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10 WATER BURY EVENING DEMOCRAT,'- TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1Q0S. Appearances Go a Great Way Tone PANAMA CANAL DAM GIVES WAY Gatun Pumping Station Is Submerged Five Feet CHAGRES RIVER BURSTS. treat Damage Done to Immense En gineering Work Which Was Estimat ed to Cost Nearly Twenty Million Dollars Lieutenant Colonel Goethals Telegraphs That a Landslide Occur red, but That the Full Extent of the Injury Has Not Yet Been Ascer tained. Panama, Nov. 24. Further investi- Eation shows that what is known as ae south toe of the Gatun dam of the Panama canal has sunk, an etfect probably due to the presence of the Underground lake that was found there at a depth of 216 feet. The dam at Gatun already has been built about forty feet above sea level. COLONEL GEORGE TV. GOETHALS It is an immense engineering work and was estimated to cost $20,000,000. Lieutenant Colonel Goethals, chief engineer of the Panama canal com mission, telegraphs that a landslide occurred at Gatun. but that the full extent of the injury cannot yet be de termined. Other landslides have re cently occurred at several points along the canal. For the past twenty days it has been raining continuously throughout the republic of Tanama. The C'hagres riv er has overfiowed. and all the railroad tracks at Gatun are under water. The floor of the pumping station is submerged to a depth of more than five feet, and the lock sites also are flooded. The pumping station was used to keep the look sites clear from water. Construction Net Far Advanced. Washington. Nov. 24. -The construc tion of the Gatun dam proper has not yet begun, and all that has been com pleted is part of a "rock toe." At the MP stream or south end of the Gatun dam it is almost up to the elevation decided on naraply, sixty feet above sea level. This toe Is not the dam proper, but Is only a retaining wall for the dredged material which is to form the dam. In last year's report of the isthmian canal commission it was said that the Keological facts show that as a foun dation for an earth dam the alluvium rilling the valley of the Chagres river at Gatun would be satisfactory. According to last reports received from the Isthmus, the work In the old bed of the Chagres between the toe at the south and that at the north end of tbe dam was about completed, and it was reported that it would soon be possible to begin the work of scraping the silt from the bottom. The whole dam site was to be clean ed of loose earth before tbe hydraulic BIl between tie two toes, a distance f 1.T00 feet. In reality tbe dam proper, Wll be made. MISSOURI VOTE NOT SPLIT. Oevemer Felk Decides That Full Elec toral Vote Goes to Taft Jefferson City. Mo, Not. 24.-Got-araor Folk decided . that, aider the PEAIRO CLOTDiDNG CO. 50 GRAND STREET. Missouri statute the entire electoral rote of the state should go to William H. Taft. Taking the rote of the first elector as a basis, the plurality of Taft in Missouri is 1,026. JAN POUREN ON STAND TELLS OF HIS ESCAPE Russian Fugitive Makes Fight Against Extradition. New York, Nov. 24. Jan Pouren, the Russian fugitive whose case has aroused so much sympathy, was a witness before United States Commis sioner Hitchcock in the Russian gov ernment's suit for his extradition. Pouren said he had been a Social Democrat, whose platform stood for a free press, free public meetings, short er hours for workingmen and better houses for farmer tenants of landed barons. He said he took part in thirty polit ical meetings in Russia in the summer of 1905. On Nov. 29, 1905, as a member of the militia. Pouren testified, he took part in two pitched battles at Skriber and Bellwaren, near Madeline. The militia was a local company of Social Democrats, and their opponents in these encounters were the czar's troops. After the two battles he took refuge In the woods, his company hav ing been defeated, and there he re mained a fugitive for several months. "Once I was standing with two of my comrades, and soldiers came upon us," he said. "Both my friends were shot to death, but I escaped. "The Brothers In the Woods stood for the same platform that our central committee had stood for. Sometimes they sent us names of political spies in territory near the woods in which we were hiding. We would then try to induce those spies to stop their work, and if we were not successful In dissuading them we would shoot them." Pouren gave the names of six spies who were shot by his party. ARMED MOB STORMS JAIL. Takes Out Negro Assailant of Girl and Hangs Him. Charleston. S. C, Nov. 24. Jim Gil more, a negro, was taken from the jail In Luray and lynched by an armed mob, who broke down the jail doors. Gllmore had attacked one of the daughters of his employer, A. C. Fitts, a prominent farmer, while the young woman and her sister were asleep. The girls' screams aroused the fami ly, and Gilmore was tracked and con fessed. THREE DEAD IN FIRE. Four Others Rescued by Heroic Ef forts of Firemen. New York, Nov. 24. Three men lost heir lives in a fire in the fkctory of the Moe Levy company, at Baiter, Walker and Canal streets. Hundreds are now engaged In a search of the ruins for the bodies of the victims. The blaze did damage of $200,000. By heroic work of the firemen four other men were rescued from the top floor of the building. Heney Recovers From Wound. San Francisco, Nov. 24. Francis J. Heney has so far recovered from the wound Inflicted by Morris Haas that he was able to go to the country te recuperate. ILLINOIS BAN ON CATTLE. Governor Deneen Issues Edict Against Three States. Springfield, III., Nov. 24. Acting on recommendatons made by the Illinois state board of live stock commission ers, Governor Deneen issued a proc lamation prohibiting Importation of live stock from New Tork, Pennsylva nia and New Jersey, In which states cases of foot and mouth disease exist. Dr. J. M. Wright, state veterinarian, says that the disease can be commu nicated from an infected animal to a human being. Brothers Drown While Skating. Wllkesbarre, Pa Not. 24. Raymond and Herbert Smith, brothers, aged eleven and aine years, were drowned while skating on thin ice on the Le hlfh river. A prosperous appearance is an introduction to good society, and style is what makes a man proud of his clothes. Fashion has changed this year. The suit you had last season is out of date now. The distinguishing feature of ' the clothes we are selling this Fall, has the individuality which appeals to men and young men of good taste and judgment. We stand on our record of a great many years selling reliable clothing at popular prices. We realize that it is hard for you to judge clothes, it is hard to see for the average person where one $15.00 suit is any better than an-1 other. You can tell after you have worn it, but when you are buying it, it's hard to tell which is better. Why? Be cause there is no basis for comparison. You can't compare clothing as you do eggs. Eggs are either good or 1 bad, and you find it out quickly but you don't find out how good a suit of clothes is until you have worn if. Any Suit, Overcoat or Raincoat you buy of us, whether you pay $10.00, $15.00, $18.00 or $20.00 has the style, dignity and quality combined. The same applies to our large line of Hats, Sweaters, Umbrellas and Gents Furnishings in general. We put out no petty schemes nor exaggerated statements to attract your trade, but give you a hundred cents of honest merchandise for your dollar every time. How could we exist in business and deal with the same people all these years if we had done other wise ? GIVE US A TRIAL AND YOU WILL BE CONVINCED. HtLAY RACE ENDED. Last Runner Reaches White House With Y. M. C. A. Message. Washington, Nov. 24. President Roosevelt received at the White House from the hands of Gordon Leech, the last boy runner in the relay run from New York to Washington, the silver tube containing a message to tbe pres ident from Richard C. Morse of the International Young Men's Christian association. When told that 1,000 speedy boys bad handled the message since it left New York the president manifested great interest. He characterized as particularly praiseworthy the record made by the 200 Washington lads who brought the message here from Balti more, a distance of forty miles, within three hours and ten minutes. MRS. GOULD TO ACT AGAIN. Wife of Millionaire Will Appear In Plays at Plaza. New York, Nov. 24. Mrs. George J. Gould, whose husband inherited more than $15,000,000, besides having the MRS. GEORGE J. GOULD, direction of the estate of Jay Gould for his brothers and sisters, will ap pear again on the stage. Before her marriage as Mies Edith Kingdon she was a favorite actress at Daly's theater. Now she will appear in two plays in the ballroom of the Tlaza hotel on Feb. 11 and 12 in be half of charity. The prices of seats will be from $5 to $15. TWENTY KILLED IN ARKANSAS TORNADO. Five Towns Almost Demolished and Fifty Persons Injured. Little Rock. Ark., Nov. 24. More than twenty lives were lost and fifty persons were Injured in a tornado that swept the northwestern part of Ar kansas, partly demolishing several towns and doing $200,000 damage. The tornado swept through London, Wallerville. Jethro, Lodl, Lewisville and Paterson and Berry ville and out lying portions of Mulberry, laying waste the larger part of these places. At Finey twelve persons were killed and a number Injured. At London ten persons are reported to have lost their lives, while considerable damage oc curred. Wallerville and Jethro are reported destroyed, several fatalities occurring in each place. Near Mulberry the death list is placed at five. At Berryville Mrs. J. O. Hosklns and five other persons sustained Injuries and twenty-five houses were demol ished. At Lodi three buildings were de stroyed and a woman was killed. CIRCUS RIDER DROPS DEAD. Frank Melville Stricken Behind Stage of Hippodrome. New York. Nov. 24.-Frank Melville, equestrian director at the Hippodrome and one of the best known circus rid ers In this country, dropped dead be hind the stage of the Hippodrome dur ing a rehearsal. As the veteran circus man breathed bis last the orchestra was playing a swinging march and his brother George was before the footlights di recting the menagerie. tt yoei are looanaui for Hoarders, try the) DeanocrM wajrt atfve for ra alts; tB irerda mmj fee tS aaete, CASH OR CREDIT AT: 144-148 S. MAIN Live Stock Markets. . CATTI,E Supply light; market strong-; choice, $6a6.25; prime, S5.75a6; veal calves, ri.BflaS. HOGS Receipts fair; market active and hlfrher; prime heavies, JSaK.lO; mediums, lf. Sfia6.S0: heavy Yorker. 15.75a.. 80: roughs, J4.60a5.40; light Yorkers and pigs not wanted. SHEEP AND LAMBS Supply light; market steady on sheep and higher on lambs; prime wethers, I4.16a4.25: culls and common, .5O2.50; lambs, 4a5.73. General Markets. x New Tork, Nov. 23. BUTTER Firmer; extra western cream ery, S2o. ; do., nearby prints. 34c. EGGS Steady : Pennsylvania and other nearby firsts, free cases, 84c. at mark; do., current receipts, in returnable cases, .18c. at mark; western firsts, free cases, 14c. at mark; do., current receipts, free cases, 32a33c. at mark. LIVE POULTRY - Quiet, but steady; fowls, 10alH4c; old roosters. 8c; spring chickens, lOallHc; ducks, HalZc; turkeys, Hal 6c. DRESSED POULTRY - Firm and in good demand; fresh killed fowls, choice, 13Hal4c; do., fair to good, 12V4al3c; old roosters, ijc. ; western roasting chickens, 16al"c; do., broiling, Kal'c. : turkeys, choice. lSalBc; fair to good. 16al"c. POTATOES Steady and In fair de mand; Pennsylvania, choice, per bushel, 83a85c: New York and western, 89a!c.; do., fair te good, 76a78o. A SURPRISED CAT. Gautier's Pet and Its Experience With a Parrot. Of all cat stories the best is one told by Theophile Gautler, the French nov elist He kept many cats, the favor ite being "Madame Theophile," and she was his constant companion by day and night One day a friend, who was going away a short time, brought Oautier a parrot, to be taken care of during his absence. The bird, finding itself in a strange place, climbed up to the top of its perch in a rather frightened manner. Madame Theophile had never seen a parrot before and regarded the creature with manifest surprise. After a period spent in profound meditation,, summoning up all the no tions of natural history she had picked op in the yard, the garden and on the roofs she plainly came to the conclu sion that the newcomer was a green chicken. Tula result attained, the next proceeding of Madame Theophile was to lay herself flat on the floor, like a panther, watching her prey. The parrot did not like tbla at all; it ruffled its feathers and rattled its chain uneasily. Then Madame Theo phile came creeping nearer, her nose quivering, her eyes half closed, while slight thrills of pleasure ran along her backbone at the Idea of the meal she was about to make. Another moment and she sprang upon tbe perch. The parrot instantly straightened up and said in a deep bass voice, "Have you breakfasted, Jacko?" This utterance so terrified the cat that she sprang backward. , All her ornithological ideas were overthrown. ."And on what?" continued the par rot gravely. !"On sirloin J". For To prove the quick baking quali ties of these ranges I will give free with every household range an ) eight day, half hour strike, alarm clock, like cut. Household Ranges have no equal. f m I The cat cast a glance at her master as if to say: 'This is not a bird. It is a gentleman. It talks!" And then she promptly hid herself under tbe bed, and from that refuge she could not be induced to stir during the whole-day. St Louis Globe-Democrat Adage of Morocco. In an article on the people of Morocco a writer in Paris Figaro ,says: "They have some queer adages and some that I closely resemble ours. Thus they say, . The camel cannot see its hump, but I plainly sees tbe one of its neighbor;' 'He who depends on his neighbor will I go to bed hungry;' 'A wise enemy Is I better than a stupid friend T 'Cross tbe rushing stream, bnt beware of tbe quiet, noiseless one;' 'In this world there are three things not to be trust ed luck, women and horses .'Mount ing a horse, loosing the hunting dogs and hearing earrings rattle drive dull care away.' " Bs that stadleth revenge keepeta his wn woaad green Bacon. a Few Days TFW Soda Crackers that crackle as good Crackers should Uneeda Biscuit With meals for meals between meals 3 th In dust tight. moisture proof packages. Neper sold in bulk. NATIONAL BISCUIT COMPANY Knew the Kind. "It used to . be, when a' lady in sisted on keeping her husband awake nights to tell him how much better her family was than his family and some other chastening truths, that the po liceman took her off, and she was ei ther fined or ducked as a common scold." "And, pray, what did they do with the uncommon ones? Surely in those days, as in ours, some displayed more talent than others." "They probably knew better than to monkey' with the uncommon ones. Man is a bright creature who learns by experience." The Difference. "Well ssld the optimistic boarder, "there's one thing about our boarding house you can eat as much as you Uko there." "Of course, same as our.'' replied tbe pessimistic one. Too can eat at much as yon like, but there's never anything yon could possibly like." Philadelphia mti I W 0' U I: 1 i LA YELLOW FRONT Soda ln(Silim Never Fails to Restore Gray Hair to Its Natural Color and Beauty. No matter how long; it haa been fray or faded. Promotes a luxuriant growth of healthy hair. Stops its falling out, and positively removes Dan dralf. Keeps hair soft and glossy. Re fuse all substitutes. 2 times as much in$1.00asS0caize. Is Not a Dye. $1 and 60e. bottles, at dnoilsta Sexl far fjw s " Tb C o the tfair." Pbtle Hay Spec Ce., Mewark, M. J. Hays Harflna Soap or., iwiaa. 14. leush and chapped Beads, ead n tku'i? a. Keep skis fine and soft. lie. drmmwiiiZ ft: toe trm book "Tto CuTS taTSE?, . Mm irnsa - " 6as ta Watertwry dt acadia these I , . .. t