Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1914-01-30

here, As and when wanted. Artesian
water is also going 10 be a factor.
We now have some Of these wells
that afford water for from 4 quarter
/ to section Of land Time will de-
velop the boundaries Of these artesian
) belts over the entire half rainless re-
gion, and the completion Of the two
I systems of irrigation will witness the
evolution of farming from the extern
sive to the intensive, a more intense
intensive than the flooded half
droughty east has ever been able to
! put into practice. It is then that the
population Of this irrigated territory
/ is going to be factor in the affairs
[ Of the nations NJ Konkel in Farm
and Fireside.
What is a Willy Willy?
All At once diminutive whir.wind
took life under our very feet AID
went swishing and swirling to the
east.
'what7 that?' cried the artist, as
founded
1T mieht have been a partridge
whirring TO new cover.
"A little willy-willy,' said the bush
man.
1T WIS a singular phenomenon. Its
force and activity were amazing; and
the noise it made-the swish and hum
and crackle Of it-astonished US no
less. We watched its erratic course.
Its outline was definite. It's path no
man could guess. And it moved swift
ly, only occasionally stopping in in
decision to spin like top. It darted.
it swerved. it circled. Had it returned
upon its tracks, and there was no GER
tainty that it would not Immediately
do so-we should have taken TO our
heels, It was so visible and small
that, having short warning we might
have leaped aside ana escaped. And
a man would earnestly desire to elude
it. It had a fearsome violence; it
caught up the twigs. it scattered the
pebbles, it tore at the scrub. II saru-
cred a cloud of dust When at last
it vanished, a thick. red mist. high in
the air. we laughed heartily ar this
comical little six-foot cyclone. rs We
were then disposed TO regard it,
Travelling subsequently in the midst
Of host Of these small winds. we
had no laughter left.
Precisely speaking. the willy-willies
are those destructive cyclones which
originate in the ocean to the north Of
the continent and, blowing to the
southwest. fall heavily on the north
erly western Australian coast from
December to March. OF Ninety-AIile
Beach, near Broome, the pearl fishers
call them cock eyed Bobs. Five years
ago two visitations Of the wiIly-willies
sent sixty luggers to the bottom and
accounted for the disappearance of
three hundred men and more. It is
now the custom Of the pearlers to lie
discreetly in harbor during the willy
willy season. If. however. the great
willy-willy. instead Of following the
coastline in a southerly direction. de-
viates 20 the east. as sometimes hap .
pens. t crosses the continent to the
Great Australian Blight. on the south
coast. md its course is marked by tor
rental rains. \ fall Of as much as
twenty nine and one-haf inches has
been recorded. All the drylands-
where, too, We traveled-are in this
way sometimes refreshed. "-Harper's
Limiting Hour of Labor
With good intenu no doubt the
Pennsylvania legislature has passed
aw limiting the hours of labor per
nitted TO women in public industries.
The decree is that no woman en-
,loyed out OF her own home shall
work more than six days in any one
week. more than 10 hours in any one
ay. or more than 81 hours in six
days. Hotel managers
nd that thus handicapped. women
re less valuable to them than men
nd it is feared that more than 500
-omen will be dismissed from ser
ice in the hotels Of Philadelphia Z
lone
This is not the first t.mee that Ia
Or statutes have produced an effect
irectly contrary to that intended.
-omen have right TO protection
ON the grinding competition that
lgenders sweatshops. foul tenaments r.
ID dangerous factories. But, Of
.urse, when statutes limit their la
n, their productive capacity is cor
spondingly reduced. If the women
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