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Show M it & ,1 THE WEEKLY REFLEX, XAYSVILLE., lTAH ( MAKES HARD WORK FINISHING TOUCHES THE GATUN LOCKS AT HARDER Tho old buUiTuiit TmI u;i: bhollb.trks too, Star. SOe a Box VRZSr tnnlty, ai days kxpsrlsnos not repaired Hen or sir - men. Opportnmty tor promotion Spare time may be Si Sts frsssi lutt Arts sc, raluaslpkis ttsedL. Inwreitrenl 13. If you would learn a mans weakness let him talk while you listen. There are times when' a man feela that he either Jias no friends or too many. For the treatment of colds, sore throat, etc., Desns Mentholated Cough Drop give sure relief &c at all good Druggists. Even if a .man does have fairly good sense he can easily .write a few love letters. The world production of tin last year was 114,196 tons, as compared with 616,828 tons the year before. Explanation. What ia oral surgery?" I guess it Is the kind which makes a man mend his speech. Courageous. He Ive half a mind to kiss you. She Is the other half out of commission? Boston Evening Transcript. Not This Time. take in boarders this This is a splendid view of the upper Gatun locks, taken from the center wall and looking north along upper Gatun locks, showing the almost completed condition of this section of the Panama canal The water of the ctnrat may be seen on either side in th foreground, being held back by the gates. In the left background la the Gatun lighthouse. The unsightly tracks on the center structure a ill soon be removed, having been placed there only' temporarily during the construction of tbe center wall. mer, Sam?" Its Nature. I wonder what the intoxication of flying is like. It must be an airtight feeling." Important Question. Woman," growled the villain, the crime is on your own head." Is it on straight? anxiously demanded the vlllalnesa. - Turn About la Fair Play. "S. famous tenor, said Giulio' Gattl- Casazxa, was" Invited one' night to dinner by a Chicago trust magnate. The dinner was superb, but at its end the trust magnate asked the tenor, to sing? This, of course, was as bad aa inviting a doctor to dinner and then asking for a free prescription. So the tenor politely declined." "The trust - magnate, however; insisted. After five or ten minutes of this, the tenor said, with a laugh: Oh. .well, every one to his trade. Let me see you pick a pocket Then - Til sing." BIG DIKE IS TO BE REMOVED This Will Mark the Practical Completion of the Big Waterway After Nine Years of Labor by an Army of Men. Colon, Panama, Oct. 1. The Panama canal atands today virtually com-plet- e. The preliminary steps toward the destruction of the Gamboa ke, 'which until the present time, has held the a waters of Gatun lake out' of the cut, were taken today when tbe valves In four great pipes which pierce the dike were opened and the waters of the lake began flowing into the Culebra cut. Within a few days, it is expected, enough water will have flowed into the cut to form a cushion and prevent the damage that might be done if the dike were blown up and the watera allowed to rush Into the empty cut. The Anal destruction of the big dike la scheduled for October 10, when charges of dynamite placed In holes already drilled In the dike will be exexploalon of these ploded. - The not will completely, destroy charges the dike, but will weaken it and loosen the dirt so that the force of the waters from Gatuan lake will carry it away." Steam shovels will remove the remnants of the dike, leaving an oped passageway from ocean to ocean. Canal Really Complete Now.- Although the canaLwilLnot be officially declared completed for some time, and the formal opening of the waterway to the commerce of the world more than a year distant, the canal engineers look upon the destruction of the Gamboa dike as mark-lpthe real , completion of the canal. The big engineering teats have all been accomplished, the excavation work practically, has been completed, and tbe great locks have been constructed. The work (hat remains to be done is largely detail, and Is but childs play as compared with that which has been done. More dirt is to be removed fromXthe channel, but this will be done with suction dredges floating upon the water of the canaL There still remain ' some finishing touches to be placed upon the locks, but this work will Uke comparatively little time and presents no engineering difficulties such as have been encountered In the past. ' The fact that the canal stands practically complete more than a year before the time originally set as the date for ita completion Is one of the remarkable features of the work. When Count de Lesseps, the great French engineer, abandoned his efforts to build the Panama canal after eight years of labor, be had scarcely made a beginning upon the gigantic task. In nine years, the American engineers, starting almost at the same point as da Lesseps. for the latters work was of little valne to the Americans, have virtually completed the undertaking. When the work was started the world scoffed at the Idea that It would he completed withlh the time limit set, but bats are now off to the American army engineers who have more than kept their word, despite unforseen difficulties that have beset them at every band. Goethals to Make Final Test. The first vessel to pass through the canal probably win be a boat of the Isthmian caral commission. Col. George W Goethals, chairman of the commission and chief engineer of the and Us principal assistaata. - g Well Met A Good Appetite And Dost A dainty, nourishing dish for breakfast, lunch or supper ready to serve direct from the package with cream and sugar. Toasties are thin bits of choice Indian Com skilfully cooked and toasted to an appetizing golden brown. . . 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There uio thousand-o- f American nut have better health trees euhna'ttd m tho south, and than I l,i a ve had for (ho nut has btconte eomniorelalU lm and I cannot years Trees are repelled bearing I'oitant too highly of sjienk J.tH) to loot) worth of nuts per aeie -- Mrs. medicine.Jfssie Scuaa. your Is ll a Tleh nut, but tiuue too hard for Mrnu LL, Grayville, 111, rt the the korti There aie, however, mathines thut doj Case of Mrs. Tally. tlie woik ptriticll) Hut, alter all, for I take pleasure ia Chicago, 111, rich, wt flavored ami Krand mouth thank to you for what Lydia EL luls of uL Writing ua. Finkhams Vegetable ConipounJ haa nut Ohio State journal. done for me. , 1 suffered with 6ueh awful periodic- pains, and had a displaceEgyptalns Had Day. ment, and received no benefit from the The early Egy plums divided day doctors. I was advised to take Lydia and night each into 2 hours, a cus- E. Pinkhams Vegetable Compound, and -tom adopted by the- Jews-uiGreeks am now aa well as ever. Mrs. probably from the Habjlonlans. Ttie 2052 Ogden Avenue Tully, days la said to have been divided Into Chicago, Iff. - ' hours from 29J 11. C., whenL. Paptrius Cursor erected a sundial lu tho temIf you have the slightest doubt Before that Lydia ILJFtnkhain's Vegetaple of Qulclnus at Home. water clocks were Invented In 158 ble Compound will help you, writ B time was culled at Home by to Lydia PLPInkhamMediclueCos In England the meas- . public crlera Lynn. Maas., for urement of time was, in early day a, (confidential) Your will be opened, letter uncertain; oue expedient was by wax read and answered by a woman, candlea, three Inches burning an hour, confidence. held in strict and and six wax candlea burning 24 hours ascribed to Alfred, 886. -- The final voyage through the canal Is scheduled for some time during this month. Within another month it is expected the waters In Gatun lakh will have risen high enough to bring the watera In the entire canal up to the deep water level required for the passage of the largest ships. It la said that as long ago as the early part of August, assurances were given Washington officials that if the emergency should,, arise, the entire Atlantic battleship fleet could.be put through the canal Into Pacific water within 60 days from that date. The work baa been hurried with that end in view', it is said, aa no emergency has existed, but this assurance la an indication of the belief of the engineers that their work ,1a now practically finished. Culebra Cut Caused Trouble. The excavation of the Culebra cut. Into which the water hat juat been turned, has been one of the engineering feats connected with the building of the canal, and haa caused the engineers more trouble than any other portion of the big ditch." To Col. D. D. Galllard, the engineer of the central division, la given the credit for carrying thla portion of the work through to a successful termination. - The disastrous slides in the cut were discouraging tc Sie engineers, nullifying In a few hours the work of many weeks, but Col. Galllard and hia assistants have kept untiringly at their work, and at last have conquered the treacheroua banks of the deep cut. The engineers believe that the danger of slides will be eliminated now that the water has been turned Into the cut. A little more than a month ago the giant steam shovels finished - their work In the Culebra cut Since that time the workmen have been busy removing the shovels, the railroad tracks .and other,, machinery . used in the excavation work. There ia still some dirt to be removed from the cut before tbe channel la finished, but this work will be done by suction dredges floatlng on the watere oftvthe canal, and will not interfere with navigation of the waterway by such boats as may be allowed to pass through. Immense Artificial Lake Crested. Gatun lake, the waters of which are now flowing into the Culebra - cut, is the pivotal point about which the entire canal system revolves, and the creation of this lake, together with the construction of Gatun dam, constituted another great engineering (eat in the construction of the canal. Gab un lake is an artificial body of water covering about 164 square mile of territory and was created by the building of the Immense Gatun dam and the Impounding of the wild waters of Chagres river. Beneath the waters of Gatun lake lies what a few montha ago was the valley of the Chagres. dotted with native villages and plantations- .- The channel of the canal passes through thla lake for a distance of 24 miles with a width varying from 60 tori, 000 feet At the northern end of ,the lake Is the Gatun dam, which is in reality an artificial ridge more than a mile and a half long. Flgnresalon give an adequate Idea of the magnitude of thla dam. Nearly half a mile wide at its base, about 400 feet wide at the water surface, and 100 feet wide, at the top, the dike which many engineers predicted would never withstand the rush of the Chagres waters, is admitted now to be so strong that nothing short of an earthquake such aa has never been known In the Central American region can harm It The Gatun djim, Gatnn lake and the Culebra cut, so gigantid are the proportions of each, dwarf the other engineering works of the canal that In themselves have challenged the ad' miration of the world. World GIvea Goethals Credit To Col. George Goethals, chairman of the Isthmian canal commission, chief engineer of the commission and governor qf the canal rone, the world will give the credit for the successful completion of the Panama canaL CoL Goethala could not hare accomplish q ru - fijaartiagbsw Mrs. Winslows Soothing Brrnp for Children teething, softens the gums, reduces In (lamination .allays paianrnn wind eolicAfe a bottlnJWr Did yon liuludnt the h.uil r Wtti-L1A- M ed his task without the assistance ol such men as Col. H. F 1 lodges, I.leut Col. David Du I). Halliard and Lieut Col. William L. Slbert, army engineers, who have had charge of various phases of the work, but Col. Is recognized as the real builder of the canal. Unurir Colonel Goethals the greater part of the $375,000,000 which the canal will have cost when it is completed has been spent, it has been by far - projec- t- lathe of a the world. Nearly three-fifthbillion dollars has been spent In digThla means ditch. ging a that the Panama canal has cost the United States $10,000,000 a mile. Over $15,000,000 of the total amount pent has been used to make the canal cone habitable and sanitary. It has been suggested that this Is an enormous amount of money to spend In cleaning up a place in which few people will reside permanently, but the engineers say that the sanitation of tbe canal tone was the chief factor In making the canal a reality. The failure of the French has been attributed to a large extent to tbe fact that the workmen could not survive In the fever and country. The building 'of the - great locks which raise a vessel to a height of 87 feet above sea level at one end of the cgnal and lower It the same distance at the other end, has been In charge of two of Colonel Goethals assistants. Colonel Hodges and Lieutenant Colonel Slbert. Colonel Hodges s work In Installing the Jmmehse that form so Important a part of the operating machinery of tbe canal, and hls ability to overcome all obstacles had led Colonel Goetlyvls to call him a gettfua. The building, and operation of 'the lock gates constitute one of the delicate problems of lock canal construction, and the proper handling of this problem Hat been Colonel Hodges- - contribution to the work of construction of the canal. Lieutenant-Colon- el Slbert has bad. of the building of the great charge dam and locks at Gatun, In addition to other duties. He saw long, active service In tbe Philippines, tnd he is known In the army as a fightas well as an engineer. -er Realize Dream of Centuries. Through the work of these men all of them members of Uncle Sams fighting body, the United States has been aide to attain what has been in truth the dream of centuries. In nine years these men have carried through an undertaking that was flrot thought of several hundreds of years ago. The Ublted States government first took definite action looking toward the construction of an Isthmian canal In 1834, when tbe senate voted for the building pf a Nicaraguan canaL An expedition was sent to Nicaragua to make an investigation, and reported that the canal could be constructed for $25,000,000, bardfy of the amount that the Panama canal will have cost when completed. d Lesseps First to Dig,,. ... The matter reeted until after the Civil war, when negotiations for a canal commission were entered Into United- States government. Before anything had been accomplished the concession for a Panama canal had been given to Lucien Napoleon He Bonaparte Wyse, a Frenchman. organized a company, which told out later to the financiers associated with Ferdinand de Lesseps. The company organized with de Lesseps at its head was the first one to actually begin operations on the isthmus. For eight years de Lesseps struggled manfully against the greatest odds that man ever was called upon to face. Then he was forced to give np the fight hls company' collapsing as a result of dishonesty and extravagance on the part 0 1 Its promoters, and de Lesseps. drives insane by the scandal, ended ble days In an asylum. Such was the history of the Isthmian canal project for some 300 or 400 yearn, until the day In 1904 when Unde Sam undertook the task. In nine years the dream of the ces turies has been realized. Coe-thal- s ostliest-engineering s e pesr-rldde- n l, ad-Yic- Unanswerable. Simeon Ford, New . Yorks humorist, said whimsically the other day, apropos of the death of J. Ve learn from Plerpout Morgan: Mr. Morgans life that wealth does alnot bring happiness. ready that poverty doesn't bring It, either. What on earth then Is a man to do? Argonaut. well-know- n ' CARTER'S LITTLE LIVER PILLS. Purely vegetable act surely and gently on the liver. 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