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true Glen Spi~\gs. ;9»1:2A . ‘ , 5 “L ' 0 I‘ C‘?'A\~'lm8‘ ‘ “ l _ _ f -..,;g- 3;‘ % =5. _ ~ «s»xL M “\Ii 511;: ~ 23'”- xv. E JOHN coR'B£T;1-JEDITOH‘. W'.ATK:I_NS.‘ Isl. Yat.;»smLv 25. 1912. VOLUME V, NUMBER 239 AN ALASKAN , IAI'l'-l!,9 l1‘§Il ~j;. men! 10 about Iiossmg. EEEIII BE GLAD. ‘$9 080?. Sun Be glad each day for what the day may br!nz—- To see tresh lilies open‘ on the Luke. To hear the happy birds fiom lull heart sing‘ When frbxn sweet dreams. of happiness they Thc G!O1Q§l9!L§!i!'i5! R9‘._I’.I.-‘rt: sh’- In Romantic Waters riot Fully Ap- ]Ircc_la__to‘ll by lldhsuxdrs. Dine at ~‘Y.Il!l_.l|I_t 3&3. lmtassor‘ Isorvlss; The United States Geo1o‘gica.'1.S‘urvey. has jusp publishedan account of one‘ of the hen greanesb‘eapthquakes.of histonie ui'mesi—thajs in the Yakusat.‘ Bay regiexihé of Alaska. _ Although there is' no especial relation between earthquakes and volcanic eru,pr,ions, the reeenlsly reported earthquake at. Fairbanks as well as the .‘activit.Vy among Alaskan‘ \._Qn ‘lfrhe deck of InaProyer_a,qe, at. the be;'%/inning of an old-fashion?ed ocean jpgx‘-1_1ey for a. s'ummex-in. France, Garrett ‘;1”,.5‘j1§éV.rvi‘ss, the well-khown astronomer, seriously of an airship service tdihe moon which he believes the £ui§t‘;i9e has in store for man. The Geneva« Times States- a present fact concerning ’S_en9.<,=5:.l Take, which ‘time will ‘change, for its romantic waters in-the years. ‘to ‘zooms, cannot but be. better'_apprec_iated by the nature seeking throngs .tha‘t annually leave the cities for a summer outing. The Lake may be reached by ‘trunk rail- way lines from the great ports of New ’York and Philadelphia, and its shores should be continuous pleasure grounds. The article of the Times, is as‘ follows: A stranger to Geneva who is sojourn- ing‘ here for a brief time asked us the other day to give \him the reason why Seneca Lake is used so little by the people of this vicinity, both for tra and for pleasure. He said that the fact‘ had..im-pressed him and he was at a loss to understand it. We regretfully admitted that we were unable to supply him ‘with the desired information. but it set us thinking. We have not as yet arrived at. ’any satisfactory explanation and so.‘ pass the question on to our readers: “Why is not Seneca Lake more popu- larly used for commerce and for pleasure?” “ ’ .Seneca Lake is a pretty body of water and being nearly forty miles in length, presents the usual inducements to~ seekers after pleasure. It would seem that excursionists would be eager to patronize the boats on’ this lake for a day’s outing, yet su'ch boats as the lake affords are but poorly patronized .and there is but little in- ducement to place more and better boats on the lake because of the scanty patronage. The Geneva. harbor has its \colony of motor boat enthusiasts, some few people go out in row boats, \a few more in canoes, and at rare in- tervals the water-front seems fairly alive, but it is noticeable that the great rank and of Genevans prefer to remain ashore or else have no desire to go out on the water. It is quite likely that the enlarge- ment of the Cayuga-Seneca Canal will revive tratiic on the lake to some extent. Seneca Lake taps a very rich region to the south and te canal fur» wake’; Be glad because so many things are glad- The conscious linnet. the unconscious ;j_l1;,4, Because some part of Natu:-'e would be sad If Nature failed one heart with joy to Be glad each day that life so full is given To happy heart that over in song: The lad: is heard from out a smiling heaven. Nor can we see to what the notes belong, . Be glad that you such happy hfe may share; Although its Nature gives the Iark her wings, You may in thought at once be present there, As near to heaven as is the bird that sings. ‘,T“‘i;begin to‘ think seriously, but. non‘ .t;Qo,-;.;se1r.ious15§,;~- -4now— ~«t.ha.b we» have ‘_a¢:I:1iéved the navigation of the air by Vmechanical means, t.hat._ there only fé the necessity of providing air rd éaxisn upon 'a to eanrfm-‘ man‘ tab to the moon,” he said. ‘ da’d“i'5L’éréss to this account of a natural phenomenon of another class. , THE OF 1812. Be glad each day that life is made: so bright With smile of that waken round out . feet; out w.l_1ea1:_ts must_ltbx:ill«with pleasure at their- . sight. Our sepses soothed by perfume taintly sweet Be gladgthat you close kinship can avow With humble growing in the grass. That daffodillies courtesy and bow . And give a smile of greeting when you pass. —SELEC1‘BD. TheYal:uta,tBayearthquakeoccurred‘ -on.Septemher.3, 189.9,. and. was fol_lowedi tduringythe next three Weeks by many less violent sho.c1§s- The area of great-. est intensity lay along the of the St. Elias Range, _in a region of high mountains and superb glaciers, and the movement‘ was: accompanied by enormous avalanches and i-oek's1ides‘.' This is fa vivid demonstration that the _ growth of mountains is still‘ in progress. At some places in the region the land\ subsided and forests were submerged. At most places, however, the land rose, and many p which before had lain below sea level were elevated above it. Barnacles which had lived in seawater ,we.r.e\f.o.u.nd ~forty~seven. feet above sea level. The ‘study’ of the e of this‘ earth movement’ was undertaken by the late .'Ra~1phI'S. Tarr, , of Cornell‘ University, and Lawrence Martin, of the,University of Wisconsin, and their report of the work has just been pub- lished as Professional Paper 69 of the United States Geological Survey, with a preface by G. K, Gilbert. , In addition to makingan exhaustive study of the movements of the land which took place in the Yakutat Bay region and of the effects of the earth.- quake upon the many glaciers of the region, the writers amassed a great fund of information in regard to the intensity of the quake throughout the whole area within which it was sensible and‘_.recorded the testimony of’ many‘ witnesses.’ The shock wasfelt at dis- tances of 670 and 1300 miles in opposite directions from Yakutat Bay, and the .area, .of. the region over which the tremblingsa were felt is more than § 1,500,000 square miles. v This gives the Yaku'tatBay earthquakeaplace among the very greatest earthquakes of his- toricv times. The other great shocks, without exception, resulted in heavy loss of life, the number of persons killed reaching in one of them the enormous total of over 60.000. The Yakutat Bay shock was fortunately free from fatalities, not because it was less severe than the others, but on account of the sparsely settled charac- ter of the region in which it occurred. TI‘1;fn‘,.‘Ga?l=lan,t Work of the\ jN,;a.vy-..—Perry's Victory on if‘ we have got to have a new md force. Electrical propulsion vbekins to hing what that force will be when men fly from planet to planet. Yfdii understand we have got to over-‘ _coihe gravity and there are only two forces whichovercome gravity nnder certain conditions—pressure of light andtelectriclty. ‘ ‘$30 I say that the first machine to.«,§he moon will be based on the mind ciple of theplth ball that away from the conductor of an electrical machine. When this has been accom- plished there only r_ema'.i'ns to be done what modern chemistry certainly can acliieveg» that is, to - a strong vessel, a, spherical vessel, with enough ‘air and food to sustain a man during the This is not soridiculous as it might‘ seem, and the modern achievement of is a step in that direction.” Ihcidentally Prof. Serviss does not believe there are any inhabitants on -Mags. \My friend Lowell,” he said, ‘-‘doesn’t allow for the fact that Mars is too small ‘to retain an atmosphere; Human beings could not remain on Mars because there probably is not‘ enough oxygen and nitrogen on that planet. The gravitative force is too sma’.-_l1 to retain an atmosphere. The atmosphere flies away. Those lines called canals are no doubt a natural phenomenon, notwithstanding the fact thaf look arti Their exist- ence is' due to the fact that Mars is a ver?y~‘ilat“ planet‘. ‘There are 110 moun-. tains there, and. waters spread out in every direction, and form connecting lines. The drainage system runs in every‘ direction and gives that checker- ed appéarance of criss-crossing canals.” —NeW York l\'la.il. *W‘lien the ._War of 1812 broke out it was seriously proposed to lay57up .a'nd- d'i»s‘inantle the America_n- . order to save it from capture. But. there were two inen to oppose this humiliating scheme.. These_ were Charles Stewart and William Bainbridge, both captains in the navy. ' ‘ . _ __ _ I -‘ “English frigates do not always sail in squadrons any rnore than, our own,g~«and if oneof us meets one of ‘ them alone at sea we sha‘l~l”be able to give a good account _of ourselves. Let the frigates ‘go to sea to show what they can do.” . . ' . Such was the”1ang_uage of these sailors.’ With the exception of'a grand of gtznboats, suited only for river and harbor service, there were‘“but“fourteen. vessels a Of this\ number six were frigates and the rest sloops, brigs and schooners. The British- navy had 23<')li_i1e of ‘battle ships. V _ . ' Bainhridge made good his words before the conflict was six months old. The Constitution ‘was, assigned to him as the of a small squadron. He sailed tor- the West Indies, and one day found himself alone with his in the presence of an English man-of-war, ‘the java, carrying forty-four guns, He greeted the show of English colors with a heavy Broadside. g At’ the very outset the wheel of th_e Constitution» was shot Mrs. Arthur Auhlo. Ethel Velie Auble died at her home near Reynoldsville on Wednesday, July 17, 1912, ‘aged thirty-one years. Her death was due to heart trouble with which she had been a for some time. She leaves to mourn their loss her heart broken ‘husband and two boys Arthur Raymond aged -nine years and Ke\n'ri\ethT3'ri§sey aged three years. Mrs. .Aub1e is also survived by her parents Mr. and Mrs.. John W. Velie Q of Logan, two sisters Mrs. William Creighton of Logan and Mrs. Leon Huey of Tyrone, and three broth- ers Charles N. Velie and Birge J. Velie of Logan and George M. Velie of Watkins. The funeral was held from her late home on Saturday with Rev. Foster of Burdett officiating, with burial ‘in Hector Union Cemetery. Mrs. Auble in early life gave her heart to God and became a member of the Methodist Church at Logan, and her life has been given (to doing good to those about her, and was happiest when surrounded by her family to. whom» sh§$ with self-sacri and” love. Hers was a lovely character and disposition, and by her untimely death she has receiv- ed thecommendation of the Master, and her soul has entered into rest eternal, while the sorrowing ones that survive her. thank God she once lived for she has made their pathway less rugged, their hearts have been cheer- ed aud their hearthstone has blazed brighter because of the kindly cheer ing words said and acts done by her. If, “To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die,” then to all who knew and loved her, she will be an ever present personality and inspiration. away. After ! time at‘ long range Bainbridge decided: Qto “‘c1Qse~in” so;that he could put in some of the destructive hull ' shots for whic-h American captains were famous. The Java was ' soon unmanageable. The Con_stitutio11—droppe§1 aéet;er—n— and-eraked ‘her lengthwise. '~ ' L W , Then the; Britiéh‘ captain °detergnined to board thé Ameriéan. In closing '-the Java ran her jili boom‘: into'fIi‘ei7‘1frii‘zzen ‘rigging ofIie'r ‘opponent... but she soon lost her jib and received a‘ severe raking from thestern. After some maneuvering, in which, as usual, the Constitution avoided the raking of the Java, the vesseis stood broadside to broadside. -The ‘ of the Constitution carried away the _Tava’s mizzén mast. ‘ Soon the British colors were struck. This victory closed the achievements of the year 18:3 for the little navy. The campaign had opened in August with the loss to the British of the Guerriere in a thirty minute battle with the ‘ Constitution. The Frolic was defeated by. the Wasp and the Macedonian by the United States, both in. October. In six months the little\ navy had captured armed British ships. _ ' An o to the naval triumphs the year of the War was the loss of the Chesapeake in the battle with the Shannon in June, 1913. Captain James Lawrence took command of the ill starred ship with orders to put to sea from Boston, then blockaded by the ‘ frigate inthe British navy. Despite _odds, Lawrence coolly o the Briton a fair yardarm battle. The broadside from the Shannon carried away the headsails of the Chesapeake, wounded . Lawrence and killed the sailing master and the man at the wheel, ‘ and the ship was thrown stem to under the raking of her nishes a wz;t'ervv3'y conniac With the big‘ markets. Time was when Seneca Lake was teeming with canal boats and presented a. much busier appear- ance bhan now. It. may be that time will bring 22. revival of those condi- tions, although at. present. the lake seems to be but lime used, either by commercial interests or by pleasure seekers. Boring‘ for Natural Gas. For the past; two months, repre- sentatives of 3' party of capitalists have been securing options on farm lands in this vicinity for the purpose of sinking wells for gas and oil. They have succeeded in securing op- tions on about: 1,500 acres and the leases are now being signed and it. is expected the work of drilling will be- gin about. November 1st‘. The land mus Eecured lies north and south of Seneca Falls. Pyramids of Ghizsh and Sankara. As the wonder of the Sphinx takes possession of you gradually, so grad- ually do you learn to feel‘the majesty of the 1’yramids of Ghizeh, unlike the Step Pyramids of Sakksra, which, even when one is near it, looks like a small mountain; part of the land on which it rests. The Pyramids of Ghizeh look what they are-arti excrescences, invented and carried out by man, ex- pressions o_f man’s- greatness. Exquis- ite as they are as features of the drowsy golden landscapes at the setting of the slit). I thihli they 1001i i'I'10§l) TV6 ful at night, when they are black be- neath the stars. On many nights .I have sat in the sand at a distance and looked at them, and always, and in- creasingly, they have stirred my imagi- nation. Their profound calm, their classical simplicity, are greatly em- emphasized when no detail can be seen, when*they are but black shapes tower- ing to the stars. They seem to inspire then like prayers prayed by one who has said, -“God does not need my pray- ers, but I need-them.” Wigwam Ha: Passed Away. A novelist would 9. veritable mine of data. for stories of the severe life in‘ the- woods among any of the northern Indian tribes. ‘During my stay among the Montagnais at Lake St. John two families descended from their winter hunting grounds to the post. being forced on the way to boil their moccasins and pelfries for soup to avoid starvation. Yet these same people were strong enough to travel and attend to the necessities of their camp. Within days they returned again to the forest. Cyrus A. Lawrence of the town of Barriugbon, died July 21, 1912, at. the age of sixty-six years, _as the result of burns from scalding brine which he suffered on July 10bb. He was carry- ing a. boiler of brine into the cellar, and walking backwards when A step bruke. and the hot liquid splashed over him. — A number of years ago a. local com- pany was. formed and several wells were put down in and near this vil- lage, all of which produced gas but not in su quantities to meet the expectations of the company and the business was abandoned al- though these same wells are still pro- ducing a small amount of gas. Mr. Hosley, who was manager of the com- pany..an'd a. practical gas man. and who later moved to Belmont,’ always contended that there was a gas belt runningrthrougb the county and that if found it would be in large quantities, but the company at that time did not feel warranted in continuing the search which would require more money than they cared to invest in the en- terpriseand the matter was dropped. —-Seneca County Courier-Journal. He was born in the town of Milo. Jan. 3, 1846, and lived in that town until1867, when he went. to Barring- bon. He was Supervisor for three years. and Clerk of Lhe Board for two years. He was a prominent. member and clerk of the Barringnon Baptist Church. ‘September 30, 1868, he was married to Miss Katherine MacDowe1l. who survives him. He also leaves one sister, Mrs. Eugene MabDowe1l of Montour Fails. The vessels fouled quickly, and orders to board sounded on both decks. Meanwhile Lawrence, dying below, continued shouting orders and in hieexcitement gave voice to the appeal which became the warcry of the tars of Columbia, “Don’t ‘give up the ship.” It was the already lost, for the whole action lasted but The canvas tents, which have entirely replaced the native birch bark wig- wams, came into general use about‘ twenty- years 5120. The first Indians to introduce them set up their tents and made camp in‘ the space of an hour without having to cut‘ the numerous wigwam poles or dig away the snow underneath, while the old. bark lodge required the snow to he cleared to the ground on account‘ of the fire in the center, the whole task consuming about two and one-half hours. The box iron stoves heat the tents very well and consume less\ wood than the open .-Southern» Workman. pp ' ' When the year I8I3popened the people of the Northwest were determined to drive the British invaders back to Canada. The recovery of Lake Erie was the step toward checking British y aggression, and to this task the government called Oliver _Hazard Perry, then twenty-six years old; The middle. of “July the ships . ' were ready ‘for. battle. ' After‘ considerable maneuvering the British f“‘\vVe\i‘e féon“ipe1'~1’éd'to‘sett1e ‘accounts with thei ueyv ‘Yankee navy on _ September IO. \They had a few more guns than Perry and an equal number of men. ‘ -' « Berry managed‘, Nelson fashion, to bring his the Law- rence, a1ong_sid'e the British Detroit. The . first shot from‘ k'thee Detroitczrashed through the bulwarks of the Lawrence, sending / A_a>.c'1oud. of splinters over ,t:he”1n’er,1’ at the guns. i At the end ‘of \half ‘ an hour Perry found thatthe Lawrence was sulfering heavily from ' the <concejntrated and I1nad.e.‘sail to get to close gqluarters and._bri\ng her short guns into play. . . - ‘B A B'ecalm‘edl_whe.re his consorts jcouldi not move to ‘his aid, he- ’fo:u‘ghti'aga-inst hopeless odds, his alone having to contend ‘ with the Detrciit, the ,H.u‘n1ter,~. Lady‘ Prevost. and. Queen Charlotte. '“*One:=by'ione-‘thee -guns on the Lawrence were disabled until only one ‘ on her ‘engaged’ side could be worked? As. the consort Niagara: was comparatively nnrinjured Perry d\e‘termi‘n'ed1~to\changelhis to her; ‘ I-Ie crossed the range of the British guns in\an open boat. 7 ' ' ‘ Not long after'Perry left the LaWrjen‘ce ‘her vcoinmander hauled ‘down the because hesafw th'at« the',he,1’p1e_ss wounded were being slaugliiteredfby the British. , The English took that asafsignal , lofsurrender and ~si1ppo the battle was. Vvon, but in less than an hour Perry was back on.,,his ! writing .11pon ap. old envelope that famous niessage, “ We have met the enemy and hey‘ are ours.” There he received the swords of the ,British. - ‘ Old-‘time Counties. Prof. Vail has unearthed the fact; that in 1787 Geneva was\ in Mont,- 9:otnery County, and than Ontario County began on the line of the west. Pre-emption Road. In December 1792, the new Pre-empnion line was estab- lished by State enactment, so than Ontario County was extended east.- ward, and Geneva took on Ontario and cast. off Montgomery. Lucky, Ontario! Unfox-Lunace. the future County of Seneca! A lime of fancy will Show that had the old line been main tained, Geneva. would have been in Seneca County, and quite nat.ut*a1‘ly Geneva might. and possibly would have become t,hecoun’1:y seas.-Geneva Ad- vertiser-Gazettev. Hrs. Robert Dudgeon. Mrs. Carrie Owen Dudgeoh, wife of Robert Dudgeon of Logan, died Wed: ' nesday, July 17, 1912. at the age of sixty-one years. The funeral services’ were conducted on the afternoon of the 19th, Rev. M. D. Foster of and the burial, was in L0g‘an.Cemet.ery. - The deceased was the daughter‘ of J 0113.! ban and Elizabeth Owen, and was « born near Morelend, December 20, - 1351. L She had resided in Logan since marriage, and was higlgly regarded by all. She is survived by her husband and one son, Theodore Dudgeon, of Lo~ gen, and also by three sisters, IVI-rs; Hattie Soule of Reynoldsville, Mrs-. ' Henry Howell of Lodi, and Mrs. Minor Wakeman of Watkins. .1-fanning in Alaska. Alaska is not a. region which one assoéiates with fanning, but. the keen eye of the census-taker agricul- tural stanisnics there never-Lbeless. Curiosities of Sound. There are myst‘erie‘s in the tiransmis-3 sion of sound that have not yet. been fabhomed. For example, the guns of the Orion are said to have. been heard ninety-s‘ev‘en» miles ‘away, vbhoupjh in- a;1‘1dib]e‘to those much nearer. ‘ V ‘ And in is on record that the reverber- ation of the Battle-dfewaterloo reached many places in Kent, though Gen. Coivi11e- and his detachment hVea_rd nbbhing of it a<d'6zen miles away. Whistles; boots, sirens, and noises of 9.11 kinds have been‘ tested‘ by the \l‘riniby\Ho1ise in (_JI‘.d9l'.' no anoise which Will‘ be infaI1i‘b1y-heardefor 9. cer- tain distance. In vaiin. They may be heard for akdozeen miles _and inauaible at half a mile. The tonzil number of farms is 2322, with a.t_1._acre=ag-e‘ of 42,544. These tig- ures‘a.i'e not overpowering‘. pub they ma.k’e_a. comfortable cohnrast; with the 1swelve'famns and oné hundréd and \ of1900. The value of this property is placed an $1,000,000, of which ‘$460,000,:-eprese_nts land, $400,000 buildings, $60,000 machinery, and $100,- 000 ‘domestic animals. ‘All of M the farmers ,exce'p'n fourneen are white. Very nearly all‘ of the -land is operated by‘ 0Wi1él‘S and managers, rather than renters.“ Ocean’; Deepest Spot. The German t1avy’s surveying ship Planet; has discovered in the vicinity of the Philippines the deepest spot: in the ocean, 9.780 meters, or 406 “feet: more‘ than six miles. ’I.‘his_ record sounding was made, according to a cable- accouhb received authe admiral- ty here, about 40“ sea miles otf the north coast: of Mindanao. The great- est depth h‘i’t:hert.o known, 9,635 meters -just. under six miles-—was found by the United vstabes cable steamer Nero in 1901 to the \s0ut.h_ of the Island of Gu,a;n.—-Preis.Dispatch. Killed By the Cars. Lyman Davis, 9. colored man who was a A. R-. veteran a.‘ng1‘pehsioner, was killed by 6116 Lehizh V(a1’le‘y train which passed ’t,hrdu.<.>,*h Odessa, Wednesday ‘p. m.,. July 1'7; 1912. He was walking‘ on the track :1 short distance west of the Odessa. Station, and a freight train. was‘ goingheasb on the opposite t;r'ac‘k.‘ The noise of the fr-eighn drowned. _the ’a.p- -preach of the‘ passenger -train, and as he wasm-.uck (feat!) ensueda, He was a vgell known and wVe11A;-egarde;1.citi_zen-. One getsa. glimpse of the Alaska. of his imagi in’ the iuém‘ of dogs used as work animais. Alaska; agri- culture means aimosb anything except. the raising of cereals, or which bur. four hundred dollars’ worth. are report.- ed. V§géumbles and small fruits, \forest and livestock ‘products, make up the bulk of the agriculbuxjal ounput. The largest item of expenditure is for hired 1a'bor.--New York Evening Post. ‘Many of the .disasber’s about o coasts are doubtless due to than mys- teribus “s'0t1ndless zone” ‘in’ which the. human ear cahnob c‘gtc'h the warning. But nolonehasi ‘yet discovered the rea« none\: that dent spot; or prophesied its varying‘1oca1iuy.--WestminsterGazette.
