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THE JOURNAL
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
CO<'H n ''J 0.4.
But baseball Is such a stii-ia on tbe
voice!
Thunder and lightning! Seems
rather tamiliar.
“Swat the fly.” Yes, swat it way
out into the outfield.
About the only croaking one hears
these days is done by the frogs.
Many persons do not like the cab
aret, preferring to know what they
eat.
St. Louis boy swallowed a whole
crawfish. Fortunately, it wasn't an
eel.
Tombstone cutters are on strike —
an added argument for the lower cost'
of decease.
About this time, the preliminary
step is taken in the formation of
June brides.
Only two per cent, of musicians are
bald, but it is too late for many men i
to join a band.
As soon as all women wear fend
ers on their hatpins the men can quit
carrying nippers.
The farmer ought to be a happy
man about these times. Everybody
wants to help him.
Our opinion is that the world will
survive despite Incomprehensible pic
tures and slit skirts.
However, the kind of umbrella that
you cannot lose is not much good for
keeping out the rain.
One trouble with simplified spell
ing is that the authorities still fool
ishly insist upon regular rules.
Experts tell us how to achieve a
ripe old age. when what one w-ants Is
to retain one's verdant, youth.
While adopting those dinky little
hats the dear women cling obstinate
ly to the old long range hatpins.
There is n peculiar fascination In
the accoutrements of angling now dis
played in certain shop windows.
Some persons do not like the pleas
ant chorus of the frogs, but some per
sons have no music in their souls.
A German hanking house lias failed
and its chiefs have fled. The exam
iner over there lias a fierce mustache.
A German banker named Puppe
lias fil'd, leaving debts of $7,G00,000.
Sort of going to the dogs, so to
speak.
For the cure of cancer $2,500
worth of radium was applied. At this
rate few people will be able to afford
to have one.
,1 ————
Have you heard the wall of those
who are humiliated because the lux
ury of paying an income tax is de
nied them?
Is the wearing of a green hat with
a neat little bow in the rear an indi
cation that the wearer possesses
temperament?
A Boston chiropodist lias been ar
rested for bigamy. Possibly he has
been throwing himself at the feet of
too many women.
Then there is that morbid form of
self-conceit that leads a man to con
sider himself a hoodoo because the
home team always loses when he at
tends a ball game.
Climbing 200 steps after breakfast
took superfluous weight from a wom
an. It probably would have the same
effect upon a horse.
The fact that some women can be
induced to resent bitterly the charge
of being too well dressed shows that
feminism is marching. ■
And after it has taken us all these
long years to learn to spell, why in
flict misery through being compelled
to learn all over again?
Baseball becomes more scientific
every year. Expert fans now have
telephone calls arranged in advance
to summon them from their work.
Only one child was born to every
thirty families in Paris last year,
which city would not be a desirable
place for a baby carriage factory.
That Seattle judge who made a
prospective bride and bridegroom
listen while he tided a divorce case
certainly doesn't cater to the marry
ing trade.
Influences of the season are shown
to be affecting our courts, one head
line chronicling the fact that a "juror
was taken out of the box.”
A man's throat was cut in a bar
bershop when a bomb exploded. He
complained bitterly because he was
not having his shoes shined.
On the latest and greatest steam
ship just launched there are lifeboats
for 5,250 persons. Still, the proper
thing for a ship to do with lifeboats
It, not to need them.
CROSSING NFADNAN CANYON
ONE of the largest, and in j
many respects the most won
derful, waterworks system in i
the world will be completed \
and placed in operation in the
course of this month by the City of
Los Angeles, Cal. The Aqueduct,
with its system of five storage reser
voirs, is 225 miles in length, and is
designed to carry a daily supply of
258,000,000 gallons from the Sierra
Nevada mountains southward across
the great Mojave desert, under the
Sierra Madre range and into the San
Fernando valley, twenty-five miles
northwest of the city. From here the
water needed for domestic consump
tion will be carried in a six-foot steel
pipe into the city's present distribu
tion mains. The system comprises the
longest aqueduct in the world.
The project was inaugurated in
1905, and since 1908 an army of 5,000
men have been steadily employed
night and day in its construction. On
the desolate and sun-scorched desert
the summer temperatures have
ranged as high as 120 degrees F. In
fact, one of the great problems has
been to provide the men and animals
with food and water and proper ac
commodations to withstand'the clima
tic conditions.
Of Various Forms.
Tiie Los Angeles Aqueduct, as It Is
called, is of various forms and de
signs. The first twenty-two miles is
unlined open canal, the following
thirty-eight miles is an open ditch, and
the remainder is in covered concrete
couduit, tunnels, and concrete and
riveted steel siphons, the latter being
used to carry the water across deep
canyons, or valleys. More than fifty
three miles of the aqueduct Is com
posed of tunnels driven through solid
granite, the longest being the Eliza
beth tunnel, under the Sierra Madre
mountains, with a length of five miles.
The system of four storage reservoirs
provides for the impounding of fifty
billion gallons, which, at the rate of
the city’s present daily consumption,
would be sufficient to supply the muni
cipality for three years.
Much of the work has been done
from five to thirty-five miles from any
railroad. Preliminary to the construc
tion of the aqueduct it was neces
sary to build 390 miles of roads and
trails, four water systems with 190
miles of mains, three hydro-electric
power plants, a telephone system 350
miles long, a standard gauge steam
railroad 120 miles into the Mojave
desert, and a cement mill costing
$875,000. With the exception of one
small contract for nine miles of con
duits and tunnels, the entire work
has been done by the city.
The system is a gravity one through
out, the intake being at an elevation
of 3,812 feet above sea-level, and the
elevation of Los Angeles being on an
average ouly 276 feet. The cost of
the work has been $20,000,000, exclu
sive of any power development. By
impounding the ’Bow of the aqueduct
at its outlet during Lhe rainy season
it will be possible to deliver more
than 300,000,000 gallons daily during
the dry season—April 15 to October 15
—in which no rain falls. This is
much more than sufficient to meet the
daily requirements of the t'itv of
Ijondon. As the City of Los Angeles
has a present population of only 400,-
000. and requires but 50,000.000 gallons
daily, the surplus aqueduct flow for a
long period of years will be devoted
to the irrigation of 135,000 acres of
orange and lemon lands adjacent to
the city.
Chief Features.
One of the chief features of the
enterprise is in the generation of
hydro-electric energy. There is a fall
of 1,500 feet In the aqueduct forty
seven miles from the city, with the
possibility of developing 120,000.000
horse-power. Of this amount, 37,500
horse power are now being developed
at a cost of $3,360,000. The power
houses will be ready for operation
within several months after the aque
duct is placed in operation, and their
output will be devoted to lighting the
city's streets and boulevards. The
designer and constructor of this great
work, which in point of magnitude
ranks as the third largest hydraulic
work under way in the western hemis
phere, is the City’s Water Engineer,
Mr. William Hulholland.
The accompanying picture gives a
good Idea of the formidable nature
of the enterprise, and the immense
scale on which the work has been car
ried cut. It shows how the huge
pipe has been carried down one side
of the arid Jawbone canyon, across the
bottom of the valley and high up on
tiie opposite side to the point where it
dives below the surface of the soil,
and is continued underground.
The Jawbone siphon alone is 8,000
feet in length—or over one and a half
miles—measures from seven feet six
inches to ten feet in diameter, and
has a total weight of 3,300 tons. The
picture is taken looking north, from
the south rim of the canyon and 800
feet above the valley floor, and be
tween the bottom of the canyon and
the point on its side where the pipe
plunges underground the difference in
level is 850 feet. At the lowest point
the water pressure is enormous—3so
pounds to the square inch, which is
equivalent to twenty-four atmospheres
—and to resist this internal pressure
on the pipe the steel here is one and
one-quarter inches in thickness, the
rivets used in fastening the sections
together beiug seven inches long.
MANY CLIMATES IN ALASKA
But There Is One Island Where Cold
Weather Is Absolutely Un
known.
"There isn't a section of the United
States, I venture to say, where at some
time frost has not been known,” re
marked Hugh C. Todd of Seattle,
chairman of the Democratic state
committee of Washington, at the Wil
lard, according to the Washington
I'ost. "But in Alaska, which is looked
upon as the coldest country on earth,
bar Greenland and the arctic region,
there is an island where frost has
never been heard of. This is Middle
ton island, one of the Aleutian group
of islands close to the Japan current.
There the temperature is always mild.
Twenty miles away on the other side
of the islands, it is nearly always
freezing—in fact, is a country of such
varied climate that almost anything
can be produced. It is possible to
grow strawberries, blackberries and
other early summer fruit for the win
ter market, in the Susitna valley,
which is the valley that distributes
the waters of the southern slope of
the coast range, the weather, i ven
ture, is now warmer and finer than
in any part of the United States. That
is brought about, of course, by the
Japan current.”
Mr. Todd is the youngest chairman
in the country, it is said. He was a
candidate for governor of Washing
ton in the primaries and was defeated
by Governor Listen by only 300 votes.
Then he turned in and managed' Gov
ernor Lister's campaign and won a
victory.
"Washington state is a common
wealth that is just as widely diversi
fied in her politics as her resources."
said Mr. Todd. “We can produce near
ly everything, and we raise all kinds
of politicians. In the recent election
every party, including the woman suf
fragists, Prohibitionists and Socialists,
got some office.”
Have to Watch Crops.
Unwelcome visits of predatory
bands during the harvest season in
China have led to professional "crop
watchers” being hired to guard
against the larcenists eager to ply
their trade in orchard or field, in
some districts societies exist whose
business it is to furnish watchers
whenever required Almost every
field has its watch tower, and these
frail tenements are never deserted,
night or day, until the crop is gath
ered. Towers are necessary, as giant
millet grows to a height of ten feet,
usually, and often reaches fifteen feet.
Armed with sharp knives, the thieves
enter the fields and cut off the large
millet heads.
Law Aimed at Careless Autoists.
Following the example of other for
eign cities, Paris has seen the light
and henceforth the use of muffler cut
outs on automobiles in that city will
bring retribution in the form of the
law. Their use has been made a
misdemeanor punishable by fine or
imprisonment.
ALMOST LOST
HERREASON
But Thanks To An Old Friend,
This Terrible Catastrophe
Was Avoided.
Tampa, Fla. —Mrs. E. C. Coram cf
No. 2905 Highland Ave. says: "I was
very ’weak and worn out from woman- j
ly troubles. My husband bought me
two bottles of Cardui to take as a
tonic, and from the first day it seemed
to me i felt its good effects.
By the time I had used the two bot- i
ties, I felt and looked like a new
woman.
Some time later I got my feet wet
at the wrong time, and I turned to
Cardui to remedy the mischief done.
Before I had taken one bottle it
gave me the needed relief.
Again, in later life, when passing
over a critical time, I almost lost my
reason, but thanks to three or four
bottles of Cardui, I did not. That has
been 15 years ago. I am now 59 years
of age. and feeling fine.
F constantly praise Cardui to all my
sick friends.
It. is a wonderful remedy.”
This earnest letter should take from
your mind any doubt you might have
as to the merits of Cardui, the wom
an's tonic. Mrs. Coram is certainly
competent to recommend Cardui,
since it helped her over three critical
stages of life.
Don’t neglect your troubles longer.
Get a bottle of Cardui today.
N. B.—t l'rite t.i: Chattanooga Medicine Co.,
Ladies’Advisory Dept., Chattanooga. Tenn . foi
Sttcial Instructions on your case and 64-page book,
"Home Treatment for Women,” sent in plain
wrapper. Adv.
WHERE HER THOUGHTS WERE
Most Married Men Have Had a Sim
ilar Experience, If They Will
Admit the Truth.
The husband was reading a news
paper account to his wife. Now and
then he paused and asked a question.
The nature of her replies made him
doubt that she was listening closely.
He accused her of having thoughts
elsewhere, and she indignantly retort
ed that she had heard every word.
He continued reading for a few
minutes and then glanced at her.
From the far-away look in her eyes
lie knew her thoughts were not. upon
the item he was reading. So, turn
ing the sheet as an excuse for a
pause, he continued as follows, ap
parently reading:
“ ‘Last night, .about two o’clock in
the afternoon, just a few minutes be
fore breakfast, a hungry boy about
sixty years old bought an orange for
nine pins and threw it through a con
crete wall twenty feet thick. With a
cry of despair he jumped into a dry
mill pond, broke his arm at the knee
joint, and was drowned. It was only
ten years later, on the same day and
at the same hour, that a goat gave
birth to six elephants. A high wind
then came up and killed three dead
horses and a wooden cigar Indian.’
What do you think of that, dear?” he
questioned, suddenly.
She gave a little start, smiled, aipl
said:
"I think that's a splendid bargain,
Henry. You had better get half a
dozen, for your stock of shirts is
low.”
Explaining the Game.
At a baseball game in Downs last
fall a young woman asked her escort:
"Why does that man behind the hit
ter wear such a big bib?"
He explained to her that it was to
keep the catcher's shirt from getting
mussed when the ball knocked his
teeth out. —Kansas City Times.
Begin With It.
Why are people so much disgusted
with any one who informs upon an
other?”
"Why shouldn’t they be?”
"Didn't every mother's son of us
begin life as squealers?”
No Hope of Return.
"I am afraid i will lose my mind.”
"That's bad. for nobody who saw
it when you lost it, would notice it"
CLEARED AWAY
Proper Food Put the Troubles Away,
Our own troubles always seem mc/e
severe than any others. But when a
man is unable to eat even a light
breakfast, for years, without severe
distress, he has trouble enough.
It is small wonder he likes to tell of
food which cleared away the troubles.
”1 am glad of the opportunity to
tell of the good Grape-Nuts has done
! for me,” writes a N. H. man. "For
many years I was unable to eat even
a light breakfast without great suffer
ing.
"After eating I would suddenly be
seized with an attack of colic and
vomiting. This would be followed by
headache and misery that would some
times last a week or more, leaving me
so weak I could hardly sit up or walk.
“Since I began to eat Grape-Nuts I
have been free from the old troubles.
I usually eat Grape-Nuts one or more
times a day, taking it at the beginning
of the meal. Now I can eat almost
anything I want without trouble.
“When I began to use Grape-Nuts I
was way under my usual weight, now I
weigh 30 pounds more than I ever
weighed in my life, and I am glad to
speak of the food that has worked the
change.” Name given by Postum Co.,
Battle Creek, Mich. Read the little
booklet. "The Road to Wellville,” in
pkgs. “There’s a Reason.”
Ever rend the above letter? A new
one appear* from time to time. They
arc genuine, true, and fall of Tinman
interest.
Qto®
•<^jp
Yesterday he won his game.
Everybody wildly praised him:
Lovingly they spoke his name,
On their shoulders proud men raised
him;
Yesterday tils curves were great.
Splendid batters fell before him;
All the town stayed i.p till late.
Willing, eager to adore him.
He is walking from the field.
Sadly, slowly, unattended;
With ills features half concealed,
All his former glory ended.
He Is hissed and termed a "mut,”
He has lost the game, confound him!
Yesterday a hero. but.
Bricks today are falling round him.
Dreams.
“Oh. I had a beautiful dream last
night,” said Mrs. Peckham “I dream
ed that you had done something heroic
for which the people were all praising
you; but instead of permitting your
self to be carried away by success you
took me in your arms, before the mul
titude, and kissed me, and cried aloud
so all might hear, that you had had
but one thought in accomplishing your
glorious achievement, and that was
my happiness.”
“That was quite a dream,” Mr. Peck
liam answered, “but I had a nicer one.
I dreamed that you and I had started
alone through a great forest, where
there were many wild beasts. We had
gone for miles into the depths, I fully
armed and prepared to protect you
with my life. We were like another
Adam and Eve, the only human be
ings there. On and on we went, you
clinging to me and assuring me of
your faith in me, until finally— ’’
“Yes, dear,” she urged, when he
hesitated, “until finally—”
“Until finally you let go of my arm
for a moment and got lost.”
As Applied to Family Affairs.
“What*” asked the teacher, “does
anthracite mean?”
"That's a kind of coal,” said little
Willie.
"Yes. Anthracite coal is what we
call hard coal. So anthracite must
mean hard. Now can you tell me w hat
bituminous means?”
“That's coal, too." Willie replied.
“But it isn't the same kind of coal
that anthracite is, is it? Bituminous
coal is what we commonly refer to as
soft coal. Now', Willie, let us see if
you can form a sentence containing
the words anthracite and bituminous.”
Willie thought the matter over for
a minute and then said:
“Here's one. This morning before
pa started downtown ma wanted $5
for groceries and things, and she tried
to get it by saying bituminous words,
but pa gave her an anthracite look,
and when he disappeared around the
corner she was weeping bituminously.”
Their Little Weaknesses.
“Nations and women are a good deal
alike.”
"In w'hat w'ay?”
“Well, when one woman gets a new
hat her neighbor wants to go right
away and get a better one, and when
one nation builds a new war ship all
the others start right out to get bigger
ones.”
Business for Him.
Little Charles —Sister told mamma
yesterday you was born to he a poli
tician.
Mr. Skimpley—A politician? I won
der why she thinks so.
Little Charles —She says you can do
so much talkin' without committin’
yourself. --
His Old Habits Abandoned.
“It was too bad about Nell Rich
mond's husband dying so suddenly,
wasn’t it?’
“Did he die suddenly?”
“Yes; hadn't you heard about it?’’
“No; I thought he was from Phil
adelphia.”
Cornered. L
I heard Cordelia sing, last nig^t,
I heard her sing and play—
I heard her do these things because
I couldn’t get away.
irs HARD TO WORK
It’s torture to work with a lame, aching
back. Get rid of it. Attack the cause. J
Probably it s weak kidneys. M
Heavy or confining work is hard onJ "
the kidneys, anyway, and once the kid
neys become inflamed and congested,
tbe trouble keeps gening worse.
The danger of running into gravel,
dropsy or Bright’s disease is serious.
Use Doan's Kidney Pills, a fine remedy I
for backache or bad kidneys.
“Evt-v pictore
A New Jersey p— — u,ls q c >
Ca ” ■
Louie Henry,
#L’C Grove St ; ,
fered almost ev-
cured me
Get Doan’s at Any Store. 50c a Box
DOAN’S VilflV
FOSTER-MILEURN CO, BUFFALO. N. Y.
RESINOL STOPS
ITCHING INSTANTLY
It is a positive fact that the moment
Retinol Ointment touches any itching
skin, the itching stops and healing be
gins. With the aid of liesinol Soap, it
quickly clears away all trace of eczema,
ringworm, pimples, blackheads, or other
tormenting, unsightly eruptions, leaving
the skin clear and healthy.
And the best of it is you need never
hesitate to use Kesino! Soap and Resi
nol Ointment. There is nothing in them
to injure the tenderest surface. Rcsinol
is a doctor's prescription which for
eighteen years has I wen used by care
ful physicians for all kinds of skin af
fections. They prescribe Resinol freely,
confident that its soothing, healing ac
tion is brought about by medication so
bland and gentle as to be suited to the
most delicate, or irritated skin—even of
a tiny baby.
Resinol is sold by every druggist in
the United States, but you can prove
at our expense what it will do for you.
Write today to Dept. 12 K. Resinol, Bal
timore, Md, and we will send you by
parcel post a liberal trial of Rcsinol
Ointment and Resinol Soap.
Cholera!
Hog Cholera, Chicken
Cholera, and other d iseases
of stock and poultry, make
you lose money. Can this
loss be avoided? The
answer is: YES! Give
Bsi Dee
STOCK & POULTRY MEDICINE
promptly, when the first
symptoms appear. It acts
on the liver, and gets it to
working freely. A disor
dered liver causes these
(and most other) troubles
of stock and poultry.
Price 25c, 50c and SI.OO per can.
**Bec Dee Slock & Poultry Medicine
is a splendid cure tor liver trouble, roup,
chicken cholera and other diseases.” —
F. J. Stowe, Purcell. Okla. P. A. 15
Why Scratch?
“Hunt’sCure”is guar
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permanentlycure that
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purpose and your money
will be promptly refunded
WITHOUT QUESTION
if Hunt’s Cure fails to cure
Itch, Eczema, Tetter, Ring
Worm or any other Skin
Disease. 50c at your druggist’s, or by mail
direct ifhe hasn’t it. Manufactured only by
A, B. RICHARDS MEDICINE CO, Sherman. Texas
Woman's Way.
"When she wasn't looking I kissed
her.”
“What did she do?”
"Refused to look at me the rest of
the evening."—-Wasp.
NO. SIX-SIXTY-SIX
This is a prescription prepared especially
for Ylalaria or t'lillls and Fever. Five
or six doses wilt break any case, and if
taken then as a tonic- the fever will not re
turn. 25e. Adv.
Quite So.
“Do you believe in the office seeking
the man?"
“That depends altogether on the
amount of his shortage.”
To Relieve the Pain of a Barn Instantly
and tnke out all intlammutlon In one day. applv the
wonderfr.l. old reliable i)K. POKTKR* ANTISBI'-
fIC LIKA LING OIL. Kt-lieves pain and heals at
ihe same time- 60c, 11.00.
To know that which lies before us
in daily life is the prime wisdom. —
Milton.
What Ails You?
An invitation is extended by Doctor Pierce
to every sick and ailing man or woman to
consult the Faculty of the Invalids* Hotel
at Buffalo, N. Y„ by letter. Write your
symptoms fully and frankly, and every
letter will be carefully considered, fully
answered and its statements held as
strictly private and sacredly confidential.
Dr. Pierce’*
Golden Medical Discovery
makes for rich, pure blood and thus in
vigorates the system. For a torpid liver
and its attendant indigestion, dyspepsia,
headache, perhaps dizziness, foul breath,
nasty coated tengue with bitter taste,
loss of appetite with distress after eat
ing, nervousness and debility, nothing is
•agood.