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Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1902-08-01

entire distance, and the entertainments con-
seQuently thrown up gradually rise from
the level of the to about the height of
49, feet, with cuts such as the one of
Bohio which is 1912 feet in depth and
those of San Pablo and Matachin, which are
from 50 to 9S5 feet.
From the 18th mile rises the central mass
of earth called the Cordilleras. A good deal
Sc work has been done between the 18th
ard SD mile. The cut begun by the old
company has been continued by the new
company, and now has an average depth of
Ie4 feet.
The slope towards the Pacific ocean; is
now reached, and here the declivity of the
lard becomes great. The height of the en-
bankment varies from 40 or IS feet to about
1856 feet, Diminishing at the 10Th mile to
from 6.5 feet to 1874 feet. From this point
to the Pacific the canal has been completed
n the depth of from 6.5 feet to 1858 feet.
From mile 42.S to the great depths near
Navs at mile 49, the canal Is completed so
as to be pavigabie to depth of from 165
feet to 295 feet.
As is we'll known, it was the original
purpose of the old company to build a
.anal without locks, freely open from
ocean to ocean; but, after years of work,
the plan had to be abandoned. The enor-
nous excavations needed to cut through
the Culebra, the central mass of mountain,
md the torrents from the River Chagres,
were the obstacles in the way of the open
canal The plan adopted by the new COM
eany was to reduce materially the depth
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1902-08-01
THE FARMERS LIFE.

The Farmers life is the life for me
Hoo-rayi
No other kind is half so free
Hoo-rayi
No walls of brick my ways confine,
The sky, the fields. the woods are mine,
And bright the sun for me doth shine
Hoo-ray,
Dame Nature beauty I behold
Hoo-rayi
To me her wonders are unrolled-
Hoo-rayi
cor me her blossoms bloom in spring,
For me her wild birds sweetly sing,
With fruit she crowns me like a king
Hoo-ray!
breathe IN air that's pure and sweet
Hoo-ray,
lust plain and wholesome food I eat
Hoo-rayi
Ny health is therefore of the best,
So all day can work with zest
And have at night a peaceful rest
Hoo-ray!
am no slave of fashion vain
Hoo-ray!
My manhood true 1 can maintain
Hoo-ray!
Upon my own domainI stand.
AS proud as any in the land,
And with no master to command
HoO-ray!
Around my home live my life
Close to my children and my wife
Hoo-ray!
Far from the marts where men compete
And crush each other under feet,
find my simple pleasures sweet
Hoo-ray!
My c(II6.sn grow with rugged health
Hoo-rayi
It's more to them than mines of wealth.
Hoo-ray!
Safe from temptations that destroy.
Spared from the luxuries that cIoy,
Their lives begin and end in joy
Hoo-rayi
I'm happy all the bright day long
Hoo-rayi
My heart Is filled with love and song
Hoo-ray!
I'm innocent of worldly snares,
L m free from worldly strife and cares,
And everyone my gladness shares
Hoo-ray!
wouldn't change my freeman's health
Hoo-rayi
For all of J. p. Morgan's wealth.
Hoo-ray!
But If he could exchange with me
He'd toss his millions in the sea
And shout with joy: I'm free! I'm free!'-
Hoo-rayi
H. c. Dodge, in Chicago Daily Sun.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1902-08-01

changed if, after further construction, it
should seem best The depth of water in
the locks is to be generally 29.5 feet. All
the locks are to be double, the working
length being for both 1922 feet. The route
of the canal, is the same originally
adopted.
For considerable of its length, the loca.
ton of the canal is in the valley of the
Chagres river, which, though not of much
moment in the dry season, is very formida-
BILE after heavy rainfalls. The unbridled
Chagres had much to do with the failure
of the old company, and is problem the
new considered with greatest attention.
To regulate the flow of the Chagres, two
large dams are to be- erected. One dam,
located at Bohio, the last group of locks
on the Atlantic side, is to transform the
River Chagres into a vast lake, covering
ali area of 2l.5 square miles. This dam
is designed not only regulator of the
Chagres floods, but also to obviate strong
currents where the canal traverses the bed
of the river. The other dam will be To-
Gated at Alhajuela on the upper Chagres,
little more than nine miles from the canal.
1t is to form reservoir covering ten square
miles, and is to act as feeder to the canal,
providing the summit level with water in
the dry season (January to ApriD. Other
work expected of the Alhajuela dam will
be of assistance in controlling the floods of
the Chagres, and the furnishing of n.y.
draulic power, transmitted by electricity,
for operating the locks and lighting at
night the entire canal from the Atlantic
to the Pacific.
The sanitary conditions along the Pan.
anna route are much improved over the con-
ditions existing in the early labor the
| canal, the unhealthfulness then being due
| in large measure to the uplifting of the
surface of the ground. To-day labor is
easily obtainable from the British Antilles
and it is said no great difficulty need now
| be feared because of insalubrity of the
climate. The constant high temperature
and moist atmosphere do not act a tonic
however and the influence of the climat e
is certainly enervating.
The cost for the construction of the cana
was estimated by the international con
gress OF 1879 at SPA, 600, 600, and the time
calculated at y years; although NJ de Les
seps later announced the work could bt
accomplished in eight years at less expense
The expenditures actually made by the ole
company upon the isthmus, entered il
the files of the court of France, in the re
| ownership proceedings, was $l56, 400, 900
| The international technical commission Civ,
estimates of cost of completion, estimate
made after several years actual work by tn,
| new company, follows:
The total cost of the work proper
| under plans adopted--...-..-..---S Sl,ooo 90
! Add for Contingencies. Is, 400. 90
Total .sl02. 400. 90
| If both locks be built with a width
| of 81. 0e5 feet, the cost would be
| increaS ed to SIzo,OV,Vu
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1902-08-01
ARITHMETIC GOES WRONG.
Marked Eccentricity in the Weights
of Various Packages of Merchan-
disc Handled by Merchants.

The merchant orders a Iirkin of but
ter, or a irkin of soap, or firkin of
| raisins, as though irkin meant one and
| the same thing in weight.
AS matter of fact while firkin OF
| butter weighs Sc pounds, and a firkin
| of soap Ga, firkin of raisins weighs no
| less than 112 pounds, though the tables
| tell you that firkin is one measure of
a certain weight, says the Boston
| Globe.
That is a marked eccertricity. but it
pales into insignificance beside the
| weight which governs straw and hay.
You cannot weigh strawsas you would
hay, or you would be cheating your
customer. When the latter orders a
load of straw he wants 2,196 pounds,
but load of old hay means 2,016
pounds, and new hay 2,16O pounds.
Cheese, glass, iron; hemp and fax
all these products are sold by the
-stone;t but if you were to weigh them.
| allowing IA pounds for each stone, you
would revolutionize the whole system
| of reckoning S recognized by the va
rious trades whose species we have
just referred to. \ stone of any of the
latter means different weight entire
ly. A stone of cheese, for instance, is
16 pounds. of glass pounds, of beef
pounds, of iron IA pounds, of hemp
80 pounds, of flax 1864 pounds in Bel
fas and "a pounds in Downpa trick.
Wool growers and wool staplers sell
their products at IA pounds to the
stone; but in dealing with one an
other the weight is increased to Is
pounds.
Licensed victuallers buy their wines.
| among other measures, by the pipe:
| md pipes in the wine trade are as varied
as firkins or stones in others.
A pipe of port is 1O3 gallons, of mar
sala 90 gallons, of Madeira 90, of bu-
cellas III, of teneriffe 100, and so on.
throughout a long list of wines, so
that it is important for "mine host" to
be we'll up in the various pipe meas
| ures, so as to get in the right quanti-
| ties.
Even pork is weighed out by means
quite different from the ordinary meth
| DDS of reading a weight according to
the rules of simple arithmetic. If you
| were in the pork business in Belfast,
and you received an order for one hun
dred weight of pork. and you sent only
| 112 pounds - which, according to
weights and measures tables, is 1 cwt
you would get an indignant letter
| from your customer for cheating him
of eight pounds. You must send 120
pouads-that's a hundredweight of
pork.
If, on the other hand, you were in
| Cork. and sent your customer 12O
pounds of pork for one hundredweight,
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1902-08-01
Habits of the Robin.

Let us hide behind that clump of
blackberry bushes and watch the
parent birds as they come to feed
their young. There comes the
father robin now; you can distin-
guish him from the mother by his
darker plumage. You will notice
that in coming with the food he
alights on a particular twig. hops
along a particular branch and alights
on a particular side of the nest If
you watched him for week you
would probab bly, see him approach
the nest in precisely the same way
each time. Now, here comes the
mother-a Hghter-colored bird, with
gray on the back of her head. You
see that she reaches the nest by
quite a different route and alights
upon the other side of it, and she
| will do this over and over again
Like men and women. birds acquire
habits which they rigidfy adhere to
unless something happens to preve. n
| them. Ernest Harold BaYnes IL
/ Woman's Home Companion.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1902-08-01


.E&A. Canal company obtained from
II dM N, the Colombian government two
AWNX successive extensions of the
original concession for canal
A which extended the time of the
completion of the waterway to October,
1894. Afterwards Colombia granted an adj
ditional extension of six years.
The new company has made extremely
thorough investigation of the character of
the country, spending three years in the
work of investigation and the gathering
of experience; and this, added to the
knowledge gained by the experiences of
the old company, should lay good founda-
ton for future execution-"the more de-
tailed and careful the surveys, the surer
and quicker the execution of the work. 4"
The company has avowed these to be its
principles:
First-That any plan involving any diff
eulty impossible of execution in the al
iotted time and within the limit of eX-
pense, should be rejected.
Secondly-That in the solution of the
technical and detailed problems of the
work, only those plans should be eons:d-
cred which had the support of experience,
and every new idea which should tend to
- mislead should be rigidly excluded.
Third-That in arriving at the proper So
luton it was necessary to consider the par
ticular place where the work was to De ex-
ecuted and also to make due allowance
for the climate of the region. Hence the
necessity of undertaking only work not
requiring exceptional conditions.
In regard to description, work accom-
plished, and work yet to be done, the inter
national technical commission have given
in an elaborate report, which report seems
70 establish the practicability of complet-
ing the canal. Extracts from the report
are as follows:
The Panama canal extends from Colon.
on the Atlantic, to Panama, on the Pacific
ocean: a total length of 1852 miles, includ-
ing $50 miles dredged in the Pacific to deep
water.
The work already done constitutes fully
I'll o-aifths of the entire canal works.
starting from Colon, the Atlantic
coast, Is situate the new city of Christie
pher Columbus, the location of the plant
and works of the canal company. From
the little port of Folk river, the canal is
navigable for 11.S miles. varying in depth
from 1914 feet to 29.5 feet From the IL
to 26.7> mile excavation is proceeding the
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1902-08-01
OF More
IrnpOrta
By JULIA TRUlTT BISHOP.
Copyrighted by Daily Story Pub. Coy

7 ADY to see you, sir"
Il The doctor looked up fron his
books with a shade of annoyance cross.
ing his face. Ladies could be seen at
any time, but if he lost the thread of
this investigation, now
"Ah, Miss Willoughby-"h he gave her
the chair opposite, and sitting down
ooked at her with grave professional
nterest-''isn't it rather early for
you to be out? You know told you
EYES," the girl interrupted, hastily;
land 1 did stay in the entire time-al-
most"
wave of color had swept over her
face, and he became conscious of it, even
while he was lingering anxiously at the
leaves of the book he had just been
reading.
'You certainly have a good COLOR
he remarked, professionally. 'No fe-
yer, hope.'' And he bent forward and
laid cool fingers on her wrist. ssThere
it is again." he added, musingly. SCI
have often noticed peculiar Irregular
ity about your pulse-and yet there is
| nothing wrong with your heart-not
| in the least. However, I am glad you
| have no fever"
And he rreptitiously snatched a
| glance into the book. Girls with a fine
color were plentiful. but this treat
ment for diphtheria, if it should prove
successful
"I didn't come this time for profess
sional advice" he heard the girl say
ing, in a very timid manner. Il came
to ask you about something
She seemed to have lost her voice.
a nd paused to regain it. When she
raised her eyes, presently. he was
aware of their color for the first time
They were gray, and they had black
ashes He had not noticed that before
though he had treated her profession
ally for some weeks.
"You must make allowance for my
great loneliness she cried out, desc
lately 'Ihave no one really belonging
to memo one in the world. My guar
lian. Mr. Bond. is good man-but V on
know how old he is, and troubled about
many things. Sometimes he doesn't
see me for weeks at a time. The others
ire servants, or Experimentation
tcould I 90 to them with condolences, or
ask their advice?'
Not to be thought of murmured
the DOCTOR. 1OOk1HS DIT the gray eyes
rery steadily. Clearly, there was some
thing in the world outside of books
and perhaps an orthodox something
in hearts that he had never found with
the stethoscope.
"And so I have none" went on the
1esolate girl, with look of timid ap
peal. "And I have-have learned to
know you so well-have learned tc
trust you-wi11 you mind very much i
ask your advice-your friendly advice
in a matter that concerns mysel1
alone?"
The gray eyes drew him on, md ma d.
him say things that surprised him
they made him reply. without the leas
reference to the big books and tn,
treatment of diphtheria.
'Why, surely 1 will be only too glat
to assist you any way in my power"
And he said it frankly, and cordially
too. leaning forward and looking a
her with eyes that had begun to be un
professional. Really, she did have
lovely color.
"I have received an offer of mar
rage" she said, with her eyes dow
, lagain. "You know I had a little none,
left me-only a few thousands-an
, nv education and other expenses hav
|. almost exhausted that. If ] don't az
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of the central excavation, and to estab-
lish therein series of locks to be fed from
the Chagres river.
Three principal problems were pre-
sented:
1. The determination of the depth to
which the central mass must be excavated
and of the number and height of the locks
to be built
2. The designing of the proper methods
for the regulation of the flow of the Chagres
river.
g. The feeding of the canal
The commission decided on 6S.0S feet
above the sea, with four locks on each slope,
as the altitude at which the bottom of the
canal should be placed, but this plan to be
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1902-08-01
oratorx Versus stenography.

''Will you please explain this pas
sage?" asked the stenographer of the
great orator. st does not seem to
mean anything, but 1 am sure 1 got
your words right"
THAT means, young man. said the.
great orator, that you do not know
oratory when you hear it."-Indian-
apolis News.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1902-08-01
Encouraging.

MY heart" he said, lis in this.
work.
Good" she replied "Now if some
body would put some brains in it we
might look for results Rec
ord-Herald.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1902-08-01

" HE receiver of the old Panama
Canal company obtained from
!. the Colombian government two
Y successive extensions of the
~ original concession for a canal,
urh ioh nxtnndod tho irno Of 4 be-
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1902-08-01
Not rhreatenea by volcanoes.

There are no active volcanoes within 200
miles of the Panama canal route. The ter
minal harbors, Colon and Panama, are
good, natural harbors, neither requiring
furthss excavation.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1902-08-01
In our day there is a strong
think of the stern, hard days befor,
The Sin Of
Se1f-Indu19enee
BY
Rev. Frsderiek E. Hopkins,
Pastor Pilgrim con9re9 ations1
Church, Chicago

Adams there colleges and graduated eeson and
Websters; pulpit and Lyman Beecher there
homes; families of was one and
Wendell Phillips another, and both
Beecher, of eight, and every a genius.
HAS BECOME THE AMERICAN HOME ANT,
WAY that largely of
They have large families
The biggest farms these prae are owned b
who the largest this country :;
named in sOand W.
things from prejudice born
because believe the br
than times But
Thou hast much goods laid take thine
ease is IN danger ofdeath
INSTEAD OF SITTING DOWN IN OUR FURNACE
HEATED G. SLIG HI E D, TELEPHONE ONNECvTIT,
HOMES AND BEING HEREWITH CONTENT TT IS For IRE
TO SEE TO IT THAT SPIRITUAL STRENGTH KEEPS PACE
WITH MATERIAL PROGRESS.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1902-08-01

temptation to seff-indulgence. Z
there was a cooking stove, a heat
ing stove, telegraph, a mile of
railroad, a kerosene lamp. CT A
cylinder press Look at your su-
preme. court and Marshall was on
the bench; at your treasury, and
Hamilton established your credit:
at YOlIT senate and IOf,r, f-ls..-.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-07-06

New York Times Literary Review.
In the current Bookman Mr.. F. NJ. Colby
complains that in the later works of Henry
James the hunt for the distinguished
phrase is always evident" and that the
author masks his real self, and what he
has to write about, behind that verbal
hedge of his" 1t would be difficult to de-
scribe more accurately the case of the
man who has ceased to be the master of
style and has become the slave of il. The
master of style is the man who knows a
spade when he sees it and calls IL a spade.
TIL slave of style is the man who in his
hunt for the distinguished phrase calls 1t
an agricultural implement. OF the COM
moner tricks of fine writing Mr.. James has
never been guilty; but his subtle hunt for
the distinguished phrase is no less CEN
surable than is the self-consciousneSs Of
the farmland who talks of agricultural
implements. Both miss the plain fact in
the effort TO describe it. 1t is here that one
sees his great, his unmistakable inferiority
as a master of style to his harness mate,
Mr.. Howells. The dean Of American let
tiers loves his tools, and his words and
sentences sometimes tax the intelligence OF
all but his acutest readers TO follow them
but in the ultimate analysis a spade to
him is always a spade.
The point may be illustrated by al anec-
dote hitherto unrecorded, as far as we
know, which Mr.. Saint Gaudens once re-
lated with regard to the sculpturing of his
equestrian statue of Logan in Chicago.
While planning the statue he read Logan's
speeches and found them no Inspiration.
They were filled with forid extravaganza
and pompous absurdity Of the stump ora
tor. 1t so happened. however. that Saint
Gaudens fell in with an old soldier who
narrated how Logan won one Of his most
famous victories. The forces of the North
and the South had long been fighting on
equal terms, when the Southerners gath
cred for one of their famous cavalry
charges. AS those gray heroes swept for
ward the Northern soldiers lost heart and
wavered. At that moment Logan caught
up the regimental standard, and, waving
it aloft. rode up and down before his men,
shouting: Them fellers is riding to their
graves!' The North stood, and the South
fell before their whitening fire. AT that
moment Logan was, among other things, a
master of style, and 1t is in that moment
that Saint GaudenS has represented him,
waving the colors aloft on a charger that
brides in immortal bronze on the lake
front of Chicago.
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THE BENEFITS OF A PEST.

1t is the complaint of the curio collector
occasionally made public-that he is an
noyed by a deluge of letters from all over
the country asking him to barter or sell.
thus making his life miserable. There is
another n pleasanter side to this woeful
story. To the true collector-of books, brio
a-brac, autographs. coins, stamps, or what
not-the perusal Of lists and catalogues is a
keen pleasure, second only to the joy Of
acquiring treasures for his collection. When
a collectors name becomes public property
letters and catalogues from dealers in all
kinds OF literary and artistic junk flow in
upon him. Aside from the pleasant enlight-
enment of thus sporting" junkshops from
Maine to California. the collector often
finds wares he would like to buy announced
in these lists. Again. he may, perhaps,
loosely turn the tables on this eager world
Of curiO dealers, and offer to sell them sur
plus wares of his own The history of ma
tional taste in curio collections is interest
ingly set forth in curio catalogues and in
the collectors morning or evening mail.
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great man may some time stand. 1t is no
disgrace that he has not turned up yet,
but a deep disgrace that anything turned
out by Ohio should be reckoned literature
unless 1t is literature.
There are a few tests in this business.
The writing will doubtless continue on
the basis of a well-known piece of
scripture, to the effect that of the MAX
ing of books there is no end. But when
an Indiana or an Ohio man or a Massa-
of comparison with Homer or Virgil or
Dante or Milton or Plato's Republic
or Burns's "Cotter,' we shall all know
it, and we shall not read reams of rot
i'm the magazines to explain how the
thing happened to be done. 1t is abso-
when an author or his friends have TO
write a demonstration. Against evidence
of this sort Markham ~truggle in vain.
He, and one may say the whole field Of
American writer's, have a chance to outlive
their own fame. We should just like to
who has been writing twenty years who
would not be ashamed to be caught read
ing one of his own early books. For our
own part, we are obliged to confess that,
aside from two or thee of POe's stories and
two of Hawthorne's, we have never been
ond time, nor a British novel, either, aside
from one of Fielding's and one of Thack-
eray'S.
1t will be we'll to get down to hard-pan lin
this business. The advertising racket is
we'll worked and is an excellent thing to
work. But when it comes to literary esti-
mates there is a different story to tell. If
any of these butterflies who think that a
hundred thousand copies to-day means
anything ten years from now, hey are
tire credit for the fame of the modern
noVeliStS.