xvi AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 
June, 1912 
Stained with Cabot’s Shingle Stains. Rufus D. 
Wood, Architect, Pittsburgh, Pa. 
Read what this Architect says about 
his own house, which is stained with 
Cabot’s Creosote Stains 
“The shingles of the roof and second story are stained with 
your brown stain and the plaster on the outside columns with 
your poe Waterproof Cement Stain. A number of the 
shingled houses in my neighborhood have been stained with 
creosote (>) stains manufactured by local concerns and their cclc rs 
are very muddy and disagreeable and do not seem to stand the 
weather, while mine has retained the original nut-brown color 
which I desired. (Signed) RUFUS D. WOOD. 
It pays to use a reliable, standard article with a reputation. 
Cheap, kerosene-made stains waste both your money and labor. 
You can get Cabot’s Stains all over the country. 
Send for free samples of stained wood. 
SAMUEL CABOT, Inc., Manufacturing Chemists 
131 Milk Street 
Boston, Mass. 
1s the most tragic of 
disasters are few compared to those lost in the ordinary 
course of human. activity on shore. Such a disaster ought 
therefore to bring you to the realization of the common 
dangers of everyday life against which an ALTNA Accident 
Policy will protect you. 
This policy will protect your income and the income of 
your family. 
T 
HE most modern, and best illuminating and 
cooking service for isolated homes and institutions, 
is furnished by the CLIMAX GAS MACHINE. 
Apparatus furnished on TRIAL under a guarantee 
to be satisfactory andin advance of all other methods. 
Cooks, heats water for bath and culinary purposes, 
heats individual rooms between seasons—drives pump- 
ing or power engine in most efficient and economical 
manner — also makes brilliant illumination. IF 
MACHINE DOES NOT MEET YOUR EXPECTA- 
TIONS, FIRE IT BACK. 
Send for Catalogue and Proposition. 
Low Price 
Liberal Terms 
Better than City Gas or Eleo- 
tricity and at Less Cost. 
C. M. KEMP MFG. CO. 
405 to 413 E. Oliver Street, Baltimore, Md. 
But the lives lost in such 
For $25 the /ETNA Life Insurance Company will 
insure your income against loss by accidental injury or death. 
$25 per week while you are disabled by ACCIDENT. 
And in addition 
$5,000 to your family if your ACCIDENT results fatally. 
$5,000 to YOu if it causes loss of both hands; or both feet, or one hand 
and one foot; or one hand and one eye; or one foot and one eye. 
$2,500 to YOU if it causes loss of one hand, or one foot; or one eye. 
These amounts (except for weekly indemnity) INCREASE ONE-HALF IN 
FIVE YEARS without extra cost and are ALL DOUBLED if your accident hap- 
_pens in a public passenger conveyance or elevator, or in a burning building. 
Larger or smaller amounts at proportionate cost. 3 
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that in the depths of the sea there should 
be no animal life. As a matter of fact, these 
glooms are inhabited by the most grotesque 
and chimerical of all fishes. It would seem 
as though in the darkness life has taken 
every imaginable license to be ugly and bi- 
zarre. Cannibalism is evidently the only 
method of life, and its equipment runs to 
every kind of extravagance. 
There are fish with teeth so long that they 
cannot close their mouths, fish that draw 
their stomachs over prey larger than them- 
selves, fish with no more mouth than a leech 
and getting their living as leeches, fish with 
huge, myopic eyes, and fish frankly blind. 
Probably none of them comes from depths 
quite beyond the region of light, though a 
great many of them go poking about their 
‘ghoulish business furnished with lanterns of 
the glow-worm type. 
TOOLS THAT ARE SHARP. 
ANY amateur gardeners fail to real- 
ize that they can get better results 
and with much less labor by keeping 
their tools sharp. Whoever uses a hoe 
ought also to have a file in one of his pockets 
and use it frequently. When the hoe is 
sharp and shining the earth does not adhere 
to it as it does to one which is uncared for, 
and which is something for garden makers 
to remember. There is a man near Boston 
who makes a living from two and a half 
acres of land. This man says that he wears 
out a hoe every season, as well as two files. 
He has learned by experience that a sharp 
hoe lightens his labors. It is just as im- 
portant, too, to keep the teeth of the wheel 
hoe sharp and bright. Tools may be kept 
from becoming rusty by rubbing the bright 
parts with lard to which a little white lead 
has been added, or with wagon grease. If 
they have been neglected until they have 
become rusty they may be soaked in sour 
milk whey or in kerosene for twelve hours 
and then rubbed briskly. A little mineral 
wool is useful in keeping tools clean. Tools 
may be marked by making a small space on 
the steel perfectly clean and bright and 
covering it with melted beeswax, and then 
using a sharp pointed wire nail to mark the 
initials on the wax, care being taken to cut 
through to the metal. The letters are made 
permanent by filling them with nitric acid, 
which should be allowed to remain three or 
four hours and then be washed off. The 
acid will have eaten into the steel and the 
letters will show as soon as the wax is re- 
moved. Another plan is to make a rough 
stencil of tin and to burn the initials into the 
handle. 
DEDICATING INVENTIONS TO THE 
PUBLIC 
T the present time many patents are 
being dedicated to the public. It re- 
mains to be seen whether the inventions 
covered by such patents will prove benefi- 
cial to mankind or be utilized to any ex- 
tent. In a work entitled “Creators of 
Steel” it is said: “Sir Henry Bessemer is a 
believer in patents ; but to his varied experi- 
ence in the introduction of new inventions 
another single fact has to be added. ‘I do 
not know,’ he says, ‘a single instance of an 
invention having been published and given 
freely to the world, and being taken up by 
any manufacturer at all. I have myself 
proposed to manufacturers many things 
which I was convinced were of use, but did 
not feel disposed to manufacture or even 
to patent. I do not know of one instance 
in which my suggestions have been tried; 
but had I patented and spent a sum over a 
certain invention, and seen no means of re- 
