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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1911 POLK COUNTY OBSERVER THREE ' 1311 ' " .j Florida Is Draining Everglades With Canals to Cost $4,000,000 ,,Sf r f A 1 'J Queen Mary Wears $50 Dresses f E' . HB state of Florida Is making rapid progress draining tbe famous Everglades by canals extending from Lake Okeechobee In each direc tion to the sea. When the entire system of canals Is completed there will be one canal to tne west coast and three to the east. These canals will have a depth of from eight to ten feet and will be used for trans portation as well as drainage. They will also serve to Irrigate adjoining land when necessary. The Everglades formerly belonged to the Dnlted Stutes. but were turned over to Florida on that state's agreement to drain the land and open it to settlement The soil Is extremely rich and is covered with rank grafts. The United States senate has recently ordered that a report of the progress of draining the Everglades be printed as a part of the record show ing what has been done toward conservation. This report, known as senate document 89, can be obtained by Interested persons on application to their senators or representatives. The picture above shows a section of the Lau derdale canal which has been completed and a Held that has been drained and is now growing lettuce and beans. THE REAL SANS-GENE. Story of Her Adventurous Career In the French Army. Every one knows iiif washerwoman who wan ho familiar with Napoleon lu Vlotorlen Sardiin's play "Jlmc, Suns- Gene." Iiut the real Sans-Gene who lived at that time was a tlrngoon In one of the great Corsicnu s artnirs mid ppent twenty year in camps and lar- . racks. In campaigns ai;d hurtle over Europe. In the Musee de I.'Aruiee lu Paris there is a special ct:s" Inside ,. which stands her equestrian statu". Iler real name was Marie Therese Flgueur. and she was born In Hur gundy In 1774. When ten. tit the end of the reign of terror, she enrolled In a cavalry regiment commanded by - one of her uncles and soon acquired the nickname of Sans-tiene. Mme. Sans-Gene fought In Germany with the French and Batavian armies, charged at Ilohenlindeu. took part in the siege of Toulon, was In the Italian. Spanish and Austrian campaigns and fought at Austerlitz and In Russia. During the hundred days the emperor conferred the Legion of Honor upon her. and she charged at Waterloo for the last time. With the restoration she left the army to get married. She was then thirty. In the course of her marital career Sans-Gene bad five horses 8ho. under her and was wounded eight times in different engagements. She died in uospital In 18il. London Glole. PYRAMID OF CHEOPS. It Would Take a Hundred Millions to Duplicate It Today. One of the most familiar questions asked by "personally conducted" tour ists visiting Egypt and the great pyra mid built by Cheops is. "I wonder how much it cost to build it?" A building contractor with a head for figures and building estimates has estimated that the Cheops pyramid could not be dupli cated today for less than $100,000,000. With modern machinery and the em ployment of 40,000 stonecutters, haul ers, qnarrymen, masons and laborers a duplicate of the pyramid could be erected in two years. It has been calculated that the work really required the services of 100.000 men for thirty years. The Cheops pyramid occupies a space of 12; acres snd is 743 feet hiph and contains 143. 313.000 cubic yards of stone ami gran ite. The material alone represents an Item of fCO.OOO.OOO. while the labor would Increase this about by f72.0i0. 0(O. To this must be added $3,000,000 for tools, transportation and similar items. The pyramid is built on a solid rock 130 feet deep, and to build a foun dation of this character would add to the cost to the exteut of making the total of $100,000,000. New York World. STRIPPED THE LOUVRE. Restitution of Works of Art After Na poleon's Downfall. The Louvre has known a still blacker day than that on which "La Giocondo" was abstracted. This was Sept. 23. 1815. when formal restitution had to be made of the pictures looted during the conquests of Napoleon. Commis sioners attended from fourteen differ ent states. The lion's share was ob tained, curiously enough, by the rep resentative of Cassel, who recovered no fewer than 421 pictures. Austria recovered 323, Spain 284. Holland 210 and Prussia 119. Altogether 2,063 pictures were removed, together with a number of statues, bas-reliefs, bronzes, wood carvings, cameos and enamels. Sir Walter Scott in his "Life of Napoleon" gives a graphic account of the removal of the masterpieces, which were being frantically copied by en thusiastic students until the last mo ment before their departure. Thanks to the exertions of Baron Denon. who was then director of the Louvre, a certain number of stolen pictures were retained, among these being the finest example of Paolo Veronese extant. "The Marriage at Cana." The gallery, however, was left with only 270 pic tures and remained closed until the vacant spaces had been filled, mainly with the works of French artists. Pall Mall Gazette. NGLAND has an unfashionable queen. While King George affects the latest modes, the tastes of his queen in matters of dress are those of a thrifty house wife with little to spare on personal adornment. Her hats as well as her gowns are unostentatious. Some of the more simple dresses in her majesty's wardrobe cost not more than the equivalent of $30. ' That is not to say that they are made of cheap material. On the contrary, the queen always Insists that no matter how low priced the dress supplied to her it must contain no imitation ma terial. Everything must be the best of its kind. Usually Queen Mary orders several gowns at the same time in order that ehe may not waste time. Word is sent to the establishment she intends to patronize telling the manager that the queen will call at such and such a time on such and such a day. A gen eral description of the kind of gowns she would like to purchase accompa nies the notification. The manager must provide a private room in which to receive her majesty, and a number of gowns such as he thinks will meet with her favor are paraded before her on a living model. Queen Mary has decided tastes of her own in matters of dress, and she seldom orders an exact copy of any of the models shown to her. There is al ways some modification required, and she gives the most minute directions; which are taken down and submitted in writing for her approval, so that there may be no mistake. In some cases dressmakers are com manded to call at Buckingham palace with a selection of model gowns, but as a rule Queen Mary prefers to call at the shops. The "fittings" are al ways done at Buckingham palace, and the queen makes it very plain that she does not want to give more than one fitting for each gown. That means that the modiste must use every care that little or no alteration is neces- HARD METALS. .- TRESPASSING IN ENGLAND. A Monumental Majority. If eta could get the vote of lhoe ho feel worse the day after a noll tiv than they did the day before be r ' v4t!y could be elected. Atchison t tl i gramb'e because God put s on rosea. Wou'.d it tot be better Bk CM tbst He hM rut res oa s? Anon. If No Damage Is Done Intruders Need Have No Fear. Many timid pedestrians in rural England are frightened away from In viting fields by the notice "Trespass ers Will Be Prosecuted.' They need have no fear, says an English ex change. As the law stands any trespasser who does the smallest damage In jures a fence, breaks a small branch, etc. can be summoned before a mag istrate aDd fined. But If be does no damage the landlord roust bring an action at law and get an Injunction. This costs a lot of money, and unless the trespasser is a man of means the landlord won't bring his action at law. Ail he can do otherwise is to ask you to get out If you go peaceably you can return an hour later and repjt the visit as often as you wish. Noth ing can be done beyond asking you to leave again. But if you resist then sufficient force can be used, and if you show fight you may be legally knocked down, your legs tied and your self bundled on to the road. The landlord may. however, play some tricks on you. He ran saw a bridge crossing a stream, so that yon will get a docking; be can dig a pit for yon to fall into, and be can so fix the stile yon are likely to cross that yon will break It. and tben be can have you up before tie magistrate. If yon dont commit any damage, bow- ever, yon can trespass to your heart's content C . ) All Sound. Fred What do yon tLisk cf try ar gument? WU1 SocDd; Do?t certainly found. Fred-Wtaf e ? Y:.1-N..'i-icg else; Eerely sound. -w r 1911, by American Press Association. QUKKX MABT OF EXOLAND. sary. Frequently the dresses made for Queen Mary are trimmed with priceless lace and embroideries sup plied from the collection at Bucking ham palace. In such cases after the gowns have served their purpose the trimmings are removed to do service again. In no case are these trimmings old with the dresses. Queen Mary has been known to war the same dress as many as twenty-five times. On an average dresses remain in the royal wardrobe about six months, and during that time they are worn probably eighteen times each, although the frequency of their use varies a great deal, acordlng to the nature of their material and style, and thus a walking dress would be worn more often than an evening gown. The clothes of the queen are In charge of a dressing maid and two as sistants, called dressers, and are kept In a great apartment adjoining the queen's bedchamber, known as the roberoom. The walls are lined with enormous wardroles, some containing the state robes and others her ma jesty's ordinary gowns and dresses. One of the ladles of the bedchamber aends a card in the evening to the dressing maid, giving particulars of ; the dresses thst will te worn by the queen on the following day. After each dress is entered the h'-ur at whkh it must be ready end laid out in the dressing room. The system is simpli fied by the numbering of every co- ! t'jme In her majesty's extensive ward- ' role, and any reference to them ia ', made by number. ; Twice a year Queen Mary personally g- over ber wardrobe and throws j out the dresses she no longer wishes to : retain. Those disotrded are disposed ' cf in two ways; a small nomter are , given to tbe dirsing mistress and bT assistant, but the grwit rcajority are j old to a dress acency. The selling of tbe q-3-na r' 1 5ree ; is conducted by tbe dr-ir g n.!-tres. ; wbo Is gfven the wil.t d.s-re:i.n la tbe matter. There Is c-ne r.r.i:ti?n, however, tbst is aiays !ntd C5n JsnitT bo cir-TiTntaDc-s are tbe d f t th wtj t" t''A in Lcj'.iLjJ It tie ac- i'y taj'-tta li. They Come From Titanium and Are as Firm as the Diamond, The diamond has ever been regarded as possessing one quality that placed it beyond rivalry namely, that of hard ness. There are several gems that com pete with It in beauty, and at least one the ruby when of rare size outranks it in costliness, but none in the whole list equals It In hardness.,, The hardest steel cannot equal the diamond in that respect. But there are at least two products of chemical experiment that have jroved. according to French chemists, to be as hard as diamonds. These are produced from the rare metal titanium One experimenter, it is claimed, suc ceeded in preparing titanium in the electric furnace. In the pure form it is much harder than steel or quartz, and when combined with silicon or carbon so a3 to form a silieide or bo ride of titanium it matches the dia mond itself in hardness. Titanium resembles tin in Its chem ical properties, and it is the character istic element In the beautiful red and brown crystals of rutile. These, in the shape of needles, are sometimes found penetrating large white quartz crys tals, forming gems that the French call "love's arrows." New York Pres3. KEPT ABOVE GROUND. Ingenious Way Major Hook Evaded the Terms of a Will. Among ingenious ways of evading a will the plan followed by Major Hook and recorded in "Ancient, Curious and Famous Wills" may be commended: . A county newspaper some years ago recorded the death of a Major Hook and spoke of him as "a singular character." "He died," says the re port, "on Monday sennight at his bouse, Ham street. Ham common. He was an officer in the East India com pany's service and reached the age of seventy-five. His house was remark able for its dingy and dilapidated con dition." His wife had become entitled to a life annuity, bequeathed . to her in these ambiguous terms: "And the same shall be paid to her as long as she is above ground." When, there fore, the good lady died her husband very naturally objected to forfeit his Income by putting her below ground and ingeniously devised a mode of keeping her in a room which be allot ted "to her sole and separate use," placing a glass case over her remains. For thirty years he thus prolonged his enjoyment, if not of his wife's society, at least of her Income. ' Postmaster General Enjoys Ride In Aeroplane That Carries Mail Law Office Is Moved. Have moved my office to rooms 8 and 9, new Williams building. Wal tcr L. Tooze, Jr., lawyer. tf c WTr fi Air i f wr M. i Li V,,w. y, c Photos by American Press Association. ' ARUYINCx the mall in an aeroplane is not only practicable, but it is en joyable, according to Postmaster General Hitchcock, ne ought to know, because be has tried it In the recent aviation meet at Hemp stead, about twenty miles east of New York city, out on Long Island, mall was carried at regular and frequent Intervals from the aviation field to Mlneola to be placed on the train. All letters and postcards mailed and nearly every visitor mailed from one to a dozen bore a special postmark showing that it had made a flight through the air. In the lower picture Mr. Hitchcock is shown handing the first aaaij pouch ever carried through the air in the United States to Earle L. Ovington. In the upper picture Mr. Hitch cock is shown seated in a biplane beside Captain Paul W. Beck of the United States army. In this machine Mr. Hitchcock flew over to Mlneola, several miles away, dropped the mail bag and then returned to the aviation field. He had previously made a flight in a monoplane, but said he much preferred the biplane, as it gave him a better 'view of the country over which he was flying. He said he enjoyed every one of the twenty minutes he was in the air. GRAND SPECIAL OFFER. ! Cut Price Until Nov. 15 Semi-Weekly Observer AND Semi-Weekly Oregon Journal Both for only 2.50 the year On New or Old Subscriptions to this Newspaper. Don't Delay