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When Dogs Threatened Paris.

1T is a curious fact that the French
capital was once threatened by
horde of hungry dogs. This event was
associated with many other and more
startling ones of the reign of terror. 1t
was due to very natural cause. The
greater part of the aristocrats. who had,
very few were able to make arrange
ments for the care of their animals
when they hurriedIy left their homes.
The dogs, abandoned, took to the
streets, and shortly began to congre-
gate in two packs, one occupying the
Champs Elysees and one the Bots de
Bologne. Soon they became a public
danger. as is evidenced by the duly re-
corded fact that Santerre, the brewer.
proposed law that all dogs should be
hanged. So. in September, 1893, when
thousands of starving animals were
seeking subsistence in a city not over
provided with food, drastic measures
were adopted against the Champs Ely
sees pack.
Two battalions of the national guard
surrounded the area. leaving gap
toward the Rue Royale, while hundreds
of men and boys beat the cover" The
game was driven up to the Place Roy
ale, where troops made a battue of IL.
Three days consecutively was this re-
peated. and more than three thousand
dogs lay in the place.
1t is said that one Gaspardin, who
was ordered TO remove the carcasses
being short of means to effect this ap-
Piled for the royal equipages. To the
revolutionists this appeared timely
jest, and the application was granted
gleefully and with applause. So Gas
pardin packed the dead dogs in the
gilded coaches and made a state pro.
cession through Paris.
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\ Forms Lake to Supply Alexandria, Water

whereabouts No more beautiful place
could be found for picnics than one
can see from the dam or from the
wagon bridge across the run. But
picnic parties are going TO find big
signs all about the lake. warning them
TO keep away. Corporations do not
build half-million dollar dams to FUR
nish city people places for holding pic
mics. Also. health experts frown on
the use of watersheds by campers,
fishermen and the like. when such
watersheds furnish city's water
supply.
So there will be no bathing in the
lake. and there will be no cunning,
though the wild ducks. when they ma
the new body of water. are sure to
make il a favored stopping place Per-
haps fishermen armed with permits may
be allowed to fish in the lake.
which undoubtedly will be stocked. or
stock itself with bass and all the
finny tribes that inhabit such waters
as Can.arons run. But mostly those
waters are to be devoted to purposes
strictly utilitarian. They are being
stored up there for a reason. and that
reason isn't to furnish sites for picnic
parties, or locations for camps or
swimmin' holes. nor yet for the pleas
ure of gunners seeking wild water
fowl.
Camerons run henceforth is devoted
to the uses of the people of Alexan-
dria; its waters have to work, nova
days. The little streams careless.
ripply. aimless, meandering existence
is over, from now on 1t belongs In the
working class
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Sensitive Soldiers.

NV LILLIAN THAW, the athletic mil
w lionaire of Pittsburgh, is fight
ing for France in the French aviation
corps. where his flying, at once skill
full and fearless, has won him frequent
official praise.
In a recent letter to a Pittsburgh
banker. MI. Thaw said:
"One of the horrible features of this
war is the number of an1putations IL
is entailing. Young men without legs,
without arms, without hands are to be
seen everywhere.
These young men are sensitive about
their affection. They won't stand ques-
lions from strangers. A stranger in a
train said to a young chasseur the
other day:
81 see you have lost leg, sir
The chasseur gave start, took hold
of hrs empty trouser, felt it up and
down hurriedly, and eXcla lined:
My goodness. i do believe you're
right.
Then he pretended to look under the
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Old and Curious Clocks.

NN7 HILE the cIockmakers of today
w possess skill and ingenuity In
the highest degree. the clockmakers OF
other days showed no small ability in
their line. since the product of their
labors was frequently not only of the
most complicated sort. but of such ex-
cellent workmanship that it seems to
have been made for all time.
In this relation there may be men
toned a clock at Castletown, in the Isle
OF Man. that was telling the hour be-
fore Oliver Cromwell was born, and
there is clock still marking time at
Castle Rushep which Queen Elizabeth
herself presented to the lord of that
castle more than 300 years ago
There are other clocks of even more
ancient date. At Schramberg, In the
Black Forest, there is to be seen an
alarm clock that was made in 1880. 1t
is still in good working condition, In
form it resembles a lantern wherein
Is lighted candle, the wick being au-
tomatically clipped every minutes by a
pair OF scissors. The candle is SLOWLY
pushed upward by spring. which also
controls the mechanism of the clock,
and at the required hour Of waking an
alarm Is sounded. and at the same time
the movable sides OF the lantern fall
and the room is flooded with light.
Not so long ago the French govern.
ment acquired from a private collec.
ton an extraordinary alarm clock that
once belonged to Napoleon Bonaparte.
This not only indicates the time of
day, but the day. the month, the year,
the mean solar time, the phases of the
moon. and, in addition, the quarter.
hours. It's attachments include q
thermometer
One of the most curious of clocks was
that made by a poor man of Milan. 1t
was constructed of bread. Every day
the maker set apart some portion Of
his daily bread, which, by a process of
which he would not divuige the secret,
he was able to render as hard as metal.
From these fragments of bread he
thus constructed his clock, which Is
said to be an excellent one, keeping
good time.
man named lie Roulatt, living at
Limoges. France. is recorded as being
able to make clocks from any matee
rial, no matter how unsuitable II may
have seemed. One clock he fashioned
entirely from old newspapers converted
into pulp; another from large and
small sticks held together by wire: a
third from discarded tobacco cans and
so on. Some of LIE Roullat's clocks are
said to have been models Of workman
ship.
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in his "Greater Germany" And the
brand-new German White Book ode
voelkerrechtswidrige Fuhrung des Bel
gischen Volkskriegs. June, 1879, now
claims that Belgium must have known
for years that she would be drawn
into" the next Franco-German war.
What England and Italy must pay,
the pangermanists are still calculating,
in spite of the imperial command mot
to discuss" AS for France, she must
accept the entrance of Luxembourg
and Switzerland into the German en-
pire, give Germany her war fleet and
colonies, except Algiers, and sign a
preferential treaty of commerce. break
ing all existing treaties with England,
the United States and Russia Her
cash indemnity Is placed at $1,000, 000.-
900, calculated as half the liquid
fortune of France" Herr Rudolf Mar
tin. former minister of the interior,
Jumps the cash indemnity from the
allies at $4,000, 100000.
Can they pay such sums?
Baron Won Sedliz Neukirch. budget
reporter of the Prussian landtag. has
just exposed the imperial hope in an
official document.
Germany" says the budget reporter.
may not be able to demand such
prompt cash installments as in the
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$50, 900. 100000 with which to pay the bill
of damages.
Jean Finot and Paul Leroy-Breau-
lieu, leading French economists, be-
lieve that Germany really has this
fortune. if you add up the value of
the soil. buildings. railroads, ports,
canals, forests domain properties, Gus
toms. foreign loans possessed by Ger
mans and their capital invested in
France. England. Italy. Russia, Asia,
Africa and Oceania.
"Also," says Finot, numerous mon
opolies, like transports. tobacco, wines
and beers, etc. little taxed in Germany
heretofore, will furnish them important
resources to pay up. Why. Germany's
annual $4oO,000,000 of war and marine
budgets. which she will no longer need.
Justify, in themselves, loan of $s;ooo.-
600. 900 at per cent"
But no annexations or forced COM
perce! No painful intercourse.
think that Germans scarcely realize
the situation they have made for them
selves.
II they cannot win and annex. they
say that they will make an honorable
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peace and go on doing business as
before. 1t is a great hope.
Now and then. in personally con-
Quoted trips to prison camps, we get
opportunity to talk with German Of
ficers, recently captured.
THE allies will not cross the Rhine"
one said.
Then winking, he added:
Suppose we evacuate north France
and Belgium. Suppose the allies pass
the Rhine? What then? They will meet
such resistance in German territory
that they will finally get tired and
make an honorable peace. Which hon.
orable peace will fool them. How?
Why, they will be busy dressing their
wounds, rebuilding their factories,
railroads. mines, cathedrals and
farms-all that we Germans have de-
stroyed. During that time, Germany.
whose territory has not suffered. will
manufacture. sell. make money and
prepare a new war"
A great hope! An honorable peace
avoids the bill for damages.
Speak those words in the Gallery of
Mirrors at Versailles and they will
echo in silence that has lasted forty
years. The Gallery Of Mirrors is the
grandest. emptiest hall Of the grand
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are in operation. though here and
there along the stream one may find
a mill. with its little dam. millpond
and race, where on primitive burr
stones the corn or wheat of old fash
toned farmers is converted into meal
or flour.
Just below the bridge that spans
Cameron run hundred yards or so
below the dam is one of these old
mills. Built of the rough country rock,
the two-foot walls of the mills are
solid and substantial as they were half
a century or more ago, and the roof.
of clapboards probably rived from the
trunks of trees cut along the banks of
the stream, looks as if it were as
sound and water tight as when it was
put on.
But the mill has not turned a wheel
in years; indeed. the millwheel has
vanished, the race that led from the
dam-which also has misrepresentation
was located near the place where the
big new concrete dam now stands has
moldered away. and even the ma
chinery that was used in grinding the
grain that grew on the farms and
plantations nearby has been removed.
1t is a long way from that old mill
and the low dam that used to hold
all the water 1t required to do it's
work to the towering white concrete
wall that now spans the valley from
side to side. And 1t is a long, long
way from the time of the old miller,
who perhaps often stood watching the
water as it rushed down the race. to
the day when the waters of the same
stream are stored for the use of people
living in the city seven miles away
across the hills.
The lake that is forming back of the
big dam is sure to become a favorite
spot for motorists who learn of its
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Nears Run Turned Lake Planned
600OOO Gallons eAn Example Work Not Often Seen the East
the lmpounded
Reservoirs and Settling Basins by Means Huge Pipe Lines Extend
n0 the Gamer Run Fed by
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by Virginia. Fed from never failing
springs. the run wanders along through
fields. woods and deep ravines. over
rocks and boulders, in tortuous
course from its rise. away up in the
hills of Fairfax county. to the point
where it flows into the Potomac.
All along the stream are the remains
OF old mills which, in the days before
steam power came into universal use
and before huge mills in the big wheat
growing regions made flour SO cheap
and SO good that the neighborhood
miller lost his occupation, used to
grind the grists brought in carts, wag-
ons or on horseback from the neigh
boring farmers. Few of these old mills
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dam are faced with plain, smooth con-
crete, though the interior of the wing
walls is the cyclopean style, the same
as the center of the huge wall At the
top the walls of the two wings are
more than six feet wide.
The flow of water into the conduits
is to be regulated by means of gates
controlled by machinery located in the
house built on the top of the DAM
These gates will admit water into the
conduits as it Is required, which will
be only when the reservoir and basins
at Alexandria. seven miles away. are
becoming empty. When the dam is
filled the overflow will run over the
edge of the spillway and down the face
of the dam in a cascade approximately
seventy feet high, and at such times
the fall of the water will make VOL
ume of sound comparable on a small
scale with the roar of Niagara.
Xxx
That 1t will be possible, If 1t is
deemed desirab BILE. to develop several
thousand horsepower from the vast
volume of water impounded behind the
dam is the assertion of the engineers
who planned the structure. Turbines
operated by means of fumes, it was
stated, could utilize the water that was
being sent on it's way to Alexandria,
and the water could still be put to it's
original purpose. that is. supplying
water for the Virginia city.
In this manner electric power could
be developed and stored sufficient. it is
stated. to run all the city's lights and
to furnish power for other purposes.
al only the additional cost of installing
the fumes and turbines and the trans
mission system. That some such plan
is contemplated for the indefinite flu
ture was limited by the engineers.
Camerons run. which has been i'm
pounded by the big dam, is one of the
many picturesque streams of near
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PARIS. June 81, 1915.
"A VERYBODY is talking about
lL1 after the war All agree, the
one great and stern phenome-
~ non will be a spontaneous dry
ing I'D of social intercourse with the
Germanic nations.
Finished, the chic of German spas,
Baden-Baden, Nauheim. Carlsbad; Fin
ished, the Rhine trips of French and
English tourists. Finished. the rich
Russian colonies of Berlin, Dresden and
Vienna. Finished. German holidaying
in Paris, Italy and the Riviera
The Germanic peoples would not have
1t otherwise. The social boycott will
be mutual.
1T is impossible to admit" says Prof.
Won Leyden in the Frankfort Gazette,
that friendly relations ever can be re-
established with the English or Ital-
ians. Russians should be boycotted in
almost the same degree after the peace.
no self-respecting German ran remain
in the same room with an Englishman.
Italian or Russian. AS to the French.
we do not, perhaps, feel the same vio-
lent hate. but they must bear their
share of our contempt. All Frenchmen
must be exiled from our circles. Final
ly. the neutrals. Most of them mani
fest sympathy for England. France and
Russia Let them be banished,"
-
He adds: Germany wishes to remain
alone. and ought TO. Her destiny is to
govern the world. and direct the other
nations for the good of humanity"
How forget it?
AS recently as the 5th of the present
month dune S, 1879. the great German
national liberal party. not the Jun
ksrs' or the military caste" by its
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upper face of the dam until it is now
thirty or forty feet deep at the deep
est point. When the dam Is full 1t
will be holding back water that is
close to seventy feet deep. Up over
much of the low bottom land along the
run water has already crept; as 1t
rises, more and more of the old banks
will be submerged, until the blue lake
will be in places several hundred feet
wide. as stated, nearly five miles long.
The water would reach away over the
tops of the trees that used to line the
banks of the run. If those trees hadn't
all been removed; because it never
would do to store a city's water sup
ply in place filled with decaying
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ent kaiser. presents a personal memo
randum of expenses. An ornamental
clock stands on the ground. Beside it
weep two sisters. Alsace and Lorraine
while the Latin Vulgate words for
Meme. Meme, Tekel Upharsin" glow on
the clouds-the writing on the wall at
Relshazzars feast.
The second painting shows old Presi-
dent Theirs, seated after his la bors. He
is crowned by peace. His feet are on
the dragon. And agriculture, COM
merce, industry and the family take up
their life again in France.
The third painting explains the sec
ond. The work of Theirs had been the
liberation of the territory"-the gil
gantic effort by which France, aston
ishing the world. paid off the entire in
demnity in three years. In a scene of
bombarded houses and weeping widows,
the genius of liberty warns the Ger
man army of occupation off the soil.
You have had you money. Co."
Today, these historic paintings. re-
produced in postcard. circulate every
where in France. Belgium. Switzer-
land, Holland. Italy and England.
They are the handwriting on the wall
Meme. Meme, Tekel. Upharsin!"
You can look up the prophets inter-
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Positive About It.

G TEPHEN BONSAL, utilities commits.
~ sioner Of the Philippines. said on
his recent visit to New York that his
job was a thankless one.
"Yes," Mr.. Bonsal declared. I'm as
positive about the thanklessness of that
commissionership of mine as the gro.
Ger was positive about the strictly cash
basis of his business.
This grocer, you know, said to a man
who wanted credit:
"Why. mister. ] wouldn't trust my
own feelings
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executive committee voted the annexa-
ton in the west of territories neces-
sary to assure and strengthen the stu
alton of the empire on sea and land"
How shall Holland and Belgium for
get it?
The courage of the German undertake
ing is colossal, either in case of sue
cess or failure. The program of the
wehr-verein (military ieague). nucleus
of the pangermanists. is SO widely
spread over Europe that it cannot pos
sibly be withdrawn.
Germany to take the French depart
ments of the Vosges. Meurthe-et-
Moselle and Ardennes. with the cities
of Epinal. Nancy, Luneville and Sedan.
France to remove the present inhabi
tants. the migration to be effected
within year and half. The land to
be divided into rural domains of forty
acres, and distributed to worthy Ger
man soldiers. Town and city properties
to be divided on the same principle"
-.
The annexation of Alsace-Lorraine in
1871, whose hatreds have been fairly
lasting, was mildness in comparison. 1t
respected the landed property of the
inhabitants. and only forced them to
become German, or accept an estimated
price and get out
So for Belgium.
Belgium and Holland to enter the
German empire. France to take all
the Walloon Inhabitants Of Belgium
and settle them in her remaining terri
tory. The migration to be accomplish
ed within three years, and the lands
distributed as above"
| pity any German who ventures into
Belgium after the war. unless he has
an army to protect him. Never has a
people suffered from another But.
some say, IT is their own fault-why
did they refuse passage to the German
army? Otherwise. Belgian independ-
ence would have been respected. Par
don, reply the Belgians, all these
Wher-Verein plans of annexation and
forced migrations date from before
1911, when Tannenberg inserted them
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trees. So the trees and the under
growth have been cut away, except
high up the banks where the water
will not reach.
From this storage dam the impound-
ed water is to be led to reservoirs and
settling basins in Alexandria by means
of huge pipe lines extending down the
valley of Cameron run. Part of the
has been done, the pipes, built of re-
inforced concrete, being ten feet in
diameter, and work is being rushed
on them in order that they may be
completed before the end OF summer.
The dam itself is of a style of con-
struction seldom seen in the east. and
not common even in the west, where
big dams are more frequently seen
than in this part Of the country. The
style is what is known as "cyclopean
concrete" which means that great
boulders and slabs of concrete are placed
in the concrete mixture. This Is done to
give it weight and added strength. 1t
is fully as good as, according to en-
gineers. and much cheaper than. concrete
reinforced with steel rods. especially in
parts of the country where large guam
titles of rock are to be had on or near
the site of the job.
=
AS built up in this manner. the down.
stream face of the dam presents the
appearance of wall built of huge
boulders cemented together. This has
caused persons who have seen the dam
to think it was built of stohe-a stone
wall, mortared or cemented tightly to
hold water. 1t is not, however. 1t is
just what it's name implies, cyclopean
concrete-cyclopean in the size of the
boulders used in the mixture. and cy-
clopean in the strength and solidity
Of the completed structure.
The wings at either end of the big
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probation of them in the book of DAN
iel. chapter 5.
All the power of the German army
cannot keep the pictures out of Bel
GUM. A newsboy or cafe waiter whis-
pers: Il have got them And the Bels
gian slips him five francs.
Meme, Meme, Tekel, Upharsin"'
STERLING HELLO.
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Meanwhile, according to the former
German minister of the interior Brit
ish navvies are sweating over the con-
struction of a channel tunnel, ito be
guarded at both ends by German
troops, and all young men to serve in
the German army"
Herr Rudolf is probably bluffns, but
the inevitable picture of victor and
vanquished living side by side, impos-
ing and imposed. in silence. with
averted looks and forced politeness, is
a black one.
Against all this a great independ-
ence day is preparing in Europe. A
European Fourth of July promises to
celebrate the evacuation of Belgium.
the return of Alsace-Lorraine to France,
the establishment of the kingdom
of Poland and certain other restitu-
tions, like Schleswig -Holstein to Dem
mark and Istria -Trentino to Italy.
The allies also. have a bill for dam
ages.
All the ravages of German armies in
Belgium, north France and Russian
Poland must be rebuilt at German ex-
pense and damages paid theic citizens
in proportion to their losses.
Terrific bill of damages! Blocking all
the expenses. the allies arrive at a
figure Of $23. 000, 000. 900. to be paid by
Germans. Austrians and Turks. GeS-
many must pay two-thtrds OF 1t.
Can Germany pay? Why certainly.
According to German actuaries. the
acquired fortune of Germany is val
ued at 10000, 000. 900. II the war brings
1t down quarter they will still have
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Conquest and ndenyDoubt That Friendly Relations Can Ever Be ReEabhed
Whthe Germans and Their Fof eyden Says Gemany Destiny Gov
World and the Other
Never Fogoengre the the Money Will F the
Gallery Mirrors Paintings
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empty palace of the old French Sun
King.
Here the King of Prussia, with his
troops surrounding Paris, was crowned
Emperor of Germany, January IS, 1871,
while Bismarck arranged the collection
Of the indemnity.
Three pictures only hang in the CAL
1ery Of Mirrors. They were painted in
1873. The first represents. amid bags
of gold and wagons of household booty,
the old Kaiser Wilhelm and Bismarck
seated at the tribute table. Behind
Bismarck's chair stands Won Moltke,
while the kronprinz, father of the pres