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Beginning nearly forty years ago to gonstruct accurate topographic and geologic maps of both the known and the unexplored regions of the United Btates, the United States geological survey has speedily progressed with this part of its work until topographic maps of 40 per cent of the country are now published, besides maps for large areas in Alaska and Hawaii. Exten- sive areas have also been covered by geo logic maps, and all the work from e beginning of the field survey to the printing of the finished map is done by this government bureau. Oth- er activities of the survey are the classification of public lands, the an- nual collection of mineral statistics of the United States and investigations of the nation’s water resources, all in- volving the publication of scientific and technical reports containing over 20,- 000 pages annually. During the last thirty years over $15,000,000 has been spent by the geo- logical survey in geologic and topo- graphic surveys in the United States. Seeing Distances. About 200 miles 1. every direction is the distance a man can see when stand- ing on a clear day on the peak of the highest mountain—say at a height of 26,668 feet, or a little over five miles above the level of the sea. An ob- server must be at a height of 6,667 feet above sea level to see objects at a distance of a hundred miles. The dis- tance in miles at which an object upon the surface of the earth is visible is equal to the square root of one and one-half times the height of the ob- server in feet above sea level. Some allowance has to be made for the ef- fect of atmospheric refraction, but as the refraction varies at different heights and is affected by the various states of the weather no precisely accurate fig- ures for general purposes can be given. Probably from one-fourteenth to one- tenth of the distance given by the formula would have to be deducted owing to the refraction of the atmos- phere. Caustic Criticism. A young New York man, a member of one of the first families as far as ‘wealth 1s concerned, had been in the habit of writing poems, which, unable to dispose of, he managed to get print- ed in certain publications by paying therefor at advertising rates. He at- tended a social gathering at which a cynical old fellow named Timble, who despised the would be poet, knowing of his manner of obtaining publicity, chanced to be present. The rich young man lost no chance of referring to his “svorks,” and finally remarked, osten- tatlously, that he was born on the same day that Washington Irving died. #Both of which occurrences,” snap- ped old Timble, “have had a very de- Pressing effect upon American litera-- A Left Handed Compliment. iia" Sid A e Harry, “I'll tell you what you ought to do.” at, dear?” his mother asked. “You ought to go over to live in gome country where the people are | Mobammedans.” “What on earth ever put such a thought as .that into your dear head, darling?’ ***Cause over there they think all fat women are beautiful.” “Harry, if you dare to open your mouth again this evening you will be sent to bed with nothing to eat!”— _ Chicago Herald, Nonsinkable Safes For Ships. ‘Nonsinkable safes so placed that they will rise to the surface as soon a ship sinks are the invention of Mepotti Nanni. The Popular Science Monthly in describing them tells of the tundreds of millions of dollars now at ¢he bottom of the sea that might have been saved by their use. A Housewarming. “y want a dress to put on around the house,” ‘said the lady in the depart- ment store. “How large is your house, madam?’ , who bad been fishing in west- Suoyisel the fresh clerk. with one from the country. I aL Mw Bars Ouro. aya you leave your last place?” the existence of land in that region ; asked the woman. trl 1 had Patient—What would you recom- “J didn’t have no last place,” an- DE re a vy for iansniion) Hig i swered the girl, “because I ain't had | Geographic Magazine. 4 88 8 Teso : .no last place to leave, and I'm still fasomnis.—Indianapolis Star. working at it, belng for myself that | Pelicans’ Pouchms. 4 or I've been working, and I'm sure I'm a The pelican is commendably regular & PRACTICAL HEALTH HINT, &| © you, 80 os Sh allie Satine ti BN Supls ¢® msuetiny hd ‘them to ‘their young * Helping Digestion, * gy Janes Lads a ea b twas Jou # Many persons dread toeat what + | 4. vie ang Egypt. Among these: 1s | eight pounds. of fish. dinner for fear of the resulting + | 14 redaish brown, spotted with white. | Gating Expurionos. ter effects. Foods that are well + The geckos live on jpsects and worms. FET gh SIE ; * aan SioWly ae + | which they swallow whole. They de-| Of soume,.xeplied Farmer Corn. ae oh. & | OTe thelr name from the peculiar | toss. “Jesh has managed to be #0: : yu re. + sound which some of the species utter. patient ies bin inu Dove tusk I'm kind : % SANS % de ¥ xs instead Biwi seeimamaremrre————— ‘hepeful able come bask be boi iva ial 0, gy 3 Weman's Alm. ito the farm and.get along with me.’ _ gested by persons. disposed to & | 4 bullet shot upward from the earth | Washington Star. ; have dyspepsia. Too frequently < | 8988 up to aphelion with a retarding BETTE . the Gessert 1s hurriedly eaten & | & decreasing motion, but a bullet fired Soleing the Gapertuniy. ; . and not well masticated. This | 3 & woman at a burglar will turn a || Grabsbaw- lf you ingiat on this new ; maglect mgkes such substances of 4 {oom ng ste g ge 2D. jnRocent pe IH heya te £3 iia gredit, Mrs. greater indigeatidbility. o |Gastrian ine times out of J! baw As: a8 itp. going to bo The belching, swelling ana cu hn Tas : i€harged. den. 1 may as Well got a mere prevented by eating ack frultef 4 | £m the & help 10 her moter?” asked : k for dessert. Apples, apricets; ¢| GED wemax. Ee ited Debit Peaches, poate, otsbees. and. “Yes, indeed,” replied the . other. TH do pu. laow, . grapes are excellent for Jet 1 eS denmt bet 40 sy ‘culinary towehed him a while Gea” | Pose. Pineapples are amsellens 4 ast’ instead of ‘cooking.’ Bt Jamia, Foal; Dispat .9ontein®. # | One of Thess Crazy Questions. Diflorence of Opis 2 cent & “Well, great guns, Jenes! I see!| 8 were not best that we sheaf ap @cid. If this acid is insufficient + | you're wearing glasses. What fer?” ah as. It is difference of epiuien any reason of il health @- | “For a sprained knee, you darmed: Sa BAKS Morin races powslble—~Mal on is interf! with: Soft 4 | feel! What do you suppose?’ therefore easy to ald digestion + Le wo ss mon. ohpG - <4 by eating acid fruits. + | The diminutive chains of habit are sition 4 % 4 |'geldom heavy enough to be felt till | tunity—like the wind portly 4 asd Goole oofe pe obo sited eiie | they are too strong to be broken. — Tor ROT sae What Makes a Geod Road. ~~ Everybody agrees that the surface of a road must be oval in its contour, says Farm and Fireside, but not all understand that this oval ought to be as flat as the character of the road ma- terial and the lay of the land will per- mit. With briek or concrete construc- tion the oval may be very flat, because the traffic makes no ruts to carry the water lengthwise of the road, nor does the pavement soften and develop de- pressions when kept in contact with water. But broken stone (water bound macadam), being susceptible to pene- tration by water and subject to great damage if frozen while soaked, must be given a higher oval, and for gravel roads a still steeper pitch is demanded. As for earth roads, the steepness must be governed by the combined in- fluence of a number of factors. Per haps the leading factor is the quality of the earth in each particular case. And next might be placed the presence or absence of ‘seeps” or “spouts,” while another of these vital factors would be the longitudinal pitch of the highway. Pocahontas and Mrs. Wilson. It was on the 21st of March, old style, in 1617, that Pocahontas, love- liest and niost celebrated of all Indian women, died in England, on the eve of her projected return to her native land. The climate of England did not agree with Pocahontas, and she was already in'a state of decline when she proceed- ed to Gravesend with her husband, John Rolfe, and her infant son, Thomas, purposing to take passage on a ship bound for America. She bad no sooner reached Gravesend than she was strick- en down with smallpox, to which she soon succumbed. Thomas Rolfe, the son of Pocahon- tas, had a daughter named Jane, who, in 1875, married Robert Bolling, a young Englishman who had settled in Virginia. Jane had one son, and he in turn was the parent of one son and five daughters. This son's great-great- grandson was William Holcomb Boll- ing, the father of Mrs. Woodrow Wil- son.—New York World. Da Vinci's “The Last Supper.” During the last years of the fifteenth century Leonardo da Vinci executed for the Duke of Milan his masterpiece of painting, “The Last Supper,” a wal! decoration in the refectory in the mon- astery of Santa Marla delle Grazie, Milan. Owing chiefly to his use of oll colors directly upon the wall, to neglect and to vandalism, only a ruin of the grand et remains. But, while for purposes of study it is neces- sary to refer to the many coples by Da Vinci's pupils, the best of which are those by Marco d4'Oggiono, in St. Petersburg and in the Royal academy, London, and to Raffaello Morghen’s excellent print, the original alone fives the true : though faint idea of the i wonderful lighting and melting color. The painting | She 18 .qualities than in the remarkable com- | position. ~The Gaucheriv.of Soldiers. Soldiers when marching at night ' through open country invariably grevi- tate toward the left, not to the right. {This 1s the experience of an oid sol- -dier, who -thinks the tendency is due to two causes: [First as the rifle is carried in the right hand it naturally follows that the weapon arm must be kept free, and in case of pressure. when in. close formation, the instinc- tive rule is to put up the left elbow and say, “Ease off to the left.” Sec- ond, the soldier always steps off with his left:feot, and, although it may be hard to prove, there is always a slight deviation to the left, even when a battalion is marching in daylight to- ward a fixed point or any other point of support.—London Chronicle. Her Recommendation. A woman prominent as a social “worker was in the city to engage a new girl the other day. She visited .an employment agency which makes a specialty of finding places for coun- try housemaids and was much pleased Transplanting Palm Trees. It is almost impossible for even a lettuce slip to be removed from the spot where it has taken root without a consequent drooping and period of suspended growth. But nowadays great palm trees are uprooted and car- ried hundreds of miles from their na- tive scil and climate with scarcely a wilted leaf. | The secret 6f the success of trams- planting such trees lies in the prelim- inary work. This is begun fully six months before the time for the mov- ing of the tree. First the roots are dug around and carefully cut, and the plant is side boxed. Three inches are allowed between the balls of roots and the boxing. This space is next filled with earth, which is well tamped down. Thus the tree is made to stand in the box in which it is to be moved, without lifting it from the earth. Here it remains during the six months of preparation. It is thoroughly mulched and given the best of care, so as to in- duce a plentiful side growth of roots. At the end of the six months it may be lifted and shipped. It will show no signs of fatigue at the end of its Journey, however far it may travel.— Popular Science Monthly. Japan's Narrow Railways. When the railways of Japan were firat planned the narrow gauge of three feet six inches was selected for them, because it was cheapest to build and equip and was thought best suited to the country’s narrow highways and steep grades. Now the 6,000 miles ot Japanese railways, all of narrow gauge, are found to be sadly behind the times, and a movement is on foot to rebuild them to standard gauge, although the cost is estimated at nearly $450,000,- 000. At present the trains are slow, the fastest expresses making less than thirty miles an hour; the coaches are low and narrow, and the sleeping cars are cramped and inconvenient, while most of the railway inventions of oth- er nations cannot be used because ef the difference in track gauge and sise of cars. The director of the = railways favors the change, in spite of the cost, and estimates that the maiz Tokaido line could be converted to broad gauge in twelve years and the other lines on the main island of Ja- pan within twenty-five years.—Popu- lar Mechanics Magazine. Too Busy. When a thing that really ought to be done presents itself, take it and work it out somehow without hurry or nervousness, even though your hands are already full. Don’t think “I am too busy.” And, above all, don’t say it aloud where any one can hear you. Being too busy carries an im- plication of fussy activity as contrast ed with efficient effort. To be too busy is necessarily an admission that your job is itself too big for you or |. belong to your Job or Ro you are not working wisely and efficiently. Pitiless logic inevitably drives your hearers to one of these three conclusions. If you are “too busy” you ought to resign or reorgan- ize.—Publishers’ Weekly. What's in a Name? 4 Hig grandfather is in th loy o Uncle 8am, engaged in Para back and forth mail for dependent human- ity. His father, Mr. D., also earns his bread by the same useful work in the Indianapolis postoffice. Bince these men. of two generations are connected with, the mail service, they doubtless expect little Dick to follow in their steps. Friends of the family are sure that this is the intention of the par- ents, the child's name being the proof. The mother liked Richard, and the fa ther liked Franklin, so the child be- came Richard Franklin D., or for short R. F. D.—Indianapolis News. Anglant Fishermen. A codfishery about Newfoundland was conducted by Normans and Bre- tons as early as 1504, and there is a tradition among the fishermen of the bay of Biscay that one of their num- the boy's kite riges, fiat you sro dolug things Whi hich do |. necessarily "grain the natural shrinkage of shelled who { famd | Answers. “1 ghrgs from men she. she? he's a telephone girl indicate character and dispositions. 8poiling O!d Frésndships. So far as men are concerned, the | warmest friendship is thar which | exists between two fellows whose wives have never met. A i.iend that ; we! have known and liked for years | has drifted away from us, and we suppose he feels that we have drifted away from him. We liked each other so well that we wanted our wives to meet and be good friends. Finally they met, and, as might have been expected, they cared nething in the world for each other. In fact, one of them said she couldn't see what on earth anybody could find in her to ad- mire, and we suppose the other said about the same thing. We felt that our friend knew what our .wife thought of his wife, and we were a little ashamed to be in his company. Probably he felt the same. At any rate, we haven't had much of anything to do with each other since. We speak, but no one would ever guess that we once were bosom friends.— Claude Callan in Fort Worth Star- Telegram. Spanish krishmen. A recent writer draws attention to the connection which has long existed between Ireiand and Spain. In the days of the “Wild Geese,” when lrish- men were carving out futures for themselves as soldiers of fortune in many lands, they went in large num- bers to Spain. Then again large num- bers of Irish men and women, many of them belonging te well known fam- ilies, emigrated to Spain in the early days of the nineteenth century. All these immigrants were adopted by the country, and, they ‘adopted it, whole heartedly—so whole heartedly, indeed. that, as the writer already referred to pointed out, hardly any of their pres- ent representatives speak English, at any rate as “a native tongue,” and they have lost all touch with Irish life. They have retained their names, how- ever, unaltered, and in the Spanish army list are to be found many such names as O’Cennor, O’Neil, O'Donnell, Shaw, and so on.—Christian Science Monitor. Cancer Not Hereditary. That cancer is not inherited in man seems to be proved by statistics col: lected by Arthur Hunter and present ed to the Association of Life Insurance Presidents. Mr. Hunter investigated the history of policy holders and found that when both of a man’s parents bad died of cancer only two grandparents out of 234 had dled of this disease. ‘Among 314 sons and daughters of par- ents both of whom had died of can- cer he could find not one case of can- cer. He considered only those above the age of forty. He found only nine cases of cancer among 801 brothers and sisters of can- eerous, pairs. of the 810 sons and hters above forty in 488 ‘which. one parent had died of can- cer only three were known to have, had. the disease. Gorn and Water. - To those engaged in. the handling of corn while in storage and in transit is a matter of prime importance and of- ten. a source of dispute because of shortage reported at time of receipt at warehouse and a further loss at date of final sale. In order to deter- mine the amount of shrinkage vr loss of weight occurring in corn the de- partment of aqricuiture conducted an experiment with 500 bushels of shelled! corn. At the time of storage the mols.’ ture content was 18.8 per cent and at’ close of the test 14.7 per cent, or a loss of 4.1 per cent. The weight per bushel had decreased from 54.7 pounds to 50 pounds, and the total loss of! weight was 1,970 pounds, or slightly more than 7 per cent. Says the Sun Didn’t Stand Stilk “ Joshua’, 's command to the sun and moon to “stand still” only meant that they should be “eclipsed,” according to Dr. Thomas Dick Wilson, professor of Hebrew at Princeton Theological sem- nary. The word usually translated “stand still” in the Bible is ‘the He- brew “damu,” said Dr. Wilson, which really means “eclipse.” “When my students come to me,” he sald, “with doubt as to ‘whether God actually up- i Hii i 7 i 1if te i a y cash, and the 1 16" peopl whe ‘deat. —L < fhe Takes the Hing. Fom—1 know a gir 'w i H Pessie—1 don’t believe itl Tom—Why, she can't ol La Her Chin, Dawson—The facial features od pelecting your wife wese you govesned by her chin? Spenlow—Ne, but I have heen ever since we were married. It is easy to decide witheut think. ing: it is easy te ¢him% and not decide but it is bard te think Bly and dp cide cout ayeonsly. ona, :| kobolds, goblins, gnomes, swapmaidens | .or farmer, { and had my head read, and I found Som Tighiwads “Tightwad” bas crept into colioauial slang. It is eien included in the dic , tionary, and i ail i ad swell Bunwu, to spend mio: though iis cou Da: ous set Lim tiv: ex- ample, is scornful referred to by that name. In thei i accentation it is a synonym for meanueéss. And Yet his spending is somewhat accord- ing to his temperament; he spends if she occasion seems to him proper and suitable. His purse opens if the object appeals to his tastes and inclinations unless he hoards merely for the pur- | pose of getting and keeping. To be economical, or at least to refuse to spend when others are spending just te be “a good fellow,” 1s equivalent in | many minds to being a tightwad. And | Yet many a man has surprised the com- | munity in which he lived by a great | charity or public gift, of lasting benefit to others, made possible by what his neighbors termed his “closefistedness.” | —Detroit Free Press. | | | | | { Air a Part of the Earth. “A balloon is sent up at New York 2ity on an absolutely calm day, remains in the air for one hour, drifting in the moderate currents of the upper air, and ! descends a few miles from the place ! from which it was sent up. How is it that the place of descent is not some spot adjacent to Chicago if the theory of the earth’s revolution is correct?” This problem was propounded in a letter to the Scientific American and received this interesting answer: The simple answer to your inquiry | is that the air is part of the earth and rotates with it just as the water does. If it did not there would be a tre- mendous wind from the east of nearly 1,000 miles an hour at the equator and about 550 miles in our latitude. This is apparent if you recall the wind which is felt when going swiftly through still air on a car. The air is held upon the earth by gravity and con- stitutes a part of the revolving globe in a very real sense. Their Upper and Lower Worlds. Shamanism is a name applied to the religion of certain peoples among Finns, Hungarians, Turks, Mongolians and Tunguses, but chiefly those of north- western Asia. At present Shamanism is best represented by the practices of the Tunguses. According to them. there are three spiritual realms— heavenly, earthly and subterranean. The earthly realm is on the surface of the earth; the other two consist of stories above and below the earth's surface. The good spirits live above or on the earth; the evil below it. The upperworld of light is composed of seventeen such stories, or heavens; the lower world of darkness, of seven (or nine) hells. Above live the greatest lords, -khans, gods, good spirits and blessed ghosts; below, devils, demons, and the damned. —Philadelphia Press, Learn to Think on Your Feet. It does not matter whether one wants to:be a public speaker or not, a person should have such complete gon- trol of himself, should be go self re- liant and self poised, that he can get up in any .audience, no matter how large or formidable. and express his thoughts clearly and distinctly. In all ages oratory has been regarded as the highest expression of human achieve mett. Young people, no matter what they intend to be, whether blacksmit®™ merchiint or physicias should mate it a study. Nothing else will eall ont what is in a man more quickly and more effectively than the constant oiiort to do his best in speak: , ing be. ore an audience. When one un-, dertakes ‘to think on one's feet and; speak exremporaneously before the public the power and the skill of the entire man are put to the severest test. Worrying Happiness. The bishop .of Manchester, his at a meeting at Church House, West- minster, said the secret of happiness was to have a sufficient multitude of worries. The man who had only ome worry, a blind that would not be pulled up g EF ih it ih i Ey i : ; L hi hi i i ii “The "Hie: Discovery. 3 She—Do you belleve in’ phvenatatid He—No. Asan experiment I once went there was nothing in it.—Exchange. Huager is sharper than the swesd.— Fletcher. | script, have proved to be very useful ia —— War Films. r War fms, says the Boston Trane modern warfare. periment at first, Used only as an ex- they have been of {. such practical value that the return of ! the cinematograph operator from his FE Ore SOONOP TIES PEEFELEER RES | aerial reconnoissance is always impa- tiently awaited at headquarters, The moving picture m®™ who volun- teers for this work undertakes a very difficult and daring feat. He must be uw master of his profession, have nerves | of steel and be willing to take great risks. More often than not he is obliged to fly at a low altitude, for otherwise i his pictures would be without value. . Many men who have gone out on those perilous expeditions have never re- turned. The war films show the experienced observer a great deal that is going om behind the enemy’s lines, The trenches are clearly visible. It is even possible | to discern the men digging trenches or placing big guns in position. The cine- matograph men have often brought back excellent pictures taken from wa- terplanes that show the movement of ships and the track of enemy peri- scopes. Changing All the Time. Often the change in the use or man- ner of use of some household item ' makes a widespread change in the sale of a lot of hardware items. For some years rugs have been taking the place of carpets. This means the sale , of fewer carpet tacks, tack hammers and carpet stretchers, but more carpet beaters. Again the introduction of vacuum cleaners cut down the sale of carpet beaters. So in like manner the present fash- ion of hanging pictures from moldings has about put picture nails out of busi- ness, but largely increased the sale of molding or picture hooks. In somewhat similar fashion not many foot scrapers are in use because concrete sidewalks are so universal Tbe growing use of food choppers has materially decreased the sales of wincing knives and wood bowls.—New York Times. Value of Skimmilk, The department of agriculture has | discovered that about . 17,000,000,000 gallons of skimmilk are annually wasted in this country. Every farmer knows that skimmilk will fatten hogs. That proves that i¢ has a nutritional value. The food value of milk is not entirely destroyed by the removal of the cream and but. ter fat. There is a lot of protein in the residue, and this protein is good for the human system. Some people cannot drink whole milk; it disagrees with them. These same people thrive. on milk from which the cream has been removed. The department of ag- riculture is right in calling attention to the fact that 17,000,000,000 gallons of excellent food have been overlooked in these days of high cost of living.— Cleveland Leader. The Hawalian Language. : The language of Hawaii is very sim- ple. To one who hears it for the first time comes the conviction that the ab- origines expressed their sentiments in primitive vowel sounds, to which some consonants have been added. Each. vowel is sounded as in Latin, and the. words are easily pronounced by one who is patient and wishes to speak distinctly. The pronunciation will be all the better if the speaker will draw out, almost’ drawl, the vowel sounds. for which peason the language is well suited to .the doleful Hawaiian wail, Say Hog-noo-luu-luu and let the word sing itself. Jam For Breakfast. Pedple who like to eat pastry or other irregular dishes for breakfast should be consoled to learn that no ‘| less @ man than Herbert Spencer ate. strawberry jam at his morning meal He did it to avoid monotony, believing that digestion was best served by keeping the stomach entertained with variety. He is said to have told of a man who went into a decline from g. too steady diet of mutton chops. Connarison. “Sometimes | think a street car ig better than an automobile.” remarked Mr. Chugging “Why? “When a street car goes wroir vou can blame the company. but with an automobile you've got to take all the responsibility | yourself.”— Washington Star. \ Grammar and Greed. Mrs, Peavish savs that if she could have another chance she would rathes marry 8 man who splits his infinitive thon one who hates to break a dime. Gatveston News. Fr rbhb bbb rr bb bed PRACTICAL HEALTH HINT. 4 Catarrh. _ Take a common pitcher or ang ,old- narrow vessel holding a quart SEP EEE PRBS LEED TA EER,