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He wished she would say him something . . . .
But now she could sit quiet, light-breathing, letting it query and advance, and retreat and advance again, letting it flit from knee to hand, from hand to shoulder, to perch there singing her its song , to stay with her or fly away again at its own will.
But he must pluck himself them . . . . She would proffer nothing. . . .
He thought she must have suffered beyond belief to say him such a thing .
In a way he shouldn’t be sorry to get back. . . . One never knew what might happen when one left other people the show . . . .
She watched it dwindle to a toy and vanish in the tunnel, and still stood watching till the track wavered and danced, as she fought her blinding tears and petitioned justin the skies .
“The author has been daring in confining women her tale so long , but she has succeeded. . . . She has a distinct sense of style and much of the value of the novel, which is interesting because of its perverseness, is due to the entire adequacy of its diction. ”-Boston Transcript.
The story contains much of matters that have nothing to do with the war and in all of them she has portrayed the life the English character . ”-Boston Transcript.
It is my purpose in this opening chapter to define some terms which I shall have to use repeatedly in the book; to make a somewhat detailed examination of the character of the Greek states whose political integrity was threatened by imperialism; to trace its culmination in the divine monarchy of alexander the great and his successors the development of imperialism ; and, at the same time, to arrange a general political setting for the topics to be discussed in the six succeeding chapters.
The suzerain may attend to its affairs with the aid of professional and specially trained officials, as in a bureaucracy; and a vassal may entrust successive fractions of its citizens the details of its public business , as in some republics: no imperial relation is established unless separate states or parts of states are involved.
"Take up the white man's burden" is the modern substitute for the ancient commandment, "Go ye into all the world and preach every creature the Gospel . "
And every day from March to November, from the out-cropping of the grass and foliage in the spring, through the season of the grain harvest, the vintage, and the picking of the olives, to the fall planting and seeding, the ebb and flow of agricultural life carried the country the population of the city in the morning and back to the city again in the evening.
But the landlords were frequently merchants, and the peasants could easily attach their houses--which work-places (ergasteria) , though in the towns, were really farmhouses--and become manufacturers in a small way; while it was regularly the ambition of a trader or seaman to crown a successful career by buying a farm, a ranch, or an orchard.
To reduce it and to open traffic the Canal , as Grant opened the Mississippi to the steamboats of the nation, took more time than was at first expected, but it had to be done.
To reduce it and to open the Canal to traffic, as Grant opened the steamboats of the nation the Mississippi , took more time than was at first expected, but it had to be done.
About 400, 000 cubic yards of rock broke away, half filling the cut and opening the water of the obispo diversion canal it ]
With it traveled along a young eucalyptus tree waving its leaves defiantly in the face of the enemy that was bearing irrevocable disaster it .
When the Canal is completed nearly 22% of the excavation will have been of material put in the way by slides--a fact which seems to give the prophecy of the early spanish theologians that god would not permit the isthmus to be pierced , but would array new and unexpected forces against so blasphemous an effort to interfere with his perfect work some belated support .
Something like 12, 000, 000 pounds of dynamite a year was imported from “the states” to keep the job going, over 6, 000, 000 pounds a year being used in Culebra Cut alone, and many an unsuspecting passenger danced over the tossing Atlantic waves with a cargo beneath him explosive enough to blow the moon him .
The other men were killed, but we found signs of life in him and shipped the hospital where he stayed nearly eight months him .
But individually each sound betokened useful work and service in the cause of man and progress as truly as could the musical tinkle of cow bells, the murmur of water over a village millwheel, or the rude melody of the sailors’ songs as they trim the voyage to the distant isles of spice the yards .
As you look upon the dazzling array strung out before you for miles you may reflect that imbedded in those parti-colored rocks and clays are semi-precious stones of varied shades and sorts--beryls, moss agates, bloodstones, moonstones which the workmen pick up and sell to rude lapidaries who cut and sell tourists them .
If your gaze is too intently fixed on one point a warning cry may call the arm of a steam shovel above your head with a five-ton boulder insecurely balanced , or a big , black jamaican a few yards ahead perfunctorily waving a red flag in token that a “ dobe ” blast is to be fired your attention .
In March, 1911, the record month, these trains handled 1, 728, 748 cubic yards of material, carrying the dumps which average 12 miles distant , the farthest one being 33 miles all .
Perched on a seat which revolves with the swinging arm a man guides the point of excavation the great steel jaws .
But marvelous as is the delicacy with which the unwieldy animals perform their work, it is outdone by the miraculous ingenuity with which the inventive mind of man has adapted their appointed task these monsters of steel .
The car once filled, a big negro wig-wagged the engineer who pulled the train ahead the length of one car the tidings .
He seems to enjoy a job as flagman which gives each one minute of wagging from five to fifteen minutes of calm reflection .
If we should accompany the dump--say the train at the great fill at Balboa about twelve miles from the Cut--we shall find that when it has reached its assigned position a curious looking car on which is an engine which revolves a huge drum, or bull wheel, is attached in place of the locomotive.
Wherefore behold the track-shifter, an engine operating a long crane which picks up the track, ties, rails and all, and swings one side it three feet or more according to the elasticity of the track.
The activity and industry of the ant are of course proverbial in every clime, but it seems to me that in the Isthmus particularly he appears to put shame the sluggard .
Anyhow the tourist who abides in the intensely modern and purely United States hotel, the Tivoli, has but to give a panama hackman a dime to be transported into an atmosphere as foreign as though he had suddenly been wafted to Madrid.
Rome and Genoa perhaps excel in offering the visitor a fine front .
The plaza is filled with Panama cabs--small open victorias, drawn by stunted wiry horses like our cow ponies and driven by Panama negroes who either do not speak English, or, in many cases, pretend not to in order to save themselves the trouble of explaining their fares any of the sights .
One reason perhaps for the lethargy of these sable jehus is that the government has robbed their calling of its sporting feature by fixing any place in town their fare at ten cents .
It is merely the expression of the local color sense, and is quite likely to be employed to lend a convent school or a fashionable club distinction indiscriminately.
Nature helps the primitive people of the jungle to bring the waiting purchasers their goods .
While puzzling over the native fruits a sudden clamor attracts a different part of the market us .
Our fellow countrymen with a lofty and it must be admitted a rather provincial scorn for foreign peoples--for your average citizen of the United States thinks himself as superior to the rest of the world as the citizen of New York holds himself above the rest of the United States--are not careful to limit panamanians of the hackdriving class its application .
The shop-keeper, unless he be a Chinese, as most of the better ones are, makes a sale as if he were indifferent to your patronage, and throws you the finished bundle as though he were tossing a dog a bone .
At Ancon, separated from Panama City only by an imaginary boundary line, the Zone police were mustered for service in case of need, and at Camp Otis, an hour away by rail, the 10th Infantry, U. S. A. , was drawn up under arms, and trains made ready to bring the riotous city the troops at command.
The average leader of so successful an enterprise would have concealed his own order the greater part of the booty in a Paris bank account , and used the rest in building up an army for his own maintenance in power.
Stedman, who heard them only in an ordinary moment, not in their Mardi Gras madness, put verse them thus:
Possibly the moist and somewhat debilitating climate permits a greater extent than would be possible in the north the innocuous use of stimulants .
Their complete immunity from prosecution calls the fact that a few hours ’ trip in a motor boat will take any one guilty of crime in panama to a land where he will be wholly free from punishment attention .
Their complete immunity from prosecution calls attention to the fact that a few hours’ trip in a motor boat will take a land where he will be wholly free from punishment any one guilty of crime in Panama .
The Cathedral owes a negro bishop , the son of a charcoal burner who had determined that his boy should rise to higher station its completion .
The practice has grown up of leaving the negro and negroid people the outer walk , the inner paths being kept for the whites--but as the walks merge into each other so too do the colors.
Lazear bravely gave up his life to the experiment, baring the bite of a mosquito his arm , and dying afterward of yellow fever in terrible agony.
The man who changed a spot as fit for human habitation as any place on the globe the Isthmus from a pest-hole ]
The contractors were charged every man sent to the hospitals a dollar a day , so it may be conjectured that not all were sent who should have been.
He will describe to you Col. Gorgas’s trained bloodhounds and Old Sleuths tracking his lair the criminal stegomyia ; the corps of bearers of machetes and chloroform who follow to put an end to the malevolent mosquito’s days; the scientist with the high-powered microscope who examines the remains and, if he finds the deceased carried germs, the wide search made for individuals whom he may have bitten that they may be segregated and put under proper treatment.
He will describe to you Col. Gorgas’s trained bloodhounds and Old Sleuths tracking the criminal stegomyia to his lair; the corps of bearers of machetes and chloroform who follow to put the malevolent mosquito ’s days an end ; the scientist with the high-powered microscope who examines the remains and, if he finds the deceased carried germs, the wide search made for individuals whom he may have bitten that they may be segregated and put under proper treatment.
Used in tracking his lair the criminal stegomyia ]
(5) Destroying the anophelinæ in the larval and pupal stages by oiling the water in which they are found, or applying this water a special larva poison .
“These measures, conscientiously and painstakingly carried out, resulted in reducing 1 . 53 per cent of the working force per month in 1911 the number of malaria cases treated in the hospitals from 6. 83 per cent of the working force per month in 1906 , and the death from malaria among employees from 233 in 1906 to 47 in 1911”.
Among this class of patients the gain has undoubtedly been proportionate to the gain in hospital cases, and in addition it must not be forgotten that malaria is a disease that undermines a man’s health insidiously and lowers an extent not approached by any disease with the possible exception of hook-worm his working efficiency .
To my mind the most notable effect upon the life of the Zone of this system of free medical attendance was that it added the many inducements to matrimony one more .
Their town was founded in 1549 when, at the instance of Las Casas, the King of Spain gave all indian slaves freedom .
After breathing the clear, soft air, glancing at the comfortable quarters and enjoying to the fullest a lunch costing fifty cents that would put the test Broadway’s best , and make the expensive Tivoli dining-room seem unappetizing in comparison, we could well understand why every employee with thirty days’ sick leave to his credit gets just such a slight ailment as needs a rest at Taboga for its cure.
To fix precisely the cost of bringing its present state of healthfulness the Zone is impossible, because the activities of the sanitary department comprehended many functions in addition to the actual work of sanitation.
For his second story a tent-shaped frame of lighter bamboo tightly tied together was fastened to the posts, and cane was tied to each of the rafters as we nail scantling laths .
Whether the country affords the individual settler a hopeful field is at least doubtful.
It will grow anything that needs no frost, but the province supports the square mile less than four people , nine-tenths of the land is unbroken and Panama imports fruit from Jamaica, sugar from Cuba and tobacco and food stuffs from the United States.
Panama is outside of the hurricane belt, which gives the cocoanut planter an added advantage .
It has its competitors, but it invented the business and has brought its highest development it .
Some day some one with knowledge will write a book about it as men have written the history of the British East India Company, or the Worshipful Company of Hudson Bay Adventurers, for this distinctly American enterprise has accomplished a creative work so wonderful and so romantic as to entitle equal literary consideration it .
Its coöperation with the Republic of Panama and the manner in which it has followed the plans formulated by the Isthmian Commission entitles attention it in a book treating of Panama.
From officials of the company I learned that they would welcome the opportunity to transfer american registry their ships , except for certain requirements of the navigation laws which make such a change hazardous.
Perhaps the most technical work of the cultivator is to select the suckers so that the plantation will not bring maturity all its fruit in one season, but rather yield a regular succession of crops, month after month.
All fruit is delivered along the railway lines, and the larger growers have tramways, the cars drawn by oxen or mules, to carry the stipulated point their fruit .
Baron Humboldt is said to have first called the food value of the banana the attention of civilized people , but it was one of the founders of the United Fruit Company, a New England sea captain trading to Colon, who first introduced it to the general market in the United States.
Baron Humboldt is said to have first called the attention of civilized people to the food value of the banana, but it was one of the founders of the United Fruit Company, a New England sea captain trading to Colon, who first introduced the general market in the united states it .
The Commissary officials of the Canal organization tried to interest the extent of raising enough beef for the need of the canal workers cattle growers , but failed.
As the ascent is continued the woods give grass and rocks way .
Pizarro stopped there on his way to Peru and plundered his heart ’s content them .
Yet when one recalls the state of society which has resulted from revolutions in other Central American states, one is impelled to a certain admiration for the promptitude with which the men who erected the Republic of Panama gave the educational needs of people thought .
Through this country Balboa led the unknown pacific his force on his expedition , and was followed by the bloodthirsty Pedrarias who bred up in the Indians a hatred of the white man that has grown as the ages passed.
Others, in the hill districts, cultivate large truck gardens, bringing the city markets their produce swinging over the shoulders on poles .
Through the rubber sections Chinese ‘middlemen’ are of late frequently found buying their fellow countrymen in panama city , who are now doing quite a large business in rubber that valuable commodity .
They have a pleasant practice of putting a calabash of water and some plantains by a man they think dying and leaving his fate him , usually in some lonesome part of the jungle.
They are fishermen and sailors, and many of their young men ship on the vessels touching at Colon, and, after visiting the chief seaports of the United States, and even of France and England, are swallowed up again in their tribe without affecting any appreciable degree its customs .
A small United States man-of-war was sent thither to broach the indians the subject , and the Captain held parley with the chief.
It has been the policy of the United States to avoid any possibility of giving the native population of the isthmus offense , and even a request from the chief that the war vessel that brought the negotiator on his fruitless errand should leave was acceded to.
They also expressed a desire that she should bring her melodeon, thus giving the poetic adage , “ music hath charms to soothe the savage breast ” new illustration .
Perhaps the phonograph may in time prove many savage bosoms the open sesame .
But no Indian will tell of the existence of these mines, nor will any guide the spot where it is rumored gold is to be found a white man .
They have at least survived it and kept their own a great part of their territory .
Let us consider how the benevolent arrangements made by the Isthmian Canal Commission impelled the same step a typical American boy .
Determined as many of the Reconstruction promoters were to wipe out every vestige of legally recognized race distinctions, they did not allow their zeal to carry the extent of legislating as to the social relations of the races them .
Persons of different races who attempt to intermarry in violation of the laws subject severe penalties themselves everywhere .
With no less severity do the States punish those who issue persons of one race licenses to marry those of another.
Nevada makes one who performs the ceremony guilty of a misdemeanor and subjects imprisonment in the state prison not less than one year nor more than three years him .
Recently a considerable body of mixed-blooded Indians in Robeson County, North Carolina, have laid descent from this lost colony claim , and the State has officially recognized them under a separate name as the “Croatan Indians. ” Thus, all that is left of Virginia Dare and the Lost Colony is this tradition supported by the presence of Indians with fair skin and blue eyes, and the statute of North Carolina that the blood of these early settlers shall not be further adulterated, by miscegenation, with the blood of the Negro.
Mississippi, also, punishes the same extent as if they had attempted to intermarry in mississippi parties attempting to evade its laws by marrying out of the State and returning to Mississippi, .
It may be taken as settled that, if the parties leave the purpose of evading its law the State , intending at the time to return to that State, the marriage will not be recognized as valid when they do return.
After the War, the Federal government was fearful that the States, particularly those lately in rebellion, would not grant the freedmen , who , according to the dred scott decision , were not citizens these rights or privileges .
Mr. Flack[221] says that the purpose in the adoption of this Amendment was (1) to make the Bill of Rights (the first eight Amendments) binding upon the States as well as upon the Nation; (2) to give the civil rights bill of 1866 validity ; and (3) to declare who were citizens of the United States.
The Bill of 1866 was general in its terms, yet Congress did not feel secure till the Fourteenth Amendment had been passed to give what had already been done validity, in a sense, .
Upon the heels of this resolution, in 1875, Delaware[231] enacted a statute on March 15, 1875, which provided that no keeper of an inn, tavern, hotel, or restaurant, or other place of public entertainment or refreshment of travelers, guests, or customers, should be obliged by law to furnish persons whose reception or entertainment by him would be offensive to the major part of his customers , or would injure his business entertainment or refreshment .