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; A year ago nearly 6000 women voted y'———at Cleveland election'of school dl- ^ rector*. ThU j-ear only 706 went to the polls. Here is one reason why woman suffrage still suffers as a

In the Michigan senate a bill to provide for paying the expenses of circuit judges away from home brought out a charge that the judges rode on pauses. “Then thrv should he Impeached,"

cried a senator.

The postofflee department at Washington is considering the advisability of changing the design of the regular Issue of postage stamps. It Is probable that the names of the persons will be printed under the heads borne on the stamps, and the design may also include an inscription glvj|ng the year of issue of the series.

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previdetb her

Cattlemen In Greenwood county, Kansas, are making, hard times for' lawyers. They have established a system of arbitrating differences. Three men are chosen as an arbitration committee. They investigate the trouble and make a derision, which ia Anal. A fuss involving 560.000 was settled at Eureka tbclRLer day by an arbitration

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and lying, "Go to the ant, thoa under her way* and be wiae, o guide, jrrraecr or ruler,

meat in the ram ml

vth her food in the harvest." Irat it waa not until about 300 years ago, when Jan Swammerdam, the son of an another ary at Amsterdam, Holland, began •be study of the ant under powerful lens, that the full force of Solomon's iniunetion was understood. The great Dutch acientill in his examination of the insect in my text discovered as great display of ths wisdom of God in its anatomy as astronomers discover in the heavens, and was absorbed and wrought upon by the wi den be discovered'in the ant and other inaecta that body and mind gave way, and he expired at forty-three yean of age, si martyr of the great science of insectology. No one but God could hare fashioned

New Hampshire people arc planning even now for the third annual Old Home Week in the summer. The secretary of the association say a that no movement In recent years contributed more to the general welfare of the rural sections of New Hampibire than did the Old Home Week meetings of 1899 and j900. Enthusiastic meetings were held in 4* towns in 1899. and In 76 towns in 1900.

A receht Italian writer appeals to his countrymen to take up agriculture, and I ns tastes beet-growing, poultrykeeping. and silkworm-rearing as branches in especial need of trained woman labor. He desires-the women of the upper classes to laterest themaelves in agricultural affairs Quite aa much as the lower. Certainly as modern farming becomes more scientific and Intensive, there would seem to be a field opening for women everywhere which would repay thorough training and earnest, observes Harper's Bazar. The country girl who crowds to the cities may in the future stay at home and earn a better living instead. “There it no stupid work; there are only stupid workera.” says the French proverb; and the woman farmer who. after trying both, asserted lately that ^iHbere are an independence and a scope about this out-door life beside wnlcb an office position seems very tame.” shoJ^ the spirit with which the modem ' American woman enters upon fanning poaaibill-

That the state of affairs in Buasla is In some new way or,unprecedented" degree alarming t6 the government of that country is made more th»n evident by the fact that -the banishment of Tolstoi has at last been ordered. The rather contemptuous leniency by which the novelist has profited so long was based on a belief that his preaching and exanfpUi could have no practical effect and that therefore it was not worth wbHe to punish in any way a man of great literary repute, with many admirers In other lands. Had he been less famous, of course be would have been sent, to Siberia year* ago. Even now the government, despotic aa it la; has not dared to do that, and by withholding the punishment that would have been inflicted upon another foe of the same sort, it baa Increased rather than decreased such dangers as Tolstoi s doctrine* created. Wherever .he goes, he will be able to talk and write, and this subject now will naturally be the evils of which he has at last been the victim. Hitherto be could not reasonably de>

which did not prevent him*from doing about as.he pleased, bat In" involuntary exile appreciation of the wrongs and stiffvrlaga of hi. people ceases to be theoretical. So Us banishment, whatever Us excaaa. waa g most sarV mU mistake, and it hints at the exiateace of something much Mha a panic

IDE NATURAL WORLD. Dr. Taltagfc Says Oad Regulates the Ant Hill as WeH as the Human HablUUoa.

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utilised for mors] and* religious purpoms: text, Proverb, ri, M: "Go to the Mt, thou ■lucg.rd. Consider her ways and be wise, which, having no guide, overses, or ruler, provideth her meot in the summer and gstbereth her food in the

They have cone c

aa thoroughly u the twe_.,

Pliny and most of the-took, of Aerahylu and Eunpidrs Mid Varrb and Quintilian. Solomon's Song and EccksiasCea and

Proverbs, preserved by inspiration, are a small part of his voluminous productions. He waa a great scientist. One verse in the Bible suggests that be was a botanist, a aoologist. an omithlologist, an ichtbvolo-

_»—v that springeth out of the wall: he spake also of beasts and of fowl and of creeping things and of fishes." Besides ail these scientitic works be composed 3000

proverbs and 1005 songs.

Although Solomon Uved long before the microscope waa constructed be Iras also an insectologist. and watched and describes the spider build its suspension bridge of silk from tree to tree, catling it the spider's web, and he notices iU skilful foothold in climbing the smooth wall of the throneroom in Jerusalem, saying. "The spider taketh hold with her hands and it tn kings' palaces.” But he is especially interested in the ant, and rei mends its habits as worthy of study

imitation, saying, "Go to I'

it such genius of instinct—its wisdom for harvesting at the right time, iu wonders of antennae, by whidi it gathers food, and of mandibles, which, instead -of the motion oi the human jaw up and il. wn in mastication, move from side tc aide; its nervous svstela, its enlarging doors in hot weather for more sweep of breeze, its mode of attack and defense, closing the gate at night against bandit invaders; iu purification of the earth for human reaidcnce, iU racial life, iU republican government with the consent of the governed, its natural fidelities, the habit of

these creatures

tinder the do® ingly in consulUtion and then departing to execute Qieir different missions. But Solomon would not commend all th' habiU of the ant, for some of them are s bad as some of the habiU of the huma race. Some of these small creatures ni desperadoes and murderers. Now an then they marshal themselves into host and inarch in straight line and come upon an encampment of their own race and destroy iu oscupanU. except the young, whom they carry into captivity, and if the army come back without any such captives tber are not permitted to enter, but are rant forth to make more successful con;

quest. Solomon gives no >

to >Seh sanguinary behavior among insects any more than he Would ha J J

sanguinasy behavior among But what art the ‘

would enjoin wh

what art the habiU which Solomon I enjoin when he says, "consider her ana be wise?” First of all, providence, for thought, anticipation of coming necessities. I am sorry to say these qualities are not characteristic of all the ants. These creatures of God. are divided into grsnivorous and carnivorous. The latter

While the mr , is not hindered by ice or snowbank, they import their cargoes of food. They bring in their caravan of provision: they haul in their long train of wheat or corn or oaU. The farmers are not more busy in July and August in reaping their harvest. They •tack them away, they pile them up. They question when they have enough. They aggregate a sufficient amount to last them until the next warm season. When winter

opens they are ready.

Blow ye wintry blasU! Hang your icicle* from the tree branches! Imbed all the iways under raowdrifU! Enough for

^ J nixens of ths hills. Hi

plenty .iu -ery living tl

.—-Jr shut

.. -God, who ■ring thing, has blessed the

Jn contrast with that inraetile behavior

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what do you think of that large number prosperous men and women who live i_, to every dollar that they make, raising their families in luxurious habiU and -at teachers or typewriters or Government employee? Such parent, have no right to children. Every neighborhood has specimen* of such improvidence. The two words that most strike me in the text are "summer” and "winter.” Some people have no summer in their bvea. From the rodring cradle, to the still grave it ia relentless January.Ajnvalid infancy followed by some crippling accident or dunnes* of eyesight Vr dullness of bearing or privation or disaster or unfortunate an Virooment makes life a perpetual winter. Bat in most lives there is s period of summer, although it may be a abort rammer, and that ia the

time to provide for the future.

One of the beat wars of insuring the future ia to put aside ail you can for charitable provision. You put a crumbling stone in the foundation of your fortune if foo do not in your elans regard the sufferings that you may alleriste. You will hare the pledge of the high heaven, for your temporal welfare when you help the helpless, tor the promise is •'Blessed is be tbstconratereth, thejiooT^thr Lord win deliver Then there is another way of providing for the future. If you have >1000 a yqgr

iES”*' IT - * 100; or .“* )0 » ’ , “ r -

•800;/or 83000, save •1000. Do you ray

vision for the future ■ friends or the world to

lor you to tc future and <

nr.

T —sis There ^sie^woraen^ who at the firstJn•11 on *n extravagant wardrobe. There iz gss

Examine the pantries of ths ant hills U this weathe-, and you will find that last sraj’&fj&’SrShSi § wise, which, having no guide, overseer or ruler, provideth her meat in the rammer and gathemtb her food in the harvest." This ia no argument {or roiserlineaa. Avarice and pennriouaneas destroy a man about aa soon aa any of ths other vices, "e have beard of those who entered their iron money vault for business pumoees, and the door accidentally shut, and they were suffocated, their corpse not discovered imtil the next day. But every day

’ ‘ rn the streets of our

‘ ' and i ’

ered until the i ami a)i up and down cities there are men, body, forever fast in their own

Accumulation of bonds, mortgages and Government securities and town Iota and big (arms just for the pleasure af accumulation ia despicable, but the putting aside oi a surplus for your self defense when your brain has hailed, or your right hand naa forgotten its cunning, or your old age needs a manservant, or Tor the rapport oi others when you can no more be a breadwinner for your household—that is right, that is beautiful, that is Christian, that ia divinely approved. That shows that you have taken Solomon's ant hill for an object lesson. Going out of this world without leaving a dollar for those who remain behind, ii you have done your best, you have a right to put your head in calm conta .c- — which Jeremiah

ith chapter of his

'— children.

. ^ jt your brad a on the ^ pillow which

snooa up in the forty-ninth chi

prophecy, "Leave thy fatherless enuuren. I will preserve them alive, and let thy

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Si's:

* foe

, you make no provision for post

mortem need, bow dare you go up ar.d take a palace ia heaven and let your wife and children go to the poorhouse or into a struggle lor bread that makes life a horror

and sometimes ends in suicide?

But my subject reaches higher than temporalities—foresight for the soul, provision for eternal experiences, preparation for the far beyond. Ant bills, apeak out and teach a hrpT and mightier lesson of prepar-

ing food for the more important par* < us! Do you realize that a man may be a “--'lionaire or a multi-millionaire for tima

millionaire or a mult and a bankrupt for i

few years and

itf, a t fore

of a winter., But how many of ui seem content, though not hiring prepared for the ten-millionth part of what will be our Furthermore, go to the ant and consider that it don not decline work because it is insignificant. The fragment of seed it hauls into its habitation may be wo small that the unaided eye cannot see it, bat the insrctile work goes on—the carpenter ant at work above ground, the mason ant at work under ground. Some of these creatures mix the leaves of the fir and the catkins of the pine for the roof or wall of their tiny abode, an' others go out as hunters looking for food, while others in domestic duties stcy at home. Twenty specks of the food they are moving toward their granary, put upon « balance would hardly make the scales quit

...... .j.i. »wui,. auu juiuiv waai oceanic of the man in the parable of the talents, who buried the one talent instead of putting it to practical and accumulative use.

"" apology waa of no avail.

-Tien during the '

The needle has its office aa certainly as lie telescope and the spade aa a parliamentarian scroll. You know what'

of the man in the pan ‘ ‘ ‘

who buried the one tal ting it to practical and Hia apology waa of no a

, When during the plague in

the risk of lua life and under the protest of hia friends, Key.' Thomas Vincent spent hia time preaching the gospel to the sufferers and 88,508 people perished, seven fatalities in the house where he lived, did it just happen so that he came tnrough unhurt? In Fulton street prayer meeting. New York, a young man rose and said: “I hare beep an infidel fourteen yean. I had the prayers of a pious mother, but T spurned them. I have not seen her for fifteen vran. I suppose she has given me up aa lost. I don't know where to find her, but I would like to tell her what the Ixird has done for roe in answer to her earnest prayen.” Did it joat happen ra

other waa present and cried out, on, my aon?” You know of the bristian work in-Japan, but do how it began? Jk New Testa-

ment was dropped from ah English ship in the harbor of Tokyo. ThelitUe book came into the hands of a prominent Japanese, who read it and was brought to God, and immediately began to commend Christ to. the people. Did all that merely happen'so? Tell that to those who do not

to at least a hundred of

t do not t i who ban

do not tell it

earilj proved

lives providential rescues aa 1 aa that we have ever lived

But we live ia tiroes where there are ra many claabings. There seems almost universal unrest. Large fortunes swallow up small fortunes. Civilized nations Irvin* to gobble up" barbaric nations. Upbear*! of J - and people who once believed

--g now believing nothing. The that Mosea began and fit. John

creeds, and everything n old book tha

tones and college class-room*. Amid all this disturbance and uncertainty that which many good people need is not a stimulus, bdt a sedative, and in my text I find i'—divine observation and guidance of minutest affairs. And nothing ia to God large or small, planet or ant bill, the God who easily made the worlds employing Hia infinity in the wondrous construc-

tion of a spider’s foot.

Beiore we leave this subject Irt us thank God for those who were willing to endure the fatigues and self sacrifices necessary to make revelation of the natural world, so re-enforcing the Scripturra. If the:microscope could apeakf what a story it could tell of hardship and poverty and suffering and perseverance on tbs part of -those who employed it for important"discovery. It would tell of the blinded eye«r M --M. fitrauas, of the Hubers and of scores of those who, after inspecting the minute objects of God’s creation, staggered oot from their cabinets with vision destroyed. This hour in many a professor’s study the work of putting eyesight on the altar of scimce is goine on. And what greater loss can one suffer than the loss of eyesight unless it be loss of reason ? While the telescope is reaching further up and the microscope is reselling further down, both are ex-

claiming: ‘There is a God, and He is in- ralras finitely wise and infinitely good! Worship""* i Him and worship Him forever I” - ’

And now I bethink myself of the fact that we are clow to a draaon of the yaar which will allow na to be more out of doors and to confront the lesson, of the natural world, and there are voices U-it seem to my, “Go to the ant; go to the bird; go to the flowers; go to the fields; go to ths waters.” Listen to the cantatas

that if

THE SABBATH SCHOOL Utenutioasl Lesson Comments For Miy S. Sskject Jean aad Peter. Jobs xxL, IS-H-OoMea Text John xxl. 17-Memery Verses. U-17-Com»esUry os the Day's Usaoa. 15. “When they had dined.” Eating together waa a token oi fellowship and here shows Jesus's perfect reconciliation to all Hia disciples. "Simon, son of Jonas.” He docs not call him Cephas, or Peter, the name He had given him, for ha had lost the credit of his strength and stability which those names signified. By thus addressing him it would the more affect him and bring vividly before him his denial. "Loveat thou Me?" There were special reasons why this question should be put to Peter. (1) He had denied hia love for Christ and there waa reaaon for Christ to suspect hia love. (2) He must learn that love for Christ is the thing moat commendable and the surest proof of penitence. There is a curious change of terms here, and, if we wonld fully understand this passage, it it necessary to call attention to some of the delicate shades oi meaning in the Greek, which do not appear in our English translations. Jesus uses the word love three times in His questions, and Peter uses it three times in hia answera; but in the original the word which Jesus uses in his first two question* (agapao) is a differeat word from that which Peter uan (phileo) in all hia answers. In the third asking Jesua uaes Peter's word. "More than these." That IS. more than these other disciples love Me. He had declared. 'Though all men shall be offended because of Thee, yet will I never be offended.” Christ would now bear hia present testimony. Other* think that by '‘more than theseJera* meant the boat, nets and fish—in fact, hia buaineas. Whether Christ meant this or not, it should be remembered that if our love for Christ ia perfect, we will love Him more than we love our earthly possessions. "Thou knowest that I love Thee.” He could not-onlv profess lore to Christ, but he could tell Him that He knew that there was love in his heart. -He was confident that Jesus knew that he loved Him. "Feed My lambs.” This ia a commission to give spiritual food to the youngest and weakest In the flock of Christ. 16. “Feed My sheep.” Here He uses a word which signifies to tend a flock, not only to feed, but to take care of, guide, govern, defend, etc., by which He seems to intimate that it ia not sufficient merely to offer the bread of life to the congregation of the Lord, but hr

not but^rividly bring^back the thought of ment of trial.**^0rest^thotTMe?" ThU time Jesua uses Peter'* word for love. "Waa grieved." Because He pressed the question the third time and thus railed attention to hU failure,, and because in changing the word be bad used for love He seemed to imply a doubt of his Ipre. It has been suggested that Peter feared lest Chnrt still saw something wrong in hU heart that would lead to another fall. ‘Thou knowest all things." He waa sure of Chriat a perfect knowledge, and humbly appeal* to Him for proof of hU lore, "reed My sheep.” Still another word U used here by Chriat to represent the flock committed to Peter'a care, which means "litUe sheep;” '‘the aheeplinga,” the tender and delicate that needed ape rill care. The purpose of these questions seems to have been, 1. To show Peter that Jesua knew hU failures and heartily forgave them. 2. To guard him againat his natural self-confidence lest he should again fall. S, To show hia brethren that he waa fully restored. 4. To set clearly before him the great work he waa to do. 6, To impress upon him that only in deep snd earnest love to Jesua could he do thi* work. 18. “Verily, verily.” These words express the truthfulness and unchangeableness of what 11 to follow. “When thou waat younc.” He. Peter must have been about middle hfe. He now went where he chose to go, but the time would come when he would be carried by others. This forecast of Peter's future seem* to hare been for the purpose of encouraging him by the assurance that, however he may have failed in the past-ihe would henceforth go on boldly, even to crucifixion. "Shall be old.” Peter lived thirty-six years after this, and waa crucified at Rome about the year 86 A. D. "Another ahall gird thee." Such as were condemned to be crucified were tied to .the cross until the nail* were driven. "Wouldest not.” While Peter waa willing to die for Christ, ret be was a man and would naturally think from the torture of the cross. Aneieut writers state, however, that he considered it such a glorious thing to die for Chriat, that “he begged .to be crucified with hi* bead downward. not thinking himself worthy to die in the same posture in which bis Lord

did."

19. "Glorify God." The good man glorifies God in his death aa well aa in his life. Psa. 116: 15: Phil. 1: JO. In an tepeejal manner did the death of the marfySFelorify God: for they gave their live* in defenae of the truth. "Follow Me.” Jesus probably desired ti

that 1 to follow Him to

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think that Christ *

39* , '"S«eUi the disciple" That ia. Peter

love by dy1 though dir-

thi* man what?" R. to become of him? Must he like sufferings, end teatifv his ins for Thee? This question, al

tated by love, should not have been silted. To Peter it waa given to know what manner of death be Was to die. hot R would not he beet that- this should be known ia

”Th*t he tliTT eat difference erf 0

_ — opinion a* to Christ's meaning. By the words, "till I come," did -Testis mean Hia second coming, and that John was never to die; or Hi* coming to destroy Jerusalem; or did He mean the* John was to remain at that place until He and Peter returned from a private interview? John lived far many yrara after the destruction of Jerusalem, and was the only one of the apostles who did not die a violent death. The disciples themselves understood that Jeans meant that Hires S iSTiS self, at the time of writing this gospel,

Robert Colfyer brought hi* bride tp America In the steerage. He worked at the arm in Pennsylvania for nine ream, studying niranwhllc. By dint of hard work and great determination b« became on* of our greatest preach-

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IAAN'8 CRUCIAL HOUR.

Womamm am Ike I’ropsr Trealraenl ®f Husbsnds Wlisa Tlisy Oet Homs. The crucial hour of the day as regards Its effect upon the man of the family Is commonly thought to be associated with breakfast. Then a cheerful bearing and a joyful demeanor on the part of the feminine part of the family are thought to be most effective In putting the man of the house Into the right sort of humor for the dsy. There aio other views, however. on this subject, and one of them came from a woman whose experiences in her married life have been of n kind to encourage any wife. Bhe disagrees with the scceptcd view as to the potency of good humor In. the morning. Her scheme Is very different. "The most important moment of peace of mind.” mlnntes that follow his return from the work of the day. At that time one word may change his whole state-of feeling. He comes home unaually tired. Work or the vexations of business during the day have frequently brought him Ao a point of fatigue or nervousness st which r. very little thing may-fit-cldc what bis mood will be for the rest of the evening. Of courme, the particular disposition of •ery man is going to tell here just as It does everywhere else. But my rule will hold good for the average

she sees some signs of his temper before she makes any derided move. Don.t above ail things, tell him that the plumber bss Just sent In a terrible bill merely for making that little alteration^ or say that stupid Mrs. Jones has been at the house all afternoon talking abort the ne— hout: her husband bks bouffbt end showing off her sables as if she —as the only woman In New York that had them. "Generally. It Is "best to avoid such beginning, although a woman's tact must always be called In to help her out. if one of the children has Just been taken down with measlo*. or the cook has beea drunk all day and bad to be sent away. “Don't talk too much in the beginning on sSy subject. Conversation taken torrentlally at the outset-is-llkefy to upset anybody who is a little tired after a day's work r.nd wants *pi!et before adjusting his mind to the quiet- enjoyment of home. "The woman who follows this advice is going to find her evenings pleasanter than If she Jumps at the beginning into the heart of things, especially disagreeable things. A little tact during the first quarter of an hour after the return home is worth all the early mornlnr cheerfulness In the world when it comes to making the wheels move smoothly in ‘he household.—New York Sun.

Tho Future of the Moor.

Morocco, a country naturally rich and fertile, it kept poor by the greed and power of the throne. It is a government of the Sultan, by the Sultan, and for the Sultan; nothlngeUeconnts; the people have no rigbU; the Sultan is the embodied might and right oi the nation. Field* tintiiled. crumbling homesteads, rich minerals left untouched, ruin ani*. desolation every'here—all tell the rtory of the Sal-

tan’s terrible rule. ’For how shall It profit a man to lav up treasures for the monarch to seize? So every tal ent Is burled In the oartli. every light

is hltden under a bushel.

The Modem religion, once a ®p!rit-

lllzing fore ;heck to a

great race that 01 of Spain, and who civilization Into

morality, its soul. Is dead; the petrified shell alone remains, and that is a dungeon of darknerr. Within Its in fluence all thtnes remain stationary of else crumble into ruins. It is difficult to conceive these degenerate Moors belong to that same that once'were conquerors who introduced a higher that country, who were liberal-minded end progressive for their time, and rqasters of the fine arts. When the Moors were expelled from'Spain, they found their chief haven in Morocco, but a strange change baa come over the spirit of

their dreams.

The land of the Moor is

ile li rellj

only hope lies In Its conquest by so toe civilized power; Its rods must be banished. its >dol* shattered, else it must die of it* own. corruption. Not from that rocky eminence from whence Boabdll turned with tear-dlmmed ever to look upon the lost Granada, but from Morocco today ascends el uttime usplro fisf Moro—tbeJast door.—Harper's Weekly. Tb* Xvorlaaria* Hurry. Once In a great while circumstaneee require that a man should, hurry, but ~ t ever

t Is In 1

electricity, shocking the dellber-

ifyht

disease. Old writers used to say. "A gentleman never hurries.” Brt that was before elevated roads. Hurry is caused by

burr like

1 rey la an Infection, it l« in the a

They no moan 1111 in*- 100* **T«U1U. their breakfast, run for the train end are in a sweat and awivet aF dav. They are not only In everrbodv rise's wny. but in their own: hence they are failure*.—New York Preax.

He (boMfy)—Do yon think two tan Bve a* cheaply aa mm? She (Mushing)—Yea: I ta

SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

Id 1889 the production of aluminum in the United States was about 22 tons snd In other countries 71 tons, while in 1900 the United States produced about 4000 tuns and other countries about 7600. Copper telegraph and telephone wires must be twice as heavy as aluminum In order to do the same work, and 6000 tons of aluminum useff for sheathing or roofs will replace 20,000 tons of toppet.

graphing and telephoning Is reported from Berlin. The system is employe^ by the fire brigade of that city. Each fire-cart is provided with f. portable telephone apparatus which can be attached to the alarm pillars in various ■arts of the city, and operacd with

parts the 1

: wires employed for teleExperlence has shown t! tchlng In of the telephone

; tele*

graphing. Experience the switching In of t

no way Influences the telegraph service. During simultaneous telegraphing and telephoning a slight knocking is perceptible in the telephone, but the noise is not sufficient to destroy the audibility of the rat-snag s.

■lightly below sea-level, which contain* a salt lake from which a considerable harvest of salt is annually obtained In August, when the fierce summer beat dries up the water. C. V. Bellamy, who recently visited the lake called I-arnarra. thinks sea-water

rcolates through the rocks into the basin, thus supplying the salt. A single heavy rain in midsummer has sometimes sufficed to ruin the salt crop, and the Cyprians, in order to protect the valuable lake as much as possible, have constructed channels to carry off the food water of rains from the slopes of the basin into the sea.

ibrics the flax waste that has been formerly sold for the manufacture of paper. Henry W. Wing Is the Inventor, and he has taken the device to Bradford. England. where most of the flax is spun. Since the Installation of the machine at Bradford It has been discovered that the appliance waa equally useful in spinning asbestos and peat moss, or In fact, any other substance that has luffleient staple to hold in the form of a textile. The work of the machine is so carefully and excellently done that It Is almost Impossible to tell what the original material was that has been spun into the fabric. Just whci commercial name will be givqn to the spun flax waste or what it wllr be used for has not been determined. but doubtless it will bo found available for many purposes that require a coarse, bard fabric. A very peculiar bridge is being constructed over the Mary’ river, at Maryborough. Queensland, in that if. is being designed so that Its surface will be submerged several times during the year at the seasons of high floods. The Idea In building the bridge in this way is to' save the material that would be required to build It sufficiently high to escape submersion at high water. The country on the banks of

the Mar}’ river lies so low that the a re to 1 ■ntlrelj s. and hare Involved an immense expense.

approaches would have to be extraordinarily long to be entirely out of the water during floods, and this would Ived 1

; for use during low water, and employ boats during the comparatively short time that the water would cover the bridge. The bridge will clear by 12 feet and six Inches at ordinary high water. The highest flood level is 33 feet, so that at times the bridge will be submerged more than 20 feet.

.Oar Now Coosl-Doftora riant. The United States will shortly possess a plant capable of turning out for coast fortifications, and complete in every detail, the world-famed Gruson turret. Not only Is the plant assured, but work has actually coarthcnced on the erection of the necessary buildings. and to such an extent have the plans progressed that the castln; of the plates for the initial turret could, if required, be commenced in six

months' hence.

The raison d'etre of the new Industry is primarily the recommendation of the Enfilcott board of ordnance and fortiflcaUons. calling for emplareicnts for 22 turrets at coast points

of the United States; but tn the main the new plant owes Its being to the conditions which confronted this coun-

try on the breaking out of war with Spain in 1898. and *0 existin' conditions which make Imperative the adoption of a system impregnable to

gun attack.

The new organisation Is called the Gruson Iron Works, and will carrv on the manufacture of all descriptions of chilled iron work and heavy castings requiring special strength and resistance for naval and marine work. Tho interests associated with the\ new oompanv Include the larrest mar nfacturers of chilled Iron tn America, and the works will be equipped with everything requisite for the manufacture o? the largest chilled castings to-which the partleula* plant fo- finishing Gruson turrets can be quick-

ly added.

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