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The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1919-03-08
LARGEST Earth Emhankment.

The Belle Esurche irrigation dam In
South Dakota Is the largest earth en-
bankment In the world. Its construc-
ton was authorized by congress at q
cost of $5.0OO.OOO. From an engineer
ing standpoint this project Is one Of
the most interesting which the govern
ment has Jet undertaken. Its princ'-
pal structure Is the earthen dam This
dixie. which closes the lowest depres-
sion in the rim ola natural basin. Is
600 feet long. 20 feet wide on top
and I15 feet high In the highest place.
The inside face Of this structure,
which has a slope OF one to two, Is
protected from wind and wave action
by two feet OF screened gravel. on
which are placed concrete blocks each
four by six feet The eubical con-
tents Of this dixie are 100000 feet.
or about half Of the famous pyramids
OF Cheops in Egypt The reservoir
created By this dam covers about 1000
acrps and win be the largest lake In
the state.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1919-03-08
EACH HAS INDIVIDUAL COLOR
Cities by No Means Alike In hues
Which Attract the Eye OF
the Traveller.

"Have you ever noticed how cities
sometimes seem to have their own spe-
cial colorsT' asks Julian Street In
american Adventures" the book In
which he and Wallace Morgan re-
corded. in words and pictures, what
they think is the most picturesque part
Of our cOuDtry-the South.
+. "Paris is white and green-even
more so. / think. than Washington,
Mr.. Street continues.
Chicago is gray; so is London usu-
ally. though 1 have seen It bun at the
beginning OF a heavy fog. New YORK
used TO be a brown sandstone city,
but is now turning to one of cream
colored brick and tile; Naples is bril-
liant with pink and blue and green
and white and yellow; while as for
Baltimore, her old houses aHd her
new are, as Baedeker puts 1t, Of cheer
full red brick'-not always, Of course.
but often enough to establish the color
of red brick as the city's predominant
ing hue. And with the red-brick
hOuse-particularly the older ones
go clean white marble steps. on the
bottom one Of which, at the side, may
usually be found an old-fashioned iron
'scraper,' doubtless left over from the
time mot very long ago) when the
city pavements had not reached their
present excellence"
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1919-03-08
Advice With Exceptions.

Take the first job that offers. Do
/. with all your might. Your worth
will soon be recognized by your EN-
plOyer, who will reward you with q
raise and with his daughters hand.
and you'll live happily ever after"
The returning soldier is already be-
ing fed upon this truistic advice
which successful old age delights TO
hand out as IL were the sole secret
Of success" which II isn't by jug
full. The wise young man, accepting
the good will Of counsel. discounts
I'm his planning three counter-possi-
bilities: ~ that the first Job offered
may not be one for which the appli-
cant is adapted; (2) that the en-
ployer may not be the all-wise,
sagacious. broad-minded person which
the success books invariably post him
as being; (S) that there either (a)
may be no daughter or (b) she may
prefer somebody else. With these and
other similar qualifications the spirit
of the ADMINISTRATORS
wheeze still stands as admirable
Lowell Courier Citizen.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1919-03-08
BRIGHT coLoRs GIVE RELIEF
Simple Method by Which Desk Work
ers May Avoid incaleulable
Injury to the Eyes

The constant use OF the eyes on
white paper will in time weaken them
and make IL necessary to seek other
employment, or resort to some remedy.
Bookkeepers, proOfreaders and those
compelled to gaze for hours at a
stretch on a white surface, should
have n number of bright cOlOrs on
their desk or near at hand upon
which the gaze should be allowed to
rest at short periods when the mind
is busy with some mental struggle.
The bright cOlOrs will give a RELIEF
to the long, constant strain on the
eye. and IL will be astonishing To
those who have never resOrted TO any
such remedy TO note the relief Sc
cured.
Green should predominant. Yellow
and red with shades of pink should be
used.
Bright-colored blotters and bright.
tinted notices or picture cards with
birds and flowers as well as scroll
designs will produce the most relief
TO weary eyes.
Even a bouquet with green foliage
combined with the flowers will give
satisfactory results. but this is not
as permanent as brightly cOlored
prints that will not fade for a long
time.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1919-03-08
How to Braze Metals.

In brazing brass. copper, wrought
iron and steel. clean the metal thor
oughly at and near the joint to be
brazed. by scraping or filing. Be sure
to fit the edges closely together. II
greater strength Is required. lap the
edges over each other about a quarter
Of an inch. A good plan Is to rivet the
edges together to hold them In place.
Place brazing material along the joint.
Take finely powdered borax. wet II
with water and place little along the
seam. Put the article over charcoal
Are, Joint down. Heat II slowly and
evenly, holding II about an inch above
the charcoal. When the braZlng ma
terial Is all melted. rap the part with
a hammer. to induce the material to
low all through. the joint. II the ar
ticie is brass or copper, IT should be
plunged into cold water, and IL steel
or iron It should be allowed to cool
slowly.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1919-03-08
BOUND II HARD 70 ANSWER
Missionary Must Have Been Some
what Staggered BY Keen Logic
Of kafir Chief.

Among the former chieftains OF the
black tribes of the Transvaal Magato
maintained absolute Independence dur
ing his reign over the Magatese. and II
was not until after his death that the
Beers succeeded in collecting the hut
tax from his people. An incident that
Illustrates his character Is told IN
Secret Service In -SOuth Africa"
About 1894 the Boer government
sent General Joubert with a small es-
cort to persuade the truculent old
chief to acknowledge Its overlordship,
or at least TO pay something on ae-
count of the arrears of the hut tax.
"Are you Paul Kruger?" Magato
demanded.
The general explained that he was
a sort OF chief induna to the president
Of the republic.
go back and tell your chief that 1
am as great a chief as he Is, and that
II he wishes to have a discussion he
must come himself to see me. dc
not talk to indunas."
That was all the general got, and he
had to be content
The Kafir starts life at the point
most white men only attain with old
age. Independence and a competency
are his natural heritage; therefore,
why should he toll?
MagatO summed up the position to
the missionary who was vainly endeav-
oring to inculcate the European theory
of the necessity and dignity Of labor.
"Why do you white men work so
hardT" he inquired.
ITO earn money"
"Why do you want moneys?
THAT we may have no need to
work"
THAT Is a roundabout way of get
ting to the position that my young men
already occupy. You say work is a
good thing. and that all good white
men enjoy work. Why is it that when
you send bad men to prison you make
them work as Observation-Disclosures
Companion.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1919-03-08
USE cENTURIES-0LD METHODS
esyIonese Reap and Grind Grain In
Much the Same Way az In
Biblical Timea

At Handy. Ceylon, the entire method
Of planting, reaping and grinding grain
g conducted as religious ceremony.
Inc work OF carrying the sheaves Ia
allotted to the women, and II Is a pie
turesque sight 20 see them bearing
away the huge bundles of sheayes on
their heads. At eventide teams Of buff
taio as innocent Of muzzles as though
subject to Mosaic law, are brought to
the threshlng floor and driven over
this paddy 10 the accompaniment OF
community chorus. When well trod-
den by the herd, the buffaloes are driv-
en- away to their respective swamp
wallows. The straw Is now removed
by the women from the paddy and
the latter famed free Of rubbish. The
grain is next tossed and famed on
wfnnowing trays, entirely by hand.
The method takes some days. When
completed. and ready for the ''gran-
airy" ii Is stored In large urns called
"bissa," which are protected by thick
toating Of mortar. The sblssa" looks
Ike a small matched cottage, but 1t
Is really miniature silo. When need
ID for breads or curry, the grain Is
ground by the women on huge fiat
stones much like the ''metate" Of the
Mexicans. another round stone resem-
bling rolling pin in shape, being used
10 crush the grain. 1t Is then cooked
IN various ways.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1919-03-08
FINE TREES IN PHILIPPINES
Nowhere Are There More Enormous
! Trunks Than in the LcWiands
of the islands.

Until We feIf heir TO the Philippine
islands we had no dense virgin tropi-
al forests belonging to the United
states. The Hawaiian islands are well
within the tropics but the topography
q the islands is not such as to induce
h. gigantic growth of trees There
M no denser or more enormous tree
rvEths anywhere In the world, now
~ than are to be found over great
. N of the Philippine lowlands- The
. Sis of excessive richness, the rain
i is heavy, and the climate combines
. D induce a riotous tangie Of vegeta-
lsan which Is unimaginable to those
MO have not actually seen Ii or are
hmiliar only with the orderly and usu-
lily comparatively scant growths OF
ne temperate zone. Even the great for
ests of the far West, which cut more
board feet to the acre than any other
forest lands in the world, cannot COM
pare for a moment In luxuriance and
profigacy Of growth with the tropical
forest. They impress you, 1t Is true
With having been many centuries In
the making. but on the other hand the
rsnk and enormous growths of the low
land tropics make you feel that they
have always been there since the
world commenced. The northern for
ets are reposeful; the tropical jungle
b savage, overwhelming.-Exchange-
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1919-03-08
ROOSEVELT AUTHOR At NINE
Even at That Early Age. what Future
President Had to Say Was
Entertaining.

Theodore Roosevelt's first book, IKE
many Of his fifty-odd later ones, dealt
with natural history. but, unlike his
later works. II was written entirely IN
pencil In an old notebook, an exchange
states. Theodore was nine years old
ut the time. The titie Of the book Is
on the first page: Natural History on
Insects. BY Theodore Roosevelt, Jr.-
Under II comes the preface" "An
these insects are native of North
America. Most of the insects are not
In other books. win write about ants
first" He did, and what he had to
say about them is decidedly entertain
ing:
ANTS are divided into three sorts
for every species. These kinds are
officer. soldier and worker. There are
about one officer TO ten soldiers and
9he soldier TO two workers" He tells
about the common black ant and the
brown path ant and various other
kinds OF ants; he tells about spiders
and lady-bugs and firefiies and horned
beetles" and dragon flies apd mi
squetO" hawks "All the insects that
write about in this book" he adds, "in-
habit North America. Now and then
a friend has told me something about
them. but mostly / have gained their
habits from obserf-a-tion."
The author of natural history on In
'sects" added to his volume a note or
a crayfish. II need not describe the
form of a crayfish to you," he writes.
Look at a lobster and you will have
its FORM"
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1919-03-08
ESKIMO DOGS NOT VICIOUS
Writer Who Has Travelled In the Far
North Found Them Friendly
and Affeetlonate.

Eskimo dogs are supposed TO be the
direct descendants OF the northern
gray, or white wolf. which they great
~ resemble. They are Of various col
Ors-black. white. brswn, brindle and
gray-and they weigh from 90 to 100
pounds. In the far North a team con-
slsts Of from TO u, each attached to
the sledge by a 16-foot rawhide trace.
The advantages Of this arrangement
are obvious. Seated on the sledge with
q 25-foOt whip, one can reach out and
touch the back OF every dog. thereby
keeping him in his place and exerting
him to keep his trace right. The dis
advantages are the indirect pull OF the
dogs ar the tips OF the fan and the
inevitable braiding OF the traces into
a rope as large as ones arm, the I'M
tangling OF which at low temperature
neceSsitates hours and hours OF ex-
IRENE discomfort.
in my five years work among these
dogs I have failed to find the specie de-
scribed by some writer's as 'treacher-
Gus or vicious or ugly brute,
writes Donald B. Macmillan, in bis
book, -Four Years in the White
North" "On the contrary. the full
blOoded Eskimo dog is one Of the most
affectiOnate in the world A hundred
or more were often about our door. My
men passed in and out among them
without the least fear. Two hundred
and fifty were herthed on the deck or
the Roosevelt. To walk fOr'ard 1t was
often necessary 10 push them aside
with the knees. No man, woman or
child in the far North has ever been
attacked, and not more than three or
four Of the whole tribe have ever been
bitten"
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1919-03-08
just Passing the Time.

II was during a season Of hard times
at Cripple Greek, the streets. were
crowded with idle miners. and the city
authorities, taking advantage OF the
fact, had a good amount Of work done
putting In sewers and paving streets
MullIgan, who toiled In the mines at
other times. was not above earning
little extra money whenever possible.
and had taken over a Job at digging
bitches. One morning his friend
chaneed 70 pass him as he was labor
iousiy shoveling earth. Hello. NULL
gani What are yez doin' therer The
workman leaned on his spade and
made n long pause before answering:
-Oh. OF fought OF would work just
whole OF was oidles boy"
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1919-03-08
:iicE LIKE OLD-WoRLD CITY
:. # state Of washington Has
CO. s.,,lned Impression Given u By
Its Builders.

80 who had the naming Of noun
and cities of the Northwest chose
s. lavish hand from the names
SUE and goddesses Of mythology.
o. I~5,on tribes. The Olympic noun
az might well have been those from
a,.s love hurled his thunder. And
sn's --l,an town of Olympia, the capl-
" - tbe state of Washington, seems
e. srting for the temples Of Greece
~ for those of lawmaking of an
american state.
With the exception, possibly, Of An
.Dolis Maryland, no, state in the
~a,oo has chosen such an oid-worid-
-nsarinc hamlet for its capital. a
IN sbmost segregated from the out
Il. world. At the end of wonder
m beautiful waterway. deep-seated
: the hills and forests. Olympia has
mo Of the atmosphere Of politics and
big business.
TDs town is a very small one, so
Iii indeed that the average over
- train would not even hesitate as
!, ,sSSed through. Its water front I'M
= recently. has been adorned with
assure craft, fishing fleets and can
e boats. The fjords of Puget sound
All unlimited opportunities for fish
!, and pleasure excursions.
Here loggers and lawmakers have
hr in the past to solve the mighty
,,,blemS Of legislation and numbering.
gsre cannery boats tied up IN winter
tr overhauling. Here in time long
I,st men tramped in from Tacoma and
Ssattle with supplies which. they could
.at vrest from nature, on their backs
The town climbs a short distance in
h she surrounding hills from the
r,tpr front. and then stops. The
<+ste capitol resembles dignified seat
n learning in northern Europe; in
fact nearly all Northwest buildings
hear the stamp of the home of their
luTIderS. the Scandinavians. Scottish
and English settlers.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1919-03-08
WANTED ms @MoEEYs PACK"
German Drummer Baked when Ne
Started to Cross Old Bridge at
Troy, New York.

Albany, y. Y, has historical mu-
scum that contains. among other treas
ure. . bass drum dating back TO the
great Influx OF German immigrants
which followed the revolution Of 1913
In Germany, says Cartoons. This in
strument was owned by the first OF the
wandering hungry FIVE" bands which
appeared In this country after Marx
and Engels, the industrious collabora-
tors, wrote the communist manifesto.
The bass drummer was called Thick
Head" Schultz. According to a music
teacher now living In Albany. who
heard Schultz perform I'm the sos. he
could play In three different rhythms
ut once without making the band mad
At Troy. ten miles mp the Hudson
river from Albany. was one OF those
long. old-fashloned inclosed wooden
bridges, unlighted within, Ike tup-
nel- Looking through II. as one ap-
preached, one saw a tiny spot Of light
ut the far end. as IL gazing through
telescope wrong end to.
One day the hungry brass band start
ed across the bridge to play at barn
raising along the road westward.
Schultz had paid the nickel toll when
he happened to look through the tong
black space ahead. Then he baked
Il want my moneys pack" he insist
ed. by tam, dere is no use my tryin'
to dake dis drum trough dot little
hole"
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1919-03-08

ParasOls are Of ancient lineage, but
before umbrellas became common m
article resembling parasol was ussd
by ne ladies TO keep on the rain
These were called -quitasois" a name
derived from the Spanish; they were
al ofled muslin. were Of various col
ors ana were imported from India By
vsy Of England After these came
umbrellas, which ~ere also made Of
Odd linen, but the linen was coarse
and the umbrella large and bulky.
n I'm q noted doctor and famocs
urescher tiled to introduce the fashion
81 u.ink umbrellas. TO keep on the sun.
mt -they were secuted IN the public
r.setfes e. . ridiculous efeminacy.-
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1919-03-08

Queer, Is IT not. that germs that
cannot be seen with the finest micro
scope, and cannot be measured with
tho finest measurement. are 30 dis
posedi They live IN street cars and
omnibuses, and not In steam cars or
sidewalks. They thrive In barber
shops and not In dentists Offices. They
inhabit churches and theaters alike.
but net restaurants nor cafeteriaS
Queer, II II not. that these little bugs.
70 very little that they cannot be de-
tseted with the microscope. and that
they. can 90 through cement and even
xIzzed d1shes are Jet 90 large that
they can be held back BY the thin
meshes Of Q handkerchief. or the thin
stun mat goes into q mask7
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1919-03-08
The Flrst ..Whlts Way

When William NIblo opened his new
0eater at Broadway and Prince
efeet back on Independence day,
"a he celebrated the double occa-
900 by a patriotic display Of gas
1n which Haunted the name Of
lMblo" far and wide and immortal
1t in stage a. wen as gas history
= admiring public gasped from Q re
ec6ul distances. watching the rel.
mite and blue shadows east By TIE
n Of gas jets spelling the prUpri-
sRs name.
eas had been used for the frst time
= New York city I'VE years before.
0U 10 the owner Of NIblols garden
- the credit Of frst using eas for
Eliminating q theater. Gas Logic
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1919-03-08
ALPINE sport" IN ENGLAND
Little Spot in cumbrian Mountains
Which Offers an Imitation OF
the Real Thing.

Few travellers, even those familiar
with the by-ways, will think of Eng
land In connection with the sport OF
mountain climbing. Yet there Is
bit of tumbled country In the west OF
England where a coterie of devOtees
of this perIlOus sport fOregather an
nually at the Christmas season to get
a taste of alpine work near home.
The village Of Washable Head, in the
Cumbrian mountains, is the base OF
operations for these outdOOrsmen who
find their Joy in scaling precipices with
a forty foot rope about their waists
and a hundred-yard drop below.
The village itself Is one Of the pic
turesque bits of old England which
have not changed much In the last
500 years. Here you can attend serv-
ices in what is probably the smallest
church in the world-a tiny building
with seats for twenty people. There
is an inn, Of course. with a battered
signbOard, which might have been mod
eled after a description from Dickens,
except that It was fiourishing some
centuries before Dickens was born.
For eleven months In the year,
neither the inn nor the church at West.
dale Head are crowded. But the land
lord at the Inn has booked his little
rooms with their low ceilings eight
months ahead for the cold days of
December. This Is the season when
the climbers gather, and the chance
tourist who arrives at this time will
probably sleep on the floor under the
billiard table.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1919-03-08
s,ve,S,rfv, chinese Altar.

there f. no altar on earth which yies
IN marble majesty with the altar Of
heayen-Tisn T.iar-in the south q
ne Chinese city Of PekinS which I'm
perw Yrng-le Of the Ming dynasty
rusred IN A ID. 100. with Tn triple
6alustradez. stairs and platforms OF
pure white marble carved miraeulous-
u. III great circle covering q wide
ara In the midst Of q vast inciosurt-
mere ne emperor knelf once year
ana worshfped -the only being IN the
universe he could look up tor--Shang-
tt-fhe emperor Of the world above.
whose court was IN the SKY and the
spear dps q whose soldiers were TIE
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1919-03-08

Two American negro soldiers we're
discussing musical Instruments
aYar.r said one. Tee gwine ter st
me a eucaiiptis."
"A vhafY' queried the other.
"A euealIptis-dat's musical In
strument. fool"
60 on. nIggerl You can't lid me-
datas one Oh de books Oh de BIble.--
IdezA.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1919-03-08

WON'T you please give me dime
mister" pleaded the professional men
dIcant. I've got 70 eat something. you
know.
$50 you have. my poor fellow but 4
dime b % small am afraid It wouldn't
satisfy your appetite. Here II q nice.
large iron washer. You win md II
much more flllings
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1919-03-08

Do yOu know. George. remarked
II Ray, Z should 81 the Brownf
,alsnage was an ideal one / couldn't
- but notice Il tonight. ReAIly. there
eAnt one word q disagreement be
I've hey both think absolutely alike"
meg are q charming couple. my
- perfectly Charming said her
-. Oand. but rs 70 their thinking
e Aadee, I'D ycu notiee nat shs
Nan thought nrstr
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1919-07-17
TWO CHANCES TO IN
CREASE THE WHEAT CROP
Growers May Have Both Profits as
Well an One.

Many wheat growers are overlooking
two chances Of increasing their wheat
crop after Ii In planted and thereby
getting larger acre yields and bigger
profits. This extra yield and profit is
secured by tOp-dressing the wheat
early In the spring with available
plantfood. preferably In the form Of
an aInmoniated phosphate fertilizer.
This is fertilizer carrying ammonia
and available phosph0ric acid that
gives the young wheat plants. weak
ened by the winter, a sturdy start and
furnishes plantfoOd TO make the extra
gain. When barnyard manure Is used
IT had best be applied as thin. even
covering or topdressIng early In the
winter. Whenever possible use the
manure spreader for this work, as
hand dressing Is not satisfactory be-
cause IL leaves the manure lumpy and
uneven.
Fertilizer applied early In the spring
Increases the crop yield In two ways,
first. by making the stalks and heads
already started grow larger and by
increasing the tIIiering or stooIIng.
Every extra "tIller" means nm ex,rn
head. Only few extra "tilIers" 10 n
plant means several more bushels 10
the acre. II the wheat Is top-dressed
late In the spring. that is after IL has
made good start. II will not "tiIIer."
hence the only chance to Increase the
yield Is by lengthenIng stalks and
heads. but by fertilIzing early the
chances Of increasing yields are
doubled.
For spring top-dressing. the broad
caster is better than the fertilizer
drill. 1t covers the ground more rap
Idly and the inconvenience Of keeping
the drill disks or hoes out Of the
ground. or Of removing them, is
avoided. The ordinary fertilizer drills
can. however. be satisfactorily used
for top-dressing If care Is taken to
fasten up the hoes or disks away from
the ground, or to remove them.