Lincoln County leader., July 30, 1909, Image 3

soffi nm DESIGNS
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EY
GIGANTIC UNDERTAKING.
HR Pfl f 1 tliA rtllffali a nA tha Tttslfan ha era woll.nlarTt 1taonnAaitAl
I I from the Western uralrles. Inexorable civilization found them
I unfit. Now they are to be banished from the crisp, green
oanii notes, tneir last resort, ir toe active imagination or boy
hood be excepted. "Too easily counterfeited," Is the terse ex
planation. Other changes tending toward uniformity and sim
plicity of design for United States notes and coin certificates
are contemplated. At present there are nineteen different designs. Under
the new plan, which embodies the Ideas of officials of the Treasury Depart
ment, bankers, business men and currency experts, there will be but nine
designs. The possibility of confusion will thus be reduced.
All classes of notes of each denomination will carry the same portrait.
No portrait will appear on the notes of more than one denomination and
the portraits selected are easily recognizable, excepting, perhaps, those of
Salmon P. Chase and Alexander Hamilton. As Chase's likeness will be on
the J 500 note and Hamilton's on the $1,000 note, there Is really no reason
for anxiety concerning them. Men who handle money on such a scale as
that ought to be as familiar with the lineaments of the Chief Justice, and
the first Secretary of the Treasury as the newest alien on these shores is
with the portrait of Washington, which will mark the $1 bill. The $5 note
will carry the portrait of the man whom some hardly count as second even
to the father of his country Lincoln. Cleveland, who, confronted by a
break In his party, stood for sound money, will be used on the $10 notes.
As no pictures are hung In the Louvre until after the death of the artist,
so no portrait of a living individual Is used on any of the currency Issued
from the Bureau of Engraving and Printing In Washington. Hence the $10
notes will be the first to bear the picture of the only Democratic President
since Buchanan, The $20 notes will have the portrait of Jackson, the $50
that of Grant, the $100 that of Franklin. Even the new pennies will no
longer show poor Lo.
The artistic quality of either our metal money or the certificates Is not
a minor matter. In a certain sense the money used by a nation Is the
measure of its civilization. Always when men reach the stage of exchang
ing goods which Implies a certain form of community life, they need a
medium In which values of varying commodities may be expressed. The
Indians used shells. Skins of the beaver and muskrat had In the early
days of the Northern trapper a current value. Long ago the Germanic peo
ples expressed fines in cattle. Oxen were units of value and sheep decimal
parts. Whale teeth among the Fljians; glass beads and brass wire In
Africa; cacao beads In the land of the Aztecs; red feathers among the South
Sea islanders all these have been used. Now that man has left the prim
itive stage far behind and mastered many arts, he strives to make his money
safe, durable, beautiful. The men who are responsible for the cqntemplated
changes In the notes are also striving to achieve th same result.
In a rubber factory at Sourabaya,
Dutch West Indies, the material is ex
trapted from the leaves by a chemical
process. " 1
Electric street cars, built In Phila
delphia, have been introduced by a
private company In the Turkish city of
Salonlkl.
The first refrigerator cars in Brazil
will be put in service In the near fu
ture on railroads controlled by the gov
ernment The Japanese cabinet recently re
pealed an ordinance enacted In' 1876
prohibiting the use of foreign Inks on
official documents. .
Serious experiments by a bevy of
French scientists resulted In figuring
out the average speed of a Bnall at
fourteen days to the mile.
In a mountain near Montalban. Lu
zon, there'ls a large cavern, with many
branching chambers, and a central
dome 200 feet In height, perforating
the mountain top, from which, in De
cember, 1907,, Hugh M. Smith- saw
Issue a solid column of bats, which
flew rapidly, in a straight Hue, for fif
teen minutes, disappearing over a
mountain range In the direction of Ma
nila, without a single bat having left
the column. American engineers sta
tioned there told Mr. Smith that the
flight of bats had occurred, at practi
cally the same time each day,' during
two years. From other sources it was
learned that the phenomenon had been
observed for at least thirty years.
Professor Penck, the German geog
rapher, lecturing In America, recently
pointed out that although the climate
of Europe is hardly at all affected by
the Mediterranean Sea, on account of
the Alps, the absence of a similar
mountain belt north, of the Gulf of
Mexico allows the winds to sweep over
the southeastern part of the United
States, bringing the moisture and
warmth of the Gulf to that part of the
country. Europe, on the other hand,
gets the southeastern winds from the
Atlantic, bringing the moisture and
warmth of the Gulf Stream drifts.
Thus the presence or absence of high
mountain ranges In particular locali
ties Is an Important Influence in deter
mining the climate.
There could hardly be a better exam
ple of the scientific spirit than the re
cent application of the methods of
biometry to those excessively minute
animals, the bacteria. C. E, A. Win
slow and Anne Rogers Winslow have,
according to Prof. F. P. Gorhara, mark
ad th beginning of a new era In bac
teriological classification and nomen
clature by their studies In thla direc
tion. They have applied the methods
used by anthropologists and students
of variation and heredity to the defini
tion of the species of bacteria. The
results are, of course, technical In
their nature, and In themselves only
Interesting to students of the subject,
but they have a broad general Interest
because they serve to assure the pub
lic that advance on strictly scientific
lines Is being made In the study of
those almost Infinitesimal creatures
that play so important a part In hu
man life and everything that human
life depends upon.
The Beat Machine.
The Idea that peace could.be tie
normal relation of the nations never
entered Napoleon's head, or the head of
any man about him, declares A. L.
Klelland In "Napoleon's Men and Meth-
Irrigation Congress Will Ask for Im
provement of National Resources.
Arthur Hooker, secretary of the
board of control of the National Irriga
tion congress, w.ll present a resolution
for approval by that organization at its
seventeenth session in Spakane August
9 to 14, memorializing congress to
issue S per cent gold bonds, running
100 years, to the amount of $5,000,
000,000, or as much thereof as may be
necessary for the following specific
purpoaes :
One billion dollars for drainage of
overflowed and swamp lands, thus re
claiming an area equal to 100,000
square miles.
One billion dollars for the reclama
tion by irrigation of 40,000,000 acres
of arid and semi-arid lands now partly
or wholly waste.
One billion dollars to construct and
improve deep waterways, to develop
thousands of miles of territory now
without adequate transportation facili
ties. One billion dollars for good roads
and national highways, for the lack of
which the loss to the farm area of the
United States is approximately $500,
000,000 annually.
One billion dollars for forest protec
tion, reforestation and conservation of
the forest resources, thus assuring tim
ber and lumber supplies for centuries
to come.
"Five billions of dollars is an enor
mous sum, but it is no more than is
actually required to carry out the gi
gentic scheme in developing millions
of acres of lands in various parts of the
United States now absolutely worth
less," said Mr. Hooker in explaining
the plan. "Congress will not be asked
to appropriate a penny. The returns
from the improvements would pay off
the bonds. The government would
simply act as a banker, as it does now
for the various irrigation projects.
The bond issue would provide ample
funds as required to carry out the work
in the several divisions, at the same
time giving the best possible collateral
to those investing in these securities.
"Government figures bear out the
statement that there is enough good
land overflowed in Minnesota, Wiscon
sin, Kansas, Nebraska, Louisiana,
Kentucky, Tennessee and Mississippi
to make an area as large as the state
of Missouri, or more than 44,000,000
acres, while in the Eastern, Central
and Western states there is more than
as much more, or about 100,QOO,000
acres in all. At a conservative esti
mate of $25 an acre, the sale of this
reclaimed land would justify the ex
penditure of $2,500,000,000, or about
150 per cent more than is required to
drain it This land would support
rrom z,000,000 to 3,000,000 popula
tion
"Approximately 40.000,000 acres of
lads in Western and Southwestern
states are adapted to irrigation. wLich
if reclaimed at an average cost of $25
an acre, would be worth not less than
$200 an acre, or a total of $8,000,000.
000, and provide homes for more than
8,000,000 persons. The economic value
of irrigation car not be measured in
dollars and cents but crops of from
auu w i,uuu an acre are not rare in
the irrigated districts. There are al
ready 14,000,000 acres under irriga
tion and the Reclamation service esti
mates it will have reclaimed 2,000,000
acres, at a cost not exceeding $70,000.-
uuu, Deiore tne close or 1911
ine construction and improvement
ods." In his mind peace could only
mean a pause between two wars. He of the deep waterways required to pro
had no Idea to give to the world. His vide better and cheaper transportation
thoughts did not go beyond his own facilities is, I believe, a 100 per cent
are. tie snrmKs at once in comparl- investment, irom tne fact that two-
inirasorthe bulky freight could be
shipped by water routes, at a cost to
I the shipper of not more than one-sixth
1 of the present rail rates. The import
ance of this, becomes apparent when it
is remembered that the food question
is Decoming a world problem,
i "1 he state of New York is expend
ing $101,000,000 to enlarge the Erie
canal, and $100,000,000 is the .mount
required to improve the Missouri river
from a point about 40 miles west of
xellowstone park to where it meets the
Mississippi river, 2.647 miles. Then
there is the projected waterway from
Lake Michigan to the Gulf of Mexico
and scores of others necessary to cheap
onu uewer transportation facilities.
Millions of dollars will be saved annu
ally to the people of the United States
by the completion of these works.
1 "The maintenance of the createst
water way in the world, composed of
tne ureat Lakes, on which the govern
ment of thn TTniforl .Qforoa ho- i
j.t tor che. Lm; ;.::n n; T.r "u-
Wht T want" M .. . " "' iumarDora
. , . w.Caiiiutti ana connecting channe s. presents an
Sh ffi Teltr" "rgUment in r the'scheme to de"
Something realistic?' asked the velop thousands of miles of territory in
playwright I the Missouri and other valleys. Th"
Yes, but I don t want any real other projects outlined in the foregoing
pugilists or real naval disasters or real are of equal if not greater importance
live stock or real battles In It." and with proper backing they can be
The playwright looked wearily carried out successfully.
4.1 1 i m a . I 4 . v
mougniiui ana, alter a pause, In
quired:
"How would
son with a man of science, who ex
pends his life to create a thought that
will nourish and elevate posterity.
If Nepoleon reached the highest sum
mit of a prince and a commander, he
was also the last who succeeded in
gathering about his .person all the
glamour that had been wont to accom
pany and adorn the bloody business of
war. There was no more of It after his
fall. War became afterward an aca
demic study. Military affairs came to
resemble industrial Interests, In which
It Is the best machines that gain the
victory.
We now strip our armies of their
gold cords and waving plumes. The
admiral, who used to stand on the
bridge In his gala uniform, with his
decorations and sash, now sits In a
steel box and presses buttons like a
telephone girl. When the glamour goes
from a thing, It Is near Its end.
It
wo one questions the statement
that good roads have a hich mnnAv
do to spring some- value to the farmers of the nation, and
tning on the public with real actors
In It?" London Tit-Bits.
it may Da said that this a one la nnffi.
cient to justify the cost of their con-
, struction as rapidly as practicable un-
. Thn stenographers are also Joining der an efficient, economical and equit
the muck rakers. One of them said able system of highway improvement
to-day: "I get $9 a week. The men The big points in favor of this expend
who pa their stenographers only $9 iture is tha economy of time and force
a week ought to be strung up." in transportation between farm and
1 market enabling the growers to take
How many purely ornamental peo-, advantage of fluctuations in buying and
pit there are In every community! 1 selling, as well as enhancing tha valua
of real estate.
"It is estimated that the average
annual loss from poor road is 76 cenU
an acre, while the estimated average
increase resulting from improving all
the public roads is $9. The losses in
five years would aggregate $2,432 for
every section of land, or more than
enough to improve two miles of public
highway. The necessity of good roads
is obvious, as it would enhance the
value of each section of land about
$5,760, or more than double the esti
mated cost of two miles of imcroved
highway, which constitutes the quota
for 640 acres of land.
"The value of our forests was never
better appreciated than today. Within
the arid and serai-arid portions of the
Western states nearly 124,000,000
acres are covered with woodland, of
value for fuel, fence posts and other
purposes essential to the success of the
farmers. There are also 97,000,000
acres covered with heavy forests hav
ing commercial value for timber and
logs for sawmills, also hundreds of
thousands of acres of timber lands in
other parts of the United States. Re
forestation and conservation of the
vast resources are necessary to provide
future generations with timber and
lumber supplies. The government is
expending large amounts of money
every year to protect its forests from
fires, yet . expert lumbermen say that
more standing timber is destroyed by
flames annually than is converted into
merchantable lumber by the sawmills."
Mr. Hooker said it is likely that his
resolution will be presented to the var
ious interests of the irrigation con
gress for discussion and will afterward
be incorporated in a memorial to the
United Stt.es congress. It is also pur
posed to have a large delegation, com
posed of representatives of every state
and territory in the Union, push the
measure for . adoption! The work of
enlisting the support of the people in
terested in the various projects will be
taken up immediately after the close
of the irrigation congress with the
view to concerted action.
Letting Hint I) own ICaa.
A young man of very limited menns,
after the mnrrlage ceremony, present
ed to the minister" twenty-seven large
copper cents, all spreitd out on the
palm of his right hand. "This is all
I've got, parson," he said. Seeing a
disappointed look In the minister's face
he added: "If we have any children,
we will send them to your Sunday
school." Success Magazine.
A pprehenalTe.
Fellow Statesman Senator, that
speech of yours in favor of the income tax
was oh of the strongest arguments I
ever heard.
Eloquent Senator (with some uneasi
ness) You don't think it changed any
vote, de you? Chicago Tribune.
During- the Spat.
Her Husband Well, It takes two to
make a quarrel, so I'll shut up.
His Wife That's just like a con
temptible man! You'll sit there and
think mean things!
Even Exchange.
Angry Tatron That's tbe third time
you ve given me the wrong number. You
must have what they call the telephone
ear.
Girl In Central Office I beg your par
don, sir, but that isn't the trouble. You
bave what we call the cornmeal musb
voice. Chicago Tribune.
Disappointing-.
The Bachelor Here's a magazine
poet who likens "hope" to "a fair wo
man." The Benedict Huh! No wonder; It
Is so disappointing.
Catching On.
"I'm glad to bear that your boy Is
getting a foothold as a doctor In that
new town out West."
"Foothold? He's got a toehold. He's
the only doctor there."
LHieadaehe
"My fa'her has been a sufferer from sick
headache for the last twenty-five years and
never found any relief until he began
taking your Cascarets. Since he has
begun taking Cascarets he has never had
the headache. Tbey have eutirely cured
him. Cascarets do what you recommend
them to do. I will give you the privilege
of using his name." K. M. Dickson,
ino Resiner St., W. Indianapolis, Ind.
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ltte. 25c, 50c. Never sold in bulk. The gen
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Slngnlnr E fleet.
"Ilnsn't that umpire got a peach of a
voice !"
"Yes; a ball once hit him on his Ad
am's apple and . it has never been tbe
same since."
Mothers will find Mrs. Winslnw's Soothing
Syrup thn b at rntnedr to use for their cliildraj
Auriug the tvethiug perU"l.
Cooking ij a .-ii.on.
Nan I like a play with a stirring
plot.
Fan That's tbe kind that thickens,
isn't it?
A household once supplied with Ham
lins Wizard Oil is seldom allowed to ba
without it In case of sudden mishap
or accicent Wizard Oil takes the place
of the family doctor. Are you sup
plied? Satisfactory Aaanrnnre.
Mrs. Upsome Ir. Mary Walker makes
ffin of tbp wnrinj. qM-1o nf ho"".
Mrs. GooiJsoIe I'm so. glhd to learn
that the dear old lmly is still alive.
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High Art.
"Are you blind, prisoner?" Inquired
the magistrate.
"Yes, your worship."
"You are charged with vagrancy.
How did you lose your sight?'
"By a fit of appleplexy, sir."
"But there Is a picture on your
breast representing an explosion In a
mine, through which, it is stated, you
became blind. Hew Is this?"
"Please, your worship, I couldn't
afford to pay a hartlst as could paint
appleplexy." London Answers.
A (irava Doubt.
Caller So your cook has passed
away to a better place.
Hostess Yen but I don't know If
she'll stay ; poor Bridget was very hard
to suit. Boston Traveler.
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Sonnda rianalble.
What Is your principal object, any
how," asked the visiting foreigner, "in
building that Panama canal?"
Well," answered the native, "we have
an Idea It will limit the size of future
battleships." Chicago Tribune.
DR. W. A. WISE
Years a Leader In Painlesa Dentai
Work in Portland.
Out-of-Town People
Should remember that our f.irre I ra irrintnl
mac iyi, uapi uu I ME1K f.NTlKcj CKOAN.
BRIDGE AND PLATK WOKK IN A DAY if
neceanary. POSITIVELY PAINLESS EX
TRACTING FREE hen platen or bri.lires are or
dered. WE REMOVE THE MOST RRNSITIVB!
TEETH AND ROOTS WITHOUT THE LEAST
rjun. nuoiuuiH its, no uncertainty.
For the Next Fifteen Days
We will aiva you a good 22k fold or porce
lain crown for m KA
22k bridge teeth 8.60
Molar crown oft
Gold or enamel fillinics ' 1.09
Miver ni units go
Good rubbrr plates BM
The beat red rubber plates ... 7.00
Painlexa extractions .60
ALL WORK GUARANTEED 15 YEARS
Dr. W. A. Wise
President and Manager
The Wise Dental Co.
(INC.) Third and Washington Sta.
PORTLAND, OREGON
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