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CHAPTER XXXV.
The Last.
That feverish, restless life had indeed
gone out. Rose Hillyer was no
more.
As she lay in the darkened drawingrr?r?m
at Windmere. more beautiful in
death than in life, her hands full of
lilies, a smile of unearthly sweetness
frozen on her lips, Mrs. Ellicott came
and wept bitterly over her." Paget
Fassel came, haggard and speechless. I
kissed the flower-filled hands, and
staggered from the silent presence, as
though he had received a mortal hurt.
Bess Hillyer came, sad and pale, and
left on the fair face a kiss of pardon
and a tear of sorrowful love. Last of
all. Lepel Ellicott came, with a face
like a mask, betraying nothing that
was in his heart. But how can resentment
live in the presence of death?
He, too. forgave her, and remembered
her sins and follies no more.
They carried her back to Cape Desolation,
and laid her to rest in the old
Hiliyer tomb on the sanay roausiae,
where, on a certain summer night, years
before, a gay yachtsman, Andre Gautler,
had first looked on the girl's fatal
beauty. The play was played out?
the curtain had fallen on the tragedy
of another life.
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"Time driveth onward fast."
Again the old Common was green
with spring. Birds twittered in its
budding treetops. A brave show of
hyacinths filled the florist's windows.
Through the narrow Boston streets an
east wind blew, bringing the freshness
of the sea with it. From a trailing
gray cloud came a sudden pattering of
rain. Edith Fassel, making a leisurely
tour of the shops, on some errand for
Aunt Latimer, looked up In dismay at
the sky. and down at her new spring
costume, fresh from Felix.
The carriage and Aunt Latimer were
several blocks distant.
For one moment she stood, with the
big drops pelting smartly upon her;
the next an umbrella interposed betwixt
her and the downpour.
"Permit me." said Nigel Hume.
The two had not met before for
weeks and months.
She gave him a smile like April
sunshine.
"I am very glad." she said, "to see
you again."
"Do you mean that?" he asked, in
a shaken voice.
"It is hardly polite to question such
a plain statement."
"I did not think." he answered, with
a touch of bitterness, "that Miss Fassel
could say anything as kind to a
rejected lover."
At the corners of her classic mouth a
suspicious dimple appeared.
"Did I ever reject you. Dr. Hume? I
think you have reversed the facts of
the qase. It was you who rejected
me."
Edith!"
"That day at the Symphony you
went away before I could answer you
at all. Had you remained a little longer"
Pale with astonishment, or some
deeper emotion, he caught the words
eagerly from her lips.
"Had I remained, what would you
have said to me, Edith?'
"The truth?the whole truth, and
nothing but the truth!" she answered,
her words mingling softly with the
patter of rain on the fabric over their
two heads. "From the first I was
frightened at the power which your
strong, honest, uncompromising nature
wielded over mine. You were unlike
any other man of my acquaintance. I
recognized your sovereignty only too
soon. You set up something between
us. and called it my wealth and your
poverty, my pride and position and
your obscurity, and all the time behind
the wretched barrier I was silently loving
you. When Mrs. Ellicott urged you
to become my suitor, and you refused
oh. I was hurt and amazed, but I loved
you the more for that. Your own pride
was tenfold more cruel than mine, for
it would not let you sue for me as other
men did"?
"Edith?darling! Stop a moment! I
p cannot believe my ears. Have I been
such a dolt?such an idiot?all this
while"?
"You have been very blind. Nigel,
and very proud?in fact, the proudest,
blindest creature that I ever saw in
my whole life."
Overhead the April rain splashed
and scurried, but under that umbrella
the very light of heaven was shining.
Three months later the two were
married.
*- "I forgive your past obstinacy, Nigel."
said Mrs. Ellicott to her nephew,
"since you have don<* exactly as I
wished you to do years ago. For
l Edith's sake we must have no more
family Jars."
Long before his union with Miss
Fassei the old dame had become thoroughly
reconciled to her nephew. Indeed,
her gratitude for Lepers restoration
know no bounds.
"What do I not owe to you!" she
cried. "You have given me back my
son?you have heaped coals of fire on
my head. Nigel?henceforth your place
must be next to Lepel's in my heart."
In Edith Hume's life one sorrow only
remained?her brother Paget.
"When Mignon died," she said to her
husband, "his heart received its death
wound. He will never think of love
i again."
"Time works many cures." her husband
answered.
Rut Nigel Hutne knew that his wife
had spoken truly?that Fassel would
walk the remainder of his earthly way
alone.
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Two more years passed.
Down at Cape Desolation autumn
winds were howling over the cliffs,
and the sea foamed high on the sunken
ledges. In Berry's grocery the
same old fishermen gathered at nightfall
to watch Captain Ira measure out
i the tea and sugar, and to spin the
yarns which, by frequent repetition.
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had become "flat. stale and unprofitable."
Only one of their number was
missing?Caleb Hillyer. who had been
laid beside Rose in the family tomb by
the sea.
"Whatever is the sailor gal going to
do now?" the old fishermen asked each
other, one September twilight, as they
lounged about the grocery, waiting for
tne evening siage. rave on ai me
cove with Martha Bray, or go off into
the world to seek her fortin'?"
"I take it she's spent about all her
money on her relatives." growled Captain
Ira. "In course, she's got to leave
tho cove!"
"Bess might ha' married well last
year," remarked Hiram Duff. "You all
remember the Portland gentleman that
come down here to shoot birds?him
that war one of the owners of her father's
old ship. Middle-aged, but rich,
Marthy Bray told me. He hunted
Captain John's darter out. and fell in
love like a flash. But Bess she said
No, which was shortsighted of her.
If she'd taken him. you see, she might
ha" lived in ease to the end of her
days. And now Caleb he's up and
died, and what's to become of her?"
"Bess was never the gal to look arter
her own interests!" sighed Captain Ira,
regretfully.
The arrival of the stage put an end
to the conversation.
Only one passenger scrambled out of
that ancient vehicle tonight, and so
swift and agile was he that by the time
the fishermen reached the grocery door
he was already striding off toward the
cliffs.
"Who's that 'ere?chap, Tom Duff?"
said Captain Ira to the stage driver.
"Dunno. I didn't ask his name. He
came from the train at the terminus?
sot inside, and read a book 'bout all Jhe
way."
Through the chilly, grewsome gloaming
the unknown was walking rapidly
off toward Hillyer's Cove.
The breath of balsam firs blew upon
him from the land, and the smell of
lirint. fmm thf> vast mvsterious sea.
He reached the beach, which stretched
before old Caleb's small domain. The
cottage door stood open. In it Martha
Rrav's silhouette was visible against a
background of mingled fire and candle-light.
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The cape woman seemed gazing out
for some one. Presently our wayfarer
heard the rattle of oars in the rowlocks,
and a boat came gliding round a
sunken ledge. Bess Hillyer, in a black
gown, her sleeves falling away from a
pair of statuesque arms, beached the
dory, and advanced to meet her visitor.
"I did not suppose," she said, in
grave wonder, "that anything earthly
would induce you to visit this place
again."
"Then you did not know me," answered
Lepel Ellicott. "I was in the
west looking after some mining interest.
My mother sent me word of Caleb
Hillyer's death. I started .at once
to find you. She begs you to come
without delav. and make your future
home with her. I am to remind you
that you are of our blood, and that my
poor mother has been deeply grieved
by your refusal to accept any favor
at her hands."
She looked at him steadily.
He was stalwart and handsome
enough to please any woman's eye, but
on his face the marks of past tribulation
were plainly visible.
"Your mother is very kind." said
Bess Hillyer. "and I am not ungrateful:
hut it is best for me to deDend
upon myself. Mrs. Ellieott does not
need me. and the owners of my father's
old ship." coloring faintly, "have
[written, since I'ncle Caleb's death, and
--for my dear father's sake. I suppose
?offered me a situation in their private
office. I have accepted it, and
tomorrow I shall start for Portland."
By this time they were walking to
the cottage?they had reached the old
porch where Andy Gaff once sat mending
Caleb's nets.
Lepel Ellieott seemed deeply moved.
"Portland!" he echoed, in a displeased
tone. 'Tnless the purpose which
brings me again to Hillyer's Cove is
altogether vain. Bess, you must not?
shall not?go! I need you. if my mother
does not. Believe me. I have profited
somewhat by the hard lessons of
the past. Do I not belong to you. and
you to me? Take the rest of the life
which you cared for when it was not
worth your care, and make what you
will of it. Bess."
She had loved him long in sadness
and silence, through good and through
ill. but had never thought to hear
words like these from his lips.
For a moment she stood dumb.
A great round moon, rising above
the shoulder of an eastern cliff, shone
into the porch, and showed him the,
glitter of tears on her pale cheeks.
"Bess." said Lepel Ellieott. "will you
come to my mother, as the wife of her
s< ?n ?"
"Since you ask it. I cannot refuse."
she answered, faintly smiling.
By and by Martha Bray looked out
from the living room.
"Supper's waiting." she announced.
"I thought I heerd a strange voice here.
Gracious Lawd! Is it Mr. Andy?no.
T mean Mr. Ellieott??beg parding. sir.
It's hard to reconcile the two, sir?the
past and the present."
THE END.
t- The Indian empire has the cheapest
postal service in the world.
X A German scientist has proposed
to the king of Italy to extinguish the
fires of Vesuvius by flooding the volcano
with sea Witter through tunnels.
T' At St. Augustine. Fla., the owners
">f a hotel are able t?? beat its rooms
with water which rushes, almost boiling.
from an artesian well.
!i What is claimed to la* the tallest
chimney in th? worhl. r>fis feet high, is
being erected for the Amalgamated
Copper company, at fjreat Falls, Mont.
t */I'lie string of heads of light that
sometimes is seen for as long as a
minute after a Hash of lightning, is
due to the incandescence of the air.
THE CARE OF COTTON.
Important Matter Urged Upon fhe Attention
of the Farmers.
Hon. B. Harris. President Farmers'
Educational and Co-operative Union,
Pendleton. S. C., and Hon. E. D.
Smith, President S. C. Division
Southern Cotton Association, Columbia,
S. C.
Centlemen:
The time for picking cotton having
arrived, has it ever occurred to you to
look into the question of damage
brought about by a lack of care for
the staple from the time it is ginned
to the time of marketing? Having
lived on a plantation for twenty-one
years, and at present owning and operating
one, as well as being in the cotton
business for the past ten years, I
thought possibly that my observations
along this line might tend to show the
great amount of money lost to this
cotton producing country. I desire to
impress upon the farmer the necessity
of caring for his cotton after laboring
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lessen friction between producer,
buyer, and manufacturer. A large
portion of the farmers, as well as the
carriers, treat the staple as though it
were coal, allowing it to lie on the
ground for months after ginning subject
to climatic conditions, which results
in rot and country damage.
When the cotton is ready for the
market it is picked up and offered for
sale, the damage, as a usual thing, being
disregarded until subjected to the
buyer's inspection, who. In protecting
his interests, will either dock for the
damage or have the cotton picked, resulting
in great loss to the farmer.
Unquestionably it is to the farmer's interest
to store his cotton in a reputable
warehouse, thereby protecting himself
from loss from fire as well as
damage, and in addition he can secure
warehouse receipt for same, which is
prime mercantile paper, and can be
discounted at any bank, allowing the
farmer to sell his cotton when he desires
to do so.
My object, however, is to impress
upon the farmers to house their cotton
as soon as it is ginned, whether it be
in a warehouse, or in their barns, or
dwelling, thereby reducing the element
of damage to a minimum.
To my mind, one of the most important
things the Farmers' Union and
the Southern Cotton association could
handle is the caring for cotton after it
is ginned, and up to the time it is marketed.
Having personally handled,
during the past ten years, about 300.000
bales of cotton of all grades and staple,
this cotton being shipped here from
Texas and Oklahoma on the west, to
North Carolina on the east, I do think
I am in a very fair position to speak
ntelligently of the item of damage,
largely caused by carelessness.
In addition to the rotten cotton on
thousands of bales, varying from five
to as much as three hundred pounds
per bale, all of which has to be picked
off before settling for and which is
caused by allowing the cotton to sit on
one end or He on one side in the mud
and rain for months before being offered
for sale; there is another element
of damage which is not so easily detected.
but which has a far more
reaching effect on the buyer, as well as
the mannfnptiirpr. T rpfpr to what is
called country damage.
When cotton is allowed to stand in
the weather after being ginned for
any length of time, although the owner
may turn it about from side to side
to keep it from rotting, the staple of
the cotton on the outside of the bale is
affected just in proportion to the time
it is allowed to remain exposed to climatic
conditions. To illustrate, a bale
of cotton ginned and packed December
the first and allowed to remain in the
weather until the first of March, will
have about half as much country dam
age as the same bale would have if it
remained in the weather until May the
first, and when the manufacturer opens
this bale, he will find that the cotton
sticking to the baling and extending
inward is practically without any
strength of staple, and as a result all
of this affected cotton will go in waste
or be found in the shaftings overhead.
Should the buyer detect this country
damage, the farmer, is the loser;
should the buyer not detect it. the buyer
is the loser; in any event, dissatisfaction
is the result, all of which
could have been avoided by housing the
cotton. The amount of country damage
varies in proportion to the time the
cotton lies out in the weather, and will
vary from three to twenty-five pounds
per bale. T have 11.000.000 bale crop
produced, the producer, the carrier,
and the compress together, allow 250,000
bales to be destroyed by rot and
country damage, and when you figure
this at ten cents per pound it amounts
to $12,500,000, all of which could be
saved to the producer, the buyer, and
the manufacturer, should they exercise
the proper precaution against damage.
Three years ago a farmer brought
twenty bales of cotton to the wareh.nivjf*
for stornsre in March, which had
been out In the weather since It was
tinned in the fall. Some of the bales
were so hadlv damaged and water sagged
that they weighed one thousand
pounds per bale. I asked him why he
allowed his cotton to get in that condition:
he replied, that he was so busy
making preparation for another crop
that he had not cared for what he had
already made. When this cotton was
conditioned for market, he had about
ten bales of merchantable cotton left
out of the twenty. A bale of cotton
ginned dry and housed until marketed
will hold out better than one allowed
to remain in the weather subject to
climatic conditions, and will not possess
the element of damage, and will
also retain its strength of staple, even
to the bagging.
Travel where you will, and you will
see cotton sitting at railroad stations
in the mud and rain, or you will see it
lying on the ground around farm
houses, where it will remain until ready
for market, and when marketed, the
bagging will be so rotten that you can
not handle the cotton.
Owing to the seeming negligence displayed
in tlie care of cotton after ginning.
the buyer, when purchasing1 a lot
of cotton, has to take into consideration
the element of damage, or he
would rather send his classer to receive
the cotton, thereby establishing
the amount of damage before payment
is made. Where you find a section
of country where great care is taken
with the cotton after ginning, and before
marketing, there you will find cotton
sought after by the buyers, and
everything else being equal, a premium
will be paid for same.
The manufacturers will pay better
prices for cotton free from rot and
country damage, because his percentage
of waste will be decreased.
The point I desire to impress is; take
care of your cotton, handle it as though
you thought something of it. ]f you
cannot put it in a warehouse where it
is insured and you can use the receipt,
put it in your barn, or shed room, or
anywhere to keep it from climatic conditions
until you market it, and by doing
this every pound will be spinnable
and no dissatisfaction between producer,
buyer, and manufacturer will result.
There are some places in South Carnlinn
whprp warehouse facilities are
adequate, but are unfortunately not
utilized. My own experience is that
four lots of cotton out of every five
shipped from places where cotton is
not warehoused are badly damaged,
due to the fact that it is allowed to sit
on one end for weeks and months In
the open before it is offered for sale,
and as a result, heavy claims are made,
and yet the best character of cotton, so
far as body and staple is concerned, Is
produced at these places, and would be
very much sought, were the element
of damage eliminated.
In conclusion, I would strongly urge
that this matter be brought to the attention
of all concerned, and thereby
save twelve and one-half million dollars
per year to the southland.
Very truly yours,
Jno. D. Frost.
ORIGIN OF VEGETABLES.
Where Many of Those in Daily Usage
Were First Grown.
The potato, which was already cultivated
in America when, the conti|
nent was discovered, is spontaneous
in Chile. It was introduced in Europe
in 1580 and 1585 by the Spaniards,
and almost at the same time by the
English, who brought it from Virginia,
where it had appeared about 1550.
The sweet potato and the Jerusalem
artichoke are also supposed to come
from America.
Salsify is found in a wild state in
Greece. Dalmatia, Italy and Algeria.
According to Olivier de Serres, it has
been cultivated in the south of France
since the sixteenth century.
Turnips and radishes came originally
from central Europe. The beetroot
and the beet, which have been
greatly improved by cultivation, are
considered as the same species by botanists.
The beet, only the stalk of
which is eaten, grows wild in the
Mediterranean, Persia and Babylonia.
'Garlic, onions, shalots'and leeks
have long been cultivated in almost
all countries, and their origin is very
uncertain. That of the scallion is
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in Siboria. One finds chives in a wild
state throughout the Northern Hemisphere.
The radish, greatly modified by cultivation,
probably had its origin in the
temperate zone, but from what wild
species it is derived is not exactly
known.
The lettuce appears to be derived
from the endive, which is found wild
in temperate and southern Europe, in
the Canaries, Algeria, Abyssinia and
temperate western Asia.
Wild succory is spontaneous
throughout Europe, even in Sweden,
in Asia Minor, Persia, the Caucasus,
Afghanistan and Siberia. Cultivated
succory is probably a form of endive
which Is thought to have had its origin
in India.
Corn salad is found wild throughout
Europe, Asia Minor and Japan.
Cabbage, like all vegetables which
have been cultivated from remote
times, is believed to be of European
origin.
The artichoke is the cultivated form
of the wild cardoon, indigenous to
Madeira, the Canaries, Morocco, the
south of France, Spain, Italy and the
Mediterranean islands.
Asparagus had its origin in Europe
and temperate western Asia.
The origin of the egg plant is India,
that of the broadbean is unknown, as
also that of the lentil, the pea, check
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pears to have come originally from
America.
The carrot grows spontaneously
throughout Europe. Asia Minor, Siberia,
northern China, Abyssinia, northern
Africa, Madeira and the Canary
i Islands.
Chervil comes from temperate western
Asia, parsley from the south of
Europe and Algeria, sorrel from Europe
and northern Asia, the mountains
of India and North America. Spinach
is supposed to come from northern
Asia.
For some twenty years past the
crosnes has been used. This little
tubercle with fine savory flesh, which
has long been cultivated in China and
Japan, is probably indigenous to eas
it'rn ^\.siu.
The tomato comes from Peru, the
cucumber from India and the pumpkin
from Guinea.?Itevue Scientiflque.
COW AND BEAR FIGHT A DRAW.
Honors Even In Hot Mix-Up on a
Long Island Roadway.
A big brown bear which has performed
for the amusement of the children
of many Long Island villages,
probably never acted with quite so
much agility as it exhibited the other
day when it encountered along the
road a brindle cow belonging to Joseph
Harrigan, of East Neck, Huntington.
The cow is very proud of a long and
sharp pair of horns. The bear at first
ntertained little respect for the horns,
but he learned something.
Harrigan was leading the cow along
the East Neck road, when the hear
loomed up in leash to a pair of Russians.
The cow, at sight of the bear,
began to bellow, jerked the rope from
'" luirwl .,11,1 ohiirfTojl (Iip henr.
Bruin appeared to be surprised and
made no defense to the first onslaught,
tlie result being a rip 14 inches long in
his fur. front which blood dripped.
Then the cow. Hushed with success,
began a second charge.
Bruin, this time unhampered by his
keepers, who had both climbed trees,
reared on his haunches, and as the
cow closed in. raised Itis forepaws and
ripped two beautiful streaks down her
shoulders.
The horns had again scored, however,
and both were glad to cease hostilities
when Harrigan again got his
cow in tow.?New York Times.
PANAMA CANAL.
Columbia Lady Interestingly Describes
Immensity of the Work.
Columbia State.
Miss Mamie Gasque is home at 815
Main street after a six weeks' visit to
j the Isthmus of Panama, that slender
strip of land which is today the most
important undeveloped spot in the
world and is. perhaps, one of the busiest
places on the f?lobe just now. Miss
Gasque is a niece of Mr. Jackson Smith,
| a former Columbian and until recently
la member of the Panama canal commission,
and during1 her stay in the
canal zone she was at the home of Mr.
Smith at Culehra, within a short distance
of the famous C'ulebra cut.
She was able to see the great work
that is being carried on by the United
States government close at hand and
thus became possessed of much information
concerning the canal itself and
life upon the isthmus. Miss Gasque
talks interestingly of the undertaking
and brings close home the work that
has been the dream of nations for
many years?the joining of the Atlantic
and Pacific.
"The first thing that strikes one in
taking a first view of the work being
done on the isthmus," says Miss
Gasque, 'is the immensity of the undertaking.
In the first place, I believe
every one has an idea that the isthmus
Is a strip of level country and that it
would thus be comparatively easy for
a canal to be dug through it. But
this is by no means the case. The
isthmus is a OO-mlle stretch of rolling
hills and rocky land, and -this makes
the undertaking of building the canal
all the more difficult. It is almost
impossible to describe how great the
undertaking really is and one is staggered
when the situation is viewed.
"An idea of the work being done may
be gained, when it is known that 100
'fnmense steam shovels are kept going
ail the time. It Is stated that 3,000,000
cpbic feet of eartli and rock are removed
each month. But a better idea
of the work is shown in tnat s>uu irain
loads of material dug from the canal
are being handled every day. In the
afternoons the workmen begin to unload
and when you think of 500 train
loads passing your house you can Imagine
the noise. It is impossible to
hear one another converse if you are
iiving anywhere near the railroad that
runs within the cut where the canal
is^belng dug.
"This Culebra cut is about the most
difficult feat that the engineers have
met with in the construction of the
canal thus far. The cut is through a
high mountain and the bigness of this
job at this point baffles description.
One has to go and see the work being
done to appreciate the undertaking of
cutting through one of these mountains
and the work is not nearly done yet.
Another gigantic work is the building
of the Gatum dam on the Colon?which
is the Atlantic?side of the isthmus.
Of course, it will be necessary to rebuild
portions of the Panama railroad,
which now crosses the canal at points
and this railroad will be constructed
throughout parallel with the canal.
This is considered to be a big work
?h.i? in ncfnmnlished.
"Of the working force of 33,000 persons
on the construction of the canal
5,000 are Americans, 7,000 are foreigners
and the remainder are negroes, including
Jamaica negroes and Panamaians.
Wages are good on the Isthmus
and when you consider the small living
expenses the men are well off in that
part of the world. And Panama is not
so different from other parts of the
g obe. Before the work on the canal
proper was started an army of workers
were sent to the isthmus to build
homes and provide for the coming of
the canal builders. There are already
in the neighborhood of 2,500 buildings,
including office buildings, dwellings and
store houses of every description. There
are four water systems to supply the
men employed by the government and
those living in the towns on the isthmus.
All the modern equipments such
as electric lights, railroad shops, ice
factories, great bakeries and other utility
plants are in the canal zone.
Low Cost of Living.
"With a fair rate of wage those
working on the isthmus are in good
circumstances, for their living expenses
are not very high. In the first place,
the homes are furnished those in the
employ of the United States government.
Tiiis means that electric lights,
fuel and other utilities are furnished,
together with the house. There are
married quarters and bachelor quarters
in the canal zone and the bachelor
homes are furnished just the same
as the others. Meals are furnished at
the hotels at 30 cents. This gives a
living expense of about $30 a month.
"Panama City, the capital, is the
largest town on the isthmus, having
about 15,000 inhabitants. The other
towns do not average over 1.000 inhabitants.
The towns are built close together
and one can stand on a mountain
near one of the cities and see the
others in the distance.
"The isthmus is now in good condition
arid tis far jus the health of the
people living on it is concerned it Is as
good as the average in any other part
of the world. There are two big hosnitals
at Panama City, where the sick
are cared for. Yellow fever has not
bren known on the isthmus for several
years and precaution has been
taken to keep away tlie dreaded disease.
Should a single case break out
on the isthmus every one there would
have, so afraid are those living there
of contracting the fever.
"It has been imagined for a long
time that vegetables could not be raised
in Panama, but several crops have
now been sucessfully cultivated and
importations of vegetables are growing
less each year. Tomatoes, lettuce,
garden peas, beans and other vegetables
are grown and are as good or
better than any in the states. Meats
are shipped to the isthmus in cold
storage from New York and New Orleans
for the most part. Canned milk
is used, as there are no cows on the
isthmOs. The government has been
operating there big truck farms for
the past year. Egg's are brought from
this country.
"There has always been a mistaken
idea that chickens could not live on
the isthmus, consequently none were
carried there, but now this is not the
case, and chickens are being raised in
the canal zone. Some of the Americans
living near Panama City carried over
a few chickens and when it was seen
that the fowls were able to stand the
tropical climate more were carried over,
and now It is hardly necessary to bring
any from the states.
"There is a nine months' rainy season
in this region and during this period
the gardens are irrigated. Of
course, all of this is due to American
enterprise and there was no such thing
as truck farms or any kind of farms
before Uncle Sam took charge. The
isthmus is really a place now inhabited
by civilized people. And it is a noticeable
fact that there are few loafers on
the isthmus. It is true that everybody
works there, the majority being employed
by the United States government.
"The native women are objects of
curiosity to those who visit the Isthmus
for the first time. They are fond
of blight colors. For instance, one I
saw had on a red turban, a green
skirt, yellow shirtwaist 'and a purple
snawi arounn ner nee*. i lit; men a
dress is not so different from that in
other countries, while the children
don't seem to mind at all about what
they wear, I remember seeing a bridal
procession pass within a short distance
of our home at Culebra. The
groom was dressed in the conventional
black, with frock coat. The bride was
bedecked in many colors, with long
bridal veil and two little pickaninnies
carried the train of her dress.
"People imagine that the canal zone
i is not a pleasant place In which to
live, having heard stories that the IsthI
mus is a death hold of fever, malaria
and all manner of tropical diseases.
But this is not the case now, the
United States government having rendered
the isthmus a habitable region.
It is now the region where some years
ago the natives were able to live without
work amidst the riot of luscious
fruits, bananas, pineapples, oranges
and other varieties. The fruits are
still there in abundance, but there are
other things which make the isthmus
now a civilized, cultivated land and all
that has been done is to the credit of
Uncle Sam's workers."
South Carolinians' Part.
In the great work that is being carried
on in the canal zone there are a
number of southerners who have taken
.'i prominent part. And South Carolina
has furnished her quota, three of those
who have been praised for the work
i>n the isthmus being: Jackson Smith,
a former Columbian, and until recently
head of the department of labor quarters
and subsistence: Maj. Gaillard, in
charge of the Culebra cut; Henry
Smith, employment agent, the only one
now left of the three appointed by
President Roosevelt.
Mr. Jackson Smith is well known in
this city, having worked here in the
office of his brother, Mr. C. M. Smith,
at the Atlantic Coast Line depot. Although
Knoxville and other cities claim
Mr. Jackson Smith he started his career
in Columbia, having come here
from his home in Marion. Mr. Smith
has a sister living in Columbia now,
Mrs. H. D. Casque. Before taking up
his work in the canal zone as member
of the Panama canal commission, Mr.
Smith was passenger agent of the
Louisville & Nashville Railroad company.
Perhaps no other man at work
in Panama has done so much as Jackson
Smith with the single possible exception
of Col. Gorgas, who became
world-famous by his work of rendering
the isthmus sanitary.
In accepting the tesignation of Mr.
Smith from the Panama canal commission,
President Roosevelt said:
"I can not permit this occasion to
pass without expressing formally to
you my appreciation of the earnest,
thorough and effective service which
you have rendered in organizing the
department of labor quarters and subsistence
and in devoloping it to such a
state of efficiency that the task of
your successor will be comparatively
an easy one. The supreme importance
of the department of labor quarters
and subsistence in the work of constructing
is known to every one familiar
with the work."
A Great Work.
It is estimated that the canal will
be eight years in building from the
point at which the work is now. Four
years <?f work under the United States
has wrought wonders and every expectation
has been exceeded in amount of
labor done in digging out of rock and
mountain this gigantic excavation. Mr.
Claude N. Bennett cf Georgia, who is
now manager of the congressional bureau
of information, has studied the
situation in the canal zone thoroughly
and has given to the public some valuable
information about the work undertaken
by the United States government.
11 1 lr>
in an auuress unncicu ? ??'ja>iuv,
I'enn., before the summer school Mr.
Bennett spoke of the canal as being
the "eighth wonder of the world." He
paid a tribute to the southern men who
have taken such a prominent part in
the work and gave some figures in the
course of his lecture that will show
what a great undertaking it is to cut
through this slender strip of territory.
Mr. Bennett said in part:
"Figures talk, and hence a mere recital
in figures will give an idea of
what it means to build the Panama
canal. Over 100 steam shovels, each
capable of lifting a ton of material, are
at work there; there are unloaders and
spreaders and track-throwing machines;
there are several hundred
steam engines, and 500 train loads of
material are handled every day. That
little 50 miles of track, known as the
Panama railroad, is about the busiest
railroad on earth. Three thousand carpenters
were at work for years building
houses. There are more than 2,200
buildings of every possible size and
shapes; 24 different types of dwellings
alone; office buildings; store houses,
hotels, magazines and whatnot. There
are four distinct water systems to supply
not only the cities of Panama and
Colon, but the entire working force
along the line of the canal. There are
..lorOi-io lin-hr nlniits milron/l shons. ice
factories, great bakeries and all the
other utilities that are required to supply
tlie necessities of an army of 44,000
employes. There is an average working
force of about 33,000 men. Of these
7,000 are for the Panama Railroad
company: on the canal there are at
work about 5,000 Americans, between
0.000 and 7,000 foreign laborers, and
the balance negro laborers.
Comparisons of Work.
"Let us make a few comparisons,
First, 1,000,000 of cubic feet of earth
and rock a month was thought to be
good work: then excavating 2,000,000
was thought to be a fairly good average;
next 3,000,000 a month was
reached, and now the slogan is that
4,000,000 a month must be reached.
; Has any one an idea what 3,000,000 of
cubic feet means? It is a larger bulk
than the greatest of the Egyptian pyramids.
Three million cubic yards of
' dirt, if hauled by two-horse wagon
teams, would make a string of teams,
with a foot of space between them, more
than 8.000,000 miles long. The Suez
canal was ten years building, between
1859 and 1869. It is about 100 miles
long and cost nearly $100,000,000. We
are digging a Suez canal every year,
counting the excavation. The sanitary
department cuts and burns or removes
15,000.000 square yards of brush a
year, drains a million square yards of
I swamp lands, keeps up 3,000,000 feet
of ditches and fumigates 12,000,000
square feet of living quarters.,
Cost of the Canal.
"Let us see what it will cost to build
this canal. The United States paid the
French Panama Canal company $50,000,000
and to the Panama government
$10,000,000. It authorized an expenditure
of $195,000,000 for the construction
of the canal. The total amount expended
up to date, including the $50,000,000
is $145,000,000. The last appropriation
act carried for next year's
expenses $29,177,000. The total appropriations
made to date are $170,964,468.58.
Therefore within the original
total of $195,000,000 there are left not
quite $25,000,000. It- is now supposed
that the canal will cost altogether anyway
from $300,000,000 to $500,000,000.
No doubt tbere are men who will cry
out that this is a sheer waste of money.
The same kind of men ridiculed
the Suez canal in its beginning as a
chimerical scheme, but it has paid from
12 to 17 per cent on the investment,
and there need be no fear that in this
respect history will not repeat itself in
the case of the Panama canal.
"WVint th<? Panama nanal will moan
to the world In the way of shortening
distances in the matter of transportation
and the consequent saving of time
and expense in the way of coal consumption
and freight costs, may be
realized when it is stated that the
whole distance from New York to Sp.n
Francisco around Cape Home is 13,000
miles. Through the Panama canal
the distance will be only 5,000 miles, a
saving of 8,000 miles, a distance equal
to two and a half times across the
United States. When the battleship
Oregon made her famous trip from San
Francisco to Santiago it took her sixtysix
days. If the canal had then been
built, she could have made the trip in
fifteen days, less than one-third of the
time."
WOULD-BE CLEVER GIRL.
Gives Advice on Every Subject and
Knows It All.
Many a girl thinks it clever to be
cutting and sarcastic, and wonders
why she is unpopular.
She has a gift of mimicry, and
thinks it oh. so smart to touch up
the weaknesses of her friends.
She is full of openly expressed
views that her elders are tottering on
the verge of the grave, arid calls the
girl who has been out two seasons a
"back number."
She thinks knowledge was born
with her, and graspingly refuses to
credit others with a share.
She believes she is attracting favorable.
notice by loud talking in
public places, and scorns the suggestion
that she is making herself conspicuous.
She gives advice on every known
subject and thinks those who do not
take it wanting in common sense.
She blazons abroad the little she
knows, foolishly thinking it will pass
muster as a fine education.
She poses as artistic or musical or
literary, and bores every one with her
text-book opinions.
She fancies that to be uncensorious
is to be out of date, and makes herself
a byword with her backbiting
gossip.
She considers it clever to be superior
to her mother, and never imagines
that her hearers are ready to slap
her for her silly conceit.
She believes that eccentricity in
dress is a sign of great originality,
and fortifies herself against criticism
by the lordly idea that her critics
are ignorant.
She thinks it smart to defy conventions,
pertly calling those who would
restrain her "old fogies."
GREEK AGAINST GREEK.
The Transaction Between the Jcckey
and the Horse Doctor.
A secret service official was talking
of the tricks 'of smugglers and other
lawbreakers with whom he came in
contact. "To outwit them," he said,
"we must be very, very astute. The
fight is then Greek against Greek. It
is the jockey against the horse doctor.
"Perhaps you may have heard the
story? Xo? Well then, give ear.
"A gentleman at a country fair saw
a jockey and a horse doctor haggling
ureaaiuuy over ine saie ui a nunc, u,
interested him to see two such tricky
and shrewd characters opposed, and
at the end of the sale he approached
the jockey and asked him how he had
made out.
" 'I sold her,' said the man. And he
held up a five dollar note.
" 'Rut is that all you got for her?'
asked the gentleman.
" 'It's enough.' was the reply. 'She's
dead lame.'
"Chuckling to himself, the gentleman
sought out the horse doctor.
" 'See here, friend,' said he, 'do
you know you have given $5 for a
hopelessly lame mare?'
"The horse doctor wagged his thin
gray beard.
" 'Lame she is, I grant you,' he
said. 'But hopelessly lame, no. In
fact, she is as sound as I am. She's
badly shod, that's all that is the matter
with her. I saw it at a glance.'
"The gentleman whistled at this
news. He went back to the jockey
and told him what the horse doctor
had said.
"Rut the jockey, with a wipk of
the eye, explained:
" 'That mare is as lame as a one
legged veteran. I had her shod badly
on purpose to take some greenhorn
in.'
"At this the gentleman laughed
loud and long. Hurrying back to the
horse doctor again, he said:
" 'My dear sir, with all your cunning
that jockey lias proved too much
for you. The ma:'e is incurauiy ianie.
He had her shod badly on purpose to
take you in.'
"On receipt of this news the old
horse doctor shook his head gravely.
" 'Well, anyway, he said, "it was a
counterfeit five dollar note.' "
KEEPING A SECRET.
The Feasibility of Telling Secrets to
Women.
"There, now, I've told you!" said
the married man. "I know I shouldn't
have done so, but you've coaxed
until I had to. Now you know all
about It, and I hope you are satisfied.
"It wasn't my secret," said the
man, sadly. "That's the point, as I
told you. It's Brown's secret. He
confided In me as a man of honor. He
trusted me, and now I've betrayed his
confidence."
| "Nonsense!" said the woman. "If
he expected you to keep things from
your wife he ought to be ashamed of
himself. If be keeps secrets from
Mrs. Brown I've got my opiinion of
him. But what I don't understand
"I know. You don't understand,"
said the r.ian. "You women never
do. Certainly he expected when I
said that I wouldn't toll a living soul,
that I would keep my word. He didn't
think I was so weak that I would
let you twist me around your little
finger and worm the whole thing out
of me."
"Why, how you do talk!" said the
woman. "It isn't as if you had gone
around telling everybody. That would
be different."
"Would it?" said the married man.
"Of course, it would," replied his
wife. "I should hope it would. But
it seems to me that you're making a
great fuss about nothing."
"I know you don't consider it any
thing," said the man. "I have always
been accustomed to regard a
confidence as sacred, though. How
do you suppose I'm going to look
Brown in the face when I next meet
him? What do you suppose that he
will think of me when he learns that
I've broken faith with him?"
"In the first place, I don't see how
he's going to learn anything of the
kind," said the woman. "In the second
place, you haven't told me a
word of?"
"Do you think I can depend upon
you not to say anything about it to
any of your friends?" asked the man,
anxiously.
"Do you suppose I'd dream of such
a thing after you've told me not to
mention it? But, for that matter, I
don't see why?"
"You won't whisper it?"
"No, of course I won't but?"
"Not if Mrs. Jamieson comes
around with a choice tid-bit of gossip
and gets all swelled up over it?"
"You know I wouldn't. Now, Henry,
I want you to stop talking a moment
and let me get in a word. What
I want to know is?"
"Of course, she'll say that she'll
never breathe a word of it," said the
man, disregarding her plea. "All the
same, you musn't trust her. Remember,
now. Not a word of it,'or a hint."
"I don't see what there is to be so
secret about," said the woman. "I
won't say anything about it if you
don't want me to, but it seems absurd.
What would It raatter, if anybody in
the place knew It? It wouldn't hurt
anybody so far as I can see. I should
think Mr. Brown would tell every
uuuy inmscii. xi a iu ma autauuigc
to have it known. It will advertise
his business."
"I wonder!" said the married man,
musingly.
"You wonder what?"
"I wonder if that isn't the idea
Brown had when he told me. I expect
he knows how hard It is for me to
keep anything from you."
"You're a mean old thing," said
the woman. "I don't believe it's any
secret at all, and I don't believe
you would have told me If It had
been."?Chicago News.
A TALE OF THE SEA.
The Upside Down Cruise of the Captain
of the Erndte.
An almost incredible instance of the
perils attending those who go to sea
was the basis of a story told In a
maritime court of Dantzic some years
ago by the captain of the sailing ship
Erndte. Nothing that Jules Verne,
Clark Russell and H. G. Wells ever
fancied in their wonderful tales surpassed
the story told by Captain Engellandt.
He had sailed from Memel with a
carload of planks for Oldenburg. The
captain remained at the wheel during
a gale which overtook the vessel
next night and at 4 in the morning
went to the cabin to change his wet
clothes.
He had just got into dry underclothing
when his vessel capsized, and
he found himself standing on the
roof of the cabin, the door of which
the sea had hermetically closed.
By loosening the boards of what
was now the roof he got into the hold,
which contained only loose sails. Fortunately
some shelves of a high cupboard
remained intact, and from
them he collected some cans of condensed
milk, some prunes, rice, sugar
and sausage. He also found a
hammer.
For twelve days the master of the
ship lived in his prison, eating as
sparingly as possible and drinking
sea water, which appeared .to have
no ill effect on him. He employed
his free time in hammering on the
steel bottom of the ship to attract the
attention of passing vessels. He knew
when it was day for a dim light penetrated
the water.
On the twelfth day the Norwegian
steamer Aurora sighted the wreck and
sent a boat to take it In tow. Engellandt
had fallen asleep; but, hearing
footsteps over his head, he be?an
knocking with his hammer and shouting
for help. The Aurora's men returned
to their ship for tools, with
which they bored a hole through the
bottom of the Erndle where they
had heard the shouting. When tney
drew out their drill, a man's finger
followed, and they soon learned that
Engellandt had food for four days
more and wished to be towed to land,
for it was impossible to release him
in the open sea.
' The Aurora towed the wreck safely
to Xeufahrwasser. where with considerable
difficulty it was attached to
a huge crane, a plate was unloosened
and the imprisoned master was
freed. Ho was perfectly conscious
and even able to walk alone. The
three men who had constituted his
crew were of course drowned when
the vessel capsized.?New York Tribune.