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AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



January, 19 13 



Seven Million Watch-Towers 

 in the Bell System 



The original campanili were the 

 watch-towers of old Venice, guard- 

 ing the little republic from invasion 

 by hostile fleets. 



Later, bells were mounted in 

 these same towers to give warning 

 of attack and celebrate victories. 



Judged by modern telephone 

 standards, such a system of com- 

 munication seems crude and in- 

 adequate. 



In the civilization of to-day, a 

 more perfect intercommunication is 



essential to national safety, con- 

 venience and progress. 



The Bell System binds together 

 a nation of nearly one hundred 

 million people, by "highways of 

 speech" extending into every nook 

 and corner of this great country. 



Seven million Bell telephone 

 stations are the watch-towers 

 which exchange, daily, twenty-five 

 million messages for the happiness, 

 prosperity and progress of all the 

 people. 



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 And Associated Companies 



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BUSHMEN'S DRAWINGS IN SOUTH 

 AFRICA 



THE Bushmen's drawings, still to be 

 met with in certain parts of South 

 Africa, remain a subject of difference of 

 opinion amongst artists and antiquarians, 

 says the London Architect. The majority 

 of the designs represent animals, with 

 which these people were at this time ac- 

 quainted, but domestic animals, of which 

 they knew nothing, are not to he found. 

 The figures were cut into the rock and vary 

 considerably in merit. Some are so crude 

 that it is impossible to tell the nature of 

 the animal they represent. One favorite 

 subject is a lion being stalked by Bush- 

 men, bow and arrows in hand. The Bush- 

 men themselves had no dwellings, but it is 

 plain that they were more or less ac- 

 quainted with the Kaffirs (though the 

 latter killed them at sight), as representa- 

 tions of Kaffir huts are plentiful. .Many 

 of these drawings have been colored over 

 and photographed, and a selection, so ob- 

 tained, is on view in the Cape Town 

 Museum. The opinion is held by some that 

 the caves in which these drawings appear 

 were the homes of chiefs who had the walls 

 so decorated. Others hold the view that 

 these caves were meeting places, or places 

 of worship, though it is also believed that 

 the Bushmen were one of the few peoples 

 who possessed no form of religion what- 

 ever, and these theories cannot, of course, 

 agree. The writer has seen several of these 

 caves, and has questioned the neighboring 

 Kaffirs on the subject, who, however, have 

 no knowledge of the matter, but content 

 themselves with saying that the pictures are 

 the work of the "man monkeys" who were 

 here very many years ago. Many sugges- 

 tions have been made as to the implements 

 used for the carvings, which must have 

 been sharp and well tempered to have cut 

 sufficiently deep into the rock to have with- 

 stood the ravages of all these years. The 

 figures of Bushmen engaged in hunting 

 ostriches are also often to be found, and 

 from this it is plain that the lion and the 

 ostrich were the two species of animal life 

 with which they were most familiar. 



CHINESE MELON SEEDS 



THE melon Citrulhis vulgaris is a 

 well-known and widely cultivated 

 garden product both in South China 

 and the north as well, the best quality 

 coming from Newchwang. It is grown 

 almost entirely for the seeds which 

 are to be found on almost every Chinese 

 table. The black quality is raised mostly 

 in the north of China and as a gen- 

 eral rule is not found in any great quan- 

 tities in the markets of Hongkong. The 

 melons themselves are not used to a great 

 extent for food and not at all for medicinal 

 purposes and must not be confounded with 

 the American variety of the watermelon. 

 The latter is grown to a limited extent at 

 Castle Peak, near Hongkong, from Ameri- 

 can seeds. 



There are two kinds of these melon 

 seeds which find ready acceptance among 

 the Chinese, namely, red and black. The 

 red are deemed the best and bring, ac- 

 cording to grade, $8 to $15' per picul of 

 133 1-3 pounds and the black are valued 

 in the same way from $5 to $7 per picul, 

 gold currency. In 1910, the value of these 

 seeds exported amounted to $297,914, and 

 last year the value was $249,498, gold cur- 

 rency. It is impossible to state the pro- 

 portion going to the United States, but it 

 is undoubtedly considerable, as the Chinese 

 are very partial to this product and do not 

 consider dinners, festivals, or other cere- 

 monies complete without a liberal supply. 



