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The Americans In Panama
French and kept by the Americana
since their occupation show that thisriver discharges enough water to fill
the proposed Gatun lake one and onehalf times. It is not expected that any
lack of water for the lock type canal
ever will be experienced.
INCORPORATED ISBS
Except for the beaten paths and
cleared spaces constantly maintained
the Jungle ts king In Panama. One
Capital & Reserve
$8,800,000
PuMldied by th« Statler Publishing company,
season's growth will cover an abandoned clearing with the luxuriantl
Bl Fifth avenue, New York city.
86 Branches in Canada
By WILLIAM R SCOTT
tropical vegetation. When the AmeriCopyright, 1912 and 1913, by William R. Scott.
General Banking- Business Transacted.
cans entered the canal zone most of
the EVench machinery and even wholetowns were covered by the jungle.
CIRCULAR LETTERS OF CREDIT
There are the usual troplqu.1 fruits,
TRAVELERS CHEQUES • Issued
GATUN LAKE 3 2 Mil
bananas, cocoanuts, alligator pears,
BANK MONEY ORDERS
8 5 FEET A90VE SEA LEVEL euuiiw cur '
papayas, mangoes and other less well
known varieties. The vegetatioa inc
{WAKE 1'/I MILES
cludes the royal polnciana. palm and
I
other stately trees. The rare orchid
F
PEDRO MIGUEL
Is at home on the isthmus, about sevU)CKS
3EA LEVEL CHAHNEU
enty-five varieties being found, a dozen
O\ SEA LEVEU CHAN NO.
7 MILES
7 MILE3
of which are of the most beautiful
at all Branches. interest allowed at 3 percent, from date
MtRAFLORES « »ex w l 0 «
600 FEET WIDE
GATUN
kinds. A dry season of four months
of deposit, compounded half yeany.
LOCKS
PROFILE MAP OP THE PANAMA CANAL.
LOCKS
does not pnrch the growth, but the
Accounts may V>n k«pt in tlif name of twn persons, in case of death of
rainy season gives it the most brilliant
(Continued from last week)
afford the descent to the ocean.
either of them, the survivor can draw it without delay or coata
green coloring.
The area to be excavated in this lake
Minister Concha drew up a treaty,
Business may be transacted by mail
channel, .thirty-two miles long, was None of the big animal life of Africa
which wns presented as a memoranfrom Gatun to Obispo, following the Is found anywhere in South America,
dum to Secretary Hay on April IS,
Chagres river in general and requiring and Panama has even less dangerous
1002. This treaty, as well as the Heronly about 12.000.000 cubic yards to be species than the mainland. The taran treaty that succeeded At had a
removed in twenty-three miles. Then rantula, coral snake, tiger cats, deer
number
of
impossible
provisions,
viewW. WALLACE, Manager.
the
mountains began, forty-five feet nnd other larger though not so daned in the light of our canal experience.
above
sea level; and reached their gerous animals are found, and alligaIt authorized the French company to
highest
point, in the center line of the tors abound In the rivers and bays a s
sell its property to the United States
well as sharks. The insect life Is wonand authorized the United States to
canal, at Gold hill. 312 feet above sea derfully varied, the birds are in infinite
build, operate and protect the canal,
level, thence sloping toward the Pa- variety and most beautiful, while wild
the concession to run for 100 years and
cific
to the proposed lock site at Pedro flowers of dazzling colors are in probe renewable at the discretion of the
Mignel.
a distance of nine miles. The fusion. The canal zone, where occuUnited States. The canal was to be
average
depth of the cut would be 120 pied in the canal operations, long since
finished fourteen years after the adopfeet
throughout
the nine miles, and the was freed of dangerous animal life.
tion of the treaty, with a possible exdeepest point of excavation at Gold hill
Nothing more acceptable can be offered than
tension of twelve years, everything to
Distinct but inconsequential earthwould require going down 272 feet
attractive silverware, combining good taste with a
revert to Colombia if the canal was not
quake shocks have been felt In PanaThe
Culebra
cut,
as
this
channel
quality of endurance which assures lifelong service.
begun within five years and completed
ma for centuries. The San Francisco
through the mountains was called, was earthquake in 1906 was not recorded
within twenty-five years. Colombia
Such characteristics make
to
be
200
feet
wide.
In
1880
the
was to receive $7.OU0,000 in cash.
on the canal zone seismograph. In the
French had begun work there, and seventeenth century a violent shock ocColombia sent a new minister, Thomthey removed 18.646,000 cubic yards curred, but none in the eighteenth and
as Herran. In 1903. who negotiated a
that were useful to the Americans. nineteenth centuries, nor has any been
treaty along tbe same lines, except
Their machinery was used the first recorded in the twentieth century, althat Colombia was to receive $U>.000,000 Instead of $7,000,000 for tho canal First Range Light at Pacific Entrance year of our occupation.
though In Costa Rica, the republic adware most desirable for gifts. To-day this renowned
At Gatun, on the Atlantic side of the joining Panama, a severe shock in
zone.
Had the treaty been adopted it
to the Canal.
trade mark assures the purchaser not only of securing
proposed lake, there would be locks to 1910 caused a considerable loss of life
Is n safe conclusion to draw that inthe original brand of Rogers, but the heaviest grade
terminable and exasperating friction gress") originates "m fnfe r>an THa's moun- lift ships to the lake, and at Pedro and property. So far as past performplate guaranteed by the makers to give absolute
would have developed between the two tains and drains a basin of 1,320Miguel and La Boca, on the Pacific ances can Indicate, the canal should
satisfaction.
countries. Only an extended visit to square miles. After running parallel side, the locks would lower the ships not suffer from earthquakes.
the isthmus can give an adequate idea with the coast line nearly midway be- to sea level again.
The remarkable durability of 1847 ROGERS BROS.
The Atlantic and Pacific oceans are
of
how essential It has been to the tween the oceans it turns sharply at The Americans came to the canal
Silver has won it the popular title
United States to have absolutely a freo right angles and empties into the Car-'zone in 1904 with tbe question of the on the same level, but the tide on the
Pacific side has a maximum lift of
"Silver Plate that Wears"
ibbean sea a few miles west of Co-'
hand in the canal zone.
kind of canal to be built unsettled.
feet, while on the Atlantic
Knives, forks, jpcons and fancy serving pieces may
President Jose II. Marroquin of Co- Ion. The point where the Chagres They were to be there more than two twenty-one
side
the
maximum
lift is only two and
be procured in numerous designs, come fancy, some
makes
this
turn
is
within
the
canal
lombia in this year, 1002. asked tho
years before the violently discussed is- one-half feet. Allowance for this vaBmplc and chaste.
zone
and
about
thirty
miles
from
the
United States to maintain uninterruptsue was to be settled. Meanwhile,
was made by providing a deepSold by leading dealers everywhere. Send
ed passage over the Panama railroad Caribbean, running through the canal however, it was recognized that there riation
lor catalogue "C[.," showing all patterns.
er channel for the canal on the Pacific
during a serious revolution in the prov- zone for that distance- From the Car-'was a vast amount of pioneer and side,
so that the passage of ships will
INTERNATIONAL SILVER CO.
ince and promised in return to give ibbean sea to Bohio, about seventeen preparatory work to be accomplished not be
Successor to Meriden Britannia Co.
affected by the tides. The shape
miles,
tho
bed
of
the
river
Is
only
tbe
United
States
a
treaty
for
a
canal
that
would
absorb
the
activities
of
the
MERSDEN, CONN.
of
the
bay
of Panama causes the high
slightly
above
sea
level,
and
from
Bo-i
zone. As a result of American interorganization pending the solution of tide on the Pacific side.
hio
to
about
the
entrance
of
the
Culevention and good offices peace wa$
this problem.
patched up between the insurgents bra cut it rises to forty-eight feet
What kind of country as to tem- As there is not a favorable geographiand Colombia on Nov. 21. 1002. Weabove sea level.
perature, rainfall, vegetable and ani-cal arrangement at either end of the
had performed our part of tho agreeEngineers were divided on the utility mal life and healthfulness had we se-' canal in the way of harbors the dement and now looked to Columbia to of this natural geographical situation. ] cured? As to the first characteristic, fects have been supplied by breakwaperform her part.
Those who favored the lock type canal Panama Is only nine degrees from the ters. At the Atlantic entrance a breakPresident Miirroqnln wns In good believed that tbo Cbagres river could equator. But it is far from being as water more than two miles long runs
faith, b u t factional fighting in t h e con- be dammed up so as to form the longest hot as that proximity might suggest from Toro point to shield ships lying
gress nf rVilniiiliiii. with l''s enemies in part of the canal and thus save a vast Throughout the year the temperature In the entrance from the violent norththf* ascendancy, shower] thi* phuDfvs uf amount of excavation that would be averages about 85 degrees. The high- ers that occasionally sweep the coast
required In a sea level type. While est recorded temperature in the canal Another breakwater a half mile long
a treaty to bi* dubious
Always Loaded.
On Aug. 12, 1d'">3. thi* spnntf* of Co- not denying the saving in excavation zone is only 97 degrees. At night the running out from the Colon water front
Apropos of a septuagenarian mil- Irimbia killed thi- tn—TV after t h e hmi^e in a lock type, the engineers who fa-atmosphere falls sharply until, usual- will protect shipping in that harbor
lionaire win? harl married, at Atlantic had passed It P r u d e n t Miirrmjuin vored a sea level canal believed that ly, light covering is required on beds, from storms on the east At the PaCity, a buxom manicurist, a widow had exerted Mm""'?' to t h e utmost to the fixed limitations of the lock type and the hot, sweltering nights of Amer- cific entrance storms are not dangerwith frmr children, a noted divorce snve thi* treaty, il njlitlcss sensing the made it Inadvisable when the expan- ican cities in the summer are unknown. ous, but the currents deposited silt in
lawyer wild:
quality of thi* mun in t h e White Hmise, sion In the size of ships was consid- j The northern mind, too. considerably the channel in such quantities as to
' has overestimated the effects of themake a breakwater advisable, and this
"I thonjtfit the old boy was only but t o m> avail. iinO imother w a y utit ered.
one runs from the mainland to Naos
flirting with her. I. guess be thought for the ennui project was already talcAt Gatun the natural formation of rainy season at Panama.
During
T&Ka
ing form.
so too."
the mountains permitted the Chagres January, February^ March and April Island, three miles out in the bay, and
One
Then, with a smile, the attorney
In tbe summer of 1903 Rome loading
add<->]:
Panama citizens conceived the idea of
connects with the fortifications. I t
Pain PHI,
"LOCH rif people piny •with love as If a revolution from Colombia and the
was built from material excavated in
then—
forming of an independent republic.
It wasn't luniled."—Buffalo Express.
the Culebra cut, whereas the Atlantic
T&Ke it
Tho revolution was Btorted on Nov. 3
breakwaters were built largely of rock
In the city of Panama, and troops Kent
quarried at Porto Bella
The Cheerful Thinker.
by Colombia to put down the rebellion
Panama and Colon are cities of great
I'ij ivV* tiJ J»M> ill'-' income) tajC.
7
were noj allowed to cross tbe isthmus
T'Jl r-ay it with flellprht.
Interest to tbe tourist The former has
For Neuralfia, nothing ia
I'd pile the htulT In precious stacks.
by TAilted States marines.
about 50,000 population and the latter
better than
I'd sit up Iini-f thu nljjht;
On Nov. 6 President Roosevelt recog20,000. Panama is the capital of the
I'd
try
u>
bithe
firet
tn
pay.
Dr. Miles'
nized tbe independence of Panama,
I'd r»- It If I c u l d .
republic and has a handsome national
And
tht-n
I'd
^fj
my
chferful
way—
xrar]
on
Nov.
18
the
new
republic
conAnti-Pain Pills
theater and institute, a street car sysAt li-at-t I think I would.
cluded a treaty with our government
tem, and a number of old cathedrals
Used by thousands
granting ns a strip of territory teo
Of course I'd w.-mt an Income big.
ire interesting sights. The canal emfor a generation
So I rnultl pay th'i more,
ployees travel for half fare on tho
Thosr who have "jffercd from
Thf 1df'tpw down I hiui to 'Us
miles wldo across the Isthmus as a carailroad and are often In evidence In
Th' rli h ' r strf-MTj I'd rK:iur.
m'UTulcic jirmib w J ri'it hr t o l d
nal zone. The United States paid Panthe quaint little victoria carriages that
If I had cuui.i'iris pllfd In racks,
how ri'-. '--,' :<ry it i-, 1" secur? reama $10,000,000 in cash and, beginning
With rnllllnriH tn tho ftriod,
handle the street traffic at 10 cents a
lief.
'J he ea«-.ic>t w;iy our of
in
1S13,
an
annual
rental
of
§250,000
1
How
JuyouKly
I'.]
pay
the
tax—
ride In the two cities.
neuralgia i . t o U',' ]>r Mjlci'
At
least
I
think
I
would.
for
this
territory.
It
was
not
until
Anii-I'iiiji j ' t;-, 'j ],{y have re
"What this nation will Insist upon is
—Cli.vela.iid Plain Dealer.
May 4, 1004. that the American flog
lit-vcd .\ufiYn-rr. f> <r «.o many
that results be achieved," wrote Preslwas raised over the canal zone.
year?, lb;it Ui'-y have become '•>
lont Roosevelt in his order creating
Such Ingratitude!
household n'-ct-*.ity.
the first Isthmian canal commission
Brlsors— So Mudso t; KettluK better?
"I have tidi'-n l«r. Mller' Antl-Paln
CHAPTER VI.
that he appointed, on March 8, 1904.
Braj;p+- Yes, IK* will soon bfl all right
P t l l f t f u r Iiv> v i ' : :• » ,<i t i n y a n - t h e
The Geography of Panama.
md that remained the keynote of his
o n l y IJ:lri>.* t h a i ' ( " I " H i ' :»'<>• K " " i l .
now. But talking about sells, you
r area the republic of Panama Is
T h ' } ' J i » - , ' P I ' I ••••H r . i ' i i i l i ' i . I n n-iV
attitude toward the canal. He anknow wv< had nearly ?100 raised to put
l i m ' i l i i tlfti-i-ri m l i i . " •
1 l . i m <•!•••"
ubout 32,000 square miles, slightnounced its full personnel as follows:
up
a
iilfe
ujimunieut
for
him,
as
no
one
t t i k ' - n t l u r u f ' i r t i n .ifimtlt rn. l i m l
ly
smaller
than
the
state
of
InAdmiral John G. Walker, U. S. N.,
a o l i " , jmifiK Iri ilift t . r i i i i . ' , I •••fhrn l i ' \
thought he ''duid recover. And now
1
diana.
On
the
Atlantic
side
it
1H
e a r a c h ' n i n J j i n l m It; M e I">v.i;-4 vtul
chairman; Major General George W.
he form* round and wants to boiTow 870 mljes king and on the Pacific side
ItojljfJ.
I h l i v i ' f n u l i ' j ti-iU l t i | ; t n
Da-via, TJ. S. A.; William Barclay Parit Ui help pity hi« doctor's bill. What 074 miles by tho coast line. Tbo popue«ual tbem and tru-y are all that lH
sons, 'William H. Burr, Benjamin M.
do you thluJt of tliat?—Stray Stories.
olttlrnsd f'ir thr-m."
lation, native and foreign, is 400.000.
Hxirrod, Oarl Bwald Gninsky, Frank
J. W. SBIXjB, Blun Bprlnr;B. Mo.
VIEW 0E THE PANAMA 0AHAL.
Our treaty with tho republic of Pan1. Heclcer.
At all drug[jl«tb—2B donee 25 centg.
Suocoss?
ama ceded us a Btrfp of territory ten
This commission held Its first meetNever uold In bulk.
i
Hn workod all iluy.
miles wldo from deep water In tho AtAnd h<i worrU'd all ulgbt;
MILES MEDICAL CO., Elkhart, Ind.
there 1« pruotlimTTy ho fulnTaTl. £f;v ing In Washington on March 22, when
He iibattcrnd hlu n«rv««,
lantic to deep water In tbo Pacific. Tho river to escape Into the Caribbean sea the tut of May light tshoweru occur preparations were made for a vkit to
And 1M) ruliu>d hl« ulfcht:
area of tho canal zono ifl 443 square through a gup less than two miles dally or e%ry few toys und through the iutbcius, which It reached on
Ho nooldod his ehlldrnn,
miles. White within the limits of the wid& Tbo lock type advocates yald June, with an occasional gusher. A.pril 6. After throe weeks of lnresAnd he rallod n.t his trite;
canal zone, tho cities of Panama and this gap couid be filled In and do er/> From then on to December tho rains ttgailonu it decided that fiuch eaHo lout all hill frionda
And bartered MB life
Colon, at the toratlnala, remain under s t s a buiiin to bo filled by the stagnat- become moro frtxjneot und heavier and finooriag records as tbe French left
You can buy old nmrnpupetv ten
For a pile in tlio txuiic
the eovtwelgDty oC tho republic of Pan- ed water ot the Chagres river. The have a xray of coming up about the satist be supplemented by fresh ex«all p«rpo»«« at Us per poturf »ftl»»
And a swell block ai brlrft»
ama.
idea wo« to build a dam high enough oaroe time every day, sometime* In plorations und Borveya. that the sanitaAnd ho now muk&> hlo homo
TBorald oMctt.
Borne canfuKkm ts caused by tbo tnct to bock tho accumaluted rlvor water the afternoons, aometimos In tbo morn* tion of tho canal zone and the cittira of
In a holo two by nil.
OJ
B
that the tethrrran of Panama runa near- toward tho Pa-ffflc for a distance of inga. Construction operations have to Do!on and Panama was of tbe first imly east and west instead of north und thirty-two miles aad at an average be aaspeoded during the rlolent rainu. portance and that" a period of preparaBelief for the Kidneys.
8»ro*»tlo Doctor.
south, oa might bo lmugined. at the depth in the canal channel of fortyOn tbo Atlantic side the rainfall av- tion sreuerally ranut precede effective
MS", mai. 3. Calkini, 248 afoUto-n..., "too shouid novor take medldjie iu point wlwire tbe canul trarerses i t five foet throughout A not hoc dam erage* between 180 aad 140 inches an- .•ouomictlon operations. Surgeon ColoPanama city la almost duo uouth of would prerent the lake so f*rroed from aualJy, on the Pacific side from CO to nel W. C. Gorfirug accompanied the
HOirtfocpcJ/Jonii^Bayi: "After having tlw> daric," said tho doctor.
"Why not, door
Buffalo and 1H noutbouHt of Colon, tho spllUnfl; down the Pacific 8toi>e. Thus
•doetorod for more than a year with
inchea. At time* It rains so furl* :onimlfwlor) oil this trip and made the
bmtt1 physician* In Hartford aWi get- "Woll, It encourages tUo Sool Idllcr Atlantic tonnlnal. Tho canal route, all but ubout fifteen mileo <vf the canal 70
preliminary plans for cleaning up tho
ting n o relief. I was advii»ed by a to neglect nla Job."—Kimsus City Jour- therefore, runs in a southeastern direc- would b» made by an Inland, urtlficiul ously that it appears to bo one contlnu- afchmiiB which, when worked out,
»ms sheet of water falling. For one
draargist in Floinville, Ct, t o try a nal.
tion from the* Atlantic to the Pnflflc, lalce, 104 equnre miles ] n extent
hour the record full in 0.80 Inches; for ivoro to make him famous, The comteottk* of I>f, David Kennedy's Favawl. to tho nHtoulxhtnent of the titurorite Rfifmir»d.y. I Was very nervoue
one
day, at Porto Bello, lO.Ofl incb.ee; uission returned to the Onttod States
Unoo to (Lnughtor)
! lnt, Mn< unu rifles In tbe'Puel0e and Ht'ts
Kind had a eotarplleatioo of rlin<*aepi3,
Bill
ov«n
In
h
"Ifiils
lypv
lucre
would
in
throe
tuitiutos 2.40 Inchon full ut >n April 20.
O f t e n w h o r i I ' V I I m-i-ti v r m r n l n t n d
iri t h f Atliinti".
•especially Kidney trouble. Jfltartpri
hare
to
ho
nil
JmprwNlvf
iimnunt
of
thrs
same
place, uud at Ptujumu ou At a mwtlua: hetwiiprj ropt'fwntaT h i m , I n liriii-l'i.f)!, f L i i u c h i i r J ton so Favorite Rrinpdy andrthr- fit-fit
IVI urn jmt huJMInr nnr fnmil a t t h e oxfuvutUiu. Not only wmtid thf w»» May 12, 1012, 0 inr-liPB fell In two
I n t'.'in'iTujiliy t l m t l i t r i i n i
of the rfnllBtJ Htntm anil tho
gave imo jyraat relief, I eonnurrnuTut iniint "ii thi' IHUHUIIH Tills level r l m n r i i ' N nprirriMi-lilric this- Inke hour*. The yi>nw lOnu mul ]{KI(» were
M a i n 'if m l i i r i f n l dii'1-..ii l l ^ n i r h f r - r l —
i Parml f<mii>a)iy In I'nriM fin
l it.H use* for noun** timr> nn-d 1 Ji!i\n v . u r r l n l 11, m i iiii'i i, v . - i m V r p i l
[ilillit i'.: f. •Illli I Hi I h l * I'llll' n f tfilli lilllH.
on cHlier I lilt, erf ( l i e IsfhrmM IIIIVM t o (hi' ivorrpMt filijce tin* Arnw'lr'afi owuin flic wiif «f the ofirnpfiny'H
r»c«WManoritly rmrcirl', I f l i n r w l y
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irr)r;O(r)itn.r>nil it to HdffwfTH
who art"
In* drt-'lC'il. b u t t!i"- iniiiititu'ii hniTli'i". piili'in mil] 1!il'»" the <1H»"'.t
jrntii-rt.v f o r S-KUioo.riNO wnn xljriii»rl
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fir/ni i l i l f i r r ' l i u , , | v l.rlj-iit n r linnjuv,
w i i u k l h;ivf t o h e [ilcivi'il w i t h n rbjiri
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ui' I'aiiMinii I'lrreiifhil MlviiriiH. n thi* enmpir'i.v mi April 2.1
. .. „ Uid Liv«r rliBordta'H. Wrile
I'llr t v . « y . I n S"Ur I»ti>--li< f.i r L » i J | ' l i l i - r l
r i d no mi t o ftirijiit t-lic wiitei'K o f t h e The f'hiitfiiM l'lvcr JJHM ri'-'i-u twcntyI h ' l h i ; 'Inltjitii ' . f ( h i . O I H H H f j i i i u j r l i l i * ] '
l)r, David KatOKwry Co, Rondotft,
(To Be Contmuoa)
Outun Juki* to reach (he point mi the llve foct lii twi'juy-fot/r him™. Inirlng
A n d tiulltl">il ri't'»rti [ f j n u r l i ( « ' r j .
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Pi
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tlie itcfen would overy utsason the rpcordu loft by tho
—New York Hun.
i£XX>0-000 <»<><><><><><><><><> O O O O O O O O O O O d < X X > * 0
Story of the Panama Canal From Start to Finish
s
..SAVINGS BANK DEPARTMENT...
MORRISBURG BRANCH
Gifts of Sil
verware
1847 ROGERS BROS.
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Subm-lbe lor tbo Madrid Herald,
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