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Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1912-12-01

national conservatory of music, school of
art and schools for law, medicine and engi-
neering.
The national library contains about 10000
volumes and many manuscripts, including
the records OF the inquisition in Guatemala.
IN the law school library there are 5000 law
books, and the city library has about 5000
more. One of the best English libraries is
that OF the American club which numbers
$500 volumes.
Teachers at IS Cents Day.
lhe Chief trouble with the schools here is
the lack of money for teachers. A great
deal has been spent for temples and for put
ting up school buildings But many of TIN,
buildings are empty, and some of the schools
are without scholars There is not enough /,
IN the treasury to pay for good teachers.
and ordinary instructors get from IL to Is
cents day.
1t is the same with other government en-
poyes. am told that circuit judges receive
1OO pesos per month. This, at the present
rate OF exchange, equals SIP or SIS; and as
a judge of this kind usually has house
which would rent for three times that per
month"; it is hard to see how he keeps up the
proper style on this salary. The only way
he can do SO is to graft and as result lust
ice is often for sale to the highest bidder.
The process of getting favorable decree,
as am told, is as follows: The man who
wishes to win his case calls upon the judge a
night or SO before the day set for the trial.
lie does not argue for or against it, but
merely makes social visit, and upon leav-
ing lays check payable to bearer upon the
chair or table. The judge understands, and
if the check is cashed the man is the winner.
AS it is, everything about the schools is
behind the times. l bought geography of
Central America at one of the chief book
stores. 1t was published by Appleton & Co.
in 1896, and from it the little Guatemalans
are learning that the United States has now
55,OOO,OOO people, while the other figures
given are those of 18 years ago.
A Word About the Press.
1t is the same with the newspapers. They
are few in number and small in circulation.
There is not one in the capital which has a
daily issue of more than 5000, and the Sum
day issue Of the journal which you are read
ing contains more print than any Guatemala
newspaper has in one week. might almost
say in month. Nevertheless, there are
four dailies published in Guatemala City,
and there are eight more periodicals regis
tered. The papers have six columns to
page and the pages measure % by % inches
There are some kilograms, considerable To-
cal news and not little advertising. The
advertising rates are not more than five
cents per inch for each insertion, and they
run as high as $40 gold per page with re-
auctions for long contracts.
FRANK G. CARPENTER.
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years or so ago 1t tar surpassed anything in
the United States in its size and magnifi-
cence. Its location, however, was bad, and
it was DESTROYED again and again The last
earthquake occurred about 1873, when for
the third time the city was reduced to ruins
The people then decided to move and they
came to this place and laid out the town of
today.
The new Guatemala was planned after
that of the old city. 1t has many plazas or
open spaces, and its streets cross one an
other at right angles. There are Is streets
and Is avenues, the streets crossing the
avenues at right angles and forming many
square blocks of 800 feet on each side. The
streets are wide and we'll paved They are
bordered by sidewalks and lined by these
Spanish houses, which are painted in all the
colors of the rainbow.
In the center of the city is great plaza,
upon which is one of the largest cathedrals
on the continent, and where there are also
the city hall, the episcopal palace, the old
mint and the Portal del Commerce., consist
ing of fine stores which look out upon ar
cades facing the plaza.
A City of Churches.
The cathedral here is worth seeing 1t is
planned after that of Mexico City. in the
form OF Latin cross, with three aisles run
ming down the center and other aisles on
each side, making five in all. 1t covers a
great area and its gigantic towers can be
seen for miles over the country
The building was begun in l79z and at
first it was planned to cost but S3OO.OOO
The expenses upon it have, however, been
many times that, and it is now one of the
gorgeous buildings of Latin America. The
pulpit is plated with gold and there is gold
crown above it. Gold emblems hang from
each of the pillars and there are scores of
paintings of saints in gold frames on its
walls The altar is of Carara marble with
beautiful carvings, and the whole church is
magnificent.
Leaving the cathedral and driving about
through the city, one sees fine churches or
church buildings in almost every block. In
the past the people were much more devout
than they are now and the priests had more
power. Today some of the old converts
had been turned into government offices
and the administration is rather opposed to
the church than in favor of it,
One of the most interesting of the &C.
clesiastical buildings is the Church of Santo
Domingo. 1t was begun when the city was
founded, and was completed at about the
same time that Thomas Jefferson left the
White House. The stones of this church
are said to be laid in mortar mixed with
milk and sugar-cane juice, supplied by one
OF the nabobs of the past. In its vaults are
the mummies of the early friars.
The Church of San Francisco, which was
begun in 1900, had its mortar mixed with
the whites OF eggs, but lust how many eggs
were employed is not known. This church
once had a convent connected with it, and
at one time it was used as pantheon for the
burial OF distinguished persons. The church
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has now been taken over by the govern
ment, and the general postof6ce occupies
the convent.
Many OF the churches are shrines, and to
some of them pilgrims come from all over
GU temala. In the Church of La MERGED is
statue, known as the Black Virgin, which
was consecrated in 1717, so that it is almost
200 years old. 1t is considered especially
holy, and is favorite shrine.
Good Mission Field.
And just here l would say that Guatemala
is splendid field for missionary work The
people are Catholics, but they have reli-
gion like that of the middle ages and they
need regeneration. The work should be
done by our Catholic missionaries, who
would, believe, find the grain ripe for the
harvest. 1t must be remembered that
great majority of these Guatemalans are In
dams. Guatemala has more than two mil
lion population, and of these about 100000
have no white blood. The Indians are di-
vided up into tribes and many of the tribes
have mixture of Catholicism and of their
old faith They have their priests, but they
also have medicine men and fire and devil
worship. This is so OF the Clutches, who
are descended from the Totecs, who ruled
Mexico before the Aztecs. There are sew
era hundred thousand Ct them.
The Indians of Guatemala are naturally
devout. The greater support of the church
comes from them, and see a half dozen red
men to every white man i'll the churches. 1t
is perhaps due to the Indians that the wor-
ship of today is SO full of superstition The
statues in the churches are gorgeously dec
grated. In some places the Christ is clad in
a wooden gown like monk, and nearly
everywhere the wax Madonnas have gowns
OF btocaded silk and their heads are deco
rated with jewels.
AS it is now the church is very poor, and
with the opposition of the government it is
difficult to support the clergy. The priests
are not free to speak as they please, and the
power and wealth which they had in the
past have disappeared. AS to Protestant
mission work, there is some carried on by
the Presbyterians, the Methodists and the
Evangelists. am Presbyterian myself
but ! really believe the best work can be
done here by the Catholics, and that Central
America should be given over to them.
What is wanted is not new faith, but "a re-
generation, revivifying and modernization
of what the people believe now, and this can
be much more easily and effectively accom-
plished by the Catholic Church as it is today
The Theater and the Bull Ring.
But you must not think that Guatemala is
all churches. 1t has fine theater and a we'll
patronized bull ring. The theater is named
after Columbus, and its building was mod
eled after the Church of the Madelaine in
Paris 1t has subsidy from the govern
ment, and stars are brought in from Italy,
Spain and Mexico.
The bull ring is right near the Central
railway station, and during the season all
classes meet there Sunday afternoons to see
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kG&9@gg2 present tllhe the tleanest
and brightest OF allfhe cities
of Spanish America. 1t contains ov4 100000
people, and covers enough grolnd for
million. Just now the town looks as though
it had come out of bardboX. The houses
were all newly painted, by the orders Of the
president, just before the visit 3f Secretary
Knox. At the same time the fass knock
ers on the doors were shnedl the brass
knobs on the balconies were nbde to look
like gold and the result is we lAve newly
created city as spick and span Is the rose
colored capital Of Jaipore in India.
A Spanish Town.
Guatemala City is Spanish in architecture.
The only buildings over 50 feet highare the
churches The residences are low md sell
dom more than one story. Skyscrafers are
unknown in Central America, and me sky
line is, as a rule, straight from oneend of
the street to the other Most of thehouses
are close to the street They are ullt of
brick or stone covered with stucco They
consist of large rooms running arund
patio or garden, in the center. Tie Win
dows facing the sidewalk are low antare in
variably covered with iron bars TIRE are
lodges which are used as seats and Gaming
places, and one frequently sees prett Span
sh girls looking out.
The most OF the roofs are flat, win walls
along the front, which are often decorated
with knobs or ornamental stucco woS. The
roofs are of red tiles ana, as a while, the
buildings are picturesque.
Artistic and Quaint.
l wish l could take you inside ONE OF
these houses. They are delightful homes
and they abound in quaint features. AS our
young girls would say, 81 am just Grey over
the door knockers" They are made of
brass and are of most beautiful shapes
Some are brass hands, others arefemale
heads and some are of wrought onartistic-
ally shaped. The doors themseles are
heavy and are often studded with iron or
brass nails equisitely finished Sonr of the
front doors are as big as those of a larn and
the larger ones have smaller dsors cut
through them. The big door is for the car
riages, and mans team drives tight into
his house, the curbstones being 50 sloped
in places that one can get to the sidewalk
without jolting. In some houses the stable
is at the back or side of the patio and the
best rooms are often on the second floor.
The Denver of Central America.
Guatemala City is the Denver of Central
America. 1t has the same clear air, the same
bright skies, and it is about as near heaven
as our pious metropolis Of the Rockies. 1t
is situated on the backbone of mountains
which run from Alaska to the Strait of Ma
gellan, and its altitude is 1000 feet above
that Of the Alleghenies. It lies in an am
phitheater surrounded by volcanoes and is
bordered by gorges and ravines, which its
people think keep off the earthquakes.
The present capital was founded just
about the time that we sent forth our Dec
laration of Independence, but the old city
of Guatemala, which lay 80 miles away, at
the foot of the Volcano de Aqua, was one of
the first cities of the new world. and 100
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1912-12-01
Copyright. 1912. by Frank q carpentaj

u NLN CII Ouatel7ald.
ONE with h1e and Jake a
look at the capital y Guat-
emala. lifts one Ri the
prettiest TOWNS OF Il west
ern hemisphere, an at the
present tine the tleanest
and brightest of allfhe cities
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-08-05

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 3. =
California is trying to put the
hundred per cent profit" middle
man out of business.
The proposition will be put
squarely up to the people at the
next election this coming Novem-
Der when the State Produce Ex-
change commission act will be put
on the ballot for the people to
vote yes" or mo-"
The commission will consist of
five members appointed by the
governor. It's business will be to
sell products consigned to it by
the farmers of this state, to deal
ers and consumers. Here are some
of the things that it will accom-
plish:
1t will secure a fair return to
the producer.
It will break up the monopoly
of markets.
1t will put an end to speculat-
ing and gambling with the neces-
stiles OF life.
1t will eliminate waste, graft,
and useless services between pro-
Queer and consumer.
1t will reach all present mar
kets outside OF the state.
1t will give the people genuine
free markets wherever they are
needed.
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AS previously announced, the
friendly division of partnership
interests necessitates the closing
out of at least half this big stock
of fine instruments. Ny partner
wants cash or customers con-
tracts for his share of the assets.
Profits are the least item of com
sideration at this sale. What we
must do is to reduce the stock
to cash or its equivalent. You buy
a piano for which the extensively
conducted stores would charge
you at least $3.50 and which we
ordinarily sell for $3.50, just now
for $1S5. Ten dollars cash will
put the piaIlo in your home In Ta-
coma, or deliver boxed at any
depot or dock for shipment out Of
the city.
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TO FIND JOB FOR
ED. MINNICK

Ed Minnick is to be given a
city job If one can be found for
him.
Minnick years ago under the
George Wright administration
was a patrol wagon driver. He
was mashed up in a couple of ac-
cidents and never has been very
ablebodied since. This morning
he petitioned the city to give him
Job, he having been thrown out
when Linck came in.
Mills will try to find him some
thing for him.
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It will reduce all marketing
charges to absolute cost.
Il 1t will furnish absolutely re-
liable information on all questions
related to marketing farm pro-
ducts.
1t will guarantee to the small
producer an equal chance with the
largest.
tee 1t will establish standards and
grades in packing.
~ 1t will use state label which
will be an absolute guarantee of
quality.
Both Australia and New Zea-
Land have tried out the plan with
success.
81, Prof. T. ]. Penfield, high school
principal of Turlock, CAL, is the
father of this movement. Turlock
is one of the greatest fruit and
vegetable producing centers of this
state. 1t has an irrigation district
of ITS, 900 acres. Much of this
land is idle. the owners holding II
for speculattons. The present pop
ulatlon averages one family to
each so acres.
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Bad Compilations Are
Now Easily Discarded

Every woman has ii In her own
hands to possess beautiful and
youthful complexion. No matter
how soiled, faded or coarse the GU
ticle, ordinary mercolized wax will
actually remove II, and Nature will
substitute g skin as soft, clear and
lovely as a child's. The action OF
the wax Is not drastic. but gentle
and agreeable. Minute particles of
scarf skin come off day by day, yet
no evidence OF the treatment Is
discernable, other than the gradual
complexion Improvement. One
ounce of mercolized wax, procura-
BILE at any drug store. suffices for
most cases. II Ia put on at bedtime
like cold cream and taken off in
the morning with warm water. IL
Is certain method of discarding
tan. freckies, sun spots, liver spots,
moth patches. blackheads and pim-
pies.
Wrinkles can be treated with
benefit by bathing the face In a
lotion prepared by dissolving
ounce powdered saxoiite In u pint
witch hazel. instantaneous results
are secured.--Advt.
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PAC. HIGHWAY
ASSOCIATION
IN SESSION

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. g.
Lieut.. Gov. A. j. Wallace, in be-
half of the state, and Mayor JAS.
Rolph, jr., for the city of San
Francisco, extended hearty well
come to the delegates of the Pa
cific Highway association at the
third annual convention which
opened here today at the st.
Francis hotel.
Judge j. T. Ronald, president
of the Pacific Highway associa-
ton, responded in behalf of the
delegates to the welcome of
Lieutenant Governor Wallace and
Mayor Rolph.
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WHIPS A 60
YEAR OLD GIRL

(By United Press Leased Wire.)
PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 5. =
Mrs. Margaret Armstrong, "a
years old, was before Magistrate
MacTarland charged with chas-
Using Mrs. Maria Dean, her 60
year-old daughter. According to
Mrs. Dean one of the chief Ge-
lights OF her aged mother was 20
chase her around the room with
a broom and insist that IL she
didn't like spanking she shoula
live elsewhere.
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HAILED TO COURT
AT AGE OF 106

THOMPSONVILLE, Conn, Aug
5.-The oldest may in Connect
cut, William Ray, who says he
was LOG years old on June 20
last, was arraigned in the police
court recently on the charge OF
selling groceries and liquors on
Sunday. Ray asked for a con-
tinuance of his case, which was
granted until later He Is still
active and is seen about the city
every day.
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Drinks 20 Glasses
of Water in Hour

(By United Press Leased Wire.
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo,
Aug. 5.-Because a pretty girl
wagered him a five-poud bow of
candy that he could not drink 20
glasses of sulphur water in an
hour at Manitou, ]. Johnson from
Oklahoma City drank the twenty
glasses, and then gulped down
two more for good measure.
you win," said the girl as she
took him to a candy store.
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CLERKS IGNORE
THE PRINCESS
sy United Press Leased Wire. }

(By United Press Leased Wire.
WINNIPEG, Aug. s. - The
Duke Of Connaught and Princess
Patricia, after strolling IncognIto
around the business section re-
Gently, entered a jewelry store to
make few purchases.
They waited for ten minutes
and as no clerk came to wait on
them left in disgust.
There was something doing In
the store later when the identity
Of the democratic couple became
known.
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Piano Bargains 10
Set You Thinking
This Sale Lasts Until August 18th, but You Better
Not Wait to Make Your Selection.

For $218 you can buy our ten
years guaranteed, large size ma
hogany upright, worth 1915, and
which we sell under ordinary con-
ditions for not a cent less than
5000; terms. s15 cash, 81 a
month.
Or do you prefer a player pi-
ano? Our regular $500 full So
note, late style player piano at
1897. Other stores Will ask you
no less than 5000 for one no bet-
month.
Hallet u Davis, Howard.
Kaufman. Krep French, Fren<h
& Sons and a number OF other cell
ebrated makes included IN this
sale.
Come in aud take a look. You'll
be glad you did.
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MARRIES BUT
LOSES PENSION
(By United Press Leased Wire.)

(By United Press Leased Wire.)
MOUNT VERNON, ILL.,, Aug. 3.
Houchin, 20 years old,
was married in this city on July
4 to Mrs. Charity State, 76 years
old, widow of a veteran of the
Civil war
When Mrs. Houchin's pension
failed to reach her this quarter
she Investigated and learned that
when a veterans widow remar-
ried she surrenders her pension.
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SAVES A GIRL
GETS A KISS

NEW ROCHELLE, N. Y
The reward of Julian Diaz
for saving the life of a beau
tiful girl in Echo bay, New
Rochelle, was a hug and a
kiss.
The girl said she was Miss
Ethel Jameson, but refused
to give her address.
Miss jameson swan out to
the float, but when returning
her strength gave out and she
went down.
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SMUGGLE AMMUNITION.
(By United Press Leased Wire.

(By United Press Leased Wire
VANCOUVER, B. c., Aug. s.
British Columbia Cinnamon who
return to the Orient on one of
the White Liners running from
here, are attempting to smuggle
ammunition into Hongkong for
the purpose of assisting IN further
revolutions in the new republic,
according to reports from the
steamer Empress of Japan which
arrived in port Saturday evening.
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RUN DOWN BY TRAIN.
(By United Eress Leased Wire. J

CHEHALIS, Wash. Aug. s.
William Cole, aged z, sole sup
port of widowed mother, today
Is dead, having been run down
by train. He was riding bi-
cycle and dismounted to cross the
railroad tracks ahead of the APP
preaching train. His foot be-
came lodged between the track
and planking of the driveway and
being unable to extrieate himself
was struck by the engine.
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Paul GLADSTONE for the republican
nomination for governor as the
result of the statewide primary
July 80, that GLADSTONE cannot
overcome. 1t is admitted, how
ever, that 1t will be necessary to
count the second choice votes be-
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Eel Wriggles
Down Church Aisle
(By United Press Leased Wire

(By United Press Leased Wire.
BRIDGEVILLE, Della, Aug. 5.
The congregation of the Beth
esda negro church at Concord was
thrown into a panic during which
several persons was trampled,
when live ell started wriggllng
down an isle of the church. Wom-
en- jumped upon the pew seats,
thinking the ell was a snake, and
cries of dismay filled the room.
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ACTRESS is ILL

CHICAGO, Aug. 5.-Florence
Stone, the well known actress,
wife of Dick Ferris, was compell-
ed to resign the leading part or a
play to be produced at the Cort
theater, owing to sudden illness.
Miss Stone was operated upon
last week and is at the Bismarck
hotel.
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BATH HOUSE BUT
NO WATER

PHILADELPHIA-This city's
new public bathhouse at Aacony IL
completed and ready to be turned
over to the authorities, but Ii
cannot be used for a year, be-
cause in the construction of the
building somebody forgot to make
provision for a water supply.
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BABE WILL LIVE
RIFT MOTHER DIES

NEW YORK, Aug. Edward
Kelly, 2 years old, while playing
in the front room of the family's
fourth-story home, climbed to
look out of a window. He fell
and was impaled ON an iron fence.
The mother rushing to the win
dow leaned too far over and also
fell to the fence. She is dead.
.fhe baby may live.
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CHURCH TO AID
OLD PUTUMAYO

WASHINGTON, d. C.-In the
hope of alleviating conditions
among the Peru Indians in the
Putumayo rubber country, the
British government has conclud-
ed to aid the extension of the Ro-
man Catholic church in that sec
ton
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PEARLS FOUND
IN IOWA RIVER

MARSHALLTOWN, Ia
Little Big Bear, an Indian
from the Meskwaki reserva-
ton, near Tama, Iowa, has
sold to a local dealer for
$3.50 "a pear-shaped pink
pearl weighing 33& grains.
He found the pearl in the
Iowa river near Iowa City.
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"How many people work in
your Officer" he asked.
"Oh," responded the elderly
one, getting up and throwing
away his cigar, 81 should say, at
a rough guess, about two-thirds
Of them - a- -.-.-
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MOTHER OF II
HAS THIRD TWINS

(By United Press Leased Wire.)
LAUREL, Del, Aug. 5.-Mrs.
Alice Bacon, 40 years old, recent
ly gave birth to twins, a boy and
girl, weighing nine and eight
pounds. Mrs. Bacon is the moth
er of seventeen children, includ-
ing three pairs of twins. Mother
and children are doing finely.