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| * GERMANY'S LOSS.
Big Changes in Colonial Possessions
Which Have Been Lost Sight Of.
^ While our eyes have been fixed on
the tremendous dramas of Flanders,
Warsaw, the Argonne, Gallipoli, we
have lost sight, perhaps, of the momentous
changes that have taken
place in Asia in Africa, in Polynesia,
' says
the American Review of Re.
views. While a few hundred feet of
trenches have been the reward of
months of heroic fighting on the battlefields
of France, enormous areas
elsewhere have changed hands; in
Africa, territories equal to the combined
areas of France and Germany;
in Asia and Polynesia, areas larger
than the British Isles. And the loss
and gain of these vast regions is like?
yf ly to be permanent, deciding the his
tory of Asia, Africa and the Pacific
for generations to come. It is notajfe
, ble that jiifet a century ago Britain
?? - gained an enormous colonial area,
acquiring from Holland, then under
the .dominion of Napoleonic France,
a chain of colonies stretching round
K' Y: the globe, of which the Cape of Good
Hope, Ceylon, the Straits . Settlements,
and British Guiana were the
most important. The changes in colonial
empire created by that worldwar
have already made a century of
momentous history.
jp?; .j . A year ago, Germany's colonial
'empire contained something over a
nr*nHrtT? sonar a miles in Africa; an
iarea roughly equal to the United
States east of the Mississippi River;
with about a hundred thousand
square miles in the Pacific, made up
- of German New Guinea?Kaiser Wilhelm
Land?with the Bismarck Archipelago
along its shores, and an enor^
mous number of smaller islands, con/
tained in the Solomon, Caroline,
Marshall, and Samoan groups. This
German colonial empire was ' just
L: thirty years old, its foundations having
been laid by Bismarck in 1884,
as the second part of his great lifework,
while about a hundred thousand
square miles in the Cameroon
^ country in West Africa were concealed
to Germany by France in 1911, in
negotiations which cast a permanent
shadow on the patriotism and honor
* of a group of French politicians with
M. Caillaux at their head.
! How Old is Mammoth Cave? /
^ Doubtless everyone in this country
non road knows: something: of
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tile Mammoth Cave of Kentucky. On
|i the other hand, there may be quite a
number who know very little about
gpjk how this and other similiar caves
"were formed, how old the Mammoth
Jv Cave probably is, what service it per&
formed for the youthful government
of the United States during the war
of 1812, and various other interesttog
features connected with this
p greatest of all known caverns of the
? ' world, brought out in an article in
J v the September number of the Bull?|rv
itln of the Pan-American Union,
Washington, D. C.
-"From time immemorial''?to
vquote from the Bulletin's article?
'.> "caves have been objects of interest
to mankind. Around them have
clustered legend and superstition, in
them men. have found habitations
>; . for the living; refuges for the pur.
sued, secret temples for the practice
of their religious rites, and mausoP
; leums for their J dead. \ In ancient
days they were the abodes of sybils
and nymphs of Roman mythology;
in Greece they became the temples
for the worship of Zeus, Pan, Dionysiua
and Pluto, as well as the homes
t(l - of the oracles of Delphi, (Jorinth, ana
Mount Citheron; In Persia they were
connected with the worship of Mith-t
, ras, and in more modern times popular
fancy in Europe peopled the mystery-enshrouded
caves with elves,
* fairies and evil spirits galore."
But after all, caves are but the results
of perfectly natural forces
working beneath the surface of the
earth just as they do upon its face,
and for the sake of convenience may
be divided into three classes: (1)
those formed by the action of currents,
the force of waves, and the
^ grinding of shingle against a cliff on
a rocky seacoast, which forces gradually
hollow out caves in the weaker
places, of which those found near
Ep."\ Bar Harbor, Maine, may serve as examples;
(2) those found in volcanic
regions, formed by the subterranean
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flow of lava, or by the expansion of
. steam and gases, such as those in the
Tflamath T.nlro rpsrinn in OrPSTnn.
which are so large that they often
-served .as effectual hiding places for
the Indians in the early days of the
N conq,uest of the West; and (3) those
which have been cut out of calcareJ&
V- Ious
rocks by the chemical action of
carbonic acid in rain water, combined
with the mechanical friction of the
f * sand and stones set in forcible mo^
tion by the streams of water which
have flowed through them for ages.
These last are the most numerous and
most important in size, and it is to
this class that Mammoth Cave betons8
\ ^ As most people know, the cave is
in Edmonson county, Kentucky,
about 85 miles southwest of Louisville,
and not far from Green River,
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A TALK ON WORK.
Sdund Advice on the Subject by a
Working Man.
I was cashier of a small bank and
gave it up to work in a machine shop
because I could work under more
satisfactory conditions, says a write!
in Leslie's. From quite a little
banking experience I know that there
are perhaps hundreds of "under
I rlprks" in bankina institutions who
are working for a few dollars a week
?less than $10?and even cashiers
whose salaries are no more than $75
per month.
Nature has framed men differently.
Some are fitted for science, some
for literature, some for finance ana
some for complaining. The complainers
attribute their poverty to
their honesty, or lack of opportunity,
and to the successful man they give
curses?for success, in their opinion,
means crookedness. But the plain
truth is if these gentlemen would
spend less time in condemning the
successful man and a little less in
self-laudation they would vastly improve
their condition.
There are lots of men employed by
the great industrial concerns who are
poverty-stricken and as a rule it is
their own fault?the government has
nothing to do with- it and should
keep* its hands off. Such people
should be told to shut up and saw
wood. * V
A Womanless World.
^ ?iA? TXTV??4- tn o nor+v with.
kMlilrilgt; LLtJ VV LieIt IO a pai kj ntvu
out women?1
Mere Man (flippantly)?A stag
party. 1
Suffragette?Exactly. And what,
sir, would this nation be without
women but stagnation?
Gorizia.
Gorizia, which <the Italians hope to
take, was for centuries the capital of
a "county" held in fief from the holy
Roman empire, which eventually reverted
to the overlord, and at present
possesses for "count" no less a personage
than poor old Francis Joseph:
By some perversity this town, con
nected from time immemorial with
Germanic powers and a favorite winter
resort, has practically no Teutonic
element among the inhabitants,
most of iwhom are neither Germans
nor Italians, but Slavs. Gorizia has
a .rather pathetic link with France.
Here in 1836 died the exiled Bourbon
i King, Charles X, the last French
monarch who was crowned with
chrism in the ruined Cathedral of
Rheims.-^-Westminister Gazette.
into which the cave's subterranean
waters empty. This section of Kentucky,
where may be found limestone
| beds frequently reaching a thickness
of 5.00 feet, is noted for its rocky
grottoes, sink holes and caverns.
The rocks in the vicinity of Mammoth
Cave give evidence of but little
disturbance by the dynamic forces
of past ages. It is such areas of
limestone deposits, with comparatively
level strata and located somewhat
above a drainage level, with small
crevices or joints, that furnish the
conditions for the formation of underground
passageways and chambers
by the chemical and mechanical
agency of underground waters.
From a geological viewpofht Mammoth
Cave is of comparatively recent
origin, its formation having begun
something less than 1,000,000 j'ears
ago, in the Pliocene age., The cave
action began after Green River had
cut its channel down into the limestone
stratum which underlies this
section. The rain water with its carbonic
acid contents, seeped throughthe
overlying earth and passing into
and through the crevices and joints
of the stone, at that time above the
level of the river, began the work 01
solution and erosion. These underground
waters gathered along the
planes of least resistance, and as the
crevices' grew in size more and more
of the surface water was drained into
them, and as Green River cut its
bed deeper itfto the limestone underlay
the cave waters kept pace with
until what ha.ri nnre been
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mere subterranean rills grew into
that remarkable underground stream
known as Echo River, which now
flows through the lowest levels of the
cave and empties into Green River.
During the ages it has been at work
dissolving the stone &nd cutting its
way along where resistance was least,
ever seeking lower levels, it has left
behind it the twisted, tortuous passageways
and large galleries and
chambers which form this mightiest
of all known caverns. According to
geologists, it took Green River nearly
1,000,000 years to cut away its
present bed, so the cave is estimated
to be almost as old. It first came
i
into prominence during the war of
1812, -when the United States government
needed nitrate to make powder.
Some of the large entrance
chambers of the cave had formed the
winter habitations for myriads of
bats for many ages, and as a consequence
the soil had become converted
into guano beds with a large nitrate
content. As a result the cave
became a nitrate mine whence much
of the powder supply for the young
nation was obtained.
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PRIMITIVE WEAPONS.
Searched From Out of the Centuries*
IVust Heap.
Aeroplanes, submarines, superdreadnaughts,
poinson gas bombs and
all of the new terrible instruments of
modern warfare seem strangely inconsistent
with some of the primitive
weapons that the European armies
have searched out of the dust
heap of centuries, says the October
American Boy.
Seven hundred years ago the crossbow
was at the height of its popularity
in the Crusades. A relic of
the days of chivalry, it had been discarded
for centuries when some
French troops discovered that it was
a most effective instrument for
throwing bombs into the enemies
trenches. It is exactly the same old
cross bow?only instead of the arrow,
bombs are shot.
But you will have to go back to
the Old Testament days, nearly three
thousand years ago, to the time when
the catapult, found in a Russian
trench by the Germans, was a dreaded
engine of war. Assiah used catapults
to defend the walls of Jerusalem,.
according to 2nd Chronicles,
xxvi, 15. Like the crossbow, the
catapult is used to throw bombs into
trenches of the enemy. The catapult
in use today is built on the sariie
plan and looks almost exactly like,
the crude drawings of the engines
used for throwing great stones in
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