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THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY, JANUARY 19, 1902. 17 X x THAT This is the flavor noticeable in all the finest imported cigars of the milder type, It is never present in any cigar not filled with the Vuelta growth of tobacco. It is never present in a cigar with a bright Sumatra wrapper. When the Sumatra bitterness is taken out of the wrapper stock it becomes less sleek looking. The only cigar having a Vuelta filler ever sold for 5 cents, is the TOM KEENE. The only properly cured Sumatra wrapper ever put oti a nickel cigar is the wrapper used ou the TOM KEENE. The fine Vuelta filler used in the TOM KEENE cigar is the result of over five years' enterprise, experiment, care and expense. The right ground was found in various places only after many trials. The young Vuelta sprouts brought from Cuba died outright in most places tried. In some places thty took sustenance at onco, but grew without natural development, texture and flavor. The exactly right results were achieved only in a few spots where soil land level, surrounding jungle, sea-mists and tropical sun gave the young plants their natural growth and flavor. The result is the delicate "Java-coffee taste" for the first time found in a 5-cent cigar. Yov can notice the vast difference plainly. Please "lend a hand" and mention it to your friends. PEREQOY & MOORE CO., Distributers, Council Bluffs, ia. HARRIS lAtlv TO DllUEN laid to ! th But f All KotUi for thi Iitkaiai Caul SHORT, CHEAP AND TIDE WATER LEVEL Hr-nidooverj- of the Dnrlcn Stirvor nnil lleoent Advances In Rnffi nccrlnir Science PrnctlciUljr Settle the Problem. A writer In the National Magazine, dis cussing the Isthmian canal question, now pending In congress, discredits both the Panama and Nicaragua routes, and makos a strong pica foi tho forgotten Darlen route as tho shortest, cheapest and best of all. Tho article follows, In part: Tako down ycur atlas, turn to a largo map of tho American hemisphere, and put your pencil point on tho spot marked D.-.rlen. Ilomomber Darlen. It Is to bo tho Atlantlo coast terminus of tho Trans Isthmian canal. And when, tho canal Is built, It will not bu callod tho Panama canal, nor the NicaraKiian canal, but the Darlen canal. Tho Dnrlim canal will bo twenty-six mlloa long, tho shortest of tho three routes proposed. Twonty-three miles ot tms wm tin a iiuch nit through a low. level region. Tho other throe miles will be a tunnel put ihrnuch n rock mountain. Darlen, now u little fruit port, Hob between the mountains and tho Atlantic. Tho nnrlnn canal will bo what Is called a tldowator canal; that la, It will havo no dams nor locks. Ships will navigato nan mey do the frco waters of a strait or a river. It will bo electrically lighted and supplied with Mr the tunnel nart of it by means ot olectrlo pumps operating fans at both n,lu nt tho ttinnnl nnd nt the mouths ot (our shafts which will run up through tho mountain range to as many valleys that lie botwecn tne peaas. Tim rnnintH AYtrnrnn helcht at this nolnt la but 1,200 feet; In tho valleys tho depth Go To The Phone And Order A Case Or The provl- aent little woman who has charge of affairs at noma" fhould bear n mind that b case ot HLATZ UKKH Is necessary to complete her upplles. Don't (orget. BLATZ MALT-VIVINE Non-Intox tonic. All druggists or direct VAN BLATZ BREWING CO., MILWAUKEE. OSIAJIA UUANCII, 141B oulaa St. Tel. 1081. A Milwaukee, vN JAVA ot the ahafti would run from 600 to 900 feet Tho canal will bo 400 feet wide, deep enough to float tho largest ships, and will havo a height, In the tunnel, of 150 feet, sufficient to admit the passage ot tho tallest masts. It will cost, tho engineers estimate, $110,000,000. Tho Darion canal will bo built and owned by tho United States. Tho Panama canal, a derelict, ono- thlrd dono, will never bo complotod. Tho proposed Nlcaraguan canal will nover bo begun. A Story Worth Heading;. Dack of these, statements, which arc here recorded with tho utmost confidence that future developments will provo their cntlro accuracy, Is a story worth reading. It Is a long story, filled with names and dates, and might bo dry reading It we gave you all ot It. Wo will try to present the main points and personages only and bo brief. My version ot tho story begins with Wolfgang von Ooethe's advocacy ot a trans- Isthmian canal. Goethe, the one German who bolongs to all lands and all times, fore saw tho greatness that the future was to dovolop on the American continent. Though he accepted tho favor of princes, ho was at heart a democrat and knew that tho demo crtlc principle of government Implanted In the American soli was tho seed ot a power that should one day dominate the world. Ho foresaw tho rise of great and populous nations In the Americas, with a mighty commerce. Ho foresaw, to come to the point, the need ot a waterway Unking tho Atlantic and the PaclQc at the point whore tho oceans Ho nearest togcthor. Ho waB scoffed at by moBt ot tho so-called states men ot 1ils time, but his belief was not shaken. So much for the first great poot whoso name will always be associated with tho tronslsthmlan canal. The second Is John Keats, who gave tho namo Darlen Immortality In literature. With a flash ot that prophetic Intuition which now and then leaps from the brains of great poots, he put his finger upon what was destined to be one ot the earth's chief strategic points In tho twentloth century: Or like stout Cortez when with en trio cvos lie stared at the Pacific and all his men Looked at each other with a wild surmise Bllent, upon a peaic in uarien, Keats' sonnot, from which theso lines wero taken, has long been acclaimed by scholars as the most eloquent In tho Eng lish language. You will roadlly porcelvo Its added significance In view of the tacts stated at tho outset ot this article, Kxeunt tho poets. Enter Do Lesseps. Do Lossops built tho Suez canal, mainly with tho savings of tho thrifty French working people. Tho Sue mado him tho foremost engineer In the world. He could not return to ordinary tasks after that. He must have vast projects In hand. He would dig a canal across the Isthmus of Panama. Again bo appoaled to his countrymen. Their Suet Investments had not exhausted their sav ings. They had more money for canals. Tho gold poured into the coffers of the Panama Canal company In great streams. Four hundred millions of It. The difficulties encountered by tho diggers wero onormous. Tho ocean ot cash In which they swam turned tholr heads. They squandered money right and left. Then, came the In vestigation and the scandal that shook the French republic to Its center. Hardly any public man big enough to bo worth buying by the canal promoters had escaped un bought. Tho springs of canal flnanco dried up. Bankrupt, the Panama Canal company quit work, De Lcescps went ln,to retire ment, a broken and disgraced man. The tools of tho workmen wero left to rot and rust where tho workmen laid them down. Tropical forests have grown up on the waste mounds that lino the banka ot the Panama. The Darlen canal route Is not a new dis COFFEE TASTE" Seed -grown covery. Long before De Lesseps had com pleted his work at Suez, somo wealthy gentlemen who wero leaders In tho com mercial world had become convinced that moneyl could be mado by cutting through tho Isthmus of Panama. They Immediately applied to the Colombian government for a franchise to construct a great waterway between the two oceans. Darlen was then tho most Important city on tho Isthmus, and being situated at tho narrowest part, was naturally selected as tho proper place, for a surveying party to begin operations. Two or three years woro spent In the discovery of a sultablo location, which was not an easy matter, considering the fact that tho At lantic side of the Isthmus Is bordered by a precipitous mountain range. A site was finally selocted whero tho ridge was only 1,200 feet high and thrco miles wide. From the western aide of tho cliffs tho distance to the Paclfio Is only twenty- threo miles. It was further found that at this point tho entire Isthmus Is a lodge ot rock, and It Is not to tho discredit ot tho people of that time that the project was abandoned on account ot the enor mous, coat of cutting such a channel with only, the aid ot hand drills and blasting powdor. Even today tho cutting of a great gap of thrco miles in length through a mountain 1,200 feet high would not be con sidered a small undertaking. Anyway, the surveys were completed, tho surveyors dis missed to eeok employment elsewhere, and, porhaps,. none but tho chief cnelncer took away either field books or blue-prints ot what all regarded as an Insane project. With the advent of Do Lesaeps to tho Isthmus tho Colombian government was again called upon to grant a new fran chise. Tho old Darlen canal promotors, who still believed In their original scheme, reminded both tho Colombian government and Do Lesseps that they must bo dealt with beforo any now franchtso was granted, with tho result that tho Do Les sops company bought out tho Darlen Canal company franchise. The story of tho early Ponama canal operations, the tremendous death rate among tho employes, the 1400,000,000 of money that was wasted before tho final crash which broke tho heart of one, of the greatest engineers tho world had over produced, Is now a mattor of hlstcry. Dur ing this ilrae the American onglneer, Cap tain Eads, had completed his great Jetty system at tho mouth ot tho Mississippi rlvor and astonished tho world by his proposition to construct a marine railway across Tehauntepec. Whatever pos sibilities his scheme presonted were quickly defeated by tho originators ot tho Nicara gua canal scheme, and the Isthmian ship railway sunk to oblivion with tho death ot Its creator. Tho fact that our greatost engineers havo spent years in an endeavor to secure a location free from onormously oxpenslve engineering problems Is sufficient to satisfy the ordinary Individual that a perfect plan or location has not yet bocn reached. It may not be a misstatement to say that this is fully reamed by tho United States gov ernment, and to this moro than anything else Is due the delay of governmental action In this matter, Hreklnv the Olil Plan. Sometime ago, not over a year, an old civil engineer who had lived for years In out-of-the-way mining places In Chile, Peru nml Patagonia, reached New York on his way to Scotland. As a youth ho bad known tho chief engineer ot tho Darlen survey, He had seen hU plans, but where could they bo found? It the Panama Canal company ever had them If they had them still they were not for his eyo. The moro he thought or it, tne more was no convinced that mod em engineering had provided the means for rendering tho "solid rock canal" the most practicable, the most desirable-, and above leaf lacks it. all, tho cheapest. How could ho prevent tho further progress of tho other schemes, when tho United States government seemed about to decide onco and for all between tho NIcarnguan and Panama routes? With that decision onco reached, no person on earth could prevent Its construction. No tlmo must bo wasted. Ho set out to And somo ono who know tho old chief engi neer, now long slnco dead. From town to city, from city to plain and on to moun tain lands and mining camps ho traced bis old acquaintance, until nt last ho reached tho house that had been tho lonely homo of tho old man for a few years preced ing his death. Strangers had lived there since, but the house was largo, they didn't need all tho room, and had packed away in tho attic some boxes and two or thrco barrels which contained clothing, mathe matical and scientific books, papers, raining claims, drawings mid bluo prints; of courso there was nothing of value, but tho strang ers thought that somo tlmo the old man's relatives, If ho had any living, might lenrn of where ho died and llko to havo "his things." It did not tako long to empty the con tents of tho barrels on tho attic floor and mako tho search. Ono huge roll ot bluo prints wero spread out, and thero were tho detailed plans and field books of tho "Darlen Cnnal Survey." Tho happy possessor was not long In securing an audience with prominent finan ciers. They listened, and believed. Theso gentlemen promptly provided tho money to put a small staff of cnglnoors In the field to verify tho "old survoy." In a few months they will make their report. If tho "Darlen Canal Survoy" Is substantially correct and thcro Is no reason for Its being otherwise, neither tho Panama nor Nlcaraguan canal projects will command further considera tion. Three flnuten Comiinri'il, Ono of tho most pleasing features of tho old prints is found in tho profilo of tho mountain range along tho Atlantic coast. Instead of one rango of uniform height, thcro nro what might bo termed five ranges in ono. That Is, thcro are four doep ravines running lengthwise of tho rldgo, Theso can bo utilized to great advantage; not bo canso In cutting through them thero would bo less material to removo, but because shafts can thcro bo sunk through which a portion of tho excavated rock can bo hoisted from below, giving ten working faces in tho tunnel construction. Tho 1110,000,000 which It Is estimated tho Darlen canal will cost, plus tho $35,000,000 which is likely to bo tho price paid the Panama Canal company for its Darlen franchise, totals 1145,000,000. Tito cost of the proposed Nlcaraguan canal is estimated at from $200,000,000 to $270,000,000. Estimates of tho cost of completing tho Panama canal run from $110,000,000 to $200,000,000. Tho Panama and the Nlcaraguan routes Involve tho construction and uso of httco dams and locks costly nnd vexatious Ira pediments to shipping.' Tho Darlen routo offers no such Impedi ments; It la to bo a straight stretch of froo water. The Darion routo represents a saving In tho first cost of from $05,000,000 to $110, 000,000, and a constant saving to voisol owners In locking charges that would soon run Into the millions. Tho Panama and Nlcaraguan routes lie In regions subject to froquont nnd do structlvo earthquakes, The Darlen routo docs not. Tho region through which It runs hoe found bottom, as an engineer put It. Tho hugo and costly stone locks and dams, from one to two miles long and from 100 to 200 feot high, designed to turn aside rivers, that must needs bo built on either the Panama or tho Nlcaraguan routei, What it is. Exceptional achievement awakens excep tional hatred among a few. And it deserves the exceptional support iScm-y would bo subject to frequent damago and the chanco ot cntlro ruin by earthquakes, with appalling consequences to tho sur rounding country. Tho Darlen routo Is as solid as Gibral tar. Tho flat rock cut could not bo injured; nolther could the thrco-mllo mountain of solid rock bo shaken down. Tho Darlen routo is effectively vaccinated against earthquakes. Thero is no certainty, owing to tho com plicated charncter of tho engineering prob lems to be met on tho Panama and tho Nlcaraguan routes, that tho first estimates of cost will bo found sufficient to complete olther work. Fcnalblllty of n Ilook Cnt. Nothing 13 more easily calculated with accuracy, by modern engineers, than a straight rock cut. This Is tho only prob lem to be solved In building tho Darlen canal. For theso reasons It Is practically a certainty that the estimates of tho cost of the Darlen canal will bo moro nearly accurato than tboao for tho Panama and the Nlcaraguan routes. Tho rock cut out of tho mountain In the routo ot tho Darion canal will not be moro easily defended than could a canal built upon either ot tho other routes. It would havo practically no perishable por tions which might bo wrecked by nn enemy. No dams or locks to bo thrown Into ruin by big guns. Only by filling In could It bo mado oven temporarily lmpassablo the remotest posslblo contingency, Involving long continued control by an enemy's army. Finally, tho Darlen canal can bo built In throo years, whereas from seven to ten yenrs will bo needed for tho completion ot tho Panama or tho construction ot tho Nlcaraguan canal. In this, ns In ovcrythlng elso, the Darlen routo has immense advantages over Its rivals. When completed It will be a por ted pleco of natural masonry from Atlantlo to Pacific. The tlmo Is rlpo for tho con struction ot the canal. Yesterday America was tho granary of tho world. Today It Is tho world's workshop. Our manufac turers must havo more and always moro foreign markets. They must havo thn shortest and cheapest posslblo freight routes to those markets. This means that tho trnnslsthmian canal, hitherto debatod as an academic problom, has become a vital economic necessity. And that means that It will bo constructed without much longer delay: Andrew Carnogle Is quoted as saying: "I don't bellevo the Nlcaraguan canal can bo worked even It built. Panama Is workable, but I don't bellevo In a canal, A doublo track railroad beats It to doath. It will render moro sorvlco. The Mexicans are building a railroad across Tahauntepec, but a first-class, doublo track road la what Is needed. You can unload frolght from vessels Into fifty-ton cars and unload It at tho other sldo at far less coBt than run ning 10,000-ton ships through a canal, even If no toll Is charged." "Then you aro hostile to an American Interocoanlc canal?" was asked, "It Is sentiment, not good senso." For onco Mr. Carnegie Is opposed to the conviction nnd tho ardent desire of the American people. But perhaps whon he studies the Darlen canal route'a advan tages ha may concludo It would bo bettor than a railway. In that prophetic last address, the Into President McKlnley urged with all his earnestness tho building of this canal. There Is no other great publlo onterprlso which has so nearly tho unanimous sup port of the American people. Great Ilrltaln, having Just gracefully con coded tho American demand that the canal be an American canal, to be paid for with American money, controlled by the Unltod States and defended, It need bo, by Ameri can guns, the last ot the more aorloui IN A When you stop to con sider the millions upon mil lions of 5-cent cigars sold in the United States, you will realize the credit due and the support and backing all smokers owe to Bondy St Led ere r. They are produc ing a staple article, abso lutely the only one, barring none, which gives the genu ine top-notch exquisitequal ity at the price regularly paidforcheapest inferiority. If not recognized, such effort has little encouragement in modern business. Against all the trade jealousy and the enmity of the incompetents this concern asks only the consumer's appre ciation and backing. obstacles which havo proveuted government work on a trnnslsthmlnn canal disappears. What remains is to select a route, ob tain a franchise from tho government In whoso territory tho canal routo lies and vote tho money. The bonedtfl to be derived from such a canal aro manifest to tho most superficial observer. It has been frequently stated In print that Great Britain, which docs moro of tho world's carrying trade than nny othor na tion, would bo tho greatest gainer. True, for tho present, but tho movement to re establish this country's preBtlgo as a leader In tho world's race for maritime, supremacy will In due tlmo cbnngo tho present status. Lines ot fast steamships will ply between New York, Boston and other Atlantic coast ports and Australian and Asiatic ports, making tho shortened Journey by way of tho Darlen canal. This may Interfere, In a degreo, with San Francisco's and Seattle's hopo to become the chief entrcports ot American commerco with tho Orient, but tho nation's oxpandlng trado with tho rest, ot the world will bo large enough to lnsuro a constant growth at all our ports, whether eastern, western or on the Gulf of Moxlco. IMIATTLB Or THIS YOU.NGST13KH. "Can you toll mo what prldo Is?" asked the Sunday school teacher of n small pupil. "Yco'm," was the reply. "It's walking with a cano when you nln't lamo." "Mamma," said C-ycar-old Bessie, "I'm going to bo a duchoss when I grow up." "How nro you going to acqulro tho tltlo, ray dcar7" nskod her mothor. "Just llko other ladles do," replied Bes sie. "I'm going to marry a Dutchman." A Now York woman, who makes It a rule to answor Instructively ovory question her young son asks, was confronted with a problem In goography recently which called for a lengthy exposition. Tho youngster was curious to know about the proposod It Will Come Back! 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CIGAR Panama canal, so IiIb mother brought out a map of tho Woatcrn htm'sphoro nnd pro pared to glvo hlra a short lesson on tha subject. "This Is North America," Bho explained, "and this Is South America. You boo that South America Is shaped something llko a pear, and It Is fastened to North America by this stem or Isthmus. Now tho Panama canal is to bo cut across there" "But, mother," her son Interrupted, "If thoy cut tho stem won't South Amorlca fall off?" Margie (aged 4) Mamma, what mado our washerwoman black ? Mamma Sho was born so, Margie. Tho Lord mado her black. Margio Well, I'm awful glad tho Lord wasn't around wheu I got born. "I a'posc," said Johnny, who had been called upon to entertain tho unexpected guest for n few minutes, "you havo to " "Speak a little louder," said tho callor. "I a'poso," yelled Johnny, "you havo to uso an car trumpet, 'causo your ear drum's busted." A 0-ycar-old mcmbor of a Harlem family of five glrla haH been tho Innocent causo ot much surprise and amusement to her eld ers lately by roason of many droll remarks. A few days ago a relative, on a New Year's visit to tho family, told ot the progress his eon was making In his first year at public school. Tho little girl had seemingly been interested In a Christmas doll on tho floor, near her father'B knee, but no soonor bad tho talk ceased than sh looked up at tho visitor and said: "Have you a little boy, Unolo Will?" "Yes, Elsie. And why do you ask?" A look of happlncbs spread over Elsie's face, nnd brushing back a golden curl with her hand, sho satd vory deliberately: "Woll, Indeed, you'ro a lucky roan, Undo Will, for there's n ca-lam'ty of girls In our bouse."