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The Delta independent., 1903-12-25
Frenchman in Hard Position.

4 Frenchman named Lill!er is in al
awkward position. The Paris author.
tiles have forbidden him to live in
lat city, while the military author
ties have ordered him to remain III
Paris. He was arrested, the ether
day, on a charge of theft and sen
tenced to one months Imprisonment
If that sentence is served out In o
Paris gaol the civil court may further
imprison him for residing in the city.
II he is sent to country prison the
military will prosecute him.
The Delta independent., 1903-12-25
The Condition and the Theory,

1t is easy to show them that a sir'
in domestic service is better paid, "a
better room. is more confCrtahie
ttan she would be working for f9t
tory or shop girl wages. but she know
that in domestic service she will Ur'
have SO much freedom. and she nAtu.
ally wants personal freedom as t.
first essential to real comfort ~ iie
Ii domestic service were a -onr2si'.1-
calling it would attract younger wGf
en- readily. but uu'il II Is rhrT W..
spurn it when poss.b'e.-PGr-laai az
goEian.
The Delta independent., 1903-12-25
GIRL FARMER OF IL.

tiuckster, Supports a Family.
With the rcspon sib.lity of family
o. seven en- her dimunitive shoulders.
little Eleanor Keefauver. of Wcet
Philadelphia. Is making plucky fight
for existence. and already she Is
known as the youngest and one of the
most successful farmers In America.
TAis small farmer. only IL years
Old. operates an extensive truck patch
az the produce she gathers she sells
-dcor TO door. and by this means
earrs during the summer at least So
n wea!s besides supplying the table
a. hc,Eo with vegetables enough TO
The Delta independent., 1903-12-25
Beyond a Question.

Magistrate Crane of New York has
of late received innumerable letter,
regarding HIS claim that women arc
unable to make trustworthy Identified.
lions. and he has also been inter.
viewed by innumerable reporters CT
this subject. Te one reporter tie
other day, he said
"A salesman of trouser-stretcncrs
told me rather good thing about a
voman this morning. 1t is somewhat
fureign to the topic we're discussing
sui III repeat It to you. anyway.
The salesman said he was goEaE
cm house to house one evening sell
ac his trouser-stretchers. He rang
ht bell of certain dwelling, aLl a
man came to the door.
Are you, sir, the master OF this
Nouse?" the salesman asked.
Tfhe man smiled. family.
q I am he said. My wife died las
sssak. Detroit Nsws-Tnbune.
The Delta independent., 1903-12-25
Hopeless Case.

Attorney-Are you willing to swear
that the lady Ii insane?
Physlcian--I am.
Attorncy-on what ground do you
base your opinion?
Physician-I asked her az, ind she
tried to make herself out G,y YEAR
elder than tho records show her !, he.
The Delta independent., 1903-12-25
Turning tho TabIss,

Turning tho TabIss.
mo, Mr.. Wooster" said tho frjgid
raaid with the imported complexion;
ut can never be. I'm satisfied I
would not make good wifo for a poor
man."
II guess that's the unadulterated
TRUTH" reJoined the young man who
had been given the dizzy whirl; but
you will undoubtedly make poor wife
t,r some good man"
The Delta independent., 1903-12-25

j. J. winton Encampment. Meetings held
every second and fourth Tuesday evening nf
each month in Odd Fellows hall. W. J.Gaunt.
Commander: q. Is. Crysler. scribe.
VIM. Spaulding Encampment. No. 36. meets at
Eckefi second and fourth Saturday lights. of
each month. W. II. Jarvis, commander, Crissie
l., Taft. cribe.
The Delta independent., 1903-12-25
A BIOGRAPHY OF ADAM.
Some Facts In the Life Of Our Uni
VersaI Father.

Celebrated as the original father Of
his country. Also noted as the dis.
coverer Of sin. In his day the gen
uine "only thing that ever happened"
Only man that ever told the truth
when he told his best girl she was
the only girl he ever even thought
Of" Owing to Irregularities, which
he was mean enough to blame on his
The Delta independent., 1903-12-25
The Man Who Grows on You.
Your most delig Gtful acquaintance
ih man who grows on you. You
aw nsopie In plenty who do not gain

Is th man who grows on you. You
Know nsopie In plenty who do not gain
i ypw appreciation; every time you
meet ihcp they seem more shallow
a,il moe paiit it1l 5ofcre. Indeed
fbcfe We times won Tour discoveries
81 i,arr clafRclci witbin the circle
" nr Expectations MN 50 much 20
p3.A csr thlt yeu ieel 10 dagger OF
4'elpg eornBsle1 tc disc1''rt all hriaan
antnre as "a dseciyius abgm Eat th9
a,sf 40 grows Oh ycu sGyez voa from
lsnlcism. Every day yon sfo fielding
ias ilm some, fnctor Of iafnhod thai
rnu had not expected; ever dag be
rss ~ In now tcst 10 have roseufceN
o. arcnrth upon which you have rel
ceuatsd In your estimate Of him.
Gazette.
The Delta independent., 1903-12-25

sale on Easy Term
sic 50 acres ~ miles ess, Of Delta y foo, Of
water IN l',is.l,lilseI n,. ditch Can b.. rn'eted
not improved. rrice elT1; h'Gash.
ai-!The pync place one-half mile from Hckert
acres Of snail fruit. al isnccd. 80 intei..i in
Ism. No. =. III Garden ditrh some other water,
making wafer sufficient for all III. land Has all
been In cultivation. rrce, $3.50. Fart cash,
s22-to acres on Garnet mesa % acres orchard.
2 acres alfalfa. 81 acres tiilablr. 3 room house,
aud chicken houses. ~ shares stock Garnet
Ditch l. Reservoir Co. Price 5000.
b2i 30 acres Ave northeast Of Delta. on Sur
land Water right. ~ shares Surface ,'reck ditch
and reservoir company: 10 shares Fruit .rowers'
ter water frcm living spring all the year. Frice.
$3.50.
aT-so acres of land on surfacc and Tongue
creek. ~ acres of orchard, mostly winter pies.
acres alfal1, all fcnc'i can all bo wsirred
plenty ofwnier all the season. Price s'.ooo.
ai-ai,; acres land IN North Dvlta, n nnr potato
ar garden farm 10 acres IN garden. acres In
ALA IN. acre in orchard, some strawberries,
good well water. dwellins- fences. stables, etc.
1880 acres land on Tongue crce's. rs acres In
Rlfllfa. 3acfcs orchard 10 icrcs u be cultivated
i.room dwelling house. good fncc. good water
right ali season. Price 800 per acre.
b2e-3 l-1o acres in North Delta with good new
r, ars.dsnrs enc, carry carrying so issrsnse Coed shed;
ditch stuck. Price si,O0O. part time.
!iS--IGo acres In Mo. trosc county, one and
a hnl mile west Of olaihc, 90 acres orchard all
lca,ig nearly all npl'lc,; co ncrs In afalin, nll
holding TO barrels, sheds and gopd nutbmil'lings
with good water rights consisting u Ave shares
lioi,,tonc and shares Extension. Price, 5000.
part cash.
5os-l2o acres near Eckcrt 20 acres aliaih cut
appas sso xii All aEs S III fsnesd ss1 ois' Sla % h
stables, sheds. etc. Good water right In Surface
r a rs IN hrss e ..e' IL FOR
Frict, sj,tOO. part cash.
tio- GO acre. ordhaid years old and IN bear
2h miles from Delta. good water right In ditch
and haif interest in Sanders reservoir. Price.
1900. half cash. balance y p,r cent.
slT-ieo acres IN uncompnhgrc valley. a nne
hny or stock ranch 10 ncr's in alfalfa. 10 acres
Ea,d.n g land, one acre orchard Good 7-ro.m ,,
inches No. 10 priority. Price, 5000.
h39100 acres, 20 acres, ,clcnrcd.30 10 acres In nj.
fnlfi, Broom house. cc'lar,'FS22. All under
'enrc with cross fence. ~ ,a1rrs more can bc
cultivated, and lilo n, Of water, N.o0o.
$40 Nelr Ccdnredge. 40 ncres. nil under fence,
~ cleared, $50 fruit trees, t2,bO0 strawberry
plants, 1ho blrckbeIrlNs and raspbcrrc.. " inter.
rnt In PC. d u. licservoir. 10 ares In alfalfa.
Good log hou.e. rooms. chicken house. stable
and cellar. private ditch To innd. ei.b0o.
haI--33 acres IN Gunnison valley. three miles
from town, acres IN alfalfa. acres orchard, 20
Acres tllling lnnd, balsnrc P sure. a 4.rooiI
I'onahdk ditch stock. Price, ss,soo. part cash.
balance per cent.
g0'd gfRtb land on Garnet mesa. all tIliAb'c. all
iencad. half milo frvm town Halt In AlfnlM,
bainnre grNln land. 10 slinruk stock IN Garnet
ditch and rcseryoy company. making good
water right Price, ,oC0, part cash.
The Delta independent., 1903-12-25
order of Washington.

Meets second and fourth Saturdays Of each
nIuuih inI ~ q. =. hall John G. Watts. V. C;
lee Jacobs. Advisor; c. J. Lippert, Tanker: d. T.
G,,i,, 'l,rE
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-01-06
Aerial Baggage shifter.

An aerial luggage transmitter has
been erected recently by the London
and Southwestern Railway Company
at their junction at Woking, and is, we
understand, in the nature of an expert
ment, being it is believed, the first
appliance of its kind used by any rail
way company in the kingdom. In
briefly describing it Engineering
states that on the up and down plat
forms are erected iron towers, each
so feet inches in height, and set in
blocks of concrete. Suspended from
tower to tower are four spans of wire
cable. The topmost cable, on which
the transmitter runs to and fro, is ex-
ceptionally strong, and is capable of
bearing strain equal to at least
twenty tons. The second cable keeps
the transmitter in position, and the
third and fourth cabies. which, are
much thinner and are In one length,
are for paying out" and returning"
Each span is 40 feet long, and the
height of the transmitter above the
railway is % feet inches. Attached
to the transmitte, is an ron cage capa-
BILE of holding half ton al one time.
The whole is worked by hydraulic
power, the engine being or the down
side. Above it is a small box in which
are the levers working the apparatus.
The transmitter is very rapid in its
working, taking only thirty seconds to
deposit ten hundredweight Of luggage
from one platform to the other. All
the experimental trials have been, 1T
is said, most satisfactory and the
transmitter II now ready for use.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-01-06
Street Crossing Signals.

United States Consul Warner at
Leipzig has given the secretary OF
state a brief account OF the system OF
signaling at electric car crossings in
that city. Until a few months ago."
says he, the method in vogue in this
cily Of avoiding accidents at cross
ings of electric street railways was
either to station a fagman at the
crossings or to have the conductor
run forward to see If the other end line
was clear. An automatic signal Ian
tern has been introduced BY the street
railway company which does away
with these inconyenfent methods. The
lantern consists Of two iacxes. arranged
eue above the other. each having two
sides fitted with red AID the other
two with green glass, the red being
above the green. The cars on one
line cause the lncandeacent lamps IL
the upper box to burn; the cars n
the other line ths5aRmps in the lower
one This causes. owing 20 the ar
rangement Of glass III tie boxes
large green light 70 appear to the first
line. which indicates 'fsef passage,
and a red light to the stcond line.
which means step SignaEs are also
visible in daytime. as reflections shut
cut the light Of the sun, ard the Ian
tern is well lighted from the inside
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-01-06

the victorious twir.kle played in his
eyes
But Hawtrey was game. He never
hinched, but replied in h' cool, color
less drawl
Really, / did not know l was of so
much Importance The truth is that
this little book is so interesting. and
your brandy so excellent, that decid-
ed not to leave this comfortable spot"
Hope Duke didn't annoy you?"
pointedly from Ted.
mot in the least He seems faith
full dog"
He is"
Good night, Mr., Armstrong
Good night. Mr. Hawtrey."
Soon as the door had closed on Haw-
trey, Ted grabbed Duke by the fore
legs, and man and dog executed the
maddest and merriest dance on record
Then, hngging his dumb slave, Ted
cried:
You watched him all right, didn't
you, old boy? Well, you saved my
life, perhaps; so lie there on the rug
or anywhere and snooze all night. The
stable is too good for your dogship
after this"
The rext day the engagement of
Miss Helen Vernon and Mr.. Theodore
Armstrong was announced, and in the
same sheet might be seen few lines
that read: MIR. Bruce Hawtrey leaves
for New York to-day, en- route for Eu-
rope"
''Hawtrey told me, Helen explained
Ted, later on, while both were laugh
ing over the incident. that all's fair
in love, so l took him at his word"
II hated him ever since the day he
spoke of me as fly and was only
waiting FOR a chance to refuse him.
wouldn't have had him, anyway, re-
piled Helen.
'Well, Duke and weren't taking
any chances" laughed the dogs mas
ter.-New York News.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-01-06

piles Of wreckage have been Cleared
away and the scars of the fatality re-
moved. Miles of blocks of orderly
houses and modern stores have risen
from the sand. The splendid palms
have been replanted and the beautiful
oleanders are blooming again. Calves
ton the new looks little the worse for
its mishap, and when projected i'm
provements have been completed will
far outshine the Galveston of old
The Great Sea Wall.
The great enterprise which is on ev-
cry tongue is the sea wall, by means of
which it is calculated to shut out any
further encroachment of the sea and
restore the confidence of the timid in
the safety of the city. 1t is not at all
likely that another such storm will
visit this part of the coast in hun
dred years, but if another does come it
will find an insurmountable barrier
surrounding Galveston. Work has al
ready begun upon huge concrete wall
three and one-third miles in length,
which will be seventeen feet above
mean low tide. sixteen feet wideant the
base and five feet at the top. The top
of the embankment for thirty-five feet
back of this ~igantic wall will be pro-
tected by fled brick laid on edge,
and this, zen surrounded by an iron
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-01-06
! HOME ON THE PRAIRIE.

- L
A meadow lark had made her nest
on the ground, in the middle of wide
prairie. 1t would have seemed to us
a very dangerous place for a nest;
and, no doubt, more cautious birds cri-
ticised both the location and the style
of architecture. Great herds Of buff
falo and wild horses roamed over the
plains. and were hunted by red men,
and white, sometimes. Indians on
the war-path passed and re-pasSed.
There were serpents il the grass, and
birds of prey in the air, which might
swoop down at any moment on the
little home and its Inhabitants. And
how could anything so frail as nest
full of eggs hope to escape all these
dangers?
But Mother Lark was wise old
bird. | do not know whether she
knew it or not, but the days were
growing longer and warmer. and the
prairies grasses were growing taller,
and would soon tower above the UT
tie dwelling, higher than the fallest
trees 10 GLDAE Jul AAOAoSs1s anu SA&C
had faith, though she did not know
in what. that somehow, somewhere,
Love was watching over her and pro
tecting her.
One day, when the baby birds were
Just fedged, an army OF men passed
over the prairie. They we're not hunt
ers. but United States cavalry soldiers,
Eho had been sent out 10 put down a
rising of the Indians. At their head
rode good and brave General Custer.
He was mounted on Dandy, the little
mustang pony VIII Mrs Custer, by
her delightful bot Ms made almost
as famous as he ~gxzzer
On they came those horses and men.
which must have seemed so gigantic
to Mother Lark Imagine her feelings
when she saw Dandy'g great iron shoe
close To her nest
She started up with cry Of alarm
and General Custer looked down TO see
what was the matter A word frcm
him, and the Whole regiment would
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-01-06

railing, will provide a driveway thirty
feet wide and sidewalk five feet
wide. 1t will be ornamented by fringe
of Bermuda grass. This is the most
pretentious piece of engineering of the
sort ever attempted in the United
States. The excavation will require
the removal of 100000 wagon loads Of
sand: there will be used in its construc-
ton 1900 carloads of piling and $500
carloads of concrete; 100000 tons of
rock will be hauled from a quarry 2S6
miles distant. and 100 tons of re-enforc.
ing rods will be utilized. 1t will take
400 men a year and half to do the
work, and in order to complete the job
in this time every kind of labor-saving
machinery that has been invented for
use in work of this kind will be en-
ployed The estimated cost of the
great undertaking will be $1.294. 735.
The original elevation of the grounds
upon which the CRY was located in
1888 was in many places but little
above high tide. This condition was
helped somewhat by filling in the low
places with sand from the ridges along
the island and with dirt from the main
land. The extreme lowness of the land
was what caused the trouble when the
high water came. 1t is proposed to
remedy this also by filling the entire
city from the sea wall on the gulf side
of the bay The fill will graduate from
twelve feet down to one. A district
covering 924 city blocks-forty-tw
squares one way and twenty-five the
other-wilI be included in the project.
The work, if properly rushed. ought to
be accomplished i'll two years. The
earth for the filling VIII be brought
from the maSniand and will consist of
about $500 train loads of twenty cars
each. The estimated cost will be 81,
100000. The funds to prosecute the
work are to be raised by the Legisla
tire allowing the city Of Galveston to
divert for fifteen years its State taxes
from the treasury into a fund 70 lie
used solely for grading the city. The
last session RENTED the taxes for two
years for this purpose. and it is Drac-
tically certain that the bill wiz be
adopted in full at the next session. The
argument in favor of the plan is that
there can be no objection on the part
OF the taxpayers ST the State. because
it is not direct csz<Tupriation. the
money being used coming solely f~~-
Galveston. and that afterward tir-
vastly increased property values result
ing from 1t VIII more than repay the
state for wis it misses during the pc
Rod the take ire allowed TO lapse.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-01-06

of votive candles to patron saints and
to the Virgin.
On the other hand, In Chinatown
nearly every grocery store carries
stock of Oriental votive candles, which
are presented to Buddha; the goddess
of mercy, Qwang Yin; the god of war,
Qwang III, and the god of literature,
Man-Mo-Mew. These candles are
made to suit all tastes, as well as all
conditions of the pocket book They
range from poor, cheap little red af-
fairs like the Christmas tree candles
up to stately creations. four. five and
six feet in length. The Italians use
both red and white, while the Chi
nese confine themselves almost exclu-
sively to red. They use white and yell
low upon special occasions, a white
candle being symbolic of death and a
yellow one of heaven, or the son of
heaven, who is the emperor of the
celestial kingdom.
Formerly both the Chinese and Ital-
ians depended for their candles upon
importing merchants. In the last few
months the manufacture has sprung
up in New York and now attains fair
proportions. In many respects the
New York candles are better bits of
workmanship than the imported ones.
The latter are usually softer and
greasier than the former and produce
a smoker light. The homemade are
"a of upir
or wax, although the last-named sub
stance is growing into disuse. The
finest quality imported from China are
made from insect wax specially per-
fumed, while one variety Of the Ital-
ian imported is made from clarified
wax of fine quality, perfumed with
the mild scent of blossoms
Both Italian and Chinese, says the
New York Post. employ a candle
which is really a shell within which
the candle itself is placed and held in
position by means of helical spring
at the bottom of the shell. These
shells are often profusely decorated
and are strikingly handsome The
Italians prefer as ornamentation leaf
work and geometrical patterns, while
the Chinese like minute bas-reliefs of
men, gods. dragons, mountains and
landscapes. A handsome shell with
candle within ranges from 81 up to
$50, according to size and workman
ship 1t is durable and is used as an
ornament in church or josshouse
for many years.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-01-06
THE NEW GALVESTON
Her SPLENDID RECOVERY THE
MARVEL or THE AGE.
To Be Protected in the Future by a
Gigantic Sea Wall and By EIevat-
ing the Entire Site of the City from
One to Twelve Feet.

When the great gulf storm of Sept,
8, 1900, had swept over the city of Gal
weston, Texas, and had left in its wake
more than 5000 corpses and such d
some of ruin and desolation as was
never before presented on the Ameri-
can continent, it was only the stontest
heart and the most optimistic mind
that predicted that the city would or
could ever recover from the great ca
lamity.
But that IS 1Nst what the brave city
is doing. More than that, the new Gal
weston promises to far outrank the de-
stroyed city in every way. From the
miles Of wreckage, from the ruined
business blocks, from the great gulf
share territory which the storm trans
formed from a beautiful residential
section to a barren waste, there is aris-
ing a city more beautiful, more sub
stantial, a more prosperous than the
one SO frightfully wrecked by wind
and water little more than two wears
ago.
OalFestolS struggle against awful
ODDS ana in the face of the greatest
encouragement constitutes one of the
Gravest chapters in the annals of
American enterprise. No American
city was ever SO stricken, no recovery
has been so phenomenal That which
has already been done and that which
is to be done is Of such magnitude as
to transcend belief.
The sound of the hammer and the
saw has never ceased since the invad-
ing waters retreated into the gulf. The
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turn aside, leaving the little nest un-
harmed. OF course, General Custer
spoke that word, and ssVei the little
home from distinctions No, he did
not speak at all, He did not even
look He Just guided his own horse
around the little nest Then the man
who rode next behind him looked
down to see why Dainty had turned
out Of the straight line CT march. He
too saw the little nest AID guided his
horse around it Then the man next
to him did the same, and the next,
and the next, till the whole regiment
bad passed. and the littlt home on
the prairie was still unhartned Kate
Lawrence. in the Christian Register.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-01-06
LOVE TRIUMPHANT.

Helrn's lips are deifting dust;
lllon is consumed with rust:
All the galleons of Greece
Drink the oceans dreamIess peace;
Lost was Solomon's purple show
Restless centuries ago;
Empires died and left no strain
Babylon, Barbary, and Spain
Only one thing. undefaced,
Lasts, though all the worlds lie waste,
and the heavens are overturned,
Dear how long ago we learned.
There's sight that blinds the sun,
Sound that lives when sounds are done.
Music that rebukes the birds
Language lovelier than words,
1sue and scent that shame the rose,
Vine no earthly vineyard knows,
ocean more diyinely free
Than Pacific's drainless sea.
SileHce stiller than the shore
Swept by Charon's stealthy oar
Ye who live have learnt it true.
Dear, how long ago we knewI
-Harper's Magazine.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-01-06

swers as seat for the person controll-
ing the motor and steering the boat.
The motor Gazing is cut away in the
picture to show the method of mount
ing the propeller shaft and connecting
the motor. OF course, this boat is not
intended to compete with the high
speed and higher-prieed craft which
the modern boat-builder is now able to
produce, but it will afford no small
amount of pleasure to its owner on a
leisurely cruise or fishing trip about
the rivers and lakes of the country.
To place the mechanism in position on
boat it is only necessary to store
away the batteries and gasoline reser-