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BROUGHT THE HANDS OF THE TWO TOGETHER

life I've been leading written all over me?
I've been going the pace for twenty years
and can't erase the signs In a moment
Uncle Will look at me once, and that will
end things"
Cant you REFORM
"Reformi Haven't l begun? Have /
touched a drop of liquor In the five weeks
I've been on this boat? You know haven't
though the thirst for II has been something
frightful. But the worst is over now I've
won out far. and mean to stick II out
to the end of my life. Six months proba-
ton, IL / had II, would make a new man
of me and enable me TO face my uncle with
a fair chance. But l haven't six months!
l haven't six days! When We touched at
Santa Lucia a week ago l got cable from
my uncle's lawyer telling me to hurry, that
the old man might die at any moment
Great heavens, To miss this chance now!
II only / had known in time" The speaker
paused. quivering in the grip of strong emo
ton
ITS too jolly bad"
1T is If only had a little more time it
would be all right l mean 10 reform;
have reformed. but can't wipe out the past
in month. If you were l, now, everything
would be all right"
wish l were. old fellow; million is a
lot of money.
''Well-won't you be?'
Wont / be what?"
Wont you go with me to Kentucky and
pose as Tom Drake? Uncle will be delight
ed with you. vo-'n charm him as you
charm everybody. Oh. IL will be easy 10 dc
luce everybody. | haven't seen uncle for
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What De We Know About Our Brains?
From Harper's Magazine.


1T is when we leave all mere anatomical
considerations and ask the ultimate ques-
tions-how does mind affect matter, and
how does matter display mind?-that we
realize our nescience. Granted the nervous
n echanism l have indicated, we are not one
whit the better able to answer a question
for which our very conception of cause and
effect is inadequate. We cannot conceive
though many of US think we can-Of an idea
moving a table, or a table moving an idea.
The difference between mind and matter IS
greater, UNNECESSARILY greater, than all
other differences whatsoever, and our con-
cept of causation is inadequate to conceive
how the one affects the other Four at
tempted solutions l must enumerate. The
ideaist easily solves the difficulty. There
is nothing but mind. of which matter Is
the creature, he says. And as hume sald
of Berkeley. the most consistent and logical
of all idealsts His arguments admit OF no
answer and produce no conviction Ihen
there is Huxley, who appreciates with all
of US the difficulty of understanding how
mind can affect matter. and therefore de-
MES any such influence We are conscious
automatic, he says, unable to affect or et-
feet anything, consciousness being merely
epi-phenomenon or by-product. an inter-
ested spectator not allowed or able to JON
in the game. OF this theory the difficulty
is that it was conceived by a consciousness,
and then disowns its creator and source
For you will observe that in order TO eN-
plain consciousness we have only the evil
dence and conclusions of consciousness to
guide us. Similarly man may try TO lit
himself by his own collar. The third so.u-
ton is that affected in the academic cilcieS
of today. 1t admits that mind and matter
cannot mutually interact, and therefore
proclaims a psycho-physic1l paraEel'sn'
mind and matter-or consciousness and cor
tex, for this school knows nothing or SUD
conscious mind-move in parallel lines, cde
mental state affecting another, and one
neural state another; but the two hnes'
though produced ever so far, never meet.
Material changes. however, VIII cease 10
affect mental states when opium ceases 10
cause sleep, and music delight: not before.
And lastly. there is the explanation OF
Spinoza and Spencer. which regards nina
and matter as correlated and insepafaoie
manifestations of the unknowaole. ms
explanation will cease to hold the held
when we learn on what other hypothesis an
invisible and single cell. which would net
cover the point of lead pencil, can receive
certain salts. proteids, water, air ana hght
and develop into nervous system with
its attendant organs, whence may procee0
an Eroica Symphony or Hamlet.
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at the sky with an expression difficult to
read.
When l die went on the Judge, Maj
saret will be alone-except for you She
will be rich and subject to many snares.
unless-Tom. Tom, I've been watching you.
and I've been watching Margaret and
sometimes have thought that you two
But STAFFORD sDrang to his feet with an
exclamation. Il can't let this go on any
longer he exclaimed. ",There-there is
something l ought to tell you; that | must
tell YOU"
But, the judge raised his hand Not
now, he said. Nor ever I think I've
noticed that you had something on your
mind Tom. Most men have We all have
some things in our past that rise at times
to reproach us. Who should know that
better than I? One can't serve for forty
years on the bench without learning II
But, Tom. it's all right / know l can
trust you. l know there's nothing dishon-
orable in your past. Forget tor remem-
Der 1t only as a guide for the future II
you really care for Margaret"
II love her with my whole heart"
Then. If you are free
II am
Then nothing else matters.''
But 1t does | must tell you. I must,
can't keep still any longer. l.
"Ah, Drake! You therei Good morning,
Judge: glad to see you out. Beautiful coun-
try you have here. sir
The real Drake had stepped through the
long parlor windows onto the porch.
Jgsce Norton's face darkened slightly.
but he turned TO his susst r.t.l ..f-eee:
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WHEN CANAL IS BUILT
Panama City Will Become =
Mighty Port.
AS IT APPEARS TODAY
CAvE-LIKE HOMES THAT ALSO
SERVE AS STORES AND SHOPS.
Plans of Chief Engineer Wallace for a
New City-Will Earthquakes
Ruin Canalp
Copyright, 1905, by Frank G. Carpenter,

Copyright, 1905, by Frank G. Carpenter)
PANAMA.
When the canal is completed Panama will
probably become one of the great cities of
the world. This is the opinion of Chief En-
gineer Wallace and other experts who un-
derstand the methods by which the inter
oceanic trade will be carried on. They say
that Panama will probably be a free port
and that steamers from all parts of the
world will meet here to take on and put off
goods. 1t Will be cheaper to carry freight
through the canal and over the seas on big
vessels, and ships of 10000 and 10000 tons,
and even larger. will load here for their
long haul across the Atlantic and the Pa
cifc. There will be lines of smaller steam
ers travelling up and down the coasts Of
North and South America, acting for the
great ships as the feeders do to a railroad.
Vessels of 5000, 1900 and 5000 tons will
come here from different parts of the Pa
cific, and transfer their goods to the larger
ships. taking in return other goods to carry
back home.
The chief steamship lines will have a
combination of large and small vessels, and
l understand that such plans are already
making. John Barrett tells me that the
manager of the Nippon Yusen Kaisha, the
great steamship company Of Japan, which
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-06-10
Slang, Good and Bad.
rom the Baltimore Sun.

From the Baltimore SUM-
Slang is Of two kinds. according TO re-
cent authority. Some slang consists Oh
vivid figures of speech that convey an ioea
accurately and with brevity. 1T is up 10
YOU" to do so and SO is an example OF
useful locution that may ultimately get
into the dictionary. Such slang cannot al
present be used properly in grave dis
course. but it may have future. There IS
another sort, however, which results from
intellectual Incidence and indifference to
accuracy and brevity. This kind is not
actually descriptive. but needs explanation
to be Ineligible. ITO win out" for ex-
ample is inferior to the simpler to WIN
ITO get left is an obscure phrase 10 use
as a substitute for 'miscalculate" or to be
disappointed. To say of a man that he
"got cold feet is positively mysufying,
since 1t is far from conveying the idea that
he withdrew in trepidation from certain
enterprise Such slang does not make
short cut in speech and justify its use by
economy, but tends to render conversation
unintelligible. No doubt many expressions
now in good repute were once slang, hav-
ing won their way into general use in spite
of the protests of the learned. Custom II
the arbiter, and the dictionary records ths
decisions e9 this arbiter.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-06-10

q month The pawn brokers have no balls
over their doors as at home. and they are
not such Shylocks as our dear uncles of
Chatham street and the Bowery. I have
been TO many of these pawn brokering shops.
not to borrow, but to see If could pick
Up something in old plate or jewelry as a
Souvenir of my trip. They have but few
antiques of value. but now and then one
finds fine pearl or a gold chain with flat
links of curious shape. Such chains were
once made by the native jewelers. and they
are now in great demand among American
ladies. who visit the isthmus.. When Mrs.
Secretary Taft was here she bought a
splendid one for less than $50. and the wife
of the chief engineer has another which
would cause any American belle to break
the tenth commandment. The larger OF
these chains are big enough to so around
the neck and fall to the waist. They end
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Streets Marrow With Lean Sidewalks.
in cross of solid gold which has. | doubt
not, been blessed by the priest as all
Panama women are good Catholics. At one
pawn shop L was shown chain of woven
gold. with a gold medallion as a pendant.
The medallion had a score of fine pearls
the whole being topped by a pearl as big
around as the end of the ordinary lead
pencil. The price of this chain was 500
IN silver. 1t would certainly he worth at
leafs four times that In the United States
The Canal VS.. Earthquakes.
One of the objections urged against the
building of the Panama canal has been
that an earthquake may occur which
might ruin the work after 1t is completed.
There is an evidence against this theory
in one of the old churches of Panama. The
chief engineer Mr.. Wallace. pointed IT out
to me the other day. 1t consists of what
Is probably the widest and lowest arch
Known to architecture. The arch must be
fifty or sixty feet wide and it is almost
horizontal, consisting of one span with
out any support except at the two ends.
1t is part of church built about 200 years
ago and now in ruins. There are trees
growing inside the church and grass and
bushes have sprouted out of the windows
high above the street. The church was
planned by a monk architect; and the
true believers say that he was able to con-
struct this arch only by faith and PRAYER.
He had planned his building and had put
up tHS dICl, oilIy 10 ma tnat IL 1eil down
again and again At last in despair he
spent night fasting and praying to the
Virgin. In his prayer he said he was do
Ing his work for the glory of God, and he
begged her to help him. He said that he
would put up the arch once more. and that
she should cause 1t to stand, even though
the remainder of the church might crumble
to pieces. He did build it. and it stood.
The rest of the church built over ii;
the roof was put on. and then a fire oc-
Cured which reduced the building to ruins.
The arch, however. bolstered up by these
prayers, remained erect, and so it is to
this day. The chief engineer says that no
such arch could withstand the severe
shock of great earthquake. and that it's
existence is an evidence that no earth
quakes have occurred here within the past
200 years which could possibly affect such
construction as that planned for the
Panama canal.
Panama, by the way, has many old
churches and monasteries here which
are crumbling to pieces or have been
burned to the ground. Within stones
throw of the canal administration building
lie the remains of what once was a great
convent or monastery. They cover almost
a city square, and / understand are for
sale at a reasonable figure.
FRANK CT. CARPENTER.
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reEdence Of many well-to-do Panamans.
Old Panama was long the richest city OF
the new world. The vast treasures of the
Incas were carried here to be shipped
across to the Atlantic and thence to Spain.
This was the halfway station to the
Philippines, and the Spanish galleons load
ed with silver and gold crossed the ocean to
the isthmus. Early IN the seventeenth GEN.
tury Panama was noted throughout the
world for its wealth and splendor, and II
was In 1871 that the English buccaneer.
sir Henry Morgan. landed at the mouth OF
the Chagres and crossed the isthmus. He
besfeged Panama and burned 1t to the
ground, carrying away IT'S horse and mule
loads OF silver. gold and other loot, and in
addition 600 prisoners. At that time Pana-
ma contained eight monasteries, two
churches and hospital. 1t had 200 ware
houses, 1900 magnificent residences and
5000 houses OF more ordinary build. Nor
gan tortured the people to make them tell
where their treasures were hidden, sparing
not even the women.
He was no respecter of religions and the
churches and monasteries were looted and
burned. Today there Is nothing but ruins
or that site of the once famous city, one
old tower standing a monument of the
glories of its past.
The Panama of Today.
The Panama of today was begun shortly
after Morgan's butcheries. The people chose
This rock, almost surrounded by the sea. for
wall thirty feet high about its edges and
constructed their houses inside that. A
great part of this wall still stands. 1t is
double in places, and on one side the city it
forms a promenade. where the grown-ups
walk of an evening. the children fly about
Oh roller skates and play games and where
the canal employees go out for their daily
airing.
In other places there was moat between
the two walls. This moat has grown up
with trees, and in 1t reside many sQuatters.
/ some parts of the town houses have been
built on top of the wall, and in others ware
houses are to be found inside 1t, the two
walls serving parts of the buildings.
Every House Fort.
Panama itself looks like a fertilization.
Every house seems to have been put up
to withstand the raids of pirates and revo-
lutionists. The walls are often three feet
thick and the doors are heavy and ironed,
with little port holes through which the
owner can peep out before opening the door.
There are but few windows on the ground
floor, and those which have been made are
often covered with iron bars.
The houses are built close to the street. |
They are usually of one and two stories, and
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occasionally three Along the second and
third stories run iron balconies which
shade the street below. These balconies are
the evening sitting places of the family, and
1t is in them that the Panaman Juliet sits
and receives the love glances of her Romeo,
who stands on the street below. Romeo
makes soo-goo eyes for weeks at Juliet be-
fore he dares open his mouth and he
never thinks of climbing up.
The well-to-do people of Panama live on
the second and third floors Very few of
them have house to themselves.
/ know men worth a hundred thousand
dollars whose families live above cheap
tenements or stores. One winds his way
through dark and devious passages to get
to their apartments, after which he finds
himself in well-furnshed and comfortable
quarters
A City of Caves.
The ground floors of Panama make one
think of a city of caves. This is especially
so in the of-the-way parts of the town
The streets are narrow with cobblestone
roadways, and lean sidewalks made of flags
about six or eight inches higher up.
They wind this way and that making
one think of a walled canyon with rectan-
gular holes in the sides. These holes are
the doors, which opened during the
daytime but at night so tightly closed
that they seem to be Theoretically sealed.
Looking in through the doors one sees
rooms ten or twelve feet square with other
rooms behind them. There are no windows
facing the street, and the door, only, gives
the light Often one room will be the home
of a family, six or eight people sleeping in
1t, and the elder ones working there in the
daytime. Sometimes the room is a store
during the day and sleeping place at
night. There are no sanitary improve
ments. The water comes from cart or
barrel on wheels which Is dragged through
the streets. or from well in court near
by. When the new water works are COM
pleted this will be bettered. Indeed many
of the streets are now dug up for the
sewers, and the water will soon be flowing
from far up in the mountains into the
Ancon reservoir, whence 1t will come into
the city.
A Town of House Industries.
The idea prevails In the United States
that the Panamans are lazy. l do not find
it So In walk through the city one sees
some kind of industry going on in every
home. Here shoemakers are pounding
away, their women are making lace, while
farther on are carpenters, cigarmakers and
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Ulysses had just gathered in a bunch of
his heroic sailors. who had eaten the lotus
and promptly deserted, having forgotten all
srbcut home and mother. Their faces were
pale. and they showed in other ways the
unmistakable effects of their spree.
You're nice lot" exploded the hero.
surlily IF didn't need you in my BUSH
ness, If didn't have to haveSy you to work
the ship, you can bet your last dena RUS
I'd never have looked for you. No dope
fiends for mine. II you pleaser' Chicago
Tribune.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-06-10
Same Sensation.

From the Chicago News.
Gunner-.I thought Refer liked the wa
Ter. I hear he is going to buy a racing
automobile instead of yacht?'
Guyer--"Yes, he found the shaking OF The
automobile would make him seasick just
as quick as If he were on a yacht"
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The Streets Are Dug Up for Sewers.
blacksmiths. The work goes on out in
the street when the sun moves about SO
that the sidewalks are shaded. Then the
tailors bring their chairs out to the road
way, and one sees women sewing on the
edge OF the street. Nearly every other
building contains a store, and many of the
stores are workshops as we'll The most
common place is the petty saloon. Drinks
are sold everywhere and there are scores OF
little grocery and fruit stores.
Among the Pawnbrokers.
Panama has several banks which do busi-
ness In the large. The RICHEST perhaps is
that OF the Ehrmans. the descendants of
Henry Ehrman, who died here some years
ago worth about million dollars, and next
to them. perhaps, the Brandons. who We're
bankers to the old Colombian government
end who still do business with the Panama
republic In addition to this many of the
merchants lend money. and there are also
pawn brokers who give Announcements on
watches and other valuables at per cent
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pleasant report was also heard of the
work of Miss Louise HULA former instruct
or, who for the past year has had charge
of the art department of Miss Baldwin >
famous seminary in Stanton, Va.
LEILA MECHLIN
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-06-10

1t was learned here with pleasure this
week that special good fortune had befallen
two of the former students of our one
time local art league, Mrs. Allender and
Miss Helprin. both of whom have found
the opportunity for foreign travel and
study. Miss Heilprin has gone to Germany
with her sister for a season, and Mrs. AL
lender will be for the summer with Mr.
Chases art class In Spain.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-02-24
Unnecessary Noises.

The street railway company lately
has been showing "such a quick ear
to hear complaints of the people that
we are wondering whether it would
not consider proposition to sequester
the loud, discordant and nerve-destroy-
ing fare register that is stuck up in
most of the cars. We wish to discriml-
nate-there are two kinds Of registers,
one a large, red fellow, who looks like
an eighth Of beer on picnic wagon;
he is only a misdemeanor. But there
is another, a smaller, round, black devil
with a voice that creaks, groans, splits
and screeches all in one breath. He
is a felony. It is necessary, we pre-
sumo, that fares be rung up so that
the passengers and the spotter will
know that the job has been done; but
is it necessary to inform the general
office at the same time, or is it neces-
sary to blow off COB of noise which
will make the fact patent to the To-
ronto directorss ..-,-
Cities have recently been taking &C.
ton against unnecessary noises in the
public streets, and rightly, too. It is
tough enough to have to live in city
without being dinned to death by I'M
oiled wagons or macadamized roads in
stead of paving. Spoilers and bankers
in front Of museums are prohibited in
many cities; nearly all of them have
suppressed street bands, which, under
the name Of music, trotted about to
advertise some cheap show or hand
me-down sale. We all approve of these
reforms, and yet we go on allowing the
street transportation company, which
represents the highest class Of munich
pal effort, to go on smashing nerves and
corroding comfort with a perfectly hid
eous and grotesquely unnecessary noise.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-02-24
Give the Legislature His Due, Too.

The second month Of the meeting of
the state legislature is passing and the
members thereof have !" drawn their
salary, only.-Wells Advocate.
Considerable unjust criticism, of
which the foregoing is sample, has
been leveled at the legislature for its
failure to show definite results at the
halfway point of the session. The state
has not suffered by the slowness in pass
ing bills, and would be better off if the
members would kill three bills for every
one they pass. However, the failure
to display big woodpile is no sign
that the senators and representatives
are lazy. The fact is that it has been
a. good many years since members have
put in as hard, faithful, valuable work
as they have done at this session in re-
vising the revised code. The bulk OF
this work has fallen on the lawyer
members, naturally, but some OF the
others have given valuable assistance.
The real work has been done outside OF
the hours spent in sessions of the house
and senate, behind the doors OF commit
tee rooms. 1t has not been work that
attracts attention, but that is no rea-
son why the members should be accused
of laziness.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-02-24
MEAN, UNDERMINED BLOW AT
STENA SiDNELL PETERSON
New York Post.

It is bad enough for a legislature to
vote away valuable grants or privileges
without competition, but favoritism is ten
fold worse when 1t invades the domain of
sentiment. It is time to call a halt when
a member of western legislature at
tempts by legislative act to fix for all time
a state song. To say that the principle
is all wrong Is no discourtesy to the song
itself, really remarkable composition,
one OF whose stanzas celebrates:
Timber land of wealth untold,
Mines Of silver and Of gold,
Are in the hills Of South Dakota;
Wonderful thy Cave of Winds,
And thy great and famous springs
Then give a cheer for South Dakota"
The choice Of poet laureate without
any preliminary trying OUT does not
comport with democratic ideals. It is
contrary to every principle OF civil SER
vice reform. The selection of Stena Sid
nell Peterson in such summary matter
would infringe upon the rights Of every
other poet in South Dakota. Dispose Of
the honor by competition, and something
might be done to relieve the present gross
inequality in the distribution Of poetry In
this country. 1t being obviously imprac-
ticable to cancel any Of the poems relat-
ing to Virginia, Maryland, Kentucky and
California, equalization can be brought
about only by raising the proportions OF
the neglected commemorative. South Da-
kota being one of the most refractory Of
all, it would be nothing less than a shame
to let pass this opport unity for its lyric
2 - ! ~ g sA0AA.