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Show THE WASATCH WAVE, HEBER CITY. UTAH HEAVY COST TO ROADS RAIL LINES 8PEND AN IMMENSE AMOUNT ON TIME. and Watches Must Bs Kept Absolutely Correct Small Army of Experts Employed to See That They Are So. Clocks ' BAGGAGE SUFFERS AS CARS - Newspaper Commerffs "bit ''Apparent Advantages and- Protections Af forded by Placing In Rear. Three objections to the proposed placing of baggage cars laBt instead of first in railway trains have been advanced, first, that It sitate large expenditures in cLangia the present station arrangements for taking on and putting off baggage. Second, it woultfccoiUOiivnbiliUnn of observation car" the e the desired Third, it would safety, for, if steel, would be forced front. through or climb the cam--iIf these are the 'only arguments-tbe made against .(Jje plan', its advo- cates neednt be worried, for answers to each of them' are easy Many trains are already run with one or more baggage cars In the rear; therefore to run ail trains that way would involve no great trouble and expense. As for observation cars, they are too few to nee'd very serious consideration, and their Joys, though real, would be abandoned readily by the minute fraction of the public that has them If the members were convinced that the general safety depended on it. Lastly, the baggage car in the rear, even If of steel, would not have the prophesied 1U effects on other steel cars, and to any would be some little protection, whatever Its matewouffl--neee- De mum LOST IN THE SKY AVIATOR JEWEL, CANAL Lesseps: Suez Plan Discouraged by;England. QllMNQS s What a east amount of money a gigantic railway system has Invested In time! One large western system has 2,383 clocks on Its system in the various offices, shops, cars, on locoA motives and even steamships. corps of watch and clock makers Is employed by the railway company to care for these delicate pieces of machinery in keeping them properly cleaned and oiled. One hundred and of these clocks are known twenty-siits "standard" clocks and are of the $2J5 regulator variety, such as are found only in the finest jewelry establishments for the timing of their cus tomers watches. These clocks were purchased for the operation of trains, that em ployes' watches may be compared with an accurate clock before starting on their trips. This means a big Investment to the railway company. One hundred and five are designated as time recording instruments and rial. These remarks do not constitute a are installed in the various shops (where they are used for the double demand for tlie suggested change; (purpose of showing workmen the time they only mean that It has certain and for recording the exact hour and apparent advafftages that reality of minute, as well as the month and the which has not, 6een disproved. New day of the week men go In and out York Times. 'V of their respective shops. The beautiful ferry boats plying All Seeking Efficiency. between Ferry Point and San FranThe railroad man haB been trained cisco must be fully equipped with to caution, to take the safe side in timepieces In the pilot louse, as well every case of doubt, to regard train oras engine and boiler rooms. For this ders as sacred. For never a moment purpose as well as officials' business can he forget the strict- - observance of cars, etc., a particular style of dock signals, the need of. being alert, to must be used--on- e without a pendu- meet every emergency. The slightest lum, which la fitted with balance rift In his armor of caution may mean wheel and hairspring, closely resemhis own life, the life of his passengers bling an enlarged watch movement or fellow employes, and, while the Clocks must also be used in the statement may be questioned by those electrical time detector systems In unfamiliar with the railroad man, recording the roundB of the night wrecks are the result of faults of watchmen. Another, a portable style, judgment, morg than of complete disis carrlejl In a leather case over the regard of signals or orders. watchmans shoulder as a turlst carBut the want of judgment Is to be ries a kodak. as severely criticised as the want of watches, called horse caution, and It Is to bring the chance timers or chronographs, are also a of human error down to the smallest necessary part of the chief chemists possible minimum that railroad men laboratories, and the engineer of are today traiiilug In efficiency. tests has a number of such Instruments necessary In making numerous Favor Storage Batteries. tests. Electrical departments also rePrussia's state railroads, after an exquire a number of these delicate rwatches. perience of ' many years. In the use Few passengers riding the trains of storage battery cars on their sysrealise what a large sum of money tem, have found that, without makthe company 'has Invested In time- ing any radical changes In the standpieces for the safety of passengers, ard railroad cars, storage battery train crews and equipment All these propulsion may bq applied successfulclocks must be cleaned and oiled ev- ly in respect of both operation and ery 12 months, and in some places economy. The cost of operating the more .frequently. The Standard 200 cars of this type on these railclocks are never permitted to become ways works out at only 1.75 cents more than thirty seconds In error, per horsepower per hour. ' either fast or slow.'and phenomenal records have been made by some of First Law Regulating- - Rates. those regulators. Several have run It was not until 184 that a law was for ninety days with absolutely no passed In England compelling every variation, others for thirty and sixty railway line to run one train each way days. dally, conveying., passengers in covered carriages,' af the. rAte of a penny Offices on Wheels. (two cents) & mile.' The ordinary speed Two business care, to be was to be 12 miles an hour. used by officials of an eastern railroad to transact railroad business while Report1 Big Engine Order. traveling, wilt soon be finished. By the It is reported that a leading locomouse of the business cars last year the tive works has received an order to officials, while traveling 1E9.617 miles, build 100 locomotives tor an eastern were able to conduct the affairs of the railroad company. The order calls for railroad Just as If they had been In delivery in the early spring, and means their own offices. The business cars an expenditure of $4,000,000 on the are provided with typewriter desks, part of the railroad company. maps, a compilation of statistics and other office paraphernalia. Cut into Railroad Earnings. British railway earnings decreased Few Spanish Railroad Lines. last Far. The loss was due in part The ten principal railways of Spain to greater use of motorbusea, tramhave only about 6,100 miles of track. ways and automobiles. much-enjoye- HI JEERED d GROW Later Great6rTlaT(r Bought Control-C- ost Egypt "a bout $85,000,000 and the Britons Purchaeed Most of Her Interest BLACK RASPBERRY Parent Bush May Be Filled With Roots of Young Plants by October . If Tips Have Increased. not-giv- n o x Split-secon- d ' all-ste- ( LOCOMOTIVE DERAILED ON FIRST TRIP m, . V-- twi j t l . f- - a ,v- r? v- - it- , ,' ' v ' New York iWbcn the Panama canal great dreams of Ferdinand de Lesseps. French engineer, will have become a fact, the New York Sun remarks. The first of the De Lesseps dreams has been an accomplished fact for almost fifty years the Suez canal; upon the second dream he broke his reputation and his heart. After he had successfully dug t(ie Suez canal De Lesseps tried to dig a canal In Panama and failed most disastrously. But about the Suez canal. It has been remarked that when the canal was finished France reaped the glory. England the main advantages and Egypt most of the bills. The idea of a canal across the (Isthmus was far - from new when De Lesseps in 1854 obtained permission from the pasha of Egypt to form a company for the construction of the waterway. As early as 1350 B. C. there was a canal from one of the branches of the Nile to the Red sea. Seven hundred years later, when the sapds of the desert had choked this first Necho set to work to. build a new canal be-- , tween Bubastls on the Nlie and the Red sea; Nechy failed to finish his canal, which .was completed .about 486 B. C. by 'another Egyptian ruler, Darius By dash'll. By th5 beginning of the Christian era this canal, too, had become unnav-igablIt was dredged and restored to usefulness In the course of Trajans reign. The last restoration of the waterway was made in the seventh century by Amru, the Mohammedan conqueror of Egypt, who established water communication between Cairo and the Red sea. And then the desert sands drifted once more into the historic ditch, and It was permitted to discanal,-Pharoa- . appear.;. As soon as De Lesseps had obtained permission to build a canal a commission of civil engineers of different nationalities explored the proposed route. Most of these engineers believed that the project was feasible, and they urged a sea level canal from Port Said to Suez, abandoning the system of indirect routes through ; the delta of the Nile which the early builders of canals In the region had used. The English member of the commission, however, was opposed to the building of aay sort of canal, and said the only feasible way of spanning the Isthmus was by railroad, an opinion which Is not hard to understand when we know that this same English engineeer was, Robert Stevenson, son of the Inventor of the locomotive. England followed Stephenson's lead enthuslastipally and almost up to the day when the Suez canal was opened to the trfflc of the jworld, It was the fashion In England to jeer at the canal. Newspapers, magazines and statesmen were agreed that If the Pharoahs and Imperial Rome had been unable to keep a canal across the Isthmus open. It wasn't very likely that a trifling people like the- French would be able to accomplish anything. "Not only did we refuse - New York. A letter from Italy has this to say of Caruso, the noted tenor, the New York World Bays: Many people would be surprised to learn that Caruso Is not half as proud of his glorious voice as he Is of his activities as a gentleman farmer, and that he rather fancies himself an art collector. The most extensive of his estates Is the Villa Bellosguardo at Slgna, with a charming country house perched on the top of a hill, a magnificent park and long avenue of sturdy oaks At Bellosguardo, Caruso personally manages no fewer than 20 arms, yielding many tons of fqult and corn, and many thousands of gallons of Chianti wine. 'And woe betide tie unlucky man who would utter the word music to him on his own land. Lately he has developed an acute craving for art, and he has been buying for years a large collection of works, ancient and modern, which are snow accumulated in gigantic heaps In a few, spare rooms, but will soon find a place in a very elaborate art gallery which Caruso Is having built In fnent of his house at Bellosguardo. The art gallery is to be a long marble "portico" in the eighteenth century style,.- where floods of sunshine will penetrate through the columns. And In the middle of the gallery .will .be the laurel hall." where the laurels bestowed on Caruso by admirers all over the world will be dis- .4 ' Albert Jewell (driving), the aviator who started to take part la a race around Manhattan island and vanished completely in a fog. Vessels, automobiles and the wlrelesswere enlisted in the vain search for him, ' - A ' ' ' s. T' 57 J ' ''0-- wu Wrecking Crew Raising a. Locomotive ' Which Left the Rails and Rolled Down an Embankment on Ita First Trip. tion, remarks J. Stephen Jeans, an English waterways expert, "but we refused it with that species of incivility of which we are occasionally guilty when we have our Insular prejudices offended. The builders of the Suez canal bad their difficulties, though - they .were by no means such serious- difficulties as have had to be overcome in the building of the Panama canal. In the first place, the engineering difficulties were The greatest nothing like so great elevation which the Suez canal had to cut through was a ridge of hills six which miles in length, varied in height from 30 to 60 feet above sea level in Panama, the Culebra cut has had t y go down through 500 feet of rocks and sliding soil for long stretches. The problem of sanitation was not nearly so severe In Suez as that which has been solved In PanBut for all that the French ama. had their troubles. lit the first place, the canal cost more than It was originally estimated It would. The optimistic De Lesseps believed at first that he could build the canal for $40,000,000. Eventually The it cost more than $90,000,000. a Egyptian- government advanced large sum as a lean, and later sub- Ripe Meat Often Dangerous. high-price- to swelling in region of in air pass- 'fihe symptoms start out with more FAT or less sluggishness. The animal eats little, and does not care to take The Restaurant Keepers 370 Pounds much exercise. A little watery disFinally Won Him Admittance charge frequently appears from the to h '"Home." ; . 'eyes, and about the same time a watery discharge from the postrils, which Bristol; Tenn. Too much flesh ren- soon becomes thicker and more yeldered Patrick Ryan, once a prosper- low in color. Usuhlly the glands beous restaurant keeper in Bristol, phy- tween the lower jawbones become ensically helpless, retiring him front the larged and undergo, suppuration with business world and In 15 years reduc- a rupture of them and free discharge of pus. The temperature of the ing him to poverty. . This may not often happen to an may be slightly or very greatly individual In this strenuous AmeriIncreased from 103 to 105 degrees. can life, and especially to a man of energy and push, but in spite of all that he could do Ryan, who had made money, saw his business gradually get away from him on account GIVES UP WORK; ani-ma- y g . - played. Wealthy Enrico Caruso. A part of the statuary, however, will have to find a place In another of his through in a large consignment The EVIL SPOT IS CLEANED OUT herders and gambling carried on In the only safe 'wayto'keep on one's guard open. Inferior women usually found is to keep one s taste uncontaminated. ' Sheriff Puts an End to Wyomings a haven there. The authorities confiscated several Toughest Town Inhabitants barrels of rather poor whisky, gamSilk. Arrested. The first silk waa made 2600 B. C. bling devices and other paraphernalia and left a deputy sheriff behind to by the wife of a Chinese emperor. ArJack the Pot, Wyo. Cheyenne, istotle in 350 first mentions silk toughest town In Wyoming, has been see that Jack Pot la not reinhabtted. among the Greeks. The manufacture closed by the sheriff and mayor. Inof silk was carried on in Sicily In the habitants are either under arrest or Lad Does Peculiar Things. twelfth century, later spreading to have been driven out of the country. Huntington, W. Va. Russell Baker, Italy, Spain and the south of Franca. Jack Pot exists only dnrlng tha eight has been attending school here It was not manufactured in England summer months. It was a sort of halt- - for two years, and writes all his flgfore I'1 aeiMtfr 414. - Jaiireq, Forty-sevent- h , CENTENARIAN rasp-berr- will make from six to ten canes, and in this way. you can greatly increase the number of tips to be buried for the TOO of his burden of flesh, and after he was obliged to .retire he sat on the Btreets for years trading watches as a means of preventing a too speedy loss of his earnings. Twenty, years ago at the age of forty, he weighed 200 pounds and was a fine specimen of physical manhood. Gradually, in spite of dieting, his weight climbed until he weighed 250. He was then still able to attend to business, but bis avoirdupois continued to Increase until It reached 300 pounds. Then he gave up the restauscribed for Its stock subscriptions, and rant business and went on the streets In was later sold the stock London, and began trading watches. His flesh Where the British government finally continued to increase until he became convinced that the canal waB a sucphysically helpless under a weight of cess, was glad to gobble It up. 370 pounds. The pasha of Egypt had agreed, I have tried my utihost to keep moreover, to Bupply 15,000 to 20,000 the struggle for a livelihood, he up laborers to dig De Lesseps canal for said, but I am too fat and too short comlow The French wages. very of breath. Somebody has got to take workthese pany guaranteed Egyptian care of me if I am to go on. men good food and sanitary care, and Ryan has been admitted to an Inwhen they failed to provide It the pasha stitution in Richmond. His general called off his men, and it was neces- health is as good as that; of the averEuto from laborers Import sary age man of his age. rope... The French company complained of breach of contract, persuaded the Egyptians to accept Napoleon BACKED FISTS WITH SAVINGS III; as a good arbitrator, and wrung about $20,000,000 more out of ex- Young Chicago Boy Taps . Bank Achausted Egypt Directly and indirectcount to Bet Ha .Can Llqk . ly, the canal cost the land of pyramids Another Kid. about $85,000,000, and In order to get tree of its financial difficulties, Egypt Chicago. "Peck's.. Bad' Boy" seeifia turned over most of its Interest In about to be supplanted In : 'fame by the canal to England. Shakespeares bad boy; If the'donfiden-tia- j tale "which William Rudd, eleven years old, 1112 East street, told to Desk Sergeant .Fitzgerald at the Hyde Park station is true. The sergeant was. glancing over the blotter when he looked out across his almost all of which come to him from desk and saw the husky form of young America. These he files most careRudd standing there! ' fully, and he will eventually exhibit thern ln one of his houses as a very fix Say, said the boy, T want' you to it up so I can go to- the Willard remarkable collection of human docuBchool. They think Im too bffd over ments. Caruso now gets no less than 500 at the Shakespeare school. Maybe Id a night, and It is to he feared that to have a chance to be good over where know me." anybody bold enough to offer him, say, they dont Got a reputation pretty quick, 450, he would answer In his bluff. didnt you? asked the sergeant. "Schools been going only a week. 'I've Yep, responded William. only been over there a week. Yesterday I drew one dollar out tJf my bank account and offered to bet a kid I could lick him. My dad heard about It and he took my bank book and the dollar away from me. Then he licked me. I had $17. in all, too. If thats the case, chuckled the po. lice officer, "I guess you better go back to dad. He seems able to take rare of you. Anyway, they dont allow us policemen to have much to say about public schools. good hearted way, as he did recently country houses, which Is situated six to Mr. Hammerstein: Really, I cant Tbs raising of a locomotive that left the track and rolled down an em- or seven miles from Bellosguardo. do It, old boy; It costs me more." When the late Mr. Plerpont Morgan The This Is called "Belvedere," and Is surbankment on its first trip is shown in the accompanying photograph. 1,200 two years ago to engine.whlch was a new one on Its way from the builders to the Southern rounded by 16 farms, each containing offered him Pacific railway, went Into the ditch on the line of the Southern railway, eight a piano. sing at an evening party in his house, Caruso would thoroughly enjoy his the singer coolly answered that he miles from Birmingham, Ala. The wrecking crane hag a tackle attached to the locomotive's frame and the derailed tender can be seen hanging over the holiday .were he not pestered by a could not possibly oblige, as he had bank near the water tower. One man had an arm and a leg broken In the flood of begging letters. He also re- invited his lifelong friend, Leoncavalceives not a few blackmailing letters. lo. to dinner the tame night wreck. Popular Mechanics. The lover of the high game taste, or ripe" meats, as slightly tainted meats are called, is advised to beware ot ptomaine poison. Warm weather gives rise to many cases of this ptomaine poison, some proving fatal. The poison is as likely to develop in food kept In the family larder as that served on restaurant tables. One may exercise eternal vigilance and buy food of a reputable dealer, and yet be poisoned through a piece ing owing throat or to accumulation ages. high-arche- . In July, or as soon as the canes of the black raspberry plant are long enough to bend over and reach the we ground, bury the tip end of each cane two to three inches deep in tha soil, cover them with earth and place a stone over the earth to hold the bent branch in position undetached from the parent plant There is no difficulty in securing from six to ten Plants from the canes of a black rasp, berry bush as they naturally.grow. But If you will nip off the tip of the young canes In June and plant, each cane DISTEMPER . - Tr The trouble, commonly called colt distemper, affects horses, and rarely mules and donkeys. It is such an infectious disease that nearly all horses contract the disease when colts and usually remains immune to future exThe cause is a very small posures. organism or germ 'which enters the system when a healthy colt comes in contact with a diseased! one or when fed and watered in infected vessels. The seat of the trouble is largely restricted to the respiratory organs, occasionally causing difficulty in breath- COLT Oisease Caruso Manages 20 Farms Great Tenor la Very Fond of Work and Fancies Himself an Art Collector. Affects Horses Only, Rarely Attacking Mules and Donkeys How to Treat Animal. Many of our readers will not know what the illustration represents until we explain, says Green's Fruit Grower The cut Is intended to illustrate and tell how to propagate the black 0F CAUSE Is opened with-- a ouiieh and a blare of trumpets In 1915 the second of the EAGER TO Woman Will Only When Talking of Funeral. DIE Smile Geneva. The entire village Chatelet, near Berne, celebrated 100th anniversary of the birth of J Elizabeth Bruner a few days ago, ' I everybody was merry except ' Bruner. Despite the fact that her.-onl-: flrmity is deafness, and . that- - et as strong and healthy as any wc past middle age in the village, 1 Bruner is tired of life and mourns stantly because she does not die. The villagers gave her an ot! p ing of herself, and speeches made. Mme. Bruner declined to any attention, staying in bed and ing a book while her neighbors i merry. She Is very wealthy, and only topic of conversation that cc a smile to her face Is her funeral p i sings his high notes low and his notes high. The lad Is normal every other respect Propagating Black Raspberries. purpose of making young plants for transplanting the next spring. So that if the tips have been increased by nipping back as suggested the ground about the parent bush may be filled with the roots of the young plhnts by October. When digging the plants the next spring the canes are detached from the parent plant, leaving the stems four to six inches long on each plant. MIXTURE FOR TREE WOUNDS Large Limb Cut Off, With Stub Left Unprotected, Furnishes Excellent Cause of Disease. Hiding Place for Fungi. The pulsations may also be considerably quickened. When complications do not occur this disease usually runs its course In two weeks, leaving the animal little the worse for having passed through the affliction. The milder forms ot this disease will need little or no treatment other than oareful feeding and nursing. A laxative diet, with something green, if posThe colt sible, should be given. should be placed In clean, airy and comfortable quarters, but not in a In California the following mixture was used on trees three years ago and Is still In good condition: One to three part of crude petroleum parts of resin; warm In separate dishes, mix and apply warm' to cuts made by pruning or by cultivator injury. While this mixture is not better than grafting wax, it Is much cheaper and is worthy of trial. If owners of trees would realize draught To hasten the suppuration the Importance of keeping the bark of the glands poultice of hot bran whole and unbroken on their trees or flaxseed may be applied to that and treat all wounds promptly, they region, and as soon as softening can would save much loss from wound fungi which are ever abunbe detected within, puncture the gland and ready to take possession dant clean knife with a abscess containing blade and allow the escape ot the col- and cause decay. Wounds that should lection of pus. During the course of be treated are A various origin, and the disease the animal should not be those to the body of the tree are most worked and care should be taken that important, though Injuries to large It be not exposed to conditions likely limbs very often spread downward. A large limb cut off, with the stub to produce a 'cold. left unprotected, supplies a good place for these fungi to enter, and TIMELY HINTS OF SHEEPFOLD the end of the life of the tree is hastened by the hollow body resulting Branches Overfeeding Is No Advaiftage to Sheep from decaying branches. and la Loss to Feeder Must are Injured at picking time by boot Have Plenty of Exercise. heels and ladders; winds break branches; hailstorms and sunscald When you are breeding fleece for rupture the' hark, and the bodies of mutton do not think too 'much of the the treee are often bruised by wagons fleece. or bther farm tools. When you find the mutton sheep best adapted to your needs, bred the PEACH SCAB AND BROWN ROT kind regardless of the wool question. Mutton specialists cannot afford to Mixture of Lime and Suld Bacriflce the quality of his product for Cure for Known Beat Is phur a few pounds ot wool. the Control of Disease. The appetite of the sheep Is something that needs watching. Feed d lime and sulphur The only the amount they will eat at a mixture Is the best fungicide known time. Over feeding is no advantage at the present time for the control of to them and is, of course, a loss to the and brown rot. Three apscab peach feeder. plications are considered necessaryIs Sheep must have plenty of ex- for good results where peach scab ercise or they will run down at a rapid likely to occur. The first application rate. They musth be kept strong Is to be tnade just as the calyx Is on their legs. being shed from the fruits. If a larger proportion of our farms The second application to be made were stocked with Improved sheep three weeks after the first. The third the hired help problem would be application should be made about Bolved at once. three weeks after the second. The One man can grow a large flock of lime and sulphur mixture sheep and grow enough food to win- should not be. applied to the fruit ter them in good condition with very within four weeks of the ripening little labor. time, ae the mixture may give the No animal deteriorates so rapidly fruit a whitewashed appearance when from, neglect or shows so marked an ready for market improvement for good as a sheep. GRAPES TOO GOOD FOR BUGS To make these animals pay keep the best obtainable and give them the New York Experiment Station Has best care possible. Had Much Success in Spraying One trouble with the sheep business With Arsenate of Lead. in this country is that it has not been made enough of a business. It has The rose chafer does much Injury been played with, so to speak, and put- to grapes, often destroying the entire ting the real effort into things which crop soon after bloseoiliing. In small seemed to us more important gardens the vines may be protected When buying sheep go in for those by covering with mosquito netting. that are If the wool Where this is Impracticable spraying comes clear up to the eyes so much will bold them In check. Farm and the better. Home says the New York experiment Sheep have many good points to station has had excellent success in recommend them as farm animals of ueing eight pounds arsenate of lead profit; They are prolific, the manure and two gallons molasses with 10 Is very rich and evenly distributed, gallons water. Spray should be apover the soil Burface and the wool plied as soon as the rose bugs appear. and flesh will always command a good For the grape root worm spray twice, price In the market not to mention the first spraying about one week other favorable qualities. after the first beetles appear and the It should be managed to build the second spraying ten day later. flock up a little every year. Thla can be done by saving out the choicest Preparing Red Raspberries. lambs, by buying now and then a The red raspberry Is propagated oy good head for the flock and by the Bhoots which grow up from the roots. very best feeding and care possible. shoots are preferable for The real cost of keeping sheep la planting. much less than that of any other ' He requires the least grain, Trim Carefully. and this Is exclusive of preparing him; Dont trim young trees too liberaltree tor the market, which time la of com- Too much foliage token from the paratively short duration, and aside weakens its feeding power. from this, his feed consists mostly of nibbles here and there of feed cattle Orchard Unprofitable. md swine would overlook and would, nt tor the sheep, go to waste. Self-Boile- self-boile- d well-bre- d close-woole- One-year-o- Finger Watchea Being Worn. Washington. Finger watchee little larger than the ordinary dinner rings are being worn on the third finger of the left hand of Washington society girls. The wrist watch, tks enklf watch, the garter watch, all are considered passe now and the fragile digit timepieces are the marks of mndlshners farm-anim&- I |