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Evening star., 1914-06-07

desk. standing around on the CLASSY floors
Of the motor harems among the potted
palms listening to the sirens softly honk-
ing Of their wares.
You even come sneaking back at night,
when the shops are closed, and gaze
hypnotized through the Pittsburgh panes
at the car of your dreams then back
again after breakfast with the fanatical
enthusiasm of the Wagnerite at Bayreuth.
While Polly is trying the seats of the
smart town car up near the window, one
Of the BenZine Brummels is telling you
something beginning with, Il guess you've
heard this one. Stop me If you have"
This is done to rest your brain from
the exertion OF trying to understand why
the tail-light is not attached to the radi-
ator-fan.
Otherwise these cataracts Of "differen-
tials'' ''"multiple disk and Gone clutches"
timing gears and splash systems"
would rock your mentality and perhaps
make 1t turn turtle and sink at the dock.
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They speak kindly of other cars, and
tell you in what essentials they are lack
ing. not knocking. mind you-or only a
little in one cyclinderi
They pass demonairly over the Stupid
and minor considerations of construction
and leap as it were. with a glad cry of
Homecoming to the important points like
the cigar lighters and the initials on the
door panels. There is where they are on
safe ground and can become eloquent.
They show you scrap books full of tes-
timonial letters from regular business
men-regular fellers who sit at desks and
have telephones and paper weights and
office boys and things-etters written on
bonaflde typewriters, and they have
PKG" down in the corners just like
real letters.
These men write and tell them how
crazy they are about their new cars
how they would rather be wrecked in
one of their cars than ride safely in any
other make. You can't help being i'm
pressed.
You put of telling them that you are
going to buy secondhand car as long
as you can, and when you tell them
what a piker you are you are awfully
surprised they don't throw you bodily
through the plate-glass windows.
No. 1t Is really so-they still talk to
you as II you were an out-and-out white
citizen. These gent1emanly statesmen even
gloss over your bad break to the extent
of being willing to actually sell you a
second hand car themselves. They speak
of them as rebuilt" cars. They are re-
built in the same degree that your blue
serge suit is rebuilt when you send it
around to the tailors to be sponged and
pressed. (Which. by the way, means
pressed.) Rebuilt cars are covered by
the same guarantee as their new cars.
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presidents house to pay her respects.
1t was surprise to him, and to celebrate
further he gave a reception in her honor.
All of this shows the extent Of Nine.
Aleman's popularity in her own coun-
try. She is a personal friend of Senor
Belisaro Porras. the president, and his
wife, and accompanied them recently to
Cuba, where she was feted and enter
tanned
When asked If she had seen the Pan
anna canal. madame answered, Yes. l
made the trip across the isthmus with
a party of friends. We went before
the water had been turned in, SO we
saw the locks just as they were con-
structed. 1 never thought man could do
so much. We made the trip by rail.
But in Gatun lake we had launches and
made little picnics to the and here
madame moved her hands about and
asked in distress. what is it you call
them? Moving islands? No. floating is
lands! We thought Gatun lake very
they are going to call Balboa. 1t is at
the other end of the canal and it is
really not yet city. The buildings
are only now being built. But l i'm
ished. for the plans say that it will have
broad avenues and large government
buildings
"our own city Panama is up to date.
LIS uOuScS are idi sc diiu luty dTe-W Hdl
is it?-sanitary. Our mayor has a fine
home and the president. too. In Pan
anna we have large estates in the coun-
try where we raise cattle and have plan
tations. My father owns sugar plan
tation. 1t was the first one planted in
that part of the world. He manufactures
sugar there on the place with machinery
of his own.
Panama is free republic now. and
its government consists of the president
and his secretaries, who are the heads of
different departments. Now, there is
my father, who is secretary of state, and
a secretary of foreign affairs finance
and treasury. These men conduct the
countrys business. Our president is
elected, but he appoints his secretaries.
We have no congress as the Americans
have"
Madame was asked if her country
maintained an army or navy. She an
swered in the negative. saying that II
war came all of the men would be called
upon to act as soldiers,
I'VE have good schools in Panama"
she continued, but many of our
young men and women come to the
United States or Europe to finish their
educations. as 1 did,
OF herself. madame is modest and
loath to talk. She is fond Of reading
and plays the piano. She is interested
in the women of her country.
They are not suffragists," she said.
but they are active and wide awake.
Evening star., 1914-06-07

Pizarro and others connected with the
early history of this country. in recog-
nizing the possibilities of their discov-
cries, has been rankly underestimated.
Not every adventurer can project his Wis
ion almost a half century into the fu-
ture. The strange point is that it should
have taken SO long for the dreams to ma
terialize.
OF course. what happens to Panama
Will depend to large extent upon the char
acter Of the people who constitute it's
er generation. the Senior and Sonora Aler
man of the Panama legation at Wash
1ngtotn presage much for the realization
Of the country's possibilities.
Mme. Aleman is the daughter Of the
secretary of state Of Panama, Aristides
Arizona She is young and vivacious,
pretty and friendly. Although she was
educated in America-at one Of the girls
colleges that line the Hudson-she speaks
and understands English but little. How
ever. it is so fetching to hear her speak
and interrogate with gestures as well as
words How do I say it?'' or That is
the right word, yes?" whenever she feels
that her vocabulary does not suffice, that
one Is pleased to listen to her because
Of her own personal charm.
She has the lovely deep brown eyes Of
the Spaniard. Her hair too, is dark
brown and her skin olive. Her face be-
comes animated with smiles as she grows
more at ease with strangers, and in
spite Of natural temerity at the
thought of being interviewed in a prac-
tically unknown tongue. she was able
to talk at length upon her country and
other matters that fall within the limits
of her interest.
OF her husband and his work as at
tache of the legation she is especially
enthusiastic. This is his first diplomatic
post. To embark upon the matrimonial
sea in new scenes of endeavor would
seem a pleasant undertaking. Virtual
ly, this is what Senior Aleman Is doing.
for this Is his and the senora's honey
moon time. They have been married but
five months and have come to Washing
ton to make their first home
Madame likes America. She has travel
ed a bit in the United States and has
wide circle Of friends She Is fond OF
gayety and fun. She waxed enthusi-
astic as she told Of the annual carni-
walls that are held in the spring of the
year in Panama.
At the last carnival she was chosen
queen. To hold this position is dis
tnction and honor because one is elect
ed to it and the votes are bought by the
populace at 10 cents apiece. The fes-
tiv1ties continue from four to five days,
Dvery one dresses in costume. The
queen Is crowned upon the stage Of the
National Opera House. IN .Papama-cttxs
Evening star., 1914-06-07

You are now the best salesman they
have! You sell yourself the car! You
root for that car as if it were something
you had invented yourself. You are only
too willing to be convinced of its perfec-
tions-only too anxious to believe all
those Indians tell you in their salarted
enthusiasm.
An awful clattering underneath your
feet that in later years Of experience
would clearly indicate frazzled bearings.
you are now eager to have explained
away as nothing but the sweet purr of
perfect mechanism.
You sit on the edge of the seat, nerves
taut, inwardly challenging these men to
say anything nasty about their own
goods! Their own? Yours! Nothing
short of spontaneous combustion or the
complete destruction Of all the roads in
the United States can stop you from buy
ing that car!
You clutch the leather arm rests with
the fierce joy of ownership and cry,
Gee, some boat"'
1--WE could a-done that hill just as
easy on high.' grins the wicked demon
Evening star., 1914-06-07

Which guarantee is worth fully cents
in Confederate money.
They show you and Polly the rebuilt
car. A distinct bargain. Polly had it on
the tip of her tongue to say why did
she leave her last place." when Brummel
anticipated her by volunteering, Blink
ensop is selling this because he wants a
more powerful car
Il thought you said this was a power
full carr you venture. a shade uneasily.
Powerful! All the power you'll ever
want my boy! Wen take him up Fort
George Hill, eh, Bud?' This to the DEM
onstrator. who shifts on to his other foot
and smiles, Nothing to it"'
You feel rebuked.
You and Polly are given a demonstra-
ton.
The psychology of the trade starts
psyching at the moment you take your
seat in the car. The instant the wheels
turn you are a goner!
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g C@rmiiv@ls i'm Her Country

meath The waist is beruffied with
sleeves, short. to show the number Of
bracelets that the lady may. possess.
Besides her own language and Eng
lish. madame understands French She
is interested in politics. She is fond
of study. She is ready to march
shoulder to shoulder with her husband
in his diplomatic career. Unending
vistas lie before her.
specifications on a great undertaking
which might easily bring her out "A def1cit
Nobody knew that Juliette had stayed
up nights. over calculations such as no
contractor ever made before. She knew
where every stone, steel rod and VENT
lating tile was to come from, the cas!i
price of each, its comparative value and
the cost of labor required for its pose
None knew that she had wiped out the
profits Of half the subcontractors. and
would do the work herself. When Juiiette
put in her specifications, she had all the
brothers beaten. and would almost maxi
the usual profits.
Why this superhuman labor?
She was laying for brother. Roman
Trescas had put in BID. Arroganty;, ne
had boosted prices cheese-pared qualitA
and counted to astonish the south OF
France by Partisan brilliancy. But when
the specifications We're studied, II was
clear that Juliette offered invariable best
quality where competitors were, at least
ambiguous and she bound herself To
names and marks in a way which drove
Romeo-I mean Romain-to mean insinua-
tions:
What guarantees does this womai'
contractor offer for her tempting de
tails?" he asked the prefect and council
Juliette referred them to the Credit Lyon
nais. her old pal back in Paris. had put
up the wherewithal
So Juliet stole the contract from Romeo
And so. year after year, Juliet followed
Romeo across France, making it her spe-
ciaIty to take his jobs away from him. !,
Romeo had only to make a bid, and juliet
was sure to get it, In 1910, when she
was rich and got the contract for the new
Uriage hotels, Romeo brought suit against
her for 'disloyal competition" which ex-
posed their romance to all France. The
Judges laughed him out of court.
In 1912 Juliet snatched away from MIN
the Avignon markets and the Cinema
Theater at Marseille. In 1913 she ifted
from under his nose the new barracks az
Montlucon, and Romeo threw up the
sponge IF you continue he wrote her.
Il am ruined. ''s-s.-s- $500
-Juhets reply was:
Il need a foreman.
.. Romeo ordered new sIit, GOT ms mar
cut took q bath, and put gardenia ~
his buttonhole. He was seen gong tnst
direction.
Nobody knows what happened 4
Ii was only last week.. .srI
d Juliet is thirty-two., sfes
What do eyoa think Il
STERLING HELLO.
Evening star., 1914-06-07

glancing quickly over the side.
Yes. something on that shade Il it
would be stunning!"
Yes, I guess that would be bully
wouldn't it, Polly?'
The curtain is lowered to indicate the
lapse of two weeks.
The car is at your door with the chauf-
feur
The same salesman that stung you with
the car stung you also with the chauffeur.
The lemon and the lemonade.
The next step is to get couple of in
nocent friends to go with you to drive.
In certain ways owning your first car is
like being in love. You want everybody
to meet the girl.
You and Polly and the two innocent
friends start gaily up Broadway in the
car You have decided to go to Yonkers.
a moderate though eccentric ambition.
At about Tooth street something happens.
You don't know what. Neither does the
chauffeur. But the beautiful crimson
chariot refuses to proceed. and punctu-
ates its refusal with extraordinary
noises.
The chauffeur starts it again. Hope is
renewed-bang! Stop again. Chauffeur
gets out again and lifts up the lid of the
Evening star., 1914-06-07

It would be half my pleasure IN haVlhs
a car to put at the disposal OF my
friendsv'
Polly agreed with you.
You continued, 1T isn't as if automo-
biIes could catch pneumonia"
Il don't think you and ] could be as
thoughtless and selfish as some Of our
rich friends, could we?' Polly remarked.
NO" you asserted warmly. 'It isn't
that we put ourselves up as being saint
ty, or any rot like that, but"
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strator as he looks around for your ap-
proval.
when can have it?'' you hiss. hard
ly recognizing your own voice.
"By the way says the salesman,
doubtfully, to the wicked demonstrator,
''this car isn't sold, is it?"
''Oh, my GodT'
"oh, no. it's all right was thinking
of that 1911 runabout of Johnson s-no,
it's all right"
"Oh."
You nearly swallowed your Adams
apple.
''It will take about two weeks to paint
it, says the cunning salesman. You
can have 1t any old color you like"
You and Polly would like dark blue.
In that case I'm afraid it would take
from four to five weeks, as they'd have
to scrape it down to the bone"
Gosh, I don't want to wait all that
time!' you groan.
He knew you wouldn't.
well, then, why not have 1t Grim
son?'
"Why, it's crimson now!" you say,
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You finally get a real car. but you never
forgive that agreeable young salesman
who sold you the first one. You watch
for him in the streets. You wouldn't. Of
course, want to run over him. At least.
not all over him.
1t seems now. since you've had several
cars. that you can't remember not hav-
ing one. Polly says you act that way
in what particular way? ''Oh," says
Polly, ''for instance, the Ha,lecks are
coming to dinner tonight and you hadn't
thought to send our car for them"
well, In send for them IL you want
me to, Polly!''
No. don't particularly care. I was
just thinking the way you and used to
talk when we didn't have a car
II get you. Polly, but I thought
wouldn't send Peter out tonight, as we've
been using him pretty steadily these last
few nightst"
That's one phase of the thing.
Then if you send your car around for
some people six times running, and for
some idiotic reason you carelessly forget
to send for them the seventh time, the
frost is on the pumpkin, Jessie, dear, the
next time you see them! Which shows
YOU the truth of the old adage, Never
start anything you can't continue for
ever"
Copyright, 1914, Otis F. Wood)
Evening star., 1914-06-07
Daughter of Secre-
tary of State of Pan
anna Educated in
America, She Likes
This Country, Hav-
ing a Great Many
Friends Here The
0reat Carnival Pa
radesaof Panama.

YER since the
early days when
the Panama canal
was only an idea,
ng before a
spadeful of dirt
had been removed
from the big ditch.
interest began to
manifest itself In
the countries of
the isthmus and
the people living in
Evening star., 1914-06-07

EN- years ago you
and Polly went
about in the street
Five years ago
you u sed taxis Oc-
casionally.
At that period
you said, III / had
an automobile I
think l could send
for my friends once
in a while.'' why,
Evening star., 1914-06-07

they go to fancy dress parties or
balls.
The gown is somewhat similar to
the Spanish native costume. but it
has distinctive features all its own.
For instance, at the side the skirt
is caught up with two large gold but
tons at the waist. This gives a mod
ern draped effect and at the same
time displays lacy skirt under
Evening star., 1914-06-07
ssrHIs CAR ISN'T SOLD, IS TT"

They have clubs among themselves.
These are usually social clubs, but
they show that the women have in
terest in the world at large"
Nine Aleman told of dressing
with some of her girl friends in the
native costume of Panama. She said
that frequently the girls dress in these
costumes, which are cherished in
many families as heirlooms. when
Evening star., 1914-06-07

trunk at the front end and fumbleS
around. Nothing. Conversation expires.
You laugh Historically and remark that
something must be the matter. Chauffeur
says It's all of that. and that you will
all have to get out and let him get the
car home when he can. That get II home
he will, he never having been towed home
in his professional life,
As there doesn't seem to be anything
else to do you all get out and go home
in the subway. The friends murmur
something about enjoying the ride, and
you mutter something about having to
try It again some time.
After trying in vain to get that car
out of town or even past 116th street, II
dawns on you that some one has unload
ed an acid fruit on you.
The chauffeur (whose salary you paid.
by the way, during the two weeks the
car was being painted. as otherwise you
might not be able to hold him and there
being only one chauffeur in the city at
the tipe) suggests your letting him take
down the engine. You say. don
know what it is, but do it" So he takes
down the engine whose piston rings. mao
you but known about such things. were
draped around the pistons with the same
mathematical precision that the rope
rings fall around the stake In the game
Of ring-tosS on shipboard.
When friend chauffeur had finished put
ting the engine together again, he hao
enough parts lett over to make cheap
vacuum cleaner and a pair OF colonial
andirons.
The Harrison times., 1914-08-15

ate for other state or district offices.
Efforts are now being made to get
the old line Republicans to draw
their candidate out of the race, leav.
ing the field to n. Tillman aud his
fellow townsman, Dick Putnam. The
Third district is rich in Republicans,
but there is little danger Of either
wing Of the Republican party with
drawing a candidate Either side
would rather see a Democrat elected
than to see the other triumph at the
polls A Republican has never been.
elected in that district, but in a nuns
Der of instancer the races have been
very close,
While interest is keen in all sections
of Arkansas over the war whichIis
now being waged in Europe, it is not
so intense as the excitement which
follows a worlds cries or the war
in Mexico,
The sympathy in Little Rock is the
Germans for Germany, and all the
balance want to see Germany getthe
chastisement they feel is due that
country, Even the Germans are not
enthusiastic enough to go home and
fight for their country, and every
day the list of those petitioning for
naturalization papers which will
make them citizens of the United
States, growsin numbers ltis doubt.
ful if there will be ten citizens of any
European nation returning 10 the
other side OF the Atlantic to take up
arms. Many Germans subject to
call when asked if they wouldg 60
home if they received the summons,
have plainly stated that they do not
feel inclined to return. They state,
that theV arenow interested in what
rs going on in the United States, and
If this country was attacked, they
would gladly take up arms in it's de.
IeuSe.
The first shell from the Democratic
guns will tall in the vicinity Of Ola
next Saturday when GOV, 6, W,
Hays will direct his broadside at the
enemy, Gov, Hays will speak alone,
for the Republicans and the still
smaller fry, have not been invited to
participate in the dancing
After this date Democratic speakers
will be turned loose in all sections OF
the state, and the hight continued
until after the campaign for United
States Senator and Congressman
closes in November, The committee
has a list OF about 90 speakers that
will visit the various sections Of the
state, but at 20 place will a division
OF time be given the Republican wind
tanners,
The Harrison times., 1914-08-15
Fire al 0Ivey.

The business portion Of Olvey SUI.
Cered a serious loss by fire Saturday
night last when the general store OF
l., b, Killebrew and the building oc.
eupied by the Ross Bros, Produce
Company were destroyed,
The loss is estimated at between
$4,000 and $4,000 with no insur.
ance,
l.. b, Killebrew was the heaviest
loser His stock, which was q total
loss, being valued at about SS, 900,
The Ross Bros, Produce Company's
building was also completely de.
stroyed with all its contents Dam.
age TO amount Of about 500 was
done to the stock in f. A. Phiier's
store which odjoins the burned
buildings
The fire is supposed to have origl.
mated from q cook stove 0t the rear
Of one Of the buildings
The Harrison times., 1914-08-15
BOND
CONTRACT CANCELLED.

Due to the effect Of the European
Var on the money markets letter
was received by our City Com
missiouers last Saturday from the
Hanchett Bond company of Chicago
cancelling the contract that was en-
tered into the latter part OF July for
the purchase of $4,000 worth of
bonds from the Harrison Water
Improvement district. g.
L. A Trowbridge, president of the
bond company, who personally
negotiated the purchase, wrote the
board of commissioners that owing
to the unsettled condition of the
money market as a result OF the
European war, his company would
be unable to handle the bond issue,
He therefore cancelled the contract
Mr.. Trowbridge stated that he
thought it would be impossible to
find satisfactory market for the
bonds until after the present war
ends, or at least until there is a
change in conditions
This action of the bond company
means it is believed, that Harrison
will not have new water system
this year.
The Harrison times., 1914-08-15
State Guards EnCampment.

Forty members OF Harrison S
State Guards Company under com
mand of Maj Fred Greene and
Licutenants Homer Freeing and
Harry Nswman left at II O'Clock
last Monday for Little Rock where
they will remain in camp at Fort
Logan II, Roots for two weeks en-
loving school Of instruction con-
Quoted bv L, S and State officers,
The special train on which they
Travelled carried also the Fayetteville
and Springdale companies and made
the 2l7 mile run from Seligman to
Kensett in seven and a half hours,
putting the battalion into Little
Rock IN the afternoon instead of late
at night,