House and Garden 
Baden, containing “fourteen rooms, 
supplied with many kinds of medical, 
pharmaceutical and surgical apparatus, 
probes, tubes, pincers, cauterizing instru¬ 
ments, and even a collection of safety- 
pins for bandaging wounds”—but these 
things are familiar. “ 1 here are also 
medicine spoons in bone and silver, 
measuring vessels, jars, and pots for 
ointment, some still containing traces of 
the ointment used.” The latest date 
of the coins found appears to be the 
reign of Hadrian. Probably it was a 
military hospital, for this was the station 
of the VII and VIII Legions. But the 
find is certainly not less interesting on 
that account, for the army medical 
service of Rome and Greece is one of 
the deepest mysteries of archaeology. 
Caesar refers only once to his regimental 
surgeons—is there a single distinct 
allusion elsewhere ? We hail with puz¬ 
zled gratitude the casual remark of 
Xenophon that the Spartans sent their 
doctors to the rear when a fight im¬ 
pended. -London Standard. 
GETTING RID OF FLIES 
1 X/TOST people who have traveled in 
the far East have seen Orientals 
burning sandalwood in their houses for 
the purpose of driving flies away. A re¬ 
cent arrival from London says that the 
women there have discovered this agree¬ 
able method of ridding their homes of 
the pest. Sandalwood is prepared for 
burning by first being cut into small 
pieces, half an inch thick and three 
inches long. Then it is baked or dried 
out in a slow oven for twenty-four hours. 
A piece of the wood is put into a metal 
urn, lighted, and allowed to burn until 
well aflame, when the flame is extin¬ 
guished and the red-hot embers left 
to smolder until the wood is consumed 
and nothing is left but a heap of fine, 
gray ashes .—The American Contractor. 
TENEMENT QUESTION IN VIENNA 
^PHE Board of Health of New York 
A might find it profitable in future 
to follow the course adopted in Vienna 
nowadays when the removal of unsani¬ 
tary buildings is sought. There are in 
Vienna 1,263 old buildings whose 
owners are guaranteed eighteen years’ 
freedom from taxation if they will tear 
them down and put new structures in 
their place. The first year 242 owners 
made use of this privilege. 
A Lifetime Without Repairs 
Asbestos “ Century ” Shingles will Outlive the Building 
without either Paint or Repairs 
Illustrating a Concrete Block House of Dr. H. C. Howard, Champaign, Illinois, Prof. F. M. 
White, Architect, roofed with Asbestos “ Century ” Shingles, laid French Method. 
Exposed to the action of the atmosphere and elements for a short period, the hydration and 
subsequent crystallization which takes place, converts Asbestos “ Century ” Shingles into absolutely 
impermeable roof coverings, which, as such, defy all changes of climates, and thus become greatly 
superior to other forms of roofings. 
Asbestos “ Century ” Shingles are 5 cents per square foot at Ambler, Pa. 
Asbestos “Century” Shingles. Reinforced Asbestos Corrugated Sheathing 
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Stanley’s Ball-Bearing Hinges 
Nothing equals them for 
hanging doors either in 
Big Public Buildings or 
Private Dwellings 
Two will frequently take the place of three 
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THE STANLEY WORKS 
Myrtle Street. New Britain, Conn. 
New York Office : 79 Chambers Street 
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The only hammock made that combines Quality, 
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178 West North St. Kalamazoo, Mich., U. S. A. 
The Kalamazoo Automatic Reclining Chair 
is delightfully comfortable to read, rest or sleep in. 
Relaxes all muscles,.sell-operating to any position 
from upright to horizontal. Especially 
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