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The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1913-07-03

There appear TO have been 500
copies oi the Shakespeare first folio
printed O: which ahad, -de are known
to have survived OF these. fewer
than "a a"r n" III perfect state, while
about l6o copies have sustained seri
nus damage ~ various points The
value of the four early folio editions
OF Shaktsprar" is partly determined
by their pedigrees The duke Of
leeds owns a first folio on which two
former owners, Charles Kiligrew and
William Conggeve. have inscribed
their names tiarricks first folio is in
the library of Queens college, Oxford.
Sir Henry Irving possessed a second
folio which had belonged successfully
to Lewis Thcobald the greatest of all
Shakepeare'S teNtual critics, DIR
Johnson and Samuel Ireland In
South Kensineton museum there is a
third tolio adorned With a curious col.
lection Of autographs At the TOP of
the title page IS the Signature of Leigh
tiunt and on other portions are the
signatures Of Charles Dickens Robert
Browning, William Wordsworth.
Charles Knight and George Henry
l.eWes London Chronicle
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1913-07-03
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NG,""/
SURVEYORS CLIMBING MoUNTAiN

who had p, riSlied II! one or we YER
rife arctic blzalrds. The skeletons
were hud,ilpd together on the side OF
a little Wind break made up 0! some
buughs alJ moss \ little farther on
they fOu Il another skeleton back or
another little windbreak where the
lonely traveller had evidently craWled
in a futile effort to escape the same
blizzard They found here the rem
nants of a small tent, with few camp
utensils and a notebook so badly
I blurred that it could not be read. A
little farther away they found the pros
/ pector's gun But there was nothing
to identify any of the skeletons.
Al Demarcation Point, which Sir
ohn Franklin determined upon as be-
ing the boundary line between Russian
and British possessions, the remains
of an Eskimo village was found. which
contained al one time about one hun.
dred igloos Eskimo houses Most OF
these houses appeared to be very old,
showing that at one time large tribe
of natives made this point their per
manent home The place was a reg
uar hunters paradise Here were dis
covered animal skulls and the horns
Of musk-Ox This Is the first time
that muskox was ever found west
Of the Mckenzie river Caribou were
seen in herds of several thousand.
These animals are very stupid and
also exceedingly inquisitive. Some OF
them would gallop up to the party and
after due inspection quietly return to
the herd treat numbers Of mountain
sheep were seen, and several superb
specimens were brought back for the
Smithsonian Institution ptarmigan
were also very plentiful, and fish were
found In every stream
While game of all kinds was in
great abundance. several reasons were
apparent why the Eskimos had left.
Mosquitoes We're there by the millions
They We're not ordinary mosquitoes.
such as are usually seen In civilized
parts Some Of them We're as big as
a silver dollar In fact the surviving
members Of the onslaught say the
mosquitoes were so vicious that they
had to build a huge smudge fire to
keep them away from the horses It
was lauehablc and yet at the same
time pretty hard on HE poor horses.
The animals would stand in The smoke
in preference to being eaten alive by
the insects Then they would Wander
Out for little grass, but in a few min
utes come rushing back for the
smudge
The men mad to work with wells
over the face ana gloves tied around
the wrists Ever ole had 10 sleep In
nosquitoproot tent in order to get
any sleep a all While eating, it was
necessary TO st in smoke so dense as
10 BE- almost suttocaiing
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1913-07-03

DO Yea van. me 10 understand. sir,
that when | ask You for your daugh-
ter's hand, you are holding It up"
want 70 YOU 10 understand. sir
that am putting my foot down"
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1913-07-03
Defined.

Pa. what is receirer?"
A receiver. my son, is a man who
winds up business after it has run
down
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1913-07-03

INNING ne longest straight
line boundary IN tie ~crld,
Between Alaska and Calsda,
has hnaIly been completed. 1t
measures from hpciuuiuE to
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1913-07-03
Skeletons Found,

Near the Arctic ocean the engineers
found the skeletons OF three men
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power plant. II is a tor of working
force. and when the whole plant Is COM
pleted il will have cost S.5.o9o,en. 1t will
then have a potentialify equal to that or
100000 horses, and its owners Will soon be
ready TO put 2o00st horsepower on the
market. They have already sold 6o,eR,
horsepower to st. Louis having made Il
contract To furnish that much for the Pc
ROD of nihety-nine years, and they are
now reaay to supply the factories and
other industries OF the country about.
in addition TO the electric plant Itself,
the keokuk Power Company. as con-
pensation to che United states FOR the use
Of the river. has, according 70 its con-
tract with the government, built here q.
lock canal. and a drS-dock for the use OF
the public. The canal enables river YES
sells of all sizes to pass UP and down the
stream, and the dry-dock is, ! am told.
one OF the largest interior dry-dochs III
existence The dry-doc3i is situated he
tween the lock canal and the Iowa shore.
and the I<eokuk company agrees TO fur
nish electricity which. viii keep il in oper-
alton for all time to come The conpan5
also gives the power TO operate the canal,
it Is said the government has received
benefits for its concession TO use the river
equal in value 10 ten Or tiiteen mtllloh
dollars.
And now come with me Tor walk over
the works / shall ask DIR. G. Walter
Barr of the keokuk Water Power com
pany 10 go with Us and explain some ~
The details He is the author Of little
book entitled Electric Power from Inc
Mississippi River" and has studied IT.
ms and outs Of the great mass OF MA
ciinery that is propelled by The stream
We ride for a mile through the oli-faSh-
Toned town OF Keokua. passing beautiful
residences shaded 10y great forest Trees.
till we come to the river. The houses
extend close To the edse Of the Diti
and before We 20 down the ion& stairs
We. have the dam, the power plant. the
canal and the dry-docN spread out before
us The dam does not look Il mile long. nor
can one appreciate that the white palace
of concrete right under us covers almost
as much space az the great building Of
the Library of Congress at Washington.
1t is only when We climb down the hum
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and Boston. bar money MAS tight and cap
itai tinid. Hy kept on the Job. beng
turned doNn thirt4 eight times. and was
at last III despair am told he would
have then given I'D the work had IL not
b, "a that his VIE At the last moment
urged him To try once more. he dia try
and Sscceeded ALTOGETHER something lhe
SIS ~ 90 in stocks and bonds has been
put into the works and the present owners
are from a dozen different parts OF the
world. 4 minor part OF the stock 10
owred here III lSeokuk. .reat deal Is
owned in Boston and New En- land. ana
some is the property of investors IN
CANADA England. France and belgium
Just what the company is stocked At
and what is its bonded debtedness | DO
not know. and there is but little DOUBT
that il viii eventually pay good, fat diVi-
dends for all time 10 come At has an
enormous market for its power. and lis
great transm ssion lines viii be feeders
to branch lines carrying this river of
electricity into a score of cities The
lines 80 far built are to Burlins ION. Iowa,
and to ST Louis. and ! understand that
these with their feeders Will probably
consume all the horsepower ava liable.
FRANK G CARPENTER.
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automatically by a sensitive governor,
which is connected with machinery 50
fine that the turb mes are regulated TO
the exact amount of their 10 q. This
work is the result OF experiments
which cost altoge her about. So coo, 600
TO bring about the present perfection.
Indeed, 4 great deal Of the mach merry
al keokuk was invented for this power
plant, and the turbines ami much o. the
other machinery Were made after plans
which many engineers said could not
work. They are all ether the choice or
the invention of Mr.. Hugh j.. Cooper.
the engineer in chief, and, ! might say,
the originator and creator of the plant
It was his master mind which not only
designed the construction, but invented
much OF the machinery tor carrying it
out.
Mr. Cooper began this Worh many
years ago. He had already made good
record as an engineer in connection with
electrical work in Jamaica " tn a great
power plant in Brazil and with the COM
pleton of the water power plant at Mag
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volume on petroleum production reaches
only 10 GOO readers a full summary of it
has already been published by news
papers having. combined circulation of
as many millions. In no other way can
the public be adequately served"
In diffusing knowledge the survey is of
educational value 10 the whole public, but
it has another aspect sometimes over
looked; it in itself is great post-Sradu-
ate training school for technical men.
Mining. hydroelectric and other similar
corporations recognize the efficiency with
which the service is conducted. and they
reach into il now and then and pluck out
some young man who has had the benefit
of its training, employing him at Q salary
many times In excess of what the gov
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The Slash.

DAUL POIRET, the French dressmakeY.
1 was asked by New York reporter
if he thought womans present mode OF
dress made for morality.
Il do not deal in morality" NJ. Poiret
replied. Il deal in beauty
Then, apropos Of the slashed skirt he
told a story.
a young lady i'm white dinner gown"
he said stood under a blazing electrO-
lier, and, swinging round before her
fiance, she asked:
How does my new dress show up?'
Up almost TO the knee Gte young
man replied. Those white lkstockingS
with gold clocks are beautiful
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in the camp On mountain. plain or
swamp
More and more | am convinced that
the present decade Is one ia which the
scientist and the engineer can render
the largest kind Of public service. The
economic and industrial questions be-
fore the people, the large problem OF
the relation OF government 10 business,
are matters III which this type Of man
is best lifted 10 enter into al the
duties Of citizenship.
Il was Interested recently 10 read
the opinion Of two citizens Of Massa-
chusetts, the one an emir ut e gineer.
Prof. Swain of Harvard, ard the other
a well known publicist, Mr.. Brooks
Adams, in which they arrived at the
same conclusion from different liaes of
approach. They agree that the COM
Dlex civilization of the twentieth cen
fury, with it's present social crisis, IS
for the most part the product Of az
piled science IL is necessary FOR that
class % aignly trained and thoroughly
practical men whom We cali engi-
neers to devote themselves TO their
civic duties as never before
eff. as AR. adams claims. the hitherto
diiiEosi mp e- py84 tAotA - -" Pteoe
has been due to its employment Of APP
piled science. now is the time for the
scientist the engineer, To serve the
people.
I'm speaking before the Philadelphia
Engineers club last winter | went so
far as to urge a lobby Of engineers at
Washington. who. with their high
ideals Of profession and citizenship,
would constitute d power for good. 1t
may be suspected that | believe In
such men taking a larger part in civic
matters and exercising larger infiu-
ence on public opinion, because they
are men accustomed 10 measure costs.
balance opposing factors, and, above
all. patiently and impartially test out
opinions with facts
- alASIINII.N BROWNIE
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I IT. Il


fully one-third OF the distance between
here and the moon. At flood time the
volume of the Nile is so great, il it all
could be irnpounded. that it would fill that
lake in 4 day The volume Of the Missis-
sippi here * far less in flood times. being
only a hagatelle compared with that OF
the Nile.
And stin the works at keokuk are more
wonderful than those at Assouan. as to
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THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER I'm III

NOR. than one thousand million tons. At
100 tons 10 the car it would take nearly
1000 ono cars to carry that water. and
If you loaded II all or one solid train, the
ears would form a line reaching more
HAN +h..... tins rrn.,rd he n1~tN ~
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nor money on the land, but counts on a
quick turn 10 secure his profit.
AS against these prartices, the pablc
land administration or today attempts &
protect the homeseeker and the miner and
the hEdro-electric engineer from hold-upa
by claimants who seek by hook or crook
TO get something in the form of claim,
grant or patent that they can sell out.
IF Uncle Sam as landlord is TO dis
pose of the peoples land to the people for
use there is no need of real estate agents
In, between.
Land Classification is the first step il
this business policy, and by reason of the
present cooperative arrangement OF the
geological survey with the general land
office a larger proportion of the pub ic
lands are now going directly to the citi-
zens who purpose 10 make the best use
of these lands. After al, the ultimate
consumer of the products of these lands,
whether OF! or wheat corn or coal, de-
serves consideration, and this hest-use
propusit on and elimination OF real estate
middlemen means lower costs, ana lower
costs must precede lower prices.
DEPRESSING into more personal channels,
the director said
MY interest in the scientl side OF
geology constantly gets oversFadoWeF by
my lively interest il tn pract.ca. SIDE
of our work / sometimes fec AAe the
Yale professor whom w aenI down on
the Navajo reservation. -. geotoslc
examination OF the uL4@e GattG water
resources and Hhu wrote back tiiat ne
was in the midst Of t.e eos. enticins
geological phenomena, uut WAS so in
terested in finding water To- the Indians
that he couldn't speno time on mere
geology.
"Our investigations can be OF such real
assistance, all over the country that the
temptation is 10 FORGET for the tine that
the special value OF on" survey 10 the
public depends upon the scientuc spirit
and scient fic standards that inspire ana
control our work. The function OF a
government scientific bureau IS 10 make
It's science useful TO the people. and am
satisfied that the geological survey -
doing that IN a large degree. thohsh
ne can strive to make sur Investigations
both more scientific and more usefui.
MY effort has been to approach my
administrative task simply in the spirit
of the field man. The more / observe
neers, who find no, day too long nor
trail too steop II only the facts can
be brought into camp. the more | believe
in their spirit and admire Their loyalls
to the public service. And TO follow the
facts, regardless OF former opinion or
preference or policy. is just az good
rule in administration as n scienuhc m
vestigation. II the geological survey rs
successful in its work, il is ivrcause oil
this field idea permeatins the organiza-
ton in the Washington Office as well as
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the work they are doing in the Industrial
world The As>ouan dam is irrigation
proposition 1t has added million and 4
half acres Of tillable land TO the Nile val
ley and has created a property worth
MANY millions The Feokuk dam is a
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I.OSET scientists
do nor abound in
that int n ! =
scientific bureau o.
I Ii government
is il o IS II d 5 tn {
: illogical survey.
OF course. the test
tone and tie lab
orator. have their
giac, IN the survey
but III the main ii
IS a service or the
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ara. He had installed the turbines It
McCalls Fcrr:', Pa, when his attention
was called TO the posSibi ity OF dammins
the Mississippi river al ksokuk
through data sent cut by the keokuk
and Ham lton Water Power Company.
To this data WAS added the statement
that all that was required for the work
was a really big man with a SEQ. of
mill on dollars behind him.
The data interested Mr.. Cooper He
came here and looked over the ground
He then had his engineers survey the
fed and he himself digested millions
Of figures which the War Department
had made regarding I'll part of thu
river He then came 10 keokuk. and
q ter ca efu investigation decided that
TIL. jon cou.d be done il h could get the
money.
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cslet-nJrSe She is already running the
street cars and many OF the mills and fac
tories Of II. Louis, which city is more
than Il hundred miles on. and she will
district right here in the cry heart of the
ration
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by hard work in the field. Most of
his twenty years in the service have
been so spent. He is a man who knows
his United States by personal contact
up and down sideways and across and
that literally
lie has conducted surveys a. Tar west
as the shores OF Puget sound and as
TAR east as the rocky coast of Maine,
with intervening studies in the iron
mines If Michigan and the gold and
copper mines of Utah, but With most
Of his field service in the rugged and
snowy peaks OF the Cascade noun
taius III the Pacific northwest From
nearly a mil. below ground to almost
three miles above sea level he has
packed" his Instruments and made his
observations. and when on n trip TO
Mexico some years ago he raised his
altitude record to above $4,000 feet on
the summit of Mount oriZaba.
4 breezy, active figure is Director
smith, athletic of movement. with head
always thrown back No doddering
student here, Tie a red handkerchief
abo.a his head and let his thick black
moustache grow somewhat longer and
ne would IL perfect model from
which TO illustrate novel about pl-
rates 4 native Of the maritime state
OF Maine. IL Is not lHihtIJ liste INC
influence OF hetedity is responsible for
the romantic and adventursome air of
the man
Not that he has inherited any of the
possible t.eebooting instincts Of "A sea
taIiug ancestry indeed not, for pi-
rector smith for the last oozen years
has been one Of the most active nSureS
III the y VI. Z. a. II Nasnington and
nas been president OF that otganiZaton
Tor nearly i've Years. But lie IS a lree-
booter, ruthless ANA bold. II ieaIins vita
nature III ner refractory moods.
II IS not only as scientist, but Ike
wise as organizer ana an executive
that Director SMITH has achieved sue
cess at the head Of his bureau. Oddly
enough, MS early youthful ambitions
pointed in none Of these directions. He
born February - 1871. and became a
student at Colby College. with the idea
Of hitting himself for journalistic work.
1t college he edited the college paper,
and also :le obtained experience in a
country newspaper office and in acting
as correspondent fer city new spapers
and press associations. But before
graduation he shifted n s cl4ief interest
70 natural science.
This led 10 special work in geology,
Rock study he continued at Johns Hop
kins- which institution gave him the
passed the nrst United States civil serv.
ice examination ever given in geology
ana was Immediately appointed - ~
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spoke first OF the land classification upon
which the survey is engaged in the
public domain
"A business policy for the public do
main perhaps best expresses the idea that
most attracts me in my work for the
government" SAID he. Good business
from the standpoint Of the federal land
lord doesn't mean getting the most money
out of the public lands, but rather put
ting to its best use what land and what
natural resources still remain i'll public
ownership. We want to promote mining
and to encourage farming, but most OF
all. citizenship is the real issue, and SO TO
administer these public lands as to help
the people is the large problem
We in the geological survey call it
land classification when We try to deter
mine the physical character of each tract
of land to the end that it may be devoted
to it's highest use. and thus become of its
greatest value to the whole people. By
having the facts of land classification be-
fore him, the Secretary Of the Interior
can prevent the federal government put
ting its seal of approval on the construc-
ton of reservoirs and canals Tor a Carey
act project where there is not enough
water or suitable soil to warrant the pro-
posed irrigation.
If we stop to think we must agree
that public interest demands that valuable
power sites should be used as such and
not as small nOfneSIeduS. lndl
lands should he acquired By mining men
for mine development and not by non
resident capitalists for the timber value;
that irrisable lands should be irrigated
and not dry farined; and that reservoir
sites should be used for power or ifrlga-
ton and not as cattle ranches.
y
..My first interest in land classification
was back in 1895. when | assisted Geolo-
gist Lindgren pan gravel down IN CALI
gher's gulch on the edge of the city OF
Tacoma The land was claimed as gold
placer. although every one knew its chief
value to be for city lots, and the mineral
claim was simply subterfuge to defeat
the title of the state of was hlnSton TO
this school section. At that time the
larger use of the survey in classification
had not been begun. SThis examination
by the geological survey resu Ted IN the
finding of so few particles or Tine gold as
To defeat the IN neral ella mani
THE case is somewhat TYPICAL of the
WAYS in which efforts have been made to
eyade the spirit of our land laws. Nalua-
bic coal lands with neglisib c agricultural
value have been honlesteaded: oil lands o.
great value claimed as gypsum; the finest
timber lands patented TO the fictitious
mineral ella mant or the homesteader who
has no intention OF cuiuvating the land
and in most Of the cases of fraud the man
who seeks patent from the government is
only a dummy, or at best an idle middle
man. who intends to expend neither work
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Think I'D dropping II force equal e 2op,
COZ horses. all pulling at once, right out
f the skies into the center IT one Of the
busiest populations on earth. That is
vha, has been done by the keokuk power
liant Talk Of the palace of Aladdin and
Ell slaves II the lamp. The Aladdin Of
7s Mississippi valley Is Hugh l. Cooper,
I'D engineer Wha conceived and built the
Seot5uk dam. and the slaves of his lamp
rc tht waters If this great river, which
5ot ages and aGes will now go on lahoring
DAY and night for the nation.
wish / could impress upon you the ma
lure Of the country in which this power
{ts been created This is the heart OF
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Then came The rub Il Is SAID that there
is only one thing more conservative than
one million dollars and that is two mil
lions But Mr. Cooper needed. not Two
millions, but something like twenty mil
lions and there was not a dollar IN sight
He went to New York and Philadelphia
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The Mississippi Dam
Compared With That
of Assouan AIachln-
cry Built Like a Watch
A Look at the Mighty
Turbines, Each OF
Which Generates Ten
Thousand Horsepower
Hugh L. Cooper, the
Great Engineer, and
How He Made Good
\ Twenty Five Mil
lion-Dollar investment
and Where II { anne
From.