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sets above the shore line of the Garth
bean sea.
The railroad is about forty-seven
miles long, the distance on air line be-
ing about thirty-fve miles. The rails
follow the low ground and reach the
divide by very easy grades. Naturally
the projected Panama canal has prac-
ticaIly paralleled the railroad in seek
ing for the lowest level. The railroad
itself is well equipped with modern
American rolling stock and is above
standard gauge, the width between the
rails being five feet. AS in all Spanish
speaking countries, there is a first and
second-class fare, with coaches to cor
respond. The first-class coach is the
ordinary American day coach, and the
second-class is similar, except that the
seats consist of benches along the sides
of the car. The fare across the forty
seven miles is 81 in gold and 8 cents a
pound for all baggage. In the Dalmy
days of the isthmus the fare used to be
s25 in gold. By the terms of the rail-
road concessions, no one, not even the
government, can build even wagon
road across the isthmus, so he who
must cross must ride on train or else
walk the ties.
The consequence of this arrangement
is that there is no wagon road across
and few walk. On each side of the
track is a well-worn bride path, along
which the train frequently meets caval-
cades of the small native horses used as
saddle and pack animals. 1t is slow
progress, however, and such traffic is
seldom through" 1t is only carried
on between local points on the road.
MOUTH OF THE PANAMA CANAL.
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in the afternoon before there are any
signs of renewed life. The railroad
employees and the foreign element
make a pretense of longer hours, but
it's merely pretense after all, for
business proceeds but slowly. Toward
evening the scene becomes quite ami
mated. The parks and plazas are fill
ed with children and their nurses, we'll
dressed men and women saunter about.
Groups Of men talk business and poll
ties, largely the latter, with many
words and expressive gestures. Pan
anna must be free from Colombia. 1t
has no connection. Nothing could be
done to stop a revolution
why is it not free?"
'Ah, the United States protects the
sovereignty of Colombia on the 18TH
mus. That is why. But for that
in thirty days we would have new
republic. The republic of Panama"
The streets of Panama are narrow
and crooked. Business is done on the
ground floor of the houses, but every
one who can lives upstairs. Many
churches are filled with worshipers
on Sundays and ON feast days. Many
more churches are in ruins from the
effects Of fire or the attacks of time
upon the soft rock walls and arches.
REGULAR CHURCH-GOERS.
Early on Sunday morning the
church bells begin to ring and the peo-
pie are coming and going from prayers
the whole day long. Before break
fast the Colombian army, in full dress,
| which means with their boots on, goes
to church accompanied by the military
brass band. The band takes it's sta
ton in the gallery and the 600 or more
soldiers, in two columns enter on either
side of the church. The band fur
nishes the music, and 1t is not bad,
but is far from the character which
might be expected of the occasion.
Prayers are said to the liveliest airs
from "Oli~ette," "Fatinitza" and other
light operas. The effect is pretty and
novel but not inspiring of great awe
and reverence. The soldiers remain
in the church about half hour and
then return to the barracks. The sew
eral hundred people who have been in
the church also leave. They are most
ly women. and as they leave the ca
thedral and cross the plaza they are
met by a large crowd of young men,
who line the walks of the park and
est encoura cement. The Panamaian
girls use their eyes very skillfully.
The soldiers of the army of the
United States of Colombia are a fairly
likely looking lot of men, but as they
are nearly all conscripts there is little
esprit du corps. The officers are
young men kept out of political mis-
chief by commissions in the army.
Their duties are very light and their
chief ambition seems to be a new
affaire d'amour. The police of Pana-
ma are uniformed like the New York
finest. An ex-police captain from
New York was employed at a hand
some salary to instruct and drill them
in modern police ways, and he seems
to have succeeded fairly we'll, as the
Panama policeman, while slight of
physique, presents !outwardly a very
neat appearance, and is onto every de-
vice known to the New York force for
extracting blackmail from a victim.
a reform mayor was recently appointed
T1~s, =
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ceivable with which dirt can be moved.
Nearly all of it looks foreign to Ameri-
can eyes and unfortunately much of it
has been rendered obsolete by later
inventions.
The traveller is brought to a realizing
sense of something besides the blue
hills, however, as the train nears the
town. for the railroad enters Panama
through the most squalid section OF
that large and picturesque city. The
squalor might be endured for the in
slant necessary, but the odors which
accompany it can never be forgotten.
Tney are energetic, all-pervading and
indescribably vicious and insanitary.
1t would be hard to find any linguist-
ic fault with the hotel, for in the Office
is an Italian clerk, in the dining room
Spanish walters, the bill of fare is
written in French and what nationality
the cooks are cannot be told by their
products. These resemble more the
monstrosities and mistakes which are
sent forth from the kitchen of the last
class in some parts of the west in the
United States.
THE CITY OF PANAMA
Panama is large, irregular and
iatASI We'll puill CITY. kllST Tie Pr
rate Morgan raided old Panama, loot
ed the houses and destroying what he
could not carry away, the people took
the precaution to retreat to the end
of the spit of land on which the city is
built and erected a great stone wall
about the town. On three sides the
sea washes the foot thereof and on the
land side a moat was dug and the
drawbridge was lifted at the first sign
of an approaching enemy. Today the
sea wall still stands, though there are
picturesque breaches in it, but the
land wall is either down or else has
been incorporated into some building,
for the town has overfiowed its old
boundaries and it is difficult to trace
them. These walls may have seemed
impregnable to the Panamaians of the
sixteenth century, but modern gunnery
would make a before breakfast job OF
their total destruction.
The important business of the day
is done in the morning. BY II o'clock
everyone has gone to breakfast. The
stores are deserted and it is o'clock
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IMMENSE RAILROAD BUSINESS.
From Colon starts the railroad which
crosses the isthmus to the town of
Panama on the Pacific side. All the
business of Colon is railroad business.
Any claims it may have to decency
good government or civilization are due
to the rather effective and modern
American management of the Panama
railroad. There is quite a colony of
railroad employees, nearly all sAmeri-
cans, and the traveller who is fortunate
enough to penetrate the confines of this
colony will find them a hospitable lot
of people who make the best of a bad
situation and really succeed in living
in comparative comfort.
Residents Of the isthmus are prone to
boast of the fact that to them alone of
all the people on the two American con-
tinents the sun rises in the Pacific and
sets in the Atlantic. This is almost
literally true during the season of the
year, when the sun is farthest south.
The Panama railroad line in going from
Colon to Panama extends to the south
or little east of south. This fact. as
sisted by the curve of the isthmus be-
fore it joins the continents on either
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passes to the left of the mouth of the
Panama canal. The quick-growing
tropical vegetation has covered the
earthwork and the banks of the canal.
so that it now looks like a sluggish
river, centuries old, emptying into the
Bay of Limon. on the shore of which
stands the city of Colon. The point at
the mouth of the canal is called Chris
tobal Colon, and it is here that Count
de Lesseps built for himself and his
| friends the houses which cost the COM
pany millions of dollars, where the real
value was in thousands, and which to-
day are abandoned to the bats and in
sects which swarm in the forests of the
/ isthmus.
| The first stop the train makes is at
Monkey Hill, the famous cemetery
| where were buried the bodies of those
who died during the construction OF
| the railroad and later the canal. Ma
| ture shows a freakish mood here, for
while she struck men down with cruel
malignity she as gracefully and quick
| Iy removed all traces of her handiwork.
NEAR THE CANAL.
! Leaving Monkey Hill the train winds
through the hills, following generally
the valley of the Chagres river. a sui
| len, muddy stream, which at most sea-
sons is small, but when filled with tor
| rental waters becomes a raging food.
The banks of the river are heavily
shaded with impenetrable jungle of all
shades Of green and variety of leaf and
J flower. Birds of bright Dlumage and
harsh cries fly from the trees as the
! train approaches. In the forty-seven
miles to Panama there are thirty-three
stops or stations, and it takes about
three hours to make the trip. The sta
tons are generally a store or two, a
few native huts and perhaps a group of
the frame buildings owned by the canal
company.
The railroad is seldom more than a
few yards from the line of the canal,
and for distance of sixteen miles from
! Colon, with the help of the Chagres
river, it may be said to present quite
a navigable appearance. The water is
| full Of sharks and alligators. and near
/ every settlement the native laundry
is in operation along it's banks. The
i women stand in the water up to their
knees and wash the clothes in the
| running stream. These washerwomen
seldom have more than a skirt on, and
the train often surprises a group at
| their labors when everything in the
line of clothing has been temporarily
discarded.
THE CULEBRE CUT.
/ At Empire, thirty-four miles from Co.
| lon and thirteen miles from Panama,
i the train enters the range of hills
through which the great Culebre cut
of the Panama. canal is being made,
and no tourist has ever crossed the line
without being impressed with the enor-
nous amount of dirt which has actually
been moved and the still greater
amount yet to be removed before the
bottom of the cut is near enough to
the level of the sea for canal purposes.
An impressive feature of every side
track and railroad yard is the endless
| amount OF machinery standing idle, left
there by the old canal company when
| it stopped work ten years ago. Trains
| of locomotives, miles of dump cars,
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NOTICE

2 ANY WOMAN OR GIRL NEEDING
help or advice, is invited to commune
cate. either in person or by letter, with
Ensign Nora M. Underhill, matron OF
the Salvation Army Woman's Indus
trial Home, Young street, between Ar
tesian and McCully streets, mauka
side, Honolulu.
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How do you account for the sudden
epidemic of grating in all departments
OF public seryice?" asked the reporter.
Grating is neither sudden nor re-
cent" replied the practical politician;
hunting out and exposing the grafters
is the latest fad-that,s AL ,,-Chicaen
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1903-11-20
Something New in Dallas,

Mrs. P. A. Finseth has just pur-
chased a Pianola. 1t comes from
Eilers' Piano House, Portland, where
Mrs. Finseth also purchased her
choice little Schumann piano some
time since.
The Pianola can scarcely be called a
musical wonder, for the reason that
by itself it is absolutely noiseless, yet
when it is attached to piano, it en-
ables any one to produce musical
wonders. No knowledge OF music
whatever is necessary to enable any
one to operate it; anything from rag
time to a grand opera can be played
upon it, and it can be attached to any
piano, either upright or grand.
Pianolas are becoming more and
more popular every day. Mr.. L. @.
Bruce, the genial representative Of
Eilers Piano House who delivered and
set up Mrs. Finseth's instrument, in
forms the writer that it is difficult fol
his concern, which is sole Northwest
agent for the Pianola, to get the in
struments from the factory fast
enough. The Pianola is the only per
feet instrument Of this sort made, and
sells at $3.50.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1903-11-20
LIST OF JURORS
Drawn to Serve at the December
Term of Circuit Court for
Polk County.

Dallas-W. +. Muscott, Plato Nc
Fee, SiIas Orchard, S. L. Burk, J. r.
Hubbard.
Independence. W. Dickinson, A.
Nelson, s. H. McElmurry, Thomas
Pomeroy, J. W. Kirkland.
Monmouth. H. Mulkey.
Falls City-D. J. Grant, Fred Kau,
J. R. Ford, L. B. Murray.
Ballston-F. B. Gould, G. H. Ball.
McCoy-C. L. Hawley
Spring Valley-E, G. Higgins, j. 3.
Phillips, w. B. Duncan, J. Fl. Plum.
Pedee-R. A. Hastings.
Airlie-W. L. Phillips.
Parker-C. R. Parker.
Butler-R. A. Porter, O. J. Hussey.
Buell.. A. Dickey.
Rickreall-Samuel Orr.
LewisvilIe-A. L. Burns.
Buena Vista-E. N. Hall.
--------as--s s-aB----------
U. S. Grant was in Portland, We'd
nesday.
w. E. Lacey was in Portland several
days this week.
New Silkoline, SO inches wide, plain
and fancy, Is cents yard. The Bee
Hive Store.
A number of Dallas sportsmen will
attend the shooting match at Ballston
next Wednesday.
Read all the ads Of Dallas live and
enterprising merchants in this paper.
1t will be time we'll spent.
New arrivals IN Boys high-cut
shoes box calf, Oregon calf and kip
stock; stylish and durable. The Bee
Hive Store.
Prospects are bright for game OF
basket ball between the Dallas Col
lege and the Portland All-Stars in this
city early in December.
Mr.. and Mrs. Willard Gilbert have
returned to Dallas from Barton,
Clackamas county, where Mr.. Gilbert
was employed in the Gerlinger saw
mill.
The Ladies' Lewis & Clark Club
will meet at the home of Mrs. j. D,
Smith next Tuesday afternoon. Officers
will be elected, and full attendance
Of members is desired.
Mr.. and Mrs. @. H. Morris celebrated
the tenth anniversary of their wedding
day last Thursday. Mrs. Morris
parents and sisters drove in from the
country and prepared nice dinner,
taking Mr.. and Mrs. Morris COM
pletely by surprise. Instead of tini
many useful pieces of granite ware
were presented. A pleasant reunion
was held, and was greatly enjoyed by
the members of the family.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1903-11-20

William Loughlin, of Mill Greek,
renounced his allegiance to Great
Britain yesterday, and declared his
intention of becoming a citizen Of the
United States.
The new Eugene theater was open
ed Tuesday evening with the pre-
sentation Of ''The Christian" by the
Baker company. The performers were
greeted by a 5000 house. The OBSERVER
hopes to see neat and coy little
theater in Dallas before another year
rolls around, and such a building will
be put up next Spring il the Wood
mems plans mature. +. H. Morrison,
who is working on the plans for a
suitable building, was in Portland q
few days ago, and through the
courtesy OF the managers Of the
Marquam, Baker and Cordray thea
ters, gained many new and valuable
ideas as chow such building should
be constructed and furnished. Both
Mr.. Baker and Mr.. Cordray were
pleased TO hear that theater is con-
templated In Dallas, and will doubt
less send US some good companies
next Winter If the house is ready by
that time.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1903-11-20

1t strikes us that about the best
that Oregon republicans can do is
to bury the wreckage that is strewn
about the republican ramparts in
this state, burn up the rubbish and
build up a new republican party
on the ruins of the old. The Reg
lister has always been firm
believer in clean politics and
although we have not seen the real
article displayed in all its glory in
Oregon yet we believe it exists and
should be trotted out and sent
around the track of republican
politics at a Dan Patch gait.-Eu
gene Register.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1903-11-20
COURT HOUSE NOTES
PROBATF.

Estate Of P. Fl. McCabe, deceased
final account set for hearing December
12, at 10 o'clock a. M.
Guardianship Of Earl and Mabel
Brown-bond filed and approved ;
I. NJ. Simpson, Jefferson Bevens and
Harvey Robertson appointed ap-
pralsers.
Estate Of Marion Brewer Weider,
deceased-hearing Of Helen M. Tar
ble's demand continued until Decem-
ber 5, at 10 o'clock a. m.
Estate of J. Stouffer, deceased-final
account approved and administrator
discharged.
Estate Of David ). Whiteaker, de-
ceased-petition for leave to deed land
in satisfaction Of mortgage granted.
Guardianship Of Gilbert McCabe, a
minor-bond filed and approved "A. L.
Scroggs, E. L. Ketchum and I. Hart
appointed appraisers.
Estate Of Mary J. Cutler, deceased
George E. Cutler appointed admins
TRAITOR; bond fixed at $4,000.
Estate of W. W. Johnson, deceased
amended final report approved.
Estate Of John Wolverton, deceased
-semi-annual account filed.
Guardianship Of Gilbert McCabe, a
minor-inventory and appraisement
filed.
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS.
w E Williams ct ux to A r Lewis,
lots in Airlie, $40.
RA Porter ct ux to E B Gobat, 100
acres, 9, W, $3.50.
Mrs M Bills to Fl R Bills, GOAL
acres, z S, r5w, 81.
E R and Margaret Tuttle to James
E DeHaas, 100 acres, t s 8, + 5 W, cor
rection deed, 81.
H R Bills ct ux to Teofie Richet,
GOAL acres, tt s, + s W, $500.
JL Elkins ct ux to Oliver S Stump,
lot 4, block Q, Levens' LaCreole Hd
add to Dallas, $50.
WQ Elliott ct ux to Fl L Order,
As. 20 acres, s $, re W, $425.
Jemima Murphy ct al to Fountain
Murphy, so acres, 8 s, re W, a valu-
able consideration.
M M Ellis, assignee, to Thomas
Guthrie, 32.12 acres, t8 s, T 5 W, $946.
State of Oregon to W F Gillian, 40
acres, t S, I z W, $50,
&CRRCo to W F Gillian, 4O
acres, t 8 s, r7w, 800.
PHI Marlay ct ux to VIM Nuebauer,
n W ! sec 25, t6 s, ri W, $50.
NIL Baldwin ct ux to J A Veness,
lots IN Buena Vista, $500.
Henry S Merrill ct TX to @ A Rice
171.76 acres, 9 s, Nv, $500,
Fannie Henson and hid to Cassie i
Stump, lots ard 6, block 2, Mon
mouth, $500.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1903-11-20
FROM SOUTH AFRICA
New Way of Using Chamberlain s
Cough Remedy.

Mr.. Arthur Chapman writing from
Durham, Natal, South Africa, says: Gas
a proof that Chamberlain's Cough REM
edy is cure suitable for old and young,
l pen you the following; A neighbor OF
mine had a child just over two months
old. 1t had very bad cough and the
parents did not know what to give it. !
suggested that if they would get bottle
of Chamberlain Cough Remedy and
put some upon the dummy teat the
baby was smoking it would no doubt cure
the child. This they did and brought
about a quick relief and cured the baby.
This remedy is for sale by Wilson Drug
Company.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1903-11-20
SCHOOL OFFICERS MEET
Forty-TwO Directors and Clerks At
tend the Institute in
Dallas.

The County School Officers Insti-
tute, held in the courthouse last
Saturday, was largely attended. Not
withstanding the inclement weather,
forty-two directors and clerks and
about as many teachers were present
when the morning session opened at
10 O'Clock. Interesting papers we're
read. and each was followed by a
lively, good-natured discussion. Men
prominent in educational work were
present from other counties and took
an active part in the work Of the insti-
tute.
Topics Of Importance to school
officers were presented in an able
manner by State Superintendent J. H.
Ackerman, of Salem; Prof l.. Il.
Alderman, of McMinnville; Frank
Butler, of Falls City, and J. r. Shep-
ard, Of Zena. County School Super
intendent G. L. Starr gave q 9O-minute
talk on the "School Laws Of Oregon" :"
which was greatly appreciated by the
directors and clerks. Superintendent
Starr has made q thorough study Of
the school laws, and having familiar.
lied himself with sections which are
obscurely worded or are in any way
likely to cause confusion. was able to
explain them in such a manner as to
make their meaning clear in the
minds of the school officers and
teachers. The talk was helpful, and
cannot fail to result in more efficient
government of the public schools OF
Polk county.
This was the second school officers
meeting held in Polk county, and the
great increase in interest and attend
ance over that of the first meeting
presages still better things for the
future. These meetings promote a
healthy interest in school work, bring
about a closer sympathy between
teachers and parents, and are an in
valuable aid to the directors and
clerks in the efficient performance of
their duties. The friends of education
in Polk county owe Superintendent
Starr a debt Of gratitude for his
earnest and successful efforts In intro
ducing this new feature in the public
school work.
Following is list Of school officers
who attended the meeting, Saturday
District No. james r. Shepard,
E. G. Higgins, Samuel Phillips.
No. 2-H. G. Campbell, Wm Grant,
D. p. Stouffer.
No. 3-George W. Myer.
No. 4-T. w. Brunk, B. I. Ferguson.
No. e--Henry Black.
No. 1O-David Nachtigal, Henry
Voth.
No. 11-Evan Evans.
No. 13-Wm. Riddell.
No. 1S-A. G.. Rempel.
No. 24-Paul Tacheron, G. Lorence,
J. H. Mulkey, W. V. Metzler.
No. 26-James Simonton, w. e.
Goodell.
No. 2S-John Smith, A. z. Tedrow.
No. 29-D. A. Hodge.
No. 94-N M. Dickey,
No. 9s-J. H. Brown, T. S. Brown.
No. 39-A. @. Guyer.
No. 41-David Critchlow.
No. 42-Peter Friesen.
No. 45-Cass Riggs, M. B. Riggs,
Finley Edgar.
No. An. Martin.
No. 56--J. j. McBee, VIM. Jackson,
Geo. w. McBee.
No. 57-George M. Tice.
No. 5S;-Plato McFee.
No. 60-Frank Butler.
No 64-L. e. Stapleton, j. @. Peter
son,
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1903-11-20

the warning symptoms Of disease, he is
earelessly inviting calamity.
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u had been troubled with a pain in lower
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a big weight hanging on me and got 30 bad that
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for a time but il did no good so wrote to DR..
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mediately. followed his directions, use1 two
bottles of his medicine and was cured. had q
torpid liver which was troubling me instead OF
cramps las / thought so DR.. Pierce told me,
have pleasure in living now; have gained in
weight IS pounds since then"
DR.. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets cure COLI
stipation. They do not beget the idll
habit