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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-12-12
BIG FIRE IN COHOES.
Loss This Morning Approximately Half
Million.

COHOES, n. Y, Dec. IA fire
which broke out early today was not
subdued until dozen buildings in the
business section had been destroyed
with a loss of approximately half a
million dollars. The fire started in the
Parson knitting mills and within two
hours had swept the entire block from
the factory and Remsen street to the
barge canal. The Troy fremen re-
sponded to the appeal for aid.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-12-12
Federals Claim a Victory in
the Fighting at Tampico
Yesterday
HEAVY LOSSES INFLIC-
TED ON ATTACKERS
No Work Has Been Received Today
from Admiral Fletcher, Commanding
American Warships Stationed Short
Distance from the City.

VERA CRUZ, Mexico, Dec. l2-The
rebel forces attacking Tampico have
been repulsed and driven away from
the city with heavy losses, according
TO Gen. Gustave Mas, the military
commander here, who SAYS the Federal
troops under Gen. Joaquin Mas. jr.,
arrived yesterday to relieve the city.
Up to this morning no word had been
received from Admiral Fletcher, com
manding the United States warships.
The fighting was still going on wheh
he sent his last message at 4.30 yes
terdav afternoon.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-12-12

Silk plush beaver hats in black and
white as well as in colors are shown
at many of the early winter openings.
When the instalment collector raps
at the door, Romance always flies out
Of the window.
If it were not for the banks, there
would be more burglars than Office
holders.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-12-12
BIRTHS.

In Brookl;ne, Dec. 8, son to Ger
aid and Ruth M. Allbee.
In Grafton, Dee. 9, son to Mr.. and
Mrs. .Alonzo Capen.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-12-12
BATTLESHIP
IS DISABLED
VermOnt's StarbOard Main
shaft Broken and Com
partments Flooded
ACCIDENT OCCURRED
1900 MILES AT SEA

Other Vessels Are Accompanying Her
and It Is Believed the Vermont Will
Reach Hampton Roads, Virginia
Dec. II or 18.
WASHINGTON, Dee. l2-With her
starboard mainshaft broken and sew
eral compartments flooded the battle
ship Vermont is limping toward Hamp-
ton Roads on her return from a trip
TO the Mediterranean. The Vermont
Is accompanied by the battleship Del
aware and the collers Orion and Jason.
The accident occurred Yesterday
morning at 5 clock, and last night
the Vermont was 1900 miles from
Hampton Roads.
A wireless to the navy department
steted that there was no cause for
alarm, and that the Vermont would
arrive at Hampton Roads Dee i or
Is.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-12-12

The English prison mission every
Christmas sends out 10000 personal
letters to inmates of English jails.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-12-12
NOTICE.
5 a Tina each subsequent insertion

Whereas, my wife, Nettie G. Jefts i.
living separate and apart from me,
without cause. This is to notify all
persons not to trust her on my account
as shall pay 30 debts of her contract
ing.
LEWIS ". JETS.
Bssttlebero, VT, Dec. IL, 1913.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-12-12
THE WEATHER.

Fair Tonight and Saturday; Warmer,
Brisk Southwest Winds.
WASHINGTON, Dec. - = The
weather forecast: Fair tonight and
Saturday; warmer; brisk southwest
winds.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-12-12
DEATHS.

In Brookline, Dec S. infant son of
Gerald and Ruth ". Allbee.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-12-12
For Sale

FOR SALE-Furniture and Ranges,
new and secondhand at j. B. Dunton S.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-12-12

WANTED - Boarders and roomers
Mrs. Frank Goodroe, 25 Green ST. 196-tf
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-12-12

WANTED-Washings to do at home.
) Organ ST. 23e.a41'
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ADVERTISEMENT
Wanted

WANTED-Waitress at The Albany
Cafe. 239-tf
The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1913-05-30

Rod of suffering and death. Each day
thousands Of cubic yards of earth and
rock were removed from the cut
Abandoning the pitifully inadequate
outfit left by the French, our country
replaced it with modern steam shovels
and hundreds of dirt cars hauled by
American locomotives. The great hills
shook and jungles echoed the roar
from the explosion of thousands of
pounds of dynamite, used to tear away
the face OF the mountains to allow the
shovels to nose their way through on
their slow but sure journey to the Pa
cific. Since 1905 an army of workers
guided by the ingenuity of American
engineers has blown apart, shoveled
up, and carried away SS,55O,000 cubic
yards of earth from Culebra Cut. To-
day the work is ninety per cent COM
pleted.
The best view of the cut is to be had
from the top of the bank opposite the
! town of Culebra. More than half a
mile across is the opposite bank. Hun
dreds of feet below are the shovels,
dirt trains, and hundreds of men at
work. From this great height they
look like tiny specks.
The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1913-05-30
No. 6. THE CULEBRA CUT

the .most prominent engineers had
follen victims to the deadely yellow
fever, the task was abandoned.
In 1905 the United States Govern
ment bought from the French their
right in Panama and all their old ma
chinery and equipment. The digging
of Culebra Cut began at once on a
scale so tremendous that it attracted
the attention OF the entire world. For
three years following the American in
vasion the task of digging a great can
al through the huge mountains and
impenetrable jungles was enough to
discourage any corps OF engineers and
lahorers.
To add to the seeming impossibility
Of the undertaking, there was con-
slant battle against yellow fever dur
ing the first three years. The govern
ment began a cleanup campaign"
and war on mosquitoes soon after the
canal work began. and the Americans
worked fearlessly through all this Pc
The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1913-05-30
SUGGESTIVE QUESTIONS
On the Sunday School Lesson
by Rev. DIR. Linscott for the
International Press BIZ
BILE Question Club,
June /, 1913.
Copyright, 1912, by Rev. 7. S. Lin

Copyright, 1912, by Rev. T. S. Lin
scott, D. d.
Joseph Tests His Brethren. Gen.
Xiv.
Golden Text-Confess therefore
your sins one to another and pray one
for another that we may be healed.
Jas. vic.
ID Verses 1-11-What was the mo-
tive Of Joseph in acting in this appar-
| emily cruel and deceptive way?
CD Is it or not, and why, sometimes
necessary for a kind heart to act the
part of apparent cruelty to accomplish
good ends?
Cd Why does God frequently allow
or cause things of a very severe nature
to happen to the best of people?
a. Joseph acted in way to de-
ceive and Instructed his steward to
falsely accuse his brethren. Would
you or not, and why, say that he did
perfectly right! (This Is one of the
questions which may be answered in
writing by members of the club.)
90 If we do cruel or wicked
thing, such as men did in selling their
brother Joseph into Egypt, what rea-
son is there to believe that we are
sure to meet with more than an equi-
valent in suffering in after life?
60 Suppose for moment that this
story is only parable showing the
cause and effect of sin, then how can
you show that it is true to actual life?
Cd How can you demonstrate it to
be fact that circumstances conspire
to haunt with trouble a man with a
guilty conscience?
(8.) Verses 12-17-Benjamin had no
part in selling Joseph. How do you
account for the fact that God often
permits the innocent to suffer as well
as the guilty?
CD When we are accused of thing
of which we are innocent, with no way
to prove it, and circumstances are
against us, what is the best way for us
to act?
(10) What was Josephs dream as
boy and how were these events full
filling that dream?
(11) Verses 1S-26-What excellent
qualities do you find in this speech of
Judah, that are worthy of the imita
ton of public speakers?
12o Which affects a man most
when we want to appease his anger,
or ask favor, an appeal to his feel
ings or emotions, or an appeal to his
reason?
13) If you can stir a persons SYM
pathy, how much more likely are you
to persuade him to grant you favor
or to do you justice?
14.) In how many ways did
Josephs method test his brethren?
(15.) Judah was the one who pro-
posed the selling of Joseph into
Egypt. In view of that fact, and the
noble part he is now taking in trying
to free Benjamin, what do you think
of him?
Q6.) If man through jealousy or
other strong feeling does bad thing,
and years afterward repents of it and
does all he can to make reparation,
would you be inclined to have as much
confidence in him as If he had never
done the bad deed? Give your rea-
sons.
(17.) Verses 27-34-Who was the
mother of Joseph and Benjamin and
what peculiar circumstances were
there before or at their birth which
would tend to make their father love
them very tenderly?
Lesson for Sunday, June s, 1918.
joseph Forgives His Brethren. Gen.
xiv: 1-xlvi:7.
The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1913-05-30

It can be truthfully said that to the
giant shovel is due the Panama Canal.
Were it not for the modern American
steam shovels the big ditch would I'M
doubtedly have remained as it was
when left by Ferdinand de Lesseps.
ruined and heartbroken. De Lesseps
abandoned the isthmus, having thou
sands of workmen who had fallen vic
Tins to yellow fever buried near the
scene of his hopeless effort to build
this great canal.
When our country began work on
the isthmus in 1905 nearly all the
French equipment had to be discard
ed. 1t was entirely inadequate to ac-
complish the task undertaken. What
the French, guided by De Lesseps, had
hoped to accomplish with hand shovels
and tiny dirt cars, together with a
few mechanical dirt-digging machines
of an impractical character, the
United States planned to do by modern
machinery. While part of the Amer
lean canal force was installing a san
itary system and waging war on, the
yellow fever mosquitoes, many others
were equally as busily engaged getting
the great steam shovels from the dock
at Colon to Culebra Cut.
Each one of the gigantic American
shoyels can do more work in one day
than one thousand French laborers
accomplished in the same time. Each
is operated by two men, sheltered
from the intense tropical sun by a
cabin on the shovel. The taking out
The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1913-05-30

Culebra might we'll be termed THE
Grand Canyon of the Canal;' for SO
stupendous will it appear when com
pleted and the water let In that the
most vivid imagination can scarcely
imagine it the work of man. For
nearly century it has been the
dream of nations that some day man
would succeed in tearing asunder the
mountains forming the continental a.
vide, allowing the waters OF the At
lantic to flow across the isthmus and
join the placid Pacific. The French,
assured by De Lesseps Of the posi-
bility of uniting the two oceans by
means Of a canal across the Isthmus
OF Panama, began work in 1879. For
a number Of months. his brave follow
ers strove to lower the great noun
tains: but the result was mere
scratch upon the surface, compared
with the immense canyon the Amer
leans have excavated After thou-
sands OF French laborers and many OF
The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1913-05-30

OF the dirt from the cut goes on from
early morning to the close of day. The
shovels with their great steel hands
almost human in their movements
reach down, pick up five cubic yards
of earth and rock, and load it on the
dirt trains. Immune against yellow
fever and the fiendish heat of the
midday sun, totally disregardful OF
the floods during the rainy season, the
shovels work month in and month out
Never do they fail to remove the many
thousand cubic yards of material ex-
pected of them.
The men operating these shovels
form fond attachment for them. And
it seems as if the shovels felt this re-
gard so quickly and accurately dc
they respond to the guiding hand OF
the man at the lever. 1t is the ambi-
ton of each slovenian to take out the
greatest number of cubic yards of ma
terial from the cut during the day. Sc
great is the rivalry among the shovels
that they remove a great deal more
earth during the day than it was orig
inally expected the shovel was capa-
BILE of doing.
1t is hardly conceivable, but never
theless true, that this spirit of rivalry
and pride felt by the men for theil
shovels has pushed the capacity up tc
such an extent that one shovel has 9
record of digging and loading 4,S2;
cubic yards of earth and rock in one
day. This, if loaded on wagons, would
have required 5000 two-horse teams tc
carry off.
The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1913-05-30

more cars from Los Banos, CAL, to
Tecoma $500; from Los Palos, Cal,
to Tecoma $4,000; from F'irebaugh,
Cal, to Tecoma $4,000. Los Banos to
Ogden, Utah, $4,000.
| am not familiar with the cattle
situation in California, as we have not
been terested-Southern Pacific
asked us to join them in rate north
OF Ogden, but in checking up our
rates we find that we have published
In lots OF ten or more cars a lower
rate than rate asked for, therefore
shipments coming to us at Ogden will
come on straight billing into Ogden
and then take our published rates to
points on our line.
A train of these cattle arrived in
Ogden short time ago-part of them
were sold to Bitten and Lindsay, bal
ance of them went east. They were
reported to be very thin and rather
poor quality. All steers sold at $42.O(
per head.
Yours truly,
G. l. FUTILE.
The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1913-05-30

channel deep enough to unite the
oceans in hundred years.
Utterly hopeless as the undertaking
was, thousands of the French laborers,
led by the impractical and impulsive
conditions so frightful that the human
sacrifice was unparalleled in the his
tory of engineering Yellow fever and
other tropical diseases, constantly pre-
valent over the entire isthmus,
claimed human toll SO great that
nothing short of heroism could have
prompted the continuance of the work.
Day after day the remaining workers
would have first to bury those who
had fallen victim to the fever before
resuming their work on the canal.
How long human endurance would
have held out against the frightful
death rate will never be known; for
salvation came at last to the few who
had not fallen victims to one or anoth-
er of the tropical fevers. De Lesseps'
company went bankrupt.
Well might these cars, SO closely as
ISOLATED with the tragic deaths of the
French canal workers, have been used
as collins. AS the sun sets behind the
huge pile of old equipment it casts its
shadow over the graves Of twenty-five
thousand men, sacrificed in the i'm
practical undertaking. What irony,
that this great pile of abandoned cars,
overgrown with tropical vegetation,
should mark the resting place Of those
whose last days were spent in vain
attempt to prevent the cars from be-
ing abandoned as illnk
The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1913-05-30

Not far from the Atlantic entrance
to the Panama Canal is a huge pile of
old French dirt cars, abandoned by
the Americans as unfit for the great
undertaking started by them in 1905.
Piled high, one upon the other this
mass of rusty and misshapen iron
stands as a monument to the heroic
but hopeless effort of the French,
headed by the impractical Ferdinand
de Lesseps, to achieve fame by uniting
the Atlantic and Pacific with sea
level canal across the Isthmus Of
Panama.
1t was the dream of Ferdinand de
Lesseps, after his triumphal compile
ton of the Suez Canal, to undertake
the construction of canal across
Panama. Financed by the French
government, together with large pri-
waite subscriptions, De Lesseps, the
dreamer, began work on the isthmus
in 1879. Shipload after shipload OF
equipment was sent to Panama, while
thousands of men left France to take
UP the task of digging great channel
across the isthmus.
De Lesseps' plan was sea level
canal, with no locks or dams. The
tiny dirt cars of the French held
scarcely a cubic yard of material.
They were expected to remove all the
dirt taken from the canal, which, ac-
cording to their plan, would demand
the entire channel to be dug sixty feet
lower than the American plan re-
quired. Had all the French dirt cars
on the isthmus been in daily use con-
stantly since 1880 they could not have
removed the earth required to make
The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1913-05-30
NOTICE OF ANNUAL STOCKHOLD
ERS' MEETING.

Notice is hereby given that the an
nual stockholders meeting of the
Conway Orchard Company will be
held Monday, June 9th, 1918, at 10
O'Clock a. M, at the main office of
the company at it's orchard property
three miles west and one and one
quarter miles south of the city of
Twin Falls, IDAHO
Said meeting is to be held for the
purpose of electing full board of di-
rectors for the ensuing term of one
year.
Hearing the reports of the various
officers of the corporation. And act
ing upon any other question which
may affect the business or welfare of
the corporation, or which may require
the action of it's stockholders.
j. H. SHIELDS, JR.,
May 27-June Secretary.
AfNvH @0 N,ph
The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1913-05-30
Salt Lake City, Utah,
May 22nd, 1918.

Mr.. j. Mcmillan,
Secretary. Twin Falls Commercial
Club,
Twin Falls, Idaho.
Dear Sir:
Southern Pacific have published rate
effective May 18th on range cattle In
carloads from Lakern, Cal, to Tecoma,
Nevada, Of $4,000 from Mendoza, Cal,
to Tecoma @106.20 per SO foot inch
car.
Range cattle in lots Of fifteen or
The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1913-05-30

A prompt, persistent and business
like use of the classified columns will
always find new job for an efficient
worker.
The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1913-05-30

When the man for whom you ought
to work has an opening for you, you'll
find the news in the "help wanted"
ads!
The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1913-05-30

In each issue of The Times three
different human interest stories will
appear. You can get beautiful in
tagllo reproduction of the above pic
ture, with five others, equally attrac-
tive, 7x91a inches in size, with this
weeks Mentor" In 1.-THE Mentor" a
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week. Readers of The Times and
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Price, Ten Cents. Write today to The
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The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1913-05-30

Want Ads pull. Did you ever try
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Through several yellow fever cpl
DENIES and constant tropical diseases
and the intense scorching sun, the
men on the job have labored steadily
day after day to accomplish this Won
derful work, until now it is practically
finished. This excavation is SO i'm
mense that any ship crossing the At
lantlc Ocean today could easily be
buried in it.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1913-10-08
SO DECEPTIVE.
Many Lancaster People Fail to Realize
the Seriousness.

BaCkache is so deceptive.
It comes and goes-keep you guess.
ing
Learn the cause-then cure it.
Possibly it's weak kidneys.
That's why Doan's Kidney Pills
are so effective.
They're especially for weak or dis
ordered kidneys.
Here's a Lancaster case.
J. W. Garthwate, retired farmer,
East Cherry St., Lancaster, Wis. I,
says: Last spring was greatly an
noyed by weak kidneys. The kidney
secretions were unnatural and con-
tanned sediment There was dull,
ache through the small of my back
which kept me in misery. 1 didn't
rest nights and mornings l felt stiff
and lame. got Doan's Kidney Pills
at }. D. Hatch's drug store and two
boxes entirely relieved me. My
kidneys became normal and the pain
and lameness in my back disappeared
I haven't had any trouble since.
For sale by all dealers. Price 50
cents. Foster Milburn Co.. Buffalo,
New York, sole agents for the United
States
Remember the name -Doan sand
take no other. Advertise ment
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1913-10-08
BEETOWN.
o the Herald.

special Correspondence to the Herald.
Sunday visitors we're: Clarence
Raisbeck and family at S. Birch S
Floyd Pascoe and wife at VIM.
Winner s.
Guy Horsfall, Of Lancaster, spent
Saturday and Sunday here
Jas. Hayden spent the week end at
Bloomington.
George Thrope and Sam Edge and
families spent Sunday at Potosi.
Gus Seipp was here from North
Andover Saturday.
Tom Cleary, of Platteville, had
business here Friday.
VIM. Oldridge and wife, of Du.
buque, Mr.. Wright of Epworth, Iowa
and Mr.. and Mrs. j. A. Nattenger,
of Lyons, ILL.,. autoed here Thursday
from Ellenboro and spent the night
returning to Dubuque Friday.
Thomas Smith of Bloomington,
was pleasant caller here Thursday
enroute to Lancaster.
Mrs. Conrad Pabst, of Dakota and
Mrs. Hiram Cliff, >of Bloomington,
visited here Wednesday.
Mrs. Frances Garner returned to
| her home at st Paul Monday. Harry
Peak and wife and Mrs. Walters &C.
companied her as far as Cassville.
j. S. Miles, wife, daughter and two
sons of Mt Carroll, H., autoed here
Saturday and spent the night and re-
turned home Sunday.
George Budworth and wife spent
Sunday here.
Rev. Moat held service here Sun
day.
The Beetown Ladies Aid Society
meets Thursday of this week with
Mrs. L. Knotwell.
Rev. Tomlinson, the district super
intendent, will hold preaching service
here October, 10
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1913-10-08
AROUND THE COUNTY
900 ooooOoooo-o-oooo-oooooo
BAGLEY
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and another sister and Mrs. Hugh
Razen went to Prairie du Chen Sat.
urday.
A shower was given for Miss Nellie
Millen Saturday evening A goodly
number of her friends were present.
She received a number Of nice
presents.
Minnie Faust went home to visit
her parents Saturday.
Jess Thomas and wife drove up
from Platteville Friday, to visit Mrs.
Thomas father and mother and
brother Lew, the Markley family.
DR.. Mecum took Will Clark to La
Crosse Thursday for an operation for
appendicitis; his mother accompanied
him. He was apparently doing we'll
after the operation.
Mrs Tyler went to Dubuque Satur.
day. She accompanied her daughter
that far on her way to visit her
brother and sisters at Waterloo and
Manchester.
DR.. Mecum took Mrs. Pelkington
to Lacrosse Sunday morning for an
operation for appendicitis.
Mrs Otto Plondke came up from
Glen Haven on the morning train
Sunday.
John Klarman, from Wya1using
came down on the midnight train for
Lacrosse Saturday night and took the
morning train home Sunday.
Mrs Will Day came up from Du-
buque Saturday to visit with her
husband and his mother and the
Calkins family. Will is doing the
brick work for O. j. Oswald's new
residence.
Howard Shrake will give another
dance at the Bagley hall Thursday
evening Oct 90 Bill's orchestra will
furnish the music Come and have a
Come and have d good time.
Mrs. Palmer, of Peoria, ILL.,, died
at her daughters at Brodtyille satur,
day morning She is the mother Of
Mrs. ChiIdress and Mrs. Jerry Day.
The remains were taken to Peoria for
burial Monday.
The river has been gradually rising
now for some time but has not got
very high yet
OBITUARY
Mrs. Jacob Beers, daughter of Laura
and Barney Brodt. was born June
26, 1842 at Sherman, Chautauqua Co.. .
N. Y, and died Sept. IS. 1918 at the