The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1912-10-10
ON GERMAN
COINS IS PROPOSED
Emperor Will Be Shown In
Uniform Instead Of Classic
Nakedness.
CHECK ON ENGINEERS
Plumbing To Be Installed To Pre-.
vent Leaks In Danube
Rive-Train Oil Is
Good Diet.


Good Diet.
Berlin-Special: The 25th Jubilee OF
Emperor Williams accession to the
throne. to be celebrated next year. will
be marked, 1t Is understood. by a
change in the portrait of the Emper-
or on all the gold and silver coins OF
dates from the accession of his majes-
ty, and accordingly shows him as q
young man. The new design will be
distinguished from the old not only in
the neck and the chest shown In the
portrait, now bare in classic nakedness
will be clad in uniform, probably that
Of the Guard Cuirassiers with its high
collared tunic.
An automatic device for keeping q
check on locomotive engineers who
run by danger signals is being installed
on the government railroads. The
search for a practical method of stop
ping automatically a train running by
a signal set against 1t a here, as in
other countries. not yet been success
full, but the new invention Is expected
to put such a penalty on carelessness,
which Is given as the cause IN a great
number of cases that accidents Of his
nature will be reduced to a minimum.
The device consists of an electric
connection with the rails at semaphore
points, so arranged that If an engi-
neer does not stop when the signal is
set against him a bell starts ringing
at the next station and a record Is au-
tomatically made upon a sealed regis
ter deposited there. AS soon as the
engineer reaches the station he il
the numbered and sealed register in
surfing that no offender escape
through favoritism or negligence of the
stationmaster. who must turn In an
account for every number on the re-
cord.
Under the old system an engineer
might run by scores of danger signals
and evade detection until his train met
with an accident. Now he faces the
certainty of punishment and possible
discharge, which, In the opinion of the
railroad officials. will operate against
the relaxation of vigilance ON the part
of the engine crew.
Gigantic, and unparalleled plumbing
operations to plug leaks in the bed OF
the River Danube form the subject Of
a controversy between the govern
ments Of Baden and Wurtemberg.
which has just been appealed to tho
Imperial Bundesrat for settlement. The
case attracts attention to the curious
and almost unknown geographical fact
J that a branch of the Danube flows in
to the the Rhine and thus finally
reaches the North sea, thousands Of
miles from the Black sea, where the
main course Of the Danube ends.
For some two or three hundred years
a part of the n has been passing
through a subterranean channel from
the vicinity of the little town Of I'm
mendingen, in Baden, emerging again
in the valley of the River Aach, some
seven miles distant. where 1t forms the
largest spring in Germany. The source
of the spring was definitely established
some years g by artificially discolor-
ing the water Of the anube above I'm
mendingen. In recent years the phe-
nomenon has become Increasingly SER
ious for the towns lying on the Danube
in Wurttemberg, which are dependent
upon 1t for water power, because the
leakage is steadily growing in Quanti-
ty.
Wurttemberg is attempting to assert
its old water rights, while Baden is
disclaiming responsibility on the
ground that the leakage is a phenome-
non of nature, the latter country nav
ing a deep interest in letting nature
have her way, inasmuch as numerous
manufacturing establishments depend
Ing on the runaway waters of the
Danube have sprung up in the valley
. Of the Aach.
Civil engineers propose to settle tho
problem by carrying a surface chan
mel from the Danube to the Aach and
building several dams on the upper
course Of the latter to develop electrt-
cal power. The holes in the bed Of the
Danube would then be filled with
cement. the total cost Of the operation
being estimated at not much more
than $500 900.
Train oil as an important article Of
diet is the prospect held out by a
chemist writing in the Frankfurter
Le1tung. The writer points out that
recent chemical progress has solved
the problem Of purifying and hardening
all kinds of oils, thus rendering 1t pos
sible to use them as the basis for man
ufacturing oleomargartne. The often
sive smell of train oils he SAYS Is due
to the fact that Its molecules contain
too little hydrogen, hence the forma-
ton of acid products.
Chemists have long known that tf
the molecules could be made to as
simulate hydrogen it would get rid Of
~inoffenslve. Experiments to treat
these oils with hydrogen were unsuc-
cessful until the French chemists Sa-
batter and Senderens discovered that
hydrogen combinations were greatly
facilitated by applying that gas in
combination with very fine particles
Of nickle. platinum, palladium or COP
per. A German chemist, Norman. re-
Gently this principle in tho
proved successful in purifying ana
hardened to such an extent that they
can be pressed into sheets that give a
musical o when struck with a ham.
mer. Cotton seed and many other veg.
etable oils are expected to assume new
Importance owing to the discovery.