The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-02-19

40 run my business or home and man
hoods power to treasure.
ped me Of my glory:
Instead of being proud and free twas
quite another story!
In vain cried-they would not heed my |
But with their calm, judicial speed they
put me on the jury.
They shut me up with other men, all good |
And kept me from my home and kin in
custody and hiding.
MY own affairs were laid aside, my wife |
and child neglected,
Because I had the honest pride by all
New York Times.
By Boat Over the Alps!
A short time ago we announced that
| an Italian inventor had devised q
scheme for crossing the Alps by means
| OF a canal. The Times Rome corre-
spondent furnishes details of this ex-
traordinary proposal
Were it not. he says, for the mar
Vicious feats already performed by Ital-
Ian engineers, the idea of connecting
Genoa and Lake Constance ~ water
and floating barge over the Apennines
ana Alps themselves would sound too
like an idle fairy tale to be worth con-
slderatlon- But the plan, or rather tho
| invention of Signor Caminada has an
parently won the support of Senator
| CoiomDo, famous engineer himself
ana the president of the Polytechnic
OF Lombardy, and has already attract
manuel and the Italian public.
without attempting an exact de-
scrlptlon of Signor Caminada's inyen-
uon, 1t may yet be possible to give a
nousn IDEA OF the principle underlying
method OF floating shipping over an
emlnence is by series of locks one
h1gher than the other. Signor Cam
tnaoa locks. or rather the spaces be-
tween the gate of ingress and gate of
| egress, VIII be inclined tubular canals
For example, the waterway will reach
us highest point at Isolata. in the
npiusen Fass; the, distance between
ma, involves a rise of $50 meters.
This distance of some sixteen kilo-
meters Will be traversed by a double
line of parallel tubular canals each
olVced into 1877 sections. The water
descends through both. but crosses to
each line alternately, SO that, while a
vessel oescends with the sinking
water In section on one line, another
In lower section of the other. These
inclined tubular canals will be con-
structed of masonry, closed with iron
/ gates.
/ Signor Caminada claims that his svs-
tenn will need a far smaller water sup
ply than would be needed for the ordi-
nary rising lock system, that 1t will
naturally be more expeditions, and that
1t will be less subject to obstruction
by Ice. as the water will never be suff1-
GENTLY stagnant to be frozen over in
winter He also says that he has as
sured himself of the suf11ciency of the
water supply as far as crossing the
Alps is concerned, and that the supply
| nthe Apennines. though less certain,
can be assured by reservoirs at no very
great expense.
His plan seems to have gained the
attention OF very competent judges OF
It's feasibility, so that journey from
| Genoa to Basel by water may really be
some day made possible.-London
Chronicle.
Cosmopolitan Shanghai.
It is the most truly cosmopolitan city
In the world; for Paris, after all, is
mainly French; London, after all, is
mainly English; New York, after all. is
mainly American. Shanghai has Its
club, Its English Country club, its race
track, it's Russian bank, its Japanese
mercantile houses, its American post
office. 1t Is ruled by a council of Eng
1ishmen Germans and Americans. 1t is
policed by English boobies, Irishmen,
Sikhs from India, and Cinnamon. On
the Bubbling Well Road, of sunny
spring afternoon, where the latest thing
in motor cars weaves through the line
|
lard elbowing Filipino, Portuguese
jostling Parsee, Austrian chatting with
Bavarian; and they all talk, gamble.
drink and buy in pidgin English
The settlement Of $4,000 Europeans.
. living apart from that public opinion
, which compels the maintenance Of a
! social standard in every European
: | country, and Indifferent to that local
> public opinion which keeps UP certain
curious standard among the Chinese
IL To
, no standard at all. The problem of ev-
! cry decent American or Englishman
. who finds himself established in busi-
! ness is whether he dare bring his wife
. and family and introduce them into cir
, | cles so degraded that families disin-
, tegrate and children grow up under dis
! heartening influences. The heavy drink
ing of the China coast ports is pro-
! verbal, yet the drinking seems little
: more than an incident in city where
!. the social atmosphere is tainted and al
together wholesome-Samuel Mer-
win. in Success
j Canaries Steamship Pets
. Few and far between are the
}. steamships entering the port of Bos-
: ton that cannot boast OF a. canary. NO
: matter how battered and rusty the
: craft may be one is pretty sure to find
e the canary somewhere in the rooms
I of the officers or crew. Its cage. as
0 rule is wonderful creation or DIass
e wire and lace, and the canary MINI
T self usually is singer whose triii ana
r whistle are of the best.
8 The little songsters appear to en-
: low life on the ocean. Seldom are
8 thew Inconvenience by the motion OF
q the vessel and the more the cage
I swings from its hook the more they
= warhle. Sailors will tell you a canary
is a mascot. Be that as it may the
canaries are great pets. Frequently
one may see a sailor on the water
It front Juggling his bird and cage 10
g some new berth.-Boston Herald.
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