HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Times, 1900-2-15, Page 9CHICAGO BlIAINAGE CANAL.
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lir"StInX-ThillY-FOlar 1411104S nod Pro-
viiii Ibet ;). New teitlet ter t also NietilgaSt.
Tleeityef Obicago has just per-
foanand the feat of standieg the Cni-
,eage River on its head. Incidentally it
hos , gone baelt to the old ta,sbioe
wearing the elver, In very otd iitnee
tis murky atai n used to rue toward
244eisninPi. During all the time
.siece white men heve lived near it it
has fed Lake Michigan. Now it goes to
the Mississippi again. And. if saine of
the towes in Central Illinois have their
wy, it ratty be turned neck into the
.lane again,
Lae Igichigan is.* above the level of
the UPPOr Xississippi ae*1 only a sten
tot earth e few miles aoross and. ten
-teat or so nigh keeps all tne water ot
the laUe trona flowing Oath, aa it did
in Cenozoic days. The city heti cut a
big canes( through these ten mike.
The oarial is one of the biggest en-
gineering feta ever attempted in ia
country. It haa cost nearly 0•4,0CO3-
000,--xnore than the firat cost of the
ErIe Canal trout Buffalo to AlhanY
and niOne Untie belt it total coet to-
day. with all Re improvements.
eoule gigantio results may flow from
this work done ny oue eity. For in-
stance, the 'United States may lime.
uelieg tbe meal as 4 starter, dig
eanal all the way to the„Miseise
eippt,
There le powerful oppoeition to the
new ceeal. front twn direetioes. Lake
ninneera and a',1Ptains Olivet) It beeettee
they eleint tbat te drew oft se emelt
wlter troeu the nikeer lakes Val lower
tbeitelevel so lunch, aa to injure guar
baritors.
The otter objeetioe is more reason-
able. Smaller cities aed towpa along
the Illinois Valley tIon't care to have
all tbe aewegeQ ChF,rago swept past
them, etipeeielly as mast of thee tewne
get their water supply from tbe riv-
er.
Chicagtne %reply to Om oriticisra is,
a course, that the water poured down
the canal 13 as limpid as an eugens
tear.
And Congress will have to ()elide
Wliotber tbe truth is with Cidoego or
its critics. Chicago being tbe biggest, it
might be wow to prophesy the out-
DaTee.
A CHANCE FOR INVESTIGATION.
rlte 1111111\XPinhted r1etionle11.011 COmiesled
mite the, tooling of on iron Unr.
It one talteess'u tbe band a bar o
metal, beated until one end ean only
just be held, awl then plunges the
other end into cold water, the end in
aur.1, hand becomes so numb hotter that
tbe bar has to be droeped. This fact
lies often been notified by persous
wins work at the forge, Their ex-
planation of it is that "the cold drives
tbe heat ttp the leer." But this
* seems absurdt The piamomenon has
punted soientifie men considerably
and many experiments leave been
tried in temnection with It From
these it appears that the beat is
transferred, or seems to be transfer-
red, mach more mildly in the eir-
ounistanom than it is by ordinary
conveetion or tonduetion, but the ren -
on for this la not yet Lindy explained.
Tbe most feasible euggestion seems to
be, that the heat which appears to be
transmitted along the bar is not real-
ly so transmitted, but exists already
in the cooler end. When iron or steel
baa been, heated to reduess, and is
suddenly piunged into water; s. mark-
ed Change tertainly takes Pla.ce in the,
pxoperties of the metal. Ann if the
change in „baraoter in the metal is
transmitted front particle to partials
to the end a the frod, it possibly re-.
sults in a lowering of the heat cape -
city of tho metal, the heat in it is
giver up raore readily, and a. rise in
the temperature at the aurtam is ob-
served.
ECLIPSE OF TEE SUN.
great, Prepay:along Dm Observations of
the TOltal F.ettpse Next kilty.
The total eolipse of the sure to take
place May 28, is unusual in that alinoet
its entire shadow path will traverse
easily itectisstble and thiokly populated
portions of the earth's surface, thus
rendering atatronomical observations
less difficult than they have been tor ,
many years.
After crossing Mexico, the shadow
of the moon will oast New Orleans in
darkness at 7.27 a.m., and ivill travel
at the rate of 1,000 miles an hou•r to-
ward Norfolk, where it will start
across the Atlantio at 8.50 eau. and
touch Europe at Coinbra., Portugal.
Next it veill take in Algiers and North-
ern Africa, vanishing at sunset near
the, northern end of the Red Sea. R
crolss SPain in the afteenooia at
t o'clock.
Arrangements have been made to bi-
ograph it, and theater goers willprob-
ably have a chance -to see a moving re-
production of the phenomenon between
vaudelidle aote. ,
SOME FRAILTIES or, MAN.
Te 'Men have again proved their
superiority over the women. They have t
pa lnas in their stores thee: look green
and fleurishing. all winterd.hough no
fires , kept up for enem. The women
nurse aPtirn all winter, and it is le
lynen spring. The Palms used by the s
filE 86=8 NERVES.
TRIFLING INCIDENTS WEIGH
sTEIIRIFY liARDENED TRaltanS,
FDA Suiti ler trim h rave hi the Presence
er linen c.,Asiget ls Often, l'Alatt-N-A Elgin%
AlArtni. ; t l s.a or pawner,
iS A peculiar eircueastence that
hardeued arid trairiea eroops will go
throtagh a long tient serroended by
ell the horrors that are ineeparable
from war without, flinehing, and with
the te most apparent ca Ilea -nese ; and
the stime men wit' be struck tereified
by A Single, trifling ineldent.
Every ever of any
Wimportaece, partle-
elly wars between cleilizti
ed naons
prolific ineidetits of erivial elaar,-
er in thenaee.ves, bat. $0 unasua
rue uneateral Ostia thee appeal to the
netur.1 instinctive berme of. men
kaidonly atel intensely deo 1-
see'renet
T HE EXETER TIMES
not satisfaetorily explain thellet. There
is something eo unnaturally...almost'
uncannily-nnreasoualtle eheet them
en
which, edimitee any dishoeort and a
is partieuisr4 remarkable that "war
panics" have meetly °marred. amoug
regiments wnose fearlessness and
prowess have made the hearte of their
countrymen heeve with pride.
During the Zulu War two or three
such, panics occurred among our
troops. though, of course, on e, main,
er sale and of a /pore monerate nhar-
water. Now and Limn during that
W ee small eamps were suddenly
thrown into ilieerderly terror,. and al-
most put to bolting by • a sentry' mis-
t.311
aking some imor shrub for a Zulu
shPoyr,dZwatit ufreirnnit-
On
attackihg'
On one occasion a Sentinel, wording
a 0 ,tap, espied eonee dark ebjeet oreeps
, nir Omit among some busnes a little
way oft and fired at it, The next in-
steut the camp was in disorder; izaort
wera seizing thew arms, and rusineg
forward to pour a hot tire ire Um rection paintedemt by the seotry, ,de-,
RAW. tbat the fire was uereturned;
and after a few minutes' firing into
the daekness, at notleng in particular,
a few men ventured out, and discrete
eeed that the whole mese o theetiarm
was a pear, velvet -eyed COW, wbiub had
atrayed aud atraTed inte the jatveot
deatt!, toot
Ps tho Mein terrors ot clays of oar
Hag n.1 euerouuding ieae of seher-
eeit en ineinene is tha one, or
eeatapen whioh, Marred at the Rattle
Wurth, the early aeye of the
useareeelau War.
be heat. of the great battle a
the PriSeelan army was (share,*
the regireetne of „Freneh cnirase
in the Mello a tinging tile 'wing
ti farcintatieg the teltiug back Qi.
Vaencle nifeutry. bet the ouirase
lera VOrD *IVO, bit& JY tbe u4L3Ob-
ng toians. eagele the cuiratielera
aud again they were drive
ati by the wiellering fere a shot find
Vor a third time they CAMP down
agent. 404 cks 1.1.IS enemy Witirted or
tbein-to draw ttearer a burial -lie,
TkiitRQ
de Pruesittas, and or ties mo-
ookee AS it they ivouist turn
awl Ly, or tie eut down Wit tiGlit. de -
tending thenteeltee. Len in a mo-
ment. cues bee eused themeelves to-
gether and tleaten beck tar the third
and Mut time the gallant cuirassiers.
The sight that terrified the Prue -
lane appears nothing very numb in
Week and white. It was a regiment
Of cuirassiers ted at a flashing rateate
wards them by a bead,ees °Ulcer tot-
ting upright in lue eaddie awl 'Appar
lag eteceureging en hi • mere IL was
o mee a person then Vutzea (Its Teta-
,
of Lne tnird regime •L ut
cuir-
asners. witeee netd !tad been carried
completely of hs shoal 1,$ s as the
trooJk. broke in.L0 the third luirAl *tap
(Merge by a came n-leni. Mandl also
took oft ate riser tit nor's lease end eaL
the bugeir in two.
It m remarkal le and suagulo.r that
at the nettle of Vortsaele whiole 1.00k
p.tates the saute tiay aa Worth, a. very
similar ineldent occurred, and did more
to shake the 'larvae a Ole Germans
thee boars of roaring cannon and
fighting had done.
While a regiment ot P.russtert infan-
try were standing in reoerve,. watch-
ing tbe fight as well as the s could
from their position a abetter, a ciaarg-
er beloriging to a Fennel) dragoon regi-
ment (one whit% was preetieally de-
stroyed in the battle) galloped right
into the midst a the met, 100 "milled
to arrest it, and innuediatery fell baok
in alarm; for swinging to tbe bridle
wan the whole left ,arta oa the charg-
ers' rider, the flingers of the hand Oran-
ly grasping the reins, The arm ap-
peared td have been severed a few
inches below the eboulder, and was
certainly that of an officer, but who
the °Meer was has never been satis-
factorily established.
So moved were the hardened Men of
battle at
THE HORRIBLE SIGHT
that no one would touch the horse,
and the animal was allowed to gallop
off, to be killed a few minutes later
in crossing before some Prussian guns,
Trifling as the incident was, many of
the brave fellows who witnessed it de-
clared that their first, almost irresist.
able, impulse was to throw down their
arms and bolt. Yet it wan withl the
help of just snail men that Generahvon
Goben routed the Frenoh that memor-
able day in August, isrzo..
it is a .well-known fact that the fin-
est and bravest troops the world can
produce have no inununity from that
strange and mysterious madness
known to military history as "war
panic." A heavy war, frequent san-
guinary engagements, night marches,
and surprises sometimes play havoc
with soldiers' nervous Systems, and
render them more like high-spirited
colts than men who have taken the
fieldeprepared to suffer immeasurable
horrors and take death cheerfully.
Those who have read deeply about
the Peninsular War will perhaps recol-
lect that one or two British regiments,
the very 'pick of our army engaged in
the war, were so terrified that they
were absolutely routed during one
night's march by nothing more tang-
ible than a false rumor.
The trooips were marching along in
good. order, Cheerily chatting as if they
were on the way to Manoeuvre on :Al-
dershot Plains, when a rumour ran
down the lines that the enemy was at
hand. The next moment the lila& of
orderly soldiers was changed into an
LONGATED MOB OF. ARMED MEN
brewing away arms, baggage, and all
hey carried, and running away in ev-
ery,direction, their faces blanched, and
their ears deaf to i he thunctered corns
mends of Weir officers.
For the mordent they knew hilt one
sentiment, one emotioa ; a sudden, pas-
ionate blind terror, and ehey fled
are inade of tin.
very man who leads a prayer -
meeting finally gives tee 'impression t
that the Lord uses an ear-trumipet and
. he has exclusive .conirol of this end:
-When a man decides, under the in- t
fluence of an inspiring sermon, that t
lae will dare to he a Daniel, he means
that he WL1I no longer be imposed on t
by his,1110.,
1,Ve don't suppose the man ever 1s
ed who NVa$ as popular with the wom- e
err as chocolates are. f
We like to se.E, ourl)---haired 11 1,
get married and the children arrive I
in quick suacessionlb soon losee the
air of superiority he seemed yo feel
over. men with no l'air
without thinking whether they were
tuning into the a.tens, of that thing
dreaded or not. It was a, ter -
• of madness, and only its madiaess
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