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Show BEAR RIVER VALLEY LEADER IS HERSELF CONSTITUTION ir fif-ijj- i ... n-Kt- l' ONCE MORE a ii , v il & ! r j?t i ROBEM M. The famous frigttte Contititutiou lias had the superstructure, added to make her a trailing ship during, the war. removed and again presents her familiar appearance in the Charlestown navy yard. Boston. Launched in 1797. she fought in the war with the Barbary states and sank the Guerriere off Cape Race In 1812 in one of the most famous naval engagements In history. 9 0 Sll tin ;l : ' r ' , 1 1 OUR NEWEST TORPEDO BOAT . JC?' " X 'V M DESTROYER r- EPORTS from Wastiington seem to indicate that the 1 air service is going to pieces rapidly from various causes and that September will practically see the last of it. This is mmrm n kwb especially to be regretted in view of the recenti numerous, extensive and disastrous forest flres In the Northwest. The lesson of these flres is that the national forests and national parks must be patrolled by airplanes and protected by wireless telephone. Time is a vital factor in fighting forest flres. They must be detected lustantly and combated promptly. Once a forest fire gains sufficient headway the flames convert each live pine Into a gas retort and the flaming gas, carried by the wind; jumps far ahead of the Are line, to start new fires. Also, a forest fire will run up a mountain slope with tremendous speed, creating its own draft as it oi . goes. Airplane service would Instantly defire. It would reach the spot promptly, with smothering gas, firefighters, tools, provisions and materials. If the national forests and national parks are worth creating and administering, they are worth preserving. The ordinary forest fire is a calamity. The big one is a catastrophe. In a twinkling the growth of generations is gone. Where a forest stood there is desolation which will last for many a year. The losses in money this season, saying nothing . of the menace to human life, would pay for Challenging all comers lor the (lis an .extensive air service equipment. Unction of being the tallest man ii. That there Is a distinct and ImporUie United States, Kalph E. Madsen. it tant place for aircraft in fire proteccowboy of Ranger, Tex., was disquttli-fletion of tlmberlands has been regardfor the service in the army beed by the forestry officials for some cause of his excessive height. Tin-watime as beyond doubt. It was with this department height limitations are Idea In mind that arrangements were 78 inches, while Mr. Madsen ' is .7 1 lie torpedo boat destroyer Kane taking to the water at its launching at made to have army airplanes and capfeet 6 Inches tall and weighs 230 the Jfwv York Shipbuilding company's yards at Camden, N. J. Its sponsor was tive balloons cover portions of the na12 followed he has For years pounds. K. Kane, U. S. N. tional forests of California, Arizona, the varying fortune of a cowboy and Miss Florence Kane, niece of Surgeon Ellsha New Mexico and other states this sumhas captured many prizes for his darmer. The patrolling was started early the shows This feats. photograph ing In June and has so quickly proved its FARMERETTES AND THEIR CUCUMBERS mutual admiration between the cowworth, that It was proposed to extend boy and Senator Morris Sheppard of the service to other points In the East, "Texas. including one near the White mountains In New Hampshire. The Excuse. No difficulty Is experienced by the said Ludendorff," Representative airmen in detecting fires In heavy timcthouse, "is telling the world the reason ber from elevations of 6,000 to 10,000 why he lost the war. Ludendorff's exfeet. cuse reminds me of the Irishman. At present the forest service relies "An Irishman and a Yankee rowed for the detection of fires partly on paa race one day. The Yankee was so trol, usually by men on horses, motor easily the Irishman's Superior that cycles, or railroad speeders, and partly every little while he'd, stop rowing and on watchers stationed on lookout wait for Mike to catch up. was of Mike points.. Aircraft have many points of course, beaten, "Well, obvious superiority over this method? but he said afterwards: Lookouts In every broken country, "'Faith, Ol'd have bested the bhojr Kv If Ol'd shtopped an' took the long he did.' " tect a forest London Land Values Court Rules Against Tradition. One of the naval patrols at the Short Wne depot, Annapolis, arrested Joseph Thomas tcolored) for Carrying a con- cealed weapon. ' Thomas was walking along when a razor dropped from his clothing and he was arrested. When the razor was exhibited It looked like 'V rnN.wip.pOT Union iC V1 '' yPw a section of a broken buzz saw. Jusa tice Welch, after making physical These three girls Inspecting some cucumbers they have raised are mera decided that the piece of of the land array unit of the National League for "Women's Service on the, hers a and not Junk was dangerous weapon , dismissed Thomas. Its Ulmore News. league's farm near Waahlugton. ,ti sPi ; r RECORD FOR HEIGHT ,V$4y "jTpKf 'TrW. $ijLj Forest Fires and 1 To detent the housing shortage m England the government has allowed the city of Eastbourne to acquike these S oa tracks, formerly known as the "cavalry camp," and the buildings have been converted into dwellings. CLAIMS ft A - . W"VV : I if ft '.T i 'if.iw&siE B6mflisr vif kw. mm mm, m$ mLimtmgmsmmiidMt kf muHtLagmm'minAa : ti ft iu iftfc-w- : : lli A 1 ENGLISH ARMY BARRACKS CONVERTED INTO HOMES f i 11. 11X1 - cut up by deep canons or where moun tain ridges obstruct tne view, or in a flat country that affords no good points of vantage, are often unable to pick up flres quickly by the rising smoke, or to locate them accurately. For precise location the system in use depends on triangulation through reports telephoned from separate observation points. Airplanes, however, can use wireless, or even the new wireless telephone, and they can locate fires by coordinates in the same way that gunfire in war Is directed to a particular spot. Experiments made in bombing fires to put them out show the possibilities in this direction. Bombs charged with suitable chemicals for extinciushing fires havi. been used with good results. At present the only observation balloon used in connection with forest fire patrolling is the one maintained at the Arcadia field, near Los Angelos. This balloon Is sent aloft to a height of about 3,000 feet and remains there from 7 a. m. until 6 p. m. In case of (ire a report from the balloon observer Is telephoned to the army balloon school and transmitted to the forest service at Los Angeles. Another plan to be tested later in the summer is transporting fire fighters by dirigibles from which ladders can be lowered to the ground. Outlaw Cotton Fields. The airplane to spy out hidden cotton fields has proved successful. It is the result of an experiment carried out by the federal horticultural board if the department of agriculture. In southern Texas, where the devastating pink bolhvorm of cotton has been trying to invade the United States from . Mexico, there are cotton-fre- e zones, declared by law as barrieragainst the progress of the worm. But a few misguided farmers feel that their rights have been Infringed and have developed a tendency to become cutlnw cotton planters. Much of the country Is heavily timbered, roads m neither plentiful nor good in many places, and it has been possible for an outlaw planter to tuck away a few acres of cotton in some nook of the woods beyond probability of discovery by ordinary means, though the 'department of agriculture has been making diligent efforts to spot every stalk of cotton In the quarantined areas. Last year when workers of the federal horticultural board were on the ground, they tried out the airplane for scouting work. In this way Inspector Hensley of the board discovered seven outlaw cotton fields In the heavily wooded country along the Trinity river and around Galveston bay which had escaped discovery. January of this year the work of locating cotton fields In the observation stories or more are erected people can well afford to pay more for the land values than when the buildings are of the usual London business type of five or six stories. But can anybody Imagine a building of 30 stories In London? It would dwarf St. Taul's and rob the house of Ttnrllament and Jhe Abbey of their distinction. Near the Bank of England land has been sold In recent years at 75 per square foot, or 3,250,000 per acre; In the Strand 12 to 20 per square foot Is nenr the Sir Alfred Mond's supposed predilection for the skyscraper raises the question of .London land values. If skyscrapers were to rear their ungainly heights In London as In New York It would not only, says the New York Evening Post, abolish the beauty of London, but would Increase the price of Inn, especially in the heart of the elty, by about CO per cent. It has been ifgued that where buildings of 30 figure, while further west, In J zone by aerial patrol was officially In- augurated and has been in regular process ever since. Two flights were made later in January for the purpose of obtaining a panoramic view of the territory bordering the quarantine lines, to note the character and extent of any forests or wooded areas which might act as a natural barrier to the spread of the pink boll worm by flight of the moth, as well as to secure some idea of the value of aerial observations in connection with entomological scouting and mapping. These flights were made at an altitude of from 1,500 to 2,000 feet. At this elevation on a clear day a distinct vision could be had of the country over a range of 30 miles, and cul tivated fields, buildings, shell roads, railway lines, creeks, and the charx ter of wooded areas, whether pine or deciduous, could be easily distinguished. At the normal speed of the airplane 73 miles an hour the ground moves so slowly that the observer has time to get a complete picture of the area and easily to distinguish cotton from corn fields. Inspector Hensley is enthusiastic in the belief that the airplane will tremendously facilitate all such scouting and reconnaissance work, including mapping. Similar use can lie made of er agricultural and forestry which are analogous to the and survey use made of it for it in oth- surveys, mapping war pur- poses. The tests made last year, followed by the more important and systematic utilization of this new means of survey and inspection carried out this vpnr. marks nrnhnhlv the first use of the airplane In a practical way in agriculture, and may be the starting of an important use of this new means of transportation and observation for scouting and inspection purposes in other fields of research or control work. Moorish and Arabic Rugs. The art of rug weaving is said to have been taught the Venetians by the Arab conquerors of Spain. Moorish rugs are still woven by the descendants of this race who live outside the Spanish border. Arabic rugs are woven In the simplest patterns, and in straight lines and very bright colors. The patterns often resemble those of the log cabin quilt of our While the figures In grandmothers. oriental rugs each have their own meaning, we must not forget that every color has Its own significance as well, which varies In different conn-trieJusfas the figures do. In ancient Babylon scarlet was the symbol of fire, blue of the air, and purple of water. s, street, for example, 35 per square foot Is the ruling price. The present value of the whole of the land In London l about 500 millions; add 50 per cent and the ratable value would Jumpmp by leaps and bounds. A Plunger. "Was that young Brown I saw striking yon for a loan? Why, I heard that only recently he fell Into a fortune.' "That's so. but he fell Into It hnrd that he went right through It" Bond Boston Transcrlptl v |