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great Notwithstanding the large forests
the firewood of Asuncion is sold in little
bundles at thu markets. \ bundle costs
five cents and the average housekceper
buys her wood from day to day and car
ries II home along with her vegetables and
meat.
Paraguay has. l am told good tobacco
ana cotton lands, and plantations for rails
ing these articles might be established were
u not that there Is no labor to work them
The ParaSuayans do not care to work They
are poor enough, but they despisa over-exer-
else They receive very fair Nases far his
continent The Paraguayan dollar Is (.nly
worth fifteen cents. 1t often falls below
thaf, and II rises and falls every week As
TO wages, eTfekfayers get five OF these dol
lars day, carpenters the same md com
mon Workmen about three. Track LAYERS
on the railroad are paid about $3.50 cu-
glneerS receive 500 a month and conduct
ors are paid S12o. The apparently high
wages of the engineers come from the fact
that they are usually foreigners, and have
TO manage the machinery. Collecting tick
cts Is not skilled labor, and hence the con-
ductors are Paraguayans. As to the wages
of women, house servants receive from 81
TO - a month in gold and board
Americans in Pararuav
L doubt whether there are twenty Ameri-
cans all told in Paraguay. l have already
spoken of our consul He is Mr. John Ruff
fin from Memphis, Tenn. He Is a well-edu-
Gated man and appears to have made him.
sell popular with the government He il
very proud, among other things, of having
established the consulate in a two-storV
house, of which there are not a great num-
Der in Asuncion, and il was through his
kindness that / have photograph of the
building. The vice consul is Mr., Wiutam
Harrison, a white man, who is also
the agent of one of our largest life insur-
ance companies in this part of South Amer
lea He lives in the city of Villa Rica but
has also offices In Asuncion He is married
to a Paraguayan lady, and has several
bright half-American, half-Paraguayan
children. NO ' '''
There are two American dentists in Asyrn.
clon, one of whom is DR.. H. c. Bishon of
California and the other DR.. Flagg of Nov
York. DR.. Flagg has been In Asuncion for
years, and has, am told made considera-
bic money. He has a pleasant home on the
outskirts OF the city and is much re-
spected, as, indeed. are all the Americans.
very important part of the American
colony Is made up of missionaries These
are OF the Methodist Episcopal Churcb
Ihey nave two very good schools in Asnn
ciqh, one Tor boys and the other for girls.
L would say in closing this letter that tho
Methodlsts have done more in South Amer
lea In the way of education than any of orr
other Christian denominations They have
TAKEN the continent as one of their chief
helds or work and have established modern
schools in Peru. Chile. the Argentine. Par
aguay and Brazil Their system of etiuca-
ton Is much respected by the natives and
many OF the children of the best families
Of the above countries are under their
eufuei- FRANK G. CARPENTER.
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Sun ECLIPSED At MIDNIGHT
Facts About n Phenomenon yis;bla
Nowhere ON Earth.

From the London Times
The ordinary almanac gave for Decem-
Der Is partial eclipse of the sun. invisible
at Greenwich. And indeed the exDression
as 10 It's lnvlslbiiity might have been put
much stronger, for it was to be seen in
no lHhablfed region of the earth. An an
arctic expedition might possibly have sailed
within its sphere of influence but as 1t
was it passed unmatched by human eyes.
rms being SO, and the eclipse one that was
necessarily wholly unseen, it would seem
as II nothing more could be said about il.
and as If 1t might be passed without COM
ment But, unseen as 1t was, the eclipse
was by no means devoid of interest. First
of all, it offers US an example of what
seems a paradox-an eclipse of the sun TAX
ing place at local midnight. 1t is, more
over, the first of three ec1ipses falling with
in period no longer than a single calendar
month. December - will bring a total
eclipse of the moon at Greenwich January
ii partial eclipse of the SUM- And the
three are very intimately connected with
each other The latter In nearly all It's
characteristics stands in strong contrast to
the eclipse of December ia large partial
eclipse which will be seen just outside the
borders of the arctic regions at their midi
day and in their midwinter. Nor is this
sequence accidental A similar tripIet of
eciipses-the first partial of the sun and
seen near the south pole, the second total
of the moon, the third partial of the sun
and visible near the north pole-occurred
Just eighteen years ago, all three eclipses
falling in December. 1880. Going back yet
another eighteen years we find the same
thing repeated some ten days earlier in the
year, and SO on right away backward till
1864. when, while the southern eciipse was
large partial one and fell nearly in the
midwinter of the southern hemisphere, the
northern was mere Craze taking place at
the midnight of the regions from which 1t
was visible Looking forward We find in
like manner that eighteen years hence an
other similar triplet of eclipses will fall at
tho turn or the year, and yet another eigh-
teen years later still. This ends the series
of these midnight eclipses of the sun in the
south polar regions. for January, 1888 will
be marked only by a total eclipse of the
moon.
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liar wood is the timbo. found in South
Paraguay II has grain much like the
cedar. and grows to great height! 1t is
very light, the Indians using it for troughs
and canoes.
American Trade.
Speaking of our trade with Paraguay. it
| is comparatively very small. There are
| many things in which it might be increased
and this matter of furniture is one. Cheap
| furniture is needed. 1t should be sent
knocked down so that il could be put to-
gether upon landing.
We should also sell Paraguay cotton and
WOODEN goods. At present 81 per cent of
such articles are furnished by England and
Germany. There is no cloth of any kind
made i'll Paraguay. The black wooden
shawls worn by the women come from
Germany and Belgium, and the eottons are
chiefly from England. There is no reason
why they should not come from our mills.
1t is the same with hardware. The most
now sold is German, although il IS made
after American patterns. and certain classes
of articles are sold under American trade
marks. The impression obtains everywhere
that the American hardware is the best.
For this reason the Germans initiate 1t.
1t is the same with sewing machines. the
German limitations of the American makes
being actively pushed / find the Germans
here, as everywhere, the most active COM
mercial element. They have several large
stores in ASuncion. and they send their
The most of our business with Paraguay
is done through Buenos Ayres. We have
no direct connection with the merchants of
Asuncion. and have to pay the Argentincs
toll on all our trade. If there was an
American bank at Buenos Ayres with a
branch here, it would materially help mat
tiers and the bank branch would pay. One
Paraguayan importer tells me that he is
selling great deal Of American goods. He
says that credits are not at all bad. and
cites as an instance that in business of
Slp,oW gold last year he has lost cnly
$500, and much of this he expects to coll
lect.
Concessions and Stock Companies.
L don't know that much money could be
made by stock companies in Paraguay. \
gas plant and an electric street car plant
or an electric light plant might pay in
Asuncion. The city has thirty thousand
people, ana still uses coal oil. 4 cor1ss-
sion might be gotten for electricity, and the
street car lines which are now doing a fair
business with mules would pay with alec-
trio cars. Coal, however. is high, and the
cost of generating the electricity would he
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QUEER OCCUPATIONS.
~hat Some LaRasn aDa Paris Women
De far . Living.
From the New York journal

" NAT Some LanAen aDa Paris Women
De far q Living.
From the New York Journal
The dinner faster" is the latest exannla
OF the ultra" type of Partisan refanenent
The Partisan palate, you know, Is the one
thing worth living for. according to the
iaea or q certain class of people whose
pleasure IN life depends upon, the enjoy
ment of the senses.
The dinner taster'' makes II her busf-
tess to visit the fine houses and taste the
dishes intended for dinner. She suggests
,npfotsmehts and shows the cook new
ways OF preparing dishes. That the bust
ness Is a profitable one may be Judged bz,
cab. III d
In the East End OF London a lucrative
women The pawnhrokers there are verv
numerous and never lack for clients
Among the latter. however are some who
90 not relish the idea of being brought into
PERSONAL contact with uncle"
1t is for the benefit of these that the
pawnbroker's agent exists She epes sew
eraf times day to the pawnshop with
Articles belonging to the bashful ones for
Wnem she gets the highest sum procurable
ON the items pledged
For her services she receives a pereentape
on the amount obtained ranging from a
hahpenny in the shilling, bat her commits
SION seldom comes to more than twopence
ON single transaction.
Another enterprisfng London woman has
nit on capital, although probably painful,
business She earns profitable living by
breaking In" boots for members Of the mn
per circles She wears them for few
Gays. until they become easy and comfort
able to their owners
In three or four days they are sufficiently
tanaed. and she only wears a pair two
hours each day. She works hard. seeing
that she sometimes wears thirty-six differ
ent pairs In week. Half crown a pair
Is the professional fee.
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OpeniHg-Vfenna Game.

Already the attack is strong and blacks
SHOWS signs OF weakness and will present
~ have to give up the piece gained
q PIP PIP p-O5 PxoK.ph
Here Mr.. Lyman exploded with:
'Pflisbury you don't seem to mind how
many consult with me against you You
look as If you thought Morphy couldn't
beat you In this position" To which our
champion very modestly remarked: Il
wish he were here to help me-
% KxB o-Kt2ch % HEt5cb Ep
u h-ht B-B2 70 R-k7 K-Kt
so-kt3 was more to the purpose; the
move played loses at once
81 RIB O-kt3 80 Pike H u,
2S B-ktG kR-B 81 ora EtE1
20 Rxlt RxE AZ 0rEt
And now his string attachment on the
shades of Paul Morphy bring the desired
Inspiration See how his little Invocation
to the great p. NJ. is rewarded
30 PxPeh and mate is unavoidable
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Is contagious. With this knowledge to work
from. statisticiaHs have found that tubcr-
cUlOsis is by far the most terrible of all
diseases. He has found that of the dealt
from all causes between the ages of fifteen
and sixty years one-third of the number
are victims of tuberculosis; and that IT kills
four and half times as many people as do
smallpox, scarlet fever. typhoid fever and
diphtbcria combined.
one case OF cholera in i European sea
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E T NJ E l n T r O.
'duce you to the pres
fident of Paraguay. l
have had a talk with
him in his palace in
the city of Asuncion.
His office is in a
magnificent building
above the Paraguay
river. It is a palace
which would not be
, out of place among
the royal residences
of P O t s d a m, near
Berlin. 1t would be
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Tarkable movement
HOW in progress
among medical men
the world over is the
united attack on con-
sumption and other
forms of tubercu-
losis. 1t is only sew
eDteen years since
Pref. Koch first dis
covered the real ma
ture of tuberculosis;
that it is caused by a
hl riiIlIS and that -
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Mr.. Clair" said the manager. '.you
positively must give up letting your mind
dwell SO much on your bicycle"
Eth? Why" asked the tragediau
Perhaps you are not aware of it but
In the third act, when You should have
said: 'fe gods. | am stabbed You shouted,
I am punctured.' Tit Bits.
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TENTS station in life has much to do with
his chances for recovery. In the crowded
tenement quarter of the great cities bad
air. Insufficient sunlight and lack Of proper
nourishn1ent make against the Individual S
recovery In Paris observations by Leon
Petit go to show that of tuberculosis the
poor die in comparison with the rich in the
proportion of five to one. SorenSen in Co
penhagen points cut that Of the deaths
from all causes among the better classes
tuberculosis numbers 80 to the 100 900,
while among the poor. OF the 100000 of pop
ulatfon, JlS die from that disease.
Most striking OF all. perhaps, are the
figures for the Cuired States with relation
to the negro. In proportion to the white
population the negro dies of tuberculosis in
the ratio Of Z to L
With reference to infectiouSuess the
commissioners of the British Medical Asso-
cation nave reported upon 10 cases in
which husbands have infected their wives
anu upon To cases in which Infection pass
ed from the wives to the husbands In T. =
lie cases in which search for hereditary
faint extended to the grandparents of the
patients. 62-3 per cent showed evidences of
heredfry
With such startling figures upon the con-
tagfousnsss of the disease its deadIfness is
even more appalling. Zuf,iana saws of If 3.
of all tuberruiar subjects diagnosed by
the ordinary means. % per cent die A per
centage of cures of 20 to % represents a
notable progress.
Proportion Of Cases CurabIe,
Dettweiller has figured that 242 per cent
of cases of tuberculosis may be cured
Braymer, ZIG per cent. and Nielsen. 81 per
cent. No one method of treatment has
been fixed upon above another. The favor
ing Influences of certain climates have been
very generally acknowledged. Dieting and
physical exercise have been found very
beneficial 1t is known that sunlight is
especially destructive to the bacillus of
tuberculosis. But after all the great dis
covery that is yet to be is still ahead of
medical science, and as for actual accom-
pnShments toward a material specific
kochs discovery Of the bacillus has not
been of signal benefit. 1t led to establish
ing the fact of the infectiousness of tuber-
culosis and 1t has been a key to the move
ments of science against it. Beyond this
the physician of today Is cropping pretty
much as he CROPPED fifteen years ago
With this germ-key, however, he has been
enabled to trace causes of infection to
many of the lower animals. Cattle above
all the domestic animals, are subject to
tuberculosis, and infected udder in the
NAL to be dangerous vehicle of commune
quently infected tuberculosis is rare in
horses, tnfrequently found in sheep. but is
common in nearly all varieties of domestic
fowls. Zurn. reporting upon the bodies of
600 barn yard fowls. found 10 per cent of
them showing tuberculosis. Dogs suffer
from 1t, cats are more frequently affected
and in monkeys the disease is very COM
mon Rats and mice are not immune and
Sibley claims to have found the bacillus in
snakes. frogs and even earthworms.
Thus, aside from the menace that may
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A Country Which Has Yet to Be
Properly Developed.
INTERVIEW WITH THE PRESIDENT
There Are All Sorts of Chances for
American Capital
B 1 Ct NJ ON Ely IN LUMB Err

Copyrighted, $780, by Frank G. Carpenterl
Special Correspondence of The Evening Star.
ASUNCION, January H. 1899.
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The japanese are. as race, so small that
1t Is necessary to build specially low bicy-
cies for them.
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1t Is not generally known that the vanilla
bean is the costliest bean on earth. II
grews Wild and Is gathered by the natives
In Papantla and Nisantla, Mexico. When
brought from the forest these beans are
sold at the rate Of g Is per 1,e0o. but when
dried and cured they cost about 60 IS per
and last year 90,6(0. 900 beans were imrort.
ed into this country
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Specimen Cases.

A bank I'm Alabama received from a de-
positor a fragmsnt of $40 bill and the
treasury people paid So for 1t. Later came
claim accompanied by the other part Of
the bill, little charred. with an affidavit
saying the sender had burnt the remainder
OF the note by mistake.
A Chicago man sent In fragments OF two
~ piiis ana one ylo bill with an affidavit
telling how the other halves had been de-
stroyed; and in the same mail the other
halves OF these notes came In from a Chi
cago bank. A special agent caught the
maker or the affidavit, who proved to be
the tool of some swtndlers, and he was sent
to prison for year and a half
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Remarkable Movement Now on Foot
Among Medical Men.
TO STOP RAVAGES OF TUBERCULOSIS
Efforts That Are Being Made to
Find a Cure.
HOW TIE GERMS ARE SPREAD
wrlrtcn f,r The Erening Star.

~HE MOST RE-
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liar wood is the timbo, found in South
Paraguay. Ii has grain much like the
cedar. and grows to great height 1t is
very light, the Indians using il for troughs
and canoes.
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FIRE AT CINCINNATI.
Many Sleeping Guests in q Hotel
Have Narrow Escapes.

CINCINNATI, Jan. 2O.-A hotel fire
and many narrow escapes took place
between 5 and o'clock this morning.
The Sherwood House, on the east side
of Walnut street, above Sixth. took fire
from an over heated furnace, and in a
very brief time the house was SO filed
with smoke as to endanger the lives OF
the sixty or more sleeping guests. Many
of the guests were members OF the
theatrical companies.
Very soon the upper corridors were
filed with shrieking, hysterical women
in night robes. The male guests had
difficulty in restraining the women
from jumping from the windows. The
firemen were active in carrying out the
women, and most of them were rescued
by the stairway, but several were taken
down by the ladders and by the fire es-
capes. F. H. Munch a travelling sales
man of New York, was among the last
to be rescued. He was found with a
wet towel over his face in an uncon-
scious condition, but by the aid of ply
sicians was saved.
The entire Fire Department was call
ed out and the fire subdued before the
building was destroyed. The money
loss will not exceed $4,000; fully COW
cred by insurance.
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willing to work for this pittance than
there is work for them to do.''
BANK ROBBERY.
Thieves Get Away With Three
Thousand Dollars I'm Cash.

Vh0u80nd OOll0rS In C01h.
ST. LOUIS, Jan. 2O.-A special dis
patch to the ''Post-Dispatch" from
Arieola, ILL.,. says:
Six burglars last night robbed the
bank at Arthur, ten miles from this
city. The amount of the loss is report
ed, but not authoritatively, at $1,000
cash. The officers of the looted insti-
tuition have so far given out no state
ment. Another safe containing $1,000
in money and the same amount in
bonds was not touched by the robbers.
The bank was broken into at /
o'clock by six masked men, who blew
open the vault, causing great damage
to the building and breaking out the
plate front. The explosions occurred.
Shortly after the first explosion Joe
Ramwolf, who came in from the coun-
try after a doctor, reached the bank
on horseback, and he was stopped by
three masked men, who leveled guns
on him and took him to the bank Of
flee. There they compelled him to take
off his shoes and stocking, and one
man guarded him while the safe was
twice more dynamited. Ramwolf made
his escape out Of the side door, follow
ed by a volley Of bullets. He went
through the town giving the alarm, and
awakened Ed Cox and his son, who
aroused the bank cashier. The robbers
had by this time completed their work
and escaped. Blood hounds were tele-
phoned for, but efforts to trail them
have met with poor success.
The robbers broke into a. railroad Sec
tion house, secured a hand car and went
east, leaving the handear within half
mile Of Arieola.
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LABoR-sAvING DEVICES.
Consul-Genera1 Goodnow Says They
Are Not Wanted in China.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 2O-Labor saw
ing devices are not wanted in China.
This is shown by Consul General Good
now in a report to the State Depart
ment, made in reply to an inquiry of
an export association in New York.
Il cannot give you any encourage
ment," he says, sin regard to the ship
ment of wheel barrows. scrapers dump
carts and the like, to China. The wheel
barrow used here has one large wheel
in the middle and small seat on either
side, where passengers are carried.
Once in great while dirt is carried
in baskets in such a barrow, but ordi-
narily it is carried by coolie in two
baskets hung on the end of a. bamboo
rod balanced on his shoulders. These
baskets are about the size and shape
of grain scoop.
Labor saving devices are not in de-
mand in China. The cheapest thing
here is a man. There is more labor
than can find employment. Al coolie
carrying dirt will receive from to 10
cents gold per day. He must work from
sunrise to sunset, not very steadily or
intensely, but putting in a great many
hours, and accomplishing a large
amount Of work for the amount of
wages paid. There are more coolies
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uTAH's NEW CONGRESSMAN
Latter Day Saints at st. Louis OPP
noaed to Roberts.

ST. LOUIS, Jan. 2O.-Members of the
Reorganized Church Of Latter Day
Saints at ST. Louis oppose the, seating
of Congressman-electB B. H. Roberts, on
the ground of his pronounced polyg-
amy A business session of the church
was held last night, and the question
was discussed and a vote was taken
resulting in the following resolutions
being adopted:
Resolved, That it is the wish of this
body to go on record as being decidedly
opposed to the seating of B. H. Roberts.
Congressman-ele from Utah, in the
United States Congress; and be it fur
ther
Resolved, That we earnestly request
all liberty loving people who believe
that the sanctity of American homes
should be maintained and protected, to
use their utmost efforts to see that he
is not permitted to occupy a seat in
Congress until he shall have complied
with the law; and be it further
Resolved, That we urge our Repre-
sentative from this district, who shall
be present when this subject comes
before Congress for discussion, to use
his utmost efforts to see that right and
justice prevail, and that no avowed po-
lygamist be allowed to occupy seat.
The record-union., 1899-01-21
Fatal Rail Accident.

SAN ANTONIO, Jan. 2O.-The west
bound limited express on the Southern
Pacific road collided with an engine at
La Costa, twenty miles west of here, at
en- early hour this morning. Alonzo
Miller, fireman. of San Antonio. was
killed and Robert Nicholson, engineer,
was badly injured in the wreck. The
passengers were badly shaken up, but
sustained no serious injuries.
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Death Of q Sister Of Mercy.

KANSAS CITY, Jan. 20.-Sister Mary
Agnes, Mother Superior of the Sisters
Of Mercy, is dead of complication of
diseases. Mary Christine Dunn was
born in Pennsylvania in 1854, was edu-
Gated in the Academy of the Ladies of
the Sacred Heart in ST. Joseph, No.,
and entered the novitiate of the Sisters
Of Mercy, Louisville, Ky, in 1873.
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Dreyfus Debate in French Deputies.

PARIS, Jan. 2O-The Chamber of
Deputies to-day plunged into another
Dreyfus debate. M. Breton, Socialist,
interpolated the Government on the
subject of the package Of diplomatic
papers among the documents in the
Dreyfus case, and asserted that the
former Minister, Rambaud, speaking at
the agricultural show, declared the
members Of the Meline Cabinet were
aware Of the forgery Of the late Lieu
tenant Colonel Henry. The statement
caused great excitement among the
Deputies.