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Hence Their WeedineSS.
LONDON Iterary critic was praisinE

A LONDON literary critic was praising
Philadelphia at the Franklin Inn.
/ am particularly impressed" he said,
with the beauty of Philadelphia chill
dren This beauty is due, I suppose. To
the fact that you specially favor love
matches here Love matches alone give
beautiful children.
IF there were more love matches
among the English aristocracy." he con-
Guided with a sigh, the English aristo-
crat wouldn't be so weedy.
Your typical English aristocrat, you
know. holds that love may be an excuse
for marriage. but money alone is a jusu-
fication for it
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The Cost.

DR. GEORGE DRAPER of the Rookie
II Teller Institute discussing womans
work in the world. said:
And this, mind you, leaves child-bear-
ing out of count.
Two women sat one day on a wind
swept ocean pier. The first woman had
three beautiful children. the other was
childless. The childless woman, gazing
wistfully out over the tumbling blue
water, said:
I'D give ten years of my life to have
three such children as yours
Well, three children cost about that
the other woman answered gravely.
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pace and shot himself when ordered
to do by his father.
men begin to live too soon They are
children for such a short time that they
lose their health and good spirits before
youths of the same age in America have
begun to be grown up. They are Satiated
before they are we'll out of their teens.
Their minds, made morbid by undue ex-
element. are always craving for new i'm
pressions, new sensations Suicide is new
to them, so they try suicide, not because
of despair, but from simple lassitude.
Life they say, lis not worth living.
I'm the case of the very poor. | should
say that they often work under worse
conditions than the same class in Ameri-
ca, or, rather, there is not so much hope
for their getting on. With us, the classes
are more shut up than there. 1t wants
far more enterprise than you would think
for a Russian to make himself
Then, too, modern Russian literature
has a depressing influence We have
many authors of tremendous talent; but
they are all sad. They have none of the
JOY of life. We have still a lot of eastern
fatalism in our psychology. We Russians
do not value human life so high as the
English, for instance, who not only drag
a poor devil whose life is one long burden
out of the river, but put him to prison
for trying to end things.
y
"One cannot help admiring the courage
of the very poor, who are content to toll
and suffer for years. with no prospect OF
anything better. Can we wonder that
some of them break down, and take fate
into their own hands? In general, toe
much is made of Russian suicides. We
are a young people, finding our way to
the light. There must be number OF
discouraged ones"
The late Premier Stolypin thought that
Russian suicides were due to want OF
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NE CATHEDRAL =

smells 1t had no sewerage. and the wells
and cesspools We're side by side in the
courts Business was dead. and the
la re footed cabmen slept in their shabby
old coaches. Today the town is alive. IL
has modern improvements Ii has water
works and all sanitary conVeniences Out
side the lottery peddlers there arc no beg
gars whatever. Every one OF the better
classes rides about in carriages and there
are victorias for hire at every street col
ner whieh will take you on the trot or ths
lope from one part Of the town to me
other These vctorias have dinner gongs
underneath al the front. SO that they can
he rung by the foot of the driver ana
there is a continual belling going ON.
Ii was during my second visit here
that Uncle Sam took hold Of Panama
and made il sanitary. He dug up TN"
streets. put in sewers and water
supply and paved the main streets
with vitrified brick. He did the same
with Colon. and you will not lind two
towns i'm the tropics which have as
good streets as these.
Both places are growing. There are
new houses on almost every block and
the Avenida Central. which runs from
the plaza TO the railroad station, at the
end of Ancon. is lined with houses and
stores all the way. They are Panama
stores. and some of them carry large
stocks of goods. They are nothing like
our business establishments, and some
are more like the general store which
you find at a country crossroads or In
villages
In the center Of Panama are many
fine buildings. The National Palace
and theater cost something like three
quarters of "A million dollars. and the
Panamans viii tell YOU that the thea
ter is the finest in the world. Ihis
is doubtful. Nevertheless, il has sit
ting and standing room for 1900 ana
a fireproof metal drop curtain which IS
wonderfully made. The new city hail.
facing the plaza. not far from the
cathedral. is another large building,
and third is the national institute.
devoted to education. The institute
cost a million pesos or more and II
will. in time. develop into a university.
At present il has about goo students,
ranging from those of the kindergar-
ten TO those in the college. These
buildings are only part of what the
country has to show for the 100000 900
it received from Uncle Sam at the time
of the settlement as TO the Panama
canal FRANK q. CARPENIER.
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which runs around the tops of the walls
under the ceiling. There is no plaster
nor paper The walls are of boards,
painted or not. as the landlord may order.
l am having my films developed by a
photographer here whose studio is at the
top of a three-story frame building. He
tells me that there are more than thou
sand men. women and children in his
building and that there are altogether
something like two or three hundred
rooms. each housing family.
I have looked into some OF the rooms.
They are as dark as a pocket and the
smoke from the cooking in the halls out
side has turned their walls black. Some
of the rooms are about ten feet square
They have no ventilation except at the
DOORS
That building is a fire trap. 1t is all
wood excepting the roof. which is Of
galvanized iron. / tremble at the posi-
BILE loss in case of fire.
I asked my photographer as to the
rents, and was told that they are from
81 to 80 per room per month in gold.
Similar rates prevail in the Jamaica
negro quarters in New Caledonia. which
ter. The rents here are so high and the
buildings SO cheap that many structures
pay in rents every year the cost of the
land and the building. This is likewise so
in Colon. There is one caravansary
known as the Coal Chute, which has 1Go
rooms. 1t is said to have paid the cost
of its erection within fourteen months.
1t is interesting to look at the cave
stores of the isthmus. They mere
holes in the wall about ten feet square
and perhaps eight feet in height. They
have no windows, facing the street. and
the door alone gives the light. Often one
of these little storerooms will be the
home of the family which keeps 1t. Ii is
store or workshop in the daytime and
a sleeping place after dark.
AS to work, the idea prevails at home
that these Panamans are lazy. | do
not find them so. Some kind of house
industry is going on everywhere. In one
little shop shoemakers will be pounding
away. In another the women and girls
are making lace, while farther on are
cigarmakers, carpenters and blacksmiths
Much of the work is done out on tbs
sidewalks. / see many women sewing or
the edge of the street, and the tailor:
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French. They are white slaves, who have
been smuggled into Panama through
Costa Rica other Central American
ports, and brought down here in boats
to Panama bay in such way that the
jurisdiction of our zone is avoided.
went into one of these houses with
policeman, who had a summons to serve
upon the matron. She was charged with
being white slave trader and with hav-
ing brought several girl slaves through
the Canal Zone.
must say that she looked it. She was
a brazen-faced French woman of about
thirty-five, and in the room with her were
half dozen little chits of from fifteen to
seventeen, who were probably the slaves
she had struggled. They could speak but
little English, and were French from
their toes to their crowns. They danced
about the room while we stayed. At the
same time other girls of similar ages
were flirting with some men on the OPP
poste side of the room, and at the table
one drank beer with a Spaniard.
AS 1 looked the policeman said ''These
girls are real slaves and they are treated
like slaves. They look very gay now in
their jewels and fine dresses. but those
jewels and dresses they are allowed to
use only at night During the day they
put on common clothing, and take care Of
the house. scrubbing and cleaning. The
matron keeps them in debt. and they are
so afraid of her that they do not dare to
leave
/ don't know how many houses Of this
kind there are in Panama and Colon. but
the number is large, and it is steadily
increased by recruits from France and
southeastern Europe. The houses are
licensed by the two cities.
The government is doing all it can to
restrict the white slave traffic and to
duce the vice of the Panama cities 1t
has done wonders, and were it not for our
influence in such matters things would be
worse than they are. ] believe that the
morality among the white employees OF
the canal is far better than could be
found in such camp anywhere else. The
canal has many good American women
and they and the Y. NJ. c. A. clubhouses
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was never popular-and there the mat
ter ended. He still keeps his old haunts.
and those who know him best say he
never regrets having sent the revolver
to his son. Judging from the steady
growth of suicides in Russia. the old
baron's viewpoint did not differ from
that of his neighbors.
Copyright. 1912. by Curtis BrovnD
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long ago. but knew il would afford my
father pleasure, put it off till his
revolver came. Now, at least. all the
world knows he ordered me to COM
nit suicide
And though all the world did know
the fact appearing in the chief Russian
papers-nobody of the old barons cir
Gle seemed to be much surprised. He
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cOtic. Instead, she fooled her hus-
band, who shot himself.
the club to gather in it's harvest of vic
tins And though it is now an esta3-
lshed institution. its origin and members
list is as deep mystery as possible
This mysterious club holds it's meetings
at the homes of the members. Many
ia fashionable people belong to II and wom-
EN- with a family of growing children.
elderly men with the best part OF their
lives behind them, young women Wlth
good chance of happiness gather round
the table. where the fatal lots are drawn
One card is prepared for each meeting.
The member who draws it must Kill
himself within a week. the club decid-
ing as to the method. if the member
cannot think of suitable way
Members must court death out or mere
curiosity or as a means of showing
some novel way of leaving the world.
Common poisons like carbolic acid and
iodine are tabooed- Drowning is admit
ted only when wine or perfumed water Is
used and the surroundings are exception
ally beautiful or luxurious. The simple
emptying of revolver into ones body
is not good enough. Shooting must be
artistic or left severely alone.
These suicides take place with a lot
of pomp. In the case of the young Bar
oness Zakomelska a supper was given to
tile st. Petersburg members. At the end a
huge tub was filled with champagne and
the lady drowned herself in II after all
present had drunk a great deal of the
wine. In Moscow young doctor named
Dovbor. recently married charming
girl. He did not know that she BE-
longed to the Suicide Club. After her
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81. As latest Sui
eide Club has re-
duced self-destruc-
ton TO an art.
Probably in no
other country in
the world would il
be possible TO es-
tablish, as a fla
nous r u SIS / a II
author is said 20
have done here, an
organization whose
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)ME with me for a
peep under the
crust of old Pana-
ma of a Saturday
night. We shall
leave the Tivoli
Hotel. where every
thing is proper and
pious and the fash
ionable world is a.
dancing. and go
off into the by
ways and slums.
j
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sole purpose is the ENCOURAGEMENT OF
sporting" suicides among its members.
With headquarters in this city and quick
ly growing branches in Moscow. Odessa,
Kharkow and Vladivostok. this club
meets regularly TO plan the self-infiicted
death OF It's members.
These suicides are so far removed from
the ordinary affairs that result from
hunger. unrequited affection, jealousy,
poverty or despair. that one OF the con-
ditions OF membership Is that no member
shall kill himself for any Of these vulgar
reasons.
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Others declare that the famous Russian
novelist, Artzybascheff, is the founder
and president and rhe instigator of the
more original suicides He has written
many books which condemn lie as some
thing like a sin. and extol self-destruc-
ton as heroic action. lie has befh
fined by the tribunals far writing books
of pernicious influence, and he openly ad-
vocates many kinds of vice, which he
makes as attractive as possible. Ills
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Special Correspondent % II
ST. PEsTERSB L RI
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We want 10 see the poor of the city, and
also take a look at some districts where
vice carries on its mad spree until the
wee hours of the morning. We snail
choose the Saturday that comes after
pay day and shall have abundant reason
10 say why Uncle Sam should control
both Panama and Colon. the two towns
at the ends of our ditch.
We begin our walk in New Caledonia
AT the Tivoli the charges are S. day.
New Caledonia is only a stones throw
away but you can get a bed there TOT
o. cents ii night. or you may nave
room at so a month and crowd ten
other persons inside it. New Caiedoma
is made up of such rooms. IheS are M
ed with Jamaica negroes single room
will often house whole family and take
in boarders to boot. Some OF the pest
rooms have curtains across them tHa'
the females may have privacy WINE
dressing. but as rule the negroes nest
like "a hbits in warren and dirt reigns
supreme.
On Saturday nights these West Indian
quarters are alive There are oahces
in the saloons and out in the streets
There is the tamboureta, with black ana
yellow men and women going through
motions similar to those of the Sewazi
in Egypt Other negro dances remind me
of the nautch girls of India or the ouied
nails of the Sahara: and there are some
which compare with the hooche-kooche
of the South seas. The negroes are
dressed in their best. and they go through
their amorouS postures with Wild aDan-
don which is unsurpassed even by the
bunny hug or the turkey trot OF. our
wicked New York. They grow more ana
more noisy as the night goes on. and by
- o'clock the whole of Caledonia is mad.
This is on Saturday. Ii is more quiet
on other nights of the week.
Leaving Caledonia We take carriages
for drive through Panama, visiting nrst
the more respectable quarters. The
houses here have balconies which run out
from the second stories over the streets
The richer people live upstairs and these
balconies form the sitting and gossiping
places of the better classes during the
evening In the stories below. where
whole family may have but one room.
the people come out on the sidewalks
and sit on the doorsteps or curbstones
taking the air. The streets are filled
with such figures. They form two long
lines of humanity, one on the street ana
the other in the balconies above.
Some of the people are chatting some
are playing cards. Here and there the
humping of a piano falls on the ear. and
the graphophone with its rusty shrek
slaughters the air. The most or the
groups on the balconies are family par
Ties Nice girls are not allowed to nave
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This club is but one of the manifesto
lions OF the peculiar and almost tnexpli-
cable suicide mania that Is now sweeping
over the whole Of the country. seizins
upon young and osd. rich aud poor. low
ly and high-born- Inst. Petersburg alone
thsee - an average Of fifteen suicides q
nuIuhen- emo fhe=ofher a4es11uuotaA etNtes
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are not far behind. Efforts have been
made in vain to check the tendency Anti
suicide societies by the dozen nave mace
their appearance, but despite the con-
slant efforts of such organizations as
the League of Life and the Anti-Suicide
League the daily record of suicides IN
craases alarmingly So serious has the
situation become in this city that the
prefecture of police has offered reward
OF 81 80 for every rescue, and many OF
the unemployed assemble every day on
the banks of the Neva and the canals on
the lookout for attempted suicides one
watcher placed three rescues TO ms
credit in as many days.
Because of the pledge of secrecy which
binds the members of the Suicide club.
details of its organization are difhcult
to get Who founded it? Who Is the
president? Some declare it is one of the
grand dukes though the younger gene
ration of imperial cousins show too mucn
good sense and too much Zest for life u
play such role, and the older ones are
far too dignified.
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Copyright, 1912. ny Frank c. Carpenter
Special Correspondence of The Star.
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MIGHT Life in the City at
~ the Pacific End of Our
Canal-Among the West
Indian Negroes-A Visit to
the Opium Dens-The White
Slaves and Their Treatment
Life Among the Poor
The Cave Dwellers-The
Panama Lottery, Which Nets
$4,000 a Year-Occasional
Bull Fights-The New City
and Some of It's Buildings.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1912-11-08
FAMILY FEELING.

Here we are talking Of right family
feeling, and nothing else in the world
can take its place; for in it lie in germ
all those fine and simple virtues which
assure the strength and duration OF
social institutions. And the very base
of family feeling is respect Of the past;
for the best possessions of family are
its common memories. An intangible,
indivisible, inalienable capital. these
souvenirs constitute sacred fund that
each member of family ought to
consider more precious than anything
else he possesses. They exist in dual
form; in idea and in fact. They show
themselves in language. habits Of
thought. sentiments. even Instincts
and one sees them materialized in the
furniture, buildings. dress. and songs
To profane eyes they are nothing; to
the eyes of those who know how &c
appreciate the things of the family
they are relics with which one sfOult
not part with at any price.-Charle.
Wagner. author Of 1.-THE Simple Life
N
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1912-11-08
HA1NEs THE NEXT GOVERNOR

1t is a matter of qualification to
every Republican. and to not a few
Democrats, that Hon. John M. Haines
was elected governor of the state OF
Idaho. AS freely stated time and
again by THE Tribune. Mr.. Haines is
pre-eminently qualified for the purpose
to which he aspired and to which he
was elected. The people of the state
appreciated him and realized his quail
fications. He first went out in the
primary and was fairly and squarely
elected the nominee of his party. A
few disgruntled politicians. in spite
of that fact. attempted to elect his
Democratic opponent by placing in the
field a third candidate. Republicans.
and in thousands of cases Progress
ives, realized the injustice of the pro-
cedure and in consequence voted for
Mr.. Haines.
The peole of the state of Idaho will
find that in their newly elected gov
ernor they have a man who will give
them clean, aggressive, business
like administration of state affairs. He
is one of the most successful BUSH
ness men in the state. This business
experience and keen kaowledge o. al
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1912-11-08
The Girl and the Older. Woman.

In an article on the "Cirl And Tn
Older Woman" in the October Won.
ans Home Companion, the author
Anne. Bryan Mccall, says in part:
Zone rule that the girl and the old
er woman should make for themselyes
and stick to rigidly, is that there shall
be none Of the usual sentimental dem
onstrations Of this sort Of affection
kissing and petting, and the like. Ii
is, first of all, poor affection that
needs to prove itself in these ways;
but it is more than that: it i NOR
bid affection that Graves that sort Of
thing.
II have made a point Of writing
this article both for the older woman
and for the girl. ! would like to
make you see each, if | can, your
responsibility Of the girl is to keep
q good hold on herself; not to permit
herself to indulge in sentimentalsm
and the responsibility Of the older Is
not to play upon the girls sensitive
ness, and neither to encourage nor
accept any but the highest, finest,
sanest type of hero-worship
after all, the main responsibility
rests with the Older woman"
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1912-11-08

Following the II Important Inn
provements" of 1912, the Hendee Mig.
Company announces no less than :
dozen additional new features in their
1918 model of the Indian Motorcycle.
By far the most significant feature
of the new machine is the Cradle
Spring Frame. It is something en-
tirely new, a radical departure from
the conventional bicycle and recent
motorcycle systems of "springing."
Briefly, the new device consists Of the
application to the rear wheel of the
Indian Cradle Spring device ~ used
on the front fork for the past three
years.
Extending back horizontally from
the frame cluster under the saddle,
fianking the rear mud guard, are two
7-leaf Chrome .vanadium steel springs.
The &c" shaped curls at the rear end
of these springs are connected BY
stays to bell-cranks on which the rear
axel is hung. The forward end Of the
rear fork has hinge joint which en-
ables the rear wheel to yield TO Inn
PROJECTIONS Of road surface. All shock
are completely absorbed by the leaf
springs. The rear wheel can !. 60
through almost any vertical motion
without affecting the body Of the ma
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1912-11-08

~ xr II i~l
fairs will be given to the state OF
Idaho. We may anticipate no cash
valuation fiascoes during the next two
years, but we may feel assured that
every department of the state govern
ment will receive the time. attention
and consideration which it deserves.
Sound commonsense will be applied
to state affairs once again. For this
reason The Tribune congratulates the
people Of Idaho. Mr.. Haines says
that Idaho is a great business enter
prise and to the successful running of
that business he proposes to devote
himself.
Governor Haines wills have with
him and behind him Republican ASSOC
ciates who will devote their best abil-
ity to the people Of the state. They
want to see successful ad1ninistra-
ton OF state affairs. Their political
future depends upon the record they
make during the next two yeas. This
paper believes they will make good
but it will be one, if not the very first
to call attention to any mistakes that
may be made. In just cause we be-
ieve in supporting the cause OF ouI
party and for that reason acknowledge
/ to being strictly partisan. However
we have never hesitated to criticis'
and to condemn when such cours,
was right and just.