GR:AT INLAND SINK. FIERCE RAMPAGE OF COLORADO RIVER DESPOILS THOUSANDS OF FERTILE ACRES. Huge Engineering Difficulties Must be Overcome; or Otherwise Eight Thousand Families WillBe Render ed Homeless and Destitute C.J, BLANCHARD at Los Angeles, The great Colorado river of the southwest the Nile of America, Is on its bad behavior. Like old travellers who forsake the Beaten highways, the Colorado, grown tired of {ts channel, is seeking a new route. Its desire for change naturally is the cause of Gulf and created a huge Inland sea which covered all of what is now known as Imperial Valley. The shore line of this great sea can be distinet. ly traced by the old beaches which are found there. Enormous Salt Beds, Under an almost tropical sun the sea evaporated, uncovering a great level plain over large portions of which was laid a deep deposit of rich river sediment wanting only irregation {produce abundant harvests. At the | lowest depression In the valley, wh re ‘evaporation has not yet carried off all the water, the salts were deposited thickly and large works have long been established there marketing thousands of tous of this mineral, For centuries the Colorado has been Wap showing Imperial Valley Basin. L threatened to be covered with water o from overflow of Colorado River. : rendering homeless 8 090 families, bo Wh gd 10 | THE JOY OF AGE, Ld Misinterpretation of Dr, Osler's Statement, Dr. Willlam Osler, late professor in John Hopkins University, Baltimore, met with a great deal of undeserved notoriety because he was misunder. stood when he said the creative faculty disappeared usually at the age of forty | years, Ile did not mean to convey the impression that man's usefulness ceased at that time, but that the lmag- | Inative faculty was not as active then {as It was In earlier years, when men are green and raw in judgment and put forth many things that they wish tw have suppressed later on, Ils little jest about chloroforming those who "lag superfluous on the stage” was meant to apply only to teachers who failed to move with the advanced thought and had a special humorous reference to himself, but the miscom- prehension and exaggeration of given it a sweep he never Intended, much consternati part of ti railroad which 1 near by, and At emong e on on tl N 1 ns : to be locates ¢ H O » disquie several whose farms are appa i ‘ | ened unless the erratic am can be induced to return to its old pathway to the sea. A glance at the map will make clear th unusual conditions which at present prevail in the Col-| orada Delta. Below the town of Yuma, Arizona the stream has cut {ts banks at th places and passing through eld, dry | channels, is now pouring westward and northward into Salton Sink. Aug- mented by the volume of this great stream the Sink has already become | a vast inland sea, spreading out for 60 miles in one direction and 30 miles ia another, and growing daly. The Giant Force of Nature. Passengers on the train now elaim with wonder as they look out upen the broad reaching to the western horizon, where but a short) sire ree ex- sen | SIXTY FIVE MILES OF LAKE, time ago the desert reigned supréine in its awful desolation. Glance at the map again and note | the faint line near the international boundary, and encircling the large area marked Imperial Valley. All the land included within this line is below sea level, the lowest portion situated fn Salton Sink where it is 287 feet be low. To those who visit this remark- able region it is apparant that in ancl eat geological times the Gulf of Call-) | © th {Ju RT {| OW | it milding up her unt 1 ¢ i 100 m sprea | ¥. About worportion, Im maki in the Salton Desert, npleted anal heading in tl ma and almost 1 1s 1 Lie eet « YUrPOSe of i ab r low Yu-| International | was a large , and carried water through + on to the arca rial Valley. The one, 00 f a great Mexico Into Californ now called It canal he ng, ow 4 haracts of the banks of tl alnoun 3! » Ww ( lige e of the gitream, was It bas always been a source trouble and annoyance. The river| resented it as an obstruction In its | course and deposited great loads of silt In front of it and then proceeded to cut a channel around it. Dredges | were used constantly to keep the canal heading open. The last great flood the stream simply wiped away the head daw for a large ream to flow into the st below this point the Hed over the banks again and 1 de an i inally began to pour ume in to Salton Nini banks of the Imi arger cure, - 34 nD : gtr y "i s mute l ng wn 0 stream ¢ f : ar 1 stream to go | nel. A new heading Thousands of feet I been ordered and steamboats awaiting its arrival. If these prove ineffective there Is danger th 8000 families now residing in the Is perial Valley, may be rendered home Ie Competent engineers are In. clined to believe that task is be- | md the strength of the present com- | ny to perfom and that measures | ww being undertaken will not prop- | rly nor permanently safeguard the wroperty of the people in the valley This Is a question for the engineers pm y - of lum h are mean t LA ad, the J I 1 i Stecambos? Crew preparing fo build Gum fornia extended far northward. The Colorade River, carrying as It does a vast load of silt and detritus from a drainage basin covering 225,000 square miles, t a bar entirely across the to settle. Meanwhile, the citizens of the valley are somewhat phllosophl cal and are continuing to reap, under nlmost tropical wekies, the viest | which {or forty or a thousand years old. { who seek no new flelds of exploration i hor | work | mere drones In | ing |clates In | to | through { it | most stolld of sentimentalists | belleve that Must Seek New Fields. When the acquisition of knowledge used merely a means through to earn bread, that is the end of a man’s care, whether he be thirty Men is as carry forward to fulfillment any they attem t In early days are the hives of life, who | to the sixty Dr. Osler, i8 close | year line, has gone to England to take n professorship of medicine In Oxford University, which will without fame, which did not come to him until after he had passed the half century post In his journey of life, His part- injunction to his medical America, at meeting In May, was to f« Golden Rule in all thelr actions, cultivate that moderation wii be the golden thread all virtues, "1 HELE and to h is said | runt fi ng the i ', but it cannot be repeat an whe tl his low t od not too ofter is 14 ange we thi the road a selfish en remind ers as he would have if he desir 4 must them to man wh labor: mn attain | slderat { hour of ml Best Work Late In Life. ok ned owed reader It is a the belr retrograde, fearful and intellectusa to go forward is a happy even in the i arbitrarily fixe where expansion a fiat where there are no more heights be fore the soul to climb, no more views to be obtained, no broadening and ex. panding of the vision possible, Al ways and forever a new bud may be formed on the topmost bough of the 1d though th 8. ascent « we are we slit cease as if by ud verge d must 0 tree tran h . “ i CHINESE GRAVEYARD CUSTOMS, Pecullar Custom of Placing Cor ced Food on the Graves of the Departed. the | press has magnified his utterance and | doubt | lead to an Increase of his professional | the Washington! the | | ferior " Lg i { | the number 70.988 D: another ———————"t Government Selects Supply for Officers and Men, The American naval officer and the Jacky smoke and chew. This is a fact of which the Government takes official cognizance and recognizes in a way that makes such habits Inexpensive Incidents to life on board ship. Re cently the Navy Department had un- der cemsideration the award of a con- tract for 150,000 pounds of cut plug tobacco, and In November next bids will be called for another supply of Hea amount, The contract under which the supply is now being fur nished was secured on a basis of a bid of 40 cents a pound. Twenty. nine bids are now under consideration, the prices ranging from 80% cents a pound to 48 cents, The contract will not necessarily be let to the lowest bidder, but to the one supplying at the lowest price the grade best suited for the purpose, Practical Chewing Tests, Each bidder Is required to submit a sample of the tobacco to be fur nished, and these, after the factory la- bels are removed and secret identifi-! cation marks substituted, are divided! into small lots, part being sent to a chemist for analysl and a goodly supply going to the various navy yards | for distribution among officers and! | men for practical test, the opinion of | | the officers and “Jackies” being taken before the award is made. Final re. sults are reached by the process of elimination, until the selection of the dwindles down to two or three samples which are bound to be favorites, These favorites then taken up with regard to the chemical test, and the contract awarded, sol that perhaps the lowest bidder has no consideration whatever when tne final! result 18 obtained, While heretofore the { the men with th article) now which is, i | chewers are | | 8 navy sup tobacco of inglsts © free cost, upon the y the sall boat * ernment grade, sells plus a very smal i! f to op " He of Of How lo Tell Counterfeils. visitor to the Burean of Engravy- | n “er r where ng where ad: Kk and a letter, same number, tl visitor ean four as they table. Fi i ound on a n in the uj right hand « are prints n the blo ave the plate tan a nu 58.3853 with the letter left hand ad | or i 1 ’ ber will wie ri @ note per an al wer ) | { i gy” rners : ano These numbers and have 1 lation for each other termined. The last two numbers the note determine, when divided by four, the letter to be found in the two wraers, Should the last two numbers be divisible by four, with a remainder | f ene, the letter appearing should be | A: if two remain, B; if three remain, | if t last two numbers are by four, with no re : "a : arin h | letter appearing should Jetters and are easily or ible nder, the — 4 Rest the Bones of Pocahontas. / n to bring back to the ¥ h f Jamestown the body of "5 1H ( br the ont to| ry bri col- | Assorted foods, literally wagon load, are annually takes Hills "Cet members of New York's ( n) he New York whi bh ar rd Cypress Chinese 4 NL) 3 ® 1 ® and | fo us such tion and re with ple of where the wre of the ¢ convenient season for] ch these | Insist on ng to be the only one where the nn rest comfortably. Ti an Hustrations of the fact that the | ri : AS these off trange evidences of af mbrance, are pla turesque rites, on the gr departed Celestial | sts are await or the aus transshipment to the land whi > : ings, i colon in it n % | n | a : : Chinaman has feelings like the res us, even If he does choose differ ways of showing them, attra | usual amount of attention, some of It| respectfully curions and some op nly | derisive, but neither variety affects the performance of the ceremonies or enables us to get a bit nearer the mys. terions Mongol mind. It Is hard te onr fartraveled Chinese realiy think that anything Is accom. plished for the dead by putting roast pig and bolled rice on a grave, and yet they do It year after year. A Bright Retort. The ancient story of the Chinaman who, when asked at what hour the spirits consumed the food thus offered to them, replied that It was at the same hour chosen by our dead for smelling pertinent to discussion of this mystery, and reflection on the story admirable effect of giving a new standpoint from which to study the “ontlandish” enstom of our useful but unloved guests, In all these things it Is the thinking so that constitutes right, propriety and congruity, Chinese ceremonies do show affe tionate or plous remembrance, and whether the dead are Indifferent or not, the reflex action on the living is effec. tively brought to bear, EE —— Black Friday. “Now, children” mid the Runday school teacher, addressing the Juvenile class, “can any of you tell me any. thing about Good Friday?” “Yes, ma'am, I can” replied a boy, “He was the colored man what done the housework for Robluson Crusoe.” — A Good Buggy For Sale. Leesville (Meo.) Light: Luke Bel mont’s new buggy is for sale. He got crops grown Ia the world married last week, you kuow, | The flowers we similarly place, Is always | has the! The | Pocahontas, in connection with the ex position at that place, has aroused con siderable indignat both in England and in America, by people who believe n {that such a step is nothing more than move intended as a sideshow feature the exposition. While it Is true] there have been Instances of a disturb | ance of a grave made hundreds of years | before, ns In the recent case of Ad | miral John Paul Jones, still the cases | annot be compared. One is a man whe | had much to do with the preservation | of the American nation and navy; the a r {other was the central figure in a bit of fiction surrounding the settlement of! this country by English, settlers. Po- cabontas, it ia true, was a native Amer | an, which John Paul Jones was not, | married an English man, lived and died in England, and the traditions of her later life were sur- | rounded by all that is English. London Standard, In comment. ing on the movement to bring her body to America, cites pages from a book hy an American writer tending to show | that the life of Pocahontas was a tra- | dition and poetical version and add ing: “If the original myth is really | believed by the people of Jamestown, | we only hope they will do something to answer the audacious skeptic that bas imapugned It.” I) "a re” Toothache or Appendicitis? the better A movement looking to care of children Is spreading. It Is proposed now that the tooth brush Arill be a part of the curriculum of our schools, and that dentists should visit regularly the children attending them. Doctors have spoken very strongly on the usefulness of taking tonles and similar medicines in order promote better digestion, or to purify the blood, when a constant system of polsoning is golng on In the mouth, It is claimed that much poor blood nnd wenkness in children comes from dental decay. A noted physician declares that appendicitis 1s caused by bad teeth, Take your cholee—elther have your teeth extracted or your ap pendix cut out. The doctors get you either way, going or coming. —— To Be Reun'tod, “Have you seen my poor, dear ttle Auekling?” asked the distressed but be witchigg young mother duck. “Ah! madame,” repiled the polite but still hungry fox, “I have inside infor. mation on that point; you wil soon to ! i | i : : STOP LAND-GRABBING THE DUTY OF CONGRESS IS TO AMEND FAULTY AND ANTI. QUATED LAND LAWS. President Hill,of the Great Northern Railroad, Calls Attention to Enor- mous Disposals of Government Land Without Settlement Into Homes, From the FPhilladeiphla Bulletin, A Tension Indicator There will be people {ll-natured enough to charge that President Hill, | of the Great Northern Railway, did not come into court with entirely clegn | hands In the vigorous denunciation of | the land-grabbers contained in his re-| cent speech before the National Irriga-| tion Congress at Portland. This, how- ever, does not necessarily detract from the truth of his charges. Perhaps few men in the country better qualified to speak upon the blighting effects of | the dishonest policy hich has priated millions of of lands, only to exclude from them the | actual settlers who would have devel- oped them. President Hill is a railroad manager, and rallroads depend for profit upon a traffic afforded by a populous and well- | cultivated country, A rajlroad « -tend-| ing through territory without farms or farmers, towns or ial communi ties fer sadvantages ul are owned + speculators, de ble It very Hill spoke by the that those who land at this time making homes are are Ww appro. acres valuable | Indust: must i 1% d f lar 0 | bi Where great tracts and controlled by n nt likely that card wh go upon Government for the of only a handful. velopme in is Presi he charged ent on purpose Rapid Disposals of Public Lands. 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