Show ERUDITE WORKMEN IN PANAMA men of intelligence and education handled pick and shovel in construction st of canal during the census taking at empire mr harry A franak who tells in zono zone policeman 88 of his experiences as an enumerator brithe in the panama canal zone was startled quo morning to burst sudden suddenly ii from the tawdry junk jumbled rooms of athe the negroes negroes into a bare floored freshly scrubbed room it contained some sa very clein clean cots a small table and hammock and a general air of 0 tran frankness knese and stul elm city atthe at the table book in hand band tat flat a spaniard he was dressed in worn but newly washed working clothes I 1 sat down and began to reel off tho the questions that had grown auto automatic matle name frederica malero can you read i A little the barest suggestion of amusement in his bis voice caused me to look up quickly my aly library hebald he sald said with the ghost of a smile nodding his bis head slightly toward an unpainted shelf made ot of pieces of dynamite boxes mine and my room roommates matos the shelf was filled with real barcelona paper editions of hegel fichte spencer huxley and a halt half dozen others accustomed to sli sit in the same compa company uj all dog eared with much reading some soma ambitious foreman I 1 mused amused and went on with my queries occupation pico y pala ho hd answered ei pick and sho yell I 1 exclaimed and Y you 0 u rea read those I 1 no imports Im porta b he a answered a gain again with that thai elusive sh shadow adow 0 of f a balle amile it matter and as crosb 1 ros e to leave buenos alas laa senor and ho he turned again to his reading A few months before I 1 remembered it had turned out that a spanish laborer killed in a dynamite explosion in the cut had once been a celebrated celebrate di lawyer in spain I 1 recalled that el unico the anarchist spanish weekly public published hed in miraflores bonta contains inh some cry crystal stal elear clear thinking set forth in language lancry that shows intelligence and education wha whatever tover you may think atthe ot the philosophy it expounds many a romance and many Q tragedy perhaps was played outs oufa among the busy jungles of panama youths companion |