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thud that for six days had sounded
with steady monotony was stilled, and
the huge bulk slid through the water.
Then the engines turned again AZ a
signal was sent and the slight head
way was checked as the ship came
even with the catboat, which seemed
timer than ever in comparison with
the racing liner.
A sailor slipped down a rope and
made 1t fast to the small craft. Then
a second rope was lowered with a
moose In the end. and presently the
castaways were hoisted to the deck.
The first was m elderly woman who
sank into a faint as oon as she reach
ed the solid deck. Her younger COM
panion showed more courage, for she
did not faint-only breathed d little
sigh of relief.
Then she looked about her, and as
the light from n Of the deck lanterns
fell upon her face Hawley sprang for
ward to gather Miss Lippincott In his
arms.
For ar instant she lay passive, then
she gently disengaged herself, and two
red spots burned in her cheeks as she
turned to thank the ~rescuers.
1--WE went for a sail and a storm
caught us and blew US out to sea-" she
explained. The squat took our sail.
and | think this prevented our being
| capsized. but we had only one bottle Of
water and a few sand wiches. We
drank the last of the water hours
ago"
One of the quartermasters hurried
Off for water. and presently Il was ar
ranged that Hawley should surrender
his room to the two women since all
of the staterooms were occupied. He
spent the night In a deck chair.
As Betty had given her right hand
in good night greeting he had noticed
that the left lacked the diamond which
she had worn when he went away. and
on that slight foundation he built won
drous air castles through the long sweet
summer night.
Betty did not appear until nearly
noon, but when she came she verified
his hope. She had become engaged to
Hodge because she had been told that
Hawley was to announce his engage
ment to a girl not of their set and she
had o wished to seem deserted for
another. She had later found that the
story had been a ruse OF Hodges and
had broken the engagement.
When they made their landing and
Hawley had seen Betty to a hotel he
hurried to a cable Office and sent O
message.
"Your skill Is wonderful. Just land
ed and am engaged. as you prophe-
sled" read Lady Muriel darcy, knit
ting the heavy brows that shaded fash
Ing black eyes. II wonder who this
Hawley Isl"
lie Is the chap who was with the
G~oodingtons." reminded her compan-
ion. Don't you remember? You told
his fortune and said that he would
be engaged before lie left the boat. He
was going back to the states"
Lady Muriel laughed.
THAT rich American she said light
ly. Il remember now. Clara vassil-
ington was to have gone over on the
same boat. and | thought 1t might be
q good chance for her to make the rich
marriage the poor child has been seek
ing eve since she wa presented"
And sorne one else captured the
prize" laughed the man. Il hope that
they will he happy"
They will be-" affirmed Lady Muriel
positively.
And this also came true.
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REAL SUPERIORITY.

Never repeat unkind things,
but IL you hear something kind
and pleasant and sweet then
make il your business to repeat
IT, II may sound superior to say
you do not care whether people
like you or not-you must Ppeak
your mind. That isn't SUPERIOR
ity. Ii 10 supreme ~selfishness and
surlinsss.-Chicago Tribune.
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RIDDLES FOR ALL.

Why Is IA lame dog like a ~schoolboy
adding six and seven togetherf Be
one.
What woman would be the most
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i likely to give her husband a blowing
mp II he came home late? Dinah
might.
What Is the latest thing In gowns:
Nightgowns.
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panels fall " the skirt 50 that it looks quite like any other Spotted
skirt The garment is adorned with bands Of plain dark red taneta.
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Telling His Fortune
BY THOMAS III. QUIN1BY

HE OST of the passengers were at
RSA luncheon. for the teamer
Y was still in the channel. aud
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will eventually be the home Of a great peo-
pie. and we may yet have the kongo valley
Moreover the habitable parts of the colder
lands are already crowded and the world
must have room. I believe that the
white mans emigration to what is the So
called torrid zone is only question OF
time"
But how about the tropical peoples OF
today, Col Gorgas? Do they realize the
possibilities that might como to them BY
improved sanitation? Have they learned
any lessons from Panama."
Most OF the people Of the tropics. and
by this mean the civilized nations. have
been watching with great interest the
government work here at Panama ana
many Of them are taking advantage OF
the discoveries made in recent years as
to malarial and yellow fever mosquitoes.
They have adopted the methods OF ellmi-
mating these pests which we introduced
at Havana and have found to work so
well here. AS result yellow fever mas
been almost eliminated from Rio Janetro
and Santos, which, for generations. have
been the pest holes of the world. 1t mas
been practically wiped out of Mexico ana
1t has been reduced greatly in other
places.
"And just here / would say" continued
Col. Gorgas. that a great misapprehen-
sion obtains as to the dangers OF the
tropics. If you can keep away from the
mosquitoes the climate is no more dele.
terious than that Of any other part OF
the world. Taking care of ones health
here is not unlike taking care of an or
chard. Apples and peaches are injured
more by the insect pests which attack
the trees than by lack of cultivation or
inferior soil If you can keep off the in
sects the luscious fruit natures In boun-
tiful quantities. 1t is the same with man
in the tropics. If you can keep the para
sites out of him he seems to thrive quite
as well as in the temperate zone"
But. DR.. Gorgas, are not the methods
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CLEANING UP The I5rHf1us BURN1N@
TIE GRASS Writ CRUDE On. As FUEL

1T would have been very difficult to
have gotten our white employees to come
here. We had trouble to hold them dur
ing the yellow fever time of 1900. You
must also consider that the deaths among
the French were very largely among the
white French employees. According to the
records OF their hospital here. they had
more than 600 yellow fever deaths dur
ing nine years. and those were Inos.ls
Frenchmen. 1t is safe to say that there
were as many more deaths from yellow
fever among the Same Clnss outside The
hospitals.
.Now the French white employees
averaged only few over LOCO, and this
means that they lost four-fifths Of their
whole force in nine years or eleven-six-
teenths in five years. During our first
five years the number of our white force
was on the average only little more
than 5000. If We had lost at the same
rate as the French we would have al
ready buried more than 1900 Of those
white men from yellow fever alone. and
according to the same calculation we
should have had about 24.OOO white men
here in Panama to have kept our forces
at work If we had had that many we
should have already buried over 5000
from that disease
And what has been the actual loss?"
ut was only nineteen"
Have you any yellow fever now"
mo, we have had no cases since 1905
] think that we may safely say that we
have wiped 1t out of the isthmus as an
epidemic for all time to come"
How about malaria?'
when we first came here we had on
the average 800 cases in every 1000 of
our employees. This has been reduced
until now there are only about 175 per
1000 who ere sent to the hospital during
the year. I doubt whether the health of
any working force all the world over is
much better than ours"
Have you not proved that the white
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Most Of his sack suits cost about S4o
each, and his single real extravaeanCe
is his expenditure for neckties. for winch
he pays s. apiece
The kaiser's old clothes are sold, as are
King Georges, but the kaiserin gives her
ordinary dresses to her maid servants.
who make a pretty penny selling them to
dealers in Berlin.
The King of Spain is the DANDY among
European monarchs. He Is young enough
to take a huge pride In his personal
appearance, and although he does not
possess the Unborn knack OF dressing ike
the late King Edward and, IN q lesser
degree, the present King OF Engiaha,
Alfonso gets rid OF a deal OF money In
an effort to dress like real king. one
Of the regular expenditures in his yearly
budget is that for three dozen silk shirts
at $35 apiece. Most OF his clothes ana
furnishings are purchased in London. and
every time he comes to the English me-
tropolis he pays a prolonged visit 10 MS
tailors On such occasions he Will give
orders for couple OF dozen SUITS AT
$50 apiece and dozen extra pairs OF
trousers He has a bizarre taste In
ties, running to bright reds and yellows.
He Is really extremely hard on clothes
and some of them he has completely
ruined at the first wearing. Usually he
wears his ordinary suits about fifteen
times before they are given to the male
attendants Of the Spanish court.
The poor relative among the European
rnonarchs is the King Of Norway. His
clothes would not mark him out among
a representative gathering of his own
middle class subjects. His suits are
bought for the equivalent Of $40 apiece.
and 1t is understood that he is content
with a dozen suits on the pegs Of his
wardrobe at any one time. This easily
satisfied monarch has been known to
keep one suit whole year before. after
a careful and minute examination Of Its
condition. giving 1t reluctantly to ono OF
his servants.
Copyright. 1912. by Curtis Brown)
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SPRAYING The D1rC1Ks
10 D.EsrR0Y NALAk Ia
BABI NoSQUITOES

mosquito and usually lives in the coun-
try. 1t breeds In fresh water and seeks
fresh streams with long grass at the
sides or quiet pools. The stegomyia or
yellow fever mosquito is more fond OF
the towns and the cities. 1t breeds in
cisterns, rain barrels, old cans filled with
water and stagnant pools II is not nearly
SO large as the Jersey mosquito. and Is
grayish white with zebra stripes about
his body and legs.
have about the same habits as
to reproducing their young. They
feed upon vegetable matter but the
females when they are about to breed
attack man. They also have the prop
critics which make them the mt habitat
for the yellow fever and malarial para
sites, and If they feed upon man VINO
has malaria or the yellow fever they
take these parasites into their system.
The parasites are so small you cannot
see them with a microscope but we know
that they exist and that they multiply
so rapidly that they finally come into
the saliva of the mosquito. When the
these parasites, bites man a second time
she injects some of this saliva contain
ing the parasites and this gives man the
yellow fever or malaria.
1T Is, however, tHe dHoph1i0 onAS e~
transmits malaria. and the stegomyia only
that gives yellow fever. There is no
such thing as men having either Of these
diseases II he Is not bitten by these
mosquitoes"
But how do you know that. Col. Cor
gas?" asked.
eft has been proved by many expert
ments. The fact that the malarial mos
quito would transmit malaria was dis
covered by an English army surgeon
Ronald Ross. and, as you may remember
experiments were made In the campagna
lust outside Rome, which proved there
was no danger Of disease in that FEVER
stricken district to those who live In
screened houses and were not bitten by
fever mosquito would transmit the vel
low fever was discovered by board OF
army doctors. namely, Drs. Reed, Carroll.
Azramonte and Lazear. at Havana. II
was their discovery that enabled US to
wipe the yellow fever out OF the Island
of Cuba and later on to clean up the
isthmus. These doctors made expert
ments which showed that yellow fever
could not be taken unless a man was
bitten by a yellow fever mosquito. They
had men sleep in beds in which yellow
fever patients had died. They even had
them covered with the black vomit of a
yellow fever patient, and to be exposed
to the emanations from yellow fever, but
none caught the disease until he was &C
which was In the right condition to trans
NIT the disease.
That story is too long to tell, now.
continued Col Gorgas. Those discov-
cries, however, will go down in history
as among the great events OF the world,
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man can live and work in the tropics
quite as well as in tie temperate zone!'
YES" replied Col. Gorgas. THAT has
been absolutely demonstrated, and l be-
lieve 1t will have a great effect as to the
world Of the future 1t would seem that
the first man must have lived in the trop-
les, and shat that was his natural habita-
ton. He was born an animal without
clothes and at .as stalt he Inazt hava had
a warm climate. 1t vas only when the
tropical diseases drove him away that he
left that most beautiful part of old
Mother Earth. Now that these diseases
can be controlled, he will come back and
within few centuries in all probability
the most civilized parts OF the world will
be the tropical zones. With given
amount of labor man can produce far
more there than in the colder regions.
He can live better and have more days to
work. AS it is now the greater part OF
the population of the cold lands is idle for
six months Of the year. Its inhabitants
spend their time in fighting the cold
But will it not cost too much to make
the fight against the diseases. Can the
ordinary man afford to live In mosquito
proof dwellings,"
II think 1t would be very much cheaper
than to heat his home In the cold lands
of the far NORTH replied Col Gorgas.
"All. that you need here is a screen of
woven wire about the outside of your
house. You do not need heating plant
or fur or wool clothing. Indeed the diff
ference of the cost is altogether in favor
of the tropics, and as the sanitation of
the tropics is improved the diseases will
be so eliminated that the cost Of fighting
them will grow less and less.
You must also remember continued
Col. Gorgas, THAT the great undeveloped
lands of the future are those near the
equator Take Brazil. That country Is as
large as the United States, and has a
vast deal more cultivable land. The
whole northern part of South America
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pretty evenly between four firms. AT
fixed intervals these firms send to Buck
ingham Palace enormous selections or
materials for their royal customers IN
spection. King George Is much more
conservative dresser than was his father
and never runs to the idiosyncrasies In
clothes that compelled the fashionable
world of two continents. which took It's
constantly . King George probably Will
never set a style in his life and will al
ways be content to dress in the approved
mode Of the moment.
While Queen Marys cast-off robes and
wraps are disposed Of by sale in much
the same way as the clothes of her hus-
band the belongings Of the royal chill
dren are given away to deserving depend
ents. 1t has been found that the prices
obtainable for childrens clothes bear
small relation to their actual values. and
the cast-offs of the young princes and or
Princess Mary are portioned among poor
children on the royal estates.
The Gar OF Russia is the spendthrift
among European monarchs. He pays
prices for the various items in his ward
robe that most other monarchs would
consider ridiculously extrayagant. For
an ordinary sack suit he parts with $50.
which may not seem high compared with
9th avenue prices, but is really pretty
stiff when It Is known that the GEAR sell
dom dons a suit more than three times.
So constant Is the stream Of his orders
that the tailor who cuts his ordinary
clothes has time for little other custom.
1t is an open secret that this tailor's
profits derived from his imperial Gus
toner is more than $4,000 q year. In
addition to this the car places orders
with the firm that makes his military.
naval and ceremonial uniforms that bring
them in an annual income OF $l5.OO.
About $4,000 q year would be q con-
sentative estimate Of the amount the
Russian ruler spends on clothes One
item alone-a new sable overcoat. which
is a yearly investment-runs away with
$500. For his silk hats the czar pays
SIS apiece. and for a pair Of reindeer
gloves about SO. The Russian ruler 8
discarded wardrobe is. sold to a ST.
Petersburg dealer. who has grown rich
in the business.
The kaiser Is said to be kept In the
paths OF economy by his frugal wife. In
his case uniforms run away with a pretty
penny No other monarch In the world
has to keep so many In stock. His ordi-
nary wardrobe. however. Is not large
one and he has been known to wear one
suit thirty times before discardjnE il
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ef@zMM&SSe THE BARRI1 CONTAINS NosoU1To OILY
&4MXX&SRWtfsasH Az o11Ad1 SsA 1E1es. coAr'N&

OF sanitation used on the canal so costly
that no nation could afford to adopt
them?"
'tNo They are cheap. The average
cost Of keeping the population OF the
isthmus in it's present sanitary condition
is just about l cent per day per- capita,
and that sum Is we'll within the means OF
any tropical country. A great deal OF
misstatement has been made concerning
that matter. 1t has been said that we
were spending something like $20OO,OOO
per year on sanitation, and certain mag
NATIVE newspaper men have figured out
that at the same ratio 1t would cost a
vast sum to keep the United States
healthy. Those figures did not come from
this bureau. Our actual cost of santa
ton has not amounted to more than
Iation Of 10000. It would amount to
considerably less than ! cent per day per
man. If you take the ratio Of the cost,
as compared with that OF Chicago or others
of the United States cities you will find
tie. Indeed. have figured that we are
spending here only 10 per cent more per
capita than is spent the United States
over
The conversation here turned to the two
kinds Of mosquitoes, which more than the
lions and tigers Of the jungle have
driven the white men from the tropics.
and l asked Col Gorgas to tell me some
thing about these terrible insects. In
the conversation which followed. he said !:
There are altogether about 400 diff
ferent kinds of mosquitoes each OF
which has it's own habitat and pecuiiari-
ties. Take the Jersey mosquito. That
breeds in salt water and will sometimes
fly thirty miles during the night. 1t Is
far more ferocious than, the malarial
or yellow fever mosquito. and its bite
is more painful. The malarial mosquito
Is known as the anophele. 1t bites dur
ing the daytime, but it's chief feeding
time is at night. 1t is an out-of-door
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PIats Before Planets.

A RTHUR BRISBANE is a gourmet Of
- rare caliber, and at a recent chefs
dinner whereof he was the guest OF
honor, Mr.. Brisbane wittily said:
IT consider the invention Of a new dish
far more important than the discovery of
q new planet. for surely there are
planets enough and to spare-more than
we know what to do Without mankind
can never have too many dishes"
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Panama railroad across the isthmus was
half completed, we sent regiment OF the
United States Army to California by way
of the isthmus. with Gen. Grant as quar-
termaSter That regiment had to marcn
from Gorgona to Panama where they took
ship for San Francisco. During the lat
ter part of their journey they lost eighty
men out of $40.
"An even greater mortality prevailed
among some of the men who built
the railroad. You have heard Of
the death cars which went over the
road every morning and the story that
there was a corpse for every tie on the
track. l do not know about that but
the mortality was so great that the con-
struction work had to be stopped for lack
of men. The railroad company once i'm
ported O thousand negroes from the west
coast of Africa, and they all died within
the space of six months. Later they
brought in a thousand Cinnamon and the
most of these died. The mortality was
terrible
1T was equally bad in the days of the
French canal, was 1t nOt?"
IF we may believe the stories it was
beyond description, awful. Sir Claude
Mailet, the present British minister at
Panama, who was then British consul
here and as such had the administration
Of the estates Of the British subjects who
died on the work. tells me that he had
from three hundred to six hundred such
estates to settle every month. Our death
rate, calculated on a force Of &c, 600, would
amount to only 10 per month, and those
British deaths were among the subjects
of John Bull only.
1T Is hard 10 get accurate statistics Of
just how many died under the French
We know that they had good hospitals
and that the sick in them were well
cared for. but the contractors had to pay
a dollar a day for their men who were
kept in the hospitals. and you can easily
see that the ordinary contractor would
send no more than he had to. From
the best information 1 can get I believe
that the French lost 10000 laborers by
death during the work of the first COM
pany on the canal. and that would make
a death rate per annum of about 25 per
cent or more than go per thousand. I
doubt If we could have done better II
we had known no more of tropical dis
eases than they did,
Under those conditions could we have
built the canal, Col. GoIsas?" asked.
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tE you walking
about in a suit Of
clothes made for
King George Of
E n & | q n d, Gar
Nicholas of Rus
sia or Kaiser
Wilhelm of Ger
m a n y !? Don't
smile too broadly
at the question,
because there is
the possibility of
- =
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same suit two days running. When he
takes off a suit it is Immediately given in
charge Of his junior valet, who. despite
the fact that 1t has been worn but a few
hours, carefully brushes and presses 1t.
In his expenditure for hats. King
George is equally modest. To be sure he
has an extraordinary number of stove
pipes" in the course of a year, often run
ming to a score. but for them he pays
only $40 apiece. For his derbes-or bowl
ers, as he would call them-he refuses to
go higher than s.. He is more particular
does not throw any money away He
considers $40 pair quite enough to
spend upon low shoes, which he seldom
wears. and 500 a good price for high
shoes. or boots, as they call them here.
King Georges wardrobe Is cleaned out
twice a year-in the autumn and in the
spring. The matter is left largely in
been with the English monarch for many
years and understands his ideas upon
economy. About a score of suits are
discarded every six months. They are
disposed of to two dealers-one in Paris
and the other in New York. None is
sold in London. The proceeds are de-
voted to charity. There is no question
Many years ago 1t was fixed at the uni
form figure Of about $3.50 suit and the
two dealers, especially the one In New
York, Is able to make a handsome profit
on each lot. There Is no restriction upon
their resale except that the dealers are
warned that any hint to customers that
the clothes at one time belonged to King
George will be followed Immediately by a
loss Of the opportunity Of purchasing the
old clothes.