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might be set out here and that more profit
ably probably, than in Mexico, where such
exploitation is now being carried on.
Business in Panama.
The merchants of Panama are making
money. The most of the stores are general
stores, dealing in all sorts of goods, and
that at high prices. Clothing costs more
than it does in the states. foodstuffs are
higher. and two prices are charged to
Americans for everything. This is espe-
cially so If the article for sale is not of a
standard variety. l know an American
who tried to buy a desk which he found
in the back room of furniture store. The
man asked $500 for it. One hundred dollars
would have been good price and the
American said he would give that much.
The furniture man refused, whereupon he
was asked If he would take $500. He re-
piled that he would not, and just to test
him the American said: We'll, IL l give
you $780, will you take it?" The merchant
thought moment and replied: Il think l
will, but l would like to ask my wife about
IT. The sale was not made.
Banks Which Charge IL Per Cent.
The banks here charge high interest rates.
For small sums per cent month is quite
common and Il per cent per annum is not
uncommon There are several pawn
brokers, and many of the merchants lend
money We have only one American bank.
This is the International Banking Com
pany. which has it's chief offices In
New York and branches in Honolulu,
Manila. Hongkong, Shanghai, India and
Australia. The Panama branch is the
fiscal agent of the United States gov
eminent and as such 1t will be the deposit
tory of the enormous sums expended upon
the canal. If that work costs $500, 100000
as is estimated, and takes twenty years,
this will mean an annual average expend.-
ture of S15,oG0.G00 per year, a,nice little sum
to handle. The bank at present is In charge
of Major Eastwicke, who came here from
New York to organize it. 1t has its offices
just opposite the administration headquar-
tiers.
Rents Are High.
Building is costly at Panama and rents
are high. They have increased several hum
bred per cent since the Americans took
up the canal. The Panamans hardly
know how much to charge and they have
raised prices out of reason. Buildings
pendence OF Panama now valued at
$1o90 and other property in proportion.
To take the Panama point of view give
you the increase of rent demanded for the
second floor fat which John Barrel leased
last summer for the United States legation.
The apartments had been renting for $40
per month. AS soon Barrett asked for
them the price was made 500, and when he
said that he ought to have reduction or
at least a long lease, inasmuch as he ex-
pected to spend $500 on the building in way
of repairs, his landlord replied Il cannot
think of granting any reduction. Indeed,
the request seems ridiculous; for your i'm
provements will increase the value of the
property and 1 can get more rent for my
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Chances for Americans to
Make Money.
PANAMA's RESOURCES
DARIEN GOLD MINES, WHICH
PRODUCE 100000, 600 A YEAR.
Forests. of Mahogany and Rubber and
Big Banana Plantations-op-
portunities in Real Estate.
tcofgright, 1905, by Frank q. carpeuter.)

Copyright. 1905. by Frank G. Carpcuter)
PANAMA
Whal: chances have Americans to make
money, on the isthmus of Panama?
This Suggestion comes to me from different
parts of the United States. 1t is difficult
to answer. Panama is a new country,
backed by the United States. Its govern
ment will be staple from now on. Uncle
Sans big stick will prevent revolutions
and tue natives are anxious that their
resources lie developed. Large areas Will
be thrown open to settlement. and lands
may hF leased or bought at low prices.
A Wet Country.
AS II is now Panama is practically un-
prospected The country is just about the
size of Indiana. 1t is over 400 miles long
and Il ranges in width from 81 to 11S
miles, There is a mountain range which
winds It's way through it, being at its low
est along the line of the caral. There
are rich valleys. and. here and there
savanhahs or rolling plains good for pas
ture. This is espet tally SO north of the
canal zone Hn department known as the
Chiriqui. from which the most of the cat
tie of the isthmus come. There are plains
near Panama, and rich lands without trees
between here and Colombia
/ Rivers and Lakes.
The ( whole country is well watered.
Rivers flow from the mountains down the
Atlantic and Pacific sides of the isthmus,
and some of the streams are navigabe for
small vessels for quite a distance from the
coast. This is so with the Tuira river,
which, flows into the Pacific through the
Gulf CT San Miguel of the Cocle, the Rio
de los Indios and the Gala Bebora and
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outgoing tide she alleged I'VE never
smell the same smell twice"
Curiously the "R" rule applies to oys-
tiers in the names of the French months
as as In English, We ought to eat them only
In months with the ar"
The Familiar OR" Rule.
"A famous swindle to keep poor fisher
girls from making a living" said the
sprightly Julia. She affirmed the proverb
had been started solely for the conserva-
ton of the species in the days before oys-
ter farming had become as regular as no.
tato farming, and that 1t could apply only
In hot weather to those living far from
the sea.
We stuck to Julia, who showed us A park
In which her husband and his family have
an interest. 1t covered about 200 square
yards and was protected the sea side
by solid wall of masonry furnished with
lock to regulate the height of the sea-
water kept in it and divided into compart-
mentS by movable partitions. There is
board floor which ought to be kept clean;
ana 1t is on this floor that the oysters are
raised.
They are about twelve months old when
they are put into this claire" explained
Julia. They are generally brought from
nefghboring banks. The next year each
oyster becomes a mother. furnishing the
naissain, after which 1t is merchantable
oyster. The naissain is gathered on bum
dies of twigs, whose branches are soon COW
cred with young oysters, clinging like barn.
acles. At the proper time they are coll
lected and spread out on collecting shelves.
Then, after passing several months in these
fncubators. they will have grown large
enough to be put finally on the park boards,
where they live and grow to maturity
happy and contented shell-6sh, though a
bit selfish. (Can you say selfish she'll
fish?) Look at them, aren't they gay?''
Young Oysters at Play.
The fair young wife of Cancale smiled in
diligently as she pointed to the inhabitants
of her oyster park There they lay, thou
sands of them, scarcely covered with sea
water and tremendously occupied. You who
have seen them only on the half shell, limp
and lifeless. form no adequate idea of
the gentle gayety of those Cancale bivalves,
splitting and squirting at each other una
fraid in their park.
1t is thus that they amuse themselves"
said Julia. L can answer for 1t that they
had all the appearance of it, squirting jets
of water high In the air, squirting obliquely
and horizontally at will
'Regarde! You cannot tell which oyster
has squirted!' exclaimed Julia proudly. All
around the little jets OF water rose, like
flashes; but we could never locate the par
ticular oysters from which they came.
Listen to Them said Julia. We stood
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ship, like ants around an ant hill. They
bumped against each other in their ardor.
why, goodness gracious, do they hustle
with such feverish, unremitting energy" We
asked.
"They have to-" answered Julia. They
are paid. not by the hour or day, but by the
tide, which varies. Today their available
low tide is short, so they must stir them
selves"
why? Who watches them? Who pays
them?"
LAS usual, a Cancale woman has taken
the contract to load the ship" said Julia.
1T belongs to an oyster dealer of Saint
Vaast-la-Hougue. When the shiploaCS ar
rives there he will unload and -replant them.
to be. taken up and shipped away as needed
"A woman contractor we exclaimed.
What does she pay them? Is she liberal?'
we asked, as We watched those women
steredores stopping In the slime all drao-
bled, bearing heavy burdens in great bas-
kets.
Some get 90 cents the tide, some 30
cents" said Julia. Long or short, ii is
their day." STERLING HEILIG-
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building after you have made them Bar
ret made the improvements. / have yet to
learn of his receiving any rebate upon his
departure.
Ordinary sleeping rooms here rent from
$40 to $15 month in gold and very COM
mon house Will bring from 800 to S100. The
natives think the Americans are rich and
that they will pay any price that may be
asked.
The Question of Titles.
In buying real estate in Panama one
should look carefully at the titles This is
so not only in the cities and country, but
even in the private lands of the United
States zone. The only place of recording
deeds has been in Panama and Colon, and
much land has been transferred by deed
without record. The result Is that perfect
chains Of title are difficult to get and one
must watch out for lawsuits This matter
will probably be remedied as to the ten
mile strip, and the government of the re-
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A New Profession.
From the Baltimore Herald.

from the baltimore Herald
A writer In one Of the current magazines
directs attention to new profession tina
has arisen in this countfy-the profession of
getting hurt. by which money is extorted
from railroads and other corporations In
some countries Of Europe men MAIN them
selves to escape military service, and pro-
fessional beggars have been known to de-
prive themselves of some of their bodily
members in order to appeal more effectively
to the charity of the passersby; but it was
reserved for this country to make bodily in
jury method of high finance, and many a
little fortune has been gotten by a care
fully planned injury, sometimes resulting
seriously. The more serious the injury the
larger the damages, and the attempt cannot
be considered a failure if it brings a rich
harvest, no matter how much Of wreck 1t
leaves the participant
In Missouri, writes the author man con-
fessed that he thrust his leg under a rail-
road car. and received $1,000 In exchange;
In Philadelphia woman was discovered
teaching her children how to get injured; In
Chicago woman was convicted of perjury
because she had falsely sworn that an acci-
dent had rendered her deaf, dumb and par
alyzed. Other cases are cited to show how
widespread the practice is of getting In
jured for the purpose of recovering dam
ages. A few years ago case Of the kind
was attempted In Baltimore by two men
who had worked the trick of falling off a
car in Washington, but the bogus nature of
the claim was quickly exposed and they
came to grief. In Texas railroads are pes
tered to death by lawyers and their injured
clients, and the roads have come to be look
ed upon as the legitimate prey of those In
need Of funds.
The hustle of modern life and its attend
ing dangers result in many injuries to inno-
cent people. and this is particularly true of
quick transportation roads, which have the
added burden of protecting property and
running on schedule. The slightest hitch
fv1fYY tn = do
son or the loss of valuable time. These are
legitimate claims and the ordinary incidents
of the peculiar business. If the corpora
lions would show more eagerness to settle
bona-fide claims and disposition to pursue
to the end the prosecution Of bogus ones
public sympathy would aid them powerfully
in putting an end to the new profession
The policy very often followed of treating ali
claims alike and scaling each down to the
lowest cent after the longest possible delay
Is responsible not only for the growth of
the get-hurt-quick people, but for the COM
parative lack OF public indignation al the
new species Of fraud.
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public should take 1t up and perfect the
titles throughout the state. There are
about 100000 acres here belonging to Uncle
Sam. They came to US by the treaties
which we made with Panama and those OF
the canal company and the Panama Rail-
road Company with Colombia. These lands
VIII be leased or sold by the government
and much of them would make sugar,
conee, cacao, orange and banana planta-
ticns Vegetables can be raised anywhere
on the isthmus. They bring high prices in
the markets and with the 1900 or more
men WHO are to be continuously employed
on the canal, the demand will be great. At
present the gardening is done by the Chi
nese. who also act as market men and
petty retailers.
Big Banana Plantations.
Panama has some of the best banana
lands on the Caribbean sen About the
Chiriqui lagoon the United Fruit Company
have more than 10000 acres, and they shin
at times as much as 100000 punches of
bananas in one week. They have a fleet of
steamers running to New Orleans. the
largest of which will carry 81, 900 punches.
The bananas are picked green, for 1t Is a.
week or so before they are In the hands OF
the customers. If they get too ripe tbev
rot on the way and have to be thrown info
the sea. The business is profitable. the
company making something like IA per cent
on a capital Of $4,000, 900. This money
however, is not all invested In Panama: il
is scattered throughout the West Indies
other plantations being owned In jamaica.
Santo Domingo. Cuba and elsewhere
Speaking of the United Fruit Company. a
young American named Snyder made a
fortune by selling out to them shortly after
they began their operations on the Chiriqut
lagoon. This man came to the sthnlus
some years ago and got a concession for
tract of land on condition that he would
cultivate 1t. He planted bananas and found
that they grew so well that he gradually In
creased his concession by one means or an
otkar until he had at last acquired more
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A CITY WITHOUT MEN
French Port Of Cancale on
Channel Coast.
WOMEN RUN THE TOWN
LOAD THE OYSTER SHIPS AND DO
ALL OTHER WORK.
Feminine Police Patrol the Streets and
All Business Of the Place is Done
by the Fair Sex.
CANCALE. France. Nav % 100.

CANCALE, France, May 90 1905.
Here is city without men. Its streets
are busy, but the business is done by wom-
en-. Oceangoing ships load in the port and
women do the loading. The most famous
oyster industry of France has here its
parks" and women do the entire cult
waiting.
1t is the French port of Cancale, on the
channel coast, with 5000 inhabitants when
they are all at home. highly celebrated for
its oysters, but still more interesting by
reason of It's hardy femininity that has
learned to live Independent of men during
six months of the year. To make it more
curious, the girls of Cancale are at the
same time known as the prettiest in Brit
tany and as the earliest to marry of the
north and center of France Also Cancale
has the greatest proportion of widows and
the youngest of all France
Most of these phenomena depend on this
other tina: the men of CancaIe are, as a
block, long-cruise deep-sea fishermen, who
cross the Atlantic to take the cod in Ameri-
can waters from Iceland down During
between six and eight months of the year
they are absent from their wives mothers
and sweethearts, for the sake of bringing
back lump sums varying between S12e and
$3.50 apiece, but there is always one ship
that does not come back, and there are
always men on each snip who do not come
back.
We had a pitiful example of it as we
lunched at the hotel Two of our party
are collectors of pictorial postcards, and so,
at luncheon, one exclaimed in an excited
whisper:
Look! There comes one of the postcard
girls!'
One Of the Postcard Girls.
1t even so. Among the cards that
we had bought-"Caneale, Emerald Shore
was a type" SERIES showing Cancale girls
in Cancale bonnets. We had noted two who
had been photographed together, because
one of them-whose name we learned to be
Jula-sold the cards to US. Now the other
came-but how changed! In the photo
graph she had leaned proudly on Julias
shoulder. dressed In her best. Now she
advanced listlessiy and all in black, even
to her little Cancale cap or bonnet. She
was pale and detected, and her eyes were
red with weeping. Also she turned out to
be our waiter girl. and so we wondered
painfully what could be the matter with
her.
It's Adrienne," the lady proprietor of the
hotel informed us. She was married ten
months ago, and her husband had to go
months and 1t is feared 1t is lost"
And she does not know whether she Is
a widow or not?"
'She has only too much reason to fear
it; and it is the custom to put on black
when the ship Is two months overdue"
a brother and two cousins with him. Not
a man of the crew was over forty years
of age. There were no of them, sixty
Being from Cancale town alone"
We ate the famous Cancale oysters with
the Americans usual moderate relish
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Sustaining Life.

From Yonkers Statesman.
Yeast-Don't you think milk will sustain
life for loni. time?
Crimsonbeak-Why certainly! Just sec
how many lives a cat has!
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When They Laughed.

From Puck.
what took best at your amateur minis
strel shown"
sssThe mis- stakes"
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Her Thoughts Of Rings.

From Yonkers Statesman
He-when look at a girls eyes Gun
always see what she's hoping for. sss
She-Oh, have got rings about my eyes
this evening? Hf :.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1905-04-27

f@1abr0sArs SIN 81 received ei ths Bsiesu
/ Of Euppiles aud Accounts. navy depart
n cit washington. D C.. until 10 o'cloek a.
NJ. May 2, 1906 and publiciy opened urine
diateiy thereafter. to furnish Al the navy yard
washington. d. e.. and The Naval Academy, An
napoIss. Md. as specified. quantity OF naval
supplies. as follows: Shecule los sand,
gravel, hardware, pine, oak. white lead, sheiiac
paints, varnish. etc. glass; Scheaule l64 =
Nickel steel chain. Renold's gears and chains.
hardware, pig lead. nickel steel. steel castings
fuel oil, brass tubes, Luukenheimer valves, pipe
fittings wire rope. Applications for proposals
should designate the schedule desired BY num-
Der. Blank proposals win be furnished upon
application TO the navy pay office. Baiiinore
Nd or 10 the Bureau. II. T. b HARRIS. PAY
MASTER GENERAL. u. :. y. 4-s-oS
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- Tws-SioD Frame Dwelling House,
OF Six Rooms.

z.-Csyfafn nafmb,0Ved lots Of g1oHra
situate on the opposite side of said Ches-
ter avenue and fronting on Chester ave
nue., running back to the waters OF Back
creek, laid off from Lots Nos. 81 and 81,
as laid down on John Duvalls plat OF
Passport, formerly called Horn point,
uuon a plat recently made by +. Lacey
Chinn. Surveyor. which may be seen
upon request Of the undersigned beng
a poi ton or the property mentioned and
described in a deed thereof from John
w. Letourneau and others 10 Vincent +
Trott. dated October, 9th, 1885, and re-
corded in the Land Records Of Anne
Arundel county in Liber 5. IL. No. 20,
folio ass.
TERMS OF SALE :-One-half cash on
ratification OF sale. Balance in one year.
Deferred payment to bear interest from
day OF sale, and to be secured by note OF
purchaser or purchasers with satisfactory
surety or sureties, or all cash at option
of purchaser. A deposit OF 500 will be
required on day of sale on account oil
the purchase money of the property tIst
above described. and OF SIS each on the
lots secondly described.
JAMES M. MUNRoE,
Attorney Named in Mortgage.
RASH. & MARTIN, Auctioneers. As
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1905-04-27

Here is an explanation of the old
horseshoe superstition: est. Dunstan
was a skilled farrier. One day while
at work in his forge the devil entered
in disguise and requested Dunstan TO
shoe his single hoof. The saint. al
though he recognized his malign Gus
toner, acceded, but caused him so
much pain during the operation that
Satan begged him to desist. This St.
Dunstan did, but only after he had
made the evil one promise that neither
he nor any of the lesser evil spirits,
his servants, would ever modest the in
mates of a house where horseshoe
was displayed.
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The habit of giving ones self suffi-
cienU time for ones lunch and per.
haps ten or fifteen minutes in which
to rest afterward in one well worth
cultivation. Then by all means try
to dispense with the so-called woman's
lunch. A piece of roast beef eaten at
noon do you more good than all the
salads and sweetmeats that were ever
concocted. One should never eat when
one is extremely tired; the practice of
resting twenty minutes after each
meal will go a long way toward cur
ing an obstinate case of dyspepsia.
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Red will annoy turkey cock as
much as bull. but a sparrow will not
let it disturb its mind. But if one
fiirts a blue rag in front of a Gagged
sparrow's eyes he will go frantic with
disgust. Sparrows and linets, too,
will refuse food when offered them on
a piece of blue paper and dislike the
appearance of any one wearing blue
dress. Medium light blue affects them
most and blue serge they scarcely
mind at all. rhrushes and blackbirds
object TO yellow. but will use led or
blue dried grasses left about their
haunts to build the outer layers of
their nests. Yellow grasses they will
not use.
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nu,s ms 2

We offer 0ne Hundred Dollars Re-
ward for any case OF Catairh that cannot
be cured by Halls Catarrh Cure.
F. Cheney & Co.. Props, Toledo. o..
We the undersigned. have known F.
I. Cheney tor the last IS years, and be-
lieve him perfectly honorable IN all busi-
ness transactions and financially able to
carry out any obligations made by their
firm.
WALDING, KINNAN & MARVIN, Whole
sale Druggists. Toledo, 0.
Halls Calarrh Cure is taken internally
acting directly upon the blood and mu-
cous surfaces OF the system. Price IS CTS.
per bottle. Sold by all Druggists. Tesli-
monials free.
Halls Family Pills are the best. a I
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LE1us HAVE HIS NAME.

Covering behind the shield which
il claimed was its loyalty TO the city
and its interests, decrying anything
which seemed TO discredit the acts OF
the city's servants and wearing the
ssbolier than thou expression which
has been witnessed on many whitened
sepuIchure, the alleged publication
down street has caulked itself. Because
the Capital sought 70 present to Its
readers the financial state of the city
tho CRY of civic pride was raised.
On Tuesday. however, that daily
geyser contained an article. real,
live editorial, If you please. anent the
actions Of a midshipman on a train
He had placed a great big blot on his
uniform. il was stated, by imbibing
too freely of liquor and his friends
who stuck loyalty to him were cha.
grined and embarrassed. Persons who
witnessed the alleged acts OF the Mid
shipman state that he was not drunk.
that he had simply been hurriedly
Weakened from sounu HA0oP'
but was perfectly able to care
for himself. OF that fact the
Capital does not claim to be the judge
or sit in judgment. If the man is
guilty he should certainly be punished
as the authorities deem proper. so
much for that
1t was stated in the alleged editorial
that the man had certain colored hair
and so on and. in fact, gave complete
description of what would ht two
dozen men at the Academy. To them
and TO their companions was the dishon
or done. Any and all Of them will be
looked upon as being the guilty man
in the absence of the knowledge OF
the name of the man they had in view.
Speak up. give us his name, that the
odium may be removed from the minds
of the other midshipmen. II this can
not be done, then, like that which
tempted Eve in the garden will you
have to make your progress.