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Show . A Race Triumph. I Whether the Panama Canal will ever be a completed triumph or not we do not know, but the United States has made a name down, there which will last always. Mr. John George Leigh in the London Lancet, tells of a visit there recently re-cently and his impressions. He was there three or four years ago and he says the change now amounts to an. alteration in the character of the country. A few of his words are worth quoting, as follows: "In my earlier contributions, it may be remembered, re-membered, I referred at length to the physiological physiolo-gical effects of its high temperature and debilitating debilitat-ing humidity, accentuated by the noisome exhalations exhala-tions from decomposing organic matter, upon not only people accustomed to a temperate climate, but also upon the native population. Tt seemed then almost ridiculous to anticipate that these effects could be sensibly modified, that life in the zone could be made endurable for the foreigner, foreign-er, or that the native could be awakened from his traditional sloth and disregard of the first elements of the laws of hygiene. Yet in three short years all this has happened. Panama and Colon, from hot-beds of disease, have been transformed trans-formed into practically new cities, not only by the provision of complete water-works and sewerage systems, an efficient system of quarantine, the reconsruction or widening of many thoroughfares, and the paving of every street with" stone or brick, but also by the now willing cooperation of their people in furthering the designs of the masterful American." He continues at length to express his wonder. And so, as wo said in the beginning, whether the canal can be made the great engineering triumph that Is designed, which, by the way, we believe will be brought to absolute success, at) least our 4 brothers there will have demonstrated that they - can fight the plague and fight malaria, and that under a tropical sun and against every enervating Influence possible can perform magnificent and successful work. |