to his officers. He always went to bed at 11 o'clock and rose at 5. Other European monarchs follow the kaiser's example. The king of Italy always rose at 6 o'clock, while King Albert of Belgium, who haa proved himself a gallant fighter, rifles at 5 and breakfasts at 7. He too sleeps upon a little camp bed. Kitchener likes an Iron bed and simple "domestic accoutrements," and generally makes six hours' sleep suffice, suf-fice, while Sir John French does not soem to caro if he gets no sleep at ail. A story is told of him that at Strydfoutoin he gao up his own and tho only bed to a weary junior officer, genially observing, "I don't care where I sleep." And ho rolled himself in his cloak and lay on tho floor. On another occasion, going his rounds at midnight on tho veldt, ho spent tho short time he could snatch for rest guiding two belated guardsmen to their own camp. Admiral Sir John Fisher, first sea lord of the British admiralty, never stays In bed after 5 o'clock, and begins be-gins his day's work soon after that hour, a habit which he has followed for years Lord Curzon of Kedleston, It might bo mentioned, also rises at 5 in tho morning. If one considers great men of the past who have .taken the minimum of sleep and been early risers, Wellington Welling-ton is perhaps the best-known example. exam-ple. We all have heard of his camp bed and early hours, and his ability to sleep on horseback if necessary. Napoleon, Na-poleon, too, always advised early rising ris-ing and generally practiced it, while among great civilians Sir Thomas Moore rose at 4 and Bishop Burnet at 6. John Wesley considered five hours' sleep was enough for any man, while Bishop Horno and Sir Walter Scott generally did a day's work before bi eakfast. Tit-Bits. uu . WHY GREAT SALT LAKE IS SALT. Great Salt Lake has no outlet. Jordan Jor-dan river which enters It from the south Is the outlet of Utah lake. Boar river, coming from the north, carries the outflow from Bear lake. Tie waters of Utah and Bear lakes and of Jordan and Bear rivers are fresh, and so is the water of Weber river, the third great tributary of Great Salt lake, but the lake into which the three rivers flow is saline. It Is saline because be-cause it has no outlet. The fresh waters of the rivers contain con-tain some saline matter, but the quantity quan-tity Is too small to be discovered by taste. As stated by tho chemist, in parts per million, tho quantity seems minute, mi-nute, but when account is taken of tho total volume of water brought by the streams to the lake in a vear their iburden of saline matter Is found to be really great, amounting annually annu-ally to more than 600,000 tons. Year by year and century by century cen-tury the water which they pour into the lake is evaporated, but the dissolved dis-solved solids cannot escape in that way and therefore remain. They have accumulated until the lake water Is approximately saturated holding nearly as much mineral mat-tor mat-tor as it can retain In solution. The lake contains over 5,000,000,000 tons of common salt and 900,000,000 ton of Glauber's salt (Bodium sulphate), as well as other mineral matter. New York Telegram. nn |