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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (June 18, 1905)
Jinn 18, iwn. TIIE OMAHA ILLUSTRATED BEE. S Snap Shots of People and Things Found on Isthmus of Panama , ' ' " .. - . , ... ...... . - w - . v . .,.N ,t .... ... ---!-,. v-,, T,'". '""""" -'v.- V.-Ui it ."l --- -' Tef-"fc -. - - - . ' , i--'-V - v. - .". . - , - 11 -- - - URCHINS OF PANAMA LIKE THOSE OB" THE WORLD. and blanks. There aro $8,000 worth of prixrs given out at each drawing for $10,000 worth of tickets, so that nt least $4 0)0 worth must he blanks. The lottery belongs mostly to Gabriel Puque, who also owns The Bar and Herald, the chief English ncwsparer of the Isthmus. I understand It has madn him rich, and that It brings him In something like $:0,tfn) a year. His lottery tickets are sold everywhere except In our canal tone, and they would be sold there It the officials did not forbid It. The sellers are men, women and children. They are found at every street corner, In the market and even at the doors of the churches. Across the plaza from the hotel Is tho Panama cathedral, one of the most beauti ful buildings of the city. A little further over are stores, and beyond the administra tion building Is the city hall. The adminis tration building covers a whole block. It has four stories and Is one of the most val uable properties of the kind on the Isthmus. AmcBKM the Natives. Let us alt down In the park and make ome notes of the people. Here comes two Jamaicans. They are as black as our boots, but they are well dressed and good looking. They are talking In Spanish. If you should address them In English you would learn that they can speak the lan guage more clearly than our negroes at home. Nearly all the Jamaicans have a common school education. They read an write, and some of them of the better classes, such as the locomotive engineers. take solentlflo Journals. Indeed, I saw one of the firemen -at Culebra reading an en gineering magazine during the Intervals of his work. Thty learn quickly and seem to "V . ' - ' ' " mil III III! I II II ! .PANAMA OA. THAT 0O8TB TEK CENTS A ITRTR fCopyrlght 1906, by Frank Q. Carpenter.) evef. They have been at It all night long, fee and a roll upon getting up. Their seo- MANAMA. June IS. (Special Corre- but they receive fresh strength at day- ond meal, which forma the real breakfast, 3 I spondence of The Bee.) Bring out break. They may be crowing at the high consists of a soup, a stew or roast, some A. I vnup namarai nil tslra mnm nrlr nf Thev now onat E cents veretables and a dessert. Tha Americans snapshots with me of Panama apiece, and that Is enough to make any eat a first-class dinenr at lunch time and be born self-respecting ana wie X uumi i ail, uur um piu- cock crow, hi rsau mi m ovuuuii uiiiuat ri uibuv. v.i- rrr.--.1 r,f little -hm,. . . lUin will w UKBiiugui. TV a .in iii Li i r i lie lurt Are now uirenins. oivrfy alwi uvuii uii bua virvia k.v wguiiu hestt of the city, but It Is long after dark, clerks are taking down the shutters, and chat or He down for a snooze. No one The streets are almost deserted, the win- sweeping the floors and arranging their Is at his office much before V nd It Is lm- dows and doors of every building are wares. The shops will keep open from possible to do any business during the barred and the light shows only blank now until 11 a. m., when all will He off for usual hours of the siesta. From i o'clock walls. As we walk along we now and a rest. - Many of the clerks live In the until 6 or a Is taken up with business and then meet a policeman. He baa a whistle stores. They are boarded by their em- . work, after which everything closes up fqr whlcB he blows every hcur to show that ha ployers and all eat the noon meal to- the night. The canal offices close at 6, and Is awake and wrn tbe thieves to keep out gether. They are usually paid low wages, at that time the larger stores begin to put of the way. At the same time the cocks but they understand how to ask extra crow. . Every family has Its chickens, and prices of every American, and get them, the roosters are game cocks with throats $ of brass. List to the bells! They strike a Snap at Midday very hour I And such bells! Their voices Our next picture Is taken at mid are cracked with age. They are tinny and aay. It ,8 nlgh nooQ , ra.na.ma. City. thejr murder sleep. . The town lB quieter now than It was at up their shutters. A little later all have gone home for the evening. midnight whon we made our flashlight ex- In thm Panama Plasa. Dinner Is the chief meal of the day. It la eaten at ( or 7 o'clock, after which many go out for a walk. On muslo and concert nights every one takes a stroll through the He recites speeches about the lndepend They are of all colors, from white to black, but every one looks as bright as a new sliver dollar. Sitting here last night a ragged little girl of 6 came to me aad asked for a newspaper I had been reading. I told her that I 'did not think she could read It. She thereupon took a penoll and wrote her own name on the margin of the paper, proving the contrary. There Is a little gamin of , with a skin like chocolate, who peddles cigars around the Grand Central hotel every evening. His father works on the canal for about 8 cents an hour during the day and makes cigars In the evenings. This little peddler can reel off Spanish poems by the yard. e.,,.. , v,.M . -r.mw posures, but the great sun Is shining down park or plaza. At such times the scene is M of fnmi in gmnlah. and that with attachment. We look through the around fron m,dst of th" hevnB. evidently a say on, the plaza an acre of palms and Such gusto and smiles that he makes many glass Into the houses. AU the American wonler.ng why man Is not working. Most tropical trees, Is lighted by electricity and sale, out of sympathy. residents are sleeping In cages. Their beds of the Btore" are e,08e1- The reat canal U the Panama world and its wife and its have mosquito, bars above and around omlnistratlon building with Its hundreds daughter are out With brothers and hus- Rich Panamans. them. Not a man, woman or child Is out- of e'er is still as the grave and the bands they promenade up and down the But not all the Panamans are poor. See side a cage. Turn the screw of the "feets are deserted, with the exception of walks, going back and forth for an hour at that portly, dark-faced man in business camera, and better the focus. Notice how tne which lie asleep in the shade, a time. clothes who has Just entered the plaza? the sleepers are rolling about. Some of Every human being ts now taking his noon This plan, la the heart of Panama. On That Is Manuel Esplnosa B (the last lnl- thetn are dreaming. They talk In their alesta, and even the goats, roosters and one side stands the Grand Central hotel tlal stands for the name of his wife). That sleep. Here one murmurs of home, and buzzards are nodding under the sun. Pan- and the Spanish ctub, where you can lose man started life here as a drug clerk and there Is another, almost delirious, with his ama is a Spanish city and It rests In the by gambling more In three minutes than Is now said to he worth $290,000. Behind fear of the fever. Notice that nlghtcapped middle of the day. It is a tropical city, and you can earn in a month. On the other hlme comes Frederico Boyd, who has mort- man swearing. Now he scratches himself. It is best for one to do nothing from 11 side of the park is the bishop's palace, with gages on most of Panama and who Is worth He has been out all day tramping through o'clock until 2. At 11 the canal clerks go the Pacific steam navigation offices on the quite as much. Both of these men have the bushes along the edges of the canal, to their homes. Between 11 and : 12 they ground floor, and beyond the Panama lot- sent their children to the states to be Storfes ".it. and the red bugs of the isthmus have bur- Bit down to breakfast, or to what the rowed under his skin. Those bugs are Spaniards would call almuerso. The most everywhere outside the city. They lay of these people eat nothing but some cof thelr eggs In your flesh and the Itching drives one to distraction. How quiet it is. Panama has long since shut Its stores. There is little noise on the streets after dark. The early evening Is spent by the families chatting on their bal- . conies or in family ; parties ' Inside the house. Now and' then one hears a plana and sometimes the muslo of balls, which begin at 9 o'clock of an evening and last far into the night- These Panama girls are good dancers, but they do not go to dances alone. Their fathers or mothers must accompany them, or they may have, as a duenna, an old maiden sister, cousin or aunt. These take the place of wall flowers at balls. They make you think of morning glories, for their eyes close soon after the dancing begins and open again as the daylight approaches. tery, which also pays rent to the bishop, educated, and It is the same with many The lottery has its drawings every Sunday, Panama merchants. There are a number when a blindfolded boy picks out the prizes of rich families here. Obaldla, the Panama minister to Washington, Is wealthy In oat tle and ranohea; the Brandons, the bank ers and merchants, have lots of money to lend, and the Maduro family, which deals In dry goods and Imports and exports, is set down as worth something like $250,000. It is such families that constitute the up per circles of Par.ma life. Their daugh ters are finished oft In the United States at our best Catholic schools, and from fifteen to twenty such girls go to New York every fan. The women of this class dress very well, although when out shopping or going to mass they usually wear black. They are, as I have said, all Catholics, as is the case with the native Colombians throughout the Isthmus. OMef Engineer and Mother Baperlor.' Speaking of the Catholic church, one sees many monks and priests on the street and also a goodly number of nuns. The nuns do not as a matter of course, have any thing to do with the opposite sex, and some of them I am told consider It a deadly sin to shake hands with a man. In this con nection an Incident ocourred here which Illustrates the strong personal magnetism of our chief engineer. In the course of his duties he had occasion to meet the mother superior of the Convent ef Panama. When he was presented, without thinking of the Impropriety of the act, he involuntarily held out his hand, and the mother superior as Involuntarily grasped it and gave it a shake before she appreciated what she was doing. I am told that the rules of the order are such that her holiness will have to do penance before Bhe cart again have a clean bill of spiritual health. What Panama Eats. But let us take our cameras to the lower part of tha dry and learn what Panama eats. The market buildings stand on the edge of the sea. They are open sheds, with galvanised iron roofs, covering perhaps an acre of ground. Inside are tables behind which the natives are selling meat fruits and vegetables. The market men are of all colors. They are negroes, mulattocs, whites, Colombians and Chinese. The lat ter are the chief gardeners of the Isthmus, and they do the most of the petty merchan dising as well. Stop here before this Chi naman who Is selling fruit. He raised those pineapples himself and presumably bought the bananas beside them from Qa tun. The pineapples are as big as your head, and one costs 7 cents. He offers us bananas at 1 cent apiece and a green co ceanut for 5 cents. As we go on we find that yams weighing several pounds can be bought for S cents each and that other vegetables are comparatively cheap. The papava, one ef the best fruits of the trop ics. Is plentiful here. It Is somewhat like a muskmelon, but It grows on a tree, Its stems being attached to the trunk. The papaya is an excellent dlgestant, while its taste is such that it is a dish fit for a king. How Meat la Sold. But let us go on to the meat stands. They do not look appetizing. The flesh is cut into long strings and served out by the .yard. Beef, mutton and goats' flesh are all offered us, and the butchers are es pecially anxious to sell. We have no cold storage plants and everything must be dis posed of on. the day of the killing. The slaughter house and also the market are concessions sold by the city. Over at one side of the building they are selling ohiokena. Notloe bow the helpful heu brings big prices In Panama. Even a bantam sells (or (0 cents, and a good, tat cock brings 75 cents or $1. The chickens of Panama are small and the hens lay only small eggs. The eggs are sold In couples, two being wrapped In a corn husk with a string around the middle between thorn. The egg and ohlcken peddlers are old women, with low-cut gowns, out of whloU their brown, wrinkled skin can be seen. Goats, Vultures and Convicts. We walk from the market down to tha ' bay, disturbing tha goats which feed neur the waU and the vultures roosting above them. Ooats and vultures axe to be seen In all the towns of the Isthmus. Both act as scavengers, the goats eating the vegeta tion and brush and the vultures every dead thing. It Is wonderful how quickly these birds will consume a dead body. A horse may be knocked over by a train along the line of the canal, and before his eyes are yet glazed bis body will be oovered with these foul birds. Within two or three days every hit of flesh will have been picked from his bones, and they, will lie whitening In the sun. Walking along the shores, we follow the wall of the extreme end of the city, and here go down inside It to take a shot at the Panama penitentiary. This Is composed of large cells, made between the walls, with barred doors opening out Into a green park. There are policemen marching up and down In front of the prison, but they permit us to come close to the bars, and the convicts shake the irons and perform acrobatic feats before our camera. The prison arrange ments are far from sanitary. The cells are overcrowded and all sorts of criminals are herded together. Told About People in the Public Eye M . Morning; In Panama. Our next snapshot is in the early light of the morning. Panama is awake.' The bells are ringing all over the city, calling out,' in the cracked voice of old age, the people to prayers. The Panamans are Catholics, and many of them attend early mass. There are women In black moving along toward the churches and here and there a man walks the same way. It Is only here and there, however, for the men, as at home, let the women do most of the praying. Panama awakes early. At daybreak the carts are rattling over the stony streets, peddlers begin crying their wares and the patter of many feet is heard oa the aide walk. The roosters now crow more than ELVILLE REEVES HOPEWELL. who was elected master of tho grand lodge of Nebraska Masons mSvj at the late,t session of the body, r ' held recently in Omaha, has Just turned Into his 66th year, and Is a native of Indiana. . He was educated at DePauw uni versity,. Greencastle, Ind., from which In stitution he was graduated In the class of 1869. He came west at once and settled 'n Burt county, Nebraska. In 11170, beginning the practice of law at Tekamah, where he has resided continuously ever since. In 1887 he was called to the bench of the dis trict court of Nebraska as one of the Judges of the Fourth district, and served until 189A. Since that time he has devoted 'him self aotlvely to the praotlce of law. Judge Hopewell has also most extensive agri cultural Interests and has accumulated a landed estate such as Is worthy of note, even In this country of extensive fanning enterprises. He owns at present 8,000 acres of the finest land In Burt county, being ad jacent to Tekamah. and his success as a farmer Is hardly second to his success as a lawyer. He became a Mason at Balnbrldge, Ind., In 1868, and was later attached to Temple lodge No. 47, at Greencastle. He was demltted from that lodge to Tekamah lodge No. (1 in 1870, and still holds his membership there. Judge Hopewell was married to Hattie E. - Nelson at Tekamah, in 'October, 1874. Their family consists of four sons. her picture can not be kept In Irons on this fleet" ' Mexico's Remarkable President. "The president of Mexico does not look like his pictures," says a writer in Leslie's Weekly. "They do not convey the Impres sion -which the man gives. His Is a hand some face with the strong, fixed lines of matured character. The Jaw is square,' the chin prominent and even, suggesting strength .and firmness without brutality. The eyes are brown, but not dark, glossy and shifting like those of many of the Latin race. They are eyes that look into yours with, charges from my mother to walk In .steadily, expressing kindness, sympathy and Cltmblna; the Heights. Mr. Barrle has recently passed his 45th birthday. It Is some twenty years ago that he went to London to win fame and fortune by his pen. Speaking of the early days of his career at a banquet recently Mr. Barrle said: "I wrote and asked the editor who had printed Thrums' If I should come to London and he said no, so I went, laden his physical resources have many times been strained .to the utmost; his body is covered With the scars of many desperate wounds. Yet I would have said that he is not yet 60." 4- strument and after the usual hollos tossed his cigar away, took oft his hat and cried: "Oh, how do you do, Mrs. Blank?" Then followed a cross-fire of questions,, goodbys were exchanged and the admiral returned to his seat. His friends remarked on cir cumstances attending his conversation over the wire and Admiral Schley said he' felt . It incumbent upon him to take off his hat ' even when talking by telephone to a woman. Superintendent State Normal School at Kearney ' . : ." ' : . -. i - 1 . . - . - - t . .. . . . - i- V- ; - . 1 . -:':V-':.v.;;r' . v- ' , T .TV ?'i .. ' ; sr - ;v X f v - sy the middle of the street (they Jumped out on you as you are turning a corner), never to venture forth after sunset, and always to lock up everything I who never locked up anything except my heart In company." Mr. Barrie s career reads like a romance. Going to London with a few manuscripts in his pocket and countless stories In his head, against the advice of his publisher, at 30 he was one of the most popular novelists of the day, at 40 one of thi most successful dramatists. Dewey's Discernment. The following story of Admiral Dewey Is told by one of the sailors wko returned on the Raleigh. Just before the battle of Ma nila, when the order was given to strip for action, the smallest powder boy on the flagship dropped his coat overboard. He asked permission to Jump after it, but was refused. He went to the side of the ship, dropped overboard, recovered his coat and was promptly arrested for disobedience. Admtral Dewey spoke kindly to the young ster, who broke down and said that the coat contained his mother's picture, which he had Just kissed, and he could not bear to see It lost Dewey's eyes filled with tears; he fairly embraced the boy and ordered him to be released, saying: "Boys who love their mothers enough to risk their lives for understanding. They seem, too, to con vey an expression of generosity and fair ness, so that the Inclination at once Is to abandon reserve and to speak directly and frankly. President Dlas wore a sack suit of mixed goods and a black silk or satin tie with a small pearl pin. Nowhere was there the (lightest suggestion of Ms office or rank. In Mexico, where the frock coat and high hat are much worn by lawyers, and even bankers or other business men, this sim plicity of the president's dress was par ticularly surprising. It was In contrast, too, to the formality of the three antechambers and the suppressed excitement of the vis itors who waited outside. "As we three sat In a triangle, In sociable proximity, I had an opportunity to study the general further. His heavy hair and moustache are iron gray. His skin Is dark, but not extremely so. His head is held erect his shoulders are square, his chest is broad and deep. His height Is, I believe, five feet eight Inches. His body ts sturdy and rugged. He Is alert vigorous, normal. The biographical records show that General Dlax is half-way between 74 and 75 years old, but In hisface and bearing I could not detect the hint of age. "The vitality of this man ts marvelous. For forty years he led a life of intense ac tivity. He has suffered fever and famine; Edison's Deafness. In the practice of his profession Mr. Ed ison has to save time. There is a pretty well developed suspicion among his assist ants that his deafness ts a -ruse to avoid hearing things that he does not care to pay J attention to. At one time he was sitting to An Inarersolllan Roast. a photographer and In one of the poses his Y Frederick Trevor Hill has gathered many eyes were dropped, looking at his hands. It anecdotes during his sixteen years of ac- was a time exposure and the Instant the shutter of the camera closed with a click he looked up and exclaimed, "Overexposed." His attorney shouted to him: "Did you hear that click?" "Eh?" "How did you know that he had finished that exposure?" "Oh, I had an Intuition." Bishop Potter on Depew, Senator Depew had to deny himself the pleasure of being present at a recent din ner where he was an Invited guest, relates the New York Times, and so he missed a Joke at his expense which he enjoyed as much as anyone, however, when It was told to him several days later. Bishop Potter was the perpetrator. Senator Depew's re grets had Just been read. "I need not tell you," said the bishop, "how we will miss the senator, he who has for so many years charmed us with the humor of his eloquence and the loglo of his anecdotes." A Model of Gallantry. - Admiral Schley in his treatment of the opposite sex is a model of gallantry, as befits a man with a professional record. He Is simply the perfection of old-fashioned politeness. On a recent evening he was sitting with some friends In the lobby of his hotel when some one called him to the telephone. He stepped up to the In- tivlty at the New York bar. Ho told a good story the other day of the most severe arraignment he ever heard in a court room. "It was uttered by Colonel Robert Ingersoll, who was - usually the soul of good . nature," he said. "In a case which aroused his indignation he requested the Jury to study the defendant's face. 'I mark out in him,' he exclaimed, 'the meanest man I know a man so mean that nature wasted her time in making him, and the dirt of which he Is composed would have been better employed In filling the grave of some other such man, if such another ever lived!" The Pontes of the lathmns. But let us go: out Into the country and see something of Panama beyond the walls. Shall we hire a cab? We can get one for a dollar an hour, or for 10 cents In gold, we can ride from one .part of the town to the other.' A far better way, however, will be on ponies. Horseback riding Is on of the chief amusements of the , canal em ployes, and every afternoon one may see parties starting off into the country. Tha Panama ponies are small, but they are ex cellent saddlers. They aVe single-footers, full of spirit, as tough as Texas bronohos and exceedingly swift I have taken a sixteen-mile ride every evening for the past week. I go out at 4 o'clock and come back by moonlight. The exercise keeps one's blood In good condition, and the rides over the country are enjoyable. A favorite ride Is to the Savannas, where the wealthy Panamans have their summer residences. The country is rolling, reminding one mora of an English park than an Isthmian Jun gle. It Is covered with a sod as fine as that of the blue grass of Kentucky. There are groves here and there, fat cattle feed under the trees and one may rid for miles over the green sward. Another fine trip is to old Panama, and a third is up and down the beach, when tha tide Is low, galloping for miles along Pan ama bay with Uncle Sam's new Islands la plain sight over the way. FRANK a CARPENTER. New Grand Master Nebraska Masons Tersely Told Tales Both Grim and Gay The Hot One. UGUST BELMONT, at a certain directors' meeting, was describing a fraud that had been brought to light In a proposition laid before the board. "These gentlemen," said Mr. Belmont "gave themselves away. They stood con victed out of their own mouths. They were like the Innkeeper's family that conducted the weekly raffle. "In this raffle the prises were turkeys, ducks, young pigs, baskets of eggs and such like rural commodities. A quantity of steel disks, numbered from 1 to -a, were put into a black bag, and the little daughter of the Innkeeper put her hand in the bag and drew a disk for each speculator In turn. The person whose number was the highest got the prize. "Well, It had been noticed that the Inn keeper's wife got the prize pretty fre quently, but nothing was thought of this by the simple, honest rural folk. "One evening, though, the little girl, with her hand in the bag, paused. It was her mother's turn, and she did not draw forth her mother's disk in her usual quick and careless way. She rummaged about. The other rafflers looked at one another oddly. The Innkeeper said: " 'Come, come, child. Hurry up!' " 'But father.' said the little girl, 1 can't And the hot one.' "Buffalo Enquirer. ntO1. A-'Ow THOMAS. Oa of the "Bad Habits.' A Princeton man tells of a conversation that took place between the coach of a football eleven and one of the players. An Important game was soon ts be played, and the coach was. of course, most anxious that every player should be In the best of physical condition. But to his disgust one of the men, upon whom a great deal de pended if the great game were to be won, seemed to be in "bad form." Taking him aside the coach had the following "heart to heart talk" with the recalcitrant: "See here, you're not looking so good! Muscles flabby and wind bad awful bad. What's the matter? Been drinking any thing?" "Not a drop." "Then you must be smoking." "Haven't touched a pipe, cigar or cigar ette since the training began." "Studying?" "Well, yes-a little." ' Whereupon the coach gave vent to a snort of disgust. "8ee here! You've got to stop that! Do you want to lose the game?" Conldn't Remember Them All. Judge Tucker of the Boston criminal court ts a man of most unpretentious appearance. Generally he wears a decidedly bucolic look. One day recently he was walking along a Boston street, carrying a shabby cotton umbrella and looking for all the world like a countryman, when a bunko steerer stepped up to him and claimed acquaint ance. "I don't seem to remember you," said the Ju'de. Upon being urged to refresh his memory the Judge, seeing throush the little game, calmly said: "Well, my friend, I have sent so many of you boys to Jail I can't remember you all, you know." Philadelphia Record. Invention Worked Both Ways. A Connecticut man of an Inventive turn onoe sought an interview with Mr. Root while the latter was secretary of war, for the purpose of explaining the merits of an explosive of his Invention. This man claimed to have the most powerful explosive the world had ever seen. "It would destroy any army against which It was directed," de clared the Yankee. "Now. I propose to send up a balloon over any army attacking us, setting a fuse connected with a quantity of this explosive, and so timing it that the ex plosion would occur at the precise moment that the balloon floated directly over the army of tho enemy." "That's all very well," observed Mr. Root "but suppose that a current Of air should unexpectedly carry your explosive balloon over our army what then?" "My friend," calmly replied the Inventor, impressively tapping the secretary on the arm, "in that case our army would have to get up and run!" Dry Goods and Wet -Goods. Hon. Jucob 8 Galloway, Judge of the probate court of Shelby county, and Hon. West Laughlln, who succeeds htm as Judge of section four of the circuit court where divorce cases are tried, were talking of the divorce evil and the causes leading up to separation between man and wife. "I am beginning to believe," said Judge Laughlln, "that It Is the carelessness con sequent upon ownership of each other that ts responsible for most divorces. "No, no, my friend," replied the expert In these matters. "My experience runs through many years, and I am thoroughly convinced that there are Just two things that break up most marriages." "And they are?" queried Judge Laughlln. "And they are," answered Judge Gallo way, "woman's love for dry goods and man's fondness for wet goods." Memphis Commercial-Appeal. r.iv-;:': ".f;l'.-. ..v; '? b,:Cwr c ; '-'He. y ' Si-y"-'''k '''t'r-'v v''- ,t;C 1 i'.Kf : :'lf Uy ,,..; & ' i, :.. y V.- & v ; .'-. . .K ,-. ... ..- Yv-.-.'-' -v .if -fvr v y rxnxvnxB .bxhves ' hops well of tekamah.