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Newspaper Page Text13 WILL PROPEL LARGEST ZEPPELIN turns Start Drive for to Complete It, ,e<iricfeshafeB^®«rinanyj—Work is isslng favct.-bly on the world’s t Sfeppelin-type dirigible, half a* large as;® 16 Los Angeles and, ®S to test the feasibility’, of Atlantic passenger and packet dirigible will be the first to be iled by gas instead of a liquid ,.ua epoch-making inventioh cred it .the Zeppelin works chemist, ;<ia- Lempertz. i-ai be named the “L. Z. 127.” ago Eckener, commander of the ., ngeles on the flight from Fried- ; «fen to Lakehurst in October, ;s in charge of the construction. :r giant will .cost approximately 000, being raised by popular . iption. ■ for Eckener said the hydrogen t of the gas bag will be 3,800,- ;bic feet, exceeding that of the .ngeles by 1,400,000 cubic feet. i be slightly longer than the Los', is and propelled by five 420- power Maybach .motors, gas fuel, the exact composition ■ hich remains secret, Doctor ar said, is more efiiefent than ie or ben?ol and will simplify .tlon by eliminating .difficulties from carrying heavy loads of fuel and from manipulating the g content or ballast to make up A consumption. dirigible is expected to beicom- about August, 1927, though less half the cost has been raised, ewed patriotic effort to raise the nder of the money is to be made Jinmer. The Ties That Bind By DOROTHY WEST I?®, (Copyright.) E ATERS- night he would traverse the Ip ' Battles Seal to Save Life of Pet Doji ' v ^®rb. The almost boundless oa of a boy for his pet dog, i d with a fight for life between eg and a young seal that almost ed la the drowning of both dog aster, furnished, the material for lling afternoon for Nelson Hoeft, ea-year-old student, and his dog y Kid. jity Kid an(| his young master a romp along Baker’s beach, off shore near some rocks a seal was disporting itself, and • v Kid made for the seal. With ful yelp he swung onto, the seal’s k ard flipper. re was a series of quick canine «>f paih, then the seal and dog eared. In a moinent the dog’s appeared above water and he 1 struggling toward the beach, pal had fastened its teeth in his ; 'eg. on plunged in gthq surf, armed i short stick. Unmindful of the scratches he received as Dig- Cld’s paws Struck him while ling to shake the seal, off, Nel- npped one .arm around the dog tli the stick reached down and a quick - lunge that broke the bold. in was sixty yards 'from shore ing rapidly. He,was unable to t, but he refused to let go his ; le called for help. . ' Bernstein and Louis Texter, members of Company L, Thir- -nfahtry. were swimming at the end of Baker’s beach. They the cries and in a moment 'had fp and dbg ashore. sf That Opened’ Way ;' a iO Florida, -1505; Back $ork.,-—The-sword that led the. ’ .civilization, into Florida came. 0 America recently, after an * of more than three centuries, nvOrd is that carried by'Pedro 'ey- de Aviles,’ Spanish mariner, ended St. Augustine in 1565. ' It vried-■ clown .a gangplank from ' Manuel Arnus by Cesar' de ga, royal commissioner gen ic i. Spain, to the Sesquicenten,- .’libiUon at Philadelphia. ‘ The •. with, a blade $y 2 feet long, ' n in| the Naval [ museum at since its owner died. '„ the sword came a collection tries and Spanish'.,art, valued i ■00,000, alt to be exhibited ini dalnsian pavilion': at the ses- ennial. , > ’s Right to Fly- Over Farm Upheld /in. Neb.—A temporary injunc- •'prevent an aircraft corpora- ilanes from flying over the s of Emil Glatt, whose farm the flying fiqld, has been de? • District Judge Stewart. ■Udltion-rtO the injunction Glatt 1 $10,000 damages. He com- I that noise of the , airplane frightened his chickens, dis- his rest, produced nervousness m detrimental Jo his general ten by a Rattler, Shoots Into Wound i ramie, Wyo.—The 1 rattle- •e bite antidote employed by i iam Ringleburg, sheep hej-d- s a little rough, but efflea- i. When he wqs bitten, he j no knife with which te l the wound, so he sucked wound* and then flrdd & k cartridge into it A paes- motorist brought him la a dtal, wher#b« is recovering. length of the garden to the dis tant, lofty oak and stare. down,*’fpr."a brief arid bitter moment,the grave ’Of his mother. ( 'And* inevitably ihe wbuld stoop to pluck a •long-stemmed flower and twine it about his wrist. .There was something terribly brutais about it; i As mocking reassurance of a deathbed promise. He hated the valley. He hated the splendid-stretch of land that for gen erations had belonged to the family, riotous, neglected now save for a small - patch of garden that supplied his daily needs. H$ had chained himself by a death bed promise to the rolling, far-reaching acres a sentimental mother loved. He had been too young and too awfully sorry to foresee the droning “years. He had wanted, with youthful pity, to make her last moments happy. And so . he had promised, : eagerly, forever to live in the valley. And then there had been her weak voice calling Martha; the young Mar tha kneeling beside her with tears in her eyes. And suddenly she had joined their hands, and there had been Something about “my son, my best friend’s motherless child,” and he had' found himself pledged to Martha, star ing iqto- her tear-wet, adolescent eyes. He had always wanted to write. From earliest youth he had scribbled on any and every scrap of paper. He felt, perhaps wrongly, that he had a splendid gift to give to the world. And he lived in that future hour of recognition. . He had never been outside the val ley. He had never seen beyond his narrow community. There had been little expansion of, his own*soul. And he had the happy faculty to realize his restriction. He was wedged In by stupid conventionalities. He 'had, he knew too poignantly, little to write about He had held tenaciously to" his dream of ultimate freedom. He had heavily mortgaged the land. He knew, with almost mad complacence, that within a few years he would lose the far-stretching acres. And then would begin his pilgrimage to the world. The world he thirsted for, and from whose living pages he would tran scribe. Tonight he walked slowly back to the house. He began to hope that Martha had' gone to bed. There was something about her of late that dis turbed him. She was pale and un« happy and ailing. And wistful, too. And he would raise his head suddenly to find her sad eyes intent on his face as if there were something she wanted to tell him. It annoyed him, because it frightened him. He felt, somehow, responsible. She had not gone to bed. She was sitting before the empty hearth, star ing unseelngly at the darkened bricks. She did not turn to look at him. She held] out her.hand. He went slowly to her with calm in difference. She was-only a child, and she knew, vaguely, that she had never really pleased hjm. She had so little to give him, .and^now she. felt that her sole gift wouldibe unwanted. He looked down at her, not unkind ly, and put a gentle hand on her shoul der. ' “I’ve been meaning to tell you,” she - said, with difficulty, “the doctor—” >. She /faltered. .HIis hand fell away. He\Was suddenly White and 1 drawn? « “No,”'he said quietly, “no.” g She was terror-stricken. “Butwby?” > “JS/e’ve /only [ the barest, necessities. There’s hardly.enough for two.”’ ' She caught, her one shred of cour age. . She was [fighting. for something bigger I Inin herself. Something .potent within, her. . She was fighting, - with terrible strength, for life: 8. “It’s because we’ve, done nothing; either of us, about the. farm. We’Ve let it go to. ruin. We’ve lived our days m , laziness. Idled die. hours. ... Why, ours-' is the finest land for Utiles, -We must,” she ended with quiet finality, “make it a paying farm, for child.” ' He did not answer Iter. JKe saw, very vividly, tlje approaching days: He would awaken at six to the smell of fried food and, Martha’s shrill yofte. 1 Then, a long, hard morning in the -field) ’and dinner.* The field again, dragging, dulling holtrs, then merciful dusk, and supper. And when he could get-out his paper and. pen, they would dance before his eyes, and "the/only alternative, of Course, would be bed. Apathy d\tlled him. It was as if the 7 strength of her words had crushed his spirit. He; could not even cry out in protest. An inbred New England con science compelled him' to realize his duty. There was nothing beyond: the impregnable wall of right. He beard himself mumbling, “They’ve bound both my hands, the quick and the dead.” His'ironical laughter flood ed the, room. “’Blessed be the ties that bind.” DEVILS HAUNT SHIP, COOLIE CREW SAYS Seven Boarded Castle Wray in Chinese Waters. New York.—A full share of -the wonders ; of the deep Which are seen by those who go down to the sett in ships was' reported by the officers of the British cargo steamer Wray .Cas tle, Staten island, after half a year’s voyhge around the world. They said-that if the coolie mem bers of the crew were tb be believed, they were haunted by no fewer than seven malignant devils during peariy the whole of their sojourn In Chinese waters. It was 1 only when they had reached the Indian .ocean that the sailors, by ’ setting off firecrackers,, burning joss sticks and. thro wing, over board .tempting meals of roast ehick- |en; could persuade the evil spirits to leave. 1 The Wray Castle, a'sturdy 6,000-ton freighter, left New York last January, but it was not until she reached the Philippines that the presence of the demons was suspected. Things Happen. While the vessel was at dock In Manila an apprentice lost his balance while painting part of the superstruc ture. He fell, breaking his collar bone. Shortly. afterward, when the vessel had reached Shanghai, Second Officer William Spancer fell into Hatch No. 5. He was nearly killed. ! When, on the way south toward Sing apore, several of-.the crew sustained I minor injuries there was no longer I any doubt as to what was the cause. As a result Chief Steward Wong Jong King, who has been employed by | the company twenty years, held a conference with 1 “Number One,” the head Chinese. As soon as they reached Singapore the two went to the Bud dhist temple, where they asked the priest to send down a “kwong-ho- cluk-cluk man” or magician to drive away the spirits. The priest told them that the ma gician would do no good owing to the noise of the harbor. He advised them to let him sell them $20 worth of fire- ] works and to buy three fresh chick- * eos- He said this would accomplish ' their purpose. When the ship was in midocean the chickens Were roasted and placed •steaming hot on the hatch-covers. j[They were then thrown overboard in | the hope that the devils would follow | .them. After this for three- hours the ; crew set off the fireworks and burned 1 the joss sticks and false paper money. I Evidently, the devils left, for from then on the weather was fair and no accidents took place until the Atlantic ocean was reached. Just past the Azores they ran intp a heavy storm. Wong Jong went to the captain. j| “Ship’s cats have two black kit tens, * he said. “Bad joss come en- gin 6 room again. Makee, waves go up. Throw overboard quickly all go all right.” The .captain allowed one kitten to be consigned to the deep, but insisted on 1 saving the Other. Apparently, ac cording to Chief Officer Dwyer, tills was not enough for the joss. The had weather lasted until tSey reached New York. To Make the Men Notice Her m m m ^ vs. m ta V % m m m m m m m m v By JANE OSBORN ..... Professor Is, Greatest «< Linguist in Europe Posen, Poland.—rfassilo Schultbeiss, professor at the University of Posen, who i§ regarded as one of, file'greatest linguists in, Europe today,, knowg- 86 languages and 240 dialects. Few people in Poser/know him, for he ’-leads the life of a recluse.. Sn.nv- ,white ... fiair-T-he (ik ,onl^’ thirty-eight yqars old—heightens the unusual char acter . of hi*s appearance . - • ■ T'or a number* qf years he was merely « modest teacher at tile “gym nasium,” or high school. When ids unusual gifts’ were - - discovered, - how ever,- he was callej to the uuiversiiy. Proih a i;emoteJprovince in china ■ there' recently arri ved a* letter for A . Posen merchant, who took it to, the department- of _ oriental languages- at the’ .university. The , professors 1 in. ur charge pondeied over the document Yew a- week, and Were about lo give up -in desjiair, when one of them re membered Schultheiss.: s/, ' : “Why, that’s such-ancl-stich dialect- spoken by only a few thousand p & o= pie iii Eh’ina, 1 ” he said];, and lo®:e,d hitnt self up in his study for the* next otj hours. ; As he .emerged,*: 1 he was. able Place a ^faultless transhition into the hands of the i’osen merchant. Willingness to Wait A young farmer was urged to set out some appl® trees. "No,” said he, “they are too .Tong growing, and I don’t want to plant for other people.” The young farmer’s father was spoken to about it, hut he, with better reasoh, alleged that apple trees were slow . and life .was fleeting. At last someone mentioned it to the ol'd grandfather of the young farmer. He had nothing else to do—so he stuck; In sonic .trees. He lived long enough to drink barrels of cider made from the applet ''that grew on those trees.—divas Web 4*11 Hoi men, • $700,000 a Year Is Cost of Sunburn ^Atlantic City, N. J.—’Approximately .$700,006 can be saved to American em ployers if the practice of ovelexposure to the,sun at benches to gain a coat of tan is discouraged, says Dr. Charles F. Pabst, professor of skin diseases at the Greenpoint hospital, Brooklyn. “Bathers should be warned that ly ing in the sun for hours at a time-is a dangerous practice which often re sults in serious harm,” said Doctor Pabst. “The skin cannot manufac ture pigments quickly enough to pro tect one from injury unless the first exposures are of short duration and are lengthened only gradually. The sun emits more ultra-violet light dur ing July and August than at any other tlfiae ; of the year, It may damage the skin cells and even produce death;” Doctor Pabst estimates that '10,000 working-days are lost every week summer annually^ as a result of in tense sunburn. Putting the average working, wage at «7, he sees a lose to employers ^>f ,$70;000 a week, or $700,- 000 for the tea weeks of summse. .(Copyright.) I) H,, HELLO,. Ida.. Didn’t expect N’ 7 to see you here. This, is jolly. That’s so, mother did say she’d asked Tou. Big dance tonight. That’s why you’re here. Over' at . the Country club. | Well, so long, Ida. I’d stick around only I’ve got a.date with a girl. See you twilight at the club; -Don’t forget to save me a dance. ■ I’m' com ing, a.shade late, so hold off the inob till I get there.” : Those Were .the words that Ned Bo land spoke when, one Saturday after noon in'spring, he came home early from the office and, whistling his care free way into the family living-room, came upon Ida Martin—a sort of a cousin of his, as he always introduced her, though the actual connection was extremely remote., “I’m coming a shade late, so hold the mob off until- I get there,” he had just said to Ida, and eighteen-year-old Ida, with cheeks rapidly turning very %>ink. shot a rather resentful look from her pleasant brown eyes, “Hold off the mob,” she scorned. “You know perfectly well that there won’t be any mob, and I Wouldn’t have come to this old dance only your moth er—Cousin Nellie—wrote and begged me to. Said you’d want to take me.’ Not that I care one teeny bit about not going with yon. Only you know well enough that I don't -know any of the boys at the Club and with all those girls—so smart and snippy and every thing—why I’d . like to know ;how you can expect I’d have a good time, unless holding up one of the'walls, and keeping down a chair is having a good time !” “Oh, I say,” said Ned, coming over to Ida and trying to take her warm little hands in his. “I didn’t know mother said I’d take you. I never thought about you when I told Alice Clay' I’d take her. Bay, that’s a shame. Maybe I could take you bpth—” • “I hate that Alice Clay,” an nounced Ida. “She’s snippy and she wears freak clothes and her language Is terrible. I heard 'her saying ■’Hon.’ to a man she’s just been introduced to. Imagine taking two girls at once! Pll go by myself and I won’t know anyone and no one will notice me and I’ll have a miserable time. Men don’t know how it is. It they don't dance people think : it is because they don’t want to; if girls don’t dance—-every one knows it’s ’cause they haven’t been asked. I’m not popular—and there’s no use pretending I am—a 1 "I don’t call not having a lot' of dance partners, not being popular,” Ned tried to console. ‘“Anyway, lots of girls that aren’t as pretty as you have mobs of partners, A girl needs some sort of identification mark—sS something to make the men notice her. They ask for dances out of curiosity.” 1 v “So you mean—I’d have, loads of partners—like Alice Clay—if I’d wear a ring, in my-nose or belts on my toes, or something like that,” said Ida, try ing to hide the unsteadiness of her voice. “I can’t say, Ned, that I care SO much for your advice—” That afternoon Ida excused herself to her hostess and fairly sneaked away on a bus to the nearest shopping center.' She carried home with her several parcels a few minutes before the dinner hour and asked permission, of her hostess to eat in her day'clothes —and dress for the dance later. So It really did take Ned’s breath away for a brief second or so when he saw Ida at the dance, arriving a shade; late liinisel f with the (“smart and snippy” Alice Clay. The fact was-that-he only caught glimpses of Ida, The group ,of KfamV pj**n about, lief madfe 'anything else impossible. There was Ida—her hair parted arid, brushed straight back, on one side where an 'enormous loop earring dangled almost to her, 'shoul der—-and' on the'/otlier side.drawn well dqwn over ihe - ear. Then there whs a monstrous .spreading Spanish comb • (hrust rakishliv in her hail' at that side. N>d .might" also /have - noticed that .there' was a small black 'cqurtplas-ter crescent oil one side of her face and that her little- black satin slippers had bright red heels,; When 1 Ned made his way to Ida she told hini with a laugh that she hadn’t been able to keep'aw'ny the mob. “I’m sorry,” she. said. - “But you'd asked only for one dance, so 1. knew it couldn’t make much difference.” 1 ‘ “I’m .going to go home , with .Alice,” Ned managed to tell Ida toward the close pf the dance. “But 1 want to have,a word or two with you .when I get home: I’ll expect to iiud you wait ing when I come in.” So when Ned reached his house lie (found Ida, who had only jus't been brought home by one of her many de voted admirers. “See here, Ida,” said Ned, not daring now to touch her, “ypu ruined the evening for me., You had no right to treat me that way, when you were a guest* at my mother’s house. , And those cads that you had hanging around you 1 There were two or three of them I wanted to shoot. It’s all right for a girl to have a good time and plenty of partners, but you might have a litfle consideratidn. You know you’re—yoi%e beautiful, Ida,” and Ned almost stammered; with em barrassment. A pause and then he SEND ABD-EL KRIM TO VARIABLE STAR ISLAND OF REUNION /France Picks Future Home I of Riff Chief. ~ added: /“Excuse me, dear,, but I’ve been almost mad with jealousy this evening—but you dqn’t understand.” Ida smiled to herself. “I was only taking yoSr advice,”.-said. Ida, as she laid two small hands on Ned’s arms/ ‘Tin sorry if I made you unhappy—- but T" didn’t th'ink yem eared.” Most v meteorites that, strike apurth .are »ad« 'of alftel irsa. the i Washington;—-Abd-el-Krlm, for two jyears'defender of the Riff against the /armies of Spain and later France, • is Ito be- exiled. News from Paris puts the Island of Reunion in- the lime- jlight as the future permanent home iOf the Moroccan insurgent I “France carries a full stock of is lands usable for exiles,” says a bul letin from the National Geographic society. “Madagascar. was first sugj [gested for Krim, but the weight of (decision falls 400 miles southeast qf Madagascar on Reunion. ' 1 ‘What good exile islands have you (nowadays?’ one may imagine /the (French minister of war phoning the (minister \ of cdlonies. j “ ‘Some very good ones, indeed,’ the (colonial minister certainly could re- ijply. ‘There’s DevR’s island in French (Guiana for criminals, and then there’s (New' Caledonia away out in the Pa cific, a soothing paradise ©f the South Seas. How about Madagascar? Lots (of room on Madagascar. Splendidly (Situated near the Equator. Or Re- junion! /There’s a perfect retreat for jpolitical exiles. Forty-eight miles long and twenty-four miles wide, two ((volcanoes and Only 107 vessels dock (each year.’ i “Abd-el Krim Is quite familiar with (Europe. It may subtract from the in- jconvenlence of exile for him to be set jdo'wn in ah island, predominantly. Eu ropean. To be sure I the Reunio'ners -are, not as p.urely Caucasian 1 as the [British and Dutch of South Africa. jStlll, 167,000 of the population of 172,- .000 are classed as Europeans. In- 'fleed, Reunion Is a department of France. The commonly accepted de- ■partments of France are within 380 ■miles of Paris. Reunion is 7,500 miles (by steamer and train from Paris. “Even the names Reunion has taken from time to time show its intimate (link with Europe. Like a lady fair in ,days of old when knight and lady (wore ribbons of the same color, Re- -union has changed it$ name with the (rise of new political conqueror on (the continent Mascarenhas was its first name in honor of a Portuguese .discoverer who sailed when Portugal was a first rate power. Louis XIH ■was in ascendant in 1643 when Fla- [court claimed it for France, so it be came Bourbon island. That name was impossible to the Revolutionists. (The island -therefore became Reunion lUntil a new ‘knight’ arose In Europe, [ (when it, became lie Bonaparte. Since (1848 Reunion has been the official [name. | “Conditions, geographical, climatic, ;and industrial; have changed less fre quently than the island’s name. Re union, ever since its < settlement, has been a sort ■ of agricultural five-layer [cake. The shore level Is marked by [the gardens of the ring of towns. (Next -comes a sweet layer ; the sugar cane belt. Then a dark green layer of forests. Fourth is the plateau re- igion w^ere European vegetables ean be raised. The fifth layer is the 1 brown of the volcanic peaks. Only .occasionally is Reunion ‘cake’ frosted (with white snow because the warm (sea all about tempers t^e climate. “If Mr. Krim cares to examine a slice of Reunion he will, find it ‘sugar- ahd-spice - and -everything - nice:’ The second layer, as mentioned above, Is mostly sugar. Sugar and one of its 'progeny,, rum, an> the ’chief exports of tint island; :tnj during'the- World war., it profited and perhaps profi teered on sugar. . In the ,spice line .Reunion oilers cloves. ■ And 'thereby hangs a tale , “Our- medieval ancestors loved to eat. Where • the Twentieth century spends ith sorplns on' six cylinders, ■ tlie Fifteenth’> century spent (its; pin' . [money on its’palate. Its idea of a •square men! was fed meat 'well sea soned. -Seasoned w4'il did' not mean (a pinch oC salt and a dash of pepper.. ?Oui foiebba stffousiedypep)©? >oh their: meat and stuck it full,of cloves. Spice •islands or the Moluccas in the tangled -[straits. of the East - Indies were, found. to be the native habitat of doves. The ;joy,with which the Portuguese greeted ibis discovery could only be equalled :today by the burst- of a Teias gusher loll well. They tried to keep th'eir, jflnd' : a . 'treasured secret. But y the (Dutch, who came into ascendancy- re- slrictqd cloves, fo Amboyna island and ordered their navy tq[destroy.all Other (clove 'trees , every place. In. the face [of,,deai:h at the hands of the -Dutch, a man named I’oivre Introduced the (clove free to-Reunion and neighbor ing iMauritiuS) thus emancipating Eu rope from the Dutch monopoly. Geranium Town. “Many orchards of clove trees with their shiny evergreen leaves can, be [seen on Reunloifr The clove buds are in clusters. First they are green, than they turn red, when they are (ready to be picked. “Another specialty from which'Re union profits is vanilla. The produc tion of vanilla orchid beans, Reunion (Shares with the Seychelles to ~the' [north and with Mexico. “There are three towns on Reunion -with u population of mor.e than 18,000 j—St. Denis, St. Pierre and St. Paul. .If Abd-el Krim is given his choice, St. (Pierre ujoul^, appear to be the most attractive for' a permanent residence. [It is the center of the island’s trade in (essence of geranium. The flower that (decorates our houses and garden*/ is SefENTfSMSSERTS; Measure Chan|es |n Energy I From Orb tb^larth. (A commercial product here. What prospeht. --A'life of pensioned ease on a tropical 1% aniid aer^ . of gerani* j Washington.—The sun ig a variable [Star. This central fire of the .plane tary system does not 5 glow vVitli a .steady heat but. flickers ftom day to (day and from year to yeat, and the (vagaries of our earthly weather must depend at least partly on the sun’s variations., This opinion, which has j been supported for many years hy Dr. |C. G. Abbot of the Smithsonian insti tution, finds new support in evidence (produced by a new system lie lias de- jvised for measuring and recording the 'Changes in the energy reaching the earth from the sun. Doctor Abbot calls attention to the (work of H. H. Clayton, who [has an- [nounced that he finds variations of /weather caused by solar changes. But many meteorologists have not' (been- convinced that the sun really (varies. They fear that the compli-' ■cated, measurements of Doctor Abbot, [hindered as they are by the haziness (and humidity of the earth’s atmos phere, are not conclusive. The vari ability which he reports, they suggest, [may all be due to unavoidable atmos pheric sources- of error. Announces a Direct Teqt. Doctor Abbot now announces a (very direct test that should settle the 1 -question.. Although it is impossible (to do the measuring from a point out- jside the atmosphere, yet it is possible jto select times when the transparency fand other affecting qualities of the jair are closely alike, and the sun 'Stands at equal height above the horizon. At such times the solar heating should vary only if the sun does. Selecting the month of July in the j years 1910 to 1920 for his test) he (collected results observed on Mount (Wilson for all days of practically con stant atmospheric conditions. The (average monthly values thus selected [he compared with those obtained by (the usual%>rocess and heretofore pub lished. He also compared them with (the average monthly numbers of sun (spots. The thrqe curves that express [his results run along very closely-to gether. They show that the sub’s (heating in July, 1917, averaged over- 2 per cent above that of July In 1910 -and 1911. Correspondingly; the sun spot numbers were 117 In July, 1917, (and only 14 and 3, respectively, in [July 1910 and 1911. Not content with this prodf of the (reality of long-range solar changes, [Doctor Abbot rearranged the meas- lures in a way to test short-interval [solar variation. For this purpose he (picked out from the new data all the [days that gave high- values of solar ,heating, and all those which give low j ones. The average excess Value for 151 high days was plus 1.43 per cent, and ■ the average defect for 51 low (days was minus 1.47. U Range Not So Great, j The same days, -as already pub lished four years ago, Indicated on [the average plus 0.51 and minus 0.42 1 [per cent, respectively. Thus the days [shown above normal by, the new .method of 'selecting times of equal (atmospheric clearness had already [been-.shown as above normal by the i usual; process, ■ and vice Versa. Of i course the range as formerly pub- . dished could not be so great, because [the errors, of observation could not be .-expected, to fall the same-in the two jsets of data. ; Some days would lie [high and; 'some low, not because 1 of ;. [the , sun’s’ condition, -but; because ’ the -small obsen otianal -errors/heiped to [make them so r \ -Doctor Abbot’s new method, he 1 /hopes, may.'/be convincing of the sun’s IHII all- /) [[the more important and interesting,’? 'his' establishment-under the joint aus- pices- of the ‘National-Geographic so* .cioly; and the ■.Smithsoniijn insiiuition . ‘of a new solar/observatory on B-ruk- karos' mountain' in southwest - Africa./c [This/site He de^eeted last March after ■ [studying on tlie ground conditions in a; 'Algeria; and Balucidstan. / The’ mount ”; (tain is, 5,200 feet high in a desert [where the’ yearly rainfall averages only 3% inches. Roads and construe- \ -tion are ' rapidly, going ahead under 6? ■ the supervision of A.-Drydeu,. inspee- -tor of public, works' for - the govern- i- mqnt of southwest Africa.- The-,: com'- ’ plex apparatus required has been pre- ' ' pared, and” the expedition is [expected , to go forward soon in care of W.'H. Hoover, director, and F. A. Greeley, assistant. Religious Bodies’ Wealth Placed at Three Billion Washington.—The total wealth of all religious organizations in the United (States in 1922 is estimated at $8,271,558,000 on a basis of returtis re ceived by the federal commission. The -study Is part- Of a voluminota# report [on national wealth and income made In response to a senate resolution. The wealth of the religious organi zations, it is disclosed, is slightly more than 2 per ceut of the total esti mated wealth of the country. The largest single religious denomi- ; nation, both In property and in mem bership, Is the Roman Catholic church. Its membership embraced 3P\ per cent of , the estimated entire chuirch mem bership of the country In 1922. The estimated value of its church property represented 23 per cent , of the total church property.- In proportion tb its » Sf proporuon to Its a 1 /Size, however, the Protestant Episco pal church is the wealthiest «f aRv its church property beingestimated s value of«$228'a’nle»biBr,