CANADA EXPLORES N O B T M W Isr.
V ast l e a l . . .
Are
Charged with ths exploration not
only of Its mineral, lumbering and
power producing poastbilMea, but also
of Its farming lands, and with a view
to ascertaining the feasibility of con­
structing two railways, the northland
exploration branch of the Interior De­
partment here has sent out an expe­
dition from Edmonton to Investigate
the vast unknown district north of the
provinces of Alberta and Saskatche­
wan. according to the Ottawa corre­
spondent of the New York World.
In view of ths great acreage of the
Canadian western farming lunds. It
might appear that Canada could rest
on her plow handles, agriculturally
speaking, for a little while at least,
but such la not the purpose of the
minister of the Interior, who has long
been Impressed with the vast area and
Immense resources of the country
stretching north from the northern­
most boundary of the three western
province!. There is estimated to be
220 , 000,000 acres of available first-
class land for cultivation in these
prairie provinces, aud only one-twen­
tieth of this is now under cultiva­
tion for ail classes of grains.
The wheat yield alone for the laat
year la put at 147,000,000 bushels,
which Is 3% per cent of the world
yield for 1909. On this basis western
Canada is in a position to grow 4,500,-
000,000 bushels of wheat In a single
year. In the year 1909 the thirty-
eight wheat-growing countries of tho
world produced
only 3,500,000,000
bushels.
The exploration party is In charge
of F. J. P. Crean, C. E., and two as­
sistant engineers. The party consists
of live white men from Ottawa, while
the remaining portion of it will be
maue up of Inuiaus. The party car­
ries with It a fully equipped steam
launch for navigating the Athabasca
River, and will winter at Fort Smith,
In latitude 60 degrees north. Perhaps
the most important object of the ex­
pedition is the investigation that will
bo made as to the feasibility of build­
ing a railway across the portage at
Fort Smith, and another on the chutes
of the Peace River. With these line,
built and the Alberta & Great Western
Waterways road constructed to Fort
McMurray, the whole northern district
would be opened.
North of Fort Smith there are re­
ported to be practically unlimited de­
posits of tar sands, which, if devel­
oped, would put the famous asphalt
lake, Lake Trinidad, in the back­
ground. There is pulpwood all over
that district and the available water
power may be judged from the fact
that in one place the Athabasca river
drops fifty feet, producing 150,000
horse power. The district is at pres­
ent inhabited only by a few fur trad­
ers.
An Immense area of farming land
will be accurately outlined and report­
ed upon, the nature of the soil noted
and the success of cultivation ascer­
tained. The expedition is perhaps
one of the most Important ever sent
out from headquarters hero on such
a mission.
v
Opinions of Great Papers on Important Subjects.
HUMANITY'S REVOLT AOAINST PROPERTY.
OW many mute. Inglorious John Carters
languish in Stillwater or other prisons
through their best years for taking a few
dollars under the spur of hunger in the
first despairing moment of a blameless
life? The real Interest in this romantic
youngster is ethical, not esthetic. They
who suppose that be was pardoned because his jingles
pleased editors seeking alluring novelties, in order to
serve- tb| purpose of publishers seekihg advertising,
cannot sei the forest for the trees. He was pardoned
because these trivialities cast the perilous light of pub­
licity upon ancient abuses of the law of offenses against
property for which civilization blushes and of which
contemporary justice is itself ashamed. Why should
jiot the same publicity cast'a side light upon other cases
as atrocious as his?
Our criminal law of property is descended by
coverture of the English common law by the brutal
statutes of Norman feudalism, from the most extrav­
agant subordiqation| of the rights of persons to the
rights of possessed tnings the world has ever known.
It retains traces of the justice that punished poaching
more severely than murder and the taking of a loaf
more severely than the ruin of a life. This traditional
cruelty cah be alleviated only by such Instinctive move­
ment of public sympathy as that which gave Carter
liberty, till a scientific system of dealing with the crim­
inal according to his nature and possibilities rather
than with the crime according to some medieval meas­
uring stick shall come to make law the servant of hu­
manity instead of property.—St. Paul Tribune.
AS TO POISON MYSTERIES.
N THESE days when the murderous art of
the poisoner is so often brought to public
notice, the case of Mary Kelleher of Boston
is enlightening. Mrs. Kelleher wa* ac­
cused of slaying six members of her fam­
ily by the use of arsenic. Poiscn was
found in the bodies of her victims. The
police loudly denounced her and claimed to have in­
disputable evidence of her guilt. Yet, after more than
a yeár in jail, she was honorably discharged at the re­
quest of the State.
In no case did the body of any victim show enough
poison to have produced death. In several Instances it
was shown that“ the dead person ha'cf absorbed arsenic
from a renovated hair maltress. In one instance epsom
salts. Improperly clarified, were blamed for conveying
arsenic into the human stomach. “ It turns out to be
the fact that in this' part of the country there is not a
human body where arsenic would not be found, if exam­
ined,” said the district attorney, in asking for Mrs.
Kelleher '8 discharge.
There are many poisons that may be absorbed into
the human system, although arsenic Is probably more
frequently employed in everyday purposes where it
TEXAS FIRST IN IRRIGATION.
iy a t e m U se d l»y I n d ia n « Ijonir B e*
J u r e t h e C o m in g o f t h e W h i t e « .
Texas, although one of the young­
e st states in the Union In develop­
ment, is the pioneer in irrigation, a
Fort Worth correspondent of the New
York Herald says. The beginning of
irrigation in western Texas antedates
any .records so tar iouud and it is
probable that in no. portion of the
United State! is'the practice older, Is
the clairh made by J.'C. Nagle, who Is
professor of civil engineering at the
Agricultural and Mechanical College
of Texas. Scanty and Irregular distri­
bution of rainfall was doubtless the
cause*of Its use in the beginning and
even at later dates, when unnumbered
acres of fertile lands could be had for
little more than the trouble of prepar­
ing them for cultivation. Coronado,
on his journey northward in the early
part of the sixteenth century, so his­
tory* tells us, found well-established
systems of Irrigation In the vicinity
of El Paso, .utilizing water from the
Hio Grande on both sides of Its pres­
ent channel.
Tradition tells us that the Pueblo
Indians of Yseleta claimed that an
dent irrigation systems of great ex­
tent were built centuries ago by the
Yuma Indians on the Pecos river in
the vicinity of Pecos and Grand Falls,
but the constant raids by the Cogv
maDche and Apache Indians caused
them to move on to the valley of the
Hio Grande, only to be followed there
by their old enemies and forced to
move out to the Colorado of the
West. In the vicinity of the Toyah
springs evidence is found indicating
that these waters were used for Irrl
gat ion purposes long before the first
wliite man found his way there.
At San Antonio, where the Francis­
can fathers founded t,heir missions,
they directed the construction of ca
nals by the Indians. These canals
were used not only for supplying
water to the missions for domestic
purposes, but for irrigation as well.
Among the ditches constructed be­
tween the years 1716 and 1774 may
l>e mentioned the Conception. Alamo,
San Jose, San Juan and Espada. In
1730 the San Pedro ditch was built by
Immigrants from the Canary Islands
and was used for conducting water to
the cultivated fields. For many years
this ditch was conducted for field irri­
gation z>n farms and even to this day
th’s old ditch Is in operation and be­
ing used constantly. It supplied water
for a large percentage of the city
lawn! a few years ago in San Antonio,
and was extensively used for domestic
purposes.
At old Fort San Sab'a. near Menard
ville, the present home of James Cal-
lain, president of the Texas Cattle
Raisers’ Association, the remains of
an irrigation system constructed in
1774, also by the Fraud«« an fat tiers,
can still 1»e traced. At this time Texas
was under Spanish rule, but'since then
has sworn allegiance to and floated
five different flags.
As early as 1852 the fourth legisla­
ture passed an act relative to Irrlga
tlon. In 1882 the seventeenth leglsla
Jure passed an act making large
grants of land for the construction of
Irrigation ditches. There were sev­
eral classes and a number of sections
o f land granted per mile of ditch va­
ried with the class. In 1889 and 1895
additional regulations were establish
ed with a view of encouraging Irriga­
tion. The result of some of these en­
actments was the projection of numer­
ous Irrigation schemes, many of which
were “boom” propositions from the
■tart, while others proved failures
when constructed because of tho lark
would bs likely to come into contact with people than
any other. Therefore in cases of supposed poisoning
it behooves the State, as well as the defense, to rigidly
investigate all circumstances, lest grave injustice be
done some innocent person.—Chicago Journal.
SIZE OF THE COLLAR.
E ARE not referring now to brass collars,
but to those bands of white which are re­
garded as quite an essential part of the
wearing apparel of the average man. it
will doubtless be of interest to many of
our readers to learn that an eminent med­
ical authority of England has reached the
conclusion that too tight collars are the real source of
many bodily disorders hitherto ascribed to other
causes.
As a result of his own experiences this medical sci­
entist declares that he has adopted a collar several
sizes larger than his shirt, with the happy outcome that
headaches, rheumatism and other ailments have entire­
ly disappeared.
Personally we find ourselves quite unable to take this
illuminating person very seriously. If a man is Idiot
enough to wear a collar three sizes to small he ought
to be afflicted with a liberal allowance of aches and
pains. On the other hand, if he will persist In wearing
one three sizes too large he ought to he haled Into
some sartorial court and heavily fined for being an all­
round slouch.
There is a happy medium which any man with the
intellect of a snowbird should be able to discover, and
then appear among his fellows In reasonable harmony
with the dictates of comfort and good taste. We fear
that some of our medical scientists are wasting much
valuable time.—Des Moines Capital.
THE DANGEROUS HATPIN.
INCE the Chicago City Council took the
matter up reports of action against the
dangerous hatpin have been coming from
all parts of the country, and a startlingly
large number of serious accidents from
long hatpins have been recorded. Dev­
otees of the rapier style of pin may con­
tend that It sometimes serves useful purposes of de­
fense. So does the six-shooter. Yet wise lawmakers
refuse to permit everyone to carry a gun.
The other day a Chicago man was granted a divorce
from his wife, whom he accused of stabbing him fre­
quently with hatpins. The accusation was not disputed.
In what respect does a woman who jabs her husband
with an eighteen-inch hatpin differ from the husband
who threatens his wife with a carving knife?
At first sight the agitation may seem ludicrous. In
the light of actual hatpin casualties and the menace of
phrenetic females armed with deadly weapons, the argu­
ment of those who would prohibit hatpins of undue
length seems Well founded.—Chicago Journal.
of sufficient hydrograhplc and other
data.
As west Texas was pioneer in an­
cient irrigation so it is in modern, as
Irrigation along the lines now prac­
ticed began to develop first In this sec­
tion of the State. The first ditch In
the vicinity of Del Rlo was construct­
ed in 1868. On the Pecos one of the
present large systems was built in
1875, another In 1887 and another in
1896. It might have been expected
that the older systems in the vicinity
of El Paso would have suggested ear­
lier extensions under present methods,
but work of this character did not be­
come active until about 1889 or 1891.
At Fort Stockton and for the Nueces
drainage area It began as early as
1876. On the Concho, San Saba. Llano
and other tributaries* of the Colorado
river Irrigation systems began to
spring up about 1875, and possibly
earlier, and these were added to about
1879. buf this work became most act­
ive In the ’90s.
MURDER
OF
HERMIT
THRUSH.
< r i m e o f t h e I t u t c h e r l l l r t l, R i p e c t -
ed
to K i l l
the
Npnm m ,
Ornithologists say that Prospect
park in Brooklyn is right on the north
and south bird route, the Cincinnati
Times-Star’s New York correspondent
says. Because of that fact—and be­
cause It Is protected from every one
but the lawless Italians—it ordinarily
contains a greater variety of bird life
than any other similar park In the
country, perhaps. Thirty varieties
have often been counted there of a
morning It was only the other day
that a tragedy of the feathered world
was reported. A hermit thrush—rar­
est of ail song birds—had been mur­
dered by the shrike, or buteher bird,
and his soft little body Impaled upon
a thorn. The guardians of the park
were ordered to kill the shrike on
sight. “ We liked him while he con­
fined himself to a diet of English spar­
rows," said the superintendent, "but
he's like the other foreigners against
whom we contend here; a very little
liberty goes to his head."
r He walked on as he spoke. On a
little patch of green sward half a
dozen European starlings were bobbl-g
abont. They had been brought to
tlnis-Country by a rich New Yorker nut
long ago and placed on his Staten Is­
land estate. They look like blackbirds,
except that their tails are short and
their bills are brilliantly yellow. On
a bench by the walk a man sat, lean­
ing forward, watching them. The su­
perintendent spoke to him. “ Do you
know what they are?" he asked.
“ Mein Gott, yes," said the man,
never changing his pose. "In thirty
years 1 haf not seen them—not since
the day I ran away from mein fader's
house In Germany to seek mein for­
tune.
That day I heard them
sing------”
He put his head in his hands and
burst into tears.
MORE FARMERS WANTED.
No
D anger o f an
O v e r a u p p lf
Y e a r « to C om e.
fo r
There Is no great danger that the
supply of farmers will be a drug on the
market for some years to come. Tho
treasury department's actuaries esti­
mate the population of the country
now at ninety million. At an average
consumption of 5Hi bushels of wheat a
year for each person, it -will take a
little les 9 than 500,000,000 bushels to
supply white bread for the country, to
say nothing of other varieties. This
means something more than one hun­
dred million barrels of flour to be
ground, distributed and baked Into
bread for delivery at the consumers’
tables.
But this is only one of the many de­
mands which a population moving rap­
idly toward one hundred million souls
makes every- day of the year. The
country consumes probably not less
than thirty million head of live stock
a year. This includes cattle, hogs and
sheep, but takes no account of poultry
and poultry products, nearly all of
which have to be supplied from the
farms of the country.
The two branches of farming which
require the least labor for their suc­
cessful prosecution, and the most
thinking, are those which hare much
to do with the Increased cost of liv­
ing. They are poultry and poultry
products and live stock growing.
Within an hour's ride by rail of near­
ly every eastern city there are lands
which lend themselves readily to oc­
cupation for these purposes. With
modern facilities for transit to and
from the cities and towns the possi­
bilities of development of these par­
ticular sources of future supplies
would seem at this particular time to
be especially inviting.
As for the alleged drawback that
schools and other institutional advan­
tages are inferior in rural and sub­
urban communities, there are some se­
rious doubts In the matter.
City
schools are crowded because of haring
to work by the wholesale. In contrast
with the personal atentlon which la
possible and practicable in the rural
and suburban schools. Moreover, the
conditions of living make greatly for
the physical if not for the moral ad­
vantage of the rural over the urban
life.—Wall Street Journal.
Too
‘•BIG BEN” LOSING TONE.
Toice of London’s Famous Bell Suf­
fers from a Fracture.
“ Big Ben" is in disgrace. Every one
In London knows "Big Ben," and no
stranger who comes to London can
be leng in town before he knows "Big
Ben,” too, the big bell which, with
ills four little brothers, strikes the
hours, quarters and half hours away
up in the tower at the houses of par­
liament. When "Big Ben" and his
four little brothers are having their
periodical clean-up their deep-toned
chimes are very much missed and the
watches of Londoners get all out of
time.
It is Wooding Starmer who has
sounded the alarm about “ Big Ben,"
says a London letter. Lecturing at
the royal Institution the other evening,
he said that the tone the bell gave out
was not as good as It should be. "Noth­
ing but serious injury,” he said
could result from the cutting of holes
In the sound bowls, although It Is laid
that the holes were cut to ascertain
the extent of a crack. However, It ts
certain that the holes and the crack
seriously mar the tone."
This came as a great surprise to
many, for no one had ever heard that
either “Big Ben" or any one of his
four little brothers had a crack or
holes punched in him. Messrs. F. Dent
& Co. of the Strand, who have charge
of the Westminster clock, confess that
all Is not well.
"We quite agree,” said the manager
of the flm, “with what Mr. Starmer
has said regarding the hour bell, and
we certainly think a new one should
be cast In its place, but It would be
a great job to take the bell down.
"Tlie history of 'Big Ben' Is a curi­
ous one,” he continued. “ 'Big Ben’
and the four quarters were easi about
1856. The first 'Big Ben' weighed
about sixteen tons and was not a suc­
cess and it was recast. The new one
was not so heavy, weighing only thir­
teen and one-half tons. Within a year
a crack or flaw developed near the
month of the bell. The result was that
the striking hammer could only be
about half the weight necessary to
bring out Its full tone, no doubt on
account of the rlak of the crack go­
ing further.
"The question of the bells was con­
sidered by an influential committee
at the time assisted by Mr. Turle, the
eminent organist of Westminster Ab­
bey, and they approved the quality
of the tone, so nothing has been done
since.”
The -chimes of "Big Ben” are set at
tha following lines;
“ All through thts hour, La>rd, be my
guide.
And by Thy power no foot ahall allde.”
Soon f o r H er
Apropos of these who never enjoy
the luxury of a carriage save when
the death of some one makes for a
free ride to the cemetery a clergyman
told of a little girl standing at 5th
avenue and 30th street. New York.
She was a ragged little thing, and she
was watching the carriages roiling
past with the moat wistful blue eyes.
"Will, little one,” he said, "would
you like to own one of those car­
riages?”
The blue eyes turned up, and there
were tears In their corners.
"I never rode in a kerridge,” she
said softly. "Me little brudder died
O n e o f o n e P el I'h r n se s.
“ Did any of the inhabitants escape afore I was born.”
with his life?” Inquired the man who
K new
H er.
wants harrowing details.
Bella—You spelled kiss with only
“ I didn't stop to ascertain." an
ayered the man who Is harrowlngly one s in your letter.
Beulah— Really, did I?
fjpet “ It struck me that If anybody
Bella—Yes, you did, and I always
tyicaped without his life there wasn't
touch use In his escaping anyhow.”— thought that was one thing you never
would want to make aborter.— Yonkers
Washington Star.
Statesman.
f
It Is awfully old-fashioned to be­
A C o n n c lr n t in « « D e c l a r a t i o n .
lieve that you are all right, and that
Drummer—Will you be mine? All
other people Are very wicked.
my Ufa I will worship yon from Feb-
A college man always talks mors ruary until April and from August un­
about It than Is relished by men wha til December. The rest of the timo I
bass not attended collect,
am oa tha road.—FI legends Bias tier.
> „ n h o f A lb e r t. K ill
E .ilrr lf l , k i « w i .
A
Frank
A n sw er.
"John Jones," said the magistrate,
with severity, “you are charged with
habitual drunkenness.
What have
you to offer in excuse for your 06
*snse?”
"Habitual thirst, your honor.”
j
M or*
F q a « l-P a y
T a lk .
There ti a proposition in New York
to make the governor's «alary as larga
aa that of a big league president.—To­
ledo Blade.
WORLD OF FALSE IDEAS
Some Peculiar Beliefs That Have
Been Proved W rong as tho
Years Uo By.
THE INACCURACIES OF HISTORY.
Fallacies Regarding Weather, Cats,
Moths, Pendulums, Steam aud
Falling Now Exploded.
The world is full of fallacies, entire­
ly apart from the great mass of super­
stitions which in themselves form a
class, a writer In the New York bven-
tng Post says. A little knowledge is
a dangerous thing, and a superficial
knowledge of the science will cause
people to believe that the earth is
cookie-shaped, or that orchards live on
air, or that salamanders can really live
in fire. Other weird beliefs ruu a par­
allel course with the materia uiedlca;
for instance, that whooping cough can
be cured by letting a piebald horse
breathe on the child, or that measles
can be cured by taking the child
through three parishes in a day.
Weather la tne subject of quantities
of absurd theories, among which some
people rank first the Idea that the
government forecasters can predict It.
There Is a belief that mild winters
follow a mild December. There were
those firings of cannons and exploding
aerial bombs some years ago to make
rain fall on the thirsty tarm lands.
We are even told now that our old
pets, the equinoctial storms, are but
creatures of the imagination.
History abounds in things which
never happened.
Wellington never
said, “ Up, guards, and at them!" at
the battle of Waterloo. Dick tvuit-
tlngton never came to London with a
domestic animal called a cat. Wil­
liam Tell never shot the apple off bia
son’s head and Horatius never defend­
ed the bridge. The old story abou(
Lady Godiva has been absolutely dis­
proved. Cinderella is said to have
worn glass slippers to the famous ball
at which she made her reputation. In
the old Eastern version, she wore fur
slippers. That cats suck the breath
out of sleeping babies is an old ab­
surdity that dies hard. The human
race is intelligent enough in this day
and generation to understand electric
lights and wireless, aeroplanes and au­
tomobiles; but you still occasionally
see in the newspapers accounts of eats
who have killed babies by Bucking
their breath. This is one way of say­
ing that the cat, liking a warm place
to lie, has jumped into the baby's bed
and suffocated the occupant by lying
on it. The average little baby is less
in weight than the average cat, and la
scarcely capable of driving a cat away.
The pendulum does not make the
clock go. It merely makes It go even­
ly. Steam Is Invisible. What we see
emerging from locomotives and the
tops of tall buildings is steam which
has begun to turn back into water.
Nails and teeth of animals are not
poisonous themselves. A scratch or
bite from dog or cat may prove so,
but only because some impurity or
germ has been deposited In the ugly
wound which results. When a serpent
bites he discharges a special poison
which is secreted from glands.
Many people think that a soft-boiled
egg which has been allowed to cool
cannot be made hard by a second boil­
ing. This la not true.
Every time a workman falls from a
forty-story building there are people
who say: “Well, he probably didn't
feel it when he struck.” There Is little
or no basis for this belief that a per­
son is dead or unconscious at the end
of a long fall. Our surviving jumpers
from Brooklyn bridge prove this, and
that a person retains consciousness Is
shown by the case of the English boy
who fell down a pit some 250 feet deep
and shouted "Below!" three times on
the way down. One theory is that a
person failing would not be able to
breathe; but a train at sixty miles
an hour Is moving faster than one
would move In falling 100 or so feet,
and no one pretends that one would
die of suffocation if he puts his head
out of the train wiitdow
The old tradition that a drowning
person rises three times before he
goes down sounds well in Carnegie
medal stories, but is not true. A per­
son rises so many times as he can get
to the surface—which may be once or
a hundred time»—and he drowns when
he la so full of water that he cannot
breathe.
TRACING FREIGHT CARS.
( lo w
T l B i e -F r r l a h t
llo llln i r
S lo c k
l l a « R een T n n if il a n il S u b d u e d .
A freight car is essentially common
property. It has to go from one line
to another in the course of its busi-
nesa. It has to carry loads from Jack­
sonville, Fla., to Spokane, Wash.;
from Phoenix. Ari., to Augusta. Me. If
all the freight cars in the United
State« were owned by on« big company
and if that company charged the rail­
roads for the exact amount of use
which they made of each car the sit­
uation would theoretically be more
reasonable than It Is to-day.
But in any case the wanderings of
freight ears will always entail an enor­
mous amount of labor with pen and
pencil and telegraph key and type­
writer and long-distance telephone.
The modern hunter of freight cars
ia not satisfied with knowing where
all the cars on his own line are at the
end of each day's run, the Technical
World says. Modern business life has
become so rapid that in the case of
certain kinds of freight It ts neces­
sary to know just where each car Is
every few hours. This kind of freight
ia called time freight.
Ordinary freight is dead freight
Time freight consists only of certain
material«. These materials run alpha­
betically all the way from asbestos,
through cranberries, egg-ease fillers,
Ink, peanuts and varnish, down to
zinc. All cars In time freight trains
are reported by telegraph from all cl-
vlslon points.
Yon ¿aa stand in front of a big
board oa the wall—it la like the board
LITTLE ABOUT EVERYTHING.
oa a stoca oroktra office except tnat
it has little holes in it—and watch
A burning question—Was it insured?
the progress of the cars in a time
No man ever told a woman all bis
freight train from point to point. Aa
the telegrams come in the pegs are secrets.
moved from hole to hole. If you
It isn't every family tree that bear*
started a carload of varnish from Chi­ desirable fruit.
cago to Omaha laat night you can
Follow the styles and you'll be led
come In to-day and see just where that to extravagance.
car la. You can watch It all the way
There's money in pipe dreams—If
to Omaha on the board.
It la a cruel humllatlon for the you are a plumber.
Some men make the best time when
freight car. It used to be a wild,
■tray animat, but now it ta tamed and headed the wrong way.
It's awfully hard to forget a friend
domesticated. Just as we now have
municipal lodging houses for tramps, | who owes you money.
so we have telegraph record boards for
There is nothing quite so empty as
freight cars. Pretty soon nobody will an empty compliment.
be able to escape from the authorities.
After you have made good try your
It Is only occasionally, under modern hand at making better.
methods, a freight car tracer has to
Society is harder on a woman's com­
go out and bring tt home by force.
plexion than housework.
If at first you don't succeed, try
INVENTOR OF DIVING ARMOR
from some other direction.
D re e s In H a P r e s e n t F o r m I s D a e
Beware of your victims. You can't
l e V a lv e M ade la
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trust a victim out of sight.
Among pioneer Inventors, to whom
Jonah was the first man on record to
the diving dross in its present per­ acquire inside information.
fected form owes so much, was Wil­
It's usually advisable to give a nar­
liam Hannis Taylor. The previous
“ hit or miss" attempts were super­ row-minded man a wide berth.
And a crank thinks he is the easiest
seded by the Taylor patent of June, 20,
1838 (No. 578), in which the easen man on earth to get along with.
tlal feature was the valve allowing
What Is your specialty—pointing
the emission of consumed air without with pride or viewing with alarm?
an Influx of water. Previous to that
Did you ever hear of a man's good
time there had been the diving chests behavior getting him into trouble?
and the diving bell, of which the lat­
If you get enough to eat and wear
ter, Introduced by Smeaton, In 1778,
was the safest and most practical de­ you haven't much of a kick coming.
Wealth Is a good thing, but it was
vice for submarine exploration. The
diving bell has been developed along­ never Intended for people to roll in.
Occasionally a fast young man is
side of the diving dress, and Is still in
given a life In the hurry-up wagon.
use.
The general appearance of Taylor's
Isn't It wonderful what a lot of
diving armor was like that of a kissing one small pair of lips can do?
knight's suit of mail, except for a
It takes more than an alarm clock
prominent bulge In the body piece. to enable a man to get up in the world.
A large pipe coming down from the
A man seldom appreciates liberty
surface, and penetrating the body
until after he finds himself married or
in jail.
You can't always judge the merits
of a thing by the guaranty that goes
with it.
A man with wheels in his head
never realizes that he is out of the
running.
Nothing short of a stick of dynamite
will ever make some men rise to the
occasion.
Some men's ideas of a good time is
to be unable to remember anything
after 10 p. m.
The more some people talk the more
you wish you could find out what they
are talking about.
Sometimes it is a man’s cheek or
brass that enables him to grasp a
golden opportunity.
It's a fine thing to make yourself in-
ilspensable. As yet no one has ever
succeeded in doing it.
A woman has a lot more faith in a
man during their engagement than she
has after their marriage.
When a man gives his wife money
to buy something for the house he acts
as if he considered it a loan.
We are glad that we don't know It
ail when we hear what people say
about men who think they do.
Fame shows no partiality; it comes
to those who do something great, also
to those who do something foolish.
The worst thing about a honeymoon
FIBST DIVING ARMOR.
is that the woman in the case keeps
piece on the other side, and was pro­ reminding her husband all the rest of
vided with a valve which carried off his life how different he was then.
the exhaust. Although diving armor
ATCHISON GLOBE SIGHTS.
has now reached Its perfected state,
this valve has never been materially
A good corn country is never a sum­
improved upon. The accompanying
illustration is reproduced from Mr. mer resort.
Taylor's patent.—Scientific American
Almost all old women wear their
dresses too short.
MAYOR OF PORTO VELHO.
We all have strings to us that soma
one else is pulling.
U n iq u e D istin ctio n C o n ferred
I 'p o n
That man or woman never lived
A m e r ic a n In H e a r t o f IJra x ll.
To be made the mayor of a foreign who was not a coward.
All the hoodoos have more good
community
while still
retaining
American cltlenshlp and to "get away luck than they will admit.
During a flood, a flood is a good
with the goods" is something that
does not fall to the lot of the av­ deal worse than a drouth.
erage American. In Thomaston, L.
We are all alike in at least one par­
I., however, the New York Telegram ticular; we ail hate criticism.
says, "there is to-day a live, up-to-date
A woman's idea of extravagance is
American, enjoying his first visit what a man spends on himself.
home in 25 months, who is the mayor
No one can go out in that which is
of a place some 10,000 miles away, in
called society and not be a gad.
the very heart of South America.
"If THEY can afford it,” a wife fre­
On the Booth liner Clement there
arrived Thomas F. Murphy and four quently says to her husband, “ we
of his associates, Loftin E. White, can.”
We are always afraid of a man or
“Joe" Gugenheim, W. Gerald Cooper
and Fred Schmidt. The quintet havn woman who is quiet, and has little
been in Brazil more than two years to say.
laying out a railroad route from Ma­
Is any man ugly enough to warrant
deira Morrow among the headwaters covering up his ugliness- with red
of the Amazon, which is to stretch whiskers?
across the continent when it Is com­
So many good women when they
pleted.
haven't any other master make one of
Times were a bit dull at Porto Vel- their conscience.
ho, so named for no reason in par­
There Isn't a great deal of hope for
ticular, for there was no habitation the man who is as proud of gruffness
there until the five Americans arrived as he ought to be of politeness.
on the spot to lay out their railroad [
If a married woman is very happy,
To while away some of their spare
time the Americans decided to hold all the other women solemnly agree
that they hope it will last—But.
an election.
We have noticed that few men
The native porters and laborers
were given pieces of pasteboard and make dying requests, but did you ever
told to place them in the big box at j notice that most women make them?
It Is every woman's opinion that, no
the entrance of the white man's camp
matter who gets the divorce, nor what
when Gugenheim gave the signal.
In the improvised ballot box the for, a Mother is entitled to Her chil­
natives dropped their bits of paste­ dren.
board, each of which read aa follows:
When the wolf Is at your door, you
“ I vote for Thomas F. Murphy for | will be surprised how easily you can
Mayor of Porto Velho.”
chase him away, If you maks the ef­
There was no question as to the fort
,
unanimous vote and after Murphy’s
What has become of the old-fash­
election to office the five Americans ioned man who, when he had nothing
proceeded to divide the rest of the else to do, sharpened hla knife on his
municipal offices between the other boot?
four. According to the law of Brazil,
It Is easy enough to entertain a
however, the natives having voted reg­ man; find out his hobby, and assume
ularly and willingly, really elected a thirsty knowledge to know more
Murphy to the office of mayor of •bout It.
hitherto unknown Porto Velho, and
when the five Americans left there a
W e D o n ’ t R la m e H im .
month ago some Brallian settleri were
“ I didn't know my husband had such
very much wrought up over the a temper,” sobbed the bride.
proposition of possibly never seeing
"What's the matter?"
their mayor again and over not being
"When he came home from work the
able to elect another man as thetr other night I Just asked him to go over
head because of the, present incumbent to the store for some milk, and he
of the mayor's office.
swore something frightful."— Detroit
When a rattlesnake Is annoyed. It **ree Press.
shakes its rattles, and people quit an
noying 1L We wish we had rattles to
Isn ia S n rn it
l.lah l B r n r lr la l,
shake at the approach of a book
According to a French scientist, tho
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rays from Incandescent lights are ben­
We hope some man will finally ba eficial to human health, destroying
found wbo never loved but one bacteria, stimulating circulation and
cellular activity and reducing pal^
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