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which such a solid, turning, ring would
be subjected without being torn into
pieces. The particles Of the dusky ring
are much more scattered than those of
the ring A, while those OF the wide,
middle swarm are the most closely
packed of all.
observer exist there, the rings would
appear by far the most wonderful OBJ
jects in the sky. Were he on the
equator of the planet he would see
them only as a bright. narrow line.
spanning the heavens from the east to
the west. for there he would view them
exactly edgewise. But were he to
journey northward he would see them
apparently widen until they formed a
most brilliant band across the sky. The
apex of this wonderful arch would sink
lower in the heavens as he pressed on.
until, when he reached a latitude OF
63 degrees north of Saturn's equator.
the uppermost edge of A would sink
below the south, horizon and he would
lose sight of the rings altogether.
But this beautiful arch would only
be seen by him while the sun was
shining on the north side of the rings
During one-ha!f of the long Saturnian
year, which is nearly thirty times as
long as our. the dark sides only of the
myriad of particles would be turned
toward him. The rings would then be
recognized merely as an Opaque band
hiding from his view a large part OF
the heavens. Indeed, from the In
tensity OF the shadow which the rings
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Green Feed for the Layers.

Now that frost and freezing weather
has cut off the supply of green stun
for the hens, a substitute must be pro-
vided If the egg yield is TO be main
tanned There are many ways of pro-
yiding the layers with the succulent
green feed-the salad, as 1t were-that
they simply must have in order to con-
tinue egg production during the winter.
Sprouted oats Is probably the best
green feed that can be provided. A
certain amount of mussiness and work
attends the preparation of this kind of
green feed, however, and many poul-
try raisers do not care to go to the
trouble of providing the green stuff in
this form However, oats may be
sprouted in considerable quantities in
|any ordinary fiat box placed in a sunny
window. 1t is necessary to make the
bottom of the box water tight i'll order
Ito keep the surplus water from drip
ping through to the floor. This may be
done by lining the box with common
oilcloth, such AS is sometimes used on
the kitchen table.
The box may be of any suitable size.
but should not be more than three or
four inches deep. Gauge the Quantity
the depth of an inch and a half: soak
the oats over night. or at least for
several hours. in lukewarm water:
spread them evenly in the box and
place in sunny window, where they
will keep fairly warm-say at sew
enty degree temperature. Twice day
I-morning and night-sprinkle the oats
with lukewarm water. and Tor the hrst
few days stir the oats up daily. Do
the latter until the oats begin to sprout
and form masses of little rootlets: then
stir them no more. but continue the
sprinkling twice day.
In about ten days the oats should
have sprouted shoots three inches or
so long-tender. juicy. green growth
that the hens eat with avidity. Feed
this matter. oats. sprouts and all, of
course, every day, giving each layer
about a square inch of the stun.
If it seems too much trouble to pre-
| pare the sprouted oats. give the hens
cabbage. beets. carrots. turnips or any
other fresh, green succulent vegetable
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International Boundaries.

CERTAIN of the international bound
~ AIRY marks display u sentimental as
well as II practical character. The IA
nous pillar of farewell" which marks
the line between Russia and Siberia,
has been celebrated in song and story.
This boundary mark stands between
Ekaterinburg, Russia, and Tiumen. Si-
IBERIA 1t stands on the main road.
along which thousands of eXiles have
passed. 1t is an obelisk of brick, about
sixteen feet in height. On the west
side ii bears in Russian characters the
word Europe" and on the east side
the word Asia"
The boundary marks along our north
ern frontier separating us from Can
ada are OF a most practical sort. For
many hundreds of miles the st. Law
renee river and the great lakes form
III. uaturaI 'oundaries. but there is a
vast -I ch If prairie land beyond
with no natural demarcation. The
boundary marks here are pillars OF
iron and wood placed at intervals OF
one mile. They have been alternately
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the planet. but these are continually
changing their positions, as this dis
tant world turns completely on its
axis in the short time of only nine
hours and fifty-five minutes
Mercury. on which unusual interest
has centered on account OF its inter
esting transit across the sun on the
morning of November :, will not be
we'll visible during the present month
1t reached its greatest distance west
of the sun November %. and could
then be easily seen low in the dawn,
but is again drawing near the sun and
Will pass to the east of that body jan
uary S. 1t will then have entered the
evening sky, but as it will not attain
Its greatest distance from the sun until
February. s it will remain also in un-
favorable position during the whole of
January. February 81 it will again
enter the morning sky.
Neither January nor February 81,
when Mercury passes the sun, will
we again see transit of this planet.
Could we see the planet at the instant
of conjunction January .. we would see
1t passing nearly two degrees below
the sun, which would then lie between
the earth and the planet. February 81
the planet passes between the earth
and the sun, but the inclination of it's
orbit is SO great that it would then
be seen to pass nearly four degrees
above the sun. There will not occur
another transit of the planet until
May Z, 1924.
Venus is now in the morning sky
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TN recent discussion OF the probable

TN recent discussion OF the probable
effect of Europes war on mems
apparel. hasty mention was made
OF STYLES in shoes. Since then more
comprehensive investigation has
brought to light Il number of facts not
previously related.
All shoe dealers this year in addition
to their stock Of shoes which fasten
in the conventional manner-either
with buttons or with hooks-have laid
in an extensive variety Of shoes that
have eyelets from instep to ankle.
For a number of years the average
man has stubbornly opposed this in
uovation. though ii is and has been
popular with women.
The argument advanced by the advo
Gates of lace -all-the -way-up shoes is
that this type lends itself more to style
than any other. buttoned shoe will
wrinkle. they aver. and hooks within
Il short time become brassily conspicu
Gus On the other hand the shoe with
cyelets presents a smooth, continuous
front.
II the exhibitions in shop windows
are guides to the popularity of shoes.
on may be led to believe that the
rage for the shoe with the cloth top
is rapidly dying. Fashionable dressers
never did take enthusiastically to the
cloth top.
In place of these one finds another
shoe which is equally startling. how
ever. and which may have quite a
vogue this winter. 1t is the shoe the
sole of which differs in color from the
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cruelest blow that silver Fox applied a
I dab of verbal glycerine:
That is because yoC- -ppreciation is
greater than your creative ability. II
all Of us were performers the
worlds stage there would be no
audience"
But I'm not the sort OF woman you
make audiences out of. I want lime
light and encores and-fame. I know
II. because I'm always reaching up for
some big thing that eludes just as
] almost get IL In my grasp. Goodness,
what's that child bawling about
The crumb of boy In all-over whitc
worsted. with nurse attached. was
yelling with eugenic vigor, and rs IN.
silver fox woman stopped TO give first
aid to wounded feelings this is what
he sobbed:
There wasser little birdie-hoppin'
onny pa ment-an' ] wurned to pick 10
/ up-and il fewed-far-on-"
II isn't every day you can and on the
| street without looking for " i'm
promptu illustration OF the Iolly OF
! trying for thing beyond your reach.
! but
Whether Pony Coat took It to herself
| would make what Kipling. and Homer
| before him. and, doubtless prehistoric
| man back of that, called another story.
4
No matter how clever you are. you
lcannot-you absolutely canDot-make
| corner.
| A man who looked wise enough TO
write dictionary tried to light his
cigar in fortyknot breeze-lets
make il sixty-and failed.
| He cupped his hands, but the flame
fared out. He used the crown of his
| hat and the inside OF his coat front
and went back again to cupping his
hands, but the blast got ahead OF hinl
every time, and you could he was
getting cussy mad at old Marse Boz
reas, when woman came blowing
along.
She was one Of those dear. prudent
souls who go through life with an usn-
brella suitable for rain or shine" and
quite as matter of course she stopped
raised II and said to the man. as If
she had known him, say. a decade and
a day:
Try this
| The man struck match under the
sheltering ribs of the protean gloria.
lighted his cigar, smiled his thanks
and then the dear soul lowered her re-
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IMPOSSIBLE TO COMMUNICABLE
BY CONCEALED WIREsl, ESs

previous night. After watchful wait
ing he caught the sound again. This
time 1t was not as distinct as it was the
night before. He knew that he had
gone in the wrong direction. But one
thing he did settle. and that was from
which direction the wireless waves
were coming.
The next night he went in the other
direction and caught the sounds very
distinctly. The next night he moved a
little nearer, and then by a little foot
work around the neighborhood he dis
covered the plant. The amateur, after
Gle Sans aerial laws, quit sending
The Bellini Tosi method, however
was not designed to catch spy sta
tions. Its invention was brought
about by maritime dangers Many
times a ship can be in communication
with shore, and II the weather be
foggy cannot tell where she is With
the Bellini Tosi method a shore sta
tion can communicate with ship and
the ships captain, with a little knowl-
edge of navigation. can tell where his
ship is. The method it simple
A ship running in a fog gets In touch
with shore station which uses the
Bellini Tos: method. The ship keeps
up the signal after being answered by
the shore station and the shore station
turns It's antennae around until it gets
the wireless at right angles. The shore
station then signals the ship that she is
so many points east, west, north or south
of the compass from the station The
ship then ceases to talk with the shore
station and runs on again, for say, an
hour.
At the end of an hour She again sig
nails the shore station, and the shore
station then tells her position from the
shore station again. The ships navi :
gator knows how many miles he has
gone in that hour, and taking the spot
he first had. his last position and the
position OF the shore wireless station
which is stationary, he makes tri-
angle, thus telling him the exact loca-
tion of the ship.
In the United States there are about
5000 licensed stations and about 10000
amateur stations which are not licensed.
Amateur stations which receive only
ana those whose sending strength is
| not capab BILE of being interstate do not
require licenses. Amateurs, however
are obligated to secrecy. and there is q
provision i'll the regulations governing
wireless that imposes a fine or i'm ..
prisonnl ant on them ii they diEulge any
information they obtain through their
wireless outfits.
The Department OF Commerce has
only nine inspectors in the United
States. and it is thought that for this
reason President Wilson took out of
their hands the enforcement of the neu-
trality laws and imposed that duty on
the revenue cutter service and the
Navy ] apartment
The navy has forty-eight land sta
tions and 24S ship stations. OF the land
stations, twenty-three are for the gen.
eral public and twenty-five are for gov
ernment official business only. The
revenue cutter service has only one
station on land, and that is for gov
ernment official business. The service
also has Twenty-Five ship stations.
The total number of wireless stations
licensed by the Department of Com
merce includes 2i3 land stations, s95
ship stations and 2,796 amateur sta
tions, making a grand total of 1884
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and exactly three teeth-the whole
lump perched in high chair at an
other table beside a girl-mother who
was going through an afternoon tea
that began with fried oysters and was
to end with jelly frappe
Perhaps-just perhaps-the baby had
inherited from his father wholesome
fear of oysters allied to Jelly frappe
| for he tried his small best to keep the
two from coming together. His chubby
hands pounded the table and his white
kid bootees followed suit. And while
that was doing the baby yelled and
yelled and
The waiter came to the rescue with a
paper napkin, which she offered as
meat is offered to a tiger in its cage.
tear up the thing and suck it's ex-
| tremely purple violets trimmed with
gilt, but. after all, what's a napkin
So he took to yelling louder than
ever. Mamma bolted the last of her
three fried and gave her turbulent
offspring shake. Then she thrust a
wedge of toast in the chubby fingers,
and naturally the toast went to the
baby's mouth and kept the small thing
quiet for about. say. two seconds.
During the lull mamma proceeded to
do things to the jelly frappe-and-
All the time the woman in the fine
clothes and makeup watched the baby
with that hungry look that-well, of
course, you CdH put IL WOI uul
the next time you see a baby in
car watch the passengers. men and
women. and somewhere in the crowd
you will catch the expression. But
you couldn't spell it to save your life.
AT sight of the jelly frappe, the baby
flung away the toast, kicked his
booties. pounded his hands and was
yelling himself purple red In the face
when, by some lnck-maybe 1t wasn't
just luck, either, but never mind that
hob Yfph
woman's glance, stopped crying, held
out his arms and began to coo.
1t was a clear case of hypnotisn. the
woman gathered up her belongings
with subconscious conventfonality, paid
her bill to the cashier and then went
straight to the baby and took him in
her arms The soft down of Alaskan
seal, the tinkle of oriental beads ana
the flash of solitaire diamond earrings
each made a separate plaything for the
baby, and in the eyes of the woman
was something-that same thing you
cant spell intensifed-as if. someway.
God had put it there and wanted 1t to
stay.
And the girl-mother. frankly graft
fed that so much worldly af1uence
should be playing nurse to her chlid'
was proceeding to dip into the Jeily
frappe, when-another woman, who
had been looking on from another ia
BILE, came over and with unrelenting lips
and ominously virtuous intention whis-
pered something in mammals y ear.
Presto, change. Mamma fairly snatch
ed her baby from the other woman's
arms And the woman, understanding,
went out OF that cafe mad enough to
bite nails
That's all, only
Wouldn't ii be strange-or would 1t?
If some day, somewhere, viciously
good woman and an overprudent moth
er who snatcned her infant son from
the arms of middleaged Deiilah, should
be called Oh to account for their stab
of needless cruelty. And that the ac-
cusing Judge should be Him who said. a
long time ago when He walked the
earth:
"A little child shall lead them"
Who lznows~who knows.
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Handy Dry Mash Wrinkle.

For those who do not own and do
not care to buy the galvanized metal
hoppers in which dry mash is usually
fed, the following cheap and handy
contrivance will be found absolutely
satisfactory:
Obtain from your grocer one of the
boxes. made of upright Stats of veneer.
in which oranges, lemons or some
vegetables come. If the box has a
central partition, remove this. At the
1O-cent store buy an ordinary black
iron roasting pan of size to fit close
ly inside the box. Such a pan ought
to be two and a half or three inches
deep. and there should be no more than
half an inch or so of space between
the sides and ends of the pan and the
box in which it is placed.
Make a cover for the top of the box.
which will keep it clean inside ami
prevent the hens getting into it,
Place the box at any convenient spot
in the poultry house, fill the pan with
hens will do the rest. The Stats of
which the sides of the box are made
are placed far enough apart to permit
the hens to get their heads inside the
box. and they can get to it from both
sides and both ends, 80 that as many
as eight or ten hens may eat from the
same box at the same timc-which is
not the case with the metal hoppers
Ihe mems cannot get INTO the box to
screatch the dry mash out and waste
it: they cannot soil or pollute 1t, and
they can eat every particle of it. Fill
the pan as often as the hens empty it:
they are not going to overeat or stuff
themselves after the first day or so
when hens always make sluttons OF
themselves over a good dry mash
Even If you have to buy the outside
boxes as well as the roasting pans in
which the mash is placed. such feeders
should not cost more than 25 cents
each at the outside, while they possess
certain advantages over even the
handiest and best of the metal dry
mash hODperS
Evening star., 1914-11-29

+ any Of the warning powers of Eu-
rope try to surreptitiously communi-
cate by means of concealed wireless
with belligerent vessels in the Atlantic
or Pacific oceans, they cannot keep it a
secret from the watchful eyes of agents
of the United States government for
very long The detection of such sta
tions is regarded as inevitable by OH
Gals of the Navy Department and the
Department of Commerce. two branches
Of the government which have to dc
with wireless communication.
During the last month the Navy De-
partment and the Department of Com
merce have had several communications
a day from persons who thought they
had discovered a hidden wireless outfit
which was being used by one of the
warning nations of Europe. In every
instance it has been learned that nc
such outfit exists.
But even should such a wireless sta
ton be put up. by means of newly
devised apparatus the agents OF the
government would be able to detect II
The Navy Department and the revenue
cutter service are experimenting with
an invention which is controlled by the
Marconi company and which is known
as the Bellin Tosi method.
The Bellini Tosi method consists of a
double set of antennae-that is, the
wires that are strung out into the ali
and catch the wireless waves. The an
tennae if set cris-crossed can be moved
around so that it points to any direc-
tion of the compass. In this manner
the exact direction of the sending sta
ton can be determined. With this much
information. navy officials say. it would
be an sasy matter to follow that direc.
ton and discover the hidden wireless
plant.
But long before the Bellini Tosi meth
cd was heard of in this country an in
geniouS inspector of the. Department o1
Commerce, stationed at Boston. fixed VI
Il contrivance that enabled him to ar
rest an amateur who WAS using Wire
less in violation of The laws governing
aero communication. This young man
who had Il wireless outfit IN the SUBURBS
OF Boston, caused great annoyance tt
ships at sea and land stations near BoS-
ton by breaking in on messages, using
an outfit that was more powerful thar
most amateur outfits. the annoyance
was reported to the department OF
Comm cree and that department in
struct ed the Boston Inspector to inves.
tiGate and stop the annoyance Without
he slightest clue as to who the amateur
was the inspector caught up with him
Tie Boston Inspector rigged up re-
ceivins apparatus and for his antennae
fixed several coils of wire around d
large hoop. Going on the roof of g
high building. he held the loop alof,
,, turning 1t slowly around. When the
wires were at right angles with the
amateurs station he caught the aeria
waves. When they were not, he could
no: hear him at all This settled the
matter of location. All that remained
was a little deduction and a little work
From his hoop he learned that the
station could only b" in one of two
directions, the directors from which he
received the wireless waves. Tie next
might he went to the top of another
tail building about a mile farther away
and in one of the two directions from
which he received the waves on the
Evening star., 1914-11-29

rings are a great f1attened swarm of
little particles, each one of which re-
wolves around Saturn as separate lit
tie moon. Those on the inner edge OF
the dusky ring make the circuit In
Ave hours and fifty minutes. while
those on the outer edge OF A, on ac-
count of their greater distance from
the planet. require twelve hours and
five minutes for a single revolution.
Thus the ring by no means turns as
a solid mass around Saturn, and 1t
can. in fact. be shown mathematically
that 1t would be impossible for 1t to do
SO. No known substance could stand
one-hundredth part of the strain to
Evening star., 1914-11-29

FIGURE 2-PRESENT APPEAR-
ANCE OF THE PLANET SATURN AS
VIEWED IN AN INvERTING TELE-
SCOPE.
month it may be seen shining very
brightly in the morning sky for two
or three hours before sunrise. and 1t is
then a beautiful and conspicuous OBJ
ject- 1t reaches its greatest brilliancy
January 2.
Mars is lost in the suns rays
throughout the month: 1t becomes a
morning star December "a.
Jupiter shines brightly in the south
west. where 1t is moving slowly east
ward through the constellation Aqua
rius. BY December l. 1915. it will
have reached the point J, Figure l, and
after this for several years 1T Will
mount much higher i'll the sky than 1t
has done during the six years that have
just passed.
Saturn is In the western borders OF
Gemini; Uranus is a short distance
west of Jupiter in Aquarius. and the
very faint Neptune Is now in the even
ing sky between Gemini and Cancer.
December l the moon will pass over
the Pleiades, but as this interesting
phenomenon will occur at pm. IT
will not be visible to US. December 2S
at II pm. it will again pass the Plel-
AIDES, but as seen by us our satellite
will move little to the north of these
stars and will so not hide them from
view. December 20, at 8 hours 33 min
Evening star., 1914-11-29

The cafe was taking n long breath
after it's noontime rush.
A customer here and there ate in
solitary leisure and white-aproned ma
chimes suddenly turned into so many
girls chummed In couples or snuggled
around an off-duty table to chatter like
birds in the spring. One gil. who was
still on duty. flashed up to the others
long enough to show a dollar on her
outstretched palm. and then flashed of.
leaving her colleagues in gust OF
excitement to look over at the eiver
of SO generous tip.
What they saw was woman dressed
In the finest clothes that money can
buy and obviously armed with every
weapon art knows of to fight that bat
tie woman always loses when her en-
emy is Time.
And the woman was looking at the
baby.
What the woman saw was SO much
pink fat. blue eyes. dimple or two