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OTEL T1VOLT, Ancon. runama
I want to tctl you something
about tho baby republic of tho
South American continent. I
have Just had a long talk with
Its president I
ment palace ftnd ho has laid before
tno the plana which aro proposed for
the present and future.
Before I give you my Interview, how
ver. I should like to gay a word about
country and people, t have called .
Panama "the baby republic." it In so.
In both slzo and ngc. It was born when 1
the United States took over the canal
proposition, and that was only trn years
ago. It Is so small that It seems little
more than tho stubby tall of our sister
continent, and, as It looks on the map.
It might have been bitten off short, where
it Joins North America, as ono bites off
tho tall of a dog.
Just a I.lttlr lMuee.
Nevertheless, the case of Panama and,
South America Just now Is that In which I
UIUB ,mr lo uo something at
wagging the dos. ranama Is the setting
of our great canal, and although It 1s
only one-hundredth as large as Brazil,
one-thlrtleth the slzo of Argentina and
one-twentieth as big as Dolivta, it will
for the next two years make more news
than any of them In the world's dally
Journals.
Panama has but a small population.
Tho wholo country has less population
than Buffalo, Montreal or Cincinnati, and
many of Its people aro Indians, some of
whom have never been civilized.
Notwithstanding this, tho country Is
rich beyond tho dreams of avarice. It has
soil that needs only scratching to bring
forth tropical fruits, and Its hills are.
said to contain copper, silver and gold.
It has waters In which the pearl oysters
live, and Islands where are supposed to
be burled treasures equal to thoso of the
Peruvian Incas.
It Is a land free from debt The gov
ernment owes nothing, and In addition it
lias JS.000,000 invested in mortgages on
New York real estate, and from now on
It will roceivo a quarter of a million dol
lars per annum out of Uncle Sam's
treasury as a rental for the zono of tho
Panama canal.
I have been over much of the republic.
A great part of it is a Jungle, and of
the whole considerably more than half
is unoccupied. Nevertheless, It has largo
tracts of high pasture land In the north
and thero aro thousands of acres of land
lower down which will ralso cocoa and
coffee and sugar cane and bananas. A
short time ago I visited the province of
Bocas del Toro, which adjoins Costa
Bico. Thero the United .Krult company
has already laid out thirty or forty thous
and, acres of banana plantations, and it
Is now exporting from Bocas something
like 400,000,000 bananas a year, or more
than enough to give three bananas to
every man, woman and child on the North
American continent. The banana exports
now amount to six or soven hundred
thousand dollars a year.
Adjoining tho province of Bocas del
Toro is ClUriqul, which President Porras
is now trying to open up by an electrio
railroad to bo driven by the waters of
tho Caldere river. Tho Chiriqul country
is high arid healthy. A great part of it
is more than 3,00) feet above the sea,
and, as the president says, it has a cli
mate which is perpetual Bpring. It is
noted for Its fine grass and fat stock and
will furnish the beef of the future for
the ships passing through tho canal. This
country has been recently Investigated
by the American meat trust with a view
to determining whether i would pay to
build a packing house hero to supply tho
canned beef trado of the west coast of
South America. It was found that the
cattle on hand Just now could .not keep
the factory running and so nothing was
done.
Finn Cuttle Country.
Nevertheless, it is said that there Is
enough land in Panama for stock raising
to support 6,000,000 head of cattle. There
are parts of the country where one aero
will fatten a steer, and so far thero are
public pastures where any one can grazo
his stock. The weather is so warm that
there is ho need of barns or sheds and
the animals feed out of doors all the year
round. There are also special fattening
grounds whero fodder plants ora set out,
the animals being fed only wild grasses
until the time they aro needed for mar
ket It Is also said that alfalfa will grow
and that at least two crops can tbo se
cured during the rainy season and a third
crop by Irrigation in the dry time of tho
year. The present cost or cattle raising
in the Chiriqul pastures is said to be a
llttl. more than $1 a head per annum, and
I am told that this can be materially re
duced If tho lands aro fenced.
American tu Coffee.
President Porras tells me that Ameri
cans have begun to take up lands and set
out coffee plantations In the northern
part of tho republic. Dr. Dexter, the
president of the National institute, In
Panama City, has Just set out 6,000 treeB, t land situation and promise to rapidly de- to borrow money on long time. The
and he expects to havo 100,000 when his j yelop tho Panama republic. In order to banks here will not usually loan for more
plantation is in full swing. There are a . understand them one must realize that 1 than six or nine months, nnd some years
nuxribtr of North American families who f Panama is different from any of the J ago before the national bank was catab
have coffee estates near David, upon tho ; other South American countries. It be- - luhed, the Interest paid was often as high
highlands some mites in the interior. longed to Colombia, and all the lands of ns 10 or 12 per cent a month. These new
Some of these are ex-employes of the (the Isthmus were once tho property of banks will loan money on mortgages,
canal ana otnero aro ouiBiacru n.vD
come In from tne unuea oiaies iu nemo.
There Is one largo cacao plantation in
Chlflaul where 68,000 trees are in bearing,
and there is a rubber estate near MontlJo
bay owned by a New England company
which has 400 squaro miles that will be
set out in bananas, pineapples, cocoanuts yant an annual tax. To this the Span
and other tropical fruits. This company1 ish monarch consented, and along about
owns thousands of rubber trees from 100 years ago, more or less, the lands be-
which It Is annually gathering the sap,
At the present time the tomatoes and
Frost-bites, Chilblains, Corns,
Callouses and bore feet.
Quick Cure.
Many persons dread the approach of
winter on account of chilblains ami
frostbites which cause a soreness and
Itching at times almost unbearable, fre
quently bringing on a nervous condition.
Th following treatment gives Immediate
relief. "Dissolve two toblespoonf ula of
Caloclde compound In a basin of warm
water. Soak the feet in this for 16 min
utes, iiepeui hub
for several daya
until the trouble
il nnnMra "
Tne
action or UOlOClue
compound for all
I foot ailments la
really remarkable.
It works tnrougn
the pores and re
moves the cause.
1 Corns and callouses
can be peeled right off Sweaty, smelly
feet and tender, aching feet need but a
few applications. Bunions get relief In
stantly. Any druggist has Caloclde In
stock or will get it from his wholesale
house. A twenty-five cent package is
usually sufficient to put the worst feet
In fins condition. Each package contains
valuable Instructions on care of the feet.
Published by Medical Formula laborator
ies of Chicago.
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Chats with
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other vegetables and f'Utts of the tem
perate zono are brought to Panama from
tho states. President Porras tells me
that the highlands of Chiriqul will raise
the finest of tomatoes and potatoes, and
that a great trucking business might be
developed which would supply tho canal
traffic as woll as have a- large market
in the tropical lowlands.
More Tropical Kruitn.
I asked tho president as to his plans
for the development of the country In the
raising of tropical fruits. He replied
that tho banana industry could be greatly
Increased, and that ho had already begun
to open up a cocoanut and Ivory nut In
dustry along the Caribbean sea south of
Porto Bella in tho province of Ban Bias.
He expects to build a town along tho San
Bias coast, and to Induce immigrants to
settle there and go into cocoanut raising.
That whole region Is spotted with cocoa
nut Islands. The trees grow without
cultivation, and they are sold by the In
dians to traders, who go from island to
Island in boats.
The San Bias Indians are semi-savage
and until now they would havo nothing
to do with the whites. Prcsldont Porras
has in some way acquired their friend
ship, and they are conferring with the'
Panama government as to Its plans for'
the development of their country. Those
plans Include a town to bo built on a
beautiful bay near the mouth of tho
Aguada creek on the Uulf of San Bios.
Host Coconnutn In World.
As to the Panama cocoanuts, it is
claimed tha't they are the best On tho
market, having mora oil than tho nuts
of other parts of the world. The Isthmus
of Fanama Is outside tho hurricane belt
and the trees are not in danger of being
blown down, as in some of tho West
India islands. I understand that a Colon
merchant is setting out 60,000 cocoanut
palms at Nombro do Dlos, and that a
grove of 100,000 is being planted near
Almlrente bay, where the United Fruit
company has Its large holdings. Other
groves are being set out on Panama bay
and on MontlJo bay, but thoro is no land
that surpasses that of the San Bias coast
and its thousands of Islands In tlie rais
ing of this crop. A cocoanut grove will
fruit about "vo years after the sprouts
aro planted, and it is estimated tnat a
grove of 10,000 trees can be brought Into
bearing for about 3 per tree. When
mature tho trees should each net the
owner something like fl per year.
Local Lnml I.nmn.
During my chat with President Porras
I asked him to tell me about the new
land laws which his government has in-
stltuted since he took hold of the ad
ministration. He thereupon called In the
secretary of publio works, or fomento,
Senor Ramon F. Acevtdo, and we chatted
together as to the radical changes which
havo been made. They affect the whole
lne Dpanun Kins, mo peopie nowinb-.
. mem irom mm Dy tease, as ii were.
Koch landowner paid so much a year,
and this tax was continued until the peo-
pie met together a,nd objected. They said
they wero willing to pay a good round
sum for once and for all, but they did not
came free. They did not, however, go
Into individual hands. They were held in
common, no one Having a title to any in
dividual tract These were known as the
tterras lndultadas, and the result of such
ownership was that a man would culti
vate a tract of land until it was worn out
and then move somewhere else and take
up another.
Title In Government.
The titles to most of the lands have re
mained In the hands of the government,
and so at present tho republlo is prac
tically in the shape of a new country,
with the government having the right to
allot the lands as congress decrees. Presi
dent Porras and his officials have given a
great deal of study to this question and It
is from them that the present scheme
! wiuku iv uuw jubi iu w jjui imu uyciiv-
tlon has come,
These new land laws provide that in
stead of selling the land as In the past,
with the provision that the purchaser
shall cultivate the land for five years be-
fore he Is given a title thereto, the lands
hnli hB Hold outrlirht In tract not tn rr.
ceed 6,000 hectares, or 12,600 acres, and
that the title shall go upon the payment
therefor. In the past the land haa been
sold in large tracts; and it has be,cn Im
possible for the small landowner to buy,
for the reason that he rould not afford to
cultivate for five years before getting the
TllK OiMAllA
President
title. By the new laws ho cannot buy
more than 6,000 hectares of land until hs
has all of his first tract under cultivation
or in use. Nevertheless, 12,000 acres is a
very nice farm, and there aro opportuni
ties now for any ono American, Euro
pean or Panaman to buy one such tract
and hold it for speculation or cultivation
as he pleases.
The prices at which this government
land Is to be sold are from jtGO to W.W
per hectare, or two and one-half acres,
or at from CO cents to J2.C0 per acre, ac
cording to tho character nnd locality of
the land.. Think of getting 12,600 acres of
land for (7,500! That Is one of the pos
sibilities that Panama Is now offering.
Such land can bo mortgaged or subdi
vided and sold. Formerly tho poor man
whq took up publlo land could not bor
row money on It, for ho had no title until
ho had cultivated it for five years. Now
ho can sell a portion of his purchase or
he can make a loan on It and put in Btich
crops as coffee, cacao or rubber, which
tako some years to come into bearing.
Sinnll HolilltiK" Ui'NlrnlU,
Tho secretary of public works tells me
that this law has been in effect since last
July, and that it is working well. It will
' " u,B
nnrif in fl nnmi nl nh nf lnml nnmB
I and it will lead to tho Immediate, and ac
tive development of the country. Dr.
Porras says that tho government has
also reserved somo of its lands to plvo to
tho poor. It will allow five hectares to
every poor person who can show himself
to be such, and ten hectares, or twenty
flvo acres, to each immigrant family.
"Another thing we expect to do," said
i no presiucnt oi tno republic, "is to ca
tabllsh here nt Panama hnnk. nf l.m.A.
wlth charters from the government. The
jaw8 for these will go Into forco very
J B00n, Ab ,t l8 noWi ther8 , prftctcaly
n r nnnnrHinltv fi email 1n
which may extend as long as twenty
years, according to contract, and he in
tcrcst must not exceed 9 per cent per an-
,nUm. Wo expect that the people who will
. take up these public lands and pay for
them will borrow money of these banks
In order to develop their plantations and
to maintain themselves until their lands
come Into bearing.
"What are" you doing as to other publlo
works? I asked.
"Wo have laid out the construction
plans for two railroads that will form
the initial development of the interior cf
the country. One of these is in the pro
vince of Chiriqul. of which I havo nl
ready told you, and the other Is In Los
Eating Meat Regular Clogs the
Kidneys, Then Your Back Hurts
Flush your Kidneys occasion
ally with a tablespoonful of
Salts to avoid danger.
Most folks forcet that the kidneys, like
the bowels, get sluggish and clogged and
need a flushing occasionally, else wa have
backache and dull misery in the kidney
reoa- MVr "M. rheumatic
twinges, torpid UtT. acid stomach, sleop-
lessnesti and all sorts of bladder dis
orders. Tou simply must keep your kidneys
active and clean, and the moment you
feel an ache or pain in the kidney
region, get about four ounces of Jad
Salts iroa any good druc store hore.
SI "X DAY 1USK: JANUARY
of Panama
inastis
JTxposition..
Santos, which slopes down to tho Quit
of Panama. Both of these roads will bo
electric. Fuel of all kinds Is very high
here, but wo havo swift flowing rivers
with great falls, which will give us enough
electricity to light all our villages and
cities, to run our railroads, and In ad
dition movo many great Industries. Wo
havo already tested tho Caldera river,
which Is to supply the power for tho Chir
iqul road, nnd also for tho road hich
will run In I.os Santos. Tho Chiriqul road
will bo about thirty miles long. It will
go from David to Boqueto, with a branch
to Conccpclon. There Is now at Boqueto a
colony of about twenty Amorlcan fam lies.
Tho most of them aro raising coffee, but
they cannot export their crop on account
of tho cost of carting it to the ecacoast
When tho road Is completed, It will go
down upon It. The road in Los Santos will
not only doyelop the agricultural possi
bilities of that part of the republic, but
will open up a mining section which Is
rich In copper, gold and silver. Its power
will be supplied by the Lavllla rlvor."
I.ookliisr for Tourists.
"What do you expect to do for tho tour
ists when the canal is completed?"
"Wo shall make them comfortable," re
plied President Porras. "We havo al
rtudy put up several hotels in Panama
and Colon and wo have Just now made a
contract with an English firm for a big
hotel to accommodate at least 600 peoplo.
This will be located on tho sea,, but fac
ing tho canal on the edge of Panama
City, it will be largely patronised nnd
It ought to pay from tho start Wo had
25,000 tourists here last year and we ex
pect to have 40,000 during 1914. If they
spend $25 apiece, which is not high es
tlmato. they will leave on the Isthmus
51,000,000 In gold.
"What aro your plans connected with
the completion of the canalC" I asked
-wo nave n numner or important meas
ures under way," President Porras re
plied. "For ono thing we expect to havo
a largo exposition here In 1916. This will
be participated In by tho countries of
North and South America and we hopo
by thoso of Europe and Asia as woll. Wo
want tho merchants of the world to bring
samples of their goods and show them
nt Panama, and wo hope that many of
them will leave the samples here, making
a permanent commercial museum along
tho lino of the canal. All such samples
will bo admitted free of duty."
"How about goods In bond?"
"That is another measure I am try
ing to furthor. I want to eslpbllsh two
lurfcu uunuou warenouses at either end
of tho canal, where goods can be ex
changed nnd sent onward without pay
Ir.g duty for the privilege of making
the exchange ut this point. Wo be
novo that this will result In a great
carrying trade, by which goods will be
brought to Panama and trans-shipped.
Tho larger lines of steamers will have
their feeders that will go up and down
the coast of tho continents collecting,
freight for their larger vessels, upon
which it will be taken through the canal
nnd to other parts of tho world."
"Is It your Idea that Panama will
grow rapidly?"
"Not Immediately," said the presl
dent of tho republic. "As soon as tho
canal Is quite finished many of tho em
rloyes will bo dismissed, and for a year
or so perhaps, our business may be (lull,
It will spring up with the increase of the
traffla through the canal, and from then
on there will be a steady erowth In tho
country and cities. I expect that Panama
Itself will, within ten years from now.
have 100,000 people, and that Colon will
then have half as many. As to the re
publlo that is bound to grow as soon as
Its resources and tho great opportunities
wo offer to Investors and colonists be
come generally known."
FRANK O. CAnPENTETt,
take a tablespoonful In a slass of water
before breakfast for a few days and
your kidneys will then act fin. This
famous salts is made from the acid of
CTapes and lemon Juice, combined with
llthia, and Is harmless to flush clogged
kidneys and stimulate them to normal
activity. It also neutralises the acids
in the urine so it no longer irritates,
thus ending bladder disorders.
Jad Salts Is harmless. Inexpensive
makes a delightful effervescent llthia
water drink which everybody should take
now and then to keep their kidneys olaaa.
thus avoiding serious complications.
A well-known local druggist says he
sells lots of Jad Baits to folks who bo
lleve in overcoming! kidney trouble while
It la only trouble, AdvrUomtc.t
19lv.
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Health and
nr Mns.
Grace: Certainly that brlttlencss of
hair and your dandruff ore dangerous
conditions and should be corrected quick
ly by a proper shampoo. Get somo can
throx from your druggist and dissolve a
teaspooniui in a oup or not waior, mon
pour this mixture on tho head slowly and
rub well. This makes an abundance of
He!), cleans nir lather, and rinsing leaves
the scaln and hair wonderfully sweot und
clean. These shampoos ore very sooth-
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Canthrox shampoos aro invaluable to tho
finest growth of hair and prevent us woll
as overcome all scalp and hair difficulties.
Lotta M.: Here Is a simple. Inexpen
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thick paste with som. powdered delatone
und water. Apply to lialrs not wanted
and in two or three minutes rub off and
tno stun win do smooiu ana iiainess.
Then wash the skin to remove the re
maining delatone.
Gloria; I always use a crystos tonlo
ror my eyes when tney are wean, wuiery
and Inflamed, or use it as un eyo wash
when I am going to dinners or parties
and wish to Iook especially nice, i uuy
an ounco of crystos from my druggist and
put Into ono pint clear water, then placa
two or inrce or ops in eacu eye a iow
times a day until they are strong again.
This eyo tonlo is also very good for gran
ulated lids ana win give a sparitio ana
delightful expression to dull, expression
less eyes.
Dolly: Your itchy scalp can be re
lieved nnd cured, as well as the falling
hair, by the use of a quinine tonic which
at least a aozen oi my personal inenua
nro uiintr and making at home from an
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of alcohol, to which should be added a
half pint of water. They use this regu
larly by massaging into tho roots or tne
hair and they claim tho Itching stops Im
mediately, and the tonlo Improves the
growth of the hair and helps naturo make
it beautiful and healthy.
Hortenie: Indeed, you can easily cure
that tired, depressed feeling which Is ac
companied with such a sallow condition
of the fucc. They aro caused by sluggish
blood (very common in tno ran anu win
IF
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PHONE TYLER 1000
5-B
Beauty Helps
mah martyn
tor months! which la not nrnnorlv llmtn.
ntlng the poisons from tho system. Try
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one-half cupful sugar and hot water to
mam a iuii quart, roxe one tablespoon
ful of this old-lneliloned blood cleanser
and tonlo before each meal. This Is splen
did for that weak, worn feeling and re
stores tho kidneys to normal actios and
in. oiooa to a healtny condition. ltd
timely use will save much serious alokt
nesa..
Teacher: In your case the wrlnklea and
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uso this preparation which you can make
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your race sort and satiny. Bince it has
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Anna: No, don't make yourself miser
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water dissolve four ounces spurmax, then
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