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WORK ON PANAMA CANAL.
Chief Eaglnecr John F. Wallace
Telle What la Being Done.
Chief Engineer John F. Wallace of
the isthmian canal- commission tells
as follows in Harper’s Weekly how the
work on the Panama canal is progress
ing:
The work done on the isthmus dur
ing the past nine months'is more sig
nificant in the fact that it is largely
preparatory to the work that is to
come.
Engineering parties are covering the
entire isthmus, making surveys and
checking the French data, mapping
and surveying the streams and finding
out the discharge of the various water
courses, in the Chagres river particu
larly; faking borings to determine thp
character of foundations available for
dams and determining the geological
formation of the isthmus along the
canal line. This work is being done
to verify the data which were found in
the French archives and to secure ad
ditional information.
In the engineering and construction
department during the month of March
there were 5,000 men employed. In
this force are 700 Americans—civil en
gineers, clerks, foremen and mechanics
-^taeir of the higher grades and direct
ing operations, including steam shovel
men and trainmen. There are 1,100
native artisans—machinists, carpen
ters, bricklayers and other skilled ar
tisans—composed ’bf^ Jamaica negroes,
Spanish, Central American peons, all
classes of labor other than Americans,
In addition to this in the sanitary de
partment—draining .swamps, clearing
Jungle and work of |hat character and
serving as officials of the zone govern
ment, police force* etc.—there are prac
tically 2,500 men. This force of 7,500
men, under the auspices of the isth
mian canal commission, Is fncreasing
daily. For instance, Jn the Cnlebra ex
cavation ; a new steam shovel is in
stalled about every two weeks. This
means more cars, najore engines, more
crews.
The force engaged in the canal re
quires^ extensive housing. In the archi
tects’ "department there are 964 men
engaged in planning, rebuilding and
repairing houses. Tliat work is being
pushed as fast as the men can be em
ployed to do it and as fast as the ma
terials can be obtained from the United
States—where most, of the material of
all sorts comes from;
New Goods,
Sorel Clnl) In a Church.
South' Congregational church in Chi
cago has introduced a new section in
its parish work, says the Chicago Post.
A small body of members has been In
duced to organize under the name “The
Helping Hand of South Church.” and
it stands pledged to be ready at all
times to respond, to a call for some
personal service on behalf of an in
dividual in need,. ' Each week day be
tween 1 and 2 o’clock and Sundays be
tween 4 and 5 one member’ will be
found at the church rooms to meet any
person in trouble who needs advice,
encouragement or personal aid of I
whatsoever sort. - Announcement cards r „ ,i ' 1 J-- a A cjf xrl/A
have been placed upon the Church and LllC lcll/CJfcv lfcj
in other public places near by.
J. E. Phil-
constantly
receiving new goods
Mrs,
lips
is
W. A.
& Co.
306 Peters Building, Atlanta, Ga.
REAL ESTATE BROKERS
AND SPOT CASH BUYERS OF FARMS
Timber, Stone, Wood, Sand and Mineral Lands. We make mo
charge for anything you list with us, and will do our best to give
you quick returns. We have sold property for other and why nof
for you. Call or write us what you have for sale or trade, ,
Senator Clapp’s Jote, ,
Senator Moses E. (Tapp of Minnesota
frequently, enlivens the sessions, of the
interstate commerce connuiitee with
his Jokes, says a Washington dispatch
to tlie New York Tribune,. The other
day one of the'Newspaper men attend
ing the hearings on the railroad Tate
matter at Washington asked the sena
tor when he thought his commission
would adjourn. | “There are; only two
Who can answer that question.” re
plied -Senator Clapp. “One is God ,and
the other is Elkins. God is not here,
and Elkins is reticent, so I can’t throw
much light on the subject.”
stork Club In Indiana.
Wsinntab. in Indiana, a town of 800
inhabitants, has! an organization for the
purpose of popularizing the ideas of
President Roosevelt against; race sui
cide. says a Wanatah special dispatch
1o the /Chicago ' News. The club was
supposed by the residents of the town
to have been organized for purely so
cial purposes, but with the remark,i-
lile increase of the birth rate in the
families of the members the true pur
pose Of the organization began to be
suspected. Public statements' were re
cently made that the club was organiz
ed to popularize president Roosevelt’s
ideas. The emblem of the' society is
the stork, and, President Roosevelt will
be'requested to suggest a motto.
and patterns.
She will tell you
more about them
next week. Call
and see them.
The Owl Courtship.
Master Hoot' Owl sat on a limb.
A sweet Miss Owl not far from him;'
He frowned, for ,he hadjKeard it said
.That pretty .soon she was'to wed.
.He mused and then said, with a sigh:
“You are the apple of my e.ve.
I love you* true: l do. I do.
Are you to be married? To who, to who?"
Now. Miss Hoot Owl, from on her limb,
T.Ooked 'way and blushed ahd then at him.
<He 1 -.quickly - changed his; resting place,
For he could toll by her young face
That what he heard was a mistake,
So love to her he straight did make.
And when he asked her Once again
If she Would married be and, whin.
In answer to his soft “To who?”
She murmured low. "To yon,; to you.”
FOR MEN’S SUMMER WEAR.
A Japanese Disinfectant. /
The use of straw cl) a renal-as a dis
infectant is largely responsible for the
small number of fatalities from
woumlstiii the Japanese, army. It is
made by burning rice or other straw
in a dosed space.
Memorial Day.
From out our'crowded calendar
, One day we pluck, to give;
It is the day the dying-'pause
To honor those who live.
-McLandburgh Wilson in May Atlantic.
Fancy flat ban As, Golf Handkerchiefs,
Faynlar Be!ts and. Collars,
. Fancy hatbands will be more gen
erally worn dnring the coming summer
than ever -before,- says, /Glotlvien--wrpd;
Furnisher, All straw hats are now of
fered trimmed with plain blaek or fan
cy colored band*. Young men will de
sire to possess a variety of bands, and
every retailer should carry a stock!
The Band* appear in all colors, have
tiny hooks- for fastening and can be
put on or taken off .in a jiffy.
Golf handkerchiefs, which are on the
Old style bandanna order, but in mad
der colors, will be worn about the
neck and around the waist this sum
mer. This is an English fad and Is
quite attractive and, where many hap
pen to be playing, even picturesque.
The “coatless” brace is one which
most likely is destined to become pop
ular. It is worn Under the overshirt
and over the undershirt and is not seen
when a man is diverted of coat and
wgistcoat.
Shepherd piaid neckwear seems to
have become quite the tiling. The most
attractive is a half inch check in two
toned effects.
Brown, a shade which has had quite
a run in-men’s scarfs, suspenders, etc.,
seems to be going out. Reseda, chdet
blue, Quaker gray, soft tan and me
dium fancy tints are much worn.
The popular width in belts will be
one inch. The proper buckle will be
square and made of gold plate, gun
metal and oxidized and the leather
black calf, pigskin and seal.
The turndown collar, which is gain
ing-in favor witn those who do not
wear the standing, is much lower than
the one that has been worn for several
years: - It is cut back more in front
and has about a half inch space—in
fact, it much resembles the style worn
ten years ago.
Pasteboard Boxes For Strawberries.
John Koopman, a strawberry/ grower
of two miles west of Cartilage, Mo.,
has received 10,000 paraffined ‘paste
board strawberry boxes; which he will
use for bis crop this year instead qg
the usual wooden boxes, says the Kan
sas Gity Journal. It is 'claimed they I
—ahd - ’V'il! hwS! j
sorb, 'the|*stain from bruised beings-.
They thus look neater than the ofl&
nary 1 boxes and are just ns siglMy
when used the ’second time as when
first used. ' -§3
Big New Mexican Pine.
At' Cloud craft, N.< M„ the other day
a pine tree was .cut down which meas
ured seven feet in diameter at the,
ground and was two feet in" diameter
at a point sixty| feet; above the ground,
says the Santa Fe New' Mexican. The
trunk of the tree measured over a hun
dred feet in length. It was,’cut down
to make room for a dwelling house,
which is to be built directly over the
stump,
Grand Army of the Repnblib.
Day by day their ranks are thinning, one
by, one they disappear,
AndlJ at each succeeding roll call fewer
voices answer, “Here!”
Still their regiments are marching—many
march with noiseless tread, §|
And no bugles, sound “assembly” in the
bivouac of the dead. /.
Glorious tales of gallant service echo still
on every hand;
Charge and siege and bitter hardship-
comrades lost on sea and land.
Now a reunited nation joins to bless the
honored dead, •; ;
Though forgetful; of the .diving -Who have
likewise fought and A bled.
Hats are reverently lifted to th&g hefOjes
lying here;
Lift them to the living heroes-vhail them
J all with cheer on cheer;
Not for long will they be with us; soon
each regiment will be
Tented here beneath the blossoms of the
land it helped to XreeV
and tlie
A Schoolboy's Discovery.
That nature is still full of simple
facts of scientific importance yet
awaiting, notice bv open eyes and
minds is shown by the recent
achievement, of a Dutch schoolboy
named Van Erpecum, who during a
lesson in physics given in the high
school at Batavia called Dr. Van
Deventer’s attention lo the fact that
the water 'in a' glass "filled to the
brim with water and floating ice
flew. Jcf; mgte
In fact,, no change of leverwhatever
occtu's. Dr. Van Deventer eommu-
TaiCttted-ifhis^p-bSeKvatisn-tdl Frofess-
orS; Van der Waals and Zeeman,
who thought it: of sufficient impor
tance to be placed before the Royal
academy of Amsterdam. It is pro
posed to. call the phenomenon the
“law of the permanent level.” It is
found to be rigorously exact only
when the weight of the air is neg
lected.' - : 1 ; - \
Bloodthirsty.
The proposal to shoot automobil-
ists who drive their ears to the dan
ger of the public, made by a British
magistrate' some time ago, was re
vived at a late meeting of the War
wickshire , chamber . of ^ agriculture,
when the following letter was read:
“I hold a discharge as sergeant from
the army and am a trained shot. At
least, fifty automobiles pass my house
every day. With an ordinary maga
zine riffle I could get about thirty
daily, and I .offer my trained serv
ices to' 1 the. chamber at the charge
of sixpence per head. I should like
to hear to whom - to forward the
heads, I could use explosive
poisoned bullets if so desired.”
Phillips & Edwards
THe Leading' Grocers.
We Greet the readers of The Sen-
tine, and extend our best wishes to .
each and everyone.
We are anxious that you gvieus a
call when needing groceries. Our
PRICES ARE LOW, and we hadle
only the BEST GOODS. We want
your produce and will pay the highr
est market price. We sell
Coitonseed Meal and Hulls
Phillips & Edwards,
The Leading Grocers.
isMlili
Pearson & McCarie
|P252 JETERS STREET, ATLANTA, GA.
The people of Douglas county are cordial-
ly invited to visit our store when in need of
Hardware of any description, guns, pistols,
nails, and wire fencing, builders’ hardware,
farming implements.
\Ve are agertts for the celebrated Acorn
Cooking Stove-=the best stove on the market
for the money. ■ ,
Their low prices will enable the people
trading with them to save mpney. Give us
a trial order.
Pearson & McCarley.
or
get the News
Afta.n. CMt.i Por.OW World Parte..
A large business has been worked up
by Arizonians in the gathering and
sale of cactus anff desert plants, for
which there seems to be an ever in
creasing demand in the eastern states
and In Europe, says a Phenix (Ariz.)
correspondent of the Denver News.
Near Phenix is a large nursery de
voted solely to the care and sale of
prickly plants. Two German horti
cultural gardens have expeditions in
the field in Arizona gathering and ship
ping rare specimens without refer
ence to size. Some immense sagorus
weighing tons have been crated and
shipped to Dusseldorff. Fairmount
park. Philadelphia, is to ha vet an Ari-
sona garden, for which Gardener
Smith of the Arizona capitol grounds
is engaged in gathering choice speci
mens of desert flora.
If you want to help your town and
county, patronize The Senteniel. |
But today the drums are muffled,
flag at half mast waves, a ;
Keeping''.green dead heroes’ memories as
the grass above their graves. “ '
Still another weary winter shrouded in the
snow they'lay ; 1
Now: we bring them crowns and garlands
1 of the loveliest blooms of May.
Left them rest in honored slumber, while
their praise from shore to shore . A
Eighty million throats' are Swelling—we
are free forevermore!
—Elsie Florence Fay in Success Magazine
For May.
A Son a of Springtime.
I feels dejoy or springtime,
An’ I hear de rabbits say, 1
“He huntin’!season’s over,
An’ de powder’s shot ’way!”
“I feels de joyjer Springtime,” 1
Sez de robin an’ de lafk,
An’ I gwirie ter see Chief Joyner’s men
Play baseball in do. park!
■ I feels de; joy'er springtime.
An’ all its sweets >1 know.
An’ my soul sings 'halleluia ,
Whar de honeysuckles grow!'
Charles A. Church in Atlanta Constitu
tion.
Mrs. DIKE’S
I WM j
Elegant Display of
New Patterns,Style
Timings, should be
seen by every one
interested in Milin-
ery gpods. ;
. '■ . r :
Her - prices H®
extremely low.
- | i \
the quali
Remember you will find It in the
Douglas County sen
It will stand for the best interest of
Douglas County. It will be free and
fearless in exposing corruption i n
those who control the affairs of the
county, and will ever try and main=
teht^itite^upF#jp|#fv.in the county
r T;he, AngJd=SaxpdJr ace shall and
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