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The news-democrat. (Providence, R.I.) 1906-1909, 1907-12-17

CINCINNATI Dec. iI.--Upon applica-
ton OF creditors and OF tho Mihaiovitrh
Fletcher company. Itself Bernie Miha-
lovltch ana Louis krohn. were toda v
appointed receivers OF tho company
manufactures liquor cordials and A.
capitalized at 100000.
The news-democrat. (Providence, R.I.) 1906-1909, 1907-12-17
Lawson Calls on Roosevelt

Washington. Dec iT.-President Roosc-
vcit's earliest caller today was Mr..
Thomas W. Lawson OF Boston. on lesv-
ing tho White House Mr.. Lawson said
that he aid not care TO discuss the object
OF hls visit.
The news-democrat. (Providence, R.I.) 1906-1909, 1907-12-17

American Screw Company

A quarterly dividend OF 1aG on the
capital stock OF this company has been
declared. payable December 81 to stock
holders OF record at the close OF business
December n, 1897. Transfer books will
ary I. 1893. 81
GEORGE W. THURsToN. Treasurer.
December II. 1907. 12t
The news-democrat. (Providence, R.I.) 1906-1909, 1907-12-17
DEATHS.

BtENY-ln this city. on the 18th inst.
susanna Baenv aged So years
Funeral from her late residence. 20
Sampson avenue. Thursday. Dec 10 al
y. m. Relatives and friends are in
vited to attend.
The news-democrat. (Providence, R.I.) 1906-1909, 1907-12-17

Take LAXATIVE BRoMo Qulnine Tab
let's. Druggists refund money IL IL fails ia
cure. E. w. GROVES signature is on
each box. o5c
The news-democrat. (Providence, R.I.) 1906-1909, 1907-12-17

family; two minutes walk from ~the
square. Inquire Room /, at Hartford
avenue. II
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-12-22
As to the Onion.
the Boston Herald.

From the Boston, Herald
 The ancients drowned on the onion as a food, and classsd it with garlic and leeks, as of an Aerid nature, of un- wholesome juices. When twice boiled they give little nourishment, but when unboiled they do not nourish at all" says Paulus Aegineta, the Burton, advising as to the diet of the melancholy, dis misses the onion as troublesome to the head. The people at large pay no heed to these sayings To the man who smiles at the conflicting opinions of diet ists, the onion Is healthful. when plain ly boiled. As child he was taught that 1t was good for a cold. These same ancients thought highly of it as a medi- cine. It occasions a rapid growth of hair; it breaks hard tumors; chewed it Is beneficial in paralysis of the tongue; 1t Is eminently rubefacent: it's juice Is useful in suffusion and dimness of vision from thick humors Discordies recom- mends 1t as a cataplasm with salt rue, and honey for the bite of a mad dog. There are many today who believe that onion juice Is of assistance in deafness Italians In the north end heat the in- sides of little onions and stuff them in aching ears of their children. They leave them there for weeks. An onion put under the pillow will bring dreams of the loved one. The thickness of It's skin determines the mildness or severity of the coming winter. But to dream of onions is a bad sign. In some countries its preSages sickness
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-12-22
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reservoirs for the Nile. They include the embankment of those tributaries of the White Nile which flow through the great swamps on the northern slope of the kongo watershed. and also the digging of more than 200 miles of new channel, by which the main stream of the White Nile will be greatly shortened and it's bed fitted for carrying the enormous vol tune of it's waters unrestraned down to Khartum. Another scheme contemplates tie damming of the Atbara so that it will irrigate large tracts in upper Nubia, and still another the erection of dam at Lake Tsana, on the highlands of Abys- sinia, which will make that great lake reservoir for the Blue Nile and enable it to water the fertile plain which lies be- tween the Blue and White Miles, ending here at Khartum.
 More Water Needed.
 The great trouble now Is that a large part of the waters of the Nile go to waste. It is in size the fourth river of the globe, ranking after the Amazon, the Kongo and the Rio del a Plata in basin and rainfall. The area it drains is more than one-third as large as either Europe or the United States, and so much water falls that if it could be collected together it would more than fill a ditch mile wide and mile deep reaching from~N
 
 mighty lakes, one of which is the largest on earth. Victoria Nyanza is bigger than Lake Superior, Lake Albert is about the size of the great Salt Lake and Lake Tsana~ has an area of 1900 square miles. Notwithstanding this. the windings of the Nile are such that more than one-half of the water supply does not get to the lands that need it, and during the summer there is only about enough saved to ae' commodate Egypt. At the time of the floods, which occur every year, vast quan- titles of water go to waste, and all the year round there is an enormous loss going on by the evaporation from the swamps of the upper Nile.
 A Sponge as Big as Indiana.
 I despair of giving you an adequate idea of these mighty swamps They lie on the northern slope of the Kongo watershed and are fed by the great branches of the White Nile known as the Bahr el Jebel, the Bahr el Ghazal and the Bahr el Zaraf They begin where the river Sebat flows into the Nile, and from an irregular tri- angle the base running from there 200 miles westward and with the southern appex at Bor, which is 200 or 300 miles, farther south They lie on the bed of what sin prehistoric times was a great lake and they are co><posed of masses of reeds, papyrus and other swamp grasses. These are so united that they soak up the winter like mighty sponge, now if you will imagine a sponge as big as the state of Indiana, from two to six feet in thickness, and so situated that it is always filled by the waters of the Nile, you may nave some idea of this region. The place where the sponge lies
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-12-22
Big Schemes of River Improve m1ent Which Cost Millions
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opyright, 19O7,, by Frank G. Carpenter.)
 Khartum.
 WANT to tell you about some gigantic
 projects which the English are con
 sidering as to the upper Nile. That ighty stream has now it's whole course
 rough British territory. It rises in Lake lctoria, in the British province of Ugan- :, and flows through that province into 10 Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. 1t winds Us ay through the Sudan, traversing the q land of Nubia, and then goes on doWh trough Egypt, which is practically de sndency of Great Britain, to the Medlt- sranean sea. From its source to It's louth it flows through about 50 degrees
 latitude, and it's course has length of lore than 4OO0 miles. The British control ot only the main stream, but most of It's Tributaries, and they own the great lakes i victoria and Albert Nyanza, as far the Nile outlets are concerned. The .nly other nation which has anything to =o with the stream Is the Abyssinian, Tn Those highlands the Blue Nile and Atba- .a have their sources. The control Of |nese two rivers is, moreover. so regu- kted by treaties that they cannot be |buched except by British. consent, so that he Nile may be called an English river | nd may be looked upon as in the hands II one of the richest, most able and most |iccessful of the developing nations of the Ilobe.
 have already told you of the improve |1ents that the British have made as to he Egyptian course of this great water lay For a month or more l have been Travelling along that part of it. l have listed the great canals of the delta, and |lso the barrages at Cairo and Assiout. have written you of the huge dam at kssouan, which has been built at cost If S12,000,000, to give the farms of Egypt steady water supply This dam has made a reservoir TAO miles long, and it low holds back 1.OOO,O0O0OO tons of water To feed the Nile when low It is now to be |aised 20 feet higher, and it will then hold back almost as much more. It has al [eady added millions to the wealth of the pwer Nile valley and it has made the Egyptians one of the most prosperous peoples on the globe.
 Blu Project of the Upper Nile.
 The projects which the British are now considering are more important than any hing they have done in the past. and hey will rank as the most daring of the engineering plans of the century If car lied out they will cost as much as 1t did To build the Suez canal, but they will as- Bure the greater Egypt a steady water supply all the year round for all time To come; and they will build up here, at a distance of 1900 or 2000 miles south of .he Mediterranean sea- several other Egypts twice or thrice as rich as the over Nile valley, each supporting it's millions of people.
 The projects embrace the regulation of he great lakes on the highlands of cen tral Africa, so that they may serve as
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-12-22

way southward to the great lakes of Central Africa, and shall be able to dis cuss this matter from the standpoint or the conditions about Lake Victoria. As the civil engineers here estimate 1t the regulation of Victoria and Albert lakes could be accomplished at a cost of $l0, 000, 900, which Is $2, 100000 less than was the cost of building Assouan dam
 Improvement of the Blue Nile.
 If these projects for the White Nile are carried out, Egypt will have all the sum- mer water she needs and much of her desert, not now irrigated, can be made fertile. The water supply will be con stant all the year round, and there wili be no objection to the use of the Blue Nile for the irrigation of the Sudan. That river will still be allowed to carry it's heavy load of silt down to Egypt dur ing the floods, but in the summer 1t may be so regulated by dam at Lake Tsana as will furnish perennial irrigation to n large section near here. The Blue Nile is just about as long as from Philadelphia to Chicago. It rises in the mountains of Abyssina at Fan altitude as great as that of the top of Mount Washington, and winds it's way down through Abyssinia and the Sudan to Khartum, where it joins the White Nile. The river here Is about as wide as the Potomac at Wash ington, and it's waters are now beautifully clear. During the floods they turn reddish brown, being loaded with great quantity of the leaf mold of the Abysslnian for ests and the scourings of- the volcanic rocks of the Abyssinian plateau. The river is navigable as far as the cataracts at Rosaires, which Is 425 miles from here, and there are regular steamers plying upon it. Beyond that point the stream is known as the Abai It flows out of Lake Tsana in a series of channels and light rapids, which soon unite to form stream
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-12-22

the stream, by which as much or as little of the Nile as is needed can be sent down the river. The channel proposed would carry about 1000 tons of water per second, which is only one-fifth more than the amount discharged into the big canal at Assiout. This Bor-Sobat canal would shorten the main Nile as a naviga- ble waterway, and all the boats going up and down the stream would pass through it. The excavation would cost about S22 900 900 and the regulation works $5,000,000 more.
 Dammlng the Great Lakes.
 With this part of the Nile channel so improved by means of regulators at Lake Albert and Lake Victoria where the Nile flows out, the supply of water for Egypt and a part of the Sudan would be unllm- tied. Lake Victoria would furnish fn- exhaustible reservoir, and l understand that the proper works could be put in at Rpon falls at no very great expense. A dam there would mean the storage of 10000, coo tons of water for every meters rise of the lake. The Assouan dam, as it is now built, stores only GOO 900 900 tons and when 1t is raised according to the new plans now being carried out it will store only 2O00, 900, 900 tons. Raising the surface of Lake Vic- toria a little over a yard will store 35 times as much in addition to its present enormous contents.
 There is one obstacle, however, to such an undertaking. The rising of the lake might flood parts of German East Africa, and if so the kaiser would probably object Dams at the mouth of Lake AL bert would result in the storage of 5,OO0, ,0OO,O 900 tons for every meter of height, and the two lakes together would have, for each meter added to them, a storage capacity of 75,0O0 100000 tons-an amoun- beyond conception enormous. Within the next few months I expect to make my
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-12-22

700 feet wide. in which shape it flows on. narrowing and widening until It reaches Rosaires.
 About five years ago one of the engl- neers of the Egyptian irrigation service MT Dupuis made an exploration or the Blue Nile and went around Lake Tsana. He estimates that the lake will store something like 3000000,O00 tons Of water and that. with the construction of proper dams and regulators, 100000 tons per day can be given out from January until June He says that Lake Tsana can be easily controlled, and that without af- fecting the large grazing lands which are found near it's shores. Another dam might be made at the Rosaires rapids and the two would probably furnish suf- flcient water to- irrlgate a great part of the rich lands lying between the White and Blue Niles
 The Control of the Atbara.
 This same engineer made an investiga- tion of the Atbara river. This is the Black Nile. which flows into the main stream about POO miles north of the mouth of the Blue Nile. The Atbara Is fed by the Abyssinion torrents, and while in flood 1t Is of great size al- though during the summer a large part of it's bed Is perfectly dry. It is called the Black Nile on account of it's color when in flood. At that time Its waters are heavily charged with volcanic dust and 1t carries down a great quantity of the rich fertlizlng mud to which the lower Nile valley owes its wonderful fertility The river begins to rise in July. Its floods last only about so days and 1t dries up toward the end of Sep- tember.
 MT. Dupuis proposes a great reservoir near the apex of the Atbara Delta. In this the water will drop its silt, and when it becomes clear 1t can be carried through different regulators Into canals and used for irrigation. If this is done considerable land at the junction of the Atbara and the main Nile can be ir- rigated and thriving region will result there at the point where the Nile and Red Sea road unite with the great route from Cairo to the cape.
 The Nile New River.
 The schemes that have described are so far only in embryo Sir William Gar stin, who is at the head of the public works of Egypt and the Sudan has made a report upon them and the government has sent out explorers along the different rivers to investigate their possibilities. They report many new things regarding the Nile system the upper part of which is now for the first time becoming known to the world. During a recent interview with the slrdar, Sir Reginald Wingate, l asked him whether we have yet gotten an accurate knowledge of the sources of the Nile and the actual flow of it's waters.
 We are learning a great deal about It. was the reply. We have surveyed the main stream from where 1t flows out of Victoria Nyanza and have followed it down to Khartum. There are many of
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-12-22
NZDN
By Frank C. Carpenter


the tributaries, however, of which we know but little. I have men now explor ing the vast system of streams which teed the White Nile in the Mar el Ghazal, our province which borders the Congo watershed. That country Is difficult of access. It is covered with a rank vegeta- tion consisting of papyrus, reeds and grasses. which are 12 or 15 feet in height, and our officers have to keep track Of one another by sending up rockets from time to time Our first attempts at the investigation of those streams were from the north, but we are now going to their headwaters and following the streams down to where they flow into the Nile. We are building boats there. and we hope to open such communication by steamer that goods can be taken by the Nile to and from the watershed of the Congo"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-12-22
Statuesque.

From Tatler.
 Traveller to valeb: That's a rather large statue, Pat"
 Pat 'Yes, soir, They tell me the hand is II inches wide'
 Traveller: "Wonder why they didn't make 1t F nches?"
 Pat: Because they didn't want to make a foot"
Watson's weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-09-05
PAGE TWELVE
wELL DoNE, rHE GOVERNOR.
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Continued from Page Nine.)
attorneyship of the railroad commission to Judge.
James K. Hines.
1t is a timely and merited recognition of that
great company of Populists who having recorded in
three campaigns their protest against the corporation
drift of our modern democracy and having en-
grated many of the best and wisest of their Jeffer
sonian principles upon the platforms Of the democrat
ic party have come back in good faith and in self
respect to the house of their fathers to remain.
The appointment of Judge Hines is an act not
less Of personal appreciation for loyal support, but
as we'll of that high and comprehensive statesman
ship that builds parties above prejudice and beyond
the narrow lines of faction. We congratulate the
governor upon the tender
There were never any better and truer citizens
of Georgia than those who made up the old Popullst
party They were honest and conscientious farmers,
of the bone and sinew Of the state genuinely per-
suaded of the necessity Of reforms which they feared
could not be attained within the existing lines OF the
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democratic organization. They fought their battle
fairly bravely, capably, and they won. They carried
Georgia with them and were for season the domi-
nant party in the state
TheySwere Georgians to the core, and not
worthy act the record Of their brief of
power which resulted in the partial acceptance by the
democracy survives to vindicate and perpetuate its
which they contended while every subsequent year
has given them more abundant vindication in the
adoption Of their creeds by the great party Of the
people which Jefferson founded for the people.
No Populist need blush for the history and
achievements of his party so long our definite
democracy survives to vindcate and perpetuate
principles.
And Judge James K Hines one of the ablest
the cleanest and the best beloved Of the leaders Of
these honest Georgans. He was their candidate
at time for governor. He at all times their
loyal and eloquent advocate, and the asperities Of
politics never discovered stain upon his character
When Governor Smith launched the great
paign that carried the incarnation of that definite de-
Watson's weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-09-05

moracy for which James X. Hines and Thomas e.
Watson pleaded in large part under the banner or
Populism both Hines and Watson felt that they
could without a trace of inconsistency fall in line
behind this real champion of the people.
And they did with power and eloquence give
ring and currency to the Hoke Smith campaign,
fighting in the ranks like men.
1t is well that the governor should tender to
James K Hines the legal counselorship Of the great
railroad commission which he has builded to estab
lish the equality of the people.
He could not find truer democrat, in the genuine
sense to fill this station
He could not reward cleaner and more yirtuous
citizen
He could not honor more ncorruptible patriot
And he could not do wiser thing than to tonic
the whole rank of his party by this injection OF
the good name and the high talents of an organiza
ton that has been from the beginning inspiration
and helper to the better democracy OF this larger
day.
Well done, Governor Smith.
Welcome, Counselor Hines.-The Atlanta Georgian.
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The number Of letters coming to
me from prohibitionists over Georgia,
asking for an explanation Of what
they are pleased to call the "locker
tax" convinces me that an organized
effort by the liquor interests is being
made to deceive the people as to this
tax; and that full explanation OF
the tax is necessary. While it IS
question of law, I will try to make
the explanation so plain that no one
need be longer in doubt as to the
wisdom and necessity for the tax.
l. The tax of $500 on clubs was
put in the General Tax Act the last
day of the session of the Legislature,
to CURT a DEFECT in the prohibi-
tion bill itself passed some weeks be-
fore.
2. This defect in the prohibition
bill was in the first section Of the
bill, and the words were as follows:
"No intoxicating liquors shall be
given away to induce trade at any
place of business or kept or furnish
ed at any other PUBLIC PLACE. -
8. Intoxicating liquors CAN be
KEPT in any place not forbidden by
the prohibition bill, and as the pro-
hibition bill forbids the keeping of
it in PUBLIC PLACES ONLY, it
follows that it CAN be kept in any
place that is NOT A PUBLIC
PLACE.
4. Is club a public placef
If it is, then regardless Of the
$500 tax, it cannot be kept in a club
room or "locker." A proviso to the
$500 tax EXPRESSLY says that
"nothing in this section shall be con
strued to license or permit any in
toxicant or liquors in any place now
prohibited by law or which shall here
after be prohibited by law"
If, however, a club is NOT A PUB
Lie PLACE, then liquor can be kept
under the terms of the prohibition
bill itself, in club room or locker
5. The question arose, with the
friends Of prohibition in the legisla-
ture, after the passage Of the prohi-
bition bill, and when it was too late
to amend the prohibition bill as to
what was best to be done.
Our only chance was to amend the
= tax act, which had not then passed
the house, and put as high tax or
Watson's weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-09-05
OATS

Appler Oats, crop 1907, 81 per bush
ell, f.. o. b. Griffin, Ga. In ordering use
express or P. o. money order. Address
Martin V. Calvin, Director Georgia
Experiment Station, Experiment, Ga.
(Mention Watson's Weekly Jefferso-
nian.)
Watson's weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-09-05

tion bill has yet been published by
any paper in Georgia. In every pub
lication I have seen, the word "pub-
lie" has been left out of the first
section and this, believe, has caus-
ed the widespread misapprehension
of the "locker tax. S. w.