. India rubber world. in spite of political dis-orders and the handicaps produced by three centuries of foreignbondage, Guatemala has advanced in wealth, population andcivilization. It has a population of about two million, living onan area slightly greater than that of Louisiana. And it is sonear to that state that our little warbler can fly across the inter-vening waters without stopping for rest or food. The soil of Guatemala is considered by many as the mostfertile of any country on earth. It is basically of volcanic ashand with this is mingled the humus produced by the decay,through count
. India rubber world. in spite of political dis-orders and the handicaps produced by three centuries of foreignbondage, Guatemala has advanced in wealth, population andcivilization. It has a population of about two million, living onan area slightly greater than that of Louisiana. And it is sonear to that state that our little warbler can fly across the inter-vening waters without stopping for rest or food. The soil of Guatemala is considered by many as the mostfertile of any country on earth. It is basically of volcanic ashand with this is mingled the humus produced by the decay,through countless centuries, of an inexpressibly luxuriant trop-ical vegetation. With such a soil, with drought and winter un-known, Guatemala possesses almost boundless possibilities ofwealth. As the republic lies tiftcen degrees north of the equatorthe sun at midwinter occupies the same place above the Guate-malan horizon that it does in New^ York about the middle ofSeptember. .And twice each year, in May and in July, the great. Temple of \, Scene o> Sciiul.\»tic Fe?iiv.\l^,Gu.^TEM.^LA City. daystar passes directly overhead, shining down chimneys andto the bottoms of wells. But there is no excessive heat, forGuatemala, with nearly all the country at an elevation of fourto ten thousand feet and lying between two oceans, enjoys asalubrity of climate approached by few other countries. Of the people, more than half are pure Indian and only a fewthousand are pure white, the remainder being of mixed this need not worry us. Many of the ablest men in therepublics south of us have been wholly or in part of Indianextraction and in the only state of our own country where In-dians are numerous—Oklahoma—they furnish a citizenry ofwhich we have no reason to be ashamed. In Guatemala, as else-where, the so-called lower classes arc coming into their the native stock is not lacking in capacity is proved by theastonishing ruins which arc found not only throughout Guat-emal
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