Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, December 5, 1913, Page 13

Section Two THE BEMIDJT D Bemidji, Minn., Friday, Dec. 5, 1913 1LY PIONTSER ~ PumfuoR POLICE OF SPAIN M Andalusia They Are Seen In All Their Shabby Glory. ARSENALS ON MOVING LEGS. They Will Put a Pistol to Your Head With the Greatest Politeness and Lock You In a Cell With Infinite Courtesy—Mines of Misinformation. He is polite, is the Spanish police- mwan. There is a live and let live air about him. ke poss os neither the essy and kindly dignity of the police- man of Loundon nov the truculence of #he policeman of New York, but he is very, very human. And he has the Blessed gift that no other brand of policeman seems to poss of appear- img to be more than an ordinary person. ‘Wrue. he is avmed. He is an arsenal meving on legs. Iut something tells you that he wonldn’t really hurt a fly. % Hke him. And here 1 must say that he is not W be confounded with the guardia avll. The guardia civil is quite an- ether person altogether. He is stern and austerc, and he patrols country districts and lonesome mountainous phaces. e was used to put down the bandeleros, those adepts in the art of swift, forcefr! borrowing, whose pres- ence did so wuch to heizhten the ro- mance of old siunny in. The guardia etvil killed off these gay ists, but now. even after his job has been finished. he still wears a cold, austere air. ile is indeed not to be eonfounded with iy friend the police- man. The first tiwe [ wet the Spanish po- Heeman swas one night in a certain town in Andalusia. Truth compels me to state that 1 met him in a profes- sional way. 1 was indulging with others in a row when he appeared—in | force. 1 was gathered in by five of him. But how polite he was! He put his pistol to my head. or five of them put th pistols to my head, and made me feel that T would be doing him the zreatest of favors by coming with him to the poli ation. The whole affair was courtliness it- self. To be arrested in such a manner was to have a pri one. At the polic treated with politene —with a locked door, The Spanish policeman is well paid. He sports not an ambas- | sadorial ary. All he gets is 2 pe- getas a d e is therefor nable to the tip. This. T must ever, makes | worthy and ¢ and ordei He is s not tion T was a asten to sajy none the less a ive gunrdinn of law forin. But that It ix the fanit of a apy nce he lish post- hed Spanish rtistry about his » the picture. in Andalusia, wr infirm. One is ry for him as he humps along with his sword trundling behind him. But he has the wisdom that goes with age. If be sees a row he looks at it with his blind eye and allows it to mimmer down—a very good thing with WS, if you ask a Spanish policeman a question he is politeness itself. But his answer will be wrong. He is a mine of misleading information. He doesn’t know. Indeed. what be doesn’t know about the names of streets and the way to get to them and thin generally would fill an encyeloped he s often si If you want to know anything you must not ask a Spanish policeman. Respect him. for he is of the best., but don't ask him questions. In the nighttime he sometimes cai- ries a lance. Ile is then called gereno, presumably because he brings serenity upon troubled waters. He looks very picturesque on a clear, star Ht night and makes one think of the times of old—the times one reads about in historical romances. But he is al- ways harmless, always peaceful and ready for a friendly gossip. He fis really a sereno—a serene person. His lance Is merely there to round off his artistic and romantic appearance. And M is not a sharp lance. I know. for 1 have often felt the edge of it—when the sereno courteously handed it to me for inspection. But it looks artistic when seen in the distance on a star Ht night. The policeman of Catalonia is some- what different from the policeman of Andalusia. He is alert, pushful and Mmterfering. He is apt to want to know who you are and what you are and what your business may be. But Cata- Jenia is not Spain. [t is a place where the people rush about doing all man- per of things. They like work, and, what is worse. they like other people te work. And their policemen take after them. No, the Catalonian policeman cannot truly be called a Spanish policeman. ¥ you want to see the true Spanish peliceman you must go down to Anda- Jusia. And you will like him. You will feel fer him the friendliest regard. You will see him ambling casually along with stooped shoulders and trundling gword. And should you have to make ‘Bis acquaintance in a professional way you will find that he will deal with pou as an easy and kindly father would deal with you. If be arrests yon ¢ financial art- | ather, the | lege conferred upon | ind in the end | not: too | ame- | , how-! AIR THERE COULD NOT RISE.! | injure your feelings. bim.—Bart Kennedy in London Stsr, he will arrest you in a way that won’t 1 ¢an recommend “THAT IS NO GOJD AT ALLY What It Meant When Used by the Italian Postal Official. “A postotlice order was awaiting me in the postotiice of & lage.” writ of the Guzette. "l could see the pleasant little document lying on the counter, so ! gave my name and asked for the money. . “The oflicial, however, remarked that that wouldn't do. *Ah. thought I; *he wants sowme proof of identity.) so I rummaged among my papers and fetch- ed out my military service paper. “*“That is no good at all’ said the official, ‘because’— But after the ‘be- cause’ he stuck. The words refused to come out, and he merely assumed an icy official demeanor. ‘Ah.’ thought I, ‘he can’t read the German of my serv- ice paper,’ so I wenf®away and dragged in my innkeeper, and he §wore with a mighty oath that I was so and so. ““That is no good at all," was all the man behind the counter vouchsafed, though he said it with a smile. So I hurried back to the inn and fetched, further proofs of my identity—-a pa port, an authenticated copy of a certifi- cate of natlonality and finally even a letter from an Italian relative. Surely the postoffive man would be able to read them. ““That is no good at all, he said with another of his pleasant smiles after he had read them, adding that he was very. very sorry. Naturally T got angry at this and abused him as well as a -limited acquaintance with foreign terms of abuse would permit. “‘“That is no good at all,” he said, with another of his smiles, as he rat: tled the shutter a the pigeon hole Next morning I returned to the charge only to see the shutter fly across again The 'day after the same thing hap- pened. But on the third day I brought the burgomaster with me. I came pre- pared to have it out with the Italian postoffice. What was my astonishment when I saw the clerk waiting for me behind the open shutter, with a hand- ! ful of small coins, which he counted out to me. winding up with a fascinat- ing smile as he said, ‘Don’t you see, yesterday and the day before I hadn’t enough money.”” WATER PRESSURE | Tremendous Force Exerted at the Bottom of the Sea. it Would Be Compressed to Such a Degree of Density by the Enormous Weight That the Water Would Float Upon It—Limits of Diving Depths. From ordinary considerations 1t would seern that there is no limit to the depths to which a diver or a sub- marine boat might go. Such. how- ever, is not the case. What prevents diving to great depths is the enormous- ly increasing pressure of water. No diver without a suit can go over 150! feet, because the pressure on the body is then about five tons to the square foot on his body. Eardrums would be staved in. and other fearful difficulties would result. To remedy this the diving suit was invented. but there is a limit also to its depth. At a depth of one mile the pressure due to the water alone is 165 tons to the square foot. ing suit was devised to withstand this enormous pressure trouble would be found in getting a pipe line that long and withstanding the pressure that would not break of its own weight. In the case of a submarine boat it is slightly different. Here only the strength of the boat is the necessary thing. But to be strong the walls have to be thickened, and this adds to the weight, consequently adding to the load to be pulled through the water, and so at last the limit of the engine propelling the boat is reached. If a larger engine is procured it itself weighs more, larger quarters are need- ed for it, etc. So there is a well de- fined limit to a marine boat’s diving. Let us take the extreme depth of the sea so far found. that of five miles, and find the pressure to the square foot on the bottom. As water is comparative- ly incompressible, a cubic foot of it welighs practically the same on the surface as at the bottom of the sea. In the case of fresh water this is sixty- two and a half pounds. Salt water weighs slightly more. So all one has to do to find the pressure due to the water at any depth is to multiply the depth in feet by sixty-two and a half, and the answer is apparent at once in pounds. At a depth of five miles, the number of feet being 26,400, we have that num- ber of cubic feet to multiply by sixty- two and a half. The answer is 1,650,- 000 pounds, or 825 tons, to the square foot pressure. No known hollow ves- sel can withstand this, ‘While on the subject of increasing water pressure a number of interesting observations can be made in connec- tion with air compressibility. Air is very compressible, the volume decreas- ing as the pressure increases. - If a bot- tle is tightly corked it will contain air at ordinary pressure of fifteen pounds Even if a div- | to the square inch, and that is the pressure it exerts. Then tie a weight to the bottle and let it down in the sea by means of a string. to the top a the stopper has been forced into the bottle by .the water pressurve. . If the bottle is filled with water and stop- 1+ pered and let down no such thing takes place, showing that water is not com- pressible to any great extent. If by any means some air could be placed at the bottom of a sea five miles deep it would not rise to the top, for it would be denser- is. would weigh and the water would have to float on the air; hence no man knows if the bottom of our seas is wet or not. There is only one thing that would On bringing it in it will be found that | more to the cubic foot than water— | [ | prevent tne awr rrom becoming this dense, and that is if it was cold enough it would liquefy. However, it is al- -8, . impossible —for anything at the bottom of the sea to be colder than 4 degrees C., for if it | got colder the water around it would i become colder and larger and conse- quently lighter and rise, and its place | would be taken by 4 degree water; which would bring the object to that temperature. So we have no argument against the suggestion, for the temper- ature at or below which air liquefies is between 100 and 200 degrees below zero C. Some people seem to think that a stone thrown into the sea ecan sink only to a cetrtain depth and is, there i held suspended on account of the pres- sure of water. A body immersed in fluid is buoyed up only by the weight of the fluid'displaced. We have found that water is practically incompress- ible, so if the stone displaces a cubic foot of water that water weighs the same, or practicaly so, at the top or at the bottom of the sea. So the stone would be buoyed up only by that con- stant force and would be carried down by its weight. Thus the difference in the forces would be always downward, and the stone would sink to the bot- tom. in fact. if the stone is at all com- pressible the tendency is for it to get heavier per .unit volume as it goes down. for we have the same weight in a smaller space. It will be remem- bered that this is. what happens to the air if we take it in a rubber bag under the surface of the sea. The volume gets less and less, consequently weigh- ing more and more per unit volume and displacing less and less water ané being buoved up less and less until at last a place is reached where the ate weighs more volume for volume tham does the water and it will not rise— Lawrence Hodges fn Chicago Record- Herald. Not In His Line. | “They tell me,” said the new re- porter, who was doing an interview, “that you have succeeded in forging your way to the front.” “Sir,” replied the self made man coldly, ‘“you have been misinformed. I'm no forger.”—London Globe. There should be a Victrola In Your Home With ‘a VICTROLA in the house every Musical Longing Is Satisfied 1 try him on a fine Victrola. bluffing. order prices. then and there. given a chance. Again I'm drifting. talking about Victrolas. .............. 3 DOWN AND Fill in the prices you wish to pay, present them and we'll do business. They sell from" $17.50, $25.00, $50.00, $75.00 up to $500.00. Third Street Now friends, listen to this. in what he has been quoted as saying. ‘Well, that’s as far as this fellow got. Store “had it” on the mail order proposition. Here’s an opportunity for you Do ycu recollect that he said he would-meet any proposition advanced by any “Rock Bot- tom” mail order house in the country, whether it be on watches, jewelry or Victrolas. Why not You should have one in your home for Christmas. ' Some of the fellows who know Mr. Barker will come into the store and intimate that he’s The other day a fellow blew in with this remark: MR.) you are about the biggest bluff on this side of the Rockies. ‘Why, man you’re full of prunes. the mail order houses than from your store.” I often forget myself when a mail order house is at stake. We were ........... -9 PER " Barker’s Drug and J ewelry Store Defective to test Mr. Barker’s sincerity “Say, Barker, (no, he never said I can buy any kind of a watch cheaper through Mr. Barker (notice I say Mr.) choked him right off The fellow was the kind who had to beshown, and SHOW Him, Mr. Barker did. He took the very prices and article presented by his visitor and convinced him that the Barker S0 could every other store in Bemidji if it were The result was our friend now wears a fine watch purchased from Barker’s and the beauty of it is that he never need be ashamed to tell where he got it. - Talk about meeting mail MONTH Bemidji, Minn.