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& .to WHAT ou buy Is Important, but not so important as hat you jret. I Shop at the CROSS STREET PHARMACY established 1873 ISLAND POND, VT., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1007. Vol. 35-No. ifiifi f iitrU t lrolate Court. Court will he held at '" -it. I rdncdny of No emltrl , ,,n.-..ril thr Itiiril V1nMljr tn.t June. At l-uiiraourg lle . n ,' Inmtnry nnt July. At .. tie- iirt Siinrilnjp of eac .. ; -n ill 'ir held at any place la . inriitrtii. . .. :i.l.hcnl to K. W. Wy .it ;ttiil.ill will rrceite :i k'ii:ktw HI. akk, liix.it W. H, BISHOP, Notary Public with Seal . , Miami oail Vt AWEY & HUNT, Attorneys i ii mill promptly remitted. M M) "ONO, VT. H. W. BLAKE, Attorney 11 Wli ro.l, VT. MAY & HILL, Aiiiiru.' s & Counsellors at Law, , , i , m . HI V W. HII.L. i l.ihnshiiry. Vt. Trolfe searles, Attorney at Law. ,,j t, p.: ,, .! limliliiiK. St. Johnilmry, Vt. R. W. SIM0ND3, Lawyer I; ml. Clock, hi. Johreomry, Vt. HOWE & HOVEY, Attorneys at Law, - 1 1 1 1 tl'HV, VT. A. 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ISLAND r POND, VERMONT. 10 RECU1 EMPIRE Irrigation Project In California Is the World's Largest. A TASK OF THIRTY YEARS. United State, Government About to Be gin In Sacramento and San Joaquin Valley Work Involving Outlay of $50,000,000 Much Can Be Raised. Tlie luri'Wt of thr? world's irrigation lirolects. uu tiiiiU'i't.iUiiii: so vast that iiility years mid upward of s."ii,oiio,mpo will Ue reiiuiivd to rarrj "lt out, Is Hbout to 1h le.i;uu by the fi'deral Kv eminent In the Sacramento and San Joaquin valleys of California, says the Chicago i'ost. In this region, where it Is said the range of climate and the natural fer tility of the soil favor the growth of every known species of plant life, the ttoveninii'iit engineers purpose to dis tribute the annual rainfall and the flow from the snow beds in the Cas cade over a vast territory. In the Sacramento valley alone It Is the ultimate plan to Irrigate 1",7ii,c" acres, and, while the area to lie re claimed in the San Joaquin valley has not beeu measured accurately, it is es timated roughly that It will he one mid one-half times that area. "None of us realizes the agricultural possibilities of these valleys." said Chief Hydrosraphcr M. ). I.eiuhton of the United States geological survey in outlining the government plans for this region. "While the development of this area has been m.yvelous in the last few. years, its possibilities have not as yet been touched upon. "So great is the undertaking that the government is unable to take it up as a whole, but must take It up in see tlous of sizes that can be completed with the money avuilable. 'Hie first of these will be the. Orlatid subproject, comprising 30.0UII acres. The prcllai lnary work lias been under way for borne time. The work of construction will be begun within a few mouths. .Mr. Lelghton passed through Chica go recently on his return to Washing ton, where he will make a report to the secretary of the interior of the re sults of extended observa l ions In this locality, which demonstrate the proj ect to be entirely feasible. "The preliminary work was begun five years ago," continued the hydrofT rapher. "The survey of the Orland project was commenced live years ago. This work has demonstrated that the undertaking, aside from Us huge size, will offer fewer engineering dilliculties than many other projects now being carried out by the government. While the average cost of this reclamation work averages $U5 au acre, this will be much lower In this case on account of the accessibility of the water supply. The outlay will probably not be much over $10 an acre. "Our measurements show ample wa ter supplies both In the Sierra and the Cascade ranges. The largest reservoirs will be located at Clear lake, I?ig val ley, Iron canyon ami Warm Springs valley. i "A conservative estimate of the sup porting capacity of these valleys is L'S.IHXMXIO ieople. There is not it prod uct of the soil that cannnt vt raiseu there, tropical or other. Oranges, grapes, dates, figs, almonds, as well as flax, tobacco,-grains and the crops fa miliar in this part of the country (Illi nois), all (lourlsli there. Kxperinients lu growing strange fruits and vegeta bles have demonstrated wonderful pos sibilities. "We were especially interested in the tobacco growing that Is now being ac complished there both experimentally and commercially. The smokers in our party were agreed that the cured product far surpassed in flavor and tone any other grown in this country that we had ever tried. "For the completion of this big proj ect at least thirty years will be re quired under the present state of avail able funds. The work of the govern ment is limited to the money received from the sale of Indian lands, on yhicJj to the firesent time about $40,- Clofliing BB timi.oiKi has been realized. Most of this has already Ix'eu put In the vari ous otiier projects being carried on In the West. "Under the system that the govern ment follows this money Is eventually letnrjied to the United States treasury by the fanners whose lauds are U'ne lited Jiy the Irrigation works, and as It comes In It can lie used over again. There Is enough money now available for the pushing of the Orland sub pro.iect. As soon as specifications and contracts can lie made dirt will fly. "It has Iteen but a few years since the government lirat took up the prob lem of Irrigation. 1'revlotis to that time the vast areas of rich soil, need ing only water to make them fertile, were regarded as waste spots of the earth's surface, where nothing that man can subsist on could l grown. The work Is now regarded as one of the most Important phases of the gov ernment's activities. "Aside from the difficulties occasion ally encountered of tunneling through hills and constructing dams of huge size, the work offers no tuore erplex Ing problem than that of equalizing the rainfall, storing up the surplus In the wet season to be used In the dry and carrying It through long canals to the places where It will be most useful. Itig as Is the Initial outlay. It Is generally regarded as a rare Invest ment In every sense." KITE'S GREAT FLIGHT. All Record In Thi Country Broken at Virginia Weather Station. The highest altitude ever reached by a kit in this country, according to Professor Henry of the weather bu reau, was that recorded recently at the Mount Weather station, In Virginia, when an altitude of slightly over 2.V Out) feet was attained. At that height a temperature of 5 degrees below zero F. was recorded. It Is Professor Hen ry's belief tkut the kite will yet attain a higher flight. The Mount Weather bureau has been conducting experiments In kiteflying with a view to determining the weath er conditions at various altitudes. For instance, a temperature of 40 degrees was recorded at the top of the moun tains at a height of 1,000 feet, while at a height of 3,000 fet the temperature was 8 degrees warmer. The Best Food to Make Hen Lay. The extremely high prices that have prevailed for eggs during the past few years have emphasized more than ever the need of some food to make hen lay in cold weather. The best is none too good, especially when It can be ob tained at a moderate price. O. H. Why land of Valcour, N. V., expresses hl ideas ou the subject in the following letter. He says: "I think 'Page's Per fected Poultry Food' Is the bestood to make hens lay that is on the market." Any one sending his address on a postal card to O. S. Page, Hyde Park, Vt., and mentioning this paper, will re ceive by mail, free, postpaid, a sample package of "Page's Perfected Poultry Food." SCHOOL FOR JANITORS. Etiquette Will Be Among Subject Taught In 'Brooklyn Institution. Etiquette of janitor service Is some thing new under the sun, and whoever It was who hit upon the plan of estab lishing a school for Instruction for Jan itors deserves the thanks of every flat dweller. This long felt want will be met now by nu educational institution, and very shortly we shall behold mod el janitors turned out by the hundred, says the New York Herald. It is needless to say that they will be in de mand. This latest Innovation in the broad Held of culture was started In Brook lyn. Ills majesty King Janitor has been monarch of all he surveyed long enough. At least that Is the conclu sion arrived at by the educational de partment of the Pedford branch of the Voting Men's Christian association o Brooklyn, which will shortly Insti tute a "practical school for Janitors," where the science of scrubbing, dust ing, polishing and etiquette will be taught. The Instruction to Janitors will be conducted by William Mantell, suit- Inteudent of building at the Pratt In stitute end up In all Janitorial prob lems. Mr. Mantell will t-ouduct these classes ou Wednesday night from half past 7 to half past !. Fifteen week will I consumed befora Mr. Mantell can turn out an "advanced'' Janitor. Although he will not be given a diplo ma, the finished product will carry with hiiu a paper to allow that he bus taken a course in the cIhbh. In plea for this sort of Instruction the argument is advanced that apart lueut bouses, hotels, otltce und build ings of all kinds are increasing at an astonishing rate. The rare of these prtiiertles calls for the expenditure of many thousands of dollars annually. In this work brain count a well as muscle in keeping a building clean and In good repair, and there are many waste about jaulturlal work that may be saved by the exereiae i f Intelligence and care. Skill and knowledge, is the contention, command a preiuitm In this Hue a In any other. TO DRIFT ACROSS POLE. Baldwin Plans to Float With the Ice In Well Built Ship. Determined to make another "try", for the north pole, Evelyn Brlggs Bald win, arctic explorer, commauder of the Baldwin Ziegler expedition lu WO 1-02. member of the Perry expedition in 1S1K! and of the Walter Wellman expe dition in 1MIS, announced here that he expected to make another trip Into the Icy regions In three or four years, says an Annapolis scc!itl to the New York Press. He said he was organizing his expedition, but beyond explaining the route which he purposed to take would not go Into details. He said he would go to the Bering strait and would drift toward the pole with the natural ice. He said Mint the expeditions of lie Long, In which the Jeanuette was lost, and of Lr. Nausea lu the I'f.'iiii had furnished much valu able Information which convinced hlin If a stauchly built vessel got Into the Ice pack at therlght point Is-yond the ftralt It would drift over the pole. "Nansen's vessel," he said, "would undoubtedly have drifted In precisely that course had Nansen succeeded in placing her within the lee pack at the point where the Jeannctte was crush ed In lsvt. The time is at hand for the reaching of the north pole and the first crossing of the Arctic sea. I do not let an hour pass without thinking heart and soul over my plan. Now, I do not mean to say that my plan of making a polar 'dash' from the northern coast of Franz Josef Land In ltl was faulty, but that plan was for ii 'dash' for the o!e pure and simple, and nec essarily It could not endure longer than a slir.'le season and would not have permitted scientific observations. With a ship, however, siecially built for a drift, say. of three or four years, from Bering strait, material of very great value would be obtained. Neces sarily sui-h a plan 1 contrary to the airship route proposed by Walter Well man and to the polar 'dashes' of Com mander Peary." How to Feed Poultry Foed. We will send free, postpaid, to any farmer or poult ryuiau who will write us, nientlouing this paper, our direc tions for feeding "Page's Perfected Poultry Food." These directions rep resent the combined experience of some of the best poultrymen In New England who have used our food suc cessfully. There are also given many suggestions as to the proper care to be given bens to produce the best results. Carroll S. Page, Hyde Park, Vt Church Ventures In Junk. The Washburn Congregational La dles' Aid society of Washburn, Minn., which announced recently that It had engaged in the junk business, Is meet ing with great success In the venture and Is being flooded with orders from all over the country for old scrap Iron, rags, waste paper, etc., says the St. Paul Pioneer Press. One concern has even written to the ladies quoting prices paid for champagne bottles, but the society promptly turned down this request. The money derived from the plan is used for missionary work and for running the church. YOUR SAVINGS Ml MATT Kit IIDW S.MAI.I. no mVitkh HOW I. AMOK "The Old Passu mpsic" WII.I. (ilVK YOl'K lll'SINKSS ITS 1IKST ATTK.NTION. ASSKTS NI'.AIil.V TWO MILLION'S. st'itPi.i;s 'OVK.lt ONE lll'NMIKI) THOUSAND.' SK.NI I1Y MAIL OR CAIL. Passumpsic Savings Bank, St. Johnsbury, Vt. JJillL Sme Women Birsa.d Baking Day-Others Use J """" 1 " ,aBaaaaa aa neat avtaaaaaaaaaaai aaasaaaaaa aa aaai aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaiaauasi lSf l a- ? frYOT7A7fvfk Avfl it" Ctfw.a4 li v a a: 1 r a?, a. r t raj 1-4 1 I. I 1 SBJ I II I -1 The Range VEGETABLE FOOTBALL Meatless Diet to Be Tried on Chicago Varsity Players. WILL EAT BEANS AND NUTS. Meat May Be Cut Out of Pigskin Kicker' Menu at the Midway Coach Stagg and Some of the Star Behave In the Experiment. Football a la vegetable has arrived. Instead of Ihe traditional rare roast beef, tlie fiercest gridiron warriors of the future will prefer Ix'an-apple-uut cutlets, in the opinion of the University of Chicago athletes. "Squirrel food" and the luseleti-s product of the garden will hold sway at the Midway this sea son, says the Chicago Record Herald. Coach Stagg is an anient believer In the coming meatless era, and Captain Leo He Tray and his Maroons have al ready forsworn their old Ideas of diet in pursuance of the director's recom mendations. The "reform" professors, In addition to viewing the total down fall of the training table, with Its gladiatorial surroundings, may have the pleasure of witnessing a champion ship vegetarian eleven as the climax of tlie antlcruelty movement. The Maroon director Is himself a vegetarian of standing. For two years he has eaten practically no meat, and he ascribes his present healthy condi tion to his change of diet. According to the coach, wonderful athletic feats may be accomplished by flesh abstain ers which rival the accomplishments of athletes In an omnivorous state. lnirlng his stay at Battle Creek, Mich., Coach Stagg witnessed a tri umph of vegetarianism which he hopes to repeat in the Midway camp. He saw (irauger, a Michigan expouent of the faith, I -eat all squatting records. According to Coach Stagg. Granger squatted 5.KI2 times without stopping, each time lowering his body close to the ground and straightening himself out, without fatigue. The performance confirmed his strong belief lu the pos sibilities of football a la vegetable. The Midway football players could subsist at the start of the practice season on 2,000 grains of vegetable food divided properly lu protelds, fats and carbohydrates, according to Coach Stagg. This Is the amount the coach himself consumes dally, and the 2.000 calories of heat generated by this has sufficed to put hliu In the best physical shape he has been lu for years. He declared the other day that his rheu matism had left hi in before he went to Battle Creek, and he believes he Is entirely rid of It. "I was greatly surprised at the enor mous strength exhibited by Glaser." said Stagg. "He squatted exactly 5,002 times. I saw him do It 2.000 times, then I had to exercise myself while he did It 3.000 times more. "I have eaten very little meat for several years and practically none for two years. To work properly a man's food should be one-tenth protelds, four tenths fats and the rest carbohydrates. The athletes might have to take a course In domestic science, but they could get on to It without much trou ble." Captain Pe Tray has been a partial vegetarian for years, as in? thinks he can tear up Chicago's opponents bet ter without too much roast beef. As sistant Coach Hugo Bezdek and Coach Fred Spelk of the freshman team also like the Idea. Coach Bpeik declares that entering freshmen may take their choice of nn tine and meat this fall. Harold Iddlngs, De Tray's running mate In the bnck field, believes lu the "squirrel food" training and declares he has often preached it to the football players of Merrllvllle, Ind., where he spends his summers. If Walter Steffeu can be prevailed upon to become her bivorous, the Maroon back field will be a great advertisement for the vege table gridiron game, Iddlngs declares. With the new order lu diet neces sarlly will come a series of brand new yells. The yell composers at the Mid way have already set themselves to the task and have produced the follow ing: Sweet potatoes, riitahagaa. sauerkraut, squash. Run your leps oft, Cap'n De Tray I Sure, our milk fed men, by gosh, Will lick 'em bad today! Several of the athletes believe that a LaMallllSiilaa,aaaaa Wi HO n I that Makes Cooking Eazytt MM tVbS & CO.. ISLAND POND. i diet offlgs, rice, peaiiuV. peas, beans and cheese will lie a rlskNu experiment and Insist that they will eat real food this season despite the new ideas In camp. Captain lie Tray has Informed the knockers that Pythagoras and Plato were both vegetarians, however, and Slopes this will have the desired effect. "personally, I don't see the use of having teeth If we can't eat meat," said Jimmy Meigs, who will try for a place in Stagg's line. "From all I can learn, Plato never played football. He probably thought It was wrong to kill animals, and of course It was only natural for him to eat nntlne Instead of beef. I think Stagg will have a hard time Introducing his vegetable football." "High Altitude" Parties. The latest fad of the fashionable crowd which yearly flocks at this time of the year to cool and tkdlghtful Swit zerland Is "high altitude dinners and luncheon parties." The fashion was first set by Prince Pie of Savoy, who entertained the Prince and Princess Nicholas of Greece at a height of .?" feet at the Berulna .hospice, St. Moritz. The fad quickly took on. ami soon parties were arranged to take place on the topmast peaks of the Pi latus at Lucerne, the Uochers de Nave at Montreux and the Uothborn at Thnn, but the most venturesome of all was that arranged by Mr. and Mrs. Murray of Chicago, who entertained their f rends on the top of the Brevent. 8.2So feet above Chauiouulx and In full view of the stately Mont Blanc. Theater In Railroad Station. When the new Pennsylvania railroad station at New York Is completed Pittsburgers will be afforded an oppor tunity to see an act or two of vaude ville while awaiting their trains, says the New York correspondent of the Pittsburg Dispatch. A handsouie thea ter will be built Inside the station. It will have a seating capacity of 2.200 and a model roof garden, a feature of which will be a stage that can be low ered, full set, to the theater below, for the new roof will not have any cover ing to obstruct the summer night breezes. Mortimer M. Thelse. who will establish the theater, proposes to give vaudeville ou Hues that are new. He says that the traveling public will con tribute greatly toward making the playhouse a success. Contribution of Uncle Sam to the Exposition. STRUCTURE A GREAT SIGHT. Cost of Construction Nearly Half a Million Magnitude of the Work, Wonderful View From Dome Illu mination a Magnificent Display. The great government pier which was recently completed at Jamestown Is the great centerpiece of the exposi tion, its completion'" fills the great vacuum in the appearance of the show ou Hampton Itoads. This contribution of the general gov ernment to the use and beauty of the tercentennial celebration represents one f the glgautic tasks of modern times, eays a Jamestown dispatch to the New York World. The government appro priated the sum of .$400,000 for its con struction. The plans called for a total of about 13,000 piles, considerably over a mile of sea wall, about 300.000 yards of fill and about (JoO yards of dredging. The pier Is a double one, inclosing a water basis of 1,280,000 square feet. Its feature Is a l."0 foot re-enforced concrete arch at the outer end. This arch, placed ou a mud bottom, relying entirely upon the bearing powers of the piles driven for Its abutments, was the principal engineering task of the whole work, as It Is the longest sin gle span bridge of the kind In this country, measuring 151 feet and f Inches from spring line to spring Hue. In order to place this arch more than 200 piles were driven In each nbut nient and the concrete placed nine feet below the water line In two large cof ferdams. Fourteen pile driving machines were used in the pile driving.. Nine dredg ers, seven tugs and twelve scows, all manned with at least two and some times three crews, working either six teen or twenty-four hours, were used BIG JAMESTOWN PIER 1 1 i 11 S3 13 on the dredging. In operating and handling the material for this under taking three locomotives were used, and two and a half miles of track were laid to connect the various parts of the work with the exposition compa ny's tracks. In handling the concrete two s'pa rate concrete plants w ere built. ( iun of the hardest obstacles in eojupleiiug the pier was found to lie d'vd -riu.. The bottom instead of lieluj: sandy, as shown on the drawings of the oi!:i::.il plans, proved to be a combination of clay, sand and sandstone. wNi a large quantity of cobblestones and small bowlders, which defied the best c:ions of anything but the largest ilrc(!'-" s. By day the view from the dome of the mammoth arch Is sublime. High above the waters of Hatnpto-i l:.i,,,!s the perspective includes the vessels of every klud and clnie as they co:ue and go. the historic Fort Monroe just beyond and the men-of-war lying at peaceful anchor. Turning the gaw landward, the view takes In the Grand Thiza. the beautiful buildings and grounds of the Colonial City, but it h nt night that the grandeur of the hand iwork of man becomes apparent, (in the pier 22,tKK) lamps beam and spar kle, turning night Into day and Tuiriy illuminating the heavens with their radiance. The two great towers, wii'.i 3,000 lamps each: the area and ap proaches, with .1.000 lamps; tlie sixteen pylons, with sixteen lamps each: ."no standards, with ten lamps each, and four exedras. with 500 lamps, create a scene of illumination never before equaled. To perfect this feature more thau l.Oort horsepower of energy is re quired, producing lu technical Terms "00,000 watts. LAST MAN'S CLUB DINIO. Masonic Organization Presented Its President With Silver Pitcher. At the recent annual dinner of the Last Mail's club, an organization com posed of proniineut Masons. C. T. Top pin, the president, was presented with a silver pitcher In honor of his lii'tictli birthday, says a Wilmington (liel.i dispatch to the Philadelphia Prow's'. There- are twenty-two members of the club, and each year a dinner is held, and the seats of deceased mem bers are left vacant and draped In black until there Is but one survivor, who will dine in state surrounded by the twenty-one empty chairs. Most of the members are men of advanced years, and it will be but a short time before the annual banquets will find many empty places. DEAN BOVEY AGAINST IT. The Eminent Canadian Opposrs the M. O. Gas Scheme In Montreal. While in Washington recently Pr. Henry F. Bovey, dean of McGili uni versity, Montreal, said In the course of a discussion of the proposed opera tion of the Montreal gas works by the municipality: "I am of course opposed to any such proposition. Any one who under stands the engineering aspects of such a plan can readily see that to turn over a lighting undertaking to munici pal authorities would be equivalent to making it a tool of polit'cians who would not operate for the good of any one but themselves. In your own coun try the experience of Philadelphia should be enough to make any city hesitate ou embarking in an enter prise calling for a large number of minor employees who would heTiothin but political appointees and chosen be cause of their allegiance to the party in power. "From the standpoint of economy any .one can see that It Is more costly for a city tc operate Its lighting plant than for Individuals who have been trained In their respective departments for years and whose tenure of otiice doesn't derTbnd on political exigencies." Taxpayer Turned Down. Calvin Btcln of Nlles appeared there tip fore the boRid of public soi-vk,; on Tues day night and demanded nn examination of the city's books to lenrn whether tlie. city's officials are pnylnK for the bum and water which they draw from the munici pally owned plants. 4Hla demand was turned down. Warren (O.) Chronicle. Nlles, O., has been advertised as an example of successful municipal own ership by a small city. Its plants were installed In 1891 at a cost of $50,(100, bonds for all of which are still out standing. Meanwhile the tax rate has risen to $3.50, the highest In that county. . 9