Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1912-10-10
DESIGN ON GERMAN
COINS IS PROPOSED
Emperor Will Be Shown In
Uniform Instead Of Classic
Nakedness.
NEW CHECK ON ENGINEERS
Plumbing To Be Installed To Pre-.
vent Leaks In Danube
River-Train Oil Is
Good Diet.

Good Diet.
Berlin-Special: The 25th jubilee of
emperor Williams accession to the
throne, to be celebrated next wear. will
be marked. 1t is understood, by u
change in the portrait of the Ezmper-
or on all the gold and silver coins OF
the monarchy. The present likeness
dates from III accession OF his males
ty. and accordingly show him as Il
young man. The new design will be-
distinguished from the old not only in
regard to ~ but also by the fact that
the neck and the chest shown in the
portrait. now bare In classic nakedness
VIII be clad in uniform. probably that
OF the Guard Cuira Ssiers with its high
collared tuntc.
An automatic Device for keeping a
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
= signal set against 1t has here. AS in
other countries. not yet been success
full. but the new invention IL expected
to put such a penalty on carelessness.
which Ia given as the cause in Il great
number of cases that accidents of this
nature will be reduced to a minimum.
The device consists of an electric
. WV SAtAC w NAhA RAAV
points. so arranged that it an engi-
neer does not stop when the signal il
set against him a bell starts ringing
at the next station and a record is au-
ter deposited there. AS soon as the
engineer reaches the station he Is
called upon for a written explanation.
the numbered and sealed register in-
surfing that no offender escapes
through favoritism or negligence of the
/ S~f:AtiOnn1AS tar. who lnlSf fi1l-p, i'm am
account for every number on the re-
| cord.
Under the old system an engineer
might run by scores of danger signals
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 c~ontroversy between the govern
ments of Baden and W~urtemberg.
which has just been appealed to the
Imperial Bundesrat for settlement. The
case attracts attention to the curious
and almost unknown geographical fact
to the the Rhine and thus finally
reaches the North sea. thousands of
miles from the Black sea, where the
main course of the anube ends.
For some two or three hundred years
a part of the Danube has been passing
through a subterranean channel from
the vicinity of the little town of Inn
mendingen, in Baden. emerging again
in the valley of the River Aach. some
seven miles distant, where it forms the
largest spring In Germany. The source
of the spring was definitely established
some years e by artificially discolor-
ing the water of the Danube above Inn
mendingen. In recent Years the phe-
nomenon has become increasingly ser
tous for the own lying on the Danube
in Wurttemberg. which are dependent
upon 1T for water power. because the
leakage Is steadily growing i'm quanti-
ty.
Wurttemberg is attempting to assert
disclailning responsibility on the
ground that the leakage is a phenome-
non of nature. the latter country hav-
ing a deep interest in letting nature
have her way, inasmuch as numerous
manufacturing establishments depend
Ing on h runaway waters of the
Danube have sprung up in the valley
of the Aach.
civil engineers propose to settle the
problem by carrying q surface chan
mel from the Danube to the Aach and
building several dams on the upper
course OF the latter to develop ~electri-
cal power. TIL 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 81 600, 600.
Train oil as an important article OF.
diet is the prospect held out by a
chemist writing in the Frankfurter
Zeitung. The writer points out that
recent chemical progress has solved
the problem of purifying and hardening
all kinds OF oils, thus rendering it pos
sible to use them as the basis for nam.
ufacturing oleomargarine. The often
sive smell of train oils he says is due
to the act that Its molecules contain
too little hydrogen. hence the forma-
ton of acid products.
Chemists nave long known that If
the molecules could be made to as
simulate hydrogen 1t would get rid Of
the deleterious acids and make the oil
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 nfckle. platinum. palladium or cop
per. A German chemist, Norman. Ne.
Gently introduced this principle in the
treatment OF fats and oils. and II
proved successful in purifying and
hardened to such an extent that they
can be pressed into sheets that give =
musical tone when struck with q ham.
mer. Cotton seed n many other veg
etable oils are expected to assume new
Importance owing to tho discovery.