- - ' —— —— ■■ — i»mam Tribute to An Explorer] Honors Ifcdt Hill Be Paid to tho Elaborate For Cele- Discoverer of Lake Champlain on bralinj Famous So~.:. i s history, tiie iliree i.o.idredth Anniversary President Tat: and Seu-iJ D'S* of the historic Lvcnt. ->» tlnguished Men to Attend. I By JAMES A. LDCERTON. THE centenaries in this year of years are so thick it is hard to keep track of them. Not only 1 notable births and deaths are commemorated, but discoveries and even inventions. Now it is tho tercen tenary of the discovery of Lake Cham plain, and a little later it will be tho like anniversary ol' the discovery of the Hudson river, coupled with which will lie the centenary of Fulton's first steamboat and its memorable trip on the same river. The discovery of Lake Champlain oc curred on July -I prophetic day!—in the year 1600. The discoverer was Samuel de Champlain, a Frenchman who had founded the city of Quebec the previous year. These its are stat ii not in an effort t > com: te with the school historians, but only because they fuiuisli the reason for the cele bration. Lake Champlain Is rich not only in beautiful scenery—mountains >n both side-, rugged shores and ibrupt island* but in historical asso iations. As the •_ ate way t>i Canada It became a battleground of the French and r.uglish in faeir early struggles to control t > eor'nont and later between the A:.u -leans and the English in the Hevolutii and the wai of ISI2. The celebration is meat, to c n-er all of this. It is not a memo.'la! of the discovery alone, but of the great events that have occurred since the discov ery. It includes Fthan Allen and Ticon-: deroga, Benedi i. Arnold and his sunk- j en ships, Macdonougli and his inspirit- ! iug victory. It is to be a panorama of | three centuries. It carries the behold er from savagery to twentieth cen tury civilization, from the virgin wil derness to the parked estates and the V"V, '■ " >. .Vi ■ ' :: ''' "i A<m: : M, ..X I®:- m '% \ .» ' - - •- / \ ■ , j*. '' f'' - • i TJgf- • •* I ' 3LSCOVEKEK OF LA K K CHAM i'LAIN AND A MEW OF FOKX TICONDKHO* i AS HKSTOHED. grc: t summer lintels now .- .en on Chainplaiu'a shores, from the trail through the forest to the ruilroaii, from the Indian's bin !i ea:i)e to the ocean liner ami the aeroplane, three centuries In time ami thirty centuries in accomplishment—aye, more than thirty nturie- measured by the rat 1 of progress prior i > liiO!)! For one ! cannot get over the marvel of living in the present day. livery time 1 esplor history 1 feel like putting myself on the back for having hud the good sense to be born when I was. l'ossibly the citizen of the twenty-tirst century may feel the same way about it. but 1 cannot afford o borrow trouble from his prospective superiority Tliree Hundred Years Ago. When Champlain discovered the lake that 1 tears his name, Shakespeare—or was it Bacon?—was writing plays and Oliver Cromwell was a boy of ten paddling around in the fen country about Huntingdon, all of which leads us to wonder if we have the old times beaten so badly after all. Notwith standing our skyscrapers, twentieth century fliers. Mauritania* and air ships. vv a:v rather short Just now of Shukespeat. T and Crom .veils. It is like Tennyson's e: But the Individual withers, and the mass is more and mo:'' Certainly the mass is more in our day—more in intelliger.ee, in initiative, in ha pines sand in efficiency! As for the i:. ividual, perhaps his genius tind some tlier outlet than poetry and Pu ritan i*voit. seeking its vent ill sei nee. inven !on and sociology. We still have our 1. teekeU. T ilstoys and Edisons Cii. uplalu was not exactly looking for I. Ices when he discovered the one that has set his fame afloat down the ages. Uather he had agreed with some Algonquin Indians togo with them and shoot a few muzzle loading buck shot into the frames of their hated foes, the Iroquois The Iroquois had 3een visiting the Aigonquins with in glorious defeat for so long that the Canadian redskins hailed Champlain and his mysterious gun as agents sent by the Great Spirit to help his children get even with their enemies. And did they Improve the opportunity? We \ Preparing For a Siege. Wife —The last time I asked you to give me some money you said you couldn't because the cashier was sick, i Now you say it's the treasurer. Has-1 band I know it. He caught It from i the cashier, and now I'm afraid the secretary will got it.—Life. A Queer Attack. "Some people can stand on the top t of a high building and look down," 1 said Mrs. Lapsing, "but I can't. It al ways gives me an attack of verdigris." i —Chicago Tribune. you should read Chatnplaiu's narrative, i I'erlmps you have already perused it iu your school hist >ries. At any rate, j it Is a fearful and wonderful tale, and j were It for the fa t that Champlain dls covered that hike and that he stands j so high in other ways lie would lay , himself open to the charge of trying ito rival Munchausen. According to | his thrilling account, he loaded that J blunderbuss with a lot of bullets and j at the first shot killed—oh, I don't : know how many chiefs, but It was ; either three or four. The Iroquois were naturally stupe tied by this new kind of boom-lire weapon that slaughtered all their ! chiefs at one bang as much surprised, no doubt, as are those African animals 1 at tho shooting of Bwana Tumbo-and after one of Cliamplala's companions had also let elf Ills gun the noble red man ignobly turned tail and broke down the brush iu his mad stampede. It was a glorious victory for the Al- | gonqulns, but not for the Fren. h, as after events went to prove. The pow erful Iroquois i.evor forgot that day. and their hatred for the French en- | tin red forever. They became allies of the Fnglisli and assisted materially in keeping t:, Fiv i h from capturing what is now New York and portions of Now England and eventually aiut-d the British i;i their struggle with the j French for control <>f the continent. On that eventful trip champlain not j only discovered a lake for whi h he was not looking, but set in motion i causes that changed the current of ! history. The unconscious agents have I done more in writing the annals of tho human race than those who planned their own way carefully beforehand When Julius Caesar whipped "all Gaul that Is divided Into three parts" he | did not know that lie was carrying civi- ' ligation to a clime that would outdi - ' tance Ron e \nr did Christopher Co- j lumbus expe : to a new continent i when he bumped into one of the i- j lauds of the West Indies. The President to Attend. We can forgive Champlain for lU-- in adveru at aid t ■ ii. gli.-ii asct'tiden y in North Anuii -a and can even forgive I him for that story about killing so many chiefs at one shot. He discov ered our la'<e, and, even if he did not j do it Intentionally, his is the honor. 1 So we are to hold a week's celebration j iti his name and are to erect to him a ; heroic statue on the face of a great 1 lighthouse, which will be placed on isle Laraotte. where he first landed, i It would do ids old French soul good j to know just what a lot of fuss we ' are making about him nearly 30' i : years after lie i - dead. There will I be presidents governors, governor generals, prime ministers, cardinals, j bishops, poets, . rators and all kinds of , great men lifting his name to the skies. Greatest glory of all, the New York j legislature will attend in a body. If I Champ'*''a could only know that, lie | would certainly be overwhelmed by j his posthumous splendor. It is much \ for a mere mortal to have a president I of the United States and a governor general of Canada do honor to his j ashes, but to have the New York legis lature Journey in u body to his shrine— j sure!, that is the acme of fame! Who ever th' ught of that dazzling and tin- : paralleled feature should have lived in the •' «ef I'hlncas T. I'.arnum, t'.io only >ib!o of rating si'li gei'in a as It de-ervos. Nor ; the only honors that will be pa <! i the discoverer, although no other single feature can be quite so j transcendent and refulgent as that of the attendance of the Now York legis- 1 lature. At Piattslmrg, N. Y.. Senator , Sllhu Boot will be tho orator and l'rofessor Henry van Dyke tho poet of tho day, while across the lake at ! But lington. Vt., Sir Wilfrid l.auriev. j the premier of Canada, will deliver d, j oration ami Bliss Canaan, the Cana j dian poet, will give the poem There ' will also be a floating island, covered j Air3h!p Traveling Trunk. German ingenuity lias lost no time la devising special equipments for air 112 ship passengers. One offering Is an ox t tremely light airship traveling trunli j 112 made of aluminium, with cunnin. , leather attachments for fastening t" : t the airship <'<ir. The "malle aero," ti> ( give it Its international name, has no ! comportment for the large, fashionable feminine hit .vet, but it contains, ainotother things, a small medicine j chest illleil with medicaments that ! may b" uvio'ui I T a sojourn in high! altitudes. 1 with rocks and trees hi the most real- j Istie fashion, on which the Indian tight will take place, Champlain partlclpat- j Ing, even killing his four chiefs at one ' shot. These Indians are to be de- j scondauts of the very ones that sailed j on the original expedition. The Indian j version of "Hiawatha" is also to be re- j enacted. The island is to be towed about from place to place during tho . progress of the fete. Benedict Ar nold's old ship Revenge has been j raised out of the water where it has been resting since he sunk it after the 1 tight with tho British and will be 1 added t > the pageant. Fort. Tleonder oga, which Ethan Allen took "in the name of the (Jrojit Jehovah and the Continental congress," is to be re stored. at least partially ■'and will fig ure iu the celebration. Maedonough's victory over the British In ISI4 will play its part, and on Isle Lam >tto the cornerstone of the lighthouse al ready mentioned will laid. The Week's Program. Tho celebration is the result of the ; joint "actions of the states of New York and Vermont, and its official pro gram will bo something as follows: Tho fete commences at Burlington, Vt., on the 4th with special religious observance. Champlain was a devout adherent of the Catholic faith. In view of tills, the religious services will j be under the supervision of that church. Cardinal Gibbons and a large body of tho clergy. Including n delega tion from the Canadian hierarchy, will participate in the elaborate < bsorv ances. The holiday proper will begin at Crown Point Monday, July Ilcre are tlie ruins of a fort which figures in the history of tho French and Indian wars and the Revolutionary war. At this point there will' lie literary exer cises. and tho pageant will be present ed in tho afternoon and again at night During the week there w ill be present ed at these various points twenty-four pageants, or tableaux, nine represent ing the history of the Iroquois confed eracy down to the arrival of the Dutch iu this section of the country and fif teen illustrating the religious ceremo nies and social customs of the Iroquois a lid Al.onquins in war and peace. The most Interesting of the subjects to be depicted are perhaps the two chief in i idents in the progress of the explorer —namely, his discovery of the lake which bears Ids name and the battle between th • Huron-Algonquin allies , and the fighting Iroquois, In which ho had a hand. The Indian pageant of the Indian drama, written specially for the event, will be repeated on the floating island at Ticonderoga, the island being tow cd from Crown Feint to "Old Ti." about twenty miles couth. Here the Fells, multimillionaires of New York, are r constructing from ancient cuts and documents the famous fort that was tho scone of bravo old Ethan Al ien's memorable coup in 177.Y The governor of New York and the Now York legislature and the governor of Vermont will be present at this event. Plattsbuig and Burlington. Wednesday, July 7. is I'latt.-burg's day. Near that city Benedict Arnold fought and lost the fast naval action of the American Itovolution. His fla ■ ship, lis' Keyal Savage, has been lying where she sank In that tight for 13U years. "What remains of the old tighter I- in a fair state of preservation. It Is ti part of the program to raise tho hulk •ind rig It'ii ' o as to give it a place i: the show T! :• large Uovoaao, of " ti i t. i. . "t: rai ed and w ill bo i.the pageant. It v.\ at Flatt-burg that Met'onll) on in''' and M tod n ough on water won Ir vi tory Scjit. 11. 1 SI4. which can d 1 "n the than!.- of eotigr.i -sand the ■ e'il n edal of tho nation. I'resident I'. , : d his party and the French anib ■ < r aad Sir Wilfrid Laurier w ill lei lined at a hotel on the 7th. A bam -t. water -ports, fireworks and ilint-.i its will occur iu conjunction villi other events of the ix-ca.-ion. Tho ! eanf. with tilt <1" Its in iden tal attractions, will be repealed at Burlington, \ t.. on Thursday July S. \ . : oilt's old home v. t k will bo <!• served at the same time. Friday. July 0. the <• i i raii :i wl'l be continued at Isle La- uitte. i: air tic head of the lake. This p! i o is where Champlain first encamped eld th pageant nt this point, t will bo patriotic exercises coins d by tho Daughters of tho Amen. . Uevolu:i<>n and Colonial Dames. " h -e < xei isos will ' elude the ileili i n • i' a i >wl dor to me: lory • :' tlio IJovolutlon ary heroes cilotiel S'. t'i Waruer and Captain Itcineniher I: • L -r. Warner was second in command under Allen in the taking ■ 112 TI ndoriga, and in the day folio. v ing ho took* rown Feint lie was als t with Montgomery i:i Can ada. Bal ir was a scout and was killed while doing duty. St. Albans and other towns in the Champ' In v lley will also <.l>serve the j occasion. Tho lake has water eonuec tton wi 1:' ie Hudson, and two torp- ii boats are to be sent through the con nection to take part iu the events, and the war d -parimen t will exhibit Its dirigible : >i's at Burlington. Artillery Aoainst Air Craft. "The bail, ins and airships have made It lie, os>ary 112 ir artillerymen to work out i< new set of mathematical tables 112 >r i ring at air craft," write; Newton 1" tost in Harper's Weekly. In the de?cji«o : sail, t aerial attach the firing of tho gun must iv essarll.v be of the high eagle kind, and tho I wenp >n must be < npabte of rapid i tralui'ig in a v.: , Such a weapon has been desigr 1 :.ud manufactured by the Krupp v. i;s at Essen, says the author, and has been placed at the dls posal of the German war office. Tho fleldpiece is of o-_. caliber and fires a nine pound shell with a velocity of l 2,000 feet per second, and there Is r.'rn i a weapon designed for fortifications or shipboard. Shaving, When asked whether Napoleon sha\ fd himself Talleyrand replied: "Yes One born to be a kin • lias some one to ' shave him, but they who acquire king doms shave themselves." Dlonyslus. the tyrant of Syraeti- in>t daring to commit himself to a barber's hands, is said lo have singed his own beard Willi glowing walnut shells. rieasure once taste I satisfies lo - than the d' lire experienced for Iv t :• meats. A STORY WITH TEETH 1 Introducing a Mysterious Woman With a Strange Mission. > ! _______ I By M. QUAD. [Copyright, IJO9. by Associated Literary l'ress.J The village of Brinkly was and is i today a place of about 1,200 Inhabit l ants, and tho country is thickly set tled with fanners for seven miles around before coming to another vil lage, Imt only one dentist has ever made it pay there since the place was > founded. He didn't stay but a couple of months, but be carried away a roll of money as large as a log. It wouldn't be polite to say that the villager and the farmer do not give proper attention to their teeth, but j they are never in a great hurry about j it. They hate to part with the old roots and snags and keep putting off the evil day when they have got to get into the executioner's chair. It might have been said of Brinkly and the surrounding country that not an adult had ajj.'od set of teeth and that ! up to a certain <1 ly n < one was giving dentistry any serious thought. Then on a Mi i.day morning a change to< k place. A travi ing dentist who had Ills oflire in a van drove into town ' and opened shop For two days no one vent near ir:n, although he hung out a sign of the most painless kind of painful dentistry. Then a strange woman arrived. She was dark complcxloued, dressed like a gypsy ai d passed for one. She was a mysterious woman on a mysterious errand. She had come to that localltj to search for a great buried treasure She couldn't search for it by her lore some, ns the spirits guarding it bad put a ban on her. but the gold wast.. be found t!:r u.h some one e! e. Th t some one else must have a tooth draw:? to propitiate the spirits. Then lie would be li d to the treasure and wouh whack up with her. The hours fur finding the treasure were between mid night and o'clock in the and the searcher must on no en-id i era Hon say a word to any one nl.ou: what he was after. If not finding t ■ THF.IIB WElil'. A TICI.Ii ANI> A lit' :! treasure the first night In? mti-t have ase ond tooth pulled He iiav ■ to lose three, but that w uld be the t nd. i Had the woman gone about among the woint :i telling this yarn she wm ! ! . have been laughed < ut of their house* She did i'. lotiy the contrary She i ten lowed the men. Her very firs' victim was known as the hardest h ad ed old chap ft r fifteen miles around was 8 mtingy and mean that wbe i he had the mumps he refused to let any of his neighbors catch them free ef cost. 11 bit at once. If there wa any hurled treasure around ther- h • wanted his half if It. Indeed, be wanted it ail if he could get It II • had b<-ird I;bout the traveling dentist, and within two hours of Ids talk vit'i , the woman he was at the van. It was r.O cents a pull, and the dentist sc i lected a front tooth that might ha v continued business for several yeir~ long. r. Tfie j ulllng hurt like blazes, but as the man carried the molar away in his pocket he felt that the treasure was his. On a Sunday night, which was a week ahead, he was to stand n!oti£sid"_o!' an elni_.tree nnj. watch i for the flash of a firefly. Two feet under ground beneath the flash tho box of gold would be found. The next day the dentist pulled teeth for no less than live different men Some of them met each other nt 111 • van and made all sorts of excuses 112 ir being there I»caeon Spool er said he had been thinking of parting with u tooth' for the last lifteen years, a-n Elder T mpkii - s: id that he had a loos • tooth that had prevented him from eating boiled dinners ever since lie been me a widower Each had a slight suspl : .m of the other, but trie.! to act care! --My and gave no informa j tlon. The dentist numbered farmer as well as villa ers among the caiiers and when Saturday night came h • could figure that he had performed > forty-eight men. On Sunday night be tween the hours named those forty eight men were looking for elm !'• . •• and fireflies. The village was pr-'i'. well shaded by elms, but there -> • T not enough togo round. In somt in stances two men found themselves un der the same elm. Then they lied tt each other like troopers fs they watched for fireflies. The firefly Is seen only on a certain night, when the weather has some quality about it 1 that calls them out. and this was one ' of the months when they are never ' seen nt all. None of the searchers took . ! this into consideration, but waited and ' watched and grew nervous as they j , thought of the treasure. Before 10 o'clock Monday forenoon j | the dentist had men waiting while ! others were being served. There were i | some among them that had come to ! i lose their first tooth and others to lose I i their second The fellow was a light- ' nlng puller, but there wore two or i three patients left over when darkness | fell and he closed his van. The new 1 ones on this day had by the ; woman to stand under tieffch trees, i There was just as big a crowd on > Tuesday, and it was not fairly dis | posed of until Thursday. Of course it i had got noised around the village that ] there was something up, but not a j j man peached. There was something I i more than suspicion* among them j now, and the only way was to lie to j each other. They did He. Men who had always scorned the slightest eva sion now came out and lied as easily as If they had always made it a busi ness. They lied to each other and to their wives, and some of them had three teeth drawn all at once, so as j to have the-bulge on the one and two . tooth fellows. Half a mile west of the village was a beech grove. Outside of that there ; wasn't a beech tree within two miles. | On Sunday night more than 100 men were In that grove before the clocks j were through striking midnight. They 1 rubbed elbows and they crowded each j other. Some pretended that they were ! walking in their sleep and others that i they were looking for stray iiogs or ; cows. When an hour had gone by some one saw or thought he saw a llsht moving about beyond the creek that skirled one side of the grove. There were a yell and n rush. As men ran they punched and kicked each other. They even jumped upon each other's back. Fifty men fell into tho , ! creek and fifty more on top of them. It was a gra; d battle royal, from which no one e- 'aped scnthless. Next day some of (he crowd wanted to consult the woman and get closer particulars; but, though tliev drove all over the' country, she was not to be found. And then arose another complication. Fifty nt' 'i. disregarding Sunday nights and elm and beech trees, began a day time hunt for the treasure. They even went so far as to spade up each oth er's garden It was three days before the sear h ended and tlie excitement died away, and then the bamboozled began to think of their teeth, though, strangely enough, they did not connect tho gypsy woman with tho loss of them. The dentist was ready. He could replace teeth as well as displace them. He sent for an assistant and had all th • work he could do for two months, ami his prices were just dou ble those charged In the city. He didn't Ket quite all he had operated on before, but it is still contended in Brinkly that, he went to Europe, bought nil i d castle and is still revel ing in 1 1- v rand luxury. Now and then in the tiretly s as >-. i a man goes out at id- 'ht and leans against an elm or ls-iv-h tree, but if guided to any certain spit the most he finds by digging is a . ..id oys!,T«can or the skull of a dead and 112 ile horse. THE MUSTACHE. Ridiculed In England V/hen It First Crnie Into Fashion. The custom of wearing mustaches did not prevail in France until tlie reign of Louis Philippe, when it be came obligatory in the whole French array. In England the mustache was worn by hussars after tho peace of 1815, and i: was not until the close of the C'rln can war that English civil ians as well as English soldiers in gen eral wore hair on the lip. Shortly after the mustache came in to favor among gentlemen Horace Maybew was passing through an Eng lish country town and was immediate ly noted and followed by a small army J of children, who pointed to his Hp and | "He's go* whisk r< under his -n nit! i He's got whiskers und r Ills snout!" | For a long time the mustache was the subject of raillery, even after it was becoming common, and the fa mous caricaturist Leech printed in Punch a picture of two old fashioned women wh. when they were spoken to by bearded railway guards, fell on i their knees and cried out: j "Take all that we hive, gentlemen, but spare our lives!"— Westminster Gazette. The Intelligent Censor. Son • years ago a young man of s*. ; Petersburg. Ivan Fedowski. quarreled with his sweetheart and then took his grief out of the country. Abdnt a year after he wrote to the girl asking her to "make up" and telling her If she for gave him to insert a "personal" to that effect In a S:. Petersburg pap r nor I later than a certain date. The girl was I repentant, too. and she promptly got | the "personal" ready, and all would j hove been well had It not been for the j lynx eyed censor, who believed It to be some sort of nihilist message and re j fused to allow its publication. After ' awhile, however, the stern official was I convinced that the "personal" was harmless, and it was printed four days late. It was a little while after when The girl received word that her lover, having failed to see tho message In print on the day he had set, had shot himself two davs before It saw the Ugh l :. Greatness Net Free From Shame. The transcendent power and fame with which great genius has at differ - ent periods endowed various men do j not always insure them from after i misery and shame. This was striklng ; ly exemplified in the cases of the four i greatest of military conquerors—Alex ! nnder, Hannibal, Caesar aud Napoleon The general judgment < 112 mankind ha« conceded them the first place in the lines of action for which they were ; severally distinguished. Vet they all j met with melancholy deaths. Two of i them suffered for years the keenest | humiliations which a total destruction ! of their hopes could bring. Two per ! ished at tho zenith of their power, just | as they might have expected a long 1 enjoyment of the fruits of their tre mendous achievements.—Exchange. Tho Greatest Wealth. Is there any compensation in money for a starved, stunted, dwarfed mind? ; Can lands and houses, stocks und j bonds, pay a man for living a narrow, j rutty, sordid life? How much money would match the wealth of a trained | mind, of unfolded possibilities? is the ; capacity for the appreciation of the j meaning of life, of the lessons of clvi- I lization, worth no more than one's ! bread and butter and roof? Can any I one conceive of greater possessions | than an intellect well trained and dis j ciplined, than a broad, deep, full orbed j mind responsive to all beauty, all I good?— Orison gwett Marden in Sue- j cess Magazine. BIGGESTGERMANSHiP ! Georga Washington a Falatial i Vessel With Mar.y Innovations. THU THIRD LARGEST AFLOAT. j New North German Lloyd Liner Ha 3 Thirty-one Cabins With Baths At 1 tached—Style of Decoration Simple. but Elegant—Several Safety Device; Installed. 1 The new North G trman I.loyd liner . Georg'* Washington, which t' 'ntlyar -1 rived at New Vork on her maiden vny- | | ag« from Bremen, in addition to being I j the largest Gorman ship and the third : | largest vessel afloat, is different in i j every way in her Interior decorations \ j from any liner that lias ever been in j j New York. The roomiue.ss of the j | cabins and saloons harmonizes with ; j the colonial style of the decorations. ! i The dining saloon, which lias a seat- 1 i Ing capacity of 330 persons, is dee -1 orated In white and gold. with red morocco chairs and a gilded dome, i while the sides are adorned with floral I designs on i blue background. Each i table has In■>•:» arranged to scat from two t i six persons, and the < hairs are l roomy and movable. On either side of i the s i! ion there are a number of white j painted colonial pillars that give it more the appearance of a southern 1 hotel dining room rather than that of j a saloon of an Atantic liner. A cold I buffet at one end Is another of the numerous innovations on board. One of the most attractive parts of . the first cabin accommodation is the smoking room, which is divided in two sections, upper and lower, which are connected by a broad staircase. A full ' length oil painting of George Washlng -1 ton occupies the colter of the upper I smoking room, which leads out to the : open cafe on the awning deck. This ; cafe is equipped with small tables and 1 , chairs for passengers to' take their ! after dinner coffee. The gymnasium is nn the same deck, forward on the sun deck Is the solarium, a luxurious lounge seventy feet long by fifty feet wide, decorated with green and gold ' | tapestry and palms and flowers of all I kinds, which have a cool and refresh -1 lug effect to the eye. ' Perfect in Its beauty, the great read ing r oni repr - tit-s ton nicety the ' thoughtful creation of l'rofessor I'ruuo Paul. It i- located on the utter prom -1 enade de<!c. which I- entirely given ' over t ) the piddle assembly rooms ex : cept for a few cabins of the first class ' i There uli;ig room is in subdued tones, ■ without external ornamentation, (riv ing an air < 112 distinguished rest fuluess. I'.y r.-1-• ■ i . 112 i:s simplicity the idea of spaelou no- is mu h enhanced. An i Ingenious arrangement of the furnl tur. adds to the architectural effect. ! The bookcases are let into the wails between the permanently Used wrlt -1 ing tables, utilizing every nook and ; corner to the best advantage. For those who wish the very a :ae : of luxury while traveling are two iin j perlal suites, as they are technically known. These consist of drawing ! room, breakfast and dining room, be.!- j room titled with brass beds and bath, j together with nil toilet accessories j There are thirty-one cabins with ! baths attached, and all the saloons and dc 1. <• ■ ! I'.s have been lilted with lav: • windows The loftiness of the line;- . betw en deckv and tln* large tri fat-sin nil the .-alootis combine i > I; ■ the ship well ventilated. Nearly all " the tirst < l •• - are so high nb ••.••• the v.-.iter line ti at the windows miiy be left open eve. in tie- rough -s' weather. insuring an abundance : f:v-h :.l: aial I hi. The ves- •! is divided into thirteen water tight compart meets, a:.; tw-< stairways arc pr--vid« 1 t r every cn:-i --pariinent ' -low the a loon del.. : that all v ati r tight doors , m 'cm during a 112 . without cutting off cos muni. at ion with the n: her i arcs .•' t'e • ship. The second at (i tlll:d chus and steer a-re tic dati-e-. . a the Ge< :v • ■ '. the -• eomfor a'• ■: • >r as t! -• firs; cnM: a . rdi' g t.» t ■: - 'peetlv ■ t the 1 re:; . tl. .: tli • -'; oUt till' '. will feel tin- i-e i;i a t"g iff the banks i < ' Ncwi nndlanil -r til i i : 1 • t.tan I elew in the crow's nest by the foretop. I The George Washington was bi; :; ' the yards of the Stettin.»r Vulcan com , pany in Bremen. Her dimensions ar- I.engt'a 722 feet •" inches, be :;n 7 ; 112 ■ depth from owning dec!; si feet. -;>eed 18.3 knots, displacement at thtri; -tbn | feet draft 37,000 tons, gross rcgl<: -red tonnage 27,000, horsepower 20,000 and cargo capacity 13,000 tons. The liner has seven decks and i i equipped with Marconi wireless appa j ratus, submarine signaling, Stone-Lloyd | for closing the water tight bulkhead doors. This device enables the doors to be closed by the simple turning of a wheel on Ihe bridge deck. These doors | may be closed and the ship practically ' hermetically sealed within fifteen sec onds. Another safeguard i< a bell sy>- i tein for tire extinguishing purposes. Some of the innovations of the George Washington are the clitnl . tion in the cabins of the first class 1' upper berths, children's pi t. room, tv | electrically worked elevators for p.;s sengcrs, complete electrical equipment, very wide berths, hot and cold ft li | and salt water, running water in j rooms, dark room for the use rf ania I i tour photographers, and on the boat 1 deck are twenty specially constructed | I dog kennels, in charge of a competent | ; kennel master, where the pets of pas | sengcrs may be placed ilurinu the trip] i anil receive the best of care. Britain's Greatest Precipice. Writing to the Newcastle Journal in | regard to the drowning of three bird i catchers at St. Kllda, a correspondent! says the wild fowls of St. Kilda find j nesting places that enable them to bid | defiance to the sportsman and to the 1 most daring of bird catchers. There j is, for example, the precipice called | Conagher, the same being far and away the greatest precipice in the British Isles, the deepest perpendlcu-; lar precipice. It rises from the sea i level to a clear height of 1,220 feet, j Consider that a man might jump from j ! the top of Conngher into the sea with- ! out getting a scratch by the way. FIRE FIGHTERS' 1. Timber Crui?ers Plan Wireless Telegraph System. STEP TO SAVE THE FGBESTS. Signal Method Expected to Make Standing Timber Last For Centuries. Proposed to Teach Forest Rangers Wireless Cede to Quickly Locate Fire and Summon Help Wireless telegraphy as a means of giving alarm in the event of fire is the ' plan advocated by timber cruisers In Spokane. Wash., to protect the forests In Washington, Idaho, Montana, Ne j vada, California and Hriiish Columbia, which contain approximately 700,000,- i 000 acres of standing timber. Experl j enced cruisers in Spokane believe this : Is the solution of a problem of sclen ! title tire fighting, which costs lumber I companies and the United States for est service hundreds of thousands of dollars every year, in addition to tlie enormous expense Involved in con structing and maintaining telephone and telegraph lines by the government. The plan outlined by It. 11. Arm strong, an expert operator. is to estab lish a system of wireless signal boxes and teach the forest rangers the code, so that at the first alarm they enn lo cate the tire and summon assistance before the tlames gain much headway. This would eliminate the danger of cutting off communication bv fires de stroying the pol< sand trees falling across wires. I'robablj the most Im portant thing is the saving of life, livery year since Wo :l ii average of fifty persons have been burned to death in the United States in forest fires, making a total of nearly 'J.fiOO lives sacrificed to thimes which might have been prevented. Armstrong maintains thai the chief reason for the big conflagrations is , after a small fire is discovered a long time elapses before the alarm can be ' sounded and aid summoned to fight the flames. Many of the large lumber concerns of the l'acillc northwest have considered using telephone lines for connecting camps of forest ranger*, but this was given up for the reason that the tires would burn the poles or the wind would blow them down so often that they would bo useless most of the time. Then, too. it was found that in many timber trae.s the coun try is so rugged and the standing tlm ' her so heavy it would be almost Im ' possil le to stretch a telephone line. However, the forest service has built hundreds of miles of telephone lines i and cut trails through the big govern ment forests iu Idaho. Washington. Montana and other western states where it als • maintains patrols These were found of gi >d lis" during tho tires In liioT and 1008, but large areas were burned • vcr as the result of the tires gni 1. . ;. t > I mlwav before j they i tild be I.;' cd ! . e riders. [ One thuti ml : re.;' vir.ri i timber In we 'era Wit; biugton were destroyed i last jvir. when the - ,c > v. is a ootii parativeiy light one for tire losses, and j the losses in eastern (<ivgon, northern i Idaho, western Montana, northeastern Washington. California and southeast ern British Columbia were also heavy. This enormous loss,of property and sometimes the tires of homesteaders can be prevented to a large extent. It is believed, by the employment of the wlrelc-s tc'c.rapli for reporting fires as son as they start and calling for assistance from til! sides There are more than 350,000,000 acres of standing timber in Washing ton, Idah >. Oregon. California, Nevada and SP alalia and about 100.0' M.OOO acres in British Columbia Of the timber lands in the six western states about 140,0 :O.(>X) acres are owned by pri\ ite corporations and Individuals, who maintain expensive organizations to protect them. The problem of forest protect i >:i is one of vital interest to the western ■ lumbermen, as well as those who are onl\ indirectly connected wi:li the ln j dustry. The chief payroll of the I'a ' cific aiid northwestern stales ' omes ! from lumbering, as is evidenced by the 1 fact that $73,000,000 is paid in v.ages i annually in the mills, yards and camps in Washington, whl h give employ , mit t-> fr i i 170.0t.i0 i i isjo.i«it) men, whi. • ti 1 lnuiber concerns in Oregon, Idaho, Montana and California pay as i much mor ■. Experienced lumbermen say that 1 more timber is destroyed annually by 1 tires than is cut and add if some ade . quite protection could be devised the , standing limber in the northwest | would last for centuries. Most of the big tracts are situated far from the centers > 112 population, and commuuloirtion between these distant points, except along railroads, ancot be had quickly, owing to, the rugged noss of the country. Many forest own ers believe the subtsiiution of the wireless telegraph will be the means of averting at least part of tbi heavy I losses that follow in the flames started through carelessness and neglect every I summer. warn BV I A R-ollassilo |TIN SHOP Tor all kind of Tin Roofing* Spoutlne md C«n«ral Job Work. Stovoo. Heaters, flancM t Furnaces. «to. PRICKS THE LOWEST! WHIT* TDK BUST' JOHN HlXSOrt NO. llf E, FRONT iff. .
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