Up-to-Date Topographic Map b Needed
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SPHKDY completion of a complete
and up-to-date topographic map of
the United State* —complete In #very
detail and designed to furnish valu
able information to the military and
aviation branches the government—
will be the flrtt'and. largest aim of
the new board of surveys and maps,
appointed last December by the presi
dent, which held its first organization
meeting in Washington recently.
The board dt sulveya and maps
was appointed by President Wilson on
argent solicitation from the various
map-making agencies of the govern
ment to the end that all the various
map-making bureaus and divisions
may be co-ordinated under one organi
sation for the betterment and speeding
op of the map work.
The military advantage of complete
topographic maps of the United States
to held to be inestimable, and particu
larly In these days of fast and tar
dying airplane* which at present
cover enormous distance In a day, fly
ing over territory as yet Inadequately
and BarragML
WAS TO BE MORE YELLING
Bafe to Say That Father's Prediction
Turned Out to Be Absolutely
Ccrrect
The sweetly peaceful scene In the
little sitting room was suddenly dis
turbed by a loud yell, and the honored
guest sprang wildly from the chair
into which he had Just sunk, while the
daughter of the house felt her face
grow pale.
She.had had hopes from this visit
Alas, poor girl, were they to be
blighted?
But father took the matter —and his
small son—firmly In hand. With a
graceful apology he removed the bent
pin from the chair and the aforesaid
small boy from the room.-
"Now, look here, Charles," he said
sternly, in the back yard, "why did you
do itr
"It—lt was an experiment, father!"
faltered the laddie.
"An experiment!" snorted father.
"The only man who has visited your
poor sister for years, and you go and
, drive him away!"
"Well, dad," explained the boy,
"he advertises that he is a painless
dentist, an' I wanted to find out if It
. was true, an* it wasn't. You should
have heard him yell?"
"Yes," was the father's grim com
ment. "And some one else is going
to hear you yell now?"
Aqiieous.
She —They say he Is quite devoted
to aquatic sports. He —Yes, he drinks
like a fish, you know.
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The United States geological survey
has been charged with the vast task
of mapping partially explored areas
of the country and has b«en at work
for the past thirty years on its stupen
dous Job, but to date only 43 per cent
of the area of the United' States has
been covered by standard topographic
maps and It Is estimated a fifth of
these now need revision.
Therefore, the need for a standard
topographic map a series of de
tailed maps Is held to be the tyfgeat
work of the new board, according to
Ma chairman, O. C. Merrill,
Face Looked Familiar.
Dinah was a product of New Or
leans, a big, plump "yaller gal," who
could cook th? finest dinners for miles
around. One day a new butler ap
peared on the scene, and Dinah's
mistress noticed that she took a great
Interest in the man.
At last her mistress could stand her
curlbslty no longer and asked: "Di
nah, do you know that new man?"
Dinah took another long and scrutin
izing look and then slowly and rem-
Iniscently replied: "Well, I dunno,
Miss Alice; but 1 think he was ma
fust husband!" —Pittsburgh Chronicle
Telegraph.
A Friend in Need.
Mrs. Flatbush —Who Is that man
with the red nose you Just bowed to?
Mr. Flatbush—Oh, he's a man I met
out west
"He is certainly not a prohibitionist,
Is heT'
"Why, I never had occasion to ask
him, dear." »
"But how did you happen to meet
him?"
"Well, we were traveling out of Mil
waukee on the same train one night
He had a bottle, and I discovered that
I had a cork screw." —Yonkers States
man.
Unprofitable Combination.
Howell—ls your new hired man sat
isfactory?
Powell—l should say not He Is one
of the heavy eaters and light workers.
Better a dozen freckles on your face
than one on your character.
iP'SplißnlPl In - i : BEIITVuhMI
. Temple of the Five Hundred Qods, Canton.
(Prepared by the National Geographic So-
Y elety, Wuhlnjlon, D. C.)
CANTON is the Paris and Bun
ker Hill of China.
The Chinese say that he
who has not lived In Canton
knows not luxury. Equally true Is It
that the American of lowliest estate
who has not seen Canton knows not
poverty. In contrast to ancient tem
ples, and palatial homes surrounded
with park-like gardens, are the beg
gars at their gates, covered with
sores and whining for a pittance; the
leaden-eyed porters, straining under
their burden of humanity or baggage;
women haggling for a plgeon-egg-sised
lump of bean curd, half a dozen pea
nuts, a dozen roasted beans, or a strip
of meat the size of a rasher of bacon
as a special luxury for the family din
ner.
4 five and ten-cent store would be
ffany's for many well-to-do Can
ton families. The cent now a sort
of war tax annoyance to us, would
have to be subdivided for the China
man. His smallest coin, the cash, nor
mally worth one-twentieth of an.Amer
ican cent was too large In some
places, and bamboo tokens are rec
ognized by tradesmen as worth half
a cash.
Yet there la luxury, expressed not
only In commerce, and busi
ness structures, but In products which
make Canton the art center of China.
Its lacquer and sandalwood articles
are unique, Its Ivory carving unsur
passed, Its pottery, gem setting, and
fans, from the palm leaves we buy
for a few pennies to the Ivory-handled
feather ones the tourist bargains for
at $25 or $35, are world famous. (
Revolutionary Center of China.
Patriotically Canton has several
points of contact with the American.
Most likely the firecrackers which dis
turbed our early-morning slumbers on
the Fourth of July came from there,
as well as the fan we carried to the
community demonstration later. Can
ton was the birthplace of the revolu
tion In 1011 that ended the Manchu
dynasty, and ha» beei» the gtorm cen
ter of other revolutionary activities
since.
Except for a few newer streets, It
still is true that Canton Is a "city of
a million without a wheel or a beast
of burden." Strangely ancient in some
respects, Canton long has
some of the expedients which are be
ing urged as experiments in western
lands.
So far as her business district Is
concerned, the city Is thoroughly
"zoned." The shopper may find prac
tically all the city has to offer in wood
carving on one street. In silks and em
broideries on another, In Jewels and
precious stones on another. During
the coal shortage In our eastern states
In recent winters, efforts were made to
do cooking at central kitchens and
serve food "ready to eat" at. homes In
the neighborhood. Long has the fuel
shortage been actite In Canton, driv
ing the housewife to chaff, twigs. Ut
ter, for her cooking, and making cook
ing and rending on the streeta a re
course of the poor rather than a fad
with the rich. The Chinese' "hot dog
man" has a greater variety, but small
er portions, than our own, and he Is
not to .be recommended from the
standpoint of sanitation.
Fighting the Plague.
Human life Inevitably becomes
cheaper In the midst of congestion,
suffering and poverty. Early effort*
to fight the bubonic plague were grave
ly met with the argument that there
were too many mouths to feed, any
way, in Canton, and the plague, like
the typhoons, were providential for
those who escaped.
Humane science finally won the dan
and the tin boxes on street corners
are not to be mistaken for trash re
ceptacles. They are for dead rats,
which are collected and burned. The
tornadoes wreak peculiar havoc be
cause of the peculiar dwelling place
of some 125,000 of Canton's inhabi
tants—on houseboats. These boat
dwellers, the Tan-mln. are social
pariahs. Their women formerly fur
nished the "singing girls" on the "flow
er boats," floating haunts of the under
world, which were burned several
years ago. Their men engage in the
river traffic that la an essential fea
ture at Canton's commercial life.
The city Is 70 miles up the Pearl
river from the sea. Naming the kinds
of junks that ply about Canton re
quires as much knowledge as picking
the make* of automobiles that, spin
along Riverside drive or Michigan ave
nue. The "slipper boats" are recog
nizable because of a striking resem
blance to their European-given nick
name; the "Canton are nu
merous ; the two-masted passenger
junks are the Canton-Hongkong fer
ries, but the most curious of the many
other kinds, perhaps, are the che-tlng,
Operated .by Chinamen stepping on a
treadmill In the rear. These were In
vented by an European who sensed
that man power is the cheapest and
most plentiful to be had In China —
land where labor-utilizing rather than
labor-saving devices pique the Inven
tor. *
The gutters are In the middle of the
street, in Canton. The divers down
by the water front go in feet first
The Canton bon-bon la pit-tan, eggs
preserved in rice hulls, ashes and lime.
If a man has a beautiful yard or gar
den, he hides It by a high wall; but
once the visitor breaks through this
privacy, In company with a trusted
guide, he may find himself not only
on the premises but' conducted through
an exclusive home as if It were a pub
lic building, and the household mem
bers go serenely about their own affairs
while they, too, are described and ex
plained by the cordial friend. . Here
Is a hint of the origin of the China
town tours in our great cltlea.
Temples and Legends.
If the struggle for existence sug
gests materialism, one need only visit
the temples In Canton, to glimpse the
delicate, subtle, and daring imagina
tion of the seemingly literal, cautious
Chinaman. The "Flowery Pagoda,"
with the copp& pillar topped by a
golden ball, Is where a famed Indian
missionary once spent a night, and
so fragrant was his presence that the
tower still Is free from mosquitoes.
To the "Five Fairies Temple" once
came five genii, wearing coats of dif
ferent colors and riding goats of differ
ent colprs. Each fulry brought a stalk
of grain, which was given to the peo
ple with the benediction "Dwell here
in perpetual peace, and never know
famine." The fairies departed, but
their steeds turned to stone, and re
main to this day In the temple, A
more mechanical curiosity is the tow
er where time Is meanured by water
dripping from four copper vessels, ar
ranged at different levels.
The hills about are famed no less
for their legends than for the terraces
where the ginger root Is grown that
Is preserved by the Cantonese. One
peak Is crowned by a rock that sways
when spoken to In angry tones; there
is a stream where soine Oriental
Enoch drank a potion of Iris leaves
and, becoming immortal, was wafted
away to heaven.
There Is a chamber of commerce at
Canton', but the characteristic Indus
trial bodies are the guilds, 72 In num
ber, Irop bound, self-perpetuating or
ganisations, of'great power both eco
nomically and politically. The Chi
nese merchant and artisan Is an apt
example of the tremendous forced of
inertia, or precedent, if you like, in
Chinese Ufe. He carves, brews, or
wells gold foil, not only .because his
father or grandfather did. but because
bis remote ancestors, when Columbus
sailed westward or Marco Polo toured
east, did that very thing In just that
way.
Quality, not variety, la the merit he
seeks, and the guilds define the exact
sphere of their members minutely.
There Is the Oulld of Dealers In Cloth
Interwoven with Metal Threads of
Various Colors, the Oulld of Dealer*
In Kerosene Lamps, the Oulld of Deal
ers In Hand-Reeled Silk, and the Oulld
of Dealers in Liquor Brewed from
Rice.
The honesty of the Chinese mer
chant t» proverbial. In Canton lived
Hon Qua. a millionaire, who .fnrnlstwil
a conspicuous example of this quality.
When a Arm which owed large snm*
to foreigners became bankrupt Hon
Qua beaded a list of Canton business
'men who made good the debt, on the
ground that ChlneM credit asast oaf
be tarnished. -
IS ALWAYS
*
U. S. Devil Dogs Have Real War
JVithout an End.
Main Fighting Just Now la In Haiti
—Also Raady In China-
Won da rftrf Ufa.
Washington—For Uncle Sam'a ma
rina the fighting la never at aa end.
While the great war and their part
In It la history, they still are busy In
the far corners of the world settling
small disturbances, guarding govern
ment property and awaiting any even
tuality. •
In Haiti and San Domingo nearly
4,000 "Devil Dogs," aa the Germans
came to call them after Belleau wood,
are maintaining order and bringing
recalcitrant bonds to justice. It Is
not a "play" Job by any means and
at times lately It haa assumed the
orooortlons of real war. Casualty lists
BRIDES MUST GO TO SCHOOL
If They Are Young Enough Mar
rlage Does Not Exempt
Them.
Sacramento, Cal!—While there la
no provision In the school law to pre
vent girls unAer the age of sixteen
accepting proposals or contracting
marriage, the marriage Itself does not
offer sufficient excuse In such cases
to keep the young brides away from
fnll time classes at school, j
Terrible Tortures From
Itching Skin Diseases
No Sore Relief Until the Cairo
Is Removed.
When the blood becomes in
fested with millions of tiny dia
ease germs that attack the skin,
then the fiery irritation and in
tense itching will remain with you
until these germs are removed
from the blood.
Genuine relief therefore, can
only be expected from a treatment
that goes right to the Mat of the
YOUNGSTER MADE WORD GOOD
Though, as It Turned Out, It Was at
• ths Cost of Boms Personal
* Discomfort.
Marshall, who Is five, lives In a
flat building. He Is a real boy and
although he has 4 rear yard and a
sand pllp In which to play, his mother
has more or less trouble keeping him
off Jhe streets. A neighbor saw him
across the street one morning and the
next day called his attention to the
fact that he was out of the zone map
ped for him. He was one of the
busy ones about a vegetable wagon.
"Yes," he said, "I had to get some
sings." The next morning lie aAked
lite mother for (he market basket. He
immediately disappeared soon re
turned, accompanied by the vegetable
man. In the basket were three pounls
of potatoes, a box of berries and two
cantaloupes. Mother had to settle
whether she needed the goods or not.
At any rate, Marshall made his word
good with the neighbor that he had
to get "some sings." When ques
tioned by the same neighbor about his
shopping expedition he said: "Yes,
and mother spunked me, too."
A Cluo.
"You said the suspected moon
shiners gave you a clue by singing.
What was the song?"
" «Oft in the Stilly Night.*"
Twenty Five Years
of Success
proves that
the originator of u
Postum Cereal
was building upon a sure foundation
when he devised this most famous
of all cereal beverages.
Where one used it in place of coffee,
in the beginning, tens of thousands
drink it today—and prefer it to coffee.
Healthful, delightful to taste and
satisfying to every one at table.
Postum is now recognized as coffee's
one and only great competitor among
those who delight in a coffee-like
flavor.
>
Sold everywhere by Grocers
Made by Postum Cereal Co., Inc.
Battle Creek, Michigan
FIGHTING
are not lacking and almost every week
there come to headquarter* here the
name* of "leatherneck*" killed or'
wounded in clashes with bandits and
revolutionaries
"In China the legation guard of 275
marine* at Peking la ever prepared for
any emergency add for a time recent
ly It appeared that they woald be
forced Into action agalhat Chinese rev
olutionist* who were threatening to
attack the Chinese capital.
In Nicaragua another legation gtutrd
Is maintained, while the marines are
aboard American warships In Mexican
waters prepared on short notice to pro
tect American live* and property
should their services be required.
In Haiti, the corps la represented by
1,700 offlcers and men In two small
regiments comprising the first pro
visional brigade. The brigade Is com
manded by Col. J. H. Russell and the
two regiments by Cols. L. 11. Little
and R. C. Berkeley. Of late coodl-
This Is according to a ruling by
Will C. Woods, state superintendent
of public Instruction, In anawer to a
query raised several time* during the
last few month*.
"We have gone Into this question
thoroughly." Wood stated in explana
tion of the matter, "and while there
I* nothing In the school law to pre
vent girls under sixteen from getting
married, young brides of this char
acter inuat go to school full time the
same as their unmarried sister*, un
less a certificate signed by a physi-
i trouble, and strikes at its caua*
Such a remedy is S. S. 8., the r®-
liabfc old blood purifier that kills
' the germs of disease, and sends a
' new supply of rich red blood
> coursing through the veins.
S. 8. 8. has been used success
fully in some of the worst cases
of eczema and other skin disor
ders.
For valuable literature write to
; Medical Adviser, 108 Swift Labo
i ratory, Atlanta, Ga.
POET'S WORD GOOD ENOpGH
E Student Wss Absolutely Satisfied
Without the Necessity of See
ing Any Proofs.
A good story Is going the rounds of
Princeton about I'rof. Alfred Noyes,
the Engllßh poet.
Professor Noyes, It is well known,
likes very much, to read his works
aloud to his friends, and at Princeton,
with so many young men under him,
he Is usuully able to gratify this lik
ing to the full.
Tlie other day Professor Noyes said
to a junior, who had called, about an
examination:
"Walt a moipent. Don't go yet. I
want to show you the proofs of my
new hook Ot poems."
But the Junior made for the door
frantically
"No, no." he said, "I don't need
proofs. Your word U enough for me,
professor."
Rich Find In an Old Drsaa.
When the personal effects of the
once-famous dancer, "Illgolboche,"
who died recently In Paris at the age
of eighty, were sold at auction, an old
silk dress was knocked down to a
second-hand clothes dealer for a mere
song. On examining the garment the
purchaser found concealed In the lin
ing a bundle of French hank notes to
the value of SI,OOO.
wlth bandits are still a mm— «*-
cnrrence It Is said at hesdeaerteee
that the marines "have tbe aMMBaa
well in hand." V '*
In Ban Domingo an ewea
force of soldier-sailors ape «■ dafe.
Here 2,200 marines, erganM toto
three regiment*, for* tbe t«r*ad
visional brigade, comuuaidsd by Brig
Gen. Logan Peland. In tte 'MAn
part of the lslsnd the Fourth etgfmrnm.
under Col. Dion Williams. to tattag
things easy, but in the *o«tb OH WW
teenth regiment is In the field In aarii
detachment*, chasing bandits aod mm
laws and quite often getting m wmM
of gunnowder.
Jap* to Adopt Income Tax. .
Tokyo.—The house of paces tam
adopted the Income tax bill, praaMtog
for Increased taxes. This will paoMR
army and naval extensions.
In tbe day* when women woa* mm*
fly boned whale bodices, wbalefcaaaa—
sold as high as SIO,OOO a too.
cian is presented to the school autar
kies showing that the physical *mM
tlon of the pupil is such aa to nafc*
attendance inadvisable, or that toaaa
Is no school within reach."
Egg-Laying Record.
Tacoma. Wash.—A hen at «*Mt
ern Washington experiment wtwOm at
Wash., has mads aa way
laying record that Is aafd to ha a sw
ord. This ben laid one egg every Aqr
for 78 consecutive days. Ot the aa»-
enty-nlnth day ahe laid a doaMe gg_
!
strong nmt
Henry's father o*ned a rolhf aridl
and generally took him out to sea tto
favorite superintendent oa Batoatog.>
One Saturday morning, however, kk
father was In a great hurry, aad MM
to say anything about taking Baay
with him. The ll'xle fellow stood *
as long as he could, but finally aafefesd.
"Daddy, when rov see Mr. Kerry (As
superintendent) wll* yoa plnaaa •*■
him that I'm awfully sorry yam fiaqpd
to take me with you 7"
Acid Stomach. Hnrtban aad Msbs
quickly dtaapp*ar with th« bm at WilsSS's
Indian V«s«tablf Pllla. Send far bM Sas
to ITS Paarl St? Na#Tork—Ad*.
His Fsvorlta Titus.
"Wouldn't my little man like to p
and visit grandma la the ceaadgdT
asked his mother.
"Yes, mamma. If the chlekeaa aaa
ripe now," replied the alx-jta> aML
Boston Transcript. \
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