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SUNDAY MORNING, JANUARY 25, 1914. . THE NEWS AOT OBSERVER. SOUTH AMERICA'S BABY REPUBLIC ' ' " " ' , "- i , A Chat With the President of Panama in the Government Palace He Gives His Plans For the Development of the Country Public Lands in Tracts of 12,000 Acres for Sale at From 30 Cents Upward Per Acre A Big Banking Scheme Two New Railroads and What " Thpy Will Do-Bfg Electrical Possibilities-Fortune9 ' The North Carolina. llxng enough before alcTsWcllliuTcessful years behind i teMhtncssin n6WnWOnthrBay-of Satr Bhstee Lands nhcnomijiaMjicreas f1 1 11 - " m r: zr 1 i 1 S3tirawyMiaiS f ; ; Hotel The Panama of spyrlght, 1$H. by Frank 0. Car- ptmter.) IIotrl jnvoll. Aocoo, Panama. I wifkt to tell you something about th hhyrr putrileof rtie South Amr teaa eunihjint. I hav Just had- a . ' long talk ;wU&. Its president ta th government 'palace-Md h ha laid ' before me the T)laa which are proj-. paced for the present end future. Dffore I five you my Interview. . I however. 1 ahnuld Ha to ay a word ' ahout the country and people, t have called Paaaroa "the btffcy republic." ' It la eo. In both, alt and axe. It waa bora when tha Uhlted ttaleaJnpk ovrr the canal proposition, aad teat only ten year ago. It la oitiall that It seem little more than the atubhy tall of our atater continent and. ai It look on the man, It rrlg have been bitten off short, where lf Joins North America, aa one bites oft .' tha tall of a dog. Nevertheless, -the case-of Panama and Petjth America Just now la that In which the tall blda fair to do-eome- - thing at wagging the dog. Panama la ; the Milling of our great canal, and although It la only one-hundredth aa ' large aa Brail I, one-thirtieth the aiae . of Argentina, and- one-twentieth "aa big a Bolivia. It will for the next two - years make more newa than any of them In the world dally Journal. . Panama ha but a email population. ! tha whole country he leas popula- Uon than Buffalo, lionteral or C'ln- cinnatt. and.. many pf ita people are .Indiana aome of whom have never been civilised. Notwithstanding thla. , the country !a rich beyond the dream of avarice. It ha a solT thiriieed only acratch--ing to bring forth tropical iiutta, and tta mil are a id to contain copper, "aliver and gold. It haa watera In -Mctr-th' eaTt tiyatwr Itvsrimd" twl' anda where are supposed to be buried vlan Incaa. It ta a land free from doubt. The tflttlAn It ! tA AAA AAA lnvvaferi In -r"from",ww-on "If irm -rererrar-a quarter of r. million-dollar per ah num out of t'nele Ham' treaiury aa . rental for the-toae of the 1' I have been over much of the re public. A great part of It la a jungle, end of the whole conatderably mora than half t unoccupied. Neverthe leaa. It haa lurgt tract of high pas ture land in the north and there are I houKanda of acrw of land lower dnwn which will raise cocoa and coffee and ugar can and bananaa. A ahort . time ago 1. vulted the province of IJaca del Tore, which adjulna Coat : Klca. There the United Frul Com- pany haa already laid out thirty' or - lorty thuuaa-nt! acre of banana plan .tatlon. and it I now exporting from lioca aomethlng like 400.000.000 ba nana a year, or more than enough to grre- 1hwr-tmT--iTrTry ma-irrfenitnein iia ltilltiMea1nrihrnpolrttrrt.yeaw w oman uni) ihjM on tht .North .Amtfc lean continent. The banana export now amount to lx or even hundred tlioueand dollar a year. Adjoining the province of Bocaa del Ttiro la Crlriqul. which Prealdent Por raa la now trying to open up by an electric railroad to be driven by the water of the Caldere river. The 'hl Heiwl country la high and healthy. A great part of It ia more than I 000 feet above the e and. a the President aayeTHt haa a climate which ia per petual' apring - It ia noted for ita fine gram and fat (tock and- will furnish the beef of the future for the hlp paaalng through the canal. Thla coun. try haa been recently Investigated by tbe Afrl'au meat truat with a view to. de'termlnlng whether It would pay to build a packing houae here to aup ply the' canned beef trade of the weat .-oat of Koulh America. It waa found ".thai the catUa on hand Jet now.CfuM not keep tha factory running and ao nothing waa done Neverthelaaa. it la aaid that there 1 enough land in Panama for stock ralalng to aupport five million head of cattle. There are parte of the country where one acre will fatten a aleer. and ao far there are public paa- turea where any one can graae hi etock. The weather la ao warm that . there' i'a' no need of barn or eljedi wnd the animaJa feed out of door-ail the vear round There are aleo aoeciaj fattening ground where fodder lnu are et out.th animal trng fed - ily wild graaee until the time -the ...ar needed for market It I also. aaid that alfalfa will grow and that at leaat two crnpa can be secured duiin the rainy eaaon and a third crop, by Irrigation, in the dry time of the year. The present coat of cattle rwiatnc tn tha Chlriqul put lire ta aaid to be a little more than a dollar a head per annum, and 1 am told that thla cam ' be materially raduced if tha landa are fenced. tTMldenrPorrr-"tlW-TO that American have begun to take up . land and set out coffee plantatlona in . th northern part of the republic. lr. Iiter,lthe president of the National a-jtnatltute In Panama City, haa Juat set out a.ooa tree, and he expect a to have 100.00S when hi plantation t in full awing. There are a number of North American famllle who have roff ee estate near David, upon tha highland aome mile In the interior Bom of thee are tx -employee at .the inaLandother are outaldera who have come" from IheTnHed State to settle. There ta one Urge cacao plartr tatlon In Chlrtaul where tt.OOO tree are la bearing, and there la a rubber fil "California Syrup of figs" " can't harmtenderstomach, . liver bowels. - txok back at your childhood day. Remember th "phyaic," that mother inalsted ; ori-UKor it. calomel,, ca-thiTtlcg- ' How you hated ihem. how U lought againK taking them, . " '.- WHh oiif -cllfta 4tdlgawnt Mother who cling to th old form of Vbyste aimply don't realla what they do. Th children's revolt la well found ed. Their tender UtUa "inald' ar injured by them. , If your child' atomach, liver and bowel need cleansing; glv "Callforala the Future. .. .. i Vtie,6r Montiji bay owned by a Jv'ew En a land rompany which ha 40 square mllre that will be set out in bananas pineapples, rocoanul and other ropk'l fruU. This company owns thousands of rubber treea from which It la annually leathering the aap. At the preeepr time the tomato and other vegetables and fruit of tha temperate sen are brought to Pan- 1 ma from the atatea. Prealdent Porraa tell me that the hlghlanda of Chlriqul a III rata the nneat tomatoea and po tato, and that a great trucking bus lnraa might be developed which would aupply the canal traffic a well aa have a large market in the tropical low. landa I aaked the pceaidfut aa ta hi plana for the development i of the country In f Ka rUtn nt ImrImI truitm Itm replied that the banana Induatry could uFNTfaiy inrreaaea, ana inai ne naa already begun to open up a cocoanut and ivory nut Induatry along the Car ibbean aea avuth of Porto Hello In tha province of San Ilia coaat, and to in duce immigrant to aettle there and go Into cocoajii't ralalng. That whole region la apotted with cocoanut lal- anda. The tree grow without cuHlva-jJ turn,, and they ar.ia by the Indiana to trader, who go 'from laland to isl and In boate. The ten Blaa Indiana, ar aeml-av. age and until now theyvwould have nothing to do with the white. Prea ldent Porraa ha in aome way, acquired their frMndeblp. and they are confer ring with the Panama government aa to It plana tor the development of their countryr- Thee plan Include a mi-w uin on a oeauui ui near the mouth, of the Aguada creak on the Gulf of Ban Ilia. A-t the Panama -rocoanutr lti claimed that they are the beat on th market, havln more oil than the nut oFo'them mua of Panama la outald the hurrU it lrea ,.r jiot-,..Ui danger of being blown down, a ID uillitB that t i'olm fnertien-ie setting out 0.000 cocoanut palms at sombre d Dioi, and that a grove of 100,000 ia being planted near Almi- rente bay.I where the United-Trull Company ha It targe holdings. Other grove are being aet ouh in Panama bay and on Montljo bay, hut there la no land that aurpanaea that of the Han Hlaa coast and It thousand of Island In tha raising of thla crop. A cocoairut grove will fmlt , about five year after the sprout are planted. and It I estimated that grove of 10.000 trees can h brouaht tnto bear. Ing for about II per tree. When ma ture the tree should each net th owner something Ilk a dollar par year. During my chat ' with Prealdent Porraa 1 asked him to tell me about the new land law which 111 gov bold at the adminlatratiun, lie there upon called In the aecretary of pub lic worka, or foment, Henor Ramon Acevedo. and we chatted together to the radical changea which have been made. They affect the whole land altuation and promlae to rapidly develop the Panama republic. In or der to understand them on muat re- ailta thai Tanam is different Ironi any of th other South American countrle. It belonged to Colombia, and all the lands of the Inthmua were oboe the property of the Bpanlah king th people holding them from him by lease, a It were. Karh landowner paid ao much a year. end,thla tax continued until th peoftle met, together and., objected. They said . they were willing to pay a good round aum for once and for all. but they did not want an annual tax. To thta the Bpanlah monarch conaenteC and ilong About 190 yean ago, more or leas, the landa became tree. They did not, however, go into individual hand?. They were held in common, no one having a title tn any Individual tract.- These Jk ere known as the t terras lndultada. and th re sult of such ownership1 was that a man would cultivate a tract of land until It waa worn out and than move aomewher elae and take up another. The tttlea to most of the land have remained In the hand of the govern ment, and ao at th preaent the re public la practically In til lhape of a new -ou nt ry i - wh n ne- government having th right to allot the land as congrea decrees Prealdent Porraa and hi official hav given a great deal of study to thla question and it la from them that th present scheme which la now Just to be put Into op eration ha coma These new land law provide that Instead of selling the land a lit th past with the provision that the pur chaser shall cultivate the leads for five year before he b-glxni : title thereto, tne land mall b sold out right In tracts not to exceed 1,000 hectare, or 11,000 acrea, and that tia mi nau go upon ine payment there for In th past the land baa. been old In large tracts: and It ha bean Impossible for the small landowner to buy, lor the reson that he could not afford to cultivate for five year be fore getting the title. y th nw law he cantiot buy mora than t. 000 hcte of land otW h tie iH; of hla .first tr)ct under cultivation or In use. n evert neiesa, ii.eeo acre ia very nice farm, and there are oppor tunities now tor any ons American Eurqpea!U-jttr Penaman to buy bne CRUEL 10 FORCE 8yrup f riif.- it action It poalUva, but gentl. Millions of mother keep mie ntnuieH rrutt laxative" handy; they know children lnve tn )t,. i- thai it nevar fall to clean th liver ana oewejg ana iweeten th tomach and that a taaapoonful given today save g el car child tomorrow. It ahould be th first remedy given aa It alway new goa, nsver any aarm. - Ask your druggist for a SO ttnt bot- vtiiv1" Dirufi oi rig,- which baa full direction for bablea. children of -all age and for grown. up plainly ao each bottle. Bewar of counterfeit sold her, fte that it la mad by 'California 1g 8ymp vxMnpejiy. tterua any other kind witn contempt-' . r cxicrnai applications lor aw Kinus ox x 1 and CONGESTION, such as Pneumonia, Cronp, Colds, I Pleurisy and kindred ailnifn ts.. Ethical physician prescribe i(; the people praise it. INo ' ".- Cowan Preparation i a good tig scid and all skin trouble. Yours rnprctiuily, AU DrB&9$l, 50fe ftvim.'.-- 90WA5 uch tract and hold it for specula tion or cultivation aa he please. Th prices at which this govern ment land Is to b old ar from 1,6 to til per hectare of two and one half seres, or at from 10 cents to tl tO per acre, according to the char acter and locality of tha land. Think of getting ' 11.600 acre of land for 17. St-.. That la on of the poaaimu- tlM Vht Panama 1 now offering. Bueh land can b mortgaged or aubdlvided and sold. Formerly the poor man who took up public land could not borrow money on It. for ha had no title, until he had cultivated It for five year. Now he can sell a portion or ni purcnass or h can make a load on it and put In such crop aa coffee, cocoa or rub ber, which- take aoroa- year - m ivto-bearlng. :rv iClt l.JabA.xrAJjoX.Hjttfi; lmalt thlg JaK. ha been . In . effect sine i.st July, ana tnat it is woramg well. K will bring In a population Tgf-lgltd"ytiieis"wriiw "tata tea wlit-W comparatively amall. and it win lead tp.lM mme8wite.and active develop ment of the ieohnlWIKtirr ntne of H htnda to- give 4ha poor. It will allow five hectare to evixy poor petrson who can show himself to be suchj. jtndlHTiJiBcfXre, or t w ly-flve acre, to each immtgrant "fam ily. . "Another thing w expect to ao, said th prealdent of the republic, "1 to ettsbllah here at Panama bank of Issu. with chartr.from the go.i; ernment. The law for these will go, Into fore very soon. Ai it ia hew there Is practically no opportunltyfor the amall land ownei' to borrow money on long time. The banks here will not usually loan for mora than six or nlna month.and aome year ago before th natlpnal bank was estab lished tha Interest paid waa often aa high aa 10 or 12 per cent a month.. These new banka will loan money on mortgages, which may extend a long and the interest must not exceed 9 per cehtper annum. Weexpect that the people who will imk up theee publlo land and pay for them will borrow money of these bank In or der to develop their plantatlona and to maintain themselves until their land come Into bearing. What are you" doing a to other public works?" I aaked. Ws have laid ourthe-construction plana for two raliroada that will form ine Initial development of the Interior of the country. One of these, is In the province of Chlrqui. of which I have already told you and th other hr tn l Hantoe, which elopes- down to the Gulf of Panama. Both of these road will be electric Fuel of 'all kind I very high here, but w hav awlft flowing river with great fall hleti Wilt. give tis enough electricity to light, all our villains and cities, to run our railroads, and In addition move many great Industries We have already tested the C&ldhra .river,, which ia to aupply the power for the Chtrqul road, and also for-the road which will run in Los Santos: The Chlrqui road will be about thirty miles long. It will go from- yavld to Bo nnets, with a branch to Concepclon. There la now at Boquete a colqny of -about, twenty American iamJllu an J- live. English famine The motif of theft are raising otilfee, but -they can not export their crop on account of the coat of carting it to the seacoatit. Wtmn the road Is completed, it will go down upon-it. The road In Lo Hantoa will not only develop the agrl culturaJjBQ.!blUtre of that parUof the rep'ubiic. but wlli open up a nil n- Ing section which is rich in copper, i gold and silver. Its power will be supplied by the Lavtlla river." "What do. you expect lo do for the tourists when ' the canal Is, cora- "We shall make them comfortable." replied President Porraa. "W have already put up several hotels In Pan ama and Colon And we have Juat now made a contract with an Knglieh firm for a big hotel to accommodate at least 600 paople. Thla will ba located, on th w butfaelog the canal on the dg of Panama City. It will be largely patronised an t ooghMti'pky from the start. We had 11,000 tour let dere last year and we expect to have 40.000 during 114. If they spend ii apiece, which Is not, a high estimate, they will leave on. the isth mus ne million gold dollars. "What are your plans connected with the completion of the canal T" 1 aaked. " : ; r'": ' "W hav a number of Important meaaurea under, way," Prealdent Por re replied. "For one thing we ex- peel" 16 have a large exposition here 1ft 1111. TW will he participated 1n, by th countrle of rortn and Routh America and w hope by thoae, of Europe and Asia aa well. . We want th merchant of th world to bring samplea of their goods and show them at Panama, and we hop that many of them will leave tha sample hens, making a permanent commercial mu seum along th Una of th canal. All such sample Will be admitted fr pf duty.- - 'HawJaout'god4st-4a4?5 "That la another measure I am try ing t further. ; I want to eetabllah two lerg bonded warehouses at either end of tha canal, where gooda can be exchanged and aent onward without paying duty for the privilege of mak Ing tha exchange at thla point ' W believa that this wUI raault ta a treat norae is secure without bowans I'repaxation. , . Lvin, M.. Masrk Tik 1910. jenwd foerWior tbaa voi claim (or St oa the bottle. W it lor ail, tcttaui It i decidedly the best remedy for everything I fcsw tried. WALTER C. SAWYER, tmrt DU turn tfrt. 25c. Ttke no t obstltale. Hay MEDICAL tX. CONCORD N. C. carrylng trade, by which good will be brought to Panama and tranaahlp ped. Th larger line of steam era will have their feeders that will go up and down th coast of the continent col lecting freight for their larger vessel upon which, It will be taken through the canal a)id 'to other part of the, world." ' "I tryour tdea that" ranamawttt grow rapidly? "Not Immediately." said the presi dent of tha republic. "As soon aa the canal is quite flnlehnd many of the' employes will be dismissed, and for a year or so, perhaps, our business may be, dull. It will spring up with the Increase of th traffic through thV rra' trx'thgn w tnri:'wlir -a-: a Steady growth -tn the conntry-antl f Growing CbUdrea Need a Mild Laxtiv to Footer Regular Mw Bowel Movement (As a child grow older rt requires more and more personal' attention from the mother, and as the function of the bowels are of the utmost im portance to health, great attention should, be paid. to. them. , niet'l of great Importance, and the mother should watch the effect of cer. talrt foods. A fond wtll constipate one and not another, and ao we -have a healthy food like egg causing bilious ness to thousands, and a wholesome fruit Ilk "banana constipating many It la also to. be considered that the child la growing, and great changes are taking place in tha woung man or young woman. The system ha not X4JrM.d Jtself to ;s laterxgjit.ln.e, A very valuable remedy at , this stage, and one which very growing girl or boy ahould be given .very often or aqcasionally- accordlngvto th In dividual circumstances, is Ir. CaJd weU'g Syrup Iepsln, Tie I a i&xative and tonic combined, ao mild that it 1 given to little babies, and yet equally effective in the most robust constitu tion. At the first sign of a tendency tt-ctmyipatlon' gtre a -mHdo tff Syrup 1'epsln at night on retiring, -and prompt action will follow In the morn ing. It not only acta on th stomach and bowel but It tonic propertle build tip and atrengthen the system generally, which la an opinion hared by Mr John Dey, of Rlnomfleld. N. J. He has a large family and at ages where the eeoth ..eent development must be watched. Little Marie has thrived especially well on Dr. Cald well' flyrup Pepsin. Mr. Dey coneld- -f .. ... - iflTrTiriniii Pi ii in na ! an a nnaaiiimaaiamaiia r toJjnondm ... ' ir,T, , , , . . ..- "HEN-CACKLE" "HEN-CACKLE" He what Judge Ixiilng Brown, proprietor Belmont Farm say about "Hen-Cackle." He 1 a poultry Judire and specialist and considered the greatest Southern authority on poultry. - BEIJt)NT FARM. ' Hmyrna. t.a. January II, 1114. "HenrCacKJe " , Poultry' Supply Co.,. , . Haleigh. N. C- " Gentlemen: .Since feeding your dry" mash to poultry 1 am very much pleased'wlth results obtained from aame. I have used nearly, every feed on "the market, and 1 muM y that your feed contains . the best, ut ingredieuta,, and- a grsal variety. ,- When thla feed I fed 1rverly lo any buaoh of bua- tiiev' .oejtaialy, do, glva. return la eggs. Rend me on half ton by freight, and let it come along promptly. I am maging a thorough teat of It with aome ottyer feed. While the. price of your feed may seem high, it 1 on of th ('hea pest feeds on the market, considering results obtained from aame Hoping you will continue to manufacture thta piendld feed, and wishing y.ou much success, I am, r ' Yours very truly. LORINO BROWN. "HeivCackle" Poultry Supply Co., Raleigh, N. C. You will render of our services yhen it comes to repair ing machinery or boilers of any kind, or filling your orders for brass or iron, "castings, THOROUGHLY iQUIPPEI to do all work in a satisfactory manner. , Those contemplating purchasing boil ers, engines, pumps or machinery of any kind, should secure our prices be fore placing their orders. RALEIGH IRON WORKS COMPANVll- KALEIGH,N.C r xxmiuhxii x i 1 To - Daj and laj CQWANS RAYMO.D R. EAGLE, ClVHi ENGINEER Xew Bern, N. C. Specialty of municipal Im provement and land drainage. Designing, supervising aad con suiting Engineer for all public Improvement. cities. I expect that Panama Itaelf will, within ten yeara from now, have lOO.OflO people, and that Colon will then have halt ia many Aa o.the, republic that i bound to grow a aoonl aa ita resources ana tn great oppor tunities, sue offer to iinvedtor and col pnlet become KRnelnagxJf.n.QW,n.w,. rriANK or carpenter; MARIE DEY. en it the right laxative for young and old and has found none better for young children. The use of Pf. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin wilt teach you to avoid cathar tics salt and pllla as they are too hajsri for the m JoHty and tifeir effect la only temporary! Byrup Pepsin brings permanent rWulte, and it can be conveniently obtained of any near, by druggist at fifty cent and ona dol lar a bottle. Results ar alway guar anteed or money will be refunded. Famllle wishing to try a free aam ple bottle rat) obtain It postpaid, by addressing lr W. B. Caldwell. 41 Washington St., MotitlCello, 111. 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