The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-07-21

the range of the same name that runs through Nevada. The elevation IS $500 feet. But this feat was tame compared to many adventures that befell him in the routine of his duties. Night calls 30 miles from his home were not unusual and the bowling or wolves and coyotes through the black ness of moonless Nevada nights got to be an ordinary accompaniment to trips to his patients.
 Twice bullets whizzed past him, once when he interfered with gam blers' fight, and again when a cowboy 'shot up'' a. railroad station restau- rant because tenderfoot forgot to close the door.
 Thrown from his wagon, he suffered a concussion of the brain. Again, re- turning, in the morning, from a call he had answered the might before, he discovered the tracks of his wagon on the edge If an abyss, where the team had gotten off the road, and drawn the vehicle to within almost a hears breadth of a fall into a canyon tor rent.
 Dr. Duesing has a hearty admira- ton for the westerner. "He is the real American-he knows nothing of the hyphen," declares the doctor.
 Naturally is Dr. Duesing a man of science. The townsfolk of Essen have reared to his great-grandfather bust in remembrance of his achievements. This man was Franz Dinnendahl, who built tfs first steam engine in Ger many, and the first gas engine in con- tinental Europe. The career of Franz Dinnendahl is intimately linked with that of the story of Essen's growth from hamlet of 800 people to city of nearly half million inhabitants. When Franz, the barefoot lad, was tending a flock of geese, Catholic priest found him setting up a mfnia- ture waterwheel. Becoming interest ed in the boys mechanical leaning, with him which led to the boys be- coming his pupil and protege.
 He taught the child his Latin and laid foundations for his education along technical lines. When Dinnen- dahl died. he left fortune of s70o,- 900, a vast amount in those days.
 Napoleon I and Dinnendahl were intimate, because of the formers de- pendence on the latter for engineer ing advice. Dr. Duesing's great grandfather fortified. for Napoleon, the city of Wese1,N on the west bank of the lower Rhine. The story is told, in the family chronicles, of Franz DinnendahPs daughter, a small child, who was pr. Duesing's s grandmother, being invited to the feast with her parent. Napoleon saw the tot hiding in her little pockets some of the sweets from the table, though there were more than two- score at the feast, and later he chid- ed her good naturedly.
 The story goes that the little girl, as she was growing to womanho ood, was the object of the affection of AL fred Krupp, grandfather of Bertha Krupp, now the immensely wealthy owner of the Krupp foundries, in Es- sen. The Dinnendahls, and Krupps lived on opposite sides of the same street. The cider Dinnendah1 sold to the elder Krupp iron with which he turned out the first guns from the Krupp fblacksmith shop. But the Dinnendahls looked with disfavor upon young Krupp's. attentions, and the budding romance was nipped.
 pr. Duesing expects to send a re- membranceN to his alma mater, on the occasion of his anniversary. He will make an endowment for the new hos pital for war cripples connected with the university or, should the submar- inc Bremen arrive. and be used, as has been predicted, to carry condensed milk to the babies of Germany, he will send a large shipment.