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THE PURSUIT OF BEAUTY,
This Century Will, Perhaps, See Creat
improvement in Human Loveliness.
The artist. Carolus Dur?n, s->v* that
to make humanity more beaut
bo the duty of the coming
Not alone woman, but man, mu
then, under this necessity. "V
too long I'ved in unhygiei
health-hampering ways; tut '
century begins with ideas of
u nen-iLiinjc lA-iim.. iv m ???
the wealthy who get the be:
sanitary living and the artis
cation of the eye as to the correct mou-1
els in form and face, but the children
of the poor are trained in our common !
- schools to demand something else from
living besides bread and butter. The|
next century will see a harmonious de
velopment of the human race.
This is as it should be, from the art
ist's point of view. It is his business
to represent types to us, and at first
thought the picture of a world where
everybody shall be beautiful is an al
luring one. But what about old age?
Will beauty con'.-uer that? Or will
harmonious livjng bring the elixir of
life with it? Even if we all could bc
young forever, and all be physically
perfect together, would the world, in
the mass, be any more likable? This
reflection might inspire the satirist to
unnumbered slashes. There is the con
venient and ancient topic, for one,
about feminine jealousies, which would
have nothing to feed upon if ail women
were beautiful; half the novelists
would lose their occupation; the poets
would have nothing unusual to get into
a frenzy over; the stage would lack its
most exciting scenes; the pulpit would
miss the point upon which it hangs so
many mor?is, and as for some of the
yellow journal.-- -they would go into
bankruptcy.
To make all humanity beautiful is to
nake life wonderfully tame, for hand
some people, like perfect cnaracters,
would be immaculate bores. What is
beauty anyway? Is it not emphatically
in the eye of the beholder? With the
majority of us our knowledge of our
best loved friends only reiterates the
old philosopher's quip-and we receive
them according to their appearance it
may be-but we entertain them from
their value to us. And in a larger
scope, the men who have made the
most stir in the world, if history tells
the truth, have often been anything
but models of physical beauty.
As to the famous beauties of fable,
nobody knows how they actually
looked. For all we know, Helen of
Troy may have worn number eight
Bhoes and been cross-eyed, but so long
as Paris thought her the queen of beau
ty, she was indeed worthy to set a world
at odds. Doubtless Cleopatra would be
no siren to modern tastes, but whether
she had the beauty that art and poetry
have given to her or not, she had that
charm of temperament which defies
the touch of age and the frost of ac
quaintance.
No, personal and universal beauty
would have no standards. Even physical
standards of form which ranged to the
ideal might pall. Who cares for the
Ideal too near? It was never meant to
be set upon the common earth, in more
senses than one; it is a thing to flee
before us and taunt as it flees. And
as in the immatc ial so in the material.
The people we like the best of all are
the ones who suit us; a delightful
formula, which defies standards and
compresses all the infinite sides of
beauty into very faulty models.-Min
neapolis Tribune.
- The Fir rye on Mars Explained.
The-V * flame-like projection of
VS ^ved in December by As
' s?f A. E. Douglas, of the Lowell
V^servatory, Flagstaff, Ariz., and
which revived theories of ultimate
communication between inhabitants of
earth and the Martians, have been
pronounced projections from the ter
minator, and not efforts to signai
earth.
A letter was received yesterday by
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Mr. Justice ?tahn, secretary of the
astronomic section of the Academy
of Sciences, from Astronomer Doug
las:
"Bear Sir:-The projection which 1
oUcprved on Dec. 7 at Iii hours, that is
- ?~ .3 +v,o morning Ol
never less m.?..
Get up at a regular hour every morn
ins and work until thc things that are
before you are finished. Don't drop
what you have in hand because it is 3
o'clock.
Be honest; always have tho courage
to tell the truth.
Don't depend on others. Even if you
have a rich father, strike out for your
self.
Cultivate independence at the very
outsef
Learn the value of money. Realize
that it stands, when honestly made,
as the monument to your value as a
citizen.
Be jealous of your civic rights. Take
a wholesome interest in public affairs,
but do not let politics or anything else
interfere with the rigid administration
of your private duties. The state is
made up of individuals.
Be clean and decent. Don't do any
thing that you wouid be ashamed to
discuss with your mother.
Don't gamble.
Be circumspect in your amusements.
-Saturday Evening Post.
Where Artificial Limbs Are Made.
An artificial limb factory is rather a
grewsome place. Appliances for overy
variety of crippled leg or arm are
there; legs for hip, knee and ankle
amputations, for deformities, arms,
hands, fingers, toes. In one room web
bing and leather are being made into
supports and straps to fasten around
the shoulder or waist, or. as is often
ione in a woman's case, to the corset.
Socks to be worn on the artificial feet
ire also made in this room. Next door
;s the wood shop, where willow and
basswood, carefully seasoned, are carv
ed into the contours of natu ml limbs,
jvery leg and arm being different in
orm, size and character from all
)thers, because each is moulded after
i special model, to suit the person who
s to wear it. Further on, these wood
en moulds are covered with tightly
Wretched rawhide, which gives lateral
itrength. and this rawhide receives an
:namel coating. In another room rub
>er is being vulcanized and moulded
nto feet and hands which are covered
vith calfskin. The sponge rubber used
s lighter than wood, and absolutely
?dorless. It is covered with water
?roof enamel and no change of temper
Lture less than 280 degrees can affect
L In the last stage of the process the
eg or arm is set up, the parts put to
;ether and the springs and straps ad
usted.-New York Sun.
A Delft-Haven Relic.
During his trip to Europe last sum
ner, Senator George F. Hoar secured
. piece of the threshold of the old Pil
xim Church at Delft-Haven, from
r-hich port the Pilgrims sailed in Au
ust, 1620. On his return to Ameri
a Mr. Hoar wrote to the trustees of
he First Parish Church of Plymouth,
lass., saying he would gladly present
; to the church if they could use it.
The trustees were delighted with
tie offer and accepted it. A few days
go the piece of stone, which meas
res about 8 by 12 inches, was re
eived and inserted in the floor of the
ew edifice, in front of the gallery,
.n inscribed bronze tablet has been
laced npar the stone.-New York
un.
The London Athenaeum recently
noted a passage "from Ula Indiai.apo
8 News, Chicago,"
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J BY G. R. 0
At Grahamstown, South Africa, in
1878, I had a large collection of living
snakes which I kept in glassfrontcd
cages for the purpose of studying their
habits, temperaments and intelligence.
They were all caught by my own
hands. Out in the country..on thc veldt
and in the bush, I had watched them
as much as possible in their native
state, and nov.- supplemented this study
by keeping them afterward under my
eyes at home. This work I had car
ried on since September, 1S75, so that
I had acquired a pretty extensive
knowledge of thc snakes of southern
Africa.
All the venomous kinds were already
in my collection, and cf the harmless
snakes I had over 30 different species.
There was, however, a math desired
one still wanting to me. ono of the larg
est, most interesting, most graceful and
beautifully colored cf all the snakes of
the African woodland-the famous
tree-snake. Bucephalus capensis, the
"boomslange" or tree-snake of thc
Dutch settlers. Miles cf bush I hunted
through, but could never find a boom
slanse.
One day I had strained my foot, and
it pained me ro much that I declared
at the breakfast table that until it was
better I did not propose to do any
walking, but would give my foot a rest.
Before we rose from the table, a
Katfir boy came to the door with a
letter from Tidmarsh. the director of
the Grahamstown Botanical gardens,
which said: .'Come down herc as
quickly as you can. I have a larqe
bcomslange in tho oak trees over the
avenue."
Up I jumped from the table, seized
my hat and stick, and away I ran cn
the strained foot. Now it didn't pain
me. How could I think oi pain, while
the much-desired bocmslange was
waiting for me?
At the other side of the town lay the
Botanical gardens, but the distance
didn't matter; in a few minutes I was
there. Panting, I rushed in at the
gate; voices rang out; a dozen men
called me. They were gazing upwards
into the trees, evidently watching the
snake. They stood in thc middle of
the avenue, each side of which was
bordered by a line of leafy oaks so
branching as ."'most to meet over the
film. A^ ' -ibaw xii.*., . .au ca()v..j
to a tree and began to climb. "Keep
your eyes cn him now, every man of
you!" I shouted. "I can't watch him
and climb at the same time."
To take one's eyes from him for a
moment would be to jose him, so
closely did his colors harmonize with
the greenish leaves and purplish gray
branches and twigs among which he
lay.
Shinning up thc tree. I was soon
among the limbs, and began tc make
my way toward where the boomslang
was watching the group of upturned
Kaffir faces beneath. As I was now
among the foliage, I could not see
him, and had to Ut the Kaffirs from
below direct my progress through the
leaf-clad branches. lt was difficult
work, for the long snake-stick which I
took with me hampered mc by running
foul of the branches!"
"Upward-now over your left
shoulder!" shouted the Kaffirs; and
accordingly upward over the left
shoulder I climbed. Roon I was near
the snake. I could see him coiled part
ly, and partly stretched cut, at the tip
of a branch. His tail was well lashed
around it, his body half hidden by the
leaves, while his long slender neck
and bulldog head were thrust out a
foot and a half in my direction.
Evidently I was not taking him at
all unawares, fer his eyes, exceedingly
large and bright. 7'ero intently watch
ing my efforts to roach him, and his
inquiring tongue every moment shot
forth its trembling, double-pointed
tips, menacing me, as I thought, for
intruding in Iiis leafy dominions.
Otherwisc.be was as motionless as the
branch on which he lay.
I clmbed toward him until my face
came within six feet of him, but still
he never stirred, except for that quiv
ering, double-pointed tongue, which
now almost continually vibrated its
fine thread-like extremities in the air.
The warm sun was shining full upon
him, and his great brght eyes seemed
to glitter with malice, but still he re
mained motionless; and yet. I believe,
he was fully as anxious and as nervous
as I wac.
Here I was face to face with him in
the tree-top. What to do, I knew not.
Was he venomous? Were they true
those tales I had heard of his virulent
poison, those stories of lingering
chronic sores caused by his bites,
where the bitten part scaled off year
after year, and sloughed away? I
thought of theso things now and was
frightened.
I knew that he had not. the elaborate
poison apparatus of the deadly puff
adder and cobra; but still, I had seen
in the dead ones which I had dissected
and examined, that the boomslang was
a "doubtful-snake"-that is, that he
had large channelled or grooved teeth
at the posterior end of each outer dental
row, and that outside each upper jaw
there was a small gland beneath the
skin. What was this gland for. if not
to secrete venom? And why was the
tooth channelled, if not to convey ven
om into the wound made by lt. These
thoughts troubled me, and made my
heart beat fast with apprehension.
How was I to catch bim with safety?
Seize him with my naked hands, as I
was in the habit of seizing thc s?nke:;
that were decidedly harmless. Hardly
this. At any rate, I could not dare to
grab him while he faced mc. as he now
t'REILEY.
did, ready to spring and grab at me.
No; I would try to make him move, to
follow him. and then suddenly snatch
him by the neck, as he glided along
some branch.
Accordingly I climbed nearer to him.
I got within four feet of him. I could
seize him now. but it would never do
to risk those channelled teeth. There
fore I got myself in position to poke
him with my stick, so'as to make him
move. I meant to try to grab him as
he started off. Little did I dream how
he would surprise me.
I poked him with the stick, but 'ha
did not glide away-not he! He got
ready to fight me. His anger, or fear,
or whatever feeling possessed him,
transformed him in an instant, lip
became terrible to look at I drew bafk
three or four feet from him. I feared
him.
He was now no longer the grace:
thin-necked tree snake of speck
green and greenish yellow. His held
was f.attened out, and his neck b|d
swelled to an enormous size in co
parlson with thc thickness of his bo
It was bloated up with thc air
which he had inflated himself,
color of the bloated part was entir
changed. It was now a purple,
skin being stretched so that the scajfes
were far separated and appeared pke
little green spots scattered over Ms
surface. fi
Very clearly, he was ready to bite
me. But as I knew that snakes, wier
disturbed with a stick, will bite ratier
at the stick which touches them ttan
at the hand that holds it. I did tot
hesitate a moment, but poked hun
again.
As I did so, he made a dash at |he
stick, and then darted away through
the leaves, so suddenly that I cofld
not tell whither he had gone. The
rapidity with which he disappeajed
startled me. If he should always mive
as quickly as that. I could have^ho
chance to catch him in the tries.
Nevertheless, I determined to folow
him. The men running along onijihe
ground below and holding him[in
view directed me.
He was now farther up the avefihe,
lodged in the second tree from :|at
which he had left. The oaks spew
pretty close together, so that $eir
branches more or less interned.
" ~'?ded from one to the o ier,
-??nd ing^woulcLfol
our boyncuu .
was that I could not see
I had to go entirely by the directon
of those upon the ground beneath.
By and by I came In sight of iim
again. He was lashed in one of the
topmost branches. When I approich
ed close to him he swelled out his
neck and faced rae. as if to sprinj at
me. But I did not get so near to lim
on this occasion, for I was still eght
feet away, and was just getting ready
to poke him with the stick, wher he
darted off afresh in the same drec
tion.
Over and over again he repeited
this running and halting. Perhaps he
thought he could tire me out. If so,
he was mistaken. I was too deter
mined to get him. I dropped the
stick, so thal I could go faster. On I
went after him in a mad rush, crash
ing through the branches. When he
wouid halt. I would sneak gently
through the leaves, so as to get close
to him.
At last he reached the upper end
of the avenue, and so, panting and
breathless, did I. He crossed to the
trees on the western side of the road
way, and I did the same. Down the
western side he now came, but he
made far fewer and shorter halts than
before. I was coming on fast behind
him. From one branch to another I
often had to jump. Sometimes, where
the limbs were far apart, a springing
bough beneath me would serve to as
sist the leap by throwing me forward,
till I would alight with clinging hands
on another farther on. Once I swung
myself on a yielding branch over a
wide vacant space, where the break
ing of tho bough would have precipi
tated mo to deal,-.. Still this clase
through the branches was perhaps
easier, than a continual ascending
and descending of the trees.
When the hunted boomslange had
got three-fourths of the way down the
western side of the avenue, he stopped
once more and showed fight; but after
a vigorous shaking of the branches
he darted away, and crossing the
avenue upon the overlapping branch
es made ano?her halt on the eastern
side, in the very tree from which the
chase had started nearly half an hour
before.
Like him I tried to cross the avenue
upon the interlacing branches, but
their twig-like ends, although stout
enough to bear him, were not suffi
cient to support me. So I descended
from the trees, crossed thc roadway,
and climbed again on the side where
ho was. Here I found him at bay,
lashed in the very tip of a branch.
I had failed so often in trying to
grab him as he glided along the
branches, that I now resolved to try
another plan, namely: to snare him
by passing a running noose over his
head. Consequently I called for my
long stick, which was passed up to mc
with the noose fastened to the end of
it. Then I slowly climbed toward
him.
As usual, he faced me. By moving
very cautiously I succeeded in get
ting within six feet of him; but when
1 pushed out thc stick, with the noose
dangling from the end of it within a
foot of his nose, ott he darted. I
dashed the stick among the leaves in
front of him, and back he turned.
I was desperate. I could not grab
him. for he was on the very outer
enils of the branches,
Two were so far apart that there
was an open space of perhaps four
feet or more between them. Across
this open space he darted, and while
he was passing, down came my stick
on his back, not striking, but pushing
him downward. Just what I intended
happened. He lost his hold and down
to the ground he tumbled; for not a
branch was beneath for him to catch
upon;
j I could see hi? as he alighted on
the grass, and down I dropped after
him. As I touched the earth I rolled
over-, for the height was probably
20 feet. I saw tho snake. He was
only a few yards frcra me, but he
was gliding away at a great rate over
the short lawn grass. The shouting
Kaffirs were pointing him out to me.
Picking up my stick, I rushed after
him as fast as my legs could carry
me. Forty or 50 yards, perhaps, he
ran. Then I overtook him. Suddenly
he turned and faced me. The excited
Kaffirs, well in the rear, yelled out
directions, praises and warnings, but
P. heeded them net.
. There before me was the long-de
sired boomslange, a picture of beauty,
coiled to strike, with the fore part of
his body raised after the manner of
K cobra. His head was flattened out.
.his inflated neck purple, the bifiu
point of his tongue quivering in the
brilliant sunlight. Now I was his mas
ter, for I was swifter than he was
upon the ground. But I lost no time
admiring him, for I was ready to sink
from exhaustion.
I got my stick across thc middle of
his back to keep him from getting
away again. As it touched him he
turned and bit it savagely. By a
quick movement I shifted thc stick,
and got it close to his head. Then 1
grabbed him with my fingers round
the throat.
He was a furious captive. To and
fro he lashed himself, his long body
and whip-like tail striking me all over
my body, legs and face, so that I had
to drop the stick and hold him with
the right hand at the middle, to keep
him from breaking his own neck by
his struggles.
Within half an hour I had him in a
cage in my room; and within an hour
after that, he had lost his fear of mo,
and I had lost my fear of him to such
an extent that 1 allowed him to glide
along my shoulders and around my
neck.
Beautiful, gentle and harmless, he
was now the gem of ray collection,
and I treated him as one entitled io
unusual privileges; for while the
other snakes vere confined to their
cages, the boomslange was a prisoner
at large. He lived on some branches
suspended from a v-:--~ v"
miua as even'3- and drive nails as
truly as any workman gifted with
sight. He puts up his own scaffolds,
and does as much work in a day as
any man in his trade.
Professor Hans Tietgen is reported
to have discovered plants which are
sensitive to music. One of them is
said to unfold its leaves at the sound
of a melody but to close them at once
if discords are played. Music, it is
further stated, stimulates thc growth
of certain varieties.
A curious old method of letting
church and town lands which prevails'
at Corby, near Kettering, England,
was put in force recently. The par
ishioners having assembled in the ves
try, with thc rector in tho chair, a
candle was lighted, with a pin stuck
in the wax. Bidding then proceeded
until the pin dropped, when the last
bidder was declared thc purchaser.
A thousand-legged worm was taken
from the check of John Shafer of
Shelby, Ohio. He was a volunteer
in the Spanish-American war, and
spent a great deal of his time at
Chickamauga and Chattanooga. The
physicians who performed the oper
ation stale that Shafer was most prob
ably stung by some mysterious in
sect. His cheek was swollen to twice
its normal size.
At a banquet in Sydney, a descend
ant of the Macdonalds massacred at
Glencoe passed a knife, "with thc
blade foremost," to a member of a
famous old family bearing the his
toric name of the Macdonalds' be
trayers. Most of those who looked on
stigmatized the action as one of con
temptibly bad breeding. But one or
two understood the significance and
knew that thc betrayal is still unfor
given.
One of the curiosities of Wimborne
minster in Durham, England, is thc
tomb of Anthony Etricke. the first re
corder of Poole, and the magistrate
who committed the Duke nf Mon
mouth after the hattie of Sedgmoor.
Tradition says Etricke liad a quarrel
with the people of Wini borne, so made
a vow that he would "not be buried
in their church or churchyard, under
their ground or over." To carry out
this vow he obtained leave to eut a
niche in thc wall of the minster, and
there he placed his own coffin, fixing i
at the same time thc date he supposed j
he would die-1691. Hf did not die,
however, until 1703, and the figures
were altered accordingly. The coffin
is brilliantly decorated witli the arms
of the Etricke family, and to prevent
it from going to decay a sum of one
pound a year was bequeathed to keep
the niche and collin in good repair.
Whilo Hie Lamp Ili lli Out io Burn.
During the recent heavy storm a
house near Los Nietos was swept off
its foundation and carried downstream,
where it lodged in the willows. The
family, who vacated it. bad left n
lighted lamp on tho kitchen table, and
next morning the lamp was st? 11 bum- i
iug, although the house had Moated
for a considerable distance.-Los An
geles Time?, ' ?
THE HERON AS A SENTINEL
Other l'.iiil? Mnva I tu pllcit Conll lonco In
iii- Wmchfulneii?.
One of nature's sharpest sentinels is
the blue heron. Not only does he stand
guard for himself and immediate rela
tives, but he is unwittingly a sentry
for other hirds. Ducks and geese usc
him, and I have often wondered why
sportsmen, particularly duck and geese
hunters, do not employ a decoy re
sembling a heron, or crane, as they are
often erroneously called.
I can assure the readers that the
common wooden or canvas decoy is
.not to be compared with a neatly
mounted blue heron as a lure for the
feathered gobblers.
Not far from where I boarded one .
autumn was a reedy, muddy lake, a
perfect paradise cr water fowl. Where
the wood road bordered on the lake
was a small brook that often afforded
a good bag of game. I would reach
the brook some mornings perfectly cer
tain that no one had preceded me. yet
would not hear a solitary quack. I
would also notice that there would not
be a heron on guard. At other times
the reeds would be alive, and I could
net get a shot, for the blue heron sen
try would give the alarm, spread his
broad wing in his slow, clumsy fash
ion, and ducks, gee-je and all would fol
low him out of reach. Repeated disap
pointments of this kind showed me that
wittingly or not the ducks were mak
ing good use of the long legs and keen
eyes of the heron. He was able to see
over the rushes, while their vision was
completely cut off. When he was in
clined to visit the brook to get a frog
or a fish for breakfast, they gathered
round him. feeling perfectly secure. So
long as he was throwing his search
light glances over the reeds and into
the bushes. When his hersonship took
occasion to visit other scenes not a liv
ing pa lillo would disturb the placid
eddy at thc mouth of the brook.
I watched the situation carefully
and found the heron one morning en
tirely alone. I sat down where I could
get a good view without being seen and
awaited developments. A flock of
clucks came winging their way down
the lake, casting glances on all sides
as if uncertain where to go. They were
swinging their long line for a sandy
cpit away down at the southwest cor
ner of the lake, when the heron saw
them and uttered one of his lonely yet
complacent calls. Immediately the
ducks swerved and circled into the
cove where the heron was on guard
and settled down quite contentedly
around their sentinel. The thought
struck me to usc the heron for a de
roy. I drew a bead on the guard, and
a couple of days after he again visited
tho loira nnlv this time I carried him
There was a trifling tire in a west
side street the other day which caused
a good deal of excitement and inci
dentally gave a fat man a lesson in
courtesy. The fire started in the
apartments where the man and his
mother lived. The man started about
the time the fire did and got down
four flights of stairs to the street be
fore his mother knew what was up.
When she discovered the fire she
promptly fainted.
Meanwhile the fat man stood in the
street yelling, "Save my mother!
Save my mother!" A messenger boy.
who was passing, stopped, saw the
smoke, ran up the stairs, aroused the
woman and brought her out in safety.
The neighbors cheered and the fat
man looked uncomfortable.
"Here, boy," he whispered. "Here's
a quarter for you."
The boy's face expressed his dis
gust.
"Aw, save It," he said, "and buy
yourself some nervo food."
The crowd laughed, tho fat mon
blushed and the boy went whistling
down thc-strect. He didn't know that
he had been a hero, and the fat man
felt himself a coward.-New York
Wail and Express.
Bricks in Mn?cnw.
In a recent report the French consul
general in Moscow writes of tho scarc
ity of bricks in that city, owing to
the extensive building now going on.
The supply is not equal to the demand,
and bricks which formerly sold at $10
per 1000 are now worth $11.20. The
factories from which the supply is
drawn are spread over an area of 20
miles. Some of the works are of con
siderable size, and employ the most
modern machinery. But the supply of
dry clay is giving out and thus the
domestic manufacturers are handi
capped. Manufacturers are now on the
lookout for machinery for the making
of bricks not of clay. It is likely that
bricks of sand will be largely employed
when the machinery is once set in mo
t'on. In tho meantime, there is a good
j opportunity for American brick manu
; facturera.
An Invention Probably T.ost.
John G. Carter, the inventor of the
; process of making a substitute for i
I rubber from cotton-seed oil, died re- !
j ccntly at Savannah, Ga. The process
: was known only to Mr. Carter, and un
! iess it is found that he left instructions
i and directions for the continuance of
j the work, it is probable that the secret
j died with him. This is a valuable il
!ustration of ibo wisdom of patenting
I all inventions of any commercial
value, and not leaving the matter n
secret. Very valuable inventions ha?
been lost to the world owing to a mis
taken belief that our patent laws do
not give adequate protection.
A firent ? titing? in Knsion'a snoot?.
One of the greatest changes that
have occurred in Ruston is the trans
formation of the overcrowded thor
oughfares around what Was known as
"Scollay's buildings" into the spacious
pleasant area *ve now call Scoilay
square. All of tin- original is
gone except "thc distinctive appellation.
?md what luis existed in some form for
two centuries has vanished "like the
bas- ss fabric of a vision."-Amcn
eau Cultivator,
i
BOSTON'S BIO RESERVOIR
WILL WIPE OUT FIVE THOUSAND
ACRES OF MASSACHUSETTS.
Four Towns to Disappear-Cemetery :ind
Kuilrond to V.v Moved-state l'n.v? Datn
HRes to SHU Hands for Loss of Work
Planned to Provide Tor People of 1930.
"The site selected for Boston's new
reservoir is in one of the prettiest
counties of central Massachusetts.
It is about 35 miles northwest of Bos
ton and about seven miles northeast
of Worcester. The contour of the val
ley, broad here and there, and narrow
ing to almost a gulch near Clinton,
seems fitted by nature for just such
usage. The scenery is diversified,
consisting of hills, vales and woods.
Nearby toward the north stands
Mount Wachusett like a guardian sen
tinel. The climate is that of New
England, somewhat drear in winter,
but hospitable, kindly and open. On
account of the rocky nature of the
soil very little opportunity is afford
ed for agricultural pursuits, and the
population is therefore small, being
only 69 to the square mile. This
point, it will be easily understood,
had considerable bearing on the sel
ection of tho site.
"To secure a supply of pure water
for a multitude of people it was nec
essary to collect that water from a
shed unpolluted by the living or by
the dead. A population o' 69 to the
square mile was not dense enough to
afford even a suspicion of danger.
"A proof cf the broad spirit shown
by the commissioners and their grasp
of engineering feats in their treat
ment of thc mechanical problems pre
sented in planning the reservoir. The
flooding of a valley even sparsely set
tled meant the annihilation of homes,
the wiping out of small towns, the
destruction cf farms and the chang
ing of the course of public roads and
railways. These problems were looked
upon as mere details by this daring
board.
"When is was estimated that a total
of 5163 acres were to be taken from
the different towns in the valley, to
wit: Clinton, 1125 acres; Boylston,
2761 acres; West Boylston.. 870 acres
and Sterling, 407 acres, and that the
lands required ior the reservoir con
tained six large mills, eight school
houses, four churches 360 dwelling
houses, a lar^e Catholic cemetery, and
a railroad, all of which it was neces
sary to remove, the board simply
made plans for ridding a newly ac
quired strip of la-d of obstructing
stumps and rocks.
"Three principal features in connec
tion with the construction of the res
The work presenting the greatest
picturesque feature in the construc
tion of the Wachusett Reservoir is
the demolition of West Boylston and
Oakdale. Both these places were
thriving towns with important woolen
mill interests. They had existea for a
number of years, and were growing
slowly hut with the steadiness of New
England towns. They were model
communities in their way, their citi
zens God fearing and upright.
"When the news came tc the good
people of Oakdale and West Boylston
that the 'City.' as they call Boston,
was about to reach out like an octopus
of thc deep, and devour their little
communities, they were loath to be
lieve it. And when it was understood
that their homes, their hearth-stones
and thc graves of their fathers were
to be covered forever by the waters of
a great reservoir, they rebelled.
"The fact that the state fully in
tended to make adequate financial res
titution offered no balm. No amount
of money could offset the heart-break
at leaving the spot where a family
had been rooted for a century. It was
some time before the people of West
Boylston and of Oakdale become rec
onciled to their impending eviction, as
it might be called. It must be said
that the state was perfectly fair in
awarding damages. Average prices
allowed for every piece of property
taken, but whenever a tendency was
shown by a land proprietor to 'gouge'
the board, he was fought relentlessly.
In one case where a certain Italian
demanded an exorbitant amount for
a wooden shanty, the board needing
only half the space occupied by the
structure, calmly cut it in two, and
paid the man only one-half of the as
sessed valuation.
"In awarding damages caused by
the building of the great reservoir,
the Stace of Massachusetts has estab
lished an important precedent. When
a town like West Boylston is prac
tically wiped out it is understood that
the owners of property must bc com
pensated for the losses sustained by
them, and also it is necessary to pay
for damages sustained by storekeep
ers and manufacturers. All this the
state did, and then went a step fur
ther. It passed a law awarding dam
ages to ordinary workmen, mill hands
and the like, who suffered loss
through the stoppage of their work."
"In the selection of tho site for Bee
ton's future reservoir it was necessary
to consider capacity and sparsity of
population in the water-shed. The ca
pacity required it was found after due
calculation must equal the needs of a
population estimated on January 1,
1900, at 1,100,000 and the natural in
crease until 1950.
"In 189:5 Boston was receiving some
57,000.000 gallons of wafer daily,
which amount it was estimated,
would have to be increased to S4.000,
000 gallons daily by 1895. It was cal
culated, based on natural increase in
population, that the figures would
reach 252.00Q.000 gallons daily by the
year 1930. This not only provided for
the increase of population, but also
the increased demand on the part of
each individua]. It is true, if rather
strange, that ?he progress "of civiliza
tion means an hlcrease in use of
water. The statistician of the Metro
politan water board finds that each
individual in the Metropolitan water
district will use ten more gallons
daily in 1930 than he does in 1900.
The reason is not explained.
"The needed capacity ascertained,
it was comparatively easy to arrange
the details of the new reservoir on the
site selected above Clinton. The in
vestigating commissioners found that
by building a permanent dam across
the Nashua river, just above the
town of Clinton, and by constructing
dikes to the north and south of the
main dam, a basin of 41S5 acres, or
over six square miles, could be ob
tained. This, with an average depth
of 46 feet, would hold 63,068,000,000
gallons of water.
"It does not require much percep
tion to realize that such a reservoir
exceeds in vastness and engineering
greatness anything before attempted.
It exceeds in capacity the Nira basin,
near Poona. Hindost?n, by more than
a third. The mammoth reservoir
Tansa, in Bombay, and the Khadak
vasia, at Poona, are left still further
behind. The next largest reservoirs
yet completed, the San Mateo, Cali
fornia, and the Croton, New York,
could both be almost contained in the
Wachusctt.-H. H. Lewis, in Ainslee's.
ANIMALS FEAR MEN.
Even tlie Fiercest of Thom Seldom At
tuok, Save When Wounded.
Of all Questions asked by people
who have never been much out ol
doors, none seems so simple to the
old-timers as that which concerns the
dangers to which the camper may be
, exposed from the attacks of wild
beasts. It is chiefly women and chil
dren who ask such questions, but it is
evident that in the brains of many in
experienced persons is firmly estab
lished a belief that wild animals are
dangerous-that wolves, panthers and
bears prowl atfout seeking whom they
may devour. This belief is in all prob
ability a survival in part of earlier
days, when the most civilized men
dwelt largely in the East, where might
be encountered lions who would at
tack them, or hyenas ready to snap
up the stray child wandering away
from the camp, or bears of the type
encountered by the irreverent infants
who apostrophized Elisha; and also
in part of that time when the weapons
of primitive man were so feeble and
of so little avail against the wild
beasts that these were justly to be
feared.
This feeling already existing is en
couraged and strengthened by a cer
tain amount of the writing of the day.
The average man and woman love to
read a bear or panther or wolf story
not less than do small boys and round
eyed children listen with pleasure to
tho i-;iip< nf some venerable uncle,or
from man than man ia luget&wajiioiii
them. If given the opportunity, they
will always slip away and run, and if
they fight it is because they believe
that they have been cut off from every
avenue of escape. Where an animal
has been wounded it is a different
matter. Then, often, considerat'ons
of prudence are forgotten and the ani
mal acts on impulse, instead of doing
what he knows to be wise; but even
so there is much more danger from a
wounded deer than from a wounded
panther, and vastly more from a
wounded moose.
But for the average man who it
traveling through a new country
where wild animals may be plenty,
who stops when he has made a day's
march and is at home where night
finds him, there is not now, nor ever
was, mo:e danger from the wild ani
ma !s of the country than from the
lightnings which blaze in the summer
sky. Many more people have been
killed by lightning than have been
run over by stampeding buffalo herds,
or killed by unwounded grizzly bears,
or by all the other animals of the
prairie put together. One might al
most say that more people have been
struck by falling meteorites than
have been killed by panthers or
wolves. And yet from day to day the
newspapers continue to print bear
stories, catamount stories and wolf
stories and probably they will do so
until long after the last bear, cata
mount and wolf shall have disappeared
from the land.-Forest and Stream.
Removini; a Mountain With Water.
The principal railroad of Costa Rica,
now about 117 miles long, is being ex
tended to reach from.San Jose to the
Pacific coast. The general manager of
the road, in speaking of the enterprise
recently, said:
"There is one place on the road
which has given the engineers a great
deal of trouble, and which has cost
many thousands of dollars every year
since the road was built. This place is
about 45 miles from Port Limon, and
is called Bluemud.
"For about 600 feet the track runs
along a ledge on the side of a moun
tain with the river Reventa Zon below.
The mountain is composed of a bluish
clay, which turns into mud during the
rainy season and keeps constantly slid
ing down on the tracks. We have to
keep a big gang of men at work day
and night cleaning the road of this
blue mud, and when the rains are
very heavy traffic has to be suspended.
In July so much of the mud slid down
over the roadbed that we could not
run trains there for three weeks.
"To add to the difficulty there is a
lake back of the mountain and the
water from this lake percolates
through thc mountain and keeps' it
constantly wet. The lake was drained
by the engineers, but they discovered
that it was fed by springs and still the
mountain was kept in a wet state and
the mud kept sliding down over the
tracks.
"At last they obtained what is
known in California as a hydraulic
giant, and which throws a very power
ful stream of water with great force.
They rigged up this hydraulic giant,
and when I left Costa Rica they were
washing the mountain away with it
into the river."-Cleveland Plain,
Dealer,