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The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-06-26
WIVES OF REPUBLICAN LEADERS
DISAGREE ON SUFFRAGE QUESTION

CBy Mollie Morris in Chicago Daily
News.D
Mrs. W. e. BorGh, wife of Senator
Borah of Idaho, holds the unique dis
tinction OF being the only woman
among the various wives and daught-
ers assembled under the Congress
hotel roof, and connected with the "a
publican national convention, who has
actually cast vote for a president
In her state women have the suffrage
and Mrs Borah is more or less of a
politician, being the daughter of an ex-
governor and the wife Of a senator.
However, she refuses to be drawn into
a discussion of suffrage while in Chi
cago and beyond admitting yesterday
that she was in favor Of it declined
to speak OF her views.
Mrs. Pardee Can Vote.
Mrs George G. Pardee, wife of a
former governor Of California, is an
other who may vote if she so chooses,
but at the time of the last election
she was with her husband on a
months trip TO Panama with the com
mercial clubs of the coast and. there
fore missed her chance to vote
"Nly three daughters, however, vot.
ed, b." she said yesterday through q
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-06-26

zoe as carly as three O'Clock u The
'.l'n- About half million dollars
.r. maid ,r. ,,,b d., ...,
.r,..,.. a.....
the COIN are taken To- the
| cars which are stde-trached at t,m-
ptge. and placed i'm the safes i'm the
cages of the cars which are fitted up
| like a bank. The ARRANGEMENT of
! these cages is excellent. IS the mon
can enter by the three doors zone at
/ each end and one i'm the centery cross
! the car pass the cashier. and leave
on the other size Of the car After
The money is loaded the adding and
change mchines are nm. in nIa,o and
! by a few minutes prst civ ,1,bouob -
I is hardly davIfobt tho cashier 10 rood,.
for business
The Pacific Di,isio, g.. ,.,,,i,,. .,;,
off the first dav So the oar ooas diroct
to Pedro ,riguaI roro tho iro,, ond
concrete workers limo -, and ono g.,
surprised at tbe ranidity Win n.hioh
the cashiers work Tho ",o,d an,
plovees" have one door and tho Sc. i1,o,.
employees" use tbe otbar tn.o rho|
emplovee first shove bis hross ido,+f
fication check end then bis n,,. oor
ti6cote IL +b, r,,,,i,, -.
tifcate talIies with tho oro IN tho
brass check the money is counted ont
TO the man and no ,oesas ort an tho
other side of the car Tho o,volouo
system would mot no faaeihlo tbaro
from the fact that the bao,.,, ooin
wouId wear ,brougb tbo noror bororo
# reached tho en,nlovao ca ni,o mo, !
ont If fen esnacia1I,, tbe "si,,or an,
ployees" carry tbeir nonev from, tbo
nav Ger in tbeir hats ,1,,v Of tho
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-06-26

OF course. the moment is too late
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-06-26
WARS MIGHTIEST CHEF

geld and Jewels and from Susa h
took gold and silver from the min.
where it was waiting to be coined, &c
the value of $5jO,OOOOOO. Then came
his conquest of Persia, and it tooS
10000 mules and 1000 camels to trans
port the loot which was fully as
much as that taken at Susa.
In the midst Of his triumphant eX
pioits of arms and in the accumul3
ton of such stores of added wealth
the noble generosity of Alexander to
ward his fallen foe, Darius the Per
sian, is an illustration of the grand,
eur of character that ought to mari;
a man of such genius.
When Darius escaped after the bat,
tie at Issus his mother his wife and
his two daughters were among the
captiyes. taken by Alexander. Elk,
pecting to suffer insult and disgrace,
they found delicate consideration,
kindness and courtesy. And later,
when in hot pursuit of Darius, Alex,
ander came upon him dying-lying in
his last agony upon a chariot, muir
dered by a man who sought to be
king Of Observation-Disclosures shed tears
at this pathetic sight. And when his
enemy was dead he had the body
taken to Persepolis and buried among
the royal tombs of the Persian kings
kings
Splendor in Last Durbar
AleXanders last durbar at Babylon
was a splendid spectacle. His tent
was upheld by pillars of solid gold
and its roof was covered with cloth
of gold. Within this tent the throne
of Cyrus of Persia was placed and
upon this sat Alexander.
His officers of state stood near the
throne and behind them were a hun
dred touches adorned with solid sold
IN half circle 500 Macedonia guards
formed an imposing line; and back
Of them 500 Persians stood guard,
their costumes of rich purple SILK
and the lances they bore onamented
with golden pomegranates.
Entirely around these groups 1000
archers formed a circle Their cos
tunes We're in fame color and bril-.
liant scarlet with dashes of light
blue The royal tent was so enor,
nous that all these persons were
gathered within it,
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-06-26
ALEXANDER THE GREAT.

Born at Pella, Macedonia, 356 B. C.
Died at Babylon, 323 b. {.
There is no father mentioned in
history who ever had quite the con
fidence in his son that Philip of
Macedon showed in Alexander, after.
ward called the great"
He toldo the youth Macedonia was
too small a kingdom for him, as he
vept with joy to see Alexander mas
ter the famous horse Bucephalus that
had overthrow every rider at Pellia,
And when Philip went out on cam
paign to conquer Byzantium, he left
Alexander as regent in Macedonia,
his age then being only sixteen years.
Alexander's last two years of study
were with Aristotle as his master
lie found the boy absorbed with the
idea of deyoting his life to conquest
The art of war appealed to him
above all else, and he gloried in the
knowledge that through his mothers
family he was descended from Achil-
les From the time he was able TO
read he had slept with a copy of the
Tliad and a sword his father gave
him carefully placed beneath his pill
low.
Becomes King at Twenty.
At the age of twenty Alexander be-
came king of Macedonia through the
death of his father. During the twelve
years of his reign he left a record
for military skill and brilliant eX-
ploits that has never been equaled
in history.
That he was a believer in the the
DRY that spoils belonged to the victor
is also a matter of history. The stor-
les of the amount of treasure he col
lected in his wars have seemed fabu-
lous, but what can with safety be
relied upon as fact has been studied
and the result shows that his plumber
probably amounted to $3.50, 600, 900
In AleXander's time it was the GUS
tom of kings to melt all the gold they
got possession of, to pour it into
earthen jars and store these in the
royal treasury SO when kingdoms
were conquered the treasure captur-
&c often represented the accumula-
tions of centuries. From Damascus
Alexander took away S75O,OOOO 900 in
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-06-26

Williams pays those men personally,
Whenever 1t is possib @. ,iu order that
they may avoid climbing into the car.
1t matters urlc what class of work
men they are it is an the same-they
are crippled and deserve consideration.
4, seven o'clock in the evening when
the pay car runs on the switch "a EN-.
pire and the tired crew go to their
quarters
The Central Division is paid off on
the second day and tie car goes down
TO the very bottom Of Culebra cut and
becomes part Of the labyrinth Of
shoyels and drill S and dirt trains
which keep up an inceaaaut din. At
each point shrtI bias from the
engine warns the workmcn that the
pay car is at hano, and the men come
from the hills like bees from hive.
The great shops at Gorgona are paid
OFF on the second day, and these shops
cover such large area tina. pilot
or guide accompanies the engineer
to direct him to the proper railroad
track leading to the different depart
ments. About twelve hundred men
are paid off a these shops. and among
them are some of the very best me-
chancs in the United States. They
are attracted to the Canal Zone by
the remunerative wages ana the ex-
cellent treatment they receive at the
hands of the Canal Commission.
The pay car goes to the Atlantic
Division on the last day, and the en-
tire morning is spent at Gatun, where
a sma army of workers of all classes
and nGtionalities receive their wages.
In all, forty-four tons of coin are
paid out ($l,5OO,OOO.OOD for a months
work on the great waterway. The
car is always well protected for at
least a dozen Canal Zone policemen
are on duty, as well as a plain
clothes" man who mingles with the
workers to keep an eye on things in
Ten cashiers are required to
do the paying, besides the regular
train crew. Mr.. VII Jams is always
on hand to oversee the work. A stop
is made for lunch each day, but the
paying continues as the cashiers take
turns in leaving the cages. Occasion
ally a man will raise his pay certifi-
cate and is invariably caught. None
Of the raises have been large, but the
men had to be punished for the prin-
ciple involved and as an example The
wages are remunerative-far more
than could be obtained for the same
class of work in the United States.
The Canal Commission follows the
Golden Rule and expects its employees
to reciprocate in the same spirit.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-06-26

In any big enterprise where a large
number of persons are employed, it
becomes a matter Of some importance
to devise a sNs,e by which the EN-.
ployes may be paid without much loss
of time to the employer or any dissat-
isfaction on the part of the workmen
by reason of delay. The Isthmian
Canal Commission seems to have sue
cessfully solved this perplexing prob
lem to the satisfaction of all concern
ed ana pay day on the Panama Canal
is interesting from many standpoints.
The pay rol. alone is an index to
this vast undertaking as more than
thirty-eight thousand men are paid off
each month. 1t requires three days to
complete the distribution of money by
the present system. Very little time
is lost for the pay car carries the
money TO all parts of the Canal-going
to the workmen rather than they COM
ing to it. Various plans were tried
with more or less success before the
one now in vogue was adopted, and
tenn is due to Mr. Edward j. Williams,
the Discussing Officer. This gentle
man had long experience in this line
as before coming to the Isthmus he
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-06-26

small opening in the door of her apart
ment, "and | should have done so had
been al home"
1t took considerable persuasion to get
Mrs. Pardee to say that much or IN
reveal so much as the tip of her nose,
as she was dressing for dinner ana was
in no mind to talk to reporters. She
had a pleasant voice and referred
everybody to the doctor, as she called
her husband, for information.
Oregon Women Are Confident.
Mrs, Ralph e. Williams, wife of the
national committeeman from Oregon
and a member of the subcommittee on
arrangements, said it was likely she
would have to vote before long. as her
home is in Portland, and Oregon wom-
en- are confident they are going to be
granted the ballot She would consid-
CT it her duty to vote if all women
were permitted to, although she is not
an advocate of woman suffrage.
Il cannot see that it would benefit
anybody or bring about any great re-
forms, nor do ! think that mans with.
holding the ballot from woman indi-
Gates that he does not consider her
intelligent enough TO vote. It is mere.
Continued on page twelve)
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-06-26

, bills were easily shipped out of the
country and this was done as fast as
| they came in. The merchants and
! others found these notes cheap meth
! ID of exchange, as they merely re-
| quired { registry fee and postage. The
Canal Commission soon discovered
that they were furnishing money to.
keep people who had no part in the
canal construction from paying bank
exchange, so this phi anthropic system
was stopped. This finally led to the
payment of all employees in gold and
silver coin. Very little of this actual
ly leaves the Isthmus, for in ADDITION
to the difficulty and danger of trans.
porting the coin, there is law of the
Republic of Panama which levies an
export duty on coin shipped out of the
country. BY the present plan the
white men are known as gold employ
ees" and are paid in American gold
coin, and the negroes are called sill
yer employees and receive their wag-
es in Panama silver equal in value to
gold. The currency of Panama was
minted in the United States in 1905
This simplified the Disbursing Officers !
task in the silver payments, for by !
that issue of money the value of a
peso or Panama silver dollar was fix
ed at two TO one rate. 1t was also
found necessary to issue Panama coins
of smaller value, owing to the fact
that the employees are paid off 10 the
cent each month.
Obtaining money to pay off was for
time expensive, for it had to be
purchased from four banking firms on !
the Isthmus at three-quarters of one
per cent premium. Later the funds
were secured by having the United
States ship gold coin to the canal
zone. Then came conference after
conference with the bankers, for the
Canal Commission wished to devise
some meGps by which the money !
could be obtained without paying a
premium and be kept on the lsthmus
as we'll Finally it was agreed that
the bankers would accept the checks
of the Disbursng Officer on the Sub
Treasury of New York at par in eX
change for the gold and silver re
quired on pay day BY this method
large shipments of gold from the Unit
ed States were no longer necessary
At present it is estimated that be-
tween four and five million dollars in
gold are in Panama.
With a pay roll so large, the identi-
fication of each employee by name
alone would be both difficult and un-
consequently the brass
check Identified ION plan is used Every
employee, when he enters the service
of the Canal Commission, is given
brass check bearing a number and by
this he is identified as long as he re-
mains in their emp oy. All uusHlled
labor is paid by the hour rs we'll as
certain classes of skilled labor The /
working day consists of eight hours !
Owing to the extreme heat i'm the mid |
de of the day the outdoor working !
hours are from seven TO eleven in the |
morning and one to five i'm thr evening !
In tie event Of overtime, the men
working by the hour receiN time and
q half for the service, This, however,
rarely Occurs. Special time keepers are
employed and are stationed in al
parts of the work A copy Of their
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ployees" and must Ue American cltt.
2ens. Unskilled laborers, who are re.
cruited from the natives o. the 18TH
mus, West Indies and Southern Eu-
rope, are paid from ten TO twenty
cents per hour and receive their wages
in Panama silver.
Several policemen are always on duty
at the Disturbing Once, Tor large
amount of money is kept in the vaults
at al times and this g increased just
before pay day when the money is
sent from the banks. OF course, he
coin is both bulky and heavy and the
moving requires labor. II occasions
title excitement anC is hauled in wlg-
ons from the train to the vaults a
the Disbursing Office, and is only rec
ognized as Treasure from the fact that
several policemen ride on the wagon
and two or three more walk behind
it,
Pay day occurs on the thirteenth,
and fifteenth Of each
month. The pay car starts from EN-
pire each of the three days, and on
these mornings the clerks are in the
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-06-26
ROOSEvELTS CAMPAIGN SAID
TO HAVE COST Sl25O,OOO

to put into effect the Belmont reso-
luton But if it could be made clear
to the people-what is known ny ev-
cry active man in poIitics-that the
Roosevelt campaign for nomination
has been financed by George W. Per-
kins, Pierpont Morgan, Frank A. Nun
sey and by the steel trust itself, with
the harvester trust as a cheerful aid,
would not that have its effect? All
this is true. Stated BADLY as | do
it on the responsibility of merely one
political writer, it carries but little
weight But think for moment
what formal report from an au-
thorized government bureau would
have if it read to this effect:
Theodore Roosevelt Fund for Nomi-
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-06-26
Theodore Roosevelt Fund for NOmi.
nation.

Total ....,..,,.......... 81 ,-'V,OVV
do not put in the amounts of the
individual contributions for the sim
PIE reason that do not know them,
! have seen figures in the newspapers
ranging high into the thousands, but
81 is so easy TO say that George w.
Perkins contributed $4,000, which
seems to be the popular figures, when
i'm fact he may have Clipped in $751;
600 or $l5O,OOO. Mr., Perkins IS not
going to tell.
Somebody, however, has put in
great sums of money for Roosevelt.
As a rule these great sums of money
do not come from the plain, ordinary
people. There are few democrats I'm
public life who could figure how to
get 100000 to carry Manhattan is.
land or nearly as much 20 carry Okla
homa From some point money Is
Continued on page tw-lyel
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k1720lgTeeg CsttIl2S ZHeI1" by
I'd he CLNS6H7 CGLE

.e,ords is sent to the Discussing Office
and the pay certificates are made out
rom them. These certificates are
authenticated by the Examiner of Ac-
counts and the Discussing Officer and
then returned to the lime keeper, who
in turn delivers them to the individual
whose brass check number corresponds
with the number on the certificate.
The man is then told the day and
hour of the arrival Of the pay car in
TIE vicinity of his work AMI he is en-
pected to fall in line and receive his
pay. A glance at the scale Of vases
paid will give the reader some idea Of
the immense amount of clerical work
the making out of these pay checks.
entails. For instance, steam inter-
receives siXty-five cents per hour al
bricklayer earns seventy cents in the
same time, a car repairer draws ttty-I
six cents for every sixty minutes OF
labor, pattern maker is paid sevenly-I
five cents per hour, third grade boil-j
err maker draws forty-four cents for mis-
hourly work, etc. These men are skill
ed laborers and known as gold en-
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was the Disturbing Agent of one of the
largest railroads in the United States,
and his know cage of workmen and
their likes and d'5likes has served
him well on the Canal Zone, where
men of so many nationalities work side
by side.
The Disbursing Office is located at
Empire. The men are paid in go d
to keep the money on the Lsthmus,
for this is the only means by which
his can be done. In the early days
Of the canal building it was the Gus
tom to issue checks on the United
States for such sums of money as the
employees wished to send to the Unit
ed States each month. This was zone
solely to accommodate the men. but
it soon became apparent that the EN-
ployees were abusing this privilege byI
asking for these for the so purpose
of selling them to business men ont
The lsthmus to be used as New York
Exchange, the checks beng sent in pay
ment of bills due in the United States.
So the issuing of these was di con
tinued. The next move by the Dis
bursting Agent was to pay certain num-
bers of the employees in paper money, !
but again the plan proved a failure for
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-10-23
AParody
BY PERCY SHAW.

CA process has been discovered for
making milk from vegetables, and is
now being demonstrated at Frank
fort the Main.-NEWS ITEM.)
n S children how we used to list
n To "Bingen on the Rhine"
While in our eyes through
growing mist
Unbdden tears would shine.
Science has changed all that and now
A new place haunts our brain
Where they make milk without a COW
At Frankfort on the Main.
No more the farmers boy will cry:
Go, Boss" across the rail.
Nor humming sunset lullaby
Beat tunes upon his pail
For with pen perverse and chill
Science has written plain:
81 manufacture cream at will
At Frankfort on the Main"
No more will milkmaids cutely
dressed
Trip past with placid brows,
No more will wedding suits be
pressed
While driving home the cows;
For Science takes a cabbage and
A turnip and romaine
And gives you milk as per demand
AT Frankfort on the Main.
Romance, farewell, yet let us waste
No pity on the COW;
She will no cud of sorrow taste;
She will be happy now;
Henceforth she'll make one stomach
do
And. blinking on the plain.
Give thanks with an ecstatic moo"
To Frankfort on the Main
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-10-23
=: =: What a Home Should Be -:
By WINIFRED BLACK.

I'd keep you and your friends. at
home with me for company and
then you wouldn't want to get
away to the streets and to the NOV
ing pictures and to other excuses
for what your ought to get at home
Home! Why, that's what home
ought to mean for a girl Of your
age-the place to have a good time
with your friends. What is that
mother of yours so busy about that
eshe doesn't want to take time to
help you be happy?
Eighteen! Just a few years
now and she'll have to stand by
and see the light fade from those
bright eyes of yours. Just a few
years and you'll be too busy and too
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-10-23
An Easy Mark.

Every man knows that the cham
pion easy mark of the world is a,
widow with her insurance money,
and that it is such simple process
to swindle her that no dishonest
man can resist the temptation to
do It. There is not one of us who
can not name off hand, without
even stopping to think, a dozen pit
irul, helpless, poverty stricken
widows that we know and are
called on to help from time to time,
who were left comfortable fortunes
by their husbands, but who have
been cheated out of their money. or
let it slip through their fingers be-
cause they were as ignorant of all
business uses as a child.
They didn't know which was the
business end Of a check. They
didn't know the difference between
a gilt edge bond and Wild Cat Pre-
ferred. They didn't think that such
a casual thing as signing your
name on piece of paper that you
hadn't read could really amount to
anything. one way or the other.
They were sure that Deacon Smith
was perfectly honest because he
prayed such beautiful prayers, and
that Cousin Thomas would pay
them back their money because
wasn't he their own dear aunts
son?
I know one woman who today Is
keeping a miserable railroad eat
ing house whose husband left her
100000 that she got rid of within
two years by the simple expedent
of signing an innocent-looking pa
per that a man told her was an OBJ
ton on a lot. She didn't read it.
She probably wouldn't have under
stood 1t if she had, but when the
man was arrested for running a
fraudulent real estate agency She
found out that she was his partner
and responsible for his debts. She
truthfully denied that she knew Of
having such connection with him.
or was responsible for his deeds.
but the law took a very different
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-10-23
Little Short of a Crime.

If you died. the happines5 81, t''
woman you love and that vou No'"
to be SO helpless, the very iood """
shelter of your Iittlc cmioIs"
would depend on your Wiie's Know
ing how to manage money ami 'a"s
car of what YOU left her N', you
do not take the trouble to try "
prepare her Tor such Il. continse",'
It's little short of a crime i' l''"
this defenseless creature Out no ''
tender mercy of the financia .'''''
Don't do it. Begin today o'.| "
teach your wife something 500"
your affairs. and about investments
Try to take out some INSURANCE
against her ignorance alou5 WIZ
your other insurance,