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while we stayed At the same time other
girls of similar ages were flirting with
some men on the opposite side of the
room, and at the table one drank beer
with a Spaniard.
As l 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 ma
iron keeps them in debt and they are SO
afraid of her that they do not dare to
leave"
1 don't know how many houses of this
Kind there are in Panama and Colon, but
the number is large, aud it is steadily
increased by recruits from France and
southeastern Europe 1rhe houses are
licensed by the two cities 1t is claimed
that they are under medical supervision.
and that the girls are older than they
look. I asked one of them whether she
had yet passed 10. She mockingly re-
piled that she was 56, and danced away,
swinging her bare arms around her head
and kicking her red, silk stockinged toe
almos. to the height of my nose.
The government is doing all 1t can to
restrict the white slave traffic and to re-
duce the Vice of the Panama cities 1t
has done wonders, and We're 1t not for our
influence in such matters things would be
worse than they are. I believe that the
morality among the white employees of
the canal is far better than could be
found in such a camp anywhere else. The
canal has many good American women
and they and the Young Mems Chris
tian association clubhouses have done
much to build up high moral tone among
the employees.
In the Opium Dens
Leaving the redlight section | visited
some of the licensed opium dens. They
are managed by the Chinese and are ex-
ceedingly rude The beds are mere
platforms made of boards, running along
the sides of narrow halls. Upon these
wooden hunks | found men and women
lying with opium outfits before them.
Some were hitting the pipe and others
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attract the passersby At Panama the
Stun quarters are as open as is the
Yoshiwara of Japan One of the worst
sections is not far from the cathedral and
in the very heart of the city. 1t is known
as the red light district and the light is
electricity filtered through glass as Grim
son as blood. There are great square
red lanterns with incandescent bulbs in
side them painted with the names of the
special resorts they represent. Here, for
instance. is "Fannes Place. farther on
THE French House," and in the next
block is Ia Perla de Paclfico," or the
Pearl of the Pacific.
Now, stop your carriage before one
of these gilded houses and take look
through the half-open door The lower
floor at the front is saloon. You can
see the bottles in the bar at the back,
while at the windows, and in the door
looking out upon the streets are little
girls with painted faces and gaudy
clothes. Most of them are mere chill
dren, Is, 16 and II years of age, and
they are dressed to look youn ger. Their
skirts reach Just to their knees and
they look as though they should put
on their nightles and be tucked away
in their beds
The great majority of these girls are
French. They are white slaves, who
have been struggled into Panama
through Costa Rica or other Central
American ports and through down here
In boats to Panama bay in such way
that the jurisdiction of our zone is
avoided.
White Slaves From France
went into one of these houses with
a policeman, who had summons to
serve upon the matron. She was charged
with being a white slave trader and
with having brought several girl slaves
through the canal zone.
] must say that she looked it. She was
brazened faced French woman OF about
80, and in the room with her were half
dozen little chits of from 10 to II, who
were probably the slaves she had smug-
gled. They could speak but little English
and were French from their toes to their
crowns. They danced about the room
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Textbook. SHELF
BY THE BIfLIOPHILE

beginning to end with a wonderful
grip.
The story has to do with Helen
Smith who has been stenographer in
the office of Steven Bond and who be-
comes the wife of one Henry Murphy.
The two are just as differentiation
Smith and Henry Murphy-as black
and white Helen loves all tho
aesthetic things of life,' beautiful sur
roundings, soft. modulated effects and
elegance and exelusiveness, in other
words, she realizes the charm of the
soft pedal" while Henry adores the
brass band" side of life, glazing
colors, and nouveau richie tastes, in
other words the loud pedal effects
However, Helen falls in love with
him, in spite of these differences in
tastes between them, and they are mar
ried.
Mr.. Bond (Helen's employer) for a
time is blotted out of her life, but
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THE Sums OF PANAMA-By Frank G. Carpenter

cases it has done little good, the
money being spent in riotous living.
The Panama lottery belongs to a
man named Gabriel Duque. natural
lied American, who came here from
Cuba. He owns also the Star and Her
aid, one of the chief newspapers Of the
isthmus, and he is, / am told, a man
of wealth. He pays the Panama re-
public for the license to run the lot
terry, and his profits from 1t amount to
something like $4,000 a year. The
drawings are held every Sunday and a
little girl picks out the balls contain
ing the blanks and the prizes This lot
terry Is a great evil to Panama and the
drain of 1t Is mostly on the poor, who
buy tickets and parts of tickets even
when they must go hungary in conse-
quence.
Bullfights
Panama has bullring outside the
city. and bullfights take place every
Sunday whenever there are any bull
fighters here on their way from Spain
to Lima, Peru, or Mexico City. The
bulls, however, are not dangerous. and
the sport is usully a fraud and a
fiasco I have seen some of these fights
and at one time watched a score of
Panama boys rush into the ring and
have hand-to-hand fight with the
which had been tied to the horns of
the bull. Each man had red blan
ket, which he tried to throw over the
bulls eyes, in order that he might grab
at the gold. Several of the boys were
badly injured, but one of them finally
got the $40.
Changes in Panama
In the meantime, Notwithstanding these
blots upon its escutcheon, Panama city
is far better off than It has been in the
past. I first visited 1t in 1898, IA years
ago, when on my way around South Amer
lea The city was then one of vile smells.
1t had no sewerage. and the wells and
cesspools were side by SIDE in the
courts. Business was dead and the bare
footed cabmen slept in their shabby
old coaches. Today the town is alive. 1t
has modern improvements. It has water
works and all sanitary conveniences. Out
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after her marriage, certain circum-
stances throw them together again.
Mr. Bond, be it said, lives up to the
role of the true Bostonian tip-top fash
ion, and Helen realizes this tremen-
dously, when she meets him in later
years.
The real story now begins.
Helen isn't torn between love and
duty, as in most triangular stories as
far as the two men are concerned but
between culture and duty-all of which
gives Mr.. Castle (the author) an ad-
mirable advantage for some clever
work. which he does with facile pen
and very unusual imagination.
What happens?
Nothing short of a catastrophe, OF
course, could happen, and happen 1t
does.
During a street car Strike" Helen
and Steven are hurled into a river and
are among those reported as dead, al
though they have been picked up and
rescued. "unbeknowns" to the news
paper reporters.
Helen loses her memory, and Steven
his honor-which brings him ptiless
and bitter suffering, and the human
side of the story which brings about
the denouement, is graphically pic
tured and skillfully conceived
THE Green Vase" Is remarkably
Interesting novel, and very original and
clever in construction.
"CTCELY."
BY Sara Beaumont Kennedy. Deco
rated Frontispiece by John Edwin
| Jackson Doubleday Page and Com
pany New York.
Civil War are always enjoyable and in
teresting, particularly when they are
as well written and we'll conceived as
"Cicely," the delightful novel from the
pen of Sara Beaumont Kennedy.
There's an element of romance as
we'll as valor always to be found IN
such environments, and the author OF
charming atmosphere which she sus
tains from the start to the finish.
Along the line of Sherman's Marcel
| Through Georgia the story figures from
Atlanta to Savannah, and there is ro-
nance and excitement in every page
| which holds the readers attention unit
the denouement of the story is brought
about.
THE RAID OF THE GUERILLA"
land OTHER STORIES" BY Charlie,
Eghert Craddock. j. b. Lippincot
and Company. Philadelphia.
| To those who come under the spell
of Charles Egbert Craddock in earl,
youth, her stories never lose their ap
peal. She treats with a mastery anC
| sympathetic touch the mountain peo
ple of Tennessee. Her knowledge o
her subject is comprehensive. intimate
and thoroughly human, while her de
scriptive powers are given full play
in the picturesque vistas of the Ten
nessee mountains. Some of her Longer
stories are ended with many of thos'
subtle qualities which stir the hear
and leave an ineffaceable memory. He
shorter stories. even though at time
they are not quite so gripping. are new
ertheless rich in charm and investe,
| with romantic atmosphere which
as a mater of fact, mountaineers sci
dom understand or appreciate.
| In her latest volume of short stories
named from the first story in the book
1.-THE Raid of the Guerilla and ISSUED
by the Lippineott company. Miss Muir
| phree, as she is known in private life
| has compiled series of mountaii
narratives which run the gamut from
THE grotesquely humorous to the fir'
and passion of sublimated love 70
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THE GREEN VASE

THE GREEN VASE
BY William r. Castle. Jr. Dodd, Mead
and Company, New York.
William r. Castle, Jr in THE Green
Vase has written one of the very best
pieces of fiction of the day and in the
literary world this author Is one to be
reckoned with in the future.
Equipped with fine descriptive pow
ers. past grand master in the art of
plot, a well balanced love story, and
enough of mystery and romance to
make 1t interesting, Mr. Castle has
woven together in THE Green Vase"
IN unusually clever story which is
bound to win many readers.
In 1.-The Green Vase" we encounter
again the eternal triangle charm
ing woman with a dual personality, be-
ing the central figure about whom thu
lives of two men are entwined.
Mr.. Castle works out the situation
along entirely original lines however
and the readers attention is held from
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penter.)
Panama city, Panama.


tCors right, 1912. by Frank G. Car
penter)
Panama city, Panama.
~ ONE with me for a peep under
the crust of old Panama of
Saturday night. We shall leave
the rivoii hotel, where everything is
proper and pious and the fashionable
world Is a-dancing. and go off into
Ipe byways and slums. We want TO
sec 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 shall choose
the Saturday that comes after pay
day and shall have abundant reason
IL saw why Uncle sam should control
both Panama and Colon, the two towns
at the ends of our ditch.
In New Caledonia
We begin our walk in New Gale
donia. At the Tivoli the charges are s.
a day New Caledonia is only a stones
throw away, but you can get a bed
there for % cents q night, or you may
have a room at $40 a month and crowd
10 other persons inside 1t. New Gale
donia is made up of such rooms They
are tilled with Jamaica negroes.
single room viii often house a whole
family and take in boarders to boot.
Some OF the best rooms have curtains
AL v's thclu tidt 1He lSiiaies may law
privacy while dressing. but as a rule
the negroes nest like rabbits in a war;
rem and dirt reigns supreme.
On Saturday nights these West Indian
quarters are alive There are dances
in LIE saloons and out in the streets.
There is the tamboureta, with black and
yellow men and women going through
motions similar to those Of the Gewazl
III Egypt. Other negro dances remind me
ofathe Nautch girls of India, or the Ouled
Nails of the Sahara; and there are some
which compare with tho hoaehc-kooche
az the South Seas. The negroes are
dressed in their best. and they go through
their amorous pastures with. wild aman-
don, which is unsurpassed even by the
bunny hug or the turkey trot of our
wicked New York, They grow more and
more noisy as the night gees on, and by
= o'clock the whole of Caledonia is mad.
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of it is especially for readers of 12-year-
olds and over even younger children will
enjoy the story quite as much.
The story is charmingly illustrated with
photographs from the metropolitan pro-
duction of the opera, in which Geraldine
Farrar was the bright particular star,
and "rhe Goose Girl" THE Kings Son.
THE Witch" which Louise Hamer sang
with such tremendous success, are all re-
produced.
OTHER BOOKS RECEIVED. (RE-
VIEWS LATER.)
GRANDMA" BY Elizabeth Lincoln
Gould. illustrated by Mary Pemberton
Ginther. The Penn Publishing Company,
Philadelphia.
ELIZABETH IN RETREAT" By
Margaret Westrup. Mrs. w. Sydney
Stacey The John Lane Company. New
York.
SOCIALISM AND THE GREAT
STATE; ESSAYS IN CONSTRUCTION"
BY II. G. Wells, Cicely Hamilton, Roger
Fry and others. Harper Brothers. New
York.
WISCONSIN: AN EXPERIMENT IN
DEMOCRACY" BY Frederick C. Howe.
Phi. d. Charles Scrbners Sons, New
York.
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The Lottery Business

to we'd him. She and her father fee the
old home and suffer many trials. but in
the end the unexpected happens vita
dramatic force and the william is brought
to bay.
An intense love of children, purity of
thought and strong moral shines in
every line of this highly interesting story
1t is stirring, pleasing and entertaining
throughout and should rank with the
best American fiction of the day. Tho
book is fully illustrated with beautiful
halftone cuts.
THE BLOOD MOON"
"AND OTHER TALES OF DIVORCE y
BY Irene Osgood The Broadway
Publishing Company, New York.
THE Blood Moon, and Other Stories
of Divorce" by Irene Osgood. Is a col
lection of short stories and sketches.
which the author has told unusually
well.
Being an English woman, she knows
English life from start to finish, and
besides that, she is evidently widely
Travelled woman, knowing foreign
countries quite as well as she does her
native heath.
"a Little Life Tragedy" THE Eyes
Behind the Veil" "The Pale Witch
Queen" are included in stories from
Algiers," and are fanciful as well as
emotional, and tell of women under
some critical and intense strain, which
is rather appealing in the main.
"rhe Woman Who Had to Divorce"
and 1.-The Woman Who Had Made Up
Her Mind" also make a strong bid for
popularity and are unusually we'll con-
structed stories on subject that is
world wide IN It's domain.
THE RATIONAL MEMORY"
BY w. II. Groves. The Cosmopolitan
Company, New York.
Ones brain is great storehouse or
knowledge.
Unfortunate is its possessor who
does not have access to 1t at will.
Small profit does one derive from a
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Too Hearty

FROM Ill Bits.
At lecture we'll known authority
On economics mentioned the fact that in
some parts of America the number of
men was considerably larger than that
of women, and he added humorously:
I can, therefore, recommend the la
dies to emigrate TO that part"
A young woman seated in one Of the
last rows of the auditorium got up and
full of Indignation, left the room rather
noisily, whereupon the lecturer remarked:
II did not mean that 1t should be done
in such hurry.
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mind devoted to years of training III
Memory be lacking-Memory, the mes
senger that brings the wares from
your great mental storehouse.
But with memory servant at all
times, by ones side. ready to give in
slant obedience to the slightest COM
mand. one at all times has with him a
library containing all the wealth Of
literature. the vast sweep of science,
the details of business, the require
ments of social Leadership. The very
essence of life's joys and success are
largely in the keeping of this messen-
ger. Memory. This book is his key
Casting aside all cheap writings,
leaving out improved theories, Mr..
Groves has produced in "The Rational
Memory" a book such as tens of thou
sands have sought and have not found
The first edition met with instant favor
and was soon sold out. the sale extend
ing throughout America, England
Canada and Australia.
'KONIGSKINDER"
"OR THE ROYAL CHILDREN" By
Anna Alice Chapman. Harper Broth
ers, New York.
Humperdinclk' beautiful opera. KONG
skinder," is now added to the series of
opera stories which Anna Alice Chaplin
has arranged for children. In this book
she tells of the beautiful and pathetically
romantic tale of the Royal Children-of
the Kings Son who leaves the cloying
ease and luxury of the Contented King
dom and of the lovely Goose Girl who
lives with the wicked Witch. The two
children meet in the Magic Forest and
plan to wander forth together to see
the world, then to return to the Contented
Kingdom, where they will reign as King
and Queen. Each chapter of the book is
80 H., - =
explanation of the motives.
'Kongskinder" is a beautiful fairy
tale which lends itself readily to trans
position into a readable and interesting
every day story. and while Miss Chaplin
says in foreword that her arrangement
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T The Ups o7,d Do,v1s of Good Old Mother Earth

Briton a tragedy; the Italian regards it as an opera and the dreamy Teu.on as a melodrama but to those daughters of Tifls it is all. Trey revel in 1t ex- ultant, untrammelled and blitful as the humming bird lolls in the lap of the lily with its nectared sweets or the butter fly floats in rhapsody through golden floods of dazzling sunshine.
 But it must be ever present for they could no more content themselves with the memory of a past love than could a bird or butterfly subsst upon a flower or sunbeam of a summer that Is gone. They love and must be loved in return. It is their food. Thornless roses 'tdorn their pathway and they garner them. rlel- lifleutent fruits droop from embowered confines and they pluck them, cooling fountains invite them to libation and they quaff; what the dream is to the dreamer, the mountain stream to the trout, the buoyant air to buoyant wing is love to these daughters of Georgia and mindful only of the present luscious hour, forget full of the past, needless as to the future they sing in the tongue If Sol omon's ideal, This is my beloved and this is my friend O daughters of Jerusa- lem." No wonder then that incomparable Kazbek is one of the most salient features of the ups and downs of good old mother earth.
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Dosahra Fair

From the Wide World Magazine
 In the autumn an important fair called the Dosahra takes place at Sultanpur. the caiptal of Kulu Valley. It commemo- rates the struggle of Rama, aided by Hartman and his monkeys, to recover his bride Sita from Ceylon, whither the demon had carried her off. I secured . mask of Rawan. who at the conclusico of the drama is drowned or burned in ef- figy. but that year his life, or at least hls face. was saved. The fair lasts about week, and is a great occasion for the sale of hill ponies, homespun cloth, brass and so forth. All the world and his wife and the rest of the world and his girl, meet visitors from Tibet or the Punjab who are engaged in trade between these parts. But not only men and women meet; all the gods, godlings and goddesses of the valley assemble Great is the ceremony, elaborate the ritual, intricate the prece- dence that attends the arrival of these images of gold. silver and brass. The church in Kulu is very rich. and is en- dowed by the state, most of the temples enjoying revenue-free grants of land, an obligation which the British took over from the Sikhs. There is much merry making during the fair. the men spending all their spare time dancing, while the girls and women too modest to dance, sit by and watch To see one of these cox combs. with the pheasant-crest cap on his head, solemnly dancing to the admiration of himself and bevy of comedy girls, re- minds one irresstibly of a peacock danc- ing before his hens. The dance IS per formed by a number of men who joilk hands in circle and slowly go round F the words of some ballad popular in t Ae hills. while from time to time na41' breaks out of the ring and pirouettes on his own account. waving his arms. and perhaps scarf. with the most fantastic sraces.
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"HE surface of this old globe of ours
 is series of projections and de-
 \ pressions, and at first glance it seems rather strange coincidence that the height of the greatest elevation just equals the greatest depth of the deep sea soundings, the altitude of the highest crest of the Himalaya mountains being about six miles, which is the extent of the deepest hole yet discovered in the Pacific ocean.
 While at first glance this is odd, yet if . little reflection suffices to demonstrate that 1t is just as 1t should be. for when . protrusion is made upon the surface of a sphere corresponding depression must Inevitably result.
 These elevations and depressions are in- teresting whether they comprise the inac- cessible peaks of Mt. Everest or the equally inaccessible depths of the sea where the fish supply their own light and possess power of resistance sufficient to defy pressure that would crack the ribs of a man-of-war; whether they are the dizzy, cloud piercing pinnacles of the Matterhorn in Switzerland, Mt. Mckinley in Alaska and the organ mountains in Brazil or the asphalt ohurning bottom of the Dead sea, the birthstone breathing penetralia of vesuvius and the gyrating Hood of the maelstrom.
 But it is not of the inaccessible points that I wish to speak at this hour; on the contrary would have my readers mount with me those elevations that have be-
 a To. hoe hooks pockets and recesses of nature whose beauty, grotesqueness or unique characteristics delight the tourist or fill him with wonder and awe.
 To the first tripper, and especially If that first tripper be woman, there are few spots in the world that rank with the Blue Grotto in the Island of Capri. Jnquestionably this is a lovely spot. and Its approach is unique in the extreme. A little hole in the bottom edge of great rock. half cholSed by the splasiling tide. bears semblance to the entrance of the neither world, and when one learns that to enter one must lie prone upon the bottom of the boat while the boatman draws his craft through by means of . pinioned chain, 1t requires some nerve to make the passage into the watery cav orn.
 But once lnSiue that Sfolto the eiisHoh- ment fascinates. enthralls and imbues the visitor with impressions that are life en- during. The soft cerulean hue of the water, the shimmering glare of the sur face that dances and quiyers upon the rocky walls and arching roof. the silver tinge imparted to each and every sub merged object. be 1t the blade of the oar, the immersed hand of the visitor or the body of the professional diver, the flare of the torch that rouges the crest of the dmplng wave and weaves a net work of wildflre as the meshes of the metal. net fashioned at the forge or IIephaestus. and sets aglow the entire sheen with spark. and glnt. and scintil- 1ation are all truly wonderful and sur passingly beautiful.
 But the great trouble Is that the Blue Grotto is generally visited by hundreds of tourists at the same time. but two persons are allowed in a boat, so that the mum her of craft sufficient to accommodate the tiir6ng is so great that the boats cover the surface of the water and deprive 1t