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BUILDING A DAM TO: BURST IT.

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WHEN YOU'RE DEAD.

A TESTATOR'S RIGENTS IN HIS BODY.

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Act and rules under it, this has now been made so since 1902) Alegenys to executors condi olonel on any lawful disposal of the Body directed by the testator would no doubt be good, and, if they disregarded the condition,

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COSTLY EXPERIMENT). Dams are usually built to last. A partially published corren auch legacies, would not be pay The idea of constructing one, and pondence between Lord Knutsfordable. It would be no use, how then deliberately putting such a and Mr. F. N. Charrington In- over, giving such conditional strain on it that it will give way dicates that the law as to the dis-legacy to any person not nomin would seem to be a new one.posal of the dead is not too well ated executor, because he or she This is now to ba done known, writes Alfred Fellows in would have no power to require for testing-purposes states. the Sunday Times." Mr. Char- the condition to be carried out. press bulletin issued by the Bn-rington, with the noble ideal of

BURIAL AT ERA. gineering Foundation (New serving humanity in death as in In two matters only a testator's York). More than $70,000 has life, desires that his body shall be directions appear to be imperi- been raised by a special committee delivered to the London hospital tive, namely. If he gives his body of the Foundation, which, to set- for such use as the staff there can for the purposes of anatomical tle engineering problems centuries beat make of it, but a doubt un-dissection (by writing, or verbal. old, will erect and destroy an arch derlies the minds of both corres-ly in his last Hiness, before two dam, one hundred feet high on pondents as to the law applicable. witnesses) under the Anatomy Stevenson Creek, a tributary of Probably few persons will wish Act of 1832, his nearest relative the San Joaquin River, about sixty their mortal remains to be treated raising no objection, or if he miles east of Fresno, California. Fas Mr. Charrington does, but leaves & written direction forbid Engineers of America and quite a number will prefer crema-ding cremation. In each of the Europe are aiding the plan which tion to burial, and others may above two cases the executors is attracting world interest among wish, to be buried in places of must obey his directions. engineers. "Testing to destruc- their own choice.

The law ap-

Burial at sea, though extremely tion" an actual structure, it was plicable may thus be worth know.unusual for those who die on land, does not appear to be un- said, is new to engineering effort. ing. About $100,000 will be spent to One caution may be given at lawful, and could therefore valid determine by this method the the outset. It is very asual for ly be made the condition of an As to any principles of concrete arch de-the family lawyer or other cus-executor's legacy. sign.

todian of the will to break its other possible method of disposal, The arch dan investigation is cover and read it after the it may be broadly laid down that being made by members of the funeral Manifestly, therefore, athere must be no disregard of Ainerican Society of Civil En-direction in the will for cremation decency, or danger of nuisance to gineers in co-operation with the or for burial at A will be frustrat-the living, and, if such conditions U. S. Bureau of Reclamation, the ed if the body has been buried at can be observed in following out States, of California and Oregon, B, unless, at great trouble and ex-a testator's wishes for an the city of San Francisco, Los pense, a faculty for exhumation orthodox disposal of his body, Angeles County, power companies, or licence from the Home Secret-such wishes may be lawfully car- rrigation districts, universities, Jury has been obtained. Therefore, ried out. (and individual engineers.

any such direction in a will, if During the summer the founda-given, should be supplemented by tion for the dam is being prepared a letter to the persons nominated and other initial steps taken injas executors, who should also be construction work. A large num-asked whether, if the direction is! ber of special instruments for lawful, they will be ready to carry measuring stresses, taking tem-it out. In that case the testator peratures, and observing the might also inform them if it be slight movements of the dam dur-the case, that he has left them ing its construction and testing their legacies conditionally on the will be made. These instruments performance of their promise. A will be carefully tested ut the testator who does this will have Bureau of Standards of the De-done as much as lies in his power partment of Commerce in Wash- to see his wishes carried out. ington before being put into the dam.

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CAERGYBI.

HOLYHEAD CHANGES.

ITS NAME. Holyhead is to change its name to Caergybi, the ancient Walsh title meaning Fort of Gybi. Gybi was a fourth-century saint.

This decision has been arrived at by the Holyhead Council, with

four dissenting votes.

Holyhead is the Anglesea island seaport in North Wales, from which the boats put out for Dublin.

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"Many factors combine to make this unusual experiment, possible." said a statement issued at the headquarters of the Engineering Foundation in New York. "The nature conditions at the dam site

re remarkably favourable!

"Proximity to the main water-

It was held in a curious case infrgub-be:" He rolled his, r's and supply conduit. of the Southern 1882, and consequently long be-sounded the last i as an English- alirnin Edison Company as fore the Cremation Act, which man would, but he said there was. sure in ample water supply under was passed in 1902, (1) that there no exact equivalent in English complete control. Moreover, the is no property in a dead body for the y. Caergybi, he added, quantity of water needed and the but the executors have a right was reversion to Holyhead's consequent danger from failure to the possession of it, and their Welsh name, which enshrined the of the dam ng it is tested are duty in the ordinary case is to memory of Saint Gybi, who minimized by the peculiar -rug-bury it; and (2) that a direction, preached the Christian religion in gedness of the site,

by will as to the disposition the Holy Island.. "The dam itself will be of strik-of the testator's body could ing dimensions. The abutments not be enforced. One prac- are to be excavated to solid rock ical reason for such a ruling foundation, giving the elevation would no doubt be that, the in general 90-degree V-shape. At dead man being unable to do so, its lowest point. the dam is to be no one else could compel it. The seven feet five inches thick, grad-ease was a remarkable one, of a ually tapering to two feet at the testator directing his executors to' thirty-foot level, above which it deliver his body to a woman

friend for the purposes of crema," "It is purposed to build first to tion. They buried it, and she sixty-foot height, and after subsequently obtained a licence making complete tests to extend for exhumation, and had the dan, two feet in thickness.cremated at Milan at an expense forty feet farther in ten-foot lifts of £300, for which she unsuccess- to a total elevation of 100 feet. fully sued the executors. In two The up-stream radius of curva- cases a few years afterwards it ture of the arch will be uniform,was held that it was not neces- 100 feet.

Funeral ... Lady Assaulted Plucky Boy A testator may desire his body

Border Firing to be (a) buried at a particular

Swatow Shipa place or in a particular vault, (b) Mr. L. C., Evans, town clerk of Cables to North cremated; (e) buried at sea, (d) Salford, a Welshmar and philo- Surrey Sports delivered to a medical authority logist, declared the word, as near Cricket. Notes for dissection, or (e) disposed of as it could be expressed phone- All Three Drawn in some other way.

tically in English, to be "Kar-Last Sermon

retains this thickness.

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STRUCTURE OF GREAT SIZE.

"17 size the structure will actually exceed some existing arch dams, so that the results of test- ing will have immediate practical utility. The local advantages will promote ease and speed of a great variety of observation. Not! the least among the conditions favourable to the project are the character of engineering talent in charge of the tests and the ex- tensive financial aupport of public utility corporations, construction companies, manufacturers, and engineers.

it

sarily an offence to burn a dead body but, unless carried out in accordance with the Cremation

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The placing of concrete masonry is expected to begin in October. When the dam has been WHAT WILL MAKE ME EAT? built to a height of sixty feet; it Loss of appetite is nature's first warn- will be subjected to tests and obing that something in the complicated servations about one year. It is machinery of the system has gone then planned to increase its height wrong. And that something is invariare requested to apply to the Hon. in ten-foot steps to a total of 100 ably the blood. Good blood helps the Sacrataty, Mr. T. K. LAU, Morrison

digcitive. organs in their work by Hall feet. At each stage the testing supplying them with the strength they will be continued.

constantly need. If the blood in The dam is to be situated in a poverished and weak these organs fail

to receive this assistando und

the deat rough, rocky gorge in the moun- complaint they make in to cease to call tains, where no damage could re-tex, food. Poor appetite never comes sult if the dam should break alone. It is generally accompanied by

ART EXHIBITION! under the tests. An Important indigestion, hendecker, bad taste in the

. rising water supply conduit of the tongue, lassitude and lack of tone

from bed coatsá

JAPANESE OLD PRINTS; IVORY Southern California Edison Com

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CARVING), SCREENS, OLD SILK pany, just above, will afford the What you require to

BROCADES, etc, etc use of the water as needed for the course of Dr. Williams. Pink Pils. tests without dependence upon which these pilly create finds its way:

The good, new-strengthening blood MESSRS KOMOR & KOMOR, local rainfall or melting snow. at once to the debilitated and exhausted - Alexandra Building, Des Vœur.

The tests, it is said, will be digestive organs and the benefit theyl Road, useful in designing and building receive from it in soon, noticed in the ether concrete structures, particu-natural and permanent return of the strayed appetite. Than the digestion larly other type of dams and becomes normal, headaches are absent). arches for other purposes.”

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