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low new hotel near the station and
others will probably be erected. The rates.
at these hotels are less than at the
Tivol.
On the Cabs and Cars
outside your hotel there Is little to
spend. The fares on the railroad are
cents a mile, but the distances are short.
The cabs at Colon and Panama cost only
10 cents gold a trip or 81 per hour. The
carriages are secondhand vlctorias, with
dinner bells at the front under the bed,
which the drivers ring with their feet to
keep the street traffic out of the way.
The negro drivers are less impudent than
our cabbies at home. although they will
get all they can, irrespective of the tariff.
If you should be travelling along the
line of the canal you can have your meals
with employees at Uncle Sans hotels at
a cost of 50 cents each. and there are lit
tie restaurants at Colon and Panama
where food is cheap.
The Time Needed
One should allow at least three weeks
from New York or New Orleans for the
canal trip, with perhaps four less from
New Orleans. 1t will take you 10 days or
two weeks to go from your port to Colon
and return one week each way. You Will
need at least a week for the isthmus. One
whole day or two should be spent at the
Gatun dam, and that is little enough. The
mighty dam should be gone over from
one end to the other and trips along tina
canal out to the Atlantic should be taken.
and then, there are the great locars and
gates, which are worth a day. A second
day should be devoted to the Cu1ebra out,
watching the drillings for dynamite and
the mighty explosions: the steam shovd
and the air COMPRISING machines, and
the endless rivers OF rock and earth Should
be followed on the Mdgerwood cars down
to the dumps. All of the above PLACES
can be visited on the rlIbber-neck nainA
which are run for tourists at 81 a trip
A day should be spent on the water *
the Pacific end of the canal, going out to
the islands, where the Notifications are
being erected, and another day can be do
voted to Balboa. At that place they are
building up the ground for city. and
the handling of the earth and rock may
be seen. They are also constructing he
dry dock and the terminals.
Then another day should be devoted to
the locks and arrangements at Mirafores
and Pedro MIGUEL. There is a great deal
to be seen in the shops along the line Of
the canal and at the various places on tho
railroad in the canal zone. In addition
to this there Is Panama, old and new:
the Island of Taboga, and the old city OF
Porto Bello. You may also make trips
off into the tropical jungle, and can, If
you will, extend your visit TO several
weeks. FRANK @. CARPENTER.
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thought of the money end than of the op-
portunity a position affords He is play
ing for the biggest thing In the engineer
ing sphere. These he expects to be in line
for in due season He still is a student.
He even went to the extent recently of
employing tutor Of the highest grade to
coach him in one particular branch of
technical study. He is as ardent. as earn
est and as ambitious today as he was
when he worked for $40 month as a
filter in the ship yards at Newport News
And he has not celebrated his both birth
day yet.
He had to come north recently to re-
port as to progress on the Gillian enter
prise. On his way to New York he WIS.,
tied Petersburg and Richmond In the
Virginia capital he went around and took
a looksat the structure he built as a.
boy. 1t is not eight stories any longer
-Four have been added to the eight he
put up and the structure is not out of
plumb. 1t is monument to the skill of
the boy who built Richmond's first sky
scraper
Copyright, 1912, by Richard spillane.)
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Colon Anyone who thinks of coming TO
Panama should write and engage rooms
beforehand, and that enough in advance
to have some prospect of gettlng them.
Otherwise he is liable TO be forced to re-
main on his steamer and perhaps leave
without visiting the places he most wants
to see.
have recently received many letters
as to the cost of seeing the canal and the
time needed for the trip. As to the cost,
i is comparatively little outside the steam
ship passage from New York or New Or
leans and the steamship +rates are not
high. The trip from New York to Colon
costs $40. and from New Orleans the first
class fare is SIS less. There are a number
of good lines. Uncle Sam has the steam
ers of the Panama railway, which I am
told are by no means the best. And then
there is the Hamburg American company
and the Royal Mail, and last but not least
are the ships of the United States Fruit
company All of these go from New York
and most of them stop at Cuba or Jamaica
giving you taste of those islands on the
way.
The United Fruit company also has
line of steamers, two every week, from
New Orleans to Colon, and the seas are
more likely TO be smooth NIoI cover, one
of the freight steamers each week calls at
Puerto Barrios. Guatemala AMI Port Ii
mon, Costa Rica, and some even take in
Bocas del Toro the great banana port at
the northern end Of the Panama republic.
The vessels of all the lines are fairly COM
Portable. They are ships of 5000 tons or
more and the meals are good.
The Hotels of the isthmus
Landing at Panama the average travel
er will do well not to stop at Colon or
Cristobal, but go direct across the isthmus
By railroad to the Tivoli hotel at Ancon,
or to some hotel at Panama. The Tivoli
Is by far the best. and as 1t Is managed
by the United States government Il Is
managed on the principle of first come
first served. The hotel is kept on the
American plan-that is there Is one
charge for both rooms and board The
price for a single room for one person is
Sc a day and upward, but by putting more
than one in a room this rate is shaded
and it is possible to stop for 81 day or
even less If one stays for some time. The
ordinary rate however, is s. a day and
more, and room and bath will cost at
least that The hotel has good bathing
ARRANGEMENTS and baths are not charged
extra.
In addition to this are the hotels In
Panama city. There is the old Central,
which is mlserably poor in comparison
with the Tivoli. 1t is run on the Spanish
plan, but so far 1t has had so much
travel that there have been few induce
ments to put In Improvements. There is
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Copyright, 1912 by Frank G. qhrpenter.)
Cristohal, Canal Zone. PanaSu l.
TRANCE things at Pauftna! We
have plenty of them-. ard some
~ which make ones egesh bulge out
fise saucers. This Is the hrgart of the
tropics. and the sun worksi dixie dyn-
Gino. Nevertheless I have, here seen
boys snowballing at monday They had
real snow and were plugging away at
each other under the oosoanut palms.
Tropica al plants were growing iuxurlantly
about them and orchids 3hung from the
norches of a accommodating nearby.
The snow came from tire cold storage
plant. and 1t was made up OF the ice
shavings Of Uncle Sam factory. The
government is now makhag several thous-
and tons of Ice every month, and it can
turn out 400 gallons Of ice cream day.
IT sends out an icy cold storage train
evers. morning. and icss cream is sold at
such rates that every canal family can
have it Sunday, and. : If it will, several
times during the week..
Streams Which Flow Oil
Another strange thing is the streams
which flow OIL we. have hundreds Of
them on the zone. They have coated
them on the zone They are coated with
scum, and and the scum is petroleum.
You look about in, vain for derricxs and
flowing gas wells. There is nothing of
the kind. The OILY comes from the sani-
tary department. and IL is supplied by
an army which, coates every stream.
This is to kill the mosquitoes. and the
means of furnis hing 1t are various. In
some places 1t leaks out of reservoirs
from pipes whlch drip, drip, drip oil
all day and might. In others the oil is
from machines which spray II over
vegetation and into the streams. and
I'm still other n5laces from great tin cans
made for the purpose, which are hung
over the ponds, dripping only so much
at time H1l this is to fight the mos
quito, the 1ittle beast being hunted as
though he were lion or a tiger on the
banks of an East Indian river.
The Fruits of the Isthmus
What would you think of a fruit
which CONTAINS so much pepsin that it
will digest buckwheat cakes. welsh
rarebit asnd greasy pork chops? We
have 1T down here. 1t looks like q
muskmelon and 1t grows at the top of
n tree not unlike small palm. This
fruit is +, the papaya and you may have
st any snerning at almost any hotel.
1t is eaten with sugar or salt. l find
1t delicious.
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boss. The contractor, realizing his own
limitations and crediting the youngster
with far more knowledge than he really
had, depended on him absolutely. The
boy took charge of the blue prints, as
sembled the steel. designated Its placing
overlooked the riveting and superintendent
the construction of the whole frame of the
structure.
The building was not much of a sky
scraper as sl1yscrapers go today but 1t
was big for that city and that period. 1t
was eight stories high. and 1t was mighty
well built. The architect never knew how
narrow an escape he had from having his
plans miscarry. Probably it is just as
we'll But that contractor did not have
much gratitude in his system. If ii had
not been for George Tailferro that con-
tractors reputation would have been
blghted. and he probably would have lost
a lot of money on that contract. but the
boy who saved him from disaster only
got $50 y month for the time he worked
on Richmond's skyscraper.
The lad who had been receiving $40 a
month looked upon $50 month as good
deal of money, and when the skyscraper
was completed Talliferro was perfectly
content. The contractor wanted to re-
tain his services, but the boy had other
ideas. He had supreme confidence in him
self and knew exactly what he wanted to
do.
He went to Pittsburg. got work in one
of the mills and remained there long
enough to get a thorough schooling in
steel making. While he was in the mill
he studied chemistry, studied ores and
put in as many hours as he could spare
in the Libraries. He practiced the most
rigid self-denial to buy books he required.
He longed for a college education. but he
could not see his way clear 10 it. He
was beginning to dream of big things. but
him. He had the courage to be patient.
From Pittsburg lie went to Washington
and got q job in the Geological Survey
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lean work. His familiarity with the
making OF steel, too, was of decided
value. But greatest of all, perhaps. was
the width of knowledge he obtained in
those three years In the Geological Sur
vey. To all this practical training he had
added the earnest study of years of every
thing that was good and instructive that
related to his profession
Unusually clever men do not remain
undiscovered, no matter what part of the
world they may be in. Talliferro, buried
away in one of the advance posts of the
Southern Pacific. was surprised one day
to get call to New York. A powerful
syndicate had obtained concessions in
Bolivia and wanted an engineer to go
there and locate railroad The head of
the syndicate had consulted some OF the
big men in the engineering world, and
they had recommended Talliferro. He
went to Bolivia and surveyed the line and
built the road. He had found time to
learn Spanish despite all the study he
had put in other fields. and this knowl-
edge of Spanish was of considerable aid
to him in Bolivia. Before this railroad
was completed he had an offer from an
other syndicate of which J. Pierpont Nor
gan was the head to take charge of some
development work they had in Bolivia.
They offered him $4,000 a year for his
services. He was only q, bun he declined.
From Bolivia he went to Chilli, and now
he is building railroad there for a group
of American capitalists. He has some
wonderful engineering problems to solve.
as the road crosses the Andes There are
tunneling. bridging and grades that would
81 rx.r,<<r H.
But the young Virginian is equal to the
task.
He passed the $4,000 a year mark some
time ago and is getting to be considered
one of the great railroad engineers in the
world. If he were not SO young he prob
ably would command a bigger salary than
he receives today. But he still has less
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of the Department of the Interior as a
surveyor. He was sent west. and for
three years Travelled in that great dis
trct between the Missouri and the Pa
cific. the Rio Grande and the Columbia,
surveying coal lands and other mineral
properties.
There is not very much money for the
workers in the Geological Survey, but it
is great practical school. He lived out
of doors most of the time and enjoyed
glorious health. From Washington he
got all of the books he desired. He got
an experience that was invaluable, and
when he left the government service he
had the choice OF half dozen positions
He took one with the Southern Pacific
railroad and became an assistant to one
OF the company's greatest engineers,
George W. Boschke 1t was at time
when Hartman was doing a lot OF rail-
road construction. Mountains were being
cut down to shorten lines, rivers We're
being harnessed to prevent them from
tearing away miles and miles OF track
i'm times of overflow, grades were being
lowered TO increase the size or trains,
and hundreds of miles of new line were
being built into Mexico. Talliferro was
one of the ablest young men In the engin-
eering corps and had all sorts OF chances
for promotion and increase of pay, Sew
eral times he refused promotion because
the additional duties the new work would
entail might interfere with his studies
He did not think of money or position so
much as for the opportunity to fit him
self for big things. The Southern Pacific
has a great corps of engineers and there
was hardly one man there who had so
wide an experience as the young Vir-
einian, but Talliferro did not think so and
was not content. You would not think
that ship building would be an aid to a
man building railroad In the heart OF
Mexico. but Talifesro found that some OF
the things he learned ut Newport News
We're of great benefit to him in his Mex
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From the Philadelphia Bulletin.
The late George B. Cluett believed pro-
foundly in temperance.
Mr.. Cluett, at a temperance dinner. once
said:
In the moonshine district where the
whisky looks like water and Is drunk like
water. strange ideas prevail as to what
intoxication really is.
I'm a moonshine village one Saturday
afternoon a man lay in the broiling sun
in the middle of the road with an empty
bottle by his side.
He's drunk; lock him up the sheriff
said.
But woman interposed hastily.
q No. he hain't drunk she said. I Jest
seen his fingers move.
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herds of cattle are feeding upon. The
cattle are rounded up by the ranainanian
cowboys on horseback. and the scenes are
not unlike those of the Argentine pampas.
the northern part of the Panama republic
is largely of this nature and l. devoted
to grazing, having large herds of cattle
Gorgeous Flowers of Sweet Perfume
have frequently seen 1t stated that the
flowers Of the isthmus do not smell. This
Is rot true of the most of them. There
afe many which give forth delicious per-
funle and load the air with their scent.
Indeed Panama is a land of flowers.
There are great trees of red, yellow and
blue that may be seen from the cars on
the way across the isthmus. and orchids
and other air plants by the thousands
hang fro mthe branches. They clothe the
limbs and trunks of dead trees and make
them alive.
Mr. Gudger, Uncle Sans chief justice
of the canal zone, has vine covering the
porch of his house near the Tlvoli hotel
This vine bears a yellow flower which
looks like a rose. The justice calls it the
Tivoll vine. Just below this place is
tree which bears green leaves on top and
rust red beneath. When the sun strikes
them the under sides of the leaves shine
like FURNISHED copper, and the look as
though they were busted with gold mixed
with a copper alloy.
I have already written Of the orchid col
lections OF the ladies of the isthmns. Near
iy every one of prominence has her veran-
da loaded with them, and MANI produce
flowers of exquisite beauty Others Of the
ladies run to ferns, having every variety
from those whose fronds are as fine and
silky as the hair of a baby to great trees
the branches of which extend out at the
top like an umbrella and shade many
square feet.
Queer Tourists at Panama
Among the queer thing of the canal zone
are the people who are rushing down here
to see it. Some stay but day and 9TH
ers 20 through on the rubber-neck trains
which give a panoramic view of each of
the works in the space of two hours. The
ignorance of some of these tourists as to
geographical matters is astounding. One
woman who passed through last week was
alarmed as to the probable effect the cut
ting through of the canal might have on
our hemisphere. She wanted to know
what would become OF South America
when it was cut loose, and asked whether
it would not drop off and be lost when the
great gorge was cut through.
Another engineer gave me today con-
versation which he had just overheard
hetweei two rival women tourists. One
had spent the day at the Culebra cut and
the other had been at the Gatun dam.
Each was boasting of the wonders they
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spring chicken. 1t is delicious and COM
pares in some respects with the diamond
back terrapin from the waters of Chess
apeake bay
The Vegetation of Panama
You have heard that Panama is a jungle
and your idea of the isthmus is perhaps
a mighty palm garden. There are plenty
of palms, but there are also other trees
of a hundred varieties. There are great
forests of hardwoods. with palms here
and there scattered through them There
are scores of plants the names of which
are not known to the ordinary traveller
and many of which are new to the bot
anists
There are also plants and woods which
the Indians use for medicinal purposes,
some of which are practically unknown to
our pharmac sts The cacique wood will
stop blood, and the Indians use it
for all kinds of cuts. They say that 1t
will even stop hemorrhages If one takes
hold of 1t, and that by busting some pow
der from it over a cut the blood will cease
running.
>There is another tree here which is
an ant.dote for snake poisoning. and a
plant the Juice of which Is an emetic that
will turn the strongest stomach inside out.
I know a zone official who had heard of
this plant and wished to test IT, He was
out hunting with a friend and the two
agreed that they would each drink cup
OF tea made of the juice. 1t vas sweet
and easily swallowed. moment later,
however both men made a rush for the
door and as the engineer said, they
thought that their boots were coming up
through their threats.
A little further south are trees from the
bark of which the Indians make blankets
and the straw which Is woven into Pan
anna hats.
Like the Cradle of Moses
The isthmus of Panama has the papyrus
plant similar to that which formed the
cradle of little Moses when ne lay in the
bulrushes and to that of which The paper
used by the ancient Egyptians was made.
There are great beds of papyrus to be
seen from the cars on the ride across the
sthrnus 1t is long reed with a tassel
ike read which grows in the swamps,
1t is enc of the chief plants of the upper
Nile and ! have seen vast tracts of 1t In
the lower part of the Sudan.
Another queer thing according to our
American notions, is the grass of the 18TH
mus. We usually look upon this country
as nothing but jungle. The truth is that
there are pasture lands in the Panama
republic, and within one mile Of the riv-
oil hotel at Ancon one may enter a land
scape that is not unlike parts Of Ohio and
Indiana. These are the savannas, a roll
ing country covered with grass upon that
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spring chicken 1t is delicious and COM
pares in some respects with the diamond
back terrapin from the waters of Chess
apeake BAY
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1912-09-26

$50 you want II position in my FIRM"
said the merchant to the applicant.
We'll N were you IN your last
jobf"
"A doer. sir. answered the sad eyed
applicant.
What's thatE' asked the employer
We'll. sir. said the sad eyed one.
II was the dner. and the rest were the
tellprs When my u nor wanted Il
thing done ne wonld tell the cashier.
the cashier would tell it to the book
keeper. aud the b~ookkeeper would tell
it to his assistant. his assistant would
tell it to the chief clerk. and the chief
clerk would tell it To me"
And what would happen them
We'll. sir. replied the sad eyed ap-
plicant. "as hadn't got any one to
mention il Ia I'd 70 and do it."-New
York Evening Sun.
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superintendent Sister Marie. who
will have charge of the local hospits
has taught ten years in village and
district schools, has graduated from
college and st. Louis Deaconess Hos
pital. Was superintendent and head
nurse of the large Beatrice. Nebr.,
Minnonite hospital. Sister Martha
graduated from college, taught sew
eral years and took her nurse train
ing course at Beatrice. Sister Anna
has attended various schools of
music and art and gra duated from
ST. wayne Bible and Training school
she worked in the city
mission several years. She also too
her nurse and Deaconess course at
the Beatrice hospital.
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QU|PS
An lnterparochiaI Affair.

Och. there's divil a parish al all
Like this one o St Paul
Here the winter begins wild the fan.
An II sticks TO the middle o. May.
Streets an houses an people are gray.
An the nigh; lends its hue to the day,
For the blessed suns light hangs like fog
or the walls
Where a man does be Twin his lone in
st. Paups.
Faith. It's odd that the sa me parish plan
Gave so much to St Ann
There's one parish that's fit for a mar
Wild a hunger for warmth an for light.
It's a comfort to find day an night
streets an houses an people so bright,
FOR there's summer warm hearts an
there's kind. open hans
An a girl wild a face like a rose in st.
AIMS.
In a parish Just over the line
Called St. John the Divine
There's a coy new cot. an it's mine
Och. It's | will have throuble to hide
From my face all the Joy an the pride
That my heart will be feelin' inside
When next Sunday at mass they'll be
readin the banns
70 meself o 81. PauI's and h~erself&
ST. AIMS.
IT A DAILY In Catholic Standard and
Times
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Eddie Morris left Friday morn.
ing TO attend school at the univer-
SHY Of Wisconsin located at Madison
On account of the absence NJ
Gilbert. there were no services
In the Congregational church Sun
day.
James Lance, Sr., threshed 237
pusnels of barley from eight acres
OF ground OF an average of % to
the acre.
Lea Ihorne, of Dempsey, is a
visitor with relatives and friends in
ms valley. He lived here a few
years ago.
VIM. zahl and sister. Mrs. John
Baker, who were called east on ac-
count Of the death of their father,
returned home Thursday.
Mrs. Emily Degood and daughter.
MISS Stella, after an extended visit
with the family of James Gould.
left for their home in Marengo, Ia.
Thursday.
On the occasion Of the dance to
iven by the Young Ladies Asso-
citation on the evening of Oct. IS,
the Salt Lake orchestra will furnish
the music.
Wheat is being hauled out at the
rate OF 10 to II loads per day, the