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View of the Pools Solomon Outside the City of David from Re-
cent Photograph.
cent Photograph.

supposed to be the older. was partly
in the form of q canal cut through
the rock and partly a conduit car
ried on masonry.
Where low ground had 60 he
crossed. near the traditional tomb
Of Rachel" the siphon system was
used. and remains of the pipe Yet
exist. fifteen inches in diameter.
il is constructed of large stones
pierced with a hole. matched to-
gether and, laid in a bed of rubbls
masonry.
While the upper Aqueduct is In
ruins. the lower one. which. with
its many windingS over the irregu-
lar ground. sttains a total length
OF about twenty mileE. is still prac-
ticslly complete. On approaching
the city. at Birkst-eE-Sultan. II IS
carried across the Valley OF Hin
nom on nine arches. II then turns
round ths south side OF the walls
and enters the city in the Haram-
esSherif enclosure, which includes
the site Of the famous temple. Just
outside the gate by which 81 enters
there Is a basin, eighty by forty
feet and twenty-four feet deep.
Within the enclosure there is also a
huge underground pool. called the
Great Sea"
= It must be remembered that Jeru-
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this class Of batter turns into
steam. an Invisible gas. during the
cooking process and helps lesVeH
or make light the product
A batter means that which is
beaten" In beating more or less
air is incorporated. This air when
heated expands and helps mako
light the finished product
Baking powder, sour milk ARd
soda and well-beaten eggs all assist
In making the product light and d.
gsstibIe.
Bread -four contains gluten. a
sticky substance which becomes rs-
ther tough through much handling
or mixing. In making yeast bread
It is very desirable to develop the
gluten by much kuesdinE and
handling
In griddle cakes, however. this is
not desirable. Pastry -four. and by
this do not mean seIf-raising -four,
is best for sriddle cakes. Lacking
this. the next best thing to do is to
substitute one-fOUTtn cOrustarch
for One-fourth OF the bread -four
used
If you use an iron Rriddls, allow
IL TO heat slowly and then grease
II with a place of fat into which a
wooden fork has been
stuck. After mixing the batter drop
small test" cake Oh the hot iron.
Drop the batter from the end Of
tablespoon onto the hot, creased
griddle. When the cakes have risen.
when the top is full Of bubbles and
the edges brown, the cake should be
turned and Drowned on the otber
side. DO not allow the bubbles 10
burst before turning. And remem-
Der that a "twice-turned' cake is
usually heavy.
Wipe on the griddle after each
with a cloth or paper.
All measurements should be lsvsl.
All the dry Ingredients are usu
ally slftsd together several timez
and the moisture added TO them and
the whole well beaten GrIddls
cakes should be piled several high
on warm plate and served at once
RICE GBIDDLE CANES.
One cup cooked rice. IA cups hot
milk. 3 tablespoons fat. eggs. \
cup -four. u teaspoon salt. 3 tea
spoons baking powder.
Add the rice 10 the milk and then
follow the genera! direction. Other
cooked cereals may be substituted
for rice.
One and opc-half cupfuis OF stale
bread crumbs'may be used instead
OF the rice. The crumbs should be
soaked in the milk
CORSMEAL GRIDDLE CAKES
Two cups -four. l. cup cornmeaI
llg Tablespoons baking powder.
II. teaspoon salt. I-3 cap sugar
III cups boiling water. j.. cups
milk. egg. tablespoons melted
fat
Add meal 20 boiling water and
boil fve.mtnutes. turn INTO bowl
Add the other ingredients
RYE GRIDDLE CAKES
Hair cup ~" -four. cups wheat
-four, = teaspoon salt. cups sour
milk. IL teaspoons baking soda, 2
tablespoons corn syrup, table
fApeonS fat, egg.
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The Appetizing GrddIe Cake

mum griddls and the sespstons grid
Ole. Some varieties OF aluminium
griddles do not have TO be CREASED.
A soapstons griddls requires no
gressinE
A pancake turner OF sPstuia will
also be needed.
There are some general direc-
tons l should like understood be-
fore giving the recipe.
4 Eriddlc cake mixture is class
ed as pour batter. II must pour
easily. Since the thickening pow
srs Of -four differ considerably, II
is sometimes necessary TO add more
moisture than the particular recipe
calls for in order to attain a thin.
easy 10 pour batter.
The large amount OF moisture in
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By Garrett P. Serviss.

THE Jewish engineers who con-
structed the great pools OF
Solomon" and ;he system Of
Gqueducts that brought water 10
the city of Jerusalem. performed an
admirable work which has fallen
into decay through neglect. but
which may be reconstructed after
the war IS over. Few things would
do more to brig hten Jerusalem tina \
the restoration Of it's ancient water
supply. At present the Pool of
Sloan. Ike the Fountain of the
Virgin. is contaminated.
The remains Of Solomon's Pools
Ars a few miles from Jerusalem. on
the high ridge that runs southwark
with a westerly trend. They de-
rived their water from springs. the
chief OF which is that OF Ain Ssleh.
There are three pools" or reser-
voirs. situated on = slope. the eIeva-
ton of each being about twenty
feet above the level OF the next
below. Formerly they were con-
Tected with two aqueducts carrying
the water to the city. The upper
most Of these aqueducts. which il
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salem was never a large city, in
our modern sense OF that term. Its
present permanent population is
about $4,000. and propably IT never
had many. ~ any. more: although
Josephus says II had a million. But
Josephus. in this matter. evidently
spoke In tropes and not according TO
statistics. The best estimates OF
the area covered by Jerusalem In
the time OF Titus do not show an
extent exceeding not more than half
q square mile. Before that II was
still smaller. Now. Imagine the
homes OF q million people crowded
on the toe OF Manhattan Island. be-
low Liberty street. and you will
have a picture OF Iosephus's IDEAL
lied Jerusalem with a million in
habitantsI
But IL 10 evident that ancient
Jerusalem was a well-cared-for city,
and that the system OF water sup
ply connected with the Pools Of Sol
omon was not the sole one that II
had. The lofty situation Of the city,
at the extreme end OF a kind OF
rocky promontory. made Il a diff
cult place to supply with water, and
Increases our admiration for the
work Of the ancient engineers,
whose glory was absorbed BY Solo
mon.
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had been accustomed TO to the
truth from the first. Had Il been
occasionally mentioned In 'front.'
of her from her infancy As matter
Of merely casual Importance the
child would have known no shock
OF surprise and would have accept
ed this fact along with the many
other conditions Of life.
Although 1t is too late NOW for
these particular parents to do
ought else but tell their little girl
this belated truth, Il u q point
which the parents Of other
adopted children should carefully
take into consideration.
I remember reading q story
about an adopted child when / was
a growing girl and It made a great
impression on me. A small boy,
who was an adopted son. had been
twitted with the fact by his play
mates. He sturdIy denied that Il
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Self-EducatiOn.
nEAR MISS FAIRFAX:

nEAR MISS FAIRFAx:
read some time ago in your
column about q Elrl who hesi-
tated to go about with a young
man, fearing be was too edu-
eated and would be ashamed Of
her, and you answered that IL
she 80 really ambitious she can
educate herself by reading good
books and the higher class mag
Azinss and BY attending various
lectures and concerts.
Now, what 1 would lie to ask
you Is thiS-to mention some Of
the good books. as also feel the
man who wishes to Call 10 see
me u Of the ssme type mentioned
IN your column. X. :.
ANYONE who wishes % educate
herself can DO a great deal tow
Brd Il and her own government VIII
help her do it. Write 70 the Home
Education Division OF the Bureau
of Education. Washington. d. G..
Eiying your name. Post Office ad-
dress, age and a brief statement OF
your education and occupa tion. The
United States Government Will do
the rest. II issues a list Of twenty
two books. some OF them stand
ard novels. some poems. some plays:
II adds thereto tine life history OF
one or two prominent women and
a history 0: the English people,
with these six books a: tie end Of
Inc list: Some Silent Teachers,"
by Elizabeth Harrison: shelter and
clothing and Foods and House.
mold Management both b. Kline
ana Cooley. The Furnishing OF
= Modest House" ~ +. II. Daniels:
-oin and Woman" By g. W. LattI-
msL n D: What Can Literature
Do For HS7" by C Alphonse Smith.
AE Tor "a AikhsS class magazines.
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The Hidden Hand
A SERIAL OF THRILL AND MYSTERY.

; an open door Of a Pullman state
room And down the passaEeway
she could hear some one coming
She did not wait. but flung herself
into the room, locking the door.
Nor had she been wrong. The
Hidden Hand. in the corridor had
been waiting or her. As he saw
her retreat, he muttered an oath
and two others OF his men Joined
him:
Already one o: them had armed
himself with AZ axe which he had
seized from the emergency tools
At once the Hidden Hand seized It
and began attacking the door to
the stateroom. But il was OF steel
and It took time to batter Il down.
Others seized the conductor aud
threw him back. while still; others
held the passengers In terror.
Doris screamed wildly.
At the station Ramsay gazsd
about nelpleSs!y. What was he to
do: There was not another train
for hours. Meanwhile. what might
not happen TO Doris:
Suddenly, on a siding. he spied a
construction car like a hand car,
equipped with a little gasoline mo-
tor. he ran over to IT. seized It
and placed In on the main track.
He started the motor and a mo-
ment later was away. speeding like
lightning on the up track. hoping
to be able to catch and get ahead
OF the train and board it.
CTazily the little car careenad.
but as he rounded the curve. there
he could see the train ahead On the
down track.
Thick and fast the Hidden Hand
raIned blows on the steel door Of
the stateroom until at last It began
to yield.
Doris saw the door bulge. In
terror she seized something and
sma shed the glass of the window,
tearing out the screen. too. She
leaned far out. Anything. even
death. was better than to fall in;U
the hands of this criminal again.
She would leap.
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EPISODE 9.
"Jets of Flame"
Copyright. 1917. Star Co.

FLASHING through the under
brush, up from the bottom of
~ the canyon. Doris and Ramsay
managed to gain the oliver"
which they had left with the driver
when they came TO. the cabin. They
we're away In a moment. fearful Of
pursuit.
But the Hidden Hand had another
plan. with his gang he hurried 20
toe car In which the gang and
Verda had arrived and they. too.
were away for the railroad station.
They arrived first and hurriedly
he planned with his smissariss.
When. several moments later. Doris
and Ramsay arrived, and the train
at last pulled In. the Hidden Hand
was ready.
Doris had scarcely boarded the
train when Ramsay behind her. was
seized and dragged back. At the
same time. the signal was given TO
the engineer to proceed. And as
Ramsay struggled to get free, the
train rolled out. carrying Doris
When Ramsay picked himself up
from tho platform where he had
been thrown. he started after the
train. but II was too late.
On the train Doris had seen just
enough to convince her that (; was
the work OF the Hidden Hand. In
tuitlvely she knew that the plan
was TO separate her from Ramsay.
that the criminal or some OF his
men must be aboard the train. She
looked aoout in terror. She could
net lSGR oR new. Before be- YaS
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was 30, but afterward ran TO his
mother and demanded the truth
In q storm OF tears.
His mother took him upon her
lap and held him close, and, with
the wisdom that Is born Of love,
told him that love Is the closest tie
there is on earth and that out OF
all the other children in the world
she had chosen him because shs
loved him best. After that the little
boy almost pitied those other chill
.dren whose parents had had no
choice in their selection
Love, the all-sustsining factor
in the child's life. will carry his lit
tie bark through any troubled sea,
and those who have guided 1t thus
far will comprehend better than
any one else how to rectify the
mistakes that have been commit
ted only through desire to save
him pain
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By LorettO &. Lynch,
fInstrGoaSF Special WaE Cookery
New TSFk Evening High School
fer W0nenl.

KIT seemed go easy" said q
young heUsekseper to me
the other day. Il thought
Il no trouble at all-untn 1 had
tried II myself watched the
~hite-eappsa man in the window OF
The restaurant for a half hour as
)hs -napPeR the cakes but mine
sh, mine were awful"
In ths nrst place, you must pro-
VtAS yourself with a griddle. There
are several varieties on the market.
! heavy Iron ETiddls Is the least sI-
DSnStR& Than there Is thS HIum!-
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Advice to the LOvelOrn
By BEATRICE FAIRFAX

go into sHy reliable book or sta
tiOnery store and tell them that
you want magazines which give
critical reviews OF books. OF art
or Of music, and those which fur
nish a resume OF current events.
etc. Lectures and concerts are ad-
vertlSed in the daily papers. There
are courses open to you at the
various universities In this city. II
you want an education. my dear
girl, you must make little honest
effort 10 get IL. Don't sit back and
expect 10 have IL served UP TO you
on a silver service.
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Too Late for the Theatre.

All right But it's too late Tor
any theatre. We might take IN some
musical show or something Of that
sort"
At this point. further discussion
OF Miss Dora Livingstons or Of
Miss Cynthia Long was dropped for
the time.
But late that night. when the
two parted at the door of the hotel
Milton Van saun to 90 TO his
room here, Gerald to his bachelor
quarters q few blocks away-ths
New Yorker remarked with what
he hoped was . casual manner:
DO you know. there was some-
thing about that Eirl-that Miss
Long you know whom We saw to-
nIEht-that reminded me a bit OF
Dora. She did not look like her
and yet there was something that
did remind me OF her, guess
they're about the same size"
which. OF course. accounts for
your yssrning to make Miss
Longs acquaintance, eh!" Stew.
art tsased. Wei, It's too bad
you're going back TO New York in
a few days, Perhaps you would
like me to tarry here longer pack
ing and moving from my bachelor
Qusrtsrs-and enlist your help?
Then you might take run out to
Lake Forest sometime when the
girl and her father get back there
and pretend TO be a book agent
or something Of that kind and thus
make the fair ones acquaintance.
You're an ass, Van"
You're another" Van saun
laughed. Good might"
And, with a handclasp ard n nod,
the friends parted for the night.
(TO he CSatiausd.)
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By Mary Ellen Sigsbee.

THE other day some one told
mo OF a family, whose
- much-loved little adopted
daughter. although now a girl Of
fifteen, was the only one among
their circle Of intimates who did
not know Of her adoption, but BE-
lIeved herself TO be the flesh and
blood child OF her parents.
These foster parents, although
preferring that the girl should
never know otherSise. feared that
she would learn the truth from
others and had resolved to tell
her all about It on the day Of her
graduation from school.
Such a situation is unfortunate,
and these loving parents would
have been wiser II this little girl
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good speed UP tho river at night:
there is plenty OF water. and the
banks arc wide enough apart to make
steaming. even I'm the dark, easy
enough. Lord GodaImiuS tells me to
sleep for a while. as IL is enough for
the present for one 20 be on watch.
But l cannot Sleep-hOw can /, with
the terrible danger hanging over my
darling. and her going out into that
fort is that we are IN the hands OF
God. Only for that faith it would be
saslor to die than TO live. and so be
quit OF all the trouble.
MIR Morris and Or. Seward we-S on
on their long ride before We started:
they arc 10 keep up the right bank,
far enough OF 10 get on higher lands
where they can sec a good stretch Of
rivOr and avoid the following OF its
curves. They have. for the first
stages. two men To ride and lead
their spare .hOrses-fOur In all, 30 as
not 10 eNgits curiosity.
MAY BE NECESSARY
TO JOIN FORCES.
When they dismiss the men. which
shall be shortly, they shall themselves
look after the horses. II may be
necessary for US to join forces: IT so
they can mount our whole party. One
"r the saddles has IA movable horn.
aud can bs easily adapted for Nina.
II required.
1t is wild adventure We are on.
Here, as We are rushing along
through tho darkness, with the cold
from the river seeming To rise up and
strike us. with all the mysterious
voices ut the night around us, II all
comes home. We seem to be drifting
into unknown places and unknown
ways into Il whole world of dark and
dreadful things. Godalminc is shut
ting the furnace door
81 October StiIl huTrying along.
The dav has come. ana GoduImiuE Is
sleeping. TW on watch The
morning is bitterly cuIdi the suIHdr~
heat - EratuiTl, though Ur hHN e
heavy fUr coats. As Yet Ne hHN"
passed only a irw open boats, hut
none rf them lad on board any b"N
or package OF anything like the aiHe
Of the one We seek. The men Yspe
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DRAcULAor The Vampire ByBram stoksr
Gripping Serial Resdt In Every Day.

~ L. SEWARD and Mr.. Morris
have half Il dozen good
LOrses. well appointed. We
have oil the maps and
appliances OF various kinds that can
lee had. Prof. Van HrlsinS and ! are
t. lsavu ny the ll:4O train tonight for
NeTrsti, where ws are To get a car
rIags to drive To- the BorSO Iass. We
are bringing good deal Of ready
money, as We ara Ia buy a carriage
aud horses. We shall drive ourselves.
for We have no one whom We can
trust in the matter. The professor
knows something or a great many
languages, 50 We shall set ON all
right.
We have all got aru,s. even frr me-
p large revolver; Jonathan would
not be happy unless 1 WIS armed like
tho rest Alas, cannot carry one
ann that the rest ID. the scar on my
furehead sorbids that. Dear br, Van
Ii-lsing comforts M by telling me
that ! am FULLY armed ~ there may
bu wolves; thr weather Is getting
colder every hour. and there are snow
iurries which come and go rs warn
inss.
Later II tool, all my courage 10
~ay goud-bv [" NY darling Ne may
never mrrt again. tuUraS-, Nina.
the professor - looking at N"u Keen
"; his look Is d warning. There must
he no tears now unless ~ may he
that God will let them tall IN glad
ness.
Joaathea Harke's JouThaL
Octuhsr re- Night am writing
this in the light frem the furnace door
of the steam launch. Lord G0dalmIng
- A.
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scared every time we turned our cleo 9
trio lamp on them, and fell on their s
knees and prayed.
/ November, cvsning.-No news sllo-1
day; We haze -fonnd nothing OF ths--c
kind we seek. We have now passed5ES
into the Bistritza; and II We are -
wrong In our surmise our chance is -
gone. We have Overhauled every -.
boat, big and little. Early this morn
ing. one crew took US for a govern
ment boat, and treated US according
ly.
We saw in this way OF smoothing
matters, so at Fundu. where the Bis
tritza runs into the Sereth. we got
Roumanian nag which We now ay con
spicuousIy.
With every boat which we have
overhauied since then this trick has,
succeeded; We have had every defer :
ence shown 10 us, and not orce any y
objection 10 whatever we chose 10
ask or do.
NATIVES TELL OF SPEEDY
VESSEL PASSING Up RIVER
Some OF the siovaks tell US that a.
big boat passed them. goiiS at more
than usual speed as she bad a double
crew on board. This was before they1
came TO FunGu. - they could not tsli7-
Us whether the boat tunnel into the
Bistritza or continued on up the &
Ssreth.
At r'undu We could not hear OF any
such boat. so shs must have passed
there In the night. I Am feeling very
SLEEPY; the gold l. perhaps beginning
to tell upon sne, and nItGro IIuSt have :,
rest some time Coda aiming insists
that he shall keep the first watch 81
God bless him for ell his goodness to-
poor dear Nina and me
NU.rIUhr". tToru!IS---it x broad
daylight THAT good fellow woIld
not wake me. tie says u woGid have
been a sim To. for I slept 80 peacefully
aud WAS forgetting my trouble. II =
SecntS brutully selfish 20 genes - have
slept ~, !ouE. aud lr; hin. wT-ch all +
uiyrt: bu; lac was right I au "a new
INA. tais moruIugi AMI, as b III here
and watch him slcepirS, ! can do all
that ~ necessary both as 'u E!nUinE
the engine. steering. aHd N~vpinE
watch ! can feel my strength ana
energy are coming back 10 INC.
Continued TOmorrON.
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By Arthur B. Reeve.

CrePtOr Of the "CraIE Kennedy"
mystery stories, which appear az
eIusIreIJ In Cosmopolitan Magazine.
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By Virginia Terhune Van
de Water.
CHAPTER w.
CHAPTER ".
Copyright. 1918. By Star Cs.

Copyright. 1918. BY Star cs.
ERALD STEWART had dis
r. missed the matter OF his
~ friends love affair from his
mind, but It recurred to him soon
after leaving the dining-room.
The two men were standing to-
Eether in the hotel lobby when a
low exclamation from Milton Van
saun made his companion turn
around. Great Scott" Van saun
muttered. That's q sumner all
right" He was looking at girl
who had walked to the desk and
asked a question OF the clerk.
Stewart recognized her at once as
the young woman OF whom he had
spoken in the dininE-room a little
while ago.
That's the person I called your
attention to. Van" Gerald reminded
him. Il said she was the sort to
dance we'll. and your only comment
was that she had a figure sons
thing like Miss Livingstone's."
We'll, she has, Van saun replied.
But I did not see her face until
now. I say. old man. wish We
knew who she H."
She's dressed in mourninE-psr-
haps she's = widow" Gerald suE-
Essted.
Nonsense" his companion seoftsd
at the idea. All women In mourn
ing aren't widows. are they? And
that girls too young to have had
q husband. There are lots OF other
relatives that one may lose besides
q husband. why, that girls not
twenty. I bet"
Il decline to take you up on that"
Gerald stewart laughed. where
are you goinE?'
For his companion had started to
walk away.
Let's wander over and get a
nearer view" Milton proposed.
The pair stroIled slowly. and
with apparent indifference. toward
the desk. As they drew near the
girl received q letter from the
clerk, and, turning abruptly. came
slowly across the office, her eyes
hxsd on the envelope she held.
With a sudden decision. Milton
Van saun stepped in front OF her
30 quickly that ths girl. starting
violently to AVOID running into him.
dropped the letter. Before she
could pick ~ up Milton Van gaun
had lifted IL from the hoor, and.
with 9 bow, held 1t out to her.
"Oh, thank your Cynthia Long
murmursd, smiling her acxnowl-
edgmentS.
Then as shs saw the CLEAN OF
admiration in the blue eyes EAz-
ing down into hers. she hurried
away without another glance.
Stewart Is Astonished.
We'll. you have got q crust" GsT-
aid Stewart exclaimed as his friend
rejoined him. You scared the poor
girl into dropping hsE letter. then
had the nsrvs 20 accept her thanks
as your due. II she knew that yoa
deliberately set out 20 startls her.
she'd despiss you"
II did not intend TO startIs her.
Milton denied. Il was only Esizsd
by an Irresistible desire TO hear her
speak or to see her smile And !