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ton and association Here is material
for no end OF exciting adventure. and an
opportunity for sharp and picturesque
contrasts between this marooned. belated
community and the irresistible tide or
commercial life below it. Material. too.
for an interesting romance. Mr.. Greene
takes every advantage Of this situation.
working out the struggle between the old
and the new in realistic fashion, and
making along the way interesting pic
lures of these men of the mountains
The love story that accompanies this
basic study of progress arrayed against
stagnation is a spirited and interesting
one that supports the main theme in an
admirable manner Stories of the south
have multiplied. like those of the west.
somewhat past the patience of most
readers but these readers will make ex-
ception in favor of Mr.. Greene's uncom-
monty good story.
JUST BOY. BY Paul West. author Of
"The Pearl and the Pumpkin" IL
Illustrations by Reginald Birch. New
York: George II. Doran Company.
A courage toward phonetic spelling that
sums to sheer bravado and makes the
photographic advances of DR.. Butler and
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Beeches and Lightning.

FfoGl the London Chronicle.
Lightning is said to diferentiate be-
tween trees as well as men and women.
Some years ago Mr.. McNab, a fellow of
the Botanical Society OF Edinburgh. in
vestigated into the generally received
opinion that neither the beech nor the
birch is ever struck by lightning. He
collected information regarding light
ninS-struck trees throughout Great Brit
ain. and found no single instance OF Ell
Their of these species being struck. Inves-
tigation in North America gave similar
results. He found, indeed, that in the
forest regions there beech tree was
regarded as the safest place I'm a thun.
derStorm.
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THE KEQKUK DAM.
III.-.The Power Plant.
By Frederic ]. Haskin.

The dam at keokuk furnishes more
power than may be found at any other
water power plant in the world, and this
is transformed into electric power in quite
the most wonderful OF power houses
Built out in the river. close to and
parallel with the Iowa shore, the power
house is part of the one gigantic con-
crete monolith that forms the whole
project. and Of itself is LIS feet Ions.
49, feet wide and III feet high.
In this giant house are TO be installed
thirty of the largest turbine water wheels
in existence, fifteen of them being already
at work. And here. at these wheels,
centers the interest in the whole man.
moth project.
The generators revolve above the tur-
bines, being fixed to the same shaft. The
turbine and the generator together weigh
more than $4,000 pounds. and this enor-
nous weight Of metal revolves at about
the speed of sixty revolutions minute
The bottom of the turbine wheel is disk
with a plane surface six feet in diameter
1t rests on another disk of the same
diameter, which is fixed In the bottom Of
the pit. and the whole weight of more
than half a million pounds revolves OH
this plane bearing. II ii were not for
perennially effective fabrication this in
stallation would not last ten seconds,
for the friction would destroy both plates
Oil is forced in between these two disks
under such pressure that film o. oil al
ways keeps the two faces separated, and,
as a matter OF fact the whole $40, 600
pounds of the revolving part rests on the
oil. But suppose something should happen
TO the oil pumping machinery? Should
this oil film fall away. then the upper
part would drop down on a set of roller
bearings continually immersed in oil,
which are set in the surfdce Of the lower
plate. Thus the engineers believe they
have taken every possible precaution
against injury to the plant by the failure
Of fabrication. since either method would
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roots down into a soil that for GEN.
tur.es has been prepared for 1t.
It's broad leaves rustic like the gar
ments of Ceres touched by the. winds:
whisper like the blessing Of Jove breath
ed upon the land.
It rejoices in the hot sun and grows
Justify under its most ardent embrace.
And no vision of ghostly plenty is equal
to its huge pillows reaching far out
every way to the dim horizon, glittering
in soft and somber majesty under the
full moon.
Surely the generous Deity hath not
dealt SO with any nation" The gift Of
corn is a gift to all.
Its juicy stalks and leaves are loved
by the cattle, the swine, the horses. It's
grains eaten when young and succulent
and full of milk are a delicacy more
choice than any plants the old world
produce. There probably cannot be found
a score Of human beings who do not like
corn on the cob"
It's dried fruitage ground into meal is
richer than wheat flour or oatmeal.
1t is food for the fancy Of the poet
as well for the muscle of the OK
and Of the human laborer. For far
above the grape exalted by Anacreon,
and the olive. and the palm that have
nourished the east. and all fruits and
vegetables that have translated the life
force Of Mother Earth into blood and
brain and Drawn for her children ia the
glorious. fecund and beautiful dowry OF
the new world corn.
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Pointed Paragraphs.

Men. like watches, are valued by their
works.
All the world looks down on a man
who is in a hole.
We all want the bioer half, yet there
is no such thing.
Before burning your bridges behind you
be sure they are fully insured.
IL you would hit the target Of success
you must aim before you shoot.
rich mans phil; nthropy usually
draws the line at his poor relations
Ride a hobby il you will. but remem-
Der you are not the only jockey in the
race.
Young man. beware of the girl who
looks like peach She may be lemon
in disguise.
Do your share toward preventing this
old world from becoming bowling
wilderness by not bowling.
If man worries about his debts It's
a sign that he is honest; the dishonest
man lets the othCr fellow worry
or course. there isn't any sense i'm get
ting mad when the home team loses but
who cares anything about sense at such
a time?
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in fact. out of the thirty mine embassies
and legations in town only six are owned.
This ratio will not hold good for the
other capitals of the world, but simply
followed now. The condition here in
Washington contains point which will
furnish some food for reflection.
1t is only during the last forty years
that the United States has been regarded
as a real success. Before the civil war
it was expected that the crash would
come at any moment to topple the coun-
try over and that the first serious ques-
ton would prove fatal. Foreign powers
were chary of buying an embassy in a
country that was considered tottering
They preferred to wait until matters were
adjusted before expanding their money
for buildings. and SO they leased as an
expedient, while waiting to see how the
cat would jump. The country is consid-
cred well established now and the great
world powers have realized it. AS an in
dication of this Germany is planning a
new embassy on street at cost OF
about SJO0,OOO, exclusive Of the land, hav-
ing already purchased the ground. The
other powers have under consideration
similar plans. II they are respecting this
country's growth and establishment
enough to erect fitting residences for
their representatives at its capital, is It
not fitting that the compliment should be
returned and the respect merited?
Considering the feature of the bill be-
fore Congress which provides for furnish
ing and equipping the residences after
they are leased, the cost will not be as
great as might be expected. The recen-
ton salons and downstairs rooms only
will require very fine furniture. The pri-
vate apartments of the ambassador or
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each: Switzerland, Denmark, Sweden.
Portugal. Rumania. Servia and Bull
garia. Chile. Colombia, Peru, Panama
and Venezuela for leasing $1,000 and for
furnishing 5000 each; and lastly; Nor
way, Greece and Montenegro. Persia,
Nicaragua. Costa RIGA. Salvador, Guate-
mala, Bolivia. Honduras, Paraguay and
Uruguay and Morocco for leasing $1,000
and for furnishing $1,000 each.
BY leasing the residences for a time in
stead of buying all outright, the main
proposition to put the government stamp
on embassies abroad Is furthered in that
while the preliminaries attendant on
choosing the best building or site to pur-
chase in each of the cities are being dis
pensed with, the newly appointed am
bassadOrs and ministers may be enabled
to occupy government-provided residences
in the meantime. The government cannot
go in and buy at one time thirty-five or
forty residences. No other country ever
acquired its embassy buildings In that
manner. But by as steady and rapid ac-
QUESTION as possible the expense which
leasing will necessitate will be mitigated.
There are some cases where 1t is cheap
er to lease the kind of residence required
for an embassy or legation than to buy.
Hannis Taylor. former minister to Spain,
mentions an old Spanish castle near the
Arch Of st. Johns, the fashionable resi-
dental section of Madrid, which might
have been leased for $1,000 a year. bur
which would have cost an exorbitant sum
to buy. Could the United States have
gone In and bought when the most de-
sirable properties abroad were of less
value than now. the result would have
been OF infinite value. The most beauti-
ful embassy In the world, the British one
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CORN.
BY ER. FRANK CRANE.
Copyright, 1913, by Frank Crane.)

America has added 10 the worlds sup
ply of good things for the palate the
tomato. tobacco. the potato. the turkey
and corn
The greatest Of these is corn.
1t is the peculiar prize of the United
States.
The richest agricultural region of the
earth is the land extending from the AL
leghenies to eastern Nebraska, and from
lower Minnesota to southern Illinois. No
territory so inexhaustibly fruitful as this
exists on the globe. From 1t. all the in
habitants of earth could be fed.
Chicago. the metropolis of this dis
trict. is destined to become the chief city
Of the world.
About this season Of the year the trav-
eler through Iowa and adjacent states
may witness a spectacle which Is one OF
the worlds wonders. 1t is the vast fields
Of growing corn.
Out of the car window he may see a
boundless ocean of dark. lush green. a
vision of life JOY and strength. the
like of which was never beheld before
the nineteenth century.
It drinks up the liberal rains with a
healthy appetite. 1t thrusts its hungry
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pattern of romance. 4 medieval country
house-half castle and fortress. with
ghosts of wicked or weak ancestors
a-lurking in its gloomy shadows. Is the
setting for this lovelorn tale. The nero
inc herself leads one back to the remote
days when the heroine of fiction in order
to be such. must grow pale, and Ian
guish. refuse food. sigh. weep. faint
cling. remaining meanwhile inenably
beautiful. incorruptibly chaste. the do
lorous victim OF a devouring passion
Guinevere tells her own story. making as
much Of II as one can reasonably expect
her to. she. poor thing, being as she IS
Upon every page her mournful lament is.
II was married as a child or. Il was
married when / was only seventeen.
This refrain. coupled with her foolish be
havior, misleads one. All of sudden
the reader wakes to the fact that at the
time of this recital Guinevere is quite
thirty-one, high time for her to do either
one thing or the other. and certainly hign
time to stop this silly insipid talk about
herself. The ending of the story Is as
old fashioned and unbelievable as the
heroine herself The husband dies, the
clouds roll away, virtue is rewarded. true
love is triumphant
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aSo, when Lord Fisher was first sea
lord, the admiralty, proceeding upon that
assumption. commissioned an exceedingly
capable naval officer to prepare a report
upon the available sources of Oil fuel
then existing throughout the world. That
officer reported that there was not
enough oil available to justify its extern
sive use in the British navy.
Since the original report. which is now
in the admiralty archives. was COM
municated to the admiralty new sources
Of supply have bzeen opened A small
proportion of the amount required is
drawn from the Scottish shaie fields. But
the essential factor of the problem may
be thus stated: 4 main part of the
duty OF the British navy is TO protect
water-borne commerce; therefore II the
motive powe; of the navy is also to be
drawn from overseas. the navy ceases
to be able to discharge its office. For
the navy will be immob lied by the very
emergency for whose prevent on It's
mobility exists Ii cannot guard its own
oil fuel when it has no oil fuel. The ad-
miraity some years ago, knowing that
the sources of o. fuel were insufficient.
fitted a large number OF destroyers TO
burn oil only hes deS number OF bat
tleship is to carry oil as well as coal. At
that time the storage accommodation
and the means OF transport We're totally
inadequate.
fitted to burn oil fuel only. in default of
the requisite ARRANGEMENTS Tor supply.
transport, storage and transference OF
oil to ships Those arrangements are
still Iack;np When, some six months
ogo ther. vas an alarm of war, and the
Admiralty telegraphed orders to mobilize
the Acct the same night, there was no
oil available for the destroyers on the
The Ave hattleships of the 1012-13 pro-
gram are being fitted to burn oil only.
r Is understood that the eight light
cruisers of the same program are also
1oIny shinbuiIding program the ad-
mirsltv has returned to coal fuel. prob
ably because it could not fathom the OIL
supply question.
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tween Jessie. Mary and Christina, and.
the dte cast. tortured i'm an agony OF giving
voice to what appears to be a hopelessly
mute emotion 1t is a good. sturdy story,
good enough to stand sponsor for a new
generation of lusty little Macgregor
stories.
PEGGY IN THE RAIN. BY Ralph
Henry Barbour. New York D. APP
pleton & Co.
Like vegetation. this romance thrives on
moisture. \ rafting thunderstorm in
augurates it. Thereafter every sort of
seasonal downfall nourishes 1t. The hero
Inc and hero make their way through 1t
Ike pair of young ducks, single file. but
with long concealing distances between
then- For this story is the quest of Peg
ss-m-tne-Rain by the enamored young
man VINO. in the beginning, finds refuge
rom the nerce summer shower under the
same Dig and friendly tree that already
sheilers Peggy. When skies are fair the
lues, appears to languish. But, let a
GIoua pesln to drip. and Peggy-in-the-Rain
i OUT again. when the game of hide-and-
seen IS merrlly on once more. Peggy is
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of ice. the temperature at zero and the
wind blowing sixty miles an hour
These cables are carried on steel towers
each one of which, on the straight sec
tons OF the line, measures seventy-nine
feet in height and twenty feet square at
the base, the corners Of this square each
carrying one leg of the steel tower bolted
to an Independent reinforced concrete
foundation weighing two tons and ex-
tending six feet into the ground.
Electrical and hydraulic engineers all
over the world have watched with in
tense interest the successful installation
OF this greatest of all power plants, and
they have willingly crowned Hugh l..
Cooper. the chief engineer and creative
genius of the enterprise, with the laurel
of unstinted praise.
To have harnessed the Father OF Wa
tiers is itself an undertaking of which any
man might be proud. but to have done so
In such manner that the highest known
records OF efficiency were excelled, Is
something that will stand long in the
hero stories of an engineering age.
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Brander Matthews look like t.mid child's
play. by contrast. distinguishes these let
tiers by Samuel Torrey. jr.," to his ''Dere
Cous. Gorge" and Deere Dwite." All
the boy there is in the world appears 70
be condensed in this youthful letter writ
err. furnishing the reason. without doubt.
why men and boys innumerable dispute
with Mr. West over his own Identity with
Samuel Torrey. jr.. and lay personal
claim, as parts Of their own experience,
to any number of the escapades and mis-
chievous FRANKS set down here In such
fine fervor. Years have not stalled Mr..
Vests recollections Of that easily adapt
able world wherein a boy. at will. can be-
come Indian. pirate. brigand. buccaneer
These letters brim joyously with the
endless variety of boys ingenuity in
trying to make this work-a-day world
habitable place for himself and his own
tribe.
GUINEVERE,S LOVER. BY Elinor
Glyn. author OF "Halcyone," etc.
New York: D. Appleton & Co.
A young wife, an old husband and
potential lover Of the highest acceptable
ity make the groundwork OF this ford
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THE PUBLIC LIBRARY.
BOOKS ON PHILOSOPHY, RELI.
GI0N AND BIOGRAPHY.

This weeks list OF new accessions 70
the Public Library includes books on phi
losophy. psychology. ethics religion and
number of interesting biographies.
Philosophy.
Hermann. f. EucLen and Bersson BEAT
Philosophy. BE47- Eu25Ijo.
Russell. J. h. fret Course in Philosophy
B-R5lH
Psychology.
Daniels. FroId. pseud Self. mastery. b.
Magnusson. p. n. Psychology Applied to
Morgan. G. L. Instinct and Experience. BI-
Muensterberg. Hugo. Psychology and Industrial
Patterson, c. b. What is New Thought, BJ.
P27swh.
Family Ethics.
Allen. Mrs. NJ. W. Parents Problems. 1891.
j Dey,ne; E. I. The Family and Social WORK.
Forester, e. W. Marriage and the SEX Prob
MeCsacken. Elizabeth. The American Child.
Comparative Religions.
Carpenter, J. E. Comparative Religion. BIT
Jeevons F. b. Comparative Religion. BIT
J535c.
Robertson. J. NJ. Pagan christ.. 1911. BIT.
R5i1p.
Folklore and Witchcraft.
Liiilewood. $. II. Story Of Santa Claus. Blu
Merriam. {. H. The Dawn of the World. 1910.
81 - M554d.
Notesleln. Wallace History of witchcraft in
England From 1885 Ills BW-Nss8
Feriey, NJ. V. d. Short History Of the ga
lem Village Witchcraft Trials. Bw-t42s.
Bible Study.
teuch. lslL CBkG-C3G6
Faher, r. W. The loot Of the Cross. Obi
F112f.
Moore. G. F. Literature Of the Old Testament.
CHI MlS3l.
Morgan. q. e. The Parallels Of the Kingdom.
Jesus Christ.
Begbie, Harold. The Ordinary Msn rnI The
Extraordinary Thing. cGv ,B;iso.
Gilbert q. III. Jesus. CGvG3sj
Jesus christi cGH-LsIlw.
Ihorbuin. Il. ). Jesus tue Christ CGH-T392
Christian Ethics.
Ainslie, Peter My Brother and 1. 1911. OK.
Mcfarland. $. Spiritual Culture sud Social
Miller, J. Il. For the Best Things. 1907. OK
u. ID.
ing Theology. CA -Sm531s.
sermons and Addresses.
Babcock NJ. ID. Fragments That Remain FROM
the Ministry Of Maltbie Davenport Babcock 1907.
CZBll2f.
Beattys. II. II. Smith and the Church. or
B3Sss.
Black. Hugh. Chrsts Service OF Love. 1901.
CT B562c.
Carroll. b. II. Evangelistic Sermons. CZ.
C2:;6e.
Wilson, Woodrow President OF United States.
The Minister and the Community. exc WUv6n.
Biography.
cb nS,.a' E issa Inc "'"'D'e u ''s
Barnes. A. NJ. Life Of David Livingstone. 1850.
r. L163b.
Barrows. l. c. A sunny Life Samuel June
Charming, f. r. Autobiography and Diary OF
Elizabeth Parsons Chauning 1907. E-C58A.
Ellis, L. :. The Life Of Kit Carson. 10.
E-C237e.
Fraser. NJ c. "Reminiscences Of Dpiomatiss's
Wife: Further "Reminiscences. T. FS16a-
Greene, +. L. Obed Hussey. f. H962g.
Gribble, +. ii. The Romance Of the Men Of
Devon. E-eGs7.
Grossmith, Weldon. From Studio to Stag.
Judith, J. b. My Autobiography. EJs97.E.
Melee Mrs. !. \. Z. American Heroes From
History. EgM1G3.
Mayne. E. c. Byron. 2v. E-BsS7ma.
Pomeroy. s. G. Little-known Sisters Of Well
known Men. E9P773.
erai William Booth E-B6i3Sr.
Rideing. w. II. Many Celebrities and Few
smith. s. +. Poor Boys Who Become Great.
1855. E-9Sm6S.
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be sufficient. and it is highly improbable
that both would fail at the same time.
The turbines themselves, considered
apart from the generators to which they
are attached,
Largest Wheels are the largest
Ever Constructed. neeis ever
had to be cast at some foundry in
the central plain Of the continent,
as the railroads could not carry
them over the mountains They were
cast at Akron, Ohio. and as it was the
railroads were severely tested in trans
porting them to Keokuk. Water tanks
and coal chutes between Lake Erie and
the Mississippi had to be moved, the
car carrying the wheel lonly one was
shipped at a. tinie) had to be routed over
many different railroads in order to make
the journey without crossing any but the
new style of concrete bridges that have
no upper works across the tracks, and
executive officers of the railroads had
to ride with the wheel as to give the
necessary orders for moving a freight
house or some other obstruction along
the route when occasion demanded. Each
turbine was a casting of iron weighing
over seventy-three tons. being sixteen
and a half feet in diameter and eleven
and a quarter feet high.
In the power house each wheel is set
I'm concrete chamber of its own-a
chamber built in scroll fashion-with four
openings. each of different siZe present
ed to the upstream sweep of the water,
the partitions between these openings
being Of odd and curious shapes. They
are designed that the water coming
through these openings will be swept by
the curved surfaces of the inner part
of the scroll chamber, 50 that the water
will attack every inch of the circumfer-
ence of the water wheel with exactly
the same force. Then the water is taken
of through drain at the bottom of the
chamber. so that its suction power when
leaving Is almost as great as its power
when rushing in against the wheel In
this manner the engineers have Gontrived
to obtain for practical use a reater pro-
portion of the energy of the water than
ever before has been done.
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more difficult. If not impossible. to make
a fine courageous woman out Of Betty,
without losing her identity in the trans
formation and thus breaking faith with
the writer herself as we'll as with the
reader. Nine. Albanesi does this. how
ever, and does it with distinction. In a
quite wonderful way she lets life have
its way with Betty.sgrinding her down to
the very heart of the girl, and the hear.
of her is pure gold. The story through
out is substantial, virile, absorbing.
THE RIGHT OF THE STRONGEST.
By Frances Nimmo Greene. New
York: Charles Scribner's Sons
Washington: Brentano's.
This is a romance of the Alabama;
mountains. On the one hand are the ex-
elusive and suspicious mountaineers. and
on the other modern industry embodied
in the person of a young and ambitious
business man. bent on acquiring the
land occupied by the hillmen and putting
1t to the service of gigantic business
enterprise. Between the two is a girl
who belongs to the hills by birth and
sympathy. but to the outside by educa-
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Frugality.

From the Chicago News.
mo. Madge. dear" said the frugal hus-
band 1T shall not take you to the theater
or to sumner or even buy you dish of
ice cream. You see, you are a qualified
voter now and l might be accused of
trying to influence your vote"
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BRITISH NAVY DOUBTS
OIL AS FUEL SUPPLY
Question of Its Being Available Not
Yet Reported on by ROYAL
Commission.
Foreign Correspondence Of The Star

Foreign correspondence OF The Star
LONDON. July 90 1918.
Next to the shortage Of recruits for the
army comes the question OF oil supply
Tor the navy. The royal commission on
oil fuel Tor the navy, Of which Admiral
of the Fleet Lord Fisher Of Kilverstone
Is president, has been sitting for several
months. but has not made a report as
yet. 1t should be clearly understood that
there is not necessarily any objection to
Oil fuel. as such. It has, many advan-
tages over coaI. although cheapness is
fuel. as such. is desirable. Some years