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Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1914-11-07
Blood Stain Convicted Them.

A French professor has discovered
quite recently a way of detecting such
q tiny quantity of blood as to be al
most inconceivable- Here is an in
stance of what can be done Two sol
diers, Grady and Michel, murdered a
Mime. Gouin in railway carriage and
afterward washed their hands and
dried them on the roller towel In the
lavatory ON board the train
The two murderers, frightened by a
tiny spot of blood from their hands on
the towel, thoroughly washed it and
hung it up to dry Apparently the
towel was spotlessly clean; yet DR..
R. A Reiss. the famous French scient-
list, was able to detect that the towel
had been blood-stained. and SO to con
vict the two murderer
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1914-11-07

Mr.. GIoonn's Convincing Disclaimer.
The rumor that / am to wed Miss
Ann Thorpe, the militant milliner of
Chiggerbite, has no foundation in
fact writes J.. Fuller Gloom al
though my wife died several months
ago I have not treated any woman
with even common civility since
Kansas City Star.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1914-11-07

Too Complex for an Ordinary Mind.
only one man In ten thousand
clearly understands the currency uues-
toni" declared old Uncle Fogy. IT
am sure Of it, b'cuz that is just about
the proportion OF the people / talk
with about 1t who agree with me-
Kansas City Star.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1914-11-07

Through Cooperation they have
commenced marketing their products
in the finished form, and are building
up an extensive business. They find
that the profits which they make from
curing their own meats are relatively
larger, considering the time and ex-
pense involved, than those which they
were receiving from marketing hogs
on the hoof.
The remarkable thing about this
profitable experiment is that it has not
been worked out in any of the grain
centers or near any of the country s
great markets, but in remote county
in the extreme southern part OF
Georgia, in a lone crop" section, and
that crop cotton.-Marion Times-Trib
une.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1914-11-07
FIND PROFIT IN OLD SYSTEM
Georgia Farmess Re-estabfish Smoke
houses Of Ante-6eilum Days and
Are Making Money.

A number OF farmers In Brooks
county, Georgia, have been going back
to methods once common, but which
have been superseded of late years, to
their own considerable profit, and to
the advantage of certain consumers
These farmers objected to the COM
mercial system under which they we're
receiving but seven and eight cents a
pound for the pork which they raised,
while they saw the ham and bacon of
commerce retailing in their own mar
kets for 25 cents a pound They re
solved to re-establish the aute-bellum
smokehouses on their farms and imme-
diately carried the resolution into eff
fect. zzESzsSzzszsp
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SHERIFF,S SALE

(FIrst published in the Western Kans
World October 3. lolz)
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Fresh pork at Bakers. adv
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SHEElFF'S SALE

First published in western Kansas World
October 3. 1910
The leader-enterprise. [volume] (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1912-1915, 1914-01-23

plan adopted called for spillway to
be constructed in this hill, about third
way in the dam site, This spillway is
of concrete, requiring 225.000 cubic
yards to complete. On July |. 1913, it
was more than 80 per cent completed
The floor of the spillway is ten feet
above sea level and 800 feet wide
through the hill. which involved ex-
cavation through rock for a depth of
100 feet at the highest point of the
hill. A concrete dam was built on
this floor to height of sixty nine feet
above sea level and in shape like a
Semicircle. On top of the concrete
dam piers were built with an arrange
ment for steel yates These steel
gates will be electrically operated and
regulate the flow of water out of the
lake As much as 10000 cubic feet of
water per second may escape through
the Spillway when the gates are open.
There will not he a complete loss of
this water, as on the east side of the
spillway power plant of the hydro
electric type will be operated A drop
of seventy-fve feet by the water will
operate turbine engines which in turn
will operate the electric machinery that
will generate all the power and iIlumi-
mating current needed from one end of
the canal to the other. But an addi-
tional power plant will be maintained
at Mirafiores for emergencies The
power to operate the lock gates will
come from the spillway plant.
The Gatun dam is so stupendous that
it almost seems to be a continuation Of
the hills that inclose the lake. 1t in
fact does complete the natural noun
tain chains that form the barriers of
the Chagres river. 1t is 105 feet high.
or twenty feet above the ordinary level
Of the lake at eighty-fve feet eleva-
ton. The plan of construction has
been to build parallel mounds for the
mile and a half. 1.20O feet apart. Be-
tween these mounds, built of rock and
earth, core for the dam has been con-
structed by pumping mud and sand
from the bed of Chagres river. About
~ per cent Of the material pumped is
solid matter. and when it has deposited
the water is pumped off This opera
ton has been repeated until an imper-
V1ous heart has been made in the dam.
Even if water from the lake penetrated
the outside walls OF rock and earth it
would find this core water tight. The
dam Is nearly half mile thick at the
base. 1893 feet thick where the water
surface strikes it at eighty-tive feet
and is 100 feet wide at the top. The
outer coverings of rock and earth on
the dam close over the hydraulic core
at the crest. For about 500 feet the
dam will be subjected to the full pres
sure Of eighty-tive feet of water. at
other points to less severe pressure.
Engineers consider the dam exces-
slvely safe, and the layman has no diff
hculty in approaching it's strength.
About half of the material required.
22'5O4,OOO cubic yards. has been
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lake will be raised from elevation S5
for two feet to elevation 81 over an
area of 1874 sqAare miles. This water
could be used until the lake falls to
about eighty-two feet, or five feet over
the 1874 square miles. In an average
dry season this would permit fifty
eight complete transits of the canal
1000 foot capacity of the locks were
used or more than the period would al
low if vessels followed at intervals Of
one hour.
The Gatun lake is backed up among
the hills by the dam until it reaches a
width of more than twenty miles at
the widest point and length between
Gatun and Pedro Miguel Of thirty two
miles. 1t will be broken by many
small islands and stretches of high
lands and is narrowest in the Culebra
cut, where for nine miles the width is
300 feet From Gatun to the entrance
of the cut, a distance of twenty-three
miles. lighthouses are stationed at COM
handing points to guide ships at night
The channel throughout is at an aver
age depth Of forty-fiv feet. In order
to raise the relocated Panama railroad
above the level of the lake it was nee
essary to make fills to the extent of
l6,425 .292 cubic yards.
The navy department has selected a
site near San Pablo. about twenty
miles inland from the Atlantic and
on the east side Of Gatun lake, for Il
high power wireless station. 1t is to
be at an elevation of 40 feet above
the leve! of the lake and capable Of
sending message for 5000 miles. to
Washington or to a similar station on
the California coast.
If the great Gatun dam should break
the water in the lake might sweep dev-
astatngly over the city of Colon. seven
miles away, or pass through the old
bed of the Chagres river harmleSsly
into the Caribbean sea. While the
pressure on the dam will be terrific. no
such catastrophe is considered pr0ba-
bic. The Gatun lake is the largest ar
tificial body of water in the world
Wrecks or accidents in the lake or
locks will be handled by monster 27O
ton floating cranes.
The leader-enterprise. [volume] (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1912-1915, 1914-01-23

brought from the Culebra cut On July
l. 1913. the dam was more than 90 per
cent completed, leaving less than per
cent to be done before the passage of
the first ship.
On the Pacific side the first dam to
be encountered is at Pedro Miguel and
serves to hold the waters of Gatun
lake at its southern end 1t is 1,4OO
feet long and forty feet wide at the
top. The maximum height of the water
against this dam will be forty feet.
The plan Of construction is much the
same as at Gatun. but only 100000
cubic yards will be required.
After ship is lowered thirty feet
by the Pedro Miguel lock it finds it.
self in an artificial lake a mile and a
half long. This lake is formed by two
dams, the one to the west being 2,30O
feet long and forty feet wide at the
top. holding maximum head of wa
ter Of forty feet, 1t is constructed with
a hydraulic core like the Gatun dam.
On the east concrete dam 500 feet
long and provided with spillway, as
at Gatun. and capable of discharging
1900 cubic feet of water per second
will hold the small lake in control.
The Cocoli river is the principal feed
er Of this lake.
Records kept by the French and by
the Americans since 1904 show con.
ciuSiVely that enough water ALWAYS
will be available to keep the Gatun
lake and the tiny Mira6ores lake ade-
quately supplied with water No trou-
BILE at all can develop during the eight
months of rainy season. and in the dry
season of four months enough water
will have been stored in the lake by
means Of the regulating works in the
Gatun dam spillway to allow for all
losses through evaporation. seepage,
power consumption and loss through
the locks. During the wet season the
The leader-enterprise. [volume] (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1912-1915, 1914-01-23

At these curves the cut is widened to
permit the ships to pass easily. Al
ways the chief problem has been one
OF transportation. or how to keep empty
cars in front Of the steam shovels con-
stantly. in canyon only 300 feet wide
In working day Of eight hours it has
been found possible to keep the steam
shovels working only about six hours
because of this circumscribed field of
operations.
Naturally the seventy-dve miles of
track in the Culebra cut must be
shifted constantly as the excavation
work carries the levels down. This
Kept the track shutters and hundreds
OF men at work day and night. During
the maximum operations in the cut
5000 men were employed in the day
time, while at night 400 men worked
to keep the steam shovels in repair, to
replenish their coal bins, blast more
material for the shovels and otherwise
to get the cut in shape for the next
days activities
About 1O0000OO0 cubic yards were to
be removed to complete this part OF
the canal, or practically half the total
excavation. On July l, 1918. the begin
ming of the last year of work, there
were 100000 yards left to be re-
moved.
(To Be Continued.)
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Minneapolis
SCaIded While Cooking

While preparing dinner young
Minneapolis wife had the misfor-
tune to scald her hand so badly
that over half the skin came off.
She was alone at the time and
rushed over to her neighbours for
help. This neighbor promptly ap-
piled Aliens Ulcerine Salve and in
ten days the hand was completely
healed without a scar.
This salve is one of the oldest
remedies in America and since
1869 it has been known as the on
Iy salve powerful enough to cure
chronic. ulcers and old sores of
long standing. Because it is so
powerful it will heal burns and
scalds without a scar in a remark
ably short time.
Aliens Ulcerine Salve heals
from the bottom up and draws out
the poisons. If applied on new
cuts and sores it heals III one-third
the time that common salves and
liniments take. Sold by L. j. Halle
& Co. and other leading druggists.
Adv. (D
The leader-enterprise. [volume] (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1912-1915, 1914-01-23
Enthusiasm Aroused Over
Semi-Annual Meeting
Of The State Chamber.

Atlanta, Ca, January I'll
Final arrangements for the semi
annual meeting of the Georgia
Chamber of Commerce to be held
in Macon on the 29th-3Oth, are
rapidly being concluded, and in
dications now are that it will be
one of the most significant gath
erings in the history of Georgia.
Realizing the Importance of
the work contemplated by the
State Ceamber, Governor John
M. Slaton has signified his inten-
ton of attending the meeting, as
will Senator Hcke Smith, and
probably Senator Bacon. In ad-
dition, speeches will be made by
Hon. Bradford Knapp, of the
national department Of Agricul
ture, Hon. J. D. Price, commits
sloner of agriculture Of Georgia,
DR.. A. M. Soule, of the state col
lege, Hon. c. S. Barrett, of the
Farmers Union, and a score of
other prominent men.
The Macon Chamber of Com
merce, which will be the host of
the meeting, is laying plans for
a monster automobile parade of
all the business organizations
and militia of the city of Macon,
and the attending delegations
from over the state will be asked
to participate in the parade. 1t
is predicted that over thousand
will attend the meeting. Already
several towns have indicated
their intention of sending large
delegations, some of which will
be accompanied by brass bands
and drum corps. The Decatur
drum corpa, which attacted So
muchsattention at the first meet
ing of the state chamber, in
September, will Ebe present in
full force. and Cordele, LaGrange,
Dalton. Albany and other towns
will send delegations of from
twenty-five to fifty.
Reduced rates have been grant
ed for this meeting by all the
railroads in the state. and the
Southern Railway in addition
will have several of it's agricul-
tural experts present to assist in
any way possible in planning the
work of the chamber.
The various committees which
have been named by President
C. J. Haden will meet for the
first time on the afternoon of the
first day of the meeting, to out
line the work planned for them.
The leader-enterprise. [volume] (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1912-1915, 1914-01-23
COLDS & LaGRIPPE

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CHAPTER XII.
The CuIehra Cut.

IVA OPULAR interest always has
80 centered chiefly in the excava-
I'd ton phase OF canal construc-
ton. losing sight Of the fact
that the locks, dams and breakwaters
call for an expenditure of $50. 643. 900
The Culebra cut has been exploited
more than any other feature of the
canal. yet 1t was estimated to cost
$SO.4S1,O00, or 100000 less than the
features just enumerated Even the
dredging Of fifteen miles Of sea level
channel has received little publicity,
and this was to cost no less than $780,
100000.
The Culebra cut is nine miles long.
with a curve for nearly every mile.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1914-12-30
If. THE HEART is YOUNG.

The desire of the moth for the star,
OF the night for the morrow,
The devotion to something afar VIZ.
From the sphere Of our sorrow.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1914-12-30

own climate. l am not inclined to
give any young lady under such cir
cumstances free Interpretation OF
the law that she can bend, with my
assistance, the marriage chain until 1t
breaks. 1t is shrewdly suspected that
the would-be divorce has her eyes on
some other man and would wrestle
herself free from one marriage halter
to willingly slip into another marriage
noose."
A wife's heart should keep pace with
her husbands. His heart cannot grow
old and worn while hers keeps the
early fire of sweet sixteen. IT.
Those who would give the wife the
right kind of advice should tell her to
search for new, lovable qualities In
her husband and not magnify triiles to
his discredit Whatever is to be will
be. The man who loses a wife through
no fault of his own Is apt to go to his
grave broken-hearted. They were mar
ried when both were young, and she
has never lost her charm for him.
They should not part. -
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1914-12-30

she should also realize there is very
essential quality lacking In his make
up-ability to save money. -
After they wed, trouble soon begins.
They commence married life on a
scale more extravagant than they
should and live up to every penny of
his income. They often run behind.
One may borrow from a friend few
times. Eventually, however, the bor-
rover is met when asking for another
loan with the response, I'm sorry, my
dear friend, to refuse. but was just
about to ask you to pay back the last
amount let you have" AS If by one
accord he finds the same state Of at
fairs wherever he turns. He has got
ten into the nut Of spending money.
He loses his position. Want looks In
at the door of the little home. The
wife comes valiantly to the fore, takes
a position to exc out the support OF
the little family.
" When man accepts this situation
philosophically, sits down resignedly;
then trouble is sure to begin to brew,
trouble that time will not be apt to
remedy. ~
6 When the wife is the breadwinner
and she knows her husbands spend
thrift inclinations she does not make
him her banker. She carries the
pocketbook or secretes it SO securely
that though he searches every nook
and Granny he Is unable to find It..
II there are no babies to tend at home
time hangs heavy on his hands. OF
course he starts out to look for po-
sition each day, but he is one Of the
kind who are glad to be turned down
at the few places where he applies.
He feels injured at his wife not allow
ing him at least certain amount each
week for his spending money. He has
been used to- smoking cigars-good
ones at that. Where he finds he can
get credit he RI n up q. little bill, here
and there. intel & course, to pay
1t rs soon as & its work. His
clothes must ne shabbiness, and
he spends somr the money which
he hopes to &c Rt the tailor's. ~
He must put his best foot forward
Is
in his endeavor to secure q position;
therefore he cannot have shoes with
holes in them. Bills sometimes have
q reckless habit of coming due. He
sits stolidly through his wife's tears
and yreproaches. She parts with all
her treasures at the insistence of the
clamoring tradesmen. This goes on
year after year despite her pleadings,
until she awakes to the realization
that it is easier to pass a camel
through a needles eye than to reform
a spendthrift When a couple IL
counting a girl should study q mans
habits and not accept gifts which he
cannot afford. The lover inclined to
be too liberal can be checked in time
II taken at the outset. w res. - ire 2
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1914-12-30
CHANGES WROUGHT BY TIME
Letter Writing and Fine Art of Con-
versation Gone-ls Book Reading
Also to Go?

In my younger days, and up to .
time which may be roughly estimated
at twenty or thirty years ago, we had
three main resources for the spending
Of idle hours, and these in their order
Of importance were reading, the art of
conversation, and letter writing. Most
people who remember the letters Of
this earlier period will remember them
as giving, with charm and style, de-
scriptions of the life and the news of
the day. The necessity for such let
ter writing, removed by an oyerzeal-
GUS and much too evident daily and
hourly press. has passed away, and
with it has passed one of the chief re-
sources Of our earlier years. The art
Of conversation, q constant resource
and delight of older generations, and
of which Emerson says, Wise, cult
waited, genial conversation is the last
flower of civilization, and the best re-
suit which life has to pfter u.s." has
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1914-12-30

Of determination. they begin to pro-
liferate again in frantic effort to
perpetuate the species.
Nature is prodigal of life; on every
hand we see evidence of the sacrifice
of many millions in order to perpetuate
one type. This intense proliferation'
the exact counterpart of natural evoiu-
tionary law visible on every hand in
every department of life. forms what
we call Juvenile" tissues, better
known as cancer. And it is for this
condition the world is being searched
for q remedy.
Prevention by the immediate care
of every enlargement. knowledge, cour-
age, faith and a sane life in general
without doubt will be found to be the
solution of the cancer problem. as
we shall later learn.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1914-12-30

OF the night for the morrow, a
The devotion to something afar .,,~~
From the sphere Of our sorrow.
Parents who are so eager for their
daughters to marry that they consent
to their taking on the matrimonial
yoke at the age Of sixteen years may
have many year to regret having
given their sanction. Where the BRIDE
groom is also very young, a mere
youth. the blame cannot be put upon
his shoulders. Youthlike, he sees q
pretty face and. without rhyme or
reason, the thought of marriage pops
into his head. There's always some
one ready to tie the knot. s.
The youthful couple launches into
the sea of zwedlock like children who
step into a toy boat and, without rud-
der or compass, push out on the broad
ocean to sink or swim, as the case
may be. It usually takes decade Of
years for such pair to wake up to the
fact that each might have made q diff
ferent choice had they not entered
into it when the heart was too young
to realize the step. 5f
r. The husband has been beset by busi-
ness cares and accepts this situation.
Not so the wife. If she has neither
the cares of a family nor homework to
divert her thoughts, she gives herself
up to discontinued reflections and to
looking about seeing the kinds of hus-
bands other girls won. She is sure to
think her own husband suffers by COM
parison. - - - NJ.
q, If she listens to unwise advice that
she could do better now II she were
single, her next step is to seek an
annulment of marriage on the grounds
Of her extreme youth. There are some
judges who listen with pity to such a
wife's story. But there has been one
found in New York who will not tol-
crate playing fast and loose with the
marriage tie. Such a judge recently
scored q dozen points in his favor
when he decided: "At sixteen young
woman is pretty mature, even in our
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1914-12-30
Gould Follow Them.

It was small western boy, given
to language more picturesque than
poetic, of whom this good story was
told. The child adored his eastern
school-teacher, young, pretty, fond Of
dainty blouses and high-heeled shoes
which latter proved none too serv-
iceable in connection with the rough
and ready prairie roads. lis Miss So
and-So around today?" the youthful
admirer was asked upon one occasion.
Eyes, sir" came the ready answer.
"Leastways, she's been here. No, I
amt seen her, but" his eye follow
ing the sticky roadway, II seen her
tracks,
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1914-12-30
UP TO HIM.

ooh, Godfrey, Ike you we'll enough.
but"
'"Well. If you love me. Geraldine.
isn't that SUI"
mo. dear! Years ago I took q SOL
emn VOW"
what was it., darling?"
THAT l never would marry"
"A VOW Of that kind Is better broken
than kept! 1t isn't"
"You mustn't interrupt me. The
vow / took was that I never would
marry any but handsome mani"
Great Scott! Am I So"
And so. Godfrey. dear. l hate to
have to tell you, but"
go on! can stand anything now"
you'll have to shave off that dinky
little tuft of hair on your chin!"