The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-02-26
1zsv Paraguay Looks-E Cities,
Villages and 7o1sns-H 9eie-
p6one Company, Which Pays ~
~ Csaf. Dividends and Charges
e ! Month Banks Which Pay
31<iE7he Government Colonies.
Ceoyriget. fsss. by Frank @. Csrpsnter.
Asa,f,cissss. Paraxugy. Jan. Il. }sss.

lsaoyrixtt. 1850 BY Frank g. Carpenter.
Asuneixsr PARAGUAY. Jan. Il. 3sse.
>et11E Wits ms this morning sud have
lock at tAe capital % safssas
We are In sIe very heart 81 the
Houfh American esasifssss- II ~
ann6t susaepes Every ofs@ ss xaiax ABOUT
- eoftcna or llTssns. and al rnssaay tsefs
ESnGnnn 10 b. only = sheet of afoSn PAPER
S kn1nveeu us ard haGss TIE sniidrtss 10
SO uolsool very early and every one tn rest
- n dosing ~ neon. Tns mornings stpa
NVeninxs. however. are pleasant ard there
/ - mule street cars which WI aAsts sss
~ al paris Of the city,
AouaeSon IL . Datsy.
DIT f1rst let mr. say few wsrdx about
Af1r toxn 81 Asuncson She II the queer
s. - mueIctsAi maiden On the Hossh Aussrs-
xnn epnstnenf she /. tha social. political
& Gn1 Industrial mistress af all tfsfnks Fart-
4 kvnrAn Hhs has the government l'atia-
1nHa the c6ljeeer the is.nks and ssitsf
&nikaess hous~e. ind still Hsse ss 80 small
3 1kat aiae migAt b~ hypssdsrnieasiy snjeesed
y S1o the cheHk OF Chicago and SHE would
B nn1l1y Faiss y ptnspae On that fair lady
lnuncloa has only about ags6 people.
lfer buildings are almost all small. They
M chiefly onr-Htosy h1sise@. atsd outss'f
tAe government structures there ats aot
- more than thirty fest high TIE fssa~
4
struts abcut Ike a king. and tbs owner
4 % 4 three-story block n s.abos.
Dttll this maiden Asoacion is wonder
3 fully beautiful Mother Mature fas
s e1oth<d her In the brirntesf % dresses.
Z ~ her gardens Iemoris and oranges grow.
B Gfext pssiH trees throw their shadows
B upun her and the aspsross waters of Two
nn8whfy rivers are always washing bsr
f6ft She u seated on the high east Bank
" The Paraguay river. Just oppssste The
/ na0ufh Of Tie winding ptcomayn. which
& hrs dowed down from the bolivian Andes
4 1T mites TO get ia her. Size r. just In fFss
center Of fhe west border Of Paraguay
proper and TN good positen 10 sssss.
Z Band th~ whole country VI which she II
4 TN capital
ii DGrA's~Ey~ View ~ Parax.my.
get ms besi hiea az Paraguay by tlaink-
nua Of Iiiino.A II lies or he South Amer
: fcAn continent in much the same place thai
1l1inofs does In North America. II Is IN
ne Junction OF tSa rivers. Just hike Ils-
nots. Asyng H. ses side Is the x.sat Par
Sn&uAy river. which corresponds "a sh-
4lt10iseappi. and Oh i;s s"sith and SOUTH
east the Parsna, corresponding 70 tie Ohio
Both the Paraguay and PARMA are tasi-
Gxbie fsr large rss1 steamers. giving q
j 6Road waterway from here 70 the Atianjse
o3msisF 10 that u the MisisSppi 10 the
Gulf Of Mexico.
Paraguay proper II Just about - biz a.
Illinois. II IL g25 miles long and atooes ~
miles wide. and IL Includes all the inni
1yinx East of the Paraguay riYer There
z = : vast wilderness 10 the we~s 10 tie
\ stream calisss The c3saes.. This ~ the Wild
Z West Of Paraguay Il II inhatdtcl ~ fne
AiHns and Mid aninlsiE. and has good saF-
/ eets and pastures.
Paraguay proper r. rot unta. Illinois in
i character, n has FNeetent sali and great
I pastures. Th. face Of the country II Fasss
31u. In some psaces there are ia~ masant-
AIMS which furnish numerous streams 50
thxt you enu hardly FENCE eff a farm with
- Incudiag Koai water.
The People of Pavsxsss.
Isl N = In Paraguay proper that the greater
L4StSef the people af Paraguay hive The
0oo1eFy has rot n8ars than ss.W1 ard as
3 i have euid arg. majority ef THESE aen-
s pie are women 1he FsEa9aayans are tits,
OSsprfnxs Of The indsaa@ Duif~st ss sem.
~ thr best Spanish eieasenE that settled
& 80ath Amerha. uue al tla arss cities
) 81 obljxhed the continent MAS this town
- Asunsiuu. 1t sss huah SEVENTY years
before John Smith landed at jamestown
Ana the apansh-indiaa haistes horn sitcn