The Washington herald., 1913-01-12

which he has obtained an insight into
local affairs, experimenting his news.
paper copy" with Photographic iIIustra.
| tons of things worth knowing l am al
most tempted to say that only a trained
newspaperman can gather as much Valu-
able information in so short a period OF
time. as did the editor of the Chicago
Blade and Ledger. All to such an in
terviewer was meat whether II he an
indian of the Pampas, or the President OF
republic. As the author says himself
the reader will find his matter rather
newsy than historic.
because the greater part OF South
America is in the tropics, the very
thought of It arouses the Imagination.
But there are in reality numerous spe-
clal aspects that attract travellers. There
Is Tor instance the strange story OF the
lncas of Peru, with material almost for
any sort of investigation. Then We find
the remnants of the Chibcha Indians of
Colombia. highly civilized when first dis
covered centuries ago, and supposed by
archaeoloststs to be colony from pre-
historic Atlantis. the tabled continent
that according TO Plato was submerged
in the Atlantic Ocean.
For the student of history there are
the descendants as we'll as the influences
or the Spanish conquestadores to be
There are regions devastated by riot. war
and rebellion and others that are peace
f''i and prosperous. There are birds and
beasts. snakes. bugs, and amphibrae
flowers and trees there not to be found
anywhere else on earth.
The country is so vast and still 50 lit
tie developed that it is destined to be-
cone the worlds next great arena of
human activity and development.
hahitants of North America and of South
America is more than that between Latin
ana Anglo Saxon. We beat back the In
dams, refusing to fuse with them. while
Cur Southern brothers developed from e
fusion of Spanish or Portuguese adven-
turers and the Indians of the tropics. We
needed but one revolution to develop a
truly great nation that has had but one
internal strife since the South Americans
have passed through scores of wars and
hundreds of rebellions. Yet the author
tells us the racial IRE is dying out under
modern civilization and the old Spanish
GOOD Is beginning to cool off, perhaps
everywhere save in Paraguay of which
Inflated country the author finds moth
ing to record but brutality, intolerance
and all sorts of dastardly doings of die
tators. The story of President Lopez and
Nine. Lynch is particularly uauseating.
Withal the South Americans are a dis
tinctly picturesque people and their con-
ditions and achievements are worth
studying.
The author has not fallen into the error
OF other travellers, who believe that they
have done their duty or accomplished
their mission, when they publish biog-
raphies or biographies and nothing
else. Dry reading at best. Mr.. Boyce
wide awake journalist that he is, fire.
quently intersperses his descriptive sem
fences with a bit of a joke of the genuine
Yankee flavor, or he adds pleasing
little yarn, &C. Heressis an instance.
Speaking of the wonderfully reyerberat-
ing echo among the peaks of Brazil, of
which an tlhabitant justly is proud, the
author 1 PRODUCES a man from the
'Rocki. - Of Colorado, who replies.