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El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-05-25

necessity in the tropics and the men
know that they can find sanitary shops
a { the clubhOuses- Many OF them pay
so much month TO have their clothes
pressed. the BARRIERS and pressers
bringing in something Of an income Ia
the Institutions.
A Talk With the Superintendent OF
Clubs.
During my stay here I have had
chat with A. B. Dickson, who is the
head of the cIubhOuses under the
isthmian canal commission he was
formerly the financial secretary Of the
23d street Y NJ c. A in New York City.
Among the questions I asked him were
whether many young men had been
ruined by their life fin the canal zone.
To this he replied:
I do not think so. The inducements
TO keep right are as strong here as ID
any part of the United States. Drunken
ness and gambling are quite as dis
graceful and the men who engage IN
them are regarded just the same as at
home The clubhouse has done must 70
elevate the moral standing Of the canal
community. II is the chief meeting
place ana the men go there TO loaf rath-
er than to the saloons. on must re-
member that our canal employees are
far above the average of mankind as
to their habits and ambitions Iney
are picked men who are earning hlgh
wages. They are now saving money
and planning as 10 what they VIII 60
when they leave. They find that the
clubhouse costs them practically noth-
ing, and that ii takes the place OF Ine
more expensive and wicked am use
ments found IN the saloons without
these clubs they would have nothing 70
do except stay at home or go 10 the
saloons. Their work Is strenuous ana
they need recreation This need mas
been supplied by the clubs. Indeed, i
may say that the clubs are an absolute
necessity TO efficient labor on the ca
nal. They have aided In making the
employees contented and have also done
much for the high moral standing OF
the American community
The Boy Scouts of Panama.
Connected with these ciUDs are uplift
movements Of various kinds and among
others that OF the Boy Scouts We nave
now seven companies OF IheSe SCOUTS on
the zone. Each company mas q pleCe-o4
land for a clubhouse Whlcn mas Deen
given bv the canal commission, and the
boys have erected their own cruz
houses the lumber being given py the
canal authorities. The most OF them
have eight by ten fOCe ShackSs very
rouebIv- finished The scouts are to
have a charter from the national mead
quarters Of New York ana they are TO
be known as the lsthmian scout COM
mission. Not long ago zen Baden
Powell. the commander IN cAleI or the
Bov scouts visited the tsthmus. A
number OF the boys went 10 Colon 70
meet him and the general went over
the work with the scout master and
expressed himself pleased,
Tbe Churches Of the Isthmus.
s-oo5 firbt with the devil is being
yvaqsd nv the Christian churches
which have been organized since we
began our work here Ihere are now
40 on the canal zone Inc Ilrst build
ing authorized was tLS lSOllan Catn-
Ollie chapel in the hospital grounds at
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-05-25
$3.50 Recipe Free, For
Weak Men.
Send Name and Address Today
You Can Have It Free and Be
Strong and Vigorous.

I have fin my possession a prescrip-
ton for nervous debility. lack OF vigOr.
weakened manhood. falling memory
and lame back. brought on by eX-
cesses, unnatural drains, or the fOllfes
of youth. that has cured so many worn
and nervous men right in their own
FOmes-withOut any additional help or
medicine-that ! think every man who
wishes to regain his manly power and
virility, quickly and quietly should
have a copy. 50 I nave determined to
send a copy OF the prescription free OF
charge, IN plain. ordinary sealed en-
yelope to any man who VIII write me
for it.
This prescription comes from a ply
stefan who has made a special study
or men and j am convinced IL is the
surest-acting combination for the cure
or deficient manhood and VigOr failure
ever put together.
i think I owe IL to my fellow man
TO send them a copy In confidence so
that any man anywhere who is weak
and discouraged with repeated failures
may stop drugging himself with harm
lul patent medicines. secure what I be-
neYe is the QuiCkest-acting restorative
upbuHdiug. SPOT TOUCHING remedy
ever devised. and so cure himself ~
home quietly and quickly. Just dr0D
me line like this, Dr. A. f. Robinson
4O4s Luck Building Detroit. Mich and
] VIII send YOU a copy Of this sDIen-
did recipe In plain ordinary envelODe
free OF charge. A great many doctors
would charge $500 10 $500 for merely
writing out prescription like THIS
but / send tt entirely free.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-05-25

flask. and after offering my grand
father a dram took one himself You
must know, sir. that the great phil
anthropist was supposed 10 be q tee
totaler and certainly never took a
drink in the presence Of any OF his
COlonIsrs fOr fear OF setting them d
bad example. That little act shows as
nothing else could the great conf
dence and esteem in which he held
nv worthy prCEenitor."
I was anxioue to hear more OF this
episod-, but feared to get the colonel
started on what was evidently 70 him
an important bit Of family history.
and which suspected. strongly had De-
come q hobby. Some day Ellen shah
walk here with you" he added and
show you the inscriptions on it You
viii find them interesting"
Ellen again. was beginning 70
feel the keenest anxiety 10 meet this
Ellen and TO wonder what she could
behalf cook and half lady had be
gun to think from the little bits I had
picked up concerning her during the
day.
10 be continued in next issue1
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-05-25

AncOn. That was begun in 1903, and
in the year following church and
lodge buildings were constructed at
Gorgona and CristobaI. Since then
land has been granted for churches Of
many denominations and the govern
ment has sold building material at
cost TO those who wish to put up such
structures The commission requires
that there shall be resident chaplains
for the AncOn and Colon hospitals, ana
the parsons or priests have TO visit the
wards Of the hospitals daily and also
TO hold services over such Of the pa
tients as die I have before me list
OF the churches Of the zone They are
OF almost every denomination, but
there seem to be more Episcopal and
Catholic than Of any of the others
There are is chaplains in the commits
sion service, Of whom four are EpiscO-
palians, four Baptists, three Roman
Catholics. two MethOdists. one Wes-
leyan and one Presbyterian There is
city Of Panama to which the communi-
cants from Aucon are carried IN gov
eminent carriages every sunday
Mission Work.
In addition 10 the regular churches
considerable mission work and church
extension work is being done There is
one West Indian mission at Empire,
which has $50 Communicates. and there
are other missions patronized by the
w est Indian negroes There is col
mems cOlOred institute there.
There are also a number OF sunday
schools on the zone. some Tor negroes
and some for whites. The negro sun
day schools are the oldest. those for
white children dating back only 20
1905. The white Sunday schools are IA
in number and their enrolment is
something like 700.
The salvation Army.
The salvation army began its Work
here eight years ago, when one Of the
soldiers from Jamaica came and sub
mitted a plan of salvation 10 the gov
ern0r of the zone He was given q
house in CristObaI and later on the
commission appropriated several thou
sand dollars for a building there This
contains a restaurant, kitchen
reading room and a dOrmitory, includ-
ing bath and toilet rooms 1t has also
and his son
The Salvation army work Is conIlned
almost entirely 10 the negroes, although
at its quarters some whites are also
occasionally registered during one
week the guests included Americans.
English Scotch. scandinavian, Hus-
sions. Bohemians. Jamaicanss CnlLeans-
Far,,v-fars ana Barbadians. More than
so percent OF the men VINO come 70
these quarters pay back what they re-
cefve before leaving the lsthmus, ana
the institution is SELF supporting
T0de-ino- costs % cents night 10 those
who caD nav, and the others nave their
beds free -. ,,-s-..
1,.r eDother salvation building is TO be
erecfed AT Panama, and outpost work I
A. carried on also at GorgOna and En-
pre- Frank G. Carpenter.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-05-25
copvrlght. -. II


ULEBRA. Canal zone. Panama
have headed this letter Uncle
~ sans Fight with the Devil" The
tile is sensational. but it fits the
story. 1t is the fight Of Uncle sam
TO- the souls Of his canal employees
1t tells how he has taken i've or
ten thousand men such as you find at
mining camp or on the frontier has
nut them to work at high wages, ana
s+ the same time has kept them free
from gambling, lust and the otner
ices which have heretofore been al
$50 associated with such OrganlLa-
fio1S Tfrren the French started this
oane1 they Eaptised IL IN enaln pes ne
their officials locked hands win ~
80 and Racchus- They brought
80 --.isFresses with them from Paris,
and graft and extravaganza udiiSe-
beside them over the Canal zone o4
- road to bankruptcy and IlnanclaI
destrucc-cn-
So far. our canal has been pullI
5-eds of millions and no one -aS
$1,000 that a cent OF a dollar has
80 into anything but the actual con-
S+-77ction of the canal or the lesll-
77afe exnenses connected lneIe Y IL
- man that the work mas DeeLl
done in a Christian way by a oou. "a
S-l,rfstian men, whose conduct IS Nor
NV - 5000 as that of any social com
T777initv in the United states OF ne
---o-I5 This il seems to me- IS quite
- -.-onderfuI as the building OF the
canal itself ,.-,.zo
How has 1t been accomplished
1T has been done by the marrying u
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-05-25

Continued from preceding Dagel
in the wind and there was a mournful
cadence i'm the branches, different
from the song we hear In the north
ern forests. The ground was covered
with pine straw. and IL might nave
r,enarations SO thickIy did 10 seem TO
lie. We crossed a branch over which
there had been built an old stone
bridge. now covered with vines
That. sir. was built as memo
rial TO general Oglethorpe" said my
old host seeing my curiosity. for the
bridge vas out of all proportion to
the size of the stream When the
general raid his memorable visit to
rhis place flo was right there, sir. that
he drew from his pocket small
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-05-25

Frank G. Carpenter
business to Christianity; by bringing
TO the front the forces which make
for good and as far as possible elm
mating those which make for the bad >
by throwing thu Y. N. c. A club house
and its attractions as open as the devil
throws open the saloon. and by feeding
the minds and souls OF the men with
the good rather than the bad
The result has been social up
lift rather than a social downfall and
scores OF tile employees who have come
TO Panama viii leave here in a bet
ter sta-e morally than when they ar
rived This fight with the devil Is
every part Of the Canal zone today,
and as far as I can see In every one
of the canal towns the devil Is getting
the worst Of the battle
The CIrbhOuses For Canal Employees.
one Of the most important fea-
lures of the fight is the clubhouses
which have been built for the canal
employees These have been construct
ed by the government, and the eLper-
fenced secretaries Of the Y M .. A.
have been called in to run tnem- Lhey
are so managed that they are largely
self-suppOrting, and the Y N T. -
and the government unite In paying
the deficit I don't know now much
thew run short but their operation
last year cost more than $4,000 A
great part Of this was made up OF
dues and other receipts. Each Of the
two thousand and odd members pays
SO annually. and the restaurants and
billiard rooms bring in a considera-
bic sum.
There are clubhouses of this kind
at every station of Importance along
the Canal zone There is one at Porto
BeIo. on the Caribbean sea, where
there are hundreds of men engaged
in crushing rock for the Gatun locks
There is another at Cristobal adjOin-
ing Colon, the American port on the
Atlantic. and a third II Gatun. where
they are making the dam And then
we have q clubhouse at Gorgona
patroniZed by the men at work in the
shops: another at Empire, at the be-
ginning of the Culebra cut, and one
here at CuIebra, about midway of the
c1t There is also q clubhouse on the
Pacific division of the canal, al Co
roZal
Inside The CIUbhOuses.
wish / could take you into these
buildings. They have all the con
venfences and comforts Of our mems
clubs at home These houses are
Great Davilions surrounded by wide
verandas. so that they are cool and
airy. The walls are yelled in woven
wire netting to keep out The mosqui-
toes. and everything is so large and
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-05-25
How's This?

We offer one Hundred Dollars Re
v-ard for any case of Catarrh that can
not be cured by Halls Catarrh Cure
+. ]. CHENEY < 3 CO 5s,' Toledo. o.
rT.r,ev. for the last Is years. and
believe him perfectly honorable in an
bU[iness Transactions. and financially
sble 10 carry out any obligations made
BY his firm. -,-.,- o
Wholesale Druggists. Toledo. O.
Halls Catarrh cure is taken inter
palIv. acting directly upon the blood
ard mucous surfaces or the system
hottie Sold bv all Druggists.
Take Halls Family pills for consti-
patton.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-05-25
A Greedy Little Fish.

The little fish known as millers
thumb-the fresh water scuipin-is one
Of the natural checks on the overpro-
duction Of trout and salmon It eats
the eggs and the young fish 1t IS
found in nearly all trout waters IT
is very destructive. At an experiment
once made in the aquarium Of the
United States fish commission in Wash
ington. a miller's thumb about four and
one-half inches long ate at a single
meal. and all within a minute or two,
twenty-one little trout each from three
quarters OF an inch TO an inch in
length.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-05-25

roomy that it is cool day and night
All of the buildings have reading
rooms and Libraries They have pool
rooms and billiard rooms They have
well as rooms for checkers, chess and
other games. Each house has its re-
freshment rooms, and in the lobby
there are cigar and candy stands.
Let US take a look at the clubhouse
here at Culebra. It stands high above
the great cut, and so commands IL
that you can see for several miles the
work going on beneath you The build
ing is about 200 feet long and 30 feet
wide We 20 in through the wide
front door which leads to the lobby
or office, which IS also the library
The library contains about 1000 books,
consisting largely Of biography and
fiction, and is well patronized.
The books drawn out at Culebra this
month numbered zoo, and those distrio-
uted throughout the whole zone were
more than 5000.
But liston to the music. 1t comes
from that photograph there at the
right On the opposite side of the
hall is an upright piano, which we
may hear later on
Passing through the lobby we turn to
the right and 80 into the readlng room
This is filled with men in easy chairs
reading and chatting Ihey are IN their
shirt sleeves, and look very com1OrtG-
BILE At one end of the room are two
men playing chess, and at the oppo-
site side several are writing.
The scenes are for all the world like
those Of q big city club in the United
States. The tables are covered with
MAGAZINES Seventy-five Of the best
periodicals and journals are taken and
one can find everything here from sci
ence to fiction AS TO the writing Ia
bles 1000 letters are sent out from this
room every month and from the seven
club houses 5000 or 10000 are mailed
home in that time
In the Billiard Room
But let US go to the other side Of
the hall and enter the billiard room
Every one of these clubhouses has bill
lard tables and cues. The game keeps
the men out of the poolrOoms Of the
saloon, which were nightly filled with
employees before the clubhOuses were
started.
The members pay 80 cents an hour
for the use OF the club tables They
are good players. too, and they have
billiard tournaments Saturday nights,
when the men come in crowds 10 look
on. If you would know just how pOpu-
lar this form Of amusement IS I would
say that 1000 pool games were played
here at Culebra last month, and that
a similar proportion was played at the
other clubhouses- The canal commits
sion and the Y. II c. A believe thai
pool and billiards are good exercise.
and they encourage them. In the
rooms Of the saloons has fallen to
in Culebra. and 1 could not find more
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-05-25
FRANK G. CARPENTER's LETTER.
FRANK G. CARPENTERS LETTER
UNCLE SANS FIGHT WITH
THE DEVIL At PANAMA
ALL ABOUT THE GOVERNMENT AND Y. M
c. A. UPLIFT WORK AT THE CANAL.

The Clubhouses and What They Are Doing A Look at
the Billiard Rooms and Bowling Alleys ANA
Tours Mnstrels and Club Concerts
Talk With the Superintendent
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-05-25

Frank G. Carpenter.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-02-09
Universalist Mems Club.

President Frost of the Universalist
Mems Club has appointed the following
committee to serve the various interests
of the club:
Program, Frank E. Boston chairman,
George Gray, l.. c.. Ballard, w. c. At
kins, Rev. John Evans; membership, w.
b. Jackson chairman, f! L. Clark, Frank
Gray, c. p. Pitcher; refreshments; II. M.
Lawton chairman. VIM. Goodwin, f. Il.
Boston.
The club already has a membership of
about GO and others have expressed their
intention of uniting. The next meeting
will be held in the vestry, Wednesday
evening, Feb. 21 and after that regular
monthly meetings will be held. The pro-
gram committee will provide speaking
and musical programs. and the refresh
ment committee will make arrangements
for the suppers. Those who sign the
membership card and hand it to any one
of the membership committee before the
next meeting will be regarded as charter
members and will receive due notice OF
all meetings.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-02-09
Mrs. Mary e. Hickey.

Mrs. Mary e. Hickey, aged 20. died.
early Thursday morning, at her home
ON Bridge street, after a long and
protracted illness. Six children, Miss
Mary p, Annie e., and Michael j.. of
this city, Mrs. Frank l.. Colby of
Dorchester, Mass, Roger w, of Mill
nocket, and Thomas H. of Augusta;
three sisters, Mrs. Sarah Donovan,
Carson City, New. Mrs. Eugene
Sweeney, Boston, and Mrs. Ellen
Trainer, Bath, and eight grandchil-
dren, survive. A favorite granddaugh-
ter, Mary Buckley Hickey, the little
4-year-old daughter of Mr.. and Mrs
+. Fl. Hickey of Augusta, died, Jan,
30 Mrs Hickey was the widow of the
late Michael j. Hickey. Her parents
Mr.. and Mrs. Roger McNally, emf
grated to this country from Ireland
and settled in Greenville, Me Shortly
after her birth there the family moved
to North Whitefield, Me, where they
remained for long time. She was
married to the late Michael J. Hickey,
in 1864. and seven children blessed
their union, one of whom died. Mrs
Hickey has wide circle of friends
and was greatly beloved by all who
came in contact with her, and the
sunny smile and patient resignation
to the Divine will ever in evidence in
her life remained with her to the end
through the most intense suffering.
Funeral arrangements announced la
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-02-09
The Rines Meetinus.

the subject of the Rines meeting
was Come Up, Come Down, Come
In." The preacher illustrated his sub
Jeet by three passages of Scripture
from Zacheus. The important man at
the pool and the prodigal son. There
is an upper road and there is a down.
ward way and you can take which
ever you choose. 1t takes no courage
to go downward. 1t takes effort to
rise. When you have done your best
to rise, God knows you have done
your best and He will help you up
higher. There are some who need to
come N6ewn. Pride keeps some people
from coming to Christ. Some felix's
make themselves foolish so times a
day for the devil but will not be hum
BILE once for God. About the hardest
thing for some people to do is to
come home and confess their faults.
Come into the fold of God. Confess and
come in.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-02-09
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

Albert Bayes, at Newark, n. J..
Thursday night, shot his wife, tried to
shoot William Schwahl, a boarder, and
then turned the weapon on himself.
Raves and his wife viii probably die,
leaving a 6-year-old daughter, Julia
Mrs. Bayes and her daughter and
Schwahl all left Bayes' house, after
a quarrel, last Monday. and Went to
live with Mrs. Bayes' mother.
George De Hart, the village black
smith, who is dead at his home at
New Brunswick, N. j., shoed horses
for AZ years, but in the past 30 years
he never rode on or behind horse;
he lived close to New York but never
visited the big city," he never rode
in a trolley car railroad train or
automobile. He never married.
She's dead" cried someone. Thurs
day, as Mrs. Annie Churchill. 81 years
old. totally blind and partially par
alyzed for two years, was about to
be taken from a wagon where she Law
phone, into the family's new home in
Brooklyn. The shock the words gave
her reused her to protesting effort
and in twinkling she had regained
ilST SiSHt. Jliiis Oiiiif faAiC NV
her husband. II can see" Her loss of
vision was caused by paralysis and
The shock she sustained ON being
taken for a corpse, Thursday, is be-
lieved to have restored her sight.
The Yellow Pine Manufacturers As
ISOLATION, at its closing session at New
Orleans, Thursday, elected the follow
ing officers President, s. j. Carpen-
ter, Winfield, La; secretary, George
*, Smith, st. Louis; treasurer, Q. A..
Axley, Warren, Ark. For advertising
the use wood against cement. iron and
other substitutes, it WAS decided to
levy an assessment of two cents per
100 feet on all lumber manufactured
by members of the association. This
will mean an income of $4,000 year
to be devoted to advertising purposes.
Half of the fund will be used in ex-
plotting yellow pine and other half is
assigned to the general advertising
campaign of the National Lumber
Manufacturers Association, in the fight
against substitutes for wood. Resolu-
tons We're adopted favoring reasonable
conservation legislation, and opposing
the policy of the government, in cut
ting down the appropriation for fire
protection " the national forests.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-02-09
Patrick cavanaugh was granted

Patrick Cavanaugh was granted a
pass. Thursday to visit his home in
Augusta.
Moving pictures here, Friday eve
ming. Tickets win be on sale in the
wash room, 11.G0 to / O'Clock.
Martin Nolan of Augusta, formerly
"a member of the Home, was brought
here, Thursday, for treatment and was
assigned TO the hospital r. \, p.
General Francis $, Heseltine of Bos-
ton will deliver an address here. Mon
day evening, on abraham Lincoln"
The funeral of the late Charles J..
Tourtellotte will be held from the
Home chapel at p. III, Friday, Rev.
II. S. Burrage officiating. Capt. Oak
man will be in command of the escort.
Miss Caroline q. Fuller left, Thurs
day for Bangor. after passing a few
days as the guest of her brother, O. j,
Fuller
An increase in pension has been re-
.ceived for John Fl. Cole. late Co. ID,
LIST Mass. Cav, and Lewis Rivers, late
Co X. ID Mass. Inf, both to $50 per
month.