Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1906-01-09
TlG Bio. Ditch
Will now be Rapidly Completed
A ShipIOad OF Necessaries
sent every 5 days
SILVERWAPE AND SILKS

Let those who cayi at the slowness of /.
work on the Panama canal hide theft
heads IN embashed silence and let those
who express doubts about the canals fl
nal completion step forward and an-
nounce their conversion from doubt 70
belief in immediate and triumphant suc-
cess.
a few days ago the good ship Nlcltler-
skin sailed from New York laidenlo the
Plimsoll line with just the SUPPLIES need
ed to push the canal to rapid compile
tiou, 1t has been difficult 10 gather
these supplies and during the gathering
process work has been practically at II
standstill. In few days the Melder-
skin will drop anchor at The isthmusthe
cargo will be unoaded and Us soon as
the supplies are distributed to the pro-
per places we emay expect to see the dirt
lily in such huge and numerous hunks
that the light of the sun viii be hidden.
Inelnded in this cargo of caualFnpples
is the following:
Thiry-six work tables for lalies.
Que hundred dozen high. hestquality
latest style gentlcmens collars.
One hundred dozen turn down, latest
style gentlemens collars best
One hundred dozen variols STYLES,
best quality gentIemens collars
six don@n beA X pocket handker-
chiefs n ~
One thousand pairs best-rsStn scwed
shoes for gentleman aud 1000 nalTTS 4y.st
colored leather shoes n
Six dozen best quality gcntlemen suit
cases.
Large quantity Of Rogers best quality
table cutlery quadruplc silver plated
Dessert table and silver spoons Of best
quality.
Case of o'clock tea sets.
Five hundred umbrellas at 81 each.
100 shaving sets: 100 razors,
Twenty dozen ladies night ROLES
Twenty dozen dress shirts.
1t is not difficult to imagine that
when the jamaican negroes are given
Iquadruple plated silver spoons with
(which to throw dirt they will run the
canal rapiply towards the coast. Every
taxpayer will cheeN9ly admit that it
is foolish to expect men N-ta--l,,g ssSS>.rfis
without being clothed In dress llflsand
only the mean-spirited wotld ask the
worknen to walk in the trench with
anything but tan shoes upon their feet
And lrow could we expect workmen to-
walk to and from work with their picks
and shovels over their shoulders instead
Of being conveniently carried in their
leather suit cases? Once more how
cruel to ask men to work beneath the
suns tropic rays when umbrellas are on
| ~ 81 cachl When 1900 "gentemen's
collars Of the latest pattern there seem
nothing wanting TO bring the canal to q
completion But we are at loss to
to know why only seventy-two silk
handkerchiefs were provided. surely
that is not enough to 70 round and ccr-
tainly it is unjust to let seyen-two men
wipe the honest perspiration from their
brows while several thousand Others
wipe it away with their fingers or COM
mon bandanas, This is the only appar-
enr'obIacle in the way Of the immediate
pushing Of the work, but even this may
I be an obstacle that is temporary only,
for Alfred Anderson. the purchasing
agent tells US that similar shipments tc
the one carried by the Melderskih
will be sent to Pauama every five DAYS.
The canai commission has been open
to criticism for its apparent Slowness, ,bul
surely the dilatory t,ctas viii now be
abandoned and active work begun II
once. We wait with Impatience phf
unloading Of the Meldcskins ~,
Commoner
For any disease
is nothing better 1
lain's Salye. 1t reA
ing and burning 81