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Via Union Pacific. Millions
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HYDROGRAPHIC RECORDS.
Practical Benefit Derived from Them
Illustrated in Geological
Survey Work.
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The parable of the sower Is appli
cable to all educational Work. Much
of the mission of the great departments
maintained by the government, espe
cially the scientific bureaus is educa
tional in its nature. The government
is in the position of a progressive and
ambitious instructor in a modern col
lege, who, surrounded by every labora
tory and library facility, spends part
of his time in making original investi
gations and part in communicaiiug to
his pupils the results of his studies.
The seed he sows falls on all kinds of
soil, but, however poor the ground, it
is sure to bring forth fruit in some
measure, if there is life in the kernels
that he sows. There is great varia
tion in the returns from the different
kinds of educational work prosecuted
by the government The ultimate
value of much of it can be determined
only after the lapse of many years,
but some of it seems to bear fruit a
hundred fold from the very start. An
instance of this is seen in the results
that have followed the hydrographic
work of the United States geological
survey in many quarters. The cases
In which it has been of benefit to the
one state of Colorado, for example, are
numerous and interesting.
None of the irrigation work contem
plated by the government would,
ordinarily, be possible without long
delay, were it not for the hydrographic
uaut aucumuitucu uy iuc ouivcj uui
ing many years of observation and
measurement. In addition to that,
the work of private individuals is con
stantly facilitated by the same records.
No large engineering enterprises are
now undertaken without reference to
the survey’s records concerning the
supply of water available at the
chosen site. The South Platte Land j
and Reservoir company, which has
under way canals and reservoirs that
probably aggregate $500,000 in value,
has established stations at Orchard
and Kersey, Col., because of the
superior hydrographic advantages of
fered by these localities. The choice
of those points is directly traceable to
the data compiled by the survey.
Equally important is the fact that
projects that would have resulted dis
astrously have in numerous cases been
abandoned after a study of survey
records that throw light on the prob
able outcome. Data concerning the
flow of water on the Arkansas and
South Platte rivers prevented the ex
penditure of great sums of money on
the state canal in the first instance,
and upon the Pawnee pass reservoir
project in the second.
Survey data seem to ke in great
demand as unimpeachable testimony
in the legal controversies that have 1
arisen in this state in regard to irriga- j
tion matters. A most notable instance
is the case of the Colorado & South
ern railroad vs. the Denver Union
Water company, in which the sum of
$100,000 was involved.
Data obtained by the survey in re
gard to the amount of water power
available at certain p?fices have influ
enced the plans of the Glenwood
Springs Light and Power company, j
the New Century Light and Power
company, and also proposed power
companies on Clear and St. Vrain’s
creeks. None of these projects has
yet been carried to a conclusion, but
some of them will undoubtedly be
eventually constructed.
Colorado cities seeking a suitable
water supply have frequently con
sulted data obtained by the survey.
In the case of Durango, in southwest
ern Colorado, the discharge of Florida
river was especially studied in order
to ascertain whether a gravity water
system would be feasible at that point.
The location of various manufactur
ing industries has been determined by
report from survey engineers on the
available water supply.
AN OXEN CAVALRY CORPS.
Natives Queerly Mounted for Police
Duty on the Island of
Madagascar. .
The oddest cavalry in the world is
maintained on the west coast of Mad
aeascar by Governor General J. G. Gal
lieni. While the French troops in that
country are ample to meet the occa
sional revolutionists, the governor gen
eral makes use of native talent for po
lice work in out-of-the-way localities,
says the New York Herald.
On the west coast of Africa is a
tribe of natives, possibly radically
connected with the Havas, who are
known as the Sakalova, the most war
like tribe of the country. The natives,
in imitation of French troopers, or
ganized an oxen cavalry corps, under
command of a French officer. They
are armed with modern long-handled
lances, or spears, and side arms.
Their uniform is khaki, with skull
caps. They ride barefooted, without
stirrups, sitting on their equipment,
cinched like a saddle, with cords mado
of the native fiber plant, and a sort
of bridle of the cord, passing through
the nose of the beast.
The oxen are neither slow or scared,
and it is assumed would create havoc
with their horns among horse cavalry.
Servian Army’s Big Drum.
A curious feature connected with the
Servian army is the manner in which
most of the regiments carry the big
drum. It ie not, as in most countries,
slung in front of the man who plays it,
but is placed upon a two-wheeled cart
drawn by a single dog, which has been
so trained that it keeps its place even
through the longest and most tedious of
marches. The drummer takes up a po
sition behind the car and performs on
the Instrument as the animal pulls it
along
THAT TIRED SPRING FEELING
Which Comes to Many with the Sea
son That Should Renew
Life and Energy.
There are certain persons to whom the
advent of spring, instead of bringing a
sense of rejuvenescence, provides a very
different sensation, says the London
Lancet. The youth of the year, when
nature seems to revel in growth and de
velopment, ought to give, it might be
thought, to the human species, too, a
sense of vigor and of the natural joyful
ness of fecundity. When the birds are
breaking into song and the plants into
flower, poor man might also exult in life
and its annual time of awakening
growth. Yet to many the return of
spring is only the return of a vague
feeling of listless languor, a slack sense
of fatigue that comes without labor
and of weariness that is uncalled for by
any unusual effort.
To those who dwell in cities, at any
rate, spring has trials that are peculiar
to itself. To some extent these arise
from the knowledge that abroad in the
country all is new life, refreshened
vigor, and inspiring atmosphere, while
in town the wonted thraldom is en
hanced by the suspicion of these things
that is gained from the trees and the
plants of public parks and open spaces,
where poor little bits of nature bloom
only to suggest in vain all that awaits
the town dweller if he could escape. It
is not only dissatisfaction, though, at
being unable to partake in nature’s
gaiety that produces the feeling of which
we spepk; something is due to climatic
conditions.
Who does not know the enervating
sense that accompanies the first warm
uay UL LUC J'Ctti i YV c JUictj agitc
Johnson that he is a weak creature who
is influenced by the weather, but if we
do we must confess with the same breath
that to-day most of us are weak crea
tures. If, like Johnson, we lived in more
leisurely times and regaled ourselves
heartily in Fleet street about the middle
of the day, following the weal with a
comfortable discussion, maybe we, too,
should be indifferent whether the sun
shone or the rain fell. Unfortunately,
we work our nervous systems more and
our alimentary organs less than did our
grandparents. Inevitably we have a
sensitiveness that was unknown to most
of them. Their fits of “the spleen” were
well earned, probably, by loads within
the stomach. We acknowledge no such
consoling cause for the ennui that often
in the spring assails the town dweller.
Happy he who can dispel it by a week
end in the country or at the sea before
his regulation summer holiday arrives.
COPPERS BECOME A PLAGUE
Nearly $15,000,000 Worth of the
Coins Are in Circulation
in England.
Many large towns in England are, like
Leeds, suffering from a plague of cop
pers. The extension of tramways with
half-penny fares, the use of penny-in
the*-slot gas meters and automatic ma
chines, and in London the Tube railway,
with its two-penny fares, have produced
an enormous change of small silver
coins into pennies and halfpennies,
states the London Chronicle.
Tradesmen consequently are finding
themselves burdened with huge quan
tities of coppers, and they complain that
they cannot get rid of them by an ex
change for small silver. It might be
thought that the royal mint had some
thing to do with this excess of coppers,
but on that point the master of the mint,
Mr.( W. G. E. Macartney, M. P., is tm
phatic.
“It is not a question of minting at all,”
he said, “it is merely a question of bank
ing. If the tradesmen of Leeds, or any
other town, find they have a superfluity
of coppers, they have only to tell their
banker that if he cannot give them sil
ver in exchange they will transfer their
accounts. Take the case of Leeds. Ob
viously the money has not left the town,
and it is the tradesmen’s fault if they ,
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The mint, it may be added, always
strikes more than the ordinary quanti
ties of any particular coin for which
there is an abnormal request. But there
has been no excessive demand recently
for coppers. The value of the bronze is- j
sues in 1902—the latest year for which ,
the statistics are available—was some- ■
what larger than in 1901, but there was
also a considerable increase in the value
of the silver issues. In 1901 the number
of bronze pieces struck at the royal mint {
in London was 41,349,387, valued at;
£120,280, while in 1902 the number had
risen to 45,774,848 pieces of the value of
£148,499. The silver coins struck in j
1901 totaled 18,843,425, valued at £914,
201, while in 1902 the figures were 26,
270,996, amounting in value to £937.202. j
In his report for 19(T2 Mr. Macartney
gives the following estimate of the prob
able value of the bronze coin now cir
culating in the United Kingdom: Pence,
£1,968,048; halfpence, £713,450; farth-1
Ings, £150,190. This estimate is based
on the total issue from 1860 to 1902 in
clusive, allowing 10 per cent, as the esti
mated issued to the colonies and for
coins lost or destroyed.
It Was Wished On.
Johnny’s sister has a ring that Johnny
is very fond of. He is allowed to wear it
sometimes for an hour or so, when he
has been very good, or has promised to
be. One day he suddenly found that h<
wanted to wear that beautiful little gold
band, and so he informed his sister. She
wasn’t just in the mood, so she told him,
as he insisted, that she couldn’t take it
off because it was “wished on.’’ Johnny
said little and thought much, and tEt
next afternoon, when sisters had caller*
he rushed in and plumped down on an at*
toman in the middle of the room.
“Johnn,” reminded his sister, “youi
cap, dear.”
“Oh,” returned the boy, innocently, “I
can’t take it off, sis; it’B wished on.’ —N
T. Tribune.
LIFE ON A TORPEDO BOAT.
The Men Have to Take Their Sleep
and Food in “Catch as Catch
Can” Fashion.
A man on a torpedo boat has to catch
his sleep “on the fly,” and he becomes
exceedingly expert, being young and
adaptable, at making up the required
amount of slumber In little mosaics of
an hour now, half an hour then and ten
minutes later on. He becomes accus
tomed to drop into a doze whenever a
favorable minute arrives and he is not
on duty, and to stay in that condition
until a sudden lurch of the boat shakes
it out of him. Never at sea does he ex
pect to be able to turn in for a full
night’s sleep, says a writer in the Boston
Globe.
This difficulty of sleeping on a torpedo
boat at sea is one of the principal rea
sons why the fleet of destroyers sent tc
Manila had an itinerary arranged for it
which provided for 90 days spent in port
and only 70 at sea. This 90 days of rest
against 70 of active seagoing is calculat
ed to be about the limit of endurance of
a picked crew on a torpedo boat. A de
stroyer, it must me remembered, is only
a torpedo boat of a larger growth, and
not so much larger as to make any mate
rial difference in the amount of discom
fort and strain put upon the crew, espe
cially where the theater of action is the
open ocean.
A man who has had much service on a
torpedo boat said to the writer:
"It is not only sleep with which you
have to play catch as catch can on board
a torpedo boat, but you have to play tag
with your food as well. If there was
anything like a sea on, we never used to
think of sitting down to table, but took
such food as we could get in one hand
ana aie it wnne we neia on witn me
other.
“A great part of the time cooking was
next to impossible, and cold canned
Stuff, or what was left over of the stuff
which had been cooked in port, had to
suffice us, and we grabbed that as we
could and when we could.
“The cook always, or almost always,
used to make coffee for us, though how
he managed it was a mystery, for,
though he used to lash the coffee pot
to the top of the stove and toe down
the lid, the pitching and the rolling of
the boat in a heavy seaway would spill
a large portion of the contents of the pot
out through the spout.
“Then cookey would put a cork in
the mouth of the spput, and when the
boiling coffee generated steam enough
the lid would blow off, or the cork would
fly out. Altogether, it was only by the
exercise of indefatigable energy and
skill of the sort which ought to have
been recognized in general orders that
finally enough coffee would be manufac
tured to give each man a cup.”
THE SYRIAN BARBER BOWL.
A Novelty in Tonsorial Utensils That
Is Popular with Some New
Yorkers.
“I have quite a number of novelties
from my country,” said the Syrian bar
ber in Washington street, relates the
New York Times, “but I keep them for
my American customers. The Syrians
want the latest Yankee notions. Of
course, once in awhile an old mountain
eer happens in who longs for the ancient
customs, but he is only a bird of pas
sage—a maker of laces or a peddler of
saddlebags—going through the metrop
olis to some other city.
“The Syrian bowl seems to please New
Yorkers most. A number of artists come
to my shop just to have it used on them.
Here it is. Quite ornate, isn’t it They’re
not all alike, but I keep this one because
my customers admire the inlaid work on
it, and while I’m shaving them I enter
tain them with the story of it or the in
dustries of the villagers who produce this
kind of merchandise. The shape is the
egg-basin. The semicircular brim fits
the neck of the customer, and if he likes
he can use silver wire clasps about the
ears. In Syria the lather Is made right
In tho hnwl with tho Vi n n H o n H a mil i orl
by the Jjand to the face of the customer,
but New Yorkers won’t have that, they
like the brush dipped in. The native
brush is unique, made of soft split grass,
but only my people stand for it; the
smooth, tender skin of Yankees can’t
stand its harshness of fiber.
My people like plenty of perfume put in
the bowl, but perfumes and scented
soaps make Anglo-Saxons mad. We use
moistened, scented clay after shaving
as a sort of powder for the face. It is
splendid for the skin and acts as a disin
fectant, but though I import quite a lot
of it from the mountain country, I have
a hard time togetrid of it among my for- j
eign clients. Lately some ladies have
been buying it to use in their cosmetics, i
They are finding out its medicinal quali- |
ties, and they don’t have the prejudice
against it that the men seem to have.
A society woman happened into my shop
a day or two ago and bought a Syrian
barber bowl and an ear razor for shav
ing the inside of the ear. These razors
are fine things, and all the nobility use
them at home. I showed her how to
handle the blade and told her to be care
ful and always employ the tiny ear-mir
ror with it.
“She thanked me, but replied: “Oh,
dear me, I wouldn’t use that beautiful
thing for any horrid purpose like that.
I want it for an ornament; a sort of book
leaf cutter.’ ’*
Tempting Sandwiches.
At an afternoon tea some particular
ly attractive open sandwiches were
served. Rounds of bread were spread
with a mixture of cream cheese and
finely chopped olives. Around the
edge of each larger pieces of olives
formed a sort of wreath and directly in
the center was a piece of olive. Brown
bread sandwiches made of cream
cheese and chopped olives are particu
larly delicious. Chopped green peppers
may also be mixed with them.—Detroit
Ftm Press. I
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“Soon after I began to take
Wine of Cardui I could see that
I was beginning to get back
my strength.”
That is the comment Mrs. Seymour
makes.
If you are sick you can take Wine of
Cardui and secure health aad strength. If
other medicines and other treatment hare
failed, that will make no difference. Few
.. „ women have taken Wine of Cardui at first.
Mrs. M.Sevmouit , , ....
i4fl Straight3u Bv far the greater number of Wine of
Crana RopidiMich. J , . , ,, .
Cardui cures are women who could not
secure relief elsewhere. All druggists sell $1.00 bottles of Wine of Cardui.
WIN E or CAR DUI
No. 48 Straight St., Grand Rapids, Mich.
I am pleased to endorse Wine of Cardui as I found it so beneficial to
restore my strength after my baby was born. I could not seem to get well
enough to be up and able to do my work, and as I had been in bed for six
weeks this was rather serious, but soon after I began to use Wine of Cardui I
could see that I was beginning to get back my strength. In another week
I was able to sit up most of the day and in a month I was able to be up and
do most of my work. I think it is /f
splendid medicine for a woman and vV%>- j
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For Itching or Bleeding Piles, swell*
ing and Inflammations.
Here Is a Remedy That Never Fails.
Paracamph has cured thousands and
thousands of people who have suffered for
years with Piles. As a sure, safe, and
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recognized as the most scientific remedy
for this dreaded ailment. Don’t suffer;
don’t delay; get a bottle today, use it as
directed iu the circular aroud each bottle.
If it fails to do what we claim your money
will be refunded.
Mr. J. A. Beard, 342 Third St., Louis
ville, Ky., writes “I suffered most agon
izing pains from Itching piles. Four ap
plications of Paracamph cured me. It is
a most wonderful remedy, and I heartily
recommend it to all sufferers.
Mrs. A. C. Whaley, 9 East GenesseSt.,
Buffalo, N. Y., says: “I have used Para
samph with splendid results and heartily
recommend it for the quick relief of Piles,
sore muscles, and rheumatic pains in the
joints.
We have in iur office hundreds of let*
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Fever, Soreness and Inflammation quickl
Don’t experiment with other preparations
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what we claim your money will be refund
ed. For sale by all druggists in 25 cent,
50 cent and $1.00 bottles, or sent direct
upon receipt of price. If your druggist
does not handle Paracamph ask him to
get it for you, but don’t take something
else. There is nothing just as good. The
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Dec 15, 1904.
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