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a project" 1t consists of a great stor-
age reservoir that catches the flood waters
Of some river-Sometimes of more than one
river-impounds them in the season when
they are not wanted and let's them out
when they are. The reservoir Is emptied by
great series of canals and laterals that
lead the water direct to the farms where it
Is to be used.
Sometimes a river-which In the language
of the country IAN OK team can drink up
in the late summers a raging flood for a
month or two in the spring. There may
be tens OF thousands of acres of land along
this stream available for irrigation, but
there is no water unless 1t is caught and
stored immense scale. The work is
too big for any one state or for private
enterprise in many cases, and If 1t Were
NOT made a matter of federal government
distribution there would be innumerable
law suits and endless trouble between the
various states. Private water companies
can be graSping and oppressive If they
get the chance as a gas light company or
a street railway, and they are Infinitely
more essential to the farmer in an irrigat-
ing country. Therefore many of the irriga-
ton enterprises in private hands are of a
cooperative sort and these people as a rule
do not have money with which to work on
a grand scale.
But when an immense project is put in by
the government the cost of the whole work
is figured out and assessed against the land
to be paid back to the government as has
been previously said in ten years without
interest The average assessment for
water right" as 1t Is called, is $50 an
acre Sometimes it is more and sometimes
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the fact that his feet are larger. The cir
conference of his brain is more Iii inches,
just as his waist Is bigger. but this Is not
vital. Neither is his inferiority nor his
superiority.
The question that interests us more Is the
peculiar arrangement of things that have
given him such decided advantages over the
she Drained human. They are not natural
advantages. They are rather the results OF
centuries of recurring circumstances that
have eliminated from his life all but prac-
teal means and ends.
He is not hemmed, hedged and confined
behind bars of prejudice and lines of con-
vention. His beauty does not count at all.
His private character has nothing to do
with his success. He is only called upon
TO be man. while every woman-even the
most protected-has to have the masculine
virtues well as the womanly ones.
Even the unmarried man, who il would
almost seem deserves censure. on the
ground that he Is evading his ethical duties,
has exclusive apartment houses reared in
his honor and dedicated to his use. In his
small or his large way as the case may be,
there is premium put on his selfishness.
The woman who avoids marriage suffers
in several different directions, The man
undoubtedly loses much. but he also has
distinct gains. and this is so admittedly
true that bachelordom is growing as one of
our national vices.
He has as a general thing better income
than the bachelor woman, yet she pays
more for everything than he. In his apart
ment house he gets special restaurant and
cab rates. If he wishes society he seeks at
once a cafe. theater or club. where the fact
that he is not accompanied brings on him
no censure.
The woman alone flies to studios and sets
up an existence which she strives to make
artisticaiiy unconventional She only sue
ceeds in being suspected OF being guilty OF
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A doing over 100000 acres to the
~ productive domain OF the United
"a States Is the work that the recla-
L y nation service is engaged on. 1t
viii be 100000 acres before the
available waters for irrigation, as they are
now plotted will lie used up. After that there
may be further expansion of the work But
as It stands now there are some 3,21l 900
acres on which the service is actually work
ing This area is constantly growing, ana
the clamor Of western communities for the
services OF the irrigation workers is far out
stripping the capacity of the irrigation fund
and tie engineers available for the work.
When one considers that the arid land of
the west Is worth practically nothing before
water Is put on II and Is worth at the low
est calculation $50 an acre afterward. some
selling for as high as $1,000 an acre, one
can easily understand what addition this
IS to the material wealth OF the United
States. The land that is being worked on
by the reclamation service now viii add
about $50 80 OcO to the value of the farm
lands OF this country. and. assessing the
whole of the iTrlSable area now in sight al
$50 an acre, means an addition IF $3.50 000,-
uVD TO American farm lands. This too win
be done without extracting d dollar from
the national treasury.
The public land and the land I'm private
ownership under an irrigation project is
divided into small farms, which must be
actually resided upon by the farmers. The
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Hoiofernes knew a thing or two about war,
and thought he knew everything about
women. He knew all but himself alone,
and dramatic fiction has accorded him
place typical man.
Woman's intuition as well as her ideal
ization, her instincts and aspirations have
been easily outwitting mans force for ages.
Feed him with fiattery and then with food
and he'll never wake up until, like Hol-
ofernes. it IS too late. 1t is only women's
natural tenderness that has saved men
from utter humiliation.
Men have made womens gowns, but they
have never made their fashions. Their
ideas about women's dress are the haziest
things in their mental makeup A man
calls embroidery lace, and does not know
what reversible plaid is unless he is a dry
goods clerk.
Sometimes he berates women for corsets
and high heels. Like Tomlinson, he has
seen that sin in a book. Just watch him
at his club window as some health reform
girl passes. He asks the other man If she
is going or coming. and they have a whis-
! ky and soda. So do these saggtng brains
| of theirs coagulate over the woman ques-
| ton.
sacrifice, and this has been refining her
| ever since she gave Adam the apple. Man
! has been called upon for conquest, and the
| effect has been brutalizing.
mask of the real part she plays in civiliza-
| ton. Her warning finger is always over
| her lips. The rouge on her cheek hides
| tragedy, the smile keeps back the tears,
| and she who seems to take life the lightest
| is the one who understands it best.
! Her hands are smaller than that of man,
| but the little palm power and wonderful
| influences for good and bad-that reach out
| into eternity. The world has been advane-
! ing steadily since the cave days, when men
| carried clubs instead OF canes. How proud
/ women should be of their women ancestors
| who In the old time began to run the uni
verse and plead with men to put down their
/ clubs and take up scythes and ptoughs.
Some sage once said that he was always
| glad when a woman ruled his country, for
| he knew then that men would have some
! thing to say In it's government. But when
/ a king sat on the throne woman's ringer
directed the affairs of state.
| An artist has called woman the eternal
| question The answer to that question IS
| eternal sacrifice. There lies the brain dif-
| ference. -,
| Man is, of course needful. He pays the
| bills and crows loudly. He is getting less
necessary In this respect and ne VIII nave
| to begin 10 cultivate ornamentaiisn. Fancy
1 when that time comes that women VIII love
/ men for what they really are? 1t VIII al
most seem improper.
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where the land was and what amount of
water was available for Its irrigation.
But when the word was given to go ahead
with the real work, they went at it with an
enthusiasm which was ably seconded by
the people who knew what irrigation meant
in their region. The result was that the
first of the great projects was in working
order in just three years from it's start.
One of the English engineers when he
saw the water turned into the canal said:
you Americans-well, my government
would have wanted ten years of preliminary
investigation on this undertaking before
they would have stuck spade In the
ground
1t Is pleasant to write the story of the
great enterprises now under way because
they are so big and form one of the greatest
exhibitions of national hustlng on record.
Also they opening up an entirely new
vista to the east, most of whose inhabitants
do not know what irrigation is. More than
all, they have been clean and without
scandal from the start and they have man
al the head and a force of skilled worIers
in general who have lived in the midst Of
the most phenomenal rise IN values and land
development that any country In the world
has ever seen and who have taken a pride
in keeping their records clear throughout.
There are now twenty-four projects sane
toned in sixteen states and territories,
eighteen of them actually under way, and
the more of them there are completed the
more money there will be available for fur
ther work Each of the big works is known
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improperly. Janftors regard her with dis
trust. In hotels her conduct Is closely OBJ
served. woman who arrives alone at
hotel is always regarded by the clerk as
ton Is distinctly suspicious. In fact, We
seem to be approaching the Partisan idea
that man. whether he is a husband or
not, is desirable adjunct to the lone
feminine.
We are notoriously excluded from res
taurants If we wish to patronize them UNI
escorted after certain hours in the evening.
To sit at the opera or the theater is to in
vite criticisn-unless some painted thing ac-
companies us. There Is a demand in the
offices for grown-up messenger boys as
escorts.
At this point of realization many wo-
man sets out like the girl in Man and
Superman" selects a victim and marries
him. not so much because of his PERSONAL
ity, but rather because his sex allows him
to be that requisite thing-a husband-be
he ever so humble.
Whatever the comparative structural or
lobular deficiencies or superiorities. many
man is married because some woman
has decided that he is the least objection
able of her acquaintance and that hns-
band is an inevitable necessity.
At her leisure then she studies the brute.
She becomes aware that In the one item
of clothing man is. through custom, con-
veniently and durably clad. 1t is not nee
essary that he iniprison his waist and
change from the straight-front effect to
the sudden hip in season.
IL his clothes are well made, when
means also well selected. his appearance
cannot fall to come up to the standards.
Variety is not required OF him, and for
this reason a man win often order two
same piece of cloth and after the same de-
sign All that Is demanded or him Is that
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SFHE most recent analysis of the
human brain. made known in a
paper read before the Ethno,og
II zeal Society of London. brought
out that Oft reiterated fact as to
the brain OF the average woman being less
IN circumference and weight than that of
the average man.
One Of the learned doctors softened this
blow by stating that these differences did
not necessarily denote inferiority, but mere
y q disSlmilar condition.
Vanity, as an instance. was greater In the
woman. while concelt was stronger with
the man. Woman had emotionalism. could
love and hate with more intensity while
man had an excess OF force, energy and
fighting power.
These things we all know. OF course with
out analysing brains. Study of the species
IS quite enough to convince US that certain
virtues and defects predominant in either
sex. This result does not aid US any in ad-
Justing conditions when they go awry.
So the question as to the relative weights
OF brains, masculine and feminine, is 4
rather stupid one We experienced the JOY
some time ago OF discussing the subject
with a professor at Cornell College who has
given the best part OF his life to the study
of the brain and in his opinion Its weight Is
not significant of excellence. although its
formation waS-both as TO outline and lobu-
lar arrangement.
Around his desk in uncovered glass watts
there We're the brains OF educated men and
women whom the doctor had known In life.
and he lifted them tenderly from their brine
10 Illustrate points in his discourse. II was
educative and unusual. but II was also un-
canny, and since then We have pursued our
study by means OF charts.
We find that the mans brain being larger
than the woman's is just as Important as
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rain is unknown. 1t is just the water that
makes the difference.
The list of irrigation projects now declared
and mostly under way under the irrigation
act is: The Salt river project, Arizona
calculated to water 100000 acres: the Nu-
ma project IN California, 100000 acres:
the Uncompahgre, in Colorado, l1o,vo
acres; the Minidoka, in Idaho, 10000 acres:
the Payette- Boise project, also in Idah2,
$50 900 acres; the Garden CITY, IN Kansas,
a pump station project, 5000 acres; the
Huntley project, in Montana. 10000 acres;
the MIX river, also in Montana, loo,Vpu
acres the North Platte, In Nebraska,
100000 acres; the Truckee-Carson, I'm Me-
Vada, 350oOU acres; the Hondo, new Mex
fco, 10000 acres; the Carlsbad, also New
Mexico, 10 600 acres; the Rio Csrande. New
Mexico and Texas, 10000 acres; the Lower
Yellowstone, in Montana, 66.OVO acres; tho
Umatilla, and the klamath, IN Oregon, the
one 5000 and the other 2560U acres; tne
Belle Fourche, South Dakota, 60,oD0 acres;
the Strawberry valley, in Utah, 5000
acres; the Okanogan and the Yakima VAL
ley, in Washington. 10000 and 100000 acres,
respectively: the Shoshone of Wyoming,
175,O0O acres; the Willston. Nesson. Bu-
ford-TFenton. all In North Dakota. cover
ing, approximately, $4,000 acres.
So
Up to date figures On tho work of tho
service are hard 70 give, because the serV-
ice keeps getting ahead of the compiled
figures. But the latest records show thar
there have been dug ninety-two miles OF
main canal each of these being big enough
to carry whole river; seventy-one miles
of distributing system; 255 miles OF bitches,
many of them really gocG-slZed canals
and these mean the construction or dams.
headgates and all the machinery for water
control Four miles of tunnel have been
driven including the great Gunnison tun-
mel more than a mile of which has been
finished, end of which there are five miles
vet to 20. More than 10 miles of tele-
phone lire have been installed, and 10
4 I~Hf1 -1Nlta If
latter cut cut OF the solid rock, and open
ing up places that have hitherto been in
accessible except by pack train There have
been built LAT bridges and fifty offices and
other buildings. The estimated cost OF the
work already sanctioned is something over
S4oOO005o.
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less But it is poor land that for irriga-
ton is not worth much more than that.
Land in private hands under the recently
started Bell Fourehe project In Montana
that was idle without takers at So per acre
before the irrigation work was determined
on has now risen to over $50 an acre.
Some of the land in the Sacramento valley
irrigated by private means is held at over
$500 an acre and in this region alone when
the government gets around to IL there will
be 100000 acres available for irrigation
under a single project But the Sacramento
valley is doing pretty well as ii is and the
project is such an immense one that 1t will
have to wait some time before it is taken up.
One feature of irrigation farming is in
tensive cultivation. a farm of forty acres
will produce more under irrigation than a
farm of one hundred and sixty acres in
the average rainfall region, and 1t is for
this reason that when a project is de-
clared" and the government land under 1t
is opened for demonstrating, the farm
unit is fixed, and from forty to eighty
acres is as much one man is usually al
lowed to take up. Sub-tropicaI fruits and
similar products which Will do well in the
southern regions will make a small farm
wonderfully valuable, and farther north
the harder crops OF grain and sugar beets
about double what would be expected in
the humid region.
Drought under this system OF farming IS
unknown, and the intensively cultivated
farm homestead of the southwest, with its
trees, flowers and crops, can be made, and
usually is, one of the most beautiful sights
imaginable, an oasis in the midst of des-
ert, a perennially blooming garden under
a cloudless sky, In land where there are
$50 days OF sunshine year and where
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cation scheme was an accomplished fact 1t
was June II, 1905, the third anniversary of
the passage of the irrigation act, that water
was thus supplied for $4,000 acres The
opening ceremony when the water was ilrst
turned into the great sluices was in the
presence of distinguished gathering of
senators and representatives, engineers and
others, including the chief engineer of the
reclamation service, Frederick H. New ell
The last mentioned was another of the far
sighted people who saw ahead INTO the ros-
sibilities of the work and was the only one
remaining of the original field party sent on
reconnaissance work when the photograph
lie division, which was ultimately to grow
into the reclamation service, was organized
In 1883.
x
There were many distinguished foreign
engineers present at this ceremony, men
who had seen and helped to construct the
great irrigation works OF Great Britain in
India and Egypt, and of France and ether
countries. Their greatest surprise was not
at the extent and character OF the works,
but at the speed with which they had been
rushed to completion. To be sure the coun-
try had been getting educated up ID the
possibilities of irrigation since 1889. In the
intervening time great deal of preliminary
work had been done. The typographical
work of the geological survey had been
drawn on for preliminary information as to
irrigable land and reservoir sites. Streams
had been measured and records kept of their
daily flow from year TO year in low water
and In flood. The geological survey knew
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GOOD PRIZES FOR UGLY GIRLS.
Gases In which Lack of Beauty
Brought Cash and Husbands.

An interesting Snowman in Milan. who
had more than once organized successful
beauty shows, recently struck out In a
new line by arranging what might be
STYLED an ugly show. whereat NUM-
Der of women and girls competed for
three prizes which were offered for the
three uglisst competitors. Ana strange TO
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Why has he not demonstrated his great
ness in the human scheme long ago by
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IE most recent analysis of the
human brain. made known IN a
paper read before the Ethno,og-
zeal Society of London. brought
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1906-12-13
DANCING TEACHER
Mrs. King Who VIII Locate Here
Comes Highly Reeomr1ended-ls
Well and Fav2rabIy Known
al Jackson, Tenn, Her
Former Home.

The Jackson. Tenn. sun saws re-
e9rdue Mrs King. of that city. who
will locate he-e as teacher o.
dancing
lr is with sincere regret that the
friends of Mrs Polly King have heard
Z her decision 20 leave here but
their good wishes go with her and
they fl HAT Caiu. where she will
locae Is 10 be congratulated upon
~ acquisition.
Mrs. King IS an artist in her line
aul s~ both q Tea her Of music and
of dancing has the endorsement of
the best people Of ou- city. and bet.
r.. STILL she has their personal re-
@a.a sad respect. and tIey. che and
aH. v..' commend her To- the beet hat
Cairo can afford.
Sac IS already well known I'm her
aes home aud will board az The Hal
Iaay House where ,sveral Of her
IarEoH friends are already domi-
ciled.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1906-12-13
Actress Enjoys Wealth.

Lolita Crabtree, once a favorite ac-
tress of the kittensh type but long
since retired. has reached her fifty
niuth birthday, but is still as jolly as
OF old. determined &c enjoy every min.
ute of her life Miss Crabtree is one
of the heaviest taxpayers in Boston,
one piece Of her real estate alone be-
ing valued at ss55,000 She also owns
a fine stock farm at Arlington. ~ j..
and has just blossomed out as an own
er of fast horses, her PAGER My Star
having gone a mile in 2:09A recently.
It is limited that her arguments in
duced Richard Mansfield to announce
his forthcoming retirement She adj
vised him to nave some fun with
your money before you're too old to
enjoy it.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1906-12-13
In kHty's
ParIOr
BY Paul Creswfck
Copyright, by Joseph B, Bowles.)

! Copyright by Joseph B. BowIes)
Thank goodness. exclaimed
/ sinking into the very easy chair by
the fire, everybody has gone For
once fortune is kind
You're so late. said Kitty; then
she added, maiciously 4 kept Nora
as long as ! could
Dear Nora. | said. spreading my
hands to the blaze And how did
she look?"
Most charming and-demure. That
expression becomes her best | shall
ring for fresh tea. while you switch
on the lights The gloom is settling
on you Reggie
Let it be for awhile, Kit" |
begged. Gloom is. after all, only a
mood. Did ever tell YOU the story
Of the man and two girls?"
Only two? Well he wasn't very
ambitious
The resultproved him to have been
both ambitious and-rooish re.
torted. Now draw your chair cozily
to the fire, and let me talk. like
talking"
It's a lawyers business
Pray let me dnish, Talking-to
Won, | was going to say But / SHAH
qualify that by adding another word
sometimes, Pray. attention for this
man and his girls. The story is
tragic, in the best sense. You must
know that it came about naturally
his being in love with the two OF
them. Il wasn't premeditated
That a point in his favor
Quite SO. And while we're about
II, want you to understand that this
chap was really a very pleasant fellow
- an exceptionally good-hearted
above the average sort of a man. He
met one girl at concert-her broth
er brought her-and Immediately ex-
perienced the FIRST symptoms Of love.
or course, you wouldn't know those
symptoms"
He wen; out during the interval
and bought her a pound of choco.
Iates2'
He wasn't so young, ! said. Ger
.ainiy. they all had tea together after
the concert However. to spare you
4 tedious preface TIL jump to the .
moment when the girl, whose name /
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Old aunt or mine--Du ute I. trump. Sh
would make me bring her An
he took Baby's arm and began Il
WALK along with her, as he fancieC
the people were beginning to stare.
And Veronica r.
The two of them ran into Veronica
before the man knew what he was
about She cried out Isn't it an ODD
thing, Harry have just met Mr.
Wilson, who is back from Singaporel
You've heard me speak of him
Then she perceived Baby, whose tears
had suddenly dried up. Ii was an
awkward moment"
Just what he deserved"
In the result, Veronica walked of
with the tickets and Mr. Wilson
Alice Mirabelle held out her hand
Youll have to go back to your aunt
now. won't yeu2 she said, evenly.
i expect she'll wonder what has be-.
come of you One meets so many
friends on Selection Day think
see some one over there Good night
ma the man was left solitary and ia.
rious.
Excellent"
Now for the moral, dear lady. All
this and worse might happen to me-
to your Reginald stand between
two ladies', whose attractions are In.
calculable Before them, Veronica
and Alice Nirabele would seem bat
as stars in the daytime I need hard
" say that refer to Nora and
ahem' Yourself ! make clean
breast of it What are YOU going
to do2 Rafle for me, or leave me
cold and deserted In the center tran
sept of the Crystal palace?"
Kitty rose to. switch on the lights
Well hear what Nora has TO say.
she decided As for me- She
shrugged her pretty shoulders, and
laughed