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The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-13

first breakfast is not a meal. It con sists of little black coffe and bread You may have that when rising, but nothing more until the course luncheon at noon. This begins with bologna saul sage and some green stuff as appetizers a scoup which is half macaroni or al. phabet dough, and puchero, which con- sists of the boiled beef out of which the soup is made The puchero is often half bones. and the bones look like those ot the neck After that come the entrees or entradas including sometimes a fish and then beefsteak or roast with salad and dessert The dinner is about the same as the luncheon The menus look well and seem satisfying. but the food is bad The cooking is awful and my
 And what do you think we pay at the hotels here? I have fairly good rooms for myself and stenographer, and the charges are made on the American plan that is, both board and room for fixed sum inclusive. The price is just S10O per day. The sum seems extravagant until you figure the actual value in Paraguayan dollars. worth less than cents Then the amount is under $6 in gold day, or about s3 a person. l cashed some Eng fish gold this morning. It was in sov- ereigns which will bring s4.s6 each at our American banks I received $S9 for each of my gold pieces, changing five pounds and getting in return $445 in paper.
 And still the paper money looks good, It was made in New York and engraved by the American Bank Note company One of the hundred-dollar bills has the Niagara of South America on one side of it; and as l looked at it I wondered whether this was to indicate the great fall in the value of the currency That hundred-dollar bill was worth less than s6 American This makes it so that one has to be always calculating to keep track of his expenses You must not be surprise that cab fare costs s15 and that the ordinary jitney, if hired out right, would be worth at least $15 an hour I have just refused to buy a knit hammock for which a woman asked me $50, although l was tempted to pay s200 for a lace collar and cuffs The regular price of this newspaper, were it sold here, would be about S1 Paraguayan. That is what certain journals cost here.
 In connection with the money. the gov ernment officials here seem to get ex- travagant salaries. although in reality they receive far less than our near-states- men at home The President has S10.000 month. cabinet ministers receive S4o0o a month and the congressman get half as much. In actual values the President has a little over $7000 a year, the cabinet less than $9000 and the congressman only einnn
 Notwithstanding this shrinkage of the currency Asuncion is prosperous. There are many banks and eambos and they are all doing well. The Bank of the Republic has a capital of S6o0O,o0o in gold and its business last year amounted to more than S200, GOO in real money. The bank pays a 7ia per cent dividend. The Banco Mercantile has a capital of $2O,000 GOO in paper. It has been in existence q long time and has usually paid big divi- dends. The rate is now in the neigh
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 many barefooted. Some of them wear black shaws which fall down over their bright-colored dresses. hiding everything but their chocolate -colored faces and arms. The most of the peddlers are in their bare feet, and some sit fiat on the ground with their feet around the bas- ket containing the goods they are selling They are mostly common women, and doubt whether the people of the better classes go to the markets as our women do. Such work is left to the servants.
 I was interested in watching the market women. The most of them have Indian blood in their veins. Nearly all have their arms bare to their elbows and many wear shirt waists of bright colors filled in with lace work. This is a land of fine faces and even the com mon people have lace dresses. It seems strange to wear a dress made of lace, and at the same time go barefooted
 Let me give you some pictures I saw here this morning. Take this woman peddling cigars. She sits on the stones with piles of tobacco about her Her
 
 a long as your finger and tied up in bundles. asked her the price of a bun dle which contains 25. She tells me it is s2.50 Paraguayan, which means less than 15 cents of our money. Think of getting 25 good cigars for 15 cents. pick up another package of poorer grade and am told the price is six cents. The woman peddler wraps up the cigars for me and ties them with a thread. a supply of which she keeps inside her bosom. As she reaches for it I observe that her waist is of lace and that she has gold beads around her neck As I turn quickly about a girl unintentionai- iy puffs some smoke in my face She has cigar in her mouth and lays in 5 cents worth of tobacco as I look en- All of the common women of Paraguay smoke and I see many who are puffing away at cigars as thick as my thumb.
 But let us go into the great central shed. As we stand in the main aisle we can look down through long line of chocolate colored, barearmed girls. who are chopping off meat for their cus- toners. This is a great cattle country. and beef sells for one-sixth what t brings in the United States. The car casses are cut up into long strips which are hung up on racks, and much of 1t is cut off in strips or sheets a s cus- toners order A great deal is sold by guess, although there are scales and some goes by weight. Here girl Is sharpening her knife on a steel Over there is one handling q clever choppin 3 a great roast into shape, and further down I see a butcher woman saving a bone.
 Going on, I ask as to the price If eggs and am told they are bringing So cents a dozen. l stop at the vegetable stalls Here everything is sold in plea of a half dozen or so Peas are pous ;it by the handful onions by the pile O. bunch and tomatoes in piles of a hal. dozen or SO But few of the ma TX ct women furnish paper or string for theit customers The most common market basket Is the dishpan, or a wickerworh bowl like bread bowl. The wares are put into these bowls and carried off on the head. I see some girls who are toting bowls full or oranges and vege- tables with sheets of raw meat on the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-13

VONDON, June 3.-(Special Cor
 A respondence-) )-When the war is GLf2i, over, and Americans once more gY come Hooking across to explore
 London, they will find new and vastly helpful facilities in ex- istence for so doing. Up to now there have been only two ways 10 see Lon don. One of them has been to poke around on ones own hook, armed with Baedeker Che famous German guide fook that probably will be taboo in tn } countries of the allies for sometime here after) or with some similar work The other way was to join a personally conducted" or rubber neck party. Neither way is perfect, though the first Is by far the better Unless. of course. you happen to be the type of tourist who can only give two days to London" and who proposes to do" Paris in one. The real hustler who says to his companion, here's a cathdraL You look at the in- side and I'll look at the outside Then we shan't be long" If so, the rubber reck wagon for yours by all means!
 The only way really to see London is on foot. That cardinal point was laid down in conversation yesterday by one of the men of culture, British varietyD who are busily engaged at present in organizing the new facilities that will en- able American and other travellers, as we'll as Londoners themselves, to study the present and the past life of this old snd fascinatingly interesting metropolis as no others have ever been able to In The pnau pf wi he ducted parties,' but not of the kind tha this badly cheapened phrase conjures up, There will be no man with a megaphone no rubber neck wagon and no hustle Most important of all, it will not mean seeing just the stereotyped sights" Il will not be a mad rush from the Houses Cf Parliament to the Abbey and St Pauls, a quick lunch at the Cheshire Cheese and then ho. for the tower, Lon. and the docks. It won't, in fact, be I case of doing" but of getting some thing done.
 The 'conductors' of the parties wil be scholars of fame, writers and artists who have whole list of books or other works dealing with London to theii credit. They will do the guiding purely for the love of making others acquainted with all the discoveries that they them selves have made in the course of year: cf poking about in the byways of LOT. don. These walks in fact, will make a special feature of London byways. Thes will practically ignore the big show places like the Abbey and the tower the business of displaying which alread, Is in expert hands, and will show tn, visitor instead where the man who car
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transpositions and erasures My mother would sit up all night copying the whole thing out afresh
 Tn the morning the pages lay on her table, neatly piled together and covered with her fine, clear handwril- ing. Everything would he ready so that when Lyovotchka came down iie could send the proof to have one last look, and by evening the sheets welD all written over and messed up ouDe more.
 'Sonya, my dear. I am very sorry. but I've spoiled all your work again. he would say. I promise l won't do it any more. We'll send them off to- morrow without fail But that toinor- row was often put off for weeks, or even for months. There's just one pit I want to look over again my father would say, but he would get carried away and write it all again afresh There were even occasions. when. after he had posted the proofs, my father corrected them by telegraph the next day. Several times. in consequence of those corrections. the printing of the novel in the Russki vyestnik was in- terrupted, and sometimes it did not come out for months together"
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 to each side of the cart bed, and a fourth goes ahead as the leader, his tugs being fastened to the end of the tongue. There are also OK carts, pushed by the heads of the animals. the yokes being tied to the horns. There are sometimes four or more oxen to one cart. The driver uses goad to prod them along.
 The OK cart and the automobile are typical of the Asuncion of today. The town is one of the old and the new It was founded 70 years before John Smith started Jamestown; and Spanish Indian babies had grown up in it and become gray haired men before Boston sprang into being. It was for years the capital of the culture civilization and wealth of this part of the world; and 1t was not until after the close of our civil war that it got into a death struggle with it's neighbors something like that which Germany now has with the allies. That war killed off all the men of Para quay and ruined the country. The fight was Paraguay against Brazil, Uruguay
 
 over 12 years of age was killed during the struggle and it has taken until now for the nation to regain the population 1t hal at the beginning of that terrible five years of war. The total number of Para guayans is now less than 1000, 900, of whom about one tenth have their home in Asuncion. The bulk of the citi- zens are Paraguayans, although there are many Argentinos and Italians and srrinkling of Spaniards, Germans and French
 The city has a half dozen hotels, and some of them are said to be good. have struck one of the bad ones. It is the Hispano- Americana, pretentious building on the main street It has three stories, surrounding a patio, which IS roofed over with glass. The patio. or central court, is the main dining roolr, and adjoining it is the kitchen, where native cooks spoil white folks victu- als' three times day. Did I say three times? l should say twice, for you get only two meals a day in Asuncion. Your
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obblestones outside the shed

their way in and out through the crowd
 Asuncion has ore of the quaintest postoffices I have ever seen. It is a one-story building around court con- taining quarter of an acre, with wide corridors facing the court. Over the court is network of wires upon which vines have been trained so that the whole is roofed with green. The post offices are back of the corridor and the boxes are set into the walls. It is delightfully."- cool, and forms promenade or gossiping place for the people. Postage stamps here are priced according to the value of the money of the country. It now costs 70 cents Paraguayan to send letter, and 25 cents to send a post card to the United States
 This is so notwithstanding Paraguay is in the postal union. It hSs about tour hundred postoffices. and 1t handles some- thing like six million pieces of mail every year The country has telegraph lines to the extent of about two thousand miles, and the number of telegrams sent is about 300,000 per annum
 This city. in the heart of South Amer ica, has good telephone service. It is owned by stock company, which pays fat dividends, and that notwithstandin the charges are reasonable I wish l could show you the central station The
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By FRANK G. CARPENTER
Copyright. 1915, by Frank G. Car
 penter)
Asunolon. Paraguax.

Copyright. 1915, by Frank G. Car
 penter)
 Asuncion. Paraguay. m0T was after dark when our ITll steamer on the Paraguay ES-i river came 10 the wharves of lsSeSal Asuncion. The custom house
 was closed. and. as I did not know the hotels, l staid on board over night. In the meantime my stenog- rapher and myself took walk through the town. The carnival is now on, and we found it wide open. In one place a string of electric lights was stretched over the streets, and when We came near we learned that a masked ball was in progress. l asked as to the price of admission. and was told it was s10 a ticket. l turned to leave when l re- membered that Paraguay money is al a discount and that dollar is worth less than six cents. Thereupon I bought two tickets and started in. I did not go far, for I was seized by two soldiers who went through my pockets to find out if I had gun or knife that might be used in case of a revolution. They did the same with my stenographer He was passed through all right. I happened to have a roll of photographic films in my pocket and the soldiers thought this was a gun until took it out and explained it to them. There were four soldiers, with swords at their sides and guns on their shoulders, guarding the entrance. I shall not de- scribe the masked ball nor its antics The dances were tangoes and other South American creations and some of the girls were as giddy as those Of New York. l merely mention the incl dent to call attention to the revolution ary tendencies which now prevail in this part of the world Times are hard on account of the war and the people are dissatisfied 10 such an extent that they talk of busting the President and party in power to see if a new deal will not bring prosperity.
 And still Ascuncion ought to be happy 1t has on the seven league boots of modern municipal progress. It has trebled in size since I visited it seven- teen years ago. It had then 30,000 and 1t is now fast approXimating 10G, GOO. Then it was lighted by coal oil, and its bobtail tram cars were hauled by fly pllten mules. loday II IS lighted by electricity and it's electric car lines tra- verse the principal streets and extend far out into the country. It has bo gun to have automobiles, and the score or more, owned by the rich, keep up continual footing as they go bouncing along over the broken stone streets Most of the roads are as rough as washboard, and there are many sharp corners which injures the tires Never TneIeSS chauteuTS flying a Jolting their masters to jelly, and eat ing up the tires a the rate of set once a month. There will be no open ing for automobiles here until the streets are improved. Paraguay has no good roads to speak of, and the only wheeled vehicles are large carts drawn by four or five mules. One mule goes
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-13

that of describing them as they were in other days and recalling the part they played in Londons history. They are figuring, too. on ''reconstituting'' certain periods by means of "rambles'' through the National gallery and it's adjunct the National Portrait gallery. For instance. the period of Hogarth will be recre ated by means of his pictures; that of Tepys by pointing out the portraits of the many celebrities that figure in his famous Diary" and so forth and so on. This, of course, when the war is over, and the hundreds of famous works of art that are now deposited somewhere else, through fear of Zeppelin raids, are re- turned to their places in the galleries.
 Other 'rambles' will be taken through Epping forest, the favorte of all the holiday resorts of the London coster, and through the home counties, as those about London are called. One, of course, will take in the Box Hill or "Meredith'' country, and all these jaunts will be under the guidance of A. H. Anderson. whose knowledge of these regions is unique. The longest ramble planned for at present is one to Rochester, and this, a whole days affair, will cost, every. thing included, only s2.50.
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The Rad Feature

From the New York Herald.
 Guess I'll have to get rid of my cash fer She is entirely too beautiful for the lunch room business think a pretty cashier would H~,-- cus- toners.
 But they all fall .ata with her and loEe their appetites.f
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-13
By HAYDEN CHURCH

0NDON, June 3.-(Special Cor
 respondence. )-When the war is over, and Americans once more come Hooking across to explore
The Coconino sun., 1915-05-28
KANSAS QUARANTINE
 CANNOT HURT ARIZONA

The action of the Kansas author ities in barring shipments of Arizona stock from the state, and even pro- hibiting the unloading of Arizona stock crossing Kansas en route to other states, is not likely to have any effect upon the Arizona Livestock sanitary board, according to Sam B. Bradner, secretary of that body.
 Kansas was for long time infec- ted with foot and mouth disease" said secretary Bradner. "The danger of another outbreak in that state is far from being past. It is probable that at a meeting to be held Thursday the board will modify the quarantine re- gulations against a number of states but the restrictions against Kansas will probably remain in effect for some time.
 "It is possible to reach the Kansas City stockyards without unloading in Kansas, therefore the prohibition is not a very serious matter for the stockmen of Arizona"
The Coconino sun., 1915-05-28
SAVES SHEEP BY KEEPING
 THEM SOUTH LATE

Mir. and Mrs. Warren Perkins and daughter stopped in the city We'd nesday and visited with friends while en route to their summer ranch at Williams. Mir. Perkins is the son of Judge Perkins of Coconino county and has sheep ranch at Glendale in the Salt River valley. He is having his sheep driven north to his summer ranch at Williams. He says that he was fortunate in keeping his sheep in the south and escaping the disastrous cold weather which recently killed a number that had been driven north earlier in the spring. Out of a herd of 4,000, Perkins has received an in- crease of $500 lambs for the season and the prospects look excellent to him.-Journal Miner.
The Coconino sun., 1915-05-28
4 CONFESSION
Hopes Her Statement, Made Public,
 will Help Other Women.

Hines, .Ala.-"I must confess", says Mrs. Eula Mae Reid, of this place, "that Cardui, the woman's tonic, has done me a great deal of good.
 Before l commenced using Cardui, l would spit up everything ate. l had a tired, sleepy feeling all the time, and was irregular. could hardly drag around. and would have severe headaches con. tinuously.
 Since taking Cardui, have entirely quit splitting up what l eat. Everything seems to digest all right, and l have gained 10 pounds in weight"
 If you are victim of any of the numer. ous ills so common to your sex, it iS wrong to suffer.
 For half century, Cardui has been re- lieving just such ills, as is proven by the thousands of letters, similar to the above, which pour into our office, year by year.
 Cardu is successful because it is com- posed ofingredients which act ctspecifically on the womanly constitution, and helps build the weakened organs back to health and strength.
 Cardui has helped others, and will help you, too. Get a bottle today. You won't regret it. Your druggist sells 1t.
 Write to: Chattanooea Medicine O., Ladies' Ad- vlsory Dept. Chattanooga. Tenn. for Special h. structiOns on your case and 64-page book. Home Treatment for Wonen sent in plain wrapper. NC 10
The Coconino sun., 1915-05-28
TO WRITE BOOK ON FORESTRY

MT. and Mrs. T. S. Woolsey Jr. and two children arrived in Flagstaff Sa- turday in their auto, having driven through from Albuquerque on their way to Santa Barbara, California, to spend the summer. MT. Woolsey was formerly one of the chief officials of the Forest Service at Albuquerque, having spent his first years in the service at Flagstaff where he is so well known. MT. Woolsey is engaged on book on forestry data for which he has secured not only on American forests but from visit to the forests of Europe, where he spend year or more.
The Coconino sun., 1915-05-28
LIARS STILL CONTINUE
 10 LIVE AND PROSPER

From Trinidad, Colo, to Albuquer- que, the road is passable, but in some places quite muddy. From Albuquer- que to Magdalena, the road is splen- did. From Magdalena to Springer vile, fair. From Springerville to Flagstaff, passable, but from Flag staff west or to the Grand Canyon, impossible. Consequently, I am de- touring all travel from Albuquerque scush to the Dordcrland route, thence to Phoenix, this road being in very good condition, with the exception of a few places that I direct the travel around. There are no bad streams to cross that are not bridged
 1 would recommend that no tourist attempt to travel the to-ocean highway or National Old Trails road iron! here west for ten days.
 (Signed) D. K. B. SELLERS Albuquerque Journal.
 This seems to be the kind of stuff Flagstaff is getting very regular from this same source
 The road from Flagstaff to Grand Canyon is probably the best road in the state generally speaking, and is being used regularly and praised by all who go over it. From Grand Can yon to Williams the road is in good condition. The road from Flagstaff to Williams has been in bad condi- tion, because of Davenport lake and unreasonable weather, but detouring people south around the Grand Can yon is inexcusable to any one who has the slightest inclination to tell the truth.