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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (March 19, 1905)
TTIE OMATIA' ILLUSTRATED BEE. Pen and Cdmera Pictures of the Work Going on in the Culebra Cut UOTnmiwirwi-" """ f"",T " "'" J L ' i 260 fett. leaving ua In round number 1st feet mote to cut before we reach sea level and obuut WO feet before we get to the bot tom of Untie gum's ditch, which will have to he dug forty feet below sea level to ac commodate the bin ships of the day. In this statement I assume that we will have. sea level cunal. That is the general opinion here nt Panama, although no one Is willing to make that statement for publication. This rutting ut Culebra will h on the av erage eight or ten miles long for the upper levels, but It lengtheiui as It goes down, and It will bo twenty-five milts long when It approaches the level of the sea. It la composed cf rock and earth, which will have to be gouged out and earrlrd away to h t the oceans' flow through. In other letters I shall describe the problems of (he Chiigres, the construction of tho harb'jra and tho other englnterlng works now planned. Thry are all, however, subordi nate to the big part of the Job, which la tho digging out and carrjing away of tola great maso In the center of which 1 sit. STEAM SHOVEL HANDLING TEN-TON BOULDER IN CULEBRA CUT. (Copyright 1M6. by Frank G. Carpenter.) mental, ' but at the same time practical, canal runs through river valleys, the Cha- N THK CULEBRA CUT, Isthmus ,Bvcry day takes out and carrlea away a grea on tne Atlantic anu t lie itio uranao on 'of Panama, March IB. (Special Correspondence of The Beo.) I have come to Panama to tell you 'how Uncle Bam la digging his big ditch from ocean to ocean. I have traveled over the line of the canal from the Atlantic, to the Pacific, hare talked with the engi neers of. the various sections, and. In com pany with Chlof Engineer Wallace and Governor Davis, have walked over tha kcreater pert of the Culebra cut mass of material which will not have to the Pacific. Here the ground Is low and be handled again, and this while the work awampy and the excavation will not be Is being organised and tested for the great more difficult than that 'of Bues. A little undertaking of the future. further Inward the land begins to rise, but Illtch Twite Aroand the World. 1 wish I could make you sec It ns It rise about me, the rock and earth extending In strata of various kinds up the sides. of the mountains, with cur trscks running along the levels, and tho machinery and men working away. Here the rock Is hard, there It looks like coal, and fsrther on It seema as soft as clay. Some of the urper levels nre clay, and now and then a landslide oc curs, covering both men and machinery. An enormous amount has been done, and tho chief engineer tells me there are yet more than 100,000,000 cubic yards to.be got ten out before the canal - prism can be made. This 10Q.ono.000 oubto yards Is from the Culebra cut alone. One hundred million cubic yards! The figures convey nothing to minds below those of the chief engineer or an f- . " ai I ... , -lj . S'riZZZfm. r" 'V'-V .-T-' ', n-i. nmtTMiirniHi, ii il i hi null sftli lis inisini m JAMAICAN NEGROES USING STEAM DTUI.LS IN CULEDRA CUT. grlssly bear or a 3no-pound hog could crawl through that tunnel. Take another comparison. It Is only 240,. 000 miles from tho earth to the innon. If Isaac Newton, and I doubt If even they the space between were solid ground, could could tell you what they mean. Let us fig- bn dug one-fourth of the way there with what each kind of canal will cost and how can bo cut down. This Is being don with long It will take to build It. several thousand men at work actually team drills boring holes into the rocks for blasting and with the new steam shov el puffing away as they load the cars, each doing the work of hundreds of men. I am In the midst of the mountains. Rag ged, rough and covered with a dense vatlon Is now going on. Below me the water lies- In the bottom of the cut, and In Hiti,,n thi. h .anit-ti .mwii there Is Dlentr of room to Dlle the excavated the matter out for ourselves. A cubio the same labor; and, as the moon is only are going rapidly on. The vegetation has materials on the banks, and the work can "ra of earth Is a block of earth a yard 2.100 miles around, such a ditch could girdle been cut away from the score and more h handled much like that of the Chicago wide,' a yard long and a yard thick. Take that great body twenty-five times and leave towns which lie on both sides of the Pan- drainage canal. Farther still you come to hJO.000,000 such blocks, and suppose them to plenty over for sidetracks. be the sections oi a .aitcn a yara wiae, a g What Handllnv the Dirt MeanaJ But there is another big element in the means. Culebra problem which makes It enorm- But stop. One hundred million yards Is ously greater than the construction of a 300,000,000 feet. That Is the length of our ditch of that kind. In our ditch the rock ditch. Now . In round numbers 6,000 feet and earth could be thrown on the banks, make a mile and dividing the 300,000,000 feet Here It must not only bo dug and blasted by that we have 60,000 miles as the length out, but Is must be carried an average dis- of our ditch. In other words, if tha earth tance of ten or twelve miles away. A thou- were solid the Culebra cut excavation which sand elevators oould not lift it over tha Uncle Sam has yet to make would equal a hills on either side of the cut It could ditch three feet wide and three feet deep, net bo stored on the sides of the mountains. long enough to go two times around this All the valleys about here could be filled una railroad and drains made off Into the the mountains, and you are In the Culebra bushes. The streets of Panama City are P"". where lies the great problem of the yard deep and 100,000,000 yards long, and dua- ud for the new sewera and water work, which forma the chief subject of my you begin to see what the Culebra cut rl sit In the Culebra cut as I write, with works, and a great reservoir for a supply letter today. , thousands of men at work about me, with of fresh water has been mad In the raoun- . . .... rwrt- n.t.k.. re tains. . v """" The architects and carpenters are every- Tht Culebra pass Is, In fact, one of the where preparing quarters for the men. lowest pnsss of the Andes, those mighty Hundreds of the old French buildings are mountains which In South America rise being remodeled and the sound of the ham- more than four miles above the sea, and mer and saw can be heard from one end of wMch drop down as they cross the Isth- growth of vegetation, they rise high above the Isthmus to the other. The old French mus on their way north to Join hands with tho great rocky gorge in which the 'exca- materials have been chopped out of the ur Rockies. In this country these moun- bushes and machine shops have been n wo on tne average oniy aDout one- To show you how such things are calcu- excavating enormous amounts of material. lated let me give you nn estimate of the The product, however. Is nothing In corn handling of this 100,000.000 cubic, yards at parison with the value of the knowlodgo Culebra. The oars they are using hero will gained for estimating the work of the fu each carry Just ten oublo yards and twenty turo. Nothing of this kind was ever done cars can be hauled In one train, making 30 by the French, cubic yards to a train. Therefore, if this , V whole mass Is loaded upon cars It will take CO0.O00 trains to haul It away. Now suppose, you can load 200 trains In a The Steam Shovels. Just now the advance guard of tho rreat rmy of American machinery Is at work'lu ..... -H of p-n.m. mion na Mataehln third of a mile high, and hero at Culebra 25,000-mile globe with 10,009 miles of ditch to up level wlUi the dumping of a hundredth looking up and down the gorge I can see Empire and at other places along the route, their njgnest peaas are just aoout aw icei spare, vine leii-over woum equal a tunnel pan oi n- i muai ue rarnea on cam ir the work of tho French engiueers. They ibored thirty years and spent here and In Paris $280,000,000 in gold; but they worked In the dark, and with Doodling and bad business accomplished only one-tenth of this .excavation. The French were fine engineers on paper, but they never ascer tained the cost estimates of men, ma chinery and material which are abso lutely essential to any rational deduction as to tho time it will take to build the Cbnal or the money needed for the purpose. What la Being- lXne at Panama. This la what the canal commissioners and Indeed the whole canal lone has begun to above the sea. three feet square through the center of the oft to other valleys or dumped Into the hum, and from now on It will be one of the industrial beehive of the world. The em ployes at work, Americans and natives, al ready number something like 5,000 and this force will be steadily Increased until It Is three or four times as great. 1'ncle Sam's Bis; Ditch. Indeed the work planned here Is so vast that I can only describe It by simplifying tho figures by homely comparisons. In the first place, let us take a blrdseye view of the canal. It 1s to cross the Isthmus This height the French have cut down earth and one-fourth the way back. A the chief engineer are doing today. They 'through the middle of the Panama repub- are making the tests which will form .the basts of ail estimates- and contracts for the work of the future. There ore now gangs of men all along the line of the canal under the charge of skilled engineers looking into every cost element of the canal construc tion.. Some parties are at the headwaters of the Chagrea and others at various places lie, a country which Is as long as from 'Washington city to Boston, via New York, and which ranges In width from thirty to 180 miles. The canal Is to go through one .of Its narrowest parts, but It winds Its way this way and that, and the distance from ocean to ocean will be about forty flvo miles, and with the dredging necessary ilong Its course muklnff borings for tunnels at the entrances in the Atlantic and Paclflo and daJiis. Others are preparing the way for the harbor excavations at the Atlantlo and Pacific ends of the canal, and others are testing every foot of dredging to be made through the lowlands and on the rlBes to the Culebra cut. Here at Culebra there is a small army at work, a part of it using the old French machinery and others working the great steam shovela, testing the different aeo tlons of tho pass and ascertaining to a cent and a minute Just what it win cost In -time and money to get each kind of rock and earth out. This work Is experl- Just about fifty miles. Looking at the map the Job seems a chore In comparison with the Sues canal, which Is 100 miles long; with Kiel, which Is seventy miles long, or with tho Grand canal In China, which runs north and south for more than 1,000 miles, crossing two mighty rivers, through a territory populated by millions. Tliis view of the canal changes when one stands on the ground. The Job Increases in elzo and a trip over the route shows even the amateur that It Is the most stupendous engineering construction ever undertaken by man. At the two ends of the route the Riches of the Comstock Lode ble cottage up there In Virginia City, could sign her cheek for $o.000,000 today, and never miss the money when the check had been cashed. The son of George Hearst took the money his father found In the ground up there In the cactus state and built him a chain of papers that stretch from ocean to ocean, and are quoted and copied In every civilised country on the globe. It was the Comstock lode that drove the HERE never was such a time of wild deeds and frenzied folly and Inspired wisdom as there was In tho days of the big bonanza on tho Comstock. And no wonder. Think one minute what the Comstock lode has done for tho world. John Mackcy went to Nevada a poor miner, with his pick on his broad shoulders and nothing l.iit V. a .WM hmtfiln nn t 1 A tin of his tongue, and a pair of stout arms, between bu(rl bck fro" th P'""' boT nuiivj U1IU Kill. IU. Ill II 1 m the hills for shelter. And it was the Com- bv 'tea I it V, , : sT V.. . 1 i 1 . 'rv.-j n v Mm a . m .... 4 .: I 1 fr..-a- . Il r.T.f T l-,.. g... L...-1.. . J. Pacific ocean, which Is about twelve miles away. This means an enormous amount of hauling. Indeed, this whole mass would have to be carried about ten miles from where It now lies. Let us take a homely glance at that Item. A cubic yard is roughly estimated to weigh a ton. I am something of a farmer, and day. This, according to the ten-hour rate the cut t wlsn x could ,how you tnoea Dlg now prevailing, means the loading and ,tPam shovels which are working away carrying away of twenty trains every hour, UIHj-r my eye. The word shovel glvea no or a train every three minutes all the work- or them. Each la a gigantio machine Ing dsy through. But there are 600.000 trains worked by a steam engine with a steel dip to be taken out, and. dividing this by S, pcr aa big around as a hogshead and great the daily rate, we get 2,600 days as the time tecl teeth at Its end half oa long as your required to haul out this earth at three Brm. xhls dipper Is raised and lowered by minutes to the train. But 2,500 days at the touch of a button. It grinds 1U way twenty-five, working day to the ' month nt0 the rock and gouges out Ave two-horse equals 100 months, which, divided by twelve, wngon loads of stuff at a bite and lifts It gives us eight and one-hnlf years us the up Hmi drops It down on the car. Two bites time needed to haul out the material at are a load for a car and, Indeed, aomotimea that rste of speed. But three minutes is a one bite means almost that much. I saw very short time to load a train. Tho time one shovel pick up a rock weighing ten must be doubled and quadrupled by addl- tons and lift It to the car trucks aa though tlonal tracks und sections of work, o that it. wcro feathers. twelve minutes or twenty-four minutes may be allotted to each train. This means a great railroad organization. Euch of thesn shovols working steadily at ten hours a day can handle 25,000 cublo yards In a month, which, taking our ditch It means four systems of double-track rail- Illustration, menns nn excavation three feet ways, one on each aide of the center line wide, three feet deep and fifteen miles of the cut and one at each end leading In the Virginia hills where I live a ton Is from tho excavation to the spoil banks. a good load for two horses. Suppose this 100,000.000 cubic .yards, each yard a ton, loaded on two-horse wagons, and give each It means a vast number of steam shovela. long. If it works day and night it can gougo out a ditch thirty miles long in one month. Tills means that one shovel Work- so worked by a continuous stream of cars ing night and duy will dig more than a that they will be never Idle. It means, in mile of ditch in that time. In a year It wagon and team a space thirty feet long on ghort. the most thorough organization un- would make a ditch from Washington City the roadway, making a chain of 100,000,000 wagons earning this mass of earth. Let the chain start at Panama and move on ward. Where would the first wagon be when the last wagon was loaded? It would be ten times as far away as the length of our big ditch. The train would have to be 600,000 miles long-long enough to reach to the moon and back again, with enough left over to go almost five times around the world. The whole linn of, wagons would reach exactly twenty-four times around the globe. der the chief engineer that the human to Albany.' mind can conceive or tho human will ex- Something leas than a score of these nm- ecute, and this I believe Is possible under chines have been ordered, and four are Mr. Wallace. already at work. It Is the Intention of the chief engineer, when the excavation Is in full blast, to have 100 such shovels plug- Iibor and Machinery. Indeed, the chief engineer will soon know gn(f away and thousands of cars keeping Just what he can do with each kind of labor and every kind of machinery. He them busy day In and night Out. As to tho question of labor, tho French Question of Time. All this excavation work at Culebra has to go on in the short space of eight miles. This limits the number of men and ma- is testing the Isthmian labor to see how at one time had several thousand men at much a man Is worth per hour and WOrk, but they never had a force equal to whether he can be depended upon. So these machines. Each shovel can do the far he finds that one-third of the native work of 600 men, and when we have 100 of labor lays off all the time and he has to them stationed here we shall have 60,009 have 100 men employed to be sure of men bbttlcd up In steel, men who will not seventy turning up. Ho Is testing the old get yellow fever, and who will not lay off for malaria, who will never grow tired and French machinery to see whether It will pay to use It and also the new machinery, never strike. We may have trouble with chines which can be employed at one time getting every element of cost In a cublo the 10,000 or 13,000 human beings who will time and It forms a big element in esti mating the length of the Job. Figured out yard which is taken out costs In fuel, labor. by the former commission It would require twenty years to complete It: but with the best of modern machinery and American business methods two or three shifts a day yard of excavation. He now knows to a be howers of wood and drawers of water, cent, every day, Just what each cublo but this great maohlno force of 60.000 men GOVERNOR DAVIS AND CHIEF ENGINEER WALLACE. will be had and by means of electricity the glance which Items are high and how they work will go on night and day all the year through. At this early period the chief en gineer does not pretend to give anoplnlon as to the cost of the canal nor as to the time It will take to finish it. He does not say and has not said whether he thought a lock canal would be preferable to a sea level canal. He only says that he Is here as the servant of the canal commission, of the president and the American people, ready to do to the best of his ability what they shall decide ,they want done. He Is now gathering the Information by practical work which will enable him to figure out Is what under good business direction will In transportation to dumps, In mining and give Uncle Sam his canal at a lower cost blasting, in maintenance of tracks and In and in a shorter time than the ordinary general expense, so that he can see at a mind can conceive. FRANK G. CARPENTER. Features of the Simplon Tunnel HE virtual completion of the Slm- of over 100 degrees Fuhrenhett In the Simp- plon tunnel Is chiefly interesting plon tunnel, and the anticipation was fully because It Is the longest conduit realized. To insure comfort at the scene of operations a current of air, artificially cooled, was forced In from outside. It then became necessary to provide means of escape for the air. Otherwise there For that pur- In the world and because the con struction has proceeded with remarkable rapidity. less than six years and a half have elapsed since It was le- gun. Of the two passages wnicn nave wouia oe no circuia.uon, him and hunger. A man named Fair, a Scotchman lie was, with a pair of shrewd blue eyes and a mat of black hair that made him look like an outlaw, camo to the camp without a dol- stock lode that broke the pride and the stem enmity of the red men and turned them into American citizens. Just as It was the Comstock lode that built the Quaint Features and Events of Current Life lar and boarded with the widow Rooney My.t cu,, for dld not tna A Feed fov Twelve. IOLORADO can produce something and other accidents form part of the besides election frauds If It tries, hazards of the game of ostrich farming. A remarkable dinner was served Under modern training an ostrich equals a recently by a farmer near Ault Colo. The table was set for stunts of the horse. By aid of hU wing an twelve, and the .menu consisted of one ostrich can leave behind the swiftest run- Have you ever climbed the sweet rise nve-and-one-half-pound potato, one (If- niug thoroughbred, and under harness has tie claim up the gulch they used to talk- of the smiling ground that leads from the teen-pound cabbage. ona ten-pound paced in about a horse's re'eord time at bout, sometimes, when they could get sliver edge of the Paoino up to the Sutro chicken, one six-pound turnip, one two- Hot 8;rinss, Ark. ud the gulch, and very good board he found there, too, they say, while he was walling to make his strike so as to pay his little debts. ' , Two stout young Irishmen, one called Flood and one named O'Brien, had a lit- Comstock build the railroad? Who would have spun the gigantio spi der web we call the Overland across the continent if it had not been for the Comstock lode? c gets a broken leg In the mix up, but that lashes himself to fury and toeses the sand a mile high In the air and flings It broad cast over all the plain, whirling and burling the particles till he obscures the sun and pound onion, and three pies made from one and one-half-pound apple. any one to listen, and George Hearst, a Heights lu Ban Francisco? good-natured giant with a gleam of sharp Have you ever stood there in that gar humor In his gray-blue eyes, worked in don, ( one of the most beautiful pleasure the hills with the rest of them and said grounds in the world, and watched the very little to anybody. white danoer of the surf throwing up And John Mackey It Is who took his their arms In their strange, melodic meas Comstock gold and tied the continents to- ure down there below the cliffs? getlier with a strand of talking wire, -and Tha Oomstock h Ann .m..i,i the daughters of James Fair and the widow you, too, for Sutro Heights would never per'en"d rel,B1on: Rooney, whom he married, are the lead- have been If Adolph Butro, a poor Jew e",.wlt Borrow era nf fnhlnn In Ihn vav rmiirti nf tha miltk .nlkl.. K... v.. . . .' atol One ride an - -- - " un. u vrtuu ana nis 111- world, and who would think, to look at domitable will, had not built the Sutro Mrs. Willie Vanderbllt or at Mrs. Herman tunnel un thr k. r Oelrichs, that every dollar that haa strewn snatched the gold out of the penurious W'"h 5U mUh 'Uk' Ple" 'XCU86 m " the paths under their feet with roses, and earth before the greedy water oould get BasslanTo.telas.ed showered them with golden fortune, was at It. Probably the longest nam. that' ever d.s- dug out of the gray ground of old Nevada? 1 The Comstock lode built cities, m. ,i,d a printer was appended to a letter re- , Little Jennie Flood, who used to h.ng states and subdued the savage heart of a celved recently by Governor Carter of- ' 1 ' " u laiuii uuiu- wuu comment. Denver Post. Conscience Heiulttanee. The manager of a western railroad, ac cording to the Buffalo Commercial, re ceived the following letter from some con science stricken unknown who had ex- "Meestare Snut: Eet approach before you. I eet has bodered me lake haal. I got rellchlon now an' so I sen' one teeket an' 6 cent from your frens. I horse In power and can do many of tha brings a suffocating darkness to the land. On the cast side of the desert he Is at present busy engulfing a railroad. Already he has burled many of the telegraph poles which stand along the way, and he has In vaded the right of way nf the road, and tlie company is busily fighting to hold posses sion until a new line, which is being built around the Intruding hills, shall be com pleted. Then the rolling billows of saud will be allowed to sweep on undisputed, been opened, only one will be ready for pose the adjacent parallel passage was railway trafflo in tho Immediate future, utilized, holes being cut In the Interven- the other-needing great enlargement before ing wall at suitable Intervals, ail of them ' It becomes available for similar service, except the Innermost being stopped as The perforation of Mont Cenls took thirteen tho heading advanced. years and that of St. Gothard nearly nine Even after track1 Is laid in the tunnel and a half, and yet both of those tunnels and connections are made with existing; are much shorter. One Is a little more Swiss and Italian railways little practical than seven miles long and the other is benefit will be derived from the newly nine and a half, while the distance be- opened route for several years. A short tween the ends of the Simplon tunnel Is tunnel under the Jura range must be twelve and four-tenths miles. Along- most constructed before that under the Slmp- of the way It was necessary to cut through Ion pass will be useful. It la predicted solid granite, but recent Improvements In that the' time between Paris and Milan drills most of them trifling have made will then be shortened by between threa it posHible to make better progress than and a half and five hours, and that a sav- was accomplished ten or fifteen years ago. ing of 1W miles will be effected In tha distance which the mall for India will b Eaale Seised Little Girl. While a number of children were going home from school at Long Prairie, Minn., a huge eagle swooped down upon them in the street, seised a little girl, aged 6 years, and attempted te carry her away.' The bird fastened Its talons In the child's shoulder and dress and lifted her several feet from the ground, when Frank Blair's son and other boys sprang to the girl's assistance and, grasping her clothing, prevented the bird from carrying hfr away. The eagle then soared off. When you i vg Blair seized the child the bird with its wings struck htm a blow on the side of the head and knocked him The most novel engineering feature of obliged to travel on Its way from London the enterprise seema to have been the plan to Brlndlsl, which Is equivalent to four adopted for overcoming the heat always or five hours. To Americana these ad van -encountered in the heart of a mountain, tagea seem small compared with the cost the .m7thwe..rn nnrVion nf he Mm. ' The highest temperature found In Mont of the work, which will probably not fall Cni. tune.i was S6 degrees Fahrenheit. Lch short of ,18 000.C0 or JS,m,m. It dtmert These are more wonderful, however, than the ones which are menacing the railroad, for upon these hills the wind has practiced his skill at carving geometrical figures. These hills are known as the Crescent hills. Each Is the shape of a true crescent, the points of which are toward the east. A hill which is ilfty feet high Is found to be 100 feet thick at the base and 200 feet from point to tpoint of the duplicate horns of and the maximum In the St. Gothard tun- European capitalists are willing to Invest net exceeded this by only two degrees. One their money In such a manner, however, would not imagine that such an environ- perhaps nobody else has a right to Dnd ment would be particularly trying to workmen, and It probably was not, but there was dangor of taking cold on emer ging from the hsadlng. Computation led the engineers to expect a temperature fault. At any rate, the audacity and In genuity of the engineers who proposed and carried through this vast undertaking will Inspire universal admiration. New York Tribune. down. The lde of the boy's face la black tne crescent. If a hill Is twice that height Accumulating o Jog by Absorption WAS tipsy Just once in my life." pushed the button and when the porter said Colonel Knight "I was came I asked him: going through to the Pacific coast and during a short wait la Chi cago I ran to a nearby saloon and asked for a bottle of three star brandy. "Before I could stop him the bartender ran a big corkscrew into the cork, and I ild to him: " 'Don't you do that. Think you're the only man In the country has a corkscrew? "So he wrapped the bottle up quick and parsed it over and I ran for the train. My berth was made up and I thrust the bottle In the rack overhead without sampling it. Theu I turned In. "Moriilng broke and X woke up with a feeling that I was ona of an all night " 'Where did I get this?" " 'Duuno. boas, but you do look bad.' " 'Did I walk in my sleep?" - " 'No, sir. not so I'd notice it.' " 'Well, assist me out If you think jny head will go through tha passage to the lavatory,' 1 said, and while I vaa washing up he began to arrange the section for the day. "When I got back to where he was work ing be held up a half bottle of brandy and aid: 'Guess you didn't have to walk fur.' " 'But the cork has not been pulled.' I remarked, and the coon's face took on a look oi amassment; but I readily under Hawaii. The writer urged that the "crown lands" be not given to ex-Queen Llliuo kalanl. The writer winds up in this fash ion: "I am the Hawaiian woman that hoisted the American fla when the Ha waiian flag, was lowered, and I was the one who made a speech at the time the Judge sailed on the Alameda last year. I am yours, " Kaanaaiiamokaueahalkuikawaikamookahl Keamokuhalepohat." and blue. Its othtr dimensions mill be found to have Before the eagle made the attack the doubled also. Little and big they keep their hoys saw It sailing overhead about 50 proportions as tney move slowly across the feet above the ground. Suddenly the bird Plain. cloaed his wngs and dropped to the earth. - , The children attempted to flee. As soon as the bird seised the little girl she screamed, and the boys courageously turned back to rescue her. The attack was within three blocks of Eloquence In Game of Seven-Up KNATOH CLAY of Georgia is did you cber play seben-up? looked upon as one of the best The stern dispenser of Justice declined ta raconteurs in the upper house of answer the question. "Whether I play congress. In negro dialect stories seven-up or not has nothing to do with the he Is Illimitable. This Ih tils hi test: caae," he said. When Judge David Irwin was holding "But 'deed it hab, Jcdga, It hah heaps to court In Marietta, Ua., a negro was brought do wlf It," the negro Insisted, "for lessen before htm fur smashing the nose of a com- you can play soben-up you cain't -under- Ftarhtln Ostriches. Male ostriches battle for supremacy and admiration of the females with as much part of town. Wind Plays milk llraert Sand. As mjslerious. as uncontrollable,' party 'that hud tarried with the iulce at "O0 wh" ha4 Pened, rno pranay nsa been leaking through the perforated cork drop by drop upon my head and face all night long and I had accumulated a regular bun by absorption. The only l.tln maxim I could think of to "Vy head" felt like a sheet lead hive expreta my sentiment Just then was slnU with the bvea gulling ready to swarui. I ' " slmllibua curantur." New York Sun. the expense of sleep. First I wondered where I had been and then where I was at the moment Then I realised that I was on the train and wondered if I could get out of the bunk. A Costly Joke. A practical Joke played upon a tenderfoot has resulted In a suit for 110.000 damagea against seven men at Lewiston, Idaho. Kbv Njuiipil reeentlv Irnm k'nkAmn inn1 minlnn m h I the two were enirased In a Stand how this yere haDDened. You see. the village school, and In the thickly settled WiLS the vitm or a faha hold-up at Waha, supposedly friendly game of cards. There Jtdge, me and that nigger ober dar was Idaho, several weeks ago. He was cm- were a dozen witnesses who testified that playln' and I dole the kalrds and I turn up ployed by John Hames, who conducts the there was no provocation whatever, but de nine-spot of spades, and I hab In my postofflce, store and hotel at Wal.a. that the prisoner had suddenly leaned over ban the Jack and the ten and the deuce. The defendants, it Is alleged, frightened the table and smahhed the nose of the man He heg an' I gib Mm one, an' den what you ferocity aa stags, bulls, buffaloes and other treacherous and as entertaining as the vast htm by telling him how fast tenderfeet were opposite, nearly knocking that organ out think dat nigger ober dar done? He lead animals. An ostrich battle is amusing, as ocean, which lies only a few laaguea west being killed off In that part of the country, of place. do ace ob spades, an' I put on my deuoe. It amounts practically to a boxing match of its borders, is the great sea of sand One man rode up leading a riderless horse The belligerent was convicted of assault Den what you think dat nigger ober dar with the feet, in which the males dance which forms a large portion of California's and told Naanva how his partner had been and battery and sentenced to six months' done? He lead de king of spades, an' I around each other lightly. There la this greatest desert, knows, because of its pros- killed and he was hurrying out of tha coun- imprisonment. The man had In the past give him a hard look, but I put on my ten. difference, however. I any boxer could imity to the river of that name, as the try. Tbe climax came when Naanes and borne a good- reputation and Judge Irwin In what you think that onery. low-down, hit as hard aa an ostrich with one of his Colorado desert. - others were held up In the More. had known him for years, and, beside, the an?akln nigger done, Jedge? He lead de feet he might settle the championship with This desert Is tha wind's favorite play- Two of the defendants, with coffee sacks Judge was noted for his clemency to first -queen ob spadea I put on my Jack, an' a single blow. It must not be supposed ground, lie comes over the mountains, as masks, entered the store, armed with re- offenderx. So he akel the prisoner, when den I Just lean ober an' smash he's nose that the ostrich will not airike his fo from plowing the mighty deep, and works vol vers, and ordered the men Inside to hold tho case came before him for review, why clean offen ho's face." with his terrible beak. In sparring the strange fancies In the pliable sands. He up their hands. he had acted In such n manner. When order was restored the Judge sol ostrich stands on one foot, with the other duplicates the great billows of the turbu- ' The complaint aais tbut Naanes was re- "You must have had some reaxon," he emnly revoked the previous sentence. "I foot and wings raised, bill wide open and lent ocean; he imitates the rippling waves covering from appt-nditVis. and tliat the ta!d. "Now tell me all about It. Just be- think that If the defendant pay IV he neck alslendud, He striken with the force of tbe placid sea; he carves and builds and fright had made him permanently 111. He twen ourselves." said, "all the requirements of justice whlohj of a triphammer, and In flhtlng both birds plays at artist, sculptor and geometrician, is now at Lvwistvu undw a physician's "'Deed I did have eoms reason, Jedge, the sovereign stste of Georgia demands will warily dodge Wows, fjouieliiuos a keeper Wbeu he btcomes weary of his sports be vara. 'deed I d-d," the brgre blurted out. "JJe, be bountifully stUntd,