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LTTLE KNOWN OF PANAMA. Some Regions, Though Famous Once, Now Forgotten-Stories of Hidden City. Chica-o Chronicle. With the exception of a settled strip along the railroad and the route of the proposed canal. 'the new Republic of Panama is but little known to the outside world. The country. however, comprises many square miles besides this strip. and in it are interesting re gions and localities, some of them once famous. but now forgotten. The new republic has about 8, ooo more square miles of territory than the neighboring Republic of Costa Rica, and 1oo.000 more in habitants. The canal strip is thickly popu lated. hut eastward extends a m1ountainouMs wilderness. inter spersed with swamps and Jungles. through which Indian trails are wanting. The greater part of this region is practically uninhabited. a few scattered Indians here and there being the only population. There are ouly two exceptions to the almost universal desolation. One is found on the San Blas coast. forty or fifty miles east of Porto Bello, where American cocoa nut importers have established trading stations. The San Blas coast is a great country .for cocoa nuts, and the Indians bring large quantities of them down to the beach for shipment, receiving in re turn cloth, knives, flour, trinkets and a thousand and one "Yankee notions." Some years ago an attempt was made by the Colombian govern ment to establish a customs ser vice for this coast, and one or two American trading vessels were seized. The Indians were excited, and, after holding a council. de clared their independence of Col ombia, ran up the American flag and sent word by the first captain who touched at the coast that they had annexed themselves to the United States. They were a little ahead of time, after a while no more was heard of a.customs sup ervision of the San Blas coast and the Indians forgot their temporary "annexation." A single trail, seldom used, along which it is possible for only small parties to pass, leads from the San Blas coast to Colon, a distance as the trail w:nds of scme seventy miles. Another oasis is forned by the village of - Yavisa. :n the River Tuyra, and the neighboring settle ments about Darien harbor, on the Pacific side of the Isthmus. These are small, squalid collections of huts. inhabitated by Indians and half-breeds almost entirely. A genuine white man is a curiosity there. But this region was once populous and busy with industry. Not far from Yavisa stands Pine Mountain, rising 2,ooo feet from a level plain. On the further side of the mn' untain are gold mines, de serted now for centuries , and be~ low them the ruins of a prehistoric city still called by the natives "'The City of 'the KCing." It was probably the most-northern outpost of the Incas at the time of the greatset extent of the Peruvian Empire, and when Peru decayed and fell the "City of the King" de caved and fell with it. The conquering Spaniards seiz ed the mines and worked thei' ar.. built on the nearer slope of the mountain a considerable Spanish town, the vestiges of which are still to be seen, though the site has long been abandoned. Espirto Santo. the Spaniards called the mines. They were closed by ordler of the King of Spain. because they used to attract buccaneers. No archaeologist has explored this lost "City of the King, and no one knows whether the mines of Espirto Santo are practically ex hausted, for when the edict of the King of Spain went forth the re gion relapsed into a wilderness. such as it was before the northern march of the Incas had stopped on the shores of the Gulf of San Miguel. In 1854 an American exploring expedition crossed the Isthmus at this point. Of a party of twenty seven officers and men who started on the expedition. only sixteen survived the journey and got through. which took over twvo months, though the distance trav eled was only about fifty miles. which starte(' to crtss at about the sanik, tr',%% . I' x o aA''' the attempt. theo the wewr ofthe c:ma Cf cosidlerZ!A: size. There. on the Carribean coast. lies the old Span ish province of Veragua. of the riches of which the Spaniards once had the hignest expectations. Columbus (Iiscovered and named this region, and when his son aban doned the title of the viceroy of the Indes he was made Duke of Veragua. a title which the descend ants of the great admiral have borne ever since. The natives drove off the first Spaniards who attempted to colo nize Veragua. blt Columbus's widow. M\aria de Toledo. acting (r ier stnt. fitted out aln eXpC(i tion. which conquered the country and establishcd a colony. The colony was not a success. however. and nost of the colonists died. Finallv during the Spanish colonial perio(. \~eragua was partially set tied and brought into a state in which it remains to this day. In this region. also. lic the bay called the Chiriqui lagoon, where the UnitedI States have long contempla ted establishing a naval station. The present city of Panama is not the city of romance that was sacked by Morgan. The city of gold, pirates and conquestadors stood on the beach some five miles to the eastward of the pres ent city. Its ruins are overgrown with a dense tropical jungle, above which rises the tower of the church where Pizarro offered his vows before thb setting out for the conquest of Peru. The Panama of today, was built upon its rocky promontory three years after Mor gan had burned the old town. There are many popular beliefs, which may or may not be true, among the negroes employed on the canal concerning the wilderness stretching to the eastward of the canal strip. One is that, hidden in the forests is an ancient and myste rious city to which the Indians re pair once a pear to take part in the heathen rites of an old prehis toric religion. IWhen things get set tled down on the Isthmus and the canal is in operation much explora tion and archaelolgical investiga tion may be expected in the long neglected regions which from part of the new republic. eOUTHERN R THIS GREAT RAILtWAY RUN GREAT COU.1 .CONVENIENTLY UNITNG ALL THI OF THE sOUTH. W.A. TURK. S. Passenger Traffic Manager, oene WasMIlIcrot, D. W. Hl. TAYLOE. Asst oen'i?ass.A Why not take a through FLORID beautiful State been brought w by the splendid t vice of the AT. LINE, the great the Tropics. Wi ets are now on e in Florida and Ha schedules, maps steamship accon to Gen'I Pass. As 'What to Say in Spanish and Ho ENDOPSED AT HOME. Such Proof as this Should Convince any Newberry Citizen. Tne pub!ie endorsenent of a local cit ize:, is t'.e best proof th&t can be pro due"d. None better, none stronLer can had. Wher a man comes forward and testifies to his fellow citizens, ad dresses his friends and neighbors you m%y be sure he is thoroughly convinced 1 or he would not do so. Telling one's e.xperience when it is for the public Rood is an act of kindness that should be appreciated. The following state ment given by a resident of Newberry adds one more to the many cases of Home Endorsement which are baing[ published about "The Little Conquer or." Read it: P. B Hutchinson proprietor of gen eral bousebold furnishing store on Main street says: 'I have used Doan's Kid nev Pills in my family with very bpne ficial etTect. We used them for kidney t1ouble and backache. Tbe relief given' was immediate and permanent I ob tained the pil!s .t W. E. Pelbam & Son's drua store and I can and do re ct-mmend them very highiv believing them to be all that is claimed for them. For sale by all dealers. Price 55 cents per box. Foster-Milburn Co. Buffalo. N. 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POSITivELY THE SHORTEST LINE BETWEEN NORTH AND.SOUTH. sWFor detailed information, rates, schedules, Pull man reservations, etc., apply to any agent of The Sea board Air Line Railway, or Jos. W. Stewart, Traveling Passenger Agent, Columbia, S. C. C. F. STEWART, AssI.Gen&.Pass. Agt., I SAVANNAH, GA. Clirlestoi l8I W83181ri 0a8ol1118 Rwr Ce. IW IIUL Augusta and Asheviflo Short Line. (Schiedule in effect August 1,1906.) (Bead Down.) (Bead Upi (Eastern Standard Time.) 12.46 pm.........Lv Newberry..... Ar 3.10 pm 2.7pm....L Larn..... A?U pm 8.30pm.........Ar Spartanbur'g.... Lv I2O01pm 80mLAlna(..)A.~p 8.40 pm.........Avprnrgnvill Lr 10.05 am OSa Ateap 7.15pm......Ar asheville...... L7 7.8mm m p rewod36p 12.46 pm..Lv Eewberry (CJ.aL.) 810 pm 2lp rCitn(l')L. 5p 1.50 pm......Ar Laurens...............L 2.02 pn' 1.56 pm..... 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