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COMING JONES BROTHERS World Toured Shows PRESENTING HIGH CLASS VAUDEVILLE Best Singers, Dancers, Comedians, Train ed Ponies, Elephants, Dogs, Mules, Goats. See Baby Bunty, the smallest elephant in captivity. WILL EXHIBIT AT Camden Friday, Sept. 1 9th Prim Reduced to 25 Centt Big Free Exhibition on Show For This Day Only Ground) Twice Daily EXCURSION TO 5ANANNAH, GA. JACKSONVILLE, FLA. and TAMPA, FLA. "Land of Flowers" TUESDAY, SEPT. 16, 1913 VIA [Southern Railway Premier Carrier of the South k-Voni , Spartanburg, BlaekHbur^, Rock Hill, Greenville, Anderson, Al?i>e vllle. Columbia, Allendale and Intermediate i>oint? on the follow ing Schedule and Very Lo\V Rates: SPECIAL TRAIN R. T. Faro to R. T. Fare to R. T. Fare to ' ' Savannah Jax'villc Tampa Leave Rock Hill I). 30 p. m. ....... $4.00 $7.00 $9.00 "?* Chester 10.18 p. i?i. . . ..... 3..r?0 6. 50 8.50 Blackstock 10.38 ,p. in 3.25 0.00 8.25 Woodward 10.44 p. m> . . . . 3.25 6.00 8.25 Winnsboro 11.12 p. in. .. %. 3.00 5.75 8.00 Rldgeway 11.30 p. m 2.75 5.25 7.75 Blythewood 11.52 p. nv. .... 2.60 ? 4.75 7.50 Columbia 12.45 a. ni. ..... 2.50 4.00 7.00 l^rrive Savannah 6.05 a. in ..... * Jacksonville 9.00 a. m ..... Tampa, via A.C.L., 7.25 pm . Tampa, via S.A.L,., 5.40 pm . Tickets good going only on Special train and Regular Trains sched uled as above. Tickets good returning on all regular trains to reach original start point on or before midnight as follows: To Savannah, Ga., Sept. 19th, 1913; to Jacksonville, Fla., Sept. 21, 1913; to Tampa, Fla., Sept. 24th, 1913. High class day coaches and Pullman sleeping fcars without change. A. TIUP T<) THK TROPICS. Florida: "The Land of Flowers/' health and pleasure. Wonder ful agricultural development's attracting people from all over the world. Savannah, Ga.: With its beautiful Parks, magnificent shipping dock* hunderbolt and Tybee Island famous for Sea Foods and Surf Bathing. For full information, Pullman reservations, etc., apply to Ticket Bsents of Southern railway, or W. E. McGee, A. G. P. A., Columbia, S. W. H. Caffey, D. P.- A., Charleston, S. C; S. tt. McLean, D. P. A., lolumbia, S. c. SEPTEMBER This is the month when fires are caused through defective flues ? when youVe starting up the heating furnace for the first time. You are pro tected against the pos sibility of a fire through this source by having fire insurnnce ? GOOD insurance and enough of it. Look over our policies ahd if any insurance is needed, see us. . WILLIAMS INSURANCE & REALTY COMPANY ( Incorporated. ) 1012 Broad Street > Camden, South Carolina PASSING oftfc PANAMA mm. EWPICKAKD S7TSS:J*AJP<4 CTJT Sfar* Colon, C. 55. ? With the completion of th? Panama canal the importance of the Panama railway will decline al moat to the vanishing point. Fbr nearly sixty years this railway haw been carrying people and freight from ofeean to ocean. Though only 47 miles long, It has been, for certain period**, one of tho moat Important and most Interesting railroad lines in tho world. I Hiring the building of the canal, under the ownership of the United 8tat6R, it haB become one of the best equipped and mOBt efficient of railways. It has given great help In the construction of the canal, that will prove its virtual death. Tho finding of gold in California was the cause of the building of the Pana ma railroad. For long years before the wild rush of argonauts in 1849 the isthmus was almost forgotten by tho civilized world, jfrut when the yellow metal was discovered on tlje west coast it became once more a great trade route. In order to' avoid the long trip across tho plains in "prairie schooners," thousands of gold-Beekers went by boat to.Chagres, up the Char gres river to Gorgona or Cruces and thence over the old Spanish road to Panama. Thie, too, was a long route and in the rainy season a painful and dangerous one because of the preva lence of disease. To the rescue of the gold hunters came three bold Americans, W. H, As plnwall, Henry Chauncey and John U. Stevens. In 1848 these men had asked the government of New Granada for a concession for the road, and In 1850 Stevens obtained it at Bogota. I ho | Pacific terxnlus could not be otherwise J than at Panama, but at first tho har bor of Porto Hello was selected for the Atlantic, terminus. However, a New York speculator spoiled this plan by buying up all the land about the har bor and holding it at a very high price, so Navy Bay was chosen Instead. When work on the lino was begun In May, 1850; thoro was no celebration, no turning of tho first spadeful of earth with a golden shovel. Two Americans with a gang of In dians landed on Manzanlllo Island, now,, the site of the city of Colon, then a desolate, uninhabited spot, and began the tremndoue task of clearing tho route through the dense jungle. The surveying party Buffered intensely, for the land was so swampy and so Infest ed with malaria and yellow fever bear- I ing mosquitoes that they were com pelled to sleep aboard a ship, Much of the time they carried their lunches tied on their heads and ate them standing walstrdeep in the water. The efforts of the company to ob tain laborers were attended by a ter- J rible tragedy. Eight hundred Chinese were brought over from Hong Kong, but within a week of their landing ecores of them died. Opium was given the ' survivors and for a short time ! checked the ravages of disease. But the supply of the drug was shut off on 1 account of its cost, and again* the deaths became numerous. The poor Orientals in despair began to commit Buicido, some by hanging, others by impalement, while some deliberately sat down upon the eeashore and wait ed for the rising tide to overwhelm them. In a few weeks scarce two hun dred were left, and these, broken in health and spirits, were sent to Ja maica. Another shipload of laborers; this time from IrelaVid, met no better fate, for nearly every man died. ? The material difficulties that con fronted the railway builders are thus summarized by Tomes In his Panama in 1855:" "The isthmus did not sup ply a einglo resource necessary for the undertaking. Not only the capital, skill and enterprise, but the labor, the wood and iron, the daily food, the clothing, tho roof to cover and the in struments to work with came --from abroad. . . . Most of the material used for the construction of the road was brought from vast distances. Although . the country abounded In forests, It was found necessary, from the expense of labor and the want of routes of communication, to send the timber, for the most part, from the United States, and not only were the rails, to a considerable ex tent, laid on Amerfcan pine, but tho brldgee, . and the house* and work shops of the various settlements were of the same wood, all fashioned in | Maine and Georgia- The metal work, the rails, the locomotive# and the tools were brought cither from England or the United States. The daily food of tho laborers, even, came from a Nevf York market." i The first section of the road was laid through a mangrove swamp In which no bottom was found, the tracks being floated on an immense pontoon. By October, 1851, eight miles had beon completed and solid ground was reached at Oatun. Lack of funda now I began to hamper the builder*. It? vestors in tho states hud become dis couraged and the cost of labor tiad ad vanced. Hut a hurricane came to the rescue. Two ships loaded with gold seekers were forced to anchor near Mansanillo island and the passengers paid the company a handsome sum to carry them to Gatun In work cars. The newe tlmt the road had carried more than a thousand passengers reached New York and funds again flowed into .Ul? coffers of tho company. As the work progressed passengers were hauled longer and longer dis tances and before the line "'was com pleted the receipts from passengers and freight were considerably above $2,000,000. The last rails were laid the night of January 27, 1865, and the next day the first train passed clear across the isthmus from the Atlantic to the Pacific. The entire cost of the road up to December 31, 1858, had been something less than $8,000,000 and its gross earnings in the same time were a little moro than that sum. The rate across the isthmus was put at $25 gold, being intended to be to a certain extent prohibitive until they could get things into good running or der, but so great was the volume of travel thut the rate was not reduced for more than twenty years. Soon aft er its opening th? road began to de I claro 24 per cent, dividends, and at : one time its stock went up to 350. In the 'GO's the company fell on hard times. It lost much of its freight traf fic, was held up by the politicians in Bogota and then suffered by tho com pletion of the Union Pacific railroad. Next Russell Sage and otherB like him gpt control of tho directorate and wrecked the road. When de Lesseps came oyer to dig a canal his company bought up tho stock and used the road to help in its work. Then in 1904 the United States bought out the French company and also acquired the railway and so It became the first American road to be owned by the government. So eco nomically and efficiently haB it been conducted since ..then that it Is cited as an argument for the government ownership of all our railways. ' The building of the canal and espe cially the creation of the artificial Qa tun lake made necessary the reloca tion of the Panama ruilroad along most of its route. The old roadbed now is under water for much of tho way, the old line still In use being only about seven miles In length, from Co lon to Mindl 'and. from Corozal to Pana ma. From Mind! to Gatun the grade ascends to 95 feet above tide level. From Gatun the road runs east until It Is four and a half miles from the canal, and then south again on great embankments across the Gatun valley. Along this stretch passengers ob tain an unusual view. Because of the construction of the Gatun dam across the channel of the Chagres river, the Chagres valley and all its tributary valleys have been converted into a -lake with an area of about 164 square miles. The Gatun valley is one of these drowned arms and as the train crosses, wide etretches of water are to be seen ou both sides of the track. Down below the surface are still vis ible the tops of giant trees that have been killed by submergence, and along the edges of the lake the tallest and hardiest of the trees reach thir dead limbs above the waters. Here and there is a pretty little island that not long ago was the summit of a hill, and the shore line In most picturesquely broken up . by cfcpes, peninsulas and bays. .... From Monte Llrlo the line skirts the shore of the lake to the beginning of the Culebra cut at Bas Obispo. Orig inally it was intended to carry the rail road through the Culebra cut on a 40 foot beam along the east side, ten feet above water level, but this plan was knocked out by the slides and breaks. The line was carried around Gold Hill to a distance of two miles from the canal until it reached the Pedro Mi guel valley, down which It runs to ParalBO and the canal again. Thence it runs almost parallel with the chan nel to Panama. There are two big aleel bridges on the line. One, near Monte Llrlo, has a center lift span to permit access to the upper arm of Gar tun lake; the other, a quarter of a railo long, across the Chayres river at Gamboa. Tho total cost of building the new line of the railway was $8,866, 392. In addition, ? large sum has been expended in Increasing the terminal facilftle*. Of course, even after the canal la opened, the railway will have a good I deal of business, transporting people | and goods between Colon and Panama, and servlpg the needs of the operating forces of the canal. But its days of glory have departed, and J. A. Smith, the American who has been Its effi cient general superintendent, recog nizing that fact, has resigned aad re turned to thtvstste* SAWYER'S KID OH&e When you smoke one of our delightful cigars you take a trip to Havana. The "condition" of a cigar has much to do with its flavor. We keep our cigars in the right condition. We carry many famous brands which you cannot find in any other store in this town. Come to OUR Drug Store Sawyer Drug Company REAL ESTATE , SELL Do You Want to > ?qan . BORROW I May Help You. LAURENS T. MILLS, CAMDEN, S. C. COLD DRINKS From Our Fount Will Knock the 'Ouch' Out of 'Grouch. Camden Candy Kitchen Polite and Courteous Waiters to Serve You AUTUMN MILLINERY ' that is distinctive because of it' 8 smart modishness and genuinely exclusive design is to be found at this establishment in its superb showing of * Model Hats ? * . / i A visit will prove, we're sure, a real pleasure ? drop in irrespective of whether you c6me to buy or not. MISS MATTIE GERALD