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The trust ' magnate, however, Insisted. After five er ten minutes cf this, the tenor said, witn. a iaugn '"Oh, well, every one to his trade. Let me see you pick a pocket. :Then I'll ping.' " - ' rOR MALAKIA, CHILLS. FEVER CoiUs and La Grippe take KUxlr Unbelt, a preventative and remedy. "I have used 'ElUIr nabek' for four vears for Malaria, and found it all that is claimed for it. Without it I would be obliged to change my residence, as I can not take quinine in any of its forms." J. Middleton, Four-Mile Run. Va Elixir Babefc 60 cents, all drug gists or by Parcels Post prepaid from Kloczewski & Co.. Washington. D. C. Alexandria. Alexandria Is Egypt's principal port and commercial center. According to statistics taken in 1908, Alexandria occupies third place among Mediter ranean ports. Twenty-one ocean nav igation companies maintain a regular echeduled service at. Alexandria. DOES YOUR HEAD ACHE? Trv Hicks CAPUDINfi. Ifa liquid pleas ant to take effects immediate s'Ood to prevent hick Headaches and Nervous Headaches also. volir money back if not (satisfied, 10c.,36c. and fcjc. at medicine stores. 4Uv. Important Question. : 'Woman," growled the villain, "the crime is" on your own head." "la It on. straight?" anxiously de- manded the villainess U IGDITCir'flOl'I ALMOST COMPLETE Removal of Gamboa Dike Means End of Work Is Near. " WATERS OF OCEANS MEET First Steps Are Taken Toward De struction of Big Embankment Which Holds P$.tun Lake Out ... . of Culebra Cut.' Colon, Panama, Oct. 1, -The climax of nine years of untiring work on the part of the men who have been build ing the Panama canal came today when, the waters of Gatun lake were permitted, to run for the first time Into the Culebra cut. This simple operation marked the virtual comple tion' of the great isthmian waterway. The water was permitted to flow into the cut today through, four 26 inch pipes extending - through the Gamboa dike, which has held the waters of the lake back from the cut. Thili was done in order that there may be enough water in the cut to prevent any damage when the dike la finally removed. . - . - The final destruction of the big dike is scheduled for October ,10, when charges of dynamite placed In holes already drilled in the dike will be ex ploded. , The explosion of these charges will. not completely destroy the dike, but will weaken it and loos en the, dirt so. that the force of the waters from Gatuan lake will carry it away. Steam shovels will remove the remnants of the dike, leaving an open passageway from oceanto ocean. Canal Really CompleU Now. Although the canal will not be offi cially declared completed : for some time, and the formal opening of the waterway to the commerce of the world more than a year distant, the canal engineers look upon the de struction of the Gamboa dike as mark ing the real completion of the. canal, The big engineering feats have all been accomplished, the excavation work practically has been completed, 'WAS t ' t """-5 I-- - . , !' -"; 1 i; . ; mimiimimmuu ml ftMWiiKiii I'wUliwiM if ff'-M-w vwnn nnw maBiiiiniiiiiiiiliiiwii n This picture gives a view of the great expanse of water now gradually filling the Panama canal, which is almost ready for the admission of the big ships. To look at the picture one would think that the canal was finished. The embankments that flank the channel,, the broad expanse of water and the MIraflores locks in the distance are just as they will be when the open ing of the canal takes place. This is the only photograph received up to the present time which shows the canal as it will appear at the opening of the big waterway connecting the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. and the great locks have been con structed. The work that remains to be done is largely detail, and Is but child's play as compared with that which has been done. More dirt Is to be removed from the channel, but this will be done with suction dredges floating upon the waters of the canal, There still remain some finishing touches to be placed upon the locks, but this work will take comparatively little time, and pressnts no engineer ing difficulties such as have, been en countered in the past. - The fact that the canal stands prac tically complete more than a year be fore the time originally set as the date for its completion is one of the remarkable features of the work. When Count de Lesseps, the great French engineer, abandoned his ef forts to build the Panama canal after eight years of labor, he had scarcely made a beginning upon the gigantic task. In nine years, the American en gineers, starting almost at' the same point as de Lesseps, for the , latter's work was of little value to the Amer icans, have virtually., completed the undertaking. When the, work Was started the world scoffed at the idea that it could be completed within the time limit set, but hats are now off to the American army engineers who have more than kept their word, de- To Avoid Counterfeiting, In the production of their notes, the Bank of England authorities' chief aim is to issue a note which Is impossible for anybody to "counter feit.. Toward thi3 end, all the parts of the note the paper, the water mark, the ink, the engraving, the printing are prepared and done In a special, and, as far as possible, se cret manner. At the mills where the paper is manufactured the- most strin gent precautions are taken to pre vent any of the japer being stolen. spite unforeseen difficulties that have beset them at every hand. ' t ; , Goethals to Maka Final Test, The flrBt vessel to pass through the i canal probably will be a boat of the i Isthmian' -canal 7 commission) Col. George W; Goethals, chairman of the commission and chief engineer of the j canal, and ; his principal assistants, j The final voyage through the canal is j scheduled for some time during this month. Within another month it is expected the waters in Gatun lake will have risen high enough to. bring the waters In the entire canal up to the deep water level required for the passage of the largest ships. It Is said that as long ago as the early part of August, assurances were given Washington officially that If the emergency should arise, the entire Atlantic battleship fleet could be put through the canal into Pacific waters within 60 days from that date. The work has been hurried with1 that, end in view.-It Is said, as no emergency has existed, hut this assurance is an Indication of the belief of tne engi neers that their work Is now practical ly finished. . Culebra Cut Caused Trouble. - The excavation of the Culebra cut, into which the water has Just been turned, has been one of the engineer ing feat3 connected with the building of the canal, and has caused the en gineers more trouble than any oth er portion of the big "ditch." To Col. D. D. Gaillard, the engineer of the cetnral division, is given the credit for carrying this portion of the work through to a successful termina tion. The disastrous slides ' In the cut were discouraging to the engineers, nullifying in a few hours the work of many weeks, but Colonel Gaulard and his assistants have kept untiringly at their work, and at last have conquer ed the treacherous banks of the deep cut. The engineers, believe, that the danger of slides will be eliminated now that the water has been turned into the cut. A .little more than a month ago the giant, steam shovels, finished their work in the Culebra cut. Since that time the workmen have been .busy removing the shovels, the railroad tracks and other machinery used in the excavation work. There is still Borne dirt to be removed from the cut before the channel is finished, but this work will be done by suction I dredges floating on the waters of the canal, and will not interfere with nav igation of the waterway by such boats as may be allowed to pass through. Immense Artificial Lake Created. Gatun lake, the waters of which are now flowing into the Culebra cut, Is the pivotal point about which the en tire canal system revolves, and the creation of this lake, together with the construction of Gatun dam, consti tuted another great engineering feat in the construction of the canal. Gatun lake is an artificial body of water covering about 164 square miles of territory and was created by the building of the immense Gatun dam and the Impounding of the wild wa ters of Chagres river. Beneath the waters of Gatun lake lies what a few months ago was the valley of the Chagres, dotted with native villages and plantations. The channel of the canal passes through this lake for a distance of 24 miles with a width vary ing from 500 to 1,000 feet. At the northern end of the lake is the Gatun dam, which Is in reality an artificial ridge more than a mile and a half long. Figures alone give an adequate idea of the magnitude of this dam. Nearly half a mile wide at its base, about 400 feet wide at the water surface,, and 100 feet wide at the top, the dike which many engi Of course, there have been many at tempted robberies, but -only once. In the year 1862, were thieves success ful in obtaining any of the paper. Very shortly afterward forged notes were in circulation. The thieves did not enjoy the triumph long, for with in a short time they were captured. Reading Between the Lines. To get the good of the library In the school of life you must bring into it something better than a mere book ish taste. You must bring the power neers predicted would -never wlth-J Btand the rush of the ChSgres wa ters. Is admitted now to be so strong that nothing short of an earthquake such as has never been known in the.: Central American .region can harm it. The Gatun dam, Gatun lake and the Culebra cut, so gigantic are the proportions of each, dwarf the other engineering works of the canal that in themselves have challenged the ad miration of the world. . World Give Goethals Credit. To Col. George Goethals, chairman of the Isthmian canal commission, chief engineer- of the commission and governor of the canal zone, the world will give the credit for the successful completion of the Panama canal. Col onel Goethals could not have accom plished his task without the assist ance of such men as Col. IL F. Hodges, Lieut. Col. -David Du B. Bail lard and Lieut. Col. William L. Sibert, army engineers, who have had charge of various phases of the work, but Colonel Goethals Is recognized as the real builder of the canal. . Under Colonel Goethals the greater part of the $375,000,000 which the canal will have cost when It is com pleted has been spent. It has been by far the costliest engineering project in the world. Nearly three-fifths of a billion dollars has been 6pent in dig ging a 40-mile "ditch." This means that the Panama canal has cost the United States $10,000,000 a mile. Over $16,000,000 of the total amount spent has been used to make the canal zone habitable and sanitary. It has been suggested that this is an enor mous amount of money to spend In cleaning up a place In which few peo ple will reside permanently, but the engineers say that the sanitation of the canal zone was the 'chief factor in making the canal a reality. The fail ure of the French has been attributed to a large extent to the fact that the workmen could not survive in the fever and pest ridden country. ' The building of the great locks which raise a vessel to a height of 87 feet above sea level at one end of the canal and lower it the same dis tance at the other .end, has been in charge of two of Colonel Goethals' assistants, Colonel Hodges and Lieu tenant Colonel Sibert. Colonel Hodge's work in installing the immense lock gates that form io Important, a part of the operating machinery of the canal, and his ability to overcome all obstacles had led Colonel Goethals to call him a genius. The building, pois ing and operation of the lock gates constitute one of the delicate prob lems of lock canal construction, and the proper handling of this problem has been Colonel Hodge's contribu tion to the work of construction of the canal. Lieutenant, Colonel , Sibert has had charge of the building of the great dam and locks at Gatun, Jn addition to other duties. He saw long, ac tive service in the Philippines, and he is known In the army as a fight er as well as an engineer. His fight ing qualities have enabled him to carry through the great, work cf which he has had , charge in the canal zone. Realize Dream of Centuries. . Through the work of these men all of them members ofr Uncle Sam's fighting body the United States has been able to attain what has been in truth the' dream of centuries. In nine years these men have carried through an undertaking that was first thought of several hundreds of years ago. There is evidence that the idea of an isthmian canal was born aa early as the sixteenth century, for history re cords the fact that the Inquisition declared such a project to alter the face of the earth to be impious and further discussion of -the matter was forbidden by Philip II. of Spain, whose reign began in 1556. More than a cen tury later a Scotchman named Patter son revived the scheme, established a colony on the shores of the isthmus, and made a crude survey of the route. The United States government first took definite action looking toward the construction of an Isthmian canal in 1834, when the senate voted for the building of . a Nicaraguan canal. An expedition was sent to Nicaragua to make an investigation, and report ed that the canal could be construct ed for $25,000,000, hardly one-twentieth of the amount 'that the Panama canal will have cost when completed. De Lesseps First to Dig. The matter rested until after the Civil war, when negotiations for a canal commission were entered into by the United States government. Be fore anything had been accomplished the concession for a Panama canal had been given to Lucien Napoleon Banaparte Wyse, a Frenchman. He organized a company, which sold out later to the financiers associated with Ferdinand do Lesseps. The company organized with de Lesseps at ito head was the first one to actually begin op erations on the isthmus. For eight years de Lesseps struggled manfully against the greatest odd3 that man ever was called upop to face. Such was the history of the Isth mian canal project for some 300 or 400 years, until the day In 1904 when Uncle Sam undertook the task. In nine years the dredra of the cen turies has been realized. s - to read between the lines, behind the words, beyond the horizon of the printed page. Philip's question to the chamberlain of Ethiopia was crucial: "Understandeet thou what thou read est?" I want books not to pass the time, but to fill it with beautiful thoughts and images, to enlarge my world, to give me new friends in the spirit, to purify my Ideals and make them clear, to show me the local color of unknown regions and the bright stars cf universal truth. Henry Van Dyke. LOSING APPETITE FOR NUTS Writer Bemoans the Passing of the Ancient Fondness 'That Made' Winter Evenings a Joy. The old .butternut, ; a very rich and fragrant nut of the oiden time, has al most disappeared. Very few people of the present generation have ever tast ed a butternut. The black walnut is becoming fewer, and In a generation hence it will hardly be known. And yet it is a precious nut, full of good ness and rare taste. Those old pans of cracked walnuts, in the long win ter evenings, made up a family joy" that has never been surpassed. The hickory nuts, especially -the good old shellbarks, figured prominently In those nutty days, and the chestnuts, too, including the hazel nuts and beech nuts; but they are all growing scarcer and have sadly strayed away from the human heart. , - The pecan is becoming the .great American nut. There are thousands of trees cultivated In the south, and the nut has become commercially im portant. Trees are reported bearing $200 to $500 worth of nuts per acre. It is a' rich nut, but quite too hard for the novice to pick out the kernels. There are, however machines that do the work perfectly. But, after all, for rich, well-flavored and grand mouth fuls of nut, give us the English wal nut. Ohio State Journal. All to the Good. 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