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Crossroads Famous in World History All Countries Have Them, Also Sea and Air. Washington.—Ono of th» i»o»t Im portunt men In th» I tilled Ntat»» 1» the traMe policeman nt Washington nn<l Meridian strests, lndlunu|M>U». With on» blast on his wiilsU« ha ran send automobile» to Miami, Florid», or No attic. Washington. At will ho run turn his buck on Florida and Nenttle and route cars to Now York or Loa Angelos. Th« Wushlngtonnnd Meridian streets Intersection lit Indianapolis 1« the crossroads of th» main trlnscoatlnen tul highway» of the United State». "Mankind has ninny remarkable crossroad»," says n bulletin of the Na tlonal Geographic society from Its headquarters In Washington. “There are crossroads of the sea nt Singapore I’nnumu canal, Hawaii, Nt. P hii I Island and Colombo: crossroad* of cable Unes nt Guam and the Azores; crimsroud* of history In Palestine; crossroads of Intercourse between Eu rope and Asia nt Constantinople And now appesr the crossroad» of the air at Prague. Great Cities Are Crossroads. "Practically every great city tins to I h < a geographic crossroads before It enn bo a great city. History counts Chicago only a fledgling crossroads but the Windy city lays claim to two rec ords In fusing streams of men and met al; Its 'train n minute* advertisement Is n hint to Its position ns the world's greatest rnll center. Its feverish trade gives to the Intersection of State ami Madison streets the title of the ‘busiest corner In the world.’ Fifth avenue and Forty second street. New York, mny make more people hump shoulders, but for thronging jiedestrlsnn and vehicle« Chicago'» most crowded crossroads stand« nlon». “The spot where Braddock met de feat, where the extending avenues of British and French colonial progress collided. Is today one of the most re markable of the United States' cross roads. The town of Braddock, eight miles out of Pittsburgh, on the Monon gahela river, la supposed to be the ton nags center of railway traffle. Iron ore comes In from the north and coal from West Virginia to feed the hungry blast furnaces. Six of the heavy freight carrying railroads pass Brad dock's front door. “London questions the American claims to street trnffle records, point ing to the Bank of England corner Under this frowning, austere fnende ve hicles and pedestrians In unending streams debouch from Cheapside. Threndncedle, Cornhill, lombard. King William, Queen Victoria nnd Princess streets. *'S<> strictly Immutable are the Inns of geography that London's truffle whirlpool today 1« the same csossroada of England that Caesar's captains es tablished two thousand year's ago. The Bomans entered England by the Thames nnd by the Kent coast. The old Kent mnd sought the most satis factory crossing of the Thames which would still be within reach of the wen. 'Lomllnlum' became the crossroads to the fertile midland. London Is not only the crossroads of England today but also the Intersection of ninny world streams of trmje. Before the World war n<> linjw>rtant banking transaction took place on earth without the guard ians of the financial crossroads of the world In London taking their toll. New York now pocket» the poll tax for money's highroads. Paris Is Europa’s Civic Center. •'Probably the beat Investment In crossroads real estate Is Paris. Geogra phers any Paris Is the natural head quarters of mankind. That It Is the Inevitable crossroads of France Is plain, for It commands the best routes to England. Belgium, Germany, the Mediterranean and to the Loire. When all parts of the world have been de veloped to their natural rapacity Paris, they say, will hold sway. She Ims easy access to the Mediterranean and Africa through the break between the Alps and the Pyrenees. Hhe I» more con venient t« the Atlantic than Germany and Italy, Vast Eurasia cun come to her better than to England, Spain or Italy. She Ims better acc»M to Ameri ca limn Japnii or China. Purls' Inter national atmosphere today la evidence thut 'all roads lemf to Purls,' not Home. •'A good question for a geography final examination I»; Where is the world's zero zero? Answer: Th» Inter section of the equator, Zero latitude, nnd Ilie zero longitude which runs through Greenwich, England. Is th« arbitrary map crossroads of the world. This point Iles In the Gulf of Guinea, 409 miles off Accru on the Gold coast of Africa. •'When the Turk became trnffle po liceman nnd turned the 'Stop' sign ngnlnst Europe I» Palestine, he pr^ duced one of the few traffle Jams fur which the world can give thanks. Vasco dn Gamma went off on a detour utid discovered the way around Africa and around Palestine, the most lm|s>r- tnnt crossroads of ancient history. And what was still worse for the Turk, Co lumbus started off In the opposite di rection. Columbus' discovery of Amer ica broke the ottoman monopoly. The busy Isthmus between the lied sea and the end of the Mediterranean Ims been the parade ground of conquerqrs Cambyses. Alexander the Great, Pom|>ey, Saladin, Richard the Lion- Hearted, Allenby and ninny, ninny oth ers. No real empire could do without It. But the tonnage of the Panama canal last year passed the Suez. The crossroads Columbus discovered has eclipsed that of history." Has Tame Stork Vietzle-ln-Uckermnrk, Germany,— Everywhere that Gretchen goes, a stork Is sure to follow.. Tamed after being forced down by a storm, the bird accompanies children to school and poses In their drawing claeses. hh Eugene, Ore.—Tunneling un J’ der the Cascade mountains, 2.- ,, ■• IMS) men are working night and *’ ” day to complete a 75-mlle rail- <> •• road line between Oakridge and ;; : : Kirk that will clip 200 mile» . . •' from the transcontinental route. . . The project Is to be completed • ■ ' ‘ next summer nnd Is to cost ap- Î I • • proximately 923,000,000, Engl- * • " neeri declare It one of the most • • notable railroad construction •• i» projects In the United States. ” ^+1 11 HU I I I I I I I M I l»l I I i T Wide Underground River Discovered in Texas San Marcos, Texas.—Discovery of what Is believed to be an underground river of a width of ¡lerhnps one-half mile and of undeterminable depth, has transformed the arid region 16 to 25 miles northeast of here Into a verl table paradise of verdure and growing crops within a period of three months. It was during the height of the re cent severe drought that Ben W. Py land, a tanner, decided to dig a wed on his place tn a search of water. He was ridiculed for attempting to get water In that locality by digging a well. Pyland commenced digging and at a .depth nf 20 feet he struck a cap of limestone. Using his pick vigorously he punctured this covering and there Immediately gushed forth a small tor rent of water. He enlarged the bole by exploding a charge of dynamite and the water poured into the well, al most tilling It to the top. Other farmers In the section began digging wells and several of them ob talned water In apparently Inexhauat ible quantities. , Strangled by Beads New York.-- Grace Christiansen, fifteen months-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Christiansen, was strangled to death by a string of beads which caught on a post of a crib from which the child fell. Left In ber crib ns the mother went about her housework, the child fell from her bed and the beads about her throat caught and twisted on the crib post, virtually hanging the child. GERMS LOSE THEIR POWER IF NOT IN THE RIGHT PLACE Russian Scientist Makes Valu able Discovery. Washington.—Germs of diseases that are deadly to an nnlmnl or a hu man being if they find their way Info the part nf the body they usually nf- tllct, may be entirely harmless If they are । hinted In another organ or tissue. I loses of anthrax germs n thousand limes larger than an ordinary fatal In jection have been Introduced Into the bodies of guinea pigs with no more effect than so much salt water; yet If the slightest trace of the fluid con taining them found Its way Into a scratch on the skin, the animal, very quickly died. These experiments, which promise revolutionary result» In the sciences of bacteriology and pathology, are be ing conducted at the Pasteur Institute In Paris by Dr. A. Besredka, a young Russian scientist, according to Dr. Erwin F. Smith, pathologist of the United States Department of Agricul ture, who hns Just returned from a tvtir ot Inspection through Europ--n Hborntories. Doctor Besredka. he says, has dis covered an entirely new principle In bacteriology which has been named "local Immunity.” According to this principle, disease causing organisms are frequently quite Impotent Jo do harm away from their usual habitat. Anthrax, for example. Is always an Boy Scouts at Grave of Theodore Roosevelt > 111 h ii i i + m - h - ii $23,000,000 Tunnel Piercing Cascade« un i affliction of the skin nnd surface, tis sues. Doctor Besredka devised means for planting cultures of the germs deep In the muscular tissue. In the lungs nnd elsewhere In the bodies of guinea pigs. Aside from a little Inflammation, probably <lue to the me chnnicai Irritation of the Instrument« used, the animals showed no signs of harm from the usually deadly or gunisms. Less serious skin Infections, like those caused by staphylococcus, the germ of bolls, were shown to act In the same way. Doctor Besredka’s discoveries have already become of practical Impor tnnce In medicine. After showing that susceptibility to bacterial Infection was local, the Russian scientist also showed that immunity could be con ferred more effectively by serum» and other preventive means If applied equally directly to the regions usuall) attacked by the disease. Since typhoid fever is a disease of the digestive tract, Paris physicians are now following Doctor Besredka'« principle, ami administering antity phoid serum through the mouth rather than by means of Injection Into the arm. Doctor Besredka claims that when administered In the ordinary way the serum gets no chance to act until the blood has curried It from the muscles of the arm Into the intes tlnnl tract. 1 Our Embassy in Rome May Get This Palace Shortens Railroad; Historic Town Goes Langtry, Texas, Doomed to Save Five Miles. Fort Worth, Texas.—Because a railroad Intends to shorten Its mile age the town of Langtry, historic, colorful remnant of the old West, where Justice Roy Bean administered the "law beyond the Pecos," will soon be abandoned. When Clarence E. Gilmore, chair man of the Texas railroad commission, was In Fort Worth a few days ago he announced that authority had been given the Southern Pacific to build a 14-mlle cutoff over Its transcontinental line on the border that w-IU eliminate Langtry from the route. The distance between Los Angeles and New Orleans thus will be short ened five miles. A new town of the same name will be located on the cutoff. Gilmore has joined a number of Texas citizens In a request to the Southern Pacific to maintain the old Bean "palace of Jus tice.” as he called IL transforming the property into a small park, ^he old ramshackle Bean homestead, used as Justice court, billiard hall, saloon and home, stands alongside the pres ent railroad truck, where it attracts attention of all travelers. When the new line Is built one will have to navel five miles overland to see the Bean place. Bean "Law Beyond the Pecos." Beau was all that he claimed, the law beyond the Pecos. He made laws on the spot to fit any case that came up, and for many years controlled the lawless element of the frontier, keep ing a six-shooter strapped to Ills side to back up his speedily made statutes. Forty years ago a painter stopped off at Langtry nnd painted a sign for Bean tha* remains over the place, the sign reading: "Judge Roy Bean, Jus tice of the Peace. Law West of the Pecos.” The artist was paid In liquor by Bean for his work. Mere lack of jurisdiction never worried Roy Bean. Although without legal authority, he tried men for murder, highway rob bery and other district court cases mid saw to it that his convictions were carried out He likewise grant ed divorces. No one interfered with him. It didn't pay. Once a Mexican couple called upon him, asking to be married, but they had forgotten to obtain a license. "No matter," ruled Bean. "I'll mar ry you right now and send to Delrio for the license." And he did. Several months later the two appeared before Bean and sought a divorce and the western Justice, not hesitating a sec ond. improvised a divorce ceremony and told the two their marital rela tions had ceased. When District Judge J. B. Falvey of El Paso heard of this und protested, Bean had his answer ready. »I'm running this office on common sense principles,” he wrote to Falvey. “I reckon a man lias got the right to undo anything he has done. I married this couple, so I had the right to un- marry them.” But there are plenty of Bean stories that surpass this, Including the re- -t-r-F-t-F-H-F-F-F-I-F T-r I 1 I । I ¡ ; Believe» the Irish ” Sprang From Eskimos :: ■• I ■ ■ * • ’ .. ” • ;; • • J • • • • I; “ ” • ; .. The Palazzo Spada. which, according to a report, Is about to be •bought by the United States government b house Its embassy In Rome. The palace, originally the property of Prince Spada, was recently Inherited by the duke of Montevecchlo. Dublin.—A theory that the Irish are descendants of the Es- kimos has been advanced by Doctor Porkory, a Berlin pro- feasor of philology, in a lecture at University college. "There certainly is such a pos- slblllty.” he said. "In isolated parts of Ireland nnd Scotland are to be found types with Mon- go| features, oblique eyes, strnight black hair and thick lips. Anthropologically these types could only be connected with the Eskimos" He believed the first Inhab- Itnnts of Ireland arrived there about 4,000 B. C., before which time the country was covered with Ice. " .. ;; - ■ "; ” • ■ I •• I i ”! .. ;; " • • 11 ■■ ” • 41 I I I l-H-H 111 HW+H-Hlt naming of the town. Formerly It had been known as Vlnagaroon, the name of a deadly border insect. But one day the pretty Lily Langtry, actress of International fathe, was traveling from San Francisco to New Orleans and stopped off to visit Bean. Ordl- naHly the Southern Pacific train stopped in Vlnagaroon but a few minutes, but the conductor obligingly held his train one hour for the Jersey Lily, as she was known. Named for Lily Langtry. Bean was much Impressed, showed a, wide smile through his thick whiskers and decided to hold a spe cial court In honor of the actress. A Mexican was charged with assault to murder, a Jury of border cowboys found him guilty and Bean gave him a sentence of six months" Imprison ment None of Bean's prisoners ever went to the penitentiary. Instead they worked out their sentences around the Bean place. Lily Langtry presented the old Jus tice with a photo of herself, which so charmed him that he announced there and then that the name of the town thereafter would be Langtry. He placed the photo on a shelf beside a copy of the Texas revised statutes, many years out of date, but which never concerned Bean. The court was his own bartender. When the hour came for a session Bean would warn customers to get their drinks, remove bls apron, walk around in front and announce the ses sion had begun. “Anyone want a drink before court opens?” he always asked. “I can’t adjourn court to get any for you fellers.” If a trial appeared somewhat lengthy Bean would recess court every half hour to enable every one to quench his thirst. Every one "quenched” to be on the good side of the court. When prisoners were not at work Bean chained them to a post near the saloon, a punishment so dreaded that It broke up livestock thefts and bor der smuggling more effectively than any present method. Last Contract Let on Welland Canal ___________ _ &----------------------------------------- ------------------ — New Ditch Will Let Ocean Liners Pass Niagara Falls. Toronto.—A few days ago the last contract was let for the completion of the new Welland canal connecting Lake Erie with Lake Ontario, form ing the first link in the scheme of navigation which will enable ocean liners, instead of halting at Montreal, to steam westward to the far Inland ports of Duluth and Port Arthur and all Intervening points. Without much flourish or advertlse- menL work on the uew Welland canal has been proceeding for 13 years. It will be completed, according tq pres ent estimate, in five years more. De lay has been due to the war. From an engineering point of view, the new Welland is a mightier feat than the cuilding of the Panama canal. While It is only 25 miles long as com pared with Panama's 50, Panama's summit is only 85 feet above its en trances while the Welland must over come a lift of 326 feet, which, owing to the falls of Niagara and accom panying rapids, separates the higher level of Lake Erle from Lake Ontario. As a consequence lifting apparatus Is on a colossal scale. To give some idea of the magnitude of the work it may be noted that If all the earth and rock to be excavated were loaded on dump cars the train would stretch for 1,500 miles, exactly the length of the great wall of China. The amount of concrete to be used would be sufficient to build a solid concrete wall 20 feet high, 6 feet wide and 100 miles long. Rebuilt Three Time». A hundred years ago the first Wel land canal was built, connecting the present terminus. Port Colborne, on Lake Erie, with Port Dalhousle, on Lake Ontario. Three times the work Ims been reconstructed, and the exist ing canal accommodates a substantial share of lake navigation. But the new enterprise is infinitely more am bitious. The northern or Lake Ontario ter minal has been moved from Port Dal- housie three or four miles east to Port Weller (named after the engineer). The canal will follow an almost straight line, and will be five miles shorter than the old. There will be only seven locks on the new as compared with 27 ou the old. Not only the largest steamers on the Great Lakes can come through the locks, but come through In one-third the time. Instead of 24 hours for passage through the present structure, It Is estimated that only eight hours will be required for the new. Another way to estimate the im mensity of this undertaking, calcu lated to cost $50,000,0(10 even at 1912 prices, Is to say that while the present canal will accommodate only boats at the most 360 feet In length, the new one can let through vessels measuring 800 feet. Such a length is 200 feet more than the largest boat now plying the lakes. Among Largest Locks in World. Some of the new locks are among the largest in the world. The locks of the present canal are only 250 feet long, 45 feet wide and 14 feet in depth. The new are not only 800 feet long, but 80 feet wide, with 30 feet of wa ter over the gate-sills at extreme low stages of the lake. Capacity loads for vessels during the present low water levels in the old canal are 71,000 bushels. Not only will the Grant Morden, with her 500,000 bushels and 22 feet draft, pass through the new locks, but have 8 feet to spare. It will take just exactly eight minutes to deer this gigantic freighter through each lift. These huge lock compartments, built throughout of concrete and founded on bedrock, will have walls towering 82 feet above the gate-sills. Two of the locks will have walls over 100 feet high. The gates, a notable feature, are to be among the largest in the world, weighing 1,100 tons each. Three of them are twin locks in flight similar to the Gatun locks of the Panama canal, that Is, each pair rising one above the other. For construction purposes the work of the canal was divided into nine sections. No. 1 being at the Lake On tario end of the canal, and No. 9 at the Lake Erie or Port Colborne end. The first three sections include the Lake Ontario entrance and all the seven lift locks, each one of which will raise or lower a vessel 46feet. These sections, begun in 1912, will all be ready for navigation in three years. Section No. 5, between Thorold and " Port Colborne, really an enlargement of the present canal. Is the only section completed and In use. Section No. 4, south of Thorold, Is almost finished. The contract for section No. 6 has Just been awarded. I I I I I I l-H 1 1 I 1 I I I I' I I I H I HF; :: Offer Wild Horse* for Sale at $5 a Head " ‘ I ;; ” i ; • • • • ! •' : “ : " • ■ I • ■ I ■ • • ’ ;; Portland. Ore.—Stockmen In eastern Oregon have promised that they will deliver between 30.000 and 50,000 wild horses to the railroad at $5 a head if there is a market available, C. R. Wade, field officer for the Ore- gon Humane society, reported, on his return to Portland after two months in the eastern por- tlon of the state. Already the animals are being rounded up In the southern portion of the state and shipped to Petaluma, Cal., he declared. Among the wild horses is some stock of value, said Mr. Wade, but the majority are small. scrubby animals. He favored the Idea of using them for fer- tlllzer, thus making room on the range for cattle with real mar- ketable value. ;; • • "; •• • • I! ;; .. ” ■ • “ ■ • ” •; . ;' .. ■ • • • I f ............................... M l b t- H - H-F':
