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Show THE TOOELE TRANSCRIPT, TOOELE, UTAH PASSING oftfie IF YOUR WATCH PONT GO or doera'l Imp accurate tine, wed il in and oec ol out expert will wake it go like a sew oo. We aUulete ly guarantee our work and give your time piece all ike alien! ion a ii you brought it ia penoo. PANAMA PMLWi iPE.WPICK 017 LARS Cl IT. UTAH FOR CULVERTS BRIDGES AND Unless a man possesses some wishe will never bs able to resllzs what a fool ha la. i dom JBtsal and Concrete Combined Constitute Form of Conatruction Eco- nomical and Durable. (TJy C. II. MOORFIEI.IV) combluatlon of alee) and concrete made In auch a manner that each material will be required to wlthatand the character of atrcaa for which It la tiest adapted that la, tenalon for ateel and compression for concrete constitute a form of conatruction for ahort bridges and culverta both economical and durable. The advantages of the two materials are combined and their dirndvantagea In a large degree eliminated. Thla form of conatruction, on account of ita economy and simplicity, la especially well suited to highway cul verla and short span bridges, when for any reason It la desirable that their superstructures be kept flat. In the case of arch culverts and bridges built A CCZA serf cvrfam Colon, C. Z. With the completion of the Panama canal the Importance of the Panama railway will decline almost to the vanishing point For nearly sixty years this railway MELISSA LEADS MR. BURN A MERRY BARGAIN CHASE. xfo PARCEL POST ORDERS SOLICITED wouldnt have mlasfd It for worlds Where do we go next? Third floor, I replied. Til set what they've got up there. Hurry! There's an elevator going up now. 1 scooted to It and he followed Just In time to squeeze in. Of course he was the only man creature and he looked aa if be felt It deeply, but his mile was radiant It didn't take me long to finish with the voiles, and I started for those lingerie waists What? Oh, there were some bargains of course, but nothing in my size worse luck! and no small sizes at all or I'd have taken a chance on one foi yoj. It was fascinating, looking a' them, though. I must have spent near ly an hour there, aud I nearly missed getting any choice of the belts. Mr Run wan still serene, but he begau tc do some of bis following with hia eye while he anchored himself on a riool Well, dearie, 1 took him to ruchluga, I took him to veilings, I went up tc house furnishings and down to curtain scrim. I marshaled him along corridors, I wound him around counters, I Jammed him In elevators and drew him Into surging mobs of wild eyed remnant fiends. By noon hls collar was wilted aud deep lines showeo around hls mouth. He naked me then If It wasn't about time to go some where and get lunch. Good gracious !' I said, ' haven! time for lunch. Here, well go up lntc the grocery department and get a few samples. They're demonstrating a new kind of bouillon.' He brought It on himself," declared vestors In the states had become dis- Mrs. Merriwld. Nobody jan say that couraged and the cost of labor had ad- I didn't warn him, either,' and now see vanced. But a hurricane cams to the what's become of him. rescue. Two ships loaded with What has become of him?" Mrs. were forced to anchor near Merriwld 'a maternal maiden Aunt has been carrying peopl and freight Manxanlllo Island and the passengers Jane naked the question. from ocean to ocean. Though only 47 paid the company a handsome sum to 1 was thinking of calling up the miles long, it has been, for certain carry them to Gatun In work cars. The to find ou,- dearie," replied hospitals periods, one of the most Important and news that the road had carried more her niece. The gr.at thing is that he most Interesting railroad llnea In the than a thousand passengers reached isn't here, and 1 gave him a moat corworld. New York and funds again flowed Into dial Invitation, toi. 1 rather Infer During the building of the canal, under the ownership of the the coffers of the company. '.list Mr, Burr wi'l be able to exist United States, It has become one of As the work progressed passengers without the iwc sofuce of my pres.he best equipped and most efficient of were hauled longer and longer dis- ence for a tew days. You know quite railways. It has given greet help In tances and before the line was com- be had his doubts about It." be construction of the canal that will pleted the receipts from passengers I didn't know, said Aunt Jane. and freight were considerably above prove Its virtual death. Dear mo, yea! Of course there The finding of gold In California was $2,000,000. The last rails were laid were a few stunts incidental to the the cause of the building of the Pana- the night of January 27, 1855, and the g performance that made ma railroad. For long years before next day the first train passed clear claims hls time, but he took no upon I he wild rush of argonauts In 1849 the across the Isthmus from the Atlantic real interest In them. He only lived, Isthmus was almost forgotten by the to the Pacific. The entire cost of the ra you might aay lived in the suncivilised world, but when the yellow road up to December 81, 1858, had shine of my smile. Of course. If 1 metal was discovered on the west been something less than $8,000,000 didn't feci like smiling, that was all coasl It became once more a great and its gross earnings In the same right, toe. The point waa that he had trad route In order to avoid the long time were a little more than that sum. to be near me at my feet, or thereaThe rate across the Isthmus was put bouts. lie raid he didn't trip across the plains In prairie pretend to sootat $25 gold, being Intended to be to a -.nt schooners, thousands cs for It scientifically. It might be went by boat to ChagreS, up the Char certain extent prohibitive until they vibration thought waves acting upon gres river to Gorgona or Cruces and could get things into good running or- a highly sensitized soul retina tuned thence over the old Spanish road to der, but so great was the volume of to the proper pitch! It might be psyReinforced Concrete Culvert on a Mas- Panama. This, too, was a long route travel that the rate was not reduced ch c or It might not, but anyway, my sachusetts State Road. and In the rainy season a painful and for more than twenty years. Soon aftJuxtaposition, as It were of concrete the economy of Introduc- dangerous one because of the preva- er Its opening the road began to de filled his being with an ineffable clare 24 per cent dividends, and at ing stool Is not always evident and lence of disease. a supreme content, a sense of To the rescue of the gold hunters one time Its stock went up to 850. should be demonstrated in any particctiplfeteness Just like that It wasn't In the 60s the company fell on hard ular case before It la derided that the eame three bold Americans, W. 1L arch must be reinforced. Henry Chauncey and John I times. It lost much of Its freight trafThe conditions to be met In the con- Stevens. In 1848 these men had asked fic, was held up by the politicians In struction of retnforced concrete cul- the government of New Granada for a Bogota and then suffered by the comverts make It desirable, from a stand- concession for the road, and In 1850 pletion of the Union Pacific railroad. point or economy, that a relatively Stevens obtained It at Bogota. The Next Rusecll Sage and others like him high grade of concrete be used. Any radfle termlus could not be otherwise got control of the directorate and decrease in the strength of the con- than at Panama, but at first the har- wrecked the road. When de Lesseps bor of Porto Bello was selected for the came over to dig a canal hls company crete neccasltates a coreapondlng In some dimension of the mem- Atlantic terminus. However, a New bought up the stock and used the road bers. and thereby adds to the dead York speculator spoiled this plan by to help In Its work. load which the structure must sustain. buying up all the land about the harThen In 1904 the Cal ted States Reinforcing bars should be made bor and bolding It at a very high price, bought out the French company and from steel having a safe strength of so Navy Bay was chosen Instead. also acquired the railway and so It When work on the line was begun In became the first American road to be pot less than 18,000 pounds per square Inch, and should possess sufficient May, I860, there was no celebration, owned by the government 8o ecomalleability to be readily bent Into the no turning of the first spadeful of nomically and efficiently has desired shapes while cold. conducted since then that it Is cited When earth with a golden shovel. Two Americans with a gang of In- as an argument for the government placed In concrete they should be free from rust, grease or foreign materials dians landed on Manxanlllo Island, now ownership of all our railways. of any kind, otherwise a perfect bond the site of the city of Coon, then a "" The building of the canal and espebetween the bam and the concrete will desolate, uninhabited spot, and began cially the creation of the artificial GaMr. Barr Was on tho Outskirts Beaming Happily. not be obtained. the tremndous task of clearing the tun lake made necessary the relocaDesigners of highway bridge and route through the dense Jungle. The tion of the Panama railroad along "By two oclock hie amlle had faded drainage atructurea are urged not only surveying party suffered Intensely, for most of Its route. The old roadbed necessary for me to talk, I night not and hia eyes were glasay. He dragged to Investigate tbs safety and dur the land was so swampy and so Infest- now la under water for much of the then be thinking of him. T assure yon that 1 1 jn not, n good hia feet and sighed at intervals. He ed with malaria and yellow fever bear- way, the old line still In use being only Ability of proposed designs, but to aid that waa because he had two ribs their esthetic features as well. ing mosquitoes that they were com- about seven miles In length, from Co- deal of the time, I told him. 'Cruel!' says he. That, however, broken and asked if I was about 'When bridges' and culverta are to be pelled to sleep sboard a ship. Much lon to Mlndl and from Coro sal to Panaconstructed of permanent materials of the time they carried their lunches ma. From Mlndl to Gatun the grade tends to dispose of the thought wave through. auch as reinforced concrete, the de- tied on their heads and-- ate them ascends to 95 feet above tide leveL theory. It mnst he a sort of subtle Pretty nearly, I said. All Ive got In the water. From Gatun the road runs east until It soul emanation.' He looked at me to get now Is some cream bunting and signer should bear constantly In mind standing waist-dee-p aa he advanced paper dollies and ribbons and hatplnz dhe fact that any esthetlo defects The efforts of the company to ob- Is four and a half miles from the wistfully, wronderingly, that and sewing silk and a new street hal Idea, which may be present In such struc- tain laborers were attended then south again on great by a ter- canal, and 1 suppose I can't help emanating, and some niching for Aunt Jane and tures will become more and more ap- rible tragedy. embankments across Gatun the hundred Chinese valley. Eight but 1 can call In the police, I an- a pair of gloves and handkerchief! parent as the community develops. were brought over from Hong Kong, Along this stretch passengers ob- swered. It's and wait till I see what'e on the nearly eleven now. For example, a highway bridge, the but within a week of their an unusual view. Because of the landing tain 'One day with you, he breathed other lists or do your riba need atdefects of. which are hardly noticeable scores of them died. construction of Gatun the dam across was Opium ardently. One full, complete day with tention?' when the highway on each .side is bor- the survivors and for a short given time the channel of the Chagres river, the I really feel that they need atten dered by dilapidated fences and build- checked the ravages of disease. But Chagres valley and all Its tributary foul' That waa where I warned . him. tlon,' said Mr. Burr. Tf they don't I ings may become a veritable eyesore the supply of the drug was shut off on valleys have been converted Into You'd be sorry If I took you up on do- But I wouldn't leave for the uni account of Its cost, and again the lake with an area of about 164 square Mr. Burr,' I Bald. verse. Please don't send me away.' that, deaths became numerous. The poor miles. The Gatun valley Is one of dill right, then,' amid L 'Let's gc Try me,' ha replied, with a slow, Orientals In despair began to commit these drowned arms and as the train after saccharine the bunting.' smile. wide stretches of water are to suicide, some by hanging, others by crosses, We went through a crowd to get we aay tomorrow, hen, Suppose be seen on both of sides the track. while some Impalement, deliberately there, said Mrs. Merriwld, and some sat down upon the seashore and waltr Down below the surface are still vis- says I. how the poor fellow got lost I won If had the seen dear. Auntie, you ible the tops of giant trees that have ed for tho rising-tidto overwhelm der If 111 ever find him again. them. In a few weeks scarce two hun- been killed by submergence, and along look of rapture that Illumined hia (Copyright 191k by ff. G. Chapman.) pensive countenance, you dred were left, and these, broken In the edges of the lake the tallest and hitherto health and spirits, were sent to Ja- hardiest of the trees reach thlr dead would have been touched, end yet Wise Senator. limbs above the waters. Here and here waa a shade of Incredulity i. It maica. The senator, who waa opposed to .Another shipload of laborers, this there Is a pretty little Island that not .ia seemed to suspect a Joker. 'I mean it,' I assured him. Tf you votes for women, found himself cor time from Ireland, met no better fate, long ago was the summit of a hill, and the shore line Is most picturesquely want to tag along with me from eariy nered by an ardent suffragette. Hia for nearly every man died. The material difficulties that con- broken up by capes, peninsulas and morn until dewy eve tomorrow, you're gallantry would not permit of a bruson. Concrete Arch Bridge In the District fronted the que retreat He listened attentively railway builders are thus bays. while she enumerated her reasons of Columbia. Into he Well the go country, From Monte summarised by Tomes In his "Panama Llrio the line skirts the cried Joyfully. 'We'll take the train to why suffragism should be granted shore 1855: Id lake to The of the Isthmus the did not of supbeginning If these features of the landscape are a quaint little village that I've often her sex. sufficiently Improved. A design may ply a single resource necessary for the the Culebra cut at Baa Obispo. Orig- wanted to shew you and we'll lunch Madame, he began when an opbe In excellent taste, however, and undertaking. Not only the capital, inally it was Intended to carry the rail- at a bizarre to apeak was at last aclittle tavern portunity and skill road and Culebra on the cut but the a the through labor, enterprise, I yet be almost totally devoid of ornacorded him. I, am going to let yon wood beam and Iron, the dally food, the along the east side, ten feet mentation. A few simple panels and info a secret 1 Interrupted, not great with my "Nay. copings are usually sufficient to lend clothing, the roof to cover and the in- above water level, but thla plan was Ho looked carefully about him and encouragement or coan attractive appearance to masonry struments to work with came from knocked out by the slides and breaks. consent, aid, noted that they were alone. we If wont. overlook operation Una you'll was . The . . Most of the material carried around Gold Hill bridges, provided the planes of the abroad. What la it senator? she Inquired my stammering grammaring. I begin to ased a for two distance of miles the construction of from road the the wing walls, parapets, etc., are In to see now what you want. Its a pic- eagerly proper relation to each other and to was brought from vast distances. canal until It reached the Pedro Mi- nic with me ea a mere Your wish win soon be granted. adjunct to the Although the country abounded guel valley, down which It runs to the roadway. In forests, It was found necessary, Faraiso and the canal again. Thence scenery. No, dear friend. I said you We are going to make n law compelfrom the expense of labor and the It runs almost parallel with the chan- might come along with me, not that 1 ling the women to vote! Earth Roads Cheapi, He quivered with Intensity aa he Imwould accompany yon. The earth road will doubtless be want of routes of communication, to nel to Fanama. There are two big A cold, ominous 1 ask la to be allowed to be parted the secret. '"All steel send on the line. most the for near the timber, bridges In One, used rural communities for many part, into her eyes. near light he sprang you,' protested. Monte from the United States, and not only Llrio, has a center lift span to years, because of Its low first cost Oh, you are. Ve you? she fumed, Then eight o'clock sharp tomorwore to to access exthe arm a Gw the considerable of permit upper rails, The problem of upkeep Well, we'll ace. From thla day 1 tent, laid on American pine, but the tun lake; the other, a quarter of a row morning at th9 corner of . State shall on such a road can be solved use every influence against very L aud Madison, says bridges, and the houses and work- mile long, across the Chagres river at largely by the use of the split-lodrag. Compel ns! Why, the Idea!" We The inct. first thing that I had shops of the various settlements were Gamboa. The total cost of building Whereat she walked angrily away, on waa list cotton voiles. There my new of line same the of the the was all $8,866,-39fashioned lu wood, railway Money Wasted. In addition, a large sum has been was a basement sale on tbat and 1 leaving the senator to hia own pleasIt Is money wasted to spend It for Maine and Georgia. The metal work, waa the first one at the counter. 1 ant reflections. Puck. dragging a road that is not piked the rails, the locomotives and the tools expended In Increasing the terminal have reason to believe that Mr. Burr were facilities. brought either from England or enough so there Is a ditch on either Danger. Of course, even after the canal la waa second, but I couldn't swear to aide or tho roadway. Better grade the United States. The dally food of It didn't take me more than thirty Don't lay the scene of your play in first then keep tho grade up by drag- the laborers, evon, came from a Mew opened, the railway will have a good It York market" deal of business, transporting people tnlnutea to go through the entire Alaska?" ging afterward Wfcy not? The first section of the road was and goods between Colon and Panama, itork and decide that there wasn't a In it I'd be Because that in. dead piece lta bound to be n frost." laid a caught lu and through mangrove swamp Guard Against Weevils. serving the needs of the operating But Ita days ol but it took me all of that, because the AH weeds and rubbish should be which no bottom was found, the trucks forces of the canal. Hia Reasons Therefor. prices certainly were attractive and cleared away from alfalfa fields. beI"B flolc 0B an Immense pontoon, glory have departed, and J. A. Smith, there waa quite a mob. When I What makes that rich man so stuck ctowr miles been had the American who has been Its effMght ditches and fence rows so there will I worked my way out Mr. Burr waa on on himself? and solid ground was icient general superintendent, om&,eted .bp no opportunity for weevils to find recoff the X outskirts, beaming happily. I rMched at Oatun. Lack of funds now nixing that fact, has suppose it le because he made resigned and r winter shelter. " "rs 1 auch a fortune In glue. he chuckled. I began to jt hamper the builders, in tamed to the etatan. gold-seeke- rs - bread-winnin- gold-seeke- hap-til'-er- . . n con-wid- -- - 49-fo- old-worl- d i ever-recurrin- g a. g Send Postal Card for Price List In Caae of Elephantiasis. Alex. Kenealy, editor of the London Daily Mirror, which ia n daily picture paper, learned the newspaper trade in the United States.. One day he needed a bit of advertising, ao he bought a couple of baby elephants, Jumbo and JImbo, and set them parading about at the summer resort! collecting funds for a charity the Mirror was supporting, thereby getting many pennies and shillings tot the fund and,' quits Incidentally of course, a good deal of advertising for the paper. Jimbo waa delicate and often sick. Kenealy was In Paris n time ago and he received a frantlo wire from one of hls elephant keepers: Jimbo la dead. What shall I do? Kenealy telegraphed back: After mature reflection 1 advise you to bury Jimbo.' Saturday Evening Post. Logical Youths. according to a recent story, had been playing hard all nay and came to bedtime thoroughly weary. In fact he waa so sleepy that he wanted to omit aaylng hls prayera. But, dear," hia mother remonstratRaymond, you must be a good boy and God for all Hie goodness to you. Just think what a nice time youve had all day playing, and remember all the other little boys who have no nice home or nice clothes or mother to love them. Raymonds eyes opened a little drowsily, and out of Us relaxed month came thla protest: But, mother, I think thems the fellers that slighter do the prayla'I" Chicago Record-Heraled. thank Unde Abner gays. The feller who says ha kin atop drinking any time ho wanta to aoval want tow In a few years then will be enough different brands of breakfast food aa that every foliar kla have ne brand for hlmuH I never saw a aewspaper man whs wasn't loyal to Us pspsr. If ha wasnt loyal he west a newspaper man, that's alL It takas s lot mere nerve, confidence and optimism to be aa employer than to bo an employee. You never have to lie awake nights thinking up schemes to get even with a crook. Let him alone and he will get even with himself. . No box-offic- The manager came oat and looked at the disheveled visitor dubiously. Did you coma here to writ soma thing about tho play to work? ho asked. Do you think I'd corns to yonr theater for amusement? .psked the lournallst as he stalked out Father and Son. The son hasnt the father's brains. This old man could run a shoestring Into a tannery any time. "And the son? About all ho can do Is to run sa automobile into a telegraph polo." Kansas City Journal. The Reason. So your daughter Is studying the violin?" Yea, replied Mrs. ClymlnwelL Has she unusual talent?" I havent observed. But there's no question about her possessing a remarkably beautiful forearm." Washstar. ' ington Particular. 2. . i Joy-VIsI- L A Glasgow Journalist who waa careless of hls personal appearance waa assigned to write something about a show at a leading Glosgow theater. He presented Us card at the What you need," aald the doctor, la an operation. "Very well," replied tho patient. Which operation are you cleverest t? Detroit Free Fresa. Accidental. Professor. 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