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Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1913-08-14

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out of sorts, it is best to pen 1t alone
for few days and give good phys
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Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-02-03
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The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1913-09-26
Popular Decisions About Alcoholic Liquors

One OF the most prominent characteristics of alco-
holc liquors is their ability to deceive the drnker
their exact effect upon his organism This deceptive
action is largely due to the welknown parayzing
action OF alcohol on the nervous system
Alcoholic liquors are popularity supposed to
the body in winter and keep it cool in This
is due to the partial paralysis of the and
centers that the drinker is not keenly conscious
OF his superficial heat cold The is true of its
use in pain, some forms of stomach disorders dental
surgery and the like. The supposed "stimulating"
action of alcohol is due to the slight paralysis dead
ening it induces IN the higher brain centers Alcohol
is in true stimuant. The drinker fances
he is doing work when in fact he is doing less
and poorer work His garrulity he thinks is brlliancy
Alcohol is often taken at the close of days toll
IN the belief that it relieves fatigue This delusion is
due to the benumbing action of this drug. But more
than this alcohol aggravates the tired conditions its
presence in the tissues seriously nterferes with the
elimination Of the waste products of ceactvity, one
of the principal causes of the feeling of fatigue
In of these instances is alcohol true rem
edal agent At best, it is only palliative and always
injurious. Every drop of alcohol destroys cell"
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1913-09-26
For Our Joke Column

There is man in Chicago who. for some ac-
countable reason, fails to identity himself, and who
sends the editor OF the American ISSUE almost every
day clippings from Current Thought the organ of the
wet fake Merchants and Manufacturers Association
These clippings he marks, For your joke column"
The man who sends these never signs his name
always writes the address of the American Issue in
lead pencil and fails to make some written COM
ment on the junk he sends in
For few times the editor of the Issue stopped
his work to read the stuff. Then he took to glancing
hurrledly over it. Now he throws it into the waste
basket the mail comes in.
In almost every case the matter sent was COM
posed entirely Of lies. In others there was small
amount of truth, but it badly distorted
Let the poor man save his stamps, envelopes and
time The American Issue will not print that sort of
junk in its joke column. Some day we'll reprint the
whole edition of the Current Thought in our joke col
rmn, for the paper itself is the biggest joke we ever
came across.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1913-09-26
THE AMERICAN ISSUE

head, and saloonless nation was distant vision
whose realization inside century not even to be
hoped for.
But the Anti-Saloon League was organized and
began its work There was Encouragement there
were rebufs, there suspicion there was msunder-
standing, there was jealousy, there lack Of re-
sources. The League persisted however until now it
reckoned by friend and foe alike the strongest and
best force ever known for the suppression of the dis
tillery, brewery and retail establishment.
his great organization has not been built up by
the support of Protestants Catholics exclusively; it
has not been the product Of any political party;
neither North nor South, East nor West has had
monopoly in working for its upbuildng Men alone
have not kept it going but godly women must share
in the credit
1t is fitting, then, that every agency for good
every interest that is opposed to unrghteousness
should be represented in the great Jubilee Convention
that IS to be held in Columbus All such will be repre-
scented, and every state will send its good men and
women. Twenty thousand delegates will be present
No matter who you and where you live if you be-
leve in the Prohibition of the liquor traffic. the con-
vention will be your gathering and it will strive to do
your bidding.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1913-09-26
Observation-Disclosures mni-P Partisan

Those in charge of arrangements for the Biennial
Convention of the Anti-Saoon League of America in
Columbus Ohio, November 1913, have received the
acceptance to appear the program, of Rev. P. J.
O'Calaghan, of Chicago, president of the Catholic
Total Abstinence Union Father O'Callaghan was one
of the delegates appointed by President Wilson rep
resent the United States government the AntAlco-
holic Congress at Milan.
On that same program Protestant clergy and
aity, men of all political parties and women of all
shades of political and religious belief veterans of
both the Union and Confederate forces old folks and
young folks East and West. 1t will be gathering
of persons who may not agree with each other in many
respects, but who will be in full and hearty accord on
traffic in America must be put out of existence
A score OF years ago, when the Ant-Saloon
League was being organized, such convention would
have been impossible. Then, there were those who
dealing with the liquor traffic still others saw no
ope OF accomplishing anything save through moral
uasion some of the pioneers had vision of elimnat-
ing the business through political party; some good
folks indeed, had solution in the drinking of the
weaker beverages and the reranng from the stronger
ones there still other remedies plans and pro-
grams Few indeed, believed in what then was called
taking the church into politics."
Denominatonaism and party lealty were very
strong in those days Sectional strife also held up its
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1913-09-26
Fail Elections

In some states this fall there will be the election
OF municipal and state officials. There is office that
IS too small to be unimporant and candidate whose
standing temperance and law enforcement should
not be inquired into by those voters who stand for
righteous administration. Keep tab on your can
didates
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1913-09-22

than the statement that in i've months
in the canal zone he never heard any
one speak slurringly of the chief engi-
neer.
As Admiral schley said Of the con-
troversy over, the battle. Of Santiago.
"There is honor enough for us ALL so
with regard to the Panama canal.
Colonel Goetha,s,, as the star OF the
last six years. gets the curtain calls.
but Messrs. Stevens and Wallace, too,
did their parts well. And the whole
company Of Americans. composing the
chorus or supernumeraries. have con
tributed vitality to the success of the
play. After all, 1t is no one man, but
the spirit Of Americanism, indomitable
and triumphant. that we admire in
Panama.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1913-09-22

York, on It's way to San Francisco, en-
tiers the sea level channel in Limon
bay and steams for seven miles
through the canal, which is 500 feet
wide and forty-one feet deep, to Gatun
Here its way is barred by massive
pile of masonry with impressive steel
gates, and towering eighty-fye feet
above the ship is the surface of the
Gatun lake. To the west of the ship
runs the man made mountain, the
Gatun dam, which holds the lake in
bounds. The problem is to lift the
ship to this lake.
As If by magic, the gates swing open,
and an electric locomotive, which has
run out on guide wall and fastened
to the ship, tows it into the first lock.
The gates swing together. and the ship
is imprisoned in chamber 1000 feet
long and ITO feet wide and built of
concrete. In moment the water in
this chamber begins to rise, being sup
Piled through holes in the bottom, and
the ship rises with the water.
Fifteen minutes after entering the
lock the ship has risen with the water
for twenty-seven and one-half feet. II
the full capacity for filling the lock
should be used the ship would rise
that height in eight minutes. Another
set Of gates swing open in front Of
the ship, and the locomotives tow 1t
into the second lock, n concrete cham
Der of the same dimensions. The gates
having closed behind, this chamber be-
gins filling with water until the ship
is raised again for twenty-seven and
one-half feet A third set of gates
open, and the ship is lowed into the
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1913-09-22
HELD FOR COURT.

Henry Smith, negro. was sent to
jail Monday by Justice t. G. Nice
warner to await the next term OF
criminal court for holding up and
rob0ing Henry Mcdaniel. an aged
resident of Northview, of a gold
watch ON Fourth street near the
Waldo hotel last Monday night.
Smith was caught In the act Of com
hitting the robbery by Police offcer
Slope.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1913-09-22
.,IItRY
Has Case Of Calvin Howell
against a Garage
Concern.

A jury in the circuit court was de-
liberating the suit Of Calvin P. How
ell against the Monticello Auto and
Garage Company when the Telegram
went to press, Monday afternoon. the
suit is for $500 on an alleged breach
of warranty in the sale OF an automo-
bile and it was started last wednes-.
day. 1t was submitted to the jury
Monday forenoon.
George NJ. Allender was awarded Z
judgment of s4,Os7.5O against the Run
Smooth Oil and Gas Company.
Trial of the condemnation suit 81
the Philadelphia Company OF west
Virginia against Mortimer W. Smith
for a right Of way for twelve inch
pipe line across land owned by him
on Buffalo creek in Union district was
started Monday afternoon.
Answers were filed by the defends
ants in the suit of Clarence P. Stout
against the Clifford heirs. IA
=.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1913-09-22
SEVERE STORM
Sweeps Sections of Maryland
Causing One Mans
Death.


BALTIMORE, Md, Sept. 22-Sec-
ton of Maryland were swept by de-
structive storms of wind and rain
yesterday evening. causing damage
to crops and buildings that win run
into the thousands.
On farm in Hartford county,
Carroll Presley and his bethrothed
took refuge in barn that shortly
afterwards was demolished, burying
Presley beneath the ruins and Sc
verely ihiuring the young woman.
Presley died Immediately after be-
ing extricated nine hours later. His
back was broken.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1913-09-22

prepare a foundation for the tremen.
dously heavy structure. Careful Dor
ings had been made to ascertain If a
suitable foundation could be found
there.
On Aug. "a. 1909, the first concrete
was laid in the Gatun lock site. Rock
Of desirable kind for use in making
the concrete as wei! as sand could not
be found in the canal zone, and expert.
ments along the coast showed that at
Porto Bello. twenty miles east Of
Colon, good rock could be quarried,
and sand was discovered in suitable
quantities and quality at Nombre de
Dios, forty miles east of Colon. These
two places are thesol on the 18th.
mus, Columbus having been there in
1902.
Rock crushing began at Porto Bello
on March ., 1900. If all the rock and
sand removed from Porto Bello and
Nombre de-Dios were placed in barges
separated by the usual distances in a
tow they would reach from Colon to
New Orleans, or 1900 miles. This ma
terial was towed to Colon and thence
through the old French canal to
Gatun. Here it was unloaded by ma
chinery and stored conveniently for
the concrete mixing plant.
All the machinery and equipment for
building the locks were designed on a
scale commensurate with the unprece-
dented size Of the structures. Eight
giant mixers were fed with rock. sand
and cement by cars operated by cleo
tricity. the finished product coming
from each of the mixers at the rate Of
sixty-four cubic feet for each complete
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1913-09-22
OLDEST CONVICT
In the Ohio Penitentiary at
Columbus is Pardoned
by the Governor.

COLUMBUS, O., Sept 22.-After
spending practically all of his life
since he attained to manhood inside
the penitentiary walls. John Taborn,
the Oldest convict in the Ohio peniten-
tiary, was pardoned today by Cover
nor Cox. He had been prisoner for
forty-three years.
Taborn was convicted of murder in
1870 and sentenced to life imprison-
ment. He is now &C years of age.
During the administration of Cover
nor Harris a pardon was offered him
on the condition that he become an
inmate of the state soldiers home at
sandusky. He refused the pardon at
that time. declaring that he would as
soon be in one prison as another"
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1913-09-22
MURDER CAMPAIGN
For Collection of Insurance
by Schmidt and Muret is
Disclosed.


NEW YORK, Sept. 22.-Evidence
that Father Schmidt and DR.. Ernest
Muret, his dentist friend, planned a
campaign of murder for the purpose
of collecting life insurance money,
reached the police today. 1t tended
to explain the blank death certificates
found in schmidt's room.
The evidence came from a physi-
clan, who told Inspector Faurot of
the detective bureau, that Schmidt
and Muret a short time ago tried to
arrange with him to issue death GER
tificates in the event Of the sudden
death of persons just insured.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1913-09-22
PASSENGER
Train Delayed Seven Hours by Small
Freight Wreck.

Baltimore and Ohio passenger train
No. 5, running between Cumberland
and clarksburg, and due at the local
station at 10 o'clock at night, was de-
layed seven hours Saturday night and
did not arrive at the local station un-
til o'clock Sunday morning. A small
freight wreck near the Phillips Sheet
and Tin Plate company's plant east
of the city was the cause of the delay.
Three cars and caboose were broken
up.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1913-09-22

final lock, where the operation is re-
peated with riseto thirty feet, or
total lift for the three locks of
eighty-fve feet. When the gates in
front swing open the ship steams out
into the Gatun lake. The time spent
in climbing eighty-five feet was an
hour and half.
For sixteen miles through this lake
the ship steams in channel 1000 feet
wide, for four miles in a channel 500
feet wide and for three miles in a
channel 500 feet wide. or twenty-three
miles in all Then it enters the famous
Culebra cut, which is 300 feet wide
through the continental mountain d.
vide and nine miles long. At the end
Of the cut is the Pedro Miguel lock.
thirty-two miles from Gatun.
After entering this lock. which es-
sentially is the same as the ones on
the Atlantic side the ship goes through
the reverse of the process at Gatun.
The water in the concrete chamber be-
gins falling. taking the ship down with
lit. When It has fallen thirty feet the
gates in front open and the ship goes
out into another artificial lake. mile
and a half long, at the end Of which
are the Mlraflores locks. These two
locks lower the ship twenty-seven and
half feet each, or total for the three
locks of eighty-fiye feet. which was the
height the ship was raised on the other
side. The ship then steams through
sea level channel for seven miles to
the Pacific, having made the whole
journey from deep water in the At
lantlc to deep water in the Pacific,
fifty miles. in ten hours.
At both ends the locks are built in
pairs or twins, so that ships going
In opposite directions may pass
through them simultaneously. wall
sixty feet thick separates the. locks,
and II one set should become disabled
the adjoining set still would be avail
able for passage. The time required
for ship to mount the three locks on
one side and descend the three locks on
the other side is three hours
On the Atlantic side the locks at
Gatun are connected and constitute
one solid piece of masonry. on the
Pacific side the lock at Pedro Miguel
IS separated from the two locks ut Mi
rafores by small lake a mile and a
half long. This lake. like the great
Gatun lake. is formed by damming riv-
crs. A dam at the Pedro Miguel lock.
which is the first lock encountered go
Ing toward the Pacific. holds the wa
tiers of Gatun lake from splitting down
the Pacific slope.
Chief Engineer Stevens began the
excavations in the Gatun and Pedro
Miguel lock sites in 1906 shortly after
the decision was made for lock type
canal. but most of the excavation and
all of the concrete laying have been
done under Colonel Cocktails. 1t was
necessary to remove about 100000
cubic yards of rock and earth from
the site of the three locks at Gatun to
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1913-09-22
0CTOGENARIAN
Of Winfield Takes Out LII
cense to Wed a P it's
burg Woman.

P1TTsBURG, Pa, Sept. o. ~
eighty years OF age and looking much
younger. F. F. Morris, farmer, OF
Winfield, w. va, this morning took
out license to wed Ella G. Rey-
nolds, aged SIS years, of this city.
Both APPLICANTS were married preyi-
ously, Morris having lost HIS wife by
death in April, 1912. The aged
brfde-to-be was left a widow in Au-
gust, 1898.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1913-09-22
CHAPTER XII.

Wonderful Locks and Dams.
AN elevator system for ships Is be-
"a ing installed at Panama at a
"A cost of S5s,OO0OO0. These ele-
vators. known rs locks. viii
raise ships to and lower them from the
great artificial inland lake which is
eighty-five feet above sea level.
There are six locks on the Atlantic
tide and six on the Pacific side, at
each END of the Gatun lake.
a ship arriving at Colon from New
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1913-09-22
operation.

operation.
To get the concrete into place four
cableways suspended across the lock
site on towers eighty-6ye feet high
were installed. Electrically operated
cars brought the concrete to these
towers, where great buckets were I'LL
ed. These buckets then were run up
. to the cables and out on the cables to
given point, where they were lower
ed and the concrete dumped into the
proper position. ''4'sois
After the floors of the locks had been
laid the walls were built in the usual
manner OF erecting steel forms. which
were removed when the concrete had
hardened. At Gatun the walls of the
locks were built in sections thirty.six
feet long and Joined together. on the
Idea that such construction would have
less tendency to settle and crack than
IL 1t were built in one solid, continuous
wall. This may be appreciated when It
is understood that at Gatun the locks
form a concrete wall about $500 feet
long, or considerably more than half
mile. The disable part of each lock is
1000 feet long, and there are three in
fight.
In each of the outside walls and in
the center wall tunnels eighteen feet
in diameter were constructed for use
in filling and emptying the locks with
water during the processes OF raising
and lowering ships. Smaller tunnels
run out from these main longitudinal
tunnels, under the floors of the locks,
with openings through which the water
is turned into or withdrawn from the
lock chamber by gravltation. Valves
operated by electricity regulate the
flow of the water. The water for
operating the locks starts from the
Gatun lake and flows through the tun-
nels down grade through the three locks
until it finally is used in the lowest
lock. when it is spilled into the sea
level channel.
The first concrete for the Pacific side
locks was laid at Pedro Miguel on
Sept. 1, 1909. seven days after the be.
ginning of operations at Gatun. 1t
was in February, 1910, that concrete
work was started In the two locks at
Miraflores. For all twelve locks 1885, |
900 cubic yards of concrete were re-
quired.
For the three locks at Gatun 2,0O0.-
900 cubic yards of-concrete were reqnir.
cd. for the one lock at Pedro Miguel
92l,0o0 cubic yards and Tor the two
locks at Mirafores 1.504.O0O cubic
yards. A contract was awarded for
100000 barrels of cement. with the
privilege of increasing this order by Is
ier cent, and in 1912 another 1000 900
barrels were bought to complete the
canal.
All twelve locks were half done as
regards the concrete work about May
l, 1911. The best months record for
laying concrete was made in April,
1912, in the Pacific division, when 97,-
1876 cubic yards were laid. The con
crete .is.all of REINFORCED construction.
and an unusual feature has been the
placing of rocks weighing many tons
throughout the walls. The lock walls
at Pedro Miguel were not built in sec
tons, as at Gatun. but as one solid |
piece Of masonry more than 1000 feet
long. At Mirahores the two locks were /
built in sections, as at Gatun.
Ito be contlnued.)
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1913-09-22

One citizen ofeLopisiana Is so I'M
pressed with the need for medical In
spection in the schools that he has
furnished the salary of the health
officer in his community,
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1913-09-22

If anything in. the world should b
done with foresight and insight, it is
the buying OF the home supplies. TIL
task offers daily opportunities for wise
economies, az well as for wise choice
Of things-sud the hd. reader coins
these opportunities into money an
beuetits.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1913-09-22

News OF new Jobs in today's CLASH
ned ads-"news'' Of as much personal
interest to you as your income itself
Is OF personal interest
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1913-09-22
REPUBLICANS 81
NAME HEARNE.
and several others.
Rousing Ovation.
CONTINUED from page Ons.l

SNS UfaAVh
AS Mr.. Hearne was the only one
placed in nomination his selection
was made by reclamation. He was e..
corted to the platform and after re.
celving tremendous ovation made q,
splendid speech of acceptance.
The congressional executive com-
mittee met later in the afternoon and
selected new chairman. secretary
and treasurer.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1913-09-22
Empire Building Directory.

a. Q. Alexander Broke.aeo 90.
Zen AZ Fourth ElOOl
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1913-09-22

Board Of Education,
Clarksburg Independent DlstEica.
Room 4si Fourth Floor
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1913-04-10
HELD COURT IN A RIVER.
The Attorney Was In Hurry, and the
Judge Was Accommodating.

The Attorney Was In Hurry, and the
Judge Was Accommodating.
TO act In a legal capacity while en-
joying a morning swim-surely a
unique record In the annals of law
once fell to the lot of Vice Chancellor
Shadwell.
The then Duke of Newcastle had
commenced to cut down the timber at
Clumber in such a rapid and wholesale
manner as to raise the anger Of his
eldest son, Lord Lincoln, who, finding
expostulation useless, turned to the
law and sought an injunction to re-
strain his father. Although 1t was
long vacation, he ordered his solicitor
to press matters forward, for the mag
nificent trees were falling at an alarm
ing rate.
So up to town posted the attorney
and had the afidavits drawn up the
same night. The following morning
he repaired to the vice chancellor's
house on the banks of the Thames, to
find on his arrival that the chancellor
had gone for his mornings swim.
With exemplary presence Of mind he
chartered boat and after stiff pull
came up with the Judge and at once
stated his case. Meanwhile the vice
chancellor trod water and, on the In
junction being formally applied for,
granted 1t forthwith and resumed his
swim.-Tit-Bit