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THE RECORD, KENNA, NEW MEXICO.
FRUIT LAXATIVE
SICK
CHILD
"California Syrup of Figs" can't
harm tender stomach,
liver and bowels.
Every mother realizes,, after giving
her children "California Syrup- of
Fig9" that this Is their Ideal laxative,
because they love ita pleasant taste
jtnd it thoroughly cleanses the tender
little Btomach, liver and bowels with
out griping.
When cross, irritable, feverish or
breath is bad, stomach sour, look at
the tongue, mother! If coated, give a
teaspoonful of this harmless, "fruit
laxative," and in a few hours all the
foul, constipated waste, sour bile and
undigested food passes out of the bow
els, and you have a well, playful child
again. . When its little system la full
of cold, throat sore, has stomach-ache,
diarrhoea, Indigestion, colic remem
ber, a good "inside cleaning" should
always be the first treatment given.
Millions of mothers keep "California
Syrup of Figs" handy; they know a
teaspoonful today saves a sick child
tomorrow. Ask at the store for a 60
cent bottle of "California Syrup of
Figs," which has directions for babies,
children of all ages and grown-ups
printed on the bottle. Adv.
And the Blind Could See.
That the day of miracles Is not
passed Is the belief of a man who sat
In upper Broadway, with green gog
gles on his eyes and a placard bear
ing the words, "I am blind" hung on
his neck. Pennies and nickels were
being dropped Into his tin cup by
sympathetic passersby. Finally a
woman dropped a quarter into the
cup. A hobo standing near by saw
the blind man, also the quarter that
tlit woman dropped into the tin cup.
And he deftly picked the quarter
out. Then the "miracle" was per
formed. The goggles were thrown off
and the blind man gave chase to the
thief. It was a good race. The hobo
was no slouch of a runner, but the
blind man caught him after two
blocks' run and got his quarter back.
Then, with "I am blind" dangling
from his neck, he started back to his
stand. "Say, you can see pretty well
for a blind man," said a man who
had invested a nickel's worth of pity
"It's a miracle, that's what It are,'
said the blind man solemnly. "The
shock of losing that quarter brought
back my sight. It's Just plumb won
derful." 'Tape's Diapepsin" cures sick,
sour stomachs in five minutes
Time It I
"Really does" put bad stomachs in
order "really does" overcome Indices-
tlon, dyspepsia, gai, heartburn and
sourness in five minutes that just
that makes Pape's Diapepsin the lar
gest selling stomach regulator in the
world. It what you eat ferments Into
stubborn lumps, you belch gaa and
eructate sour, undigested food and
acid; head is dizzy and aches; breath
foul; tongue coated; your insides filled
with bile and indigestible waste, re
member the moment "Pape's Diapep
Bin" comes in contact with the Btomach
all such distress vanishes. It's truly
astonishing almost marvelous, and
the Joy Is its harmlessness.
A large fifty-cent case of Pape's Dia
pepsin will give you a hundred dollars'
worth of satisfaction.
It's worth its weight in gold to men
and women who can't get their stom
achs regulated. It belongs in your
home should always be kept handy
in case of a sick, sour, upset stomach
during the day or at night. It's the
quickest, surest and most harmless
. stomach doctor In the world. Adv.
Truly Blessed.
"Whom do I envy?" said the tired
looking woman. "I'll tell you whom
It is not the kings and queens of
earth, nor the merely rich, but a wo
man who, I know, earns every cent
of her Income, yet manages to squeeze
so many pleasures and Junketings in
to ber daily life that she sometimes
exclaims in despair: '-'Ob, when will
I ever get time to do any work?"
"That's it. Just to be able to won
der when you will ever get time
do any work Instead of wondering
when you will ever get time to do any
thing else seems to me the very a pa
theosls of earthly bliss."
Could You Blame Him?
"What was that aviator's former
business?"
' "He used to act as a guide to deer
hunters, but he lost his nerve." Puck
Our castles la the air generally In
clude m heiress.
ends dyspepsia,
indigestion. gas
ANAMA CANAL PRACTICALLY COMPLETE
Destruction of Gamboa Dike Permits Waters of Gatun Lake to
Fill Culebra Cut Boats Soon to Pass Through the
Waterway.
' JI
How the Floor of Culebra Cut Was Cleaned In Readiness for the Flooding
of the Panama Canal.
Colon, Panama, Oct. 1. The Pana
ma canal was pronounced practically
finished today whun preparations
were made for the removal of the
Gamboa dike, which has held the
waters of Gatun lake out of the Cule-
ra cut, the only part of the canal In
which, up till the present time, there
has been no water.
The waters of Gatun lake were per
mitted today to run into the Culebra
cut through big pipes that had been
pushed through the Gamboa dike.
This Is done as a preliminary to the
complete removal of the dike In order
that the water may rise gradually In
the cut and eliminate the possibility
of damage.
The final destruction of the big dike
1b scheduled for October 10, wher
charges of dynamite placed in holes
already drilled in the dike will be
exploded. The explosion of these
charges will not completely destroy
the dike, but will weaken It and loos
en the dirt bo that the force of the
waters from Gatun lake will carry it
away. Steam snoveis win remove me
remnants of the dike, leaving an open
passageway from ocean to ocean.
Canal Really Complete Now.
Although the canal will not be offi
cially declared' completed for some
time, and the formal opening of the
waterway to the commerce of the
world more than a year distant, the
canal engineers Jook upon the de
struction of the Gamboa dike as mark
ing the real completion of the canal.
The big engineering fats have ill
been accomplished, the excavation
work practically has been completed,
and the great locks have been con
structed. The work that remains to
be done Is largely detail, and Is but
child's play as compared with that
which has been done. More dirt is
to be removed from the channel, but
this will be done with suction dredges
floating upon the waters of the canal.
There still remains some finishing
touches to be placed upon the locks,
but this work will take comparatively
little time and presents no engineer
ing difficulties such as have been en
countered In the past.
The fact that the canal stands prac
tically complete more than a year be
fore the time originally set as the
date for its completion Is one of the
remarkable features of the work.
When Count de LessepB, the great
French engineer, abandoned, his ef
forts to build the Panama canal after
eight years of labor, he had scarcely
made a beginning upon the gigantic
task. In nine years, the American en
gineers, starting almost at the same
point as de Lesseps, for the latter s
work was of little value to the Ameri
cans, have virtually completed the
undertaking. When the work was
started the world scoffed at the idea
that It could be completed within the
time limit set, but bata are now off
to the American army engineers who
have more than kept their word, de
spite unforeseen difficulties that have
beset them at every hand.
Goethals to Make Final Test.
The first vessel to pass through the
canal probably will be a boat of the
Isthmian canal commission, Col.
George W. Goethals. chairman of the
commission and chief engineer of the
canal, and his principal assistants.
The final voyage through the canal Is
scheduled for some time during this
month. Within another month it is
expected the waters in Gatun lake
will have risen high enough to bring
the waters in the entire canal up to
the deep water 'level required for the
passage of the largest ships.
It is said that as long ago as the
early part of August, assurances were
given Washington officially that If the
emergency should arise, the entire
Atlantic battleship fleet could be put
through the canal into Pacific waters
within 60 days from that date. The
work has been hurried with that end
In view, It la aald, aa no emergency
has exlated, but tbia assurance la an
Indication of the belief of the engi
.m&$
art
2 t
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neers that their work Is now practical
ly finished.
Culebra Cut Caused Trouble.
The excavation of the Culebra cut,
Into which the water has Just been
turned, has been one of the engineer
ing feats connected with the building
of the canal, and has caused the en
gineers more trouble than any oth
er portion of the big "ditch." To
Col. D. D. Galllard, the engineer of
the central division. Is given the
credit for carrying Oils, portion of the
work through to a successful termina
tion. The disastrous slides in the cut
were discouraging to the engineers,
nullifying In a few hours the work of
many weeks, but Colonel Galllard and
his assistants have kept untiringly at
their work, and at last have conquer
ed the treacherous banks of the deep
cut.
A little more than a month ago the
giant Bteam shovels finished their
work In the Culebra cut. Since that
time the workmen have been busy
removing the shovels, the railroad
tracks and other machinery used In
the excavation work. There Is sfill
some dirt to be removed from the cut
before the channel Is finished, but
this work will be done by suction
dredges floated on the waters of the
canal, and will not Interfere with nav
igation of the waterway by such boats
as may be allowed to pass through.
Immense Artificial Lake Created.
Gatun lake, the waters of which are
now flowing Into the Culebra cut, is
t" pivotal point about which the en
tire canal system revolves, and the
creation of that lake, together with the
construction of Gatun dam, consti
tuted another great engineering feat
In the construction of the canal,
Gatun lake Is an artificial body of
water covering about 164 square miles
of territory, and was created by the
building of the immense Gatun dam
and the Impounding of the wild wa
ters of Chagres river. Beneath the
waters of Gatun lake lies what a few
months ago was the valley of the
Chagres, dotted with native villages
and plantations. The channel of the
canal passes through this lake for a
distance of 23 miles with a width vary
ing from 500 to 1,000 feet.
At the northern end of the lake
Is the Gatun dam, which is In reality
an artificial ridge more than a mile
and a half long.. Figures alone give
an adequate Idea of the magnitude of
this dam. Nearly half a mile wide at
its base, about 400 feet wide at the
water surface, and 100 feet wide at
the top, the dike which many engi
neers predicted would never with
stand the rush of the Chagres' wa
ters. Is admitted now to be bo strong
that nothing short of an earthquake
such as has never been known In the
Central American region, can harm
it. The Gatun dam, Gatun lake and
the Culebra cut, so gigantic are the
proportions of each, dwarf the other
engineering works of the. canal that
In themselves have challenged the ad
miration of the world.
World Gives Coethala Credit.
To Col. George Goethals, chairman
of the Isthmian canal commission,
chief engineer of the commission and
governor of the canal xone, the world
will give the credit for the successful
completion of the Panama canal. Col
onel Goethals could not have accom-H
pllshed his task without the assist
ance of such men as Col. II. F.
Hodges, Lieut. Col. David Du B. Ball
lard and Lieut. Col. William L. Slbert,
army engineers, who have had charge
of various phases of the work, but
Colonel Goethals is recognized as the
real builder of the canal.
When Colonel Roosevelt, then presi
dent, first sought a chief engineer for
the canal, he picked Wallace, a civil
ian, but Wallace soon resigned. It Is
said that-he almost worried himself
Into a decline because of the fear that
the canal would finish him before he
could finish the canal. John V. Stev
ens, a noted engineer, also a civilian,
succeeded Wallace, but be quit within
a year.
President Roosevelt then announced
that, having had two civilians, both of
whom resigned, he would give the
Job of building the canal to a man
who couldn't quit, and Colonel Goe
thals, then attached to the general
staff of the army at Washington, was
selected for the post
Colonel Goethals would not have
quit if he could, once the Job waa
undertaken, for the word is not in
his vocabulary. He plunged Into his
work with all the enthusiasm that he
possessed, and soon created a working
organization that has been the wonder
of the world.
Under Colonel Goethals the greater
part of the $375,000,000 which the
canal would have coBt when it is com
pleted has been spent. It has been by
far the costliest engineering project
in the world. Nearly three-fifths of a
billion dollars has been spent in dig
ging a 40-mile "ditch." This means
that the Panama canal has cost the
United States $10,000,000 a mile.
Over $16,000,000 of the total amount
spent has been used to make the canal
zone habitable and sanitary. It haa
been suggested that this la an enor
mous amount of money to spend in
cleaning up a place in which few peo
ple will reside permanently, but the
engineers say that the sanitation of
the canal zone was the chief factor in
making the canal a reality. The fail
ure of the French has been attributed
to a large extent to the fact that
the workmen could not survive in the
fever and pest ridden country.
The building of the great locks
which raise a vessel to a height of 87
feet above sea level at one end of
the canal and lower it the tame dis
tance at the other end, has been in
charge of two of Colonel Goethals'
assistants. Colonel Hodges and Lieu
tenant Colonel Slbert. Colonel Hodge'a
work in installing the Immense lock
gates that form so important a, part
of the operating machinery of the
canal and his ability to overcome all
obstacles had led Colonel Goethals to
call him a genius. The building, pois
ing and operation of the lock gates
constitute one of the delicate prob
lems of lock canal construction, and
the proper handling of this problem
has been Colonel Hodge'a contribu
tion to the. work of construction of
the canal.
Lieutenant Colonel Slbert haa bad
charge ot the building of the great
dam and locks at Gatun, In addition
to other duties. He saw- long, ac
tive service in the Philippines, and
he la known in the army as a fight
er as well as an engineer. His fight
ing qualities have enabled him to
carry through the great work of
which he has had charge in the canal
tone.
Realize Dream of Centuries.
Through the work of these men all
of them members of Uncle Sam's
fighting body, the United States has
been able to attain what has been In
truth the dream of centuries. In nine
years these men have carried through
an undertaking that was first thought
ot several hundreds ot years ago.
There is evidence that the Idea of an
Isthmian canal was born as early as
the sixteenth century, for history re
cords the fact that the Inquisition
declared such a project to alter the
face of the earth to be impious and
further discussion ot the matter was
forbidden by Philip II. of Spain, whose
reign began in 1556. More than a cen
tury later a Scotchman named Patter
son revived the scheme, established a
colony on the shores of the isthmus,
and made a crude survey of the route.
During the succeeding century the
project was considered at various
limes by French, Spanish and Amerl-
rtfane.
The United States government first
took definite action looking toward
tne construction of an isthmian canal
in 1S34, when the senate voted for
the building of a Nicaraguan canal.
An expedition was sent to Nicaragua
to make an Investigation, and report
ed that the canal could be construct
ed for $25,000,000, hardly one-twentieth
of the amount that the Panama
canal will have cost when completed.
De Lesaeps First to Dig.
The matter rested until after the
Civil war, when negotiations for a
canal commission were entered Into
by the United States government. Be
fore anything had been accomplished
the concession for a Panama canal
had been given to Luclen Napoleon
Bonaparte Wyse, a Frenchman. H
organized a company, which sold out
later ,to the financiers associated with
Ferdinand de Lesseps. The company
organized with de Lesseps at Its head
was the first one to actually begin op
erationa on the Isthmus. For eight
years de Lesseps struggled manfully
against the greatest odds that man
ever was 'Called upon to face. Then
he was forced to give up the fight,
his company collapsing as a result o)
dishonesty and extravagance on the
part of Ita promoters, and -de LessepL,
driven Insane by the scandal, ended
his days in an asylum.
Such was the history of the isth
mian canal project for some 300 oi
400 years, until, the day in 1904 whek
Uncle Sam undertook the task.
In nine yeara the dream of the ce
turlea haa been realised,
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Stable Locked.
"When did you learn that he waa
one of the bank's most trusted em
ployes?" "The day after he absconded with
the funds."
Misnomer.
"Why do they call ua literary
hacks?" asked the first writer.
"I give up," said the second
writer. Goodness knows we don't
earn as much as a hackman."
Not With These Styles.
"Is her business In good shape?"
"It couldn't be. She's a fashionable
dressmaker."
Love levels all things, except the
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