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STREET SCENE IN CARACAS 



In the towns of Venezuela the most fastidious can always be certain of the freshness 

 of their milk. It is the custom to conduct the cow in person, often accompanied by her 

 calf, to the door of the customer, and the operation of milking is performed in the presence 

 of the purchaser. 



SO occupied with foreign interests that 

 everybody is busy and revolutions are not 

 to be thought of, much less started. 



Panama is blest with some very fine 

 farming and fruit lands in the region 

 next to Costa Rica ; but nearly all of the 

 Panamans have gone down to the canal 

 zone region for the time being. Some 

 of the most beautiful tier r a templada 

 lands in America are to be found in the 

 Chiquiri country, and when the people 

 of the United States get acquainted with 

 the possibilities there, some of them are 

 going to settle in that region and make 



it a splendid example of the possibilities 

 of tropical America. 



It is not improbable that one of the 

 results of the completion of the Panama 

 Canal will be the realization by the people 

 of the United States that its safety de- 

 pends in no small degree upon the good 

 conduct of the governments of Central 

 America. That will mean a demand for 

 a new order of things in these countries, 

 which in turn will mean safe investments 

 for American capital. 



Then will dawn an era of development 

 and expansion in Central America com- 



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