The Republican journal., 1897-08-26
[ asst Days in Guatemala.
s-ere,. he Picturesque Capital of the Province
of Tepan.

At1EtS VI l. l1t Uous Hal.
.-. 4tFMALA, LA NUEvA, July LIST,
II IS sad to think that when com
.. pens this country its charm will
,- 50 il has been in Mexico. When
,sd that country first, only about Is
..I, 5-o, Just before the two main lines
vav were built, it was as primitive,
,esgue and altogether as charming a
.. AS could be found on the earth's
LTD G.. The Nile region of to- day is not
ant as was old Mexico, with it's
ID OF Thorns'' streets and "Body
.Iust' pulquerias, its bull fights and
-.. n plays, its bonnetless senoritas and
seoed hidalgoes and zeraped lower
4-.>. lie customs and traditions of the
lld early Spaniards almost intact.
w. owing to the mighty influx of
4 North Americans and the pro
era OF Dictator Diaz, all this is
q. and not entirely for the better.
always and manufactures and
agricultural implements have
displaced peon labor and Indian
ms and the forked stick pillow of
day; the pious nomenclature
uquistadores has given place to
ike John Smith street, instead
ale del Madre de Dios: the Pas
y and the bull fight are super
poker and bacarat, horse racing
10 lighting, to the accompaniment
wliskey in lieu of native pulque;
~ erstwhile the prosecutors, are
.e prosecuted, nuns and monks
into exile, converts robbed and
Te1, the ring of church bells and
alng OF priestly garb forbidden
IN Of intidelity begun: and, sad
i'll in the line, a beauty lost forever;
eless, soft eyed senorta, in her
ZIG lace mantilla, such as enhanced
a1ns of the grande danes of Old
Is merged into a calculating,
--tl, upto date young woman, in
millinery and fashionable turbe-
will presently be in Guatemala.
canning locomotive will jerk the
g.. trom coast to capital in single
ere in the good old times it took
. # blessed yagabondage, of mule
ling and canoeing, of hammock
and al fresco feeding on wild
1d tortillas and broiled monkey
he modern way of getting into q
ed car and being fired, as it were
lark Of our destination, may be a
and more comfortable mode of
bur it will rob these strange coun-
heir natural flavor Therefore
advise all genuine travellers who
ate visiting Guatemala. to do 50
The projected railways are built
ommercial era, already inaug-
Las wrought the ruin OF romance
uty
the most important of the sew
,> now i'll process of construction
uom Livingston 70 Coban, dis
III l-0 miles, OF thereabouts, which
Yl.a .t ne coffee region of Alta
I... aa. SO encourage the extension
.'ae coffee plantations) that the
n-.a now all 20 to England, may
..~ come to our markets and give
at1n Of what good coffee really
otd Will pass through the ma
ud pine forests north of the Lago
and viii be comparatively easy
ct, and sure to pay its way
inst train. To-day all the cot
1T prolific region is taken by OK
nsos and shipped to Livingston
fger steamboats,, at very heavy
but the time is at hand when
Her VIII look in vain for the
ne camps Of the oX-dIivers by
>ide, for they and he, and the
Ia other freight, will all be whirl-
Ga the Incompatible scenery in a
Is Travelling up the Rio Dulce
lern steamer one feels like rude
nto Nature sanctuary. Once
lp the river in a dory, spending
week between Livingston and
the latter village at the head of
ION, on the smaller Rio Polochie;
~ the centuries slipped away like
lat is told, back to the days of the
e-ors. Three hundred and sixty
~ Cortez and his handful of adj
IS sailed and rowed and padded
anne watery track-from the sea
sweet River" thence through
if sse-like ''Golfete," and the narrow
Ase into the broad Lago de Yzabel,
to the crooked river Polochie.
LIE saw the same palm matched
>s-or some just like them, the same
4-..-. followed from single logs of ma
-al or cedar. The bows of their YES
s> ere set toward the same apparently
40r ken mountain wall; as they sped be-
4 lie breeze the high limestone cliffs
part, just enough to let the river
-u, and Immediately behind them
-e'e. to close up and shut out the world
-eN -ly as to-day. Like Cortez, we
Explorers, eagerly watching the
fas> not for enemies, or traces of treas