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.