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TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT MOVING A B!G ARMY HEATH TO THE MOSQUITO Attack ths Test by Warring Upon Its Breeding Places. FAMOUS TUNNELS AUGUST 30, 1917. LIFE ON A SUBMARINE. Physical Evils That Come From Long, Continuous Duty. According to Assistant Surgeon Wal Bi doing away with breeding places, riicli as tin cans, broken crockery and The Simplon Is the Greatest and ter W. < ress of tL ■ :;avy, long, con varl us receptacles that hold water« tinuous duty on submarines is con Costliest of Them All. !r.' the drainage ot bodies of water like ducive to high blood pressure, with its ly to contain Immature inoaquitoea, by attending evils. appli atiou of oil to bodies of water “Whether that is due." he says, "to A WORK OF INFINITE DETAIL that annot lie drained or the lntro- LONGEST HOLE EVER BORED. me:it.ii strain. l< ss < f sleep, overeating (!.: lion of fish into ¡tools that cannot with In k of exercise, excessive use of ci! her be drained or oiled millions of tobacco, coffee anil tea or some toxic What It Would Mean In Railway Care This Road Through the Alps Is Mors agent peculiar to s c (marines I am un iuo»q;,;toes may be destroyed. of Various Kinds and In Supplies and Than Twelve Miles In Length and Its W. er la necessary for the life of able to .- ty. It was noted that a slight Equipment to Carry a Million and a Coat Exceeded Fifteen Millions—Our • ■ imisqulto. The eggs which are laid full <>• . red after a forty-eight hour Half Man Acrosi ths Country. o.i the surface of the water by the surface irn end a three hour dive. Un Own Hoosac Tunnel. doubtedly that could be accounted for Before a body ot troops is entrained adult mo. (,uito hatch in from twenty- The costliest as well as the biggest the time and plai e of every more are 5 '¡r hours to several days, dejicndlng railroad tunnel in the world Is the long by fatigue or la k of physical exer mapped out. Including the date and >n the temperature. The larvae issue bole burrowed lielow the Alps between cise during the preceding forty-eight hours." place of entraining, destination, time from the lower ends of the eggs and Brlgue, Switzerland, and Iselle, Italy. One effect, natural under the clrcnm- I of arrival, route, assembly point, time wriggle iilaont hi the water. This tremendous tunnel, the Simplon, stances, he says, was that of loss of The Inrrue of the house mosquito of troops leaving assembly point, route is 12 miles 537 yards in length and cost of assembly point to train, time of ar rest with the tips of the alidomen at more than $15,000,000. Several mil weight, and it is observed that there rival at station, time of boarding train, the surface of the water und the heads lions more will be spent In completing is probably no occupation, excepting time of departure of train, rate of trav hr« king downward. The larvae of the the second chamber. Work was begun that of a boilermaker, giving rise to el over each section of route, time, malaria fever mosquito He parallel on it in 1898. and traffic began to move as many cases of partial deafness as submarine duty. It is not uncommon, place and duration of stops; time and with the surface of the water to obtain through in 1903. I he says, for men to report that they place of feeding troops and animals air. In from one week to ten days The Simplon is about three miles mid a schedule showing the assign they change to another form, the longer than the St. Gothard and the have Increasing difiiculty In hearing ment of troops and equipage to each pillule, which have two respiratory Loetschberg tuuncls and more than the commands. That is attributed to i car. Aside from this are countless de lubes on the thorax. These pupae four miles longer than the Mont Cenis, the constant vibratory movement of I tails connected with procuring sup- float In the water and transform to I the three next longest of the world's the submarine, the straining of ears to adults in from five to nix days. The hear above the noise of the engtoes. plies, the disposal of troops and their adults winter in the dormant condi j railway tunnels. the presence of cold drafts of air down care. i The Mont Cenis was the first of these the hatches while operating on the tion. All these preliminary arrangements The germ causing malaria fever has big bores. It was completed to 1871 surface, the excessive bent while run must be made by an officer of the qnar- been carefully and repeatedly traced and at once diverted passenger and ning submerged and the Inhalation of termaster corps. The first thing to be through its life history, and it has freight transportation away from Swit I gases given off by the batteries and done is to procure lists with weight with certainty been found to pass a zerland, as it furnished a direct route fumes from oil tanks. of all property to be shipped, obtain part of its existence in man and part to Italy from southeastern France. "It Is becoming more and more ap this material and make out the bill of la tlie body of the mosquito. By the The Swiss determined to win back parent," concluded Dr. Cress, "that all lading. This, with the number of men bite of the mosquito the malarial fever their lost traffic, and to 1871 work was men should undergo n thorough phys and officers, constitutes a basis on organism Is transmitted to man. No started on the St. Gothard, which was ical and mental examination before be which lie estimates the number and practical methods have been devised 1 not finished until eleven years later. ing assigned to submarine duty."— kind of ears needed. He then engages to destroy adult mosquitoes. All suc . The St. Gothard is about nine and one- Washington Star. the cars and provides loading facilities, cessful methods so far have been to , third miles In length and cost $11.500.- auch as material for blocking and lash check their numbers by either doing ■000. ing. and constructs necessary ramps, away with hiding places or by destroy j In Its toll of lives It was the costliest CUTTING THE ROSES. or runways, for entraining animals or ing the young mosquitoes. , of all. Faulty ventilation, the terrific wagons. Kerosene oil applied to the water sur heat and the lack of care to keeping How to Remove the Flowers Without Injuring the Plants. Next, on the arrival of the cars, he face at the rare of one-half teaeupful down the dUBt caused the deatba of 800 Inspects them from a thousand major to one barrel of water or one ounce of . laborers. This tunnel Is wholly to There Is a right as well as a wrong and minor angles. All cars must tie kerosene to fifteen square feet of water Swiss territory, and eight years ago it way to cut roses. If not cut cor clean. 1'assenger cars must be fully Is sufficient to destroy any young mos I was bought from the owners by the rectly the blossom producing proper aupplled with water and Ice. sufficient quitoes that might be present to the ■ government. ties of the plants may be seriously in The Htmplon. located about halfway jured. This applies particularly, of ly lighted and heated and all other water. An application of the kerosene between the Mout Cents and the St. course, to rose plants chosen and appurtenances in pro|>er condition. should be made every fifteen days. Gothard, la a double tunnel, although grown especially to supply cut flowers. Stock curs come In for special atten only one chamber has been wholly ex Such roses will be largely of the per- tion. Then the nnmber of men or kind and RHODES DIED UNSATISFIED. cavated. The other will be enlarged p'etual blooming sorts. and put into service when the first be qunntity of supplies allotted to each When a rose is cut from such a plant car Is marked on the side or steps, to His Leet Words Were, "So Little Done, comes overtaxed. Better arrangements only two or three eyes of the current So Mush to Do." for ventilation kept the death roll season's growth of that branch should gether with the name of the organiza down to sixty, twenty-five cubic feet bo left on the plant. This should give "So little (lout), so much to do.” tion. In loading men three are as This was tbs sigh of Cecil Ilbodes, of fresh air being supplied to the lalior- the roses very long stems. Succeeding signed to each section in tourist sleep ers or three to each two seats In a day one of the greatest men the world ever ers for every one blown Into the St blossoms should lie cut to the ground. knew. Joliu Hays Hammond, who Gothard. It will seem like destroying the bush coach. The difficulties conquered were tre to take so much off. but If the object Another lmi>ortant point is to keep knew him well, tells about Rhodes to mendoils. Tlie Simplon is not only the the troops of each unit with all equip the American Magazine. He says: Is the production of roses the cutting "The achievements of Rhodes are al longest, but the lowest of the Alpine away of the surplus wood will simply inent together. This is Important in tunnels, and the rock temperature most unthinkable. Long before Amer further the desired end. case of sudden attack. Imagine the sometimes reached 133 degrees. fate ot n unit of troops suddenly de ican trusts were attempted he formed If the spring pruning has not been When the workmen from the Swiss trained nt the firing line without equip wliat was then the greatest business side reached the center of the great sufficiently severe the plant Is likely combination In history and became ab •sent! txire they were halted by an enormous to have long, naked stalks and abort A possible element of delay lies to solute autocrat of the diamond busi spring of hot water. Then the Italians stems to the flowers. In such a case ness of the whole world. He organized only one or two strong leaf buds the timing of the arrival of troops at a huge consolidation of gold compa were stoppl'd, and for some time It should be left on the branch when the I the station. There must be no time look«*d as though the whole work might nies. He wus the first financier coura flower Is cut, so as to stimulate as ’ lost by cars waiting for the troops. geous enough to institute deep level have to lie abandoned. But the engi- The facilities for loading animals and mining on the Rand, the method on neers refused to be daunted, although much growth as possible from the base wagons nt each station on each route which now depends the future of the six months were required to dig out of the plant. The temptation Is great to leave should be part of the quartermaster the last 300 yards of the tunnel. greatest of all gold fields. wood where there are two or more corps' records. Quick and noiseless So slight were the errors made In "No Roman emperor ever won more loading and unloading of animals with territory than Rhodes brought under the digging that the headings from ei buds on one branch, some being small out confusion art) an art In themselves bls native British flag Through the ther side met with deviations of but when the terminal one is open, This Dispositions of Indivlduiil animals must chartered company. Incorporated to eight inches internally and throe and bad practice can be avoided by pinch be studied, Gentle animals should l>e 18S0. he added to tlie British colonial one-half toches vertically. The total ing off all side shoots after a bud has placed opposite doors ar.il therefore dominions territory equal to the com length of the tunnel was thirty-six formed on the end of a branch, thus loaded lust. bined areas of the British isles, I-'rance, inches less than had been calculated. leaving the stem |>erfectly clean and The time of loading and unloading Prussia, Austria and Spain. Ho made Trains are pulled through the tunnel willowy.—Popular Science Monthly. has been carefully tubulated and possible the federation of all South Af tn eighteen minutes, at the rate of Corn Bread. should not exceed the following: ln- rican states and planned to link Cape forty-two miles an hour, by powerful In making corn bread be sure to get fantry, one hour; cavalry and light ar < 'olony and Cairo by rail, a project that electric locomotives. The Loetschberg is the latest of the the proper kind of meal; otherwise it tillery, one and one-half hours; heavy lie carried halfway to fruition before artillery and engineers with bridge ho was cut off by death when he was big Swiss tunnels. This is about the needs flour to keep it together. Ask same length as the St. Gothard and for the old southern milled cornmeal. train, two hours. All movements, load I only forty-nine years old. is also wholly in Swiss territory, being ing. entraining, detraining, feeding and "Yet with this record of empire build located to the north of the Simplon. It is very fine, white and needs no flour. A good recipe for corn bread watering and exercising men and ing behind him his last words as lie lay It Is a part of the Bernese Alps rail Is us follows: One and one-half cupfuls horses, are made in military fashion. dy Ing were these: way, which has thirty-four tunuela In of cornmeal, one-half cupful of milk, a With each train kitchen cars are pro “ 'So little dime, so much to do.’ " its forty-eight miles between Thun and pinch of salt, a piece of butter the size vided. Otherwise baggage cars are fit Brlgue. of an egg, one-half teasiioonful of bak ted up by troops or arrangements made Health Examinations. The Simplon will apparently remnln ing powder and one egg. It must not for procuring meals, or at least liquid "Periodic health examinations are the biggest of railway tunnels until h be too stiff. Put in a pan that will coffee, nt stations en route. Feeding of the best safeguard against degenera submarine one Is driven under the Eng men and animals Is in Itself no small tive diseases." says a leading physi lish channel or perhaps under Bering make the batter about one and one-half inches thick and bake till brown. It ■natter. cian. “It is as foolish for a man to sea. At present the longest projected Say the war department was called neglect his health and not consult a mountain tunnel In Europe is a French is impossible to make the southern upon to trnnsiHut twenty field armies physician until he suffers acute pain as undertaking, which is planned to pass corn bread with the coarsely milled of 82.1'10 men each, or 1.64>'<J(M) men. It would be for a busln«s»s man to go directly under Mont Blanc, the high meal, says a southerner.—New York In ni»> mg such a military force the without having hla lsx>ks balanced un est mountain In Europe, and to form Sun. railroads must enrr; . besides the 1,040,- til after he had gone Into bankruptcy. another highway between France and Animal Criminala. ooo men, 700,000 mounts mid draft an Every man should be compelled to take Italy. Rut this tunnel will tie only a As a species of hardened criminal imals, «10,000 vehicles mid 3.300 big a physical examination and learu Just little over eleven miles long, so that among placid herbivorous animals none guns. how be can Improve his health. To It will lie merely eeeond to rank If it la worse than the bison, or American To accomplish this the quartermas know what you lack Is the first step la carried out. buffalo. Toward man and beast and ter corps must have available at the toward getting it" I Tlie Hoosac tunnel. In western Maa- even among themselves these vicious, right points 42.300 passenger coaches. sachusetts, was the first really big tun vindictive and agile brutes, whose half 7.700 baggage cars, 21.100 box cars, nel In the United States. Begun in brothers on the other continents do not Chances For Success. 37,080 stock cars and 15.500 flat ears, I have many times been asked If, in 1855, It was not finished until 1ST«, fear even the terrific onslaughts of making a total of 124,580 cars, or 7.320 my opinion, the young tuan of today Air drills and nitroglycerin were used lions and tigers, are In a state of al trains with ns many engines. to thia work for the first time on a Here Is the government's minimum had as good chance to make his mark big scale In any American engineering most continual warfare. They are In the business world as did his elders. among the wickedest rogues ever seen estimato of the gross weight of mate My answer is, "Never since our pil work. The Hoosac tunnel Is four and to a zoo. rials needed each month by this force three-quarters miles to length.-Boston grim fathers landed on the shores of of 1.040.000 men: Rations, 250.030.400 Plymouth were the opportnultica for Post Pride a Strange Thing. pounds; ammunition. 7,040.1)10 pounds; tha young man's success greater than Pride is a strange thing. For to- forage. «KCT.147.tW pounds; general they are today, it la for him to deter I Geologist's Thermometer. quartermasters' supplies, 33,794.440 mine whether ho will lie a success or Quarts la the geologist's therrnoine' stance, a man would much rather be pounds; clothing and equipage. 22.080.- not"—Stephen A. Knight ter, for It is formed between narrow seen by the younger and prettier act i 340 pounds, ordinance supplies other ranges of temperature, if the mate of Neighbor women filling up the gaso than ammunition, 1,622,740 pounds; rials from which nature makes it are line tauk than emptying the garbage, A Mathematician. engineers' snpplh's, 12,298.320 pounds, subjected to more than so much heat though the latter act Is really much "Daddy," said Bobby, who was eat- they take on an entirely different char more commendable to that be Just signal supplies, 9.<H3.2«IO pounds; med ical supplies, 507.100 pounds; candy I tog an epple, “what would be worse acter from quarts. The same Is true doea it to help ms ]>oor. hardworking and tobacco. 819.680 potunis, making a than finding a worm to this apple?" If they are subjected to less than a cer wife that much.—Columbus (O.) Jour "1 do not know, eon, unless It would tain amount of Imat. Ml total of 961.08». 100 or nearly 1,000,000.- OlWl pounds. The transportation of this t>e worse to find two worms. Pat is nee. "No," said Bobby. "It would be enormous weight would req«Ure flfty- Nona Worth While. Enter Into the sublime patience of flve trains of thirty cars each day as worse to And half of a worm."—Every- “There la one thing I am rather Lord. Be charitable lu view of it. long as the force was In the field — body's. worried ahont in this suburban club can afford to wait. Why cannot Leslie's. bustoes»." So Ho Doos. we. since we bave htm to fall back "What is that, my dear?" "Why don't you open the door? That "Do you know if they serve cakes upon? Is>t patience have her perfect To the Lad is». work and bring forth her eeleatial Ladles, If you love a man marry him may ls> opportunity knocking." with these golf tees?" — Baltimore "It's much more apt to I* a bill col- fruits.—G Macdonald. American If you marry him know him If you lector." know !dm study him. 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