HAVE YOU YOUR SHARE?

HAVE you a minimum of $11 in your

pockets, and at least $46 in some bank-savings, state, national, or postal savings? If not, some one else has what officially should be yours. The general stock of money in the United States June 30 last, was $3,648,800,000. Of this amount, $1,720,700,000, or more than 47 per cent was in circulation among the people of the United States. This was nearly $11 in each pocket for every man, woman and child. There was deposited in the banks of the country $1,563,800,000 nearly 43 per cent-and the balance, $364,300,000, was in the Treasury of the United States. This was actual cash, represented in gold and silver coin.

CHICKENS POLISH GEMS

AMAN in Yavapai County, near Pres

cott, Arizona, has discovered an original way of polishing precious stones. He owns a mica mine and though the mica is of little value com

mercially owing to its small size, it is embedded with Arizona rubies and emeralds..

As he was dressing a chicken for market, he noticed the fine polish on the shale and other bits of rock in its gizzard. Thinking to put this to some use, he made an experiment. Before this he had sent the gems away to be polished, but now he selected his chickens for next week's market, tagged them, and placed a tray of uncut stones before them which they greedily gobbled as some new delicacy. Upon examining the stones the next week he found that they had a finer finish and had taken on a more delicate color than he had been able to obtain by any other process that he was acquainted with.

A COLLEGE IN CLAY

THIS relief map of the Kansas Agricultural College was made by Russell Williamson, of Princeton, Kansas, a nineteen-year-old student of architecture in the college. Buildings, trees, walks,

-in fact every detail of a 160-acre campus - are reproduced in miniature in a plaster of Paris map about six feet square. The elevations and proportions are correct throughout. To make this map was a tedious job, requiring six months for Williamson, with the

AUTOMOBILE

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pany.

'HE most luxurious touring car ever built was recently constructed by the president of a Canadian automobile comIt looks like a Pullman car, and has sleeping accommodations for nine persons, including two servants. For short trips, in which sleeping quarters are not required, it accommodates twenty-five persons.

advice of Frank Harris, the instructor in clay modeling, to complete it. Williamson will be paid for his work.

First, a topographic map showing all the elevations of the campus was made. This also included all the dimensions of every building and of other details. Then these elevations were reproduced in clay and a model taken in plaster of Paris The buildings, walks, and trees were then added. To make the miniature buildings -twenty-one in all-a separate cast for every side of each building was made, first by hand. Then, when the castings were taken out, they had to be finished by hand, carefully, and the sides put together. The trees and shrubs, made of fine coiled wire covered with green shavings, required careful work. Finally, the windows and vines were painted on the buildings.

Young Williamson is naturally pleased with the results of his labor and expects to continue this sort of work.

The car contains chauffeur's quarters, a ladies' stateroom, six feet square, with berths for five people; a second stateroom of the same dimensions, providing for four; a kitchenette and toilet room. Besides this, there is an observation platform at the rear. The central stateroom is the dining room as well, having two three-foot extension tables with a width of nineteen inches, while a folding desk makes it convenient for correspondence. The kitchenette is equipped with a complete outfit for preparing and serving meals, even a refrigerator being included. The crockery is protected from breakage by separate compartments for every piece.

In traveling by night, the car presents a bright spectacle with lights blazing from the ten side windows, while six

lights shine from the front and four from

T

HE Christian X, of the Hamburg-American Line, is the steamless wonder. She was the first motor-driven ocean liner to cross the Atlantic, and she came into the port of Philadelphia recently after a successful trip from Hamburg and Bremen. Driven only by powerful motors, with crude oil as fuel, the Christian X, named after the Danish king, showed no funnels and, being absolutely free of all smoke and grime, was literally "clean as a hound's tooth."

By utilizing the space usually given over for crew quarters, the vessel offers high-ceilinged, roomy cabins and salons that suggest a first-class hotel. The engines which drive the ship are of the compact internal-combustion model, oc

cupying a comparatively small space, and furnish 25,000 horse-power. Their exhaust is discharged through hollow steel masts forty-five feet above the deck.

The Christian X was built at Copenhagen, and was christened the Flonia. When the Hamburg-American Line bought her, she was renamed after the Danish monarch as a courtesy to that nation, and as an acknowledgment of Denmark's creative ability displayed in the construction of a new kind of ship. Her length is 384 feet, beam 58 feet, molded depth 30 feet, and displacement 10,550 tons. There are two motors, each developing about 1,250 horse-power at 140 revolutions per minute, which is sufficient to yield a speed of fourteen miles an hour.

This speed can be maintained for twenty-four hours by the use of twelve tons of crude oil fuel. The Christian X can carry 1,000 tons of the oil fuel in her double bottom, or enough to keep her on a trip around the world. Her combustion engines can be reversed, in eight seconds, from full speed ahead to full speed astern. The engines are controlled by compressed-air levers. The exhaust gases are first cooled and then discharged through the hollow masts. A small donkey boiler, also using oil fuel, furnishes the ves

sel with steam heat, but the pumping plant, the steering apparatus and the cargo winches are operated by electricity. The boat is electrically lighted through

out.

Old sailormen, who remember the palmy days of the square-rigged wind jammer, were a bit puzzled by the appearance of the liner, which looked strange to them without funnel or other outward evidence of propelling power. Captain Robert Niss, commander of the liner, speaks of his vessel as "my automobile" and insists that she runs as smoothly and is handled quite as easily as any such vehicle.

The significance of the Christian X to shipping men is, that she represents a determined effort of builders to depose steam from the position which it has held for a century as a means of propelling ships. In Germany the propelling of barges and river craft by electricity has been in vogue for many years. A certain group of continental marine engineers are concentrating their efforts on concentrating gas-engine motive power in which, virtually, a complete gas generating plant is installed on a vessel.

British engineers incline toward the oil engine, a wonderful record having just been made by the Goldmouth, which, with fuel oil, made the trip from Singapore to Rotterdam, a distance of 11,791 miles, in fifty-two days. The engines were not stopped once on the journey,

which ranks as one of the longest "non-stop' runs ever made by marine machinery.

Christian X. AS SHE APPEARED ON ARRIVING