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ever known to be caught by a woman. Her exploit wns followed by the astounding feat o f Mrs. Marshall Field of Chicago, who actually enught. un aided and in strict conformance with all the rules and regulations, a mon ster o f 225 pounds, or nearly twice the weight o f the lady herself! The fish towed the boat from which Mrs. Field and her husband were angling, right was partly with the political Intent in to Avalon harbor, us though to o f muking Turkey defuult so inter crown her triumph by enabling her to ested powers could take over her finances und control the country, as was done In 1881. This led to the creation o f loose spheres of Influence, Germany taking Kola Plain, the French, Syria, with the Italians want ing the province they at present oc cupy, and the British and the Russians seeking Constantinople. In the coun cil o f administration o f the Ottoman public debt, which continued until the war and has been resumed in some fashion, there was one Englishman, one Frenchman, one German, one Aus trian und one Itulian, with the presi dency alternately occupied by an Eng lishman and a Frenchman. The conclusion o f the Investigators Is that If the Investments hud been made for productive enterprise and had created sources for meeting In terest and the debt, It would have been child’s play to carry the debt and pay it off. However, as the debt was lowered, In spite o f the above at tempts, additional loans were made. Not all o f the sums borrowed by the government were w asted; for exam ple about $50,000,000 was used to help build the Bagdad railway. Although the Germnns would have built the line with their own money, they nctuaiiy got Turkish money to finance what they considered a German enterprise. Turks’ Finances . Basically Sound Impression to Contrary Before War Said to Have Been Artificially Created. FOREIGN FINANCIERS PROFIT Revenues Shown to Be Already Ade quate to Conduct the Old Govern ment— Large Sums Squan dered on Harems and Palaces. Constantinople.— American experts who have investigated ttie financial condition of the former Ottoman em pire say they are convinced that it is fundamentally sound. Several con siderations are advanced to support this conclusion. First, it is stated that the popular point o f view that Turkey was bank rupt before the war was partly cre ated artificiality for the benefit of for eign financial interests witli the ob ject of frightening other would-be In vestors, and for political reasons of establishing spheres o f Influence. The fact thut Turkey was always able to secure loans is cited as evi dence o f her financial soundness, thougii aguinst this may be advanced the observation that s..e was a politi cal center coveted by many powers who were played, the one against the other, and that financial considera tions were sometimes subordinated to political purposes. Turkey Did Not Default. It is pointed out that Turkey did not defuult on her indebtedness in re cent years, but funds for the payment o f interest and amortization were con tinually increasing und doubling ut the rate o f every 15 years. The rev enues o f the country us a whole were Increasing ut the normal natural rate o f other prosperous countries in Eu rope. An enormous percentage o f revenue never reached the treasury, the loss being estimated by some as high as 60 per cent. This was partly ascribed to the system o f farming out the tuxes by districts, collectors paying in ad vance u certain sum and then collect ing what they could. For Americans who are considering the mandate question or of doing busi ness here under whatever government Is established, it Is pointed out that the above facts show revenues already adequate to conduct the old govern ment, und that with good government the old Ottoman empire would have been financially strong. Before the war foreign Investments amounted to the equivalent of $1,078,- 000,000, o f which $783,200,000 was in the public debt or loans to the gov ernment, the difference in private en terprises and concessions. The hulk of these Investments was in loans to the government. What was done with tills money? Many o f tbe lonns were Issued below par, so that all o f the money never reached the treasury. Enormous commissions nro believed to hnve been paid to Euro pean bunkers and in “ gratifications” to various local ministers to get their support for tlie loans. Sums that did reach the treasury are said to have been squandered on palaces, harems and In other unproductive ways. So the loans did not, on the whole, create sources o f new revenue, and therefore the public debt continually Increased. Spheres of Influence. The object o f such loans, it is stated, ? WOMEN HOOK MONSTER FISH Record for Big Catches in Pacific Waters This Year Goes to Fair Sex. Avalon, Cal.— News that women are coming Into their own must hnve reached the depths o f the deep blue. Judging from the way sea monsters nro gallnntly hanging themselves up to dry on the hooks o f fair anglers hero this season. Murlln swordfish are the prized tro phies o f “ men fishermen" hereabouts, and up to the present season it has been unknown fo r a mere woman to bring in one o f these sea tigers, as they hnve the reputation o f being the hnrdest fighters in the ocean, (w e menu the fish, of course). However, it remained for Mrs. A. Koch, govern ess In the household of Zane Grey, the famous author, to Inaugurate the run of luck for women by bringing In a 172 pound marlin swordfish, the first Mrs. Marshall Field and Her Catch. land the captive before the admiring gaze o f the thousands o f resorters. Mrs. T. J. Irwin of Chicago and Pas adena, went out to about the same lo cality as that in which Mrs. Field caught her fish, and hooked a 149 pound marlin and actually fought him for an hour and five minutes. Fish ermen o f Cutallna, the island recently purchased by William W rigley Jr., re port that'this has been most decidedly a woman’s season here, the like of which has never before been known. Farmers in Yaqui Valley Seminole Indians Taken Live in Forts and Always Under Uncle Sam’s Wing Prepared to Fight Indians in Florida Everglades In the least known wilderness of America, the Everglades o f Florida, where no white man can find his way ungulded. 600 full-blooded Seminole Indians hnve at last been officially “ discovered.” E ver since the Indian war In 1842 the Indians In Florida have not been recognized by the gov ernment or the state. They were sup posed to have been removed to west ern reservations or hunted and shot by white traders who coveted their land. But a remnant o f the great Seminole tribe persisted In Florida, eluding the government agents and retrentlng foot by foot before white people who claim ed to have purchased their lands, till they finally made their homes in the maze o f unexplored swamps, studded with thousands o f luxuriously vege tated Islands, which form the E ver glades. The government finally has been persuaded to grant them 100,000 acres o f land for un Indian reservation under an Indian commissioner. The Seminóles 11 v e .in an absolutely primitive state, In thatched huts. They are nfrald o f the camera, they wonder at the telephone, the automobile, the train and the commonest conveniences. They are suspicious o f the white man hnd his government. Y et when on oc casional trips to the villages they learned o f the w ar with Germany they showed themselves no slackers. They are a remnant o f a few thou sand Seminóles who disappeared into the Everglades when the government agents started to move them west. Death Vaiiey is Seventy Miles Long, Ten to Twenty Miles Wide; Barren Waste Death vaiiey, 276 feet below sea level, Is an alkaline desert region In California, on the Arizona border. It is seventy miles long, ten to twenty miles wide, and is situated between high foothills. Only seventy-five miles away Mount Whitney raises its 14,500 feet into the air, and with other near by elevations is a barrier to any mois ture reaching this parched region. In summer the temperature reaches 130 degrees in the shade, where there is shade enough to cover the ther mometer, and even the nights are too hot to sleep. Terrific winds o f heated sands sweep up and down the valley and render it a barren waste, except fo r a few stunted cacti and grease- wood. In autumn tourists may ven ture into its confines, but they must carry “ drink” fo r both man and beast, as the lone stream that enters this dreary region is bitter alkaline and soon disappears in the sand, while springs are miles and miles apart. However, a few slinking coyotes, rat tlesnakes, homed toads, buzzards and half-stnrved jack rabbits nfanage to exist In some mysterious manner. Mormon Temple in Hawaii Ready [ Magnificent Edifice Said to Be ^ seventy years o f effective work by the Church of Jesus Christ o f Latter Day Replica of King Solomon's Saints in Hawaii. On December 12, 1850, only three years after the great Temple. They talk about a woman's sphere as though it had a limit! There's not a place in earth or heaven. There’s not a task to mankind given, There’s not a blessing or a woe. migration o f the Mormons to Utah, There’s not a whispered yes or no. There’s not a life or death or birth, the first party of Mormon missionar That has a feather’s weight of worth— ies landed In Hawaii, a little more than without a woman in it. thirty years later (han the first Chris — C. E. Bowman. tina missionaries from Boston. In this Little Holiday Cakes. first Mormon party wns Elder George Sect Established on Islands Years Q. Cannon, Intely a counsellor to the These little cakes w ill please the Ago and Now Owns Property Worth first presidency o f the church In Salt children and are nice to serve with tea Many Millions of Dollars— Jo Lake City. He remained in the islands w-hen a friend drops in. seph Smith a Missionary. a number o f yours, learned the native Spice Nuts. language and translated the Book o f Take one cupful o f sugar, one cupful Mormon Into Hawaiian. Honolulu, Hawaii.— Completed at n Joseph F. Smith, the late president o f flour, two tablespoonfuls o f sweet cost o f approximately $150,000, the fat, two eggs, one teaspoonful o f bak magnificent new Mormon temple at of tlie church, came to Hawaii in 1854 ing powder, one-fourth o f a cup o f as a missionary, being hut sixteen Laic, 40 miles from Honolulu, on this shredded citron, the same o f almonds, island, Cuhu, stands a monument to years old at that time. He remained In the Islands four years and returned one-half teaspoonful o f cinnamon, the In 1880 fo r n stay of two years, dur same o f allspice nnd cloves. Cut the ing which hls son, Ellas Wesley nuts nnd citron very fine, sift the bak Smith, now residing here ns president ing powder with the flour nnd mix with of the Hawaiian mission, was horn. the fruit, nuts and spices. Beat the eggs until Twenty years ngo President Smith sugar, shortening and creamy, then add the flour mixture made hls Inst visit to Hawaii gradually. The dough should be stiff Many Places of Worship. enough to form Into small balls the At present the Mormon church lias size o f a hickory nut. I f too stiff more than 50 places o f worship on the moisten with milk, If not stiff enough different islands o f Hawaii, with a add a little flour. Place on buttered membership among the natives of ap tins and bake until light brown. proximately 10,000. Its property, in cluding the big sugar plantation at Orange Cakes. t the Late settlement, is worth millions Take half a cupful o f shortening, of dollars. A year ngo the church paid I one cupful o f sugar, one-half cupful o f $000,000 for 800 acres o f sugar cane I milk, one nnd three-fourths cupfuls o f land, ndjolning Its plantation. 11 miles flour, five eggs, two tenspoonfuls of o f rnllwny and an Irrigation system. baking powder, one teaspoonful o f The new temple at Lnie has n beau orange extract and a teaspoonful o f tiful setting In n tropical garden of five acres, crowning n small hill. The grated orange peel. M ix and beat well. Roll out nnd cut In fancy shapes. temple, constructed o f pulverized Cover with yellow fondant flavored lava rock and reinforced concrete, is with orange and sprinkle candied peels built In the form o f a Greek cross, over the top o f each. occupying a space o f 78 feet square. It is said to he nn exact replica in de W ild Rose Cakes. sign and dimensions o f Solomon's Take one cupful o f sugar, one-half Temple, nnd is rather suggestive o f cnpful o f butter substitute, one-half the Aztec style o f architecture. cupful o f milk, three eggs, one tea Oak In Interior Work. spoonful o f baking powder and one Japanese oak and Hawaiian oak and three-quarters cupfuls o f flour, were utilized fo r interior work, while s ifte d ; one teaspoonful o f extract o f many o f the rooms are heavily tnpes- rose. Cream the butter, sugar and | tried. Mural decorations in certain beaten yolks, add the milk alternately chambers are allegorical o f events with the flour which has been sifted described In the Book o f Mormon and with the baking powder, beat well, add | In the Bible. The Hawaiian temple flavoring and fold In the whites o f the Is the seventh to be erected by the eggs. Bake In square tin*. When ' Latter Day SalDta. The first temple cool cot In squares and dip In fondant. erected still stands nt Kirtland. Ohio, W ith a pastry tube make a small rose | hut Is no longer owned by the church. Jordan Lawrence Mott eloped from New York seven and a half years ago The temple at Nauvoo, 111., was o f softened fondant tinted pink. Add with Mrs. Frances Hewitt Bowne, a comic opera star, and thereby lost hls | burned nnd the charred walls were a yellow center, using colored fondant chance (o Inherit $25,000,000 from hls father, owner o f the great Mott Iron | later wrecked by n tomndo. The other or a sprinkling o f grated lemon or works. It was learned recently that the couple are on Catalina Island, where four temples are located at Salt Lake orange rind. MANY PLACES OF WORSHIP FAMOUS ELOPERS AT CATALINA ISLAND j Mott is hnpptly earning a living as a boatman. a few days ago at their cottage at Avalon. The photographs were taken I City, Logan. St. George and Mautl, I ” tah. Ito ti Some day it may occur to somebody to write a book with the title “ Sur prises o f Mexico,” fo r it becomes more and more evident that the land Is full o f odd places and people. Not fa r over the border, fo r example, lies a region where life is still lived by white set tlers under pioneer conditions, and, us says a recent traveler, the “ pioneer fanners In the Yaqui valley have to live In forts nnd carry guns fo r pro tection against the Indians.” Here are still wild American aborigines, a horde o f about 20,000 o f them, classified as the Tarahumare Indians, who live in caves, worship woodpeckers, and are fo r the most part doubtless as igno rant o f the United States as if Colum bus had not sailed from Europe .The land Itself is unquestionably an asset to the future o f Mexico, once the pres ent troubles o f the nation are over, but, except fo r the pioneer farmers and the growth o f a few mining towns, the “ land o f N ayarlt” remains much as it must have been when Cortes was conquering another part o f the coun try. In its promise o f agricultural produce and mineral wealth it is said to be one o f the richest regions in the world, but so fa r “ its only roads are the winding cow-trails made by cattle on their way to water holes. Not a single railway crosses It from east to w est; and one line only splits It from Nogales to Mazatlan. Vast areas o f the Interior are practically uninhab ited except fo r lonely huts here and there in canons or near water holes.” And the United States is only a day’s ride away across the Texas border. KILUNG COOTIES OF CHICKEN YARD Biting and Sucking Insects Are Serious Enemies of AH Classes of Poultry. PESTS DEVELOP DISCOMFORT Mites and Lice Decrease Efficiency in Production o f Eggs and M e a t - Hens Become Irritable and Do* cline in Health. (Prepared by the United States Depart-' ment of Agriculture.) Ol’ Lady Hen doesn’t object to scratching fo r a living, but she balks on scratching fo r worms all day and then having to scratch all night at ver min which delight in strolling over her during the era o f darkness. Fow l lice and mites reduce egg pro duction, hinder the growth and reduce the quality o f flesh o f all classes o f poultry. Mites are particularly bad among farm fowl, as these blood-suck ing Insects often gain a firm foothold In the flock before the farm er Is aware o f their presence. The hens become Irritable and decline in egg production and healthy condition as a result of losing blood to the mites. In heavily Infested coops it is not unusual fo r the chickens to become droopy and weak, with pale combs and wattles. The miteá feed almost entirely at night, except that they attnek hens on the nests during the daytime. They Adornment of Rooms in secrete themselves in cracks and Home Requires Careful crevices around the chicken house dur Study of Color Scheme ing the day, and hence their presence often Is overlooked until a heavy Infes Rooms have to be studied, like peo tation has developed. ple, fo r their adornment. Their height, Rout Mites From Roosts. their width and their relation to the In controlling mites it is first o f all sun must be considered. They also essential to drive the pests from the have to be treated in relation to those roosts, nests and Interior o f the poul who live in them. try house, which should be sprayed People are playing with colors now. with a mixture o f one part kerosene Some tints, like amber and yellow, are to four parts o f crude petroleum. Or very difficult. You have to lead up to dinarily one application is sufficient, them, and very often before the but as an extra precaution It Is advis scheme is complete the designer able to spray a second time about one throws it up in despair. month a fter the first treatment. Poul Brown is the most difficult o f all. try should be kept out o f the treated O f every hundred people who think buildings until the material has well they want brown, and come to the dried into the wood. great furnishing houses with their col Arsenical dip, as a spray, such as is or palettes fu ll o f every tone, ninety- used to destroy cattle ticks, Is also five resign themselves to another color. fa irly satisfactory as a control fo r Greens are the easiest colors to live chicken m ites; several applications with, and Joyous jade greens, some are required to eradicate the mites shot with blue, others with yellow, are from the poultry roosts. The mites now to be found In the most dignified which cause scaly leg usually can be rooms. Greens rest tired eyes In a way eradicated by applying crude petro that captious blues can never do. leum to the legs with a brush or dip Those who cannot change their fur ping them into this oil. One treat nishings often favor this kindly color. ment is usually enough. Stripes and plain-colored hangings Lice Like to L ive on P oultry. give size and height to a room. Motley I f poultry escape infestations of cretonnes or-silks draw a room in and mites they are still exposed to visita make it smaller. So it ts best to go tions from lice, which, unlike the w arily when dealing with the brilliant mites, remain constantly with the furnishings o f today. SMILES FOR ALL O f Course. “ Do get Jimmy to tell you about when they had bottled the enemy up.” “ I w ill. I hear it is a corking story.” In Doubt. What Is that noise?” exclaimed Mrs. Cumrox. “ I ’m not sure,” answered her husband. “I t sounds as i f the w aiter had drop ped a load o f dishes; and then again, may be It’s only the jazz band tun ing up.” Looks T h a t W ay. “ What’s the debate at the lyceum to night, Uncle Heck.” 1 “ Which Is the purtiest name, Doris Sodium Fluorid Probably Is the Best or Gladys? And I ’ll tell you the jedges Lice Remedy. have got their work cut out fo r ’em. I ’ll 6ay they have.” fowl. More than forty different kinds o f lice attack domestic fow ls and feed Explained. on portions o f the feathers or on scales “ H ow are they proposing to remedy from the skin, their presence In any the decrease In marrying?” considerable number resulting In seri “ Th ey’re not proposing at all. That’s ous Injury. the trouble.” Sodium fluorid means sure and in stantaneous death to poultry lice, and Helpless. in either the dvrtit or dip form It Is Pat— Ol’ve traced me ancestry back the practical control. This material to an Olrish king. In the dust form Is applied by the Mike— Sure, that’s easy. What "pinch” method, which consists In chanst has a dead man to defind him holding the fow l by the legs or wings self? in one hand, while with the other hand a small pinch o f the chemical Is placed A Good W a y to Do. on the head, one on the neck, tw o on Patience— the back, one on the breast, one on When Clarence the tail, one near the vent, one on attempted to kiss either thigh, and one on the underside) Peggy, did she o f each wing when spread. This ma-' holler fo r help? terial may also be applied in a shaker P a t r 1 c e— I consisting o f a tin can with nail holes should say n o t punched In the bottom, the chemical She just helped being mixed with road dust o r flour. herself. Clothes Make the Woman. Alice— How do I look In this dress? Gladys— Charming, dear. I » ’t It wonderful how much a dress can do fo r one?— Boston P o s t And T h e y Come High. B acon: “ I f a woman was made from a man’s rib In these days what do yon think he would get in return?” Egbert: ” A rib-roast, I suppose.” RUSSIAN THISTLE IS USEFUL It H a t Been Used in Silo and Cut fo r H a y In Regiona W here It Haa Been Deemed Peet. IS regions where the Russian thistle has been considered a pest. It has been nsed both in the silo and cut fo r hay. When cut fo r hay the mower Is started jnst as the spines commence to harden or even earlier.