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Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1906-02-02
DAM SITE ON THE GUNNIsC

JUNNlSON RIVER.
the major portion Of the fund arising
from the sale of public lands within
each State or territory for the benefit
of their lands, SO far as practlcaDle.
1t is a recognized fact that the con.
tributions to the fund from the varl-
Gus States are in most cases not in pro-
portion to the need Of those States for
irrigation. Arizona and Nevada, for
instance, whose lands have contrib
uted very little to the fund, have
probably the greatest need and oppor-
tunity for reclamation, while on the
other hand. North Dakota and Oklaho-
ma, though large contributors, have
perhaps the least actual need for irri-
cation any of the Western States.
In some cases the chief aim OF politi-
clans has been apparently not so much
| to develop irrigation as to secure the
expenditure of Federal funds in the
section they represent.
Has the tnmity of Land Grabbers.
ment as displayed by Secretary Hitch
cock has of course given rise to more
or less adverse criticism and attack,
especially from men who have viewed
the reclamation act as a great oppor-
tunity for either direct or indirect per.
/. sonal advancement. The men by whom
| the public domain has long been con-
[ sidered legitimate prey, hailed the
: passage of the irrigation act as an i'm.
proved method of converting to their
use the nations resources in the West.
+ Mr.. Hitchcock's vigorous measures,
!. however, have seriously interfered
q with their proceedings and they are
r correspondingly bitter in their denun-
r. Citations of his acts.
/. The States thus far to chiefly benefit
:. through the irrigation law are ARR
b. IONA, Wyoming, Montana and Nevada
# although some of them have them
ID selves made to it considerable contri
o. buttons. Wyoming, because of its stra
al tegic gu graphical position and the
fact that much Of the water supply o.
r. the West originates in that part OF thu
lie State. must of necessity have the stor
-
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1906-02-02

cessive. The danger line will be
reached when the bank note clrcuia'.un
comes to bear an undue relation W Ine
gold reserve of the United states Treas,
ury. The growth in national panK notss
In five years has Increased t daa
amount from $216,000,000 to $47S'ooo,
00O based on government bonds, OF
about S50.O0O,000 per annum. II is
calculated that the gold stock OF the
country increases annually In about the
nroportion that population increases.
During the last fiscal year the basis
money of the nation was increased by
the addition Of $23,000,OOO in gold GER
tiflcates. It is urged that as the bank
note circulation increases faster tnan
the growth of the money OF redemp
ton. the process tends toward lnnatlon
n adds to the burden Of money which
the gold reserve must maintain a.
parity.
No remedy for this situation Is II
sight, and 1t is stated that IT may o.
that an unhappy financial depression
will be needed to call the attention 0
the whole country to the necessity 10
caution in loading up trade with To-
great an issue of bank notes. AT pres
emit there is no limitation on the OF
SANITATION Of national banks excep
that they cannot 60 beyond the bo Inde
debt. The bonded debt is now $3.50
100000, Of which $4S2,Ooo,ooO Is use Use
as security for note issues and $65,oo,.
900 as security for government q
} posits. An issue Of $13O,OOO,eOo
, canal bonds has been authorized, an
, the whole world knows that other
sues of canal bonds must be made. :.
. the canal is to be constructed on q
; lock principle, this bond issue "
4 necessarily be doubled and propab
a | trebled. When the canal is cut doy
r to sea level the cost Of CONSTRUCT
|, will very nearly be doubled and t
E. bond issue accordingly increased.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1906-02-02
NATIONAL IMPROVEMENTS.
GREAT WORK OF THE GOVERN
MENT IN THE SUBJUGA.
TON OF THE DESERT.

Thirty-seven Million Dollars to Be
Used by Uncle Sam In the Construc-
ton of Great Works and Creation
of Homes.
There is no public work being done
by Uncle Sam which has, within few
years, sprung into such prominence
and which promises such substantial
returns as the reclamation OF his des'
ert lands under the National irrigation
Law.
Thirty.seven million dollars for It'll,
cation. This amount, as shown by the
following table, is the estimated hgure
of the appropriation for irrlgatloI
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1906-02-02

locked in the dewey" and within an
hour and a half from the time that she
was in position, her keel was out Oh
the water In the same month, the
United States battleship Colorado, win
a displacement of nearly 1000 tons
more than the Iowa, was locked in two
hours and sixteen minutes.
Will Battle the Toredo.
One of the most essential needs Tor
a dry dock in the Philippine Islands Is
caused by the accumulation OF a great
amount of marine growth upon the
bulls of all vessels spending any leng,n
Of time in tropical waters. Natula aits,
would also become befouled by barna-
cles. toredos. eia.. and It Is at this Is
noint that a most peculiar feature Of
the "pewey" is BROUGHT to light, for in
addition to being able to lift the heaV'
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1906-02-02
A Peculiarly Of Siberia.

In parts of Siberia corpses that have
lain hurled for $50 years have peen
exhumed and found in a state OF per
feet preservation. The soil freezes
MANY feet deep and does not altogether
thaw out in summer.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1906-02-02

one each at Portsmouth, N: H.
Charleston, s. c.. and Puget SOUND
Washington. a-,,
The nearest rival to the Dewey
among the floating dry docks OF the
world is that at Bermuda. While IL Is
Ak feet longer than the Dewey" It's
lifting capacity is but le'SVo 0ons r
which is $500 tons less than tne
American structure. In Austria, tne err
is also a floating dry dock OF lo,oy ,,
capacity, and one in Germany capaoi'
of lifting a burden of 1000 tons.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1906-02-02

work which will be available in the
fiscal year of 1908. the sum realized
from the sale of Western public LANDS
since the year Of the passage OF the
irrigation law:
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lam sure Piso's Cure for Consumption saved
my life three years ago.-Mrs. THOMAS Ron
ERTs, Maple St., Norwich. NY. Feb. II, 1909
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Underground Engineering.

The authorities of the Simplon tun-
mel announce that an electric line for
public traffic through the tunnel will
probably be open by lie first of May,
1906. The engineering work involved
in this great enterprise mas now been
accurately tested, and another illus
tration of the wonderful precision of
the modern tunnel builder put on rec
ord. "he bore is exactly twelve and
a half miles and t~hirty-one inches In
length. 1t was cut in from both sides
of the mountain, toward a central point,
where the engineers had contracted
to make the Two tubes meet.
That they did meet at all is won
derful enough, but when it is found
that each of these six and a quarter
mile ore holes, apparently cropping
blindly for n another under 5000
feet of solid rock, joined with almost
mathematical accuracy, the wonderful
expertness of the modern tunnel build
er seems almost devilish. The Diff
ference in level between the two tubes
was but three ant one-half inches; the
north tube deviated laterally four and
a third inches to the west; the south
one three and two-thirds inches to the
east. Thus the total deviation from
a point situated six and a quarter
mileS from the surface, in the heart
Of a mountain of granite, was but
eight inches.-New York Globe.
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A discovery of romantic literary in
terest has been made by A. t. Angel
in British East Africa.
While engaged in the survey of Lake
Naivasha and its caves he found the
hitherto unknown outlet of this fresh
water lake into q large subterranean
river. Lake Naivasha lies about 100
miles east of Lake Victoria NyanZa,
and is at an altitude of 6000 feet.
Readers of Rider Haggard's story
ALLAN Quatermain' will at once rec
ognize the locality. Naivasha is the
lake with the marvellous caves which
Is described in the chapters which mar
rate the hero's plunge into the I'M
known i'll search for the mysterious
white races The gruesome incident
by which the caves were discovered
will be recommendations the native
servant Wakwan dived into the lake
and was sucked with frightful rapid
ity" through the arch that gave en-
trance to the mysterious river, and how
his corpse followed the n through
out its subterranean passage.
ALLAN Quatermain" was published
sixteen years ago, and Mr.. Haggard
then offered in omance the solution of
the lake outlet, which is now substan-
tiated by fact.-London Mail.
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UNSCONClOUS POISONING.
How 1t Often Happens From Coffee.

II had no idea," writes a Duluth
man, that it was the coffee I had been
drinking all my life that was RESPONSE
bic for the headaches which were
growing upon me, for the dyspepsia
that no medicines would relieve, and
for the acute nervousness which I'M
fitted me not only for work but also
for the most ordinary socia, functions.
But at last the truth dawned upon
me, l forthwith babe the harmful bev-
erage a prompt farewell, ordered in
some Postum and began to use it. The
good effects of the new food drink were
apparent within a very few days. My
headaches grew less frequent, and de.
creased in violence. my stomach grew
strong and able to digest my food with
out distress of any kind, my nervous
ness has gone and / am able to enjoy
life with my neighbors and sleep sound.
1y o'nights. My physical strength and
nerve power have increased so much
that can do double the work 1 used
to do, and l feel no undue fatigue af-
forwards.
1hiS Improvement set III just as
soon as the old coffee poison had Sc
worked out of my system as to allow
the food elements in the Postum to get
a hold to build me up again. l cheer
fully testify that it was Postum and
Postum alone that did all this, for
when l began to drink it I threw
physic to the dogs.'' Name given by
Postum Co, Battle Creek, Mich.
There's a reason. Read the famous
little book, "The Road to Melville" in
pkgs.
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Name survives line Use.

One of the most remarkable instances
of the name of an article surviving It's
use is the penknife. We talk of 1t
every day, but the purpose for which
the penknife was originally designed
exists no longer. The pen of Western
civilization was fabricated, as old peo-
pie remember, of quilts, and quill pens
are still affected by old fashioned per-
sons, who declare that no efficient sub
stitute has been found for them. The
penknife of our great-grandfather's day
was, indeed, a triumph of the cutters
art in the keenness of its edge. Ac-
cording to a rhymed list of the require
ments of a complete writer, the scribe
needed "a penknife, razor metal" al
ways at-hand, and people who remem-
Der how soon a quill pen became I'M
suitable in the hands of vigorous writ
ers will appreciate the necessity.
To be a good pen member was one of
the first essentials in a village peda-
gogue; his penknife was as indlspensa-
BILE to him as his cane Strangely
enough, there were members of pens
who seemed born to fulfil the function,
and men who could never learn the art
let them try as they might. But the
penknife, properly SC called, is no
more, and with Its disappearance has
vanished the expert who welded it
London Globe.
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Faat of a Greek Scholar.

1t may safely be said that no feat of
translation in any age has ever
equaled that achieved by Professor
Jebb in rendering Browning's "Abt
vogier'' into Greek verse. This fine
soliloquy Of the musician is less OBJ
scure, no doubt, than many other of its
authors productions, but it abounds in
imagery and in turns of thought which
even an Englishman finds it not very
easy to follow, and of which he could
hardly have conceived it possible that
any Greek equivalents should exist.
Yet they did exist, for Jebb found
them, though it may be doubted
whether any other Greek scholar liv-
ing would have been equally success
full in his search.-London Telegraph.
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Before tie Bar.

There was much ado about nothing
In the Court of Common Pleas the
other day during the trial of a suit
against the United Railways and Elec-
trio Company for injuries alleged to
have been sustained in an accident.
The conductor of the car which figured
in the accident was on the witness
stand, and he was being cross-exam-
ined by the attorney for the man who
claimed to have been injured.
What did the people who saw the
accident say about it," the lawyer
asked.
MI. Lee S. Meyer, attorney for the
company, objected to the question, and
the lawyer on the other side explained
that he was trying to develop how the
accident occurred. While Judge Sharp
was looking up authorities Mr.. Meyer
withdrew his objection, and the ques-
ton was again asked. Before the wit
ness could reply Mr.. Meyer asked what
people were meant by the question, and
he objected again when he was told
that the lawyer on the other side
wanted the witness to repeat what was
said by anybody standing around.
There was another argument over this
objection, which had not been con-
Guided when Judge Sharp asked the
witness:
Did anybody there say anything?"
mo, sir" the witness replied. Moth
ing was said by anybody"
The controversy over the admissi-
bility of the question ended in the
laughter of the Observation-Disclosures
Sun.
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FOREIGN.

General Won Einem read in the Ger
maj Reichstag a statement by Chancel-
lor Won Buelow, saying that officers
must in certain cases fight to defend
their honor or leave the corps.
Prosecution of Toronto plumbers in
dividually for conspiracy and combina-
ton in restraint of trade resulted in
1874 men pleading guilty. The fines
amounted to $4,000.
Prince Philip of Saxe-Coburg OBJ
tanned a divorce from Princess Louise,
eldest daughter Of the King of the Bel
CLANS.
There is an anti Semitic agitation at
Chernigoff, Russia, and a massacre is
feared.
A special cable dispatch from Gibral-
tar gives details Of the damage to the
United States cruiser Brooklyn, which
suffered severely in the gale which she
encountered on her voyage to Gibraltar.
The Liberals of England have won
the first of the contests for Parliament.
two Of their candidates having beer
returned at Ipswich, where the issue
was fiscal reform.
King Oscar opened the Swedish Riks-
dag, the budget presented later show
ing a deficit of So, 5000, which will
be met by an income tax.
81 Chi Yong, Korean Minister OF
War;, was stabbed eleven times by a
would-be assassin at st. Petersburg,
said to be the minister's interpreter.
The Liberal gains as the British cleo
tons progressed amazed everybody.
A commercial treaty between France
and Bulgaria has been signed.
Infanta Maria Teresa of Spain was
married to Prince Ferdinand, OF Ba-
varia, in Madrid.
President Palma, of Cuba. issued a
decree empowering the Sanitary De
partment to enforce penalties for fail
ure to improve conditions.
General Morales, wounded. sought
the protection of the United States Lee
cation at Santo Domingo. His resigna-
ton as President was accepted.
The first details of the rebellion in
Siberia were made public. Anarchy
prevailed in many cities and troops
Joined the insurgent forces.
According to a report from the Straits
Settlements, the intended fertilization
of the port of Singapore by the British
Government will mean a total expendi.
ture of about $2O,O 900.
All the members of the Workmen's
Council in ST. Petersburg We're arrest
ed, and many revolutionary documents
we're seized. The agrarian agitation in
the province of st. Petersburg is grow.
ing serious.
Diplomatic relations between France
and Venezuela are considered broken.
An interesting minor industry has
recently been introduced in Jamaica,
viz. the manufacture of jappa hats
The plant from which the material fol
making these hats is derived grow.
freely in the warm, humid districts o.
Jamaica, and there is a large demar
at paying prices.
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CONGRESS IS AssAILED
President Roosevelt Said 10 Have
Charged Dishonesty in House.
mime Basis of the Executives
Accusation.

Washington, b. C.-"Money is being
freely used by the mining and railroad
corporations to defeat this (Statehood)
and to bring about this situation. 1t is
being used right here in washington,
and you can go and tell 4abcock 1 said
3d."
President Roosevelt is accredited
with having made this statement to the
Republican Congress delegation from
Missouri when they were summoned
to the White House. Although it made
several members of the delegation who
are aligned with the insurgents"
against the Hamilton Statehood bill
smart with anger. it appears none Of
them told Babcock until the incident
was exploited and quickly spread
through the camp of the Republican
insurgents" 1t has created intense
feeling, especially on the part of the
honest men-and there are some left in
Congress - who are opposed to the
Statehood proposition in its present
form. Babcock is represented as being
furious, and it is likely he may seek to
speak again to another question Of
personal privilege"
An investigation of the alleged accu-
sation Of the President probably will be
called for by the House. for the honest
opponents of the two-State bill must
protect themselves, and they are more
interested in determining the basis for
the charge than even the President
could be. 1t is understood that the
purpose sought. admitting the alleged
charge of the President to be true, is to
prevent joint Statehood between Ari-
iona and New Mexico. which would
give the mining and railroad interests
of these Southwest Territories only two
United States Senators. and to insist
on having each Territory made a separ-
ate State with two Senators each.
Present indications are that if the
Slid" IS taken off this Statehood situa-
ton one of the worst scandals which
Congress has been subjected to in
many years will be aired. Whatever
the course of procedure adopted, opin-
ion is general that the alleged state
ment of the President cannot be let go
unchallenged, for if it were every mem
Der who should vote against the Ham
ilton bill would be under suspicion. A
hot time in the House is promised over
the incident.
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Some people question the statements
that coffee hurts the delicate nerves OF
the body. Personal experience Win
thousands prove the general statement
true. and physicians have Q OF
great numbers of cases that add to the
testimony.
The following is from the Rockford.
ILL.,, Register-Gazette
DR.. William Langhorst, OF Aurora.
has been treating one of the queerest
eases of lost eyesight ever in history.
The patient is O. A. Leach, of Beach
County, and in the last four months he
has doctored with all of the specialists
about the country. and has at last re-
turned home with the fact impressed
on his mind that his case is incuraDie.
A portion of the optic nerve has been
ruined, rendering his sight SO limited
that he is unable to see anything DC
fore him, but he can see plainly any
thing at the side of him. There have
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Another Injustice.

That they had progressed fairly on
the way to intimate friendship MAY o..
judged from the fact that Phelim
O'Tooie thus suddenly addressed his
fellow emigrant, Micky Free:
"Was ye ever In PRISON."
"sure, wance-and vance only"
"And phwat for, MichyT"
"Just borrowh' a little money,
Phelim."
"But We c'uldn't be locked I'D for
thot, manr'
"Indade, but OF was, and 1t WIZ loike
this: There wuz a mon called Dennis
D0olin, and Dennis had money, and Oh
hod none. 1 just axed him TO lind me
the loan av a sovereign, but, bedad, OF
had to knock him down three times be.
fore / cud get ut."-Answers.
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Personal Gossip.

Hon Fl. Kirke Porter represented
Plttsburg in the last Congress.
DIR. Zamenhof is the inventor of Es-
peranto, the universal" language.
Sir Herbert de Stern, who ecentlv
received a peerage, is a Jewish banker.
Edward Atkinson, the well-known CO.
clal and political economist, who died
recently at the advanced age of seven.
ty-eight years, was a notable pam
phleteer.
Stephen Bates, a colored man. has
been Chief of Police and City Sheriff
OF Vergennes, VT, for twenty-six con
secutiye years.
Lieutenant Won Frank, in the Ger
man Army, recently celebrated his Tooth
birthday at Charlottenburg.
Lord Kintore, who has been Govern
ment whip in the House of Lords
captain of the yeomen of the guards
governor and commander-in-chief nj
South Australia, and a lord-in-yaitine
several times over, is one of the finest
shots in Scotland.
General Sir William Rnt.
Ter has just retired from the British
Army, having reached the age limit of
sixty-seven.
Peter Larson, of Montana, is said tn
be the richest scandinavian in Amor.
lea.
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LOST EYESICHT
Through Coffee Drinking.

been but few cases of its kind be-
fore, and they have been caused by
whisky or tobacco. Leach has eve
used either. but has been a great cof-
fee drinker, and the specialists have
decided that the case has been caused
by this. Leach stated himself that for
several years he had drank three cups
of coffee for breakfast, two at moor
and one at night. According to the
records of the specialists of this coun-
try this is the first case eyer caused
by the use of coffee.
The nerve is ruined beyond aid and
his case IS incurable. The fact that
makes the case a queer one is that the
sight forward has been lost and the
side sight has been retained. Accord
ing to the doctors statement the young
man will have 70 give up coffee or the
rest of his sight will follow and the
entire nerve be ruined.-Register Ga
zette.