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About The Maupin times. (Maupin, Or.) 1914-1930 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 22, 1915)
MARRYING WM So Carl Said When He Wedded the Queen of Cooks. Mrs. Bliss came Into the day nur eery, bor largo rosy (ace growing a deeper pink with the exertion of climbing tho etalri to the third floor, "Good morning, Mist Newton," she cmlled at the little nursery governess who ws tittlng with Hobby In the window teat. "1 wonder If you and Hobby wouldn't like to play today? We are going to picnic at the pine grove and" "Oh, mother-honoy!" Hobby flung lili iturdy iulf at hie parent. "Will there be lemmade and chicken land' wlches? And can I wear my new white Tommy Tucker nult?" "Yes, to everything," laughed Mrs. BIIbb, kluulus hlin and moving toward the door, "Can you be ready In 15 minutes, Mlsi Newton?" "Of course we can, Mrs. Mies! We wouldn't mini a picnic for the world, would we, Hobby?" SHe jumped up bp' put away books and toys. "Come, cblldle!" They danced down the corridor to Bobby's room where nurse quickly put blin Into the much-admired suit. In the meantime Beta Newton brushed her red-brewn ba!r and slipped Into a dainty pale blue ging ham (rock, then the girl and the little boy went sedately downstairs to the front veranda where three motor cars were waiting (or the merry bouse party that had filled the Illlss coun try borne (or ten days, Some of the girls and women came up and spoke to Bobby and nodded kindly to the little governess; one of them, Miss Nugent, tell, graceful and carelessly kind In her manner, introduced Until right and left, until presently the girl found herself In timid conversation with Mr. Carl Ilel' lew, so many times a millionaire that no one troubled to remember ex actly how ninny dollars there were and only recalled thnt be was just as nice as if he didn't have a penny. At last they were off, Ueth and Bobby tucked away In the tonneau of the last car with Mr. and Mrs. Mitchell, the footman and the lunch baskets which overflowed on to the running boards and the luggage car rlcrs. "This Is jolly!" cried Dobby en thuslastlcally as they swept out of the driveway and turned up the road that led to tho Pine Mountuln. Beth smiled absently. Perhaps she was thinking that It might have been pleasanter if she had been In one of the other large cars among that merry crowd of girls and young men. But she clildcd herself sharply for the momentary discontent and was soon her own accustomed happy sulf, en joying the unexpected holiday to the utmost. ' At the pine grove the picnic hampers were unloaded; James, the footman, built a fire and was then allowed to return home with the machines. They were to come for the plcknickers at Bundown. "One can't have a Jolly picnic with serv ants around," Mrs. Bliss had de cided. Leaving the fire to take care of Itself the party trooped through the pines to the glade where a waterfull tumbled amotyt the brown rocks. An acrid smell of burning brought them running to tho campflre. The fire had rvercrept the bounda ries of Its encircling stones and had licked Its way among the pine needles until it reached the four 'large hampers. There was nothing left of the food save blackened remnants, and of the hampers there remained only charred splinters. As the plcknick ers reached the scene the last soda water bottle exploded with a sicken ing report. "Seven miles from anywhere!" groaned Mrs. UIIbs. "And not a thing to eat!" added Mitchell blankly. "Or to drink," mourned Mr. Mitch ell as be grubbed among the ruins of the hampers. There was a murmur of discontent among the young poople. Some of Ihe men volunteered to walk back to the house and bring something to eat but the question was quickly decided when a few heavy drops of rain fell. "Where la the nearest shelter?" asked Carl Bellew. "It must be old Ned Blake's shan ty," replied Mrs. Bliss. "At least It will keep us dry for awhile. Come, everybody 1" Someone laughed a spirit of adven ture Into the party and so they has tened down the slope until under the shoulder of the mountain they reached a long, weather-beaten shanty built against a great rock lhat formed Its rear wall. Ned Blake was a hermit who gained a living by gathering herbs and ber ries In season. '. Repeated knocks upon the door brought no response. "The latch string Is out," suggested Beth New ton. Carl Bellew pulled the latch-string and pushed open the weather-beaten door. The poor furnishings were spotleBBly clean and neat but the her mit was absent. "We niUBt find something to eat and we can pay Ned when he re turns," said Mrs. lilies as she sank down In a cushioned Boston rocker, while the young people found seats on the rag-carpeted floor before the open fireplace. Soon Carl Bollew had a fire of hickory logs blazing on the hearth while Lillian Nugent and Beth New ton explored the pantry. Miss Nu gent returned to the living room. "There tent a bit of cooked food In the , place not even bread!" sbe an nounced. "There are flour and sugar and1 eggs and potatoes and some canned things what can we do? Do any: of you girls know bow to cook eggs?" li Ansa Taylor confessed that she had made creamed eggs In a chafing dish at home-but she shrugged her shoulders. The other women were silent Beth Newton stood in the kitchen door way, ber face pink with shyness; the looked dlstraclliigly pretty ut (hat mo "If you don't tnlnd waiting a hall hour 1 believe I could prepare some thing lit to tat," shu announced tim idly. They applauded her enthusiastically and offered to hulp. giie accepted MUs Taylor for an assistant In the kitchen, and Lillian Nugent opened the tiny cupboard and prepared to set tho table for a dozen people from tho hermit's seunty store of crockery. Both lighted a fire In the cracked old cookstove, Carl Hollow and Andy Bmlth carried firewood, and opened the tans of vegetables. Hobby danced In and out report ing progress. "Ilakod potatoes I Hot biscuits urn! Bacon mother, they're cooking bacon and eggs out there! They were doing ull those things, while outsldo of the frail shelter a cummer rain drummed on the shin gles and mace the fire and tho cozl nets more desirable. At last they sat down at two tables, They gave lleth a seat of honor, and no one told her of the dab of flour on ber hair or the smudge of soot that became a beauty spot near her lively eye. With ber flushed cheeks. her ruffled brown hair, ber pale blue sleeves pushed up above her rounded elbows, Both Newton was radiant. They were all so good to her, tool She smiled happily, too tired to eat Her eyes met Carl Ilellew's and some thing In the man's gaze brought a hot flush to her cheek. After that her eyes did not wander far from ber plate. As a dollghtful surprise Beth pro duced a steaming apple pudding with maple sirup, and In token of their gratitude Andy Smith hastily plucked a bunch of herbs from the rafters and solemnly crowned her with a wreath of catnip, the queen of cooks. Hy the time the dishes were washed and put away the sun was Bhlnlng outsldo. Thq Invaders had restored the house to order aid Carl Bellew had pinned a note on the table cover. Inside of that envelope were folded crackling banknotes of such large de nomination that old Ned lllake would never cease to marvel over the acces sion of riches that made his declin ing days more comfortable. They returned to the scene of the campflre, and all too soon the three motor cars arrived. Somehow Mrs. miss managed to smuggle Beth and Hobby Into the same car with her self and Carl Hellew, and that night when she weni to bed the girl assured herself that she had rounded out ber perfect day. A few days later the party bad broken up and the picnic was for gotten by all save Beth Newton and Hobby and, perhaps, Carl Bellew. His place was not very far away and he found many excuses for calling on the Ulisses. When kindly Mrs. Bliss realized that It was htr little nursery goveruesB whom Carl Bellew wanted to see, she remembered her own days of wooing, and entered whole-heartedly Into matchmaking. "Dear," said Carl Bellew one Octo ber day when he had received Bcth's answer. "I've loved you from the be ginning, but when I tasted your cooking Ileitis bund tressed his Hps In si lence. She looked up at her splendid gallant lover. "Ah, Carl," she murmured. "I am such a humble little thing so un worthy of you! You might marry a princess or a queen!" Carl threw back his- head and laughed. Then ho gathered her closer In his arms. "I am going to marry a queen," he protested, "tho queen of cooks!" The Thing That Lasts. It has pleased Providence to place us In such a state that we appear at every moment to be upon the verge of some great mutation, There Is not thing, and one thing only, which defies all mutation; that which existed be fore the world, and will survive the fabric of the world Itself; I mean Justice; that justice which, emanating from the Divinity, has a place In the breast of every one of us, given us for a guide with regard to ourselves, and with regard to others, nnd which will stand after this globe is burned to ashes our advocate, our accuser before the great Judge, when he comes to call upon us for the tenor of a well-spent life. Edmund Burke Benefited by Infirmity. Joslah Wedgwood, the famous pot ter and scientist, suffered from a dis ease of the right knee, which necessi tated the amputation of the limb. Re ferring to tliU Infirmity, Mr. Gladstone once declared, "It sent his mind in wards; It drove him to meditate upon the laws and secrets of his art The result was that be arrived at a per ceptlon envied by an Athenian pot ter." Her Oversight. "That last cook you sent me did not suit at all." "What was the matter?" "She couldn"t cook." "Oh, why didn't you say you wanted one that could cook?" And No Insurance. Bookkeeper The old man's getting to be quite an Incendiary. Cashier What's the answer? Bookkeeper He fired two more men today. After Marriage. "Tell me, Vanessa, does your music help you make your home happy?" "Not much. A sonata Is of little In terest to a man when be wants a boiltd dinner." Sh Knew Father. "All the world loves a lover, you know," said the young man. "You'll And out your mistake when you speak to father," replied the sweet young thing. Paw Knew the Answsr. Little Lemuel Say, paw, what Is an underwriter? Paw An underwriter, son. Is a woman who always adds a postscript to ber letters. Soon In the Soup. "Dinner's ready," thought the ladts. "I suppose I'll soon be In the sou." AUSTRALIA Is building for It self a wonderful capital city In a region hitherto uninhab ited, and the designer of this future city and supervisor of Its erection Is an American. .Jessie Ackermann, F, P., 0. 8., thus tolls of the great project and bor visit to tho chosen site, In the Pittsburgh Dis patch: I Whon the colonies of Australia fed erated and the country established a commonwealth government, they nat urally bethought themselves as to what they should do with It From the duy of federation, for almost ten yours, the matter of the locality of tho capital was a vexed question, which hinged entirety upon sectional Jealousy and ambition, The bitter fight wcxed fierce between the states of Victoria and New South Wales as to whether Sydney or Melbourne chould have the honor and advantage. In order to bring harmony out of chaos, It was determined to found a city In some new place where Aus tralian building Ideas and characteris tics could be molded and fashioned In to a monument of local coloring. The country In general aspect, fairly pul sated with possibilities of originality. The great soul of Australia breathes an atmosphere all Its own. Still there Is nothing whatover purely Australian In type or character which the people have produced neither In art, litera ture, architecture or poetry. Of course, the country Is young, but, even so, there are no evidences of originality, with the exception of the idea of build ing a great city in waste places. Yass-Canbarra Valley Chosen. The question of a national capital aomewhere at sometime having been settled, the struggle of "where" be came positively bitter. As New South Wales was the oldest colony, a sense of fitness led the government to agree that the Mother State was justly en titled to the city, provided the state donated the territory on which It was to stand, specifying that sovereign rights should be vested In the federal government. At last a majority vote selected the valley of Yass-Canbarra district, as the spot where the unborn city should be built. Hy a strange irony which often weaves Itself about the Individ- WW-? I imrni. - .... ... , , , . . WWW GENERAL VICW or ual, one of the members who most bitterly denounced the situation of the site by exclaiming, "The wastes are so bleak, the spot so barren and dry, that a crow never files across the place without carrying a water bottle," be came head of the department under which the city will be built The report of the commission ap pointed to visit various sites, says this of Yass-Canbarra: "It forms a per fect amphitheater in which the city would be surrounded by glorious hills." It was decided the world should have a chance to compete In a plan to lay out the city. Descriptions of the area were worked out to the most minute detail. They were drawn by the surveyor general to the common wealth and sent to the BrltlBh consuls of the world, with the result that hun dreds of plans from many countries poured Into the department before the time limit expired. These were stud ied and sorted out by a committee, which reduced the real competing number to about half a dozen. There were three prizes offered. The first was carried off by an enterprising young architect from Chicago, Walter Hurley Griffin, who Is under three Relation of Malsrla to Agriculture. An Intensive study of the decrease Lot productiveness In an agricultural community due to malaria nas Deen made by the bureau of entomology in Madlaon Parish. La. It was found that 12 families, cultivating 246 acres of land, lost an aggregate of 88 weeks during the crop-growing season from this cause, or more than seven weeks ner familv. The financial loss in this case was estimated at $24 per family. Whern the bo -weevil prevails tne lnsa would be much heavier, as fail ure to keep up the cultivation of the crop or to plant at the proper time gives the weevil a decided advantage. It Is clear from these investigations that the present loss through malaria In the southern states amounts to many millions of dollars.Sclentlflc American. Class Distinction. 'What do you think ot the nerve of that fellow in the third row? Trying to flirt with me, he was, Mayme! As if I'd notice a fellow who came to a 16-cent vaudeville show!" Har vard Lampoon. years' engagement to the Australian government to put his plans Into exe cution. In order to see something of this greatly discussed place, I decided to pay a visit to the territory and look over the very beginning of things for myself. The site Is still rather cut oft from the most spoedy communications by travel; but when the railway connect) the place with other lines, It will form the trunk between Sydney and Mel bourne, shortening the present dl tance by some eighty miles. An entire night on trains, or waiting for them at stations, brought me, long before daylight, to the nearest point by rail, when two government officials took charge of me and I was conveyed to the site, where I was to camp In government tents until I could sea something of the reservation. Set In the Foothills. Eight miles over good roads led U the foothills that form a setting fol the new city. The valley is backed bj the more distant range of mountains which change their garb of color be tween daylight and darkness, so fre quently as to throw almost a spell o) witchery over the landscape. From this area of 900 square miles, 12 square miles have been surveyed ai the actual site of the city. The spot will certainly become of Intense Inter est to those who watch the dally build Ing of a new and modern city, spring Ing from the very mountains of thli oldest of old lands. In five days we drove 190 miles ovel the reservation. ' Viewed from every point, beauty increased and posslblli ties enlarged with each hour of drlv Ing. The secretary of the department chanced to be on the spot, also the surveyor-ln-chlef of the common wealth. Maps, books, designs, lltera ture, explanations and details were all on such a large scale as to almost bewilder the mind of a mere woman. An immense gorge in the mountains will form a water supply of such vast extent and capacity that the watel question of the city, should the popu lation reach unheard-of numbers, la settled at the very outset. This Is the great advantage of the whole situation the certainty of a water supply will AST:- - . . .. THE NEW CITY strike a note of security. The district will be governed something after the methods of the District of Columbia. The people who dwell within the boun daries will, practically, be dlsfran chlsed. No land will be sold and the government will manufacture all ma terial to be used In building the city at various places under the supervl slon of that body. Two hundred miles of splendidly built roads are now completed, and work will progress probably Blowly, tor lack of funds, but the completion of the city is an assured fact. The present generation of builders will not live to Bee the city in any sense com pleted. It muBt be the labor of many years, but it Is the hope of Australia that gradually there will appear upon those hills one master-stroke of archi tecture after another until a world-triumph will stand In the form of a mod ern city, suited to the climate, ot which the oncoming generations will be proud. Australia Is a great land, a country ot sunshine, fruit and flowers; an Island so rich in natural resources as to astound the world with its recent years of unprecedented prosperity Rough on the Bishop. Ths Verger of the little old coun try church was showing a party of visitors round. He pointed out the place where Cromwell's cannon balls would have hit the church, only It wasn't built then, and all the usual sights ot the place. Then they ascended the belfry. There the verger drew a long breath, and the visitors crowded round eagerly. Evidently they were to see the sight of sights. "Now, this 'ere bell," said the ver ger proudly; "a bit remarkable this beii is. It is only rung on the occa sion of a visit from the lord bishop, a fire, a flood, or any other such ca lamity!" London Mall. Reciprocal. "Woman." says Dr. Anna Shaw, "ever has been man's companion, sharing his exile, espousing hla cause and buckling on bis armor." And man ever has been woman's companion, sharing her happiness, espousing her when she would have him, and button ing her up the ba"v HAS FAMOUS RECORD Death's Head Hussars an Old Organization. First Got Together by Fredarlok Wil liam, Duks of Brunswick, to Op- pose the Great Napoleon, and Give Him Much Worry, The curt rofusal of Nnpoleon I, to illow Frederick William, Duke of Brunswick, to bury the body of bis exiled father In his native land, In iplred the organization of the Death's Head hussars, tho most famous regi ment In the present German army. , Frederick William vowed eternal vengeance against, the French con qucror; and until the day of his death, June 16, 3816, on the field of (juatre Bras, be was Napoleon's most Impla cable foe In all the German states. Brunswick barred to him, the duke repaired to Bohemia after his father's death. He was without funds, but through the efforts of his sister, then Princess of Wales, English fundi found their way to him. All Germany was then under Na poleon's toot. His armies had swept all opposition. Prussia, Brunswick, Ba varia, Saxony, all the states were mere vasBals of France. Yet under neath a fire of hatred burned, wblcb the duke helped fan Into the blaze that eventually sent Bonaparte to St Helena. The duke announced himself as Na poleon's toe. Men flocked to his stand ard. He organized and equipped 2,000 cavalrymen, and, In memory of his father, clothed them In black. A sil ver skull and crossbones adorned their hussar headdress, and the silver lace slashings of the jackets were placed to resemble the ribs of a skeleton. "The Black Brunswlckers, ' they were called. With the gallant duke at their head they began a guerrilla war fare that wai a continual worry to the French armies. Von Stein, Scharn horst and others gave them Becret encouragement. ' Through Saxony, Hesse and Han over the troopers gobbled up and put to the sword French detachments. Re cruits flocked to them. At Berneck the duke gave battle to the French gen eral, Junot, and whipped him. All Germany thrilled at the romantic ac counts of the daring of the "Black hussars," A Saxon army was whipped at Zlttau, and another force at Hal berBtadt. A regiment had grown Into an army, the only one Napoleon's troops could not corner and whip. The Duchy of Brunswick was Invaded and the French garrisons alarmed. Leipzig was surprised and captured. Until the battle ot Wagram the duke and his hussars rode over Ger many at will. That victory gave Na poleon more time to devote to them, and the duke was forced to flee to England. But the "Black hussars" with the death's bead on their caps, continued the warfare in scattered bands. They were welded into a bri gade in 1814 and, as a part of a division In the allied army commanded by the duke of Brunswick, rode into Paris. They fought again during the Hun dred Days. The duke of Brunswick did not live to see Napoleon'B com- From an Old Print. plete humiliation. He died on the field of battle trying to rally some recruits who started a stampede at the first French fire. The fame of the hussars had reached such a point that the organi zation was continued In the Prussian army. Today Its colonel is the crown prince of Germany, and among its officers are princes of a dozen reign ing families. Whisky Made In a Mine. Perhaps the most remarkable be ginning and ending to a colliery fir was In the case of a mine near Stir ling belonging to the Sauchie Colliery company. The Irat shaft they sank was abandoned In favor of another in a better position. The disused Bhaft became the secret headquarters ot a gang of Illicit whisky distillers. In the abondoned mine works they set up their still, and turned out thousands ot "drops of Scotch" that had never paid duty. One day, however, the fire from their furnace set the coal seam ablaze, and they had to fly for their lives. In a very short time flames were pouring from the shaft and cracks In the ground, lighting up tho whole country side. The fire was walled In with mud. It took five years to build this wall at a cost of 16,000, and then It was useless. Sir Goldsworthy Gurney, the Inventor of the steam Jet, was called in. He sealed up the mine as far as possible and then pumped into It 8,000,000 cubic feet of carbonic acid and nitrogen. In three weeks the Ore that bad been burning day and night for 40 years was put out Ths Rational Assumption. "So your admirer is an aviator. 1 suppose he makes very short calls when ha comes." "Why do you think that?" "Doesn't he make flying rial tat" Wwi) wm V 11 t0 nu"t the wild ele- f III phants or to see the ruins that sahib has come?" aBked JJ my Singhalese host at the resthouse In Anuradhapura, writes Tyler Dennett In the New York Tribune. The question was nut really asked for Information. He knew thut I had not come equipped to hunt elephants. He also knew that the game laws of the British govern ment amply protect these valuable beasts. He wished, merely, to Im press me with the range of entertain ment afforded by Anuradhapura. : I was Impressed.' Elephant hunting In the jungles of Ceylon or curio bunt ing In the ruins of a forgotten me tropolis which once stood amid these same jungles one may take bis choice! Twenty-two centuries ago the morn ing sun cast the shadow of a nine story building over the spot where we were seated. This Brazen palace of Duttha Gamanl was 1C6 feet high, higher than the tallest building on Broadway 35 years ago. 1 Out yonder grows the Bacred bo iree, over 2,100 years old. It was grown as a slip from the sacred fig tree under which Buddha himself sat when fighting off the temptations of sense which hindered his attainment of perfect wUdom. Crumbling ruins, forests of pillars, grass-grown mounds hundreds of feet high stretch back Into the dim vista of a tropical for est on every side. Monkeys swing Ruins oftmc from the trees in this jungle, chat tering wildly at anyone who ventures to disturb their solitude. From high platforms In harvest time the vil lagers watch their few Impoverished grain fields to drive off the maraud ing wild elephants. Now Mere Jungle Ruins. Once Anuradhapura must have been one of the most thickly populat ed spots on the surface of the globe. No one can know with certainty how many people lived there. "It Is a well known fact, sahib," said my host, "that 10,000,000 people lived here In the reign of the great Gamanl." I had not been long in the Orient, yet long enough to know that the Oriental has little regard for statis tics. Every statement is Introduced as a well-known fact. In Anuradha pura there are the ruins of what is called the "Elephants' bath," so called, not because the elephants used to bathe In it, although the wild ones do come there now every morning at daybreak, but merely because It Is big. The word "elephant" Is the Singhalese adjective for bigness. Adopting their terms, I had already learned that there are "elephant" beggars In Ceylon, and "elephant" liars as well. Even supposing that my host's estimate was three-fourths too high, I know of no other city of that day which contained 2,500,000 people. Ceylon is '.he garden spot of the world. What wonder that the Tamils, who lived on that dry, hard strip of southern India across the strait from the island, were always jealous of their prosperous neighbors? Repeated and often successful attacks from the mainland partly explain why the northeastern end of Ceylon Is literal ly full of buried, forgotten and ruined War Makes John Bull Sociable. War Is making the British public sociable. Travelers, who in times of peace would occupy the same com partments for hours at a time without exchanging a word, now start conver sations without an introduction. This sudden breaking loose from the Vic torian spirit of reserve and aloftness has caused the Times to comment edi torially on the change, which it calls one of the minor results of the war. He first confesses: "Most of us In normal circumstances go on a railway Journey as we go to a barber's, with a prayer for silence In our hearts, and at the first sign ot loquacity, we take refuge behind a rampart of newspaper." But now he finds it "ludicrously solemn" to sit mutely for hours, look ing straight through the fellow crea ture opposite, and concludes. In be half of friendly Intercourse between passengers: "If we only have the honesty to ad mit it to ourselves, the sense ot hav ing done our duty In being friendly and pleasant (Ives a comfortable lit- UTY Ceylm 3 cities. Anuradhapura was built, de stroyed and rebuilt half a dozen times, Since the twelfth century It has been a complete ruin, Palace Had 900 Rooms. The Brazen palace, with its nine floors, a hundred rooms to a floor, rusted on sixteen hundred roughly cut stone pillars. Probably the super structure was brick, wood and thatch. The Singhalese were not skillful In the use of stone. To them stone was merely a substitute for wood. They did not understand the prlnclplo ot the arch, They hewed out a stone beam as they would have shaped a tree trunk and employed It In the same way. The Brazen palace was destroyed by fire a few years after It was first erected. It was immediate ly rebuilt, destroyed many times more In the course of Its history, and now Is marked only by this forest ot upright, broken and fallen pillars In the jungle. Tlssa, a great king ot the pre-Christian ere, Introduced Buddhism Into the land. He erected a great temple, the Mahapall almshouse, the ruins of which bave been almost entirely ob literated, and planted the slip from the original bo tree, This tree Nourished to the same ex tent as did the new religion and the city which afforded It a home. The Thuparama dagaba, a huge mauso leum and shrine for the left collar bone of Buddha, the oldest building In Ceylon now a high mound of Bod- brazen fklace covered brick, with trees growing half way up the slope is a witness to the enthusiasm of Tlssa and to his ambi tious plans. In its ruins it stands 250 feet high and 350 feet in diame ter at the base. Originally it was a hundred feet higher than now. ' Two Kinds of Ruins. Generally speaking, there are two kinds of ruins to be seen in Anura dhapura the vlhara and tho dagaba. The viharas, or palaces, are com pletely fallen. Only their founda tions remain. There is a typical group of these ruins scattered among the trees out near the ancient Thupa rama dagaba. Five palaces were grouped together, evidently as parts of a single monastic establishment. The beautifully molded slabs of gran ite which composed the foundations are, for the most part, still in their original places. The dagabas, owing to their solid construction, are In a fair state of preservation. At first they remind one of the pyramids, although they are conical in shape, rising from the plain 200 to 300 feet in height. Tho Interior of them is brick, packed to gether without mortar. The relio which each one contained was placed In the very center 6t the mound, and well protected. In some mysterious way the exterior of these dagabas became covered with soil, and now they look merely like grass-covered mounds. Standing amid these ancient ruins, under the welcome shade of the jun gle, one has only to conjure up In im agination the forms of these huge structures, and see them in their original brilliant colors to realize that Anuradhapura In Its pristine gradeur must have been a veritable dream city. tie glow at the heart which more than compensates for an occasional bad half hour." Patriotic Families. Early in the war It was announced that one German general, in actrve service, had ten sons at the front. Something very close to this record is now reported from France, where ten brothers from La Vendee region are with the colors. Another remark able case is that of Francois Vouillon, of Douzy-le-Natlonal, France, who has eight sons and two sons-in-law in the French army. Of these one son and one son-in-law have already been killed In battle. If Arms Are Too Fat If the arm is too fat, rigorous mas sage will help to reduce; but should be supplemented by active exercises. To massage the arm, grasp with the open band, near the shoulder; and, treating it as If It were a wet sheet lifted from the washtub, twist the flesh with a wringing motion. Oo over the entire arm In this way sev eral times.