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Newark post., 1912-08-14
CHAT AMONG
THE FARMERS

hN NiiuiiSC w w ullhtI NtdllltE
is pleasing the farmers. The re-
cent cool weather has not been
good for corn. With the abun-
dance of moisture and warm
nights corn prospects are better.
Most Of the hay has been har-
vested and several farmers are
placing it on the market. The
ruling local price is $17 per ton for
good hay. Although there has
been good crop in this vicinity,
there is reported shortages in
other sections. and price, while
not so good as last season, prom
ises to be around the 500 mark.
Owing to wet weather very little
baling has been done here.
The threshing of wheat is not
measuring up to the normal yield
but is a better and larger crop
than last year.
Now is the time to SOW for some
extra feed next spring and at the
same time improve the soil If
You have piece Of idle ground or
old field Of sod that will go in corn
next year. plough and seed to
scarlet clover and wintervetch.
This will help the ground increase
your corn crop and in addition to
this you can grow a fine crop of
feed. In sowing the vetch be very
careful to get the real winter
vetch suitable to this locality.
There is variety called Oregon
vetch that will not stand our cold
winters. This is practically the
only precaution to be observed in
the growing of this crop.
Thomas Green dug a fine lot of
Irish cObblers last week. Potatoes
are gradually winning favor in
this section. Virgil Gray has an
other large acreage this year, and
John Holloway. our new Mary
land farmer, has a potato patch
that promises to take the ribbon
William Holmes. on the Wilson
farm, at the east end. is showing
SOY beans Az feet high. The fol-
iage and blossoms show a prize
winning appearance. This is his
first experiment from college ex-
tension work. Soy beans when in
troduced in this section will lessen
the cost of milk production. AS a
cow feed they supply much that
we buy in bran and cottonseed
meal. They are very palatable-
the writer having seen cows leave
bran feed for soy bean hay. Not
only do they replace the concen-
trates but they feed the soil as
well. Crops of 1Hs tons to 3 tons
per acre can easily be grown and
cut in time to follow with wheat
or rye.
1t is well worth while that our
dairymen look into the SOY bean
question for another year. They
/, represent good farming and are
a moneymaking crop.
The Government farm value re-
: ports will be out the 18th of this
: month. They will be published in
The Post the next issue.
D During the past week several
| farmers from the Eastern Shore
e of Maryland have been in Newark
: looking around for farms. These
: truck farmers from down on the
. shore would be a good addition tC
n our rural community. In recent
e years intensive culture has made
@ rapid progress, south of us, anC
4 their methods would be good OBJ
iect lessons to US.
Newark post., 1912-08-14

About 43 members of the young
Peoples Aid Society Of the Newark
M. f. church, visited Brandywine
Springs last Saturday. The trip to
the Springs was made in Q. w.
Widdoes and Chas. Strahorn 5
tranfers. Everyone enjoyed the
supper under the trees and the
pleasant evening that followed.
Newark post., 1912-08-14

The Republican County Com.
mittee has selected the polling
places for the primary election
which will be held next Saturday
at which delegates will be elected
to the State convention, in Dover.
next Tuesday.
Newark post., 1912-08-14

Work ON the Frazer Field is
reaching interesting stages every
day. About ) per cent OF the dig
ging has been completed. The
work on the wall was begun this
week and will be pushed to com
pletion.
Newark post., 1912-08-14

The new canning factory at the
old depot is nearing completion.
Those acquainted with this line of
business say that the local plant
will be one of the best equipped
on the peninsula.
Newark post., 1912-08-14

Wori, has been begun on gar
age at the rear Of the new resi-
dence of C. O. Houghton.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-17

Really" he said, you are quite absurd, Mir. Barrett You're not big enough or strong enough to prevent me leaving here whenever so desire. could handle you as easily as l could the gentleman met as l entered this car the gentleman who, smelled like a distillery."
 Mir. Marklen was the picture of dis tress He walked over to Mir. Barrett and insisted upon the lawyers sitting down. Then he .apologized to MT. Phelps for that gentleman's conduct.
 I'm sorry," he said, 'but you must un- derstand, MT. Phelps, that it is rather an unusual situation and we are somewhat perturbed. Mir. Barrett did not mean what he said. Now, I'll tell you what wish you would do. Forget what has been said and just let us be sociable. If you will not smoke or drink there is no good reason why you should not take td- vantage of the occasion and be our guest. Just pull over 8 chair and join us. The interruption will only serve to give zest to our pastime,'
 q thank you. MT. Marliein,' said Phelps, but really cannot afford it.' | Nonsense my boy" said the great fnan-
 cier "Here, take my checks. I'm sure you'll do better with them than I did" | "N-o-oo," said Phelps. If I lost l
 couldn't repay you. Why you men bet
 more on pair of jacks than make in | six months"
 Don't worry about that" said MT. Marklem with great affapility. "fll be | your banker"
 "N-o-oo. Mir. MarlSlein," said Phelps "I haven't got any time, and I must hurry away and write this story" 'You must not-you must not said MT. Martlein, You do not realize the om- barrassment you will cause us"
 MT. Hammond had said little up to this time. but now he took hand, He eurtly asked Mr. Phelps what paper he was em- ployed on. Phelps said the Star. NIT. Hammond said he would call up the pro- prietor by telephone and see that nothing
 was printed. There was snap to his words that was a menace. Phelps smiled quizzcally "I doubt it."
 he said, seeing the proprietor is in | Japan"
 Then I will communicate with whoever | is the responsible head said Hammond,
 and I'll see that you get fired, young | man."
 l Phelps told him that he might be mas | ter of railroads, but he wasn't master of
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don't recall having had the-ah-pleasnre of meeting you before. You-ah-under- stand-yonr-app here is rather unexpected, sprprising. Won't you have little drink? Help yourself" ]" And he motioned to the sideboard,
 "No, I thank you" said Phelps.
 "Then join us in cigar said Mir. Maiklein, with a great show of affabiilty. '1 can assure you they are excellent | "I haven't doubt of it., said Phelps. But 1 don't care to smoke, thank you. l MT. Marlxlein looked worried
 I'm sorry-ah-that we can't induce you l to partake of our entertainment.'
 Thank you just the same said Phelps. But would you be good enough. Mir. Marklen, to tell me the result of your trip to the west? I suppose you gentlemen m have been engaged on that Mississippi 1 Pacific deal about which there has been such an amount of gossip. Are you going to take over the road and put out a big issue of bonds, as is rumored?' 1 All five of the gentlemen looked alarmed. MT. Barrett sprang up and approaching l Phelps exclaimed:
 Say, young man, what do you mean? This Is party of prominent gentlemen that you, somehow, have managed to rec ognize, and want you to understand that not word must be printed about this. Not one word. Do you understand?'
 Phelps looked Mir. Barrett in the eye. l "Indeed?" said he, coldly. "Why, MT. Barrett, you are getting real melodram- l atic. should judge from your excitement that you are a bit loser in the game and l that it has affected your judgment and your temper. Really, you're giving me a very fine story. I can imagine how the Wall street people when they read tomor- row morning the story that I write about this poker game in Mr Hammond 8 prl- vate car will chucke MT. Marken's de- nying his identity will be rich. MT. Ham mond's 'Whow' will be characteristic. The cultured MT. Barrett threatening the l vfftuous and industrious reporter will be pleasing bit of realism. I'm inclined to think that all this will bother you gentle men exceedingly. and possibly upset yoor plans regarding the Mississippi Pacific" | MT. Barrett was furious.
 You will write no such outrageous ar
 ticle about me-" he declared. "I'll not lei
 you leave this ear unless you promise that | not a line will be written about what you've seen or heard here"
 1 MT. Phelps smiled.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-17
CARPENTER AT PANAMA-By Frank C. Carpenter

navy an outlet from the Baltic, and also
 over the Manchester ship canal which
 carries our cotton frofn the sea right
 into the heart of old llngland I have obtained also recent information as to the plans of some mighty ship canals which the Russians propose to build connecting St. Petersburg with the
 Black sea. and of other schemes which will make almost every part of Ger
 many accessible by steamer or barge. The Great Grandfather of All Canals
 We shall begin our travels on the
 other side of the globe. Our own canal vii be the newest thing upon earth. Tho canal we shall first visit is gray haired with the washing of almost 5000 years. It is the great grandfather of all canals. It was commenced long before Christ, and.s according to the Chinese records. was not finished until
 more than 200 years before the ds- coyery of America. The southern part of it, which I visited in 1900, extend- | ing from the Yangtse south to the city | of Hangchow. was constructed only few years after Jerusalem was taken | by Nebuchadnezzar, at about the time l that monarch was chewing grass in 1 the gardens of Babylon. The upper part, extending from the Yellow river to Tientsin, was completed by the Em- peror Shitsu of China in the same cen- tury that King John of England grant ed the Magma Charta, while the central portion dates back to the days when the Tarquins were emperors of Rome The Grand canal is 10s0 miles long, If begins at Tentsin and runs south ward for a distance greater than from
 New York to Chicago. It crosses two rivers, the Hoangho and the Yangtse
 which are so mighty that they would
 mako the 'Chagres look like 30 cent treck, and 1t cuts it's way through a
 territory having population more than
 twice as great as that of the United States.
 The canal Is dotted with cities and
 towns. There are walled cities at ev-
 cry few miles, and some of them con-
 tain million of people or more. There
 are towns of hundred thousand each
 whose names are unknown in America
 and a fringe of villages runs along II
 all the way from Tienstin to Hangchow
 From the Yangtse north the canal
 flows for 3S0 miles without lock-
 This is over the great plain of north
 China. still further north there are numerous sluces and locks. and in places the water is carried above the country on stone embe .kments 22 feet
 or more higher than the surrounding plains and that notwithstanding the
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1 but it's navlgabe waterways placed end
 10 end would reach from New York to San Francisco, and almost back to Chi cago. There are altogether about 5000 miles of them. including the North sea canal. which connects Amsterdam with the North sea. This is about 150O miles
 long, 200 to 900 feet wide and 30 feet deep. Amsterdam has also a canal con meeting it with the Rhine, and there ara numerous canals which make 1t possible to reach every part of the country by barges
 Rotterdam is cut up by canals, and 1t is fast becoming one of the g.eat ports of the world. paving canal connection with Belgium and Germany, and also reaching Germany by the Rhine. I went from Belgium to Holland by canal, mak-
 ing a trip, that way from Antwerp to Rot terdam We passed through one old fash
 toned lock sSter another, the locks being moved by quaint Dutchmen in caps. roundabouts and bulbous pantaloons.
 Pretty Dutch girls were scattered along
 the banks. and at every stop they
 brought fruit and kncknacks to sell to the passengers.
 Germany has recently been building canals to connect it's great rivets. It's people are the best traders and the best
 manufacturers on earth, and they realize the value of cheap water transportation They have made canals which con wet the Elbe and the Oder. and the yEem will eventually embrace the Rhines and the Weser. One can go from Hamburg to Berlin by canals, and there are busy canals in eastern Germany, the names of which are not known in the United States. The present plant is to stand
 ardlze this canal system. making it so
 that barges of a thousand tons can be taken to any part of the country.
 And this brings me to the big dlsch the kaiser dug. I refer to the canal at lSiel which gives his men-of->ar a short cat to the ocean out from the Baltic. This canal is 50 miles long. and it cost ygo .eoo to build. It has reduced the time from sea to sea about two days, and has for all practical purposes made in the Baltic Ger man lake. The canal has locks at each end which control the tides. and rlese are so fortified that the navy of Germany can pass in and out though them, ahd other ships can be kept out
 The hsrbor at Kiel is excellent. and ss forms a base for the German navy. IL it Il miles long, and, in places, fcrr miles in width Except near the shore, tre water is 40 feet deep. The kaiser has punt
 great forts here. and he has only docks and shpbuiding yards, so that the canal
 forms one of the nations chief military assets.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-17

'The porter of special car Is sick and I was ordered on in his place tonight" Jim replied
 Phelps inquired who the people in the special ear wepe. Jim said they were some no account railroad men, and that their car was on track No 6. Jim went along to the station on whatever errand he was engaged and Phelps proceeded to track No. 6. The special ear looked dark and forbdding All the blinds were pulled down. Phelps looked 1t over carefully and then went to the far end of the car and climbed aboard. He opened the door and stepped into the vestibule. A gentleman, much the worse for wear was disrobing in one of the staterooms. Phelps looked at him, sniffed and marched on to the main room. When he stepped into the room he halted. The room was ablaze with light Seated around a table were five prosperous looking gentlemen. Each one had before him a stack of checks. Beneath some of these stacks were piles of bills. Each gentleman had five cards. One of the gentlemen had to look up and when he caught sight of Phelps he seemed astonished. Then the others turned and glared at the intruder. Well; sir said one of the men, what do you want?"
 "Nothlng," replied Phelps. Don't let TIC ulSiuID NOu.
 T asked you who you were and what you wanted!' the first speaker repeated !n a rasping, aggressive voice. My name is Phelps" the young man replied.
 That isn't very Illuminating" said the gentleman. This is private car What are you loing here? Whats your busi- ness?"
 My business" said Phelps, lis to call upon distinguished visitors to our fair city. I'm reporter for the Star"
 Good Lord!" exclaimed one of the men at the table.
 There was silence for a few moments, and then the first speaker, after clearing his throat told MT. Phelps rather point edly that he didn't have the honor of the visitors acquaintance and didn't care to make it. In fact he'd like to know why the porter had permitted him to come aboard
 Phelps explained that it wasn't the po~- ter's fault, and that Phelps simply had entered the car in hopes of finding some thing to write about. "Whow.' exclaimed one of the party, gentleman with very sharp eyes.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-17

| that distance the ships are lifted up about 60 feet, and that in five great locks which | rise one over the other.
 This canal goes through some of the most beautiful farming country of Eng land. Leaving Manchester you sail out of region of mighty warehouses and factories, into land of farms as green as Ohio in June. The fields are divided by green hedges and upon the rich grass fat cattle arc feeding. Every now and then you pass manufacturing town, You go under one great railroad bridge after another, and finally drop down to the Mersey river, with its vast shipping from all parts of the world.
 The Manchester canal is in many re- spects like that of Panama. It is a lock canal, and 1t was cut out of the rock. The excavation, however. amounted to only 540OO,O00 tons. which was bagatelle in comparison with the hundreds of millions we have had to take out.
 The canal was begun with the idea that 1t would cost about $40 100000. It real ly cost over s75.000,0OO and nevertheless the Manchester men told me that they thought 1t a paying investment. Be- fore it was built the city was falling off in business and commerce. Since then it has grown like jlmson weed or the fabled gourd of old Jonah. At the beginning the traffic on the canal was only little over. 9OOOOO tons. Five years later 1t had tripled in quantity, and in 1907 1t was more than 5,00O,GO0 tons. It is estimated that it now saves in freight rates s3,000,0Oo or $A,0O0.000 a year to the trade or $4,0O0,0OO a year to the trade of Manchester, end thus enables that cotton center to compete with the others which lie on the seacoast. Be- fore the canal was built the large man ufacturers were leaving Manchester for Glasgow and elsewhere. But since then many industries have been started and 10000 houses have been built 10 accom- modate the incoming people
 The city has constructed great docks there in the heart of the land and these have a water space of 256 acres, while the length of the quays is more than five miles. There are large elevators, built by Chicago men, filled with grain which has been floated down our great lakes and across the Atlantic. There are ware houses for American cotton and Amer ican meat is brought i'd by the shipload.
 took a flying trip to Europe this last summer and ran through some of the main canals of Belgium. Holland and Germany. Holland is known as the land of canals. It has big ones and little ones. The whole county is cut up by water. It Is only about as big as Massachusetts,
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well, sir said the first speaker with asperity, there is nothing here for you to write about We simply are small party of friends on our way east and play ing rubber at whist. We have nothing to say to you or to any one else, and you'll pardon me for telling you that your presence is an intrusion"
 ''Whist with five cards to the hands and with checks and money," said Phelps. Pm sorry if l seem to be an intruder, put you are Mir Oscar Marklein. head of the banking house of Oscar MarlSlein & Co.,, are you not sir?'
 The man addressed gasped. ''N-n-no, he said, you are entirely mistaken"
 That's strange" said Phelps. You bear striking resemblance to that emi- nent financier.e
 You are altogether mistaken, [ tell you" said the gentleman
 Strange, strange" said MT. Phelps, Despite what you say. I can't help but think that you are MT. Marklein, and the gentleman who just exclaimed Whow,' l should venture to say was Mir Henry Hammond, the great railroad chief, who is widely known as the Colossus of Roads. Am I mistaken again?'
 All five men now showed traces of ex- citement.
 ltll Nous NOu arc ililoldhtii, l ltll NOfl. you are mistaken said the first speaker. Phelps smiled as he scrutinized the fea- lures of the five men closely. 'T never made such mistakes before," he an- nounced. Now if you are not MT. Mark lein, and if this is not MT. Hammond, will you kindly tell me if this gentleman here is not MT. Barrett, general counsel of Mr. Hammonds great system of railroads. and possibly that is not Mir. Hemmingway, president of the New York stock ex- change, and possibly this fifth gentleman is not MT. Poole, the United States sena- tor?'
 Good Lordl" exclaimed the fifth gentle man.
 The five men at the table looked at each other and gasped Two of them had gone red all of a sudden. One of them leaned over and whispered to the gentleman who had acted as spokesman. Then the first speaker breathed hard for a few mo- ments.
 You seem to have the advantage oi | us. MT Phelps, he said, in rather sub dued tone. ''I might as well confess that I am MT. Marklein and that you are cor rect regarding the other gentlemen.
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winch had charge of it. having been discontinued about five years ago.
 The next canal we shall see is the most important of all. and the one which will compete with, our big ditch al Panama. It Is the Suez canal, which now has ore shipping and brings In more money than any other canal upon earth. The tonnage of the vessels which passed through 1t last year amounted to more than 20,000.00 and the receipts were far more than that many dollars. This canal is just 40 miles longer than our canal at Panama L. and, like the latter. it joins two mighty oceans. If We consiuer the Mediter- ranean an arm of the Atlantic and the Red sea arm of the indian ocean the Suez canal joins the two. I have gone many times through .- and 1t has cost the steamer each time high into the thousand of dollars. There is q charge of g. for every man. woman and child on board, and, in addition, every ship has to pay q tonnage due. which now amounts 10 somewhere between s15O and g a ton.
 For many years 1t was se ton. so that 1O,000 ton ship would pay .S29,- 0O0 for going through. The last time traversed it the steamer took IS hours and the charge for the ship was just about $500 an hour.
 It Brings in Millions .
 The Suez canal has paid almost from the start, and the canal stock is as high as anything sold In Wall street. The bulk of il Is owned by Great Britain, and although the French nom finally control the canal it's real direc- tion comes from John Bull. As it is
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, beings, but you're not. You're just or- dinary. common clay. Just let me review what has happened. I came in here and recognized you gentlemen. When I called | your names you denied your Identity. That was untruth.
 "When | said I was going to write about what I saw here Mr. Barrett threat ened anything or everything from phys- cal assault to kidnapping. That Was brutish. Next Mr. Hammond declared he would have me discharged and would use his influence with the owner of the publi- cation by which I am employed. Call that oppression. Now Mir Marken offers tn compensate me richly to not do what 1 said I would do. That was bribery. Reaf- ly am amused that 1925 week reporter has been able to throw five great figures of Wall street into q panic. What sur prises me most is your lack of common sense. There Is one argument you have failed to advance, and that Is the plain one of man to man.
 If you had said to me as man to man, Phelps, you popped in on when We were having n little game of poker, and L will be very embarrassing to us if any thing were written about it. We ask vol as a man not 10 do it. I would have been delighted to assure you that l would not write a line. and I would have been de- lighted to have taken a drink or a cigar with you. But you didn't, and now you are moro worried than if you had lost a fortune. Resume your game or go to bed, but there is no occasion for worry. gentle men I shall not write a line. Good night" And Phelps walked out.
 They coud hear his step down the long corridor and on the floor of the vestihule, and then they heard him on the wooden walk without. Suddenly Hammond sprang up lifted one of the shades an tugged at the window. until he opened i Then he stuck his head outside. Pheip was about 20 feet distant when Hammond shouted:
 Say, young man. like your style. Quit your job here and come to New York.
 You can be very useful man to me" Phelps laughed Work for you?" he
 said Not for million a year" And he
 strode away.
 | Hammond. master of roads, Is dead and
 only memory now. Phelps is not His
 name Is on the editorial page of the great
 est newspaper of one of the biggest cities.
 and he is power in the land. Few men exert a better influence or address a larger | audience.
 | Copyright. 1912 by Richard spilanel