Show arm QUEER PER Q THINGS IN COLOMBIA wl it I ta la Is I Patterned Alter After That Th of tho the United 5 Variations 1 j Special S O OTA Jan St 96 According to the IlI tha Ih pr term of or oin attics i Is I six 81 years yar yarI ta 11 i I but lIt In relit h ho he ItI to the i chair for at as long Ion or orni ortie ni tie II short llort n a I B as hl hili mill mili military tary tar author lUll holds out outU Ue lieu U aul by a vleo vl o president council of oC state stale seven n w and n minks in onotA o otA on the t td d day r of th the new year the senate end and ant of at both hOlh using th the some room tx m i f is III a I very nr large bare barer r lm nt On three tildes Ilde Ordinal legislation belong belonge only of oC the time to congress but th the v d departments or nr provinces pow aver r to issue edicts upon ullOn lawn lave paused by for facilitating the affairs of ot their r The Th caIous II mire ure by il which inert Once onro In t rare ears and e each ellch h hap hag It II Its own mint muni mun ii d i council superior court ami 1st 11 t mug judge I th the civil criminal and courts courts court II me our Neu lipid fo No 0 fur ns nil tin the text of r ti Ih la l w V H is I cony on cnn d foreigners fr Ij j Y o iu UL I ri fill I ta hith rth o 0 L A A AMm T T T T T v n I 3 tl t 1 of off r J y r i m m f 1 e 1 I ABDUL ADUL HAMID II SULTAN i TURKEY ABDUL HAMID II IL SULTAN OF OP TURKEY PRINCE FERDI FERDINAND FERDINAND NAND HAND AND THE MACEDONIAN CRISIS n II European powers have ha tales taken a Land hand In tho the Macedonian TUB T and are aro Insisting In that Uio tho KullAn carry cerry carr out the reforms promised by Ilan and ameliorate tho the condition of ot the In du Macedonia anti aliI biller Turkish provinces Prince co Ferdinand of ot Is permitting the insurgents to 10 use Ids his territory ni nil u II basu of operations ass tint Turkey anti and this fact h lice has s led IN tho to 10 tie the bulk of ot Iris bin armyon army array on 01 the Bulgarian frontier L uA A AAA VAA hM LAA A A A A A A A A i In this republic but It Mould not be advisable to test the 1 In any an native court of Justice lilY the matter mailer Is le weighty weight enough Imy o rp rry with It the fe rear feu r of t Uncle Sam Samuel Samuel uel p long lone lon strong arm Imprisonment tor debt taw ha recently I been done tone away a WR l and trial by 11 Jury In ht criminal Oft OA The only monopoly In Ih Ins he a country countr J it 11 that tit ot salt gait Is U Iset et time th hands of ur the central K gov V eminent and In Homo ome the Of ot the he I rum distilleries which Is III Ill ml 1 d for tor the of their th 1 r 01 municipal al revenues The fhe trade try de In III r and ammunition has been fn free for tor yearn There Is U a Q larva large debt owing to 10 three thre fourths of ot which Is due dua to h her er wilt on who hull hold as 01 security a mort morton gait on chief source Mourel of oC I me lr nue c that derived from the cut cus cutA A system Intended to place pi lice the theco commercial co and nubile credit of or the country COlI On a better littler basis was Intro dap seine Mine time ago und and U is already lit d In mt 1171 what Is I Wf u bill and discount company wis In and com eom s public although In nit alt t Is changeful world there Is II noth nothing lug ing that varies varlee more than the money mon market The Th principal national coin cointo to fe time the half dollar but bUl that Wing away below ow par pir le Ia l not nol thought of at all nil In Inthe Inthe Inthe the conduct of commercial abroad and Is nearly valueless In Central America where drafts taro M sometime i ht by men on th the For th the jm purchase retinue of such dr rn fu thu silver stiver dollar of or Pent and fo f rn r d solm eoles the lot lat lotto UT to e dOre o were re preferred and nd are arc noted at from 1 to 10 per KIr cent cellI above the tho money mon of ot Colombia The demand for tor these foreign dollars however ceases canses wheel h th the price of or local i drafts drAft Is la such an MM l t to Induce Hr to 10 buy bu th them m nt at n I home homp wh where r tb the gold Rold of ot tho the United I rr 1 tate la Is brought bro for Panama railway y rn latter It II Centrally bought spy tw aed Is eagerly bought up Ico I e every rr mouth month tn by anti and others to send lid away to their needs friends and Jam film at home horn the for foreign dollar was a the gold fold was sold al alpar par but bUI want vant m t u uthe the th bl rails above al allude l to has Ims sent money mone away up Ut Ul UlIn UtIn In the ta market Therefore the th Ih were joT best I sort W bf funds one on n ran can t bring I b bRouth Routh Ih America It Is t s gold goM the th J premium on un which Is le ai um alII a s c un III I II During I the hut quarter c tat n m I Inthe In Inthe InthE the Intervals Interval nt of revolution tin Ih u m ti mWan 11 I Wan blan government hums hue I n II self Nit largely with the tho th 1 L Lr i problem An 11 organization i a I i I m i 1 r met mel boil O took In 1 mid 1 I there are rc brut about tA Iv ti 11 1 lid institutions of VII vein ri u s sea 1 It Uw the t I country fi fr an uc n e pub respell Among Amon th than m is I a m ma madone done Normal hool In III cech I l rn ron rm iu n tor for Ut Ate I of ot r u rs froth tron Ir in fh r m h iii n nh nr to te t teach th the common IDmon bra h lt i In the th national pul public li phoI i iI Tiler miller I i oll 11 ch U beside ile III al p iR bl for tor 1111 blur I IOli a p Oli HM n t I rd n t ti n n i II U to much i nil Art i n trott the lit Tf The o of all and pro i 1 u i u u T including thOM these Ih of ut law and that of oC apothecary 11 po th ny I la le nb n II i luMy so bO that on one rated not even poM pewees cs a or r too much liberty lI rt It seems to tome me mite ITI In III placing human hummI buttes and foal bod bo bodI l I fee At Bt th time mercy Inre of oC any who Iho chooses to rail himself lf a physician BUr sur surgeon geon dentist or Hy Ily lyth the way Columbia fa ls time th v vety ry or of dentists ll Ton dollar dollars nn an hour In to th the t the usual u Val al price Mr Iii lh the cities one on hour be lie beIng Ing In A Appointed before hand If It lime vic vir victim tim tails falls to appear on oh tine time he hc la I charged for hi his 1 hour nil mill the as a n If It Il had h been n tilled with work and aUtI meanwhile the takes lAkes timings very vet ver leisurely beguiling the thou with cheerful I apparently the Jb jolt to Its limit There may lo to co na to tho the I general rule rut but hut 1 I leave have not yet corno lOmo I across th tu An n of tat mine who wear wears a plate with half a R dozen lozell false fait teeth loath In let It had h d the misfortune tn to brook break one of the till teeth In Bogota She Mime went to the lending dentist t to get the tit seine tooth fastened again to the same mime plato and whit what do you think he hI charged her The he Job In the United States Slates would cost nil th the way from tram nothing If ones ottee oue 8 tarn own dentist to a e dol mini dollar lar hut but limo Bogota tooth carpenter rendered a n hill bill of Among the tM colonists of ot various na III In 11 Colombia those from the th I States are few and far between the foreign element being b mostly Oer Ger unan with truth n II of ot I I ng and The military college or m West Pest PoInt of or time tilt republic where were educated moat of oC tho the famous gen Ken generals who af tor wards 1 s became presidents dents dent was waR for or many years cur In churN charm I of a I former onner r of ot the United I army It Is a n significant fact that more mol I Ithan than titan half halt of rulers from the first president pre down to the present nt Incumbent m oil were previously s generals IR In the Colombian army Boo Hogo ta tn tl Is IA eminently ft it 1 city ell of oC of ot great grent wealth and great able learning and ana Incredible Ignorance with a n curious mixture of customs that often otton puzzle pu lo tho the stranger Tho The furs fore foremost most men In the tho political literary and AUt mercantile circles are from the old its Cn lilian families but bul flu so S 1 changed by In Intermarriage Intermarriage that nil bloods blonds run In their veins vein In tho tha legislature ture on the Iho bench the forum torum the tho pulpit you ou tee the char characteristics of It all races raci from the Anglo Saxon tu to th the African Politicians of ot whatever cuter color compose oso the ruling olin class dominated by the th military Among the he loading leading minds mind lire are many III nil y highly hl hl educated men who tt ct averse anti and write fluently in several languages who can an dictate a n d tile dis discourse course or 0 tb most tilt dif 0 problems In astronomical or formulas formulae Most of ot the tho men were educated abroad and everybody ot of In Colombia Is l a writer or a u post poet Time The 1 number of ot dally dall weekly periodicals published and the line many louse louie sheets Issued II ns nil occasions require r IH If Ing rush Into lulo print on o the unruliest smallest provocation and stay there Indefinitely arguing all nil manner of ot questions to 10 tho time exceeding Interest of the who hove have hll BO eu o lit Ill little littie tie tle to da du Colombian authorities have furnished textbooks on political econ economy economy omy grummer geography Ics 19 and art betides br many and biographical essays bird and works of ot fiction and Sumo Some of oC the text books book are subsidised by the government and all nil authors author au are protect protected ed II by n copyright co law Patriotic eloquence elo eloquence eloQuence quence ls In the time Ideal of the Colombian and line well sell Is III It realized In many mun native orators The Tho people are natural mutt musi musicians clans spend a n great deal lIeal of ot time anti money In improving tho the talent In III every house of the better bet tel class Is la found a n German piano and many mUI young people earn carn good gund salaries teaching caching musk music while extravagant prices are paid tu to foreign professors As the constitution laws and nud government of ot Colombia were ero mod moti modeled elect after utter those of l tire time tilted t States BO so their financial policies Imitate Eng I ng lands their fashions mid cus ous customs toms tome follow those tho tot ot of Prance while wh ll their theil literature verbosity and suavity are Spanish h to the tha Ih core cure The smallest bull busi business ness transaction hero here requires many formalities Kven Irven the time account looks books of ot the merchant must receive tho thu legal rubric an as nearly every eler trial la Is decided upon the written evidence only The wholesale und anti commission l merchants mer merchants chants comprise a large close chua They he buy from iron the lowest selling BellinI market giving the largest credits and sell ell to the small tradesmen of ot their Individual sections otter often supplying them thum with goods in advance ot of the coming cominS crop crol This Thin gives I vel them thorn control ot of the produce n long lone lon time ahead nhea The people are ex ua excessively cursively given to guinea games of ot chance and at lotteries and a 1 rallies rattles arc are liberally pat Beggars are arc numerous owing partly to 10 the time peculiar diseases that thac scourge e the time country countr 43 Qs s in Mexico Saturday Is II beggars day tW authorized by II law In Then they th crawl out of ot their moles holes and lairs and fairly the towns levying toll loll upon u on everybody with willi confidence make it tt a Imbue ious duty to save Buve up all al the th broken bits bite of food and amid the clothes clothe that can cnn be lie spared allured to lund to the tile Lord on art Sat Saturdays and anI every overy places s on onlee lee Ills table a quantity of at stimuli small and hands It U out as ae the mendicants oak Ilsk for o it The police pollee do duty at night only lett leav letting leavIng ing InK the people to look out for theta I selves during the thu daytime Four 1 po policemen n are lite stationed at al the four cor ear earners corners corners I ners of lIf each plaza Every Ever U 15 1 minutes throughout the hours hors ot darkness a 11 bell rungs rings which causes CRuses the guardians of ot the lilt city to blow their whistles and change places This Ihra U Is I to prevent them from sleeping on their Leah boats or ut ul least giving them time for little more mere than Though the tho lower clauses classes work ork Indiscriminately the women do Iu dothe the heaviest shore share ot of It carrying l bur hur burdens burdens dens over the tho mountains a equal Ual to the themen men amen often orten with the addition 1 of ur two tuo or three children child ron Indians from cord fro the th Inter lr lit corno coma to town In groups mm tarn and umen together often walking three or four tur days carrying upon th ir bucks backs heavy loads ot of produce or nr a In string shins of ot lieu flail Arrived at their the Rumen sit 1111 patiently all nil day aa la thi tho mar market ket kH place peddling the h hl u the limn the gambling bo the hs anti thinking At night It if ih It I JH is any money left they all get et k to 10 tog together g gether thir and anti then spend three 11 n J sour out the road roa l home homel more on contented hearts nn with w l ith tired feet empty repeat re cat the time happy haPl ox ex as ae soon na as they Wey can lon score scare uj up UlI anything more that Is saleable the he I homes of oC these people who comprise thu the bulk of ot the tho population numerically mero huts hut roofed with grass graM and in III ar Leeds with hol hulas hols s cut In III the thatch through which th the may many escape If It It will Th Thel r ar no II J window in the the has hns no of brush d t up 1111 far fu bit door than u the other the occasion o o lon u 1 stolen board ll or Omni an nn o old a blanket slung slun ucro a Mother hes chairs arc the Iho only with u a unknown and a bench or Dr two l table ble of solid 1011 1 abode abide or u n 1 1 rough planks nailed nailer n together pule nr lira of considered consid red ample furnishing A pile of ot blanket forms n a covered t with h a I I luxurious bed but oftener there are no nU not t d at ut oil 01 the down on 11 the ground wherever w ite they like while e ethe the pigs pi fowls goats e tr r live IIVo stock the family possess ht liens lice etc go In nod find out at nt inside the prom w 1 III in as at much at tat limns lie Ices 1 l as nay of ot the file other occupants A 1 little way out OUI of ot Hogo Bogota u Is the tha cemetery for foreigners and III In It fre are bulled blurted nil whether Cat or Protestants who are so 10 unlucky an nil anto asto to oft off the mortal coil coll In Coloin bin bia The rhe little Gods acre was WaR laid hull minis minim minister out cut many years jeara ago ngo by IJ a former ter from Ingland Its high hili II adobe walls trolls are 01 washed washer n 1 vivid yellow ollo In lit which a n wide wll archway forms the portal for Cor doubly double wooden doors Having obtained tho the key kl from n neighboring cottage nand and unlocked these massive gates you fop fol follow Collow low lov a II pathway between lIeten troll till rosebushes hushea whose trunks ore are like Ilk those df dt n a tree bordered by b beds of panties and Ind forgot forget a 0 passion vine over head and an tin occasional orchid C showing among the purple lo ern until a II sec eee second cud ond wooden gate Is 8 reached tl which you ou pies pass pit Into Inlo the last renting i Place of ot number of ot your Among scores of unmarked graves graveR of ot the long dead rul lire are several overal me tombs and monuments I It IL I |