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Fame —The reward of one who la willing to be chronically misquoted by the newspapers. Tm Prevent Blood friMtfu Apply at one? the wonderful, old rtlliMt DR. PORTER'S ANTISEPTIC HEALING OIL., * aarglcal dressing that relieve* pain and heals •t Ike same time, lie, Itc, »1.00. Secured. Patience—How in the world did ■he ever secure a husband? Patrice—To her apron-string. Por SUMMER HEADACHES nicks' CAPUDINE Is thd best remedy— bo matter what causes them—whether from the heat, sitting In draughts, fever ish condition, etc. 10c.. Mc and 60c par fcottla at medlcln* stores. Adv. Lo, the Poor American 1 Hagop Barasyjian of Fitchburg and llenad Estabobrakamasian of Lowell went fishing yesterday in Lake Charg oggagoggmanchaugagoggchaubunagu n gamaug, near Worcester, with their cousin, Haljjoman Saralaneroparanian, whom they are vieitlng for the week end, but you would never have learned It from us if we hadn't been able to paste it.—Boston Globe. S ___________ - INEXPENSIVE SULPHUR BATHS AT HOME People travel long distances and ■pend large sums of money to secure the benefits of sulphur springs and baths because for generation* sulphur has been known to be one of nature's most valuable curatives-unequalled aa a blood purifier. By dissolving 2 to 4 tablespoonfuls of Hancock's Sulphur Compound in a hot bath you get the same effect and your system absorbs th« sulphur through the pores of the ■kin. For prickly heat and summer ■kin troubles of infants and children use a teaspoonful of the Sulphur Com pound in a bowl of warm water. This makes a refreshing bath and quickly alleviates the pain. Sold by all deal ers 50c. a bottle. Hancock Liquid Sul phur Co., Baltimore, Md.—Aj}v. Plant That Catches Its Food. The common bladderwort, an aquatic plant, not only defends itself against insects and animals, but catches worms and fish for its food. As it floats underneath the surface of the water its leafy branches spread out In all directions. Its leaves are covered with little oval bladders filled with air, and at one end of each blad der W a cavity which leads into the mouth below. Inside the bladder is a small trap door which opens when pressure is put on it A small worm or a small fish can enter this door, but they can never come out. Identified Himself. The whizzing motor car Etruck a stump, and one of the occupants of the back seat a lady possessed of consid erable embonpoint, executed a neat but not gaudy parabola in the atmos phere and alighted by the roadside like a polypus falling from a shot tower. "I don't believe I have broken any bones," she stated, in reply to the in quiry of the omnipresent bystander; "but there is a lump on this bank that—" "Lump—nuthin'!" snarled a smoth ered voice. "I'm the constable that's goln' to arrest you gosh-durney Joy riders, if 1 live!"— Judge. Egged Off. De \Volf Hopper, at a luncheon In New York, said of a bad actor: "He's had hints enough to quit the stage, dear knows. He's had more hints than Phatt. "Phatt, after a brief experience on the road as 'Hamlet,' returned to his Job in Canal street " 'How did you come to leave the stage?' I asked him one night. " 'I had hrlntß that I wasn't suited to It,' he replied. "Thinking he meant the critics, I ■aid: "'Aha, the litle birds told you, eh?' " 'Well,' said he, 'they'd have become birds, 1 suppose, If they'd been allowed to hatch.'" _ Like a Pleasant Thought of an old friend Post Toasties with cream. Sweet, crisp bits of white Indian corn, touted to an ■Hii'liiing. golden brown. A defightful food (or break bat, lunch of supper always ready to serve instantly bom the package. v "The Memory Lingwr*" For a pleasing variation sprinkle some Grape-NuM over * nny*f of Post Toast- I iaa, then add cream. The combined flavour is some. Aang to remember. / * tomaOiml Company, Limited Battle Cr*sfc, Michigan ,;.., A/AERICANS on r/}f ISTHMUS n T' '"'T'iii i*i^tßirrigf^r''^«iiiiTimißyrff^iTff^^^^^T^^^^ mr */" zn*z- Colon, C. Z.—For the American res ident of the Canal Zone life is not all beer and skittles. There is plenty of beer, but 1 have not seen a skittle here. Perhaps 1 would not have recognized one if I had seen it. The American in a foreign land is not so tenacious of his home customs as is the Englishmtyi, and in Panama he finds himself not only in a tropic clime but in the midst of a civilization much older than his own. Conse quently he yields in many particulars to the customs of that clime and that civilization. The mid-day siesta of two hours, when he disrobes and dozes In a cool room, the dip in the ocean be fore dinner and the evening stroll in the plaza all appeal to him as to the native and have become a part of his life there. At the same time the influx of north erners has had itß effect on the Pana manians, especially, perhaps, In the matter of sports. Bullfights no longer are to be Been here and cock'fighting has suffered a marked decline. In place of them the native now enjoys frequent wrestling matches and prize fights, indulges In tennis to some ex tent and has taken kindly to the na tional American sport of baseball. It is the American woman on whom the changed conditions of life bear hardest, for housekeeping on the isth mus is attended by many annoyanceß. A good many people have the idea that a woman in the tropics lies in a ham mock all day and at meal time picks her food from the branches of trees that shade her resting place. As a matter of fact she mußt do her house hold shopping as at home, and the do mestic problem 1b with her here as there, only more so If possible. For clothing and standard groceries she usually goes to the store of the com missary department, where she can buy well and cheaply. But for fruit and many of the vegetables there is the daily trip to the market. In that spacious building—l am speaking now of Colon and Panama —are scores of booths and tables, attended by Jamai cans, Chinese and native Panamanians, and piled high with taro, breadfruit, soursaps, guavas, papayas, bananas, plantains, alligator pears, mangoes, or anges, cocoanuts and a dozen other tropical products. The layout !B tempt ing, but the purchasing is a task. Such a thing as a fixed price is unknown and one must bargain diligently or get the worst of it. And the insolence of the negro women is often commensurate with their ignorance. The native meat market Is quite "Impossible" for white people from the United States, for the meat, roughly hacked, is sold immedi ately after slaughtering, and the screening enforced by the American sanitary department is rendered Inef fective by open doore. The domestic servants employed by Americans in the zone are almost all Jamaican negresses. They are neat and clean, but their stupidity usually la monumental. Every detail of the household operations must be driven into their heads, and their minds seem ingly are on the island home they have left, for their memory it almost nil and their eyes tee little close at hand. Then, too, after a Tear or so of service and saving they begin to think of re turning to Jamaica and grow "weary." "Why, Blanche," said one shocked housewife, "here it is eleven o'clock and the breakfast dishes and kitchen thing' not washed, and the ants all ortr them!" "Oh, marm, I couldn't do them, I'm so exharsted this morning," was Blanche's reply. That's a mild sample of what must be contended with. Speaking of ants, there is another of the annoyances of housekeeping in the tropics. The ants are everywhere, in unbelievable numbers and most extra ordinary activity. Screens do not keep them out nor insect exterminators dis courage them. They must simply be endured. If they take a fancy to a nicely growing garden of young vege tables, they cut and carry off all the leaves in a night It Is the so-called leaf ant that does that All over the Isthmus be Is to be seen, moving in processions along well beaten paths, each individual carrying a leaf or other bit of foliage. One day I saw a long line of them moving through the sparse turf, all carrying tiny red blos soms cut from a small weed. It was M very picturesque miniature parade. No place tad no age has been free from the cockroach, and in Panama he grows to an enormous size and spends some of his time and energy eating the covers of bound books. Rust and mould add to the woes of the American housekeeper, and many articles she must keep in "dry closets" In which electric lamps are kept burn ing. There are not in Panama a great many of the old pure-blooded Spanish families, whose members possess edu cation and refinement, and those that are there are not especially fond of Americans. Consequently there Is not much social Intercourse between the two races. The social activities of the Americans have three general centers —the Tivoll club, the Wanhington Co tillon club and the Young Men's Chria tian association. The first two ere dance organisations and give balls al ternate fortnights at the Tivoll hotel In Ancon and the Washington hotel In Colon. These affairs are quite forma) and attract the best of the Americans from all partß of the zone. As for the Y. M. C. A., its work on the Isthmus really deserves a chapter to itself, for it has been one of the big factors in the successful building of the canal. At first it was found im possible to persuade men from the Uni ted States to remain long on the lath mua. The pay was good, the worfc in teresting, but homesickness found easy victims and they resigned and went back to the States in discourag ing numbers. Several remedies were tried, and finally the commission es tablished a club house in every *one town of any size and wisely put them in charge of the Y. M. C .A. Ia these houses are billiard rooms, bowling al leys, gymnasiums, soda fountains, li braries, lounging rooms and a dozen other conveniences, and each house has a hall large enough for dances and amateur dramatics and musical enter tainments. The secretaries in charge have been exceedingly active in the organization of bowling, baseball, bil liard and other leagues, and the tour neys are continuous and of great in terest. Of course no Intoxicating drinks are to be found In these clubs, but in other respects they are conduct ed on lines so liberal as to be some times surprising. In one of them, foi instance, 1 saw a number of young men and women dancing In the hall, tc the music of a phonograph, Immediate ly after the close of the Sunday eve ning religious service. This may hav« been an exceptional case, as It was ID one of the more isolated towns. In Ancon, Cristobal and some oth ers of the larger American towns flour lshing women's clubs have been main talned, and these were united in B zone federation which dissolved only this year, feeling that its work wat done with the virtual completion of th« canal. The clubs have done a great deal In the way of philanthropy and study, and many social functions art given under their auspices. As may readily bo comprehended life for Americans In the zone ii much like life in an American suburb an town, and it has some of the dlsad vantages of the latter. Gossip and so cial Jealousies are prevalent here, at there, and not a few women have been driven back to the States by them Disputes over promotions and the as slgnments of living quarters cause bit terness and estrangements, and ol course there are Innumerable com plflnts of undue Influence —"pull"—Id these matters. In some cases it must be admitted there bas been cause foi these complaints, and, sad to say, often woman has been the cause. Hei Influence with certain of the high of flcials cannot be doubted, and some timea it haa results that are to be d» plored. Here la one Instance of the powei exerted by "pull." A man for some years has held a responsible p» sitlon with the Panama Railroad com pany, and who has a wife, two daugh tera and a young son, has been waiting long for housekeeping quarters, which are at a premium. Two minor clerks of the railway had been attentive tc the daughters, but, being objectionable to the father, were discouraged. Bui the clerks had some Influential con nectlons, and in revenge have so con trived things that the family In que* tion bas been passed by repeatedly ir the assignment of housekeeping quar ters. The father and son live in one building, the mother and daughters lc another, and all must take their meali at the hotel. Naturally, not many of the Amer icans on the isthmus will remain there after the completion of the canal. A few of the doctors may en gage in general practice there —some already have done so—and some of the workmen may find the tropic cli mate so to their liking that they will stay. But nearly all are looking rath er eagerly to the time when they can return to the states. The engineers and physicians no doubt will find that the experience they hare had will be invaluable to them in the getting of positions and practice when they come home. Bat to readjust them selves to the old conditions of living may not be easy for th« men and women who have been in the zone for years. UNCLE SAM AND THE RAILWAY Railway* Claim the Government Forcaa Them to Carry tha Maila at Enormoua Los*. Athena, Ga„ August 22.—Under the heading, "Be Honest Even With the Railroad," The Banner of this city makes the following editorial com ment regarding the contention of the railroads that the postofflce depart ment la underpaying them for hand ling the mails: "To carry the people's mail quick ly, safely and frequently is a social obligation which the railroads freely concede. It is a service voluntarily performed for no taw compels a rail road company to carry malls unless it contracts to do 80. The courts hold, however, that if the railroads so contract, they must do so on terms named by the government. "Though surrounded by these anfc taalous conditions, the railroads have without stint placed their resources at tha disposal of the Nation to de velop the transportation of mails to tha highest possible state of effi ciency. This service has been paid for at a price fixed by the govern ment, a price from which the carriers have had no appeal. Railroad offi cers have felt, ever since the present method of railway mall payment was establlahed in 1873, that this compen sation was unjustly low. "Thla opinion is still held by ex perienced railroad officers throughout tha country, but with even greater firmness and earnestness, on account of the increasing costs of railroad operation combined with frequent heavy reductlona in railway mail pay made by the government. "The railroads maintain that at present they are underpaid by at least $16,000,000 per year. It Is their be lief that a fair adjustment would re quire that the government should pay the railroads for all services they render." Announce Seven Qrades of Corn. Washington.—Seven grades of com mercial corn tentatively formulated by the Department of Agriculture's office of grain standardization were announced. The descriptions were given out by Acting Secretary Gallo way so the public may be fully In formed regarding them before they finally are adopted as the official Am erican standard grades for commer cial corn. A formal hearing will be held here the latter part of Septem ber or some time during October, when Government officials will lis ten to any objection* or suggestions from the corn trade or others inter? ested before, the grades Anally are ad opted. Rumors of 20 Million Dollar Loan. Paris.—No confirmation can be ob talned hero of the report from Mexi co City that bankers of Paris and other European capitals have made an offer to President Huerta to float a new loan of 120,000,000. On the contrary the report Is not believed by the Banque do Paris Et Pays Bas, which took a leading part in the pre vious loan to the Mexican govern ment. The etory is also discredited by the banking house of Lazard Freres. The French foreign office, It appears, continues to take the attitude that it would be unwise for French bankers to lend money to the Mexi can government until the United States government has recognized the Huerta administration. Loggerhead Bpongea aa Fertilizer. Washington, D, C. —The depart ment of agriculture, through its bu reau of soils, has recently completed analysis of the Loggerhead sponge' which grows abundantly In the wat ers of southern Florida to determine Its value as a fertilizer. This sponge, according to Mr. Thomas E. Reedy, of Key West, grows In countless thou sands and to an enormous size in shallow water where It is easy to pro cure. Mr. Reedy aleo states that the farmers of the Florida Keys use the Loggerhead sponge with wonderfuJ results and hardly ever use chemical fertilizers. Dr. H. F. Moore of the U. 8. bureau of fisheries, cites the use of this sponge by citrus fruit growers on the Florida mainland and states that he has seen this sponge growing In such quantities that he has long thought it should be exploited. Aid in the Crop Movement Washington. The Treasury De partment began making deposits of the additional >50,000,000 government funds that are to be placed witSi banks in the agricultural states to aid in the movement. The first deposits were made in the reserve cities in the Southern states among wheh it is officially stated were Baltimore, Richmond, Atlanta and Memphis, the three latter each receiving $750,000. The apportionment of the funds has been completed according to informa tion at the department. Demands That Protection be Offered. Washington.—Senator Penrose ad dressed a letter to Secretary Bryan demanding that he telegraph Provis ional President Huerta and General Carranza warning them that the Am erican Government will hold them personally responsible for any harm inflicted upon Americans at Chibua hua who have been threatened by revolutionists. Shirley C. Hulse, son in-law of Lieutnant Governor Rey nolds of Pennsylvania, and bis fam ily, are among the 46 Americans in the threatened group. J.ama and Sheep. "Oh, dear! Something else to re mind me that my boy is growing up." "What now?" "The sheepish way he looks when I call him my little lamb!"—Llppin cott'a. No. SIX-SIXTY-SIX This Is a prescription prepared ea pecially for Malaria or Chllla and Fever. Five or six doses will break any case, and if taken then as a tonic the fever will not return. 25c. —Adv. Weird Work. "What's this; volcano in action?" "No." "Town on fire?" "No, no; still life. Piece of huckle berry pie, painted by a cubist." 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