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ANCHORED TO A WHALE, GLOUCESTER FISHERMAN IS TOWED OUT TO SEA. LITEST OF CANALS The night throbs on; bat let me pray, . dear Lord! Crush off his name a moment from my month. To Thee my eyes would tarn, but they go back. Back to my arm beside me where he 17- So little. Lord, so little and so warm! I cannot think that Thou hadst need of him! lit is so little. Lord, he cennot sing. He cannot praise Thee; all his life had learned Was to hold fast my kisses in the night. Giro him to me he is not happy there! Result Means Much to the Pan ama Company. A WATERWAY FIGHT, c. May End ia Loss of Many Millions to the Old Ship-Canal Concern. MOTHERHOOD. v v v vX x. Y Vx A xN-N N x xx v VxXx.Yx-xS xxx . jfr -T. - -7 J-TS.n .-.ix . . ue JHU UUL ICli U19 U1C, UiS 1UICI t j v a 'Just knew me for his mother, and he died. Hast Thou an angel there to mother him? I say he lores me best if he forgets. If Thou allow it that my child forgets And runs not out to meet me when I come What are my curses to Thee? Thou hast heard The curse of Abel's mother, and since then We hare not ceased to threaten at Thy throne. To threat and pray Thee that Thou hold them still In memory of us. See Thou tend him well. Thou God of all the mothers! If he lack One of his kisses Ah, my heart, my heart, Do angels kiss in Heaven? Give him back! Forgive me, Lord, but I am sick with grief. And tired of tears and cold to comfort ing. Thou art wise, I know, and tender, aye, and good, Thou hast my child and he is safe in Thee. And I believe Ah, God, my child shall go Orphaned among the angels! All alone, So little and alone! He knows not Thee, He only knows his mother give him back! Scribner's. NOT TOO LATE $ i Z . ... . w ,i ff i Ti iTi ill lit r v I V V I V V I 'A 'l' T V HT was late when George Atwood arrived at Mrs. Halleck's party. There was quite a brilliant com pany present, and Mr. Atwood stood near the door to scan the throng. Evidently he was looking for some bodyyes, for his eyes rested now on a young girl. A girl with a beautiful face upturn ed to a fair, handsome man, bending over the back of her chair. She seem ed in a trance of delight, and wholly unconscious of anybody's presence In the brilliantly lighted parlors but the man bending over her. And the girl was George Atwood's promised wife. When his eyes rested on her an aw ful change came over his face, the rich, dark color fled, leaving it white and rigid, and his lips formed a tense line under his heavy, dark beard. For days past George Atwood watch ed Ida Challis, his intended wife. He knew that Ida loved him devotedly, and he tried not to watch her; he tried not to notice Alfred May's attention to her, but as he caught sight of her face when he entered Mrs. Halleck's parlor he knew that he ought to have kept a better watch over her than he did. Alfred May possessed the fasci nation of a serpent, and be had drawn Ida into the meshes. George Atwood turned away with an Inward groan He loved Ida passion ately; her love seemed lost to him, yet he could not think of giving her up. "fr Atwnml la lipre " Alfrpd Mnv said, looking down at Ida Challis. The radiant face grew pale, and Ida shivered as she looked around her. She had fallen from her world of bliss and she was ouce more In Mrs. Halleck's crowded salon. "Did you say Mr. Atwood was here? Where is he?" she asked, in a low voice. "Yes; be was here a moment ago. I saw him looking savagely In this di rection, but he has disappeared; I do not see him anywhere now," and Mr. May laughed his musical laugh, changed the conversation, and in an other minute Ida's face was upturned aud rosy once more. A quadrille was-forming, and a gen tleman came to claim Ida for the dance. Away from Alfred May and the glamor his presence cast over her partly vanished she thought of her lover. Where was he? Did he no tice anything wrong iu her conduct to ward Alfred May? If he was in the room why didn't he come to her? These thoughts flashed through Ida's mind as she waited for the first figure to be called, and happening to turn her head, she saw her lover standing on the opposite side of the room, his eyes fastened upon her. One glance at his livid face and everything in the illum inated parlors seemed whirling round her. The dance was over. Ida never could tell how she go tthrough it. The heat of the room was suffocating her, and when her partner left her, after leading her back to her seat, she rose and stag gered over to one of the windows that opened out upon the balcony. As 6he stepped into the deep recess of the window she let the curtains fall behind her, shutting in the light and heat and whirl. How delightful and cool It was out here. The shining stars looked" down at her from their deep blue setting through the open window. But Ida did not shut herself out In the darkness to gaze at the' stars. She threw herself Into a chair which occu pied the recess and buried her face in her hands. "Oh, what a wretch I am!" she moaned. "George suspects I think more cf another man than I do of him. Heaven help me! How Is this going to end?" ' Little Ida dreamed that before many minutes she would know how It was going to end. As she asked herself that question voices came to her from the balcony without Ida's head was erect In an instant. A lady and gentleman were speaking on the balcony. Ida did not wish to sit ajad listen to wb. vh' -ot intended Startling was the experience of Charles Decker of .Gloucester, Mass., on the last cruise of his fishing schooner, the Maxine Elliott. Decker, while fishing peacefully in the waters of Sheepscott bay, found himself anchored to a whale, . which suddenly took a notion to-tow him out to sea at a rate heretofore na dreamed of in dory navigation.The Maxine Elliott lay anchored under the lee of Lower Mark' Island. The fish were running freely in the mouth of the Sheep scott and Decker, with the other men from the boat, was engaged in hand -lining over the sides of dories stretched between the Cranberry ledges and Sister rocks, each covering a favorite locality for cod. Decker let down his anchor when about midway between Lower Mark and Griffith's head, on a spot known to be shoal about twenty-five fathoms being charted there. He baited a jigger and threw it overboard, and while it was running out set to work on another. He had let his anchor run easily, and when ered it several feet to make sure it was on whirled half around., and started ahead at a rate that was dragging his cod line and jigger far behind. Decker was almost paralyzed with astonishment and not a little fright. His hair was beginning to stand on end and his flesh was creepy all over as he thought of some mysterious "sea devil" dragging him out to sea. Just then a big whale came to the top to blow, just ahead of the dory, and Decker was relieved to see his anchor fast in the monster's blow hole. A whale was something that he was used to. His fright vanished and he promptly cut the tow line and released himself from peril. When he came on board his mates refused to believe the yarn, and asserted he had cut the line because he was too lazy to lift the anchor. for her ears, but the man's voice held her spellbound, and she leaned forward to catch every word that fell from his lips. "What absurd ideas, to be tfure!" the man was saying, in his lightest tones. "Absurd! How can you say so; said the lady's voice, hotly. "Anybody can see that you are trying to come between George Atwood and his in tended wife." "Trying to come between them!" and Alfred May laughed derisively. "Ah, you nieaji that you have already accomplished it! Yes, everybody says that you must have fascinated Miss Challis that she loves you Is no long er a secret." "She loves me! Then more fool she for her pains, for, my dear, I have no affection to waste on anybody but your own sweet self." Ida listened to no more. For days 6he had been under a spell, but It was shattered at last She fell back in her chair, buried her head in her bands once more and groaned aloud. At that moment the heavy curtains parted and George Atwood stepped Into the recess. V "Ida, what ails you?" and he rested his hand lightly on her shoulder. "Oh, don't touch me don't speak to me!" she cried, drawing away from him with a shiver. "George, I'm not worthy a kind word from your lips." "Heaven forbid, Ida, that a word should fall from my lips but In kind ness to you. It is too late to censure," and the strong man's voice quivered "it is go hard to give you up. If Al fred May was a good man " "Alfred May Is a scoundrel! and L hate him I hate myself! Oh, George, If you knew how wretched I am!" and Ida burst into tears. "Ida!" cried George, in joyful as tonishment. "I thought you loved Al fred May!" "George, I've acted foolishly I've done wrong, but oh, I'm so sorry," said Ida, between her sobs. "My darling!" and George clasped her in his strong arms. "Let us for get the past few weeks of our exist ence." New York News. HIS BETTING CLOTHES. Superstitious Young Man Explains Cause of Hia Losses. There Is a new boarder at the board ing house. He wears a, new pair of Scotch tweed trousers, a mile too wide across the beam, and an embryonic waxed mustache, which he loves to train into the form of a grapevine ten dril. Wlen be is not twirling his ten drilous mustache or taking another hitch In his trousers he plasters down with his hand his straggly growth of tow-colored hair and confines it as best he can behind the rims of his small ears. "Do you know," said the newcomer, "that I am the most superstitious fel low you ever saw? Now. really, I am." "I think that we are all supersti tious," said the actress, who sat across from him at the table, and who was one of the ballet In "Beauty and the Beast" NEW AIRSHIP FOR WHICH GREAT PROMISES ARE MADE. A model of a new dirigible airship was recently on exhibition in Chicago. It represents the results of five years' work on the part of William Reiferscheid of Streator, 111. The model shows a contrivance consisting of two major parts, a cigar-shaped balloon, to which is attached a frame, on which are six propellers. Four propellers are used for ascending and two for steering. The power is sup plied by a gasoline engine. The owner of the machine claims it will do many evolutions unknown to the flying machine of Santos-Dumont. The Streator inventor declares his Eagle, for that is what he calls it, could be driven from Chicago to New York at the rate of 100 miles an hour, and that it could be sailed around a tower with its side touching the structure at all times. He also contends that the Eagle could le turned around all day in the same spot ia the air. It is planned to construct a machine at an expense of $10,000. it brought up he had lifted and low- - ( bottom. Suddenly his dory careened. . "Perhaps," was the languid reply. "But do you know, some of us sporting men are very superstitious. Don'tcher think so?" "You a sporting man!" Interrupted the actress. "Why." she said, "I took you for a musician. Don't you play?" "Only the races." answered the new boarder. "Now, for Instance." contin ued the new boarder, "to show you how superstitious I am, I never play a hoss on Friday. I lost $13 the first Friday that I ever bet on the races, and I made up my mind that I never would bet on Friday again. And you notice, too, that it was $13 that I lost" "And do you know," -began the young man again, "I have learned that a man should never play the hosses in clothes that he has lost in. Now, for instance, I always used to lose in a suit of green plaid. I lost on boss after hoss In those clothes, and finally a friend told me that they were hoo-doo clothes and that I ought to wear something else. Well, do you know, I wore an old suit of black cheviot and I made $400 on a 10-to-l shot" "Color makes all the difference in the world in betting. Then, too, a man wil always lose If he bets in a poolroom in the same street with an undertaker's establishment I used to lose right along at a poolroom in 6th avenue until I found out that there was a under taker two doors up the street. "A white hoss is luckier than a black hoss. Whenever there Is a black hoss up I always bet on him, especially if I have on a light suit The fat boarder was about to leave the table, says the New York Tribune, when he turned and said: "I don't think I will do much betting at that rate. I haven't enough clothes to go around, and I doubt very much if you will have, young man, if you keep on." The waxened mustached young man again, plastered down a curl, but said nothing. Holding for a Rise. Ex-Congressman Cable of Illinois has a charming young daughter who Is re ceiving her education in France. When she was several years younger than she is now her father took her on his knee one day and said to her: "To-day a man asked me If I would not sell little brother. He said he would give me a whole room full of gold. Shall I let him have little brother?" The child shook her bead. "But," persisted her father, "think how much money this room full of gold would be. Think how many things you could buy with It Don't you think I'd better let the man have little brother?" "No," said the daughter, "let's keep him till he's older. He'll be worth more then." New York Times. A Little Dense. "Sousa's band played before King Edward." "Indeed? That wasn't court etiquette, was it?" "What do you mean?" "You said Sousa played before the King. The King should have played first, shouldn't he?" Cleveland Plain Dealer. Nicaragua Project Most in Favor There Is Not Much Difference in Cost and. to the Ordinary Observer the Natural Advantages Seem to Be About -Equal Passage More Quickly Made by Panama Route Great In land Sea in Nicaragua. V The world Is interested in a fight of canals, with the center of attention di rected to Central America, that vexa tious narrow strip of land connecting the great American continent. For the first time in eleven years the Congress - Of the United States is arranging for the construction of the isthmian water passage, with forces ranged in two fac tions one holding out for the comple tion of the Panama canal, begun so long ago by the Frenchman, DeLes seps, and the other advocating the con struction of an entirely new passage through Nicaragua. With the new Hay-Pauncefote treaty with England ratified, it will be neces sary to consummate negotiations with the Central American States, through which, or along the border of which, the chosen route extends. It has been maintained that a strip of land ten miles in width along the canal should be bought, but the constitutions of the Central American States forbidding such sale, the only way remaining is to acquire nominal control of the land by treaty. We would then have the l ight to police the strip or do anything else we pleased with it. It is a fact that sovereignty of the strip is not needed. ' Control is all that is neces sary. While the proposed canal Is to be neutral, the United States will have the right to close it against an enemy In time of war, the fact that we guar antee neutrality not operating against the establishment of fortifications if we see fit. By a principle of international law, all treaties are abrogated with the country with which we are at war. The new treaty which replaces the Clayton-Bulwer treaty with England provides that the United States shall do aU the work of building the canal, assume the responsibility of safeguard ing it and regulate its use by all na tions on terms of equality without the guarantee of interference of any other country. It Is this last clause which gives us the right to fortify the canal. Probably this will never be done, as the most effective way to control the canal in time of war is by means of the navy. It is held that if we control both approaches of the canal, as we shall do. it will be all we need. The first effect of the canal will be to shorten the time from New York to San Francisco from sixty to sixteen days, thus bringing about a great in crease in water freight, with a propor- n DOX LOUIS COREA. Kicaraguan Minister to the United States. tionate lessening of rates. Further more, it will bring the ocean shipping industry into close competition with the transcontinental railways, thus re ducing rates all around. Even now it is clreaper to ship imperishable goods by water. Loads of freight daily come into New York from points west of the Alleghenies to go out in the coasting vessels around Cape Horn and up the other side to San Francisco. Another result will be an increase in the volume of trade. There will be enough for both vessels and railroads. Still another and very important effect will be noted in the Central American States. The completion of the canal will draw American capital into these countries, which have hitherto been al most constantly at war among them selves. A demand for protection wiil De created and the official presence of the United States would act a? a wholesale restraint on our hot-blooded southern neighbors. It is .possible that the canal will in time bring about a commercial union of Central America, under a protectorate of the United States, a result which would be of the greatest benefit to the whole -western hemisphere. llPliil llilllll A SECTION Finally, the construction of the canal will give us an immense advantage in trade with South America. At present Germany and England each beats us In that direction. Altogether, It is believ ed that the isthmian canal will prove to be a greater stimulus to trade than any other one thing- which could be accomplished, whether it be decided to finish the old Panama canai or estab lish an entirely new waterway by the Nicaragua route. Fourteen Times Surveyed. Since the conception of the project of a canal across the Isthmus of Pan ama, no less than fourteen' routes have been proposed and surveyed across the narrow neck of land connecting the American continents. Only two sur vive. It was in 1843 that a survey was made of the Panama route for the first time. A French engineer undertook this work, but with no important immediate results. He was followed not many years afterward by George M. Totten. chief engineer of the Panama Railroad, who estimated the cost of the construc tion of the great waterway at $75,000. 000 to $100,000,000. Subsequently the United States government also made a PROPOSED NICARAGUA ROUTE OF THIS survey, locating a practicable line for an interoceanic ship canal twenty-six feet in depth from the Bay of Aspiu wall, in the Caribbean sea to Panama on the Pacific. In 1879 Count Ferdinand de Lesseps, the man best known in connection with the Panama project, appealed to the nations to send delegates to a proposed congress in Paris, to discuss the ques tion of a canal across the isthmus. On May 15 of that year, representatives of twenty-four countries assembled in the French capital and ou their ad journment the Universal Interoceanic Canal Company was organize.!. The disasters attending this company, with its record of the greatest steals in the history of the world and its attendant numerous suicides, are still fresh in the public mind and need, no recapitu lation here. The company, however, :s not dead, though they have tried In vain to raise the $150,000,000 necessary to complete the canal. The collapse of the company awoke the strongest pub lic prejudice against the route and it Is Indeed remarkable that in the many points to be considered and in an un dertaking so gigantic the two routes are such close rivals. It is not generally known that work on the Panama canal was resumed in 1895, and has been continued to this day. In order to save some of the $260,000,000 De Lesseps' company spent, and to retain the valuable con cessions granted it, the receivers or ganized a new company. The stock was purchased by members of. the original company, who hoped by further sub scribing to save a part of their original investments. Thirteen million dollars wassail, however, they were willing to invest, and this only eleven days be fore the expiration of the original con cession. An extension of the conces sion to 1910 was secured. The new company did not waste the thirteen millions in mere show on soft ground, but, in contfast to Its predecessors, made every dollar tell, in the hope of retrieving lost confidence, or, failing to secure further investments, to make the partly built canal so much more valuable when the Clayton-Bulwer treaty should be abrogated, so that the attention of the United States could be secured. There is little native labor to be had on the isthmus. The climate is not con ducive to activity and the natives are averse to labor constitutionally. The old Panama company imported thou sands of Chinese, but they proved to i be poor workmen, especially when con-1 sidering the expense incurred in trans-; porting them from China. The new company, placing a bond guaranteeing the safe return of those of her subjects I who should desire it was allowed by J OF THE PANAMA CANAL AS IT APPEARS TO-DAY. Great Britain to bring In 4,000 negroes from Jamaica. This number has dwin dled, through death, desertion and oth er causes, to about half the original number. Nearly Half Completed. According to the original designs and specifications, the Panama canal is now just 40 per cent completed. The At lantic side is open to a distance of thirteen miles, the excavation varying In depth from 16 to 294 feet This has been filled in to a certain extent by silt deposits from the Chagres river, in the bed of which the canal part way lies. On the Pacific side a length of about three miles Is cut to a depth of C to 26 feet. In Panama bay a channel has been dredged to deep water and a cut through the Cordilleras has been ac complished to a depth of 160 feet. It was in 1850-1852 that the Wausit company, which then controlled all transisthmian traffic, had the Nicara gua route surveyed and twenty years later a commission went over the line for the United States. When the Pan ama scandals began, Mr. A. G. Mino cal, who was "a member of that com mission, obtained a concession from Nicaragua and the Nicaragua Canal CANAL. Construction Company was organized. In 18S9 the original Panama company suspended and the same year the Nic aragua concession was transferred to the Maritime Canal Company. The company dug about three-quarters of a mile of the canal and deep ened the harbor at Greytown. Then, the Nacaraguan government claims, the concession was forfeited by a discon tinuance of the work. The special feature of the Nicaragua route is the great inland sea which lies in the hollow between the eastern and western Cordilleras Lake Nicara gua. This body of water is forty-tive miles wide, 110 miles long and 112 feet above sea level. The plan of the Nicaragua canal comprises an engineering feat the most wonderful ever attempted. In the Isth mian commission's estimate of the time it will take to construct the canal, six years are given the building of a dam across the San Juan river, while two more will serve to complete the water way. Tile San Juan leaves the south east corner of Lake Nicaragua and flows almost east into the Caribbean sea. The first half of its length from the lake is almost a continuation of rapids and waterfalls. It is then joined by the Rio San Carlos and its size doubled. Two miles above this junction is the site of the great dam. The San NICARAGUAN ENGINEERS ' i 1 1 Hfl'" i ' 1,1 i i li i" I i 'ii 1 :3t IYV1:'A. Juan in its normal state has a flow of 20,000 cubic feet per second, but in the rainy season it sometimes mounts to 200,000. To hold back this flood with a. dam 150 feet high, and thereby raise the waters of the San Juan to the level of the lake, is the project. The line of the Nicaraguan canal be gins at the Caribbean sea near Grey town. Taking a southeasterly direc tion, it passes to the north of a range of hills known as the Silicos and thence southerly to a point about a mile from the San Juan river. Following the riv er and at a safe distance from it, the course continues to the dam, where the canal enters the river and follows It into the lake. Crossing the lake In a northwesterly direction, the mouth of the Rio Las Lagas is entered. This stream is followed but a short distance when, the canal crosses the continental divide into the valley of the Rio Grande and thence to Brito, the Pa cific terminus. The summit level from the conti nental divide across the lake and along the San Juan to the great dam will be nearly 150 miles long. Besides the pur pose of a long stretch for speed, this extended level so high above the sea is to control the lake's level. It now fluctuates some thirteen feet. Under control it will not vary six. It has been the general opinion that there is quite a difference between the mean levels of the twoyoceans. This idea is an erroneous one, for they are about the same. There is a difference in tidal ranges, however, the Pacific rioinrr i twt t f anil tlin A4"1ortirt hilt I lOlU Clg LAI 1. l, L UUU LUC iLllU ULIV. U U I. one foot. Five locks one of 36 feet and four of 18 feet each, will be re quired "to raise the vessels from the Caribbean to the level of the lake, while four of 28 feet each will be necessary ou the Pacific side. Originally, the cost of the Nicaraguan canal was placed at $50,000,000. The pstimntps have steadilv risen until at present the figure is $190,000,000. The first was for a 16-foot canal of narrow gauge, whereas the latest plans call for a cut 35 feet in depth and extending in places to a width of 150 feet. In curves a width of 180 feet is called for and in the harbor at either terminus a channel of 500 feet wide is projected. Tea Drinking in Russia. Enormous quantities of tea are con sumed by the Russians, but they do not suffer from any effects owing to the way In which they concoct the bev erage. With them it is not a cup of tea, but a glass of tea. A sprinkling of leaf is put into the pot, boiling water is poured on, and allowed to stand not more than thirty seconds. A small quantity of the brew about two ta blespoonfuls is poured into a glass, which is then filled with boiling water. A slice of lemon and sugar are added, and, here we have one of the most re freshing and piquant drinks Imagina ble. The color of the tea as drunk is a pale amber, and, of course, no milk is used. New Cure for Consnmptives. A doctor has written to the London Times suggesting the running of motor cars at a speed fully up to the legal limit as a means of administering the open-air treatment to consumptives. Tenants' Rights in Holland. In Holland no landlord has the power of raising the rent or of evicting a tenant. FINDING RIVER LEVELS,