Tlllamoolc Headlight, June 26, 1013.
" THE SERVANT QUESTION. '
AN ELUSIVE LAKE.
BUILT TO STAND.
WHISKERS.
I Delicate FELINE
Nerve Signals That Guide tho
THREW THE MIKADO.
READING THE ENVELOPES,
Th» Wrestler Who Wanted to Humbl»
the Ruler of Japan.
Many anecdotes are still told In .In
pan about the late mikado, all of " hk h
are calculated to str.-ngtheu the ndmi
ration held tor the i’’■ c.'i 'd u n.-iri i
on account of his lienevii.cn. e aud »i. .
plicity. as well as his wisdom.
At one time wrestling was a favorite
pastime at the Japanese court and bls
majesty was able with ease to throw
all the court attendants and officials.
One man. howevei, Yamaoka Tetsu
taro, was very anxious to throw the
emperor because he was afraid that
tbe latter might become too proud of
his prowess in that and other sports.
Finally tbe em|>eror challenged Yama
oka, and the latter threw Ue .»overt ,u
with great force.
The monarch, so the sto.y goes, was
not too pleased at the defeat, but was
too good a sportsmau to say anything.
Later Yamaoka resigned bis position
at court on the plea that, though he
had defeated tbe emperor for the good
of tbe throne ami the country, yet in
doing so he had suojected his sover
eign to a heinous indignity. Tbe mon
arch, however, absolutely refused to
accept the resignation, saying:
“Y'ou have done well to show that
the riug is no respecter of persons,
nnd I appreciate your loyal spirit in
beating me.” At all events Yamaoka
was in high favor at court thereafter -
Tokyo Gazette.
They Tell More Than the Nair; )nd
Adtf'ess to the Postmen.
Lion In tho Jungle.
LUV. opr
' Because a cat can go about so safely
„ III Hi • II,. •!! ml StuUU'
and rapidly lu the dark without injury
tit im - si
privi.ie mq djn
to himself or without running into
You iiii I
-wu'
i j.
things nearly every one believes it is
»lieu I dt-.ner ou a cerium dav every
due entirely to the fact that be sees
month an official envelope with • ,-ju
with his eyes in tbe dark.
lief «tump of a furniture firm on ifie
That a cat can see to a certain ex
back of it I know pretty well th. tae
tent in the dark is quite true, but it is
enveltq«' cxgitain« the receipt fv. an
doubtful If he could go about so rapid
installment on tbe furniture. Wien
ly in total darkness were it not for his
that euvehffie tails to turn up i keep
long whiskers. Note a cat's whiskers
an eye open for the utter signs ,,f im
aud you will see they are always as
pending bankruptcy.
long, generally longer, as his bead is
An envelope with a reuse < pt. the
wide, aud a cat's bead is as wide as
middle ha» obviousl' beett I t
in
his body.
«nnthor onvpln»'
Tbl« tells
•lie
' These delicate hairs that project
■ lie
from tbe muzzle of the cat family are
kind of stationer»
wonderful mechanisms.
Each one
liver one of tb
grows from a follicle or gland nerved
UÖ
same bouse I k <
that th
to tbe utmost sensibility. Its slightest
nt
Is out of work !'!■(■
contact with any obstacle is instantly
In
u
tiserneuts
11»
felt by tbe animal, though tbe hair it
stop coming I >n lef I t<> '
self may be tough and insensible.
er the
Consider tbe lion stealing through
— jr can uu • u
tbe jungle at night in search of prey,
Sometime;! Hi.
when the least stir of a twig gives
velopes. Ttieiv
alariu. Tbe lion's whiskers indicate
w_^ used to
through tbe nicest nerves any object
hind Hi" w,
that may be iu bls path. A touch
‘US
to see wliai
he
stops him short before pushing through
wouldn’t
ill.
some close thicket where the rustling
] SOOII to
leaves and boughs would betray his
ly ever-, p
presence. Wherever his head may be
v
thrust without a warning from the
i •
vibrissa there bls body may pass noise
lessly. It is the aid given him by bis
whiskers, iu conjunction with tbe soft
NIAGARA A
cushions of bis feet, that enables him
CLEw
to proceed as silently as tbe snake.— A Waterfall in British Guiana That Is
New York American.
822 Feet High.
Her Manner, Rather Than He'
■ "‘y,
The Kaieteur waterfall. In British
Was Her Chief Charr...
Guiana, is the highest waterfall in the
The Actor Was Shy on Hie Line», but ■
ARABIA LIKES
Tile only authentic portrait
'".eo-
FLOATING
CONCENTRATION
I
world. It is of unsurpassed grandeur patra that Is known b ar '
Rose to the Occasion.
ists
William Gillette in the course of an Not Only the Natives but Everything and beauty, as the I’otaro river, unob Is a bust which up' n’t on >■
They Hava Thom Anchored With Liv Do Only One Thing at a Time, but Do
s of
structed at its brink by islands or coins
Animal Eats Them.
address made to the graduates of the
ing Hedges In Mexico.
It is on the reverv
ara
That One Thing Well.
American Academy of Dramatic Arts
Locust are today eaten In Arabia huge masses of rock, burls itself in the inscription In Greek.
leo-
The imagination of man has always
The man who makes good Is the
pretty much ns they were In Biblical full flood into a great abyss.
patra. the Divine, tbe Young"
blle
been Impressed by floating islands. In I man who can shut out of tils mind all told this story:
Peering over the precipitous and on th-> ob> ..r «• t- •» i. * —
"When I wns In Booth's company times Foreigners as well as natives
An-
ancient times such Islands were re i but one thing. An unsuccessful prin-
-■ -,
■
garded with superstitious reverence, I clpnl of n school once said that every years ago." the actor said, “we bad to declare that they are really an excel sheer rocky face within 100 feet of tony, Dictator Fvi IU- .
and tbe romantic story of Delos the , teacher ought to be able to do three be up In many parts. Frequently the lent article of diet They are best this avalanche ®f water, is an awe in umvtr.”
spiring experience. Tbe total height
boiled.
The workmanship of the coin is far
natal isle of Apollo and Artemis is j things nt once. Of course he wns actors would have to double In a tier
i of the fall is 822 feet, or five times from
formance when the roles outnumbered
The
long
or
“
bopping
”
legs
must
be
good, and this accounts in some
but one of tho many cases recorded In I w rong
The teacher who does one
classical literature of vagrant Islands thing nt a time nnd does it well Is giv the people I remember one time we pulled off and tbe locust held by a that of Niagara, which boasts only measure for the undeniably c';' up-
were playing 'Hamlet.'
When tho wing and dipped Into salt before it is 164 feet. The fall is generally seen at pearance of the queen
let i- like-
tn tbe sea.
ing the pupil the best possible object
time came In the players’ scene for the eaten. As to flavor, the insect is said tbe dry season, and consequently the ness. as far as tbe feature! •< ’a a
Pliny says that in tbe lake of Vadl- lesson In concentration.
man to poison the king It was found to taste like green wheat.
name Kaieteur means “Old Man’s true one. for the other coin»-
tbe
mon Is there is a dark wood which Is
We have to learn to think clearly
never seen in the »«me place for a day amid distracting noises, to go forward that the particular actor selected for
The red locust is more palatable than fall” and was so called after an old same series, though of a different i.pe,
tbe
isn't
was
on
the
stage
In
another
and a night together, and lie describes on n straight and narrow way with
tbe green kind. Some say that the fe mah who lived in an Indian village give her the same features, an aquiline
i nose, a strong chin, a long neck and
tbe islands called Calaminae (I. e„ out diversions and excursions that role.
male is red nnd tbe male green, but years ago.
“Immediately the stage manager others contend that all are green at ! One day the natives, exasperated at ; narrow shoulders.
"made of reeds”), In Lydln, which were waste our time nnd our substance and
tbe old man’s bad temper, put him into i Tbe fact is that her beauty was not
not ouly driven by the wind, but could to keep nt work regardless of the grabbed an actor who was getting first, whatever tbe sex.
ba pushed about from place to place “tired" feeling, the "spring” feeling ready to continue in another role. The
Locusts must be caught in the morn a boat and let the boat carry him over so remarkable as one would think from
actor was wrapped In ii big mantle, ing, for then they are benumbed by the falls. Tbe boat was, tradition tbe spell she cast over Caesar and An-
with poles.
nnd whether tbe fishing Is good or not.
Floating gardens—some nntural nnd When the soft breeze comes in at the bunded a bottle and told to hurry on the cold and tbeir wings are damp says, turned to stone and is now a . tony. Plutarch, for instance, tells us
No
some artificial—have flourished In many window we must stiffen the moral the stage and do tbe poisoning
with the dew, so that they cannot fly. large rock at the foot of the falls, “that her beauty in Itself was by no
parts of the world from early times. fiber against Its allurement. We must body would recognize him, said the They may be found in Arabia cluster while tbe old man’s ghost haunts the means incomparable nor calculated to
They are particularly advantageous In pin our attention firmly to tbe turgid stage manager.
ed In hundreds under the desert bush spot at night, and no Indian will ap i amaze those wao saw her.” but adds
“‘But,’ protested the actor, 'what
regions exposed to floods, where n gar nnd dry geometry of a legal brief or
es. and they can be literally shoveled proach. The fall, if harnessed, could that the magnetic charm of he Jan
generate a horsepower of 1,264,864.— ner, the gracefulness of be- mniements,
den planted on terra firms would be the serried figures of tbe daybook or are my Hues?'
into a bag or basket.
"
‘
Oil.
you
know,'
replied
the
stage
ruined by these occurrences, while the the busy system of n mercantile estab
the persuasiveness of her conversation
I
Later the sun dries their wings and New York San.
floating garden is undisturbed by tho lishment ami let every other thought manager.
and her figure were most attractive.
It Is hard to catch them. When in
” 'That poetry stuff?’
A King In Disguise.
rise of the waters. The famous float await Its turn at the end of ottico
flight they resemble what we call May
“
'Suref
ing gardens of Knsbmlr are a case In hours.
I '“All right.' said the actor. Then ho flies. They fly sidewise, drifting, as A ruler who journeyed to the scene
Enjoysd What Ho Paid For.
of bis inauguration in disguise was the
point
You may have heard a great lawyer
It is Interesting to note tbe effect
strode on the stage with his bottle, It were, before tbe wind.
The lake of Xochlmllco, near the In action In n crowded courtroom.
They devour everything vegetable king of Roumania. Prince Charles of that reputation has on those who are
and, bending over the king, said:
city of Mexico, is nearly covered with What was the secret of Ills power? It
and
are devoured by everything ani Hohenzollern traveled to Bukharest in not good critics of the efforts of public
" 'Nobody here, nobody near!
floating gardens, called cblnnmpits, on was that he would not let the Jury's
mal-desert larks and bustards, ravens, 1866 in defiance of the powers when performers, as a clerk in a downtown
I'll pour the poison In his ear!' ”
which are raised vegetables nnd dow attention or the witness' tongue wan
hawks and buzzards like them. The war between Prussia and Austria was bank was telling.
—New York American.
ers for the city markets. They are der from the relevant facts. He kept
camels munch them In with their food. imminent. In Switzerland he had a
"I happen to know a celebrated con
formed of floating masses of water Insistently to the straight line Hint Is
The greyhounds run snapping after passport made out In the name of cert artist,” he said. “One evening
Medicinal Heart of Oak,
plants, covered with soil nnd secured the shortest distance from point to
The virtue of a •cure." apparently. them all day long and eat as many a3 “Karl Hettingen,” going to Odessa on she was in tbe city and bad noth
by poplar stakes The latter take root point. He curtly dismissed nil that does not always lie in Its ability to dis they catch, The Bedouins often give business with a special note recording ing to do. so sbe came up to our very
and surround the Islands with living was superfluous. Immaterial and cal- gust the senses.
bumble flat in Harlem to spend a quiet,
From earthworms them to their horses. — Youth’s Com- that Herr Hettingen wore spectacles.
hedges.—Philadelphia Ledger.
ciliated to blur the salient outlines of for bronchitis and snakes for goiter panion.
At the Austrian frontier a customs of homelike hour or two. The night was
the mutter In controversy.—Philadel one turns with relief to a "cure" for
ficial demanded his name, and the warm, and the windows were open
phia Ledger
Origin of Curtain Calle.
prince had forgotten it.
Happily After dinner she sat down at the piano
Made For Fat Men.
“nil weaknesses of mind and body"
The first curtulu call took place on
One of tbe narrow arches in the gal Councilor Von Werner, who accompa nnd sang several songs for us. The
which Coleridge encountered on a visit
the evening of Feb 20. 1743. On Hint
Watted Medicine.
to Germany It was indeed something lery of the chapel at Columbia univer- nied him. bad the presence of mind to next day 1 beard that one of our neigh
memorable evening Voltaire'» "Me
■'There Is one loss sustained by drug to write home to his wife about Here slty Is not exactly symmetrieal. nl- create a diversion by insisting upon bors complained loudly about the 'yell
rope" was iterformed for the first time gists that very few people know about." In Its advertisement: "A wonderful ami though the defect is not noticeable to pa.vtug duty for some cigars and mean ing' in our flat and said that such nui
In Varis. The nuthor was known to the «aid the ei|iei'leneed clerk
"That Is secret Essence extracted with patience the casual observer. The reason for while the prince consulted his passport. sances ought to be prohl lilted
Two
Paris public, but nothing that they had In the prescriptions that have to l>e anil God's blessing from the English the w idening of the arch aftef its orig So he proceeded safely on bis secoud
nights later that same nelghboi paid
aeon of Ills had pleased them so much made over, the same as clerks, stenog oaks nnd from that part thereof which inal construction bad rise in a some- class Journey.—London Chronicle.
Í $2 a scat for himself, his wife aud his
as "Mero|>e." nnd the enthusiasm found raphers, writers ami artists, no matter the heroic sailor« of that Great Nation what humorous occurrence. One of
daughter to hear our friend sing at a
expression In noisy demands to see the how painstaking, occasionally have to cnll the Heart of Onk This Invaluable the early visitors was a remarkably fat
Strenuous Chivalry,
concert.”—New York Sun.
author In a letter Voltaire says tills do their work over. The most careful and Infallible medicine has been god
It Is complaned that modern condi I
man. who found himself wedged into
of tbe Incident: "They dragged me out drug clerk In existence Is bound to lily extracted therefrom by the slow the arch when he tried to squeeze tions lire killing "the chivalry of the
Ptolemy’s Big Boat.
and toil me by force to the box occu make mistakes sometimes In measur processes of the Sun and the lungneti- through and wns extricated with some middle ages."
But mediaeval tales
Ptolemy iPbilopatur) ws« fond of
pied by the Duchess de Villars nnd ing and mixing.
cal Influences of the Planets nnd fixed difficulty
Tbe builders, recognizing and romances show what that chivalry building big boats. One of these Is
her daughter-in law The whole then
"He may pour in too much of some Stars" Such n tribute to mariners the possibility of other fat people be really was Wife boating was a com
ter aeemed to hove gone mad—all kind of liquid or «Iff In too much of n should do milch toward cementing a ing numbered among the future vis mon Incident on the part of those said to have been 420 feet long. 57 feet
broad and 72 feet deep from the high
shouted to the ducheaa to kiss me. certain powder,
In most cases the friendship with Germany —Loudon Ex
itors, decided to widen tbe arch, sac- knights and gentlemen whose gallantry est point of the stern This vessel had
The noise became so great that the overdose would not really affect the press
crith Ing symmetry and harmony to was a mere convention. Tbe Chevalier four rudders or wbat some would call
lady finally obeyed. So I was, like value of the medicine, but the con
practical need, as the pier was so con ■ de la Tour-Ijindry in bis book of coun steering oars, as they were not fasten
Alain Chartier, publicly kissed, but he scientious clerk is not going to take
When Porfirio Ruled.
structed as to bear no loss of width sels to his daughters tells them tbe ed. each forty-five feet long. She car
w»s asleep, while I was wide awake.” chances on murdering anybody. no ho
In ISB7. when the dictatorship of ou one of its sides.—New York Globe.
story of a woman who used to contra- ried 4.000 rowers, besides 3.000 ma
throws away the whole mixture nnd Portlrlo Dili» wns young, writes WIL
diet her busband In public, One day. rines. a large body of servants under
Cant Keep a Good Man Down.
makes up another prescription "—New limn Archer In the Ixmdon News, there
after expostulating in vain. be knock- her decks and stores and prov'slons
Hecatan Tried To.
was an attempted rising nt Vera Cruz.
Tbe wny for a young man to rise Is York Time».
“Philip." said tbe teacher, "parse the •id her down, then kicked her face and Her oars were fifty-seven feet long,
The governor of that place telegraph
to Improve hlinaelf In every way he
broke her nose. "And so," comments and the handles were weighted with
seuteuce. 'Yucatan is a peninsula.'"
ed to Dini asking whether he should
cun. never suspecting that anybody
Ths Neighborhood Traveler.
"Yes'm." falteringly began Philip, the good chevalier, "sbe was disfig lead. There were 2.000 rower« on a
shoot
the
conspirators
nnd
received
wlsheo to hinder him. Allow me to
It Is written, and the world lielleve«
who never could understand grammar ured for life, and thus, through her ill side, and it Is supposed that these were
assure you that suspicion nnd Jealousy It. that travel Is the infallible, exclu the economical answer. "En caliente.
behavior nnd bad temper, she bad her
divided into five banks. That this ex
Some people argue that this any way. "Y'ucatan is a proper noun,
never did help any man In any situa sive <me for provincialism. Perhaps! si "
notu'tlve case, secoud person, singu nose s|M>iled. which was a great mis traordinary vessel ever put to sea is
tion. There may sometimes be ungen l ltlnmtely that de|>enda on what the meant. “If in the beat of action, yes.”
lar"-
fortune
to
her.
”
But
not
a
word
is
said
doubted, but that she was launched
erous attempts to keep n young man man takes with him In Ills wanderings hut who requires orders for shooting
“Why." asked the teacher in amaze about the busband's brutality.
dow n, and they will succeed, too. If ho Merely to go accomplishes naught. In In the heat of action? The plain mean-
and used nt times. If only for display,
allows his mind to be diverted from Its tine, one need not travel at nil. If the Ing Is In American. "Right away!" or ment, "how do you make that out?”
several historians are agreed.
"Yes’m." said Philip, swallowing
Nice Discrimination.
true channel to brood over the sttempt- num with the common eye will but In English. “Without formality.” So
"First person Icatan, second
That her two grandmothers did not
ed Injury. Cast about nnd see If this use his eyes he may bring all tbe world the governor undentiood It, and nine hnrtl
A Case in Arithmetio.
<
person Yucatan, third person Hecatan; ho:d quite tbe same place in her esteem
falling has not Injured every person to him The Alps and the Rockies are men were put to death
The teacher was bearing her class of
plural, first person Wecatan, second was indicated by Mildred, a little girl
you liar» ever known to full luto it.— worth seeing. Indeed, but the man who
small boys In mathematics.
per"—
of el.’.ht years, after sbe had heard tbe
Not In Her Class.
Abraham Lincoln
“Edgar," she said, “if your father
la cnixihle of really seeing them. If
I But right here the teacher fainted.— story of Uttle Red Riding Hood.
“
Yon
know
It
Is
stated
that
a
man's
can do a piece of work in seven days
among them, is capable also of behold
New
York
World.
“
Ob.
dear
me.
”
'
said
Mildred.
"I
just
In Luck.
and your Uncle William can do It in
lug landacniw and glory In his own heart beets 02.1fl0 times a day,” said
the young man
couldn't stand it to have my Grand nine days, bow long would It tai:* t otb
“Ilow's your suit getting along since neighborhood —Booklover»' Magazine.
mamma Ryce eaten up by a wolf, and of them to do itr
"Every day?” naked the sweet young
Poor Old Wise Ones.
be graduated as a doctor?”
thing
Some one ba« dug up tbe following I could hardly stand It to have my
“Hplendldly."
I
"They would never get It done, an
Slightly Ineoneietent.
"Yes. every day."
“Building up a good practice?"
I from the Chicago Inter Ocean of Dee Grandmamma Turner eaten up by swered tbe boy earnestly. "Tbe?
"A patriot chould not tie concerned
31.
1863:
"Well.
If
a
young
man's
heart
didn't
onef
—
B
Oman's
Home
Companion.
“Yea. Indeed
lie'» only lawn prac
would sit down and tell fish stories."-“
with matters of mere pecuniary com
beat more times than that the day he
"George M. Pullman, of the firm of
tIcing a year but he's already got one pensallon."
New York Post
I
proposal to me I'd consider him a prot
She's One,
I'ullman A Moore, house raisers, is ex
family whl< *i pays Its bill promptly
"And yet." replied Senator Borghum,
'Td like to get a little rnnabout If
ou the loth of every month.”-Petrolt "w hen a man Is rich enough to be Inde tv cold protwwitlun ”—Youkers States perimenting with what he calls •» pal
What ths Teacher Taught Him.
mnn
Free Pre»»
ace sleeping car.' The wise oues' pre I could afford one."
pendent of such considerations, they
The small boy bad just returned
“
I
km
TV
how
you
could Bet one for home after a most tumultuous day St
dict It will be a failure.’’—Cleveland
won't let him run for offlee.“—Wash
Historical Not«.
the asking'."
I lain Dealer
Cruelty.
Inglou Star.
school.
A small boy handed In the following
••now?”
"I hate to put some of my photo
«
“What lesson," asked bls father,
on an examination paper Io United
“Ask our next door neighbor-»
graphic subjects on uiy plates”
Pr»fan» Golf.
Progressive.
"was the most Impressed on yon to-
st m ten history
daughter
to
ynarry
you.
”
—
Loudon
“YVhy soy
•Oo you think golf a suits bl» game
' Some day.” remarked tb» nie« old
day by tbe teacher?"
"General Braddock was killed In tbe
Mail.
"Because they are such avnaltlre for women?”
«ent emaa. "you may b. prmideat of
"Pat I need a thicker pair of pants.”
Revolutionary war
He bad throe <ne I ulfed Sinter”
piate»"—itaItimor» American
“1 should say not. Why. I saw a horses
—Ladles' Home Journal.
shot under him. and a fourth
A Croat Thrust.
man playing once, and all h» did was went
- replied tbe ron of the very
through bla clothe». "-Every
" Tin true y»m see me In reduced cir
bt« business man. • bnt If they want
to walk around a field with a club In body's.
A Literary Noise.
Friandlinasa.
cumstances now. but I once rode In
Iter-What's that rasping sound In hla hand and »top every few minutes
'T Wl" h"T*
n,ts* ,he • üary." my own carnage "
It Is not wise to rush Into violent
to swear.”— Buffalo Express.
- Chicago News.
the pertixll.al room?
friendship» with every one you meet,
Wonted Hi» Beet Werk.
"Ha!" exclaimed he of tbe stony
Illm-Oh. that’» where they are tiling
hut 1» la a great mistake not to be <*
What yon need," Mid the dvctjr, "te
heart "That must have been before
th» msgssirw».-New York American
Adversity I» sometime» bard npon a »» (iteration "
friendly terms with tho»» with whore
A Men of Metal.
you
learned
to
walk.
”
-
Birmingham
man. but for on» men who can stand
“Is he s man of mettle?"
yon come In coutact.
“Very well.” rapile,» th. pattanl
Ace-Hern Id.
What I* not good for th» »turni I» prosperity there an» a hundred tb.it « nlch operation are
■ Well he I« erediled With lr «,„
yea
clcvtrvvt
a I
hot good for th* bee Uarvua Àuratiu» will stand »dvorslty -Thomas CatlyU •11 — DvUuit Erre i r«*»
An accusation of having done wroag
h”r’ °f r*L"-
He who has three enemies most
Hal Umor» American.
should not disturb you-aalen» its trw*
agree with two -German Proverb.
<
-Seth Brown.
___
I
How Friction Between Mistress and
Maid May Be Avoided.
Women spoil their servants because
they do not trust them, and the fault
as more with tbe mistress than with
tbe maid, for women wbo are edu
cated and mature should be clearer
and wiser in tbeir dealings than wom
en wbo are not educated and wbo, be
cause of tbeir antecedents and limited
experience, are so immature that in
many ways they are very like children.
If the maid suspects her mistress of
trying to get every bit of work out of
her that Is possible and of paying her
tbe smallest wages that she can per
suade her to take, if the mistress is
sure that the maid will do as little
work as she can and will “Btrike" for
tbe maximum wages, wbat else can
they be but enemies, how else can they
look at each other but askance? Fan
cy having in your house not only a per
fect stranger, but one who considers
you to be her enemy, with the certain
knowledge also that she Is unfriendly
to you. «nd yet that is tbe kind of
discord which exists every day and all
day in "the best regulated families.”
A practical knowledge of the work
to be done, an ability to convey that
knowledge to servants, to observe
without appearing to observe, to cor
rect without nagging and to show
friendliness without familiarity — all
these will ennble us to give to a maid
a sense of personal freedom nnd re
sponsibility and a practical knowledge
of the details of her work which will
tend to dissipate the hostility engen j
dered by years of misunderstanding.^
Century.
GARDENS
Queer Antics of an Erratic Body of The Supreme Confidence One Engineer .
Water In Switzerland.
Had In His Work.
:
In the canton of Valais, I d Switzer There is something inspiring about
land. at the foot of the great Aletscb ¡he self confidence of the meu wbo do >
glacier, lies a small body of water, Big things. A number of years ago >
Lake Marjelen, of which the Journal file country was horrified by the news
des Voyages reports a strange fact
that Galveston bad been swept by a
At Irregular intervals every three or fiiMMl. But tbe mud was hardly dry In
four years Lake Marjelen completely the city's streets before plans were
nnd suddenly disappears. The phe made for buiiui
a great sea wall to
nomenon always occurs during tbe last keep out tbe waters.
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days of August. Without warning tbe Buschke was the engineer to whom
lake empties itself, and tbe great quan this gigantic undertaking was lu-
tity of water that it contained disap trusted.
pears through fissures in tbe rocks to
He finished his work while the world
swell the waters of the river Rhone. looketl on with interest, Later be went
So rapidly does tbe lake empty Itself up Into inland Oregon to look after tbe
that tbe water level of tbe Rhone rises engineering work of one of tbe great
several meters in a few hours, and tbe railroad companies that-were opening
valley is hooded. An old custom ap that vast undeveloped country.
grants a new pair of shoes to tbe first
Buschke was in camp, forty miles
peasant wbo comes to announce tbe from tbe railroad, says tbe Technical
disappearance of tbe lake to tbe in World. One day an exhausted mes-
habitants of the valley.
leuger rode in aud handed a telegram
All the autumn, after tbe disappear to Boschke's assistant. The message
ance of the waters, tbe basin of Lake Baid that tbe Galveston wall had been
Marjelen remains dry, but during tbe washed away by a second furious hur
following winter and spring It grad ricane, The assistant was very much
ually fills again.
disturbed, but there was nothing to
Scientific men believe that the pbe- do but to lay the telegram before bis
nomenon is caused in some way by chief.
the neighboring glacier. Little by lit
Boscbke glanced up from it, smiling.
tle the melting ice raises tbe level of "This telegram Is a lie.” he said calm
the lake until nt the end of three or ly. “I built that wall to stand.” Then
four years the accumulated water ex he turned to the work in hand.
erts such an enormous pressure upon
Ills confidence was justified, The
the sides nnd bottom of the lake that message was based on a false report.
the basin gradually becomes as porous There had been a storm as severe as
as a sponge At some point or other that which had flooded tbe city, but
the water begins to escape. Then it the wall stood firm.
flows more rapidly until at last It
pours through tbe fissures on every f
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