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urnui semi portiatsa vmestie"-"all the
brains OF family go wrong together
The proverb applies because it is essen
affiicts the Czarina Alexandra in Fried
berg Castle and her sister. Grand Ouch
ess Elizabeth, in her Moscow cell. The
expression alone differs. Alexandra
FeodoroSna'' has the mania of persecu-
ton, and believes thav all the world Is
conspiring against her life. Elizabeth
Feodurovna' believes that the heavens
are leagued against her and that she
can save her soul alone by wrestling
with her accusing conscience. by spending
her days in holy works. and her nights
in anguished prayer. Thus destiny. with
an irony even more than usually grim.
afficts with spiritual gloom the two
Anglo-German princesses. not long ago
the widest. bravest and merriest OF all
the daughters of Europe's courts,
How intense are the exaltation and
ecstasy in which the grand duchess lives
is shown by her latest obsession. 1t is
the obsession OF an expiatory pilgrimage
to Jerusalem: and already the plan is
being worked out in detail. ShcTld the
will stay at the German institution called
the "Johannesstiftung." founded a dec
ade ago by Kaiser Wilhelm on the Mount
of Olives. BY such a pious pilgrimage
she hopes to redeem her sins-mostly
imaginary-and the very real sins of her
dead husband. the Serge. In the idea
ferments the same neurotic germ which
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chasms; the land of the rneteoric noun
tain and the petrified forest. With re-
sources of soil, mineral and forest as va
ried as the wonderful cOlors Of the land
scape; with every graduation Of climate
from north temperate to semi-tropic be-
cause of the variety of elevation; with
an area double that of New England and
a population less than that of Washing
ton, Arizona has been waiting the pres
ent moment to come into her own.
Over the vast expanseS of the divfnely
tinted desert wander the BedOuins of the
United States. Here and there on the
high mesas or beside the deeply eroded
waterways dwell the strangest people on
our continent, and under their feet is
the remains Of another civilization no
less strange.
This land of mystic dreams, of lost
races and crumbling ruins, is awakening
to the touch of modern civilization. In
fact, there is being superimposed on the
civilizations that have gone before an
other that sets the pace for the men of
all the world who live most ideally, for
nere are conditions developing that are
most favorable for mans living the life
that best develops him. But this is be-
cause of the reservoir, which must be
seen first.
In the variety of the engineering prob
lens. in the magnitude of the works and
in the extraordinary character and num-
Der of the difficulties to be surmounted
In prosecuting the work, the Salt river
PROJECT RANKS frSt among those OF the
reclamation service. In the first place,
the reservoir site is near the headwaters.
in mountainous and almost inaccess-
able region, known only to the cowboy
who ran their herds there and the In
dams who hunted game and occasionally
ran amuck to the sorrow of the isolated
.tranchmen. From civilization there was
a stretch of desert where the cactus and
sagebrush played hide and seek with the
horned toad and the scur-ying lizard.
Then for an additional forty miles the
government agents found it necessary
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man fire-worshipers. In this district the
grand duchess addressed Mohammedan
village. and implored the villagers to
come over to the Christian fold. She
subscribed $4,000 to a missionary union.
The vast sums spent on these pious
journeys are, of course, q heavy expense
to Serges widow. But Serge was the
richest Of all the Romanoff grand dukes:
he lived on his salary as governor of
Moscow, boarded his vast private in
come, and added considerably to his for
tune by various roguish enterprises. To-
day the grand duchess has command of
at least S15.OO0O0. but she is doing her
best to make it rapidly less.
Naturally her lavish expenditure on re-
lisfous aims is regarded with disfavor by
her relatives. The grand duchess has
no children of her own, and she is court
ed by hard-up and greedy relatives. who
watch her dwindling substance with I'M
favoTing eyes. She is courted, too, by
some who, though greedy, are by no
means hard up. Among them is her law
full sovereign and brother-in-law who
adds to the numerous virtues which have
made him beloved by his subjects the
imperial one of thrift.
Downright in the United States aud Great Britain
by Curtis Brown. All rights strictly reserved)
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He Resolved to Tell Nothing But the Truth


turning his sharp old watery eyes on the
truth-teller. How is that?''
81 said" replied the truth-teller. that
/ would suppose you to be an old enough
man to remember the sharp autumn of
the year 1919
The aged ones face creased into about
1hGaO wrinkles of strong resentment
Then he fumbled for his spectacles, got
them out of a pocket, then out of the
worn leather case, adjusted them on his
nose, and stared and stared, and Their
just stared at the truth-teller seated
alongside of him.
Amt anything the matter with you.
young man, is there?" inquired the old
party.
Not sir. that l am aware off, replied
the truth-teller calmly.
'Oh, there amt. hey?" croaked the aged
one, restoring his spectacles to the case
and closing the case with a snap. Then
I'll tell We one thing, young man. that
makes it all tn worse-ye might at least
have offered the excuse that there was
something the matter with We before We
went around insulting folks old enough
to be your eat-grandfather."
Whereupon the antique one turned his
back upon the truth-teller. who. thus SUBJ
jected to the smokers of other passengers.
experienced several moments Of keen
embarrassment before he reached his get
ting-Off corner
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On his way to his Office the truth
teller met a friend, who, when he had
seen him the previous evening, had been
in decidedly an intoxicated condition.
'.Hay-o, there. oil hawss," greeted the
friend, Stimulating the unfelt joviality of
the person possessed Of the next-morn-
ing sensations. 'It kind o. seems to me
that when 1 met you yesterday after
noon 1 was just teenchy li'r mite
Spilled. wasn't II"
Entirely willing to spare his friends
feelings in the matter, the truth-teller
mumbled a few words of no particular
moment.
"How's that?" pressed his friend. IT
didn't catch you. I said that I've a
sort of dim recollection that i was
picked up to the eyebrows when I
slammed into you somewhere yester-
day afternoon. Wasn't II"
Yes" replied the truth-teller, you
were"
The friends face instantly lost it's jovial
look. and he bent an impaling gaze on
the truth-teller.
'Oh. / was. was II" he barked, with
a sort of snap to the words. HUH
YES" again answered the truth-teller.
"you were"
This time the friends features con-
tracted into distinct scowl, and the
glow of wrath appeared in his bloodshot
eyes.
Huh. You seem to be taking it to
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Quantity for Him.
uTHE late winslow Homer" sal

HTHE late Winslow Homer said a
9Th avenue picture dealer. over
flowed with stories of his beloved fishermen
Most of these stories We're grave-they IL
Illustrated the hardships and heroisms OF
the fisherman's life. 1 remember, though
another of a different sort.
"A visitor to Maine fishing village
SO the story ran-took an old fisherman to
a 'speakeasy' for a drink.
What kind of whisky have your the
visitor asked. as they stumbled into the
dark, underground room that served the
speakeasy' for a bar.
Three kinds of whisky, stranger the
proprietor answered. rs cents, 10 cents
and cents
Well. give us the fifteen-cent, please.
said the visitor.
1.-THE proprietor set bottle and two
glasses on the bar, but the old fisherman
coughed and muttered humbly:
If it's all the same to you. sir. I'll
ask you to make mine three of the nickel
kind"
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the soldiers would have been able to fol-
low with difficulty and but one at time.
1t was a modern Thermopylae, and the
defiance of the red men seemed complete.
But the soldiers below conceived the idea
Of firing up into the roof of the cave.
from which their bullets were DETECTED
into those portions that could not be
reached direct. Some hours of unremit-
ting fire resulted in the death of the last
member of the band which, according to
the skeletons that may still be counted
there. numbered something above sixty.
But despite this evidence of former
antagonism and the reputation OF the
Indian for an aversion to work, the
engineers decided to endeavor to induce
the men of the tribes to accept en-
ployment. Many accepted the offer and
their labors began on the road that
was being built to the dam site. I'm
accustomed to toll of any sort. the
drudgery of it went hard with the red
men for a time, but they persisted aid
many of them eventually became Ell
ficient laborers. Some even advanced IN
their understanding of their tasks until
they were put in charge of gangs of
their fellows and drew the wages of
white foremen. The natives or the
southwest in this way played no small
part in the building OF the greatest
monument to engineering skill that the
region knows, and likewise gave evil
dence of a possibility of eventually
converting all the tribes into produc-
tive labOrerS.
At the down stream face of the dam
pestles the powerhouse which gener-
ates the electric power which has done
the greater part of the heavy work
of the dam building. From beneath the
dam gushes the flow of the reservoir
that is to irrigate the valleys below. 1t
has back of it the pressure OF 200 feet
of water. 1t is capable of generating.
with the aid of some falls lower down,
$4,000 horsepower in electricity. Al
ready there are wires running from
this power house. to Phoenix. sixty
miles away. This electricity pulls the
street cars in that city, lights it, fur
nishes power for it's industries. Like
wise is 1t carried to Sacaton Indian
reservation, where it is used in an en-
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deavor on the part of the government
to make amends for injustices that have
been done to the Pima Indians. For the
white men settled on the ella river
above their reservation diverted their
water for irrigation purposes and left
them to perennially face starvation.
The electric power generated at Roose-
welt dam is being set to pumping water
for these Indians in lieu of that OF
which they have been deprived.
X
But more than this. this electric power
is playing an important part in the
scheme of life that is developing in Salt
River valley which promises the most
ideal community life Of any in the world.
This power will belong directly to the
farmers: They will own it outright, along
with the reservoir. when their payments
are completed. The power is generated In
cidentally in the reservoir scheme and
costs practically nothing, since the power
house had to be butt any way. This
electricity the farmers may take to their
own homes and set to work for the mere
cost of transmission. Through their or
ganization arrangements are being made
to carry out this scheme, and 1t Is re-
garded as but matter of arranging the
detail when each farmer will light his
house, cook his food. churn his milk and
do a great number of the chores of the
farm through this power that his reser-
voir system develops. The power that is
left over will be sold profitably and the
money go to the farmers.
The irrigated stretches of Salt River val
ley offer themselves ideally to the work
ing out of such schemes of community
life and getting the benefits Of co-opera-
ton. The farms are mostly small, rang
ing from five to forty acres. This means
that a great number of farming people
will live in a small, area. This makes
possible a school system that is as good
as that of the villages. 1t removes the
greatest sbane of the farmers life, the
element of isolation. 1t makes a COM
munity life with all the desirable social
features possible
e The reclamation service limits the acre
age for which it will supply water to any
single individual No man can get water
to irrigate more than 100 acres Only the
bona fide resident on the land can secure
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Rebuke to False Pride.

HTHE late John s. Huyler.'' said a
New York confectioner. .'was, for
all his millions and all his philanthropy, a
man .of shrinking modesty. Though he
came of an excellent family, Mr. Huyler
laughed at those persons who, in a de-
mocracy like ours, boosted of their an
cient lineage.
A banker once declared in Mr.. Huy-
ler's presence that he was descended from
the Princess Of Powys-Wales.. seventh
century. you know.
lis that so?" drawled Mr. Huyler
Yet l heard a man tell your brother the
other day that he could trace his family
back to the days of armor and shirts OF
chain mail, and your brother said in an
Swer:
My wife made me stop my tracing
when l got back TO the shirtsleeves and
overalls.'
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Common Doom Threatening Two Royal Sisters


Gals meet the train. peasants are i'm
pressed to mend the roads, and order
temporarily reigns everywhere. The
grand duchess probably does not realize
what her religious exaltation costs.
The wording of the kilograms which
she sends to bishops and monastery
archimandrites shows how absorbed she
Is in her devotions. At TIA, in east
Russia, she Joined religious process
sion. and persisted in carrying a heavy
'ikon" or image through the streets. On
arriving at another monastery she tele-
graphed to the Bishop of Ufa expressing
joy at 1.-The undeserved glory of being
allowed to carry the miraculous ikon'
At the Convent of John the Baptist, near
Pskoff, she lay an hour before an image
and wept. 1.-The religious life," she said
to a party of school children, rs the
only one worth living. 1t is my misfOr-
tune that ! learned that too late, and it
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up and flourished during the six years of
the building of the dam. This was the
town of Roosevelt, doomed to destruction
before it was built. for it was known
that the waters impounded by the reser-
voir would engulf it when the work was
done.
Some months ago the people of Roose-
welt were asked to move out of the val
ley. as the great 6O.OOO-pound gates of
the spillways of the dam were to be
dropped and the filling up was to begin.
Most of the residents moved to the mesa
above. Bag and baggage the town Of
Roosevelt transplanted itself to the
higher level. The postmaster, however.
refused to move until he had orders to
do so from headquarters in Washington.
Then, finally, there was freshet on the
watershed higher up and the waters came
tumbling down the canyon. These floods
crept about the house Of the stubborn
postmaster and suddenly in the dead of
night rose rapidly. Cries for help came
from the direction of the submerged
town and some one put out in a boat to
ascertain the trouble. The postmaster of
Roosevelt was found in the second story
OF his house with his mail bags while the
water Tapped about the window sashes
He then consented to move to higher
ground with the balance of his towns
people.
The labor question was partly solved in
novel way. The basin which is being
filled by the stored waters has for GEN.
turtles been%t the tramping grounds of the
Apache Indians, that tribe which, led by
old Geronimo, was the most recent to go
on the warpath. In the high mountains
just above, the reservoir there is a cave
full of bones that bears silent evidence of
one of the most sanguinary conflicts that
has marked the passing of the red man.
Here a band of warriors took refuge
when pursued too closely by Uncle Sam s
cavalry. There was but one entrance to
the shallow cave, and this was by crawl
ing down a crevice in cliffside. Through
this the Indians entered, and through it
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water for il. The absent landholder IL
an impossibility under the reclamation
service regulations. The large land
holder cannot farm his holdings. anu j.
therefore forced to dispose Of them. The
land OF the community is forced into the
ownership of the small farmer, who OWNS
and works his land. The world has long
sought scheme under which 1t could
force this distribution of land ownership.
The reclamation scheme is the NEST ideal
that has as VET been hit upon.
In Salt River valley the reclamation
scheme is more highly developed than at
any other place in the United states
Even before the present water system
was worked out there had sprung up a
system of life i'm these communities that
had attracted sociolosists from afar. who
have set them up modes.
The town of Tempe is in the heart OF
this irrigated section. 1t is town the
residents of which are farmers. All the
land for radius OF five miles is well wa
tered and extremely fertile. The farmers
live in the town and go to the farm each
day to work. When the work is done
they return to comfortable town homes.
Their children have the advantage of
growing up I'm town, with the added
school and social facilities. The farmer
may pursue his avocation and still be a
man Of polish and mingle with other men
of polish. OF evenings he is seen at social
gatherings. parties dances, political meet
ings. rubbing elbows with the cashier I'm
the bank and the man who insures his
life. He is a leader in the town life, for
he makes more money than business peo-
pie. Because of the possibility OF getting
this profit from intelligent farming and
at the same time not being forced into
the ordinary isolation of the farm. the
best people under these ideal conditions
are going back to the soil. The scheme
works out cutie generally under the rec
lamation projects, and there the best liv-
ing and the best citizenship of the nation
is being foGtered. In proving itself fnan-
cially reclamation is setting sociological
example that may become a model for
the nation.
WILLIAM ATHERToN DuPUY,
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I HERE; RECLAMATION
N DHAS:MADE 'GOOD.:::

GAIT River Valley in
- Arizona Has This Year
Produced Millions of Dollars
Roosevelt Dam Is Largest
Structure of It's Kind That
Government Has Ever I'm
dertaken-No Private Enter
prise in Nation Equals It
Within a Few Weeks the
Last Granite Slabs Will Be
Swung Into Place-Then a
Typical Western Celebration
Will Be Held.
Copyright. 1910. by W \. DuPuyl
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On the Senators.
THE wit of Bishop Seth Ward amuses

THE wit of Bishop Seth Ward amuses
Nashville frequently.
Bishop Ward. in company with two SEN
ators. came forth from Nashville re-
ception the other day and entered a. wait
ing motorcar.
.'Ah, bishop" said one of his COM
panions. you are not like your Master.
He was content to ride an ass
Yes, and so should be- Bishop Ward
answered, but there's no such animal to
be got nowadays. They make them all
senator's
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HOSE men VINO SIT
in Washington and
cause the deserts
of the west to bios
som as the rose
have made out
their case. Salt
River valley I'm
Arizona has this
year produced So
GUO.OOO more than
was her wont, and
that amount is
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RAND DUCHESS
ELIZABETH, the
cZarina's sister,
and widow of muir
dered Grand Duke
Serge, is steadily
lapsing from re-
ligious exaltation
into religious
mania. Thereby she
confirms an an
cient X u s 8 j a n
rroverb: 'Vsie
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CZA Rim and Grand
~ Duchess Elizabeth Suf-
fering From Similar Form
of Mental Breakdown-The
Empress Imagines All the
World Against Her, and the
Grand Duchess Is a Victim
of Religious Mania-Eliza-
beth, Widow of the Wicked
Grand Duke Serge, and Once
the Most Worldly Woman in
Russia, Revives an Order of
Sisters Who Devote Their
Lives to the Poor, and Is
Contemplating a Pilgrimage
to Jerusalem r Religious
Humility Combined With
Worldly Pomp.
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act, proposed to advance the $9.QOO,OO0.
complete the storage and distribution
project and subsequently collect the money
from the farmers who profited by it. The
payments were to be made easy over
period of ten years.
Last year the dam was sufficiently high
to store small per cent of its capacity
of water. This storage made it possible
to farm an additional 10000 acres of land.
Every acre produced $50, which amounted
to 2,4OO.OOO. OF the 10000 acres already
being cultivated with insufficient water it
is estimated that the acreage yield In
creased $40. or $6.000,OOO, practically COM
plotting the outlay. With the dam fully
completed and under operation, as it will
be for the coming seasons, it is figured
that 1t will ray for itself every year in
increased production.
In ten years the installments due from
the farmers will have been paid in and
the property will belong to them outright.
They will administer the distribution of
the water through a Water Users Asso-
citation, and all profits will accrue directly
to them. Already they have. prOfited also
by an increase in value of their lands. due
to assured water for irrigation, which
increase amounts to 500 an acre. or $25.-
100000 In the aggregate. Altogether there
is no mean profit on the money Uncle
Sam loaned the people of Arizona.
But this fairy wand transformation has
been going on in land that was already
fuller Of romance and mystery than any
other nook i'm the nation. For Arizona is
Americas Egypt, yet, unlike the land of
the Pharaohs, whose secrets are revealed
to us in hieroglyphics which only wise
men can read. the history of the ruined
cities of the southwest and the race that
built them is yet unfathomed.
!. :;
This is our land of mystery and en-
chantment where nature has painted the
landscape with the rainbow's hue. 1t is
the land of the painted desert with it's
inspiring scenery and colors: it is the
land of the Grand Canyon, natures
architectural masterpiece, the Titan OF
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to blast a road out of the solid rock of
the caynOn side.
The waters Of Salt river have broken
through the mountain from the watershed
made is the point selected for the erection
OF the great dam. The base of this dam
covers an acre of ground. 1t is 2S4 feet
from the base to the parapet. On top
it is 1850 feet in length. A twenty story
building beside it would yet be in the
shadow. The material that goes into the
body of SO monstrous a structure would
suffice for the building of a city. To
erect such a structure in a region beyond
the reach of ordinary transportation and
In which there is no ordinary body of
labor upon which to draw is a monu-
mental task.
The engineers who have accomplished
the task. headed by Louis c. HILL who
began life in Detroit, were called upon
for unlimited resourcefulness. In the
first place there was need Of great
amount of power in the big task. The
engineers constructed small dam nine
teen miles UP the canyon, diverted a
stream of water and brought it on Il
higher level to the dam site This water
was dropped DIG feet. operated great
dynamo which generated 1000 horsepower
in electricity, which was used In various
ways.
!: :.
Purchase price ana transportation
charges were SO great that cement
mill was established in which 100000
, barrels of the best of cement have been
made and gone into the body of the dam.
Sawmils were set up in the national
forests thirty miles away and the timbers
needed were cut from Uncle Sans own
tree lot. Two farms were laid out and
farmed by the builders of the dam for
the supplying of their tables and feed
for their stock. In the valley just above