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former minister to Portugal AS a child
she played with the deposed King Manuel
Several years ago the former playmates
met in London.
Mrs. Hepburn, wife Of Senator Weldon
b. Hepburn Of Idaho. is an artist who
has Won honors with the brush and paint
ed the portraits OF many famous men
She was Gheretain Yeatman before her
marriage, and comes of old Pennsylvania
Quaker stock.
When 1t comes to stenography, book
keeping and typewriting, not a few of the
young ladies' Of the congressional get are
already prepared as experts. Miss Eliza
beth c. Harris, daughter of the Repre-
sentative from Massachusetts. who has
taken the place of Gov. Foss I'm Congress.
is one OF these and few government
clerks work harder or have longer hours
than MISS harris. Many members have
their wives and daughters as secretaries.
but usually they also have practical
stenographers to take up the burden.
Mrs. Humphrey OF the state of Washing
ton, acts as her husbands secretary, but
les letters and addresses However, Mrs
Humphrey has the executive ability,
which is an essential equipment for the
battle OF life, which oftimes comes unex-
pectedly to women regardless Of previous
Mrs. Harvey w. Wiley. wife of the
former government chemist. was Miss
Anna Campbell Kelton before her mar
riage. one Of the daughters of the late
Gen. Kelton. The fact that Mrs Wiley
held q salaried position in the Congress
sional Library before she was married Is
proof enough Of her ability to be a wage
Garner of the best type. In addition Mrs
Wiley has thrown herself into the larger
field OF practical philanthropy, showing
the finest sort Of a womanly spirit She is
president of the Washington branch OF
the Consumers League. an organisation
which contends for healthful conditions
for the factory worker and the con-
sumner.
If. as 1t is claimed. women are more
successful than men in the management
of horses with their art Of delicate manip-
ulation and the faculty Of bringing out
the best there Is in them, there are sew.
eral well known social celebrities Of the
capital who could distinguish themselves
in the line Of managers or heads OF rid
ing schools, and earn thereby q living
that would be pleasing all around. No
one doubts this who has seen Mrs Clar-
ence Watson. wife of the new senator
from West Virginia. manage her own
splendid horses. especially when they
were entries at the horse show last
spring. Mrs. Watson demonstrated that
muscular power is not necessary asset
in this delicate and wOmanly art. Miss
Katherine Ellxins IL an expert IN the
Of horDcs. AZ Is also A1iW
Marion Oliver. daughter Of the aryt a.
sistant secretary Of war.
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plenty of money, and by the aid Of con-
federates on the outside he was enabled
to saw his way out and escaped. We
captured him, however, on a boat near the
Colombian coast. On his return to prison
he expressed his disgust with the Canal
Zone he said he had been in the white
slave" trade for more than twenty years.
had operated in many countries. and he
had been able to fix" matters with
public officials everywhere but here. We
regarded that statement as quite COM
pliment to official conditions here"
How about the courts of Uncle Sam
down here?''
I'VE have q good Judiciary. There are
district courts. circuit courts and a su-
preme court. We have a counsel and
chief attorney, prosecuting attorney and
an assistant prosecuting attorney, and a
number of attorneys have been admitted
to practice in the various courts. Last
year between five and six thousand GRIM
inal cases were handled and over 1900
Of the defendants were convicted. About
1900 civil cases were handled: most of
these were Of a minor character"
what other divisions are there in the
department OF civil administrations"
Several. We inspect all vessels COM
ing into zone waters, and this work is
performed by board Of inspectors.
There lis also a division of posts, customs
and revenue. Our postal service issues
money orders to the amount of over So
100000 q year. We are now installing
postal savings system. Annually, between
sixty and seventy thousand mail pouches
and sacks are handled on the railway
which runs across the isthmus. We col
lect all taxes and issue all licenses. There
are some saloons on the zone, and the
men who conduct them pay a license of
500 q month each. Saloons are run
mostly by Chinese. and are orderly
places. Our division of fire protection
will. believe, compare in efficiency with
any in the states. Then we have a divi-
sion Of public works. which operates not
only In the zone. but also maintains the
water street and sewer systems in the
cities of Panama and Colon and collects
all the water rentals of these cities, the
same going to repay the United States
for the cost Of constructing these sys-
TENS. We also have q zone treasurer and
a zone auditor. And there Is the division
or schools. which provides educational
facilities for children Of the zone equal to
those provided in the best graded schools
OF the states. We have a high school at
Gatun, to which children from all zone
points are transported by railroad, and a
subsidiary high school as Ancon. Indeed.
We have all the branches which are char
acteristic Of territorial government
FRANK G. CARPENTER.
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TO rise to the exigencies of the situation.
Mrs. Taft could earn her living In q
most enviable avocation. What is more
delightful than the career Of q concert
virtuoso? Hard work, OF course, accom-
panies the prepa ration, and nerve strain,
too, but no one who has heard Mrs. Tart s
rare technical skill and that sensitive. ex-
pressive touch of the educated musician
could doubt for q minute that she could
rank high up among American pianists
Were teaching considered more desira-
BILE by the Presidents wife she Is pre-
pared, by education and experience. to
do so. She has been In former days q
teacher I'm the Cincinnati Musical Con-
servatory. an institution OF high rank IN
musical circles. The atmosphere OF music
which prevails at the White House since
Mrs. Taft has been in residence there 10
one Of the greatest charms OF the place.
The blue parlor, when not prepared Tor
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them in jail and have them tried in our
zone courts. We have a penitentiary at
Culebra and jails at the various towns on
the zone. The penitentiary is a model Of
its kind. The prisoners are credited with
good conduct and they can thus shorten
their terms Of Imprisonment. They are
also graded and clothed according to con-
duct. and we find this has greatly inn
proved the prison discipline and the eff
cheney Of prison labor. We now have 145
convicts in the penitentiary. Two are in
for life. for ten years or more, u have
received fve-year sentences, % two-year
sentences and about so have been sem
fenced for one year. We employ the con-
and the results are excellent"
What is the future Of the social cond-
tions at the ends of the canal? Will
Panama and Colon be pious towns or will
and Port Said, the two pestholes at the
ends Of the Suez. canal?"
Il believe they will be far different
from the towns on the Suez canal" said
the governor of the zone. Under our ar
rangement with the Panamanian govern
ment we have joint jurisdiction with it
as to immigration, and it is the policy Of
the two governments to work together to
S-~SAUS vASAoaC ShoA dStSiC. VI Soui SCp
there is some wickedness going on in the
cities at the two ends Of the canal, but
the effort has been to minimize it. I'm
desirable characters from all over the
world are attracted here because Of the
canal work and the large sums Of money
being paid out, and they would
overrun these cities except for watchful-
ness in the matter of immigration. The
act of Congress makes 1t unlawful to
bring into or through the Canal Zone
women for immoral purposes, and We are
keeping them out of the zone and are
doing everything possible to assist in
keeping this evil within bounds in the two
cities. We have recently secured two
convictions in the Canal Zone courts
against "white-slave" traders who had
attempted to bring women through the
zone into the city of Panama. These
convictions have had very salutary eff
feet. "White-slave" traffic through the
port of Colon has been practically broken
UP, and IL its victims get into the city of
Panama they must come in small boats
or must Journey overland. Either course
is q difficult one. Practically all the
ships coming into Panama on the Pacific
side make port at Balboa, the zone har-
Dor. and we prevent ''undesirables'' from
landing from such ships. short time
ago we arrested ''white-slave' trader
and secured his conviction on the charge
of having violated in the Canal Zone the
"white-slave" law, and he was sentenced
to twenty-one months Imprisonment In
the zone penitentiary at Culebra. He had
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roulet: the zone would be peppered with
saloons, and 1t Would be very unsafe to
go about after dark. How is 1t here?"
There is no comparison between our
conditions and those which you have de-
scribed,'' said the governor. I'VE have
no public gambling in this part Of Uncle
Sans territory. T doubt whether you
can find as good order in any city OF the
United States as right here in these set
Elements along the canal. You must re-
that the most of our workmen
are single men. They have their quar-
tiers free and they live in camps or bar
racks near where they work. The lights
in those barracks go out every night at
8 o'clock. and every one Is compelled to
be quiet, 30 that the others may sleep.
The fact that married quarters have been
generally provided for white American
employees and their families, I believe,
has greatly aided in establishing stable
social conditions
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owed many Of the fashions that came
about at the time OF her marriage to her
fertile brain. Not only could she sug-
gest the fashion for a gown, but she
could cut and fit it as we'll: she could rip
her bonnet to pieces, press, steam the
materials and make II over to suit her
own taste. She could embroider and knit
and even do up her finest laces, and yet
none of these employments interfered
with her progress in music or the study
OF the literature of the day.
Commendable as these requirements
were, IL is probable that the beloved
queen dowager could pursue them at best
in only an amateur way. IL bankruptcy
any similar misfortune had overtaken
her princely husband she would have
been employed instantly by any cos
tuner. milliner or firm, for her embroid-
cry and laces. owing to the prestige Of
her name and position, would have been
a tremendous drawing card for the firm
handling them.
There are many women at the nation
capital who, while not boasting royal
blood, are equally capable of earning
their own livelihood should they be
forced to do so. They have developed
every social talent and cultivated every
fine and pleasant taste simply for the
love OF II. The wings that wealth some
times take unto itself may never force
them into the position Of wage earners.
But II fate SO decreed, they are equipped
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COME Are Artists, Stenog-
- raphers and Skilled Bust
ness Women-Various Ac-
complishments That Could
Be Turned Into Ready Cash
in Case of Necessity-Wom-
en- Who Serve as Secretaries
to Their Husbands-China
Painters and Musicians of
the Capitals Social Set.
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CANAL. ZONE .FRE. DEPARTMENT

the zone, The total number of arrests
was 538, and Of the offenders arrested 4S7
were men and 81 women. Now, note the
nationalities They come from fifty differ
emit countries. Here are 81 from Jamaica,
1872 from Barbados, Is from Trinidad and
81 from Martinique, 4S from Spain. 80
from Panama and 46 from the United
States; are from British Guiana, &
from Fortune Island, from India and 3
from China. Among the others are Gu
bans. Germans, Greeks Italians and
Mexicans, 1 from Finland, 1 from Tunis
in north Africa and from New Zealand.
This gives you some idea of our mixed
population"
What are the offenses?"
'"They are mostly petty ones. A num-
Der are for violation Of the sanitary and
revenue laws, some for cruelty to ami
mails, some for fighting and drunkenness
and other forms Of disorder. few for
non-support Of wives and families. tive or
three are for homicide, some for burg
larry, 81 are for vagrancy, 2 for cock
fighting, and included in the total are the
arrests of soldiers for being absent
without leave
What do you do with these men after
you arrest them?'
IF they are unable to give bond we put
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But does it not require large police
force to keep the people in order?'
mo. Our policemen are men OF ex-
perfence. The chief Is Col. ]. p. Fyne
and the assistant chief is Capt C. w.
Barber Of the United States Army Both
men have had military experiences, and
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GOVERNOR II. HIHATcHER HEAD OF
DEPARTMENT Or CIVIL ADMINISTRATOR
CANAL, ZONE.

a little sugar cane and usually some yuc-
cas-. yams and other tropical vegetables.
The natives live for the most part on
what they produce in this way, and carry
the surplus over the trails or haul it by
boat to market. A part Of the work OF
civil administration Is to keep these trails
open. We are now clearing the trails
preparatory to the taking of q zone CEN
Sus.
"Macadamized roads are also being built
through the zone," the governor went on.
I'VE now have q good automobile road
running along the line OF the canal from
This road cannot be extended beyond
Gorgona, since Gatun lake, as 1t will be
ultimately formed, will extend to Gorgona
and cover nearly all the area between
Gorgona and Gatun. On the Atlantic
side there is a macadamized road from
Gatun to Colon. a distance of about
seven and one-half miles,"
Tell me something Of the people who
are now living on the zone"
the canal work. Nearly every. race and
locality of the globe Is represented.
There are Cinnamon. East Indians ma
tives OF South and Central America, and
tens OF thousands of negroes from the
Of the silver employees are from Jamaica,
Barbados. Trinidad, st. Kits, Mar
Unique, and others of the West Indian
islands. These people are English speak
.A6, AOI TIC most part, 0ltnOugh those
from Martinique speak French and we
have some Spanish-speaking negroes from
Colombia and Venezuela. We have
Spaniards from the northern part OF the
Iberian peninsula, and also Italians.
Greeks. Armenians and men of other
nationalities."
How many whites have you?"
About 1900. OF these 5000 are
Americans engaged on the canal This
includes the engineers high-grade me-
chanics and clerical employees. Another
5000 Of the whites are the wives and
children Of the American employees, and
in addition we have about 5000 white
European laborers."
How many negroes have you?"
Nearly 10000. should say
But is not such q varied population
hard to control? I should think It would
be very much like that of a mining camp
in the wilds Of our west or of a con-
struction gang which is building a
railroad through a new country. II that
population were in the United States
everything would be wide open. There
would be faro games. poker games and
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YER thirty years
ago much was
written about the
womanly accom-
plishments of AL
exandra, then the
Princess Of Wales.
and afterward the
Queen OF England.
1t was said she
could design q
gown and that the
feminine world
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"A LII About the Ten
"A Mile Strip Which Bor-
ders the Panama Canal-Its
Queer Population and How
It Is Ruled-A Land of
Many Races and Many Coun-
tries-How Law and Order
Are Kept-The Jails and
the Culebra Penitentiary
Keeping Out the White
Slaves-Something About the
Courts, the Public Works and
the Schools-A Chat With
Gov. Thatcher.
Copyright. 1912, by Frank G. Carpenter)
Special Correspondence Of The Star.
ANCON, Canal Zone, Panama.
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Canal Zone, a little strip of land ten miles
wide and about fifty miles long, extending
from one side of the isthmus of Panama
to the other. This strip is winding and
st runs back five miles on each side of
our great canal. 1t contains altogether
just about half as much land as Rhode
Island. and It's population is not far from
that of Nevada, which is more than fifty
times as large.
Just now this strip is the liveliest of
all of Uncle Sans dominions. 1t has
a more cosmopolitan population, and it
is doing more work than any other. 1t
is a beehive of ACTIVITY from one end
to the other, and millions of dollars are
being shoveled into 1t In the many forms
of construction which will make the COM
pleted canal.
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TIA v - just naO 9
long talk with Gov.
NJ. III. Thatcher,
the man who. un-
der the President
and chairman of
the commission. Is
the ruler Of the
little principality
which Uncle Sam
owns on the 18TH
mus of Panama.
His territory is the
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1t is not far from eighty degrees the year
round. You are now here in the dry sea-
son, but in the wet we have a rainfall
which Is about 145 inches at Colon, and
about seventy-five inches here at Pana-
ma. II all the water that falls at Colon
in one year should drop on the level and
not flow away it would make lake more
than twelve feet in depth. During the
dry season, which lasts from January to
April, there is almost no rain, and you
need no umbrella, unless you wish it for
the SUM-
"As a result Of this heavy rainfall"
grows luxuriantly. and some parts Of the
country are covered with jungle. Others
are grassy, like the savannas outside OF
Ancon. The hills are all wooded, and We
have palm trees. bamboos, bananas and
tropical plants of every description. In
deed. this whole territory is like botan-
ical garden"
Are the lands good for farming?"
Not for farming as we know 1t in the
states. They are better fitted for fruit
raising. Some Of them might be turned
into sugar or rubber plantations, and
most Of the land will produce oranges,
bananas, alligator pears" plantains,
lemons. lines. pineapples and all sorts of
tropical vegetables , We have ha he here u the
potato, and grows as long as ones arm,
and the yucca. tuber which grows as
large as ones head, and tastes much like
an Irish potato. Upland rice has been
grown here to some extent, and both the
cocoanut and caco trees thrive.
Does not most Of the land belong to
the natives?"
No" replied Gov Thacher, ''only a
small portion is owned by them. The
greater part of it Is the property Of the
United States government, its ownership
including the land Of the Panama Rail-
road Company. Some of the land is TAX
en- up by the canal, but other portions
are wild and unused About $500 acres
of this government land are now under
lease, and about $4,000 year has been
collected in rents: but the rents will be
less from now on, as Gatun lake and
other canal encroachments reduce the
area to be leased. The rent for govern
ment lands for cultivation is little over
q dollar an acre"
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Who do the farming?" I asked.

'Who do the farming?" asked.
There Is practically no farming to
speak Of. The higher prices for labor on
the canal prevent any extensive work on
plantations or ranches. The natives have
little patches surrounding their shacks.
each family raising a few bananas. man.
goes and other tropical fruits, sometimes
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It is one Of railroads and shipping. 1t
is a social center of about 10000 high
class Americans, and the great workshop
where something like 10000 negroes and
mulattoes from this part of the world
are earning the highest wages they have
ever made IN their lives. 1t Is q country
Of post offices, telegraphs and schools.
1t has its criminal classes, and also its
churches, preachers and Sunday school
teachers 1t has its public works and
its fire departments, Its courts and its
prisons, and, IN short. almost all the ma
chinery Of any of our states or territories
/ met the governor in his beautiful resi-
dence on the slope OF Ancon Hill right
under our great administration building,
and facing the big educational institute
which the Panama government has just
constructed. The building was erected
under the direction of Senator Joe Black
burn, who was Gov. Thatcher's predeces-
sor, and it is one OF the pleasant homes
of the lsthmus. Wide verandas, yelled
in wire gauZe to keep out the mosquitoes,
run around its two stories, and the walls
of these are hung with the most beauti-
full orchids gathered from the woods Of
the zone. Gov. Thatcher says that &C
cording to science there are altogether
1900 varieties Of orchids and Of these
it seems to me Mrs Thatcher must have
the most beautiful: l cannot begin to
describe them or their exquisite flowers
Some burst out in a shower Of bloom.
and others have blossoms which take on
the form Of miniature birdsE animals and
some even looking like humans One
variety that she has is the Espiritu Santo
1t is called the flower Of the Holy Spirit
and rightly SO. for its petals are of the
shape of white. beautiful dove with
outstretched wings looking from the
pure, lily-white flower.
1t was seated among these orchids that
we talked. The conversation turned to
the character OF the zone. and the gov
ernor pointed to the orchids as he said:
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You may have some idea of it from
these flowers. We are down here In the
tropics and we have tropical climate
Our average temperature ranges from
seventy to ninety degrees. and as rule
The Tupelo journal. (Tupelo, Miss.) 1876-1924, 1912-04-19
Apt MisuuotatIon.

. ie minister was attempting to
carve very tough fowl at the din
ner. AS he was trying to separate one
of the joints it slid out Of the dish to
the other side of the table, He calm
ly picked it up and grayely said:
What God hath Joined together let
no man put asunder. Ladies Home
Journal.