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mules owned by the canal boatmen. The
towing company furnishes the boats and
the motive power. mules or horses. and
their feed and shoeing. The feed is yei-
low corn the cob, timothy hay and a
bran mash when the stock needs it. The
feed is of as high a quality as the best
kept horses in the stables of Washington
get and the quantity is liberal. 1t is all
that they need. Canal mules do not get
rations of oats. That is higher-priced
feed than corn and is perhaps the best
when it is desired to promote speed and
spirit In horsetlesh or mulefesh. But a
horse or mule doing slow and heavy work
can keep in excellent condition on hard,
well-cured corn if he gets enough of it.
But hay is the feature of the mules
ration about which he is very particular.
He cannot get along without large guam
titles of it. The mule eats more hay and
less grain in proportion to his weight
and power than the horse. On the score
of feeding no one should not feel sorry
for the lot of the canal mule. You can
walk along the towpath and look into
many feed boxes after the mules have
turned away from their grain and you
will nearly always find some ''leavings."
And there will be no suggestion that the
mules were '.off their feed
You will see mules with set-fasts or old
gals and here and there a freshly CALLED
shoulder, but you do not see mules or
horses emaciated from undertaking and
overwork. They are also pretty well
shod. A company owning herds of draft
stock is reasonably sure to have COM
petent horseshoers and overseers or sta
BILE bosses, or something equivalent to
that. who know whether the blacksmith
makes the shoe to fit the hoof or the
hoof to fit the shoe.
Besides. the canal mule has easier
ing for his feet than the poor city brute
no matter how well groomed or how we'll
stabbed, on the hard, smooth pavements
of the town streets. You can move
among the canal mules and though with
their Hopping ears and fly-swatting tails
they may seem to say that their work is
hard and their workday long, vet they
Will never tell you with their big, sad
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Russian Crown and Scepter.

nNE of the most impressive and in
- teresting of the crown treasures OF
the house of Romanof is the crown it
self. II was made for the Empress
Catherine II, when she was about to be
crowned in 1862. and was the work of
jeweler of Geneva.
This crown is in two divisions. repre-
senting the empires of the east and the
west. II follows in form a Byzantine
model. and is valued at more than a
million dollars. That sum represents its
intrinsic value. for no sum would pur-
chase it. In the center of it. between
the two empires" is a splendid pear
shaped ruby. to which are fixed five
great diamonds in the form of cross
Sull more valuable intrinsically than
the crown is the scepter. The Car Pau
mad 1t made for his coronation in 11.7.
Its chief value is due to the fact that
II is ornamented by one of the greatest
diamonds in the world. the one which is
sometimes called the "Orloff' and some
times the "Lazare
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His Labors to Estab-
lish an Inland Water
way From New Eng
land to Florida - 1t
Would Connect With
the Great Lakes, the
Mississippi Valley and
a Gulf Route to the
Rio Grande-Once a
Vision, Now Almost a
Reality.
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The Conference.

CHARLES F. MURPHY was talking to
IA reporter about home rule.
The liberal party" he said. sat tight
while Ulster Dragged and clustered Blu
at the psychological moment the liberal
government made a show of force And
where was Ulster then?
1t reminds me of the conference of the
physical force and anti-physical force
parties in Dublin They conferred long
time, the anti-physical force party was
very patient. the physical force party wac
unreasonable. obstreperous and violent.
but nothing came of it all till the anti
physical force party threw the physical
force party downstairs.
THE liberal government seems to be
the anti-phy sical force party"
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ed to a meeting of his own, not as
supply as they say III the ministry
but as the real orator of the occasion
And the next night and the next night
and so on to the close of the campaign
His man won handiy. Moore did it,
was the candidates comment
So Hampton Moore quit the newspaper
business and went into politics. First he
was chief clerk to the city treasurer for
three years. during which time he in
augurated number of fiscal reforms
At a later period he was secretary to
the mayor In 1901 he won the first
election of his own, and became city
treasurer where he served three years.
In the meantime he had begun to fig
ure more and more in the national af-
fairs of the republican party. His knack
for organizing brought him to the front
in the National Republican League. At
Chicago in 1902 he was elected president
of that organization, and was reelected
at Indianapolis in 1904.
When the new national department of
commerce and labor was organized, Mr..
Moore was made chief of the Bureau of
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l never made a speech in my lifei'
THAT doesn't make any difference;
just talk to them anyhow"
No one ever accused Mr.. Moore of not
being game. Ton intent on furthering the
fortunes of his friend to think much
about himself, this very young report
er. with his keen incisive mind, his
habit of putting his thoughts in terse,
convincing English. his absolute under
standing of the political issues of the
day. and of the character and worth of
his friend. leaped to the platform and
launched upon his first public speech.
His success was instantaneous He
won that audience completely. Not being
handicapped by any knowledge of elocu-
ton or oratorical tricks. he talked, man
fashion, straight from the shoulder. Wit
he had. happy epigrams came tripping
to his tongue, humor and ridicule he
used az a master. and the audience rose
to acclaim him ard his candidate
The next night Mr.. Moore was assign
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deep grooves have been worn in these
iron plates by the tow lines and mary
of the iron pickets have been sawed
through by the hemp
The lockkeeper will tell You that a
towline gritty with wet sand, with two
mules at one end and loaded barge
at the other. will file through anything
it srinds against if you but give it
time, and it does not take much time
The towing company buys towlines by
the ton. The line is three-quarters of
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a QUITE SUNDAY -OMTHE CANAL

he the first lock, of the canal at 29th
street in Georgetown. 1t is close 10 the
point where the canal joins Rock creek
The street crosses the canal on a stone
viaduct and along the sides of the via
duct run brick balustrades topped with
cement coping, and the coping itself is
topped with a stout iron picket fence
and to protect the cement from the wear
ing action of the ropes heavy iron plates
have been laid it as guards. Many
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the consequent curtailment of CONNER
cial opportunity is what the Atlantic
Deeper Waterways Association protests
against. To remedy these conditions
and to put the Atlantic seaboard on a
par in transportation facilities relatively
with other sections of the country has
been the handspring of our movement"
ASHMI-N BROWN.
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great extent the mosquito lie is great
sufferer from these pests, one of which,
with the help of careless men. he aids in
producing. The canal towpath. espe-
cially at those .wide-waters'' where so
many boats stop and where the live stock
is picketed, is fecund breeding place for
flies.
There is good deal that is interesting
about canal towlines You can gain
the right impression of the power of
rope by visiting the last lock, or it may
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AXE REPRESENTATIVE

A IKE Representative
J. Hampton Moore
OF Pennsylvania
out OF a sound
sleep at any time
by murmuring the
mas gic words i'm
tercoastal canal
and instantly he
will start of in
somewhat I n 8
fashion:
a laudable and
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POSING FOR The PHOTOGRAPH

an inch in diameter and from sixty 10
seventy-five yards long. Sixty-five yards
is about the length of the average tow
line. One towlne will last for only
about two trips between Cumberland
and Washington. At the end of the sec
ond trip il will be rather seriously worn
and will perhaps have some knots in it
where it has been broken and patched
up. 1t is then only fit for use on the
up trip. when the boat is light. 1t is
the rule of boatmen to tow upstream,
or up canal, with an old line. The
new line is used for the loaded boat
on the down trip.
The working crew of a canal boat the
kind which travels by day, comprises
the captain and the helper. The cap
tain is nearly always a married man
and his wife. assisted it may be by the
daughters of the household. attends to
the housekeeping. The captain is the
man who engages to deliver cargoes. His
pay is 40 cents ton on coal and other
freight from Cumberland down. The
capacity of the boats is from 10 to 120
tons, the average being about 115 tons.
The day boat will make three trips
a month, coming down loaded and going
back light. That gives the Captain
roughly sl3s month. Out of this he
pays and boards his helper The help
er is paid by the round trip. Usually he
is a boy and his pay varies from 81 to
IS the trip. Six dollars for the round
trip is about the average pay of help
er. The helper will feed, water and
groom the mules, and drive fifteen miles
a day coming down, the captain driv-
ing and walking the other fifteen miles.
and the helper and captain walking about
twenty miles day each on the up
trip.
AS a rule these canal helpers. in addi-
ton to being young. get all the physical
exercise that is needed for good health.
and their appetites are strong-the help
er eats at the family table, though usu-
ally when he comes into his meals the
captain is driving. Some of the captains
wives have the reputation along the
canal of being especially good cooks
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TO Washington folk. This canal has been
having annual openings for nearly hun
dred years and there is none to dispute
it's claim TO being one of the venera ole
institutions of the capital. especially OF
that part of the capital which for nearly
a century and half was Georgetown
and which by many of its loving sons
and daughters is still called Georgetown.
Mid-December is the official time for
the suspension of navigation on the
canal but Suspension sometimes comes
earlier if the weather becomes too un-
favorable for the easy operation of the
boats. At the close of the boating sea-
son the mules and horses - for few
horses labor at the collar end of the
towline-go to such other work as the
coal company or the towing company
may see profitable to sct them at. The
canal boatmen and their families retire
to their generally snug and comfortable
homes at Cumberland, Harpers Ferry,
Hancock. Seneca and scores of places
scattered along the whole course of the
canal.
The time of the official opening of the
canal season is about the first of April,
but often in proptious springs the water
is let into the long trench. the lock gates
are in operation and the barges are NOV
ing silently and steadily and even some
times gayly as early as the middle of
March.
1t is pleasant to think that the mules,
patient and Woodworking creatures. and
not half so vicious unsympathetic
men have represented. come back to the
summer work after a period of we'll
earned rest. 1t is pleasant to think that
they have spent the shivering months in
some comfortable stable or cozy corral,
where the winter sun, when there was
any, shone bright and warm. where the
chill, bleak winds were warded Off. and
where the bedding was deep and dry, and
the food-or the feed-in plenty. but per-
haps this only happened in certain cases.
Perhaps it only happened to some nat
urally thrifty or influential mules. AS
rule they have been busy in other lines
OF industry all winter. and also. as a rule
duties which mules perform IN winter as
well as in summer. are hard work. And
now that spring has come they have
taken up their towlines gain.
Only in exceptional instances are the
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MIR. Mann's theory is that in this day of
large congressional membership no MEM
Der can become of real value to the coun-
try nor to the House unless he adopts
one subject as his own, masters it in all
its details and becomes known as an au-
thority on it. This is precisely what Mr.
Moore has done with regard to water
ways. From his very entrance into Con-
study and his specially
The proposal for the intercoastaI water
way was the early outgrowth of his
study. Briefly it is to link up all existing
canals and natural waterways lying close
to the sea from New England to Florida
and thence to the Rio Grande in a chain
that will provide a sheltered, safe chan
mel for non-seagoing craft. Examine the
map and you will see how by taking ad-
vantage of sounds. canals and channels
behind sheltering Islands this is possi-
BILE.
In 1907 the movement for such a COM
pleted inland waterway took definite form
in the organization of the Atlantic Deeper
Waterways Association at Philadelphia
AT the meeting Mr.. Moore was elected
president. Subsequently at each annual
meeting he has been reelected. These
meetings have been as follows: At Bal
timore. in 1908; at Norfolk, in 1909; at
Providence, in 1910; at Richmond, in 1911
at New London, in 1912. and at Jackson
vile. in 1913.
Specializing thus has given Mr.. Moore a
wider fame than attaches to a mere con-
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Towpath of Old Ches-
apeake and Ohio Canal
Thronged With Mules,
Horses and Their Driv-
ers-A Sure Sign That
Cold Weather Is Gone.
How the Grew of a
Canal Boat Works.
Taking Care of the
Motive Power - The
Canal Boat as a Home.
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LIE season of boat

HE season Of boat
ing on the canal
has opened BY
canal is meant.
of co urs e. the
G. h c s a peake and
Ohio canal, the an
lent waterway
" hose course and
towpath, barges,
teams and people
furnish SO much
that is interesting
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proper proposition. contemplating a wa
terway link between the north and south
and the binding up of more than $1,000
900 people who do business along the At
lanttc seaboard from Maine to Florida.
and who during the last ten years have
suffered a loss of 1900 lives and $40, ,OOo.-
30 worth ~ property in the 800 disas-
ters that have occurred by reason of out
side sailing" and SO on. dripping stats-
TICS at the end of every sentence
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II is instructive with him. Any men
lion of waterways-intercossta water
ways rivers and harbors appropriat ton
hill-about the National Capitol at Wash
ington causes the frequenters of that edi-
flee to think instantly of 'IIampie"
Moore.
And say Delaware river in his pres
ence and YOU can get an Grafton out of
the Philadelphian that will demonstrate
without caviI that the Delaware river
IS grand piece of work. needing only a
few more appropriations to make it the
worlds greatest carrier of commerce.
onferring inestimable benefits upon the
fhole people of the United States con-
r.buting to their health and well being
nd reducing the high cost of living
1t would perhaps be too much to say
mat Mr.. Moore regards the intercoastal
waterway and the Delaware river as his
own particular possession, but that he is
Jealous of them can readily be discovered
by reference to the Congressional Record
during the course of the debates on the
rivers and harbors bill. And this applies
also to the Delaware's connecting water
ways.
There, for example. is F'rankford creek
which runs through Philadelphia 1t is
Congress has never been willing to take
Frankford creek seriously enough He
says it properly is national waterway.
imagine the shock il WAS to him the
other day when Representative Madden
interrupted MIR. Moore's remarks on the
floor regarding Frankford creek TO ask IL
the creek had been insured against fire.
Laughter" remarks the Congressional
RecordH laconically and in parenthesis
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following the question. But it is no
laughing matter to Mr. Moore Insured
against fire indeed. 1t may be that down
in Texas there are some alleged water
ways. assisted by the general government
where 1t is necessary to dig wells in order
to provide them with water. but nothing
like that happens in the vicinity of Phila-
delphia.
'Frankford creek said Mr.. Moore,
with simple dignity, .is a stream that
ought to be improved by the government
1t has been rejected only because il is
contended that Philadelphia is rich
enough to improve it herself 1t does a
national business. The rule applied to
Frankford creek does not apply to hun
dreds of other streams that l might men
ton if 1 had time and he looked mean
ingly at Mr.. Madden. who comes from an
Illinois district, he said it,
Facetiousness regarding the great work
of improving the nations waterways, and
particularly regarding the intercoastal
canal, offends Mr.. Moore. 1t is needless
to say that he was not one who Joined in
the laugh the other day when Repre-
sentative Frear of Wisconsin in the de
bate referred to this painful canal propo-
siion.' and went on:
L want to tell a story to illustrate this.
! was talking with an old gentleman last
Sunday. and he said to me. 1 have been
having d severe pain l asked. What is
the trouble?' Why. I have intercostal
rheumatism: it is an awful pain between
the ribs he replied. j realized at once
that this canal was travelling under mis-
nomer; it is an intercostal canal and
Uncle Sam, when he shoulders this tre-
mendous appropriation which will eventu-
ally require over s2OO,O0o.ooo TO complete
the project. is going to have an awful
pain between the ribs
1t must not be taken from all this that
Mr.. Moore is without a sense of humor.
He is gifted with both humor and wit,
but ne takes seriously the labors ana
duties of his position in Congress. He Is
one of those who have adopted the advice
of that philosophical, observing and ex-
perienced lawmaker, James R. Manu. MI
nority leader, and has specialized.
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source of his exhilaration was not of
the mild potency supplied by the local
caterers: In fact it was found to bear
label betraying it's origin with one
of those pestilential catalog houses
which are insidiously undermining the
commercial prosperity of our domes-
tbs piggers. Patronize the home in
situations, William.
An ill-kempt looking rascal of the
vagrant type was observed making
cabalistic signs with a piece of chalk
on the door lintels of the new city
bastile. Being demonstrated for the
vandalism, he explained that he was
merely putting the fraternal o. X. on
the establishment for the steady ref
erence of future prospective wayfar-
ers. It seems that the accommoda-
tons met with his entire approval and
he was gratefully willing to pass the
good word along to the Brotherhood
Of Sojourners, so that Burlington
might be included in their itinerary.
In response to demand for better
service the 500 has revised its train
schedule. In the future No. 105 will
be on time twice a week and No. LOG
will be one hour late instead Of two
hours, as per formerly.
For the benefit Of Automobiles it
is hereby stated definitely that the
sign on the road north Of town does
not read 80 miles per hour. Upon a
close examination it will be found that
the reading is as follows:-"City lin
its, speed Limits miles per hour" A
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o o o o o o o o o o o o o o 9 o o
o BURLINGTON. o
o O o 8 o O O o o o o o o o o o 8
]. M. Casteel has sold his restaurant
equipment to Mrs. McAfee, who will
move it into the Gresham building,
where she will conduct a first class
restaurant.
A forced draft Ignite destroyer
from up the coulee blew in with a
cargo of kale. The city marshal pried
up the lid to accommodate his patron
age and the ante was raised to four
bits. On the next mornings tide he
cleared the harbor bar bound north
with full head of steam stripped
down to fighting trim. :,
Upon investigation a disturbance in
the belfry of the schoolhouse was dis.
covered to have been due to the ex-
cited condition Of an otherwise well
respected citizen. With his arms
clasped determinedly around the bell
and tears streaming down his fur.
rowed cheeks he fervently reiterated
that 'Curfew should not ring tonight
1t is only fair to mention that the
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PHILANTHR0PIsT THIEVES.
They Prove Soft Hearted and Give
Back Part Of Their Booty.

They Prove Soft Hearted and Give
Back Part Of Their Booty.
Princeton. Ind. Richard i'arrett, son
Of President i'nrrett Of the Princeton
Light and Power company. was held
up by two men in dark place near
his home.
While one held revolver on him
the other took his watch and pocket.
book and knife When l'arTetr told
them they could not get any money
on his watch they gave it back to him.
Later they gave him his knife and
p0cketbook after removing the 81 it
contained. They also let him examine
the loaded revolver with which he had
been held up.
Finally one said. where's that au.
tomatic?" The other drew IN eight.
cen dollar pearl bundled automatic pis-
toll and gave 1t to Parrett. saying:
Here, you can have this. We can't
get rid of it,
An hour before the same men had
held up Robert White. taking Is cents
and returning so cents when they
learned that it was all be had.
The two "philanthrOpists" are be-
lieved to be working the county fairs.
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TYPE OF GERMANYi0 NEW SIEGE GUNS
enforced cement and steel, ripped open
steel towers and piled the mass upon
the forts defenders.
This new siege gun has been the sur
prise of the war. 1t has been repeated
ly asserted that NO nation has any
military secrets that are not in posses
sion of all other important nations, but
events have proved not only that the
existence Of this terrible weapon was
not known to foreign nations. but that
only limited number Of high German
army officials themselves had so much
as heard of it. A member Of the
reichstag. whose name is not given. IS
quoted as follows In a German paper:
1.-THE fact that the German army pos
sessed such gun was as much a sur
prise to the Germans as to foreigners.
for it's construction and nature were
kept secret, as the situation demanded.
30 that even in the empire only linn
tied number knew about it. When the
trials were finished and all was ready
to begin the construction of the new
gun the problem presented itself of
making this wonderful work Of war
without attracting any attention.
More than fifty officers participated
in the preliminary discussion over the
preparation Of the military budget for
the consideration Of the budget COM
mission Of the reichstag. When the
subject Of arms was reached the head
Of this department requested that this
part Of the budget be not debated at
that time. At the close Of the session
he told me confidendally that a new
siege gun was In consideration. The
general staff. he said. had urgently re-
quested that not word be said about
the matter in the budget commission
Not even the officers, they declared.
knew Of what was being DONE
1.-THE request Of the general staff was
observed. Then work on the new gun
began. A number Of them are already
at the front and others are in the ar.
senals. Six weeks ago. us member of
the commission on arms. was in a
gun factory and was informed that any
number Of tubes and projectiles for the
guns can be finished in very brief
time. not to mention the great supply
On hand. | asked whether these guns
wore themselves out quickly und was
assured by an expert that there are not
enough forts 10 the world to wear out
a single gun"