Show PANAMA jor the he country now in ift a revolution appalling mortality and a whirl pool of crime the isthmus is of panama we found foun d to bo be a place of much inter est 0 so o wonderful did everything seem that at the risk of being called green we asked many questions and di dad la much staring tho the great cocoa nut palms with leaves full twenty feet long tho the little banana treis trees groaning un der great clusters of groaning fruit anc ni proudly displaying grrce graceful ful leaves a foot wide and ten feet long were were enough of themselves to inspire i one with wonder but when we add a variety of feathered songsters song of great brilliancy and beauty such suck as are never seen in in our northern homes lizards three or four feet ion long boa snakes that could kill and crush a man as easi casily as a man mail chuld kill a it deewit chattering monkeys immense alli cator wild cats tigers and hyenas that are to be met within five miles if of the line of civil civilization when w we L cull consider sider these the interest deepens ali tibe rl inhabitants but more inter in tensly isly interesting inte interesting tha than n the trees the birds and t the 1 wild animals were the people such people in aspinwall ve we had thi fora for a bassing incident down the principal f f pal street walked a woman who was as proud of her plot clothes bes her buff bulT silk dress was of the latest ety bayle leber her satin shoes displayed a nice foot lier her bonnet neat and new boasted a it nice dice philiq her er gloves and aud neck gear wen fault faultless lem and pile twisted and ana flirted her body from side iside to side as much as to say law how nicely I 1 urn am breha edl ed ho would have dreamed ill at 1 her side chatting merrily with her walked another woman swaying and swinging her as proudly as her companion and to sav as as plainly as actions could gay imy it look at me too see howl nicely my butternut skin al ahmes in esl see my bare feet and notice how clean they arel are see my ibare abare arms bare neck deck and naked body and notice how nice and graceful leyare they are 1 Seemy see ray nice white pet petticoat 1 1 only garment she h has as on and notice in parti particular oular the I 1 lace and plaiting around the bottom aud and how nicely jt it is starched and i DRESSED AND 7 UNDRESSED on aback back str street e et were groups of children of all ages jao somo me entirety a nd od others adril 1 inake 11 d those wh 0 w were e rl c dak naked IT ta manifested 1 no shame and seemed ii notto otto bo be conscious that they were did crent from thoc who v ere decently dressed and an andico digo po jar par as 1 I could jud judge c these were ai dressed fc seemed bl T U unconscious n c on f ous of any existing biffl differences erencen between themselves and those who were naked there were negroes and mulat mulattoes tots and spaniards and and IDd indians ians and and crosses arpin all these intermingled ter fled like UP one great chappy family but the largest portion were negroes little half spanish half calf indiana I 1 soldiers with large eyes large mouths and din diminutive feet in bhones a size too small marched up fp and down the streets as guardians iaus of the peace they ware were as much below our american soldiers cre in appearance ppe arance and intellect as a daug hill bill chicken is below a cochin cochi china fowl 0 the deaths three months ago panama opened a new ce cemetery nemery in seventy dayi 1000 new now mounds were added As we passed down the jf of aspinwall after church streeta kahlke ij were to leave for on tu them guild ne t gether like swine were meu ruen and bonien I 1 11 i 9 all llie the space all they le alid and no DO other tt i 1 r homco I 1 lie prospect of good wages had bad roi ight them there by hundreds crin iea rat ral america N ofru arti tid i dy abey were in large part the scum of f the tho creation too indolent too alto pr better contented with a straw shed than thant they bey would have been with a I 1 ma jamsion mam ab sion on or even an ordinary decent dwelling each morning the auth authority es well went it along the sidewalk and gathered up the dead three or four were tile arual u number but I 1 mM there dra I 1 a 1 dept rail jhb thrown inlo a car cat carried to N monkey lonkey hill and dumped totoa shallow grave gravet without cof tins or ceremony some ome as we witnessed would fall on their faces some iii limp 41 anh 00 doubled up f a i por foot or an an aam atm appeared it got a punch from a spade to tu make it lie down THE TITE INCO OF LIFE nobody caree carea 10 for r death on ih ge e of panama it ia is too cornmon b isthmus us attention to attract at where is inquired a decent looking I 1 it our hearing jones is dead sir ruh pshaw is jones SA w bim to yesterday as well as any body and we were goin going up the canal together today to day it beats all till how they do die diel well ill have to go alono alone now breckon Lre I 1 reckon ckon biye you young ng men arrived with us on t the haste steamship Aca haying secured positions as clerks over seera seers or civil engineers in the canal company they were hope full and talked among themselves as to what they would da with their earnings oneff one of them died on the third day after landing another died on the seventh day still another after three weeks the fourth one took fright and went home the fifth one fought fever for five month became acclimated took a contract for remor removing ilig t half a million cubic meters of dirt t and is now dow clearing a day DOCTORS AND SATANS WORK ceic is a man stricken down and in ten hc 8 like dikea a wilid leaf with a it terrible ague fit it is an extreme case apparently and before the doctor arrives the man is is foaming at the tile mouth the doctor shakes his head and pours pour 3 down the sick mans throat a mixture containing fifty grains of quinine in an all hour he repeats the doe dose still again in another hour in two days the man has taken grains of quinine in three days he lie is able to sit up in five days he ho is out of danger tho the doctor admonishes him bo be more care full in ill tha future how you eat cat fruit and drink whiskey if rf the devil was ever let loo loose sefor for 4 a season amon among gany any people ho he has been let loose among the people on tho the isthmus I 1 heard more vile oaths saw more carousing more drinking more gambl ingmore vile bomin women than thap ever before in in tho the same length of time carousing and whisky drinking bring fever and fever brill brings 9 8 de deaths ailis yet hundred hundreds and t thousands b seem to take a frantic delight in eternity A WHIRLPOOL OF CRIME no wonder colombia is now undergoing der going a revolution it is a fani common thing for state senators to rush into the open streets and shoot each other down for some insult offered during duling the beat heat of debate itis a common thing fur foe the wealthy men to have a number of con concubines eu rev mr K the mis sio sl nary gave ga ve mo me the following story which will illustrate the con condition of the country A woman of noted beauty got tired of her husband and went to live with man no 2 in a years time she tired of no 2 and cretu returned rued to her first love and no 2 be came enraged and employed a man to kill no 1 the price paid was 82 2 the man did well he ile called upon ulion his Y victim ichim invited him ino into the front yard vard attacked him with a large knife killed him cut off his head headland and killed another man who tried to interfere fhe murderer w was as arrested but let inose loose upon the payment to the officials of 37 by the roan man who employed him t to 0 commit the crime A French frenchman ma n with a beautiful daughter took a contract for removing dirt from the canal and took up im abode isthmus his daughters great beauty attracted much attention she site had many suitors all of whom were treated alike with courtesy without encouragement one smooth faced vill villain ain I 1 planned and accomplished her destruction she was carried from home drugged outraged brutally and left in her fat fathers tiers front yard at daybreak in an unco unconscious necious condition from which she never rallied the overdose of opiates killed her the fiend and his accomplices were not even arrested though said to be well known when brought to the notice of the authorities they d their shoulder shoulders and said ol oh well she was nothing but a fb lore reiDer wr J M S in the sacramento union |