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Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1903-03-14
PANAMA CANAL TALK
Main Features Of a S~tupendous FL
cheering Work.
New York Firms Hope to Get Con-
tracts for Bufidipg the Ditch
Political Aspects of Canal
Treaty.

NEW YORK fnaneiers and con
tractors are taking a deep in
terest in the progress of the
Panama canal negotiations. 1t seems
to be the consensus of opinion that
both the United States and the lit
tie republic of Colombia are to be
congratulated on the outcome of
Secretary of State Hays negotia-
tions, according to which the United
States is to pay S10,000,o 600 outright
and am annual rental of S250,000, the
latter to begin nine years after the
ratification OF the treaty. The canal
strip is to be leased to the United
states for 100 years, with the priyi-
legc of renewal; but all rights and
privileges of sovereignty are reserved
by Colombia. Even the right to en-
force police regulations in the leased
territory is granted only in case of
emergency. According to article %,
in case armed troops are required,
Colombia agrees to provide the
forces necessary" and if these Co
lombian troops are unable to pre-
serve order the United States may,
with the consent of Colombia, bring
in its own forces. Under exceptional
circumstances, it is conceded, the
United States may bring in troops
without red tape, but in that case
"as soon as sufficient Colombian
forces shall arrive those of the Unit
ed States shall retire" Colombia is
to establish judicial tribunals within
the canal belt; and joint tribunals,
to consist of Colombian and Ameri-
can j%urists, shall sit for the trial of
all cases between citizens of Colom-
bia and those of the United States.
The only exclusive judicial jurisdic-
ton the United States will enjoy in
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1903-03-14
REAL CHARITY WORK
Boston Church Conducts a Pawn
shop for the Poor.
Four Per Cent. IA Year il the Rate OF
Interest CharEcd-BriGht Young
Woman Manages the Unique
business.

In the heart Of the exclusive Back
Bay of Boston, under the very caves
of ar~istocratic Trinity church, a little
pawnshop hourishes, remarkable not
only for its environments, but in that
it undoubtedly is the cheapest in the
world, the only one conducted by a
church and the only one that is run
solely on a philanthropic basis.
Four per cent. a year is its rate, SO
cheapthat every other pawnshopi in the
city md IN the world, in fact, would
be plum . into bankruptcy if run on
a similar Ean
One can l~ise money IN anything,
from a tool to 4 jewel, at Trinity Chap
Ell p%awnshop.
The seXton at the chapel door said;
Yes, they do lend money here" and
he pointed out a little room in the res
of the church. where the money is lent
and jewels received.
1t is a plain. interpreted. bare little
room, big enough to hold a small book
case, a desk, a chair and a settee. and
a very few people at n time.
Miss Mitchell, the lady in charge, sat
behind the desk, a book before her.
Yes, we loan money" said Miss
Mitchell to a woman who had just en-
tered offering the usual hard luck
story.
She wa away from home, her money
spent, and in need of q dollar or two till
the next remittance came.
Miss Mitchell sympathized.
Il would like to raise the money on
this ring" said the woman, slipping
off an opal ring. (She couldn't say
pawn in a church.)
How much is it WORTH"
"About 49," she said.
"How much do you want to get ON
it?"
II can get along with So" she replied.
Miss Mitchell took the ring. With
scarcely a glance at 1t, she opened her
pocketbook and taking out a two-dollar
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1903-03-14
YOUNG BLUSHING BRIDE
Was nsding on = Aaif Fare Tickss ora
wedding Tstp.

AS passenger train number fifty-ive
on the Baltimore and Ohio was going
west from Cumberland "Wednesday, the
passengers were interested in q young
couple who got on tile train at Oak
land, The glrl was riding on a half
fare ticket and the man looked tol be
about 30 wears old. The girl did not
appear 70 be more than Is. 1t was
soon learned that the couple were mar
ried at Oakland the same day by the
Reverend Scott, Of that celebrated
city.
The girl looked so young that the
messengers o got inqaisitive aud
when the conductor found the bride
riding on half fare ticket and some
of the passengers found that she was
married. and tho passengers and con-
ductor compared notes. talare was ~
amount Of indignation shown waie.s
was good 10 see, ms a man remarked
to a fellow who said that publio spirit
was deai in this count y.
The bride was questioned and she
said that her name was Rose hurry.
and that hcr husband = name was Okev
Whitehair and that they we're both Of
Mt. Glare. Harrison county. MY fa-
Their is dead and my mother objected
to me marrying Okev, and that's WHY
we ran of" said the girl.
She said she had been out of school
five years and that she was Is years
old. This did not stack up we'll with
her half fare tick st or her childish
face. Okey did net seem to be over
burdoned with knowledge. He was
closely questioned bv some passengers
and IT developed that he didn't know
whether Abraham Lincoln was Il Sioux
chief or a citizen who opposed public
improvements.
The passenger got together-some
of them-and resolved that tina minis
ter who united the couple had made
n mistake. And they also resolved to
have the case investigated.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1903-03-14
KILLED BY EXPLODING OIL.
twenty-five Burned to Death Near
0lean, N, Y,
WATCHED TANK CARS BURNING
Terrific Explosion Made Sea Of Flsma
Which Roasted All in its
Grasp.

Olean, N. ". March 10 A score
! or more people were killed and a lar
ger number were injured by an ex-
plosion of oil near here last night. A
freiGh train on the Erie made upprin-
cipally Of tank cars filed with oil
broke in two near this city at about 9
O'Clock. The two sections Of the train
came together with a crash and one
of the oil tanks was demolished. Fire
broke out almost instantly and tt sky
was lighted up for miles. A large
crowd of people left the city for the
scene of the fire
While they were lined up along the
tracks a terrific explosion occurred.
the flames communicated quickly with
the other tank cars and a second and
third explosion followed each ether in
rapid succession. Sheets of flames
shot in all directions. Scores of peo-
pie were caught within the zone of
the fire and enveloped IN the flames.
Men and boys ran screaming down the
tracks with their clothing a mass of
flames. Others fell where they stood
over come by the awful heat. Just how
MANY we're killed is o known, as
manv of the bodies were incinerated.
Word was sent at once to Olean po-
flice headquarters by telephone. Every
doctor and ambulance in the city was
summoned. Grocery wagons and car
riages of all kinds were pressed into
service and everything possible was
done to bring the injured without de-
lay to the hospitals for treatment.
At midnight the first of the injured
arrived at the hospital. They were
four young boys. Their injuries were
frightful. Great patches of flesh
were burned of and hung in shreds
from their bodies.
1t will be difficult to ascertain the
names of a great MANY Of the dead as
their bodies were burned TO ashes in
the intense heat. A canvas Is being
made of the city as RAPIDLY as possible
to find out the names Of those miss
ing. There is intense excitement and
the streets are thronged with people
wild with grief.
Large crowds gathered ct the hos
pital and the faces of injured were
~anxiously scanned as they were borne
into the building on stretches. Heart
rending scenes were witnessed when
poor blistered bodies were recognized
by a father or a mother or a brother
and it was with difficulty that persons
were restrained from invading the OPP
Grating room.
The latest estimate of the casualties
places the number of dead at twenty
two and the injured at forty-hve
Some of the injured will die.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1903-03-14

ont into a lake. called Bohio, 1914
miles long. Much Of this can be
used for the canal at small cost.
The General course of the Chagres
is nor hwestward, ana it empties into
the Caribbean several miles west Of
Colon, having flowed through a low,
marshy country much of the way.
From Lake Bohio the canal follows
a different route from the river. IT
is proposed to have the bottom Of
the canal $50 feet wide. The slope
of the banks, and hence the width
at the top, viii depend on the ma
ture of the soil through which the
canal, which is to be 30 feet deep, is
cut.
To the first stretch of 1914 miles
southwark from Colon there will
probably be no interruption. In or
der to reach the level of Lake Bohlo
two or three locks will be necessary.
Gen. III. V. Abbot advised having the
lake, whose height win be deter
mined by a dam across the old
path Of the Chagres, only 20 feet
above sea level. 1he United States
commission adopted 80 feet as the
standard. although in the driest sea-
son this may fall off TO 81.
Where the canal taps the lake two
or three locks are to be introduced.
The commission favored only two,
each making a difference of AZ or
IS feet in the water level. Although
such locks are feasible, it is re-
motely possible that three may be
finally adopted, as it is safer to lock
up and down only 80 feet at a time.
If a third lock is introduced perhaps
it will not be located close to the
other two, but be constructed at
Tiger hill. An enormous dam, block
ing the course of the Chagres, Is to
be built a little east of the Bohio
locks. Engineers say that there will
be less danger of seepage, o. leak
age through the soil, if there is ~
head of only 65 to 20 feet here, In
stead of one of 90. Still, II there Is
another lock at Tiger hill the same
effect would be secured.
A spillway, to discharge the sur
plus water of Lake Bohio, will be
constructed three miles. to the south
west of the dam and locks, OF a small
tributary called the Gigantic. A nat
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1903-03-14
THE NEW wo.CFNT STAMP.


~
Some criticism has been aroused iii
certain parts OF the county regarding
the ncw issue of e-cent postage
stamps. The distinct We features Of
this issue as compared with others
that have been brought ont by the Post
Office Department is their artistic su.
periority to other issues. The off.
cials Of both the Post Office Depart.
ment and the bureau of engraving and
printing e~ndeavored to make the best
possible use Of the license given them
in the instructions for the
lions OF fhe new stamps, TO design q
STAMP which would be pleasing and at
the same time of the design which
world be in HARMONY with the use to
which II IA mt. One cite of the post
office RACED against the use Of n uol-
trait of Washington on the stamp. He
said the thing wa outrageous that it
tim, TO out 70 such use the portal I
Of the first President and the father
Of his country. He called attention to
the fact that every time n STAMP was
ased It ment the cancellation of the
poetait, and he regarded this as n most
unbecoming thing. He suggested that
a picture of a railroad wreck, a steam
bobt disaster or something similarly
destructive would be more appropriate
for a stamp which was Il be cancelled.
Another critic said that the whole
idea Of TIE stamp was wrong. He
claimed that the picture of Washing
ton used on the -cent stamp was a IL
bel on the subject. II looked like al
most anv one else in continental his
tory hut Washington. The picture
used Is taken from n Stuart portrait
and IS said 10 be one of the most ac-
curate licensees that has been pre-
served. Criticisms have been passed
upon every feature of the stamp. Most
users of the stamps, however, have
either not had time or are too much
plensel with the departure from the
old stilted form Of stamp design to
make any complaint. They have
viewed the innovation with pleasure.
50 tie nostal officials state, and have
made no COMPLAINT. One of the critics
of the stamps. however. brought TO
the attention of the third assistant
postmaster general a slight defect in
the present die. which is 90 bs rem
edied. At the time when the eriti-
eisms wee coming into the depart
meut q statement was published 10
the effect that II new design for a 2.cent
stsmp would be made. This. however.
il not what the third assistant post
master general intended should 10 said.
There will be no new design 1t is un-
derstood. but a new die OF the same
design will be made and the various
features of the stamr will be
more clearly brought out. The
new die will be ready for use
in a Short time. and it is believed
that the chief cause for criticism
viii be removed.
The entire set of this new issue Of
STAMPS has been about completed and
the stamps are IN sale in most Of the
cities Of the country. The last Issue
was to be made March 1, but owing
to a slight delay in the printing the
stamps were not ready then.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1903-03-14

The PittsburR Dispatch gives free a
Mother Goose Paint Book TO cnildren
who secure five persons TO take The
SUNDAY Dispatch for ten weeks, You
don't have to collect any money from
the subscribers The books a great
educational novelty and sells at $3.50
each. Every child should have one.
and anyone can get five persons to take
P~ittsburg's great Sunday newspaper
for ten weeks. Write to the Dis
patch for blanks.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1903-03-14
THE NEW Slx-INCH GUN.
1t win Have a Muzzie veioeit ofs,soo
Feet.

Army ordinance oficres are working
ON a new 6-inch gun, which is intend
ed to be a powerful weapon OF its kind.
The piece will be 30 calibers long and
is destined TO fire a muzzle velocity
OF 3 $500. and with possibly 5000 feet.
which is much greater than any 10
in service. The 6-inch gun, model of
1900, "A Of which have been provided
for. was designed % give a velocity
of 5000 and with an Increased powder
charge a velocity OF 1900 feet. Plans
are also being worked out in the or
dinance office for a new model 6-inch
disappearing gun carriage, which viii
have advantages over older carriages
with respect TO strength, convenience
IA sitting and rapidity in firing.
The ordinance department. of the ma
w il also working upon an improved
e.inoh gun. This branch of the SER
vice already las a gun which easily
gives a muzlle velocity Of $500. with
a margin of pressure Of u and one
half tons. The new piece viii be 81
50 calibres and il is sought TO secure a
velocity Of 3, 400 feet at the muzzle M
der service conditions. Because Of rhe
difference in conditions on s~hiphosrd
aud on land, the navy is more limited
as 10 the weight whicA can be given
its armament.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1903-03-14

3sh miles long, not including chan
mel dredging in the terminal harbors.
The general direction from the
Caribbean to the Pacific outlet is
from northwest to southeast. The
Pacific port, Panama, is about 20
miles further east than Colon, on the
Atlantic. The highest ground is off
to the south, when the elevation
sometimes is 300 feet above the sea
level. The water supply comes from
the Chagres river, to the eastward of
the canal route. That stream joins
the latter near Gamboa, and widens
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1903-03-14

bill and q dollar bin. handed them over.
"What is you4 name? she asked,
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1903-03-14

the canal zone, according to article
10, will be in cases between citizens
of the United States and citizens of
any foreign nation other than the
republic of Colombia"
The PRINCIPAL engineering feats of
the canal are, of course, of universal
interest just now. The isthmus of
Panama is 35 miles wide in a straight
line, but the canal will be about
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1903-02-05

heart is a magician with power to
make the roses of health bloom upon
the pallid cheek of disease and death.
The sway of his magical wand trans
forms dumb, despairing defeat into the
sweetest peans of praise.
Hope is the antithesis of memory.
Memory is retrospective while hope is
purely prospective. Memory loves the
old scenes and delights to visit the past;
hope is daring adventurer exploring
the uncharted ocean of the future.
Tho hope may be said to be bad
pilot, miscalculator, captain who
often wrecks the vessel and leses the
cargo; yet we must admit that power
of resurrection is at its command, and
as a great reconstructor it gathers to-
gether the fragments of the wreck,
builds bark amidst the very storm
that foundered it and then reaches
port far ahead of despair. Hope is
surely success; dependency is the
germ from which springs failure and
despair.
Those who know hope and its op-
posite will certainly agree that de-
spondency is embryonic despair, defeat
and death. Fear is hope reversed
The darkest night Of sorrow reveals
the brightest stars of hope. This gold
en- grace is the psalmist of the soul
singing its anthems amid the ADVERSE
ties of life and inspiring the heart Of
its possessor. A great philosopher has
termed hope the "Anchor of the Soul
and happy is the man that recognizes
of this saying and lays hold of hope
and his own sheet anchor. S. d.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1903-02-05
Anthony.


barque, but sailed under the flag
of the Argentine Republic, blue, white
and blue. Bound for China in '64, she
was chased into Montevideo by the
rebel pirateer Alabama" and when
she proceeded on hervoysgeit was under
the Argentine flag. While she was trad
ing on the China coast the war ended,
and the United States government
issued a proclamation permitting
American ships that had been COM
PEELED to adopt other flags to take out
new papers, provided they were in an
American port at a given time. This
barque got home too late to take ad-
vantage of the proclamation, and
thereafter the captain would curse the
flag at his masthead every time he
looked up at it. She had hurricane
deck-that is she had no bulwarks.
When we reached Liverpool two or
three of the crew ran away. We took
cargo of coal for Havana, and with
the new crew came Anthony, the
daintiest little sailor I ever saw. He
wore black broadcloth suit of clothes
gold shirt buttons and studs, polished
shoes, and that was all he had in the
world. He came to sea as he would
go to church, all dressed in his best
clothes. He had bag with him but
it was full of rags and straw. This
was how it happened: Anthony's
father was master rigger in Mar.
seilles and Anthony was an apprentice
under him. In order to become mas
ter rigger himself a two years. voyage
was necessary, SO he shipped from
Marseilles to New York on a French
ship. In New York he was drugged
and shanghaied to Liverpool, where he
was fired ashore to be shanghaied by us
He was good-hearted poor devil, and
we helped him out with clothes anG
made him as comfortable as we could
AS L said, the barque was hurri
cane-decker. She had house forward
for the crew and galley and her cabir
was below decks, but projected three
feet above the deck. She had wheel
house opening forward and cabir
door that opened aft. The captain hat
his wife and two daughters aboard
The younger daughter, Ad., as sh'
was called, was about sixteen years OLE
and could sing like thrush. During
fine weather she would sit in the afte
door Of the cabin and sing song afte
song, and the man at the wheel got al
the music. Somehow Anthony got i
into his fool head that she sang onl.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1903-02-05

for him and he talked of nothing else
but Ad. and her singing. So we put
up Job on him. One Sunday fore
noon, when Anthony was to 60 to the
wheel in the dog watch-from 6 to in
the evening-some one wrote note
purporting to be from Ad. to him, re-
questing him to give her his gold studs.
When he came to the wheel, the note
explained, he could have them wrapped
in paper and throw them to her when
she came to the door to sing. Anthony
took the bait, but no one put Ad. next.
At the wheel he kept watching her
for the signal to throw the studs, and
of course it never was given. At last
he got tired waiting and threw them
on the chance, but, Oh ye gods! they
went too far and fell just at the cap
tain's feet as he came up the steps.
He opened them, and, "What does
this meanY" he asked Ad. "Father,"
she said, II don't know why that Dago
threw whatever that is to me-" The
captain turned to Anthony and said:
"You don't want to throw your finery
around like this; you may lose it," and
with that he put the studs in his pocket.
In Havana the cook died and
Anthony took his place and so he and
the women became good friends.
When we were paid off in New York
we took Anthony to the Sailors Home
so he wouldn't get shanghaied again.
He talked of Ad. to anyone that
would listen to him, and one day spoke
to strange lady in veil whom he
took to be his divinity. He was q
regular Chesterfield, and when one day
he and Ad. did meet she stuck him for
two dollars worth of ice cream and
candy.
Ten years passed before met
Anthony again. j was in Marseilles,
and along with lot more sailors
joined the French Legion of Honor to
fight the natives of Tripoli We went
to Tunis, but there was little fighting,
for when the natives heard that Sinbad
and his mob had landed on their coast
they quit, and we sailed back to Mar
seilIes and were disbanded. We blew
in all our own money, of course, and
; when we looked for ship we were up
against the real thing. In England a
sailors strike was on and only few
ships were coming up the Mediterra-
) mean, SO we went hungry for some
time. One day I saw man paying
off some riggers. It was Anthony,
dapper and dainty as ever. He was a
master rigger and was married to Ad.
The way he found her is story in
itself. The barque had taken in a
cargo of resin and turpentine for
Trieste and from there she went to
Marseilles in ballast to get cargo of
tiles for the West Indies. She was
caught in white squau and turned
turtle, for she didn't have enough bal
last in her. The crew and women
/, were picked up by fishermen who
brought them into Marseilles, and
Anthony, being a rigger, was at the
dock. He recognized Ad. and took
them all to his house until the captain
could get money to take them home to
America. While they were there he
and Ad. were married, and when
: discovered them two little Anthonys
. looked to them for food and drink.
SINBAD.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1903-02-05

We do not speak the English LAM
guage in the way in which it is spoken
by the people of England. We have
greatly changed, enlarged and perhaps
improved it in our usual progressive
way. The wonder lies in the notion Of
Englishmen that their way of speaking
the language is the only way and that
our way is wrong.-New York World.