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FBAUK G. CABPENTEE'S LETTER.
CARPENTER MAES J
if FOOT THROUGH CUL
MIGHTY GORGE OF THE PANAMA CANAL DE-
SCRIBED BY WRITER WHO SEES IT.
How Uncle Sam Is Blasting Out the Andes Talks With
Steam Shoyel Men A Look at the Mighty Machines.
One Hundred Shovels Which Equal Fifty
Thousand Samsons The Lidger-
wood Cars and How Steam
Shovels Unload Them.
Copyrlgtat. 1M2. hy
l LEBRA. aaal Zone. Panama
C
Come wtt me this morning
for trip through the Culebra
i that mighty--' nwe-mue s
.' indes which is to bring the ship-
i ne of th two oceans togetner.
."pracifcalfv begins at Pedro
Irr we shall start and it runs in a
x nd?rg canjon through the mountains
' Jm tfiere on until it Is lost in the
r"Tt lake or Gatun The h.lpV1
fc through the lake and "earn on
fall speed through the cut. and tile
uater of the cut and the lake will be
Vhe Cautl. at the lowest pas
r tie Andes those mighty mountaim.
which in South America rise more than
nur miles above the "? on
blv as they reach the jthmus
1 way north to Join hands with the
o kies. Right here at r"?-
.untains are on the averag e o nly
ti ..ut one-third of a mile high and at
. J.bra the tallest peak known as
. -.Id Hill is 500 feet above the sea. Trie
"svi is only 300 eet. and we
v cut this down so that ships can
.il through it and the surface of the
car U waters be only 85 feet aboe the
' el of the two oceans.
Through tfce Cut en Feet.
v e shall start for our trip about nine
- les from the Pacific right under the
r-sts lock of Pedro Miguel. Into
v icii the steamers will come when
i' ti have passed through the cut anis
k is as tall as a three story house.
it will drop the ships to the level
' t i e locks at Mlraflores. where they
1P to more gigantic drops before
tt n reach the level of the Pacific
e craw 1 down into the locks and go
7. nnrt nut wnv about
t r. ugh' the "nerwork of steel wires and i
libles. so many in "i""'5' '"r .";'
1 .k like a thicket. We dodge to keep
Jt o fie wav of the concrete which Is
Uing into the network and pick oat
. ui path along the line of the rail-
e soon reach the beginning of the
it and there start on our walk to
1. bra The average man goes through
. se w orks on a motor car or is snot
t them on a special train which
r 'fs vndf rstanding impossible. In
t - trip of ours e shall take our feet
r our hands and move in and out
ong the machinery and workmen.
iifing the spoil train wlild are ear-
. . .k.t- .tun n -itrth and roclC
wn to the great dam at Gatun and to J
h mignf i-acmc "? " C .Zl
v rih is connecting Balboa with the
1 1-nd of Naos Much of our wav Is on
t'i. ties or tne raiiroaas wium w .
r' the masses of rocks cast uo by
t e explosions and we shall have to j
cl mn from lvei to level auu - i
Tipping over the electric wires which
rin here and there. We must be ever
r guard tc Jump out of the way ot the
i-ains and also to watch out for the
. Mlnsions 'f dynamite which are pre-
irmg the reck for the steam shovels.
' Blastleg Dons the Andes.
There are steam shovels everywhere
.rking There are hundreds of Jamal-
'i and Barbpdlan negroes engaged in
Ihng Ther ire gangs of Italians
r c mg the tracks and other gangs of
rg-oes aid whites in water up to
t it waists repairing the shovels. The
r lling goes on everywhere and T ven-
n -e ou have pever swn suh dnUipg
r. foie Tke drills have derricks fcbove
i . m Tney are. in fact derricks on
heels and von can fee a thicket of
i derricks in clumps as you look
t ( cut Each drill consists of one ox
psp derricks and" a long steel shaft
Mc' rises and falls making dina-
T7 'te hole as big s'ooirf as your arm
FREE TRIAL
TREATMENT
-
For Skin-Tortured and
Disfigured Infants
MOTHERS! MOTHERS!
To know that a warm bath with Ou-
ticura Soap and a single application of
Cuticura Ointment
will afford immedi-
ate and point to
permanent relief for
torturing disfigur-
ing eczemas rashes
itc rungs irritations
crustingg and scal-
ings of the skin and
scalp df infants and
children and not to
ose them without a moment's delay is
to fail in your duty. Think of the lives
of torture and disfigurement often
entailed by the neglect in infancy or
childhood of simple skin affections.
If you would test the efficacy of the
Cuticura Soap and
Ointment before pur-
chasing send at once
to "Cuticura' Dept
oR Bos too Mass. for
a free sample of Cuti-
cura Soap and Cuti-
cura Ointment with
32-raze book on skin
and scalp troubles and they will be
sent without any charge whatever.
-SS-Tender-faoed men shave m com-
fort with Cuticura Soap Shaving Stiofc
At stores or by mail 25c Sample free.
C R. WATTS
XeefcBBleal Electrieal Engineer
Power Plant Design and
Construction.
LARGE IRRIGATING AND
DRAINAGE PLANTS
A SPECIALTY
f Eox SS2
El Paso Tex.
OURNEY
Frank G. Carpenter.)
and i feet deep for the blasting. The
force which moves the drill is com-
pressed air sent through a pipe as
thick as the waist of your sweetheart
which rans from one end of the cut to
the other. There are altogether more
than 12 miles of such pipes the air
coming from compressors at Klo
Grande. Empire and Las Cascade.
Here they are charging the. drillings
with dynamite. That long line of
holes running a thousand yards up the
cut is ready for an explosion. The
men are testing them before they put
in the candles- By and by they will
go off with the noise of a battle-
ship in action. Farther on is another
gang drilling In front of the steam
shovels whlcn are working on the ex-
plosions of yesterday night. That is
the way the mountain is cut down.
The rock is first broken to pieces and
then loaded by steam shovels into the
cars and carried on the railroad out of
the cut
Put let us move enward. "Watch out
fdr our ltet. ou may trip on the
wires and an elettric shock send you
tj heaven or the reverse. Don't you
see fiat train coming? Yon must
get far off the- tiacK. Ihose cars are
loaded wtn rocks and earth and huge
rocks frequently fall and men are
killed hy them. The air Is full of
sharp dust carried on by the mo-
tion The train is (00 eet long and
eery car is loaded with that mighty
blue rock. -
Giants "Which Have The Strength Of
Hundreds.
But let us stop at this great steam
shovel and watch it. See how It
gouges. out the rocks and earth ex-
ploded' 'oy dynamite. There are soosee
of -other shovels at work in the eut.
and each is accomplishing more than
the labor of 590 men.
There are altogether more than iWv-
shovels on- the isUunuc and -they eQHal
a force half as large aa.lhe while
I.nJJea States aimj FKJy thousand
Samsons coula not do what thejr do.
We take a seat on the stones on the
level above the ditch where the shovel
is working. The huge monster makes
one think of a giant on wheels with
a mighty arm at the front which
ends in a mouth of steel as big as a
hogshead. This mouth has four long
sharp cruel steel teeth on the edge
of its lower lip and it gouges 'out ten
tons of earth at a bite and 'raising it
head in the air it swings the bite on
to the cars
See it is taking a bite now It has
swallowed a rock which weighs three
or four tons and has carried it with
a mass ct debris. There are eight
tons inside its square cheeks... bat it
lifts the lead as though it were feath-
ers and loosening its lower lip drops
it into the car The mass fails with a
oud explosion and the car has not
finished qutve-ring before the giant has
bttten out five more wagonlosds of
eartn .tnd dropped them on top.
Look again. The shovel has taken np
a rock too big to pass through it- It
has bitten off more than it can chew.
See how it throws the rock back on
the dump and knocking it this way
and that with its cheeks twists and
turns it so that it may pass inside
the shoveL That rock weighs over
ten tons and thf trgine roars and the
steam puffs as the great Jaw jerks
and rises and falls jolting it down oh
the car.
Now look once more at the machine
and see the brains whic! make it move
as though it were human. It all
comes from that white pigmy in blue
oaitton clothing. That is a steam shov-
el -man He has a small rope in his
Jtand. and with this he jerks the mi-
4$imery which makes the mighty
giant move at a touch.
The "Wonders Of The Shovels.
"We walk on a few yards to another
shovel which is taking up wagon-loads
of rock at each mouthful and drop-
ping them down into the cars with its
alligator-like Jaw. See how intelli-
gently it works. As the pile grows
uneven it smooths out the rocks with
its chin It turns gigantic masses
with a nod of the head and sinking
in teeth deep into old Mother Earth
takes np rock and clay two hogs-
headfuls at a bite and spits them into
the cars This machinery here is the
wonder ue world and it does its
work without kicking. It never
stops and never strikes. It is a tool
of the gods but a little man works
it with a touch of his finger.
One will load a flat car holding 40
tons m five bites ana we have shovels
-ahich have loaded mif than 4000 cu-
bic yards in a day. Records are kept
of the work of each ana single ma-
chines frequently load 6S.000 cubic
yards of earth and upward in one
working month. If that amount of
material 'were loaded upon two-horse
wagons it would take 130000 horses
to haul it and estimating each wagon
at forty feet the leaded wagon train
ot a single shovel would fill a road-
way 600 miles long.
As we look I take out my watch
and time the loading of a car. The
shovel drops a mouthful weighing
from five to eight tens every sixteen
seconds and the car is filled in a lit-
tle over a minute. In one da's work
a single shovel has loaded more than
8000 tons and last March SI shovels
excavated on an average almost
80000 yards each.
The Lessen Of The Ant.
As we watch the work one of the
thovels comes to rest and I remark
to the man who forms the brains ot
the giant upon the mighty power he
is handling.
"Tea" he replies "this machine Is
sturndous hut it is nothing in com-
parison with tli.tt of all nature about
us. We have ants here in Culebra
wnfch drag along leaves four times as
as big:' as themselves and five times
their weight' Their machinery is
more wonderful than this and I tell
you GoC has man beat eery time"
But let us go on. Look up at the
hills we arc now passing through. The
tops of the canyon are of the green-
est of green snd they look refresh-
ing in contrast with the scarred des-
ert down heie in the cut. See the rail-
roau trains moving on that level above
us. There Is sn other caravan on the
.evl below others in the cut and h'gh
above us are twenty cars flying away
down to Balboa. There is a train at
the right at tne left and trains every-
where carrying rivets of rock They
make us think of the battle of Balak-
lava engines to right of them engines
to left of them engines in front of
them olleed and thundered
tnloadlag The Sell.
Now stop and look at the cars Did
you ever see such engines before?
They are giants in comparison with
tbose of our railroads The puff nut
gieat volume-! of smoke but th Miff
wind wh h is blowing keej the i r
clear
ILese cars are Iddgervi outl cars
I which are unloaded with plows There
are more than 1800 of them now in
use. and at the same time an equal
number of steel dump cars large and
small. There are more than 4000 cars
moving back and forth through the
work and on the average there Is
a train every four minutes all the day
through.
The Lidgerwood cars are among the
wonders of modern excavation. There
are 20 of them in each train and each
car Is I should judge about 30 feet
long One train will measure over S00
feet on . the rtack and eight or nine
trains make a mile. These care are
unloaded with plows. They are flat
with a wall as high as your waist at
one side and are so connected by steel
aprons that when loaded the earth and
rock form a windrow or great bank
r from one end of the train to the other.
when" they shoot out on the dumps
the engines have such machinery that
they drag a mighty steel plow over the
train and it shovels the mass at one
motion far out from the side of the
track. After a time the pile rises and
then a gigantic spreader another ma-
chine which runs on the track and
does the work of a thousand men-
smooths down the dump. More rock la
put on and finally even with the
spreader. It is too high for unloading.
And then what do these engineers
do? Do they seek a new dump? Not
at all. They merely run out the track
shifter a mighty machine which picks
up tracks ties and all and lifts them
over so that another dump can be
made. This machine will throw more
than a mile of track nine feet in eight
hours and it represents the work of
600 men. . Nevertheless It- is handled
by three white men and-six laborers.
Single plows have unloaded 16 trains
in -eight hours an amount so great
that it would take 16000 horses to
haul it if piled upon wagons.
A took at the Rock.
But let us go on. We have already
traveled three miles and are pretty
well along the cut. See how the rock
runs in lines on each side. The strata
vary and they are of different colors.
As we pass one of the foremen hands
me a piece of rock in which a sea-
shell has been petrified. That shell
must have been deposited here when
the ocean was over the tops of these
mountains.
The rock of Gold Till is of many
colors. As we pass through it Is 4
oclock In the evening and the sun's
rays are bringing them out. Some of
the rock is light red. other strata are
blue and there are great patches of
yellow and of variegated hues. Much
of the wall Is of. the samajtoftlor as the
blue clay in the great wamoBd pipes
I of South Africa and. Wfe the latter it
wreathers upon exposure to air une
of the workmen tells me he has picked
U4 stones which are a beautiful crys-
tal and which when cut shine like
a moonstone. Would It not be strange
to find diamonds here in our canal
bed?
At Gold Hill.
But I despair of giving you the
scenes of Culebra. The cut is iriae-
scrlbable and its features change
every moment. We stop at last under
Gold Hill the top of which Is more
than 600 feet above sea level. We are
now on the very level of the canal
bed. Just about 40 feet above the sur-
Iface of the Carrlbean and the Pacific
'ocean. We $xe In a rocky ragged
gorge of numerous levels which rise
like cliffs on each side of us. At
places the rock is cracked as though
an earthquake had shattered It. Right
near here were the great slides when
thousands upon thousands of tons
nolled down into the cut. The cracks
can be seen everywhere as we move.
We climb the heights to Culebra and
as we do so find ourselves wondering
whether the whole mountain will
slide. The engineers however know
all the dangers. They have tested
every part of the excavation and un-
perstand just how to handle the canal
if any part of the mountain should
move. It may be that the slope will
have to be widened I know- it is a
mighty steep wall to the top. I went
41 p on my hands-and. feet panting and
resting at every few steps the exer
tion was terrible in this tropical air.
and it took me something like a quar-
ter of an hour to make my way o teh
top.
Five Oclock in the Cnt.
I shall ask you to take a seat with
me there and look at the view. We
are just back of the Y. M. C. A build-
ing opposite Gold Hill and a Mule
above the peak known as Contractor's
Hill. We are at the deepest part of
the cut which lies over 400 feet down
in the gorge We can see the great
gash winding Its way In a curve to-
ward the Pacific and twisting about
like a letter S as it goes toward Ga-'
tun. We can see the smoke of the
steam shovels and hear their groan-
ing as they labor and tug. We hear
the chug-ehttg-chug of the drills the
whistles of the many steam engines
the rattling of the cars and 'what
seems the perpetual noisy motion of
the macmnes ana arms or tne goas as
they move mountains going on in the
great canyon below.
Take out your watch. It is five min-
utes of S. When the second hand
reaches the figure the work will all
stop. There goes the whistle and the
men come swarming up the sides of
the mountains. Now hear the explo-
sions. The dynamite drillings tall
through the cut are tearing the rocky
heart of the earth The noise is that
of a mighty battle. It shakes the
mountains and the echoes reverberate
like the clapping of thunder. The earth
quivers and we think of slides and
wonder If the hill upon which we are
sitting may not move down Into the
gorge.
Uncle Sara'a Mighty Thunder Blast.
This great battle of explosions goes
on for half an hour or more The
charges are set off by electricity
which lights the fusee but a fuse may
be slow- and the explosions are varied
Now there is a single volcanic erup-
tion and now it sounds like a battery
of our great men-of-war when in ac-
tion. It -is unsafe to walk through
the canal after dark and especially
shortly after the men have stopped
work. A cartridge may unexpectedly
explode and blow one to atoms.
But look again down the cut. There
goes the labor train taking the work-
men home to Ancon. It is loaded with
silver employes married men Jamai-
cans and negroes from other parts of
the West Indies and also with Syr-
ians Italians. Spaniards anil others
who live at Ancon.
But see the train has Btopped at the
going off of a mighty dynamite charge
at the foot of Gold Hill. This has sent
up a volume of vapor and fumes mixed
with dust which has filled the cut
from one side to the other and it cov-
ers the tracks in front of the cars.
The train stops to let them rise before
It goes through and as it waits there
is another mighty explosion on the
opposite side of Culebra. Uncle Sam
furnishes these mighty thunder blasts
every night They will form a fit end
of our trip
Frank G Carpenter.
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ICELnND WOMEN
ALLQWEDTO lit
(Continued from page one this section)
gave municipal suffrage to women on
the same terms as men that is to ell
tax payers over 26 years of age. Prop-
erty owned in common by husband or
wife entitles each to a vote. At tbe-
first election. 68 percent of the women
in the country voted and 70 percent of
the women in Copenhagen. Seven wo-
men were elected to the city council
of 42 members and one was afterward
appointed to fill a vacancy. One hun-
dred and twenty-seven were elected to
fill other offices two of them being
city treasurers. The lower house of
parliament has passed a bill to give
women complete suffrage which has
not yet been acted upon by the upper
house although the rime minister and
the speakers of both houses are out-
spoken in advocating the full enfran-
chisement of women.
Iceland Women Vote.
Iceland Is a dependency ot Denmark
and. in 1882 Its parliament gave mu-
nicipal suffrage to all widows and spin-
sters who were householders 6r. who
maintained a family or who were self
supporting. In 1902 it made theseYot-
ers eligible to all municipal offices and
since then a fourth of the members of
the council of Reykjavik tbe capital
city have been woroe;- Is 18Q9 the
franchise was extended to all taxpay-
ing women and because of a. petition
signed by a large majority of the wom-
en of Iceland parliament last year
voted to give full franchise to all wom-
en over 26 years of age. This must
be voted upon by a second parliament.
- In Russia political conditions are lit-
tle worse for women than for men.' In
many of the villages the wives may
cast the votes for the husbands If the
latter are away. The women them-
selves have some votes for the zem-
stvos or local governing bodies. The
duma has tried to enlarge woman'- suf-
frage rignts but at present they are
retarded by other conditions. The
grand duchy of Finland conferred full
suffrage upon women In 1906 -by-jal-most
unanimous consent of th tow
parliament organised the year before
under special permission ot the. czar.
Since that time from 16 l&&?iwomen
have been elected to the dKfefcenV par-
liaments byail of the poliVfal parties.
In Poland there is an actterleague for
women's rights which is actively coop'
eratlng with the democratic party of
men.
There is a. strong movement xo;
woman suffrage in Austria-Hungar;
which ia. however much retarded b
the numerous languages spoken in the
17 provinces of Austria. Women have
not been allowed to form political or-
ganizations or to hold public meet-
ings but 4000 women recently paraded
the streets of Vienna demanding the
suffrage In Bohemia women have had
a vote for members of the diet slqoe
1864 and are eligible to sjt in it. Tax
paying women in all 04 the HHintdDalV-
ties except Prague' apd liberie and
also women of the" learned .pfofessions
may vote by prokfc- WfcApn -irfong to
all of the political cJMpKJKsJrgcepiing
the conservative. ajidr.-xnMti(rrc40 per-
cent of the Agrarian arty ehey are
well organised for the ptjepose of securing-
full suffrage and are. conducting
Mgorous campaigns distributing large
quantities of literature and holding
hundreds of meetings more or lees puo-
lic which are usually winked at by
the officers of the iaw.
Suffrage Meement in Hungary.
In Hungary there is a strong Na-
tional Woman - Suffrage association
which includes many societies having
other alms also especially of a philan-
thropic and educational character. The
association has branches in 87 towns
and cities and combines in its mem-
bership all classes of women from Xhe
highest aristocrat to the humblest
peasant. As the men of the- nation
are struggling for universal suffrage in
this coutnry. the women are with them
in the fight. The international Woman
Suff rage alliance will be held in Buda-
pest in 1913 and it is thought that the
influence "of this great gathering will
be quite as strongly felt in Hungary
as it was In the Scandinavian coun-
tries in Bulgaria there is a Woman
Suffrage association which has 37
auxiliaries and held 4H meetings last
year. The women ttt-Serrta hdXL aome
local voting priTtleJfc--tnd aje 'fflpr or-
ganizing their fora5ltf.f laflitJjfjrlRht
10 vote for miwhjirot.w jriTMiwmcwt.
The rigid lawSW-ProMjtlted the
women in GermttA.rrvm taking part
in any political raeaMge greatly hin-
dered the development of woman suf-
frage In that country. This law was
changed in 1908 and since then the
Woman Suffrage societies which for-
merly existed only in the four repub-
lican free cities have multiplied rap-
idly throughout the empire. Most of
these are concentrating their efforts
upon securing municipal suffrage
which the Prussian women claim be-
longs to them by ascient law. In a
number of the states the women land
owners have a proxy vote upon com-
munal matters although this privilege
has not been frequentluy used it
Silesia during tlie past year however
over 2000 women exercised this privi-
lege It Is clahked that the Democrat-
ic party stands Almost unanimously for
woman suffrage.
Frenchmen Favor feuffrace.
In France the woman suffrage move-
ment has the support of the prominent
men politicians. President Kallieres
lopes no opportunity to express himself
in fax or of it- More than one-third of
the wage earners of France are women
and these may lote for tribunes and
members of chambers of commerce and
boards of trade They ma "be members
of the latter and may sefve as judges.
It is expected "that an early act of par-
liament will extend full suffrage to
French women.
Among the prominent Frenchmen
who have recently become converts to
woman suffrage is Claude Caslmer-
Perier. who has been visiting th Pa-
cific coast under the orders of "Bis gov-
ernment to study the opportunities
which will be afforded to French cap-
ital by the opening of the Panama
canal. He was in Los Angeles at the
time of the municipal election. He re-
cently stated publicly that he was op-
posed to woman suffrage until he saw
what good it accomplished In Califor-
nia but that he will now advocate a
speedy provision by his own govern-
ment for the enfranchisement of
French women.
The constitution of the republic ot
Portugal gave universal suffrage and
Dr. Beatrice Angelo applied for regis-
tration and was irefused. She carried
her case to the courts and was sus-
tained and she cast her vote. It was
too late for other women to register
but an organisation of 1000 women waa
at once formed to secure the definite
action of parliament with the approval
of president Braga and several mem-
bers of his cabinet so that it is be-
lieved that Portuguese women will have
full franchise right next year. The
Spanish chamber is arranging to gie
women who are heads of families a
vote for the mayor and council in the
villages Italy has a strong movement
in ac tion for woman suffrage of which
the mayor of Rome Is a firm supporter.
In 1910 all women in trade were grant
ed the right to vote tor boards of trade.
The republican national assembly of
China has given the suffrage to wo-
men on the same terms of property
qualification applied to male voters
and a woman has been elected lo the
republican national parliament.
New Zealand wa the first country
in the world to grant full suffrage to
women Thej have voted there upon
tile same terms ai men ince 1893 The
reports from tnat .ountr are enthusi-
astic as to it- un ess In Australia
when the six states united under one
commonwealt 1 in 1S01 one of the first
acts of the ti w government was to
give women fu 1 sutfrage and the right
to sit in parliament New South Wales
gave tin in state suffrage In 1902. Tas-
mania ir 1V03 and Queensland in 1105
Last v-ir t women in Tasmania out-
n miht-r 1 tiie min jt evtrj polling
fcvatuu.
iDEHD'S FIST
MISTAKE BISTLT
(Continued from page one this section)
fighting under their own champions.
tX UHBV Wjyms 1CBICQ Vll IUCK ailllD miu
demanded the fulfillment of the Ma-
aerist pieages
Madere'n First Mistake.
MaderdJs first move in office as dic-
tator of the republic Incensed all think-
ing Mexicans. He appointed cabinet
minirters 1 In. no way concerned with
the campaign of the rebels. He voted
to his family through the national leg-
islature a reimbursement for their ex-
pense in fathering the real campaign
and in a short time committed so many
Impolitic minor acts that discontent
again spread throughout the country.
"Where were the reforms that were
to regenerate the country?" the people
said. "What 'of the plan of San Luis
PotosI the lightened taxes the free
lend the clean political rule and the
suppression of the emoluments of the
rich?"
Instead of answering their questions
with action Madero issued pacificator)
orders to the rebels to lay down their
arms made his personal followers ru-
rales to preserve order in the place of
federal troops and set about the right-
ing of Mexican wrongs with equivoca-
tion. The situation needed a man
with an iron hand Madero did not pos-
sess this qualification.
No Lauds Distributed.
If he had confiscated the rich man's
lands and divided them with his army
all would have been well for a while.
But Madero could not do this. It took
time to get congress to give consent Ho
condemn or buy such lands and in its
delay the "army of the liberation" bad
The order to disarm was disobeyed.
In the north a. few men put down their
arms and returned to their homes con-
tent to let the Madero government re-
store order at its leisure but in the
south the soldiers under Gen. Zapata
made no pretense of terminating their
warfare. They grew in numbers day
by day In spite of the federal troops
sent against them till the whole of
southern Mexico was in a turmoil.
Then followed the desertion of the
ru rales the men upon whom Madero
relied to maintain order throughout
the republic the return of Gen. Ber-
nardo Keyes his disgrace and impris-
onment and finally the defections of
the generals of the north recently
strengthened and made aggressive by
the reinforcements of Gen. Pascual
Orosco.
Uniting of Rebel Forces.
This rebellion in the north has re-
sulted lit the eapwn ot Juarez and
Chihuahua Jimenez and Parral and
evolved a condition more antagonistic
to-tbe Madero administration than was
that of the last revolution against the
rule of ex-president Porfirio Diaz. Aa
understanding has been negotiated be-
tween the rebel armies of the north
and". soeth. and those under the joint
commsmd of Oroaco and Zapata control
the mtjedty of the states of Mexico
Preient conditions taxen In the ag-
gregate -give little idea of the char-
acter s the people behind the revolu-
tion. The right of liberty. Justice and free-
dom Is demanded by a horde of peons
flushed with success of their battles
ana glorying in the excitement of
compelling an easy living through
force. Were earnest and efficient en-
deavor made to restore justice and lib-
erty to these forces it Is doubtful
whether the would lay aside their
arms and again content themselves
with pastoral pursuits.
The only method by which peace may
be restored to Mexico in the opinion
of close students of the situation is
through the reuniting of the disrupted
government vrder tte rule of a man 01
L 1 ..Mno-h h wtll restore
k order through evolution arid not revo
lution.
KNOX DECLARES
PEOPLE MUST RULE
In Speech in Havana Warns
Factions to Unite in
Paror of Goverrnaent.
Havana. Cuba. April 13. Papers here
today devote much space to the visit
of secretary Knox. All of them make a
feature of his speech which is de-
scribed as "another warning" to Cuba.
However the interpretation is made
on party llr.e. .
The government papers say Mr.
Knox warned factions to unite In sup-
port of the government. The opposi-
tion papers say Mr. Knox's reference to
those who make a business of politics
was Intended for those who sat near-
est him at the table.
The Post a government paper says:
"Mr. Knox made a left handed but
none the less pregnant declaration ot
what in bis opinion. Cuba must do to
be saved .filtted" dowa to a sentence
the secretary of state declared the
people and not politicians must rule.
Net la Competition.
Cuba is not In competition with
ether countries. Is not supplicant for
either royal or republican favor and
is content In the assurance of Taft. re-
iterated secretarj Knox that the in-
teritions of the United States are only
those of a beneficent protector ready
to Issue a friendly warning when dan-
ger threatens and by kind counsel to
maintain the Independence of a na-
tion of Its own creation. There Is no
occasion for intervention and no ex-
cuse or pretext for annexation "
The most cordial greeting received
by the secretary was from the Vet-
erans' association whose recent aglta-
tioii drew from Mr Knox a note of
warning. The association published a
statement saying nothing can weak-
en "the loyal and sincere affection
that the people of Cuba feel for those
who came to their aid in an hour of
need and dire distress"
DAILY RECORD
Batidlag Permits.
To W. H. Cain to build cottage at
112 Mundy avenue. Sunset Heights
estimated cost. S1700: cottage at corner
Fifth and Hill streets estimated cost.
'S.1700. and cottage at Tays street
estimated cost $1400
To V. U Bean to build residence on
lots 62 and 63. block 4 on Golden Hill
terrace. In Golden Hill addition esti-
mToed&lGdman. to build stable
with iron roof at corner of Bl Paso and
Seventh streets in block 60 Campbell
addition; estimated cost. 5100.
Deeds Klled.
Hueco street between Jefferson and
Marr streets Government Hill compa-
ny to A. Zintgraff. lots 9 and 10. block
73 Government hill addition consider-
ation. 3300. Mav 15. 1911
Idalia avenue between Dakota and
Kentucky avenues W. H. Thomas to
of Maronev. lot. 5 to 8 block C
Military Heights consideration 3165
FE1 Pasocountv Mary A. McFall to
n h Russell section 30 block 68 pub-
1I0 school lands 25 miles northeast of
surra Blancar consideration. 31250.
SSFb 1" one-fourth Interest. W. C.
trFall to Geo. H Russell section 13.
block 60 1-2. public school land con-
sideration. $200: Feb 14. 1912
lver sires between Brown street
.rfrcle avenue W. C. TurbevlUe
and trite to Sd. I Richard and wife
tot 15 and westerly one-half of lot 16.
l.ir.k 296 Pierce Finlev addition con-
slderVion. OOApril 11 1912.
Lleeaeed te Wed.
Paul Zllge and Emma Miler
Frank B Laing and Mabel Gooch
bner Keller and Fern Hatch.
AHtoraoklle License.
.07 h P Ja kson 401 Montana street.
Kl mitTi JO 5 passenger
Automobiles. alley Implement Cot
STATELY SHAFTS
TO HiOIEDlRD
(Continued from page one this section)
colonies one at least. These fleet units
should be part of the British fleet.
Doubtless England would like to see
this addition to her fleet but the ma-
jority here would be satisfied if the
dominions would in time relieve the
mother country of the necessity of pro-
tecting outlying parts of the empire
and enable her to keep her fleet for
home defence. This is what Australia.
New Zealand and Canada practically
agreed to do at the imperial defence
conference. Canada's new program is
expected to go further in this direc-
tion than did that laid down by sir
Wilfrid Laurler.
Navy rsleg Oil.
In this matter of imperial defence
too. a good deal of attention is being
devoted to the oil resources of the
colonies. It is said that the British
navy has made greater advance in the
use of oil fuel than has the navy of
any other country and in a few vears
immense supplies will be required As
it does not wish to be dependent upon
foreign countries for this supply the
British government has had Inquiries
made in all the colonies not only in
regard to fuel oil but also as to
possible supplies of petrol for subma-
rines aeroplanes and the new internal
combustion engines which some be-
lieve will soon be Installed in smaller
vessels of the fleet. An expert who
visited all the colonies has stated that
Canada and New Zealand will be able
to supply their own navies with oil
fuel and that in Australia Soomali-
land. Egypt and the Soudan the out-
put is Increasing
It has been suggested that instead
of breaking up or selling obsolete war-
ships the larger ones should be con-
verted into tanks in which large re-
serve supplies could be stored.
Monuments te Bdwaid.
London is to have two monuments to
the late king Edward one in the cen-
ter of the west end. the other in the
east end. The former is to be erected
at the Piccadilly end of the broad
walk of Green park facing Bucking-
ham palace and the queen Victoria
memorial. This is to cost 3100000 a
very small portion of the sum raised
in London for a memorial to king Ed-
ward. It is to be an elaborate piece
of sculpture and architecture It will
have a height of about 43 feet vrlth
a width of 21 feet and depth of 16 feet
at the base On the south side facing
Buckingham palace there will be a
bronze statue of king Edward a little
over 10 feet high. The figure will be
in the robes of the Order of the Gar-
ter bearing the orband scepter and
will stand on a pedestal attached to
an architectural central pedestal.
flanked by columns bearing a bro-nze
group of St. George antf-the Dragon
Supporting the statue of the king on
either side of the memorial will be
seated figures in bronze representing
"Peace.." and the hospitals bearing
the staff of Aesculapius. Above these
side figures will be the royal-arms in
bronze and Wtone. On the north side.
facing PlccadfHy. will be a bronze
group representing "Arbitration Quell
lng Strife'- The pedestal and archi-
tectural features will be In Portland
stone.
Bast End Memorial.
The greater amount is to be spent
on the East End memorial which fs
to take the form of a small park with
a statue of the late king in the center
Shadweil market owned by the city of
London and leased to the Loudon
county council has been acquired for
the purpose and the sort of London
authority has given ' a . assail plot of
land adjoining to enlarge the new
''breathing space." An embankment
is to be built on the Thames side so
that when completed the people of the
district which is largely of the slum
character inhabited by the families of
the dock laborers will have one of
the largest parks In the East End The
entire cost of the park and statue is
estimated at over half a million dol-
lars. More than half of this has been
subscribed one lady alone giving
$125000. I
IMIFOOT HITS
GIF. BFJOUIS
(Continued from page one this section)
Texas. What conclusion the two offi-
cials reached as to the truth of these
charges after reading) the testimony
they will not say Neither will they
disclose at this time what evidence
against these and other alleged trusts
they obtained at other places visited
on their trip They admit that what-
ever steps towards "trust busting" they
took is known to the corporations in-
volved for the detectives closely fol-
lowed them in every move they made.
Always Shadowed.
' Every time 1 have gone on a search
for information relating to oil compa-
nies I have been followed by detec-
tives." Mr Lightfoot said "but this
last trip ras apparently feared by these
concerns more than any of my other
journeys. I would judge this from the
number of detectives that were em-
ployed to shadow me The game got so
hot when Mr Brady and I reached New
York that we resolved to do a little de-
tective work ourselves. We employed
a detective to keep an espionage on the
other detectives Our man was a good
one and he soon learned a lot of
things about the men who were watch-
ing us and by whom they were em-
ployed This is the information that I
do not care to divulge at this time "
Mr Lightfoot is d'sgusted with the
tactics employed by the trusts to keep
informed as to the movements of him-
self and other members of the attor-
ney general's department. If the
charges are true that the Waters-
Pierce Oil company and the Standard
Oil company are doing business In Tex-
as under subterfuges despite the order
of the United States supreme court for-
ever forbidding them from operating in
the state there is little need of further
trust prosecutions it is claimed At-
tornev general Lightfoot has made a
strong and earnest fight against vio-
laters of the anti-trust laws Men who
know the devotion that he has exer-
cised in the enforcement of these acts
are wondering if discoveries made by
him and Mr Bradv on their recent trip
to St LouK Xew York and other cities
have not convinced him of the futility
of waging a further fight against tl ese
large aggregations of tapltal which
seem able to circumvent the laws and
court decisions bv deUous ways and
practices Perhaps it is his disgust
over revelations made by htan on his
late tour of investigation that caused
him to decide to forego further politi-
cal honors He Is a man of high Ideals.
t hangCM Democratic SttsatteB.
Mr. Liahtfoot's self-effacement as a
L candidate for attorney general places
u nw suusiivji upun tne ieraocimiic
political situation in Texas. Immedi-
ately following his public declaration
) tnat ne wonia retire from politics at
the expiration or nts present term
one of his office assistants James D.
Walthall of San Antonio announced
his candidacy for attorney general.
Personal and party differences have
existed between Mr Lightfoot and Gov.
O. B Colquitt for more then a year
and It is said that the governor has
been striving to bring some man Into
the race against Lightfoot for ittor-
ney general Whether Mr Walthall
will be acceptable to Gov Colquitt and
the anti-prohibition e'ement which is
supporting the latter is not vet known.
Something new Bu-nett7ed fence-post-"
last lorger stra ulurr a"'l
cheaper than ce 1 ir t'ar-ied in stock
onl bv Lander Lumber Co.
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BEOTHEE MAEEIES
SISYEE BY MISTAKE
Had Two Children and Were
Divorced When Truth
Was Revealed.
Cincinnati. Ohio. April Is. a t.
gorythat resulted toJpS
VT Sfi " ?" being divorced froS
Ws sister. Helen HoltrmM Rue ?
was related in the solvency court 'her-
yesterday The broOTnT steter
were married Oct. J5. liiaTiiUhSlt
SS.-Kf16 Dowln ot the Moo rela-
tionshlp between them. Thedlae
r?.wf JSSuriSJSK toc5S2l
d.voTceljgw'eS0 " eUo" tor
f.It-Wwex?.Ulaed to tn court tha
of$e ssse tvs cteih
The petition for divorce filed w -
ne!K Tyff ffi& I8
coupTe'SerS VZJS'SP
hearing was helot when tha
We still have seme big bargains in
doors screen doors and I sastat l
than half price. L.nd'i.SSeco!
Pastearixed nUlk. Ba Paso Dairy.
Igverttt cars. Valley Implement Co.
Smith's Ice cream. XI Peso Dairy.
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Is Guaranteed by
Kelly & Pollard Special
Agents.
Nearly every one has dandruff and
must reconcile themselves to the idea
ot becoming completely bald or resort
to the use of Newbro's Herpiclde.
The manufacturers have absolute
faith in Herpiclde to kill the germ and
remove all traces of dandruff. So per-
fect is this belief that all dealers a-e
instructed to sell the preparation with
a Tnonev back" agreement.
Such supreme confidence l3 the best
evidence in the world of the merit of
Herpiclde. They know the result
htnee the guarantee. It protects the
purchaser
vmS!aa 5lrectea- Newbro's Herpic 1e
kills the germ that causes dandruff
and prevents the hair from comme
wkk1? 8top" ltoll'ne of the scalR
which is so disagreeable
Send 10c in postage or silver 'or
sample and booklet to The Hemic! 1
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Herpiclde is for -.a'e b' all dri x.
g'sts. and application may be oh.
ta ned at good barber shops.
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