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ft. 0. BREWER IS
NAMEDPRESIDENT
Ripon Man Selected to Head
Vehicle Men.
MEETING COMES TO CLOSE
Other Officers Are Elected at Final
Session of Annual Convention —
Will Meet in Milwaukee Again
Next Year.
Madison. —A. D. Brewer, Ripon, was
elected president of the Wisconsin Re
tail Implement and Vehicle Dealers’
association at the final session at its
annual convention in the Auditorium,
Milwaukee.
Other officers are: Vice-president, J.
B. Watson, Fond du Lac; secretary j
ana treasurer, F. R. Sebenthall, Ea,u
Claire. The directors are E. B. Rob
bins, Eau Claire, and J. H. Waite, Sey
mour, and the freight auditing com
mittee is composed of R. L. Nash,
Grand Rapids; Walter Miller, Stanley,
and F. R. Sebenthall. Eau Claire.
The association voted to hold its
next annual convention in Milwaukee
the second week in December of next I
year.
The association indorsed the propo
sition of the Manufacturers’ National
association offering assistance to the
Wisconsin organization in organizing
clubs of retailers in every county, and
the National Retail Implement Deal
ers’ association. It recommended a
law providing for penny postage. It
also advised members to take policies
in the Minnesota Retail Implement
Dealers’ Fire Insurance association.
The retailers have always been op
posed to the prison twine industry, but
now that the state hap engaged in it
they are willing to handle the product
providing they are permitted to make
a fair profit. Ralph E. Smith, presi
dent of the board of control, explained
the plan of the state, and the presi
dent was authorized to appoint a com
mittee of three to meet the board in
January, to discuss plans of marketing
the product.
Asks for $828,000 for Roads.
The Wisconsin highway commission
will ask the legislature for $328,000
and should there be sufficient nvmey,
will ask for $1,000,000. This wjj de
cided at the meeting of the commis
sion. It was pointed out that this sum
was needed to carry on the work for
good roads which the commission is
doing. About $350,000 will be given
which the commission is doing. About
$350,000 will be given by the state to
the commission as a part of the ap
propriation provided by the state high
way law, $28,000 will come from auto
licenses and the commission will ask
for $450,000 more.
Ralph Smith, president of the state
board of control, discussed the use of
prison labor on the roads. He declared
he was in favor of it if the men could
be placed on their honor and not
guarded.
The road school like that of last
year will be held here in February for
the county commissioners.
Prepares Reply on Rural Schools.
State Superintendent of Public In
struction C. P. Cary may make a reply
to the state board of public affairs- 1 re
port on conditions in rural schools,
following the publication of the report
of his committee of fifteen on condi
tions in the rural schools.
The board of ptfblic affairs' report
showed that there were many condi
tions in the rural school of the state
which can be corrected and strength
ened. and the state superintendent is
said to feel that this is in part a criti
cism of his office. His comm’ttee has
been investigating the matter apart
from the state board and. it is said,
will present maters in a different
light from the state board’s report.
With this foundation Mr. Cary will be
able to make a reply to the public af
fairs board investigators.
Mr. Carey declined to discuss the
matter.
Pamphlets Cost State $14,817.41.
The figures on the cost of issuing
the state primary and general election
campaign pamphlets for political can
didates were made available. The to
tal cost was $14,817.41. The candi
dates contributed $9,090 for space?
leaving the net balance to be shoul
dered by the state, $5,727.41.
The expense was apportioned as fol
lows:
Printing .....$6,003.52
■Envelopes 1,194.75
Postage 6.750.0)
Clerical help 80914
Total .-$14,817.41
Six hundred and seventy-five thou
sand envelopes were used, each carry
ing a one-cent postage stamp. Only
two congressional candidates used the
pamphlet. If all the candidates had
taken space, the state would have
reaped a profit from the venture.
State Dairymen Name Heads.
The Wisconsin Dairymens conven
tion. held at Ashland, included ad
dressed by Professors Occck, Otis and
Delwiche of the college of agriculture,
also a lecture on co-operation among
farmers by Senator Sanborn. A ban
quet was given for the visitors and
farmers from the surrounding coun
try.
At the election of officers E. C. Ja
cobs, Elkmound, was elected presi
dent; A. J. Glover, Fort Atkinson, sec
retary; H. K. Loomis, treasurer
Final Vote for Electors.
The compilation of the final vots
on the presidential electors in Wis
consin is completed. The combined
vote on all electors is 5,187,075.
Ernest Merton of Waukesha leads
the Democratic ticket and Sol Levi
tan heads the Republican electoral
ticket. Col. John J. Hicks of Oshkosh
has a big lead over the others on the
Progressive electoral ticket.
The figures follow:
Democrat —Wendell A. Anderson,
164,228; Louis G. Bohmrich, 163,883;
Ernst Merton, 163,958; O. F. Roessler,
163,925; George Crawford, 163,918;
Joshua Eric Dodge, 163,884; Rollin B.
Mallory, 163,929; Charles H. Lambert,
163,887; Edward Luckow, 163,863;
Ernst C. Zimmerman, 163,891; John A.
Kuypers, 163,885; George D. Cline,
163,844, and John A. Kobe, 163,782.
Prohibition —William P. Massuere,
8,586; William R. Nethercut, 8,526; Lu
cius H. Park, 8,536; W. J. Perry, 8.541;
Peter T. James, 8,530; Charles Wendt,
Jr., 8,531; Augustus C. Forester, 8,527;
V. M. Weeks, 8,522; O. S. Ballinger,
8,531; W. T. Johnson, 8,529; Joseph
Volk, 8,529; Waldemar Ager, 8,471,
and T. B. Harmon, 8,462.
Republican—Sol Levitan, 130,695;
Aaron M. Brayton, 130,604; M. V. De
wire, 130,582; Ray C. Twining, 130,574;
Dwight T. Parker, 130,618; Adolph J.
Weidner, 130,583; Nathaniel Greene,
130,454; Otto Zander, 97,967; Lewis E.
Reed, 32,203; Charles A. Leicht, 130,-
547; Albert L. Fontaine, 130,567; Ber
nard C. Wolter, 130,537; George C.
Witherby, 130.532, and Theodore M.
Thomas, 130,538.
Social Democrat —James Sheehan.
33,381; Daniel Devroey, 33,403; Nels P.
Nielsen, 33,415; August Harder, 33,-
396; Alfred Schneider, 33,394; Paul
Gauer, 33,400; Robert Seidel, 33,438;
Robert T. Schuettler, 3.3,377; Charles
Johnson, 33,490; G. C. Kischel, 33,368;
Charles N. Fuller, 33,373; Curtis A.
Boorman, 33,364, and C. J. Hanson,
33,342.
Progressive Party—John Hicks, 62,-
460; Wheeler P. Bloodgood, 62,215; F.
Lee Norton. 62,220; Otto Bismarck
Bock, 62,196; E- J- Baskerville, 62,-
154; Fred C. Thwaits, 62,150; Charles
F’ Stitt, 62,138; Florian Lampert, 62,-
224; Will H. McFedtridge, 62,120;
George H. Fuller, 62,122; Henry C.
Schultz, Jr., 62,109; Al C. Anderson,
62,099, and Peter Ackerson. 61,677.
Feathered Stock Exhibit January 2
The exhibition of the Wisconsin
Feathered Stock association, w'hich in
recent years has become an annual
event, will be held in the Auditorium,
Milwaukee, January 2 to 5 inclusive,
according to the board of directors.
The exhibition, it is announced, will
be somewhat enlarged this year. While
in the past the small halls in the Audi
torium were sufficient to accommodate
the poultry show, the entries this year
are so numerous that it will necessi
tate the use of the main hall.
Up to this time no less than 2,000
exhibits have been entered, including
almost every variety of feathered
stock. The largest number has been
received from chicken fanciers, while
pigeon, pheasants, w r ild ducks and
geese will also ’be on view In addition
to rabbits and guinea pigs.
A large pond in the center of the
hall will be provided, around which
the cages are to be placed. Numerous
contests have been arranged. Prizes
will be awarded to the owners of the
hens that lay the most eggs during the
exhibition, and also for beautifully
colored eggs. Races between carrier
pigeons will be daily events.
Considering the number and variety
of attractions, the coming poultry
show bids fair to attract thousands of
bird fanciers and a host of enthusiasts.
Would Reorganize Board of Control.
Reorganization of the state board or
control, with advisory commissions,
in order to improve the condition of
the wards of the state, was urged by
Rev. Walter F. Greeman, pastor of the
South Side Community club in Milwau
kee.
"Experts in the administration of
the w-ards of the state recognize two
requirements of anj proposed system
—efficiency and truad education," he
said- "To handle the work efficiently
involves humane care, economy to tax
payers and farsighted policy of social
progress. The community must be ed
ucated in the matter of existing condi
tions and thq best means of working
toward the abolition of poverty, crime,
preventable disease and insanity.
"The present board consists of five
citizens, including one woman. Its
members are from various walks of
life, in no conspicuous way related to
most of the services they are required
to perform. Tljey receive a salary of
$2,500 annually. The board’s duties
include almost four times as much
work as they can do as it should be
done.”
After enumerating important duties
of the board the speaker said that the
state pays $12,500 to five persons and
gives them permission to execute a
job well worth $33,000.
"The board should consist of five
members, holding office during good
behavior. One should be a,i expert in
lunacy, one in penology, one in charity
and one in finance, besides one named
as president. The salary of each should
be at least $4,000.”
Plans Sickness Insurance.
Sickness Insurance for working men
and women, to be administered by the
state industrial commission, and to be
correlated with the administration of
the workingmen's compensation act, is
one of the plans to be worked out for
presentation as a bill in the next is
consin legislature. This scheme has
been tried in Germany for a number
of years, and was recently put into
' effect in England. The plan as con
templated for Wisconsin does not
have the full scope of the Eng!is>
statute.
Bl GftNOL[ LIGHT
Intricacies of the Law Do Not
Interfere With Judge in Own
Heart Problem.
By GRACE KERRIGAN,
‘Judge Landon Carter is in love
with you, Anne. Are you going to let
the memory of Phil Gaines spoil your
whole life?”
‘‘Judge Carter In love with me? Oh,
no, mother! He is too wrapped up In
the intricacies of the law to bother
with a heart problem.”
“You’ll find out for yourself soon.
Don't blind your eyes to a catch like
that because of a school boy.”
“I w’ish that you would let me love
Phil without worrying over it."
“You are twenty-five, Anne, and you
have discarded enough men because
of your foolish infatuation of Phil
Gaines. He is married now and out of
the question.”
“I grant you that,” laughed the girl,
“but his marriage hasn't killed my
love for him. . Why, he is as much a
part of my life now as he was a year
ago when the postman brought his
daily thought of me.”
“You are too clever and wholesome
to cling to the memory of a man who
was not true.”
“Remember, dear, that he asked me
to marry him and I refused."
“Of course you refused when the
night before he had been notoriously
drunk at the Peyton’s dinner dance.”
“Not notoriously, mother, for I took
him away before any one knew, and If
I had loved him, as you tliink, well
enough to spoil my life because of his
memory, I would have married him
even if he had been a confirmed
drunkard. That is a woman’s way.”
“Not a woman with your pride,
Anne! What do you mean by not lov
ing him as I think you do? Are there
more ways than one?"
“Yes, there are more ways than
one.”
Anne picked up a little silver frame
on her desk. It held the picture of a
big, stalwart fellow with eyes that
laughed and mocked and yet were
tender.
“If you would put that picture away
and pack all his gifts, you would be
much more likely to forget. You cod
dle his memory. He Isn’t the boy you
remember. He is a man now. I have
heard that he is coming here on his
honeymoon. I hope he does, to disil
lusion you." z
“Why do you insist upon marriage
for me?”
“Because I ■want you to be happy.
Marry Judge Carter! He is the young
est man on the bench, good looking
and comes of a fine family. You will
never do better.”
“He isn’t In love with me and I don’t
Intend to go campaigning for a hus
band." Anne looked at her mother and
smiled. “Every family needs one old
maid to help mother the nephews and
nieces and pay the wild boys out of
debt. So since I am the only hope of
our relatives, let me be a dear old
spinster. In my rare laces and pearls,
I will be a romantic figure as I sit by
the fire, seeing in the rosy flames ‘the
bridge dreams, spanning the river
of youth* that leads into my garden
of remembered things.’ ”
“Don't talk like that, Anne. It
makes my heart ache. Be happy! You
are beautiful and gifted. Anticipate
happiness and make the harp of life
respond to your wooing touch. For
get Phil!”
“If I only could forget!”
When her mother left her, Anne
held the picture in her two hands,
staring down in the eyes that laughed
and mocked and yet were tender. “I
wonder how well you love her, this
woman who has taken my place,” she
mused. “I wonder what she does to
comfort you when the blue devils get
you, Phil. You know when they fame
you always wired me to write quick
ly. Now you don’t need me any more.
I think that is what hurts most of all.
You don’t need me any more. For
ten years, we have told each other all
our little hopes and plans. You were
just my other self. Giving you up
was like kissing the cross of my life’s
rosary. You meant youth to me. I
am glad that I could help you over the
hard years when you first went to that
little western town, dear, foolish, lov
able Phil!”
She set the silver frame back in a
recess of her desk and rang for her
maid.
“My new bfue charmeuse and the
turquoise, please, Elsie.”
“Is it another party?” asked Elsie,
■who adored her pretty mistress and
took a personal pride in her popu
larity.
“A quiet little dinner with Judge
Carter and the opera afterward. A bit
of rouge for my cheeks, Elsie, for II
Trovatore always takes my own
color.”
“You are not sad?” questioned the
little maid. “Surely, with such beauty
and the love of many—it is enough to
make you very happy.”
“Yes,” said Anne, “it is enough.”
A little later as they made their way
through the crowded dining room to
the table that had been reserved for
them, Anne was unconscious of the
looks of admirations from every side,
but Judge Carter saw and thrilled
with pride of her.
“Every man envied me when we
came in,” he declared when they were
seated. “I am glad to see color in
your face again. I have worried about
you lately.”
“Emergency color," laughed Anne.
*Why have you worried about me?”
•*T—I rather fancied you were not
happy and I want you to be.**
As he rnaae his order, Anne became
conscious of voices at a nearby table.
A young girl sat facing a man whose
back was to Anne, but it required no
second glance for her to recognize
Phil Gaines.
“Don’t stare so even if the woman
who just came in is pretty. You will
see thousands like her here. If you
want that fish, eat it. I have to see a
man at eight o'clock.”
“I don’t want It,” answered the girl
in a soft southern voice.
Anne felt her color rising swiftly
under the rouge. The man who had
grown out of the boy she had idealized
for years talking like that to his wife!
A wave of pity for the tender little
bride passed over her heart and
cleared it of all memory of Phil.
Anne leaned over to whisper some
thing to the judge, then looked up to
face Phil as he rose from the table.
“Anne,” he cried eagerly, ‘‘how good
it is to see you again!”
“Bring your wife over here and let
her finish dinner with us,” urged Anne
when she had greeted him. Phil miss
ed the welcome that had always been,
in her eyes for him. “It will be lonely
in this big city for your bride while
you are busy with your friends so I
want the privilege of tak’ng care of
her.”
A sudden challege flashed in Phil’s
eyes and Anne met it unflinchingly.
“She is such a child, Phil! You must
be very good to her.”
“Yes,” said Phil, looking -down, “I
really want to make her happy. I’ve
made a bad beginning, Anne,” he said,
confessing his fault like a. penitent
boy.
“Bring her right ove\here. I think
she is lovely. Then hurry, see your
man and get back in time to join us
for the opera.” Anne felt as if she
had roused from an unpleasant dream
and was glad to be awake once more.
“Anne,” said Judge Carter as his
big limousine whirled them swiftly
through the snowy streets from the
hotel where they had left Phil and his
bride, “I love you so and I need you.
I want you to make a home —with
me.”
“You need me?” questioned Anne.
“Yes, dear. Every man dreams all
his life of one woman. You are that
woman to me. Fear that you were
unhappy kept me from speaking, but
tonight you were so radiant, so hap
py in your kindness to the little bride,
I dare to dream, to hope of winning
you. Could you learn to care? What
kind of a man could you love?”
“You," said Anne softly, a sudden
illuminating happiness flooding her
heart, “because you are sou, because
you will always rise to the level of
my need of you.”
“And will you love me always?”
“Always,” came the quiet answer,
“ ‘by sun and candle light.’ ”
(Copyright, 1912, by the McClure News
paper Syndicate.)
ON THE SANTA FE TRAIL
Story of a Toll Bridge That Was
Later Put Out of Business
by Railroad.
The first bridge in western Kansas
was on-the old Santa Fe trail, in Ford
county, across the Pawnee creek,
about forty miles north of Dodge City.
John O’Loughlin, who now lives at
Lakin, built the old bridge, and made
a small fortune from it charging toll
for the use of it. It was in the early
’7os, before the railroad had pushed
its way up the valley and when all
traffic had to be carried by teams on
the trail.
O’Loughlin, while prospecting
through the country, noticed that the
crossing at Pawnee creek was a bad
place, the banks being steep on both
sides.
He built the bridge, erected a little
store and began collecting toll from
teamsters and others using the bridge.
If they didn’t want to pay, they didn’t
have to. They could ford across the
old way. But as a rule they were
glad to pay.
When a government train came
along O’Loughlin took receipts or or
ders, the government teamsters hav,
ing no authority to pay money. He
accumulated these orders or receipts
and collected them from the govern
ment later at one time receiving
a draft for $1,200 for his toll charges.
The bridge cost him, he figured,
something like SIOO, and he estimated
that in the year or two he operated
it he cleaned up $6,000 or more.
But the building of the Santa Fe
railway up the valley in 1872-73 put
O’Loughlin’s toll bridge out of busi
ness. Teamsters no longer had to use
the Santar-'Fe trail. The railway
killed teaming and toll collecting
alike.
So O'Loughlin abandoned his bridge,
Hosed his store and moved to Lakin,
here he still resides. —Kansas City
Journal.
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Fashion In China.
The Chinese have always had a
“philosophy of clother;” their gar
ments are symbols. Consequently, if
a Chinaman is a revolutionist, and
wishes to express his frankest criti
cism of the old regime and to indi
cate that he Is open as day to all the
influences of the west, he cuts off his
queue, steps into a little tailor’s shop
and orders a straw hat, a celluloid
collar and a pair of cuffs, colored
socks, a safety razor and a pair of
American boots. These modes of Eu
rope are China’s “dernier cri.” Sc
much so that the “tailors’ shops pro
ducing crude semi-foreign apparel,’
which'here (according to the British
consular reports) “spring up in almos’
every important street,” are inundat
ed "with orders to supply “outwarc
manifestations of a progressive spirit,'
and the local agents of British sewin;
machines are not able to supply fas
enough the machines required t<
keep pace with the demand.
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LOWER GATUN LOCK NEARING COMPLETION
NOT less than 20,000 Americans,
so the rough and ready esti
mates have it, will go south
during the four winter month?,
beginning with the first of De
cember, and extending to the end of
March, to visit the Isthmus of Panama
and see what they may of the result
of the eight years’ work which Col.
George W. Goethals and his army of
35,000 men have brought almost to
completion. The Panama canal is
nearly done; only the part of another
year remains before this $400,000,000
waterway will join the Atlantic and
the Pacific. Next September will
mark the completion of the task. And
flooding of the canal will mean that
most of the work will be forever hid
den from view.
However many go to the isthmus,
it is safe to say not more than ten per
cent, of them will come away with
more than a vague conception of what
has really been accomplished by the
engineers. The fault will not have
been with the canal. That fairly
matches all that has been said about
It. The fault will have been with the
visitor. For, notwithstanding all his
careful guide-book preparations before
hand, he will not, aftei- all, see more
than the surface aspect of things down
In the Canal Zone. In this manner he
will resemble the majority of visitors
who have already been to Panama;
one of every ten of these, perhaps, can
boast that he descended to the bottom
of the giant locks, there to grope his
way through the concrete culverts or
gaze up at the spans, like cathedral
arches, of these great steel gates that
next year will lock in the waters of
the completed canal. One of every
twenty, perhaps, can tell you that he
climbed down into Culebra cut, to
spend a day in the eternal bustle of
the deep canyon which man has made
through the hills, and which so soon
will be the channel of great ships as
they plow their way from sea to sea.
From the Observation Train.
The average visitor to the Panama
canal sees the Gatun dam from the
broad seat of the observation train
that is pushed out over that pile of
21,000,000 cubic yards of rock, sand,
concrete, and earth once a week. For
this seat he pays a dollar. Never does
he get out and look about for himself.
The hired lecturer explains everything
so well. To see the locks the average
visitor may tiptoe gingerly to the
concrete edge, and gaze down for half
a minute, only to turn fearfully away
and spend the rest of his hour watch
ing busy cement-mixers that are ex
actly like any other cement-mixers.
The tourist’s impression of the Pan
ama canal has not been allowed to
sink in. A three days’ stay on the
Isthmus does not permit of that. The
man who has spent seven to nine
days at sea from New York, dreaming
of the wonders he will find, spends a
brief hour at Gatun, half an hour at
Miraflores, another hour at Culebra,
and then is off to his train or to din
ner. Most of the canal he sees from
the rear platform of his train o.n the
way across. Deep, wide, and long as
is Culebra cut, the view’ of it from the
train as the engine sweeps around
the bend is distinctly disappointing.
All about are towering hills which
dwarf the cut that winds in and out
among them. You get out your
glasses, but before you get them ad
justed, the train has started, Culebra
is hidden from view, and the concrete
tops of the Pedro Miguel locks are
seen. Yet because they are only the
tops of the locks they appear small,
and you get another shock of disap
pointment.
The fact is. it Is only by getting out
"on the job’* that one can obtain a
comprehensive understanding of -what
the canal has cost, in energy and time
and brains. One must rub elbows with
the workmen and talk with them; he
must get down into the culverts be
neath the locks and stand by while
they lower a forty-ton valve gate into
place; he must get out beneath the
dam and into the cut, out over the
foot-bridge that sways 200 feet above
the locks, and off around the complet
ed parts of the Atlantic and Pacific
divisions.
Especially one must be willing to
spend days at Culebra cut. From the
platform up on the side of the
vou cannot adequately feel that here
it was that the French and American
engineers struggled agaipst appalling
odds for years. You. cannot realize
that out of this single stretch of the
canal 90,000,000 ctibic yards of earth
have been dug and t.hat another 10.-
000,000 will be taken out before the;
canal is pronounced complete. But
begin your day with a climb down the
long flank of an earth “slide” to the
bottom of the cut, and then try to
scramble out again. If you succeed
in either of these ventures, you will
have found at least one way of com
ing to an appreciation of its stupend
ous proportion, and what the digging
of Culebra cut meant to the men who
have almost finished digging it.
Down in‘Culebra cut, where giraffe
like drills are. boring into the bed
rock of the Isthmus, and long dirt
trains are clattering away with what
remains of the foundations of Mount
Culebra and Gold Hill, one is literally
overwhelmed by the magnitude of
this, the canal-diggers’ greatest aci
complishment. At the bottom of the
cut you gaze toward the crest of Gold
Hill, towering into the sky, a thou
sand feet above. Up there, where
Balboa is said to have climbed to see
both the oceans, the tall palm trees
are bending to the breeze, but here
the workers are sweltering in the dead
heat of the midday sun, far down in
the foundations of the earth.
At the Bottom of the Cut.
If you go down to the Panama canal
this winter, go down into Culebra cut.
Try there to make yourself heard
against the din of the steam hammers
and drills; against the incessant dull
thunder of the dynamite blasts;
against the crunch and bite of the
steam shovel-; against the scream of
the locomotives and the crazy clatter
of the dirt cars. •’ Dodge about the
labyrinth of tracks to escape the ten
mile-an-hour onslaught of the bluster
ing engines, as they make their way
toward the sea, hauling their strings
of laden cars; get close beneath one
of those long-armed steam shovels
which swings its tons of rock and dirt
in every direction with such seeming
recklessness. At last lose yourself
among the swarms of human ants who
are shoveling away the soft dirt that
has come down the long slope of
Mount Culebra in one of the “slides'
that one so often reads about.
After all this, if yqu are not fairly
staggered at the Immensity of the
accomplishment of our engineers, then
you are of stuff less Impressionable
than the isthmian rocks. For Culebra
cut is the masterpiece of the $400,000,-
000 canal job: its completion will rep
resent the ultimate fulfilment of the
work. The locks and gates at Gatun,
Miraflores, and Pedro Miguel are won
derful, ip that they represent the
largest of their kind in the world.
So also is the Gatun dam, which has
made possible the impounding of the
dirty Chagres river water in the Gatun,
lake, and which has made out of an
entire countryside an inland sea. But
Culebra cut transcends them alt Here
is not merely the largest thing of ra
kind. Here' the Continental Divide,
the rocky backbone of the Americas,
has been carved through, after defy
ing all the efforts of the French for
twenty years. A mountain has been
hewn away.
Girl and the Game.
A young man took a young woman
friend to a ball game for the first
time, and in his superior knowledge
he asked her after the first inning
was over -if there was anything about
the game she would like to have ex
plained ✓
“JusT one thing,” said the sweet
young thing.. “I wish you would ex
plain how that rheumatic bush-league
relic in the box ever gets the baJ
over the plate without the aid of
express wagon.”
And in the silence ..that -followed
all that could be heard was the faint
chugging of the man’s Adams
apple working feverishly up
down.
No Need.
“Why doesn’t that old millionair
limber up by taking gymnasium exer
cises
“He doesn’t need them He ge-s
enough agile practice 'lodgiui
taxes.”