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Show LEHI FREE PRESS, LEHI, UTAH St. Lawrence Is Canada's Natural Highway Treaty Directs Attention to Great Rarer System. Tha 8t Lawrence Washington. rl?er. Canada's natural highroad to ithe West, take on oew lrapomnee since tilt recent signing of the mtter-rwa-y treaty between the United Sutea Canada. j and -With Us Ore fresh water Inland (leas the St. Lawrence furaii cue of the 'treat rler systems of the world." aaya 'a bulletin from the National society. - "While Ita basin la jtfllrd la alxe among North American jrWera, being eiceeded by those of the Mississippi and tha MacKenzie. the St. Lawrence drain In aU aome S30.000 square miles, an area nearly equal to that of the Republic of Peru. The name 'St. Lawrence.' howerer. applies only to the lower third of the 2,100 mile rlrer system. Actually the stream rises at the source of the St. JLouU rlrer, near the headwaters of the Mississippi. In Minnesota, flows onto Lake Suoerlor. throurh the other 'Crest Lakes, and empties Into the jOuu of St. Lawrence at Cape Caape, e Quebec But technically the 'St. Is that part of the main stream 'which flows from Kingston, at the 'mouth of Lake Ontario, to Cape Ga.ipe, '770 Biles in length. ' Unique Among Rivers. ' "In several ways the St Lswrence 'Is unique among large rivers of the World. Easy-goinit doea not dig up touch silt, and therefore has no alluvial delta at its mouth. Its banks are dear and sharp to the ocean's rim, and the channel at its mouth is deep enough to clear the largest ships Boat "The St. Lawrence, in fact, may be said to lead a very well balanced life. Fire months during the year it works diligently as Canada's chief artery of commerce. Then for seven months It rests, all but the lower 400 miles being closed by Ice. Floods are almost unknown along the St Lawrence, The Great Lakes act as impounding, regulating reservoirs, and Its own occasional lakelike expanses take up Uie Law-(fenc- short canals and opea channels, but the locks are narrow aad the current too swift for heavy commercial traffic in many places. This channel is 14 excesses of its lower tributaries. The dikes at Montreal and needed only daring the spring and fall when Infrequent Ice Jams cause the river to overflow Its normal banks. The St Lawrence. In Its lower reaches, is s tidal river, like the Hudson, but oddly enough its highest tides re at Orleans Island. 6j0 miles from the open ocean at Cabot strait At Its mouth the range is only six feet, but st Orleans Island, below Quebec, the spread Is 19 feet Quebec has 18V4 feet of tide, although the water there Is almost fresh. "One of the widest of rivers, the St Lawrence below Quebec Is more like a broad bay or long lake. The it ranger approaching from Europe must sail some distance up the St lswrence before he reallzea that he Is In a river at all. At Point des Monts both banks become visible for the first time, yet the river here Is 40 miles across snd very deep. At Its mouth the St Lawrence is more than twice as wide. Even at Raguenay, halfway between the gulf and Quebec, It Is still 20 miles across. Legends of French Canada. and "Historically, sentimentally scenlcally the St Lawrence is one of America's most famous snd beloved streams. Long before English settlers bad crossed the Alleghsnles, French missionaries and fur traders pushed down the St lswrence and over the portages to the heart of North Amer ica. Today the tiny villages, white parish churches, and the green patchwork fields of the descendants of these French pioneers make the St lswrence valley seem more like s part of Europe than America. Here Is a land of legends 'the Drlrp!ng Indian.' 'the I'hnntom Priest,' and 'the Ohost ship' far removed from busy Montreal, Canada'a largest city, which also shores the hanks of the St lswrence. "While vessels of any draft may ascend the St Lawrence to Quebec, the next 1C0 miles to Montreal are open only to ocean steamers which do not draw more than 30 feet. Smaller ships may ascend the river today to Iske Ontario by using a combination of feet channel throughout. "With a ocean litters could ascend the St Law rence to Lake Ontario, where the new Welland canal of the same depth could carry them to Lake Erie and the other Great Lakes. Shipping direct by this route aa exporter In Buffalo, for Instance, would save more than 300 miles to Liverpool, in addition to the cost of barge or rail augment to At lantic coast ports." 30-fo- Win $1 for Rescuing Boy From River Waters Camden, N. J. "Gee, that's great didn't expect that!" exclaimed twelve-year-ol- d Victor Soroken when a him fl for swing gave guard park Robert Banks, ten, from drowning In Cooper river. After a day of swimming Victor was trudging borne when he saw Robert fall Into the river. He plunged In and dragged the other boy ashore. I I Dance in Lion's Den r, x fim-msmt- KIM Wt TBS kUSJCBS OF ITOET SOAP For clean, sparkling di&hefi with less work--try the New Oxydol with its 50 more suds Lb rich, lasting ends that cut grease cleanly and yet are kind to hands. Oxydol never balls up, leaves no BCtun, softens water. "Shower" in Philippines a star, when It was pointedly suggested fastest time The that he needed a vacation and menmade a ever by Holds World's Record railroad train depends upon bow tal relaxation. I haven't loaned a The heaviest rainfall ever performance Is reckoned. The fast- dollar more than Fm willing to pay measured occurred at Bagulo, the est train run on record was made to feel certain that Til be left strict"sommer capital" of the Philippines, over the Plant system between ly alone. No one comes near yon la July. 191 L Fleming and Jacksonville, Fla.. In when they owe you money." Only brief accounts of It havt 1901. when a train covered five been published until this year, when miles at an average of 120 miles per Extinct Marsupial a detailed story of the shower and hour. The flyrtenmlns of the diprotodon, an exIts effects was Issued by Rev. Miguel er ot the Oreat Western railway In tinct marsupial of the Plelstocena Selga, director of the Philippine England recently covered the 77 age that was almost as large as a weather bureau, says Charles Fits-hug-h miles between Swindon and small elephant, have been found In Talman In his Science Service In fB minutes and 47 great abundance In certain drled-u- p feature, "Why the Weather V nnrts, from start to stop, averaging and "This torrential downpour attend- 81 .0 miles per hour. The highest southsalt lakes of the central kanAustralian The deserts. ed the passage of a typhoon. More speed reached was V2 miles per garoos and wombats are the nearthan 88 Inches of rain fell during hour. This Is claimed as a world est living relatives of this animal, the four days, July inclusive, mark for speed on a start to stop which, so fir as Is known, was the the maximum fall In a computation. larost of the animals that carried 46 noon Inches from of period being their young in a pouch. the fourteenth to noon of the fiLending for Protection fteenth. Hollywood thought a certain moVarying Estimate! "Two Inches less than four feet tion star had gone crasy "I put my reliance In the wisdom of rain In 24 hours! This Is more when picture to lend money to of the plain he people," said Senator than falls In the whole of an aver- certain of bean his friends. be Sorghum. age year at most places In the north- the amounts were small,To but sure, "Flut suppose the plain people do the eastern United States and Canada." fact that he lent at all was not happen to agree with you?" any Literary Digest cause for consternation among the "Then I refuse to be Influenced people who knew him real well by the clanior of the thoughtless No precepts will profit a fool "Don't you worry," grinned the crowd." Triia-Speed- 24-ho- London-Cheltenha- Obeys Dying Wish London. To carry on her father's Rose dying wish, nineteen-year-olPurchase danced in a cage with the lions that caused her parent's death. The father, Capt Thomas Purchase, a lion tamer, died In a Manchester hospital after the lions had mauled him. "I am going on with my dancing, for it was my father's wish," said Rose just before a performance. "I promised father as he was being taken away to the hospital that I would not de- sert the show. There have been generations of fair ground and cir cus people before my father who bore bis name, and I and my young brothers mean to carry on the tra- - Pad-dlngto- n 14-1- 24-ho- Old Seventh New York in Training Camp ;: -- " v ' w,.,. , - , .u-- .f :....:...: ...- - f p. gja.ff.'.-- - . , v-- i j picturesque view as the entire body of men of the old Seventh New York regiment now the One Hundred and Seventh Infantrylined up In dress uniform for the evening parade at Camp Smith, PeekskilL where they vasviji uiv Buuuni I v W effcwB LTUlUIIlg LHTIOU. A TV Riches of Ancient Antioch Explorers Are Busy in Once Gay Capital of Syria. ( Washington. Antioch, which has yielded many rich treasures of antiquity, again Is the scene of explora tions which recently uncovered a picture gallery In the form of a paneled mosaic floor. "Modern Antioch, a drab city of 0 inhabitants, lying about 15 miles op the Orontes river from the Mediterranean, is a mere shadow of the ay city that once was the capital of V the great empire of Seleucua NIcator, favorite of Alexander the Great and later capital of the Roman empire In the Orient," says a bulletin from the National Geographic society. "Traditionally, Antioch owes its location to the flight of an eagle. built in 307 B. C. a few miles north of Antioch, was planned to be the fountalnhead of government, commerce and industry in the Near East .While Seleucua was offering sacrifices at , an altar In the city, an eagle wooped down, caught a piece of meat iuc Huar, ana new to me oanKS of the Orontes river. Seleucus Interpreted the eagle's act as an omen that the gods wished him to fouud a capital on the river. "The outstanding feature of the new city was the four-milmain street that connected the east and west gates. On each side rose douhii rows nf ift marble columns between which lien llur drove his chariot and Caesnr paraded In triumph. Flanking the street was a marble paved, covered promenade adorned with statues and carv- 30,-00- e Aged Man Trades House for Perpetual Income Newark, N. J. When Georse von Eff was seventy he had a three family house but no Income. So he traded his borne for a life income ot a day, a meal a day, the privilege of living in a mall building in the- - rear, and the tl promise of a decent burial . ; His l a day went for; nd knlck knacks. - Nww themagazines llrldgln lamily, who got the house, has kept the final clause of the contract they ave given tho old man a decent burial. Von EI upset a kerosene lamp and burned to dc.tf , Revealed City Has Ordinance to Protect Blind Persons 111. A city ordinance making Beyond It Feorla, compulsory for drivers of vehicles the promenades rose the handsome to stop and remain Immovable while facades of government buildings. "At night the main street was a nana persons, walking with specially designed red and white canes, erosn great white way. Despite Its gayety, streets was adopted recently by the however, Antloch's path was often strewn with Borrow. Its walls were reoria city council The canes have been provided blind frequently pounded by Jealous enhere through efforts of the persons emies. While the columned highways, walls, gates and handsome buildings juons' club, which also was Instruare memories, a large part of the mod- mental in obtaining passage of the ern city is built of the stones that once ordinance. The movement to offer protection to the blind through the use of witnessed the processions and chariot the colored canes has been taken up races of 'Antioch the Glorious. nationally by Lions clubs In other "Antioch has been succeeded comcities, ihe cane Is white with a red mercially by Aleppo. Todny Its largtip. est Industries are shoe and soap makCongressman William E. Hull of ing and hide tanning." Peoria recently presented United States Senators Thomas P. flora Auto Drivers Can Save Oklahoma, and Thomas D. Schall, Minnesota, both blind, with colored Game by Flicking Lights canes in connection with the plan. Washington. The motorists who runs down a wtld animal or bird on Lad Passes the highway may not realize that he Is helping, probably without deliberate Difficult Radio Exams intention, to swell one of the most Potterville, Calif. The youngest liImpressive death lists in the lives of censed amateur radio operator in the small game creatures, declares a bulUnited States Is Alan Taylor Margo, letin of the American Game assocln. aged nine. tiou. At least that's what records of the With game commissions and snorts- - American Radio men striving In numerous wavs to snvo ation of amateur Relay league, associradio operators show. and restore wild game for its tremenAlan, who Is in the fifth grade, sucdous recreational and economic value, cessfully passed rigid tests given at ninny states have launched edncntinn. Fresno State college. He Is now at cnnipalgns during the tourist Hen. known as Operator WCFZA. son to reduce game mortalltv tn to He built his own short-wavset and thoughtless driving. can take 15 words a minute. Most of the animals are killed at night Lights blind them. Flicking Proposes Special Stamp the ltehts to dim or slowing down will on Lindbergh Abduction save them, and In the case o." larger 1e..evue, iu-- A suggestion that a creatures, such as deer, may also save special red. white and blue postage the drivers from a dnngerous crash. stamp be Issued to commemorate the kidnaped Charles A. Lindbergh Jr Office Workers Given ' has beon made here. Homer J. Freese. In making the proFive Hours for Lunch Rom- e- Five hours for lunch is the posal, said It would remind the people rule for most ofilce workers In Home of their duty to avenge the crime b gangsters. during the, summer months. The va- abolishing He suggested that the rious government bureaus and a groat stamp bear a number of private offices and stores Picture of the child, with the motto-"Little Child Shall Lend Them" operate on the summer schedule. The working day begins at eight In the Ancient Ax Found morning. At noon everylmdy will go Jefferson, Ore.-W- hat can be done out to lunch and not return until five or was done, with a o'clock In the afternoon. bronze They will ax wonders A. Kroscholl. then work from Ave until nine. Tha The ancient hatchet was found by excavation intense heat of early afternoon Is the workers here. 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