The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1893-10-11

relies. educational facilities and prod
ucts. There are wonderfully complete
collections OF wOods-sOme OF them
not even named and many fine vari-
cites wholly unknown ID the markets
-Guatemala and Venezuela each ex-
hibifing over 100 kinds These ex-
haustless treasures in fine merchant
able woods, good for costly furniture.
for veneering. etc. viii count in the
future. For the present. about ten
kinds Is all that our dealers and build
ers and architects are acquainted with
or care for. There are cloths Of every
description. made Of native Wild cot
ton. Of silk. of sheep or guanacO wool,
and there are embroideries, tapestries,
aRTtaiEs, hangings, ieatherware Of all
kinds, as well as pottery, terra Gotta,
iniaid fuFnitBre, tools and weapons
and utensils fashioned IN metal OF IN
shell, wood or vegetable ivory The
similarity Of all these products, as veil
of those made by the hand Of Ensn ns
those grown In the soil, is a striking
feature IN nearly all these buildings
Guatemala and Costa Rica, Venezuela
and Colombia and Ecuador. This IS
due partly to the similar climatic and
soil conditions. partly TO the fact that
industry in those countries Is nearly
altogether IN the hands Of native In
dian races and of the half-breeds. the
Latin-Ameriesn population proper pre-
ferring to buy imported goods from
EsrOpe.
All Of them have made strenuous ef-
forts % esptsre the American market
for their coffee. sad for this purpose
several OF these ceatFal American
states have started cpen-aiF refresh
ment places where their coffee Is served
either gratis OF al cost price. As
mater Of fact, the Guatemala coffee is
Of ss.sf superior quality lit took first
prize st tf6 Paris exposition in 1850
as 70 successfully vie E,tl The Java and
Mocha. These eoffccs have i.ct bad
much of market in this country here
tofore, but il IS safe to predict that
tsom now on they VIII be consumed
very largely.
Guatemala, the assst northern Of the
Central American states, IS also the
most progressive, IL one may judge b.
she exhibits made at the fair. OF al
foreign nations she is the only one
that has sent Hs Q band Of her native
musicians without eNp6gtipg any pay
or money equivalent for the serviOc.
This band. the Marimba band, IS made
up of four native Guatemala Indians,
whose gift OF music and Of compost
ton comes to them By birthFight,
the Indians there (Quiehes and Kaeli-
quelesl being not only G doeile, gentle
and intelligent race. but also natural
musicians of a high order. Their
music, composed by themselves. is Of a
highly melOdi0us character, and the
songs this Marimba band plays every
AFTERNOON Just outside the Guatemala
building, sseb as Belle Guatemala"
''El Artesano.' mi Patria,r la
Mica" and others, sfs delightful 70
listen TO.
They nse the curious instrument. |
p marimba, from which the band |
salSes is nsme. a sort Of hylophone, |
made Of 81 pieces % different native /
woods. each of a different ieagth and !
breadth and depth, loosely fastened |
TO frame, and about feet long, SC 1
that the four musicians play on il |
with slender reed tubes. the point
covered with a rubber inclssHFe. at |
the same time This instrument has
a full, sOnorous sound, some notes /
closely resembling those of the pal
thetie cello, others moro like the vibra- j
ting. tender notes of the violin. and 4
the players Observation-Disclosures, |
the two brothers Chavez and Molina
it with exquisite skill
In the Colombia building there is a
very fine collection of golden Indian
antiquities, viz: ornaments fashioned
in pure. yellow gold and dating from /
before the period of the Spanish con-
quests There are several hundreds
Of these interesting and intrinsically |
valuable objects on view there in a
large case, and the money value of
half dozen of them is extremely |
high There are bFesstplates and
siadems. pins and buttons, armlets,
earrings and finger-rings. vases and
seals. boxes and even shields made of
the solid yellow metal. The museum
lt Bogota has loaned these priceless
baubles 10 the exposition In the same
are some feather paintings
Df the finest quality, in feet. the most
beautiful and perfect of the whole
fair They are skillfully and patiently
of the breast and neck
feathers of the smallest birds of para
iise and eolibris. and 50 small are
these that it requires a close Ocular
examination to become convinced that
he whole picture is made OF feathers
.nd not painted in oil.
An Indian, by name of Juan Velez,
,f Bogota, is the artist. who has made
Ihe prettiest of all these pictures
scene in the virgin forest. white he
IONS standing in a small bayou, and
the trees being alive with birds and
Colombia, too. shows the
prettiest and gayest native silks.
Cozrr Ria has a full and rather