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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-05-06
TREEs PLANTED ALONG srREErs

4 The -125 young trees which it was voted at town meeting held not long ago, to set out around the streets of the town, have arrived here and are being set out under the direction of the tree warden. The trees are being set out along the principal streets of the town and promise to grow soon to be fine shade trees, for they are all sturdy and hardy looking young trees.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-05-06

Washington, May 6-Miss Katherine Elkins, the wealthy daughter of the late United States Senator Stephen B. E1kins Of West Virginia, whose re- ported engagement to the Duke d 'Abruzzi aroused international atten- tion, was one of the interesting so-
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-05-06
SCALP SPECIALIST

Special Treatment for Oily Hair-
 Manicuring
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 412 Security Building. 1115 Main St. Phone 1873. S27stf
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-05-06

ler Want Ads. One Cent a Word.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-02

They wear the striped clothing of the
states prison tradition. Also, alas. for
the first three months, while at work,
they wear the ball and chain, which
saves guards, and as the chief of police
thinks, some lives, for If the convcts
were not chained the guards would have
to shoot more freely when escape is at
tempted The ball and chain and the
striped clothes are rough means of
classification. but it seems a little hard
on a man sentenced for three months
that the most exemplary conduct secures
graduation from the lowest grade only
on the expiration of his term.
To appreciate the services of Colonel
Goethals and his assistants. Colonel
Hodges and Mr.. Rousseau. and those of
Quartermaster C. A. Devol and Colonel
Gorgas, the chief sanitary officer, would
require more space than is here avail
able So also to tell the story of the
achievements of Colonel Sibert at the
Atlantic end; of Colonel Gaillard in the
central division: of Mr.. Williamson on
the Pacific; of Mr.. Goldmarks lock gates.
of Colonel Wilson's hotels and commits
sary stores. of the excellent, railway
service: of the work which Mrs. Brown,
Miss Beattie and their associates have
done in the women's clubs. or even of
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-02

lice and the fire forces to do its
work? And why should not the indi-
yidual policeman watch the check
reins on the horses, the knees of the
mules and the faces of the children?
Why should no ''city clean" emerge by
the passionate devotion of the laddies
with the hose and the gnomes be made
useful in clearing the adits to the sew
ers, now frequently choked with pa
per and mud and fruit peelings? In a
weeks time the citizens themselves
would walk a block to throw their
scraps into the appointed receptacles.
and all would vie with each for Bir-
mingham beautiful.
But more must be said. | have said
"why" SO often that henceforward L
will ask no question. Here, however.
is the vice problem. The city must eith
err conquer it or be strangled by it..
A thousand poor creatures arc its local
Victims and priestesses, never SO pa
thetic as when most highly paid. 9th
er cities have gripped that problem and
have won out against it. Still others
sit in the region and shadow of this
death. A Lenten spirit will surely
spring up in this city and preach as
Savonarola preached to Florence, as
Whitefield preached to London. Purity,
not foulness, is the normal human
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-02
CIVIC PROBLEMS OF CANAL ZONE-By Edward T. Devine

not on the canal zone) and the over
crowding in those two cities will con-
tfnue unless the United States, through
Its new civil government in the canal
zone, decides to extend it's sanitary reg
ulations and police surveillance, as the
treaty with Panama gives it the right
to do If it deems it expedient.
The three departments of the canal
zone administration which have the
greatest interest for the social worker
are those of the quartermaster, which
includes the recruiting of labor and
the erection and management of quar-
ter sanitation, which includes not
only preventive sanitation but also the
management of hospitals and dispen-
saries; and civil administration, under
which come the schools, the postoffice,
the courts and police, the jails and the
penitentiary.
The chief quartermaster's functions
are greater than the uninitiated might
suppose. The sanitary department. for
example, decides upon health policies
but whether the houses and settle-
ments shall really be sanitary depends,
of course, upon the way in which they
are kept, the removal of night soil and
garbage, the cutting of grass and Dig
ging of drains, the supply of drinking
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-02
A LITTLE MORE LENT-By George Eaves,

evident absence of Intentional wrong
doing?
A further illustration has its hu-
morous aspect Two ladies were robbed
by a purse snatcher, who promptly dis
appeared up an alley already notorious
for that sort of brigandage. The ques-
ton was asked of a certain inferior
official: why is not that place
watched?" His reply is instructive:
1--WE had man to watch 1t for a week
or more, but nothing happened and
so We took him offi''
Certainly. "Why is a policeman" An
swer, He makes arrests" But that is
not the view that modern cities take.
In civilized communities the policeman
is the man who knows the city, pro-
tects the helpless, controls the traffic,
prevents crime, suggests cleanliness to
the sidewalks, even to the city's utter
most boundaries. watches for i'll treat
ment of animals, is keen for undesir-
able immigrants and makes it his bus
mess to see that orange or banana
peel is not thrown on the places where
old ladies walk. The Humane society
ought to have no need to employ an
officer, for every policeman should be
it's agent. The ragged little niger
caught in mischief should have friend
and not a foe in the big policeman.
Military discipline there should be in
the force, but not military squad drill
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-02

invaded territory of the red man who
would engage the Spaniards at points
of the greatest advantage to them
selves who enjoyed every possible ben
eft because of their familiarity with
the surroundings. But for Ortiz the
expedition might have perished before
it had quilted the present territory OF
Georgia.
The Spaniards never knew when to
expect an assault. Often at the most
unconjectured time they would receive
n shower of arrows, noiseless in their
flight and coming from unseen sources.
Every hour, by day and by night. they
were kept in suspense. and even in
tervals of quietude became ominous of
accommodating trouble. Sometimes from
the sumsnits of rocky hills in front an
attack would be made; sometimes one
flank assailed. then both Simultaneous
". while not infrequentfy the rear
would be attacked by overwhelming
numbers of shrieking, yelling demons.
whose painted, naked bodies and fierce
demonstrations would create pande-
monium. There was little in tragic
scenes like these to hearten the tender
gentry of Spain. BY dint of rare dis
cipline, maneuver. powder and ball, of
which the Indians knew nothing and
an intensely common interest of pro-
lection which welded the Spaniards to-
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goes by default. Are not our lives, is
not our health, is not our sense of de-
cency, just as well worth protecting as
our shop windows? And cannot the police
be trusted to first warn and then arrest
fragrant violators of the law? Could they
not help the car companies to prevent
splitting on the cars?
(b) They may surely be given some
freedom for their own discretion. A case
in point is the owner of an automobile,
whose chauffeur had no measuring tape,
and slightly invaded the 32-foot limit be-
fore an office building. Al lady descended
from the car, the driver was still at his
post, and the watchful Argus of the City
Hall promptly arrested him. The lady,
returning, protested that the 32-foot rule
was not known to them. Argus replied
that he was instructed to warn people
the first month and to arrest all later
offenders. The next scene is the re-
corder's court, evidence all given; the car
owner asks leave to explain, and is
promptly quashed with the final dictum
of authority: Five dollars"
Would not warning have sufficed?
Why this laborious and expensive pro-
cess which brings an innocent man to
the waste of valuable time and . the
and annoyance of a petty
Was the city in need of
that $5 bill? Were the policemans or
ders of more significance than the self
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-02

of the Tommy Atkins sort, that quells
personality and discourages individual
intelligence. What we want is the ut
most welfare not long list of arrests
or monthly proofs that the fines col
lected pay the officers salaries. The
present method is marred by the sin
of civic waste and leaves a world of
things undone which the city could do
without the expenditure of another dol
lar.
2. The same criticism applies to the
fire laddies, who ought long ago to
have taken daily exercise with no.
and water on their nearby streets. Not
a yard of pavement but could have
been washed a hundred times had the
coordination of forces been achieved
which a good housekeeping would have
achieved long ago. But We go on
eathing poisonous particles with our
daily breath because we have not
learned how to use our forces, which
we have, however, learned to pay. And
the result lis waste, for the carpenter
does not encourage the goldsmith and
the distaff Is at war with the trun-
cheon. The city is not one body but a
variety of Independent functions, each
costing something and each serving in
its own way without regard to the 9TH
ers Why in the world should not the
health department coordinate the po-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-02
FAIR WOMAN-THE CREATURE INCOMPREt1ENSIBLE-By Kaf

fact, back in the labyrinthine convolu-
tions and complexities of her feminine
brain, there abides perfectly private
viewpoint which you know nothing what
ever about
She knows you don't.
You think you know exactly what she
is thinking.
She knows you do.
She let's you think so.
And you go rashly and cheerfully ahead.
confident of her perfect understanding
until some day like a bolt out of the
blue. comes the stunning realization that
she did not think that way at all! Never
had: never expected to. You are shocked.
You learn quite too suddenly for your
comfort that you haven't in the least un-
derstood her And it isn't a question of
the merely simple minded woman. It's
all of them.
That blind alley of reserved incompre-
hensibility is just as likely to crop nm
in the highly intelligent woman as n
the simple species. Only with the In
telligent woman it is intensified.
With the simple woman the symptoms
are sulkness and stubbornness. with the
brilliant creatlre, too we'll bred "a ~
IsAieni unmistakable sign that you
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-02

water and other services the actual
performance of which devolves upon
the quartermaster's department.
The story of sanitation is summed
up in the fact that yellow fever is
banished and malaria controlled. There
are, of course, many deaths from ac-
cidents, from pneumonia, from tuber-
culosis and some from malaria, The
death rate on the zone for the last
fiscal year, including the cities Of
Colon and Panama, was 1882 per 1000.
In 19O6-7 it had been 42.OS. The gen.
eral index for health conditions, how
ever, is the morbidity rate for malaria.
This has steady decreased per 1000
from 727 cases in 1905-6 to LAB in
1911-12
There is a high infant death rate;
1912 deaths out of 3163 last year being
of children under years of age, and
956 of these under 1 year. Pulmonary
tuberculosis in all ages accounted for
293 deaths; malaria and malarial fe-
yer for 256; diarrhea and enteritis for
394, and Bright's disease for LAG. There
were % suicides.
School attendance is not compulsory,
but Is general and reasonably regular.
In December for example, the net en-
rollment in the white schools was 1241,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-02

any other gentleman who essays any
where to guard the public. Certainly the
last man to push criticism upon fndi-
vidual members of the force in this city
is one who can see what limits their
usefulness. But here they are, unem-
ployed most of the time, and leading a
very inane existence because they have
hardly the least Intelligent idea of their
value to the people who pay their wages.
(a) They are a valuable asset of the
city's health Yet they cannot CO.
operate with the health department for
some occult reason. which no sane citi-
zen can even surmise. If, for example,
one of them is not intelligent enough to
recognize an open trash barrel he should
be dismissed and a normal person put in
his place. But why should not these
fellows, who get tired for want of more
interesting moments, be instructed that
the city is making ceaseless war on
typhoid and the typhoid fly; hence an
open barrel which awaits the too infre-
quent advent of Mr. Gaffords gnomes
and their gloom distributor? Each
householder is liable to a descent of the
special inspector. whom an impoverished
health department has had to discharge.
and so grows careless too frequently.
Now, why the waste of paying another
man when the policeman is already on
the beat?
Or take the splitting ordinance, which
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-02

There is no juvenile court in the
canal zone, no probation system and
virtually no resources for dealing ade-
quately with the by no means infre-
quent cases of genuine Juvenile delin-
quency which occur. Dismissal with in
effectual reprimand or commitment to
the penitentiary are the unwelcome
horns of the dilemma which the district
Judge faces Thanks to the womens
clubs, a separate part of the district
jail is set apart for women offenders,
but the segregation in practice is ap-
parently not always effective, as in
the Colon jail the only woman, a young
West Indian awaiting deportation as
a disorderly person. was holding ami
mated converse with a convicted felon
across the corridor. Probably, however,
the attention of the efficient chief of
police, who is responsible for the jails
and penitentiary, has already long since
been called to this oversight, and its
recurrence prevented.
Capital punishment by hanging is prac-
ticed on occasion. although juries are
slow to convict of the degree of murder
which has that result. There are some
$50 convicts in theN penitentiary on an
average and they are employed largely
in road building and other outdoor work.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-02

the average number being 1895 and
the average daily attendance 1925 In
the colored schools and enrolment was
about the same. but the average daily
attendance only about three-fourths as
good. There is an efficient corps of
teachers, most of whom have had pro-
fessional training and experience,
There is no law against child labor
in the canal zone and the official reg
ulations distinctly recognizes Boy A
and Boy r rates of pay, which are five
and cents an hour respectively. The
boys are mainly water carriers and
messengers on June 80, 1912, there
were only three employees receiving the
3 cent rate and 351 the cent rate.
Among the latter. however, there may
have been some men who had been in
jured in the service of the commission
or the railway and were capable of
performing only light work.
1t would be refreshing to review the
work of the district, circuit and su-
preme courts, to discover to what eX-
tent they have been able to create new
precedents and to escape from the USE
less formulae and traditions which I'M
pede the development of the law in
more stable communities, but more
thoroughgoing observations would be
required for this purpose
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-02

right, and a relentless battle with this
foulness will break out before an en-
larging vision of the city for she child.
Cynicism, worldly pessimism, sitting in
the seats of the mighty. tell us that
the world must go on being evil But
there are saner and more trustworthy
teachers than these and their hour has
begun to chime. Wisdom will cry out
on many a street in this Birmingham
of ours, despite the threatening of al
lied interests and she will not always
be derided. Let us repent of our con-
sent to the prevalence of the evil that
demands and creates the white slave
system in America, in our own town,
that brings to this city the offscour-
ings OF the countryside and sister
communities all over the land, that
puts in peril every girl in every home,
that pours its corruption into the
hotel. the boarding house, the messen-
ger service, the police department.. the
real estate business and the whole civic
and religious life of the whole conl-
munity. o Angel of Birmingham, must
the painter linn thee as a sort of pig.
with wings, grunting with porcine in
dignation that any should stir thee
out of the accustomed wallow? Behold
the days lengthen, spring Is In tho air,
and even the styes of many winters
must be washed and drained.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-02

Mr.. Dickinson's Young Mems Christian
Association club houses. the centers of
the social life OF the isthmus. OF these
last have naturally the most vivid and
appreciative recollection. for il was in
them mainly-at Cristobol, Gatun. Cor
gona. Empire and Culebra-that | had op-
portunity to meet the builders from mem
bers of the commission down to messen-
ger boys, and a superb lot of men and
boys they are. All honor to them, for
this that they are doing. unlike some
of the misty and mythical marvels of
antiquity, is a real wonder of the world.
Every one who has part in 1t is to be
envied. Every one who has a chance
even to see it is to be congratulated.
The social and sanitary problems OF
the canal zone are expected to disappear
with the completion of the canal ror
the word is that except for the army
and the few necessary canal employees.
the zone is to be depopulated. This is
now said to be the easiest means of de-
Tense against both armies and aeroplanes.
Whether that is or not. 1t is no doubt
the easiest means of preventing yellow
fever, malaria. congestion, lliteracy and
immortality. If there is no life on the
zone then the problems of life win be
utterly simple.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-02

toward the interior combats with the In
dian tribes began, but the Indian was un-
equal to the Spaniard because of the bet
ter equipment of the latter. The savages
We're overawed by the splendor of the
white soldier and as much by his horse
as by himself, for horses. the Indians
had never before seen. DeSoto was fortu-
nate in the capture of Jean Ortiz In a.
contest in the interior of Florida. Ortiz
had been of the band of Navaez. had
been captured by the Indians 10 years
before. had succeeded in saving his life
by willy strategem, and because of his
soldierly qualities. had been made a chief
of one of the tribes.
Under conditions like these Jean Ortiz
had lived for 10 years, making the most
of the circumstances. and had long ago
given up all hope of leading other than
the life of wild savage. The dominion
of his tribe fell within the march of in
vasion of the Spaniards. and Ortiz led
his warriors to battle against them. Sore
ly beaten in the encounter, many of his
warriors having been slain, Ortiz and his
troops fled in confusion hotly pursued bv
the Spanish horsemen. Ortiz was spe-
cially sought to be killed because he was
the leader, and as a cavalryman raised
his lance to deal a deadly blow, the chief
cried out in Spanish, much to the sur
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-02

tering in the spring sun, gaily caparisoned
steeds, procession of white robed priests
bearing their orucifixes, formed pro-
cession at once novel and imposing. As
they filed out and formed for the march,
there was ranged in their rear small
herd each Of cattle and of hogs. to be
driven on the expedition for supplies of
milk and meat. As the expedition ad-
vaneed inland, there was strange null
tiplication both of swine and of cattle.
1t was picturesque enough, this caval-
cade of horsemen in shining attire, bear
ing the ensign of Spain, vending its way
slowly through the virgin forests of tall
pines. Their camp fires of rich. resinous,
pine knots in the midst of stately trees
which stood like pillars in vast cathe-
dral, lent a scene of enlivenment to the
forest surroundings. The region was
green with long. wild grass and the ma
tive peavine, while the blossoms of early
spring were in their glory.
Streams deep and crystal abounded
along where grew the rank cane. Herds
of deer and droves of wild turkeys came
frequently into view as targets for the
Spanish marksmen, and the troop reveled
In unusual luxury with venison and tur-
key meat even in the wild woods of the
continent of the west.
From the early stages of the march
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nSHE morning Of May %. 1889. found
the shore of Tampa bay. Florida.
l. the center OF bright and animat-
ing scene. A wealthy Spaniard chiyalrous
and dashing, had just before reached the
port with a force of 600 men, 20 officers
and "a priests in white canonicals, all
bent on an expedition into the far interior.
Their quest was the long imagined Ell
Dorado of the western world. which was
a prize glittering before the imagination
of the fervid adventurer. Ferdinando De-
Soto who led this daring troop, was not
unaccustomed to adventures such as he
had in contemplation, for he had been
with Pizarro in Peru, where he was re-
warded with rich booty, and he pined
to invade the southern part of the North
American continent where he hoped to
reap richer rewards than were found on
the continent to the south. In the ex-
ploration on which he was now entering
he had been preceded 10 years before by
Narvaez, who had perished by
drowning Now with a freshly equipped
expedition, DeSoto entered anew on an
exploration of these western wilds in
search Of gold.
Novel spectacle was this on the wild
and primitive shore of Florida. Men in
brilliant uniform and with helmets gilt
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gether. they invariably prevailed but
never were shrewder. more stubborn or
fiercer foes encountered than these raw
savages of the American forest
Though duly provided with workers
in metal with their pots. and ladies for
the refinement of gold, the troops had
found no use for them after months of
a struggling march through the woods
of the south The allnring vision of tho
invading Spaniard of the abundance of
gold in the retreats of the American
wlds was gradually dispelled and
vastly counterbalaueed BY the hourly
peril that menaced. That the spirit of
the troops so long survived conditions
like these. shows the stern stuff OF
which the Spanish soldier of that time
was made His love of gold was con-
suming, while his spirit of adventure
was the most audaeious. These COM
bined with the necessary conference in
common defense made DeSotos band
well nigh invincible.
After a considerable detour of The
present state of Georgia. DeSoto
reached the region where the present
city of Rome now is. where he crossed
the river and was the first white man
to set foot on the soil of Alabama. OF
the subsequent scenes of the expedi
tion we shall have occasion to learn
in the chapters that are to follow.
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you imagine deep thought and reasoning
powers. Wrong again. There is no
temper-no loquacity--no little feminine
outbursts. for the simple reason that
there are no bumps whatsoever in that
small unlumpy brain.
She locks adorable.
She says yes and no very sweetly. She
even knows a few stock phrases of popu-
lar parlance. And nothing more
So there you are. And after a while
you grow very weary. You feel as If
you had gone through a long. long diet
Of chocolate creams and wberry soda
water.
And you long for caviar You pine
for the caprices and unfathomabilities Of
your adored lady.
You say to yourself in desperation: 'T.et
there be all the kinks, and convolution,
and complexities. and outrageousnesses
she pleases to have in that little mind
of hers. Only let the mind be there
And you go back to the adored lady
and the old happy and uneasy state OF
not understanding, OF running against
blind alleys, and so forth.
But there are compensations. At least
life isn't dull. You enjoy the healthy
stimulation of guessing. You learn the
exciting lesson Of expecting only the un-
expected.