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oe cod > t plaze of light. yj, every big town in “ the southwest will “shave a tornado This is what Professor H. A. Hazen, of the Weather Bureau =,€)at Washington, As told a New York {| Sunday Journal reporter. The tor- nado trap is his 4;own idea. He pro- t u poses to destroy Wal the tornado before jj it has a chance to yee wreck and kill by AN, using dynamite. RAW “The time has By arrived,” said Pro- fo) fessor Hazen, “| “when serious at- tate! tention rsd be WauAneasiy) iven to nding Tey eee means of x defense against \Wwarrexrcner | those whirling storms. As the so- called cyclone belt becomes more thickly populated disasters from this cause will grow morefrequent. Al- ready people in that part of the country have be- gun to regard the question as having an important rela- Aj tion to their fu- ture welfare. y) When a menacing ~--d cloud is seen they are terrified, an- ans ticipating a catas- trophe. “My belief is “% that any town in that region would be rendered safe against ternadoes by a series of lookout stations extended in a line from north to south, so as to in- terpose a barrieron the danger side, from whichthe revolving storm invariably comes. This barrier would be made effective by means of a tem of dynamite bombs connected with the stations by wires. It would not be necessary to keep guard all the time, and the men appointed for the purpose would only go on duty when warning was received from the Weather Bureau that conditions were favorable for cyclones. On seeing a funnel cloud approaching the operator would simply wait until it got near enough and then touch off the car- tridges, which would blow it to smith- ereens, “What reason is there for doubting that such a method would be success- ful? Do we not know that water- spouts at sea are sometimes dissipated and reduced to harmlessness by the fir- ing of guns from threatened ships? A waterspout is nothing more or less than a marine tornado, Occasionally they have been seen to run upon the land and transform themselves into ‘cyclones.’ If the tornado were not destroyed by the dynamite explosions it would be likely to be deprived of so much of its energy as to be rendered Incapable of doing harm. The cost of maintaining such systems of de- tense throughout the cyclone belt would not amount in 1,000 years to the $20,000,000 which the recent calamity ls said to have cost St. Louis. “Money ought to be appropriated by congress for studying this strange and little-understood phenomenon. It is most important that we should learn about the mechanism of the tornado —a meteorological disturbance capable of destroying $20,000,000 worth of prop- erty in ten minutes. All we know at present is that the energy of the ’cy- lone’ must be electrical. It is always accompanied by a severe thunder storm. The Weather Bureau report says that during the St. Louis tornado the ‘electrical display was exceedingly brilliant, the whole west and north- west sky being an almost continual Intensely vivid flashes of forked lightning were outlined in green, blue and bright yellow against the duller background of never-ceas- Ing sheet lightning.’ “Byvidently, then, it is necessary that we should find some means of dissi- pating the electricity with which the destructive funnel cloud is charged. We must do for the tornado what we do for the ordinary thunder cloud, whose lightning we conduct away harmlessly by metal rods, Just here [ want to call your attention to a very interesting fact. I have devoted a great deal of attention to the study of ‘cyclones,’ following the history of all that have been recorded for a great many years back, and I have never , FIFTY years hence | known of a case where one of them struck a town that had a forest of even a few acres in extent to the southwest. “Tornadoes always travel from southwest to northeast. I am inclined to think that a forest of moderate ex-, tent to the southwest of a town is a most efficient protection against storms of this kind, because the trees draw off the electricity that gives to the ‘cyclone’ its energy. If this is true, it follows that every town in the dan- ger belt ought to plant trees for a tor- nado barrier, if it has not already this defense. Such a plan is much sim- pler and less costly than the dyna- mite system which I have already sug- gested. The towns ought not to re- main undefended while waiting for trees to grow, and so I would propose that a temporary makeshift might be serviceable, consisting of a barrier of tall poles with a net work of wires ex- tending betwen them. “Some time ago I made a list of 2,221 tornadoes that were recorded in the United States between 1873 and 1888. They caused an average loss of one life and $14,842 per ‘cyclone.’ New York state had 120 of them, including one of the first order, costing a total of $1,- 270,000. There were 111 in Pennsyl- vania, which destroyed $1,098,000 worth of property. One of the very worst occurred at Wallingford, Conn., August 9, 1878, when 34 people were killed, 70 wounded and 92 buildings were wiped out. Stone monyments were blown off their bases. The ve- locity of whirl required to accomplish | this was estimated at 260 miles an hour. From these facts it would ap- pear that the east is not at all safe from calamities of this kind. The electrical display at Wallingford is de- scribed as having been most terrific. “Accepting this electrical theory, it may naturally be asked how the torna- do gathers its tremendous store of elec- trical energy. This is a very difficult question. We know that there is elec- tricity in the atmosphere. Whence comes ‘this electricity? Perhaps it is generated by sunlight. Another the- ory is that the heat energy of the sun is transformed under certain condi- tions into electrical energy. My notion is that the particles of moisture which go to make up the clouds are some of them charged with positive electricity, and others with negative electricity, under ordinary circumstances. Con- ditions of which we know little or nothing, cause them to rush together, and there follows a display of light- ning accompanied by the noise we call thunder. “A tornado is a thunderstorm multi- plied in violence. Respecting ‘cy- clones,’ we are sadly lacking in data. When a phenomena of this sort oc- curs, everybody runs away; no one thinks of watching it. I am not cer- tain that the funnel-shaped cloud is not a mythical idea. “The approach of a tornado is never without warning. It is accompanied by a roar that has been likened to the bellowing of a million mad bulls. The width of the path of destruction is rarely over 300 feet. The best thing to do in case of the near approach of such a storm, is to run to the north. There is no safety, however, except underground. “No building of stone or any other material is proof against the violence of a tornado. This fact was illus- trated at Grinnell, Iowa, in 1882, when a storm of this kind took sixty lives and destroyed $80,000 worth of prop- erty. One of the buildings reduced to complete ruin was a solid edifice of stone and brick used for a public school, The tornado tore it to pieces as easily as if it had been so much lath and plaster. That was the ‘rec- ord’ tornado up to 1890, when a ‘ey- clone’ struck Louisville, Ky., and wiped out seventy-six lives and $2,250,- 000 worth of property.” Schlatter’s White Horse. It is probable that Schlatter is hous- ed at some isolated ranch in the moun- tains between Mule Springs and Clif- ton. The people of the ranches where he tarried tell wonderful tales about the healer and his white horse. It is positively asserted that the horse will not touch food or water except where hig master deigned to accept like hos- pitality. The appetizing alfalfa and the cleanest, nicest corn failed to tempt the horse to partake thereof at the ranches where his master did not eat or drink, and this was true where he had beeen ridden long distances be- tween ranches.—Silver City (Ariz.) En- terprize. Aged Golf Champion. Lord Rutherford Clark, who is over 70 years of age and a judge of the Scetch Court of Session, has won the first prize in the golf competitions at Cannes twice running. | Deer Killed by Engine on Long Island, A herd of deer tried to crossthetrack of the Long Island railway. One of them was killed. TO START AN ENGLISH COLONY. A $2,000,000 Ranch in California the Site Chosen. J. G. Gilmore, agent of the syndicate of English capitalists who have beer negotiating for the purchase of the Chino ranch in southern California, and G. Wilding, a prominent chartered accountant of London, arrived from the southern part of the state the other day with Wendel Easton and George Easton, who had been showing the twc visitors all over the Chino ranch, says the San Francisco Chronicle. “The deal is about closed,” said Mr Easton. “The owners of the propert? have agreed to sell and the Englis!i syndicate has agreed to buy. Now al. that remains to be done is for the ac- countant to verify the figures of the chartered accountant whom we em- ployed to make a report on the prop- erty. The terms of the sale have beer agreed upon and the purchase price will be about $2,000,000. The origina: terms agreed upon provided that one- fourth of the purchase price be paid cash down, and the balance in one, tw¢ and three years. The syndicate i: anxious, however, to pay the entire amount right away, and according tc present plans the entire $2,000,000 wil be turned over before the 31st of De- cember, The Chino ranch is owned by Rich- ard Gird, but C. H. Philips has a bond of purchase on the property which wili have to be satisfied in the settlement The San Francisco Savings union alsc has a mortgage of half a million dol- lars on the property. The Chino ranck contains about 40,000 acres, and is situated in Chino valley, in southern California. Some 7,000 acres of the property are devoted to “beet culture and supply the big Chino beet factory with nearly all the sugar beets con- sumed there. The sugar works are excluded from the improvements which go to the English syndicate ir the purchase of the ranch, but all other improvements, including the North Chino water system, the railway con- necting Chino with Ontario, on the line of the Southern Pacific, and San Antonio canyon, a piece of water prop- erty fifteen miles above Chino, are in- cluded in the purchase price. Mr. Gil- more said that the syndicate which he represented would form a corporation for the handling of the property. The idea is to place the property under the management of an English superin- tendent and bring out English farm- ers to settle in the valley with their families and work the land. “I have estimated that the ranch would sup- port a colony of 100 families very com- fortably. The colonization scheme will be carried out by men who are big transportation, shipping and colonizing people in London.” Four Years Getting Wood. Robert Winn, an old and eccentric character, died at his home on Hargis creek, this county, recently. “Uncle Bob,” as he was familiarly called, lived to bury two wives, and, not wishing to slight either, on his dying bed he asked that his remains be buried by the side of his faithful old dog that had but a few days preceded him. The request was complied with. The death of “Uncle Bob” recails an incident in his life that is decidedly out of the ordinary. During the opening scenes of the civil war “Uncle Bob” was anx- ious to join the confederate army. His wife was opposed to his doing so and used every argument and effort within her power to prevent it. One cold winter morning, after “Uncle Bob” had abandoned the idea, as Mrs. Winn sup- posed, of joining the army, she asked “Uncle Bob” to go to the woodyard and gather some wood with which to rekindle the fire. ‘“‘Uncle Bob” start- ed, but instead of “gathering wood” he walked to Mississippi and joined the army and for four long years fought for the cause of the confederacy. At the close of the war he returned to tho home he had suddenly deserted. En- tering by way of the woodyard,. he gathered up an armful of wood and entering the room he found his faith- ful wife who had continued to remain at the old home. Walking up to the fireplace he carelessly threw down his armful of wood and looking into the face of his now dumbfounded wife, he coolly remarked: “Here’s your wood,” after which he proceeded to make him- self at home, as of yore.—Louisville Post. MUCH IN LITTLE, A ripple of laughter is worth a flood of tears. If the dog whose day this is will call at this office, he can have it and no questions asked. Every man is the architect of his own fortune; but mighty few of them ever learn the trade. “Sweet are the uses of adversity,” exclaimed the receiver as he pocketed sixty per cent of the estate, Poverty is no disgrace, and it is just as well it isn’t; there are enough dis- advantages about it as it is, “A soft answer turneth away wrath,” and it’s a good thing to use when the other fellow is larger than you. If it is true that the good men do is oft interred with their bones, the coz- fins of some men are net crowded. It’s an ill wind that blows nobody good; the small boy whose sister has the carlet fever gt a vacation. Familiarity breeds contempt; it is not near as much fun to exercise a lawn-mower the last ten minutes as it was when you first took hold of it. Fools rush in where angels fear to tread. This, perhaps, accounts for the fact that the fools carry off so many of the prizes in love and business. “Kind words can never die.” How bitterly does a man realize that teri- ble truth when he sees all the kindest words he ever said in his life glaring at him from his published letters in a breach-of-promfse suit. WARDED OFF I PARALYSIS, JOHN McLEAN’S REMARKABLE EXPERIENCE. For Years Feels the Approach of Paralysis and Suffers All Torments That Mind Can Endure Withoat Hope. From the Free Press, Beloit, Wis. Having heard of the most remarkable benefits derived by Mr. John McLean, 1136 Sixth street, Beloit, Wis., stage carpenter at Wilson’s Opera House, from the use of Pink Pills for Pale People, a Free Press reporter called on Mr. McLean to learn from his own lips what his experience had been. “Yes, I have used those wonderful Pink Pills,” he said, “and have re- ceived beneficial results from them.” “In what way?” “In many ways. Where I was al- most a hopeless invalid now I am per- mitted to enjoy something of life. «No! I cannot say I am yet a well man, but when you compare my condition with that before I began taking Pink Pills, you will see there is nothing for me to complain about now. “I am an old soldier and ever since I came out of the army my health has been impaired, and I grew steadily worse, until finally my left arm, or in fact my entire left side, began to show evidence of paralysis—creeping par- alysis. I tell you, sir, no one will ever know the mental agony of those years that I watched the advance of that enemy, paralysis. “I am not a boaster, but I have seen a column of infantry advance at a charge, and. watched a battery unlim- j ber and begin to pour its deadly fusil- lade into the ranks of my command, but the experience of those hours was nothing like as terrible to endure as to feel the advance of the palsy. At war we found eneouragement in fight- ing and were cheered on by the chances of victory, but there is no such combating paralysis, at least so I thought three years ago. I went to physicians and begged relief, and they prescribed for me without avail. Day by day I felt my arm growing more useless and a numbness coming upon the left side of my body. I tried every remedy I could hear of. As a drown- ing man grasps at a straw, I clutched at the possibility of receiving help from Pink Pills. I can’t say I ever expect- ed help, and joy came into my heart when, on using the wonderful medi- cine, I found that I began to feel better. “A stomach trouble of long standing was less distressing than usual, my ap- petite improved, my spirits were bet- ter. I thought my diseased side was improving. I was happier than I had been before in years, I continued to take Pink Pills and I am as you see me, better than for years, and able to perform considerable work, and am getting better all the time. “Yes, I attribute my improved con- dition to Pink Pills. My wife and chil- dren have also been benefited from their use.” Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills contain, in a condensed form, all the elements necessary to give new life and rich- ness to the blood and restore shattered nerves. Pink Pills are sold by all deal- ers, or will be sent postpaid on receipt of price, 50 cents a box, or six boxes for $2.50, by addressing Dr. Williams’ Med. Co., Schenectady, N. Y. The two volcanoes in Iceland are adver- tised for sale in a Copenhagen paper. The price asked is about 150 pound: IF YOU WANT TO RECEIVE Lots of Letters. Papers, Cards. 14/- flies etc, vend us P REE 10c. and we wil put your name in our Directory. which we send to publishers and supply houses. You also get 144-Page Book containing 7 illustrations, all10r 10c, Post- age paid. Don't miss this chance. Ad- dress at oncc HOME ASSOCIATION, P,, 0. Box inneapolis, Minn Horrible Prospect. “It is fearful to think,” he said slow- ly, with a shudder, “Yes?” she said inquiringly, as he paused. “It is fearful to think of the suffer- ing that may be in store for Corny Vanderbilt if he persists in marrying that girl in opposition to his father’s wishes.” “What do you think his father will do?” she asked. “T don’t know,” he replied “No one can say positively. He has the repu- tation of being a man of great deter- mination, and if really angry, he might cut the boy off with two million dol- lars.” Getting Up in the World. “What a heap of style Jimmie Wat- son’s wife throws on?” “Oh, yes; Jimmie started a bicycle repair shop last week.”—Cleveland Plain Dealer. If Remote from Medical Help Doubly essential ts it that you should be provided with some reliable family med- icine. 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Most of the animals that suck when drink- ing are herbivorous and havp large stomachs, or more than one, with a paunch or receptacle for unchewed food, and with them digestion is a slow process and there is little, if any danger of over-distension, although such a thing is not unknown with some domestic, herbivorous animals. Digestion is a much more rapid pro- cess with the carnivora, and it is im- portant that it should not be delayed by the ingestion of large quantities of cold water. By lapping the mouth and throat are thoroughly moistened, while the water is supplied to the stomach in small quantities, properly warmed and mixed with saliva. 1t may be fairly assumed that the carni- yora are of more recent creation, tor the herbivorous animals are their food, and that therefore lapping may be considered a more highly developed way of drinking than sucking. Foxes are multiplying so rapidly in Aus- tralia that the farmers consider them a pest. Patents Issued. 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