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THOMASVTLLE, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 24. 1005.
MAGAZINE SECTION.
of hil men to "ran up the flag.” The
Stars and Stripes were hoisted and
"Big Alec,” as he is known, yelled out,
"Now Are and be d d to you.” The
revenue cutter dipped its flag thrice
and turned away. Several times this
bold navigator has had net-toe with gov
ernment authorities, but a short time
ago the Carmsnelta made a raid on the
copper islands and had a brush with
the revenue patrol, one of the crew be
ing wounded and sent to Seattle, Wash.,
for treatment.
The attention of Mexico having been
called to the illegal acts of the Car
menclta's crew, that government on
November 1, 1904, cancelled the Mex
ican registry. With this taken away
from him, MkcLean had the name of
the schooner changed to the Acapulco.
It is understood that when, he dropped
into Drake Bay for supplies he had
only 100 skins on board taken from
the sealing preserves of the Arctic so
that government officials hare suspect.
DRESS REFORM FOR WOMEN.
Advocate of Practical Walking and
Working Garb-Relief From
Heavy Skirts.
ALEXANDER MACLEAN ROAMED
THE SEA IN SWIFT SCHOONER.
ROCK BARRAGE ACROSS NARROW
CANTON IN MOUNTAINS OF
WYOMING.
UNDER CZAR'S RECENT MANI
FESTO, LAST ABSOLUTE MON
ARCHY DISAPPEARS. '
Dr. Cera Smith Baton, of Minneap
olis, Minn., believeB that many of the
aches and ills from which women
suffer are the direct result of the
clothes they wear. She says that in
her professional capacity she tries to
Impress upon her women patrons the
need of dress reform. "Not the old
time hideous bloomer costume of
years ago," laughed the doctor, “but
a rational, sensible and benutlful
adaptation of our clothes to our
needs.”
“And what are our needs,” was
asked.
“Normal, unrestricted movement; a
Accompanied by Thirty Reckless
Buccaneers He Defied Governments
and Gunboats—Now in Tolls of the
Law. '
Government Works Will Store Flood
Waters For Fertilization of One
Hundred and fifty Thousand Des
ert Acres.
gorge. Here the river continually
plays upon them, searching out the
seams and splitting them up, and
wearing them away and polishing
them smooth. *
The Rock PUe of the World.
In the canyon's middle, below the
dam site, the jungle of rocks in the
narrow river bed appears as though a
thousand blasts of giant powder bad
rent the mountain sides and tumbled
every rugged projection into the
depths below. Thera is no dirt or
sand in this river bed; everything is
rock. The imperishable granite, gray,
pink, and vari-colored, oldest of the
geological formations, made by the
welding of various substances when
the globe was a molten mass; the
later limestones and black volcanic
recks, conglomerates also melted by
great beat, the hard red sandstone and
its white and brown contemporaries,
formed from the grindings of other
rocks subjected to enormous pressure,
and lastly the geyaerltes and sulphur
rocks, soft and honeycombed, the re
sult of ceaseless spoutings of steam
and bot water from the earth’s bowels
—all are found in wonderful profu
sion.
Below the . canyon where the river
Tuns more peacefully, oil these forma
tions are represented in the huge beds
of cobble stones and smaller boulders
over which the water plays. .The cob
blestones were themselves once, jagged
rocks, detached by wind, water, frost
and sun from tbelr mountain bases,
and rolled and ground by river force
The New Empire Promises to Be a
Regime of Constitutional Liberty
and Representation—Victory of the
People Widely Celebrated.
There's never a law of God or man
Runs north of fifty-three.
Captain Alexander MacLesn, as bold
a rover as ever lived during the priv
ateering days when pirate ships In'
waiting in the pathway of Spanish gal-
A quarter of a century ago the
home of the buffalo, and later a cat
tle and sheep pasture, with an occa
sional ranch bouse, the Big Horn
Basin in Wyoming is now the scene of
a great activity incident to the build
ing of one of the largest of the govern
ment irrigation works. Some years
ago Colonel Cody, better known as
Buffalo Bill, made a survey of the
Shoshone canyon, and in connection
with General Miles, projected a com
pany to construct a dam and irrigate
some 00,000 acres. The necessary cap
ital however was'not forthcoming and
when the national irrigation law was
passed, the government took up the
proposition, and a large party of en-
S ineers has since been employed on
le preliminaries of a great work of
desert reclamation.
The Shoshone Biver dashes down a
narrow canyon, with jagged and per
pendicular walls, and at its narrow
est point the government has begun
the construction of the highest dam
ever built It will cement together
ihe two canyon walls for 240 feet
above the stream bed, and its founda
tion will go below the wntcr line 80
feet additional, down to the solid bed
I rock. The stream, where it passes
between these gruiiite canyon walls, is
but 05 feet wide, and the dam will
form a great take of 6,000 acres, with
a watershed of 1.250 square miles,
and storing enough water to irrigate
150.000 acres through seven miles of
14-foot tunnels bored in the solid
rock. |
Little Chance For Land Grabbing. \
This will cost about 125 an acre to
be paid back to the government by
settlers, under the business-like pro
visions of the Irrigation law. The land |
flood and then boiling over great rocks
itself is free tinder tbe homestead act,
and has been reserved by Secretary
Hitchcock from entry under the
Desert and other land taws not requir
ing actual residence and bome-bulld-
le and wildly
As an outcome of the tremendous
agitation which has been shaking Rus
sia to the very core, the Czar has sur
rendered and has granted rights
which if consummated, will result in
civil liberty.
It seemed for a time as though the
history of the Frauch revolution would
be repeated; that the aristocracy and
the' bureaucracy driving ahead in
their arrogance and self esteem, would
fail to recognize the overwhelming
force of tbe volcano of public senti
ment surrounding them, and by their
refusal to recognize conditions, plunge
the whole empire into civil war auu
anarchy. But the handwriting on the
wqll was recognized and the Czar
compelled to practically capitulate his
Imperial throne. True, promises are
thus, far more in evidence than fulfill
ment, but Count Witte bus apparently
leons, will roam the sea no more. That
is, he will not sail the deep in that
free-handed manner which made him
the object of search by United States
and British authorities. A few weeks
ago, under an. indictment for conspl-
created and enforced.by the Czar and
his Grand Dukes.
Popular representation was a fragile
promise. Free speech was under the
ban; freedom of the press was un
known. Even all private malt was
subject to censorship. The prisons
were filled with political offenders.
Imagine casting a man into a United
States prison because bis political acts
were, not relished by the government!
A system of public espionage fol
lowed cVery'man's move.
Old Russia was divided into two
classes, tbe nobility and practical
TBE PIRATE'S SCHOONER
ed that the great amount of money dis
played on that occasion must have
come elsewhere than from the fund de
rived from the sale of skins.. The gov
ernmeat agents believe that several
Few such picturesque and wildly
beautiful scenes can be found as this
Shoshone canyon. The river is a suc
cession of foaming, rushing rapids, the
water coursing along in a deep green
flood, and then boiling over great rocks
and boulders in a white surge. Only
for a few hours each day can the sun
find its way to the bottom of this
deeply-cut gorge, tbe mountain sides
towering Into the clouds two and three
thousand feet From above tbe fttm
site as one looks down at tbe engin
eers working on. the foundations,
directly underneath, they appear like
mimic men.
Giant Forces of Nature.
This Shoshone canyon and Its sur
rounding mountains, are one of
men now under indictment in the West
in connection with this poaching trip
furnished the funds.
Always Eluded the Law.
MacLean's movements were conduct
ed so cleverly that he could never be
held until now; he always mads the
nein uniu now; no always naae us
technicalities of the law cover bis op
erations, but the Department of Justice
DR CORA BUTTH EATON,
freedom from confining bands; and
relief from heavy skirts."
Dr. Baton puts to practical test her
Ideas on the subject Tho weight of
ail garments she wears is from tbs
shoulders. Her gowns are made In
one piece-fi little on tbe Princess
- MAKING A CANYON ROADWAY,
until alll their sharp corners have
been worn and polshed away.
A Giant Fire Cracker.
Watching the government engineers
cutting a road along tbe side of the
canyon for the transportation of sup
plies to build the dam—00,000 barrels
of cement alone will be needed—tbe
writer observed the explosion of a big
charge of dynamite, which bnrst with
a roar, echoing up and down the can
yon with deafening reverberations.
Immediately on oblong granite rock of
some 150 tons weight was tom from
its base and hurled down into the river
a hundred feet below. Shatters of
rock flew In ail directions, and a great
splash of water rose like a geyser out
of the black depths of the canyon.
Yet this huge block of granite was
but a baby udilltion to the family of
boulders which bad been detached by
more giant forces - of nature, and
thrown into tho river bed. A few
hours before we had crawled directly
under this rock in our canyon “explor
ation.” Returning, we were fain to
accept tile assistance of one of tbe
rand builders in getting across this
place, looking down tbe while into tho
river boiling below among the rocks.
The engineering credit for this
great project with its great dam,
its enormous spillways, its moun-
tain road building and its- miles of
canals and huge tunnels bored
through the solid, rock Is due to
Jeremiah Abero ,a government dis
trict engineer who, almost cut off from
tho outside world, has taken up his
residence for several years in this wild
canyon, once a fastness of the Sho-
hss been gathering evidence through
tbe personal direction of Chief Wilkie
of the Secret Service and it was this
evidence that led to his indictment
in San Francisco a short time ago. So
now the piratical course of Captain
Alexander MacLean seems at on end
and the stem hand of tbe law holds
him in its grip. It remains to be seen
whether bis luck will again serve him
in good stead and enable him to sail
away to the "great white silence”
Shoshone
Canyon Scenes.
with MacLean's operations, but it was
alleged in April, 1904, that the schooner
Capti Jeremiah
Ahem.
was chartered and outfitted for a poach
ing cruise among the rookeries of the
far north. The Russo-Japanese war be
ing then uppermost in tbe minds of the
two nations concerned, it was conoid-
Japanese Dwarf Trees.
In Japan are .some very remarkable
trees. They are hundreds of years
old and not a hundred Inches high.
The moet marvelous collection is in
Count Okuma’s garden, near Tokio.
ered by the poachera that they would
Here are pine trees that started to
grow in the seventeenth century, that
at the dawn of the twentieth century
are not too large to be carried in one
hand, pot and all. Others, whose seed
was planted about tbe time when Co
lumbus sailed for America, are already
outstripped by saplings planted year
The Aromatic Havana.
Apropos of the real enjoyment Of a
cigar Cauthorne. the newspaper con
respondent, in that moet fascinating
story of "The Tallahasse Girl”;
“If you will permit me. I • will
smoke.” said he, taking out a curious
cigar case of very line workmanship.
before last.
In another place is a grove of 111!-
putlan plum trees, gnarled and knotted
and twisted by centuries of wind and
weather, that are none of them too
large to grace a dinner table, as they
often do when In full bloom. More
marvelous still, there are other little
too much to say “growing”) in a tea
cup, while others planted before Cleve
land's last term in office have not out
grown a lady's thimble.
The Japanese are past masters in
the art of dwarfing trees. The? nip
off the tree’s roots and pinch its limbs
and starve it with little soil and let
It go thirsty and dry, but at the same
time keep the breath of life in It, un
til it becomes tbe veriest travesty of
a tree, a manikin vegetable, with the
wrinkled-face of an old man on the
legs of a little boy. Infinite patience
and skill and time are given fn order
to stunt and dwarf into these gro
tesque growths.
I S I taza.-v *A Al&UliUU
work of the government throughout
the west sonify? Simply that tho
patlon has decided to use the money
derived from the .sale of western
public lands to make Its desert soil of
valuer and furnish many home-build-
Ing opportunities. It means that
many men will find employment In
the construction of dams and canals
In every western community, and that
finally, as tho works arc completed.
°he by one, now farm homes will be
established, adding to the nation’s
wealth and balancing our population
now inclined cityward.
For a thousand years longer this
splendid dam site would likely stand
Idle before private capital would de
velop It to Its magnificent full capac
ity, for the difficulties In the way of
the engineers are many and unknown;
but the government .will meet all ob
stacles and overcome them, and finally
turn over to a thousand farmers a
perfect Job of engineering, compara
ble to the great works of the Peru
vian Incas, tbe Egyptian Raineses or
the Rrltish engineers of Indin—an en
during monument for all time to the
wisdom of the present generation of
America.
GAFT.ALEX. MACLEAN,
hot be in a position to guard their in
terests, and a raid on tbe Russian seal
ing islands was the real object of the
cruise. Great Britain, Canada and the
United States have an agreement to
prevent pelagic sealing, so that appar
ently to protect the ship’s owner from
. prosecution under either United States
or British laws, the ship’s name was
i changed to Carmenclta and registry
.papers token out in Mexico.
Thirty Devils at Beck and Cal,
On May 5 she headed for the north
ern islands, Maclean sitting aft, thirty
'reckless daredevils forward and eases
of repeating rifles and ammunition in
the captain's cabin. She had cleared
for Victoria for a cargo, but instead
Will Wed far Love Only.
Princess Victoria of England, the
only unmarried daughter of King Ed
ward, declares that if she marries at
all it will be for love. She is thirty-
seven years old, and for twenty years
has refuzed to consider every marriage
proposal suggested by her father, the
“If I marry. It will be to the man of
my choice,” she Is reported to have
said. “Father, mother, and govern-
order, though really a
of the Empire.
It is a delight to watch the doctor
more about In her brisk, energetic
way. Her body, sensibly 'clothed,
and beautifully poised, with that fine,
straight line beloved of physical cul-
twists, from the head to the heels, is
responsive to the many demands of
her busy life. It would bo Impossible
for her to accomplish her work, she
says, hampered by the usual style of
dress.
modification
nature’s great handiworks. All has
been cut out by the silver stream,
rushing In Its bed below. For count
less ages It has eaten Its way through
granite and limestone, wearing, wear
ing, wearing away. For centuries nml
ages It has flowed, ceaselessly and
likewise uselessly on its way to Join
the flood of the Missouri; now it Is to
bo harnessed and made to produce for
man. A thousand farmers will make
1 for tbe little islands in the Ber-
Sea, where It waa understood a
rookery was discovered.
□tain MacLean has had a varied
lienee with the authorities, not
on the Carmenclta, but on other
Is of which be waa master. At
one time a revenue cutter annoyed him
. by demanding that his .papers be sent
on board for examination. Upon bis
- refusal the revenue officers threatened
to open fire on him.
Invoked the Stars and Stripes.
MacL-'n hearing this, ordered one
Office in Vienna.
Favorite Among Cigar Markets.
Bismarck used to boast that in hia
fifty years he had smoked over 100,000
i cigars. In later years he was seldom
without hta immense meerschaum.
Of a king has shocked royal and aristo
cratic circles all over Europe, but It
has been read with delight by the
English people, and It. appeals equally
to Americana
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) The most costly church of its size,
f in America, Is in the quaint old towa
of SL Augustine, Fla