The copper era and Morenci leader., 1913-10-10

1-Remains of One of the Spanish F
 lage on T
 HDown verdure-clad slopes and ter racing reaches
 Where orange and mango and pine
 apple grow,
 One wanders through Eden to ocean washed beaches
 An Eden that only the sun-children know"
 mented poet of Panama, wrote of
 Taboga Island. It was so enticing that I determined to be one of the sun-children for day or two and so steamed away in little launch twelve miles out into the Pacific to that
 beauty spot It is all that MT. Gil bert called it, and more, and it is no
 wonder that the sanitarium, estab- lished there by the French canal com pany and reopened by the Americans, is so well patronized. If you are a canal employe-white- have been i'll, the doctor may be kind enough to send you over to Taboga for two weeks to recuperate. If you are mere visitor you can put up at the unpretentious little hotel con- ducted by William Jones, the Ameri- can six-footer who looks like a miner and dances like a cotillon leader. In either case you will be fortunate, for you will find those ''verdure-clad slopes" gorgeous, with flowers and alive with brilliant birds, and the "ocean-washed beaches" the finest places in the world for a swim. You can sail about the pretty bays with the native fishermen, or you can climb up the hills where the boys are vociferously driving the kine home to be milked, or you can merely lie in the shade and dream dreams of the Spanish ga11eons and the buccaneers. the repair of shattered nerves would be hard to find.
 Taboga has history, too, small as it fs De Luque, the second bishop of Panama, looked upon the island, | saw that it was good and established | there his country residence. In fact 1 he maintained household there the | year round, for, like many another | churchman of the old days, he did not | adhere closely to thc rul of celibacy. 1 His memory is preserved by bath l ing place in a stream that runs down the mountain side, called the Bish- ops Pool. It was reserved for the use of him and his retinue. Above it is the Family Pool, for women and children, and still higher up Is the Pool of the Letters, for the men. The last one derives it's name from the inscription "J. F. B., Ohio" carved on a nearby rock. This Is reminder that in 1852 the Fourth infantry, U. s. A., crossed the isthmus en route for garrison duty in California, hay Ing sailed from New York on the United States mail steamer Ohio. Cholera was prevalent at the time in Panama and the American soldiers and the sailors from the Ohio were by the disease, about eighty of them dying. Some of the sick were left on Taboga island to recov- sr, and evidently one of them did re- cover sufficiently to climb up to the bathing pool and leave the record that is a mystery to the native in- nabitants of this day. Incidentally U. s. Grant, then a captain, was with he Fourth infantry on that trip.
 l his stream most of the way, you viii come to a place at the summit of a pass called Las Cruces. There, set n cement, are three small crosses the most exciting in- ,ident in the islands history. Ac- ,ording to a Spanish work written early in the last century, a shipload ,f Peruvian pirates came sailing up he coast in 1915 and decided Taboga vas good place to loot. They land d and drove the small Spanish gar 'ison out of the village and up the ] mountain. But in the pass the sol Hers rallied, the inhabitants came to heir assistance and there, says the most bloody combat aged for hours. Finally the pirates were routed and fled to their ship, eaving three men dead on the field ; If battle!
 The isthmus reeks with history, some of the most interesting pas ] ages of which have to do with Porto ] 3ello. But the visitor who goes ( here with mind full of the mighty ( lights and great trade of the old