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Show THE KING OF HARD DRINKS. Effects of "Ron," a Native Beverage of Panama. It Is said that during the construction construc-tion ot the Panama railroad for every tie laid a human life was given up, but this Is ono of those romantic lies which everybody likes to read but few believe. There were, indeed, a great many deaths; soma caused by legitimate disease dis-ease and some by careless living, and many by drinking a native beverage called ron. This latter liquor Is made from sugar-cane, and It Is such a drink that a Scotch highball Is pluk lemonade lemon-ade alongnlde of It. Taken In small quantities, it prevents pre-vents malaria, but taken In coplus draughts, as some men use It, It produces pro-duces life everlasting. Tho National. |