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' /--■• - AhMyi a Kick. "~ *Hs4 a fQMt odc% n ffoifkod tht landlord of a summer hotel, "who wu satisfied with th« imli, the rooma. the rate*, the scenery, and the tem perature"* "Then he had no complaint to make?" "Tee, he had. The sunseta were not up to his expectations" Fatal Day Wee Hew. "Charles aeema to he wry exact ing," aald a fond mamma to the dear Ctrl who was dreaalns for the wed ding. "Never mind, mamma," aald ate sweetly, "they are his last wishea"— UppinoottSa IN MISERY WITH ECZEMA Praakllnton, La. —"About four years ago my face broke out In little red pimples. At first the ecsema did not bother, but finally the pimplea began Itching and burning and then there came little raised place*. I suffered untold misery. I scratched them un til they bled and I could not sleep st night. 1 was ashamed of my face and I could not bear to touch It. "I tried different remedies without result until I tried Cutlcura Soap and Ointment and In six weeks they com pletely cured 'my face. That was nine months ago, and no algn has ap peared since." (Signed) Mrs. Leola Stennett, Dec. 14, lilt. Cutlcura Soap and Ointment sold throughout the world. Bsmple of each free,with 32-p. Skin Book. Address post card "Cutlcura, Dept L, Boston."—Adv. Insufferable. "So you broke your engagement with hlmr "Yes." "What forr "He's a conceited thing. I aim ply couldn't atand him." "1 never heard him brag. What makes you think him conceited T" "All the time we were engaged he never once told me that he was un worthy of my love." . . i..... i _ Important to Mothers Examine carefully .every bottle of CASTORIA, a aafe and sure remedy for infants and children, and see that it Bi^'ur^of In Use For OveTtt Children Cry for Fletcher's Castoria Not Promising. "Well, after long looking for one, 1 found an opening yesterday." "You did?" "Yes; fell Into a street trench." — Baltimore American. RUB-MY-TISM Will cure your Rheumatism and sil hinds of aches and pains—Neuralgia, Cramps, Colic, Sprains, Bruises, Cuts, Old Sores. Bums, etc. Antissptie Anodyne. Price 26c.—Adv. Rather Loud, Ehf Fred —I understand that Ethel's new dress is the last cry in harems. Almee—Yes; It's a regular scream! —Dartmouth Jack o'Lantern. DOES YOUR HEAD ACHEt Try Hlcka' CAPUDINE. It's liquid pleaa •nt to take—efTecta Immediate—ROod to prerent Sick Headaches and Nervous Headaches also. Your money .bock If not eatisDed; 10c., S&c. and Sue. at medicine stores. Adv. Succeaa demands sacrifice. Two men set out to achieve fame. One succeeded. The other lived. —Louis Horowlts. 11M Best fist Weather Tonic OROVE 8 TABTELESB chill TONIC enriches the blood and builds up ths whole system, and It will wonderfully strengthen and for tify you to wlthstsnd ths depressing effect •f the hot summer. »oc. Speech may sometimes be enigma tic, but silence keeps more people guessing. ForThmsh and Foot PsJ HANFORD'B Balsam of Myirti rWCslh.Wlte'^k Cuts, UmwM, Strains, Bunches, ,Thrus\ Kul Woun*. Foot Rot Mads Slnca 184 a ,f Pric* 25c, 50c and SI.OO IRftfePMHtt* MORPHINESSUVS I*l & jusa: Endorsed by Governor and other State officials Boms or sss>Hsrtiial twpnsat Booklet fate. DR. POWER GRIBBLC, Sapt Baa 102, ItMjCeiwMll TlssllaiUa A BEAUTIFUL "Vy l «»s M^^lcQiPLHTol bust M^ta^Jbad^by pj. Jg - rWr ■ I—Steam Shovel and Crew In Culebra Cut. 2—One of the Great Emer gency Dams Devised to Protect the Locks. Colon, C. Z.—What of the men who have done the actual digging of the Panama canal? Who are they, whence have they come, how do they UTO? We all hare read a lot about Col onel Goethals, Colonel Sibert, Colonel Gaillard, Colonel Hodges, Colonel Gorgas and a few others of the men who hold the "big Joba." We know that their Immediate subordinates are skillful, energetic young engineers and doctora from the* atatea. But what do we know about the men who handle the pick and above), who run the ateam drills, who load the borings with dynamite, who help to fill up and empty the interminable dirt trains! With the very beginning of the French attempt to dig the canal the labor problem bobbed up as Berioua, eapeclally in view of the horribly in sanitary conditions ob the isthmus. White laborers succumbed rapidly to yellow fever and malaria and it waa found that only negroea could with stand even fairly well the diseases and the climate. When Uncle Sam took hold of the big job he had the benefit of the ex perlence of the French In this as In other respects, and though he tried a few experiments in the labor field on his own account, it waa soon de termined that the actual digging could be done beat by negroea. Now there are two ialanda In the Weet Indies, both British possessions, which are overflowing with workmen—Jamaica and Barbados. To these islands agents were aent, and soon the colored men began to arrive on the Isthmus, ship load after shipload. Many of them brought their wives and children and ha ve become a part of the permanent population of Panama. One other source of labor was drawn upon largely, the north of Spain. There the agents of the com million found a race of men hardy, eager for work and more intelligent than the negroes. A large number of them were brought over, and though for a time they were troublesome by reason of their disposition to engage In bloody quarrels among themselves, after several had been locked up by the Zone police they learned to be have more like civilized beings. These Spaniards do not mix with the negroes, either in work or socially. They have their own camps and meases. The stewards and cooks at these messes are Europeans and the Spaniards get better meals than the negroes. The food la adapted to their national taste and they receive wine several times a week. For this they pay 40 cents a day—lo centa more than the colored men pay. The Spanlarda are considered the best common workmen in the zone. The day laborer on the canal, as a general thing, uses the pick and shovel and does work that calls for no especial skill. But this is not true of all of them. There Is a higher grade In which the men do such work as the riveting qn the great lock gatee and the operating of the busy batteries of steam and compressed air drills that bore the holes for the dynamite blasting. Many negroes who have been oa the job for years have graduated UP to these better positions. - •- - - V ■ - • r ■> Above them are the bossep of gangs, the conductors of dirt trains, the foremen of dynamite crews, men who hold similar Joba, and they are almost invariable whit* men because enoh positions reqbire more independ ence, reliability- and Intelligence. Up another grade and you come to the superintending, drafting and de signing engineer* HThese are men from the states with technical educa tion, Initiative and often great Inven tive genius. To the latter are due a number of most Ingenious machines Assigned to cope with new conditions and to expedite the work. The negro laborer from Jamaica or Barbados Is a joy forever. He Is In ordinately proud of his British citizen ship. and with some reason, for the British government look; carefully after his welfare in such a case as this, the terms of his contract being supervised, his health guarded and bis return, If be desires to return, provided tor. The Jamaicans are the more Intelligent of the two glasses. * *¥.£--• t J ; -yjr V *6 . . K, .■ ,- f -.Ji and often have considerable educa tion. The beat of them have found positions as clerks, stewards and the like. The Barbadians are in the main densely ignorant, but they are a happy lot and as they stream away from the canal lo their quarters in the evening they sing, frolic and play practical jokes as though tbey had not just completed a day of back breaking labor. They receive an aver age of >3O a month, their meals cost them 30 cents a day and their living quarters almost nothing unless they prefer to rent rooms from outsiders. Then they get the worst of It, for rentals for ordinary rooms, without furniture and conveniences, are ex orbitant. The barracks for laborers provided by the commission are fitted with Several tiers of bunks made of canvas slung on iron frames. At reg ular intervals these are taken down ar.d boiled, and such other sanitary measures as are necessary aro car ried out with regularity and pre cision. If the laborer is injured or falls -ill, there Is a dispensary and a doctor close al hand, and if the case is at nil serious the patient is sent to the hospital at Ancon or Colon. Thert he receives free BB skilful treatment as money could buy, and there ho is kept until he recovers or dies. There Is intense rivalry between the Jamaican and the "'Hajian," for each believes firmly that hlo island is bigger and better than the other's, and, incidentally, both believe that both Jamaica and Barbados are larger than Cuba. Their looks of dismay when shown a map of the West In dies are comical to behold. Two things these negroea are ex tremely fond of —religion and rum. And both are rather disastrous to many of them. The insane aaylum whose buildings straggle up one slope cf Ancon hill is full of them, and acording to the doctors most of them have been brought there by either rum or religion. Every evening In the streets of Panama may be en countered large groupa of negroes, listening to the exhortations of some leader, often a woman, and singing with fervor the hymns ahe intones for them. On other corners are de tachments of the Salvation Army, working with equal enthuslaam. And in the living quarters and the hos pltala groups will surround some amateur pastor who preaches to them and prays for them. In these ways, when they are not drinking, the ne groes spend much of their leisure time, and as they are impressionable and excitable and ignorant, the re sults are not always good. Pay day in the cone furnishes some interesting scenes. The pay car traverses the railway and at each labor camp or town a long line of negroes flies through it. Bach man must present his pay check and identification tag with one hand-«nd in the other hold his hat or cap. Into the latter the cashier shoves the sil ver coins that make tip the work man's monthly rttpend. The process is extraordinarily rapid, as it must be for there are many thousands of laborers to be paid. Up near the summit of Ancon hill is a large patch of ground where no vegetation ever grows. According to the legend, an Indian maiden sat there centuriea ago and wept bitterly for the fate of her countrymen whom she could see far below toiling under the lashes of the cruel Spaniards. Her salt tears flowed down the hillside and so impregnated the sofl that henceforth no vegetation could exist there. If any maiden from Jamaica Of" Barbados ever sits up there, she need not weep over the lot of her fel low-islanders. Indeed, her smiles at their happy condition might Well re store that bit of lfnd to Its pristine fertility. Her husband, father or brother is earning more than he ever did before, is living better, and when be returns to his island home may .have saved up enough to loaf for a long tine under the shade of the sheltering palm. * -. -' 80 the real diggers of the canal, though unhonored and unsung, are jv.ell paid, well fed and well housed. In their degree they are an fortunate as any others who have found em ployment in the ton* TO BRING SETTLERS SOUTH •owthcrn Railway to Make Splendid Exhibit® of the South at Northern Fata* Washington, D.; C.—Splendid ex iilbits of Southern farm products, ahowing the alluring agricultural op portunities awaiting industrious set tlers in the territory along their lines, will be made by the Southern Rail way and affiliated companies, (includ ing the Mobile ft Ohio, the Georgia, Southern ft Florida, the Alabama Great Southern, the Cincinnati, New Orleans and Texas Pacific, and the Virginia ft Southwestern) at three great expositions and thirty-five dis trict and county fairs In th« North •nd Middle West during the late summer and fall. Thto is the most extensive campaign of this character •ver undertaken for attracting set tlers to the Southern States and will place their advantages in the most •triking way before thousands of Hurdy farmers of just the type that is desired in the South. Special exhibits will be made at the Canadian National Exhibition at To ronto, August 23 to September 8, the attendance of which touches the mil -lion mark, the iamous dairy show at Waterloo, lowa, in November, and the International Live Stock Exposition in Chicago during November and De cember. Exhibits at district snd coun ty fairs in New York, Cannectlcut, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, lowa, an 4 Minne sota, have been arranged in four cir cuits, running from August 5 to late in October. The work of preparing these ex hibits has been under way since the close of the fair season In 1912. Since the beginning of the new crop season, agents have been at work with the result that from evary state on the lines of the Southern System, there have come most representative collec tions of agricultural products, Includ ing grains, grasses, vegetables, and fruit. Large photographs showing farm and other views In the South will also bo used. The exhibits will be in charge of agents who are thoroughly familiar with conditions In the South and who will be on hand constantly to give information desired about any locality. Special leaflets and booklets have been prepared and several hun dred thousand will be placed In the hand* of prospective settlers. These exhibits are being made en. tlrely at the expend of the Southern Railway and ufflliated lines. The ter ritory served by them and the whole Southeast will he givej> wide advertis ing which should bo productive of much good for the section. ffl addition to this series of ex hibits at Northern fairs and exposl tJonis ,the Southern Railway and affi liated lines will make educational ex hibits at a large number of fairs throughout the South, detailed an nouncement of which will be made later. World's Bunday School Convention. Ziylch, Fwltzerland. Twenty-six hundred registered delegates repres enting reventy countries, w 'th thou sands of unregistered visitors, have made earth's ends meet at. the World's seventh Sunday School Con vention —and have contributed to the great success of one of the most re markable religious gatherings in the history of the world. North America sent 1,344 accredited representatives, a thousand of whom came on steam ers of ,'The World'H Convention fleet," —specially chartered ocean liners, whose accommodations were reserved for the convention delegates. Great Brltian registered 288; Asia, 83; Africa, 56; Australia, 30, and South America, 24. Nlcaraguan Plan Is Bhelved. I Washington. Secretary Bryan's plan for an American protectorate over Nicaragua, providing for Ameri can supervision of Nicaragua's finan ces, indpendence and foreign rela tions, was shelved for the time being. Apparently with, the knowledge of the administration tlie Senate For eign Relations committee, before I which the project has rested for two weeks, passed a resoluton asking the Secretary of State to submit a new | Nicaragua*! treaty. Confirms the Bible. Philadelphia.—The Bible story of Noah and the flood Is confirmed In many detail* by Bapylonlan hierogly phics, written 4,000 years ago or more, according to announcement made by the University of Pennsylvania. The j writing on a tablet an epic of great i length purporting to reach back to | the creation has been deciphered at tbe University by Dr. Arpo Poehl, the announcement says. The tablet, said to oldest ever obtained, wa°. dug up in Nippur several years ago by a museaum expedition. » For Bigger and Busier Tokio. 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