Show THE roen INCO INCOGNITA GINITA A COUNTRY WITH NINE WOMEN FOR 1 kor OR EACH MAN on friday morning I 1 looked out of my cabin window to find that we were tied up at the abst yellow wharf that I 1 ever saw and in front of a large bam like ilke building I 1 did not dream that we were at asuncion but going on deck found that the barn was the custom house for paraguay and that when we went ashore we were in the city of the X republica incognita avery A very nice little C city ity we vve found it to be not that it is pretty or pretentious or worth visiting but it is an enterprising republican go ahead place most blost of the houses are rc old and are built without any regard to being on the streets you cannot imagine ine lne a more amore irregular assemblage of houses bouses houses but the symmetry with which the buildings are built 0 offsets this the presidents house government house arsenal barracks and customhouse custom house stand on wide boulevards and with the exception of the latter are as well built as the similar buildings in any american city of the same rank the word ascuncion ascuncion you know is not spanish for ascension as we used to believe when schoolboys but for assumption and in the case ol of the paraguayan cit city is well bestowed for it I 1 is S not often in n south america that there can be found foun a city that is more assum assuming th 0 politic politically I 1 socially and generally remember e r that alf fifteen teen years ago it was sacked by the brazil brazilian larl lari army and look at it now as a busy trading town of 50 people many of them of fine tine cultivation in short one orie need no f fear ear to be proud of seeing such a city a city built b by virgin crests forests on a beautiful beautia ul hill t thal that hy at slopes from sunny farmlands to the grand wide parana awili I 1 will not go into dusty details but assure you that though isolated paraguay is a sta state te worth knowing situated in tile the warm heart of south america it iles lles under the shadow of the St sierras erras and between the two great rivers Parana and aara ga into its territory have come three and one half halt centuries of sadness and misfortune spain had no colony then more enslaved and though the jesuitical control gave it a bright day it was iong long the prey of cruelty and adventure revolutions came at length and resulted ininee in independence p en dence from 1817 until 1869 first francia and then the kopex tyrants held the country under cruel despotism then solano lopez the state tate in war wih brazil and after the sack of asuncion and the ravage of the country the tyrant was shot and the reign of terror gave place to a reorganization of the republic which was modeled af after ter the united states states appropriations are voted by congress and that body also fixes uses the salaries of the omm off iciel the president receives 6 the vice president the ministry 1500 congressmen and the judges of of the supreme court the population is about and what is strange about it is that there are only about abou men and women of course the females are the farmers producers and laborers they work slavishly slavishly slavi shi and an d are very poor while they thay indefatigably nse nye at bably toll andl support the families correspondence republican publican Be |