The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-01-20

NY sational disclosure of what is claimed to be one of the smooth
 est bits of international jugglery that has ever been recorded If the World Is to be believed the whole Panama revolution
 from beginning to end was concocted by Paris and New York syndicate for the purpose of manipulating the stock of the
 Panama Canal company and was fath- cred by M. Bunau-Varilla, present min ister from Panama to the United States. | It is stated that a most careful investi- gation has been made and every bit of evidence so checked up that there can be
 no shadow of doubt. The sole agent of the syndicate was Bunau-Varilla, whose brilliant diplomacy completely hoodwink- | ed all three governments concerned. The | leading member of the syndicate is Maur- | ice Varilla, brother of the Panaman min | ister, and editor of La Matin, a Paris newspaper. According to report the shares of the Panama Canal company were | quoted at 67 on the Bourse before the revolution and now they are selling for | 115, entailing profit to date of $4000,OO0.
 The Panama revolution was started by ! this syndicate and s1oo,OOO furnished to further the project Of this money $SO00
 was used by the revolutionary party to bribe Colombian troops and get them to leave the isthmus.
 The operations of the syndicate were not known until recently by the native
 Panamans, who went Into the revolution in spirit of loyalty. So far, it is not be- lieved that any of these were implicated in the scheme. The appointment of Bunau-Varilla as minister to this country was bitterly opposed by the revolution ary leaders until 1t was learned that they could do nothing at Washington without his influence. It is also stated that prior to the revolution Bunau-Varilla insisted that he must be made minister to the United States. promising that he would furnish the necessary funds for the revo- lution, have United States warships on the scene at the proper moment, and se- cure recognition from this government
 all of which he did. If this lengthy in- dictment Is true in every particular it would seem that Uncle Sam has been duped by a very smooth statesman with favoring extract name, and hailing from gay Paris.
 Certain of our English literary cousins
 have a way of manufacturing adjectives that is painful to readers on this side of the water. Such words as tallish sickish, goodish and others of similar calibre have an unnatural appearance and an uncouth sound, but it is hard to pick up any book or periodical printed in England that does not contain them all. Even Doyle, Kipling and Jerome are guilty. They seem to take a particular delight in marring an other
 wise pleasing style by interjecting these | verbal monstrosities in the most unex- pected places. evidently for no other pur- pose in the world than to jar tn sensi-
 biities of Americans and others who stick to legitimate adjectives. Such coin ing of words is of course coIioquial, and therefore is all the more reprehensible
 There never was a talish or sickish man, and never will be until the grammarians change the English language Maybe John Bull things such words are funny, and at any rate he is accustomed to them
 but they are an abomination to all lovers of good literature. It is bad enough for hack writers in London to thus do vio- lence to their mother tongue, but there is certainly no excuse for literary men of repute being guilty of such an inane abuse of words.
 Since the disastrous experiments during the civil war with submarine craft, great strides have been made in their