ORLEANS COUNTY MONITOR . WEDNESDAY, MAY 21, 1913
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Schools Urged to Use Topographical
Maps.
For teaching the geography of the
United States in the public schools
and colleges a strong effort is being
made by the United States Geographi
cal Survey to foster-the use of govern
ment topographical maps. These
maps contain so many details of local
interest, showing even the school
houses and farmhouses as well as
every wagon road, with which of
course the children are familiar, that
it is said to be an easy matter for
teachers to enlist the interest of the
pupils in this new type of school map.
From an understanding of the parti
cular maps representing their own
localities it is but a succession of short
steps to lead the pupils to an apprecia
tion of the different types of country
portrayed on maps of other sections of
the United States. Most of the stand
ard atlas sheets of the Geographical
Survey of recent issue are printed on
the scale of 1 mile to 1 inch, a scale
which shows the physical features of
the country in very interesting detail.
With these maps the pupils can de
termine the latitude of their homes
and the steepness of hills and moun
tains, estimate the grade of wagon
roads, work out simple engineering
problems such as the drainage of
swamps, select dam sites for the con
struction of reservoirs to supply water
to imaginary towns or for irrigation,
lay out imaginary trolley or railroad
lines or canals along the most feas
ible routes, establish lookout and sig
nal stations on high points for the con
trol of forest fires and plan many other
similar activities.
The Geographical survey has pub
lished 2,200 topographial atlas sheets,
covering about 40 per cent of the
United States, and on receipt of $3
from any teacher it will supply 50
different maps selected with special
reference to the particular require
ments of the class it is proposed to
instruct in this new kind of geographic
study. This selection will include,
besides the map covering the area
where the school is situated (provided
such a map is published), other maps
showing all the physiographic forms to
be found in the United States sea
coast areas, hilly country, high and
precipitous mountain country, swampy
areas, regions of innumerable lakes,
areas showing dense forests, areas
with woodlands interspersed with
many streams, lakes and other natural
features.
If Jess than 50 maps are desired, a
special selection of a less number will
be made on request and furnished at
the retail rate of 10 cents a copy.
Most of these maps, each of which on
the 1-mile scale covers about 225 square
miles, or 150,000 acres, have been made
at a cost for surveying and engraving
of $3,500 to $6,000 each, and the whole
sale price of 6 cents apiece covers only
about the cost of paper and printing.
If the areas were surveyed and the
maps published by a commercial con
cern, the maps would need to be sold
at not less than $2 to $3 each. The
Survey also sells an excellent wall
map about 4 by 6 feet, unmounted (in
three sections), for 60 cents. This
may be included in any wholesale
order as part of the $3. Applications
and remittances should be made to the
Director of the United State Geologi
cal Survey, Washington, D. C, who
will promptly fill all orders.
Lincoln Beachey Done Flying.
ine mousanas oi people who saw
Lincoln Beachey fly at the Barton fair
last fall will be interested in the
statement he gave out in San Fran
cisco at a recent cJub meeting. He
says he is through flying.
"You could not make me enter an
aeroplane at the point of a revolver,"
he solemnly asserted. "I'm done.
"They called me the master birdman
but there was just one thing which
drew crowds to my exhibitions a
morbid desire to see something happen
Ihey all predicted I would be killed
and none wanted to miss getting in on
it. They paid to see me die. Thev
bet and the odds were always against
Beachey read a roster of 24 aviators
who have been killed when flying.
"Those boys were like brothers to
me," he said.
"In Chicago last September Kear
ney's mother begged me not to teach
Horace any more tricks. Kearney
turned and said : 'Mother, I must be a
top liner. I must be as good as
Beachey or take a back seat. I must
try the same tricks he does.'
"Three months later he was dead.
"The wife of Walsh begged him to
cut out the spiral. 'Beachev does
them,' he said. 'I must do them if I
am to get the money.'
"Charlie was doing the reverse
spiral two weeks later at Trenton, N.
J., a wire snapped; they picked him
up dead. I felt that I had murdered
poor Charlie.
A tew days later his body passed
mrougn AiDuquerque, where I was,
with his widow and two babies. Mrs.
Walsh became hysterical.
" 'You made Charlie do it, she said.'
'borne time later I sent some tickets
to Mrs. Ely. She sent back the
tickets, writing: 'Eugene would be
i- 1 1
wiui me now u ne naa never seen you
fly.'
"At Tanforan last November when
I heard-the boys talking of trying the
straight glide, 1 wanted to quit
After the first day I could hardly
work. I was in the grip of fear not
for myself but that would make others
. kill themselves. When I left the field
I vowed I never would step into an
aeroplane again."
Cheap Paint
The cheapest paint is the one that
goes farthest and wear best; there is
most in a gallon of it.
What is a quart of milk worth? De
pends on the milk.
So of paint; depends on the paint.
Devoe is worth the top price, what
ever it is. poor paint is worth rioth
lng at an; you've got to pay your
painter $3 or $4 a gallon for putting
it on; and it isn't worth it.
Devoe goes twice as far and wears
twice or three times or four times as
long.
The cheap paint is Devoe at the top
of the market.
DEVOE
The E. W. Barron Company sells it.
HOBO "A NO. 1."
CONTINUED FROM PAGE TWO
travels in overalls and jumper, but
after arriving in a town divests him
self of these and appears in, a neat
suit; is always clean shaved and has a
very prosperous appearance.
He has a memorandum book full of
cards and letters given him by railroad
officials. Many of these state that he
has prevented the possible loss of
human life and property by telling
train operators when beating his way
of broken car wheels or other dis
arrangements and thus has prevented
serious wrecks and disasters. He has
been in five wrecks but luckily has
never been hurt.
He also has an autograph letter
from Jack London, the author, telling
of their companionship on the road
together in 1894.
During his travels "A No. 1" has
learned four languages English,
German. French and Spanish. His
parents were , of the French and
German nationalities, but he was born
in San Francisco.
His toilet is complete, though it
takes little room to carry it. It con
sists of a toothbrush, soap, comb and
a few other necessities ; also a pocket
edition of Webster's dictionary, a
rather strange book for a tramp "to
carry.
There is something about the man,
aside from the distinction which his
remarkable career carries, that is
strangely appealing. It is perhaps
the humanity of the man, or the
pathos that lies mutely concealed in
his life that makes him so strangely
attractive. Endowed with all the
necessary qualities for success in life,
he is yet homeless, friendless, name
less, by an element in his makeup
which has gained mastery over all
other impulses and motives namely.
the "Wanderlust."
Whenever "A No. 1" meets a runa
way boy upon his journeys, he gives
him a talking to that is almost certain
to make the lad homesick, and glad
when "A No. 1 purchases a ticket
sending him home to his parents
If the boy is already a confirmed
wanderer, "A No. 1" teaches him his
own motto: "Never associate with
anyone in whose company you would
be ashamed in broad open daylight . to
pass your mother's home."
He entertained the office for an hour
and a half with his instructive stories
of the road and the solution of the
tramp problem.
"About 350,000 minors run away
from home annually," said A No. 1.
Of this number over 35,000 become
confirmed hoboes, 7,000 are crippled,
3,500 are killed, and the rest can only
stand the hardships of tramp life about
ten years, until they are in a poor
house ; 90 per cent of all present-day
tramps started their wandering when
boys . under seventeen. So many
mothers, if they only knew it, are the
cause of many young men living the
hobo life. If a regular grown-up
tramp comes to the house and asks for
a meal, she turns him away and tells
him to go to work for it ; but when the
young fellow comes along just starting
out to be a tramp she takes him in,
feeds him on the best she has, not
realizing that within a few short years
the same youngster will be an exact
prototype of the burly tramp she had
just turned away."
"Now if she would only get his
name from him and his address, and
talk to him in a nice way about his
home and mother and explain to him
how shameful his future will be if
once he becomes a confirmed tramp,
shunned, despised and hounded by all
humanity, there would be . a good
chance that he would go back and it
would be a help towards reforming a
large number of the boys."
A No. 1 makes his transient ex
penses by the sale of two books, the
first being, "Life and Adventures of
A. No. 1," tells of his travel among
tramps all over the world. The
second, "Hobo Camp Fire Tales," is a
true story of the pitiful hardships of
the road. Both show the dark side of
tramp life so that any restless boy
will get a good idea of its disgusting
ieatures. rney can De purchased in
any bookstore and on every train for
25 cents, and are worth every cent of
it m keeping boys at home.
"A No. 1 has proofs in the shape
of many letters of gratitude and
numerous newspaper clippings men
tioning names of men in all walks of
life whom he has sent 1 ome in the
past. He devotes nearly every cent of
his revenue in sending boys back to
their homes and future usefulness.
He was asked why he had not
written his books sooner, as they are
illustrated and highly interesting
stories and he stated that lately, after
twenty-nine years of roving, he had
come to tne conclusion tnat tne
dangerous, senseless and pitiful life
he has led all of these years has been
wasted, and that perhaps by telling
his own experiences he might possibly
prevent others from following his
footsteps. He said that to force a boy
to stay at home after he has once
started to wander is almost impossible,
as the maxim, "once a tramp, always
a tramp," has been many times
proven to him by actual experience, as
he has met many a boy of fine family
and home who never knew of the filth,
misery and dangers a tramp comes
constantly in contact with, yet cannot
resist the call to wander.
He has bought a tomb in a cemetery
in Cambridge Springs, Pa. The epi
taph will be a silent, everlasting
warning to others who seem afflicted
with this strange longing to roam.
very aptly called "Wanderlust" and is
simply :
"A No. 1"
The Rambler
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