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WORLD’S GREATEST
FEAT IN ENGINEERING
Qo naxch can
ALBANY, N. Y.—We hear so
much about the Panama canal, but
do realize that there is to be open
ed in New York state this month a
canal nearly ten times as long as the
one in Panama.
The New York state barge canal,
which is now practically completed
and ready to be opened to naviga
tion hetween Buffalo and Albany, has
been called the world’s greatest en
gineering feat, not alone because of
the many engincering problems en
countered in its construction, but al-}
so on account of the many peculiar’
and original structures which are to
be found in the various channels.
The Panama canal covers only a|
district of fifty miles, while the New'
York canal extended over 530 miles.
It has to cross railroads, skirt cities,
make junctions, follow river beds,
climb mountains and drop down
through valleys.
Fifty-seven locks have been built
in the canal. There are ten smalleri
ones. On the Panama canal there]
are but six pairs of locks. At Littlel
Falls there is a lock which is the high- |
est one in the world—4o feet higher'
than the lack at the Gatun section of!
the Panama Canal. At Madina, this|
canal goes through a gorge 90 feet[
deep and 500 feet wide. Across thisj
there is an aqueduct built of con-i
crete with a span of 285 feet and
with of 129 feet. ‘
The New York canal has 30 rams,{
while the Panama Canal has only|
three. The drop of the new canal tol
the sea level is 563 feet. The drop|
of the Panama Canal is 120 feet. |
The dimensions of the new canal|
vary acording to the locality, but it
‘has a minimum depth of 12 feet
throughout. It is 75 feet wide, with!
earth sections of the “land line”’ 94|
feet wide in rock cuts and has a min- |
imum width of 209 feet in the beds
of canalized rivers and lakes. ‘
The new waterway is an enlarge-i
ment of the old Erie Canal, to which |
has been added a number of impor-|
tant links and feeders. The old canal
from Buffalo to Albany is 339 miles!
long. The principal additions are|
the Champlain canal, 61 miles long; |
the Oswego canal, 23 miles long, and !
the Cayuga-Seneca canal, 23 miles|
long, giving a total length to the new |
waterway of 446 miles. ,
* Some of the locks on the new canal}
are the finest in the world, the five!
at Waterford, the eastern entrance
to the Erie, having the distinction of
being the greatest series of high lift
locks in existence. They have a com
bined lift of 169 feet, which is one!
foot less than the total lift of every|
lock in the Panama Canal. Other,
works on the new waterway that|
have attracted world-wide attention!
in engineering circles are the great?
dams on the Mohawk and the great]
excavations at Cohoes, where the|
canal terminates in the Hudson river, |
The waterway is costing the peo-|
ple of the state of New York $£150.-!
000,000 and those who have studied |
it feel confident that it will accom- |
plish the purpose for which it is con
structed, the opening of a modern |
waterway for the easy, rapid and in-!
expensive transportation of oods !
from the middle West to the At-|
lantic seabeard. !
A ———RRnl i
SMITH DOESN'T WANT NEW ;
RECRUITS SENT TO EUROPE .
: !
Georgian Believes They Should Be|
Kept in Training a Year. ?
ATLANTA, Ga.—No untrained
troops will go to France if Senator 3
Hoke Smith of Georgia can prevent
it, and there is every indication that
Georgia’s senior representative in.
the upper house of the national con
gress will be entirely successful in
his fight to give the nation’s new
army the most thorough and careful
course of instruction and preparation
before sending them to the trenches
across the sea.
The senator is thoroughly in ac
cord with the government’s program
for vigorous prosecution of the war,
but as he declared in his recent
speech on the army appropriation
bill, “It would be criminal to send
our hoys to the trenches without
thorough training, and I do not be
lieve any men will dare to try to
send them before at least twelve
months.”
WHAT IS
LEX-FOS IS AN IMPROVED CASCARA
A DiGESTIVE LAXATIVE
CATHARTIC AND LIVER TONIC
Lax-Fos is not a Seccret or Patent Medi
cine but is composed of the following
old-fashioned roots and herbs:
CASCARA BARK
BLUE FLAG ROOT |
RHUBARB ROOT
BLACK ROOT
MAY APPLE ROOT |
SENNA LEAVES
AND PEPSIN
InLAX-Fos the Cascara is improved by
the addition of these digestive ingredi
etfs making it better than ordinary Cas-
CARA,and thus the combination acts not
onlyasa stimulating laxative and cathar
" tic but also as adigestive and liver tonic.
Syrup laxatives are weak, but Lax-Fos
combines strength with palatable, aro
matic taste and does not gripe or disturb
the stomach, ® Ope bottle will prove
LAX-¥O3 i invaluable for Constipation,
. Indigestion or Torpid Liver. Price 50¢.
Inhabitants of Noyon Crawled From
Cellars Like Rats After Germans Left
No Natives Had Touched Meat for
l 17 months; Were Clothed in Rags
l and Filth When Relief Came.
! A terrible tale of the suffering of
!F;rench women and children in the
|town of Noyon after the recent Ger
iman evacuation is told in a letter re
iceived by a French relief organiza
{tion in Chicago, from Mme. Alexis
fCarrel, wife of the celebrated sur
| geon. Mme. Carrel took the first am-‘
| bulance into Noyon. Her letter, in
{ part, follows: V
| “Noyon is a city of some seven or
feight thousand inhabitants, but when’
| we got there we found at least 12,-
000 people in the town, as those
from the neighborhood villages had!
crowded in for shelter and for help.
}They were in the cellars; they werel
in the outhouses; in fact, had crowl-l
‘ed everywhere they could, and then
‘a tale of horror was unfolded to us,
such as our ears had never heardi
before.
“Every woman between the age of
14 and 30 had been carried off nine
days before the retreat began. One!'
MILLIONAIRE'S WHIM
OWNER’S WARNING CARRIED
OUT AND ENTIRE PLACE
GOES TC JUNK PILE.
BRIGHTON, Kans.—The days of
Brighton are over—it's “swan song”
is now being sung. The whim of a
millionaire and the misfortune of a
coal miners’ strike many years ago
first caused the town to dwindle
and dwindle until its inhabitants,
one by one, had left. Now, with
junk dealers quoting ‘‘war prices”
for steel, iron and other scrap build
ing materials; the last remaining ves
tiges of the once prosperous town
have been sold, or are in the pro
cess of being dismantled. :
Sixty Cottages to Be Razed.
The machinery of the mine and
the steel of the branch railroad from
Brighton to Lansing, Kan., con
structed in the heyday of boom Ade
velopment, have just been disposed of
to a Kansas City iron and metal com
pany. The sixty or more four and
five-room houses still remaining on
the incorporated site have been of
fered for sale, and reports indicate
that they, too, soon may follow the
departed inhabitants in the wagons
of salvage companies. Nearly every
thing on the old site is to be sacri
ficed, because of the war-time prices
for junk and salvage.
Employer Makes Good His T}ireat.
It is said that about $200,000 was
invested in mines and buildings at
Brighton during the early ’Bos and
the town developed rapidly. But,
within a short time, differences arose
between the miners and their em
ployer. The millionaire owner, from
his home in the East, sent back the
message that “if they struck, the
mine would be closed forever.”
Doubting him, the miners walked
out. But the owner made good his
word—the mines have never been
reopened. Since then the town had
gone down steadily until recently, on
ly abandoned homes and buildings
have marked its former location.
HELLO GIRL CALLS
¢
WILSON ~“WOO0DY, OLD TOP”
Wise Operator Refused to Bite on
Old Trick of President to Secure
Prompt Service.
One of the most competent and
popular telephone girls at a leading‘
hotel in Washington, D. C., received
a call a few days ago. The party
wished to converse with one of the
‘hotel guests. The operator inquired
'the name.
l “Woodrow Wilson’ came back over
‘the phone.
| Now the gag is an old one and the
“wise’”” telephone girls are on. So
| this one came back:
t “Well, Woodie, old too, hcw are
lyou?” she gently chided. *“You have
\not cailed up for several days. You
|dor’t know how I have misged your
|sweet voice over the wire. Where
{ have vou been?”
The voice said it would like 1o
have the call and minded not at all
the telephone girl's “‘taffy.”’” Dy and
by the response came and the girl
heard things that worried her. She
looked thoughtful and chewed her
mint more vigorously.
“T wonder if it could of been the
president,” she mused. Nervously she
called the White House. One of the
secret service men responded and the
girl asked if a call had recently been
sent to such and such a hotel.
After a minute's delay the reply
came back:
“Yes, the president has been talk
ing to the Hon. ——, of New York.”
“My Gawd,” was the reply.
TOTS SLAY THEIR FATHER; 'a
SAY “HE HAD BEEN MEAN”‘
DURANT, Okla.—Because he had|
“been mean” to them the 8-year-old
son and 10-year-old daughter of R.
L. Wilkerson shot and killed him
while he was sleeping. The girl held
the gun at her father’s chin while
the boy pulled the trigger. Wilker
gon was a widower.
| To Cure a Cold in One Day
‘ Take LAXATIVE BROMO Quinine. It stops the
| Cough and Headache and works off the Cold.
Druggists refund momney if it fails to cure.
E. W. GROVE'S signature on gach box. 25¢,
case was more pathetic than the oth
ers. An old woman was asked if the
two little children clinging to her
skirts were her grandchildren and
she answered: ‘Their mother has
been carried off and their father is
at the front, and, being my neigh
bors, I have simply taken these chil
dren to save them for their parents
who may some day return.’
“Thus all these people whom we
found crowded in the cellars had hid
‘eous tales to tell. In the first place
none of the French civil population
has had any meat of any kind for
17 months, they had lived on black
bread and rice, many had died of
starvation, and the mortality among
the children has been terrible. The]
bodies of those who died had been
kept for five days unburied in the
midst of the living.
“In the orphan asylum, in a smali
room, the beds were so close togeth
er that they touched, and on these
beds were children who had slept
without mattresses, pillows or cover
ing since December, in their clothes, |
unwashed, unkempt and uncared for. |
No words can describe the filth of
their condition. They were covered
with vermin and the beds were noth
ing but a little heap of filthy straw.” '
TWO LITTLE CHILDREN MEET
- TRAGIC DEATH IN RICHLAND
Burned to Death in an OQuthouse
Where They Were Playing.
One of the most deplorable and
tragic incidents occuring in Stewart
county for a number of years was
that of Monday morning at Rich
land, Ga., when two small children
of Mr. and Mrs. N. C. Coffin, Mary,
aged four, and William, aged six,
were burned to death in a small out
house, which in some manner caught
fire as the little ones were playing
inside of it.
When the insistent screams of the
children attracted attention it was
to}& late to save them, but those
who examined the conditions report
ed that death was almost instantane
ous and that no evidence of slow suf
fering was found.
A barn connected with the burn
ing building was completely destroy
ed.—Lumpkin Independent.
SOLDIERS CARRY STOVES
TO KEEP BODY WARM
Russians Will Follow Example of
Japanese for Individual Heat.
Russian soldiers are planning to
carry stoves in their pockets. Hun
dreds of the tiny heaters, or kwairo,
used by the Japanese troops in their
Manchurian campaign against Rus
sia, have been bought by the Rus
sians.
These little heaters burn a carbon
made from hemp stalks. A stove car
ried in the pocket will keep the body
warm in the vicinity of the pocket
and by transferring it to other pock
ets will keep the entire body warm.
Fuel for 18 hours costs one cent.
If you have the itch, don’t scratch. i
It does not cure the trouble andi
makes the skin bleed. Apply BAIL-|
LARD’S SNOW LINIMENT. Rub it |
in gently on the affected parts. It/
relieves itching instantly and a few |
applications removes the cause thusi
performing a permanent cure. Price |
25¢, 50 and $l.OO per bottle. Sold |
by Dawson Drug Co. i
Citation. !
Georgia, Terrell County. Where
as, W. H. Barnes, executor of the
last will of Mrs. M. A. Barnes, rep- |
resents to the court in his petition,
duly filed and entered on record,
that he has fully administered Mrs. !
M. A. Barnes’ estate: This is, there- |
fore, to cite all persons concerned, |
kindred and creditors, to show cause,’
if any they can, why said executor|
should not be discharged from his‘
administration, and receive letters ofl
dismission on the first Monday in!
July, 1917. L. C. HOYL, Ordinary.
Citation. l
Georgia, Terrell County. To all!
whom it may concern: Notice is|
[hereby given, that the appraisers ap
pointed to set apart and assign a
year’'s support to Mrs. Arthur B.!
Hamilton, the widow of Arthur B.'
Hamilton, deceased, have filed their
award, and unless good and sufficient |
cause is shown, the same will be|
made the judgment of the court at
the July term, 1917, of the court of
ordinary. This June 4, 1917.
L. C. HOYL, Ordinary
] # Terrell County. |
Citation. ‘
Georgia, Terrell County. To all
whom it may concern: W. J. Cran
ford having in proper form applied
to me for permanent letters of ad
ministration on the estate of Miss|
Mary Mitchell, late of said county, !
this is to cite all and singular thel
creditors and next of kin of Miss
Mary Mitchell to be and appear at‘
my office within the time allowed by
law, and show cause, if any they can, |
why permanent administration should |
not be granted to W. J. Crahford on|
Miss Mary Mitchell’s estate. Witness!
my hand and official signature, this |
4th day of June, 1917. '
i 4 HOYIJ, Ordinal‘y. i
. rgye {
Applecation for Title.
Emma Breedlove having made ap-f
plication to require titles to be exe-|
cuted to her to certain land describ- |
'ud in a bond for titles thereto at-|
tached purporting to be signed by
Gussie King and Belle Porter Dan
iel, late of said county, deceased,
the said application alleging that
said land has been fully paid for, all
parties concerned are hereby noti
fied that said application will be
heard before the court of ordinany
for said county on the first Monday‘
in July, 1917, This 4th day of
June, 1917, L G, BOYL:
Ordinary Terrell County.
THE DAWSON NEWS.
PRI
oing lo Play In The War"
If you shoulder a gun you can do no greater duty; but if you stay at home remember tha
you are personally responsible for the success of the boys who go to the front. You can meet this
obligation® through buying Liberty War Bonds.
' i %
- When you buy Liberty War Bonds you are not giving but lending your money to your
country. Every dollar¥you invest is secured by the U. S. Treasury gold, and bears interest at the
yearly rate of 3 1-2 per cent, payable twice a year.
Liberty War Bonds may be purchased in multiples of $50.00. They will mature in 30 years
and are redeemable in 15 years. They are absolutely exempt from income tax, and may be reg.
istered in multiples of $lOO. ’
Should the Government, before the end of the war, issue any bonds at a higher rate of
interest than 3 1-2 per cent, Liberty War Bonds may be exchanged for them.
The last great government bond issue sold for par in 1898 and 110 3-4 in 1900. So val
uable were these bonds that the Secretary of the Treasury could secure o ly one-tenth of them when
he offered redemption.
Every cent of the Two Billion Dollar Loan made through Liberty War Bonds will be spent
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This great flood of wealth will be poured into every nook and cranny of our business activ
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Send into Service every dollar that can be spared
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Buy Liberty War Bonds because they are secure.
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Above all, buy Liberty War Bonds because it will »
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JUNE 12, 14y,
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