The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-06-28

that requires every man to paint his rouse Front at least once a year. The annual painting season has not long gone by and just now everything is splck and span with bright colors. An other city provision is that every one must sweep the streets in front of the building in which he lives and that every day
 And this brings me to the police and the soldiers. The government has a good army, which Is organized and officered like the army of Germany. The soldiers are fine looking fellows. They are always on guard at the pal ace and capital and I see them marcn- ing back and forth through the streets. The police force is d good one, and the officials insist that each man shall give evidence that he is always on duty. One of the provisions causes a per- petual whistling throughout the night. Every .quarter of an hour a shrill whis- tie is heard on every block The noise comes from the policeman of that spe- cial beat. It is to warn the thieves of his presence, and to show the authors ties that he is awake It reminds me of the cry of the policeman of Guaya- quil which is:
 'El sentinel alerto," or in English, the sentinel is on the alert" China has similar custom in that the po- licemen there have a kind of a clapper with which they make a loud noise as they go about the streets, warning the burglars to keep out of their way
 
 This country Is in the singular posi- tion of having two capitals. The legal capital is a Sucre, where the supreme court holds its sessions and where Is the seat of the archbishop. The real capital is La Paz It is here that the president lives, here Congress holds it's sessions, and the real work of the ad- ministration Is done.
 The government of the republic Is modelled much like that of the United States. in that 1t has a President and legislature, who act as to federal matters; and a number of provinces and departments that are administered by prefects and subpretects, or. as we might say, by governors. There are nine departments and 55 provinces. The capital of each department has it's mu- nicipal council and the subdivisiors have municipal boards. The territories in the northeast of the republic and in the Gran Chaco, on the border of Para quay. are governed by two delegates.
 The President of Bolivia has his cabi- net just like President Wilson. and the legislature is composed of senate and house, nominally elected by the vote of the people The President receives a salary which at the current rate of ex- change would be $7200 year. The sen ators get about s200 a month during the sessions, while the deputies or men of the lower house are paid s15 for each day they attend. These salaries are low, but am told that some of the officials, like some We have in the United States. actually grow rich dur ing their terms.
 As to religion and education, Bolivia Is rapidly changing. Roman Catholic fen, f- f1.A f.~f- state, but of late years religious lib- erty has been freely permitted. and there arc now Protestant mission schools scattered here and there over the country. The Catholics receive from the state about $S0.000 a year. of which $5600 is devoted to the spread ing of the faith among the Indians. The government gives some money to the Protestant mission schools. It an nually appropriates generously toward the American Institute of La Paz and also to similar school in Cochobamba. I am told that it will give more to Protestant schools for girls as they are established. All of these institutions are under the American Methodist Epis- copal church. They are doing great good
 As to state schools. they are chiefly maraged by the municipalities. Attend ance in them Is nominally obligatory hut practically only the whites and tho Cholos go. Last year these schools numbered only 1000. and they had only about S0,000 pupils. There are universi- tiesrat Sucre and La raz; and La Paz has commercial school that is said to be good It has an interesting mu- scum devoted almost entirely to the history, arcbeology, ethnology and re- sources of Bolivia There are also mineralogical museums at Potosi and Oruro