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thing possible in the circumstances was
being done to make the place as habit
able as possible. Maj. Franco assured me
that a new prison would soon be built
and showed me the plans but in view Of
the financial conditions of the country
l have not much hope of the building
taking concrete form in the near future.
In the fourteenth century Lemoieiro
was royal palace and some of the pas
sageways still show signs OF the former
circumstance of the pace. AS may be
confinement proper the prisoners being
divided up among the various rooms. The
place is very much overcrowded. the
men living, eating and sleeping in the
same rooms. The beds, narrow and
closely packed, fold up against the walls
when not in use. In this way thirty or
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viii the government keep the Panama
railroad?"
1T will have to do so,'' replied Col.
Goethals. That road is a necessity for
the working of the canal We cannot rely
entirely upon the boats, for If any DAM
age should occur to the locks We could
not get our supplies back and forth
across the isthmus. We shall have to
operate the road as matter of con-
venience and safety. The road has been
making money as private corporation.
and it ought to continue to do SO under
the government.
How many men Will II take to operate
the completed canal?
Between 1900 and 1000. exclusive Of
the Panama railroad. Adding the force
required for that, | should say that the
limit would be :, 800"
Il receive many letters from young men
and young women who want to go to
Panama. Will there be any chance for
such persons from now on?''
There are absolutely no opportunities
open to young women, and very few for
young men,, said Col. Goethals. you
see we have now large force at Pana-
ma. and man. OF the employees OF the
completed canal will be taken from it. w e
shall need trained men to operate the ca
nal, and we shall have to try them out
and find the best man for each place.
How about the Canal Zone? Will il
be a pleasure resort or beehive Of
American plantations and winter homes?'
Il hope it viii be none of these" said
the chief engineer of the canal. II think
it should be military reservation devot-
ed to the care of the canal and its pro-
lection. I believe i'm depopulating the
zone as soon as the work is completed.
and in leaving nothing there except the
homes of the employees necessary to the
running of the canal and the buildings Of
the military and naval establishments
We shall need drydocks, warehouses and
other facilities at each of the terminals,
but the interior of the zone should not
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lists because he has publicly declared that
he and the other political prisoners are
treated with the utmost consideration.
But if the penitentiary is model
prison, the same cannot be said of Lee
moieiro. One does not hesitate to declare
that the keeping. of criminals and es-
pecially of political prisoners, in this
pestiferous hole is one Of the most I'M
fortunate blots on Portuguese civilization
today. In justice to the republican gov
eminent 1t must be remembered that it
was inherited from the monarchy, which
for $50 years had used it for prison.
and that from all accounts conditions
were much worse under the old regime.
The impression was formed and told Maj
Manuel Franco, the governor, that every
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Colon for SO per cent of its actual cost
to us. That is the price delivered at
the steamship docks"
Can you tell just what the ma
chinery has cost as whole and in de-
tail?" / asked
Most certainly. We keep a close ae-
count of everything. Our books tell
just what becomes Of the scrap. and
we have been selling everything from
the old wire netting torn from the
houses to the steam shovels and dredges
and other machinery. We have sold
everything possible as soon as it had
done its work. and we know just what
we have gotten from it. The waste In
such matters has been small, and that
especially on account Of our system
OF cost keeping. which charges every
branch of the force with the tools and
machinery and supplies It has to work
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to the freedom and perhaps the lives Of
the men whose word keeps them behind
bars. the consideration with which they
are treated is truly astonishing. And
when the writer adds that they would
probably have been freed long ere this
with few exceptions perhaps. had 1t
not been for what might be called ques-
tons of home politics, il will be seen
that their punishment is by no means
out of proportion to their deeds.
This opinion does not rest solely upon
an abstract consideration of the cir
cumstances of the case. 1t was formed
after seeing not only the prisons. but as
Well many of the political prisoners. And
both at the penitentiary, where there are
upward OF hundred who have been
sentenced to long terms, and at the
Lemoiero prison, where are kept much
smaller number of short-term men, the
writer found the prisoners in good hu-
NOR, apparently as happy as men could
be under forcible restraint; on excellent
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But will the cut be ready by that
tme?"
The difficulty is that we cannot get the
dredges in The situation is briefly this
When / went back last February 1 found
that two slides had developed and the
engineers told me that the cut could not
be made ready for the water until Janu-
airy l. 1914. So l had to figure back
ward and see how soon after that time we
could raise the level of Gatun lake from
the fifty feet, which it Is now, to the re-
quired level of eighty-five feet. This
could be done only during the rainy sea-
son, which does not begin until July. and
1t would have been far along in Novem-
Der of 1914 before we could have the
maximum lake level The canal had to
be opened, thoroughly tested and ready
for work by 1915. and I could plainly see
that this was impossible If we relied upon
eXcavating the balance of the Culebra
cut in the dry and did not finish IT be-
fore January I. That determined me
upon letting the water in during the COM
ing rainy season and completing the work
with the dredges,
1.-The rainy season is now at about its
beginning. IL will rise to the level of sew
enty-five feet by the LIST of October, when
the dixie which separates the lake from
the cut will disappear and the waters
flow in"
But how about the work then? What
kind of progress can you make in SCOOP
mighty ditch of water forty feet deep?"
y X
The progress is all a question of
Sides replied the encineer-in-chief.
1--WE expect to put in three dredges. and
Mr. Comher who is in charge of the
Pacific division, tells me that these three
dredges will take out a half million cubic
yards in one month. l believe we can do
the work cheaper and quicker by the
dredges than by the steam shovels. The
arrangements are such that we will get
the dredges in about the LIST of October,
The contractors will finish one fight of
locks throughout the canal by that time.
We shall then blow up the dixie and let
the suction dredges in from the Atlantic
end. We will bring up the Corozal from
the Pacific end, and we will have three
great dredges carrying the material of
the Cucuracha slide and other material
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terms of friendship with their jailers.
and treated. not as common criminals.
put as equals, who, in the game Of po-
IilicaI intrigue, have been unfortunate
enough TO have lost for the moment.
The penitentiary. Portugafs chief pris-
on lies some distance outside of Lisbon.
On your way to it from the city you pass
the military barracks from which march
ed forth the few hundred troops who re-
sponded to the call OF the republican
piotters, and who. because of the mud
ding OF the loyal officers, carried the
revolution through to success. Built in
1856 after the plan of the prison at Lou
VAIN, In Belgium. the penitentiary is one
OF the best prisons the writer has visited,
ana ne has been In many. not only on
this side OF the Atlantic, but in the
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the War Depart
ment and the Washington Monument, and
the hot breeze which blew through
seemed like north pole zephyr in COM
parison with Panama 1t made his blue
eyes bright his dark cheeks rosy. and he
seemed as cool as the center seed of a
cucumber. | know now that he was
loaded with work, but he did not show
IL then. Indeed, l find that the busiest
men are those who seem to have
the most leisure. They know how
TO use their minds, and do not
ners of the world while talking to you.
The chief of the great work at Panama
has had only a week to spend in WASH
ington. and every bit OF that time with
the exception, perhaps, OF six hours at
night for sleeping, has been occupied with
the President. the Secretary of War and
anxiously inquiring members of the Sen
ate and the House. Big questions were
discussed. and matters involving millions
were weighed in the balance.
y =
1t was during one of the intervals of
such discussions that I got an appoint
ment for an interview. / put my ques-
tions, and the answers promptly came.
Said I:
when will the canal be done?
II don't know 1t will be finally opened
advance of that"
when will the water be let into the
Culebra cut?''
Early in October next
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but chiefly from sources that are open
to the charge of bias II was TO discover
the true facts and to give them to the
readers free OF prejudice that the CORE
spondent has made the fullest possible
inquiry into the treatment and present
condition of the political prisoners III
Portugal and into the administration of
the two prisons-the penitentiary and
Lemoieiro-that have been chiefly at
tackled. The following story is his ac-
count:
After the fullest possible inquiry into
the conditions under which the men who
took part i'm the two attempts to win
back the country for Manuel and the
monarchy are now living in the peniten-
tiary and Iemoieiro prison the writers
opinion is that those prisoners are lucky
in spite OF the stories that have been
told of their terrible hardships."
& =
When it is remembered that these men
participated, i'm one way or another, in
armed invasions of the country, and that
they threaten a real danger, not only to
the republican institutions which have
been established-in some degree. at
least-since Manuel and his court fed
before the comic opera revolution, but
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Special Investigation
by Correspondent Into
the Conditions of the
Royalists Who Are
Now Confined in the
Prisons at Lisbon Shows
That They Are Treated
With Remarkable Con-
sideration by the Re-
publican Government
Prove to Be a Happy
and Cheerful Lot, De-
spite the Fact That
Many of Them Have
Received Long Sen
tences-Probability of
an Amnesty.
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ONE weeks ago
the civilized world
was shocked By
the accounts by
the ID o W q z e +
Duchess OF Bed :
ford of the treat
ment Of political
prisoners in Por-
tugal. Denials OF
statements a II d
descriptions were
later forthcoming.
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The. NEW WHARXE AT Col on
-ATLANTIC TERMINAL
T, LANDING TFiE.sSAn ORS

over the sides of the cut into the Rio
Grande valley on the west. / have also
installed a sluicing plant which will
carry the top of the Cucuracha slide back
into the valley at the east
THAT means that October 1 you will
have three great streams of earth and
rock flowing out of Culebra cut at diff
ferent places?" said /. !.
Yes, that's it, and those streams will
keep moving day and night. We shall
keep the machinery going for twenty
four hours of the day and for six days
of the week.
will greatly reduce the number of the
men employed. will 1t not?"
yes We shall begin to make a heavy
reduction in the force by the LIST Of
October"
How many men have you at work
now?"
About 10000. including those under
the contractors as well as our own
What will become Of them?"
1.-THE natives will go back home and
the Americans will be scattered
What will become of the skilled force?
I mean the thousands of engineers and
mechanics whom Uncle Sam has train
ed?''
Most of them will have to find jobs
wherever they cam said Col. Goethals.
1T would he almost impossible to trans
fer the organization as whole, and
there is no other piece of work which
the government has on hand that would
require such an organization. Indeed,
the talk Of transferring the organization
from Panama to other places is more or
less hot air.
What will become Of Uncle Sans ma
chinery at the completion Of the canaI?"
/ asked.
There is some talk of sending it to
Alaska to aid in the building of railroads,
and also to the Mississippi valley for the
improvement of that great waterway"
replied Col. Goethals. II know nothing
about that. / am only interested in that
we get as much as possible out of it to
cut down the total cost of the canal"
rs there any possibility that we will
get very much?"
Yes, the returns should be consider
able, and whatever we get will be clear
gain. You see the cost Of the whole
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4 was In a little
ten-by-twelve room
in the top of the
Mills building that
/ talked with Col.
George w. Goethals
as to the compile
ton Of the Panama
canal. The colonel
sat in front of a
window looking out
on the p o I o m &C,
tho War Dana
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He Has Enjoyed the

He Has Enjoyed the.
Work, but Is Not Anx-
ious for More Worlds
to Conquer-He May
Write. a Book-How
the Water Will Be
Let Into the Culebra
Cut-What Will Be-
come of the Present
Force and Machinery
The New Terminals
and Uncle Sans Big
+ uel Stations = He
Will Heat the Hotels
and Railroad : The
First Ship to Be a Pan
anna Railway Steamer
Something About the
FOrfItlcat1OnS and the
Canal Zone.
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outside world. He was In SPLENDID spirits
ana laughed and joked with the governor
during our stay In the political section.
There are more than 800 prisoners In
Lemoieiro. OF which only forty are po'iti.
cal The latter are not cal ed upon to
associate with the ordinary criminals and
they cook their own food. AS a matter OF
fact the prison fare Is not bad. consisting
usually OF rice. meat, potatoes, macaroni.
onions, bread and water, a diet vastly
superior to that Of the majority of the
prisoners when out of prison. For IL
must be remembered that many of the
poor or Portugal seldom are fortunate
enough to get meat even once day Sim
ilarly, the prison accommodations taken
as whole. are superior to the homes
from which the majority OF the prisoners
come.
Aljube, the woman's prison in Lisbon.
is close by the Lemoieiro. Like the latter,
1t has an illustrious past, for IL was
formerly the residence OF the Bishop Of
Lisbon. and still bears his arms over the
doorway. There are no political prison.
ers there now, but some months ago II
was the temporary home of two women
around whom there was waged con-
siderable controversy-Dona Julia Brito
Cunha and Dona Constance Telles da
GaInar the latter q descendant OF taSc0
da CANA. the famous Portuguese ex-
plorer. who discovered India. Aljube
really makes a very comfortable prison,
the only danger being overcrowding.
1t is extremely likely that these politi-
cal prisoners will be set free by an
amnesty In the near future. despite all
the talk one hears to the contrary In
Portugal. Briefly. the conditions are rs
follows: Moderate republican opinion.
which is bound to become more powerful
as the country settles down. IL over
whelmingiy in favor of such a course.
but for the moment is overruled by the
extreme element now holding the reins of
power. This much can be said with Ger
tainty-at the present time the govern
ment has no fear of the royalists, either
of fresh incursions or of internal risings.
With the dispersal of the royalists gath
cred just across the Spanish border at
Tuy, the last chance of successful In
vaslon disappeared. The royalists have
shown an unequaied facility for bungling
their attempts at counter revolution. ana
despite the splendid opportunities they
have had of winning back the country
are now In q more hopeless position than
ever.
Copyright. 1913 by Curtis Brownl
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an Amnesty.

Special Correspondence OF The Star
LISBON, July L. 1915
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Not that know of. doubt that one
viii ever be constructed"
''WilI Uncle Sam keep his hotels on the
iEthmuE2"
Il suppose so. The Tivoli Hotel. which
is at the Panama end of the canal, Is
now being run at profit. The New
Washington which we have opened on
the Colon end. will probably do equally
wen. There should be good hotels at
Panama"
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Copyrighted 1919 by Frank c. Carpenter.)
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1913-09-26
Luxury on ShIpboard.

Sumptuously furnished vessels were
known centuries ago. The ship that Ar
chimedes designed for Hero H.. king
of Syracuse, not only was wonderfully
decorated-the story Of the Had was
told in marquetry. but there We're fow-
er beds on the promenade deck, gym
nasium, staterooms with three beds, a
library, bathroom with hot and cold
water, stables and horses, fish ponds
and many fair rooms paved with agate
and precious stones. And this vessel
was designed as a carrier of wheat 1t
was first named the Syracusan. but
afterward the Alexandrian. Archime-
lus wrote poem In its honor. and
Hero, In gratitude and appreciation.
sent him a thousand measures Of
cheese and thongbtfully prepaid the
expense. Moschion gives detailed de.
scription of this ship. Then there was
the Egyptian vessel. the joy of Ptolemy
Philopator. with galleries and prom
eDades. a temple Of Venus with her
statue. drinking hall, belvederes. a
grotto the sides Of which We're deco
rated with precious stones set In or
naments Of Gold.--BostoJ Herald.
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Resurrection or the Pio.

Boys and girls essays are so remark.
able sometimes as to suggest the con-
scious cleverness of the adult. Here Is
one pure and unadulterated, sent In
for the children's essay competition in
connection with the Darwin agricultur-
al show. Probably you think you know
something of the pig already. 1t will
be instructive exercise to fill out your
knowledge of this animal from this es-
say For the pig to die" 1--WE are in
formed lis to be born again to a
sphere of greater utility. When we
get out of bed in the morning we brush
our hair and clothes with Its bristles;
for our breakfast we have crisp, sa-
worry piece Of bacon When we arrive
home for our dinner we find some ten
der chops awaiting us, and when we
60 back to work we feel as strong as
Jack johnson. On our arrival home to
tea we find some pork sausages friz-
cling in the pan. and we have our
supper of cold sausages. which per-
haps disturbs our sleep. And we dream
Of bacon. pork chops and sausages, and
the cause of all this is the pig."-Dun.
dee Advertiser.
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FiIino an AIibi.

ParsOn Whites precautionary meas.
ure Of protecting his chicken coop with
chilled steel bars was futile. for that
very night four more of his choice
Leghorns disappeared. leaving the sew
cred bars as the only visible evidence
Of the theft. However. his suspicious
pointed toward his next door neigh.
Dor, whom he had seen providing
around his yard that day, and accord.
ingly he had this suspect up in the pc.
lice court the next morning.
III the prisoner can file an abb III
let him Off with suspended sentence"
announced the Judge at the end Of the
evidence. Can you file an alibi,
Ham,
81 guess l can" eagerly reJolned the
suspect, IF 1t amt any harder den
Pahson Whites chicken coop bars
San Francisco Star.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1913-09-26
Real Optimism.

What a grand old world this Is!
Have you ever seen more perfect
day than this?'
HAS your salary been raisedw
No"
New boy at your house,"
''Oh. no: nothing like that"
"Perhaps you have received word
that you are heir to fortune?"
Nothing OF that kind has happened
to me-"
perhaps you have written play
that somebody has accepted for pro
duction7 r.
I'm not writer. Why do you
make such SUGGESTION
I'm Just trying to figure ont why
you think the world is so grand and
the day so beautiful"
"Oh. you're one Of those who can't
understand why one may be optimistic
without having some material reason
for It. Ell? By the way. I've just sold
my house for $500 more than paid
for 1t eight months ago" - Chicago
Record Herald.
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Tho Hotel Hoodoo Room

I'VE used to have room In the old
Fifth Avenue hotel that was known as
the suicide ROOM" said a former clerk
"Of course the name was an Office Sc
cret. but whenever one OF us rented
that room to stranger we never fell
quite comfortable about him until aft.
er he had left the hotel Now that
the old hotel is gone there can he no
harm In mentioning that the number
OF the room was $50. don't see how
even the most superstitious person
could get hoodoo out of that number.
and nobody ever refused to take 1t so
far as know. but II is fact that OF
the twenty-five suicides that took place
In the Fifth Avenue hotel during f1fty
years. seventeen occurred In room 500
The last that took place was that Of a
young woman. who drowned herself
In bathtub You will find that In
any big hotel that has been running
for any length Of time there Is room
that has a hoOdoo Of some kind on it"
New York Sun.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1913-09-26
eraxil's Wonderful Tree.

The most marvellous tree In the
world Is the Carnahuba palm, which
grows In Brazil. Its roots produce the
same medicinal effect as sarsaparilla
From parts Of the tree wine and vine
gar are made. Its fruit Is used for
feeding cattle. OF the straw, hats, bas-
kets, brooms and mats are made. It
Ia also used for matching houses. The
pulp has an agreeable taste, and the
nut is sometimes used as substitute
for coffee. Its stems afford strong,
light Hbers and serve also for joists,
rafters and other building materials.
It yields saccharine substance, as
well as starch resembling sage. OF
the wood Of the stem musical instru-
ments, water tubes and pumps are
made. From the stem a white liquid
similar to milk of the cocoanut may be
extracted. Moreover. salt Is extracted
from the tree and likewise an alkali
used In the manufacture Of common
soan.
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Frog EGG Curiosities.

Frogs eggs are laid before they real
ly become eggs In the true sense of
that word. They are always laid under
water and when first deposited are COW
cred with sort Of envelope IN the
shape of thin membrane. In this
shape they are very small, but as soon
as they come In contact with the wa
ter they rapidly absorb that element
and in so doing go through a queer
Transformation. The thin membrane
containing the little seedlike eggs is
quickly changed into great Jumps Of a
clear jelly-like substance, each section
Joined to the other. the whole forming
a string from few inches to several
feet in length. On the inside of each
Of these Jumps Of jelly the eggs come
to perfection and In due course of time
add their quota to the frog population
Of the world