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THE MODERN STEAMSHIP ELECTRIC M ARTELS ON BIG ATLAXTIC LINERS. The liatr^il Cuiinrd Stofliiicrn I'til- izc Elcctrivity for a iiiiihi- (iide of I'urposps. Allhoiigh much lius, from time to time,' been written aln.ut the two leviathnn (.'iiiiard Kteainers, Lunil- iinia ui:d Maiiretunia, yet compara- tively few can grasp the significHnt part which electricity plays thronghout tliese fihips. A few facts If latini; to the electrical equijimont of the Maiirctania may be of inter- est. Apart fioiti the 70,000 h. p. of the turhinOB which propel the ship through the water, the elcctricai power, which is sifpplied by four generators, represents an addition- al S,144 h.p. Klectrioity is used not only for il- lumiAiting the ship at nigitt, but fi,i a multitude of other i)urposes, snch as operating the liftH, of which there are two for passengers' ukc, eight for baggage and mails, and two smaller ones in the pantries, lilectricully-driven cranes and win- ches are also provided. It may b'6 «ji' interest to kno* that 0,300 elec- tric lamps are installed throughout the whip, giving the enormous to- tal of over 100,000 candle-power. ]''or healing the first-class quarters fixty electric radiators havf been fitted, to say nothing of some forty- throe heaters in the bathrooms for u.Hc during the cold weatlier. NUMEROUS ELECTRIC FANS are used for ventilating the vari- ( us rooms, and .are so arranged that they can supply either warm or cool t.ir according to the weather, while tbt air in the cabins can be total- ly changed six or eight times in an I •IT. Apart from tK • ah ive ven- \ • ting-fans, sixteen larger ones, ci ..0 h.p. each, are fJ.i.'H f^r sup- plying fiirccd draught to the t.vo:i- t\ five boilers. In the ext<'nsive kitchens of the Mauretania electricity is called up- oi to play an important role, and it nuiy interest some housewives to Uarn that one range alone has a fiontago of about 00 feet, and in- cludes a roaster with tour \ertical spitH rotated by an electric motor, these si)its being capable of dealing â- with li:ilf a Ion of meat at a time. This is in addition t<i a smaller roaster \vi(li three spits, driven in the sanu' manner. In the bakery electricity is employed to operate a large dough-making machine cap- al.le of making bread for at least C,00fl persons. . • Among (lie miscellaneous appara- tus driven by this wonderful unseen power are three circular knives for slicing ham and l»a<on, four potato peelers, a whisking machine, kcvcT- al egg bi'ilers, nnuierous hot-plates foi keeping the food warm, five f.late washing nia<'liincs, and two twelvo-qnart freezers for making ice-cream for the passengers, to tay nothing of THK CJOLD-STOHAGE PLA.M' and the elcctricai printing press which enables the 't.'unard JJaily i;ulletin' to be published on l)onrd. Si)me idea of the size of the ves- ^el may be obtained when it is men- tioned thai over 20i) miles of wires ond cabl(!H are fitted tliroughoiit the ship. The electric bell ami telephone installation on the Maurefania pur- tasses anything hitherto attempted in connecticiii with ship work, hell- pushc.s are placed over every bed, and altogether l,2!»H electric bell- pushes have been fitted in the vnri- ciis cabins, etc., whilst telephones, of wl.ich there are upwfirds of 100, arc to be found in nuniproiis parts <f the ship and in all the best rtioins. Apart from the Marconi wireless tflcgrnph outfit, which enables pas- sengers to learn all that is going on in the world just as if they were in a first class hotel in London in- stead of miles from Iftud, means has been provided for coupling the ship up to the city telephone e.\clianges vlicn lying alongside the landing rlages at Liverpool or New York, thus enabling passengers to coni- niunicate with their friends or to transact business tlie numient the vessel touches the quay, or to say good-bye to friends in distant parts of the city up to the time THR RO.\T LKAVES LAND. Klectricity also plays an imp<irt- aiit part in the yifety dp\ires on board tliis wonderful ship, as, fur instance, showing the >ifii'-er in ehnige which water-tight doors are ai^^tiir.lly closed and what navigat- ing lamps are lit. It is ah.i emph.iy- cii to operate the fog- horn from tl:o wlipol-house, and for the systeiu of fire alarms, in connection with v'aich there are thirty-eight alarm- pu»hes in prominent parts of the vessel. Four electric searchlights are carried on board, and, in addition tc- the usual complement of --le- buoys which every ship carries, two special buoys have been provided for use at night. These, upon be- ing released by pressing a button, automatically light a flare upon Ftriking the water, thus indicating their position. Mention must be made of the system of electric clockj^ivhich arc placed in the varicmPsaloons and important situ- ations throughout the ship. The electric installation on this »'cssel represents about $325,000 value, or some fifteen times the cost o%|^he electric equipment on an ev- erage Atlantic liner. STUBBORN INDIGESTION One Who Had Suffered for Years Cured by Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. The syniptomB of stomach trouble vary. 8ome victims have a ravcn- i.uB appetite, while others loathe the sight of food. Often there is a feeling as of weight on the chest, •i full feeling in the throat. With ethers there is an intense pain and feeling of nausea after eating, bcmetiuies gas presscb on the heart and leads the sufferer to think he has heart disease. Sick headache is another frequent and distressing symptom. Mr. Alex. McKay, McLellan's Mountain, N. S., says :â€" "For years I was a great sufferer from indi- gestion, which was gradually grow- ing worse and worse, and it would be impossilik f<)r rac to t^ell how n'ucli suffering I endured. At dif- ferent times I bad treatment from three good doctors, but it did not help nie in the least. Then I began trying all sorts of advertised medi- cine!', and took ten packages of one medicine specially intended for dyspepsia, but with no better re- cults. 1 had practically come to regard myself as incurable, and to t'eol that I would be a continuous Mifferer, when one day I read in a newspaper of the cure of indiges- tion through the use of Dr. Wil- liams' Pink I'ills, and I made up my mind to give them a trial. 1 had us,ed nearly five boxes before they began to help me, but 1 do not won- der at this as my case was so bad. I used in all a dozen boxes of the fills, and they cured me complete- ly. I can now eat anything we raise on the farm for man to cat and have no longer the pains and discomfort I had endured for years, l*; is several years since I was cured, and 1 have never felt a symp- tom of indigestion since. I am well known in this locality and you are quite at liberty to use what I say in the hope that it will benefit some oilier sulTerer." All medicine dealers sell Dr. Wil- liams' Pink Pills or you can get tliem by mail at SO cents .n box or fix boxes for $2.60 from The Dr. Williams' Medicine Co., Hroekville, Ont. If. . KEEN BAKGAIN HUNTERS rm; poukrs know now to (JET VALUE FOR MONKV. VankeoM Have Rough! .>lorc liund for ('n8li Than Any Other Nation. The maligned ladies who arc made fun of in the comic papers, bf.cau.so of their fondness for Ixe- iiuontiiig sales where everything is to bo disposed of at an immense sacrifice, are in very good company. Some of the biggest I'owers of the World ha\<' been keen hargain-hiin- l( rg, says Pearson's Weekly. The United States, for instance, easily takes first place where big transactions in real estate are con- i<'in"d. Our Yankee cousins hav(> lioiight more land for hard cash tliaii any oilier nation. Private speculations have been quite out- d( lie. Aiiierica's first bargain in tills direction consisted of the pur- chase of a whole state, out and out. Some people si.ppose that Eng- land wa^ the only country which I'.ad any softlement in North Ameri- ca when till! war of Independence broke out. This was not so, how- ever. England held only thirteen 111" i,!ie States which at present form the Union, Spain possessed Louisi- ana and Florida. The Redskins had the rest. Napfdeon forced Spain to cede Louisiana to him. Rut he could not wnd either warships or soldi- ers to'pffitect it, and he saw tliat it was practically certain to fall into the hands of England unless he did something. So, in 1803, he oflcrcd to sell it to the Yankees. They promptly accepted it, and paid him $10,750,000 "cash down" for it. They made a splendid bargain, for Louisiana could not be purchased row for fifty times the sum given. $15 A SQUARE MILE. Resides, if the State still belong- ed to France, the United States would be in exactly the same posi- tion as we arc in India â€" as we have t . keep up a great army to defend the Indian frontier, so the Ameri- cans would be coiiipelled to spend millions of dollars yearly on an army capable of defending her frostier against possible trouble with her French neighbors. Uncle Sam's next bargain was the biggest on record. Alaska is a vast tract of country, 580,107 square miles in extent â€" more than four times as large as Great Britain and Ireland. For a long time it be- longed to Russia ; but it was never much good to the Muscovites, and ill 1807 the Czar let it be known that it was in the market. Great Britain could have had it, but re- fused to bid. The United States snapped it up for $7,250,000. They got it cheap, paying less than $15 a square mile. Up to now, it must be admitted, Alaska has not paid, for it is most- ly a desert of ice and snow. But i' is full of possibilities. It contains the Yukon region next door to our Klondike, so that there is a pos- sibility of millions of gold comiuK out of it yet. Also the country is fairly rich in seals. Although there is no record of Britain buying big tracts of tern"- tory for cash, she has done a little bargaining. In 187H the Sultan of Turkey was in deadly fear of being attacked by iluseia. Great Britain egreed, if certain circumstances arose, to fight for him. In return he handed over the irland of Cyp- rus. Nominally, the island was to form a base for British troops, so that they could be more rea....iy sent to the Sult.-in's assistance, if needed, but its transference prac- tically amounted to payment in ad- vance for the promised help. BRITAIN'S BEST BARGAIN. The "certain circumstances" have not yet arisen, and we have not fought Russia or any other country on Turkey's behalf. So Cyprus is not yet paid for. The British Government holds the record of having paid the highest price ever given by a nation for a picture. This was $a.')0.000 given to the late Duke of Marlborough, in 18M5, for the "Ansidei Madonna, by Raphael. When his Grace of- fered the picture for sale every art gallery in the world was anxious to buy, but Britain outbid them all. Another good hctrgain was made by Great Britain in 1875. The Suez Canal, which, as everybody knows, is the short cut to liu.ia. was constructed by a French com- pany founded by De Lesseps, the shares of which were held by pretty will all the Powers. Britain, though the nation most interested ih the ctmdiict of the canal, had at first no real control over its man- agement. In time of war it might even have been closed U) her war- ships and opened to an enemy. Hut the largest shareholder was Isniail, the Khedive of Egypt. In 1875 he was on the brink of bank- ruptcy, and offered his shares, num- bering 170,<)(12, for sale, (icrniauy and France would gladly have Lcuglit them, but they were fore- stalled by Lord Beaccinsficld, whc) snapped them up at a total cost of ?20,:i83,110. This made Great Britain the chief .".JKiroiioldcr, and gave her a con- 1 1 oiling voice in the great water- way. 4 The family fortunes of Lord Dud- icy, the Goveriiur-Oeneral of the Australian Commonwealth, had their foundation in a chance cus- tomer at the shop of an ancestor ill Iwombard Striict. So, at any rate, says tradition. The story m es that ill the reign of the first Charles one William Ward opened a goldsmith's shop in Lombard Street, and soon afterwards was enabled to purchase at a .tfrent bar- gain a quantity of the finest di.'i- tuonds, which had been offered for nale by a sailor who had just come ashore. Ward's stock of diamonds soon attracted the attentiim of the Court, and ho obtained the custom of Queen Henrietta Maria, who ap- pointed him her jeweller. The rest of the story can be told in a few words. A Lord Dudley of that day being in want of £10,000 came to Ward and asked for a loan. For- tunately or unfortunately, he was able to offer but little in the way of i-c-curity, and hero Ward saw his chance. Ho had a son, and Ijord L'udley had a granddaughter, and, if Lord Dudley \Vould consent to the match, the money should be handed over. This was accordingly agreed upon, and the fortunes of the family may be said to have g<ine o increasing ever siuco that date. ii ^^ â€" ^ 6. The Many Uses o{ a Good Sewing Machine ^ There is practically no limit to the variety of work that can be done with a Singer Sewing Machine. Whether for the finest embroidery, the plainest home scv ing or the most elaborate tailoring, the Si ;:ger is ca[uaUy efieieat. Q Every weoMUi takes pride in haviB."; these things, but if they be her own hasti.yfwkp the satisfaction is complete, because her own personality is reflected in every scam* (9 The woman who uses a Singer mc / kave everything in needlework she can ilesire â€" she is better dressed at much leci cost; her children are clothed according to her own taste and ideas; she has attractive table linen, and an unending supply o£ dainty underwear. Q Moreover, she is free from the worry and delay which always comes with UiQ use of a "cheajp" machine* Sold only hy Singer Sewinsi Machine Company TORONTO an HaiMlDB llumbars MONTREAL SU Boat d of Traiii: i.Og 3(i4 UKD ttrcet WONDERSOFTHt; FUTURE MAIirOM PKKDICTS STRAMJK THINGS NOT FAR AWAY. Says We Shall Catch the Energy ol the Sun 8ud Store it fur Our Own I'se. That steamships will run by sun- shine is the opinion oi Guglielnio Marconi. The inventor of wireless telegraphy has come to America to increase his trans-Atlantic service from a capacity of 5,000 words a day to '20,000. After predicting a great future for wireless telegraphy he said : ''There seems to be a happy fate in the coincidence of scientitic di^ coveries, which on first thought are quite unrelated to each other. The development of the airship, as shown in the astounding pcrforiii- ance of Orvillo Wright's machine m Washington, would seem to have nothing in 'common with the perfec- tion of wireless coinnii;nication, and yet, if one looks into the future, the great airships which are to come, sailing at incredible speed and al unforeseen and varying altitudes, could never without the wirelet.s 'tpeak' each other as ships do at sea and so remain in touch wiih tl'.oyo safely at hot..e. . LIFE AN EABIKR, PROr.LKM. "And the airship is certain to come into general use, and that within the lifetime of our genera- tion, not for freight, perhaps, but for people surely. In fact, us I look into the years to come, I am con- vinced that life will be an easier problem, a mere gonial function in the schenic of things, than it is to- day. "Aside from the economy of la- I or which follows the conquest of Nature's forces, there will be few- ( V people among whom to divide the bouefitr.. Tiio birthrate will continue to docre.tse, as 1 believe it should, at leas; :', . ihe prei^e.it. W ith the growth of intelligeiUe among the mass of people there will come a realisation of the folly of rearing more cnildren thaji can be properly fitted to bo efficient members of society. Quality, not numbers, will come to ho the stand- ard racial excellence, and the pre- sent anomalous conditiuu wlicreiu the number of children in a family i« inverse ration to the earning ca- pacity of the parents will have dis- j'jipoared. "The condition to-day is imt one ( f race suicide, but of social com- mon sense. And if the present en- ligliteiiment of the average men and women continues to its righteous turning point there will come an ond t)f congeited cities, with their wretched and starving children of the tenements, their crimes, their killing competition and their dis- couragement of the gentler ASPIBATIONS OF MEN'. "In all ways, science is more and more studying to perfect the prnc- tical comfort and well-being of the world. Of course, there will always be ships upon the scab. The mys- terious pii.^i'v.ad v»ie« of the ocean will w)ut:.'ii;o its sjiell f'Ver the hu- man iniagii'ttivn. But there wiJi not always be st^anlships. They will piiEs t!i-j way ot their predeces- sors, and erf long we shall cross the ocean in khips run by electric l';,v.er. Tliere will be io grime of Hill smoke, no sickish < dor of stale st.^am, no blaxiii,"? cav i-rns in the 1-old, where human heinga with staging ovi^s and hhackened faces sweat tlieir lives away that the puhe of t'e fcariineK may not stop. The sto'.-.ige iittttcry will take the j>l;i/^c of coal and fire and water. Instead nf coiling, the great ship '.ill quietly .liid cleanly rcnesv her batteries a'Jier journey's end, and il' coal is ut;cd, it will be far from the line 1 a;;d the iioscs of men. â- 'l''urrnei:n"re, 1 look fur the tiine \\)\on c-ittl v.ill cease to be our only ;-:oi!ree of energy. In every land men of fcijnco are patiently studyr ins the jiroblom of utilizing the en- ergy of the fiunâ€" storing it, in fact -sii that t';o generation of electric force may be chet'.pened by its use ti a pf/int wlicrc ilio storige b.it- tery on a larjto scale will be an eco- nomic as well aa an ACADK.MU* POSSIBILITY. The waited e ler^y in c^al as now used may i.i l!io interval be brought to do its work aid ko bring abuut I he monster .'.toragc b'.ittery sooner than v.e n.iv o.xpscL. But, sooiier or later, wc shall enslave the sun'^ lays to lur uses as wo have the other piodiicts of his beitig. "Ah, ycv life is going to be a better exiierience for our children than it is for most of us now. Lu many litile ways it will be so. Do ynu know I hat in many laboratories they are coiaiiig close to letting us sot> the person who is talking to us at t!ic other end of the telephone ci;nneetio.i ( And if they can Jo this, if they can transinit the light 'vaves of iniaj;os at a distau,.eâ€" and i looks as if science is bound to ae- complish it -I am voicing no ex- travagance in saying that we may vet sit in oyr homes on a cold win- ter's night, turn a switch, and not nily hear, hut fee the (ipera in pro- (.res.s in a faroff building. "And, going back to my own, hobby of v\iieless coinniunication, I want lo say (liat wc shall n^t have' t.. wait long for the wireless U'lc- phone. De I'orcst and his colleagues- are dohv^ great things in that direc- tion." A man is always willing to c i.'» fess fault.s tlia* he thinks ho hasn't. .\ man woulil rsthcr give himseif away than be rold by a woman. The more a lua-i talks t!i.-i Ichs he cm be depent'cd on lo deliver the goods. Some women ine self-m.-idc and Suiue are lenindelcd by a dressinak ei . 1 I â- ^ ill- grown tea leaves are used in "F.t- luda"' To;i, giving it a delicious fra- grance and delicious flav<;,.. 1 f m