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About The Maupin times. (Maupin, Or.) 1914-1930 | View Entire Issue (May 28, 1915)
T TT TUB canal In southern France which, with the help of the Garonne river, unites the At lantlo and the Mediterranean Is the oldest, longest, and least known of the world's Intor-murlne canals. Built In the seventeenth cen tury, It has always boen known as the Canal du Midi or du Languedoo. Start ing at Toulouse, It runs about ICO relies In an easterly direction until It finds the Mediterranean at the port of Cette. It Is thus about three times aa long as the Panama canal, but In Its locks, proportions, boats, and gen eral traffic It Is very similar to the Erie canal In Its pulmy days, writes Frank R. Arnold In the Los Angeles Times. When you come out of the railway station at Toulouse you have to cross the canal before you can get Into the city. The boulevards along by It are named for Rlquet and Donrepos; for the father, who planned the canal but died six months before It was finished, .and the son who completed the work. And a little way up the canal Is a statue to Pierre Paul Rlquet, the In scriptions of which give the history of the canal In a nutshell. One side tells bow the two seas are Joined at the di vide of Naurouse and bow the water comes down there from the mountains to make the commercial high way. From the other sides you learn that the edict for construction went forth from Louis XIV on October 6, I6G6, and that navigation began on May 15, 1681, and that the grateful city cf Toulouse dedicated this monu ment to Its benefactor In 1853. Rlquet quite modestly turns his back to bis great work as well as on a set of vet erinary school buildings on the other side, and beams on Toulouse. Well .may be look at the city with satisfac- .-..v j :v.v. : i m . ,.iv. WHERE THE CANAL. CK0&5E3 THE ORB AT BEZIERS tlon, for his canal In hiB day was al most as great a feat of engineering as the Panama canal Is today, and It laid tho foundation for the prosperity of Toulouso as a center of Inland com merce. Through Farming Country. As you leave Toulouse for the Medl. terranean, the canal, on mounting to ward the divide, passes through a One corn, wheat and alfalfa farming coun try. It is a broad, fertile plain shut In on both sides by low hills like the Platte valley In Nebraska. A rare thing in France, where villages abound, it is a country of scattered farms, even the churches with their octagonal brick towers In the Tou louse style having only one or two nouses about them. Flocks of geese are in every barnyard, for goose is the mainstay of the local meat supply, White oxen do all the work In the fields, but are too "molasse," the boat men say, to draw the canal boats. A New Englander would say they are as slow as cold molasses. The canal banks are lined with elm and plane trees, and the views between give a series of moving farm pictures that stand out with a Colorado-like clear ness, for thlB country Is what Henri Martin, the Paris mural painter, calls the land of limpid light It takes from one to two days to reach Naurouse, where the divide is. Here one has the best chance to see bow admirably Rlquet planned his work, for It was there be solved the chief difficulty of the canal, the prob lem of water supply. Up to the north and east, for twenty-five miles at least, extends the Black mountain, the most southerly ramification of the Ce vennes. On the Toulouse side Is the River Sor, and on the Mediterranean were many small mountain streams running Into tributaries of the Aude, the chief river on that side. Rlquet, who lived at Revel, not far from Nau rouse, had given twenty-two years of study to the problem before he proved to the king's commissioners that he could tap the Sor on one side and bring the Alzau, the Lampy, and three other mountain streams Into a reservoir above Naurouse. Beyond the Divide, The Toulouse side of the canal Rlquet pushed through In about two fuars, having at one time a force of 7,200 workers, Including 600 women, while 1,000 others were busy on the mountain reservoirs and ditches. The first stretch on the east side was as far as Trebes, beyond Carcassonne, and, as locks abound, It took more time. The first Important town you come to Is Castclnaudary, a dead, pro vincial town with the usual central square surrounded by sleepy cafes, The harbor Is finer than that of Tou louse, and the town rlsos from It to the octagonal church tower with a cer. tain gray dignity for all the buildings are of stone on that side of Naurouse. From Castclnaudary on to Bezler the Black mountain Is ever on the left, while to the right are distant glimpses of the Pyrenees. The coun try becomes more and more southern In appearance until you reach Carcaa sonne, which rises up from the Aude, the most medieval sight In France. From then on the country Is wholly given over to the grape, and you can see the peasants dusting the leaves with Bordeaux mixture At the Crease river the canal sends an eighteen' kilometer branch down to Narbonne, whose cathedral spires are plainly vis. lble against the southern sky. Then, all the country becomes an ancient lake bed converted into a mammoth plain of vineyards. It Is the former marsh country of the old Lake Ru brensls, which calls to mind by Its geological history the ancient Lake Bonneville of the state of Utah. Out of It you drop Into the Mediterranean marshes by the Malpas tunnel, 120 meters long. This is an extraordinary knot of thoroughfares. Above the hill Is the old Roman road from Bezlers to Narbonne; through the hill Is Rlquet's tunnel, the first subterranean canal In the world, and below are two other tunnels, one for the railroad and one Vi.y ,i ;i for an aqueduct some perforation, a modern would say. Down to the City of Cette. In the flat country to which the ca nal descends by nine locks at Bezlers are three volcanic humps, two rivers and a lake. The humps represent first Bezlers on the Orb river, then Agde by the Herault, and finally the moun tain of Cette close to the Mediterran ean. Except for these the canal coun try is monotonous with vineyards pro tected by windbreaks of tamarack and reeds. Every available spot has its vine. At Les Onglous the canal prop er ends, and canal boats are towed for about twelve kilometers across the Etang de Thau into the city of Cette. The Mountain of Cette Btands out In that flat country as Big Blue hill does near Boston. It reminds one vaguely of Gibraltar. The main streets all go uphill, and you have views constantly out on the Mediterranean. Connected with the mainland only by a strip of sand, It could easily become an island. Across the outlet of the Etnng de Thau is the town of Frontlgnan, fa mous for Its wines even In a wine country. The port of Cette Is mado up of bas sins and canals and seems to invade all the lower part of the town. This work Is all due to the plnnnlng and Initiative of Rlquet fully ns much as the canal behind it. He had to tave a Mediterranean port, and the Moun tain of Cette was a secure post to which he might tie it. At its base he made a canal from the Etang de Thau to the sea, filled in land and con structed basslns and breakwaters. The whole harbor Is purely artificial, and even today the struggle against nature has to be kept up to koep out the invading sand and to accommo date the ever-increasing commerce from Africa, Spain and Italy. After a trip on tho canal from Tou louse to Cette you can understand why Buch a piece of engineering passed for a marvel In the s ovent6enth and eighteenth centuries, and why the great Vauban should have said when he examined tho complete work: "I would give all that I bavo done and all that there remains for me to do. If I might have created this masterpiece." Truly, the canal-makers are among the great men of the earth, and Riquot is not the least among them. Fundamental Principles of i V V 5 V" V V : By ALBERT S. CRAY, M. D. (Copyright, 1914, by A. S. Gray) A WORD ABOUT CANCER. United States government report show that during the ten years pre ceding 1911 the population of this country Increased 21 per cent. Dur ing this period the death rate per 100,000 from cancer increased 30 per Cent among males and 22 per cent tmong females. "The extraordinary icreaie In the mortality due to can ter in this and other countries has long since raised that malady to the proportions of a great plague," says on authority who wrote on this sub ject recently. "The power of human resistance to this disease seems to be steadily declining." He then pro ceeds to predict that at the present fate of Increase In another 25 years Cancer will cause more deaths than tuberculosis, typhoid fever and ma laria combined. Scientists throughout the world are diligently searching for the cause of this fearful scourge of mankind, In order that a specific preventive and cure may be found. Meanwhile ev ery Individual should be Informed that cancer Is to a large degree pre ventable if we will but aDDly the knowledge we already possess to guard against It, There are many theories as to the cause of cancer, the most logical one being that advanced by a group of mlcroscoplsts working along biologi cal lines. The basis of this theory 1b that cancer is a state of anarchv with- in the body. To be able to grasp the theory and also to understand why the X-ray 1b at all effective In cases of cancer It Is necessary to have a thorough comprehension of the prop osition advanced by Vlrchow in 1858 which I have noted in a previous ar ticle; namely, that each one of the cells composing the human body is a distinct Individual possessed of all ,the characteristics of life. That is to say. every reader of this article is composed of many billions of indi vlduals, each having all the Dowers and faculties that the reader la con sclous of possessing and differing in ho way save in degree. Every living thine is constructed of these same In dividual cells, composed of the same protoplasm, and differs only in organ ization. According to the above mentioned theory of cancer, for some reason one of these individual cells declares its Independence of all the rest of the body, refuses longer to co-operate and goes on strike. We do not know Whether the body makes any effort to cast the striker out of the commu bity or not; but however that mav be the unruly cell proceeds to pro liferatethat Is to say, it multiplies by dividing, one cell splitting Into two, the two Into four, the four into eight and so on, thus multiplying be yond all normal limitations and so, growing inordinately, wrecks the en tire organism. It Is during the first few years and more particularly during the first year of life that the highest human mor tality takes place. The newly pro liferated cells are not thoroughly or ganized and the entire oreanlsm Is therefore weak and unstable. Ordi narily we do not think of working young children or animals, beause we know that their tissues are soft and therefore that they may very easily be broken down and ruined; but at maturity we know there Is a more per- feet organization, the cellB are more fixed, stable and adaptable and are therefore highly resistant. This fact forms the basis for the action of the X-rays on cancer. There is no remedy known to medi cine that has a selective influence, there Is nothing that can be put Into these bodies of ours that will drive disease out and not touch healthy tissues. But, depending on the state of the Individual cell vitality, tissues react differently to the same Influ ence; hence tissues having marked power of proliferation are necessarily composed of masses of these young or "Juvenile" cells and are of course vast ly more susceptible to any Influence than are the more fully formed and stable "adult" cells which may often remain unchanged for years. An "anarchist cell" finds a favora ble location and proceeds to prolifer ate; that is to say, it multiplies by division, as all the somatic cells do, and these young and weak cells form what Is technically known as "Juve nile" tissue within the more stable,' older, or "adult' tissue of the organ In which the cancerous process 1b ta king place. If now the "hard," very penetrating rays of the X-ray are turned upon this diseased area one of two things takes place either the short, sharp oscillations, which we have noted approximate more than 800,000,000,000 per second, shake these weak "Juvenile" cells into a healthful reaction, or they destroy them as a dog kills a rat by shaking it, and th healthy cells are stimulated by the MAKE SUNSHINE FOR OTHERS It Does Not Require Much Exertion or Great Deed to Give Hipplne to Tho In Gloom. Oftentimes It I a small action on the part of another that make sun shine to one who Is In gloom, It doe not require great deeds to give happiness. Nancy Kerr was a new pupil In the Rogers ichool when the term opened after the vacation. She was a shy, timid maiden, dreading this, her first taste of school life, with a feeling that was akin to pain. The girl all seemed bo old and self-possessed to this one, who thus far had studied only under her mother' tuition. Bo It was with the greatest effort that she managed through the first day. When school closed In the afternoon, and she passed outdoor on her way home, a group of girls laughing light- heartedly In front of her, brought a wistful look to Nancy's face. Bright Janet May, turning suddenly at that moment, saw it, and with a sweet, winning smile In the direction of the stranger, she said: "Won't you come and walk with ub? We might as well all laugh to gether, eh, girls?" "Of course," was the ready reply oi the others, who were willing to be come friendly, now that Janet had broken the ice for them. And to Nancy it seemed as though there came quickly a ray of light that made the morrow less forbidding, and with a happier look in her blue eyes, she Joined the group, saying: "Thank you. It was lonesome by myself back there; but now it is all right." "We ought to have asked you be fore," Bald Janet, linking her arm is that ot Nancy, with a friendly air that was quite irresistible, and which made the latter feel still more comforted. Selected. AMUSING OPTICAL ILLUSION Curious Illustration of How One's Eye May Be Deceived Arrange, ment of Cubes I Puzzling. Here Is a curious and amusing op tical illusion that you may like to trj upon your friends. When you look al the accompanying drawing there ap pears to be one cube upon two cubes If you close your eyes while you turn the drawing in this reversed position, there still appears to be one cube on two cubes. If, now, you look at the drawing and keep your eyes open while you slowly turn the drawing upside down you will see It change from one cube upon two cubes to two cubes upon Curious Optical Illusion. one cube. Then close your eyes while you count ten, and open your eyes and look at the drawing again, and it will change to what you saw in the first place, viz., one cube upon two. There are many other examples ot how one's eyes may be deceived. Foi instance, draw two straight lines ol equal length, one above the other. Al both ends of one place two short line! projecting outwards and upwards; a the ends of the other place similai short lines projecting inwards, like the head of an arrow. The latter line will then appear to be shorter than the other. SOME VERY EXPENSIVE TOYS Millionaire Gives Little Son Miniature Railroad With Accessories, Cost ing $50,000. Children of very wealthy parent! sometimes have costly toys given them. Not long ago a millionaire gave his little son a miniature railroad, with cars, engines, stations, etc., thai cost $50,000. Another rich man pre sented his little daughter with a doll that cost $1,000. The doll was a -beau ty and had a complete set of clothing for every occasion. A doll's house built like a really truly house with beautiful furniture, rugs, a real baby piano, real electric lights, stove, bathroom with hot and coJd water, cost the father of the lit tie lady to whom It was given, $1,700 Mr. Krupp, the man who Invented the rapid fire gun, gave the crown prince of Germany a miniature for tress which was valued at $100,000 These are Indeed very expensive toys, but the children who play with them are no happier than the little maid who loves her rag dolly with all hei heart or the little man who delights In tin horses and rubber balls that only cost a trifle. The happiest children are those who have a few well-loved toys. Even the Squeak Was Missing 'What's the matter there, Alice! Don't your shoes fit?" "No. papa, they don't fit me at all,'1 replied the little girl. And then she enumerated all the faults of the shoei In set terms, and reached the climaj thus: "Why, they don't even squeak when I go out for a walk." TARE TIME I TO i. DID NOT DISTURB PROFESSOR Discourse Was Not Interrupted by At tempt of Student to Imitate Crow of Rooiter. One of the professors at a certain university has often been epared much embarrassment by his quickness at repartee. One afternoon as he was In the midst of a speech somebody attempt ed to Interrupt him by suddenly crow ing like a rooster. It was done to per fection; and a number of students laughed, In spite of themselves. The professor, however, was equal to the occasion. He stopped, listened till the crowing ceased, and then, with a look of surprise, pulled out his watch. "Morning already!" he said. "My watch is on half-past three. But there can be no mistake about it; the in stinct of the lower animal is Infalli ble." There was a roar of laughter. The "lower animal" collapsed, and the lec turer continued his discourse as if nothing had occurred. ON THE ROAD. The Actor You may ridicule our last tour, but I tell you I had smoth ered chicken every day. The Soubrette Hm! Didn't the farmers catch you smothering them? Won't Thrash Him. "You continually hear people ask ing, 'What should be done to the masher?' " "Yes, but I no longer pay any at tention to them." "And why not?" "Because I'm convinced that in a majority of Instances the people who ask that question know what should be done to the masher, but lack the physical courage to do It." Not Self-Sacrificing. "Don't you think two can live as cheaply as one?" asked the poor young man. "I've often heard so," answered the prudent girl, "but I shouldn't care to pursue the study of social economy at the risk of going without a full com plement ot meals." Practice Necessary. "Don't you think tho current styles of dancing are a little informal? asked the conservative person. No," replied Miss Cayenne. "The variations In dancing are so numer ous that two people have to be very well acquainted before they can at tempt to dance together." Defined. "That foolish boy who was so dead In love that nothing would do but he must get married was so con fused when he went to get a mar riage license that he asked for a dog license." 'Well, that was all right, wasn't It, for a case of puppy love?" The Proof. "Miss Oldgirl Is a very obliging woman. 'In what respect?" 'When Jiggers got tipsy at the party and told her he didn't like her face, she immediately changed coun tenance." A Query Misunderstood. Algernon Do you think two can live as cheaply as one. Miss Simpkins? Miss Simpkins (eagerly) Yes, Al gernon, yes! I certainly do! Algernon How sad! And still wom en think they are mentally qualified for the ballot Judge. HI Preference. 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Notice to All From Lewistoa to Astoria Listen to this! 96 will buy a full lot 60x100 feet Inside the City of Astoria with perfect title, city water, city school, street cars, electric light and more than 100 nice houses within two blocks. Thinh of It, lots In the adjoining blocks to these lots have recently sold for $500 and more. You do not have to pay the $06 all cash If you do not choose, you can pay $5 cash down and $2.60 or more per month until the $l6 Is paid, when a warranty deed will be given you with a complete ab stract of title free of any charge to you. Everybody knows that Astoria Is going to be one of the chief cities of Oregon; It Is the seaport for all of Oregon and this northwest section and with an open river for more than 600 miles from Lewlston, Idaho, to the sea and Astoria with Its 16,000 population today right at the sea where the Pacific ocean and the Columbia river meet no oerson will dlsnute thp f.-w-t that from this moment on Astoria will grow with no limit to Its future growth. Itemember that it Is In Astoria that the Great Northern and the Northern Pacific R. It. have made Its termini at this noint on account of its great commerce, f am aimpiy giving tnese lots away when I offer them for $06 each. I am forced to sell, however, and am conscious thjir tn. day these lots are worth four times the price I ask and there Is no limit to the advance they are likely to reach. Com municate With me at once for nlnts nnrl descriptive matter. M. J. Clohessy, 416 AuuiKiuii nullum, foruano, Oregon. P. S. I have a number of friends wish ing to purchase good farms at moderate prices, say from $3,000 to $6,000 cash or will take higher priced improved farms in exchange for city property. Those having farms to sell communicate with me. Unintentional Thrust. A French singer recently attended a reception at the home of a lady noted for her parslmoniousness. The hostesB tried to converse with the Frenchman in his native tongue. He noticed that her lack Of fluency wai embarrassing her, and with commend abl politeness exclaimed: "Pardon, madam, somewhat the French is difS cult for you. But I am able to under stand your meanness if you will Eng lish speak." Great Generals All Used Snuff. Suggestions of a revival of snuff taking may recall the love of some fa mous commanders for tohanco In thnr form. Both Napoleon and Wellington were prodigious snuff takers, so was Washington. As for Frederick the Great, he was Impatient of the con fines of a snuffbox and carried a nnclc. etful of snuff that he might convey it to nis nose without Btlnt HT6 Healthy, Strong, Beaotlfnl Eja Oculists and Phyaiciana used Huriim 'n Remedy many years before it was offered as a Domestic Bye Medicine. Murine la Still Com pounded by Our Phyaiciana and guaranteed by them as a Reliable Relief for Eyea that Need Care. Try It Is your Eyes and In Baby's Eyes No Smartl ng Just Eye Comfort. Buv Murine of your Druggist accept no Substitute, and U Interested write for Book of the Eye Free. aauiujija tells KDHKOI CO., CHIt'AOO Emeralds of the Aztecs. Among the Aztec treasures of Mex ico were found many fine emeralds. They were exquisitely cut, and it ii from this source that the magnificent emeralds now forming nart of the royal collection of Spain were sup posed to have com. Records of Aeroplanes. For an aviator there has been In vented In France apparatus which shows the speed at which his aero plane is traveling, the velocity of th wind and the angle at which he is at tacking it and whether he is rising or falling. Mlflht Help Some. Bill A New Jersey inventor has patented a semaphore railroad signal in which the arm is outlined with a vacuum tub electrio light bo it may be readily seen at night Jill Wonder if thev coulrl ha mil. lied oa women's elongated hatpins?" NfW MODERN DANCING. E. Fletcher Hallamore. the teniinr nnr4 TV- pert and Instructor in New York City, writes: 'T have uaed ALLEN'S FOOT-EASE, the antiaeptie powder to be shaken into the ahoea, for ten years, and recommend it to all my pupils." It cures and prevents eore feet Bold by all Dm and Depart ment Store. 25c. Sample FREE. Address. Allan 8. Olmsted. La Rcy. N. Y. " A Common Falling. De man dat likes to talk ahnnt hie. ie'f,- said Uncle Eben, "generally giti maa wnen otfler folks git to diBcussln' lim."