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AT TER IS YEARS HE
FINDS BALL IN FOOT
French Bullet Makes It's Presence
Felt at Last and Is
Removed.

p
Baltimore, Feb. 17.-All unconscious
of the fact, Max Bolkhard of 206 Fos-
ter avenue spent thirty years with
an immense rife bullet lodged between
two toes of his left foot. 1t has just
been removed by DIR. ohm D. Blake and
his son, DR.. Herbert G. Blake, with Mr.
Bolkhard's little toe and part of his
foot, which had decayed, as the result
Of the presence of the bullet.
Mr.. Bolkhard was German soldier
in the Franco-P russian war. After
passing thru many hard-fought battles
without getting scratch, he received
the bullet wound in the foot one wintry
night while on sentry duty mile from
the troops of the army with which hi
served. This was on Dec. 2, 1870. H
spent the night in the snow in TIT
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FEATHER BUSTERS !.
SPREAD PNEUMONIA
Dry Sweeping Causes Increase Of
Consumption, Says Profess
sor T. M. Prudden.

New York, Feb. 17.-Consumption,
pneumonia, bronchitis, cerebro spinal
meningitis and all other infectious dis
eases of the respiratory organs might
almost disappear from New York, ac-
cording to Professor T. Mitchell Prud-
den of Columbia university, if people
would only throw away their feather
busters and wet their brooms every
time they sweep.
In an address before the Practition-
ers' society Of this city, just now made
public, Professor Prudden, who is a
distinguished bacteriologist and member
of the Pneumonia commission, says
that dust is the greatest, most constant
and most persistent cause of the preva-
lence of and increase in disease here,
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saman in 1866 in order to reward him
for creating this canal of Languedoc,
the first great artificial waterway OF
Europe. .i.s
The system was completed for small
crafts by digging lateral canals beside
the rivers and fed by their waters. To
day small coasters and canalboats
creep up the Garonne from Bordeaux,
enter the Garonne lateral at Castets,
climb up the watershed to the Nau-
rouse pass by way Of Riquet's locks,
descend the Mediterranean watershed
to the Aude river and Aude lateral, and
strike the Mediterranean. either at
Narbonne or further up, at Cette; and,
SO has the great system been COM
pleted, they can skirt the Mediter-
ranean coast and climb up to the Rhone
at Avignon and thence on up to Lyons
and even beyond, to DIXON, strike the
Marine canal and 80 gain Paris, in the
north. It is but small part of gi-
| gantic network of canal routes. .e
Will Cost s1eo,ooo,ooo. 49,
The modern engineers have a gigan-
tic task before them simply to enlarge
the Bordeaux Narbonne system to a
deep-sea ship canal. Eight years will
be required. The cost is estimated at
minimum Of $16O,OO0,OOO, altho one
of the earlier commissions set it at
$200,O00,000 and another, $400,000,000
not too much!
The present estimates demand 10000
workmen guided by thirty chief engi-
neers and 200 overseers, with digging
and tunneling machines driven by some
$4,000 horsepower.
One of the chief surprises is the
abandonment Of Bordeaux. AS the
canal is to be a great patriotic work
as we'll as commercial revolutionizer,
doubling the force of the French fleet
by permitting it to shift by magic from
the Atlantic to the Mediterranean, the
first thought has to be the security of
warships in it's Atlantic entrance. They
have, therefore, chosen the extraor-
binary natural basin of % Arcachon,
which is in reality much nearer to Bor-
deaux than the mouth of the Garonne;
l and the canal will strike that river
just beyond Bordeaux. .'.'
The route is straight from Area
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desiring to descend. Hydraulic pres
sure does the rest. Needless to be said, /
it has never yet been tried. Nor has,
indeed, the rolling lock. This latter ]
is simple lock basin that rolls up i
and down an inclined plane on many !
tracks. Here too, the weight of de-
tcending mass would help to lift
rising mass. !,
What is known to be practicable, in
any case, is the perfected giant lock- /;
rot differing in appearance from the
Usual lock except in their possession
of metallic basins for the sake of ex-
petition. They will always be twins.
One must balance the other. Then, in
stead Of wasting an unprecedented
L,ass of water every time a ship goes
thru, only enough will be let in to float
the ship in each case. One ship in the
bottom basin ready to rise, one ship
in the top basin ready to descend.
Then, at the proper moment they will
let more water into the top basin until
it grows heavier and heavier, and sinks
| and raises at the same time its twin
basin just beside it. They will be sucn
] aocks as the world has never SEEM.
/ Once thru them it will be plain tow
Ing thru the Aude section of the canal
/ tc Narbonne on the Mediterranean.
/ lowed by Locomotive.
I have said plain towing; but even
here the canal Of the Two Seas excels
4 in, novelty and bigness. The towing
will be done by nothing less than pow
eIfnl locomotive engines running an
railway tracks parallel to the canal
on either side. And is it not "a gran-
dose picture, worthy Of the dawning
century, to see a French hattleship
towed by its locomotives thru the
i waters of the massive aqueduct that
is to- span the Garonne river at ona
/ point9
Of course the great thing is to get
this canal built without delay. The
French deep-sea carrying is less than
that Of Italy or Norway. German boats
touch at Cherbourg to calmly take
American freight away from the
French companies, and English boats
for the east make Marseilles their ter.
minus. Over 80 per cent Of French ex-
ports are carried in foreign bottoms,
, giving over $SO,OOO,000 annually to the
, English, Germans and Italians.
, While the French coasting trade II
reduced to less than 100000 tons a
, year, that of Great Britain is over
! 20,0OO,0oo tons. Germany has united
= her manufacturing towns to Genoa and
! Brindisi by the st. Gothard, and when
E the Bernese Overland is tunneled tho
simplon will still more favor Germany
+ Antwerp is united to Salonica BY
h Mayence and Vienna.
In Case of War.
E In case Of war it is promised that
b the new canal will be able to transport
: the French fleet from the Atlanti" to
y the Mediterranean in two days. Fl ace
t will give passage to her allies fleets
i at pleasure, and the European combina
o tion that shall possess this extraor
8 dinary deep-sea short cut will become
9. the mistress of the Mediterranean
{ ignoring Gibraltar. Who are these
possible allies, encouraged by the new
promise of powera They are Spain ane
/ italy, and the Latin union will become
. one of the first fruits of the canal Of
!. the Two Seas.
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travelling conyeyances and places
public assemblage." ~
Air Currents Garry Germs.

puDlc aSSemDlage 49, 50. i7,--
Air Currents Garry Germs.
Ordinary ventilation, says Professor
Prudden, will not rid room or build
ing of disease germs. Opening the win
.dows, even when strong wind is blow
ing, will not dislodge the germs from
the carpet, furniture or other places
where. they have lodged. This is be-
cause the germs quickly settle, ordi-
narily in from twenty to thirty min
utes
Nor does hanging germ infected gar
ments or articles in the open air dis
lodge the germs. Germs pass from room
to room on ordinary air currents, max
ing their way thru cracks and key
holes, even into wardrobes and bureau
drawers Dry sweeping or busting sim
ply raises them again in clouds.
Carpets ought never to be dry-swept.
All bare surfaces of furniture in every
house and public place, says Professor
Prudden, should be wiped with damp
cloths at least once day. Street
sweeping should be done at night
Floors should be mopped. The dry
broom should never be used. The
feather buster should be abolished.
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DEATH AVOIDS A
: FAMILY 90 YEARS
Seven Brothers and Sisters Cele
brate the Event by Thanks
giving Feast.

Washington, Feb. 17.-Not often does
it happen that family of brothers and
sisters, seven in all-four< brothers and
three sisters-can meet in reunion and
offer up thanks that for more than half
a century death has made no invasion
in their ranks.
Such, however, has been the blessing
bestowed upon the Simpson family,
who, at recent gathering IN this city,
atz,the residence of Mrs McKim,
widow of the well-known DR.. Samuel
McKim, and one of the girls Of the
family, were all together at once, like
unto the days when they were children
They are all of English birth, and, with
their parents, Thomas and Mary Simp
son, came to this country more thar
half century ago. The elders dice
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By Sterling Heilig.

by Sterl1ng Hei1tg &Stss<sF 81 !.ga&
~ ARTS, Feb. BY a gigantic en-
cheering work entirely within
~ their own borders, the French
are preparing to lift their shipping to
the first rank, double the force of their
navy and cause the Mediterranean to
cease toebe can English lake by
multiplying Gibraltar. ~--~~-ze
They propose to copy England by
Transforming part Of France with
SPAIN into an island, more than doub-
ling their seacoast and creating ocean
ports for inland cities. This is to be
accomplished by constructing a vast
shipcanal across the lower end of
France from the Atlantic to the Medit
erranean. By it's means the French
feet can operate one day on the At
lantic, and two days later show itself
in Mediterranean ports without sub
jecting itself to the guns Of Gibraltar
and small coasters.
The route exists already for canal
boats, and to enlarge it for warships
and merchantmen IS no mere dream
Since 1878 "the Canal of the Two
Seas has been planned out by en-
gineers. Three parliamentary commits
sions have made estimates upon it
And now M. Gauthier, minister Of pub
lie works, has sent his own commission
to make final studies of the scheme, anc
its conclusions are to be submitted tc
the lower house for action.
Over a High Watershed.
AS early as the year 1880, King
Francis 1 was studying how to JOIN
the Garonne river, which empties int
the Atlantic, to the Aude, which
empties into the Mediterranean A
canal would have to be built to climb
the watershed on one side and descend
it on the other. One insuperable diff
fculty stared those ancient workers il
the face - the Naurouze pass 49, which
threatens, even today, to be for tn
canal what the Culebra is for Panama
The DUO de Joyeuse, in the time O
Charles TX, and Henry " in the yea
1899, surveyed the job and gave it up
but less than 100 years later an en-
gineer of genius did it.
1t was Pierre Paul Riquet, whor
King Louis XIV created Count of Ca1
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an extraordinary center From every
point tT,reaeh railways will bring
nitions for swift distribution.
Around Toulouse viii be grouped can
non foundries, ammunition factories
In the docks of Toulouse a feet can
wait, to be thrown on the Atlantic
or the Mediterranean coast as may be-
>, From Toulouse to Discriminatory the
route is along the bed of the old canal
of Languedoc Of Clara Ward 8 ances-
tor-by marriage. The old canal abounds
in locks. . To lift it 200 feet in one
particular stretch there are seven
teen of them. The descent of the
Aude, 300 feet, requires more than
fifty locks. .a.. =
By an audacious compromise be-
tween cuttings and locks Of unprece-
Gented bigness and novelty, sixteen
locks will do the whole job Of the
watershed that has its apex in the
dreaded Naurouze pass, and they are
to be the revenge of French engineer
ing science on the lamentable failure
Of Panama. French hearts are cheered
up at the thought. Work in abundance
will be furnished to French laborers
for years to come, and not dollar OF
the money will leave France.
From the start it was perceived that
ordinary locks would not serve. With
them the passage from the Atlantic tc
the Mediterranean would consume SIX
days. Furthermore, the altitude Of
the canal is the great detail on which
the commission Of the minister Of pub
lie works will have to report. One way
to diminish the number Of locks-it
is estimated that 200 old-fashioned
ones would be required-would be tt
keep the canal to the. low attitudes az
much as possible, and when arriving
at the Naurouze pass to vanquish. il
by Titanic cut.
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chon to Agen, on the
Garonne, eighty-six
miles of. easy cutting,
without a 81 n 6 ! 9
lock. The waters of
the Garonne are
themselves to be re-
inforced from the
torrents Of the Pyre-
n e e s-w h i c h will
save Toulouse and
many another town
from the periodic in
undations that now
trouble them.
Inland City Will Be
-. Maritime.
Between Agen and
Toulouse the Gar
onne, strongly banked
and become at last
the safe drain Of
these mountain tor
rents, will take the
fleets of war and
commerce to Toulouse
become the central
/ maritime arsenal of
France.
There is something
really astounding in
the idea. Toulouse,
that most inland city
Of the south Of
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TO NULLIFY GIBRALTAR, THE
AMBITIOUS PLAN OF FRANCE
gantic Canal with Marvellous System Of Locks and Eeva
tors for Great Ships May Cross the Country from
the Atlantic to the Mediterranean

The remarkable project France Is working on
is described by The journals Paris correspondent
tracing the attention of engineers hruou the world It
"a stupendous ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS stupendous
the world Such canal IS require eight
to build But at the end Of Mediterranean
would longer be AN English lake, Englands world
famous Gbratarhat synonym of strength whose
secrets carefully guarded-woud be Intellectual
France could then take her warshps
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Russian Asiatic possessions are three
times the size of Great Britain IS, but
hold only 23,000,000 inhabitants, as
compared with England's 297,000,00O
subjects.
Eugene Vallat, a well-known United
States engineer, with long and favor
able military record, died recently at
Detroit. In 1864 he was appointed
chief engineer by President Abraham
Lincoln.
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country thru the waterway
the Pyrenee Mediterranean
reach Of the great that project from the fowng rock
the natural entrance Of the from the Atlantic.
would be extensively changed by the canal
Her coast line would be than doubled and inland cities
would become would
into the which country could blockade
without occupying lower France itself may Latin
union of great power. FssSs 5s
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It is estimated that for perfumery
purposes each year 1850 tons of orange
flowers, $50 tons Of roses, $50 tons each
of violets and jasmine, seventy-fve
tons of tuberoses, thirty tons of cassia
and fifteen tons Of jonquils are used.
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ct always thought" remarked an
English judge, that a parasol and a
sunshade were the same. y mo, y, re-
piled the witness on the stand; "a sun
shade is to keep the sun off; a parasol
is to firt with. y
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An Elevator for Ships.

This cut, if decided on, will have to
be 600 feet deep. On the other hand,
q compromise to make a lesser cutting
may be arrived at by means of two
prodigious novelties-a ship elevator
and rolling lock. -
The ship elevator Is a device by
which two counterpoised drydocks lif-
ship that wants to rise by aid of one
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Between Madagascar and the coast
of India there are about lie, 900 islands,
only 600 of which are Inhabited, but
most Of which are capable Of supporting
population.
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A part at least of the blame for the

i A part at least of the blame for the
spread of consumption and pneumonia
is attributed by Professor Prudden to
the laxity of the department Of health
and the STRENGTHENING department.
The street-sweepers no longer are re-
quired to sprinkle ahead Of their
brooms. The stairways and platforms
Of the elevated system, he says, are dry
swept, with gross disregard of the pub
lie welfare.
Health Board Fails to Act.
'tfThe department Of health,' says
Professor Prudden, has long been
aware of this nuisance and danger. 1t
has the power to stop it, but does not
| do so.
If in New York the benefcent Law
against the smoke pollution Of the all
were enforced; if the streets were prop
erly cleaned; if the great passenger
transport systems were placed under
competent sanitary supervision; if tn,
health department were persistently
alert in enforcing the ordinance Of ,th'
sanitary code against splitting in pub
/ lie places, and if we could get sweep
ing and busting indoors intelligent,
done, we should have in this city, il
my opinion, fair outlook toward
{. great advance in the reduction Of tn
4 diseases of the respiratory organs.
g These diseases are steadily increas
ing as people are more nd more hud
died together in Offices, dwellings
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HoPEWELL-.

Hopeweil, Nov. t10.-Rev. Swan flied
his appointment here Sunday.
Ernest Walker and family spend |
Sunday at Orren Cassil'H.
Howard Thurman and Homer CasslI
OF Ash Grove attended church at Hop0S4
we'll Saturday night.
Clyde Smith and Cora Johnston.
Charles Worrell and Mile walker
spent Sunday with John Johnston and
wife.
Ethel Owen spent Sunday night
with Miss Bessie odenbaugh.
Leslie Owen has commenced worlt
ing for Andrew Black.
Abraham Oyerturf and family spen1
Sunday at Charles Rannels (:
John Hunter and wife are making
preparations to 60 to Coffevilie, KAns.
to spend the winter with their daugh.
ter Mrs. Lille Tharp.
Mrs. Lib Xixon is visiting at ]. M.
Walkers home.
Larrie Hunter and family were
Bloomfield callers Saturday.
Three OF Newt Summons children
are on the sick list.
Harrison Hawk and wife werA In OF.
turlwa Saturday.
T. w. Peoples of Blakesburg was q
caller in this neighborhood las. Thurs
day.
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PENNINGTON.

Pennington, Nov. 1s.--Mrs. r. G.
Moreland and Miss Ida Moreland left
Yesterday for chehalis, Washington.
home.
Mr.. Gentner and daughter Of Lam
caster, Mo-. are the guests Of w. n.
Gentner and family.
Mrs. Winfield Collins and children
Of Bonaparte were Pennington visitors
Saturday.
George D. Scott of oskaloosa visited
Sunday. Z : =
Miss Perkins of Bonaparte is visiting
Miss Ollie French. :
Ellis Vanzant of Vernon visited Fri
a qsa with his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. K.
Miss Poole Of Primrose was an over
Sunday guest of Miss Edla Hetzel.
Mrs. John Latta OF st. Louis is Wis
Sharp. =
Z Rev ]. II. Taylor and Ray. 8. n.
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ana restoring to the plaintiff her maid
en- en- name Of Mary Louise Stout. In
ton. ~
a decree in the case of John Ben
nett vs.. Thomas L. Sheldon ct al, a suit
Ior reforming a mortgage and note
and al for foreclosure, gives to the plain
tifr Judgment for $3.50 and forecloses
the mortgage.
In the case of E. S. Rush ct al VS.
Elizabeth Sage ct al, an action to quiet
ute, a decree has been signed fixing
the title of the described real estate
in the plaintiff.
"a petition has been filed by the OF
tumwa Savings bank suing q. T..
Dawson and Mrs. q. T. Dawson and
John W. Scott and Anna Scott for ST.
05S.44. alleged to be due the plaintiff
on a promissory note. The petition al
leges that November 81, 1891 q. II.
Dawson gave his. promissory note for
$3.50 to John w. Scott, securing it with
mortgage on certain described real
estate.
On March IA 1892 John Scott and
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ALBlA.'

Abba, Nov. IA marriage license
was granted yesterday to John Baker,
aged SO, and Minnie Fields, aged 80,
both of Buxton.
District court opens next Monday,
Nov Is, for five weeks session, with
Judge M. A. Roberts on the bench.
MT and Mrs. Harry Bitner Of Penn
sylvania were guests Of their cousin
MRS. Howard Atkinson, the latter part
of last week. They were Recommended
here by Mrs. Gordon of Ottumwa,
Henry Matthew Of near Hooking waa
a business visitor at Abba Monday.
A family reunion was held at, the
home Of 6. n. Ewers and wife last
Sunday. Those present were Albert
Ewers Of Davenport, Elmer Ewers of
Albuquerque. New Mexico: Miss Louie
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Ewers OF Iowa City and G. N. Ewers;
whose home is at Abba.
N. g. Worth has purchased the ap-
paratus of the Ideal Steam Laundry
from Mr.: Mills and took possession Of
the same yesterday. The two laundries
VIII be consolidated and conducted by
MT. Worth under the name of the Abba
Steam Laundry.
]. H. Biddle. who lives west of Hite-
man. delivered a load of hogs at the
Abba market this morning.
J. w. Rawson of oskaloosa trans
acted business here Monday.
T. e. Hendrickson of Charlton was
at this place Monday looking after bus
mess matters.
An epidemic. Of typhoid fever In and
about Abba Is reported. One physi-
clan states that he has nineteen cases
of that disease. The whooping cough
is also quite prevalent among the
children
Warren Oakley was at Abba on BUSH
ness Monday.
Lee Long and c. w. Coffin of oska-
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RUSSELL.

Russell, Nov. 13-Mrs. o. B. Sutton
Of Corydon arrived Thursday for few
days visit at the p H. Stech home.
Mrs. Mary Foley of Omaha arrived
Wednesday to visit her sister, Mrs,
Qujnlin
Edith vinsel spent last week with
her grandparents, Mr.. and Mrs Blanch<
ard of Charlton.
Miss Marie Curtis, who had been
visiting the past month with her aunt,
Mrs. Wilson of Ottumwa returned
home Saturday.
Miss Charlotte Butts returned from
Abba Thursday to spend a few days
at home.
Mrs. G. W. Elliott returned Saturday
from weeks visit with her daughter.
Mrs Maud Sutton OF Creston.
Ed Brown OF New York was busls
ness visitor at Russell Thursday.
Mr.. Kirby Of the Union stock Yards
OF Chicago was Russell visitor Sat
urday.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Jeffries and p.
II. Stech and daughter. Nora, attend-
ed the funeral Of Thomas Hancock at
Bethlehem Sunday
lecture course Will be given Friday,
November l6, by ]. Adams Bede.
Miss Iva King Of Charlton spent
Sunday at her home near Russell.
III +
4 n ELDoN.
Eldon. Nov. 13.--Frank Fielder Of
Ottumwa was In the city yesterday
looking after the Koht building.
The Ladies' circle of the Congrega-
tional church will meet with Mrs. ].
q. Houghland Thursday afternoon.
Chapter G. G., p. b. o., met with
Mrs 8. FL. Sawyers yesterday AFTER
noon. A granite shower was given for
Miss Isabelle Haywood, who Is to be
married tomorrow to Ross Ramey. Al
delicious two course supper was served.
Several Of the ladies are anxious to es-
tablish city library and each lodge
and society are requested to have their
committees appointed to meet with
Miss Downey of Ottumwa Thursday
afternoon at 4 O'clock at the K. of p.
hall. A mass meeting will be held at
the same place IN the evening. All
who are interested In the movement ar0d
urged to be present.
Born, November 18, to Mr. and Mr1L 4
John LAKEWOOD, a son.
Charles stein Of Davenport and Miss
Doris Owens Of Rock Island arrived to-
day to attend the Owens Baldwin weds
ding.
Mrs. James Alexander OF Muscatine'
is the guest of Mrs. e. g. Barger.
w. G. Taylor is an Ottumwa visitoa
today.
Ross Raney Is in Ottumwa today. I,