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The Wahpeton times., 1918-07-04
Reservoir Dams In Tun,s.

Already the French are looking for
ward to the rapid development Of the
province of Tunis in Africa. Accord
ing to a civil engineer who has been
Investigating the matter there are
about 35 localities in that country
where dams could be constructed, with
reservoir capacities ranging from 81
100000 to 4O0OOO,OOO cubic meters, and
water power ranging from 20 to 6.OO0
horse power of continuous energy. The
engineering difficulties are stated to
be small in comparison with those of
dams already built in Europe and the
United States, and the utilization of
the water for irrigation, electrical
power, and in one case canal naviga-
ton is estimated to furnish a good
margin Of profit. The numerous ruins
Of Roman dams found in Tunis show
by what methods the country became
''the granary of Rome" under the en-
pire and the ruins of large cities, with
coliseums. bath apd temples Of great
size standing in what are now barred
plains, are evidence of the success of
the Organized methods Of irrigation of
those ancient times.
The Wahpeton times., 1918-07-04
Are Avtators sorn7

There was time when 1t was held
that man must be especially born
for aeronautic duties. Experience has
brought on the fact that the average
young man can make an excellent
aviator. Captain Guyntmer, Major
Bishop. Captain William Thaw, Cap
tain Ball of the Lafayette escadrille.
and practically all the famous avia-
tors were not men who impressed any
body with being different from other
men.
OF the thousands of allied aviators
there are probably not five hundred
men who had seen more than few
months Of military service before
Joining the air service Most of them
had never seen any military service.
In planning an organization for the
selection and training of aviators, the
aircraft board and the signal corps Of
the United States have had to prepare
to deal entirely with men who had
never seen military service, as other
countries have done.-Henry Wood-
house in Everybody's.
The Wahpeton times., 1918-07-04
IRON FOUNDRY IN WAR AREA
How Women Of France Are "poine
Their BIT" TO Keep the Wheels
Of Industry Moving.

An Interesting narration Of opera
tion under unique and diflicult condi-
items Of an iron foundry in the war
area 10 given BY the correspondent Of
. British paper writing from the firing
line In France. He relates: One does
not see much foundry work out here,
but q few weeks ago. I was bttleted ia
Q town near BY, and actually saw a
eupola in full blast. at once got per-
mission to have q look around, and
was greatly surprised at what I saw.
The foundry was a very primitive af-
fair-just little jobbing shop-and
was mostly run by French women and
girls. superintended by few men.
These women were making work up to
three or -four hundred pounds in
weight, and in little side shop some
half dozen women were making COM
ponent parts Of machinery by the
simple method of bedding-in. after
ward saw some of the finished work,
and it would put to shame the work
done by many of our so-called mOlders
at home. The women work in ordi-
nary dress. and work very clean and
exact in both iron and brass, and also
under shell fire and air raids. In the
shop was a great hole where Ger
man had dropped bomb the night be-
fore, but the women still worked on
Scientific American.
The Wahpeton times., 1918-07-04
Earthquake statI.t,e.

1t has been calculated that there oc.
cur about 10000 earthquakes within q
year, or $3.50 hours. hence, that there
are on the average three and one-half
earthquakes in an hour. Fortunately.
not all earthquakes are of violent ma.
ture, like that of A. D. 526, that killed
from 10000 to 100000 persons in the
region Of the Mediterranean, or that
of 1893, to which 10000 persons fell
victims in Sicily. or of Lisbon in 1855,
and those that devastated Chile, Peru
and Japan. OF great frequency are
the minor earthquakes. In fact, our
so-called firm earth can be said to he
In state of perpetual agitation. Our
senses do not perceive the slight dis.
turbances. but the seismograph, a very
delicate and ingenious apparatus de-
vised to keep track of them, furnishes
all the information denied to us by our
natural insensibilitX They often fur
nish us too much of it in the excess
of their zeal, recording sometimes as
seismic phenomena vibrations that
later proved to have been due to the
ringing of church bells.
The Wahpeton times., 1918-07-04
RUDE AWAKENING FOR GUEST
Visiting Parson Got the ~pustlnos
That Irate Father Intended %
eestew on ofFsprine.

A story Of how q parson got the
busting instead Of q youth 10 related
oy q Newspaper man Of Wsnatchee.
Wash.
The boy in the plot was Oscar
Woods," he says. "It happened In
Nebraska. In our homo It was the cus,
tom for one Of the boys to take his
turn at starting the IRE On cold moen.
ins1 1t was Is degrees below seeo,
and 1t was Oscars turn. He lit the
1re and then: proceeded to the barn
to feed the stock. But the nre went
out.
IAN hour later, perceiving that there
was no fire, father sent another call.
louder. Then several more. But no
sound came. The governor started
upstairs.
"Without informing the head of the
house, my brother had brought home a
preacher the night before and put him
in the same bed with Oscar.
1.-THE parson had a thrilling awaken.
Ing. He was yanked out of bed. He
resisted. This was too much for in.
dignant dad.
"The conflict was exciting. The
preacher fought like a wildcat
"ln the cold gray dawn dad found
that he had made a mistake. It wa.
tough, but the preacher survived"
The Wahpeton times., 1918-07-04
ALL MADE EQUAL BY DEATH
No Democracy Ever Conceived 10 n
All Comparable = That q
the Tomb.

In the democracy Of the dead III men
at last are equal There 70 neither
rank nor station nor peerosativo in tia
republic Of the grave. At tbs fatal
thfeshold the philosopher ceases 70 be
WISE and the song Of the poet is r.
lent Dives relinquishes his millions
and Lazarus his rags. The poor man
10 - rich az the richest, and the rich
man IL as poor as the pauper. The
creditor loses his usury and the debtor
ts acquitted Of his obligation. There
the proud man surrenders his digni-
ties, the politician his honors, the
wording his pleasures; the invalid
needs no physician, and the laborer
rests from unrequited toll.
Here, at last, is natures final de-
cree In equity. The wrongs Of time
are redressed. Injustice is expiated,
the irony of fate is refuted; the un.
equal distribution of wealth, honor, ca
pacity. pleasure and opportunity which
makes life such a cruel and inexplic-
able tragedy, ceases in the realm of
death. The strongest there has no su-
premacy, and the weakest needs no
defense. The mightiest captain sue
cumbs to that invincible adversary
who disarms alike the victor and Tho
vanquished.-John ]. ingalls,.
The Wahpeton times., 1918-07-04
BAR way TO EVIL SPIRITS
Malayslans Believe Mountains Were
Plaeedto Shut Out Strange
Race Of Yajul.

In the dak bungalow at Kwala Kubu
I'm Malayasia) the Chinatoy chowki-
Oar, queue in pocket, shod In shoes of
silent felt, served my breakfast. was
at last on the threshold of strange
expedition in land to which no letter
ever came correctly addressed, 80 un-
known was 1t to the outside world. At
this moment the strangest thing in
sight was my breakfast. It consisted
chiefly of tins Of tiny Mongolian finches
-humming birds in size, squads In
taste-canned dozen In tin.
AS devoured the pitiful little birds,
bones and all, looked up at the
great Malay mountain range, the back
bone Of the finger peninsula which
stretches southwark from Siam to
within sight Of the bund Of Singapore
itself. Mountains. SO the Malays say,
are the wall Of the world, shutting out
great winds and beasts Of prey. And
they believe that q strange race-the
Yaju5-are forever striving to bore
through, and when they succeed, then
Will come the end Of all things
The great limestone caves scattered
throughout the mountains are places
where the Yajuj have attempted and
failed. There is nothing impossible or
unbelievable in all this, when one
comes to know Malay mountains In
all their weirdness.-William Beebe, In
the Atlantic Monthly.
The Wahpeton times., 1918-07-04
Made Brave Rescue.

Once terror to mariners, Minots
light, which stands on a reef off Bos-
ton harbor, has another thrilling story
added to its history. says the Popular
Mechanics magazine. Three days be-
fore Christmas. Captain Octavius
Reamey, the keeper. approached the
tower in his motorboat, which was
loaded with provisions and fuel OBJ
tained on the mainland. As the craft
drew up, 1t was overturned by the
waves that were breaking over the base
Of the structure. leaving the captain
battling alone in tossing maelstrom
Of icy water. The assistant keeper was
lowered on a rope from the door fifty
feet above. He managed to seize the
drowning man before it was too late,
and both men were pulled from the
water by their companions to the door
way high in the tower.
The Wahpeton times., 1918-07-04
sprout. After 1000 Years.

At the Zensui Temple, Iwane village,
KOga-gun, Shiga Prefecture, q very an
cient wooden idol of Vaisravana was
opened four years ago and some rice
that had reposed therein fully ten cen.
turies was removed and planted. The
seeds germinated and the rice grown
therefrom appears to be similar in all
respects to that of the present day.
The yield was large and the crop for
next year from this seed is expected
to be excellent.
Vaisravana is the God of Treasure.
When the statue was repaired bag of
coarse faxen textile was exhumed con-
tanning rice seeds, with a piece of pal
per bearing the following inscription.
In Chinese: "This image has been en-
graved for the peace of the world. II
any one of later generations opens it,
he should put in new Seeds" The
Tokyo Academy of Fine Art pro.
nOunces the image and it's contents of
great antiquity-at least 1000 years
old.
The Wahpeton times., 1918-07-04
REFUGEES IN RICH ATTIRE
EnaIish Writer Describes Grotesque
Figures He Saw During the
italian Retreat.

Amid all the chaos of the italian re-
treat one kept On meeting utterly In
congruous figures, for alongside Of
others road-worn, shabby and dirty. to
be clean and well dressed is to be
grotesQue. I
Amid this multitude Of haggard, un-
washed, unshaven, dead beat males,
I noticed two Italian ladies treading
delicately over the rough ballast Of
the railway track. They had naturally
brought with them in that flight the
most valuable Of their possessions.
which were Of kind conveniently car
ried on their persons. Against this
gray background Of mud and rubbish
and disbanded army their two fig-
ures glittered with brilliance that
would have been conspicuous In the
Rue de la Paix.
Heavy sable furs and muffs almost
bowed their shoulders; each finger had
two or three rings that flashed in the
light; round their necks were gold
chains hung with pendants, and yet
instead Of the air Of selfsatisfied Os-
tentation that might we'll have gone
with display so lavish, they were only
two pathetically little, frightened, per-
picked faces. and an uncertain gait
that did not promise much further
progress along that ankle-wrenching
railway line.-G. Ward Price in the
Century Magazine.
The Wahpeton times., 1918-07-04
WHEN He MADE RECORD JUMP
veunsster Was Trying to Escape pos
He Thought Was Mad, 30 There
Was Abundant Reason.

Commander G. B. Fry, who has tenn
porarily relinquished athleticism in or
DER to train boys for the navy, de-
ecr1Ded to me the other day how he
drst came to discover his ability az
q Jumper.
"When quite youngster," he said,
Il was one day strolling along close to
our house, WHEN there came bounding
along the road in my direction an ex-
ceedingly wicked-looking terrier I had
recently become possessed of.
The animal was foaming at the
mopth and showed other unmistakable
signs Of excitement and distress. Hy-
drophobia was rife In the district at
the time. A horrid fear gripped me.
Turning swiftly aside, took the ditch
and hedge bordering the road in one
Wild leap. landed safely in an or
chard on the other side, and was up a
plum tree few seconds later.
The dog, however, followed through
Q gap In the hedge and sat at the bot
tom Of the tree, but he brought a toad
In his mouth, and I perceived he was
not mad beyond the degree Of trying to
eat the toad. So l came down, and
went to have a look at the hedge I
had Jumped over.
TT was much higher than my head,
not to mention the ditch. It was many
years before I jumped as high again"
-Pearson's Weekly.
The Wahpeton times., 1918-07-04
Clever Fox Sparrow.

The fox sparrow prides himself.
doubtless, because he is bigger than
most Of his American brothers. He Is
only bit of u bird, ut that, but song
sparrow, white.lhrOat. grass finch and
a dozen or SO of the others doubtless.
look on their fox-cOated relatives adj
ditional inch as un ell, with something
thrown in for good measure. The
junco, the little slate-colored snowbird,
q sparrow after his kind also, fire.
quently accompanies the fox sparrow
on his travels. There is suspicion
which is hard to lose that the fox SPAR
row jaunts along with the juncO solely
to make his own song secure among
the acknowledged melodies, for the
juncO, while an insistent performer,
pipes an attenuated tune.
The Wahpeton times., 1918-07-04
orjoin of Blizzard.

Blizzard is undoubtedly word of
American origin, but it is much older
than suggested. In Aliersham (Eng.)
churchyard today there is a tomb of
the BLIZZARD family and people of that
name still reside in the village of Chal-
font st. Giles. A man of this name &C.
cOmpanied William Penn to the new
world. This BLIZZARD, it is said, devel-
Oped very unsOciable habits and set
tied fur away from his fellows in the
remote Northwest. Now northwest
ern snOwstorn is the most disagreeable
thing there is about the whole climate,
and Mr.. BLIZZARD. being so unpleasant
person to his neighb0rs. his name was
adopted to describe the Objectionable
type of weather which blew from his
direction.
The Wahpeton times., 1918-07-04
Privileges Of the Poor.

Will you show me any other people
outside of the fairy books who can
put the most fearful calamity on like
cloak and doff it at will, who can
augment their families to seven or
eight children overnight, and reduce
them as readily to five or six on the
following day If it but seem to them
advisable? Where outside their ranks
is there anyone capable of persuading
you that it is privilege to sleep cold
so that some Darius you never saw or
care to see shall, he had his allegori-
cal mule, 60 better warmed? Who
Else, being neither of your kith nor
kin. has such power over you that,
with q mere bloOdshOt eye and shiver
of the shoulders. they can turn your
automobile, your furs, your warmth
and all your pleasant pleasures into
Dead sea apples of discomfort ?-Laura
Spencer Porter, in the Atlantic Maya.
zine.
The Wahpeton times., 1918-07-04
ever STAMP WHITE H0RsEs7
pseullars Childish ldea Which May
Bring Back Old Days % Soms
Of The ReaderA

The car was a lons. TINS coming
and 4 very small. dirty and Joyous girl
on 'one roller skate confided to an in.
terested bystander that there were
two white horses coming"
"rll stamp 'em both," she added, and
proceeded to lick her thumb and jam
It into soiled pink palm. Twice over
1t had to he done. with eyes fixed upon
the approaching team.
"Why stamp them?" inquired the
stranger.
"Why, don't you know? When I
stamp a hundred I'll find something.
Found a penny last time"
Just then the newspaper boy arrived
with his sack, and as he took the
money from the wooden bench, a
penny rolled toward the gutter. The
unkempt little figure swayed on its
single skate. A frown Of disapproval
followed the boys Industrious search.
While the pennies were in the bag on
the bench, they were property and to
be respected. But 1t was plain to any
one with eyes that lost penny be-
longed to the finder-in the code Of
the little girl.
When 1t was picked up and dropped
into the boys pocket. she turned to
the sympathetic bystander. Don't you
hate boys with .freckles1" she asked.
Besides, I'd only stamped 'leven
Wait till get 'nuther hundred"
The Wahpeton times., 1918-07-04
"cARDIFF GIANT PURE FAKE 4
I lad Its Origin In Hoax Which 10 sUn.
dsrstood to Have Had Its
Inception at Chicago.

Andrew d. White gives some Of the
particulars Of the Cardiff Giant" in
Q book entitled ''The True Story Of a
remarkable Deception" The Cardiff
giant was the huge stone image of a
man which Farmer Newell of Cardiff,
N. T., claimed to have unearthed while
digging well In the autumn of 1869.
After 1t had been sold to a joint-stock'
company formed TO exploit the wonder
Tor show purposes, Barnum tried to
buy it.f0r his own museum, but his Of
Ter was declined. The Snowman then
had an imitation made, with the result
that two Cardiff giants were on exhi-
bfdon at the same time. the duplicate
being shown to the public as "the only
and original" Doctor White attributes
the exposure Of the fake to Professor
Marsh OF Yale; In another account Il
was Dr.. John V. Boynton Of Syracuse,
N. T., wso laid bare the fraud. The
original Oardi6 giant was carved or
chiseled out Of a gypsum block in .
stoneyard in Chicago and was trans
ported thence by rail and wagon to
Cardiff. According to Doctor White,
scientists as well as clergymen were
much impressed with the colossal fig-
ure, DR.. James Hall, state geologist,
issuing a statement In which he de-
ecribed the giant as "the most remark
able object brought to light In this
country" and as deserving the atten-
tlon Of arehaeOlogists."
The Wahpeton times., 1918-07-04
California Has Jap Village.

Few people realize that in the United
States there is a village composed en-
tirely of Japanese, who live their lives
just as they did before leaving the
Flowery kingdom. This quaint spot Of
interest is north of the long pier, q
mile from Santa Monica, Cal. Here is
the home Of a number of japanese
fishermen. Their native dress, food
and the daily routine of their lives
are carried out as though the little vii.
lage were on the far shore of Nippon.
On Sundays are to be seen the native
sports Of the japanese. The geishu
girls serve tea and bonbons to visitors,
while the young men display their
prowess at wrestling, jiu-jitsu and
other Oriental pastimes.-Los Angeles
Times.
The Wahpeton times., 1918-07-04
c.vite Fla.he. Time Over Pacific.

cavite Flashes Time Over Pacific.
Since October the radio station at
Cavite, cooperating with the Philip
pine bureau Of posts and the Manila
observatory. has been sending the time
signals Of the 120th meridian east of
Greenwich ut II a. ~. and 10 p. IN.
every day. says Science.
For the uurmnSe at sending time sig
nails. the transmitting clock of the Ma
nila observatory is connected with the
Caviie wireless station through the bu-
reau of posts. Manila observatory time
signals begin at 1O::I5 81. III. and 9:55
p. m.. standard time of the Tooth me-
ritli,n east of Greenwich. and continue
for five minutes. During this interval
every tick of the clock is transmitted.
except the 2Sth. Goth, 54th 18th. seth,
57th. 5Sth and 59th of each minute.
The situation of Manila in the Pa.
citic makes this service of the greatest
importance to the mercantile and naval
fleets that ply upon that ocean.
The Wahpeton times., 1918-07-04
Americani,m. In Britain.

Lord Derby, in advising us not TO
"get ratified" has added another word
to our war vocabulary, or, at any rate,
given an old word new meaning In
this sense "rattled" Ia an Americanism.
and We remember reading an article by
w. d. Howells some thirty years ago,
In which he said he was not very cas-
lily ratified. OF course we have used
the word in this country with other
meanings for many centuries; even
Pepys relates on one occasion how he
ratified his wife, but that was more in
the nature Of grumbling. while Lord
Derby evidently intends us not to get
alarmed or excited, which is the real
American sense Of the word.-London
Chronicle.
The Wahpeton times., 1918-07-04
Great Apple Industry.

The apple industry in the United
States today represents stupendous
commercial achievement. 1t had
grown to .6O,OOO.OO0 barrels in 1915 !:
it dropped to 2s.OOOyO0O in 1911, and
went up again to 10000 900 barrels in
1912. From this date forward there 10
q continual increase In the production,
ApR the great cities Of the world are
crying for apples, and people every
where are just beginning to apprehend
the actual value Of this delicate fruit.
We are turning backward to our heri.
tage, for In the days Of our great.
gEandfathers the common adage was:
:An apple day viii keep the doctor
away" Fruit as q Tnrt Of the diet
represents . most healtA-siving -,
neat-CAFiOtian Herald.
The Wahpeton times., 1918-07-04
Americas First Cartoon.

Benjamin Franklin's Pennsylvania
Gazette was the first American news
paper to print cartoon. There were
rumors Of q possible war with the
French, which resulted In q call for q
meeting at Albany Of the representa-
tves of the British colonies. Frank
lin was one of the commissioners, and
to increase the force Of an appeal for
united action. on Msy 8. 1854, printed
cartoon representing q snake cut into
eight parts. the head representing New
England and the other seven parts the
various colonies outside Of New Ene.
land. The legend read: "Join or die" !"
The Wahpeton times., 1918-07-04
Chief Executives and the Press.

When John Adams became president,
In 1897, he was even more severely at
tackled in the press than Washington
had been. But his administration
fought the attacks. Armed by the
sedition law, which was passed the
following year, 1t sought to annihilate
the papers which it could not force to
surrender. In the fight, which lasted
four years, the people rallied to the
support Of the papers and defeated
Adams In the election Of 1900 by put
ding Thomas Jefferson in the presiden-
tial chair.
The Wahpeton times., 1918-07-04
Phosphore.eenee on the Moon,

Several European observers of the
total lunar eclipse Of July rs, 1917.
have reported that the brightness of the
lunar disk appeared much greater
around the limb than near the center.
These observations lead II. A. Nodon
Of Bordeaux to revive q suggestion
that has sometimes been made to ac-
count for the brilliancy Of certain lu.
NOR craters; viz, that the surface Of
ths moon may possess q luminosity Of
Its own In the nature Of phoephores-
eenee. In that case, perspective would
increase the apparent luminosity to
Ward the nmb.-Scientifle American.
The Wahpeton times., 1918-07-04
SUFFERED FOR HIS COUNTRY
siIas oeAne, First American Diplomatic
Agent, Received Harsh Treatment
From Government.

Silas Deane, the first diplomatic
agent of the United States, was born
at GrotOn, Mass, close to 200 years
ago. He became merchant and was
delegate to the first Continental con.
gress. In the spring of 1870 he. was
sent to France as a secret diplomatic
agent. He posed as a merchant from
Bermuda, and upon his arrival in
Paris sought an interview with Count
de Vergennes, the Minister of Foreign
Anaires. who refused to receive him.
Deane was reduced to the direst pov.
erty and was elected by his landlady,
Subsequent American ambassadors
have complained of the lack of suit
able embassies, but Deane was re-
duced to a point where he had to ac-
cept poor lodgings from q sympa-
thetic Frenchman. Eventually he was
given an audience with vergennes and
began the diplomatic relations which
eventually resulted in the French al
lance. In 1777 Deane was recalled.
In the bitter controversy which fol.
lowed his recall Thomas Paine reveal
ed the fact that supplies furnished the
colonies had been furnished BY the
French government. This was con-
sldered Q diplomatic indiscretion and
1t cost Paine his place as secretary Of
the Committee on Foreign Affairs.
Deane. driven into poverty and exile,
died In England in 1850. Half cen.
tury later his claim for his services
abroad was adjusted by congress and
. large sum was paid his heirs.