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The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1913-07-22

The new Chinese republic has estab-
lished department of agriculture and
forestry. For a long time China had
been pointed out as the most back
ward nation in forest work.
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1913-07-22

Bridgcton, y. J., has found it nee
rssary to rebuild its 100000 sewage
disposal plant
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1913-07-22

Austria not only sells timber, but
timber products from its forest
lands. ana disposcs of about $500, 00O
railway ties a year. There is no pro-
vision In the United states by which
the national forests can dispose of
manufactured lumber. though the
policy of selling standing timber is
well established.
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1913-07-22
= lNFANTE DON JAIME. :.
'..'.

The lnfanto Don Jaime. second son
OF the king and queen OF Spain, was
born ST Ia GranIa Palace, near Mad
rid, July ~, 1903 From his birth the
htllc prince has been deaf and dumb
For " long time no one outside the
palace know Of the child's inhrmity,
and t WAS scarcely mentioned except
IN whispers. The late premier Senior
Caualcias, announced two years ago
that the little prince had "A form Of
tuberculosis which prevented him
him from hearing or talking. Spanish
specialists adjudgcd him incurablc.
one Of tnrm performed difficult OPP
rratiou without beneficial result. The
child was sent tu the sanitarium of a
celebrated physician in Switzerland.
but hc returned in the same condition
as before. Don Jaime is at present
under the care ~ Valcncian nuns,
whose mission iu life Is TO educate the
deaf and dumb According to report
hc is making gratifying progress in
his studies
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1913-07-22

Rocky Mountain Alumni association
and tablet in which they petioned
the university to return to the confer
enCe
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1913-07-22
FOREST NOTES.

A shingle mill I'm Maine uses 1000
cords of paper birch each year in the
of toothpicks.
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1913-07-22

Macon, Ga, finds automobile fire
engines affect great saving over the
horse drawn appsratusvs.
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1913-07-22

nov hanging on the stairwaNs OF the
Alumni memorial building be allowed
To remain there. The petitions were
tabled. The placing OF these tablets
has occasloned considerable feeling.
both on the campus. and throughout
the state.
e. X. Askin. Of Indianapolis, Ind,
was appointed instructor in embalm-
ing in the new embalming course be
ing conducted here this summer for
the frs, time.
Assistant Professor Arthur Decker
of the civil engineering department
was promoted To a junior professor
ship of engineering mechanics to take
charge Of the work resigned hy Pro-
fessor c. ]. lrilden. who goes TO Johns
Hopkins as head of the civil engineer
ing department. The salary Of Walter
Fishleigh was increased 5000. and he
was made an assistant profe ssor In the
engineering mechanics and Instructor
+. y Menafec was made assistant pro-
fcssor Of the same subject y. l.. Ladd
was transferred to that department
also. and W. r. Vernon was smate an
assistant professor on engineering
mechanics.
The regents ratified rcoommen-
dstion Of the civil engineering pro-
yiding that hereafter all paving tests
for cities of the state shall be made in
the engineering laboratories absolute
~ without cost to the municipalities
except for the actual material used.
Till today the department of archi-
lecture was ono branch Of the enGln-
eering department Hereafter. the de-
partmcnts will he separate and the
architectural faculty will pass on IL,
own entrance requirements though the
engineering dean. VI. T. Cooley, and
the engineering secretary. !. Z Bird,
will be administrative officials of both
departments.
Charles French, Of Albion, was given
n university fellowship. vice VI. V.
Foulk. of Wichita. Kas., resigned and
William McCay. Of Detroit, was ap-
pointed To the Buell. classical fellow
ship. Each carries money value Of
5000 annually. Evelyn Riley, of Green
Castle, Ind wass given a special grant
from the Buell. classical fellowship
md will receive $3.50
Louie Anderegg was appointed act
ing instructor in general chemistry.
w W Upper. NJ Harvard univer-
sity, was appointed instructor in bot
any for next year. during the absence
Of DR. II. \. Gleason, who is going
around the world
Jane Pindell, of New York city, .
nurse If wide experience. was APP
pointed superintendent Of nurses in
the university hospital
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1913-07-22

Ann Arbor, Mich, July 22.-Rober;
Treat Crane was appointed assistant
professor of political economy at a
meeting Of the board OF regents Of the
university, and was also made director
Of te proposed bureau of municipal
service which will be established at
the university next fall
Professor Crane is Johns Hop
kins man, and graduate of the Uni
versity Of Grenoble. France. and in
1905 was appointed consul assistant
and deputy consul general at Montreal,
Later he was appointed consul at
Guadeloupe. French Indies. and for the
last two years he has occupied that
position at Rosario. Argentina.
This bureau is To be placed al the
of every city in the state, and
advice, aside from advice in legal mat
tiers. will be rendered any Michigan
without cost. This ser
vice will extend to assistance in draft
ing new charters and in changing old
cnes.
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1913-07-22
University of Michigan
News Of intsrss. From the States Chief educational
Institution.

Two petitions We're presented 10 the
regents. asking that the Roman tablets
nov hanging on the stairWays OF the
Alumni memorial building be allowed
To remain there. The petitions were
tabled. The placing Of these tablets
has occasloned considerable feeling.
both on the campus. and throughout
the state.
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1913-07-22

The Canadian government has sup
piled twenty five million tree seed
lings to farmers principally in the
Alberta and Regina plains region.
The United States does not supply
young trees to the public except in
a limited area in Nebraska, under the
terms of the Kinkaid act.
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1913-07-22

Louie Anderegg was appointed act
ing instructor in general chemistry.
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1913-07-22

Pishop John g. Kilgo, Of the Metho-
dist Episcopal church, ~ years old
today
Joseph l.. Bristow. United States
senator from Kansas, 80 years old to-
day.
Adolphus Frederick, the reigning
grand duke ~ Mechenburg- Strelitz,
e5 years old today.
Duke ot Somerset. who liz president
OF the English olympic Games assoc
citation, 81 years old today.
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1913-07-22

ton of many treatises. His fame in popu
lar estimation rests on his mechanical dis.
coveries. He describes among his works.
a method of constructing a telescope.
The exact date of his death Is not known.
II probably occurred In 1924.
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1913-07-22

Hereafter instructors in the engin-
eering department will be engaged but
for one year at a time, doing away
with the old system under which an
instructor had to serve in that capac-
ity for three years before he was eli
gible|for promotion. Michigan has lost
many valuable men because they felt
three years too long a time to wait
for recognition.
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1913-07-22

e. X Askin. OF Indianapolis, Ind,
was appointed instructor in embalm-
ing In the new embalming course be
ing conducted here this summer for
the first time
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1913-07-22

Peter Okkelberg. of the zoology de-
partment, recently received tempting
offer from the University Of Wisconsin,
but will remain at Michigan. The re-
gents raised his salary To $1,000
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1913-07-22

The regents ratified rc0ommen-
dstion Of the civil engineering pro-
yiding that hereafter all paving tests
for cities Of the state shall be made in
the engineering laboratories absolute
~ without cost to the municipalities
except for the actual material used.
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1913-07-22
PopuIarizing the Service.

At the outset II was estimated that
300, 900, 900 parcels would he handled
during the first year of the operation
Of the parcel post system. but II now
appears from the statistics that in
fuenCed by the changes proposed yes
tcrday, the service will he so poular
lied that the number OF parcels car
ried during the ensuing twelve months
will be more than double the original
estimate
The rate sheet. which is to be used
as "A substitute for the parcel post map
will be prepared as soon as practicable
and attached TO the parcel post guide.
The rate chart. to be made for each
separate postofiice, will be worked out
from the local point of the unit In
which the postoffice Is located. The
simplicity of the plan. 1t Is thought.
will make easily determinable the rate
OF hostage from that unit to any other
on any mailable parcel and will greatly
facilitate the handling of parcel post
matter at postoffice windows.
Postmaster General Burieson decided
TO purchase rather than lease automo-
biles for the delivery OF parcel post
matter in the belief that the machines
could be bought outright and operated
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1913-07-22

The regents set aside the sum Of
$500 from the savings fund for the
completion of the Hill auditorium.
The building has cost in round figures
s2S2, 900, of which the regents contrib
uted SEQ, 700.
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1913-07-22

The finance committee was author
bonds under certain conditions, with
the university funds that are at pres
ent uDinvested
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1913-07-22

Dir. G. w. Edmunds. one of tho
strong men in the medical faculty. was
also raised in salary. TO $4,000. The
University Of Minnesota made him a
good OFFER, but he will stay at Michi-
gan.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-21

over with:
"Of course TIL help you and be glad
to do it,
Now, two weeks ago that same
tramp called and asked for a nickel,
and Mr.. Bowser ran him out of the
yard and across the road and threat
ened him with state prison for life.
When he had returned to the sitting
room 7 asked:
did you have a fainting spell at the
office today"
course not. I told you I never felt
better. What made you ask such
silly question:"
Because I have bit of news, and
if you were not feeling well I wouldn't
break it for day or two"
Let US have it now. You can hold
the camphor bottle to my nose If you
see me fainting."
Mother will be here the middle of
win she? That's good. I was
| thinking of the dear old lady this aft
| ernoon 1 shall be glad to see her"
| "She is your mother-in-in-lay, you
know"
"Of course"
when she is here she--she rather
bosses you" ao..+ lou +,.+ nm
| against her. I'll meet her at the de-
pot with carriage, and she shall stay
all the summer with us!'
For the next five minutes I didn't
know whether to telephone the doc
tor, ring for the ambulance or send
out for the police. Mr.. Bowser's de-
meanor fairly frightened me. 1t was
plain that he was acting under some
sort of a spell BY and by I deter
mined to bring up a subject that has
never failed to arouse his anger and
| bring him back to Bowserdom. He
was smoothing the cat and praising
the color of her eyes when 1 said:
/ Mr. Bowser, do you ever recall the silly
love letters you wrote me before We were
! nlarried?"
by laugh.
them over the other day. 1t doesn't seem
possible that you could have written sucn
rot
but was like all other young asses 1
| thought you were the sun, moon, stars
1 and all else
1 You used poor grammar and spelled
l MANY of your words wrong.
| sNo doubt my dear. When a fellow is
in love he doesn't stop for grammar or
photography. Lord, but how did want
to die for your
| had brought up the most painful sub
ject in our lives, and the one to prick
him hardest, and yet he had not WINGED.
He had even smiled complacently. 1 sat
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-21

touched in that overland guide.
mot on trail or recognized routen'
you calculate.
Not printed sign on its fences or
posts.
mot dragged, graded and given con-
slant state attention.
And here is another story.
The road is an ideal grade. The
drainage could not be improved. The
surface is as hard as pavement The
few hills are gradual and easily as
cended. No sand ruts, no dust, no
sharp tire cutting ruts and rocks, no
washed out bridge and culvert en-
frances.
Here is the road, Mr.. Motorist, that
you have dreamed about.
Who maintains this highway?
The answer is easy-the good old
Dutch farmers aided and encouraged
by Mother Nature and her gentle
rains her hardened soil, her falling
grades and her shade and shrubbery.
Now you have it-you have the dis
covery of the unknown beauty spot of
Kansas.
Only Five Hours From Topeka.
1t can be reached in a five hour
drive from Topeka. When night
comes, go up into the hills few rods,
look around you and listen-a bub-
bling sound will lead you to a spring
of sparkling clear water-right out of
the rocks. These springs are to be
anywhere along LnlS valley. "A
camp for a night or week or q month
no end of walks and drives and Der
ries and fishing.
Throw away your colored railroad
maps and pictures of music with your
meals hotels. Forget that Pullman
car, lake steamer, $25 a week cottage
financial investmenet in search of
amusement and in satisfaction of the
vacation desire.
Kansas is calling you'll
Kansas-with her reputation for
grasshoppers, hot winds and biograph-
zeal senators, has in realization all the
glory of the woods, the streams, the
hills, the valleys.
Kansas is sorely in need of pub
licity agent, a hand painted railroad
folder, and the confidence of her own
people.
P. Sob. yes. just one more thing
Kansas needs-another tribe of those
old fashioned German farmers along
the Lyon creek valley-farmers who
do not wait for Santa Fe trails and
Golden Belt routes and guide book
ecognition-farmers who believe that
the development of the highways along
their farms is as valuable as the Gull
tivation of their crops.
A. J. c.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-21

Curio shops of two continents and
years of careful study have made per-
feet the Hiram Price Dillon residence,
corner of Ninth and Harrison, which
was thrown open this week to
several hundred guests. The house, de-
signed by Charles E. Burge. of New
York, architect and interior decorator,
was completed last year; it is of buff
pressed brick in modified colonial style.
The entrance, on Ninth. is guarded by
two crouching lions from the Dillon
home in the east. Facing the sweep
of the state house grounds are the
piaZzaS and pergolaS, rich in vines,
ferns, flower boxes and deep wicker
chairs.
There are all sorts of interesting fea-
lures in the house-seven baths, for in
stance; a doll cabinet with bisque ba-
bies from six continents; a white and
gold elevator; a play room that makes
one young; treasures from the Orient
and the Land of the Midnight Sun.
The Ninth street entrance opens into
a wide hall with a massive double
branched oaken stairway. On the right
is the library, on the left the rose draw
ing room and dining room in old blue.
The hall is in Medici red with paneled
walls in brown oak; the Caen stone
mantel before which a leopard skin is
thrown, is copied from the one in the
Doge's palace and bears the hospita-
BILE inscription: None come too early.
None stay too late" On either side
the door are FIorentine columns bear
ing clusters of electric lights. There
are chairs stamped with the Medici
coat of arms, curious carved Vene-
tan box, and a great chair where a
Roman bishop, wrapped in crimson and
gold, once sat and issued pardons.
A Library Beats a Dukedom.
The library is long and deep and
luxurious; wide fireplace. soft rugs, big
chairs, books, books, books; heaven
for a bibliomaniac. The fireplace bears
the motto of the room, a quotation
from 1.-THE Tempest" MY library was
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-21

apple green with Empire furnishings
brought by ancestors of the present
family from the land of Napoleon /.
The heavy bed, couches and tables are
1nlaid in gold with torches and stars,
symbols of the empire. Everything
in the room is F'rench-the prints on
the walls, the andirons, the graceful
couch. Beyond the enameled bath with
its tubs and showers is the most con-
Venient dressing room imaginable! the
wardrobe is as large as a room. Mr..
billions shoe closet is a high cup
board encased in glass-contains doz-
ems of pumps, ties, boots, shoes and
upperS.
The colonial room with Its graceful
mahogany furniture, three cornered table
and antique sewing table belongs to Mr..
apartments of Miss Margot and Master
Bully"
A Pink and Dainty Bower.
Miss Margot's room is in pink and blue
mostly pink Never was daintier
bower. The rugs and the window seat
are pink. The head boards of the wee
white beds are painted with sleepy young
sters carrying candles and trailing away
mantel came from Far Hills, n. J., and
belonged to little Margot's great-great
grandmother. In the room is a doll cab
fnet-ever hear of one? 1t contains dollies
from all over the world; small lady who
once lived in a Turkish harem: a lass
from the bonnie hills of Scotland; stolid
Dutch baby; a kindchen from Germany;
a debonair demoiselle from France; a
Spanish dancer; cute little Joke of
Jap and a soft eyed doll from Bethany
near Jerusalem. Opening out of the room
is a bath and wide closet with drawers
just the length of the little girls dresses.
On the third floor is the card room with
coaching prints on the wall; servants
rooms and baths; best of all, the play
room.
There's everything to make small per-
sons happy on a rainy day; a hard wood
floor to dance on, piano to play; a
racing game that once belonged to
daddy all sorts of dolls-more lovable
than the ones that live in the cabinet
soldiers; books; blackboards; games. Step
into the billions playroom and the years
slip from one like cloak.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-21

dukedom enough" Dull green is the
predominating color-leather walls
studded with antique brass tacks; EliZ-
abethan ceiling with corroded bronze
chandelier. The library is 46 feet long
and "a feet wide-the largest living
room in town. And the books-there
are 1000 of them. The windows are
decorated with diminutive medallions
of Mr.. Dillon's favorite authors
Shakespeare, Milton. Hugo, Dickens,
Thackeray, Scott, Burns, Tennyson,
Byron, Longfellow, Irving, Poe. There
are Chippendale chairs, a colonial sofa
and stool, Dutch desk with handmade
nails.
The Louis XIV drawing room is
paneled in old rose brocade and hung
with old rose velvet; the woodwork is
white. A French vestment is thrown
furniture came from Paris long ago
and was purchased in New Orleans;
the chandelier is Versailles, of flat
crystals.
Brave Old Francis 1.
The Francis I dining room is in
Flemish oak, old blue and silver, with
a two-toned rug and tapestried walls.
The chandelier, the andirons, and the
buffet handles are silvered. It's
room where might have lived the
daughter of a thousand earls The
circular window seat is cushioned in
blue. The buffet and the cabinet are
full of handsome silver.
One enters tiny white and gold
elevator to ascend to the second floor.
The upper hall, or balcony, is charm
ing; a costly vestment, which once
draped the shoulders of a Roman
priest, is thrown over the balustrade.
The walls are of old gold silk with an
oaken frieze.
To the left is the guest room in dull
yellow with a blue rug. Marie An
toinette might have tripped about it.
On the bed is folded an eiderdown
quilt brought from the north by Pro-
lessor Dyche; one could curl under its
soft warmth on a wintry night and be
blissful.
The Hiram Price Dillon room is in
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-21

This is the time of the year that
the sweltering man-be he slave or
master-comes home in the evening
with summer resort literature in his
pockets and over the supper table,
grooming under the weight of an un-
paid grocery bill. plans a trip to the
lakes, to the mountains or to the cool
sea breezes, one hundred and twenty
dollars away from home.
We all do it.
There isn't a man in Topeka who
.has not at some time or other caught
glistening trout right off from the
front porch, or shifted the salty ocean
spray through the window of the
south bedroom-in a pipe dream.
Vacations are simply a matter of
anticipation to hundreds of persons
who cannot even afford to take the
children to a Fourth of July picnic.
Scores of Topekans have spent the al
lotted breathing spell of two weeks
from the office or shop, in aiding
season, pushing and cursing a stub
born lawnmower, and killing the hot
days reading old magazines.
If man lives in California, he
must vacate by coming east, going to
the gulf or tripping it around to the
Atlantic. If he lives in New York he
must buy a half interest in a yacht
and cruise. If he resides in the lake
district of cool Wisconsin and Michi-
gan-wel it would be a disgrace to
spend the summer in such a spot
probably to Kansas for the open sea-
son. It's mans inherited ingrown de-
sire to migrate with the seasons
and the customary two weeks vacation
has developed the mania
Spend a Vacation in Kansas.
Suppose a man would approach
you some hot, 102-in-the-shade day
and suggest that you spend your va
cation in Kansas?
Murder, you say? Oh, Just plain
ASSAULT
If that is the way you feel about it,
you might as we'll turn over this page
of the paper and read about Mutt
and Jeff or peek shyly at Nell Brink
1ey's girls in summer attire.
This little story is about beauty
spot in Kansas beauty spot that
has never been painted, never has
been colOred and decorated in railway
literature, never has been exploited in
dazzling attractive adjectives by sum-
mer resort artists.
This story concerns a Yalley-a
wooded, watereI lowland lying be-
tween a part of the highlands n Cen
trail Kansas.
No brass railing cement steps are
built down the sizes of these bills, no
1awnmower has leveled the wild grass
and shrubbery of the woods. no hand
cut approach has been whitfield out
of the native stone to he cod outlet
of the trickling springs. And here
and there il is barely Dossib!y-yes,
maybe proba ble--that YOU viii see a
little happy water snake slide off the
banks of the stream into the ripping
water and lash its tail as it lees from
your footsteps.
(The heartless city editor undoubt-
edly by this time has sharpened his
blue pencil-that is, if he possesses
such an historical instrument of tor
ment-and has sworn by all the gods
of mythology that this tale IS leading
up to nothing, that 1 have written
third of column and haven't arriv-
ed at the point. so Tn goil 10 stop
raving about hills, valleys, brooks and