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OMA COFFEE. PLANTATION
Tie. RcKERs REcEE4E .TE1H CENTS A DAY

amount was l do not know. but it was
probably under $1,000 in gold.
Indeed. the currency here reminds me
the close of the war the value of which
was we'll shown in a story told by Gen.
Gordon. AS the general was riding along
one day he saw man with very fine
horse and said:
That's a good animal. my man. / Will
give you $1,000 for him.
Oh was the reply. with sheer.
you will! Why, l just paid $4,000 to have
him curried.'
!: =
AS result of this poor currency the
people are crazy for gold. In the
business sections there are money
changers i'm every block. and every one
wants to change his paper for gold. The
proprietor of my hotel grabs at each
gold coin. and one of the priests
1 met today in the cathedral asked me to
exchange gold for six-cent dollars. 1t is
the same at the American Club. 1 was
offered 81 800 there for a ten-dollar gold
piece, and l am told that there have been
times when one could buy SO in Guate-
mala for 81 American. The value of gold
changes every day and special demand
for 1t sends the currency kfting.
At the same time the wages on the
estates are paid in currency. and the In
dams receive only a few cents of our
money per day. Some think this is good
business. They say that the planters get
work for Guatema' an dollars. while their
exports are paid for in gold. If the In
dian gets So a day he is in reality receiv-
ing only IS cents, and he is more often
paid 10 or IL cents. This is said to be
one of the theories of President Cabrera.
The fact is the position of Guatemala
is much like that Of a bankrupt who still
has one of the richeset gold mines of the
world under his feet. The natural re-
sources of the country are valuable be-
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Buyinq Him Cigars.

PRESIDENT HADLEY Of Yale at
! the Carnegie Foundations recent
luncheon in New York said of certain
charge:
..Such a charge indicates ignorance-lu-
dicrous ignorance. 1t reminds me OF the
young lady who desired to buy oox OF
cigars for her fiances Christmas.
This young lady, entering the most
fashionable tobacconists on 9th avenue,
said:
81 want to get a box of cigars for a
tall, slender man with blue eyes and a
paIe brown mustache-my fiance, in
fact. Now, George wears dark colors
usually, and / suppose a long, black CT
gar would suit him best. don't you
thinkr"
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banks, each of which has capital rang
ing from $o,OoO.OOO to $39.OOO.O(O in gold.
There ought to be big American bank
here and the country should be financed
by the United States. Under the Monroe
doctrine we have to be responsible to a
certain extent for its business arrange
ments. and to keep other nations from
enforcing their claims we shall have to
arrange for the debts.
Within the past few years considerable
American capital has come into this
country. The Motagua valley and it's
banana lands belong to the United Fruit
sand acres. and about 10000. / believe,
already planted to bananas The rail-
roads of the country are In the hands of
americans. and they have big schemes
for controlling the transportation. They
will eventually complete the system in
conjunction. with Mexico. and will ex-
tend their lines through the country south
of this to the Isthmus Of Panama.
Americans own the shipping which
comes to Guatemala. The United Fruit
Company has steamers twice a week to
New Orleans, and it frequently sends
ships to New York. It's steamers fly the
English flag and they have English COM
manders. but they are bought with Amer
lean money and they carry little else but
|AIucTlCdH ITtlSut dHu pdSScH6cTS. uc
reason why the fruit company uses such
steamers is because under the navigation
laws all steamers sailing under the Amer
lean flag must be built in the United
States. and ships can be bought more
cheaply in England
The English steamers are not always
satisfactory to. the American passenger.
The English captain is sometimes in
clined to be cocky and to show his pref
erence for his own country. On a voyage
a few weeks ago an American woman
took the American flag which was hung
at one side of the sideboard in the sa
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Kansas Medicine.

MAYOR GAYNOR. at a luncheon in
Av4 Brooklyn, said to a prohibitionist:
1T is spissitudinous on your part to
think that prohibition would succeed in
cosmopolitan New York Prohibition
would do worse here than in Kansas.
You know how ii does there. There
liquor can only be sold as a medicine
As New York visitor was buying q
toothbrush I'm a Kansas drug store one
afternoon a brawny cowboy entered with
a four galloo demijohn. He pumped the
great wicker demi5ohn down on the coun.
ter, tie druggist looked at him inquirings
ly, and he said:
"'Ffll her up. Jim. Baby's took bad
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Observation-Disclosures

issuing of new bonds sufficient to dis
charge the present lien on the coffee duty.
I am told that the local currency debt
in 1909 was over S1o.UMO0o in currency.
and it is probably considerably more to-
day. II the currency could be wiped out
at anything like its present value IL
would be a great thing for the country.
At present the chief source of the reve-
nue. is from the coffee export tax. which
amounts to about 81 gold a bag. AS the
coffee exports are 70.OO00O0 or S0.000.-
W0 pounds a year. II will be seen
that this revenue is valuable. 1t is said
that the government sells this tax at the
beginning OF the year to the Guatemalan
bankers for a fixed sum, issuing therefor
coffee export tax certificates The bank
sell the certificates to the coffee ex-
porters and they make profit OF the
difference between the amount of the
certificate face value and the sum they
pay to the government. and this profit
is by no means small.
The banks also make big money from
loans.. I doubt not they made a pretty
penny out of Knox's visit. which must
have required several hundred Thousand
dollars of new cash to paint up the
towns, buy American hags for the chill
dren and champagne for the American
party. In such cases the President often
calls upon the Banco de Guatemala. In
which Germans are interested. Among
the chief financiers are the Stahls, who
are ready to lend at such and other times
of need. relying on getting their money
back with big interest. 1 am told that
these bankers recently bought UP the
bonds Of a loan which every one thought
had been repudiated They got the bonds
for song and then it was found that the
President had decided they were an hon.
est debt, and should be redeemed. There
are some discontents who say that his ex-
cellency President Cabrera and other
high officials shared In the profits.
FRANK G. CARPENTER
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Both Hands Free.

AT the suffrage lunchrooms in New
"A York a woman electrician the other
day showed Mrs. o. II. p. Belmont a
model of a cradle that rocks by cleo
tficity.
Mrs. Belmont after examining the
model with interest, smiled and said:
This invention is of great value TO
woman-it leaves both her hands free.
for the carrying Of suffrage banners and
the distribution of suffrage literature"
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Taking 1t Easily.

TO Walter Damrosch at the end of one
of his concerts in New York. an adj
mirer showed him a piece of music that
had been palpably plagiariZed from one
Of the numbers in 1.-The Dove of Peace"
But Mr.. DamrOsch took the plagiarism
with good humOr
They've only stolen q march on me-"
he said.
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yond description, Guatemala abounds
in rich mineral deposits. 1t is known to
have gold. silver. copper. iron and
lead. but the country is practically
coffee soil of the world and it exports
from eighty to one hundred million
pounds every year. 1t has rich grazing
lands. and it will grow rubber cotton and
sugar There is no country on earth
which will produce better or more bana-
mas per acre than the Motagua valley.
and it has in addition vast forests of tim
Der. including mahogany. cedar and dye
woods. All the country needs is money
to make it blossom like the rose and to
bring into use its vast resources in lands,
mines and labor The labor problem is
based upon the Indian population. which
half in number, and it is not difficult to
handle. If the country could have big
enough loan to put 1t on a gold basis 1t
would soon become one of the richest
lands of this hemisphere. 1t is in the
front dOoryard of the United States. 1t
is within two days by steamer of New
Orleans and it has only thirty miles OF
railroad track to build to unite Guate-
nala City with the railroad systems Of
the United States.
*
In the first place, however, the govern
ment will have to secure it's foreign debt,
which is now held in Europe and in our
country, and then to make some kind of
an arrangement as to the currency. A
number OF loans have been arranged for
from time to time in New York. but for
one reason or other, and chiefly on ac-
count of the opposition of the Germans.
they have failed to go through. Such
arrangements are still pending. and they
will probably result in the regeneration
of the country.
AS it is now, the Germans are the great
leeches on the body polite. They are
sucking the life blood out of the business
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-08

VhfS recent announcement OF
Pope Plus X to the clergy and
choirmasters of the province of
Rome relative to the reform of
church music Is one of the
most significant rulings yet made by the
present pontiff, and serves to emphasize
his continued solicitude for the dignity
and artistic rendition of the music at the
public services of the Roman Catholic
Church
Opponents of the movement to restore
the use of the Gregorian chant and to in
stall male choirs in the Catholic churches
are a large majority of the laity and can
even count among their numbers many of
the clergy, though the latter, with char
acteristic loyalty of action to the wishes
Of the holy see, are trying to fulfill the
conditions of the Motu Proprio.
Many OF the members of the opposition,
however. have been quietly biding their
time. hoping that the holy father. in
view of the many obstacles to its sue
cess. would in time modify or temper
the original order.
X
These hopeful spirits cannot fail to be
1ismayed when they read the instructions
n the new document, which, while abso-
iutely binding at the present time only
IN Rome. are of more than local impor-
lance because they show Enthusiastically
he mind of the sovereign pontiff in the
matter. and, as a writer of authority ex-
pressed it. gave his 1.-THE Pope's) personal
application of the principles of the Motu
Proprio TO complete problem
On the other hand. those favorable to
the movement have been congratulating
themselves on having made considerable
progress in its advancement, and they
Will have reason on reading the detailed
exposition of the wishes of Pope Plus to
feel taht they have barely made a start
What caused this renewed activity of the
holy father is largely a matter of con-
lecture. but 1t is a well known fact that
the dignified strains of the GregOria N
.hant and the classical polyphony have
not by any means supplanted music of a
more mundane character in the churches
Of Rome itself, and except in ST Peter 9
and in the great basihcas the pontiff' 8
Is said that an eminent American choir
master. during an interview last winter
With the holy father. commented on this
violation of the Motu Proprio in the
Pope's own city. and that not many
months elapsed before the detailed order
was issued
According to an authentic translation
the new document opens with the state
ment that 1.-The MOtu Proprio of 1903 had
seemed so explicit as to render further
slucidation unnecessary. Now, however,
II seemed advisable to lend fresh yigor 10
the movement" 1t lays great stress on
the importance of the study of Gregorian
chant apd Of uniform and correct
method. in its rendition and emphasizes
the study Of liturgical music in the semi
narfes. prescribing even the minimum
amount Of time to be given to rehearsals
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a l. n about high
price in I N e
United States. They
are nothing COM
pared to high prices
in Guatemala. / have
been here with my
S I c nographer for
the past few weeks,
and my average
expenses have been
about $500 per day.
Last week cost me
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About half the business letters which
come here are underpaid. and those who
receive them must pay extra postage be-
fore they will be delivered. me Of the
leading bankers here has just told me Of
his experience with a bank in St. Louis
The st. Louis bank sent a letter request
ing information bearing two-cent stamp.
get it, and then wrote a courtee. s. let
ter to the banker and pointed out the
mistake and the annoyance such mistakes
caused. In reply he received an apollo
getic letter from the president OF the St
Louis bank inclosing 70 cents worth Of
American stamps which he could not use.
The letter inclOsing these stamps also
bore a two-cent stamp, and the Guate-
malan banker had to pay 30 cents to get
1t. He. wrote again, and the same thing
happened a third time. 1t took a fourth
letter to show this live st. Louis business
man that a fve-cent stamp was neces-
sary for Guatemalan mail. All this was
thank-you business on the part Of the
Guatemalan.
If Guatemala could make loan of
something like $4,000. 600 and have this
secured by the customs, / am told that she
would soon be on easy street. Her for
eign debt now amounts to under $4,000
OOO, but she has defaulted in interest on
this again and again and the whole has
been readjusted on a 4 per cent basis. On
the 18th Of July of last year a settlement
was made with the foreign bond holders
to that effect, which provided that the
unpaid interest should be wiped out at
the end of three years There was also a
provision as to Securing the external debt
by the export duty on coffee and for the
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NAlAN|D Of the &X7CEN'F D0ll.lA AR

A IL About High Prices
"A and Cheap Money in
the Guatemala Republic
Cabs at SIS an Hour and
Board at $1oo a Day
Where Lead Pencils Cost
Dollar Apiece and Postal
Cards IS Cents-Crazy for
Coda Bankrupt Country
of Enormous Resources
How Germans Are Gobbling
Guatema1a's Wealth - Some
Big American Investments
How Our Catalogues Run the
Steamers-A St. Louis Man
and His Unpaid Postage
Guatemala's Debt and It's
Reeve nues -How Bankers
Make Big Money From
Loans.
Copyright. 1872. by Frank q. CarpenterD
special Correspondence Of The Star.
(.I-ATE-N CITY
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over $1,000. and my regular board at the
principal hotel is $l36 per day. I had a
carriage this afternoon for three hours
at So an hour. and every time 1 take a
mule ride over the country the charge for
the animal is So per day. Everything is
n the same ratio. 1t costs 20 cents to
post letter and IL cents for postal
card. I tried to buy an English saddle in
harness store this morning, and the
price for it was $500 ! could not af-
ford it, and went to the stationery store
across the way, where 1 was charged a
iollar for lead pencil and 81 for the
aote book in which am writing.
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and are grabbing after everything in
sight. l am told that their investments in
coffee plantations alone amount to up
ward of SGO.OOO.OOO. and that S. per cent
are ready to buy the balance and it is
said that there are S20CO0,COO now in
Germany for investment here.
The Germans have got their hold on the
country by watching the finances and
buying at every time of financial dis
tress. They took over the coffee planta-
tons some years ago by ,loaning money
right and left when coffee was high. Then
coffee fell. there was poor crop. and
the planters who borrowed could not
pay their interest. The mortgages were
foreclosed and as no one was able to buy.
the Germans took in the best estates at
their own prices.
The great trouble as to this German
ownership is absentee landlordism. The
coffee all goes abroad and the money
stays there while the plantations are
worked with Indian labor at from 10 to
IL cents a day. This small wage is prac-
tically all that Guatemala gets out of her
coffee crop.
X x
The Germans are very jealous of Ameri-
cans and they are secretly opposing every
American investment. They have done
this as to all electrical propositions, and
they. want to keep the Americans out of
the wholesale and retail trade. AS it is
now, the largest stores belong to them
and they have their drummers going over
the country. Much of the business is
very profitable. and this is so of all bank
ing and mercantile enterprises.
The ordinary interest rate is 10 per cent
and the pawn brokers get u per cent
month. The chief banks have franchises
from the government and they make
loans in return for the right to issue Ger
tain amounts of currency which, as l
have shown, is worth now only cents on
the dollar. Altogether there are six
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AS in the original Motu Proprio per-
sonal characteristics as we'll as musical
requirements are to be considered In
members serving in the choir, and one
new point is made which is of great i'm.
port to singers, organists and directors
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-08

There are many men In the musical
profession who are strongly in favor Of
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Indeed, the prices are terrible. But they
are not so bad when you find that they
are paid only in the currency of the coun-
try The Guatemala dollar has been
steadily going down. and 1T is now worth
just about cents of our money You can
get seventeen or eighteen Guatemalan
dollars for an American dollar, and in or
der to figure out the real cost you must
divide by seventeen. All the bills are paid
in paper, and the money is worth so 1T
tie that 1t Is trouble to carry it, Five
thousand dollars in gold changed into
one-dolar bills would give you a large
pillOwcase full. and as l am writing all
my pockets are bullying with dollars i
drew $40 on my letter of credit at the
bank today. and for this the cashier
handed me $500 of these Guatemalan ST.
mOleons. Some of it was in one-hundred-
1ollar bills, but the most of it was in
petty tens and twenties and five-dollar
notes. such as one gives for fee.
While / stood at the bank window a
man came up to make deposit He had
a bundle under his arm which looked
like a package of laundry. He laid it on
the counter and took off the string, and
the dirty bills. by a gust of wind, were
blown over the floor. They were finally
gathered together and it took over twen-
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1T is all very well for pastors to dwell
on the honor and privilege of rendering
the music Of divine worship. Honor and
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fine Of 20 cents or more. which Is paid by
the man who receives 1t. Catalogues I'M
derpaid have a similar fine. The result is
that a merchant gets an advertising cata-
logue with from ~ to 80 cents due on it.
He pays this amount, and then finds that
he cannot read the catalogue. for it is
printed in English.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-08

Copyright, 1912. 10y Frank g. Carpcnter.)
Special Correspondence Of The Star.
GUATEMALA CITY.
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HE recent pronouncement of
Pope Plus X to the clergy and
choirmasters of the province of
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-10-26
Bed COmfOrters

Our line this season is in advance
OF lines shown by us in former sea-
sons, being better styles, better made
and at little better price, as the
following will show:
One lot of full.size Comforters
made both sides alike, cotton filed,
not old rags, as usually used in n
Comforter at this price. This lot
at S1.OO each.
One lot OF full-size Comforters,
both sides covered with very pretty
Silkoline, filed with good, clean cot
ton batting. These for only Sig
each--a good $3.50 value.
One lot of very large Comforters,
covered with heavy silkoline, in new
designs. These for S1.49 each--a
good trade.
One lot OF extra large Comfort
ers. These are our specials for size,
These at S1,9S each.
Comforters with satin borders at
Sl.0S. These covered with all sat
inc at $500 each,
The above are the best Comfort
err values that we ever had for sale.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-10-26
ESTATE or FzEKIyI. P. oLDs.

STATE OF VERMONT, The HonorAhIs
District OF Washington. -. Probate Court for
the District Aforesaid: To all persons inter
esied IN the estate Of Ezekiel r. Oids late Of
the City Of Barre Ia said District. deceased.
Greetings
Whereas, said Court has assigned the 10th nay
Of November next for examining and allowing
the account o. the special Administrator % the
estate 81 said deceased and for decree Of the
residue Of said estate 70 the lawful cihimnts
ofthe same, ana ordered that public notice
thereof lie given 70 ali persons Interested N
said estate b. publishing tails order three weeks
excessively previsus 20 the day assigned. in the
Barre Dairy Iimea, . newspaper puhlts1ed At
ths City 81 Barre "a said District
Therefore. you are hereby n~tthed 70 appeaf
a. tie Probate nsice in Montpelier In said
District. On the day assigned. then and there
o. contest the allowance - said account ~ goa
see cause aud % establish your right - nuirs.
lerstses ard hwful clairuants - said reaidus
Gives under my hAnd. TINS 18th day 81
Outauer. lgtl
cct gE-unv -
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-10-26

WANTED-A position as managing house
keeper. or would care for an invalid. April
cant IL a middle-aged American woman and
can furnish the best of references. Address
III H." Times office. i90tf
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-10-26
Ladies' Tailored Suits

The demand for the Tailored Suit
is much greater than was predicted
earlier in the season The Suits are
a little heavier than for season or
two. Then, the warm weather hold
ing on, makes the trade realize more
the value OF good Tailor Made Suit.
The Tailored Suit is the dressy
garment Of the season, and when
they come in good weight cloths they
are bound to be popular, especially in
the medium and better qualities.
We have some extra good values
in the Mems Serges and the heavy
Two-Toned Whipcords. These are
Suits that sell at from $500 to
S22.5O.
In the better grade Suits we have
one of the best lines OF good weight
Suits, Suits that are different in
design. Then, too, we can give you
a good range of cloths. Suits where
there are only one or two of de-
sign. These are priced from $500
to $4,000.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-10-26

TO RENT An up stairs tenement on Perry
Street. at the corner OF Hill Street SIS 90 per
msnth. Telephone AL s. j. W. Nichols 1907
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-10-26
roo LATE TO BE CLASSIFIED

WANTED TO BUY - A small barn or she'd
Address r." care OF Times Office. 1eot2
FOR SALE = An eight-year-oid bay mare.
Apply to W. r. Shepard. Administrater, or Lee
Shepard at G. s. Andrews's shoe store. t90tt