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Title: Panama : a personal record of forty-six years, 1861-1907
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Robinson, Tracy, 1833-1915
Subjects: Panama Railroad Co
Publisher: New York Panama : Star and Herald Co.
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him away. Being out of his cage for his matutinal teaand toast, as a member of the family, by strangeill-fortune he flew into some boiling hot milk, andwas so injured that no effort could save him.For nine hours the brave little heart still beat,with now and then a cheery chirp of responseto anxious care, as if to say— Im all right!Nine hours of suffering, and then in the mas-ters hand, against the masters heart, with apoor faint last flutter the little life was gone. It may be thought silly to make so much of amere pet bird, to wrap it when dead in soft whitecotton and with an empty cigar box for coffinbury it in a tiny grave under the hibiscus tree,that will bear scarlet blossoms all the year, andwith a tear bid it adieu; but not often is so muchbright intelligence and beauty and pure affec-tion found in any living thing. He was the Birdof birds; and if some day, far or near, his dearlittle bird-voice could be heard again saying, Come in! it would be delightful. And whoknows? 252
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Chapter XXIII^ CHAPTER XXIII TOURNALISM, on the Isthmus as elsewhere,^ has played an important part in the affairsof the period under review. Its principal ex-ponent has been the Star and Herald, for a longtime owned and controlled by the brothers Archi-bald and James Boyd. The first newspaper in English was the Star,of which I possess a facsimile of the first issue,published on February 24, 1849. A large num-ber of gold seekers, bound for California, hadbeen detained at Panama; and nothing was morenatural than that they must have a newspaperto lighten the tedium of their enforced stay. Thefirst number, although bearing date of February24th, was intended to celebrate Washingtonsbirthday; and a portrait of the Father of hisCountry, fairly good, though somewhat resem-bling the pictures of the Egyptian sphinx, adornsthe head of the editorial column. The editors and proprietors were J. B. Bidle-man & Co., of whom it is impossible to say more,as they seem to have disappeared along with

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