Evening Star Newspaper, November 26, 1898, Page 15

. SPENIN GA + mT 7 Ng 7 > > ¢ » spe ~ THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY; NOVEMBER 26, 1898—24 PAGES. 15 Z aoe = ————— a <= —— == = ——=— ——— = —— rothes was dying course, left for many minor objects of interest. Beginning fourth floor, and from my balcony T exn flea naediyiiikely-that thes aillretari 46 which the island is divided, that of Baya jour « window with me and. iake a shington, as the senor’s father. who is mon: in this section we find, not far bird's-eye view of Buenos Ayres. Below : - > = | very wealthy, is old and feeble, and it fs | eee aT distant from San Juan, the remains of the about_us Hes a vast ragged plain of one } probabl that it will be necess&ry for | z P M Ch first, Spanish pel lement Capatra, now and two-story houses, whose flat roof ep € F in ¢ ip! i nor de Elguera to remain nd ta | at alled Pueblo Viejo, or the ancient’ town, nade of bricks trick tiles or cor . Some Changes in the Diplomatic! Sire ee ee = Rico Possesses Many Charms and to which one might well pay a visit of l iron. Gome of them rise tien at . Tot: Among ihe late ac fons to the ccrps = - sentiment. } ers, and the wh: look ke a Corps at Washington. ee gs pears Citesia alate ates for Tourists and Invalids. Natural Wonders, lxreat Store Gocce SuninbEl Segetber etre a eS 4. Senor Brasil, who bears almost the identi- es als In Rio Piedras, reached by a tramway, is | narrow canyons, which are the str the governor general's summer palace, with J Away to the south sou see a few Smok a } t fine gardens of tro plants and trees. hotbed: SRREMS Harvenee the art or NEW PACES FROM SOUTH AMERICA FOUNTAINS OF PERPETUAL YOUTH) se=,esssem toniat ants and ken ee See enna ea oe = Sa waterfall, which precipitates its waters | ea from a gap between two gigantic pinnacle | Families of Distinguished Ambas- The Earlier Explorers Overlooked | rocks, and which sends forth a stream of | = much’ Volume, which disappears in a hole | ' . in a wall of rock, and probably plunges to | "4 sadors and Ministers. Many a Good Thing. sabverrancanidenthete Nésrathe samiencens \t also, there is 2 vast cave, called “the eave j sts _ - ———— of the Indians,” from the skeletons that , have been found here. ; Z 2 OT r SASON TES J VATERF. 3 > valle Arecibo, abo velve 1 Loli Ge oN AVES AND WATERFALLS | ,joneers trom tne town of that name 1 : Ss (connected by railroad with San Juan), ex- | y 2 % ists a curious cave which opens in the face w nen e diplomatic Safen Pebnie iis of a vertical said to be 300 feet in | a a of the W Rie Written for The Evening Star. mate: gy] height. Atter drawing aside the brambles Hy ¢ = = See ae T IS NOW JUST] that conceal the entrance the visitor fiads | I Ht xt New to present the three months since] himself in the first of a series of caverns, shes of th ents to Presi- our gallant soldiers| divided by arches, hung with most beauti s nt McKinley © will be decided under General Miles} {tl stalactites. One of these chambers is at | P ecieitnaes = least 100 feet across, and at its entrance e | “ SucE ate a aa landed at Guantea,| stands a colossal figure resembling the IN BUENOS AYRE < whe y r ere, for a ilar Island of Porto Rico, | statue of a human being. te nats : x = - : u and began those| _In the province of Utuado are three beau- y f | ~ promising operations | tiful cascades, Known the Salto de Mo- tangular blocks along narrow serge 8 a rones, Saltillos and C: izos, which are Was founded away back in 15 i which were so sum-| wel) worth visiting. In the district of Ca- jish freebooter, Pedro de Men¢ } ; marily closed by the} guana is a cavern called the “Cueva de los mete Neeew rer [named it “Buenos Ayres.” The % protocol of peace. } Muertos,” because when discovered it con- 3 [mecan “good “alr.” but Mendoza di * Since that time near-| tained human skeletons, and was probab or : |r thu: i he a cemetery of the ancient Indians. A A Description of the Metropolis of | ix cood. tt is not. The death rate it high | nd ly everything has) Gitia, on the west coast, is famous for P B |More than a thousand people died here | » Diack been written about} perpetual fount and stream of purest wa- eyi st month, and the average is over per comin through the ¢ the island, it would] ter, which gushes forth from a hillside and South America. Just now the fog over the city is as < ack Dien wet seem, which nearly everybody desires to | flows through the streets of ethe town, cite 255 k as that of London. For a long time math the gertors. 2 aes Here, it is a tradition, Columbus watered air was so bad that lockjaw was a per city Mr. Assis de Brasil, Know. We have been told that it is para- , few 1 ‘ his caravals and ships, when, on his second I most eni It tekes a hey’s bare f These are the parks The Erazilian Minister. disiacal, coming but a little short of a] voyage, he discovered Porto Rico. IN MANY WAYS IT 18 THE ARGENTINE | treo roca nau to tonnes Meagjaee in th twelve in the ng in ef the country he repr heaven on earth; also that it is infernal, Caves and Waterfalls. [United States. Until recently you cou four to twelve Be 1. He is of a dark ees down well toward the confines of] tn the province of San Sebastian are two + get it here by. simply opering your mouth river Plaza de at nd eyes, and | the “other place.” Now comes Acting Con- ia Maen Saga toes Suenos es get its name | th t ernment ! M great caves, in the district of Guajateca . ag eileen ss knca Bit ; - hee ‘ ments. He is | ae i nae merece eran |i z m iis superfluons ozone. Mendoza, like | cial center o: ity < s for a| #8ainst accepting Porto Rico at its face |1a20, thermal waters in the district of Po- ‘dit in’ ty, ‘ Brazilian en- aoe : __|zas, and a swift stream called the “Sona- pidity in Recent Years. on ind: Buenos Ayres ell, after all has been said, what Is Its | aor” because of the noise it makes in times Be aioe aes chien (neat valuer to thesAmentoan looking, fora |lsract rier n Hie WncovincstOnliares) 1k)a a she certain. | Country where work will be easier and his » of lange dimensions called the Pajita, | ayENx FROM ‘LHE HOUS as a bride last | burden lighter than in this? He has tried | jguany very famous; while in that of Mayas | >= 3 : when the Klondike and it has not panned out so} guez—which, by the Way, contains a very x es Cit bobee & very rich, after all. Now he turns with | attractive city of the Same name—in the Hes FECEEO ORDA [a ater ee eon oey Ou neLs extLe tne is a cascade of great beauty. (Copyrighted, 1898, by Frank G. Cary , He Teeeare twa leh isi ante rete oe = ene ee provinee of Cabo Roj aE hy Special Correspondence of The Evening Star | ‘ k s island is really o c st nit deposits, or s itherto = oes y SK imily, daugnt rs of a forme: pa AE tion within that ch ned globe girdle lered ate propert Sabana BUENOS SYRES, October 12, 1898. | who hive n placed in school at @) petween the two American tropic: ande is a cascade worth looking at, : UENOS AYRES And it is a fact that Porto Ri the) (inp inenciatrich Gtanavotalianringior yates |e t ae “hileay and | 4 in the district of Rayo a spring of water the London, the N cu Chilean min an | first tropical country. we have ever pos- | 2iqt) be very efficacious in hydrocele and SS 1 by ; Mendones on Coa. | sessed. It is the only territory under the | other complaints. In the districts of Ca- ork, | eso tine fap | American flag and on the Atlantic coast BoWavideplava provincerotennnecs art the Argentine Repub- ie liniter We | Where we can raise our own coffee, tea » found the remains of an ancient settle- lic. It is even more. a man of 2 wealth and of in- | PeThaps. cinchona, ee ant Ut trop- | ment, probably aboriginal, and specimens fe AIH) oe fluence in Chile. He has held some of the | 1a! fruits. Tropical agriculture will in the | o¢ tes and marcasite. Goal cal meee near future eng: the attention of our ag in this province, at the ford of the called y, bucolic scientists, and it has already been amaaco “on Goniober thal theslsalave | itself. It controls announced that the Department of Agri- a that curious experiment of holding & his country as no Mt Z OEE t d that curious experiment of holding a this country seviatincs culture will soon send a man, or men, to | Spaniard’s head under water for hours to Erin Bo tS Sek Argentine Minis investigate its methods and profits. prove whether or not he was immortal. nem oRIAAH AE GE ht ew Year pa- A Restricted Pictd. They found that he was not, and, having Spas & 2 nsion, for be- EAI EHEN ENE ATOM CA CrOLe Tee a MIOHIRS their report to the cacique Agueyna- supposed to domi} for ne i he will have ‘ eee De : the latter at once went on the warpath nate. It an old Re niece near welll ion, I should that there is likely to be | agiinst the Spaniards under Ponce de Leon. saying that Paris is aker e English em- an opening in this direction. But, at the ur the city of Ponce, two and a half Tearicot WShe Jeonor bass n Connecticut avenue. Sir Julian best, it will be a somewhat restricted field. | Kilometers to the northeast, are the famous t that 2 aK aoe re passed the age of retirement By exercising the same energies and pa-|] baths of Quintana, which are celebrated S° to the extent that Buenos Ayres i acc xperience and tience that are necessary here to insare | i# the island and in Spain for their curcs. | Argentine. There are a half dozen different : , nae tee ‘ this eeu earl Bapcee dO tarmine’ apubiless ar eammen cen Mountain Resorts. cities in France which are independent | Spanish cut throats of his time, had a rte olsa or stock exchang Seal sia ac ean advance more rapidiy in Porto Rico | In Barros is a fine waterfall, and in Bar- | Commercial centers. Paris is by no means | regard ee Pie Geel See Cee ‘he ticaalan ike Goran than in this country. But he will be ham-| ranquitas another, in the rainy season. | all France industrially. She is so artistieal- | CY after the Mirgin | Maria de Sg og erreg da ees er Se : a pered by man os ngs not likely here. 1 | TWO locally popular mountain resorts are | ly, socially and perhaps intellectually. | peultion before aciwing ‘i | Bpengie ; dele Ha sae tobacen, cacao and coffer. and ee td | Adjuntas and Aybonito, the former fifteen | Buenos Ayres is the poll | the sixteenth and seventeenth cen- | ich the futur / epitney get atti te a tales es Ae BAGG EhE tO SCDEISE ‘ea grow | miles from Ponce and 2,400 feet above sea | Argentine. It is its comm turies Asuncion, Parag: and Cord alt ablic is © Julian. That honor ts bestowed for length ncueh i sore Palmas: ero Sate St anaes CONCERT industrial capital, its financial, soc 1 | day’s ride by train west of here were far | This avenue has already cost 10,000,00 wuld — ee a ilies away from a market. He t frommPoncelts Han nua aren intellectual canitaly molidieally, theaugst ot weco mien nasa stenpe See ee some | aiate ae 9 ite sees! n sador w ot of the line in- pete with natives to whom choice viar : t Santi ae an anos | Jams remained a settlement of mud huts streets he wor The Mead otal Y AS See ee kennel tage res tom choice viands are | above the sei, and used as an acclimatiza-| the Argentine congressmen are Buenos | although lots 30 yards front and th through which it goes was in torial duties int arming to SHiceas quitea eure athe Thea aeacennia (dom static Spaniards, the climate | Ayres citizens, Many of them who repre-| miles deep could be bought for # suit Spanish days lig ' th B Italy's repre- climate will be against him. He wi ine | being very ayey is unother moun- | sent far-away ts practice law here. | 0ld clothes. In the seventeenth century mare's grease. N ei sentative. will re » which fo uteevcl Mya will toy clertottie fonesta cual till ||CAuy aCe a iat ata Oreo uaner vetteae | hey, livesin) the city theryenn round) als) 20Ne Oheteieaital Mipee Orne Coy wert sma ae: cs iis he held so tong Wash- the land, but in a few months climatic In- | as {lies at an elevation of 2.300 fect above | Gough they may now and then go to svo {Old for a white horse and a gultar. To- em : é ington was rais fluences will be toa, strong for him, and he | Sea level. Coamo, which was taken by y rw day the average value of the land per Mayo co Th pu will probably spend more time in une shade, | AMerican troops in August last, has a] their constituer The republic is com-/ square yard is over aud the house est building upon it is the c Gern lolling in a hammock, than working in the | Wonderful mineral-medical sprit which | posed of tien boroughs supplicd by | property is said to be worth over $300,000,- | Which looks more like a governme ty J hiro sur Sur piles the EY OH baths of stab- | Buenos Ay men. The result is that eons & que Nees nee fous piglets art rag tha ie 4 ies ¢ Consul Hanna also advis ishment which has long ex SERS eolgaeoe ante eal 1en our Declaration of Independence was | Covers more than 4 it wi M Sebith to Porto Rico as a place known the “Banos de Coamos. when Buenos Ayres takes snuff the whole | signed there we in this | It is seldom full, howe pre atl t ait wat temperature of the water is about Argentine sneezes. region and es, The | Buenos Ayres is the lergest Catho! cit : : 1 little. But, even so, erees centigrade, and it contains, Industrially, Buenos Ayres has 95 per | colony, h gun to make money out | the world. Ninety-six per cent of allt é pea ? 1 now have an adv ing to Spanish analysis, carbon acid, | cent of the factories of the repub’ It has | of negroes icfiy out of negro slave people in the Argent are Roman ¢ athe wi rivals will mis sulph-hydric acid, chloro 1,earbon- | more than 300, employing over 12,000 hands. | The best families then lived in thatched | lic men fa frst F drs. de Brasil. Ot vas ' Ges ate of lime, sulphate of lime, magnesia, iron, | The great volume of foreign trade, now | huts, but they ate their meals from dishes | ®* wom Jot wild h nought ete. It is clear and limpid, with a power- | amounting to more than two hundred mil- | of s« Iver, being waited upon by thee sual ear Britis r thin the gift of | her SOMO OEAIE ful sulphurous odor, and gushes forth in | lion dollars a year, passes through it. T.s | own negroes. When John Quincy Ac the our ; = . . a 4 is of an ex- | 3 great volume wholesale houses supply the republic with | Was President enos Ayres had 22,044) peo- | ©: y fo s . i Ur . eaury has | Asa Health Resort. Ae SR AniIe ER etIee: goods. There are, in fact, only two places | ple. During General Grant's first term in | #nt sare x s k her mis the | Still. w ii may b> im to predict Se Rene ane ore in the Argentine—Buenos Ayres ana the | the White House it had less than 178,000, | Re of these churehes is : , women. | the outcome of a : here, either || Tt 18 to be hoped that the practice will) Camp, Buenos Ayres is Buenos Ayres. | and when Cleveland began his second ad- | Methodist Chureh, whose pa sano : ’ te ones lan tahun: cacti TEL BHDA CEE EAAT continued which has always prevailed e Camp ts all of the Argentine outside | ministratton X years ago, its citizens | min. Dr. \\ ite a As week < ; ps | nies ee 6, of having certain of the baths placed | of Buenos Ayres. | number W. Its great growth has eres 4 1 Bh state By Rico is certain to be a ican Geet nov As toh yoen tnineche veaeh | Commercially and financially Buenos | thus been within the past thirt ere ee ee ae . (ee Vict transtecr : | SU ee Lee ee tO ate | pape AAS ARE, GUA EMI | ee ntine. It has the b: | A City of Shreds and Patches. S cee MCAS beak’ Mismamun . be p ; eh Ww hy and peripatetic invaiids of t (SUSI Coe) Mah Ste UT ose . which supply republic with money; big | i : see: x c cite be Rte Ee -< } and tha ant im i States Juana % contains the mineral waters of | banks, wtih fine buildings; banks with de-| Buenos Ayres ts a queer city. A city Ok ance ther Sextet Pe ae 2 hey Eoinuw to. ther Bernuane: “ whieh are not ¢ in use locally of from $0,000,000 silver dollars down. | made up of shreds and patches both as to| Pus of them in otber letters. | The . : nether cental amas, even to the Windward ISian for bathing, but ottled and sold in 1 one with a capital of $50,000.00). but | architecture and man. As to r it has | aways thought that New Yorkers, I Ee > de Sper South America, in search of curcive Ponce, being efficacious in stomach trou-| this was closed by the failures which} people of nearly every race. Three hun-|iins and Chieagouns were a ‘ : | ters anda tropical climat Hee it far away 1s a great cavern, in | Startled the financial world and made the| dren thousand of its residents are Italians, | 4 : . tee te- | region containing the much-s I ie eas: bal ring Brothers tremble, its depositors | 90,000 are Spanish, about 30.000 French and | 1 st F t sM r Romero after | Ration has hitherto been un‘ Perhaps t wonderful of these | losing $70,000,000 by its breaking repos | the remainder Germans, English and Ar- r Mex b ye | flag. In the Bermudas, even caver the group known as | *¥res has its stock exchange, where he | gentines. The Argentines proper do not | = ; F s i vat | ling hotels are run by American Bue Ge NE CER Argentine’ is bought and sold in parcels. | probably number over 150A, and they | I st in w : ds, and visiiors from a> United Through one of them, known as La Oscura, | #24 where stocks and bonds rise and fall | are the only real citizens in the sense that is thaS She mene a whe saw y De CE jon> prevent the islands from deca runs the river Caguitas, which pursues its | #8 Buenos Ayres thinks them good or bad. | they e and take part in the gove r Ps seek { © oriental countries will be yet we cannot acquire holdings of 1 course as a subterranean stream for more | On this exchange more than haifa willicn | ment. The rest prefer to keep out of poli- | resente al, but there will | there We are looked upon a » | than 1,200 feet. The others are called La | §0ld dollars’ worth of stock 3 floated | ties and the army, for the foreign resi- hi his off bin ¢ Miistes Rua dacs. Ae ith | Which, indeed, we ar nd have wo 4 leiica cannbabenereent es ; during the ten years ending in 1888. When | gent here has every property right of th ; »Y : > | = ae ne at the, Chinese ee | Becullar to residents Under their own { The Indians made use of these dar the panle came 00 per cent of the compa | citizen, with none of his military obliga- k E s feeli thei retinu tt the Chinese le- But in Porto Rico we shall soon asihiding, 5 fro S a nies failed, 201 mest of the shares are now } tions. t en ssed in the corps ra most ch summer at | every right we enjoy in te Unite! States, | Me latter deere cornu, epameTes Wig | not worth’ 1 per cent of their face value. | Most of the foreigners stick to their old | ac, | ss she w In fact, the seashore quite | and added the reto a tropical ciimat> and | death. In some of them—as we have seen— | 2 everthale both elty and country | nationalities, although some of them would | “T referred to the above F th America. his excelleney, Minister Wu, and ne are fou means! On ee neat youth.” | have been found Indian skeletons, and an Bee eee Bann ates en ane oe Aare esl oe Gey to eo. tee eo Lae |e tae ter. Said lEfounded rumors ‘that. he ce de Leon, who was once ¢ othe fe peculia nanufactures 0 e Dee os Ayres ts eis one « e few countrie ch | abou © Argentine self So eased cere nat Re! the island, was not quite satisticd with tts | red Toone co Ra NS tee ares os imc | Argentine. ‘The most of the money made| have no extradition treaties,” Grime talaga abere a6 Rieu indulged in dane ind swimming less advantages, and undertook a voyase in| plements and curious pottery. Gold, for | 1% the Camp ts spent here. The city from everywhere have taken advantag. ica who cout stir up tl At all even © is a thoroughly up-to-lite arch of the foun of rejavenescence, [the acquisition of which the Spaniards | Sores of millionaires, nabobs who | this, and it is sald that there are more | bere by com’ to vis diplomat, and if he thoaght it were wise | Which resulted In the discovery cf Florida. | hounded the Indians to death, 1s still found | Wn their half million acres of land and) men living under assumed names here than | Hung Chane would cir The fountain he sought was really in tke |in'the sands of the river Luquillo, in the | Who count their cattle and sheep in herds | in any city of the world. This is expecially | Ayres from any one but the Bahamas, but he made another voyage, in | Castern part of the Island. -F. A. OBER. | of thousands. They may go to their farms | so as to the emigrants from Italy, and until | tery tickets, who, you knoe , and was wounded by an Jndian ‘ar- = af pd in the summer, but their winters are spent | ently it so as to some of those from | ery new arrival. All we w row, which caused his death. ‘hat the a in their palaces here, where they give royal | our countr whether ik Spanis story of his death was caused by heart Daintily Sweet. entertainments and pay a thousand dollars | A year or so ago, it is said, four Amer- | 3 ed that | eter on being pr sented by a Dill for | From the Philadelphia Times. for a season box at the opera house. BS wes chatting koeetbee in one of the | card by a Florida hotel proprietor is a Anis: Bone . areata The Tes: a on, | Cafes of Buenos Ayres, when three of the | h ; cious fabrication on its fai Here are some excellent suggestions | The Booming Towa of South America. CROW A ASRan YOR EOC cee ohn ite wae aie | Ascantines * sikeana’ nite ai, about perfume which, if followed, will keep | The Argentine is growing fast in popu “ ie grew angry 2 sate: vy) save char f their own, ond Whit Bonce denticanttwinesa fourth. He grew anury and said They hay b , ; ae kt 3 ‘ e milady as sweetly fragrant as a rose, al-| tion. It has on its seven league boots com- | “Well, gentlemen, you may sneer me | aft sssociating them f a while si while we will accord all due respect } though the fragrance will be but the sug-| pared with the United Stat. It trebles | if you please, but T want you to eder- {vou fine yourself as they do. At ts ones Pe Been fer iis maty viniues| aon of faccance ituply a tres eect | ue sepiision eviy Wbiniy Scare ghd i | stand that there ig at ieast one of the [home 1 took ty meals in goed America Ns eerie ee ue cea etree As a foundation there is nothing bet- | now has more than four miilion people. | out fear of the sheriff. I know none of you} man. Here tam coffee ir a pene ee ee td eb aE eneve r than orris, the pure Italian orris that | Buenos Ayres grows even faster than the | ¢ y as much.” the morning. 1 « At no: ee es AUC OL a. a ue lin LAG ae is imported in large Jars. With this large | rest of the country, It is jumping upward ther hard on the Amer- | and about 5 o'cl g rather t iol he ade oO 2 sout 0. J ; S ago, before lost 01 ner= o y own sur se, ind my- rimenis for the w at i eae a phe ps : a silk pads are filled, one being placed at the | at the rate of a hundred thousand a year. ee EL RC Lets lane ina ay wera ree ra 9 a ttle season Was badly beaten and dticen bake heme | Pottom of each drawer in the chiffonier. | It has now 800,000 people, and by the end ESGrSInGMUMY ahs Wan aenersiNer. Ute xcat OE ake eae ean 8 ie acts Stk: ME Meevoo with a damaged reputation. In Florida, a Little silk sachet bags are filled with it and ] of the century its people claim that it will | and those who have been coming within re- | have been tempted a ber of times ta oe as we have se-n, he w finally discomfited, | sewn in the sleeves of each frock, and even | number more than a million. One-fifth of | cent years are men of high standing. Some | buy a ticket in the lottery, and have on : 2 ae and in the island itseif tie Indians ¢: in the bottom of the skirt, At the shoulder } all the people in this country live in Buenos | of them have large interests here, and at | three different days stopped on the steps M ape ee him more than he could uttead to, for of each chemise there is put a silk sachet, | Ayres. ; present the Americans as a class are much | of the stock exchange, Wondering if I coult asks se { | while, confining him and hic friends to the | attached to ribbons and daintily tied to the | ‘The city grows like a green bay tree. It | respected. not make a pretty venny by going in Begs = haa j [Settlements they had founded on the coasts. | shoulder. These are embroidered with Ini- | increases more rapidly than any city in the | Architecturally Buenos Ayres is a pateh- | betting on the rise and fall of gold. I thir ® Per . : It was owing to the fact iuat during bis | tials in white. For the bath little cakes of | United States. Long ago it began to take | vork city. I have rooms high up in one of | if I stayed here I should become an Argen- co k white residenc? in the island the Indians held the | sweetne that effervesce and dissolve | in all the adjoining territory. When it had | its biggest hotels. Th gh in piicc, | tine boomer, and might—God forbid—absor) Re irterior region that he acquainted | when thrown into the water, imparting a { its great boom on the edge of the panic all | as 1 as in altitude ¥ cost me eight | some of the Argentine character st wit springs having cursive virtues | delicate fragrance almost imperceptible, al- | out doors was platted out in lots, and| Arg-ntine dollars 2 day. 1 am on th FRANK G. CARPE oR within the confines of his own domuin. | though lasting, should be used. A simple bee tive es cue tt none nt = oa = = < ” acai ‘ d he be night have gone off | bath powder may be made by mixing violet | tlons amounted to abou yall ae == = : © 5 oking for Florida, and suis Hfe might | with orris and keeping it in a large cut | enough land has been built upon to make SOMETIMES DANGEROUS TO INQUIRE.” Mrs. Mere. Mrs a Mereu The New ttt stess except when Mrs. b Idle 0! Komura is not Het Q str m Washington and has gone we = far as Chi investiz: schools while en route. Their many friends w:li regret to learn | Lo jon. where he is that Secretary and Mrs. de Elguera of the | the 16th of December, Peruvian’ jegation have returned to Lira. turn here in February They sailed on the 14th of the menth. | will establish the Siam Menor Aa Elauera reecived word tha: hs | Acti ington. ‘Turkish sates Mistster. ie other mule LY. so for 1 has always will not only be mm will be put to | ter arrived Mon- | rast personally to | sum Hete ot | but h \ summe Ye are mn the sh envoy, Madame Ver hinks he will do so. et legation is with. Sidky Be is on from Phya Visa ating the industrial He witl sail for also accredited, on bul exnects to re- at which ume he j its towering have be-n prolonged and of a fruitful them poets deprived However, there having hot and more than locally famous, Rico. Th alone would prove = of many fortunes in the Uni and these alone will Goubtiess attract investors leoking to the erection of hotels and i- tariums. is, in the first plac oO. ZO) Lin the isl:nd; that is, none up to the grad2 of the as otel at our scaside and mountain re San Juan, | the capital, with i t walls fortificatio unsurpassed ancient structures identiied with When American history was young; its pop- ns, its ulation with fore speecn and dress, and its g and mouniain views, will certe t a large number of winter visitors, not to mention the go there from busin» olive that plac ir headquar: Delightfully Diversified. snificent mountain road connects an with the fine city of Ponce, on the southern coast, giving a glorious drive in coach or diligence of seventy miles. And it will be hard to find a stretch of country more delightfully diversified than this, with mounta deep gorges, hills covered with trec and bamboos, high- ways lined with cocoa palms, plantations on which coffee and cacao are cultivated, and others devoted to tobacco and sugar cane. In a general way, then, there are climate and scenery, which ank first as attractions to a summer or winter resort; there are quaint specimens of architecture and quainter peopl finally, special ob- Jects for invalids, in the springs. While translating the gist of a Spanish book on Porto Rico, recently, I took pains to note a few of the natural objects therein ment:on<d; which m‘ght interest the gereral traveler. Aside from the natural features se legation at the of coast and country, and the artificial features of town and city, there are also glass bowl, with an immense powder puff | @ Vast city, and that a most solid one. put temptingly on top. A massage with | ‘The houses are not detached as ours. Ianoline ointment is also recommended for | They are built in blocks of four acres, each ennai surrounded by narrow streets. Some of th pace eee tions are so crowded ‘that the peo} pt swarm in them like bees. In others there teult Case. are wide stretches of bare fields. The city From Puek as it is laid out is eleven miles from end Patient—“You are worried about my case, | to end, and a ride around it is as long as Becton ole Saeineouretane from Washington to Baltimore. Within its : s a boundaries there is twice as much ground Paso 0; not exactly. as in Paris, and it has a ater number of Patient—"Tell 1 me the truth, doctor; stores and busine: proportion to went to know just what you think. its population than any town in the United Docior—“Well, to be quite candid with] States. You find stores everywhere, The vu, I was worrying about your bili. You| are miles of them. The reason aven't paid me a cent in two years.” there are few stores outs It bh ‘Tempted. From Harper's Weekly at suburban population of our cit wants supplied by their h , but who come into the city for busi- s Ayres is a Span gest’ Spanish-spe It is almost twice and three times as big as Ba Spanish character, however. past, and it is fast developing a mun:eijal individuality of its own. It will elways have the Spanish language, but the popu- lation will be a mixture drawn from the four quarters of t earth. Today more than haif of the population is foreign ana the city itself is fast losing its Spanish character. The hou n the new aveau which have been recently made, are nor like those of Paris than Madrid.’ The Ave nida de Mayo is a wide boulevard, with an asphalt pavement. The buildings apon it make you think of those of the Champs Elysee, and there is a total absence of the flat, low one-story structures of old Spain. It is the same with some of the busia-ss blocks which have been erected since Buc- nos Ayres began its rapid growth. The History of Buenos Ayres. The most of the buildings, however, are low. For a century or so’there was_not a | _ynouisitiy: two-story house in the city: The town | \farphy—How de I find the crops-isit was laid out in the Spanish style in rec- l eny way!” : It is of the adrid elona. Its longs io the 1 city king city s big a the bij world. A Moraiize 1ow weak one is, and how easily one yields to temptation! A-Husband—“I shouid say so. My wife went to an auction last week to buy stove and she bought a refrigerator.” | ~Tourisi—“And how. do you ifind-the cropsthis year=Murphy % - : Sure, your honor, ‘tis by digging for ‘em