SIMPLY PLACE OF DESOLATION GAS MOST VALUABLE AS FUEL FELT THAT HE NEEDED “PEP” Little for the Traveler to Enthuse Over Comparatively Little Is Now Being When He Vlolta the Old City Used for the Purpose of Giving Di­ of Jerusalem. rect Illumination. Little Fellow Simply Had to Spend a Nickel of the Dime in His The allies' advance In Palestine has Although gas la being used more taken them through Jerusalem and the than ever before, its direct employ­ little village of Jericho. The plain of ment for lighting Is almost a thing of Jericho, the scene of so many historic the past. Our modern “gas lights" are Incidents In the past. Is once again chiefly burners where the light Is not caught in the eld glare of the spot­ given out by the gas at all. It is mixed light. Such a light reveals too plainly •with air to produce a dim blue flame the hopeless poverty of the people, the with great heating power. This flame cracks and holes In the rough walls of serves to heat a mantle of min­ the hovels, the fields and gardens, fal­ eral salts white hot, and it is this In­ len by neglect into a riot of weeds and candescent mantle that gives the light. wild flowers growing rank. Here the gas Is used not for Its light, It Is better to look ut Jericho at sun­ but for its heat; and It Is as a fuel set, and not too critically even then. In that gas Is now most valuable, says a soft light the wretchedness of the the Literary Digest. thatched huts Is less insistent, the Jas­ According to an address delivered mine and oleanders seem sweeter and recently In Englnnd by President the ragged Bedouins acquire plctur- Harry Jones of the Institution of Civ­ esqueness In spite of dirt and squalor. il Engineers, and reviews by Nature It is only a short walk through the i (London), not 5 per cent of the whole plain from this Jericho of the present gns output Is now used for direct Il­ to the two other sites which have i lumination, so that the name "gas borne the same name. One, the Jericho light company" has become some­ of Old Testament, destroyed by Joshun, thing of n misnomer. The use of gns Is only a memory, its reality proved by as fuel, /President Jones says, has re­ bits of unearthed walls and pottery. ceived special development during the The third Jericho of the triangle is the war, and the ready applicability of gas Jericho of the New Testament, the city appliances to the rapid making of mu­ of palm trees which Antony bestowed nitions In emergencies has made them upon Cleopatra and which she later especially valuable. Mr. Jones quoted sold to Herod the Great. Made gor­ n high official of the British war office geous in the reign of Herod as a city as follows: of palaces. It is now only a wreck of “Without the direct aid of the gns it would have been stones and battered towers. The palms industry ... for which it was famous are gone, with perfectly impossible for this country the palaces and circus which they to wage the campaign of the last three shaded. The plain of Jericho is a wil­ years, or even for any but a trifling* derness, bound to civilization by its time resist the overwhelming floods of many highways and Its tiny village, A enemies that were poured upon It. few miles to the southwest lies Jeru­ When I first was asked to take charge salem, connected with the village by of the manufacture and production of the robber-infested road along which explosives It took me but a few days the good Samaritan traveled. All about to realize my absolute dependence on the plain rise the cliffs, mounted by your great Industry.” steep and winding trails. It is not an attractive region, but even if it were BLIND MAN ENJOYS FLIGHT more wild and desolate than it Is it would still be much visited, for at Appreciated the Thrill of Intricate every step are landmarks of history. Aerial Maneuvers Performed by Frank Gronlnger, attorney, has a pink-cheeked, tow-headed youngster, whose name to every one who knows him, Is synonymous with effervescent overflowing spirits. lie Is a thinker, too, this small Jack. It was he, who some years ago (he has now attained the mature age of eight years), after gravely meditating on the phenomenon that ensued when things were planted In the ground—i. e„ that duplicates of the thing planted accommodatingly took root and grew up out of the ground—was discovered In the yard by his mother, carefully patting and slapping down a pile of wet mud with his small spade. “What are you doing Jack; planting something?" Jack's evident reluctance to disclose the nature of his agricul­ tural activities aroused his mother’s suspicion. Grasping one of the minia­ ture garden tools at Jack's feet she dug vigorously into the wet mud. A glint caught her eye, and In horrified silence she scraped the mud from her Jeweled gold watch. But, if Jack didn’t succeed In grow­ ing nice little timepieces, that a small boy could henr tick undisturbedly, he has kept right on being active. Hence, his mother’s surprise the other day at a reply of his. Jack’s father, before leaving for his office, gave Jack a dime. Afterward Jack’s mother seeing the coin In hfs hand, admonished him to put the dime away and save IL “O mother,” Jack exclaimed Insin­ uatingly, "I simply got to spend a nickel of It to give me some ‘pep.’ ”— Indianapolis News. Experienced Pilot. ..GLADLY TOOK “WAR” BREAD V “--------- Horrible Thought Quickly Cured Small Girl of Unreasonable Prejudice RtSfe.». Against the Article. • i—r;m ____ i “Oh, mother, must’I get wnr bread?" Little Daughter had been asked to go to the bakery for bread for her ■chool lunch. “It’s wheatless day, dear.” “Rut I don't like war bread. It's so dark and different. And the rules aren’t for children, are they?” “No, but you know we were asked to send one million bushels of wheat to the allies by May first. We have given our word, and our baker Is try­ ing to help by making this special bread, which has almost no white flour in It whatever. But, of course, If you don’t feel you can help In this way, you tuny buy a lighter loaf.” “Little Daughter started off. Tn a few moments she returned. Mother nnwrapped the package. There was the small, dark loaf, Indeed different, but really most palatable and nour­ ishing. Little Daughter’s eyes were glowing. “Mother, the baker asked me If I liked wnr bread, and I sold I did.” Mother looked up In astonishment “But, my dear, you Just said—” “Yes, mother, I know I Just sold to you I didn’t like It, but I was afraid If I told It to the baker, he would think I was a German."'—By Jane Dransfleld of The Vigilantes. Bread Without Wheat Flour. I | ! ' Thomas D. Schnll, the blind con­ gressman from the Tenth Minnesota district, made flights with Col. Charles Lee of the Rritlsh royal flying corps In Washington recently. It wns the first time he had been up In an air­ plane. Congressman Schall was not satis­ fied with the plain “Joy ride” Colonel Lee had given him. When they re­ turned to earth after circling over the city at an altitude of about two thou­ sand feet, the blind representative asked for more thrills. “Fine I Fine !" he exclnlmed, ns the machine came to a hult. "But, Colonel Lee, if you wouldn't think me a nui­ sance, I would like to go back up and turn over." The biplane was wheeled Into posi­ tion again, and off it shot on a trip of real sensations. Climbing rapidly to about two thousand feet. Colonel Lee started the machine Into a series of dips and dives, spirals and other aerial antics calculated to make one’s hair stand on edge. To complete the thrills, the airplane was made to roll over sideways and then drop Into a beauti­ ful nose spin. The passenger’s sightless eyes were blinking with delight when his wife ran onto the field to assist him from the machine. Conservative Muse of History. It is the unhappy usage of our schools and universities to study the history of mankind only during periods of mechanical unprogressiveness. The historical Ideas of Europe rnnge be­ tween the time when the Greeks were going about the world on foot or horse- bnck or In galleys or sailing ships, to the days when Napoleon, Wellington and Nelson were going about at very much the same pace in much the same vehicles and vessels. At the advent of steam and electricity the muse of his­ tory holds her nose and shuts her eyes. Science will study and get the better of a modern disease, as for exnmple, sleeping sickness. In spite of the fact that It has no classical stnndlng. hut our history schools would be shocked ut the bare Idea of studying the effect of modern means of communication Upon administrative nreas, large or small. This defect In our historical training has made our minds politi­ cally sluggish.—II. G. Wells in New Republic. The New York Herald announces that a New York chef has a "wonder recipe for making bread without wheat flour.” Jean Ricroch. chef of the Biltmore hotel. Is responsible for i the recipe, and he now gives it to the country, without money and without price. Mr. Illcroch told a Herald re­ porter the Ingredients of the new bread are as follows: “Twenty-five ]>ounds of rye flour, 25 pounds of graham flour, 25 pounds of corn flour, 25 pounds of crushed oatmeal, f pound of lard and 2 pounds of yeast.” This, It Is ex­ plained, Is enough to make 150 pounds of bread. The yeast and rye flour abould bo mixed first and the others added alternately. Smaller quantities of bread can be made by using smaller proportions. The receipt doubtless Is a good one. but It does not provide for bread without wheat flour. Graham flour Is unbolted wheat flour. So. Wartime Footwear In Holland. while the blend Is a wheat saver. It ! dot's not do away entirely with the use | The manufacture of slippers with wooden soles and cloth tops is a war­ of that grain. time Industry which has sprung up in Holland, reports the United States de­ Resourceful and Brave Cook. The upper That a cook should perform an act of partment of commerce. the utmost daring In the pursuit of his and Inner parts of the slippers are occupation as n purveyor of food seems formed of twill, corduroy nnd woolen almost incredible. Yet that Is what stuffs. All these materials are rela­ was done by William B. Gray, a third- tively cheap, nnd yet make comfortable class ship's cook In the United States nnd durable slippers. The cloth parts natal reserve. During the cold weath­ are made by hand nnd the wooden er of last winter the Roanoke marshes soles by machinery. In view of the mounting prices of In North Carolina were frozen and boats were unable to reach the keeper leather footwear, these combination of a lighthouse, who was consequently slippers, which retail for the equiva­ in danger of starvation. Gray made lent of $1 a pair for the best quality, a sled by putting runners upon a life­ are selling rnpldly. It is claimed thnt boat. loaded It with food and hauled they are entirely satisfactory for wear It ncroaa the Ice, which was broken and in the home nnd an* practicable for t