The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1897-09-25

tear1ul women giving parting WORDS to nus
bands, sons, and sweethearts. These low
class natives OF Guatemala are said to be the
best fighters in Central America. In the days
of Dictator Barrios they were inspired to
heroic deeds by their intense admiration for
him. who never showed anything but father
" solicitude for the welfare of the common
people. He may have been cruel to his polit-
ical en- emies and arbitrary In his treatment
of aspiring rivals, but to the masses-the poor
snd lowly-he was always generous and
kind Much of his strength came from the
fact that he always shared the shelter and
food of the common soldier. He never took
any camp equipage with him, but slept on
the ground, and at the beans and tortillas
which constitute the ordinary soldiers ra-
lions. The hardest drilled organization in
Guatemala Is the artillery band; and they play
remarkably we'll. for the natives are as clever
as negroes at music-here. there, and every
where, morning, noon, and night. And es-
pecially at night. for every evening they play
two or three hours in the plaza, while the
town turns out to hear.
Public Laundries.
The public laundries are another prominen:
institution of Guatemala's capital. All the
water used by the Inhabitants Is brought IN
two auueducts from different directions, tap
ping rivers at distance OF eight or ten miles,
Inside the city are twenty reservoirs, whence
running water is drawn, and where the city's
washing is done. These reservoirs were built
by Dictator Barrios. They are Of brick, and
some of them, being circular in form, with
steps. fountains and pavilions. are as orna-
mental useful. Around the reservoirs are
small sinks for laundry purposes, and the
stone bottoms of these are strewn with but
tons, beaten from the linen by able bodied
laundresses. After the pounding and slap
ping and twisting process has been gone
through at the public fountain the wet clothes
are placed in a wooden trough or basket and
carried home on the heads of the washers
to be dried aud ironed Every morning and
evening, Sunday included, long professions
of laundresses are seen going to and from the
fountains bearing loads OF soiled or wet gar
ments on their heads. BY the way, IN no othel
city of Spanish America Is Sunday so nearly
observed, according to Northern ideas, as il
Guatemala's capital. That, too, Is Barrios
work, in a law which he enforced, still gen.
orally respected, requiring the markets anc
all other places of business to remain clOset
on the Sabbath. Sometimes cigar shol
or a saloon will remain open, and the hote
barrooms, or "canteenas," as they are calico
here, do more business on that day thar
any other, but there Is no more general bust
ness done than in any city of the Unitet
States This Is the more remarkable since, II
go. all the surrounding country, business Is
its best on Sunday, as we'll as pleasure, in tn
form of theaters and bull fights and balls, etc
The market Is a huge building. or Enclosure
5- occupying an enLlre square IN Inc neaTt Oh III
4, oity, with great iron gates at the sides an
corners. It Is we'll supplied with runnin
water and kept scrupulously clean.
The Markets.
. Around both the exterior and interior ar
little shops, full Of alluring goods, as II {
English, German. and French importation
but dsplorably little from the United State
Other shops are devoted each to a specis
branch Of native manufacture such as stra
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