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use of the surface of the land.
SEC. II. That the Secretary OF
tho in1erior is hereby authorized
to make all necessary rules and
regulations in harmony with the
provisions and purposes Of this
Act for the purpose of carrying
the same into effect.
Passed the House of Repre-
sentatives January Is, 1915.
Attest: SOUTH TRIMBLE, Clerk.
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Church Notice

Union Congregational Church
of Ekalaka. Services for Sunday,
Feb. %. Sunday S.slooi at 10: Is
\. NJ. Preaching at II A. and
T: 80 P. M. Sermon Subjects, The
Best Friend and Did He Get
The Ekalaka eagle., 1915-02-26
The $40 Acre Bill

l - ''~~ ''>i s@'i'iSASIS AliS u XIV 80
question may be entered tby the
person who first submits to the
local land of1ic his application to
exercise said preferential right.
SEC. TO- That any person who
has heretofore acquired title to
land Of the character designated
in this Act under any of the
homestead laws of the United
States and who is the owner and
occupant Of the land so acquired
may purchase from the United
States, nou exceeding three hum
dred and twenty acres of stock
raising lands, as designated by
this Act, Or unappropriated and
unrcserved lands valuable only
for grazing contiguous to his said
homestead, upon payiug to the
United States the sum of ST. Is
per acre FOR such lands, under
such rules and regulations as may
be prescribed iby the Secretary
Of the Interior, which said land,
together with the area thereto-
fore acquired under the home
stead laws, shall not exceed six
hundred and forty acres.
SEC. /. That all entries made
and patents issued under tine
provisions of this Act shall be
subject to and contain a reserva-
tion to the United States of all
the coal and. other minerals in
the lands so entered and patent
cd, together with the right to
prospect for. mine. and remove
the same. The coal and other
mineral deposits in such lands
shall be subject to disposal by
the United States in accordance
with the provisions of the coal
and mineral land laws in force at
the time Of such disposal. Any
person qualified to locate and en-
ter the coal or other mineral de-
posits, or having the right to
mine and remove the same under
the laws of the United States,
shall have the right at all times
to enter upon the lands entered
or patented. as provided by this
Act. for the purpose of prospect
my for coal Or other mineral
therein, provided he shall not in
.iurc, damage. or destroy the per-
manent improvements of the en-
tryman Or patentee, and shall be
liable to and ahall compensate the
entryman or patentee for a |
damages to the crops on such
lauds by reason Of such prospect
ING. Any person who has acuuir-
ed from the United States the
coal or other mineral deposits ir
any such land, or the RIGHT Il
mine and remove the Same. may
recnter and OCCUPY SO much OF
: the surface thereof as may be re-
quired for all purposes reason
! ably incident to the mining CT 80
noyai of the coal or other min
erals, ilr1t, upon securing the
!, written consent or waiver of tn,
homestead cntryman or patcntee
second, upon payment of thu
: damages to crops OF other tang
. ible improvements to the oWne
:. thereof, where agreement may
,, be had as to the amount thereof
or, third, in lieu of either of til,
!" foregoing provisions, upon thu
); execution of a good and sufticien
+ bond or undertaking to the Unite,
a States Tor the use and benefit O
4 the cntryman or owner of th,
: land, to secure tho payment 0
: such damages to tie crops 0
tangible improvements of tn
entryman or owner, as may b
= determined and fixed in an actio
brought upon the bond O. u,,,tel
d taxing in !, poult pt competen
u jurisdiction against the principe
y and surcties thereon, such bon
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ln?" Prayer meeting Tuesday
night and Bible: Stndy Thursday
night. You arc welcome - all
services.
W. S. BoWden,
Pastor.
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Wanted--Clean cotton rags at
the Eagle Office. {
If it is money you want, see
F. M. Dw orshak. If
We have 25 or 80 choice town
lots for sale. Call and see us
before they arc all gone. Grant
& FuQua. 3-13 II
For Sale-Ono pure bred Duroc
Jersey Boar. ~. L. Mckay, nine
miles west and two miles south
of Ekalaka. 5-3t
The Washington herald., 1915-12-05
CIGARETTE Smoking Causes
Marked RISE in the PULSE

CIGARETTE smoking often causes
marked rise in pulse. makes the
pulse irregular and causes change
in blood pressure, the effects being more
marked if the smoke is inhaled, is the
conclusion of DR.. John Aikman, Of
Rochester. N Y, the latest authority to
endeavor to determine the exact effects
on the human body of cigarette smoking.
DR.. Aikman's experiments are no more
productive of definite conclusions than
those of many other investigators Of
the past. He suggests. however. that
the great increase in circulatory diseases
in the past hundred years may be at
tributed to smoking, although admitting
that in the face of conflicting opinions,
I'VE can see how far We are from def
mite conclusions as to the true effects
of tobacco"
The effect on the pulse Of smoking
but one cigarette was marked" writes
Dr. Aikman, sixteen out of twenty
seven subjects showing an increase Of
more than eight beats a minute In
some cases the rise was spectacular and
came on in one or two minutes, or al
most as soon as the pulse was taken.
OF the twenty-seven cases all gave an
increase except four. and two Of the four
had an abnormally high pulse at the
start.
"Other investigators have reported a
rise in blood pressure, but in this series
the effects on the pressure were not at
The Washington herald., 1915-12-05
HOW NAVIGATION THROUGH THE
IRON GATES ON THE DANUBE
WAS MADE POSSIBLE

NA1ITH Bulgarias entry into the war
" and the German effort to hew a
way through the Balkans to Con-
stantinople and eventually make the
Berlin-to- Bagdad railway dream come
true, the military importance OF the blue
Danube becomes more pronounced. Aris-
ing in the Black forest in the southwest
ern part of Germany. near the Swiss
border. the Danube runs for 1875 miles
southwestward across Europe. pouring
into the Black sea in four great mouths.
The Danube crosses Austria-Hungary,
flowing through both the capitals, Vienna
and Budapest. From Belgrade to the
border of Rumania, the river is the boun-
Diary line between Serbia and Hungary.
Then, on its way to the Black sea. II
separates Serbia and Rumania and later
Rumania and Bulgaria At Silistria the
Danube turns sharply northward across
Rumania cutting off from Rumania
proper the square of territory known as
the Dobrudscha. long bone OF cOnten-
tion between Rumania and Bulgaria. And
finally, in its business of forming large
share Of the borders of Europe, the
Danube separates Rumania from the Rus
sian province of Bessarabia.
Early in the war the Danube jumped
into the newspapers by reason OF the
The Washington herald., 1915-12-05

all uniform. Out of twenty-five cases
the systolic pressure fell in twelve, in
five there was an increase and eight gave
no change.
The results show that cigarettes oft
en- do cause a marked rise in pulse,
make the pulse irregular and cause
change in blood pressure. the effects be-
ing more marked If the smoke is in
hailed"
DR.. Aikman also gives the results OF
several analyses of tobacco and tobacco
smoke made by the London Lancet with
reference to toxic elements. He says:
THE figures from the Lancet show
that pipe smoke contains more nicotine
than cigarette smoke, and they also seem
to show that cigarette smoking is the
least harmful. This is contrary to popu-
lar belief. Strong beliefs usually have
spme basis of fact, and our opinion is
that heavy pipe smoking does not cause
the injurious effects of cigarette smok'
ing to the same degree, that Is, from
the effect Of the smoke alone.
1T is shown that much of the nicotine
in cigarettes is destroyed, and it is most
likely that the products of this combus-
tion together with the amount of nico-
tine actually present cause most of the
deleterious effects. The figures also seem
to show that the more nicotine is broken
up in tobacco smoke the more harmful
1t becomes"
The Washington herald., 1915-12-05

Until recently it was supposed that the
Missouri corkwOod was the lightest wood.
with the exception of cork. The balsa
tree is closely related to the ceiba or silk
cotton tree. and grows throughout the
West Indies and Central America, being
one of the cOmmOnPSt trees in Porto
Rico. where it is known as 'soano" or
corkwOOd. In Martinique it is called
floating wood. in Cuba ''lanero." In
the West Indies balsavOod has been
used for many wears as floats. The ma
tives also use it for poles somewhat as
the Chinese use bamboo for shoulder
poles and all other uses where a light,
rather strong pole is needed.
The physical characteristics of the
wood have not yet been fully determined.
1t is extremely soft and can readily be in
dented with the fingernail; is easily cut
with tools. planes well. and is remarkably
uniform in texture. The pieces received
al the garden have no sign of any de-
fects, such as knots and checks. Balsa-
The Washington herald., 1915-12-05
AVItI OF THE REcENTlY-ooNSTRUCTeO CHANNEL
NEAR THE GATES ON THE DANUBE.

disastrous Austrian expedition sent
across it into Serbia. Then when the
Russians had forced the passes OF the
CarpathianS and threatened to flow down
over the plains of Hungary. there was
talk of Russian armies striking at the
Danube in the heart of the dual en-
rire But with Won MaCkensen's drive
at the Russians and the cessation OF
active Austrian-Serb hOstilities, the Dan
ube ceased to figure in the war dis
patches until the great German drive in
tho Balkans once more brought IN"
great stream to its rghtful place in Bal
kan history the goal OF all armies OF
all axes.
If the Germans sucteed in holding
their lines in the Balkans from Belgrade
to ConstantinOple. down the blue Danube
will float great transports of troops and
harges of munitions to relieve the hard
pressed Turks at the Gallipoli peninsula.
along the Sucz canal and on the ancient
battleteIds of MesopOtamia. Already
men and munitions are flowing into Bull
garia via the Danube. And II Germany
keeps open its Balkan route to the east.
the Danube is destined to play far
greater part in the schemes OF strategy.
for il is easier and cheaper to forward
supplies by water than by rail, although
the oriental railroad from Belgrade
through Nish to Constantinople will at
all times be the ideal route for quick
TRANSFORMATION.
II may have been but another instance
of TeutOn fOresightedness or il may have
been simply a commercial improvement.
but twenty-five years ago the Hungarian
government made possible the through
navigation of the Danube by building the
Iron Gates below Orsova, where the
The Washington herald., 1915-12-05
FIRST Thing
in the SPRING

the State Medical Board of Health and
the public press, and the live weeds, in
full development, were exhibited in the
show-windows of the principal street.
The city of New Orleans, through the
commissioner of public works. placed at
the disposal of the association twenty
convicts, who cleared the streets and
sidewalks of the outer sections OF the
city of the weeds, in accordance with
map prepared by the Typographical COM
mittee of the association showing the
areas infected with ragweed.
The state board of health published the
illustrations Of the ragweeds and abstract
of the instructions for hay fever sufferers,
and the city board of health assisted by
enforcing the cutting of weeds on vacant
lots. The commissioners of the various
parks had the ragweeds destroyed in
the public parks under the direction of
the association.
Valuable assistance was given by the
Women's Civic League, which appointed
a special committee on vacant lots. This
committee made arrangements with
labor bureaus so that they not only re-
ported lots infected with weeds but Of
fered to send workmen to cut them at
low rates.
The storm Of September % completed
the fall work of the American Hay Fever
Prevention Association in New Orleans
by almost entirely destroying the leaves
and flowers of the giant ragweed in ex-
posed places. As a result of this, and the
efforts Of the American Hay Fever Pre-
vention Association, hay fever in New
Orleans practically disappeared several
weeks earlier than the usual time. AS
there are about 5000 hay fever sufferers
in that city, the health and economic
value of this can easily be estimated.
DR.. w. Scheppegrell. president of the
American Hay Fever Prevention Associa-
The Washington herald., 1915-12-05
LlGHTEST American Wood IS
Only HALF as HEAVY as Cork

wood has the characteristic uniforms
growth frequently noted in tropical
specIes-that is. no annual rings are Wis
lble. AS might be expected. the percent
age Of actual fiber per cubic foot is very
small: in other words. the wood is made
up of very thin cell-walls filled with air.
giving it an extremely spongy texture.
II has very little. If any. true wood
fiber. as the cells are almost parenchy
matous. For so light a wood it appears
remarkably strong. but its lasting power
is very slight. II absorbs water rapidly.
and. unless impregnated in some way to
protect 1t against water-absorption. will
become waterlogged very quickly. How
ever, il is extensively used when thor
oughly impregnated with paraffin.
Balsawood has only recently come
into commercial use in the United States
being imported chiefly from Costa Rica.
1t is now being used very largely after
treatment with paraffin for making the
floating parts of modern life-preservers
and for constructing liferafts 1t is also
being employed by the government for
buoys and floating attachments to signals.
Another use TO which ii is being exten-
sively introduced is for interior Innings OF
refrigeratorS. Owing to its extremely
porous nature il acts as an excellent in
sulator against heat and cold, and from
some tests recently made with a specially
constructed balsawood box it was found
that when used as a fireless cooker. ar
ticles put into the box at night retained
the heat until tho following morning: on
the other hand. piece OF ice remained
in the box from five to six hours during
the middle of very hot day.
1t is probable that. with a wider recog-
milton of the peculiar characteristics of
the wood. many other uses will be found
for it in the near future.
The Washington herald., 1915-12-05
PlCRIC Hard to
Get at Any Price

H1CR1C acid. one of the essentials in
- shrapnel and high explosives, has
] advanced in price since the war
started from 80 cents to s22O
pound and is exceedingly difficult to OBJ
tain at any price. Scenting immense
profits to be made in the manufacture
and sale of picric, many would-be man
ufacturers advertised the precious acid
for sale, but on being approached with
inquiries for prices, terms. etc, devoted
most of their time to efforts to get to-
gether enough money to start plant
Picric is used in the explosive heads
OF all shells, from the three-inch shrap-
mel to the 1S-inch monster that sails
twenty miles before exploding Natural
ly the demand has far exceeded the sup
ply. number of New York brokers
have very profitably specialized in the
delivery of picric.
According to these men, the path of a
picric broken is anything but strewn with
roses. Secret agents. spies and plotters
OF all sorts continually dog their foot
steps. they claim, trying either to corner
the available supply or prevent delivery
to a rival government.
So hectic has become the trade in
picric, it is said. that many legiti-
mate manufacturers refuse to deal di-
rectly with purchasers, simply shipping
their product to New York and billing
their bankers there. permitting the
bankers and brokers to wrestle with the
horde Of foreign agents on the trail Of
the elusive picric.
The Washington herald., 1915-12-05

corners of Hungary. Serbia and Rumania
meet. The Prigrada rock and other
lodges OF rocks prevented navigation Of
the river al this point. So the Hungarian
government built channel of steel and
concrete, now famous in European his
tory as the Iron Gates.
For eight years the Hungarian govern
ment labored to render the swift and
tortuouS stream navigable at this point
and in October, 1898, fourteen years be-
fore the present confia agration broke out.
il was thrown open to traffic. MillioLs
of dollars were expended in opening the
water route from Germany to the Black
sea Although the new channel is on
the Serbian side of the river Danube. the
hungarian government assumed the total
cost of the Improvement. Now through
the Iron Gates soldiers and supplies are
being rushed to Bulgaria and eventually
will be sent to COnstantinople, Egypt.
MesopOtamia and perhaps even India
The upper end of the embankment now
encloses the shOal produced by the de-
posit of the River Ceschaina; at the
lower end. below the Ploscia shoal, is an
iron bridge which leaves a means Of
escape for the rushing mountain torrents.
The toal length Of the canal is l II miles.
and it is wide enough for vessels to pass
in opposite directions.
Training walls have been built on bo,
sides of the channel TO confine the water
and raise its level. The wall on the right
bank is nineteen feet six inches. wide at
the top and serves as towing path.
These training walls are of stone, with
fat revetments to protect them from ice.
Vessels can now navigate the Iron Gates
al all seasons when the river is not closeo
The Washington herald., 1915-12-05
Naval Research
LABORATORY
Is Experts Plea
THE establishment of a naval re-
search and experimental labor
atory TO cost s5.O0O,O 900 recon-

THE establishment of a naval re-
search and experimental labor
atory to cost s5,O0O,0OO recon-
mended by the naval consulting board
of the United States, of which Thomas A.
Edison Is chairman. has been indorse,i
by the Aero Club of America which will
take vigorous steps to educate Congress
and public opinion to the needs of such
an institution
Such laboratory. the operating cost
OF which would be about $4,000 900 a
year. would be of inestimable value to
the country in the opinion of the Aero
Club. which points out that it would
do much toward advancing aeronautics
in America. Alan +. Hawley, who
sponsored the Endorsement of the Aero
Club, also brought out the fact that for
the past six months the aerOnautical
motor makers of America had been
troubled by lack of material having the
qualities of Krupp steel. and also be-
cause OF lack of magnetos and inability
to obtain certain parts that heretofore
had been obtained from Germany.
These problems. said Mr. Hawley, are
about to be solved, but it had taken six
months to do IL. Had there been
laboratory. such as the one now pro-
posed. the solution undoubtedly would
have been quickly found by the scientists
who are now on the naval consulting
board.
Mr.. Hawley also stated that hundreds
of inventors and eXperimenters, some OF
whom have inventions that apparently
are of. great value. have been applying
TO the Aero Club of America for advice
and assistance. In the past these ap-
plications We're put on record but un-
fortunately II always was impossible 10
bring these inventors in touch with men
who might be willing and able to de-
velop inventions.
One instance. Mr.. Hawley said. where
aeronautical motors were concerned
would serve to illustrate: then he said
that not less than forty aeronautical
motors are being developed or manu-
factured in the United States today, and
that these motors should be studied and
tested and their values determined, so
that the army and navy could acquire
the very best.
The Washington herald., 1915-12-05

pearance of man on the earth $4,000
years ahead of previous estimates.
II was adversely which brought man.
kind into being. the investigator con-
cludes- Four great glacial periods and
three inter-glacial periods have succeeded
one another in the northern latitudes.
The terrible cold compelled the ancestors
OF man to think up ways of protecting
themselves against it. and thinking de-
reloped their brain capacity. At the same
time many migrated to warmer latitudes.
Pithecanthronus, the dawn man. was
lord of the earth for 25,OO0 years Of the
first glacial era Then the ice cap at the
pole swung the earth from its axis. rem
dering his habitat incapable of supporting
life. and Pithecanthropus disappeared.
He was succeeded $4,000 years later
by a superior physical being. the Heidel-
berg man, who was eight feet tall. with
huge skull and cruel teeth He needed
all his strength and cunning to cope with
the monsters which roamed the European
wilderness with him--elephants. hippo
potami and rhinoceroses much larger than
any of today The warm inter-glaciaI
period in which the Heidelberg man held
the center of the stage lasted perhaps
25O.0OO years.
Various types of humanity developed
just before and after the last glacial
period, which began only 25.0OO years
ago. Among them we're the Neanderthal
man the Cro-MagnCn man and the Neo-
lithic man. in whose van came prehistoric
types
We are now in the recedng post
glacial era. the investigator declares.
which for all anybody knows may be
succeeded by another glacial period when
animal life will be impossible. But in
asmuch as such an eventuality is from
$4,000 to 10000 years off, there is no
occasion for alarm
The Washington herald., 1915-12-05
Will illuminate
Ocean at Night
and Pour SEAS
Into Arid Lands

ILLUMINATION Of the ocean by night
so that collision of ships will be i'm
possible and the drawing of unlim-
tied quantities Of water from the seas to
irrigate the deserts. are only two OF the
possibilities claimed by the inventor
through his discovery of a method of
transmitting electrical energy without
wires, for which Nikola Tesla was chosen
by the authorities in Sweden to share in
the Nobel prize in physics.
Mr.. Tesla says his discovery has di-
rect and vital bearing on the problems
now foremost in the public mind Wire
less telephony will be brought to a per-
fection hitherto undreamed OF through
the application of this discovery, Tesla
claims. The inventor says that through
his discovery electrical effects of unlim-
tied intensity and power can be pro-
duced. so that not only energy can be
transmitted for all practical purposes to
any terrestrial distance but even effects
of cosmic magnitude may be created
I'VE will deprive the ocean of its ter
rors by illuminating the sky. thus avoid
ing collision at sea and other disasters
caused by darkness" Tesla claims. We
will draw unlimited quantities of water
from the ocean and irrigate the deserts
and other arid regions In this way We
will fertilize the soil and derive any
amount of power from the sun I also
believe that ultimately all battles. if they
should come. will be waSed by electrical
waves instead of explosives"
Referring to Thomas A. Edison. who
shares in the Nobel prize in physics. Mr..
Tesla said Edison deserved dozen No.
bel nriZeS