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- -w5 s ' 1 BM.J l. . . I -: K 0R $5,000,000 ' sat COCKROACH w nM I .SBBBBBTXiraSKCXJ?.." k- lKk. TSSBBBBBBBBBBBB. ialalaWHaiaaBrleS5 ialalaBaM?$PBF&;& Wlbn'r'' s ! '-sps jBJBlMassasasasESlk-- Jr 'Wip'" SHSS'' VJfijBBA, '"& SSSS MT . m.i iii-1-K IWHllMtiHIUII"""""" Colon, C. Z. If you wish to hear "language" just say "Cucnracha" to ono of tho engineers engaged In build ing the central division of the Panama canal. Cucaracha In Spanish means a cockroach. In tho Canal Zone If means tho greatest of tho numeroun slides that havo raado tho completion of tho Culebru.cut so different and so expensive Why that slide was named tho cockroach I could not discover. Certainly even tho Panamanian cock roach 1b not so largo, and ho moves much more swiftly. Deforo tho first French company quit operations In 1889 tho Cucaracha began to slide, and It flrBt gavo tho Americans trouble in 1905, the second year of their work on tho canal. Do tween then and July 1, 1912, nearly 3,000,000 cubic yards of material was removed from the canal becauBo of It Tho slldo had broken nearly 1,900 feet from the axis of tho canal, and covered an area of 47 acres. Last fall the engineers were congratulating themselves on having the cockroach stopped, but in January It started moving again, and nearly covered tho bottom of tho cut. "What is going to bo tho cost of that slide to tho United States?" I -asked Colonel Goethals as wo stood at the edgo of tho Culebra cut and look ed across tho chasm to where the steam shovels and hundreds of men were laboring to remove tho vast mass of earth and rock. "Well," tho chief engineer roplled,"our -estimate is that by tho time it is all cleared up it will have required tho expenditure of about $5,000,000 moro than tho cut would have cost if tho slldo had not occurred. It is still mov ing, and has broken so far back that f-vti ,? h-.'- ? Giant 8team Shovel. sow we are shoveling the crest away from tho canal in order to relievo the pressuro from above. Before tho move ment In January began the excavation In the cut at that point hod been carried to within 15 feet of tho canal .bottom. Digging out that 15 feet of material removed the support of tho Cucaracha, and down It came. If we could have turned in tho water and taken out tho 15 feet with dredges, I think tho pressure of the water would havo dono much to prevent the slide." "What of the future?" I asked. "Is there any danger of slides occurring after the canal Is opened?" "Absolutely nono, I believe," ho an swered. "When tho excavating and dynamiting have ceased and tho wa ter Is In, It will be quite safe. We have tho Blldes and breaks mapped out at far back as there Is any Indi cation of their extending, and are working back to those lines. It Is merely a matter of persistency and pa tlence." "When will the water be lot Into the cut?" In October," replied Colonel Qoe thalB. "But there will be no celebra tion over the event. That one in Jan uary, 1915, is giving us enough worry, and we don't forget the premature and ridiculous celebration by Ferdinand de Lesseps many years ago. We will Just turn the- water In that's all. Then wo can complete tbo excavation there with auction dredges, which will do the work cheaply and rapidly." "And when will boats be passing through tho canal?" "That I cannot say, but tho sooner the better, for tho operating crewB must be properly trained before that January celebration. I wouldn't have an accident occur for anything. If wo cannot have commercial vcssola going through before then, I shall ask tho government to send naval "vesselB through, so the operating forces can get the experience. Anyhow, I want h' XT Xl v -XS9i VC "tafilol3CafiJBiaEI II IIT I 1 6y I.WPKKARD to see the canal opened to commcrco as soon ns posslblo, for It Is revonuo I am after." Another day I stood with Col. D. D. Galllard, the engineer of tho central division, outsldo his offlco In Kmpiro, and watched his nrmy laboring in tho cut, tho completion of which has been his biggest task atid greatest glory, night at our feet a big area had sunk down 70 feet in a night, and if there had not been warnings of tho break a wing of the colonel's offlco building would havo gouo down with It. "Wo had JUBt time to removo that wing," said ho, "and my office force Is rather nervous now, for there nro throe big cracks under the main build ing. I expect it, too, will havo to bo torn down very soon. "Theso Blldes used to make us rath er despondent, for it seemed as if they never would stop, but the progress wo aro making this year has cheered up tho operating forces again, and we can see tho end of the task. The slide and the break aro quite differ ent. In tho formor the earth slides at an anglo down a sloping face of rock, and In the latter tho mass sinks straight down and nt tho bottom bulges out into the channel. Along both sides of tho cut you can seo nu merous small slides and breaks. Thoso aro in pockots in tho rock wall, and, annoying as they are, they only need cleaning out. Tho Cucaracha started as a slide nnd now it is both a slldo and a break. "Incidentally, that cut should bo a great place for geologists. I have found in it every kind of rock except granite, and many interesting fossils and petrification have been discover ed there. In one stratum through which wo cut there were found a great number of teeth of prehistoric varie ties of sharks." "What is your opinion concerning the date when the canal will be ready for commerco?" I aBked. "It I had my say," said the colonel emphatically, "not a commercial ves sel would bo allowed in the canal un til it is absolutely completo down to the smallest detail. In somo of the many safety devices were not in op eration and an accident should result, tho canal would get a black eye from which It might not recover for a long time. Officially, the tlmo for tho com pletion of tho canal is still January 1, 1915. It may be done before that date, but In March of this year there was still about $50,000,000 worth of work ahead of us. "Wo who havo been digging tho canal and aro still hero in positions of responsibility I mean tho members of the Isthmian canal commission aro rather fearful concerning that part of tho Adamson bill which permltB the president to dissolve the commis sion whenever in his Judgment tho canal Is near enough to .completion. Wo -feel that it would be extremely unjust not to allow us to remain 'on tho Job' until after tho grand formal opening in January, 1915. It would bo much like permitting a boy to com plete his university course, and than taking him homo beforo he receives hiB diploma." And then Colonel Galllard said soma things about Mr. Taft'B efforts to put Into effect that clauBe last January, which must have made tho ex-president's ears tingle a bit. "The Culebra cut in liko a three-ring circus. I don't know which way to look," said one visitor to the zone. It Is Indeed a sceno of wonderful ac tivity. Giant steam shovels aro scat tered through It, scooping up cnor mouB masses of rock and earth; on halt a dozen tracks on as many dif ferent levelB snorting and puffing loco motives are swiftly drawing loaded or empty dirt trains; along the ledges nro batteries of steam and com pressed air drills, making IioIcb for dynamite; suddenly there is a toot tooting of a steam whlstlo, a hundred men scurry to shelter, and a dynamlto blast Alls tho air with sound and dirt and rocks. Watching tho steam shovels Ib a fa vorite occupation of visitors who ven ture down into the Culebra cut. They seem almost human, and do a vast amount of work. Their dippers hold ttvo cublo yards of material, weigh lng"6n an average a little more than three tons. This spoil is emptied into cars of several kinds. Flat cars with one high side are unloaded by plowa that are drawn the length of the train by cables upon a winding drum. Tho othors are dump cars, tho largeBt of which are oporated by compressed air from tho locomotivo. Tho tralnB haul the spoil from tho cut to dumping grounds, which on an avorago aro about 12 miles distant. Some 18,000, 000 cublo yardfl of this material was used as filling for the long breakwa ter at the Pacific entrance. ROMANS ETO Why Barbara Was Married in the Old Blue Gingham Affair. By 8U8ANNE GLENN. Barbara had listened for the sound of Lucy's light fcot too many times not to know who It was coming along the road behind her, but alio did not turn until Clark Towusend drew up and called cheerfully: "Let mo take you homo, Barbara?" "I I did not know you Mould caro to, Clink," slio hesitated, Hushing. "Of coursu 1 caro to," ho said, lift ing her in carefully and Blithering up the reins again. For a tltno thero was silence eavo for Lucy'B feet on the soft wood road. Tho girl was evidently too 111 ut ease to speak. "1 have you In a trnp at last, haven't I?" the man smiled, covering her cold little hand with his big -warm ono. "And I'm not going to let you go, Barbara, until you tell mo what It has all been about" "What do you mean?" naked Bar bara. "I guess you know what I mean. What happened all of a sudden that you should send mo this?" Ho took carefully from un Inner pocket a fold ed paper out of which 1 something dropped that shono In tho twilight "How do you suppose 1 felt to seo my girl running round with that artist chap? I really think that 1 deservo a bettor explanation than 1 have had. "Oh, Clark," she walled suddenly, "you do but I'm afraid I cannot mako you understand. '1 Just couldn't mar ry you?" "Of course not, Barby dear, if you did not love mo enough. But I though you did I thought well, never mind. What camo up, anyway?" "Nothing that is the trouble. 1 could not enduro It! Nothing hap pened to me, no experiences like oth er glrlB havo. People have told mo sinco I was a child that I ought to marry Clark Townsend. When 1 told mother we wore engaged, she said, 'Why, of course I've known it this long tlmo. I've got everything plan ned about the wedding and your housekeeping.' I had been so happy before I told.hor, but after that 1 cried myself to Bleep you couldn't know about that Clark. But that was the beginning." "No, I did not know," Clark admit ted. "Everybody knew, beforo wo did ourselves, that we ought to bo mar ried at Christmas so that Brown could movo off your place the first of Jan uary. And they know we would spend our honeymoon with your Bister Grace in Plalnsboro.f I planned out thc.dear est kitchen all buff and blue, but when I mentioned it mother insisted noth ing was so 'good as drab, and settled the mattor by getting me a set of those wretched gray cooking things that I've always despised. "I do not know what you will think of me, Clark, but that is tho truth about it! It seemed as if I Just couldn't enduro it to be married ac cording to rule, and Just to settle down i afterward and llvo by rulo. I've lived that w ay all my life and I know what it means I didn't dare try to endure it!" "But that doesn't explain that artist fellow that hat hung round you all summer. Docs ho All the bill better than I did, Barbara?" "There has been this one comfort, at least no ono has known what to expect. And mother has been fu rious!" Young Townsend watched the girl hurry up the path to the side door of the big farmhouse with a whimsical imllo. Yes, ho could see how her ex istence had been depresslngly matter-of-fact for a romantic young thing like Barbara Shepard. Tho unlovely severity of the comfortable house told Ub own story, Its exterior prepared one for a drab kitchen with gray utensils. "Lucy," he said, shaking the rclnB affectionately over tho sleek back of Ills favorite gray, "that child Is long ing for romance in her gray little life, and I take it, lt'8-tfp"to ub to produco the goods I" "Barbary," said Farmer Shepard next morning, looking severely at his pretty daughter, "didn't I see Clark Townsend's .gray mare out here by our gato last night?" "Very likely you did, dad. He brought mo home from tho Pine road." , "Well, I don't want to see him here again, do you understand?" with ris ing irritation. "Why, Hiram," expostulated his wlfo, are you crazy? Thero ain't a nicer young man anywhere round than Clark!" ''Just tho same I'm not going to have him hanging round Barbary, aud I want you both to understand It" "Then you'd better tell him so, yourself," retorted that young person, Indignantly. "I certainly shalj not" "I have told him, young lady," roared her Irate parent, "and now I'm telling you! And I want this tho last word on the subject You and Clark had everything fixed up between you and you were not satisfied. I don't know who was to blame, and I don't care, but I'm not going to have that fool business gone through with again. I told him I'd till blm full of bird-shot if I caught him round here again, and I guess ho know whether I meant It or not!" " "Well, of all things," cried the amazed Mrs. Shepard when her hus band'B angry footsteps died away In the direction of the barns. "I guess, nurbaru, vo tiuii best numur nun u little for a tiny or two. And for Rood uobb snko. don't mention Clnrk Town send's natnu till this spell hus worn off!" Late that evening Barbara snt at her window thinking of Clark, who was forbidden even hur front gate, when his olco called softly from bo low: "Barbara, conio down, Just foi a minute." "Oh," sho whispered frantically, "ob Clark, please go away!" "Not until you come down, pleas'. TrcmblliiK. Barbara nuido her wa) through the silent house nnd let her self noiselessly out nt tho unused front door. "What tnndo you come?" she sobbed nenoUBly, when tho young man loomed close In tho darkness. "11 rather Jlmls ou hero ho'lr novor for glvo mo and I do not know what he will do to you. What has lmpponcdl Ho ho threatened to shoot you If yoi' camo hero again. Please please c away, quick!" "You mean you do not want inn tc stay, Barb)?" For answer, llarbanl clung to him very satisfactorily. "Lis ten, dear, I can't gtvo )ou up llki this. Why, wo love each other, do wil not, llttlu girl?" "Oh, yes; but what 1b tho uso7" "There is this much use; wo ar going to bo married tomorrow. Now listen; I'll bo down here nt tho bend In tho road at twelve, sharp. You must inmiiiKo to get away while they aro at dinner. If I can once have you In tho rig, I'll put up Lucy ugalnst nu horso In this neighborhood!" "But Clark." tremulously, "whorw can wo 1Id? Father will never havu ub horo after this!" "Leave that to inc. JuBt you prom iso to be there. Hero Is n rope, Barb; pack your suitcase and let It down to me. You'll probably havo to be mar ried In that blue gingham affair you wear mornings." Barbara stole breathlessly back to completo her preparations, and not until sho knew Clark was safe on hie homeward way did sho lay her head on the window Bill and sob tho happi est tears of her uneventful life. Dinner was prepared early at tho Shepard homo nox!t day that tho farm er and his wlfo inlfcht go to town. It was with tho utmost difficulty that Barbara escaped at tho appointed hour. "Hy Jovo," cried Clark aB ho swung her Into his buggy, "your folks havo turned Into tho road. It's going to be a close call!" Aud Lucy shot off as If sho realized tho part she bad to play. But tho license was feafo In Ms pocket, and tho minister's door stood open. Clark Just held her hand a lit tle tighter when voices sounded out side and Farmer Shepard and his wlfo came In breathlessly, as tho ceremony began. , "Barbara Shepard, what a looking bride," sobbed her mother, when tho minister's volco had ceased. "Now I guess you can seo, Hiram; you've al ways thought I was too steady with her!" She's got her head, now, and mercy knows where sho will stop." "Never mind, mother," soothed tho farmer with astonishing good-humor. "It's up to Clark to manngo her, and I'm not worrying about him, any!" (Copyright, 1013, by tho McClure News paper Syndicate.) 8clence of Detection. There had been n bold, brazen rob bery in tho jam closet. ICvldence ol haste was plain, splotches of Jam be lng everywhere. When the ownor ol tho Jam mado tho discovery that she had been robbed, sho spent no time or effort in futile speculation. She took prompt and practical steps. She searched In tho spilled Jam for finger prints aud found them. "Hah!" she chuckled in tho best Sherlock Holmes manner, "I shall havo the thief in five minutes." Sho went to her bedroom nnd took from n bu reau drawer four squares of paper. They were labeled respectively: Wil lie's thumbprint; Helen's thumbprint; Tommy's thumbprint; and a fourth a very little one Baby's thumbprint. Quietly sho took them to tho Jam closet and mado comparisons. '"It Is as I suspected," she said, as sho got down; "It was Tommy's." "That night Tommy got his. Wom an's Home Companion. Teacher's Age. Senator JoHoph L. Brlstow of Kan sas contributed this ono at a recent banquet when referonco wns mado tc the somewhat doubtful ago of the fair box. In a village school a short tlmo ago, bo ran the senator's anecdote, the teacher was Instructing a class ol small youngsters in history, whose lesson for that day related to the Civil war. The wish of the tcachei wns to Impress on the minds of the children how long ago it had oc curred. "Just think, children," sho care fully remarked, glancing up und down tho class, "that terrible war was fought so long Kgo that even I do not remember It." "Gee, Miss Mary!" earnestly ex. claimed oao of tho wondering kids. "Was It beforo tho flood?" Phlladol phla Telegraph. Most Unflattering. George W. Perkins, In a tariff argu ment, said the other day: "Well, that may be a good defense, but it certainly isn't very flattering to the Intelligence of tho American peo ple. It Is, In fact, so unflattering thut it reminds' mo of a chap who was sued for breach of promlso. "This chap was twenty-flvo, and the lady suing him was forty or so. "What Ib your deefnse?" tho Judge nskod. . "The defendant waved his band toward tho lady and promptly re plied: "'Insanity, your honor.'" LEVY MAY BE MORE CONVICT JOHN WALKER DIES PENDING HABEAS CORPUS PROCEEDINGS FOR RELEASE. GOSSIP FROM STATE CAPITAL Items of Interest Gathered from Re liable Sources and Presented In Condensed Form to Our , Readers. In vlow of tho increased appropria tions nuulu by the last leglstatuto aud tho fact that there nro now outstand ing state warrants amounting to over $500,000, It Is believed tho state board of assessment will be obliged to In crease tho levy for stnto taxes from 5 K mills, which wns tho levy last year, to 8.80 mills on tho dollar. It Is likely that one mill of tho In crease will bo for tho general fund nnd ono mill for the redemption of outstanding wnrrants. Instead of ap propriations for the normal schools, to bo paid out of the general fund, the last leglBlaturo pnsscd a law levying oighty-flvo hundredths of one mill for such Institutions. Tho legislature also passed an act levying three-qunrters of ono mill for university extension, the peoplo of tho state to dccldo by referendum whether It should bo ex pended on tho present campus or on ,tho stnto farm campus. Last year tho total assessed valua tion of the state was $tC3,000,000. This twill bo exceodod this year by only two or throe million dollars. The levy for stnto purposes laBt year In mills wnn as follows: For the genernl fund 4 For the university 1 For stnto aid bridges 1-G Total Kl-r Tho state lovy this year will prob ably bo ns follows, In mills: General fund ! Redemption of warrants 1 University support 1 Stnto aid bridges "0 University extension " Support of normals "G Total 8.80 Tho ono mill lovy for tho support of the university Is to bo mado under tho .provisions of nn old law, and tho state (board has no option In tho matter. jNolthor has tho board any option in 'regard to tho stnto aid bridge levy, the university extension lovy and tho llevy for tho support of normal schools. The board may change tho general fund levy, but the limit prescribed 'by tho constitution is 5 mills. The stale supreme court was cheat ed out of making a ruling when denth interposod its mandate and tooknway John Walker, tho Indian who had re cently asked for a writ of habeas corpus allowing hlB release from the Btato penitentiary. Walker had beon taken to a local hospital for an opera tion for uppendlcltls, but before ha could bo placed on tho operating table he foil back on his couch and breathed his last. Walker wns sent horo from Thurston county, following his convic tion on tho charge of killing another Indian. He was sentenced to thirty years for tho crlmo. Lnst Dccembor Governor Aldrlch Issued a commuta tion reducing tho sentence to ten years, with the stipulation that this period should comprise his total actual service behind the bars. Re cently, howover, attorneys for Wnlker asked the supreme court for authority to have him released. They contend cd that tho governor exceeded his powor when he cut the term to speci fied tlmo and that Walker was en titled to a good time deduction from tho ton years. Under that Interpreta tion ho would havo been "subject to rcleaso last April. The 'matter waB argucuVin the court last weok and a decision was expected within a few days. The heavy registration of automo biles continued during tho month of Juno, according to reportB by Secro Itary or Stnto Walt. Tho total for tho month reached 1,388, a hugo leap over the snme month lnst year. Tho record jvaB broken during tho month of May .farhen over 1,700 licenses were Issued py tho state. No Action on TcbI of Cholera 8erum. Governor Morohend has taken no action on tho mnttcr of requesting the government to try Its simultaneous (cure for hog cholera In Nebraska. If (tho test is mado nn entlro county will 3e placed under quarantine so far ns hogs are concerned nnd nono will be allowed to be shipped Into the county ifor a fixed period, but hogs may be phlppcd out for purposes of slaughter. jlf herds In the county should die of the cholera that might be caused by inoculation with blood of diseased hogs the state might be lield liable. On Track of Baron Von Werner. Officers think they are close on the! trail of Daron Max von Werner, the convict from the Nebraska penitenti ary who wnB given a leavo of nbsenco to go to Tecumseh and participate In a musical entortalnment at tho home of tho chaplain of the prison nnd who mado his escape, According to tho story, a Lincoln man saw Von Werner at Spirit Lake, la. Tho baron had con tracted for a garage, he claimed, had rented a house and was mnklng ar rangements to locate In that city The wile of the fugitive is at Madison. The Man WaePatlk EEslnFEET Look, for Thin Trnclt-Mitk rl lute on the Lnltclwhenburlar ALLEN'S FOOT-EASE The Aiitliriillc PowiUr for Tn. TrM Hut. (Iff, Achim Yttl. Sold evtrfw whttc, ISc. Sample I' Kltn. A'ldrtM, ALLEN a. OLMSllti. I Hoy, N. . The Wretchedness of -Constipation Can quickly be overcome; vf CARTER'S LITTLE UVER PILLS. Purely vegetable set surety ana genuy- on uie liver. Curs Biliousness, Head ache, DIttI. ness, and Indigestion. They do their duty. SMALL PILL, SMALL DOSE, SMALL PRICE. Genuine must bear Signature NO EVIDENCE OF STATEMENT Foreman of Jury Had Claimed They Had One Mind, but Losing Lawyer Wanted to Go Shown. Counsel for tho prisoner looked hopefully nt tho faces of tho Jurors ae they filed Into their Rents, and llstoned hopefully ns tho foreman announced that they hud ngrcod. His cllont had enjoyed ample provocation for tho as sault upon tho person of Tobias Jones; hut tho JurorB were uniformly Tobias' friends und not unbiased. "Tho Jury ls nil of one mind, youi honor," tho foreman said. "Wo find tho prisoner guilty." "You hear tho vordlct, counsel," re marked the Judge. "The Jury Is all of ono mind. Have you anything to. ask of tho court beforo sontonce ll pronounced?" ' "Yob, your honor," ropllcd counsel, still hopefully; "for tho purposes of tho appeal which my client will take, It would be of material assistance to learn which ono of tho twelve men who havo reached this vordlct Is pos sessed of tho ono mind you nro so caro ful to mention." Now York Evonlng Post. Her Lucky Day. Frances is only a llttlo girl, but she lias a quick mind nnd tho gift of lan gungo thut sometimes distinguishes children who nssoclato much with their elders. Tho other day Frances camo homo to hor mother with cheeks liko roses nnd eyes llko stars. "Oh, mamma," sho exclaimed, hap pily, "1'vo had tho best luck this morning! I got downtown Just at tho psychological momont!" "Did you, doar?" was mother's pleased Inquiry. "And what hap pened?" Said Frances, solemnly: "I saw a parade." Richness Personified. -Fader, vot means a Ikoy- pluto- crat?' Fader Ono of dem fellers dot's so rich ho needn't to fall any moVo. Puck. Looking on the Bright 8lde. "It Ib said that moro than ono per son has boon killed by kissing." "Yes; but Isn't It great stuff If you llvo through It?" Judgo. A man should bo a credit to him self, but ho wants a little cash thrown In. Few young mon are really as bad as tbo girls try to make them think they aro. Almost ns many women's heads are turned by flattery as by peroxldo. jflany a man's soiled character has been washed Ifi a woman's tears. A Sweet, Crisp, Delicious . "Bite-To-Eat" Post Toasties Dainty bits of pearly white corn, perfectIycooked and touted to delicate "brown." U'ually eaten direct from package with cream and ugar. Or, sprinkle Toasties over saucer ol freth berries then add the cream and lugar a dish to remember. Post Toasties ara sold by Grocers everywhere. m .saaaaaaUaRTFR .ssaaaaar I Vr aaaaaaar ! it MvHHk i ai r a a A !1 2 h; i n : iM 4 A 111 iff .. I W "' A . : ii! i a ' hi iiH i m 1 1. i! ' : M if N' ! 3F ' M V, m - i i j f PI , .c I yj V M iAi s, :' "W V4 -9 p- $j &&!$$ A