Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-02-25


American continent II Is now summer.
Every one Is going about In cottons or
iinons. and at midday there seems TO
be only sheet Of brown paper between
us and hadcs. The children 10 TO
school very early and every one * rest
Ing or doing at noon. The mornings
and evenings. however. are pleasant
and there are mule street eats which
viii take US TO all parts % the city.
AsUNcIoN ~ \ DAISY.
nut first let me say Few words
about this town OF Asunoion. She Is
the duccrcst municipal maiden on the
South American continent. She " the
social. political and Industrial mistress
II all things paraguayun. She haa the
government buildings. the colleges. the
banks and chief business houses. aud
atlll she IL 10 small that she might be-
hypodcrmicaily injected into the check
u chicago and she would hardly raise
pimpic on that fair lady'r face.
Asuncion has only about 5000 people.
Her buildings are almost all small.
They are chiefly onc.story houses. ana
outside tho government structures
there are not two hundred more than
thirty feet high. The rafaguayan who
lives In a two.atory house struts about
like a king. ana the owner Of three
story block N n nnhoh
Stln this maiden Aruncion IL wonder
FUZZY beautiful. Mother Nature has
clothed her IN the brightest % dresses.
Ia her rnrdpnH lemons and oranges
grow. Great palm trees throw their
shadows upon her and the nmornus
waters ~ two mighty rivers are always
washing her feet She II seated On the
high east bank ~ the Paraguay river.
Just opposite the mouth VI the winding
piicomnyo. which has flowed down
from the bolivian Andes 800 miles to
get 60 her. she II Just In the center OF
the west border of Paraguay proper.
and IN n good position In command 81
the whole country ~ which she II the
capital.
A BIRDs-EYE VIEW OF PARA
QUAY.
get my best Idea ~ Paraguay by
thinking NJ Illinois. II lies ON the
South American content In much the
fufnc place that Illinois does In North
America. n " In tho junction OF two
rlvcrr, Just like Illinois. Along IT, west
eide u the great Paraguay river. which
corresponds 20 the Mississippi. and on
It's south and southeast the ptrnnn.
corresponding TO tho Ohio. Both the
Paraguay ana parana are navigablc
for large river. steamers. giving a broad
waterway from hero TO the Atlantic.
similar to that ~ the Mississippi to
the Gulf Of Mexico.
Paraguay proper IA Just about as big
aa Illinois. n ~ ai5 miles long and
about 200 miles wide. and u Includes
all the land lying east OF the Paraguay
river, There II vast Wilderness To
the west of the stream called the
Chaco. This IL the wild west of Para.
quay. II IL Inhabited by Indians and
wild animals and has good forests and
pastures. but as yet IL not much cN-
plored.
Paraguay proper IL not unlike Illinois
IN character, II has excellent soil ana
great pastures. The face of the coun-
Try IN rolling. Ia Fumo places there
are low mountains which furnish nu-
mcrOus streams, 10 that you can hard
~ fence on n farm without Including
good water.
THE PEOPLE OF PARAGUAY.
II h In Paraguay proper that the
greater part of the people ~ Paraguay
live. The country has not moro than
nix hundred thousand, and ~ ] have
said, large majority OF these people
are women, The parngunyanH are the
onHpringH of the Indians united 10
some OF the best Spanish element that
settled Routh America. one ~ the iirst
cities established on the continent was
WIS Town ANnnNlhN ~ was hhAAA
seventy years before John Smith landed
a. jamestown and the spanish Indian
babies born then were gray haired bo-
fnto BOSTON Hprang Into being,
Paraguay was for years the leader or
wealth. civilization and culture of this
part ~ the world, and u was not un.
vi the close OF our civil war that u fell
out N the race. II then had nght
with IT, neighb0ring republics which
lasted nve years and killed on almost
all tho men. This ruined the country.
4 report went forth that II was Desc
late ana the bulk Of European imml-
grafton since then has gone To the Ar
fentlnc, Uruguay and Brazil. There
are today lea, than 10000 foreigners In
nll Paraguay, ] have an estimate from
Ne secretary OF state which says that
ihcru are now here 5000 AfHentincs,
so1n Italians. COO lirazllians and 500
uermnns, The rest are French, Swiss
Americans and English,
Ia addition a. these ana the 100000
native whites and Of the mixed breed,
alaus, There Is 40 much Indian
blood In the whites that II ~ hard to
te'l whore tho red nuns blood ends
AMI that ~ the Caucasian begins You
- a dash of gingerbread In the com
pieNlonH OF most Of the people ana The
language generally used II that NJ the
uuhfnnl Indians, II II u beautiful Lam
Huagc, more soft and melodious than
even tho Spanish and Is used by 'yery-
one outside the cities.
No LARGE TOWNS.
have said that Asuncion has 10000
population The average Puragunyun
considers II "A very biz city, In my
liavola I have gone through some OF
,he best settled parts VI Paraguay, and
am surprised al the fewncss Of the
people, There are u number OF villages
anu some very small cities. The elites
are much smaller than the books would
,,ad You Co think. The Stntesmnn'r
rear Book mentions number NJ from
nNe 10 twenty thousand Those | have
seen hive not one.third the number
.lalmed IN the books. spent some
lmt In villa Rlca, II IL In the inter
,pf about 100 miles east Of Asunclon, IL
put down m hHVing 1900. but !
venture that II cannot number d,O00
spuN' villa Conception. which " $50
lnlliH north NJ Asunclun on the Para
nay river, has certainly not 10000 peo-
wv ana villa isncRrnaclon. the biggest
WNh or South Paraguay, IN not nearly
lnfHe, The small towns are COM
ppsei OF matched huts from 10 90 20
wy square, The smaller cities have
snN or two streets Of onc-Htory brick
uN.lllnsr, the wills VI which are COW
rl.a with strucco, and which are rooted
WA red tiles. Some have walls OF
,,phe and are rooted with palm bark.
ne larger cities hive Marks or uluZuH.