The Duncan Weekly Eagle. (Duncan, Okla.), Vol. 18, No. 3, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 2, 1911 Page: 2 of 10
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NOT EVEN ON HIMSELF
Silence
Ball — What Is silence T
Hall — The college yell of the school
V of experience — Harper’s Bazar
He that is taught to live upon little
oweB more to his father’s wisdom than
be that has a great deal left him does
to his father's care — Penn
Dr Pierce’s Plensant Pellets first put
np 40 years ago They regulate and invig-
orate stomacn liver and bowels Sugan
coated tiny granules
In this world one must be a little
too ‘kind to be kind enough — Marivaux
Mrs Whieiow' Soothing Syrup for Child res
teething softens the gutnn reduces Inflaram
MOB allay pain cures wind oullc 2ba a Louie
We are more apt to regret the things
ws haven’t done than those we have
LTHE KEYSTONE
TO HEALTH
IS
HOSTETTER’S
STOMACH
BITTERS
Stomach Out
o£ Order?
Bowels Weak?
TAKE A COORSE OF1
THE BITTERS
At Once II Will Do Ton Good
TrT ' V?
Splendid Crops
In Saskatchewan (Western Canada)
800 Bushels from 20 acres
of wheat was the thresher’s
return from a Lloyd
minster fHrm in the
leaaon of 1910 Many
fields in thataewellas
other districts yield
ed from 25 to 35 bu-
belt of wheat to the
aero Other grains in
proportion
LARGE PROFITS
J are (bus derived
Irons the F H F K
H DMC5TFAI) LANDS
of Western Canada
Thla eaceilroi bUoaing causes
prions to advance Lund value
Should double in two veurs lime
tirnlii grow Inc mixed form
tnsr cuttle ruUlng uud dairy-
ing are all irtliulle free
llomesteadsof lUOaereaare
to lt had In the very
(llAtrlrt 1 flo acre pre-rti i
tioiuHl 16300 peruere with
111 C'TtHln grettM Hl’hooiH HIM
(lilt relies in every sl I le-
nient elln’nte iinexeelled
soil the richest : water
and hul Id lug matarlai
plentirul v
For punlcolars as to location
low solders ruMsuy rates uiU
descriptive llhisiruted Dniiiphl' t
rj Best VcM” and other In
fornmt Ion write to th'p't of Imo-i
grattnn Ot'aws Cunudn or to
Cwuuilan Government Agent
W H ROGERS
I2S W Ninth St Kansas City Mo
Please write to the agent nearest you
the best medicine
'for COUCHS 6 COLDS
First Hobo — There's one thing to
my credit
Second Hobo—' Whst’s that?
First Hobo — Nobody can say that 1
over threw cold water on anything
THE TRUTH ABOUT BLU1NGL
Talk No 6
No thoughtful person uses liquid
blue Half cent's worth of blue a
targe bottle filled with water and tbs
delusion is complete
Always buy RED CROSS BALL
BLUE It’s all blue Nothing but
blue Makes beautiful white clothei
like new ASK YOUR GROCER
The Facetious Farmer
T am an actor out of work Can
you give me employment on your
farm?"
“I can But a day on a farm la
no 20-mlnute sketch
“I understand that
“All right Yonder Is your room
When you hear a horn toot about
4 a m that’s your cue"
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MADE the 300 mites
journey up to David
the capital of the
Province of Cblrlqul
In a coasting steamer
of the bouse-boal
type with open lower
desk and galvanized
Iron roof over all-
20 feet out of water
and only 6 feet draft
with lull load
David was founded
somewhat more than
a century ago by the
the first of the Pana-
mas Obaldias who
created a princely
royal grant of land
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Important to Mothers
Examine caret ully every bottle of
CASTORIA a safe and sure remedy for
Infants and children and see that it
Bears the
Signature of i
In Use For Over ioYeargT
Children Cry for Fletcher’s Castoria
estate from a
Mangote situated about 8 miles from
the town Is now In the bands of Ills
great-grandsons whose father was
lately president of the republic Be-
fore the revolutionary days many
Chiricano landowners maintained a
lordly estate in peace and prosperity
David Is an attractive place clean
and orderly as a Dutch burg and pic-
turesque as a Tyrolean hamlet Along
the broad drab lengths of the streets
are lined modest dwellings with
whitewashed walls red-tiled roofs and
blue and green doors and window
shutters The most pretentious resi-
dences are no more than two storied
frame structures with lb rooms at
most and a patio In the rear Of the
6000 Inhabitants perhaps 60 are ’’well
to do” lu the conventional sense of
the phrase The remainder are super-
latively poor measured by the stand-
ard of dollars and cents but passing
rich In fact by reason of having
everything that they need and probably alt they
desire Everyone seems to secure an easy live-
lihood but precisely how is difficult to determine
A hard worker is not to be seen but neither is
a beggar nor a vagrant and the municipality does
not boast any such Institution as an almshouse
However the matter Is divested or much of Its
mystery when one considers that land as prolific
as any In the world Is to be bad for the taking
and a man’s outfit of clothing consists of three
pieces — straw hat shirt and cotton trousers —
while a woman gets along very well with one gar-
ment and children are not encumbered to that
extent
Although the dry season was well-nigh spent
everything looked fresh and green the morning
that I galloped out upon the llano on’ iny way to
Dlvala My moso a long lean fellow with a
melancholy visage followed at a pace which he
never varied but which later experience taught
me could always be depended on to bring him
up with me at the end of a ride Man never
possessed a less appropriate name than his
Pantaleon— “panther lion” — was possibly be
stowed upon him In a spirit of Irony He was
profoundly self-possessed and had the commend-
able characteristic of confining his attention to
his own business and Just so much of hla em-
ployer’s as properly concerned him
Before us stretrhed one of the llanos which
lie like grassy Islands In a forest sea at Intervals
all along the Pacific slope of the Cordillera For
6 miles onward and 2 on either side of us the
ground extended In a sweep as level as a billiard
table and as preen With Its thick covering of
JenJebrlllo the tract looked strikingly like s bit
of the blue-grass country of Kentucky Here and
there a wild fig or a ceiho threw Its heavy-leafed
branches wide affording grateful shelter for man
and beast On every side the close ranks of the
forest trees hemmed the llano In and away be-
yond In our front rose the Jabbed teeth of the
sierra with the smoking cone of El Volcan pro-
jecting beyond the ruck
A well-worn erack indicates the shortest route
to the point where the road enters the forest
We keep It In sight for the sake of preserving
our bearirg otherwise one might ride unrestrain-
edly on the darkest night over this flat expanse
unbroken by gullies and devoid of burrows In
fact I have crossed It at a hand gallop In a
downpour of rain when my horse's ears were not
distinguishable and the blurred lights of David
made a lurid beacon patch In the distance
These llanos are the “commons” of the people
— the poor man's grazing ground We pass small
herds of from 10 to 20 head nibbling the herbage
which Is ample for sustenance but not sufficiently
rich and plentiful to condition them for market
Scattered over the range are a few mares with
foals at tbelr heels In this country they ride
and work only the male horses leaving the fe-
males constantly at grass This Is obviously a
bad system for It retards hereditary transmission
and results In the development of serviceable
qualities on one side only The animals are un-
dersized and the breed' poor the best strain being
derived from Peruvian stallions Despite his un-
promising appearance however the Panamanian
pony Is apt to surprise you with a wonderful dis-
play of stamina I have been carried fifty-odd
miles by one In twelve hours and found him fit
for a good day’s Journey the next morning They
are easy-going beasts with a single-foot gait and
If one will be content to ride them In the manner
to which they are accustomed quite as service-
able as the average mount to be picked up In
Central or South America it Is distinctly advis-
able however to get rid of the greasy hair bridle
of the country evpn though no better substitute
than a rleoe of clean rope Is avallnb'e Failure
to take this precaution once rest me a sore band
of which I waa not cured for weeks
Now and again a traveler Jogs by with a mut-
tered “Buenos dlas” — a salutation that la never
omitted by man woman or child The rider
wears a conical straw hat a cotton shirt (lap-
ping free In the wind and a pair of blue jeans
V '"kilty
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Bare feet are stuck In the wooden stirrups He
and bis steed are festooned with bags baskets
and packages tbs tout ensemble suggesting an
Itinerant Christmas tree Stuck under the saddle
flap or elsewhere beyond ready reach Is a rifle
or shotgun of ancient make probably unservice-
able and almost certainly unloaded Everyone
goes armed upon the road
Occasional reminders of less peaceful times
are seen In a small wooden cross set In the
ground and surrounded by a rude rail fence Indi-
cating the spot where some unfortunate met a
violent death In the commission of a crime Pan-
taleon rode alongside as I approached one of
these unconsecrated burying places that contained
two crosses With emotionless precision he told
the grizzly tale of two compadres who bad fallen
out and here bad fought to the death with their
knives
Compadre9 are bosom companions bound by a
bond closer than that of brotherhood Only a
woman can break that tie and when compadre
turns against compadre hell knows no greater
bitterness These two hacked each other until
they fell gasping and bleeding and foaming ajt
the mouth still jabbing with waning strength
They were found dead locked in each other’s
arms Perhaps at the very last the spirit of com-
padreshlp returned to soothe their passing
I put this reflection to Panta'eon but he de-
clared It more likely that they died cursing each
other and thinking of the girl My own conclu-
sion pleased me better but I felt bound to defer
to my moso's superior knowledge of the charac-
teristics of his countrymen
Presently the road entered the monte and we
rode between wooden walls reinforced by heavy
undergrowth At long Intervals we passed small
clearings where the settler had cut over the
ground burned the debris where It fell and scat-
tered his seed w-ltb a careless confident hand
The marhete Is the universal agricultural Imple-
ment A rlow has never been seen In the coun-
try Cultivation is neglected as an unneewsary
trouble Withal harvests are bounteous and re-
cur with the Infallible regularity of the solar Bys-
tem I saw fields of sugar cane that had yielded
rich crops for fifteen unbroken seasons and a
piece of land which has stood In corn contin-
uously for half a century
All over the Pacific alone of Chlrlqul Is a top-
soil from 6 to 28 feet thick formed by the vol-
ages from the mountain sides It Is rich as any
In the world but not one-hundred-thousandth part
of It has been turned to the account of man
Outside of David the population Is Icfr than four
to the square mile Apart from a score of rattle
rnlsers and coffee growers nolman produces more
than enottgh to meet his needs whilst markets at
their very doors are crying aloud for the poten-
tial products of the province Panama Is paying
high prices for Jamaican fruit and Cuban sugar
and American tobacco whilst these and many oth-
er Imported commodities can be grown within
her borders
The pathetic mystery of It Is that tens of thou-
sands are s'avlng In city sweatshops and facto-
ries or palnfu'lfr wringing a living from a reluc-
tant soil when land unlimited lies waiting to
richly reward any man who will cast a handful of
seed upon It
Ten miles out from David we came to Alanje
a pueblo of only a few hundred In-
habitants but a place of considera-
tion in this sparsely settled country
There are no hotels In tbe Interior
nor Is there need for them where ev-
ery door Is open to the wayfarer The
first glance around the plaza of
Alanje will decide the discriminating
stranger to head for the comrortable-
looklng frame bouse on the south
side with its inviting veranda Should
he not Immediately take that direc-
tion tbe little cura In his long black
robe la likely to come to the door and
shout a welcome
The mid-day breakfast at the cural
was an excellent meal reinforced by
good wine and euperb coffee The
pleasures of the occasion were height-
ened by tbe entertaining remarks of
my lively host He was very young
and very optimistic quite content
with his lot and properly Impressed
with tbe Importance of his work It
appeared to me that his life must be
a lonely and monotonous one but he
did not ybare my view of It He was
the only man of any education In the village but
two highways and several byways converge at
Alanjp and every few days he might look for a
passlR? visit from some intelligent traveler Hla
duties occupied three or four hours of the day
and t£e rest of tbe time be filled In with study
for his ambition pointed to advancement In his
calling whilst his environment had awakened an
Inherent taste for natural history
We left the table to walk over to the church
with Its curious detached tower I asked for the
records With righteous indignation blazing In his
eyes the little cura laid before me a pile of leather-covered
mantrsejipts molded worm-eaten and
torn Not a page was Intact hardly two consecu-
tive lines legible
"Such 'neglect Is crime" said my host fer-
vently "I need hardly say that the damage was
beyond arrest when these came Into my hands”
I fully appreciated bis feellngB Indeed I dare
say that my own regret was the keener Alanje
la older than David In fact Its hlBtory merges
with the times of the Conqulstadores and there Is
no knowing wbat wondrous tales may be hidden
In those sadly mutilated documents
”Our church has a legend” remarked the cura
leading me to a large alcove on the left of the
chancel Drawing aside a curtain he revealed a
life sized painting of the Christ In his final agony
It was evidently the work of an artist but did
not betray extraordinary ability
“I don’t know when this came here but It was
certainly before the present generation" the
cura explained with a slight- show of embarrass-
ment "The story goes that one evening a
stranger came to the village and declining shel-
ter elsewhere begged td be locked alone In the
church over night His request was granted
When the curious villagers came early In the
morning to look for him he had gone and the pic-
ture with the paint fresh and wet bung where
you see It”
I looked at the little cura questioning!
"Oh I don't know” he said with a shame-
faced smile and a shrug of the shuolders “At
any rate my people believe tbe story firmly and
It does them no harm”
On tbe road between Alanje and Dlvala we
crossed several streams A better watered coun-
try than this could not well be Imagined
Dlvala la a little settlement of 50 to 60 huts
and perhaps 300 Inhabitants who are entirely
dependent upon the ranch and Insure It a con-
stant supply of labor The people cultivate little
patches from which they derive almost all the
foodstuffs they need A few weeks' work In the
year at 60 cents a day will produce enough money
for clothing aud a moderate Indu'gence In the
luxuries that are to be had at the village trading
store
Dlvala la 15 miles from anywhere but the moat
unlikely place to look for an American family In'
a bungalow that has the appearance of having
been transplanted from a New Jersey suburb
Mrs Wilson has lived In this out-of-the-way cor
ner of the earth for five years and has hnd the
companionship of her Infant during the past
eighteen months There la not a woman of her
own race within 40 miles This Is lao'atfon In
deed and I suspected that she must find It Irk-
some though she would hot admit aa much
Twelve years ago Leslie Wilson came out from
California and settled In the neighborhood of Dl
vala with half a dozen Americans and Rrltlshers
Thus the settlement of Dlvala was formed and a
large proportion of the ranch turned Into Potrero
without a penny of outlay The disturbed condl
tlon of the country rpduced the prices of all prop-
erty and Wlleon was ab'e to buy the nucleus ot
his stock at very low figures
The owner of Dlvala haa worked hard and In
telllgently for ten years on the Improvement if
his property Today he has 5000 acres of aa fine
land as any In Chlrlqul well stocked and fur
nished with all the necessary buildings The
ranch Is easily worth 150000 Not a bad result
of an enterprise started twelve years ago with
3200 capital
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Woods, Lee. The Duncan Weekly Eagle. (Duncan, Okla.), Vol. 18, No. 3, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 2, 1911, newspaper, November 2, 1911; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1715197/m1/2/?q=War+of+the+Rebellion.&rotate=90: accessed June 30, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.