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THE SCIO TRIBUNE
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New Dress
—the same dependable remedy
that over a period of more than
fifty year« ha» been found so
reliable in the treatment of
catarrh and diseases of catarrhal
nature.
The out »ide of the
only hat been altered,
itate packing and reduce break
age in shipping, the paper wrap
per which ha» identified the
Pe-ru-na bottle for many year»
ha* been displaced by a substan
tial pasteboard carton.
Pe ru-na cannot lie made anv
better.
Three generations of
users testify that Fe-ru-na is the
best remedy in the world for
catarrh and diseases of catarrhal
origin.
The remedy our fathers and
gran-'fathers used with so much
satisfaction is still the standby
for the ill» of evrrvday in
thousands of American homes.
Iha Ntw r<ck«M
Champion’» Amuiir
Spent it All
Teacher—Johnny, u»e tlm word la-
"You wen- out with Mi»» Kalson last
night. It must have been pretty az- Ì disposition In a sentence
Johnny (doubling up his flats) —
penate*?**
When youse wants to flght. youae
"Two and a half dollars 1*
«landa
ponltlou.—The Open
Is that elir
Yew- that'a all ehe had with her." Road.
GiantHaine-Náu/ Brunswick
Hydro-Electric Plarx
By JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN
IDEM o' Fundy ! Tie
dollurs to
doughnuts
they are an Imperishable
memory of the "jogrrfy"
ctaas In the "l.lttle Red
School House.** an un
forgettable object les
•on to Young America
of the resist lesa might
of the ocean. Ixmg has
the engineer dreamed of harnessing
old oceans tide* for the Industrial use
of mankind. The recurrent cowl strike
urges him on. Electricity, edging ev
ery w her» Into the factory, farm and
home, quickens hla quest. Rut ever
to him the Mi-foot bore that rushes up
the I lay of Fundy to break In thun
der against the shores of iTiIgnecto
has been a thing act apart by Nature.
IStlll »land* th« ftireal primeval, but
under th« shad« of it* branch««
Dw«lla anothar r«c«. with oth«r cus
toms and lanaua««. . . .
Naught but tradition remain« of th«
beautiful villas« of Grand-Prs.
No wrote lavngfeilow In "Evange-
le." F»r this la the historic Acadia
Maine. New Brunswick and Nova
Nrotln of !N*I years ago. Here were
Staged the beginning* of the cvtitury-
long at niggle for pos*c««lon between
Frenchman and Englishman. Here
was enacted the love-story of the faith
ful French maiden that thrills succes
sive generations
And It Is one of still another race—
the American who would harneas
Fundy's tides. Ho let's forget about
dntna and turbines and kilowatts for
a moment and go hack to the very
beginning of the story.
In IhNG in the little town of llush-
ford. Minn, was txvrn Dexter I*.
t'.«>|>er lie Inherited a taste for en
gineering and ran away from home at
seventeen tn blow a forge. At nine
teen he was bossing a gang of
men on the great Hao 1‘itulo dam In
Brwsll. Next h« la seen getting a
technical education abroad. At thirty-
one he la building the great |w«»r dam
aero»« the MI»aia»!|H*l nt Keokuk. The
World war makes him a member of
the power section of the tkvuncil for
National l»efen«s and puts him al
work on the fatuous Muscle Shoal«
plant, with hla brother. Col Hugh T.
< o..|H-r. I S A. l ater still he Is en
gage«! in the Great Lakes-Ht Lawrence
waterway survey.
Mr. Cooper snd hla family have a
summer home on Cmnpotwllo Island.
N B. a few miles from East|K>rt.
Maine. As early as 1912 he began
watching the Fundy tide* In Win,
while recovering from appv-ndlcl tla, he
bad nothing else to do for several
month*, Ry 1032 hs had tentative
drawings ready, tast year he devoted
himself entirely to the work. And all
thia time he dodged publicity.
l ast apring Mr. Cooper took hit
plan to the Maine capital at Augusta
•nd got the lncor¡«>ratlon measure
through the legislature. Rut a refer-
•ndiim vote by the people was nere»
anry. as Maine forbids the export of
•lev tre-.i po’
Jun* »- Mr C.H»per •
"I
.¿use Z/varfr- *•<* 4ÍK»4a.«z-í, Me
•Of «ut In an automobil« on hl» c»m- ! ixmtainltig Mt square mile« The sea
imlgn. Ils motored U.IXXI milaei visited , water runs by gravity from opi»-r pool
every county and talked to anybody i to lower pool through turbine« »et in
and everybody who would listen.
j a fourth dam and la thua harnessed
Those who wstched Mr Cooper's and transformed Into ele<-trlc power
single handed three-months' campaign It Is planned to get a conatant and
any he 1» no |>ollt|c|an snd no orator. regular flow of water through the
They even tell the story tbst when he turbines. with a fall of from 15 to 30
went to Augusts with his bill he had feet, according to the tides.
to Inquire hla wsy to the statehouse.
The dams. It 1» stated, present no
Wh«-n he began »¡leaking lie was uu engineering difficulties The founds
known to the |>eople of Maine. To be lions are solid granite, the water be
sure, be had no active opposition to tween Islands Is shallow and moat of
overcome. Hut popular Ignorance and the dam material la ctoae at band,
IndllTrrence are mightier opponents They will not b* of record ala*. Five
than active op|»oeltlon. How, then, thousand men. working In continuous
did he succeed In selling his UOtl.OtM»,. »hlfts on all the dama at once, can
000 hydroelectric project to the hard complete them Inside of four years It
headed Yankees of Maine?
Is a feature of these dams that they
Well, they say that In llir first place Impound so much waler and furnish
Cooper la a commanding figure--forty- •o much power with such comparative
five, »11 feet tall, broad-shouldered, ly »mall ex|>endlture.
with black hair and cropped mustache,
Hits development, according to Mr.
mild •yea and a square jaw Then Cooper's figure«, will furnish a mini
they •ay that he explained his plan In mum of .’«ai.iaai horse power the year
terms that any Intelligent man could round Thia makes the much-vexed
understaml. Illustrating by drawings Muscles Hhonla look rather small, with
on a blackboard- if questions were Ila promised horse power of flOb.OUO
asked, he answered them. Anyone when the Tenncsoev river la In flood
who wished could have a private Inter and loo.OOU al low water.
view after the meeting
Translating horse power into electri
September 11 the rltixena of Maine
cal energy la unsatisfactory for the
cnst a record vote—10 to 1—In favor
nonprofmlonal, but the electric power
of the Cooper project!
Is said to t>e seven times what Maine
Take a look at the map and note
needs. Thia meatus a big surplus avail
the course of the International boun
able within a radius of several hun-
dary line. Paaaamaquoddy bay lies
deed nillca In both New Brunswick and
boll» »id«-» of the Hue. which also runs
New England. Figure« seem to show
through one dam. One set of dams
that the power will be cheap enough
Is In New Brunswick and another In
to compete successfully with any elec
Maine. The power houses are In
trical ¡Ktwer now available In New
Maine.
England or eastern Canada. Enthu«l
This means that before Mr. Cooper
astg see in It the basis of a great dis
can liegin work he will presumably
tributing system going
southwest
have to have the permission nf rhe
through New England and joining line«
I'nlted Htates government, of the Ca
wringing ¡tower from Niagara.
nadian government, of lhe provincial
Mr. Cooper la the last man to claim
government of New Brunswick, of the
International Joint commission and of that he can "harness the tides," tn
the U. S. Federal I'ower commission the full meaning of the phrase. He
Oh, yes; and there 1s another thing points out that the 1‘aBsamaquoddy
necessary Mr. Cooper must Bud a project is feasible only because of
group of financiers willing and able the configuration of the land. And he
to put somewhere tert ween FC.000.000 Is emphatic In pointing out that In hla
plan there is not a single new Idea
and SIOO.tWO.tM»» Into bls achene.
Now. the most remarkable thing In the development of electricity. It
about thia remarkable story Is that ap la merely a fresh water plan adapted
parently nobody questions that some- to salt water,
Eastport 1» at the very northeast
b<>dy will take the chance that Maine
offer«. Apparently no voire la raised jumping-off place of the I'nlted Blates.
to question that the scheme Is prac Truth to tell, tt la pretty remote now
tical or that It will pay or that capital adays It takes something like four
teen hours of alow travel to reach It
wlU be found.
Now for the outstanding englmering from Boston. It has four dally trains
details of the pro|>ect: Nature her —two each way—made up of • both
self offers man lhe opportunity; It la freight and passenger Cara. Now that
said that at no other place In lhe the summer boarders have all depart-
world la there the same favorable com e<L things are pretty quiet. Rut
bination of high Hiles and land con there's one thing that never sleeps or
figuration. Both Pasaamaquoddy and rests—-the •Tlibw o' FUndy." Always
Cobscook bays are nearly landlocked. they are at work moving boats up to
Three systems of dams will shut both street level and dropping them again
off from the Ray of Fundy. The tn a story or an, covering and uncovering
coming tide la let Into PnMamsquoddy. the shining beach, pushing In and pull
the upper pool, containing 100 oqunre ing out. Home day. If Dexter I*.
mile« of waler At ebb tide lhe water Cooper has hla way. Eastport may no»
la let out of Cobscuok. the lower pool. be so quiet.
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A Hot Reply
Rruton
"What for y'all call dat mula Mí-
"Have you any amoklng jackets?"
"No. thia la not a lire aale.*—Cen I Iona I ref " 'Cause ba la s crinar of
a million bocks.*
ter Colonel
Life lanY worth living
make II so.
unleaa yon
Genius ta a paradox.
I rara, but well done.
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