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About The Ione independent. (Ione, Or.) 1916-19?? | View Entire Issue (June 29, 1928)
:1 l xikill Freight Barges irrepare kr National Oeosrepaie iK-l.lr, Weahlnttoe, D. C.i , . EOViT, In dUuia with England, hai been one Dior at tit fucui of world ittoutluQ, it ibi bin bin many timet In tin ility couturlM that niukt up uoit of known history. American who visit Egypt know th country chiefly from tin city Hind point Thry so through the eyet "f tin Mtremcly Jillte dragon.an who escort them about tfii streets of Cairo or Alesandrla, The man who iwtnti In tin iuu on bit tiny farm la an n tlrely different crenture. HUl seal of living li of th men iictt. Th peasant population huddle In vllliiKo within th counuee of four mud walla, nomei which literally do not furnUh them wttb roof over their brads 'wretched, cabins Improvlaed out of Nil mud wlndowles at well M roofless. No modern pott and pane, nn of th rontrlToncel and ihlfti of modern timet that go to ward rendering l)fo caay and comfort alio, and which 'enabl th foreman of a taction gang bn an American rati ronu to b better wanned, lighted, nd rvd wltlr new than wai Queen Elisabeth of England, W ar accustomed to think of Egypt In tenna of eymholi th Bplilnx, Oalrla, th ryramtds. Tin country bat been happy hunting ground for .th arcbeologlste. and their revelatlone turn ua back tlirough th atiyitni of tlm to th contempla tion of mysterious figure of th paal, whether a tacred bull or King Tut ankhamen. A country of wonder, no doubt: but th wonder of wooden It not th nclent relict dug from th earth, nor th mighty work of ' man'a bandt reeled upon III lurfac, but th anil Itself that longiih atrip -of green fringing th tllrer Ml for th better psrt of on thouinnd tulle. Nature hat dealt In niggardly fuah Ion with th land of Kgypt. Th coun try poaneiM't no copper, no Iron or, no f ureal a, no precloue minerals, and no good ileum con I. It I fairly exact to remark that th country lacks all th prim prerequbtlte of modern In dustrialism. Agriculture la virtually th aol aoucce of , pnilnnnl Wealth, Sut even In tlili field th country la txtremcly limited. Only Strip of Habltabl Land. Egypt la .praclletill mlnleaa and only ono-ti4r flflh of th Innd Is capnhl of ctHvaUon. These fertile regions er anntiwtotied In between th Arabian and Libyan deserts. Whit tn area of Kun't.'iiM rnclmltng th 80 dnn, la 8.'ii.iiiii'aMoilli-a oriwhont eight time (be slto of the (tut of lvnnajlvsnl. bnlr a llttl mora than 12,010 square.) mile ar capable of cultivation. . t Over tlila relatively (mail atrip of habitable Inucl.lhe population swarms torn 1,1(10 M pi Kutr mile, where th population, of Itelglum, th dent est In Europe, Is C"2 to th iquar tn 1 1 a. let, desiilt all Uila, Egypt I ' probably th niot perfect and exten air farming lbomtory thai th world ha yet seen. from an tgrlcuhurnl ttondpolnt, th country present t iectacl of three uniformities climate, toll, molstnr. Except for th region near th north const, th country It rsln lest and frosta art unknown. The toll It th in m, formed by th tcdl ment from Jlt water. Now, uniformity I precisely th thing which .Mh Amorlcnn furmer lacks, Th' main factor In crop yield I th weather, and th weather It alwayi th unknown quantity. Th Egyptian ioIvm hi farming . equation by knowing th valu of It before b ttarta, , . ' ' -. With th American furmer, agricul ture la more or lea of a gamble with nature, whereas the Egyptian farmer bet on ceatnlnly. Farming, there fore, In Egypt comes nearer to being tn exact tclence than In any other Iniportnnt country In th world. Whsr Man lurpastsd Nature. ' In ordinary speech, ther I alwayi a tendency. to peraonlfy onture, to olnorve Hint nature 'oei this or that or workt according to tome well ordered p'an or design. While the Plaided Steamer Coat I Bids for Summer Favor ' The plaided rtcamer cont puis In "Its bid for fnvor, supported by teverul of the Important tiiitiiufiictururs, Id one Inilauc, those large plulded conti were unllned nud tdvocited.it an tx tra casual type of Summer sport coat, tultuhl for tny wnrdrohe, Itcporti of smart out-of-door fashion from .England persist In highlighting check, Wo In coati, In sweaters and tven In accessories. on th Nil. thought It not exact, we ran with torn measure of truth ipeuk of na ture's intentions about this plunet and th life which nourishes upou It aurfneo. For example, w may ob s.!rv with trulb that nature never Intendud Egypt, comparatively tterllt and drought-beset country, to support from III soil Its present popo lallon of nearly 14,000,000 people. The Ingenuity of man, however, bat contrived by art to supplement tbt gift! of nature. Nature ordnlneo! that th Nile should overflow one a year and flood the agricultural plulna of Ita valley, beatowlug at once th twin gifts of moisture and fertility. When th flood ha passed end the wtter bat tubalded, the furmer towt bit aeed and growt bis annual crop. Tra ditionally and historically. It la either a feast or afamlne la Egypt Tor a brief aeaaon tbt abounding flood, to be succeeded for th balance of the year by biasing suns ind killing drought. Tbt Ingenuity of man hat harnessed the great liver by holding back the flood of waters during th freshet enson tnd doling out these but- banded tuppllct during the lean moutha of the year. Through tola device, streams of living water can bt carried every month of the year te tM roots of growing plant. The "great ttone dam it Aswan la In reality the keystone of modern Egypt This hug rampart of masonry, which retalna a 00 foot bead of water, weighing 2K),0U0 tons, I pierced at It foot by ISO elulce-gatea. Theee gules, kept wide open when the in nuul flood It coming down, late In tbt iummer, ire gradually closed when the crest of the flood hs basaed. By January th reservoir It full and re main to during February and March. When th supply of water begin to fall, In th lut spring tnd etrly summer, sluices ire opened tnd stored water added to the normal discharge. Great barraget ire thrown tcroet the Ml further downstream. These are masonry obstacles laid across the river's course to raise the water In the stream to the level of the Irriga tion canals. Tht Mlt barrage, a few miles below Cairo, It capable of rait ing tht water level for the Irrigation of the entire delta by 11 much at 20 feet Crept Requlrt Lot of Water, I'erenulul Irrigation, as has been ex plained, men 11s an all-year supply of water to-the Egyptian firmer. Tbt huge volume of water required for Irrigating the porous tolls of the delta under the blatlug semltroplcal tun may be put it about 20 tons per icr per dny at t minimum. Cotton-growing require! about 23 torn of water dally, wbll rice culture require 00 ton. ' Man and bla work lit Egypt bava existed only by grac of the river. There haa alwayi been something mysterious about th annual rise of th Ml. Buck a teemlngly flight thing 11 a reversal of the winds that aweep In summer across equatorial Africa from tht Atlantic would cut off the anuual flood and lay waste the richest agricultural valley tn tbt world. - But while tht innual flood hav varied from tlm to tlm In volume they have never In recorded history been entirely cut off. The apparition of the annual rise of the Nile la on of nature' certitude, is well estab lished ind it universally accepted at tht riling and setting of tht tun. Tht ancient Egyptians were con tinually casting snout for in explana tion of tht innual flood, but they never succeeded In penetrating to th heart- of tht mystery. There it no longer tin tllghteit mystery about a subject that baffled the Intelligence of the ancient world. The Whit and th Ulue Mle, meeting at Khartum, form th great River Mle. The tourcet of tlit Mlt ire, therefore, dual the one constant th other varluhle. The White Ml find a catchment basin In a series of lake, of which the greatest la Victoria, In equatorial Africa. This las I soma 2,500 mile by river from where the great ttream debouches Into tht UedUorrnnean. Clocks in Colors Clocked ttocklng. In , which thn clock art worked out In color, art most attrnctlva and art popular with many women. They serve to complete I a costum well when th clock matche torn color In It Tli shadow clock 1 again tought -after Hhls season be cause of It subtle blending. Face relit must match their hntt, nys Paris. 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Hollo Drlten, statistician of tbt United Statet public health service, finds that the expectation of life wblcb decrease gradually the older tht per son, Is higher for English women than for American women at average age between ten and eighty yeart. Tht difference between tht two countries In tblt respect ranges from about four yeart In young woman hood to lost than one year tt tht tgt of eighty. This meant that tht Englishwoman of twenty may expect to live to bt tlxty-nlne, while ber American titter may expect to reach tn tgt of only tlxty-four or tlxty-flve. No attempt ta made by the public health service to explain why this difference In longevity exists between the female populations and not be tween tbt males. Chance Brought Wild Rice to United State Illce came to America by accident In the year 1004 a rice-laden vessel from Madagascar bound for Liverpool put In to Charleston harbor tn a raging storm. Tbt captain, noting that tht land and toll near Charleston resem bled that where tbe rice wat grown, gave tbe governor of the colony a handful, trtjng btm that It might grow If planted, relates the Washington Star. Tht governor planted tbt rice and aevoral months utter harvested tbt first crop ever grown tn America. Since that time rice bat tteadlly ad vanced until now tt la a leading prod uct of tbt southern state. It first spread Into Oeorgtt from the Caro- llnaa, and -wttb tbt beginning of tht Civil wr It entered Louisiana, now tht leading rice (tat of tht Union. It gradually found ttt way to Florida, Mississippi, Alabama, Texaa and, final ly Into Arkansas. Later Its cultlvt Hon wot tried with toccett In Call fornta, That Kind Harold Llttl girl, yon bava mad me happy. 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