Quebec Photographed From Air for First Time
Navy’s Last Monitor
Goes to Davy Jones
Cheyenne, Type of Ships
Famed in Civil War.
Blô hj i
This is the first airplane view ever photographed of old qutu«, In m« toregruuud ' is lue luiuuu» caaieau
Frontenac bounded on the left by Dufferin terrace. In the rear of the chateau and to the luff Is the famous citadel
which overlook» the broad expunae of the St. Lawrence river, 300 feet below.
European Types of
Hats Replace Fez
Changea in Headgear m
Turkey Significant.
Washington,—"Hats nnd history are
not coupled in most people's minds,”
■ays a bulletin from th« Washington
headquarters of
National
graphic society anent the recent ef
forts of Turkish leaders to have the
fez replaced by European types of
"but in Turkey radical change*
In types
have
bead
marked Important historical develop
ments.
"When the Ottoman Turk» came
down out of Central Arfa ns rough rid
Ing plainsmen they are believed to
have worn the high, soft cap of as
trakhan wool known a« the knlpnk —
a sort of little brother to the drum
major's fuzzy, towering bend piece of
today. The Turks have shown a ten
deucy to take
forms by sud-
den spurts, holding tenaciously to ths
latest Innovation between tlmea. Be
fore long after their arrival In south
ern Asin they hud gone over bodily
to the turbnn of that region, nnd this
remained the characteristic Turkis
headgear for many centuries.
Turban Told Rank.
“The turban became the complex
badge of rank ami even profession In
height of
power
From the snow white turhiin» of the
Moslem ecclesiastical dignitaries nnd
the huge piles with distinctive stripes
nnd simpes of the grand
anil
leaser polit leni lights, these head COV-
erlüg» ranged down
dirty
ciotti* wound round the bends of the
peasants.
Turk during
this era had the profoundest contempt
for things European nnd the hat was
the budge of the infidel. One of the
greatest Insults that could be offered
to u Turk who had shown too great
frlendllness toward 'Franks' wits to
nail n hat to his door.
■'The fez, which has been associated
In the minds of the lust few genera
tlons with all things Turkish, came ns
one of the sudden Turkish reforms
relatively a short time ago
Sultan
Mahmoud 11. who ruled during the
early years of the Nlneiecnth century.
LAW
HIS HANDS
Once Rich Woman
Work» to Keep Child
i wished, like Peter the Great of Uns
sia, to modernize bls people and turn
their thoughts from Asia. He tiecreed
that Ids people should abandon the
turbnn and wear the fez, doubtless In
fluenced by the fact that the latter Is
ut once more modish and more con
venient. He coupled tlie fez with the
introduction of the frock coat fur his
courtiers and the well-dressed young
Turk In general, nnd
cursed
roundly by most of his people as ‘the
Infidel sultan.' The use of the fez
continued, however, to such good ad
vantage Hint within a generation or
so It wns looked upon by the outside
world, and no doubt by most Turks,
ns the distinctive age-old Turkish
head covering.
Brlmz lnterf«r«d With Praytr.
“Why Mahmoud settled on the fez
ns the particular type of head cover
ing to replace the turbnn 1» hard to
understand.
Most of his reforms
looked toward westernization.
But
something very like the fez was worn
by the ancient Assyrians and lllttltos.
and It I" suppose«! to have come down
to modern times through the Byzan
tines nnd the Greeks. One thing In
Its favor was Its lack of n brim. So
long as the Turks were devout Mos
lem», practicing their prostrations nt
prayer time, brim» were not permis
sible, since they interfered with the
tout hing
the forehead
the
ground.
"After the World war, when a revo
lution became successful In Turkey,
the leaders nt first turned back to the
undent knlpnk of the original Turks.
This bend covering became popular as
signifying n return to the virtues of
the old stock and was worn by nil
people of prominence In the new re
gime.
"Like nil the other changes In head
coverings, the most recent move In
favor of the straw and fedora of west
ern Europe hus Its significance. The
Boston.—Facts pertaining to
"the mysterious disappearance"
of Harold Lawton, scion of a
prominent family and son of the
late
Superior
Court
Judge
George F. Lawton were made
public by Walter I. Badger,
counsel for the seventeen year-
old daughter, Laura, who la ob
jecting to th«- prohate of the will
of her grandfather which cut her
off from the $75.000 estate with
the sum of $500.
A school teacher. Gladys Dun
bar, was partly the cause of
Lawson's desertion of his wife
and child six years ago. the
counsel stated. A» a result of
the desertion, Mrs. Harold Law
ton. receiving no aid from her
husband's people, was obliged to
give up her «-ultured home In
Winchester nnd go out and work
ns n domestic In order thnt she
might keep her little girl with
Both sides have annouriced
their Intention to fight to the
Inst straw over the will. The
father of the little seventeen-
year old girl whose desert Inn
caused untold suffering to her
and her mother. Is believed to t>e
dead and therefore, her counsel
states, she Is entitled to her
share In grandfather's estate.
caliphate hns been abolished, the Mo
hnmmednn religion has been removed
from Its (dace of power In the gov
emment, anil there ts no more reason
why n Turk should not wear a brim If
he chooses than an Italian or nn Eng
llshman. And the movements that ac
company this Europeanization of head
coverings is significant. Polygamy has
been abolished, women nre encouraged
to abandon the veil, marriages are to
be civil only, and nn entirely new code
of laws, modeled largely after Euro
penn systems, is being drafted. The
Turk is not only changing his hat; he
is making himself over cap a pie."
WILL WATCH ECLIPSE OF SUN
IN THE INDIAN SEA IN 1926
Scientists Plan to Make Ob-
serrations in Sumatra.
Washington.—An eight-months’ trip
half v-uy around the wxirld for two
minutes of actual work will he the
experience of it party from the naval
observatory that has left to observe
the total eclipse of the sun In Janu
ary, 1920, at Sumatra In the Dutch
East Indies.
British, German and French parties
also will be nt Sumatra, as well as a
party from Swarthmore college. The
Italians will have on observation par
ty In eastern Afrion
The American naval group will en
| deavor to observe phenomena In con-
I nectlon with the upward curve of the
sunspot cycle, and will study the sun's
corona as well. Motion pictures and
color plates of the ecUpse will be
made.
Special attention will be given to
the sun’s gases, which scientists say
extend as far as 2.IMKHKMI miles from
the sun’s rim when the moon blots out
Its face. *
The party will travel on the naval
minesweeper Bittern from Manila to
Sumatra.
It
to reach
destination In October, nnd the three
months' Interim before the eclipse oc
curs on January 14—visible only from
Africa to the Indian ocean—will be
passed in erecting nnd housing a tele
scope tower.
Lieut. Henry C. Kellers, a naval doc
tor, has been detailed to the expedi
tion nt the request of the Smithsonian
Institution.
collect specimens of
birds, mammals and insects. The oth
ers In the party are Capt. Frank B.
Littell, professor of mathematics;
George H Peters, associate astrono
mer; G. M Rnynsford, Junior astrono
mer, and Dr. John A. Anderson of
Mount Wilson observatory, Pasadena,
Cal., physicist.
Dust Fuel for Autos
Predicted by Chemist
Washington.—Coincident with the
New York.—W. A. Noel, an
dedication of a Washington memorial
engineer of the bureau of chem
to John Ericsson, Inventor of monitors,
istry of the isepnrtment of Agri
the United States monitor Cheyenne,
culture, demonstrated the ex
last of a naval type which gained fame
plosive power of dust here re
In the Civil war, will start-on Its voy- '
cently and declared that auto
age to oblivion, says the New York
mobiles might be using dust for
Times. Its passing marks the advance
fuel within a short time.
of a m-w era, and although the last
The dust must consist of car
survivor of one period In naval prog- J
bonaceous particles. It will not
res» the Cheyenne was foremost In
be sufficient merely to suck Into
another: It was aboard her that sue-
the cylinders the road dust cre
ceasful experiments were first made
ated by the motor car. but the
vrltb the oil-burning engines.
dust must be such as collects nn
It is from Baltimore that the last of :
many factory floors, constituting
the monitors Is to sail for the “ship's I
an explosion hazard.
boneyard’’ at Portsmouth. For a brief I
Dutt from sugar, cocoa, cinna
period monitors made Ute United i
mon, leather, flour, rubber, al
L
States navy U>e most powerful In the !
num or wood would be suitable,
world Now they have all disappeared
Mr. Noel said.
Betty Van Aredale, sixteen, of Chi
but the Cheyenne. Even her three
cago, who reacued from the lake eight-
■later ships, laid down In 1904, long
year-old Margaret Heckler, who had
since have been thrown Into the dls-
sunk to the bottom. Miss Van Ars-
card.
Its end a monument is being erected dale, a high-school girl, then revived
Machinery Below Water.
on the shore of the Potomac at Wash the child with first aid measures.
All the Cheyenne’s mechanism, with ington to John Ericsson, the man who Steps are now being taken to recom
the exception of the guns. Is below the ■crapped wooden warships for Iron mend her for a Carnegie medaL
level of the water. The house struc-' clads.
ture above could be shot away In an
The memorial will stand overlook
Hay for $1 a Ton
engagement with an enemy and still ing the spot where the new bridge
Halifax, N. S.—Seldom If ever be-
the fighting qualities of the unit would will span the Potomac, linking the fore In the
history of Nova Scotia has
not be Impaired.
The Cheyenne, national capital by a boulevard with there been
such rich yield of hay as
originally the Wyoming, was built for the National cemetery at Arlington.
this year, Unfortunately prices are
coast defense—a sort of floating fort. Ericsson's Invention met an Important so low that
In some places, notably the
In 1907 the Navy department at situation;
his
iron-clad
Monitor country adjacent to Annapolis Royal,
Washington began to consider the ad marked a turning point In United the hay Is being left uncut. The best
visability of converting coal burning States naval power.
grass can be bought for $1 per ton.
vessela into oil burners. Engineers
were consulted. Navy officials decided
■n experiment would be worth con
ducting. It so happened that the mon
itor, then the Wyoming,-was available
for the trial Installation. The vessel
was ordered to the navy yard at Mare
Island In 1905 to be fitted with the new
electrically driven oil burning engines.
Nsvy officials followed the move
ments of the ship closely as she began
a series of test cruises under the new
power. After two years a final report Authenticity
Revealed in fitted to bear the wet and wind of
a thunder gust without tearing. To
on the tests was submitted. These
Recently Found Epistle.
the top of the upright stick of the
were declared successful. It was not
cross is to be fixed a very sharp-
until years later that oll-buraing en
Cincinnati.—Lately American his pointed wire, rising a foot or more
gines were Introduced Into the larger
vessels. Now the Navy department torians have been bombing the story above the wood, To the end of the
Is taking steps to convert all the re of the flight of Benjamin Franklin's twine next to the hand is to be tied
maining coal burners In the navy Into electricity-detecting kite. They have a silk ribbon, and where the silk and
oil burners, with electrically driven attempted to relegate the legend to the twine join a key may be fastened.
Junk heap of historical fallacies. Their This kite to be raised when a thunder
propellers.
claim has been that, had Franklin tried gust appears to be coming on. and the
Apparatus In Good Condition.
Engineers of the Navy department the experiment, he would have been person who holds the string must
made a survey of the Cheyenne's power electrocuted and burned to a crisp stand within a door or window or
under some other covering, so that the
plant recently nnd found that the elec brown crust.
But a book has been discovered, silk ribbon may not be wet, and care
trical apparatus Installed nearly a
score of years before was In perfect piled with 12,000 other volumes in a must be taken that the twine dives not
garage storeroom owned by the Cin touch the frame of the door or window.
working condition.
Because of the coming of airplanes, cinnati public library, containing a
Will Draw Fire.
huge capital ships and sleek, fast letter written by Franklin himself on
“As soon as any of the thunder
cruisers and destroyers, there is no the experiment and Its results. The clouds come over the kite, the pointed
further need for monitors. The sole volume Is a compendium of many let wire will draw the electric fire from
purpose of these was for coast de ters written by Franklin and members them, and the kite, with ail the twine,
fense. They were floating fortresses. of the Royal Scientific society of Lon will be electrified, and the loose fila
don.
Not only In America, but In other
ments of the twine will stand out
Failed to Name Place.
countries, is this type of vessel now
every way and be attracted by an ap
Millie the story handed down placed proaching finger. And when the rain
obsolete.
There are several reasons why this the scene of the trial at the tower of has wet the kite and tw-ine so that it
type of vessel Is obsolete. First, It old Christ • hurch in Philadelphia, can conduct the electric fire freely.
can participate In offensive warfare Franklin fails to. mention the locality. you will find It stream out plentifully
only when It Is facing In the direction It is also evident that he had no In from the key on the approach of your
of the enemy being attacked. It car tention of attracting lightning to Ills knuckle.
ries a revolving turret battery of two kite, but that he merely wanted to
“At this key, a phial may be at
12-lnch guns forward The remaining prove the presence of electrical energy tached. and from electric fire thus ob
armament consists of four 4-in< h guns in the atmosphere during a thunder- tained spirits may be ignited and all
and two six-pounders, The latter are storm.
the other electric experiments be per
too small to be used In attacking and
The letter was written probably In formed which are usually done by a
are brought Into play only when in 1752. Bls observations and Instruc- rubbed glgss globe or tube, and there
defense.
tions follow :
by the sameness of the electric matter
Then the slow speed of the ship—
“Make a cross of two light strips of with that of lightning completely dem
only 12 knots—served to make it cedar, the arms so long as to reach onstrated.”
merely a target for speedier craft the four corners of a large silk hand-
more heavily armed. A fast vessel kerchief when extended; tie the cor
with greater range guns could easily ners of the handkerchief to the ex BUCHANAN’S LOG
outmaueuver the unwieldy monitor tremities of the cross, so you have the
CABIN TO BE SAVED
and sink or disable It. The monitor body of the kite, which, being properly
type Is difficult to manage because accommodated with a tail, loops and
most of Its hull Is below water.
string, will rise in the air. like those Birthplace of Formex Presi
As the last of the monitors nears made of paper, but this, being silk, is
Kite Story Is Proved
by Franklin Letter
dent to Be Memorial.
If You Want a Homestead, Look at This
Serve 10 Alaska Points
by Air From Rail Head
Fairbanks, Alaska. -With ten land
Ing fields built or In construction In
Alaska. airplane communication Is
Decatur, Ark. The old oaken buck
promised between the Interior ter
et, with Its Iron bound staves of the minus of tlie Alaska railroad here and
days prior to the discovery of germs», most of the Important mining .lections
lias become an outlaw, hut the old and settlements In the territory.
town well that went with It here and
Fairbanks Is to be the center of nil
which did valiant service In the pre airplane trips Into the Interior. South
germ days Is being harnessed to the west of Fairbanks three fields have
necessities of modernity.
been established. They ni4 at Lake
The town well Is to lie used ns a Mini huinlnn, 125 miles from this city;
cooler for a modern, sanitary drinking Tacotna, 250 miles, and Fl nt, 325 miles.
fountain. Pipes from the town water
The Lake Mlnchumlna field Is In
works are being laid to the well, and tended mostly as for a refuge In
Louis Wiegand
New York nnd Hhertnan Pierce, chief a coll reaching to the bottom Is to he storms which sweep across that sec
of pollcsof the Seneca Indian reserva placed Inside the shaft and under the tion from Mount McKinley.
tion, fraternizing at the Indian fair nt water. Water from the waterworks
Construction 1ms started on a field
Cattaraugus, N ' Y. Judge Collins a will run through the p pe and them e nt Ruby, 230 miles from Fairbanks,
4 feet 4 Inches tall; Pierce Is 0 feet to ■ drinking fonn In on the busiest
in nlr route between Ruby and Ta-
2 Inches in height.
corner in th- to» >>
'■<>tna measures 100 miles.
MAY GET A MEDAL
Use Old Well to Cool
City’s Drinking Fountain
Pretty Miss Jean of the land office
iji Washington has no sympathy for
the fellow who snys there are no more
opportunities. There are fifty-two mil
lion acres of land still to be had for
the trouble of homesteading. Some Is
good, some not so good, hut all worth
while to the worth-while man. Miss
Jean Is pointing to the location of
some desirable acreage that will be
given away to those asking for It.
Chambersburg, Pa.—The weather
worn log cabin in which James Bu
chanan, fifteenth President of the
United States, was born on April 23,
1791, is to be restored and preserved
as a memorial to Pennsylvania's only
President.
Built originally by the President's
father in the mountains of southern
Pennsylvania, the cabin was moved
neary n century ago to Mercersburg,
where It has since stood, used much of
the time as a tenant house. Now it Is
being torn down and moved again;
this time to Chambersburg, where It
will be rebuilt on a lot near the cen
ter of the town.
The elder Buchanan was an Irish
man who came to America soon after
the Revolution, nnd set out to make -
living as a trader am« ng the Indians
and frontiersmen. Choosing a lonely
spot in the hills north of the Mary
land border he built two log cabins,
one for a home and the other a store.
In time his place became known to
the traders as “Stony Batter."
His trading operations proved so
profitable that Buchanan finally moved
to Mercersburg nnd from there he sent
his son to school and Inter to college.
The younger man became a leader in
local affairs and represented his dis
trict In the state legislature nnd In
congress.
In 1856 he was elected
President. He died in Lancaster In
1866. and was burled there.
In later years the President's sisters
erected a stone pyramid nt the site of
his birthplace. This stands today, hid
den in a grove of pine trees.
The oak logs of the old cabin are
well preserved.