A GERMAN NOVELTY- NEW TYPE OIL DERRICK N this page is shown a photograph ON of a new type of oil derrick recently put into use in some of the oil fields of the eastern states. This rig is found to be fully as serviceable as the old standard plank rig and can be built at a fraction of the cost of the old style derrick. In fact to the scarcity and high price of lumber is due the introduction of this modern type of rig. The derrick shown in the picture is in operation in the Pennsylvania oil fields and is 61 feet high. The legs, spliced near the center, are held together by clamps, having been put together on the ground and raised with the drilling machine. ELECTRIC RECORDING COM PASS THROUGH the agency of delicate A RAM WITH FOUR HORNS FROM THE CEDAR MOUNTAINS IN SOUTH AFRICA. A curiosity that aroused interest in Capetown, THE ETRICH MONOPLANE ON THE EARTH. It seems to rest like a huge bird. ELECTRIC COMPASS WITH as Nature only can. An ingenious feature of the instrument is the circuit changer, which automatically throws the instrument on a set of batteries if the dynamo current for any reason should give out, and again switches the dynamo current in when it is again in operation. Each chart lasts 31 days and the time and date is printed thereon, the time being graduated to five minute spaces, so that it is the easiest thing in the world. for any one acquainted with the work to ascertain whenever it may be so desired, the time down to the fraction of a minute. so designed as to produce a continuous. record of the direction of the ship with relation to time; so that the direction in which a ship was moving at any hour and minute can be determined at a glance by the officers in charge at any time thereafter from an inspection of the records produced. The clock movement which controls the chart in the recording mechanism allows it to pass by the recording point 21⁄2 inches every hour. The clock is wound by electricity automatically and requires no attention whatever on the part of any human being, the mechanical laws of Nature carrying out the essential work TEN 78 14 DAYS The Art of Being Certain The successful man doesn't guess- he knows because he takes the trouble to find out. When he is a bit "out of fix" he says, "Something may be wrong with my food." Then he proceeds to know by a ten days' trial-leaving off greasy meats, pasty, sticky and starchy half-cooked cereals, white bread and pastry, and adopting a plain, nourishing diet. Many men who really know use the following breakfast: Some fruit, a saucer of Grape-Nuts and cream, soft-boiled eggs, some nice crisp toast, and a cup of Postum-nothing more. The result is certain gain toward health. "There's a Reason" Get the famous little book, "The Road to Wellville," in packages of Grape-Nuts Canadian Postum Cereal Co., Ltd. Windsor, Ontario, Canada Postum Cereal Company, Limited Battle Creek, Mich., U. S. A. |