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About The Maupin times. (Maupin, Or.) 1914-1930 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 3, 1915)
WATER SCARCE IN MEXICO CITY FIRES CHAIN 51 FFJJ Deadly Field Gun the Invention of New Yorker. Primarily Designed for the Destrucy f4 4 'A Ml "0 .v m.-srAwamrr'5. 1 TTTTTTT1T roe Rjdi iriuMN u wrvs um i 1.. mm 'wi x t Iff IV iP:WC ' I Not only did the food supply fall In Mexico City, but for days at a time the water supply was cut off and at all wells water was sold at a high price. The photograph shows one of those wells, the owner ot which was ejected by force in. order that the poor people might got water. GERMANS ENJOY A STOP IN POLAND f $ , X Scene in Russian Poland when a Gorman infantry company halted in the ong enough to permit the tired soldiers to refresh themselves with a swim in a LIBERTY BELL AT I. .ir .. .. "Native daughter" of California kissing the Liberty Bell after It had com pleted its triumphant journey to the Panama-Pacific exposition. It has been installed In the Pennsylvania building to remain until December 1. BARRICADES IN These stone barricades were erected by the Germans In the Alsatian village of Requievllle, after lt had been taken from the French. Signals. In the pioneer days of North America many a traveler found the salt for which he was suffering by following the course of the deer to one of their "licks," and later many of these places became important sources of commer cial supply- Sometimes it's hard to see how the hints man has caught from animals can be used, but every man who keeps on asking why until he finds the answer adda to the sum of human knowledge. Sir John Lub bock, for Instance, made a painstaking FRANCISCO fkt vat ALSATIAN VILLAGE i UNOERWOOO 8 investigation which showed that bees prefer blue flowers to all others. This sounds like one of those 10,000 facts without much significance. May be lt Is. But if the future is to be read in the light of the past, some day we shall ask why, and learn some thing new that will be of use to man. Meanwhile the wayfarer with his eyes open has the pleasure that comes to a man who does not walk through a forest trail only to be able to say at the end: "I saw a lot of trees." Mil waukee Journal. SAN course of a hot and hard march Btream. FAMOUS TOWER A WAR RUIN The ancient and historical tower of Uawa on the River Rawka, in Pussian Poland, as it appeared after the bom bardment by artillery and infantry that resulted In the capture of the ulty by the Germans. Building a Molasses Ship, Anothor large shipbuilding '.'ontract obtained by the Gore River Shipbuild ing corporation lias been aunouncod. It is a tank steamer for ttio Cuban Distilling company and Is a Bister ship of the steamer now In course of (,'on structlon at the yards, which .1U be called the Cubadist. The newer ship contracted for is to be 3S9 feet lorn;. 54 feet 6 inches beam, 32 feet f. Inches depth and 9,000 tons displacement. It will be capable of carrying 2,f.';0,000 gallons of molasses. About a year will be required to construct tills ves sel. The contract is the sonond rocolved within two weeks, the formnr being for a 10,000-ton cargo capacity freight steamer for Edgar E. I.uckcubach of New York. The yard new has about 5,000 employees. BoBton Transcript ' This Fish Is EduccVd. Theodore Sharp, a fisherman of Sun dusky, Ohio, claims to bt the owner of the only educated carp in exis tence. Sharp says the carp, which weighs nearly 40 pounds and when out of the water rcBcmbloo to a marked degree a fat hog, wlil corr.n to him when he whistles; that !t will eat out of bis hand and that ''hen ho is out In a boat will follow him around, swimming close astern near tho sur face. A Mighty Question. Bacon It Is estimated that If the oceans evaporated they would yield about 4,500.000 cubic miles of salt. Egbert But would even all that be enough to change all tho "frcBh" poo pie? No Proof. "Of course I think ' Amorlca tho greatest country on earth. I wan born here." "I don't see hew that act supports your assertion as to Its greatness." f w 1 h5 l ily .LtLii tion of Aeroplanes, Dirigible Bal loons, and the Like Applica tion of Old Principle. A double-barreled field gun to shoot :hain shot is the newest invention In jrdnance to be filed at the patent ofi Bee. The Inventor is Julius Wodiska, a. New Yorker, who is very confident Df its great usefulness in warfare and ilso of its practicability. The draw ings of the new gun plainly show that It certainly has the element of nov elty, and, if it works as the inventor hopes, would be a murderous weapon against a line of troops and could sweep the sky of air crart. "My invention," says Mr. Wodiska, "can be used either for naval or land work, and if the latter either as a Held gun or mounted on a permanent emplacement. The gun has two bar rels, whose axes slightly diverge from one another so as to be suitable for throwing projectiles united by chains; Buch projectiles when they leave the guu continue to diverge from one an other and stretch the connecting chain, thus forming, in effect, a con tinuous projectile of considerable length transverse to the direction of Are. Projectiles of this class, while long known, may now find a new field of application as a means for destroy ing aeroplanes, dirigible balloons and the like. "One of the Important features of the invention lies in the fact that there is only one explosion or powder cham ber for the two barrels, so that the two projectiles are fired at exactly the same moment from the two different barrels. The improved character of my chain shot is that the shot arc united by a chain of considerable length. This chain is held, up to the dme the projectile Is fired, within the body of one or both of the projectiles ind is capable of being extended as he projectiles increase their distance From the gun. At all stages during flight this extensible chain tends to be kept tightly stretched between the two projectiles. 'So far as I am aware, in all ord nance of this character previously used chain shot have always been con nected together by chains of definite and rather limited length, so that the area swept over by the chain has been correspondingly limited. In this gun I have provided means which will pre vent any entanglement of the chain in the bore of the gun as well as any wedging or wearing action of the chain upon it. "The object of my invention is to provide a gun and suitable cnain Bhot therefor which shall be free from many of the disadvantages hitherto How the Double-Barreled Is Worked. Field Gu.1 appurtenant to guns of this class, and which, without increase of powder charge or size of gun, shall be capable of greater dfistructlveness." Stolen Art Recovered. A statuette by Anders Zorn, the Swedish artist, which was stolen last su- lmer from the Baltic exposition at Malmoe, has been recovered under un usual circumstances. When it was lost from the art section of the exposition there was an uproar in police and ar tistic circles. The value of the piece ran be gathered from the fact that St had been insured against theft for 5,000 crowns, but, though detectives nil over Scandinavia were sent on the hunt for the piece of statuary, which represented a girl called "Alma," there was no trace of it. A reward of 500 crowns was I'ered for its recovery, A few days ago "Alma" was found. Tho lucky man was a railroad clerk in Stockholm, named Wigren. He had been given the unenviable job of searching through a mass of articles that had been abandoned in the rail road trains, and which were to be sold at auction the following day, In an old traveling bag was found the little piece of statuary, and the re ward the clerk received amounted to three months' salary. Visitation of Locusts. After doing millions of dollars of damage to cereal and fruit crops of Nicaragua, swarms of locusts so vast as to obscure tho sun for hours have invaded the Atlantic coast section of Honduras and are ravaging the great banana plantations near Celba and Truxillo. Passengers in New Orleans from Celba told of the appearance of the locusts over the city of Celba on June 9. They said that for several hours the sky was hidden above and to the south of the city by millions of insects. They had the appearance of a great cloud, moving rapidly and get ting more dense every minute. The high mountains back of the city were entirely obscured for more than an hour. After hanging over the city the locusts began to settle down in the rich banana valleys to the south. In Bpots the ground was even covered to a depth of several Inches and so nu merous were the hungry Insects that they left greafc trees bare of leaves and bark. - Where It Goes. A married man's energy Is divided 60-40, says Doc Wiley. Sixty In pro viding food and 40 in providing moth er's raiment. However, we have yet to hear from mother on this question, Seattle t'ost-Intelllgencer. Bridge across the Elbe A PICTURE ot Hamburg, which is described as the "New York of Europe," is drawn by the National Geographic society as follows: "Hamburg, the great German city in the North sea mentioned so often In press dispatches these days, is the New York of Germany; in fact, the New York of Europe. It has the same proud confidence of vaBt riches and i great commerce, the same careless insouciance about things and people, ;he Bame restless wealth-hunger, and he same unemotional aloofness from the stranger. Much as American boys Bock from all over the country to try fortune in New York, German boys urn toward Hamburg, the city-state which is the trading heart of Ger many. Then, too, Hamburg and New York are the greatest of all seaports. Hamburg prior to the present war did more business than any other port In he world except New York. 'Both Hamburg and New York are slands of foreign soil in their native ands. Before the war, Hamburg was English and French in tone. In Ham burg alone, of all the German cities, he people earnestly drank tea be tween four and five o'clock in the af- ernoons. Everywhere else in the Fatherland, coffee, sweetbreads and rich cakes are served punctually at tour o'clock. Both ot the world's first ports are cosmopolitan to a point of wild confusion; every tongue and cus tom being native to their manner, the ommon denominator for the reduc tion of a world of peculiarities being found in their counting houses and exchanges. "The city-state, Hamburg, has an irea of 160 square miles, and is ex- eedingly rich in agricultural, meat, lairy and fruit produce, while the city proper covers barely 29 square miles. OUNOFEK5TAO, HAMBURG) the city is a great commission house or Germany and for the world, an enormous part of the Empire's Import and export passing through Its ware houses. Only one harbor on earth rivals that of Hamburg for nervous, continuous commotion, and that bar-. bor is New York. Is Strictly Business, "There is little Old World piquancy about Hamburg. It is as strictly a growth of business and oversea trade as is the city of New York. Such buildings of historic Interest as there are in the city, such art and Bohemian life as it possesses, are bo effectually crowded into the background by high office buildings, congestions of cum' bersome freight drays, the sirens and smoke at the harbor front, and the pe culiar expressions on every hand speaking of 'dealB,' of 'profit and loss,' and of 'cent per cent, that they re main unsuspected by visiting Amerl- INFLUENCED BY HIS MOTHER John Brlght's Explanation of His Su preme Mastery of the Art of Public Speaking. The famous English orator, John Bright, was asked how he came to bo such a master of the art ot public speaking. He answered that the only help he ever had In that direction he got by listening to his mother read the Bible. She was accustomed to read the Bible aloud to the children, and he was so fascinated, he said, by her way of reading that he bad tried ever since to Imitate It. John Bright became a great states man, who carried out the teachings of the Bible lu a noble and helpful life. Such was the power of his elo quence that he brought about great and beneficial changes In the laws of England. Ills mother's Bible reading during the years of his impressible childhood Influenced his whole life; the care ful, unhurried, reverent and expres sive way in which she read was the Wfflte 4 if' S W..w. ...ni, cans, who feel themselves more thor oughly a proper part of Hamburg than of any other German city, not ex cepting Berlin. There are few statues, few museums, few marvels of archi tecture, few things of any genre whose being is derived less from prac tical advantage than from sentiment. "Residential and business Hamburg lies upon the north bank of the Elbe, while along the south bank and In denting it for thousands ot yards are hundreds of channels, harbors, canaU, and slips, worked out in a great, weird tangle of wharves, warehouses, pas senger piers, elevators, bridges, rail ways and all manner and description of Bhips and products for shipping. Many millions of dollars have been spent in the development of this mar velous harbor. Nearly 40,000 vesselB, both river and oversea, clear from this harbor during a year's course in normal times. "The Inner, or business city, Is com posed of an 'old' and a 'new' town. The new town, modern in every way, arose out of the ashes of that part of Hamburg destroyed by the great fire of 1842. The 'old' town is for the most part a warehouse district, and It Is pierced by numerous canals. The wide of Hamburg is the beautiful promenades around the Blnnen Alster, a lake made by the spreading of the Alster river within the heart of the city. Facing this lake, upon the Neuer and Alter Junefernstag promenades, are the luxurious hotels and cafes of the city. The lake is a mile in cir cumference, and is dotted with steam ers and rowboats carrying Hamburg's pleasure-bent populace." DIDN'T INTEREST THEM MUCH Coming Bridegroom Felt Himself lj nored by the Clerks In Mar riage License Office. "Say," said the man who takes him self seriously, "I had a great surprise thrust upon me when I went down to get my marriage license last month. When I think it over I am ready to assert that lt was a disagreeable sur prise. "I sneaked into the big office under the impression that everybody was watching me. But when I told the clerk at the window what I wanted he took the Information with a cool ness that was almost disgusting. When I gave him my name which seemed to me to reverberate like thunder not a solitary clerk raised his head. And nobody laughed when the Inquisitor asked me how I spelled It. "When I gave the lady's name and fancied everybody would titter, the only sound I could hear was the turn ing of record leaves and the muddled clicking of a distant typewriter. "Why, they couldn't have treated me with more Indifference if I had been buying marriage licenses twice a day for ten years! "I went into that office feeling shamed and sensitive and sneaking. "I came out hurt, humiliated, hum bled. "I had expected to be ridiculed 1 was Ignored." Cleveland Plain Dealer. Oratorical Brains. The Bpell of the orator Is still mag netic, and talk is as cheap as it used to be. The telephone puts a price on "hot air;" the phonograph sells the most expensive kind of oratory at a Uw rate of charges, but the man with a good speech center, a large vocabu lary, a flexible mouth, ample chest, some literary taBtes, tine sense of self- confidence, who has lost the sting ot fear and found the mission passion smelled the call of destiny, may be heard with profit on the political stump, the Chautauqua platform, the sncred pulpit and sundry other places. While human life by word of mouth can influence other human lives and spech Is free to all, oratori cal brains large, specialized, cultured and properly directed will mint money. Worth While Quotation. It Is a good thing to be rich and a good thing to be strong, but It Is a better thing to be loved of many friends. Euripides. chief Influence In England's greates'. 1irs. producing one of and noblest ora- There are many ways In which a mother may tnftV.ence legislation, even in communities where she may not yet cast a vote. Youth's Companion. Love That Endures. Men and women may not forget in marriage the law of human nature that that which Is not expressed dies. And any love that Is to endure and to grow must express Itself In multiplied little ways. It Is a serious matter that the repeated word of love and praise, the caress, the klBS, and the thoughtful attention should begin to fall. Delineator. Too Much Honor. Mildred was spending a day with a neighbor who had prepared a dainty luncheon table for the occasion. When Mildred was Informed luncheon was reudy and arrived In the dining room she stopped, with a look of amazement In ber face and exclaimed: "Oh, Mrs S., don't put all your finery on for we." HUSBAND NOT AN 0PTIMIS1 Aunt Matty Could Stand for Consldsr able Laziness, but Placed Ban on Newfangled Religions. "How is your husband?" asked Mi Wells ot her colored washwoman. "Poorly, mighty poorly, ma'am. H1 laid up with a misery in his back, bat he says he's mighty glad lt ain't nc toothache. He never could stand tooth ache." "Too bad!" sympathized the lady "Did the clothes fit him that my taua band sent overT" "No'm," was the regretful reply, "No'm, they didn't. They was too bit He had to gib them to his brothet Eph. He was mighty glad they fit Eph, though." "Dear me! I'm sorry the clothes did not fit him. Has he worked an) lately?" "No'm, he ain't. 'Pears like h cain't get no work. Says he's glad though, that times is gettin' better." "Well, I declare," said Mrs. Weill greatly interested. "Your husband must be a regular optimist." "No, Indeed, he ain't," denied Aunt Matty, indignantly. "He's a Method 1st, an' if he was to jine any of then newfangled religions I'd get a dl vorce." Judge. The Unresented Personality. "What are your friend's qualifies tlons for the'appolntment you wish nu to obtain for him?" Inquired Seuatoi Sorghum. "Well," replied the political plug ger, "he hasn't any special ability." "Do you call lack ot ability r. quail flcation?" "No. But It's an advantage. A mat who hasn't ability can make frlendi without creating envy, and everybodl rather pleased to see him g helped along at public expense." Willing to Work. Taking pity on the tattered wan dcrer, the kindly housewife asked sympathetically. . . ... "But why don't you go to work?" "I would," the tramp replied, "b the war handmade work scarce In m line." , "What is your line?" "I'm a hunger strike breaker." Youngstown Telegram. 1 Anticipating the Future. "This political opponent of ours il making a strong appeal," said th( campaign manager. "How?" asked Senator Sorghum, "By coming out strong for prlsoj reform." "Accuse him of graft of the mog subtle and farslghted sort. Say he'l looking forward to a luxurious life public expense." Explaining an Escape. Were you ever among cannibals f asked Miss Sllllgal. Yes," replied the constant tra eler. "And they didn't have you for din ner?" "Certainly not. Let me see, I m some cannibals Just before Easter. Oh, I see. How lucky for you thai you met them during Lent!" TIs a Cold World. "After a man has held office for I number of years and then becomes I back numbor In politics he Is seldon able to earn a living." "That's true. He's almost as help less as the man whose wife has con ducted a successful boarding house foi a long time and dies suddenly of hear disease." AMBIGUOUS. Mrs. Skolder I would have stayed away longer, but I didn't think yoi could afford lt. Skolder Nonsense, my dear, ; would hnve willingly borrowed monej to have had you stay away longer, The Secwd Stage. "Young Gadson and MIbs Doppe have reached the second stage ol their courtship." "What is that?" "They have stopped playing the Vl trola and have Btarted to readin) poetry together." 8ight Unseen. "What do you think ot the locatloi they have selected for the new nil road terminal, Mrs. Nurlch?" "I haven't given much thought to H but I heard my husband say lt'i a pel feet sight" Buffalo Express,