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THE LEAVENWORTH TIMES WEDNESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 23, 1910 and sought a doorkeeper's position but was turned down. AGT BACKACHE GOES AND KIDNEYS dirt in digging the Panama Canal. It cost the i-'rench $4 per cubic yard for handling dirt. The Dig steam snoveis handle the rock as easily as they handle earth. While we were at the bottom of Culebra cut, a place was pointed out where, fifty men were killed by a premature explosion of dynamite.

TUB TIMES TELLS THE TRUTH. FINE AFTER TAKING A But another source of benefit directly realized only at periods of a few months apart, is the government money which reaches our merchants through the channels of the war department. Both the soldiers at Fort Leavenworth and the veterans at the Soldiers Home are mediums of transfer which benefit Leavenworth very largely. Yesterday was quarterly pay day at the Soldiers' Home. There Avas received there from the government $130,000 which was paid in pensions to veterans of the Civil War and the Spanish American war.

One hundred thirty thousands are paid in pensions every Out-of-order Kidneys are rejulated and.rected, with the knowledge that thew the most severe Ulaaaer misery 'ii no other medicine, at any price, vanishes. made anywhere else in the world, which is so harmless or will effect so thorough Speaking- of the problem of feeding the thirty-seven thousand employes of Uncle Sam at Panama, fourteen thousand loaves of bread are sent out every morning from the government bakery, and every five days a ship load of refrigerated beef arrives at Colon tor the use of government employes only. At the twenty-six government hotels along, the line, an American can get a fairly good meal for thirty cents, wheeras Uncle Sam feeds a Spanish laborer at forty cents a day, and a negro laborer at thirty cents a day. A negro can't get a meal at Uncle Sam's hotel unless he works, and as soon as a negro quits work he must leave the zone. Formerly the locomotives here were marked C.

(Isthmian Canal Commission), or R. (Panama Railroad,) but now they are marked At the U. S. hotels, the laborers are given the food they are accustomed to at home. Although Uncle Sam Is taking a good deal of Interest in prohibition at home, in Panama he serves free wine to his Spanish workmen.

The Spanish are said to be excellent workers, but the Spanish government will not permit any more of its subjects to come here. There is no labor problem in Panama, and never has been since Uncle Sam took possession in 1904. No man or woman here whose kid- irom DacKacne or umuun iuiwij, ian vi.muuiiu in afford to leave Pape's Diuretic untried, cleansing, healing and vitalizing influ-Affr tutiTitr several doses, all pains ence directly upon the organs and ine t-nuea states controls a nve mile seem verv ErEST 7SXl. the canaL If workmen require a canal specialists Neither do we atis- canal at Panama, on the Pacific, or the: entrance to the canal at Colon, on the At lantic, How much will the Manama Canal finally cost? Colonel Goethals is probably the best living authority. He told me it would cost complete 375 million dollars.

Of this amount, he says we have already expended ISO million dollars. But this does not take into account the mon ey spent oy the French which Colonel Goethals stated as between two and three1 hundred million dollars. You will recall! in the back, sides or loins, rheumatic twinges, nervousness, headache, sleeplessness, inflamed or swollen eyelids, dizziness, tired or worn-out feeling and other symptoms of clogged, sluggish kidneys simply vanish. Uncontrollable urination (especially. it night), smarting, discolored water ind all bladder misery ends.

The moment you suspect the slight-Mt kidney or bladder disorder, or feel rheumatism pains, don't continue to be Miserable or worried, but get a fifty-cent treatment of Pape's Diuretic from your druzzist and start taking as di- Order May we Book your Awning that we paid the French 40 million dol- the women insist on these rights. Every lars for the canal, and Colonel Goethals Sunday, and every holiday. Colonel Goe-saya we got a great bargain. thals hears complaints from whoever "Wnen will the canal be completed? Col. cares to apply to him.

One Sunday a Goethals says in 1915, without any doubt, woman appeared before him to complain He is sure the canal can be completed because a woman $25 a month below her by that time, but certainly by 1315. I in the social scale had more electric light I bulbs in her house. Colonel Goethals can- not do much toward remedying the com-We are spending a million and a halfrpaints to him, since they are us-dollars a month at Panama, in wages, uany trifling, but people are always bet-and this must be kept up for certainly ter satisfied after they have "made a five years. And this million and a half fuss." a month does not represent all we are spending on the Panama Canal, by any means. three months at the Home, and a large amount of it comes to Leavenworth in trade, although much of it Is sent to the many families which are represented in the Home by veterans.

The trade of the active soldiers and the veterans alone is worth a great deal to Leavenworth and the city should show air interest in the welfare of the men who are putting this money into the city and making of it a larger, healthier city of business. Leavenworth would be interested in the soldiers, both active and inactive, merely from custom, but their aid in the upbuilding of the commercial strength of Leavenworth is no small consideration and commands the respect of the business men. The veterans are given respectful and interested treatment from Leavenworth and should, it turn show their confidence in the citizens when it becomes necessary for them to have business dealing after pay days. DONT RETRACT HATCHET STORY It has been a great many years since the cherry tree first came into repute as a national memento. There has been much dissention in regard to the story told about George Washington and his episode with his father and the hatchet, but there has never been any doubt concerning the quality of the character of the first President of the United States.

And after that is all that is of real importance with respect to the hatchet and cherry tree business. The story is harmless, even if it is not exactly true as to its every detail. It is easily remembered by the youth of the land and right there is the great lesson bearing fruit. If the boys of America are made any better men by the example of George and his hatchet, let the story go unchallenged. It is not libelous, nor slanderous and no one will ever be able to produce a damage suit on account of it being printed.

So, whenever the birthday of Wash ington comes, if your children insist on repeating the story to you as if you naa never neara it Deiore, nod your head and give your sanction to the memory of an honest man. THE GRAVE OF GENERAL SHIELDS TO BE MARKED it came out the course of a discus-, sion in the House of Representatives on Wednesday that a soldier whose effigy can be seen in Statuary Hall that re- markable chamber of incongruous sculpt-1 11 rp anil 111 cynrtel fam hoc lain In art The French who failed to complete the Finally, I asked him to complete the canal, paid no attention to its workmen, joke, as I hadn't heard it, and he enum-Uncle Sam makes a specialty of taking erated the diffeffrent kinds of lies: "Lies. good care of his workers on the Isthmus, ana, it is oiten saia, nas maae fananm45 years old is brought to Panama to as healthy as New York, although there -work on the canal, and every man must were a few cases of yellow fever the day stand a rigorous physical examination, I was there, the first In three years. The and as soon as a worker is taken ill, ne streets of Panama and Colon are paved sent home. So that the statistical ta-with vitrified brick from America, and bles showing that Panama is healthier sanitary conditions generally are careful- than Kansas, or New York, or Iowa, or ly looked after.

Wherever you go along; Illinois, are probably misleading, the canal you find workmen cutting gras! "Panama is not a white man's coun-and oiling the pools of water, to drive; try," I frequently heard American resi-out the mosauitoes and flies, which sDread Hon car. Altho' it may seem premature to mention Awnings at this date do you know that we have already received many orders for new work, and that we have many bids out for some large jobs? It's a fact. Placing orders at this time will save you annoyance later for now we can take measurements, and get them ready to adjust when you say so. ECLIPSE CHAIN ROLLER AWNINGS. WINDOW AWNINGS FOR RESIDENCES.

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No, 415 Cherokee Street Phones 519. Drag Store Twelve railroad trains are required to transport to and from their work the men who are employed on the Panama Canal. The eight hour law Is enforced as far as possible, although some of the men work only six hours, while some of them claim they work nine and ten hours. The men receive better pay here than similar workers receive in the United States are able to buy supplies from the government at cost. As a result, canal workers live for considerably less than they could live for in New York.

White men occupy all the responsible positions, and are known as "gold employes," while negroes are known as "silver employes." Every "gold employe" is given an annual vacation of forty days on pay. There are unions in Panama, but the big canal is really an open shop. There is some i friction, but not as much as on smaller jobs at home. Colonel Goethals knows every white employe, and bows to all U'nrkprs rf kisl ln onlnr ceriam vanetv ot preacher men, they ed, and they represent most every different religion, and eat many different kinds of food. The social problem in the canal zone which is ten miles wide, and extends from Colon to Panama, a distance of forty miles is serious, also amusing.

The social standing of the white families is regulated by the pay, of the head of the house. The wife of a man receiving tiOO a month stands higher socially than the wife of a man receiving only $150. and Colonel Goethals said several times while I was with him: "There ar thrpft kinds of lies." damn lies, and statistics." No man over Exercise, it is said, is the secret of health in the tropics. The death rate from accidents on the canal is greater than I from any other cause. (According to sta- tistics, but note what Colonel Goethals saia aoout statistics.) uuring my a a visit to the canal, I heard an official say he toughest proposition we have to deal with Is one American citizen stand ing up for his rights." Someone in the party remarked: "A man on the ship says he will never live to see the completion of the Panama Ca nal." "He'll die young." Colonel Goethals said.

"The canal will be completed with out a doubt, by January 1, 1915, and I'll bet that It will be completed before that date." Colon now has a population of 12.CO0; before the Americans took hold of the canal it had about 1.200. The town of, Panama has 20.000 and the Panama Re- public 200,000. I heard Colonel Goethals says the Panama Republic has a standing army of twelve men, but a book I picked up somewhere says the republic has 1.200 soldiers, who act as policemen. Uncle Sam keeps only a small force on the Isthmus; mainly marines (a variety of soldiers connected with warships.) As I have stated elsewhere, the skilled workers employed on the canal are main- ly Americans, with a scattering of Eng-; lishmen. A magazine article I read late- ly says these workers receive from 40 to SO per cent more than similar workers receive in America.

Common laborers re- celve from 10 cents an hour up, and as nearly all these laborers are negroes from the West Indies, the pay is much greater than they have been accustomed to. The commissary, which is operated by the government, including wholesale dry-goods and grocery storrs, twenty retail stores, twenty-six hotels, an ice plant, several bakeries, many kitchens for workers, a mail order department, a newspaper, printing plant, etc. i Work on the Panama Canal began thir- ty years ago, according to a special ar- seems to me that it was longer ago than that, but I have no moans at hand of verifying or disproving the date. i Nor can I recall from memory when the first talk of a canal across the Isthmus at Panama was heard but it was certainly i hundreds of years ago. Get a map, and hunt up the isthmus connecting North and South America.

This will give you the best possible idea of why the canal Is being built. Colonel Goethals says that to connect the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans by means of a canal across the Isthmus of Panama, will double the efficiency of the American navy. There has been a railroad across the Isthmus since lSbS, and lonff before that time passengers walked across the Isthmus, or were carried in stages. During the gold rush in several Atchison men now living went to California by way of the Isthmus, poin to by ship, and thence to) Panama bv sta a California ship waiting on the Pacific. It is possible to stand on a high place near Culebra cut.

and see both oceans. Freight was hauled across the Isthmus in early days by bull teams, a good macadam road having been constructed long before the railroad. The Panama Railroad made a profit of a million and a half dollars lafet year, which indicates that there is still a great amount of business across the Isthmus. The Suez Canal pays enormously; there is every reason to believe that th.e Panama Canal will also pay, when it is finally completed. I have no desire to be profane, but the canal workers here say there are two seasons In Panama; the wet season, and the wet season.

Colonel Goethals has a French servant, who; he says, owns his house. This old servant has worked in the official residence for six Frenchmen, and for three Americans; "and he hopes there will be others," Colonel Goethals says. Colonel Goethals thinks the Americans are more cordially detested than any other race. You are so proud; you might think this over awhile. He looks for a war with Japan about 1915.

The Japanese probably love us less than any other race. So far as I am personally concerned. I hope we will never be compelled to go to the trouble of whipping the Japanese. We can do it. but it would be an awful lot of trouble.

It has been said that we are building the Panama canal in order that we may get at the Japanese quickly. If this is true, and the Japanese regard a fight with us as inevitable, they will certainly Jump us before we complete the canal. E. W. H.

A newly adopted plan of the city police department is a move in the right direction. The police department now notifies the post commander in writing when any arrests of soldiers are made. This is an improvement on former methods. When a soldier has committed an offence against the city his discipline then, as in cases of misconduct at the post, should be largely a matter to be regulated by his superiors in the service. His case "with the city should be settled, but the system of notification brings his case before the post authorities so that both the prisoner and the city have the aid of the post officials.

There isn't much of importance carried' on in the military field any more without the active aid of some of the officers or men stationed at Fort Leav-emvorth. First Lieutenant Roger G. Powell, Corps of Engineers, who has been making a military map of several of the Kansas streams, has been recommended to go to Fort D. A. Russell, Wyoming, to make a survey and plans for a new target range at that post.

Powell has gained a reputation for his thorough and efficient work in carrying through engineering plans. Those horticulturists who" have always contended that a hard and prolonged winter means a good fruit crop will be put to the test of their religion this year. ED HOWE VISITS UNCLE SAM'S BIG DITCH AT COLON. (Continued from page two.) "How delightful the climate! How bracing the air!" The day was a delight, as to weather. True, this is the most pleasant season of the year, but the summers here are probably not sot terrible as we have been led to believe.

I visited the Philippines in December, and remained eight days, but the weather was much warmer there in winter than it is here. San Juan was much better than I expected to find it; so is Panama. All along the canal, there are twenty-six hotels, twenty-four messes for European laborers, and twenty-four kitchens for West Indian negro laborers. The hotels include the big Tivoli, at Panama, which cost $1,000,000, and has two hundred or more rooms; we ate luncheon at this hotel, and the three hundred and fifty passengers from the ship were well served, the negro hotel waiters being assisted by a large number of Garman waiters from the ship? who accompanied the excursion train. The Washington hotel in Colon is also operated by the government, but a i rrt- i i is not so large as the Tivoli, where all the social affairs of the zone occur.

Iravelers may obtain meals at any of the government hotels along the line, but the rooms are reserved for white employes of the canal. B' the wav, the color line is strictly observed by Uncle railroad waiting rooms no ticed these signs: 4 For whites." "For blacks." The blacks also travel in cars patronized bv blacks only. the bottom of the completed canal will be a depth or six hundred and ten feet, This cut is nine miles long. So far. at the summit, we have excavated five hun- dred and thirty feet, counting what the French did, and we have eighty feet yet to excavate, it was into tnis cut we went in the motor car.

On the way from Colon to Panama, we nassed ten train loads, of dirt in as many minutes; this dirt was beintr hauled alomr the main line of the railroad to various dumping places. While1 at tne bottom or tne cut we saw tne curt trains being loaded by the great steam shovels. Four shovelfuls of dirt fill an ordinary railroad car, and I timed an out- nt, ana iouna mat it emptied tnree snov- ls shoveled, it is blown up with dynamite, and at tne' bottom of the cut there are hundreds of drillers at work: men drillinc i cont was kept tZr twenty-four inours. ana ree hunred trains passed a CPrta.in nnint ir. im certain point in the time named.

In thinking of the Panama canal, it should be remembered that everywhere along the line may be seen great quantities of machinery We acquired from the French. Abandoned boats and dredges may also be seen in the rivers. This French machinery is now useless, and ls pointed out to travelers as "French Junk." At one place, 1 am certain I saw twenty or thirty abandoned French locomotives. Much of this junk is now being sent to America, as ship ballast, and sold as old iron. In the ride from rvinr to Panama, the visitor is rarely out of sight of "French Junk." old iron but believe we acquired two thousand houses from the French we are now using Speaking of houses, thousands of houses along the line of the canal must be moved when the canal used; if left in their present location, many of the towns would be flooded.

Speaking of "French Junk." much of coverea up, is being unearthed Fifty dump carts were found lately, in excavating. One hundred and fivem iles of construction track are used in the canal Work. This is standard guage railroad track, and it was track of this character that we passed over while in the Culebra cut. Every day, a mile track is shifted by the canal laborers, to accommodate the neces-aulas of the wwK i i i BY D. R.

ANTHONY. THE LEAVENWORTH TIMES, established In 1857. The ConseravMye in 185X Tho Bulletin in 1862. The Commercial 18G3. The LEAVENWORTH TIMKS.

the oldest and belt newspaper in the State vf Kansas. Circulation of The Evening Standard and Chronicle-Tribune consolidated with The Times on August 24. 1902. Largest circulation of any dally paper Xz, the United States published In a city ur the population of Leavenworth. Entered at the- poatoffice of Leavenworth, Kansas, as second class mat matter.

Official paper of the County of Leavenworth. THE DAILY TIMES Is delivered by carrier to My part of Leavenworth or. suburbs for 10 cents a week. This paper may be ordered by mail or telephone, or through our authorized local agents, Ed timith and J. Mahsftey.

TERMS BY MAIL. Dally Times, one year 3.W Daily Times, six months l.M Daily Times, three months A club of ,25 subscribers to one ad-drees at poatoffice 60.09 Weekly Times, one year .25 WEDNESDAY MORNING, FEB. 23. SOME NOVEL REASONING Some of the editorials written under stress by writers who are paid to furnish rebellious" fiction against the national administration, are glowing examples of what the structural mind can do. when driven to desperation to find a tangible cause for rebellion.

Here is one written by Mister Paul Tluemans of the esteemed Kansas City Post: The briefest reason given for the failure so far of the Taft administration is that the President is an executive wit judicial mind. He is an umpire, a referee, not a man of action. And the more careful and exact he is in his decisions between opposing sides -the worse it is for him. He only succeeds In putting emphasis on his position as a judge, rather than as a captain. He is too busy observing the rules to get into the game, himself.

And Mr. Taft doesn't know how to turn his temperamental frankness and candor to his own advantage. He always gives himself the worst of it. The Taft administration is no handicapped nor halting administration just begun, according to the above. It has "failed," mind you, utterly And the briefest reason for this alleged failure is that President Taft has a "judicial mind." We will all be glad to know that the reason President Taft has "failed" is that he has a judicial mind.

Failure is the natural sequence of the misfortune of having a judicial mind. What we need in this country are men who can act first and think after it is too late. We don't need judicial minds in the Presidential chair. That is one reason that the United States as a nation has never amounted to anything there have been too many men with judicial minds who have been Presidents. The editorial further states in regard to the President that "the more careful and exact he is in his decisions between the opposing sides the worse is for him." This carefulness also is an abominable thing in a President.

for a careless and carefree President! Hon Zelaya would be a good President for us. Why, here in the Federal Peniten "tiary at Leavenworth, are hundreds of men who, on account of their records for carelessness, would make excellent Presidents. If released right now, many of them would gladly fill the Presidential chair. If you don't believe it, just ask some of them. And then, "Mr.

Taft doesn't know how to turn his temperamental frankness and candor to his own advantage. He always gives himself the worst of it." This, too, is to be regretted in the President. The esteemed Kansas City Post's ideal President would turn two opposing parties into a ring, yell "sic 'em' while they fought for the bone of contention and then while their jaws were locked, would sneak in, grab the bone and make his get-away. But President Taft has "failed" because he always gives himself the worst of it. To be concise then, President Taft in reuniting factional strife and getting legislation under way and accomplishing real work on the part of the lawmaking bodies has failed as a President.

And the reason he has "failed" is, we are to believe, because he can think and has proven himself a man who is capable of making wise decisions for the people of the United States, both as secretary of war and as President. And he has also "failed" because he has made no attempt to run the government for his own personal gain something which few public men of either party who have been made President have ever been accused of doing. There is no limit to nonsense where the object is misrepresentation. Writ- era whose business it is to stir up discontent can always resort to the superbly grotesque when forced to an issue-. FOR FAITHFUL SERVICE There are numerous ways in which Leavenworth as a business city is fortunate.

It draws from the substance of a wealthy country surrounding it. The larms in Leavenworth County and in Platte County across the river in Missouri are valuable farms and produce valuable crops. Much of the money earned on these farms comes to Leavenworth to the merchants who supply this trjrir-c jfb necessities. BE CAREFUL-CHECK THE COUGH And don't experiment with all ki nds of remedies but the one that will surely help you get rid of it quickly because Coughs are sometimes dangerous in their results. USE WHITE PINE COUGH SYRUP Mentholated, With Tar.

25c and 50c PREPARED BY CLEVERDON BROS. unmarked grave for thirty years. Illinois; The building of the Suez Canal was recontributed the statue of General James yarded as a great undertaking; the build-Shields, who was born in County Tyrone, i of a canal at Suez was talked about but Missouri has 'failed to raise a memor-t for many centuries before it was actual-lal over him at Carrollton. where, after accomplished. The ancients dug part dying in Ottumwa, the veteran of of.

a canal to connect the Mediterranean two wars and a Senator from three States wit-h the Red Sea. but the undertaking Missouri, Iillinois and Minnesota was was regarded with so much awe that it buried. Mr. Burke of still another State, i was actually accomplished only a few South Dakota, recently introduced a bill i years ago. appropriating $3,000 for a suitable monu- But the building of the Suez Canal was ment to General Shields in the cemetery, a small affair, compared with the buiid-at Carrollton.

ing of the Panama canal, as the con- To this generation in the House the I struction there was through a level des-gallant Irishman seemed to be almost a ert of sand. Here great livers are en-stranger, and to one southern member, countered, and a mountain must be cross- Market Square Drug Store. the Hon. Robert Bruce Macon, he proved ed. In crossing this mountain, we get i on se.a-going vessels.

The water from a revelation. Mr. Keifer of Ohio, an old Culebra cut. More dirt has already been Chagres Lake will fill Culebra cut. Be-stager, contributed the odd information I taken out of Culebra cut at Panama than j-ond Culebra cut another lock smaller that the man who had fought with dis- was taken out in completing the Suez than the great one at Gatun will let tlnction in the Mexican and Civil wars i canal.

From the top of Culebra cut to I shins down to the level of the Pacific. and represented three States in the Sen-, ate finished his public career as a aoor-j keeper or sergeant-at-arms in the louse or Senate, Mr. Keifer did not know which or what. In the course of the discussion Mr. Macon of Arkansas received a shock and learned history.

Mr. Anthony of Kansas had referred to General Shields as the only Union General who had ever whipped Stonewall Jackson, xne Arnansan was blankly incredulous: "Mr. Macon Mr. Chairman, I would iiKe to asit me genuemau wneie ne mius authority for such history as that. I do not believe any man on eartn ever ue- feated btonewaii jacKson.

uig- up tne uisiury, vau. disease. During my day on the Isthmus, I particularly remarked the absence of flies and mosquitoes. In the days when the French were trying to dig a canal at Panama, thousands of laborers died i- j4(cAncA na V. JIJ nt I u' bo incj' uiu a.

ouh, ocinccu; Colon and Panama, there Is a railroad station known as Matachun. The word means "Kill -a Chinaman." It is said that during the French days forty Chinese laborers Joined hands, and walked into the Chagres River, where they were drowned; they committed suicide rather than face yellow fever. Speaking of the Chagres River reminds me that it is one of the great problems In connection with the canal. An in- Meet to great floods. Colon had 160 inches of rain last year, as compared with 33 at Atchison, and the reader can easily understand that the floods of the Chagres River are a problem in building the canal.

The route of the canal crosses the Chagres River seventeen times between Colon and Panama, and when the canal is completed, the valley of the Chagres will become a vast lake: and a very important one, since it will be a part of the Panama Canal. The Chagres River was the enemy of the French, but Uncle Sam is trying to make it his friend. At Gatun, when the canal is complete, there will be a great dam, which will hold the Chagres River; in time or great rains the flood water will pour off over a spillway. The water from the Chagres River will form a lake extending twenty-seven miles, from one great lock to another, and this lake. eighty feet deep, will not only form part or the canal, but rorm an inland harbor for ships, after they pass through the Gatun locks.

A fresh water harbor for ships is important and valuable, since fresh water destroys barnacles that form There is a difference In the tides of thel Pacific at Panama and of the Atlantic at Colon, so locks become a necessity. The French at first talked of a sea level canal but changed to a lock plan before thev finally gave up the entire project in dis- gust. I am not certain that I exactly state the figures at Panama, but the above will serve to arive von tho Idea. Anyway, there Is a huge lock on the Atlantic sirte within siv mfle of rvl- on, where all records in mixing concrete nave been broken. And It may be stated that all other records in big construction work have been broken at Panama; the canal is the greatest work ever under tanen oy man.

remember seeing, in passing into the Mediterranean at Port Said a huge statue of Ferdinand De Les-sep, who built the Suez Canal. It is not at all improbable that a similar statue of Col. George W. Goethals will be seen at Colon by future travelers. Four big men failed where he seems to be succeed ing.

expressed that an wrThnuftke mav wreck Kl, of tL 0.1 Vonil In the United States the fear is otten the locks of the Panama Canal. Colonel Goethals says accurate records have been kept, and that for a period covering a number of years, there have been more disturbances of an earthquake character at Washington, D. than at Colon: that there ls no more danger of the Gatun locks being destroyed by earthquake than there is danger of the capital at Washington being destroyed by earthquake. In short, there is no danger at all Of earthquakes affecting the Panama Canal. "The only earthquakes we have to fear," said Colonel Goethals, "are the earthquakes in the American newspapers." An amusing thing happened while wp were seated in the observation end of Superintendent Smith's private car.

Someone said: "It is possible to place fifteen sheep in four pens, an odd number to be in each pen." And we all forgot about the wonders of the canal, and discussed the foolish sheep question. Colonel Goethals taking part. A million pounds of dynamite a month are used on the Canal. Eight hundred machines are used in drilling the holes. They are the ordinary churn drills, used in well boring; diamond drills are not much likerl The ideal lift for one of the big steam shovels is twenty t-eet, so holes twenty feet deep are drilled, filled with dynamite, and fired.

One of the big shovels lifts five cubic yards of dirt at every load, and, when everything is working smoothly, one shovel will load an ordinary flat car In a minute. I heard the statement made, though not by Col. Goethals, that, counting everything, it costs $1.25 per cubic yard to handle the Only One "BROMO QUININE, that Is Laxative flromo Cures a Cold in One Day, Crip in 2 Days irgiei mai ui semie-j eis run or dirt into a car a minute, man from Arkansas is not well posted in The day I was at the bottom of Culebra, American military history. nve thousand men were working in the "Mr. Bacon I would like to have theicut.

Tnere is a network of tracks at the gentleman point out the history tnatj bottom of the cut. on four or five levels, teaches that Stonewall Jackson was ev-j Fifty of the enormous steam showels er defeated in battle by any one. mentioned above, were at work in the cut "Mr. Anthony-It is true nevertheless, i tne day was there, there are one gentleman from Kansas did not, dred ana fifty of tnese shovels on the enlighten the gentleman from Arkansas, nh at various nlares: Refore the Airt OUR NEW LINE: "OLD RELIABLE" PAINTS We had so many demands for Paints that we looked for a good one before deciding what line to put in. We think we have found it and youH agree with us if you try it.

HOUSE PAINTS, BARN AND FENCE PAINTS, INSIDE FINJSHING PAINTS, ALL COLORS OF STAINS, ENAMEL, BRUSHES, WHITE LEAD, ETC. Atwater Hardware Co. but the history is easily 'dug up." With a superior force Shields defeated Jackson at Kernstown. xviarcn is. tne Confederateslosing 869 in killed or wound-; hoies for blasts.

Ordmary well drills are ed. and the Federals 56a. In reporting the used; compressed air. suDnlied through affair to General Banks General Shields pipes from central powerr "houses fur-realized that he had done a big thing, nishes the power. The network of he wrote, 'with his supposed road tracks extends from the upper to Invincible Stonewall brigade and the ac- the lower end of Culebra cut.

a distance companying brigades, much to their mor-'of nine miles; we entered at the upper tification nnd d.scomfiture were compell- end. and went out at the lower, being deed to fall back in disorder upon their ayed at many places by the dirt trains, Here they were routed and i WOnder how many locomotives are used driven from the field, leaving 300 prison- by the Atchison, Topeka Santa Fe rail-ers two guns, four caissons and a thou-wav extending from Chicago to sand stand of small arms in the hands of Francisco? The Panama canal has teen hundred locomotives. The Panama It is satisfactory to know that the miin-nv i- -ontlL r' IC. Satisfaction Guaranteed or Money Refunded. 'The Quality QUALITY IN OUR DRUGS Our constant effort is to make this a store where the idea of quality is at all times paramount.

In some lines of business there may be reasons for having a variety of grades not so in the Drug line. When drugs are needed only the best will do. Anything less than the best is dangerous. Quality in our Prescriptions Our quality drugs enter into the Prescriptions we compound, and combined with the skill of Pharmacists yo ur physician is aided greatly in restoring you to health. House of Representatives passed the bill the versatile Shields at Carrollton.

If he had never done anything in war but pre vail over the great strategist he would deserve the monument. The New York! Sun. Yes the New York Sun can dig a little further into history and it will find that Shields and his boys in blue not only defeated Stonewall Jackson at Kernstown, but he also drove him 80" miles up the Shenandoah Valley as far as Harrisonburg, although historical truth also demands the admission that Jackson afterward crushed Shields at the battle of Port Republic. Shields was truly one of the most remarkable characters in American history, and it remained for his Kansas comrades to start the movemeat to suitably mark his last Testing place. Shields died while United States Senator from Missouri and not as a House doorkeeper, although before his last election to the Senate the old warrior rcaM driven hard hjr Ulna and poverty MEH.L SCHOTT FIFTH AND DELAWARE STREETS.

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