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s : gead [HE American tourist who obl e\ flits rapidly and carelesset ": . Iy across the continent of’ ] Europe, looks upon the ~:“.u o canals of the countries he l}}{“!“;‘}i;::;f it passes through as being l';",-_“\)\{‘\iikﬁzii i in the main .mere pictur‘.M’M"H)i esque features that add Cadl gl to the nterest of the o& ¥ landscape, but have been . - rendered practically: obsolete in a commercial sense by the buliding of railways. He cees barges upon them, to be sure, and in winter he is delighted by the sight. of the péople of Holland skating along the frozen. water courses. But he would. be astonished if he Knew the important part the canals and canalized rivers, play in the economic life of European nations. = - | Canals, as they were originally constructed, cannot compete with railroads, but as the latter have spread over the land, the waterwayvs have been altered to meet the new conditions. Thetr chief mission in these days is to connect the centers of population and industry with the consts—to make thom seaports—and this has been :u-('onix_)‘xi\'he‘d to an extent that s surprising to :)I(3?‘uninformud. = The pressure. of international competition is mainly responsible for the extensive "impmvymmit of waterways in the continental Kuropean countries that have the highest degree of industrial (‘A'\‘("}Jﬂ!ﬂ\f‘nt Bvery manufacturing country, distriet or city, if it is to prosper, mmust be able fo meet this competition and to assemble materials as’ cheaply as possible from all parts of the world, and be ysm\'i;!fod with facilities for pl‘n'(fi;_;gi its goodd cheaply: arnd readily upon the chief domestic and foreign markets. The countries of the continent recognizing ‘this. have adopted tbe policy of providing with equal care for-the development of both rallroads and waterways. In° Great Britain, on tha contrary, with the exception of two camals in Scotland, the inland wadterways, both rivers and canals, have been improved and are operated by corporations. The British government fis considering the advisabilty of changing its policy ‘toward waterways. ;

Of all' the continental . countries, | France has spent the most on canal navigation. ier extensive plans for waterway development, adopted in 1879, provided for a systend by which the waterways should be all connected with each other, and with the chief centers of population and industry._i They are mainly owned or controlled | by the state, but when in 1903 a lawl was passed providing for the construction of new waterways, it stipulated that the beneficiary parties or localities must advance at least half of the total cost. The interests making this contribution ‘are permitted. to recoup themselves from tolls or dues, and from a monopoly of providing towage or traction. Three canals, one from Cette to the Rhone, one from Marseilles to the Rhone, and ‘one- from the coal fields to the Oise river—the Canal du Nord—are now being constructed under these conditions. The most important of the commerclal waterways of France is the Seine ‘river, and there is an immense trafic upon it between Havre and Rouen and Paris. At large expense it has been canalized and provided with locks and latéral canals, while other canals connect the river through its tributaries with the Loire, the Rhone, the Rhine, the Meuse and the Scheldt.. Another elaborate system of main -and lateral canals that carries a vast tonnage to Paris commects the lcapital with Dunkirk and Gravelines, and between Paris and the Belgian and German frontiers there is a perfect network of waterways. The western and southern parts of the country are nearly as well provided with canals. The Canal du Midi, which, running from Bordeaux to Cette, connects the Bay of Biscay with the Meditgrranean, enables the former city to supply the whole of southern France with the products of foreign lands, and of the French colonies which it imports. In connection with this Canal du Midi, the French government has long under consideration a most interesting and important project—nothing © less than to convert the waterway into a ship canal by which sea-going vessels ‘and the warships of France could pass from the Atlantic to the Mediterranean without being exposed to the violent storms of the peninsular coast and without passing through: the Strailts of Gibraltar. The people of France never lose sight of the possi‘bility of war with Great Britain, and this ship canal plan appeals to them especially because it would relieve their navy from the necessity of

Alpine Death Toll Large

Hundred Tourlsts : Killed on Lofty Peaks Last Year Due to Climbing and Plucking Flowers.

According to statistics furnished by the German-Austrian Alpine Association, there were in 1910 just 100 fatal Alpine accidents, to which must be added 28 lives lost through plucking Alpine flowers and similar “semi-Al-pine” pursuits, so that the total num-

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steaming under the thousand guns that arm King George’'s tremendous fortress on the reck. So the project seems almost equally important from a commerclal and a 4 military view, and doubtless will be carried out. Altogether, France has nearly 3,000 miles of lcanals and 5,000 miles of navigable rfvers, and in the last 25 years the rate of increzse as regards tonnage and ton-mileage has bm-u_j more rapid on the waterways than on the railways. ; In‘the Rhine and the Elbe, Germany possesses two commiercial waterways of the first magnitude. The Rhine is navigable for small river ‘steamboats ® - 1 4 ) ;i ; + P f ; ! ; ; , 1 Fo o )ﬁ £ el i Bg e Lo & Ri I R rnpn AT B eßy R IO » AR ’ ; (T ;; . oty “f ey -,{ : s s U BRI RS AP TR e eT R Ley i SRR SN T |RO o] G R e R L N eIR RS BTSN s S el e e T e £ i R RP T R oo men s e e ey Bt B e e a 0 BB ERHAVEN, 2 TR, CHZOADING—OGN

as far as Basel, just across the Swiss frontier, and small sea-going steamers ascend it as far as Mannheim. This mighty river has been improved by the Germans at a cost of more than $12,500,000, and its waters bear an immense 'trafic in coal, iren ore, iron and steel .manufactures ‘and other heavy freight.- The Rhine valley, dotted with picturesque ruined castles and saturated with legend and romance, is also one of the busiest districts in all Europe, for it is densely populated and coutains numerous important indnstrial cities. Canals connect the Rhine with the Meuse, Saone, Seine, Danube and Ems rivers. The Rhine-Rhone canal follows the course of the river from Strassburg almost to Basel, and is generally used instead of the river. The Elbe is second only to the Rhine in commercial importance. It i{s navigable throughout its whole course in Germany and along it le some of the chief silver and coal mines, salt fields, sheep pastures and beet-root areas in the empire. Moreover, it links Berlin, the capital, with Hamburg, the chief port, by the canals of the Havel and Spree river systems, The Weser, the Oder, the Vistula and other rivers are of great importance as commercial highways, and go to make up Germany’'s grand total of nearly 6,000 miles of navigable rivers, of which about 1,400 miles are canalized. : . o

Germany’s canals are many, their total mileage belng something like 1,500, and large sums ,ax\e spent on their improvement. The most important internationally is the great North Sea and Baltic ship canal, which traverses Schleswig-Holstein, saving two days’ time by steamer between Hamburg and all the Baltic ports of Germany. This canal was begun in 1887 and was opened to traffic in 1895, and is a source of much pride to Emperor William. The Ludwigs canal in Bavaria united the Danube.with the Main, thus supplying a continuous waterway fromn the North sea to the Black sea. The Plauen canal connects the Elbe with the Havel, and there are systems connecting the Oder with the Elbe and the Memel with the Pregel.

ber of deaths for the year amounted to 128, as compared with 144 in 1909. The very unfavorable weather prevajling last year prevented many tourists trom making ascents, and this probably accounts for the decrease in the accidents recorded. Of the victims, 19 were climbing alone and 62 had friends or guides with them. Sixty-six fell from rocks or grass slopes, 12 slipped on snow or ice, 3 fell into crevasses

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How Vegetarianism Hurts Us : By M. A. LANE, SC. B, (Former Research Fellow in Physiology, Unlversity of lilinois.)

I sometimes despair for the future of the human race when I see some pOOr man or poor : SRRy wopan trying to g Sl worry along BESRNE OS| through an all-too-gy 8 limited and not | overdoyous life on g | a diet that isfit * only for guinea o \3;}«%‘ pigs, rabbits and ‘,’,ﬁi kine. v . (%é I have no quarPawwwas 2| rel with the vegex tarian or with his §2B" | ‘principles;” in : 8+ |l fact, I don't know BEE S N| and have never ST | heen able to find [Rele JaN out just what his principles are. But I'm sorry for him. I once knew a young man who was trying to do the very hardest kind of work—the mixed kind, which is physical and mental, too—on a diet -that a healthy rabbit would hesitate about adopting unless guaranteed that the quantity would be absolutely unlimited. This young man would make a breakfast of a bit of tread, a small plate of boiled rice, and a glass of water; he would luncheon on-a small quantity of butter-beans, or some other equally {insubstantial airy nothing, and then he would top off the day with a piece of cake and a cup of tea—always weak tea, too. Occasionally he would go on what ‘might be called a veritable “feeding bat,” and would wildly (issipate on two bananas for breakfast, boiled rice with green corn and an apple for luncheon, and a

and 9 were swept away by avalanghes. The greatest number of accidents occurred in July and August (22 and 23, respectively), and the fewest in March, November and December (one each). Among those killed were 42 Germans, 24 Austrians, 19 Swiss, 6 Italians and 4 Englishmen.

Contrary Signs.

‘“What made you think Jiggsby was the goat in this affair?” “Because he seemed so sheepish about it.” L .

age are small so that rates are very reasonable and the total of heavy traffic is large. ) Through close and effective study of economical transportation, Belgium has buillt up an excellent system of canals and canalized rivers, 29 in number. .These are used .partly for transportation and partly for irrigation. Both the M=use and the Scheldt are navigable throughout their entlire length in Belgium, and many of their tributaries have been canalized. In addition to these mnatural advantages, there are canal systems that unite Brussels and Louvain with the Rupel, Brussels with Charleroi and Mons with Conde. Then, too, there are two fine ship canls which by uniting Ghent and Bruges with the sea coast have restored to those cities much of their old time commercial fmportance. i Mention of Holland instantly cre-

“lentil cutlet,” with two bananas for dinner! And after thij desperate plunge into the flesh pats of Egypt he would always feel as: guilty as if he had just robbed a sage and could hear the police coming to|take him in. You couldn’t persuade| that young man that he was slowly Lﬂ}t certainly killing himself. Had you sj‘ood him up before all the physiologists of the world, to be assured by them not only on their reputation as men of science, but on their decency and honor ss men, that that sort of a diet was never “intended,” by any scheme of nature or any deity imaginable, for the human ‘machinery of digestion, he would probably have come out of the seance with a vague idea that somehow or other they were just trying to fool him for some hidden and vicious purpose of their own. " :

It would be a good thing if all men and all women were early in their youth put through a course of study— I mean actual study,. from the thing and not from the book, which is worse than useless, not even being useless —on the vast differences between the digestive apparatus of the plant-eat-ing animal and that of the meat-eating, or omnivorous, animal, such as man. - The young vegetarian mentioned above was very brave; as brave as anybody could be in such circumstances and on such a diet, but he would often look with longing eyes on the steaks and chops his companions consumed at table, while he himself was sturdily punishing himself with rice and other wholly unsavory dishes. Also he was rather dim of eye and not specially active on his feet or at

Blames Accent for Change

American Minister Declares English Clergymen Are Displacing Them Owing to Their Odd Speech. The minister smiled. “First we got Dr. Chrales F. Aked from Liverpool,” he said, “and now another alien preacher is coming to New York from Birmingham. If this keeps on, our metropolitan churches will soon be as foreign as our metropolitan opera.

ates a mind picture of canals, and indeed that little land of dykes and ditches is completely cut up into small islands by its extensive system of waterwayvs. They cross and interlace one another like the threads of some large fishing net. The North Holland canal was considered, until recently, to be the finest of the kind in Europe. The southern part of the country is especially favored by nature, for the Rhine, entering Holland, divides up into numerous arms, the chief of which are the Waal, ‘the Lek and the Yssel. The Meuse joins the Waal, thus mingling its waters with those of the Rhine, and all of these rivexjs carry an immenrse trafic. Fourfifths of the river trade of Holland is carried on the Rhine and the Waal. The Scheldt has its estuary mainly in Holland and carries ocean vessels to Antwerp. ‘

his work. And although he might not have admtted it were he charged with it, I knew he was afflicted with a disorder of the digestive apparatus that always accompanies vegetarianism. He was, in fine, the victim of a prejudice that left him unequal to the work he was compelled to do, and which he was doing at the expense ‘of his health, happiness and success in the world in which he moved. .

Upon what grounds does the prac tice of vegetarianism rest its claims? The answer is, on no grounds whatsoever, unless.it be those of the man who has an ‘“idea” that if he looks over his left shoulder at the moon, or sees a black cat on the thirteenth day of the month, he is dead sure to have bad luck. i

And yet it is only.when it is ridden to death as a hobby that vegetarianism can be charged with inanity. When it is practiced occasionally and for a limited time, and at irregular intervals, it becomes the useful servant of scientific Intelligence. There is a ‘“soul of truth” in vegetarianism, as there also may be, so far as you or I know to the contrary, in the belief that if you see a black tabby on Friday the thirteenth, you will lose regularly at poker for some considerable time thereafter. This soul of truth takes us backward a bit in the natural history of man. .

The primitive ancestors of European races, like the savage races of the present time, were naturally fitted for, and therefore ‘“needed,” a certain amount of irregularity in their feeding. Sometimes game would be plenty, and sometimes it would be scarce. When it was scarce, or not to be had at all, those primitive ancestors of ours were necassarily llmited to a starvation diet. They were very hungry, and their hunger made them keen on

- “T know what makes us bring these men over here. It’s their accert. New York is foolishly enamoured of the English accent. : “We natives say ‘ut’ for ‘it, “dawg’ for ‘dog,’ ‘derby’ for ‘bowler, ‘walst’ for ‘blouse,’ ‘cawfee’ for ‘coffee,’ ‘clork’ for ‘clark,’ and we have a number of colloquialisms about ‘making reservations’ and ‘delivering the goods’ and

e SLZEL EANAL . | ’ . b“'inz to the level condition of the country, the construction of a canal in Holland involves but comparatively little labor and expense. Many of the canals are used constantly as substitutes for public highways, and in the winter thelr frozen surfaces offer convenient roads for the skaters who throng them on their way to and from market and about their various occupations. So complete is the canal system that by means of it a resident of Rotterdam could breakfast at Delft or The Hague, dine at Leyden and sup at Amsterdam, or return to his home before nightfall. Since not only the surface but the beds of many of Holland’s canals are above the level of land, the drainage is of the greatest importance. This is effected by means of pumps worked by the windmills that are such a characteristic feature

of the Dutch landscape. The banks of the canals are maintained by the famflles that live along them, each being assigned a portion to keep in repair. Emory R. Johnson, professor of transportation and commerce in the University of Pennsylvania, who recently made a study of European waterways, as the speclal representative of the National River and Harbor congress, calls attention to the way in which Germany, France, Holland and Belgium have co-operated In establishing standard dimensions for their canals and barges, and connecting their systems. In this manner the through shipment of international traffic has been facilitated. “Another feature of the waterway policy 'of these FEuropean countries,” he says, “4s that care is taken to provide waterways with adeguate terminal and harbor fecilities, and to make such physical connections between raflroads and waterways at all inland harbors as to guarantee the easy and

economical transfer of traffic from cars to boats and water to rails. It is realized that terminal facilities and rail connections are as essential a part of the projects for making waterways useful as are reliable channels of adequate width and depth. The Rhine river, for instance, has 62 harbors equipped az fully as commercial needs require, with storage and transfer facilities. At 43 of these terminals the direct transfer of goods from trains to boats and river to rail is possible. Many of the harbors include large basins, some of¢which are used for the transfer and storage of commodities, while others are constructed to enable big industrial plants to locate on water frontage. Each city constructs is own harbor with but little, if any, aid frem the state, the expense being borne by the city, alded in some instances by private interests.”

the hunt, active, bright-eyed, alert, vigorous and pushing. Then, with a successful kill, there would naturally be a little gorging of meat, followed by a long and lazy rest. Now, while we, their descendants, are not quite as savage or quite as improvident as were our primitive forefathers of the jungle or the prairies, and while it is true that we are not distressed with alternate scarcity and redundancies of food, we inherit the stomachs and the general digestive machinery of those active old fathers of ours, and a reasonable degree of alternate gorging and starving is good for us. Unfortunately, however, most of us have to attend to business year in and year out, and we cannot lie idle around the woods digesting off our gorges, whereas fasting is not to be thought of by persons who work at occupations very different from hunting. But we can do this: We can cut down, or cut out, our meat diet at irregular and fairly frequent intervals; go without meat altogether for a week or so; be vegetarians, not regularly, but quite irregularly, for short lengths of time. And then when we give meat its inning, we will be better pret pared to appreciate it, and to extract {from it the health and happiness we ineed. The vegetarian is- therefore herewith supplied with a “scientific principle” as sound and as negotiable as a golden eagle. But if he adopts it he will have to. cut himself in two. t (Copyright, 1911, by the Columbia Press i Syndicate.) v ? Adamant. ; “There are a lot of girls who don’t j ever intend to get married.” { “How do you know?” i “I’ve proposed to several.”

*going some’ that creep into the pulpit. “Creeping in, they drive us out, and the British preacher, with his ‘cabn’ts’ snd ‘fahsts,’ gets our jobs.” :

Clams for Temporary Use.

“]I came across an old sign down by the shore the other day,” observed tke Long Islander. “The old chap who has lived and done business there for balf a century has painted up over his door: g

“BOATS AND CLAMS TO LET.” ~- New York Press,

Railway Postal Service First Operated in Missouri. i | William A. Davls, Before the Warn Postmaster at St. Jcseph, Devised . System Now in Vogue for Distributing Mail En Route. St. Joseph, Mo.—Progress in the carrying and distribution of United States malils has heen remarkable in this country in the last fifty years. A half century ago, the first railroad west of the Mississipp! river, from Hannibal to St. Joseph, Mo., was constructed, and on this road the railway mail service of the country had its origin and fnception. Then, only. the mails for the whole western country came: in bulk on freight and passenger trains to be distributed in ton lots and carried to many destinations by courier, by buckboard, horseback and stage lines, the only methods in those days. It remained for William A. Davls, postmaster at St. Joseph frony 1855 to 1861, to invent. and inaugurate the great system now in vogue. Before this time the mai!s, all mixed and in bulk, were carried to some central distributing point. Independence, Mo, was one of these and St. Joseph later was another. When the raillroad was bullt the task all came to the St. Jogeph office, in distributing the entire overland mail. . The idea occurred to Mr. Davis that these mails could be distributed while in transit. It seemed to him in every way possible and desirable. So he wrote to the people in Washington for authority to fit up some cars on the Hannibal & St. Joseph railroad to try out the experiment, The authority came and Mr. Davis went -to the railway headquarters at Hannibal and sujerintended the arrangement of several way cars with pigeon holes, doors, windows and other conveniences and i ) R W\ . N} [a 57 %«% et T I ) Vil a S Ny \'i/ v{\-a‘, "‘:'); ?f/ ’ i, o R dag oA AN \ X | 1 y TR Wi N\ NN AN AN AR : \\ \\\\\‘:‘ éﬁ‘"% , Q\‘\\\\\\ \\\\‘ ‘\‘\\\ NN b\ -'\;\ \ NFAL, IR Wiliiam A, Davis.

the initial run with a carload of malil was made from Hannibal to St. Joseph in record time, the mails prdperly distributed and ready for the overland stages, couriers, etc. ' The first trial was so satisfactory

that other cars were brought into requisition and soon a most remarkable change for the better was made in the receipt and distribution of mails. The great rallway mail service had been inaugurated! The problem of forwarding overland mails wifhout delay was solved, and Mr. Davis was soon made a special agent of the department and given full charge of the branch of the service which he had originated.

Willlam -A. Davis, inventor of the railway mail service, was born in. Barren County, Kentucky, in September, 1809. In early youth he went to Virginia, where he entered the postal service, at Rlichmond and other places, and with his career in St. Joseph he had been in the postal service about fifty years. .

The first car for the distribution ot the maile was an old-time “way” car, fitted up with pigeon holes. Extra windows were arranged and the *“‘distributors” used candles to assist in lighting the cars. Mr. Davis made a trip on the first car as far as Palmyra, Mo., and then left the work with an as-

sistant while he returned to Hannibal for the second car. There are many old railroaders yet alive who remember the first mail cars. )

GEESE ON THE STAGE REBEL

Object to Understudy for Singer in Halle Performance of Humperdintk’s “Konigskinder.” _

Berlin.—An amusing incident’ occurred this week at a performance of Humperdinck's “Konigskinder” at the Halle opera house. . Live geese are employed for the Halle production in contrast to the papier mache variety which indulge in make believe cackles at Berlin, The prima donna who regularly sings the part of the goose maid was taken ill suddenly and it became necessary to obtain an understudy. When the latter, however, went on the stage the geese rebelled against the intrusion of a stranger. They became so enraged they threatened to do the singer bodily injury.:

The conductor of the orchestra had to stop the performance until the geese could be quelled. They refused to subiside until the familiar figures of the wood chopper and the broom maker came upon the scene.

Effect of Mind cn Matter.

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