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To Be Produced Soon.

The Travelling Salesman" In Wyo-
ming" The Battle" "A Woman's
Way" "At The Old Cross Roads," and
The Regeneration" will be presented
at the Murray theatre by the FraGcis
Sayles Players at an early date.
Each of these plays have been sue
cessful and Mr.. Sayles will give them
elaborate productions.
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MASONIC CALENDAR

Monday, August 4.-Richmond Com
mandary, No. $, X. 7. State conclave.
Tuesday. August 5-Richmond lodge.
No. 1876. F. and \. NJ. Stated meeting
Wednesday, August 6-Webb lodge.
No. "a. +. and 4. NJ. Called meeting.
Work in Fellow Craft degree.
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Palace.

In today's program the Palace pre-
The subject, Little Dorritt," after
Charles Dickens novel, is produced by
the Thanhouser company in two mag
nificent parts. The leading role is
taken by Miss Maude Fealey, one of
the most popular legitimate stars in
America, this being her second ap-
pearance in motion pictures. Assisting
Miss Fealey are the entire cast of
ThanhOuser players. The costuming is
gorgeous and the settings are the
most elaborate ever seen in a photo
play. With this is shown a Reliance
drama Below the Dead Line
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pear TO better advantage this week
than in any play yet presented.
The scenic equipments that will be
used this week are all just the same
as was used in the big production that
appeared here several years ago. Dur
ing the week the regular matinees will
be given.
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tend to make us think that Progress is
the normal fact in human society, the fact
wt>ch we should expect to see. the fact
which We should be surprised if we did NOT
see. But history refutes this The an
clients had no conception of progress; they
did not so much as reject the idea, they
did not even entertain the idea. Oriental
nations are just the same now. (Wrtten
in 1871 Since history began they have
ALWAYS been what they are Savaees again
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POINTED PARAGRAPHS
TRIED BOTH.

Selecting good canteoupe looks just easy as pick
ing the shell under which the little pea reposes.
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MUST HAVE THEIR RIGHTS
Philadelphia Bulletin
Next thing those Sing Sing will be demanding
FILTRATION under the Erdnnan
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SOCIAL CERTAINTIES
THE LAW OF SOCIAL eRAvITATIoN."

r N THAT golden little book of his" physics an
Politics. Walter Bagehot has this to say about "prc
/ gress": "Our habitual instructors ordinary cor
yersation our inevitable and ineradicable preiudce
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SOME OF EN- STILL WORKING.

IeVeIand Plain UeaIeT.
Up the present time there has been no attempt
organize a cabinet lecture bureau.
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At the Murray.

Week of Aug. 4-"Brewster's Mil
lions"
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1913-03-28
Remarkable History of the
Great Enterprise. Colo
mel GoethaIs

contrlvance at Pedro Miguel will give
upon the lower level of SoSa lake The
Pacific ocean is reached by a fna.
flight OF locks nj Sosa hill.
The channel is forty-five feet deem
and at least 800 feet wide at the bot
tom The dimensions of the harbor
channel are maintained through a tidal
waterway running three miles inland
10 Gatun. For distance of nearly
sixteen miles from the entrance locks
the channel has width in general ex.
ceeding half mile and affording lake
navigation so that vessels may anchor.
pass and change direction freely.
Beyond San Pablo, the twenty.four
mile point, the channel decreases 10
500 feet for about four miles and then
to SEQ for the remainder ~ the way Ia
Obispo. Through the heaviest portions
of the Culchra cut the canal Is 200
feet wide, which is the minimum bot.
tom width along the canal
Immediately beyond the locks at Pc
dro Miguel the channcl again broad
ems to 800 feet, rapidly charging to
1000 feet and for two miles runs
through Il deep cXpanse Of water more
than mile in breadth 20 the Mira
flores locks on Sosa hill Thence for n
distance of foUr miles To the seven
fathom curve beyond Isle perico the
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A GUESSING Game.

In this game the leader tells one Of
the players 10 think Of any number no
likes. hnt not to say it aloud. He next
tells him to double it This done the
player is told To add eight 10 the re-
suit and then halve II After doing this
he must hulve the whole and from
what Il left take away the number
first thought Of II correctly worked
out the answer will be four. which Is
Just half the number which the lender
told the player to add after the original
number was doubled For instance.
we will suppose the number thought
OF to have been twenty. When doubled
the result will be forty. The player
then adds eight which gives him to-
tai of forty.eight He halves this and
has tweuty.rour left. When he has tas.
EN- away the number first thought W
twentyl he has q total Of four. which
is half the number the leader told him
TO add in the beginning of the game.
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1id.sln III. aau Of Enndx.

From the botpm of the bay ~ Fun
dy come some of the finest grindstones
i'm the world. md the manner in which
they are procured is simple and in
genous. the stonecutters making the
exceptional tide perform the hardest
part of the work When the tide ~
out. which happens twice every day.
the workmcn quarry the stones from
the solid rock aud fasten them to n
biz fatboat Then IN comes the tide.
mighty food rushing in as though
the great ocean bad suddenly changed
IT'S mind. Wonderful sight il is. rising
often ms high rs y house. Aud now
the men have nothing more to de-. The
tide HITS the boat. aud UP comes the
stone with H. Boat and stone are then
brought close inshore. where the stone
is removed at leisure when the tide is
out.
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cd was estimated at Sl1O,WOOOO. the
cost nj Sl2O.OOOOOo, the annual reve
me nj SiS.OOO.OOO and the cost OF
maintenance at Sl.2O0.WO. The 90
lomhian government had i'm 1878 made
n grant for the exclusive privilege OF
building the canal to the French com
many. In October. 1881. the contractor
began work. Prior 10 this the United
States interfered Automatically. Co
lombia proposed n Joint guarantee by
European powers of the neutrality OF
the canal James g. Blaine. the sec
rotary of state. protested that such ac'
ton would he regarded as violation
Of the Monroe doctrine. hut WIN the
deoth ~ President Garfield that sub
iect was dropped.
De Lcsscps died in prison in 1874
while serving sentence for fraudu'
lent use Of the canal money, ana theh
the canal subject dragged slowly until
the United States took II up AGAIN
when the Colombia government turned
down the proposal OF the United states
70 nav S2O.OOO.OOO for the canal conces
sion the state of Panama, in which the
canal property was located. seeded
and became republic. The United
States had already paid the new ran
anna canal company-the French con
corn that took over what was left OF
tbe De Lesseps wreck-SiOoOo,ooo Tor
the rights.
John Findley Wallace was placed IN
charge Of the canal organization Tor
the United states. In 1900 President
Roosevelt appointed Theodore Ferry
sbonts president of the new canal com
mission lie was succeeded by John F
stevens. who * credited with doing eN
celcnt preliminary work on the canal
u was in 1907 that Colonel Gocthols
took charge and began to make the
dlrt ay out Of the 2l2ii5,T66 cubic
wards taken out for the canal inc
French removed 29,9os,0o cubic yards
the Americans from 1904 to lW'
q oso INC cubic yards, and in the re
moininp time Colonel Goethals' steam
.hovels excavaicd s6.97s.lol CUBIC
yards.
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PANAMA CANAL IS PRACTICALLY
READY FOR THE FIRST VESSEL
Obstacles of Centuries Over
c0me--The Wonderful
Lock System
At last the Panama canal is prac.

AT last the Panama canal is prac.
~ tically finished! Obstacles
which for centuries have baf-
fed the rulers and civil en-
rlneers OF the world have been over
come through the energy of Colonel
George Washington Goethals. l.. =. A.,
and the persistency of Colonel w. &.
Gorgas, q. :. A., who solved the prob
lem of sanitation in the canal zone.
The canal has been pushed To com
pletion almost a year before the most
sAnguine observers believed Il pos
sible, and many years before the gen
eral public thought il would he done.
Then, too, il has been finished at n
cost of few millions less than the
estimate of S3T5.OOO,0O0 The amount
spent Is n tri6e less than 100000. 600
in excess Of that which had already
been expended by France I'm her I'M
successful attempts To build the canal
under De I,esseps.
Monument to the American People.
If there has been any doubt lurking
IN the minds of skeptics as to who is
the real power in this half of the
world the building Of the Panama
canal by the United States will prob
ably settle that for all time. II means
a revolution in the freight rates Of the
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past the nitcd States government has
one of the finest and most luxurious
hotels in the world There will be
others caravansaries Of the up Ia date
summer hotel type. chiefly for transient
guests. with French cooking. tennis
courts, swimming pools and all the
latest improvements. They will bc
practically incloscd in wire screens To
keep out mosquitoes, though such pes
tiferouS insects are by no means SO
plentiful in the canal zone aS they were.
II is figured that steamer passengers,
disembarking for amusement and sight
seeing. will easily he able to rcioin
their ships after spending n couple of
DAYS I'm froic and to continue their
trips without interruption. Meanwhile
the ship. incident Ia its passage
through the ditch. will be able To take
on coal. food supplies. ice. etc. For this
purpose machinery of the latest and
most improved pattern will he installed
by the government. an important fea-
ture OF It being the mechanical steve
dore." which 10y the help of an endless
belt and an electric engine carries mer'
chandse aboard quickly In packages.
Plant Already In Existence.
1t was suggested 10y President TAFT
that all of this supply business can be
managed and controlled much better
by the government than by outside
parties. TO accomplish the end In view
II will he necessary merely 10 expand
To some extent the plant already cstab-
lished at Cristobal. This plant com
prises immense storehouSes and n
manufacturing outfit Of remarkable
completeness. the latter including the
laundry already mentioned, n huge bak-
cry. an ice factory. n cold storage equip
ment and arrangements for roasting
coffee. making ice cream, corning beef
and converting tub butter into attrac'
tive prints.
MIR Taft argued that II private con
Germs were allowed To enter the field II
might happen that one or more big cor
porations would boost prices. thus In
creasing the cost Of using the canal
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world and the opening up of scores OF
new harborS in South America. liar
hOrs which heretofore were practically
inaccessible for commercial purposes.
In the Panama canal the people have
gigantic plant that Is likely To stand
for all time as monument tn Ameri-
can progress.
Now. the Panama canal as construct
ed consists in the formation of two
artificial lakes covering the isthmus
from sea to sea. How this was aC-
complished may better lac understood
by a consideration of the coniiguration
of the neck Of land between Colon and
Panama The island of Manzanillo
upon which Colon stands. lies largely
below water level. From the shore the
ground rises In the course of seven
miles to n ninety foot elevation at
Gatun. II then dips sharply. and from
Gatun to Obispo. n distance OF twenty
three miles. II maintains n general
elevation of forty feet above the mean
level Of the Atlantic. Obispo Is the
northern entrance 10 the divide. ana
Pedro Miguel Is the southern exit The
distance between these points Is eight
miles. From Pedro Miguel 10 Sosa bill.
on the shore Of Panama bay. Is n
stretch Of six miles Of land. hardly
anywhere exceeding ton feet above
the mean level Of the Pacific ocean.
Eighty.hve Feet Elevation.
The huge dam Mt Gatun arrests ana
impounds the waters Of the Chagres
and its continents so Ms to form lake
llO square miles in extent, stretching
TO Oblspo. the normal water level M
eighty.hve feet elevation The same
level Is maintained In the Culebra cut
from Obispo to Pedro Miguel. This
stretcn of about thirty-two miles con
sttutes the summit level of the canal
On the Pacific side of the divide sys'
tenn OF dams designed To cntrap the
Rio Grande converts the six miles oi
or the line from Pedro Miguel To Sosn
nil into second lake. with water
level or nifty feet. Al Gatun the
summit Ia reached by means or triple
hight Of duplicate locks, and similar
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channel has 300 foot bottom at the
standard depth of forty five feet

channel has n 300 foot bottom at the
standard depth of forty five feet.
Tho Gatun Dam.
The controlling feature Of the cana
,s the great earth dam across the
Chagres at Gatun. 1t Is by tar the
largest and strongest structure OF It's
kind I'm the world dwarting even the
dams which have been built by the
government i'm connection with the IT.
rication work i'm the southwest. ltS
TON is fiftv feet above the water leVe'
I'm the lake and 100 feet wide NJ the
water line the distance through tue
dam will be 3Il feet aud AT sea leVeI
the corresponding distance VIII ne
more than half mile. II Is t,ioo iee'
long and contains 21.2oo,ooo cuDic
yards Of material. II eXerts welsh'
unon IFS foundation equal to about one
TON nor souare foot for every twenty
feet of height. Under the highest por
tIon of the embankment the presSur'
"a six and one-half tons per square toot
= - II
The regulating works consist oi q
sol,d mass of masonry almost seventy
foot In elevation ON the top OF NV
crest grooved piers eight feet IN thick
moss are fitted with sluice gates cap"
h,e of discharging 10000 cubic ice'
10 votor pcr second when the lake i
M moro than one foot above the nor
mai level These regulating works car
no depended upon to prevent tne ,aN' '
r,s,no more than two feet on OCCASIONS
OF excessive flood. -,
The function Of Lake Gatun VI ",
sordinc an easily navigablc chanhe' !,
~ no more vital Importance tnah W
service rs reservoir ana source .
,upplv IN the dry seasons. -. =.
Tb,s volume OF water Is subject u
eroporatlon and inhltration. ana II U
called mon 10 furnish power for worn
inc the lock gates. lighting ana variou
other purposes :. ,,ro
Tho locks NJ Gatun arc IN thre'
e,sh,s with lifts Of $3.50 feet each
Eourteen gates are required for thes
dunlica,e flights. The amount OF eA
covotion for the Gatun locks. en'or''
inc a distance of 3,l36 linear feet meas
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gcSt cold storage plants in the world
II supplies the cutirc zone with meats.
game. frcSh vegetables and all sorts OF
other pCriShabic food materials With
some enlargcmcntS perhaps it will FUR
nish whatever j. required in this line
by ships that pass through the canal.
In connection with this plant j. the
ice factory. which has IA capacity of
100 tons day. the ice being sod al -
cents per 100 pounds During The last
year the establishment nj CriStobal
manufactured llO2OS gallons of ice
cream. which was furnished to falni
lies Ivy the pint or quart and To hotels
and stores 10y the tub.
Will &c a Thing of Beauty,
Just NJ present the band of the utlli-
tarinn maebs the Pauama canal and
its surroundings. but iu the course of II
few years after the formal opening all
this will pass and Tho canal and IFS
surroundings will become n thing of
beauty aud JOY forever"
After the canal has been open for a
time It will present mnuy surprises
hut none more striking than it's beauty
Nature Is very kind IN the canal zone
and II viii require hut short time
after the excavation has ceased for the
luxuriant tropical vegetation To cover
every trare of blast and steam shove
and to clothe the sides of the cana
with verdurc as notable for its fora
beauty as for It's ability to conceal the
scored and riven walls Of mother earth
The passenger entering from the At
lantlc will pass first the new American
town Of CriStobal. opposite Colon
whore he will see the handsome Wash
ington ho,cl and perceive rows ~ oozy
well painted residences Of the employ
ees. which despite their similarity I,
| the old fashioned meat safe will strik,
him rs singularly neat and attractive
especially for the tropics.
Extensive concrete wharfs. Ivy thei
very solidity inspiring confidence II
/ the great locks which are 10 lift th'
/ ship eighty-hve feet above sea leve
and send II over an inland lake almos
to the Pacific, will line the water from
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GREATEST OF ALL MONUMENTS TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE

urea along the canal axis. was 3.GOO. 900
cubic yards. More than l,3O0.uOO cubic
yards of concrete masonry. quantity
Unparalleled in modern building opera
tons, was required.
Centuries ago Spaniards thought of
the marvellous problem of cutting
through the thick neck which joined
North aud South America
II was Balboa in 1913 who discovered
the neck that has played such an i'm
pOrtant part In the worlds navigation
problem. The honor might have gone
to Columbus if it had not been for the
injustice which finally bighted his life.
But exactly ten years after Balboa's
discovery GalvaO, Spanish sub
Ject. suggested To his king Charles V.
the feasibility of waterway through
the isthmuS. Cortes was charged by
: the king with the location Of the route,
and surveys were made.
But the action of the United States.
which finally eliminated In the actual
prosecution of the work as Il govern
. ''h'hl 'h''l III lNfs MUS the beginning
not long after the declaration of the
Monroe doctrine ana at the beginning
of President JackSon'S term of Office
The government then i'm control Of
Central America proposed that this
government cooperate with MS i'm the
/ building of an iuteroCeanic canal But
! II was abandoned then because capital
was not forthcoming It was renewed
again i'm 1891 and abandoned again for
/ the same reason
The De Lesseps Failure.
J II was some years after the United
/ States had decided that the building
of the waterway by private foreign
interests would not he violation Of
] the Monroe doctrine If neutrality was
guaranteed that VI. Ferdinand de Les
seps. the successful progenitor of the
/ Suez canal, called n congress of French
engineers, which was convened at
Paris on May IL, 1879. Out Of the
eight routes the committee suggested
a tidewater route The capital requir
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Breskiro Even.

Pat Ito doctorl-"1f OF live. doctor.
sure OIL have you to thank for IT.
Pats Wife somewhat prejudiced
against the doctor)-"And II you die,
Pat. you can thank him, too."-Judge.
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Celored Range Lights.

II will Ice as the ships emerge int"
Gaun lake tlmt the real beauty OF the
canal will impress the observer. Not
only will he note the artistic cOnStruc-
ton of the great concrete structure
which contains the three locks but he
will perceive the pretty little light
houses along the shore at least a land
lubOer would 50 describe them. al
though 10 uavilators they are known
as range lights If it be- night the pas
scuger will hud himself closer 10 the
low hanging tropica sky with its blaz-
ing stars than he ever believed pos
sibe. \ wealth Of electric lights will
make the locks rs bright as day the
power being generated by the water
which PUSHES over Gatun spillway
Along the lake the colored range
lights will lend enchnntmest To the
scene. II it he daylight the tourist will
he filled with wonder and admira ton
for the wonderful vegetation. the gor-
geous colorS of the fora. the ever pres
ent banana trees with their huge clus-
tcrs of fruit. the passion flowers glow
ing in riotOus prOfusion and here and
there the hamingo sailing above him
against the vivid sky. The duration of
the trip through Gatun lake will de-
pend. OF course. on the speed of the
vessel itself. but it is estimated that
ten or twelve hours will prove suiii.
cient to con'ey the average vessel from
the Atlantic 10 the Pacific.
At Pedro Miguel a single lock, prac
tically a duplicate of any Of those al
Gatun. will lower the vessel 10 the
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at CriStobnl \ sail OF about seven
lilies al sen level between low hanks
covered with tropical flowers ana foil
age will bring the ship to the approach
wharf of the Gatuu locks. While during
the trip the passenger Will enjoy an eX-
Cclienr view OF the surplus waters Of
the Culehra river and several lesser
streams as they tumble madly aver ne
spillway wall, near the center of Gs'un
dam. n miniature Niagara
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"Spiggcty" Spoken In Panama.

Before going out 10 sea. however. the
ship will probably stop at Balboa, the
prospective little town which will mark
the Pacifi, end of the canal. There
will be located the drydock now in
process Of construction. and great
wharfs for the transfer of cargo. \
few minutes run 10y rail will take the
passenger who has the time and incli-
nation 10 the quaint city Of Panama.
where he can put In several days sight
seeing In Is narrow streets aud hear
spoken all languages of the world. al
though "SIIEgoty," American slang cor
Spanish H. the prevailing tongue.
Just back OF and adjoining Panama
is Ancon Hill. headquarters of the is,h.
milan cana, commission. aud there is
the hands, me Tivoli hotel. from the
broad verandns at which a splendid
view of the Pacific is afforded ald
from which the sun may he seen rising
over the Pacific ocean, puzzling phe
nomenOn for him who has not mas
tered his geography before going To the
isthmus
II is n safe prediction that the bcSu
ties NJ the Panama canal will appeal
strongly TO those of aesthetic taste and
that once 1t j. opened TO the public
many travellers will he drawn there Tot
alone 10y the interest attaching 10 80
great an engineering enterprise. but b,
the opportunity TO 60 inland in thu
tropics and to enjoy the rare beauty o.
this unique waterway without eve
leaving the deck Of the ship.
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TNCLE SAM has just about con
cludcd that having been 50
~ successful rs laundryman
down on the iSthmuS of Pan.
anna. he will be2in taking in washing
for all nations. Not only that, but IL is
very likely that he will have to go into
the grocery and general food supply
business. too, on account of the open
ing of the new canal.
Furnishing ships of all nations; it
seems. * going IT, prove one OF Uncle
Sans biggest problems in connection
with the operation of the new water
way. Uncle sam realizes that on ar
rival mt Panama going east or at Co
ion going wesb there will lac n sCram-
BILE TO get ashore. Passengers aud ev-
crybody else who can escape duty will
want To stretch their legs on dry land
and tO take n look around incidental
ly they will wish To buy lot of things
and To send their linen to the laundry
ut Cristobal to be delivered on board
before their departure.
Uncle Sam as Landlord
Then again there will hr Il lot of poo
pie who will want To stay owe, Thci
will need hotel accommodations. which
according to prcson' p,ru~, viii Ire Ear
niShed 10y Uncle Sam l'ur Spmc YEAR