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arrest the inundation and keep the
craft a1oat until she could be towed
back to port and drydocked. The wound
was one that would have sent the YES
sci to the bottom had she been similarly
stricken in time of war. This was Eng
lands latest effort toward meeting the
wireless achievements of neighboring
continental maritime powers.
Some years ago John Gardner built a
small submarine which he was able to
guide by means of submarine sound sig
nails He built that boat after he had
made extensive laboratory experiments.
These were the achievements which won
for him the name. of the Wizard OF
Knott End
In his workshop he had assembled
mechanisms that represented the start
ing and stopping, the steering and the
firing apparatus for torpedo. They
seemed to know their masters voice, be-
cause they would do what he babe either
when he whistled or called his orders in
certain key. In other words, the mech
anisnS responded to d fixed tone or mu-
steal pitch and would not act if the cali
was in any other key.
= =
Since then John Gardner has gone
steadily on improving his system. and
he was prompted to do this because he
believed Hertzian-wave wireless had Il
the fear of interference on the part of
an enemy sending out purposely confus-
ing ether vibrations: and. second, he
realized that the transmitting capacit.
of the air varied day and night and was
particularly unreliable when thunder
storms were brewing or active. He want
ed to get stable medium through which
to send his directive signals. and expert
ence told him that water would answer
his purpose best. 1t was logical that he
should choose sound waves instead of
electrical waves for his controlling i'm
pulses, because sound Will travel -four
times as well and four times as far
through the water as it will through the
atmosphere.
Gardner showed that he could ar
range the sensitive receiver on his sub
marine so that it would respond either
to one chosen note or to chord of
them. and unless all of these were
sounded simultaneously the submarine
would be Indifferent to the tonal
waves. OF course. it was not long be-
fore the military critics picked this
system to pieces. They declared that
these sounds could be detected by a
suitably arranged submarine signal re
ceiver. and they asked: What would
prevent an enemy from producing the
thus neutralizing or completely upset
ting the sounds intended to operate
the little boat or torpedo similarly
An ordinary man would perhaps have
been nonplussed by such situation.
because to the average mind the whole
scheme depended upon the employment
of audible signals. for how otherwise
could the desired pitch be chosen? You
don't know John Gardner. so you can't
realize what il means when his lips
set firmly and his square chin takes on
an added touch of angularity. Just the
same, picture to yourself this outward
show of determination on the part of a
man.
In all of its essentials the Gardner
receiver is a mechanical substitute for
the human ear. 1t is far simpler than
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Famous Woman Warriors

ing to her just as he talked to them. and
indeed, in every way of treating her Just
as though she were boy.
She became a splendid horsewoman, an
expert with the foils and the rapier an
unerrfng shot. She learned three Ian
guages besides French which was then
the tongue of Alsace. This knowledge OF
languages obtained for her in the year
i i;st the position Of tutor. in Polish fam
lily. But early the next year the insur-
rection broke out and Antoinette, dressed
as man, enlisted to fight for Poland.
She fought SO well that she was
made lieutenant of the lancers, but the
day after she had been given the acco-
lade by her commanding officer a Ian
Ger of the enemy ran her through the
shoulder and she spent the rest of the
short campaign in hospital a prisoner
She managed to escape and to make
her way to Guebwiller Then came the
war with Germany. Antoinette Liz
wrote TO the minister of war: Let me.
monsieur lie nlinistre. go for six weeks
l hope that during such period l may
pay my debt to France. or else die for
her." The permission being given. An
toinette enlisted in a company of francs
tireurs. sharpshooters. at Lamarche.
Tony LiX soon became the idol of her
coiHpaNy. Inc bearded veterans. from
rough old Capt Lapicque down. loved the
fearless youngster who was always first
when there was danger. eand whose
beardless face and shril voice were so
much like a womans. 1t was in an EN-
counter with German outposts at Raon-
L Etape that Antolnette Lix won the gold
stripe and became lieutenant in the
French army. after winning officers
rank in the army of Poland.
She was awarded gold medal. She
sold it to contribute to the fund raised
to pay the indemnity to Germany. 4
friend bought the medal and returned
it to her. She sold IT second time for
the same reason.
In 1879 her wounds made il impossible
for her to continue hard work and friends
obtained for her government tobacco
shop, which assured her an income. 1t
was in 1898 that. becoming too III TO work
at all. she was taken to the hospital Of
st. Nicholas du Port.
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Faxed Wine.

WILLIAM f. COREY praised. at d
" Pittsburgh club, the wines of Cali
fornia.
Our California wines" said the steel
magnate. ARE much better than wines
of q similar price in France for French
wines are so adulterated today that
even a high-priced one often tastes like
burnt sugar and water"
But the fine wines, the grandeur
wines. are wonderful" young banker
interrupted.
Mr.. Corey shook his head
Not always" he said. "A friend of
mine, a gourmet with whom 1 lunched
not long ago at a fashionable boule
ward restaurant in Paris ordered a
bottle of very old and celebrated wine.
Pouring out a little of the wine and
rolling it on his tongue in true gourmet
fashion. he made a wry face.
Waiter he demanded. What wine
is this you brought me?'
1T is what monsieur ordered was
the reply.
'Humph' sneered my friend. how
lucky it is to be SO old and to conceal
its age SO well.
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Rare Manuscripts Found.

ONE of the most remarkable finds in
recent years is that of the Argenteau
manuscripts. which have just been re-
ceived at the Congressional Library And
even more unique is the manner of their
being discovered.
The house of Argenteau has been for
at least 400 years one of the most con-
spicuous, in Europe. furnishing generals
archbishops. counts and princes who
have distinguished themselves at every
court The ancestral seat was in Bel
GUM. on the River Meuse, and In the
ancient walls, which had seen Kingdoms
rise and vanish, were stored for genera
tons all the papers of the family. When
It is remembered that this family became
prominent as early as the twelfth CEN
tury, the securing of their letters of hum
dreds Of years is fortunate.
Among the letters in the collection are
those from Louis XVI. the Prince Of
Croy. Cardinal Lambraschine. numberless
popes, kings and emperors. Perhaps the
most interesting are those written dur
ing the French revolution to F1orimonde
Argenteau. who had been the ambassador
and secret agent of the Austrian queen,
Maria Theresa, at the French court
These old papers, yellowed by time and
dusty with the feet of passing years, are
in rough boxes and yet stored In the base
ment of the library awaiting their cata-
logulns, winch VIII take considerable
time. as there are at least 1900 letters.
What light they will shed on history re-
mains to be seen. They came into the
possession of Mr.. Hunt, chief of the
manuscript division, through a second
hand dealer in New York. One day q
man who dealt in old books and auto
graphs received a visit from a woman.
who sold him seven boxes of letters In
order to secure enough money for her
passage back to France 1t was the last
of the scions of the noble house of Ar
genteau; a woman who had been first
married to duke and was now the wife
OF lion tanner. with whom she had be-
come stranded and penniless in the United
States. After selling the priceless treas
ures, she vanished, and no one mas since
been able to trace her steps But the
Congressional Library. hearing. of the
find at once purchased, and will soon
Begin the work of placing these relics on
exhibition.
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The Voice of Cash.

A PROPOS of young girls rich mar
riage, Mayor Rockwell said at a
reception in Akron:
Our girls don't marry disadvantage
ously as often as our boys do. In the
whir1 of love the female doesn't seem
TO get as dizzy as the male.
"A pretty girl told me the other day
that she was engaged to a very rich
landowner:
We'll, WELL, said |, and here we all
thought you'd marry the eloquent
young preacher who took you about
so much last summer
The girl smiled.
Deeds speak louder than words.
she said.
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children cut at the corners. but the opera
ton is tritiing if done when the child is
only two or three years of age. Nine.
Hading had her eyes operated on when
she had reached maturity, and the proc
ess was both painful and dangerous.
cut and the wound is healing the lids are
drawn outward. Even after the wound is
healed the lids are still subjected daily
to the drawing process for several weeks.
The result is that the eyes acquire that
wonderful look, and to see what success
there is in such naoperation one has
only to look at Nine. Hadlng's eyes
X
The curling of the upper lip by means
of surgery Is another trick of the beauty
worShiping French woman. This is
sorted TO when the lip is too straight
and long. A slit is cut across the lip. and
every precaution is taken in sterilizing
everything, even to the very air in the
operating room, so that the wound may
heal without the faintest trace Of a scar.
as that would be fatal to beauty
Not only is the lip sashed across. but
minute strip of flesh is cut away and
then the edges of the incision are brought
together and very carefully healed with
the lip pressed upward. A number of
French women have had this operation
performed among them the late Nine.
LaltelEie Who was one of the NEST ia
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His Shield.

A BRAHAM LOWENSTElN. secretary
"A of the Poultry Dealers Protective
Association, said of poultry fraud:
New York buys 100000 pounds of sand
weekly that it pays for at the chicken
rate Inscriptions chicken raisers, you
see, feed balls of sand and gravel to their
poultry before it is shipped here. It's no
uncommon thing to find half pound of
sand in the craw of pound pullet
"Defenses? Oh, yes. I've heard de
Tense from the chicken raisers-and It's
about as good as Uncle Calls.
Gen. Carroll, you know. heard sus-
picious noises in his chicken house in the
night So he banged on the door and
shouted:
who's in there?'
"Hain't nobody in ere 'ceptn' us
Chickens Uncle Calls voice softly an
swered''
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water to a paste. which is then spread
upon her chin and left to dry as a sort
of plaster cast This is taken off with
very hot water and the chin is massaged
with the finger tips.
In the Niennese beauty parlOrs the
chin is treated iNthe same manner with
bread crumbs and not water or milk.
And after the chin is soft and bleached
fully some cold cream is massaeed in to
make it winter afterward being followed
by cloud of good face powder.
But the Irish peasant girl has the most
thorough method of skin whitening. She
has no money for lotions. but she takes
a handful of oatmeal and powders it to
a dust. This she puts in warm water
and lets it come to a boil; when partly
cool she uses it as a face wash. Potato
water is sometimes substituted, but the
oatmeal lotion Is the best whitener. Her
chin is never the rough chin of the wom-
an of more luxurious habits who neg
lects her complexion.
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coil, and then streams of magnetism
flow out OF one end OF the core and
circle around the coil and return by the
other end of the core. The speed with
which the magnet is energized or de-
energized will set up corresp onding Vi
brations in the adjacent plating. II
these vibrations are not too fast sound
will be produced which the human ear
can detect: otherwise they would be
inaudible but capable OF spreading far
through the sea and of affecting a prop
erly tuned receiver
The advantage of this inaudfble sys-
tenn Is that an enemy would be just so
much less likely to suspect the approach
of torpedo directed in this manner.
and even if he were on the alert II
would take good deal of time and a
peculiarly fashioned detector to pick up
and to identify the gu,dingg note. 1t was
undoubtedly this evolution of John
Gardeners original apparatus that the
British authorities We're testing when
they experimental with the old Terp-
sichore and the exploding OF a tuned tor
pedo fastened to the bottom OF that ship
was but one step in a much more I'M
portant field of application.
The principal! WEAKNESS of existing
submarine boats lies in thei- compare
lively low speed when running totally
submerged AS general proposition
this does not exceed ten knots an hour.
wnile the big dreadnougats are capable
of doing twenty-odd knots. and foreign
battle cruisers make thirty knots and
more. On the surface the submarine can
do better. but to expose itself there Is
to give warning of its approach. except
at nighttime.
Modern stratesists believe that a modi-
fled form of submarine will be the ideal
craft. Instead of using torpedoes OF the
usual type the proposal Is to employ
weapon which will, in fact. be a combi
nation of submarine and torpedo. only
the submarine will be Of crewless
order.
The moment you get rid of the human
element in submarine it is possible to
change greatly its character and also to
employ a propulsive power which can
not now be utilized BY excluding all
problems of ventilation. Availability. etc,
a submarine can be made a sort Of mag
nified torpedo and capable of much higher
speed than is now attainable. Instead Of
carrying two or three hundred pounds of
explosive weapon of this nature could
just as easily be loaded with ton of
gun cotton or some other more destruc-
tive material.
The naval architect has done pretty
well in subdividing and homecoming
the under water body of fighting ships
SO that the ordinary torpedo cannot sink
dreadnought outright although it may
wound battleship more or less griev-
ously. But this same expert cannot pro-
vide against the subaqueous attack of a
ton of explosive unless the heavy ship Of
the battle line is completely remodeled.
This is not such a simple matter-in fact
would completely revolutionize existing
practices and the arrangements of the
powers of attack and defense on the part
of the ship
Either this revolution is coming or
complete change will take place in the
get-up of the so-called capital ships. At
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inexperienced.

FRANK j. GOULD, at a luncheon in
Nice, said of the f1apper:
Wherever the English congregate
they talk of nothing but the f1apper.
The fiapper, you know. is their name
for the young girl in shortish skirts
and openwork stockings, who still
wears her hair in flap. or plat down
her back. What amazes all England
today is the flapper's advanced ideas.
As there's a new woman, so there
seems to be a new f1apper.
Two new fappers-its a character
istic story-were taking tea together
in nursery. The first said. as she
toyed with a doll:
II don't like Jack. He's so crude
"'Crude? How said the second
f1apper.
When he kisses the first answered,
he smacks.'"
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Wrong for Once.

WILLIAM \ BURNS. the detective,
w said at dinner in New York
Induction, without few facts to
guide it, can go sadly astray.
"Once, at the seashore. l nodded toward
q young couple and said:
They are engaged. l heard him, In
the palm court, pleading for just one
No. no. said my companion. They re
not engaged. they're married. 1t was
Qua:ter ne vas p'e&t,inS for
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Gardner lodged what to the avera ge
person would have seemed an insuper-
a bic difficulty.
He set about making his receiver still
more sensitive so that ii would be af-
fected by inaudible sounds This was
not 50 puzzling as it may appear at
first blush. He had only to find some
sound producer which he could control
to nicely and which then would be
capable of creating vibrations higher
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than those that would be detected by
the sharpest of human ears.
OF course. he had to have for this
purpose resonator that he could con-
troll perfectly. and once more cleo
trcity came to his aid. No, he did not
use a submarine bell or a submarine
horn of a complicated nature, but in
stead he devised a way to turn ship
itself into a source of sound.
He has made it possible to cause the
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POSSIBLE DREADNOUGHT OF To-
MORROW-PART SUBMARINE AND
PART BAT'TLESHIP

the ear because in that there is a re-
ceiving apparatus which boasts some
thing like 5000 extremely minute
hbers constituting the terminals of the
acoustic nerve Each of these tiberS is
responsive only to particular note
and is deaf TO all others.
But the human ear has its lfmita tons.
There are sounds that il cannot hear,
sounds whose vibrations are either too
few or too many. The higher the sound
tions. Now we shall see how John
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HEN ca | HIM the
Wizard of Knott
End"-knott End
being in En- Sland.
over on the coast
of the Irish sea.
Such is the title by
which rather staid
John Gardner is
X II o " II to his
neiShbors. He mas
done things aud
still is doing things
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DIAGRAM SHOWING SOUND WAVES
WHICH ARE SUBJECT TO THE
OPERATORS WILL.

hull or skin of a vessel to CULVER so
that it will send these impulses speed
ing through the water like rays radi-
atins from source of light. He uses
an electro ma gnet which he places
preferably down below water and in
the very bow of the craft. and the
poles or terminals. of the core of this
magnet are close but not in contact
with the inner surface of the ships
steel skin.
An electromagnetic is active only when
current flows through the enveloping
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which smack of the black art. Wireless
Is one of his particular hobbies. but
Gardeners wireless is not of the sort of
which the world has heard 50 much
John Gardner has fame not only III
his home; he is much esteemed within
the inner circles of the British admiralty.
Over in England they have what is
termed the official secrets act. and prose
cution and possibly prison walls are the
penalties one may incur by disclosing
any particulars about the nations de-
lenses or experiments pertaining thereto.
Accordingly this modern wizard is not
permitted to talk and his work can be
described only by inference.
This is all by way of Introduction to
tests made short while back by the
British naval authorities upon one of
the old royal cruisers. According to
the meager accounts that have reached
the public II. VI. s. Terpsichore was
towed out into Stokes bay after mys
FERROUS metal box had been attached to-
her bottom away below the water line.
Once there she was anchored and abau-
doned by her temporary crew
When these had reached safe dis
lance something happened. There was a
great geyser of water sent skyward right
alongside the ship. and before she could
recover from her violent lurch down upon
her deck fell the laundering tons of that
Ipheaval. The mysterious box had func-
Toned perfectly in obedience to the silent
md invisible command of the battleship
light miles away.
great rent was torn in the steel skin
{ the Terpschore. and it was all the big
Trecking pumps of the five dockyard
.ugs that rushed to her aid could Go to
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hlM7MaIsI N M71n1a0HM0MMnMN

least this is so If Mr. Gardeners scheme
be worked out to its logical climax.
What he would do Is nothing short OF
building semi-submerged battery OF
high speed which would be the mobile
base from which ne could direct hts tor
pedo attack. This vessel could Withstand
the heaviest of blows from an enemy's
guns and its powers OF ofYense would be
principally centered in exceptionally large
torpedoes or small submarines-cail then,
what you will. Each OF these giant
weapons would he a dirigible. and not
self-controlled after the manner OF the
existing automobile torpedoes.
To direct these torpedo summaries each
would be equipped with the Gardner in
audible sound control apparatus. and each
of these in turn would have its own key
note. The observer in the coming tower
would have these weapons released or
launched from the parent craft, and with
this done he could guide them upon their
journeys at will. 1t would not he a case
of starting them upon their errands and
leaving hit to chance. but they would
swerve and alter their courses to meet
the changing maneuvers of an enemy $
squadron.
Each torpedo submarine would have
chosen for il its own particular target.
Torpedo nets could not keep them away
from their quarry: by sheer force and
weight they would tear their paths clear
through. More than this, they could not
De cXplOQed prematureIN. Dur De-
set OFF only when the proper signal reach
ed them from the control station il so
desired.
During the day all that would nc seen
of the torpedo submarines would he Il
couple Of thin metal rods reaching above
the waters surface and adorned with lit
tie guide flags. and at night these sig
nal masts would be tipped with lights
screened so that they would show only
toward the parent craft. In this WAY
anssE he
course. and there would be no confusion
each answering only to its special note
and going steadily after its particular
objective
Even though these teiltale rods should
be seen by the enemy this would not
help him, because the body of the tor
pedo submarine would be submerged deep
enough to be beyond the reach of gun
fire while capable of advancing faster
than the foe could retreat. True, il these
rods were destroyed by shot or shell it
would handicap directing the weapons;
but think of the brief interval and the
nervous strain upon the marksman trying
to hit targets of this sort rushing toward
him at rate of possibly forty miles an
hour. 1t would be small chance upon
which to pin ones hope of escaping pos
sible humiliation. A sea wolf with
brood Of evil-bent whelps of this sort is
something that the mightiest of modern
dreadnoughts could not resist.
Undoubtedly John Gardeners neighbors
have now more reason than ever to dub
him the Wizard of Knott End What
he thus ADDS to the potential terror Of
war paradoxicaIly makes him deserving
of more complimentary title. because he
is probably making actual strife just SO
much less likely. In this way dread
noughts may become back numbers. The
more destructive war becomes the less
apt are nations to go to battle.