THE OMAHA RTTND VY BEE; APRIL 2fi, 1P14. 5 B The Quaint Metropolis of Southern Peru (Copyrighted, 1914. by Frank G Carpenter.) manmtA reru.-l am In the I A 1 metropolis of southern Teru. I A- I It Is the city of Arequlpa, LA 1 lln.l,t 1IY1 miU Itnr-lf nf lh Pacific ocean, and perhaps !, miles south of the Panama canal The town is built In an oasis, made by the Chile river In the arid Ancles of this Pacific coast desert. It Is surrounded by ragged dr. mountain?, but bedded In a x alley of perpetual green. The city Is a m le and a half higher than Philadelphia, Rocton or Baltimore. It is about T,yvj feet above the sta, and some of the moun tains about It are four miles In height .lust behind It Is the great volcano, Mount Mlstl. which has a crater n half mile In r t n r, a I . . i . . . ..... . ... u,u,Mk.t, nuu un nip oi wnicn Harvard college has established a sort of an automatic meteorological station, which Is more than three miles above Mount AVeather. Virginia. To the left of the Mlstl Is Chachacanl, over 20,000 feet high, and there are other Andean giants behind. Indeed, there is po more beautifully located city anywhere In South America, and you will go far before you find one which Is so fresh, so bright and so quaint. The houses of Arequlpa ' as though they had just come out of a bandbox. The most of them are of only one story. Their walls stand close to the street, and these walls are of all colors of the rainbow. I bought my postage stamps today In a building that was the color of ashes of roses. I ate my breakfast In a restaurant painted sky blue, and next door was a house of rose pink. This morning I visited the new market of Arequlpa, It consists of great walls of Spanish architecture surround lng a court roofed by the sup. The front of the market Is a yellow as gold, and Its Inside as blue as the Andean skies that form a part of Its roof. The surround ing buildings are of the same bright col ors, and the whole seems to fit In with the gorgeous air of southern Peru. Market Are "Wonderful, But come with mo Into the market. This will show us something of the way the city of Arequlpa has been built where It Is. The wares all come from the valley of the Chile river. In which the city Is situated. This valley has some thing like fifty square miles of culti vated land; It is a great onsls In the heart of the Andean desert, and that on the road that leads from the sea to the mountains. The oasis makes Arequlpa a great, agricultural and fruit center, and also one for the raising of grain, alfalfa and cattle and sheep. As you go through the market you see everywhere evidences of the fertility of the soil and the won dirful climate. Nearly overy fruit that can bo, raised in the United States la sold here. There are apricots, peaches, npples and plums and strawberries as big as walnuts. There are oranges and lemens. bananas .and figs and bushels of I alias or alligator pears. There are green watermelons as big around as the waist of your sweetheart, some of which have as red a flesh, as any that ever made a darky's mouth water, and others with a flesh as yellow as gold, although the seeds are Jet black. In the vegetable quarters you find fully as .great a variety. You people at home are, now in the heart of midwinter, but here on the other side of the line It Is summer, and they are, selling new .pota toes and green corn. They have bright red tomatoes, white cauliflower and great quantities of cabbage. They have also the yucca, sweet potatq.es and yams. Peru Is 'the home of the potato, and I understand that our Department of Agrl cultuie nas recently sent men here to get new varieties. Ilale Fine Cralns. The valley In which Arequlpa Is situ ated raises great quantities of very fine barley. It has fields of alfalfa and pas tures upon which are fed -cattle and sheep. The city Is the chief wool market of Peru. It Imports vast quantities of al paca and sheep's wool from Bolivia and the Peruvian plateau, and ships It to Europe and the United States. These shipments amount to more than 10,000,000 pounds weight every year and they have n value of perhaps $2,500,000. The leading exporting houses of the city have their gents In all parts of the Andean pla teau, and the wool la bought from the Indians and haclendados and sent to Lake Tltlcaca, from where It comes over the railroad to Arequlpa. Some of It is consumed In the woolen mills here, but the majority of the product Is sent abroad. Nearly all of the vicuna and alpaca wool passes through Arequlpa, Returning to the city itself, Arequlpa is quite a manufacturing center. It makes harness and saddlery, boots and shoes, and It has large cotton mills. It also has the railroad shops of the Southern Rail road of Peru, which makes this place its headquarters. There are about 500 men employed there; they are now making their own passenger and freight cars, as TERRIBLE ITCHING RASH ON SCALP White Dry Mass on Crown of Head, Shed White Particles. Began to Spread. Lost Hair Rapidly. Cu ticura Soap and Ointment Cured. 6030 Rhodes Ave.. Chlcigo. 111. "Since Infancy there has been on my scalp a rash which prevented my even combing my hair. H was a white dry mm on the very crown of my head and It continually shed white particles should I as much as shake ray head. It never decrcaied in die. In fact It began to spread. It made me very uncomfortable and caused me to lose ray hair very rapidly. Many a night I stayed awake tormented by tho terrible Itching. " 1 tried and It softened the sore but, did not remove It, only making it Itch worse. Seeing the advertisement for Cut! cura Soap and Ointment In the paper I wrote for a sample and even with the sample I could tell I had the right thing. I bought one cake of Cutlcura Soap and one box of Cutlcura Ointment. 1 rubbed my bead every nitht with the Cutlcura Ointment and washed it .with the Cutlcura Soap each morning. I used two cakes of Cutlcura Soap and one and a half boxes of Cutlcura Ointment and the rath which I bad a life time disappeared. It took a month and a half for the cure." (Signed) Joseph Krue ser, Sept. 8, 1913, It costs nothing to learn how pure, sweet, effective and satisfying Cutlcura Soap and Ointment are In the treatment of poor com plexions, red, rough hands, itching scalps, dandruff, dry. thin and falling hair, because you need not buy them until you try them. Although sold everywhere, sample of each wilt be mailed free, with 32-p. Sldn Book. Ad dress post-card "Cutlcura, Dept.T. Bosun." tSTMen who shave and shampoo with Cu tlcura Soap will find It best for sldn and. scalp. well as all the repairs for the . rolling stock. Manufacture Chocolate. The town also manufactures chocolate. It has a flour mill and It does a great deal of exporting and Importing, being the center of trade for southern - Peru and also for a great part of Bolivia. The Southern railway Is the chief gateway to La Pax, and It will always compete with the other roads that go to and rom Bolivia and the seacoast. It Is on this ac count that Arequlpa will -probably be im proved by the Panama canal. The .city is 100 miles from Mollendo, the chief port of the south for this part of tho world. The landing Is poor, however. The ohlps have to anchor far out from the shore and the swell Is worn than that of, Jaffa, which tossed Jonah's ship bo that the sailors threw him out to the whale. The Mollendo landing is often so rough that passengers have to be taken up hy steam cranes from the boats that bring them to the port from the steamer, and goods have to be put on and off of the launches by cranes. The ocean was tamer than usual, when I came Into port.' but my boat went up and down eight or ten feet, and I had to make a flying leap, when It was on the up grade, to get to the steps that led to the custom house. Fitted not with Electricity. When I visited Arequlpa. In 1S98 It was lighted by coal oil, and I do not remem ber that It had a car line. It has now an electrlo light plant from turbines run by water power and also an exceilent system of tramways, which It la extending out Into the country. It Is well equipped as to telephone, both local and long dls tance, and the telephone companies will accept long-distance messages at tele graph rates, which are only 16 cents for ten words. For 33 cents you may talk for five minutes between Arequlpa and Mollendo, a distance of more than 100 miles. I venture the rate is less than one half that of the United States. With the completion of the canal Are qulpa will become a tourist resort. It Is a place or breaking the journey on the long ride up the Andes mountains from tho ocean to take Tlticaca and Cuzco, and it ought to have good hotels. The best of those It has now Is kept, by an Italian named Moroslnl, who n"rters his guests on one side of the plaza and feeds them on the other side In a long, low, cae-llke vault, which is known as the comedor. or dining loom. The food is good and the bedrooms are large, but there aie'no modern improvements and the sanitary arrangements are poor. Arrqulpn la Interesting, From a sightseeing point I find Are qulpa quite as interesting as Lima.' It has a great cathedral, built of white stone, which must cover an acre or so of space. Tills faces on the plaza, filling the whole of one side of the square. The three other sides are occupied by stores, mgre quaint than any In Kurone. The build ings are of only one story, and In frpnt of them extend wide portals or-corridors with huge columns separating them from the plaza. On the other side of the corri dors Is a wall of cave-lke vaults, lighted only from the front and the roof. The stores are fifteen or twenty feet wide and twenty or thirty or more feet deep, and' their ceilings are arched, so that the whole looks like one long vault. The goods are hung from the ceilings and plied up on the floors. The market seems to be a good one, and I saw many Amer ican articles. Nearly afl the houses of Arequlpa nave vaulted, roofs and on some of the one story structures the roofs extend up In oval domes or hoods. The otty is under the shadow of the volcano Mount Mlstl and In the past has had serious earth quakes. For this reason the skyscraper will never be known, and today 'a five-story-building would be the talk of the town. The clly Is one uf the oldest towns In America and It dates back almost to th JPlounzLcj in the Chile Valley The i new zncirk&k days of Plzarro. It Is a place qf old families, and of considerable culture. It Is an ecclesiastical and political center. It has. a university and several colleges, and also a school of 'arts and an agricul tural Institute. Moreover, It boasts of having the finest hospital In all South America, and that although its climate Is one of the finest on earth. In fact I doUbt whether you will fjnd many place's that have ffner weather all the year around than Arequlpa. The sky Is almost always blue, and the sun, al most always, shines. At least this has been the case until lately. The people tell me there are more clouds In .the sky pow ttian ever before, and I understand that , this cloudy condition Is so increas ing that Harvard university Is seriously considering the removal of its obser vatory from here to some. other place. Harvard Observatory at Mlstl. I. doubt not, many of you have heard of the Harvard ' observatory. It Is one of the most noted astronomical stations-of the. whole world. It Is situated on the slope of Mount Mlstl, 500 feet above Are qui pa. at such a place that Its telescopes have an unobstructed view of the heav ens. The Institution has a fine plant, and It Is equipped with great telescopes, one of which has a lens two feet In diameter enabling them to take photog raphs on plates fourteen by seventeen Inches In size. The tube of "that Instru ment must weigh a ton, but It so deli cately hung that a child could move It, There are other telescopes for taking the portraits of the stars and for the last two or three decades these scientists of Har vard have been making heavenly records of this southern hemisphere. They haVe taken as many as fifty a night and thousands a year. The negatives after having been developed are shipped to iCumbrldgc, where they are kept on file for scientific work. There Is no such collection anywhere else and astrono mers have to go -.there If they would make certain classes of study. Sky Is Individualistic. There Is, I am tdld, nothing duplicated In the sky. Bach half of the world has Its own stars and constellations, and there are some here that we never see In the north. One of. these Is the southern cross, but It seems to me that its beauty has been greatly exaggerated. There are only four stars In it, and they are za small that you have, to look hard to find them. They do not compare with the great dipper. Many of v the other stars are far more brilliant than In the north. This Is so of the milky way and of the most of the planets.' I have been on tho equator when the path of a planet on the still waters of the ocean was almost as well marked as that of the moon, and In riding at night up the Amazon river the stars were sq close It seemed as though I could almost reach out and grasp them. Another reason for moving the Harvard observatory Is that Its work has resulted In the southern heavens having been pretty thoroughly studied, and mapped, and that reason for Its ex istence has to some extent passed a way. Established by nordem , The story of the establishment of this Observatory Is Interesting. It Is now about thirty-five years since Uriah H. Borden died and left J300.000 to Harvard univer sity, with1 the understanding that the money was to be used to build an ob servatory at the best place upon earth for the study of the stars. The college J authorities first tried Colorado and Cali fornia, and then came to South America. Their first work was done back of Lima, at an altitude of about that of Mount Washington on what Is now called Mount Harvard, but In 1890 they changed their station to Arequlpa. The change was made because this place was thought to have more clear days and clear nights than any other locality on earth. Since then the astronomers of the university have been working here right along and thai not only at Ui owtervalory, but at w the automatic meteorological ' station, which they have placed on the top of Mount Mlstl. Highest Station In World. Mount Mlstl (a 19,200 feet high, and this .station Is said. to. be -the highest of Its .kind In the world.' H Is higher than any point In America outsldo Alaska, and It Is fully a mile higher than our observa tory 'on the 'top of Pike's Peak. The site of . the station fs on the edge of a huge crater, which until lately tins been send ing out clouds of yellow sulphurous vapor a thousand feet Into the air. These clouds have now stopped and I am told that the volcano has been spitting out water and steam. No one knows what this may portend. The automatic Instru ments on the mountain are keeping a rec ord of meterorologlcal movements and the scientists vIbU them at Intervals nnd bring back the results. Tho machines work with great regularity, but some times the mountain is so covered with snow and at other times visited by ter rible winds, so that there may now and then be a break. Prof. Bailey,' who estab lished the station, had great trouble In getting the Indians to help him up the volcano with the Instruments, and It took a large number of mules to carry the ma terial. At the top he .found an Iron cross standing and at this the Indians fell down and worshiped. Country Dreary and Wild, I wish I could take you up oven the trip I made up the Andes frqm Mollendo to Arequlpa. The country la more dreary and wilder In aspect than that above Lima. We rode for miles without seeing a blade of grass or anything green. We passed oyer great beds of sand, walled with bluffs that had been ground so smooth by the winds that the strata showed forth. We passed traveling sand hills, great crescents or dunes, made by the grains of sand rolling over and over up the hill until they reached the top of the crest and rolled down the Inside. Fur ther on the sand had cut Into the rock of the mountains, making, great cracks In it like the wrinkles on an old woman's face. All the erosion here comes from the winds. There Is no rain whatever, never theless the rocks In many places are ground to a ponder. Further on up the railroad the Andes grew wilder, and we seemed to have reached the very heart of old mother earth. Bverythlng whs rock, and there was not a bit of green to be seen. There was no soli. Indeed, It seemed as though the skin of vegetation and life had been peeled from the earth, and that we had our great rooky ball before us at It was before plant life or animal life had sprung Into being. At the same time, the scenery was magnificent. The air is so clear here that you can see for miles, and the clouds painted velvet spots on the hills. Toward DflBcmj F Bails r. Sanatorium This institution is the only one in the central west with separate buildings situated in their own ample grounds, yet entirely dis tinct, and rendering it possible to classify case. The one building being fitted for and devoted to the treatment of non-contagious and non-mental diseases, no others be ing admitted; tho other Rest Cot tage being designed for and de voted to the exclusive treatment of select mental cases requiring for a time watchful care and spe cial nursing. fvi-ning the sun tinted the mountains with the most delicate blues, pinks, lav enders and mauve, and the whole looked like h mighty picture In colors. Instan taneously sketched by the hands of the gods. Ah we started out we could see the ncean rolling lis spray high on the beach, ami at the clo of our Journey the moon was hist rising over the snow of the mountains above old Arequlpa. The whole formed s panorama sueh as I have seen nowhere else, and such as I venture i an be seen nowhere else In the world. THANK O CArtPRNTKR. PRATTLE OF THE KIDDIES. The Parson tattle, don't you , know It Is wrong to worry your mother so? Mttle Lottle-Huh! Ynu don't 'know mamma' 8hc worries me more than 1 worry her. ' Why." asked the teacher, "did L'aesar cri.SK the Rubicon?" "I don't rrmombrr." replied Willie, "but mtbby It was because he got a chance to be the captain of a team on the other side '" "What the share of the earth?" naked th teacher, calling suddenly on Willie. Round," vina the answer. 'Mow do you know It's round?" All right." said Willie: "It s square, then. 1 don't mean to argue about It. Teacher (explaining fractions) Suppose new, Willie, you had eight little boys visiting you and you had only one apple, how much would each little boy get?' Willie Wouldn't get any. I'd wait till the) d nil gone homo nnd eat )l myself. The school teacher with the eagle eye saw n little girl chewing gum. "Mary," sh demanded, "put that Into the waste basket " Tho child looked as though she wtui Id like to obey but couldn't. "Did you hear mo?" Insisted the teacher. "Put tlmt wnd nf gum Into the wastebasket 'Immediately." "Please, teacher, I'd like to, but 1 can't"' was tho quavering re ply! "It It belongs to my mother." "What's wrong, Johnny?" Aw, ''taint nothln' much, I asked our teacher to call th' boy that Is th monitor of th' room th' umplrean' she did. An' when she weiit out of th' room 1 had a fight with him." "Well?" "Well, when teacher came back she sent mo to th' bench where th' girls sit, nn' fined me three recesses an' a hour after school!" Backers Still Mnsy. Swindling, considered as an art, Isn't on the decline to any noticeable, extent, Is it" Washington authorities tell us that wi'litn the last two years swindlers, hy melius of get-rlch-qutck, matrimonial and otner schemes operated by mall, havo sep nrnted tho easy marks of the United States from J12?,000,000 In hard cash. These figures not only simply prove that Sage Tea Puts Life and Color in Hair Dont stay gray! Sage Tea and Sulphur darkens hair so nat urally that nobody ban tell Tou can turn gray, faded hair beau tifully dark and i lustrous almost over night It you'll get a 60 cent bottle of "Wyeth's Safe and Bulphur Hair Rem edy" at any drug st6re. Millions of bot tles of this old. famous Sage Tea Recipe are sold annually, says a well-known druggist here, because It darkens the hair so naturally and evenly that no one cab tell It has been applied. Those whose hair In turning gray, be coming faded, dry, scraggly and thin have a surprise awaiting them, because after one or two applications the gray hair vanishes and yonr locks become luxuriantly dark and beautiful-all dan druff goes, scalp Itching and falling hair tops. This Is the age of youth. Gray-haired, unattractive foJIcs aren't wanted around, so get busy with Wyeth'a tare and Sul phur tonight and you'll be delighted with your dork, handsome hair and your youthful appearance wlthla a few days. Advertisement. kVVlltLL UI Kranich & AT A BONAFIDE $50 REDUCTION ON EACH NEW INSTRUMENT Thtsr are Bit AND NEW PIANOS. The reduc dealers nnd Is made for the present only The sale p be retkketed at Normal Prices, or S50 higher than n the establishment of the Kranich & Bach factories, piano. If you appreciate quality In a piano you w occur again If you cannot call In person, be sure t wrtlc'i Is sent free while the supply lasts, We show ard ICRANK'M & BACH' PIANOS. 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Try my favorite, which Is canthrox Just dissolve u teaspoonful In a cup of hot water nnd rub briskly as you pour It on the hair and scalp. This makes an abundance of rich, clennslnR lather that Is very soothing to tender. Itchy scalps. Iltnslng leaves tho scalp Immaculately clean, and each strand of hair will be soft, shlmmery and full of health. Canthrox shampoo are splen did for correcting unnatural conditions, such as excessive olltnsss, dryness or profuse dandruff. 1 like Its drying qualities, too. i Mrs. ().: The symptoms you describe. pains ami acnes in tne umiii ana smau ot back, loss of appetite, lack of strength and ambition, are danger signals warn ings rour blood Is laden with poisons which will cause serious sickness If not eliminated from the system. 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