THE PANAMA CANAL. . ITS ESTIMATED COST LARGELY A MA TTER 0 OF GUESS WORK, If Congress Inventigates, It is Re- called That Senator Mitcheil, Con- victed of Land Frauds, is Chair- man of Committee.~Senator Mor- gan Still Believes in Nicaragua Route. During the dull season at Washing- ton the newspaper writers had difliculty in furnishing their papers with any political news of sufficient interest to] print. The most possible has been made of the department scandals, which have been served up In various forms and dilated upon to the full extent which it was believed the read- ing public would stand; some little In- terest bas attached to the Washington phases of the 'eace Conference, while here and there political rumors, presi. dential booms and other stories have come to light in an almost yaln endeavor to remind the people that] when Congress is out of session and | is al the President Is there National Capital, away, ! The Panama Canal work has come in for considerable share of newspaper | to] speculate as to what will happen in| talk and it 18 of somé interest Childrens’ SCENES AT JUVENILE CANP By A kind of philanthropy which does | good, beyond any doubt or question, ie that which takes thousands of children every year out of the heated and owded cities into the country where the air Is pure and nature is clothed in Beanty. Every year, as the het] weather npproaches, camps are estab Hahed short distances outside of most | of the large cities. Some of these are | sustained by popular subscriptions, gome assisted by municipal appropri-| ations, some are the projects of enter prising newspapers which early in the, season start them going, and then ask | through their columns for Individual donations, and some are supported on a semi-medical popular basis, To those who have always lived In the conntry, or In small cities or towns, the signifi cance of this annual provisi n for Lens of thousands of little citizens mas not be apparent. It is a painful fact, how. ever, that a number of our large cen ters of population contain thoushnds of children who have never green field, and who have only the oy walk and the gutter for play grounds To such even a short sojourn in the country is the opening of a new page in thelr book of life. Washington is Hot in Summer. While In Washington there is no such condition among the children, for the city I comparatively clean and wellkept, with a splendid arrange ment of public parks and the most wonderful collection of trees In its #reets of any large city in the country, still it 1s on the border of the South- and, its pavements are of asphalt and the almost torrid sun of mid-summer sometimes makes existence terribly at to the poor, so that the establis of a Country Camp a few miles beyond the city limits has phArtaken of | co the common sense k of charity There the little ones of the and congested tenement d the city are taken for Ithful recreation in God's great out- of dpors, There, away from the noises | ph and the k Squshid surround- Jngs, they find, for the time being, the —— poRoTHY There and sweeping luvestigations, even the extent of going back over whole Isthmian Canal problem re-opening the question as to whether Panama project, Cost of Undertaking Unknown. While figures have been floating around as to the possible cost of the Panama route those who have been on the Isthmus and assume te know even everso little say that the estimated cost of 135,000,000 for the construction of | the canal might as well be $135,000 go far as being anywhere aceurate {& con cerned. It Is a fact highest officials until recently con admitted that neither he | else knew anything whatever about the ultimate cost of the completed Panama Canal. All the figures have been based on the French which are declared to be entirely | reliable and the American engineers | have not nearly completed even the! This talk of insurmountable | and | cast of a billion dollars for a | canal 1s sald to be peaches and cream | to} Alabama, | “Pete” Hepburn of lowna, and | others who have always favored the! surveys, obstacles, ultimate impossible conditions and Uke soothing balm and honey old Senator Morgan of Colonel this connection when Congress meets. | are dark threats of searching | to | the | and | Congress was right in throwing over| the Nicaragua route and adopting the) | that one of the | nected with the Panama Commission | nor anybody | estimates | un- | prognosticating Panama schewe, Senator John H, Mitchell, convicted and under sentence complicity In land frauds. The Niearagun failure of route, the Two Statesmen in Chorus; “1 Told You 80." the and q es portant committee last year developed strong opposition to Senator Mitchell. Senators sald that he was not th right man for the place, but follow he was given the coveted honor. It. It Is now Senate will think It has sufficient provocation to summarily deprive him of the place, while his case 1s on ap peal, and name another chalrman, Senator Mitchell was originally =n Niearagua route man, but he, others, eame over to the Panama plan | : Hes fp until only Senator Morgan was left, a | TR pT venerable and solitary figure, earnestly against the project and pre dieting, Yme and agaln, was lmpracticable, Some of younger Senntors who were wont shake thelr heads nnd remark th it the “old man was getting daffy, during | From the Washington Post, MORGAN AND HEPBURN CANAL. the ON THE who are now apparently getting ready for some vehement “I-told-you-sos,” ing speeches, are Probably some ten not so sure now Committee Chairman Convicted of Land Grafting. Right at the threshold of the pro posed congressional action this winter! yeturts here in December, It is pre over Isthmian Canal affairs is the] dicted that he will be certain to be re emharragsment in the Sengte because! plete with dformation abont the | of the Chalrmanship of the Oceanic! Isthmian situation which no other Canal Committee which Is held bY) mortal has been able to collect or twelve more or four days each, of Oregon. for | tion of the chairmanship of that Im-| ing a long line of senatorial precedents, | He | has, however, never been able to enjoy | a question whether the! with | fighting | | that the route to Senator Morgan will have | Jone | speeches, requiring from a day to three | to deliver when he | Cleanings i Bee Gulfure | tenchen yom about bees, how to handle them for honey and profit. Send for free copy. Read it Tho n you'll want to subscribe 8 month's trial ‘ Don't delny but do it to-day. “A. 1. 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There were provided eight big swings, usually all moving with Lappy upants, a dozen baby swings for the little tots, | four or five tecter ladders, punching bags, Wesaws, horizontal bare, rings and other wholesome apparatuses Two large boxes filled with sand have provided delightful ocenpation for ting human ants. Ample open space in the vicinity has allowed for games of ball and other field sports, and a swimming hole in the adjacent Rock Creek has all | sumuner brought joy and happiness to the boy members of the Camp, One of the prime favorites at ( ‘amp | G4] win wh, been Maud, a little don. f presented to the children by Colo- Biddle, one of the Commissioners) of the District of Columbia. ' Maud Not a Kicker, “Maud ain't like that fightin’ kickin’ mule in the pleture paper,” sald one ttle fellow, whose former pallid checks were beginning to take on a tinge of healthful peach-blush red, “She 1s a nice donkey, she is, an’ plays with us fellows just like she was an-| other feller. Bhe's got sense, 100, gi’ she likes to play with the girls, an’. she won't hurt them, either. I wish 1 could take Mand home with me when I Other hangerson nt this eamp are the} bunnies, the chickens and the Moo The barnyard at Camp Good m. tg Its lonst Jubdiuting feature. cow wns through Nor have on and Ome on Biadle, while Somat 0 known | lessly as the “doctors’ herd,” were purchased from a fund raised by Washington physicians, who contributed $1 each, with two animals that have! that voy AY, to the committee, give the | thet | here with the birds and flowers and {poor children A liberal and plentitn | ing. they repeated In unteon this pa supply of milk, A number Lo1 | eriotte grace: ha "2A ha Breeds oF { ve R, ; hs For peace and for plent Jdckenk, givipg the children employ For # ADA Tor Tost, ment and ake astruction. A hore wal donated, and a oon) merchant lonned a W for the summer. Farm arentilh were ed by a chmrvh, If there Is any yg worthy of Lg 8 Peau B Bot Soch a one Ah foe to ation he en The camp o gorge of Rock i« alwys pore Cp al} Boot he hog ment children have Li oe TRE known #ud ness, ! “This 1s awful nice” said a Htthe fellow who has been a cripphe since In fancy. “1 wish 1 could always live out Fat the dear stany flag, Whih its red, white, "na bite, We thank from hearts That are er and true. Httle folk Wat down and ipod ak they Maud.” For rainy days an old Maryland | barn served as a splendid play house. | In this, Sunday services were held and | sometimes daring the week amateur | | theatrical were given for the amu {ment of the Withee campers. An ample water supply reaches the eam through a pipe lald by the direction of the Washington city government, Not Used to Nature, 4 It was related that some of the chin ren are awed by "the big dark,” as they term it, and the Inténse wtiiness | durl: £ their frst night or two In camp, when the silence Is only broken by the ocenslonal cry of a night Bird and the chirplug of crickets. @ contrast be tween the nolses of the night In town nnd the stillness of the affer daylight hours in the country Is #0 great that it at first, bot Boon wears the children to ap “This Is 4 grreat counting, Mary Ann. We will prosper folnely, I don't ringing oh fo | doubt.” i “And wid whet makes you think think oN Pat? he ust learned nn fos AN | ce hm LRA a as goold. Oi'm afther gettin’ wan now wid th’ money yex gi¥e we for the | wruabbing brush." —————— kn — ro — ——————————— AGENTS WANTED To Ganvass for the UNITED STATE SENATOR NUMBER NOW PUBLISHED. 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