The Granite Enterprise. (Granite, Okla.), Vol. 11, No. 1, Ed. 1 Friday, May 20, 1910 Page: 3 of 12
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TSmiRNATiOi
Significance
TUNNEL;
TRICKED BY WOMEN Hood's
Mesmeric Power Exerted by
Some Feminine Swindlers.
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N THE mountain
O* frontier, between
the Argentine Re-
public and Chile,
nearly 13.000 feet
above the level of
the sea. at Cumbre
Pass, 1» a piece of
statuary absolutely
unique in history.
"The- Christ of the
Andes." Cast In the
bronze from the
cannon of opposlug
Chileans and Argen-
tines. it was placed
on the boundary line of the two na-
tion* m March. 1904. as a symbol of
the perpetual peace which should
thenceforth obtain between them It
stnnda a colossal figure 26 feet In
height, placed on a glgantic column
surmounted by a globe on wh,c* ,he
configuration of the earth la outlined.
One hand holds a cross and the other
i.i extended In blessing. At_lhe _ba e
fue two tablets, one Inscribed ulth the
history of the monument and the oth-
er bearing in Spanish the following
^"Sooner shall these mountains crum
We into dust than the people of Arg»n
tin* and Chile break the peace to
which they have pledged ttaemselveB
at the feet of Christ the Redeemer.
Scarcely less potent than treaties
and tributes to the Prince of Peace for
-sthe maintenance of harmony between
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Temptations That Beset a Poor Girl
Who I* Anxious to Shine In
•. v f || a Class Above Her
I AT Station.
I.ondon.—"Five years' penal servi-
tude!"
In tne dock stood an old woman,
somewhat shabbily dressed and coarse
featured, in such a state of collapse
that a couple of wardresses stood be
side her to support her if necessary.
Beside her was a tall, slim, attractive :
! looking young lady, with a pale, re- ^
fined face and large, dark eyes.
They were the Charlesworths. The
young woman was the heroine of the
romantic motor car mystery—the girl
who was to have a huge fortune come
to her. the girl who bad deceived so |
many and extracted thousands or .
| pounds from her victims* pockets
"How," people asked one another as
they sat In court and beard the recital
of the frauds, "could any one have be-
lieved such absurd stories?"
According to Williamson, the one-
time chief of Scotland Yard, the wom-
an swindler often seems to possess a
species of mesmeric influence which
renders her victims blind and deaf to
all that might warn them.
Coarse featured, squat In figure, vul-
gar in speech and manner. Mme. Hum-
Sarsaparilla
Cures all blood humors, all
eruptions, clears the complex-
ion, creates an appetite, aids
digestion, relieves that tired
feeling, gives vigor and vim.
O^t it todav. In usual liquid form
tablets called Sarsatabs. 100 Doses $L
colorado
HOMESTEADS
ON MOFFAT ROAD
free to you
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tunnel t—-t
10, -M>if feet o\>o>v era wvet
p .ai-rT 1 CHILIAN SIDE 4,538 FT.
argcntina SIOtil- - !—
" total length or T^NNELJOjjte^ FT. —.
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L Statue of " Christ of the Andes
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the native will be the fulfilment of the dream
long cherished by engineers of piercing the A
d.-s which was accomplished on the morning of
November 27. 1909. when the workmen of the
Trausandine railway approaching from opposi^
Bides of the tunnel, faced the last thin line o
rook which, in the heart of the Andes, separated
Chile from the Argentine Republic.
It was an Italian workman, operating under .
British engineer in the employ of an Anglo^Amer^
lean Arm, and carrying to fruition the project of
two Chilean brothers, who placed the fuse for
the demolition of the rocky barrier and opened
up a line of communication which, in the
<}f a leading Journal of the United States, Is like-
ly to change political relations in South America
" and commercial conditions throughout the world.
The flrst man to traverse the tunnel from end to
end was the chief of the Argentine section of
workmen followed by 90 of his operatives (most-
ly Chileans), who returned to their native land
with banners flying and cries of *ictory
From the capitals of Chile and the Argentine
Republic functionaries and private individuals
Journeyed to be present at this last act In an un-
dertaking which has engaged the talents of a
succession of engineers and financiers since 1860
and which, upon completion, will take rank with
the great Alpine tunnels.
Fifty years ago the North American captain of
Industry. William Wheelwright, prepared a ten-
tative plan for crossing the continent from Rosario
In the Argentine Republic to the Chilean port of
Caldera. over the Pass of San Francisco. Thir-
teen years later the Chilean brothers. Juan and
Mateo Clark, to whom the credit for ^ project
of the line as completed must be awarded, took
the flrst practical steps In the matter through a
conreaalAu obtained from the Argent ne »°verna
ment for a railroad from Buenos Aires to the
Chilean frontier.
In 1880 the flrst section from Villa Mercedes to
Mondor.a was built by the Argentine government
connecting with the Clark line from Buenos A re.
to Villa Mercedes, In all 650 miles. A subsequent
concession to a British company secured the con-
atriir.tlon of the road from Mendoza to the Chilean
frontier and thence to the Chilean town of I^»
Andes (l«0 miles), where connection would be
miide with the existing line to Va paralso .8
miles In extent, making a transcontinental line
88* mf'xs In length.
It wus the trans Andean seotlon between Men-
dosa at Los Andes which presented the great-
est dtm.ultles, for here lay the old pack route
over Ctiwbre Pass. 12.065 feet above sea JereU
whleti oiwdern engineering had decided to elim-
inate Ij> unneltng the mountain J.500 feet lower
d°At%ar»*oles. on the Chilean slope, and at Las
Cue* a*. o« the Argentine side, men and machln^
ory Miter id the mountain for a final conquest of
nau re 1 followed out of solid rMk. the gallery as
onei.-wt li .0,460 feet above sea-level, 3.165 meter*
k l"Ogtt «V, meters In height, and 6 meters wide.
being located about 1,000 meters below the
crest of the Andes. The Chilean section
covers 1.385 meters and the Argentine 1,782,
the completed work being estimated at a
cost of £500,000.
The tunnel Is made to the same dimen-
sions as the Slmplon and Is therefore large
enough to allow locomotives, carriages, or
trucks that are run on a 6 foGtetnchgauge
to pass through It. It Is straight through-
out. except for 120 yards at the
trance where there Is a curve of 219 yards
r&Much work still remains to be done be-
fore trains will be running over the route
but it Is proposed that communication shall
be established by May 29. 1910. thus afford-
ing a most appropriate and adequate cele-
bration of the centenary of the revolutlon
which gave to both nations their Indepen-
dent life It will undoubtedly be utilized In
the official exchange of visits between the
executives of Chile and the Argentine Re-
public, which have been arranged as a fea
ture of the centennial year.
The immense practical value of the new route
l« shown by the statement that the time for the
, from Valparaiso to Buenos Aires will be re-
duced to 34 or 35 hours, thus facilitating the trans-
ZVot passengers and of perishable merchandise^
While the romantic aspects of the Journey
areatiy reduced, the saving of time and the great-
er ease of travel will more than atone for the
loss The picturesque mountain pass and
stane trip between railway terminals will be su-
perseded by a continuous all-r.ll Journey from
ocean to ocean In a day and a half.
So long as the chief exports of the countries In-
terested continue to be raw materials no great
changes may be expected in the character of prod-
ucts transported to the seaboard, though^the^ vol-
ume will Inevitably be greatly augmented Argen
tine grains, hides and beef, and Chilean copper
and nitrates, will continue to be sent abroad by
the sea. but In the development of a greater com-
mercial volume between the countries of the east
and west coasts of South America and In the
transport of lighter manufactured goods from
Europe and America the rail route will prove .
formidable rival.
Though Brazil and the Argentine Republic an.
washed by the Atlantic, vast tracts of rubber-
growing districts of the one and of the &8I,cul-
tural and cattle sections of the other lie far
nearer to the Pacific. With facilities of trans-
port it is reasonable to suppose that producW
which have hitherto found their sole ports o«
shipment on the Atlantic seaboard will ultimately
turn to the Pacific, and vice versa.
49 a medium of ocean traffic the importance of
the route can not be overestimated. At Present
South America is to a great extent a commercial
appanage of Europe. On the east coast the trad,
of the United States with the countries of the At-
lantic has been handicapped by Inadequate ship-
ping and also by the fact that the east coast
to the south of the turn of the continent is really
much nearer to Europe than to the United State,
with the added advantage of more favorable sail-
ing conditions, and the west coast Is as remote
by sea from New York as It is from Liverpool or
Hamburg When the Panama canal Is completed
a different condition will prevail. Then the Lnlted
States, especially In Its manufacturing sections.,
will enjoy a tremendous advantage In respect to
all that portion of South America situated on or
commercially tributary to the Pacific. Already the
opening of the Tehuantepec line across Mexico and
of the lnteroceanic route in Guatemala has aug-
mented the volume of trade between the Atlantio
and Pacific.
With the Buenos Aires-Valparaiso route open to
easv transport, Chile and Peru will not longer b.
cut off from the great streams of the world s com-
merce. They will be In direct and constant in-
tercourse with the countries to the east and will
be brought proportionately closer to Europe, and a
long step will be taken toward South American
solidarity by bringing the capitals of the west
coast under the same influences as those of th.
east.
nercial volume between tne couU».«
CRATER LAKES OF MEXICO
aolutely free from (iovernmeut and now open
wheat 45. barley 70. Act now and a poo®
farm Write for free book, maps and fttllw
formation that tell, how to s« thU laud frM.
W. F. JONES. General Traffic Manager
Boom TOO Majeetlr llldg., Oenver, Colorado
SINGLE
BINDER
sniwnaeciGit
TM P»T MO.
for C1(V(
Not so Good,
r... LEWIS r»trt«.I'lj
To cure co.tlven... the medicine mu.t be
more than a purgative; It mu»t contain tenia,
alterative and cathartic properties.
Tuffs Pills
po..«. the.e qualities.
to the bowels their natural pertstaltlcmotK*#
so c»»cntUl to regularity.— ■
DROVE HUSBAND FROM HOME
Act of Militant Suffragette That Wa.
Too Arbitrary to Be Upheld
by the Court.
The results that may ensue from
being married to a suffragette were re-
vealed the other day in a bonden
(Eng.) suburban police court. Mrt
Tunnicllffe took up the cause and wa.
not able to spend much time at home.
When the husband remonstrated sh.
simply commanded her daughter to
pack her father's gripsack and thero
and then ordered him out of the house.
He went, and then the lady sued him
' for desertion and demanded alimony.
"But surely you did not take it so
feebly?' asked the magistrate of tho
husband. .
•It was no use objecting." was tho
answer. "She wanted to be master and
said that If 1 annoyed her she would
lock me up. 1 was only too anxious to
go back home, but she would not let
me."
The case was dismissed.
Benefit in Outdoor Schools.
Speaking before the National Associ-
ation for the Study and Prevention or
Tuberculosis recently. Dr. Henry Ear-
nurn Sloll of Hartford, Conn., said:
"F.very city should have one or more
outdoor school." He recommended
such institutions for all delicate, so-
called scrofulous or anaemic children,
and those with tuberculosis of the
bones, who are now in ordinary
schools Doctor Stoll declared that
—— twenty or forty per cent, of school
weave a little romance about It, ana cblldrell jt) |arge cities are infected
she proceeds to do so. Perhaps It w^^ tuberculosis. By the use of t»»
Is innocent enough at flrst—just a lit- bercu|jn> jt was ascertained that 79 per
CPnt of the children from tuberculous
homes were infected as against only 2«
prr cent, of those from supposedly
. „ i healthy homes. It was also found that
all about her. If these stories work , &() ppr cpnt of the frail children from
satisfactorily, and she Is of dishonest heaUby hon,es had the germs of the
disposition, she later on proceeds to d|geage but that only 13 per cent, of
turn the stories to account the robust children from similar borne.
The daughter of a Joiner, a short w(?r3 (bug a(recte,i.
They Were the Charlesworths.
bert twiddled scores of the keenest
men in Paris around her fat. jeweled
fingers and made them believe in mil-
lions lying locked up in a safe in her
roomfl
New York financiers were. In their
turn, victimized by a lady who was a
rival of Mme. Humbert. For years
she passed herself ofT as a niece of (
Andrew Carnegie and defrauded
scores of the -cutest" financial lights
of New York on the strength of a
bogus million pounds' worth of securi-
, ties placed In a sealed envelope. None
ever questioned the representations of
i Mrs. Cassie Chad wick. A letter to
l Mr. Carnegie would have shattered
the bubble at once, but no one ever
| dreamed of writing to him.
1 The first temptation to become a
! swindler arises when the girl of hum-
ble origin appears to be above her
' class. It occurs to her that she can
weave a little romance about It, and
she proceeds to do so. Perhaps It
Is innocent enough at flrst—just a lit-
tle story that she has gained the af-
fectlons of some gentleman of high
position and wealth. She assures her
friends that they by no means know
all about her. If these stories work
Mexico, with all her romance, has never given
abroad any description of her crater lakes. \ aJl.
de Santiago, a little town of the state of Guana
jnato. boasts four of the most perfect and beautl
ful of such lakes.
Th- village nestles among 11 craters. In
old days the town, which Is an ancient one was
called the Town of the Seven Candles, for the
seven crater, which surround It. The 11 craters
mentioned by scientists are not well defined.
Zme having come up within the others at la er
periods, resulting In but seven well-defined, hUU.
The four craters which contain the lakes are
all within a few miles of the city, but two. I.a
Alberca and Zlntora. are within easy w",kl"g dl"8
tance. says the Mexican Herald. I-a Alberca Is
one of the lowest of the crater, and on one side
^ portion of the crater wall ha. fallen away .o
that the approach 1. very eaay.
Half a mile across Is the low line of the "ater
wall and down below It Is the greenest of lake,
calm as a plate of gla... The tiny boat which
pllea the lake I. on the opposite .Me <close bejow
the walls of basalt which rim It. The*®
which rtae nearly a hundred feet above the sur-
face of the l.ke, are part of the native rock. wh^h
wa. blown off like the cork of a bottle when the
crater waa formed. It rl.e. .heer and erect above
the lake on every .Ide.
The other crater lake which one can vl.lt con-
veniently Is the Zlntora. which 1. approached
after a long climb up It. high .We.; th. lake
gll.ten. deep at the bottom ■with »>°P,n«
covered with green leading down to ,lt A "' r
beach of sand Is seen on one aide and on thl. a
ruined mountain hut brlng.anotherSwss to^ch
fn the scene. A background of a towering peak,
one of the Seven Candle., rises . short distance
away, and In the great hollow of the crater
crowds of hundreds can be lost and not a murmur
but the echo of one's voice from across the cra-
ter, nearly a mile away. Is heard.
The calm restfulness of a crater lake Is unlike
anything else In the world. One finds lakes and
solitary pools In forests or mountain fastnesse.
and the calm there Is akin to witchery, but they
are stirred sometimes by passing breezes ana
the trees will wave above in the wind. But in »
crater lake there Is not a breath that will stir It
and even a stone cast Into Its bosom creates rip-
ples that seem as though they would be swal-
lowed ere they are born. Peace Is a word without
a meaning until one lies silent on the slope at
such a crater with such a lake at his feet.
HE SHOWED HIM.
A phvslctan who acta as examiner for an ac-
cident Insurance company said that he has to b.
watchful In order to keep the company he repre-
sents from being "stung" on accident claims.
• A man was In my ofllce." he said, "who said
that he had fallen from a street car. 1 examined
hi. arm. and though there were a few bruise, on
It It didn't appear to be badly hurt.
•• "How high can you ral.e ItT' 1 continued, and
he an.wered by ral.lng hi. arm with apparent
difficulty until hi. hand wa. a few Inche. abor.
hl""'•Pretty Sad," I commented. 'Now .how me
how high you could raise it before thl. accident
happened.'
"He lifted It ea.lly then 'way up In the air,
and it wasn't until I began to laugh that he real-
lied that he had exposed himself. He cleared
out In a hurry then."
time since, was found guilty of frauds
committed in the character of a count-
ess The daughter of a cathedral
cleaner created quite a sensation as
a German princess. Another famous
bogus peeress was the widow of a
shirtmaker and another was a scul-
lery maid.
One of the most notorious woman
swindlers, when the judge in senten-
cing her remarked that men had. no
doubt, fallen easy victims to her
balndlshments and artifices. Inter-
rupted him with the remark that she
New Fly Trap.
A Californlan has taken advantage
of the fact that flies always walk up
a window by inventing a trap to be
fastened to a pane in such a manner
that a fly will enter it without bein®
aware that it has left the surface o!
the glass.
As a mule is compelled to listen to
1 his ow n voice, we don't blame him for
being a chronic kicker.
rupted him with tne renmm mai <
had only swindled men because they \ clear Drain ana
happened to be generally better oft g , dependable nerVCS
than women. She could make a worn- .
an believe anything, but she seined Can V/in Wealth and lame
For their owner.
Clear headedness and a
Strong, healthy body
Depend largely on the
Right elements in
Regular food and drink.
Coffee contains caffeine—
A poisonous drug.
Postum is rich in the
Gluten and phosphates thai
Furnish the vital energy
That puts "ginger" and
"hustle"
Into body and brain.
"There's a Reason"
ail V V
to take advantage of people who were
handicapped in making money.
Mrs. Chadwlck—already referred to
one day raising a loan of several
thousand pounds, handed to a banker |
a sealed packet, which she represented
contained securities for much more
than the money she needed, but It wa.
n«t to be opened.
The banker suddenly made a ges-
ture as If he disbelieved her state-
ment and was about to tear the packet
open. If he did so he would discover
the fraud at once and give her Into
custody. His eyes were on her. She
never changed color or showed the
slightest embarrassment or uneasi-
ness. Raising one of her gloved fin-
gers, she shook It at him playfully.
"Do It," she said, "open It and 1 will
never speak to you again!" And he
laid the packet down unopened.
Italy produces yearly 70.000,000 gal
Ions of olive oil worth $120,000,000.
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