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Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1903-01-29
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AND
SYSTEM
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BY ACID.

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Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1903-01-29

Sold by J. M. Gleissner, Abilene.
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-09-13

fork of the Warrior, and Cordova Is also on the Frisco and on the Mulberry fork of the Warrior. Cordova is thirty five miles from Birmingham.
 Lock 20, which will be located immedi- ately below the forks of the Mulberry and Locust is 40S miles by river from Mo- bile It Is almost in the heart of the ia- nous coal and iron fields of Alabama. Four hundred and eight miles will be the shortest water route in the world from important coal and iron fields to the sea.
 When the twenty locks required to in- sure six feet of slack water navigation the year round have been finished, the next step will be to go on up the Locust [ and Mulberry forks.
 At Paos.
 To maintain six feet of slack water up to Palos, two locks will be required in the Locust fork between Palos and Lock 20, but to maintain six feet in the Null berry up to Cordova will require but one lock although the distance Is greater. Naturally Birmingham would prefer to see work begun on the Locust fork first, because Palos Is nearer than Cordova and is in what Is known as the switching dis trict of Birmingham. The Ensley South ern railroad reaches the Locust fork at a point several miles below Palos and six feet of water can be maintained up to the Ensley Southern with one more lock.
 There are thousands of acres of unde- yeloped mineral lands along the Locust fork which Is chiefly in Jefferson county and along the Mulberry which runs for the most port through Walker county. The opening of either fork will be of un- told advantage to either county. When the work up to Lock 20 is completed, Tusca- loosa county will have the advantage of every other coal and iron field in the world.
 Opening in Sight.
 The opening of the river all the way down Is now in sight, and 1t will not be necessary for Tuscaloosa to wait until the completion of all locks to get the ben efts of water transportation to the sea.
 Locks 9, 10, II and 12 are completed and in operation. Locks ', and B are near ly completed and Locks 4 5 and C are un- der construction and the work is being pushed with all possible haste.
 The completion of these will give six feet of water all the year round from a point several miles above Tuscaloosa to Lock {, which is at Demopols.
 Barges of coal or Iron can then be sent from Tuscaloosa county down to Demo- polls at any time. They can be stored at Demopolis until the river rises suffi- ciently and then fioated on down to the gulf This will give Tuscaloosa county a great advantage over the Pittsburg district.
 While the Ohio river Is not navigable
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-09-13

above Cincinnati over six months in the year, during that time thousands and thousands of barges are loaded and stored to walt for high water When the river rises sufficiently they are floated on down to New Orleans. The advantage that Alabama will have is that the dis- tance from Pittsburg to New Orleans by water is 200O miles while this states coal fields are but 400 miles from the gulf by water.
 As proof that capitalists have conti- dence in the early opening of the Warrior the case of the Central Coal and Iron company and the Semet- -Solvay company are cited The Central Coal and Iron company has bought an immense acre age of mineral lands along the river sev- eral miles above Tuscaloosa. The com pany built and has Just put into opera tion one of the best furnaces In the state, and 1t is now making 200 tons of pig ion daily. This furnace was built sev- era1 miles from any railroad, although 1t is now reached by a spur of the South ern Not satisfied with one furnace, the company Is preparing to build two more stacks, and work on one of them will be begun in the near future.
 Confidence of Capital.
 The Semets sSolvay company Is building a by-product plant adjacent to the fur mace of the Central company. These companies are so confident in all the su- perior advantages they will have from the water route that there Is talk of numerous coke ovens and steel plant is also under consideration.
 It is generally conceded that an artif- cial canal through Birmingham Is not practicable until after the work on the Warrior river Is completed For that reason far-sighted men are now bringing to bear all the Influence they can for the early completion of this important work.
 Congressman Burton. chairman of the rivers and harbors committee of congress, and the man who knows more about rivers and harbors than anyone else in the United States, perhaps, considers the Warrior river Improvements the most im- portant of any similar work in progress in this country He bases his conclusion not on the tonnage now handled in the Alabama mineral district, which Is al- ready large, but upon the tonnage that will be developed by a lowering of freight rates. Like other shrewd men he sees that the surface of the ground in the Birmingham district has barely been scratched and the result of this scratch ing was an aggregate mineral tonnage last year of more than II, 900, 900 tons.
 With Congressman Burton on Ala bama's side, and so able a representa- tive of the state as Congressman Bank head on the committee. it is confidently believed that two more rivers and har- bors bills will give the Warrior all the money that Is needed for the completion of the work.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-09-13

ready built lost money heavily. Locks 1, 5 and G. which are immediately above De- mopois, are being built by M T. Lew man & Co.,; Lock has been let to Chris tie, Lowe & Heyworth, and the work on Lock 13 is being done by Willard & Corn wall Much of the excavation and such work has been sub-let by these contrao- tors.
 At points where the work is let by the government to contractors, government inspectors are maintained all the time and these men are engineers thoroughly competent to pass on any question that may arise.
 In building these locks many interest ing things occur, so that the work is not so slow and uneventful as might be ex- pected. While Lock was being built an alligator was taken out of the river where the men were at work which measured more than six feet long. This is little remarkable in view of the fact that Lock 9 is more than 300 miles above Mobile bay. Numerous wildcats and other anil mals are killed in the woods near where the work is Tn progress.
 One of the most interesting matters of detail about the construction of a dam is that part of it called the fish run" The lower side of the dam Is so steep that 1t is practically impossible for fish to get past 1t on their way up stream, and the law stipulates that provision shall be made at each dam for the fish to get up stream.
 The method generally employed is to build a succession of small water falls at one end of the dam and the fish swim up these falls. The run is so arranged that the climber can rest and swim around in a little pool between jumps. The engin- eers claim 1t works very successfully and that large numbers of them go up the river in this way, although one of the government officials is quoted as saying that in his opinion a fish that would take all that trouble to get up stream would be an awful fool.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-09-13
HOW BIRMINGHAM IS TO
 REAP GREAT BENEFIT
This City Will Be Practically Only Twenty Miles From the
 Gulf of Mexico.

The greatest advantage that Birming- ham will derive from the opening of the Warrior river is that the city will prac- tically be brought within twenty miles Of the Calf of Mexico, as that is the dis tance from Birmingham to Palos. Palos is on the Frisco road and the Locust
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-09-13

ner in which the work Is progressing or the others.
 Congressman J. H. Bankhead who Is a member of the rivers and harbors com- mittee of congress, has done more to pro- mote the improvement of the Warrior river than any other one man, He has fostered the project of opening the miner al district of Alabama with a water route to the sea for several years, and his posi- tion on the rivers and harbors committee gives him exceptional opportunities for securing the necessary appropriations.
 He has succeeded In convincing the committee of the vast importance of this water route and he Is confident that the next two appropriation bills passed will give all the money that is necessary to complete the work.
 Colonel Bankhead recently said that he expects in 1910 to start at the fork or the Locust and Mulberry and go to Mo- bile, passing through twenty completed locks on the way. This is equivalent to saying that in 1910 there will be six feet or water in the Warrior and Tombigbee riV- CTS from the fork to Mobile every day in the year
 Captain w. E. Craighlll, who was in the party, IS not only engineer III tHul bN CA the rivers and harbors of the Mobile dis- trict, but he is also in charge of all the lighthouses of the gulf coast. The Mo- bile district includes the rivers and har- bors in western Alabama and the greater part of those of Mississippi
 Capt. Craighill Is son of Brigadier- General Craighill, who was formerly chief of engineers of the United States army, but who Is now retired. Captain Craighills headquarters are at Mobile, and his experience in government engin- eering work Is very extensive. He spent three years in the Philippines, being in command at Iligen on the island of Min danao.
 He was in charge of the lock and dam work on the Kanawha river, and this system is now among the most extensive in this country. He was also stationed on the Coosa for two years. The manner in which the work on the Warrior Is being conducted is a source of much gratifica- ton to him.
 Assistant Engineer McCalla, who was in the inspection party, has his headquar- ters in Tuscaloosa. He reports directly to Captain Craighill at Mobile.
 Since all the Warrior river work is un-
 . . . A A A A A
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-09-13
CONDITION OF LOCKS
 HIGHLY SATISFACTORY
Congressman J. H. Bankhead Has Been the Great Factor in This
 Work-riis Perseverance.

The present condition of the locks and dams of the Warrior river was found to be highly satisfactory by the government officials who inspected them last week. The inspection party included men who are emlnently qualified to pass on such work and all of them were pleased with the completed locks and with the man.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1903-12-04
MOUNT FREEDOM.

Another wedding is reported to take
place on or about New Year.
Mrs. Ira w. Youngs has returned
from two-weeks' visit at Newark.
The Sunshine Circle met at the
home of Miss Lucy Thompson on
Tuesday of this week.
The mail carrier, Mr.. Burnett, at.
tended the funeral on Friday last OF
his brother, Ira Burnett, who died at
Liberty Corner.
The BrookSide boys don't seem tC
be very much scared when they want
to have a little fun, especially when
there is a wedding.
Among the guests at the wedding OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Clark last week there
were twelve little children under eight
years of age, and eleven of them were
girls and only one boy Master Harold
COe, of Morristown.
The services at the Presbyterian
Church on Sunday last were conducted
by Rev. DR.. Holloway, of Dover, who
gave very able sermon. The interior
of the church had a very fine appear
ance. The cost for repairs and fur
niShingS amounted to about $1,000
which was all paid for except about
5000, and that amount was raised after
the. service, which leaves the church
free of debt.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1903-12-04
WHIPPANY RIVER RAILROAD.

Trains leave Whppany for Morristown at
30 a. IN. and 542 p. M, except Saturdays; on
Saturdays at $50 and $50 p. IN.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1903-12-04
MENDHAM.

Mrs. Thomas Nesbitt, of Norris
town, was in town on Tuesday.
George Ferry, Jr., of New York,
spent Sunday at the Black Horse
Hotel.
Mr.. and Mrs. Vermeule, of New
York, are guests at Mrs. t. W. Phg-
niX's.
Miss Lizze Guerin, of Newark, spent
Sunday with Mr.. and Mrs. Eugene
Babbitt.
Miss Bessie Rodman, who has been
staying at the Phoenix House, has re-
turned to New York.
Mrs. Jennie Chambers, of Pleasant
Hill, has been visiting her brother,
Benjamin Woodruff.
Mr.. and Mrs. Mason, who have been
staying with Mrs. I. w. Phoenix, have
gone south for the winter.
The weekly meeting of the Personal
Endeayor League was held at the
Presbyterian parsonage on Tuesday.
M. f. Johnston, of Princeton, and
Will H. Johnston, of New York, spent
the Thanksgiving holidays with their
brother.
Miss Anna May Elliott, who is at
tending the Seminary at Hacketts-
town, spent Thanksgiving Day with
her parents.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fowler, General and
Mrs. Stone, Miss Taylor and Miss
Peck were among the guests at the
Fhoenix House on Thanksgiving Day.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1903-12-04
fro BE CONTINUED
Big Australian oysters.

"In the part OF Australia in which !
live we get oysters as big as saucer
said resident of Adelaide to the
Washington Post. "They are twice the
size of any have seen in the United
States. but in quality there is nothing
to recommend them, for they have no
flavor and are so tough that it takes a
pretty sharp knife to make any impress.
sion on them. Still there are people
who manage to eat them after they
have been stewed sufficiently long. In
other parts of our country we have a
better grade, approaching nearly to
your American oyster, but hardly its
equal, In fact. after my acquaintance
with the Chesapeake bay products |
am firmly of the opinion that in the
matter of sea food the United States
leads all nations. an assertion that will
be backed up by any man of wide
travel"
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1903-12-04

The letter V may be regarded as the
mutilated remains of one of the sym
bols used by the ancient Egyptians in
their hieroglyphics or picture writing.
\ common animal in their country was
the two horned sand viper. represen-
tation of which stood for " The
priests ultimately found that for the
practical purposes of everyday life it
was waste of time to use elaborate
hieroglyphics and invented a kind of
shorthand to meet the occasion. In
this the snake was reduced to V with
Il dash w to represent horns and
body.
The PhTnicians adopted this letter,
and from them we get our V by loss of
the dash, leaving only the two little
horns of the original picture. This
snake is still common in Egypt and is
probably the one mentioned in Genesis
Xix. Ia, Dan shall be n serpent by the
way. an adder in the path, that biteth
the horse heels. so that his rider shall
fall backward" Travellers tell us that
It is still addicted 10 this unpleasant
habit.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1903-12-04
GERMAN VALLEY

Mrs. Holloway W. Dufford is seri-
ously ill.
Lewis Horton has. secured a winters
job at Mendham.
Jesse Hoffman is giving his house a
fresh coat of paint.
Miss Matte Bum is visiting friends
in Somerville and Newark.
Mrs. Frederick Bunzick is visiting
among relatives in Junction.
Mrs. Frank M. Cleveland is visiting
friends in Somerville and Newark.
DR.. Charles N. Miller has been enter
tanning his parents of Woodbridge.
Miss Anna Mclean, of Drakestown,
is the guest of Mrs. FranklynJ. Wiley.
Miss Uretta Fox, of Walpack, N.
Y, is visiting her father, George F.
Fox.
Mrs. Edward Sutton is spending a
month with her sister, Mrs. George
Fritts, in Chicago.
The Backus Water Motor Company,
of Newark, is installing a water mo-
tor in the Lutheran Church.
Harry Hill and bride, of Califon,
have been spending few days with
Mr.. and Mrs. George e. Volk.
Mrs. Matthias T. Welsh and son
Ralph have been spending few days
with Mr.. and Mrs. Henry G. Mclean,
at Red Bank.
A number of our citizens are recipi-
ents of invitations to the Wise-Reid
nuptials, to take place in Morristown
on December Is.
Rev. II. Preston McHenry gave his
hearers stirring sermon last Sunday
morning on the subject, "Antidote for
the Poison of Prosperity"
German Valley Council, No. $50, Jr.
O.U. A. NJ, attended the Presbyterian
Church last Sunday evening and list
ened to patriotic sermon.
The marriage of Miss Ethel Stiff, of
Hackettstown, to Henry Alder, of
German Valley, has been announced.
The ceremony was performed by Rev.
H. Preston McHenry, of the Presby-
terrain Church.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1903-12-04

"Ghosts?" he asked delightedly. "Do
you know, l was sure there were, and
I'm quite sure | shall see them"
Then we took the Porcupine trail
and climbed for about two miles the
gentle slope to the top of the first ris-
ing ground. There we stayed and
watched the sun take his nightly
plunge into the sea of mountains, now
dimly visible. Behind US stretched the
prairie, sweeping out level to the sky
and cut by the winding coulee of the
Swan. Great long shadows from the
hills were lying upon its yellow face,
and far at the distant edge the gray
haze was deepening into purple. Be.
fore us lay the hills, softly curving
like the shoulders of great sleeping
monsters, their tops still bright but
the separating valleys full of shadow.
And there, far beyond them, up against
the sky, was the line of the mountains
blue, purple and gold, according as
the light fell upon them.
The sun had taken his plunge, but he
had left behind him the robes of SAT-
from and gold. We stood long without
a word or movement, filling our hearts
with the silence and the beauty, till
the gold in the west began to grow
dim High above all the night was
stretching her star pierced, blue can
opy and drawing slowly up from the
east over the prairie and over the sleep
ing hills the soft folds of purple haze.
The great silence of the dying day
had fallen upon the world and held
us fast
Listen" he said in Il low tone. point
ing to the hills. Cant you hear them
breathe?" And. looking at their curry
ing shoulders, fancied | could see
them slowly heaving as if in heavy
sleep, and was quite sure | could
hear them breathe was under Che
spell of his voice and his eyes. and
nature was all living 10 nae then.
We rode back TO the Stopping Place
in silence except for word of mine
now and then which he needed not.
and, with hardly good night, he left
me at the door. | turned away feel
ing as If had been in a strange coun
try and among strange people
How would he do with the Swar
Greek folk? Could he make them
see the hills breathe. Would they feel
as l felt under his voice and eyes?
What curious mixture he was! |
was doubtful about his first Sunday,
and was surprised TO find all my in
difference as to his success or failure
gone. 1t was a pity about the baseball
match. | would speak~to some of the
men about 1t tomorrow.
Hi might be disappointed in his az
pearance. but as | turned INFO my
shack and thought over my la t two
hours with the Pilot and how he lad
got old Latour ana myself | began
to think that Iii might be mistaken in
his measure of the Eliot.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1903-12-04
SHERIFF'S SALE.

IN CHANoERY OF NEW JERSEY.
Wherein the "Stirling Silk Manufacturing
Company is complainant, and Nephus Dale
and Rachel Dale his wife, are defendants.
Fl. ia for sale of mortgaged premises. Re-
turnable to February Term. A. d. 1904
GEORGE G. RUNYoN, Solr
DY virtue of the above stated writ of Fieri
ID Facias in my hands, / shall expose for sale
at Public Vendue at the Court House in Nor
ristown, N. j., on
MONDAY, the 18th DAY Of JANUARY
next, a. d. 1904 between the hours OF l2 M.
and 8 o'clock p. M, that is to say at 2 o'clock
in the afternoon of said day. All that tract or
parcel 81 land and premises, hereinafter par
ticuarly described, situate, lying and being in
the township OF Passaie, in the county Of Nor
ris and State of New Jersey. Being lot Mum.
bored Thirty 1907 on Block "B," North of the
railroad as laid down on certain map Of lots
at Stirling, n. j., made by j. Willis, G. e.. 1874,
and filed in Morris County Clerks Office as
map Number One Hundred and Twenty eight.
Being fifty SOY feet front on Elm street and
one hundred and seventy tl70l feet deep. Be-
ing the premises conveyed to said Nephus
Dale by said the Stirling Silk Misunderstanding
Company" by deed bearing date the hrat day
OF July A. d: nineteen hundred and one, and
recorded in the Clerks Office OF said Norris
copntx IA B0okasR l6' OF Deeds. pages a1B. &c
Dnted November So 1908
eNaa ABRAHAM RYERSON,
Chroniele and Madison Eagle Pr. saso li7s
- - - ~NGMm
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1903-12-04
SEIERIFF'S SALE.
MORRIS COMMON P1rA,

MORRIS COMMON PLEAS
S. Ho ner Mitchell VS.. Andrew J. Neafie. FL
ia. de DO. ct ter on docketed judgment Re-
turnable to January Term, A ID. 1904.
NEWTON s. KITCHELL, Atty.
DY virtue of the above stated writ of Fieri
ID Facias in my hands, shall expose for sale
at Public Vendue at the Court House in Morris
town. N. j., on
MONDAY, THE 4th DAY of JANUARY
next, A. D. 1904, between the hours of IL M and
o'clock p. M, that Is to say at o'clock in the
afternoon of said day. All that tract or lot of
land situate in the township of Boonton in the
county of Morris and State OF New Jersey
Being known as lots Nos II, Is and 10. on map
of property of Rachel Vaudeville and Others
Beginning at the West corner of Dawson ave
nue. and old Boonton road thence nv along the
South side of Dawson avenue North fifty seven
degrees twenty -four minutes West one hun
dred and forty -three and one-hah feet;f2) at
right angles Southerly one hundred and
thirty-two and seven-tenths feet to the
line Of Greenwood Cemetery; (8) Easterly
along the Cemetery one hundred and forty
three ard tighty-one hundredths feet to the
West side of the old Boonton road; % North
erly along said road one hundred and thirty
two feet to the place Of beginning Being the
premises as described In a deed from May j.
Neafie and husband to Andrew j. Nestle by
deed dated June TO- 1908 recorded in Book H-I7,
page SO Sc, Of Deeds Ter Morris county.
Dated November 80, 1908.
ABRAHAM RYERSON,
Chronicle and Bulletin. Pr $3.50 4lls
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1903-12-04
ROCkAWAY VALLEY RAILWAY.

Trains leave Morristown for all stations to
Whitehouse, D., L. & W. Station, $40 a. M,
sos D. m. /; Park Place, $50 a. M, 5 10 D. m.
Watnong Station 910 a. m $50 p. m. reach
ing Whitehouse at II 40 a. M and 100 p. m.
Leave Brookside for Morristown, Is a. IN.
and $50 p. M. fl Whitehouse, $50 a. m. and
5.45 p. m.
Leave Mendham for Morristown, 7.05 a. m.
and 305 p M; for Whitehouse, 1905 a m, and
5.55 p m
1.80 p. m.