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SYNOPSIS.
Warrington, an American adventurer,
and James, his servant, with s caged par
rot, the trio known up and down thenr
rawaddy as Parrot A Co., are bound for
Rangoon to cash a draft for 300,0110 rup«e«
Elsa Chstwood, rich American girl tour
ist, aeea Warrington anil aaks the purair
t* Introduce her. He tella her that War
rington ha* beaten u *yndlc*te and sold
his oil claims for £10.009 Warrington
puts Rajah, the parrot, through his trick*
for Elsa and they pass two golden days
together on th* river. Martha, htaaa
companion, Warns her thst there is gos
sip. In Rangoon Warrington bank* his
draft, pays old debts, and overhears and
Interferes In a row over card*, flnds that
the row lsca«ised by an enemy, Newell
Craig, and threatens to shoot him unle**
ha laavea town. Elsa Is snnoyed by Craig
and ataba him with a hatpin. Warrington
bids Elaa good -by
CHAPTER Vll—Continued.
That there was resl danger In her
Interest In Warrington did not occur to
her. The fact that she was now will
ing to merry Arthur, without analys
ing the causes that had brought her
to this decision, should hsve warned
her that she was dimly afraid of the
stranger. Her glance fell upon the
Jnandarln's ring. She twirled It round
undecidedly. Should she wear It or
pat It away? The queatlon remained
suspended. She saw Craig coming
aboard; and she hid her face behind
her magazine. Upon second thought
she let the magazine fall. She was
quite confident that that chapter was
closed. Craig might be a scoundrel,
but he was no fool.
A sharp blast from the tender's
whistle drew her attention to the
gangplank. The last man to come
aboard was Warrington. He lmmedl
ately sought James; and they stood
together chatting until the tender drew
up alongside the steamer of the Brit
ish India line. The two men shook
hands finally, Warrington added a
friendly tap on the Eurasian's shoul
der. No one would iiave suspected
that the white man and his dark com
panion had been "shipmates," in good
times and in bad, for nearly a decade.
Elsa, watching them from her secure
nook, admired the lack of effusiveness.
The dignity of the parting told her of
the depth of feeling.
An hour later they were heading for
the delta.
Elsa amused herself by casting bits
of bread to the gulls. Always they
caught It on the wing, no matter in
what direction nhe threw it. Some
times one would wing up to her very
hand for charity, Its coral feet
stretched out to meet the quick back
play of the wings. Its cry shallow and
plaintive and world lonely.
Suddenly she became aware of a
presence at her side.
A voice said: "It was not quite
fair of you."
"What wasn't?" without turning her
head. Shu brushed her hands free of
the crumbs.
"You should have let me know thet
you were going to sail on this boat."
"You would have run away, then."
"Why?" startled at her Insight.
"Because you are a little afraid of
me." She faced him, without a smile
either on her lips or in her eyes.
Aren't you?"
"Yes. I am afraid of all thinga I do
not quite understand."
"There ls not the least need in the
world, Mr. Warrington. I am quite
harmless. My claws have been clipped.
I am engaged to be married, and am
goit\g home to decide the day."
"He's a lucky man." He was aston
ished at his calm, for the blow went
deep.
"Lucky? That Is in the future. What
a lonely thing a gull is!"
"What a lotrt-ly thing a lonely man
is!" he added. I'oor fool! To have
dreamed so fair a dream for a single
moment! He tried to believe that he
was glad that she had told him about
the other man. The least this infor
mation could do would be to give him
better control of himself He had not
been out in the open long enough en
tirely to master his feelings.
"Men ought not to be lonely," she
said. "There'B the excitement of
work, of mingling with crowds, of go
ing when and where one pleases.
Woman's lot Is wondering and wait
lng at home When 1 marry I sup
pose that 1 shall learn the truth of
that."
Perhaps it was because he had been
away from them so long and had lost
track of the moods of the feminine
mind; but surely it could not be pos
sible that there was real happiness in
this young woman's heart. Its evi
dence was lacking in her voice, in her
face, in her gestures. He thought It
over with a sigh. He felt sorry for the
girl, sorry for the man; for it was not
possible that a girl like this one would
go through life without experiencing
that flash of Insanity thajt is called the
grand passion.
He loved her. He could lean against
the roll, his shoulder lightly touching
here, and calmly say to himself that
he loved her. He could calmly per
; mit her to pass out of his life as a
cloud passes down the sea-rlm. He
hadn't enough, but this evil must be
fall him. Love! He spread out his
bends unconsciously.
•'What doe* that mean?" she naked,
Z~l sailing now"; "An Invocationt" ,
. » ■'mm iilmM
"It's a sign to ward off crll," be re
turned.
"Are yog expecting evil?"
"I am |ilwaya preparing myself to
meet It. There Is one thing that will
always puzzle me. Why should you
have asked the purser to pick out such
a tramp as I was 7 For 1 was a tramp."
"I thought I explained that."
"Not clearly."
"Well, then, I shall make myself
clear. The sight of you upon that
bank, the llghta In your face, struck
me as the strangest mystery that
could possibly confront me. 1 thought
you were a ghost." t
"A ghost!"
"Yes. So I asked the purser to In
troduce you to prove to my satisfac
tion that you weren't a ghost Line
for line, height for height, color for
color, you are the exact counterpart
of the man I am going home to marry."
She saw the shiver that ran over
him; she saw hla eyes widen; she saw
his hands knot In pressure over the
rail.
"The man you are going to marry!"
he whispered.
Abruptly, without explanation, he
walked away, his shoulders settled, his
head bent, it was her turn to be
amazed. What could this attitude
mean?
"Mr. Warrington!" she called.
But he disappeared down the com
panlonway.
CHAPTER VIII.
A Woman's Reason,
Elsa stared at the vacant doorway.
She recognized only a sense of bewil
derment. Tills was not one of those
rhlldlsh flaHhes of rudeness that had
amused, annoyed and mystified her.
She lukl hurt him. And lirfwT They
hud been together three days on the
boHt, and once he had taken tea with
her in Rangoon. Hhe could find noth
ing save that she had been kind to him
when he most nc>eded kindness, and
tliikt Hhe had not been stupidly curious, j
only sympathetically so. He Interested j
lier and hold that interest because he
was a type unlike anything she had
met outside the covers of a book. He
wus so big and Btrong, and yet so boy
ish. He had given her visions of the
character which had carried his man
hood through all these years of strife
and bitterness and temptation. And
because of this she had shown him
that she had taken It for granted that
whatever he had done in the past had
not put him beyond the pale of her
friendship. There had been no de
grading entanglements, and women
forgive or condone all other trans
gressions
And what had sl*Just said or done
to put that look of dumb agony In his
face? She swung Impatiently from
the rail and began to promenade the
deck, still cluttered with luggage over
which the Lascar stewards were moil
ing. Many a glance foliowod the sup
ple pleasing figure of the girl as she
passed round and round the deck.
Other promenaders stepped aside or
permitted her to pass between. The
resolute uplift of the chin, and the
staring dark eyes which saw but inner
visions, impressed them with the fact
that It would be wiser to step aside
voluntarily. There were some, how
ever, who considered that they had as
much right to the deck as she. Before
them ahe would stop shortly, and as a
current breaks and passes each side of
an Immovable object, they, too, gave
way.
The colonel fussed and fumed, and
his three spinster chargea drew their
pale Hps Into thinner paler lips.
"These Americans are impossible!"
"And It Is scandalous the way the
young women travel alone. One can
never tell what they are."
"Humph! Brag and assertlveness.
And there's that ruffian who came
down the river. What's he doing on
the same boat? What?"
Elsa became aware of their presence
at the fifth turn. She nodded absently.
Being Immersed In the sea of conjec
ture regarding Warrington's behavior,
the colonel's glare did not rouse in her
the sense of Impending disaster,
The first gong for dinner boomed.
The echoing wall spoke In the voice
of the East, of Its dalliance. Its con
tent to drift In a sargasso sea of en
tangling habits and desires, of its fa
talism and Inertia. It did not hearten
one or excite hunger. Elsa would
lather have lain down In her Canton
lounging-chair. The dtnlng-saloon held
two long tables, only one of which was
In commission, the starboard. The
saloon was unattractive. A punka
stretched from one end of the table to
the other, and swung indolently to and
fro, whining mysteriously, sometimes
subsiding altogether and then flapping
hyatertcally and setting the women's
hair awry.
Elsa and Martha were seated some- 1
where between the head and the foot
of the table. The personally-conduct
ed surrounded them, and gabbed in
cessantly during the meal of whet they
had seen, of what they were going to
see. and of what they had missed by
not going with the other agency's
party. Elsa's sympathy went out to
the tired and faded conductor.
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THIIWTBRPRIBI, WILLIAMBTON, WORTH OAEOLDIA. , .
There waa bat one reseat chair;
and aa ahe aaw Warrington nowhere,
Elaa assumed that thla must be hla
reaervatlon. She waa rather glad that
be would be beyond conversational
radius. She liked to talk to tbe
strange and lonely man. but sbe pre
ferred to be alone with him when sbe
did ao.
Sbe began as of old to study care
lessly tba facea of the diners and to
speculate as to tbelr characters and
occupatlona. Her negligent obaerva
tlon roved from tbe pompous captain
down to the dark picturesque face of
the man Craig. Upon him her glance,
a mixture of contempt and curiosity,
rested. If he behaved blmaelf and
made no attempt to speak to her, she
was willing to declare a truce. In Kan
goon the man had been drunk, but on
the Irrawaddy boat he had been aober
enough. Craig kept hla eyea directed
upon his food and did not offer her
even a furtive glance.
He waa not In a happy state of
mind. He bad taken paaaags the last
moment to avoid meeting again tbe
one man he feared. For ten years this
man had been reckoned among tbe
.lost. Many believed him dead, and
' Craig had wlahed It rather than be
lieved. And then, to meet him face to
face in that sordid boarding house had
shaken the cool nerve of tbe gambler.
He was worried and bewildered. He
had practically sent thla man to ruin.
What would be the reprisal? He
reached for a mangoateen and ate tha
white pulpy contenta. but without the
customary relish. Tbe phrase kept
running through his bead: What
would be the reprisal? For men of his
Ilk never struck without expecting to
be struck back. Something must be
done. Should he seek him and boldly
ask whst he Intended to do? Certainly
he could not do much on board here,
except to denounce him to the officers
as a professional gsmbler. And Paul
would scarcely do that since he, Craig,
had a better shot In his gun. He could
tell who Paul was and what he had
done. Bodily harm waa what he really
feared.
He had seen Klsa, but be had worked
out that problem easily. She wax sure
to say nothing so long as be let her
be; and with tbe episode of tbe hat
pin still fresh In his memory, he as
suredly would keep hla distance. He
had made a mistake, and waa not like
ly to repeat It.
Hut Paul! He finished his dessert
and went off to the stuffy little smoke
room, and struggled with a Burma
cheroot. Paul was a smoker, and
Elsa Stared at tha Vacant Doorway.
sooner or later he would drop In. He
waited In vain for his man that night.
And so did Klsa. She felt Indignant
at one moment and hurt at another.
The man'a attitude was Inexplicable;
there wsa neither rhyme nor reaaon In
it. The .very fact that she could not
understand l made her wonder march
beside her even In her dreama that
night. She began to feel genuinely
sorry that he had appeared above her
horizon. Just before she retired she
leaned over the rail, watching the re
flection of the stars twist and shiver
on the smooth water. Suddenly she
listened. She might have Imagined it,
for at night the ears deceive. "Jah,
Jah!" Somewhere from below came
the muffled plaint of Rajah
Next day, at luncheon, the chair was
still vacant. Klsa became alarmed.
Perhaps he was 111. She made In
quiries, regardless of the possible mis
interpretation her concern might be
given by others. Mr. Warrington had
had his meals served In his cabin, but
the steward declared that the gentle
man was not 111, only tired and Irrita
ble, and that he amused himself with a
trained parrakeet
All day long the sea lay wavelass
and unrlppled. a sea of braes and lapis
lazull; brass where the sun struck and
lapts-lazult In the shadow of the laxy
swells. Schools of fiylng-flsh broke
fan-wise in flashes of silver, and por
poise sported alongside. And warmer
and warmer grew the air.
Starboard waa rigged up for cricket,
and the ship's offlcers and some of the
paasengers played the game until the
first gong. Elsa grumbled to Martha.
There was little enough space to walk
In as it was without the men taking
over the whole side of the ship and
cheating her out of a glorious sunset.
Martha grew troubled and perplexed
If there was one phase of character
unknown to her In Elsa it was Irritabil
ity; and here ..she was, finding fault
like any ordinary tourist.
"Where Is Mr. Warrington?"
"1 don't know. 1 haven't seen htm
since yesterday." Elsa dropped her
book petulantly. "I am wearjrof these
1 namby-pamby stories."
MtrOn'i (T« Li 4 a topbM Jaeft
In them as aba asked: "Elsa, what la
the matter?"
"I don't know, Martha. I believe I
should like to loae my temper utterly
I'm Irritable becauae I do not know my
own mind. I hate the stuffy stateroom,
the food, the captain. Nothing aeema
to dlaturb bis conceit. Tonight wa
sleep on deck, the starboard aide. At
Ave o'clock we have to get up and go
inalde again ao they can holy-atone
the deck. And I am alwaya soundest
aaleep at that time Doubtless, 1 shall
be Irritable all day tomorrow."
"Sleep up here on deck? But tba
men?" horrified.
"They sleep on the port side." Rlsa
laughed mallcioualy. "Don't worry.
Nobody minds."
"I bate the Bast," declared Martha
vindictively. "Everything la so alack.
It Just brings cct tba shlftlessnese ia
everybody."
"Perhaps that 1a what alia me; I am
growing eblftleaa. When I came on
board I decided to marry Arthur, and
have done with the pother. Now I am
at the aame place as when I left home
I don't want to marry anybody. Have
you noticed that fellow Craig?"
"What will you do If be apeaka?"
t "1 have half a do sen good batplna
left," dryly.
"I bate to hear yon talk like that"
"It's tbe Eaat. . . . There goes
that hateful gong again. Boup, chick
en, curry, rice and piccalilli. Lam go
ing to live on plantalna and mango
ateena. I'm glad we bad aense enough
to order that diatllled water. Come;
we'll go down as we are to dinner, and
watch tba ridiculous captain and bis
fan-bearer. Tbe punka will at leaat
give us a breath of freab air. Thera
doean't aeem to be any on deck. One
regreta Darjeellng."
Martha followed her young miatress
Into the dlnlng-saloon; aha waa anx
ious and upset. Where would thla
mood end? With a glance of relief aha
found Warrington'a chair still vacant.
Tbe saloon had an air of freshness
tonight All the men were In drill or
pongee, and ao receptive la the imagi
nation that the picture robbed the
room of half Its heat. To and fro
the punka flapped; the pulleys creaked
and the ropes scraped above the
sound of knives and forka and apoons
Klsa ate little besides fruit. She
spoke scarcely a word to Martha, and
none to those around her. Thus, she
tnisned the frown of the colonel and
the lifted brows of the spinsters, and
the curious glances of tbe tourists.
The passenger list had not yet come
from the ship's press, so Elsa's name
was practically unknown. But In some
unaccountable manner It had become
known that she had been making In
quiries in regard to the gentleman In
cabin 78, who had thua far remained
ayay from the table. Ship life la a
dull life, and goaalp la about the only
thing that makea It poaalble to liva
through the day. It was quite easy
to couple this unknown sloof young
woman and the Invisible man. and
then to wait for reaults. It would
have amused Klsa had ahe known tha
Interest ahe had already created If
not Inspired. Her beauty and her ap
parent to her surround
tnga were particularly adapted to tha
romantic mood of her fellow-travel
ers. Her own mind was so broad and
generous. so blgh and detached, that
so sordid a thing aa "an affair" never
entered her thoughts.
Aa she refused course after course,
a single phrase drummed Incessantly
through her tired brain. She was not
going to aaarry Arthur; never, never
la this world. Bhe did not love him,
and this was to be final. She would
cable him from Singapore.
That night Craig found It Insupport
able In the cabin below; ao be ordered
hla steward to bring up his bedding.
He bad lain down for half an hour,
grown restless, and had begun to
walk the deck in bis bath' allppera. Ha
bad noted the atlll white figure for
ward, where the cross-rail marka tha
waist. As be approached, Craig dis
covered his man. He hesitated only
a moment; tben he touched Warring
ton'a arm.
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
DANGEROUS GAME WITH BULL
Popular Pastime That Marka tha Cel
ebration of Fesst Days In
South America.
In the Interior of Venexuela and Co
lombia toro coleado 1a a feature of
fiesta days. A principal street of the
town Is roped off and a wild bull ia
liberated. Prom eight to ten mounted
horsemen enter the Improvised arena,
their only defenae against attacks of
the bull being their superb horsemaa
ship and a knowledge of how to twist
the bull'a tail in such a manner as to
cause him to tumble over. While tha
attention of the bull Is attracted by
aome of the party a horseman dashaa
from the rear at full speed, gives a
dextrous twtst, and over rolls the bull
Tbls sport Is not without tta danger,
and almost every coleado festival adda
to tbe hospital Hat The honor of be
ing champion bull-tail twlater developa
keen competition, for the winner ii
cAwned with flowers by the prettleat
«lrl In the village. Some performers
become so expert aa to be sure of
their twist at a specified point the
great achievement being to bring the
animal to the duet just In front of the
balcony of one*a ladylove
New Enemy of Pralrla Dog.
In South Dakota the automobile has
been found a great success as a prairie
dog exterminator. A piece ot boae
slipped onto the exhauat conducts tbe
' gases into the dog hole for a few
mtnutea, when the hole is eovered
with earth That la enough toe tha
dog.
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Paraguay.-
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„ Resources
IN order to study tbs trad* iltuition
In Paragusy, M. Draw Carrot, com
mercial representative of tbo
Buenoe Aires branch of a New
York bonk, recently made a trip
through that country, aad In The
Americas he writes entertainingly of
what he saw there. His article Is thus
summarized In the bulletin of the Pan-
American Union:
The only practical routee of access
to the country, the heart of one of the
richest agricultural regions of South
America, are the river and tho rail
way running from Buenos Aires, a
thousand miles away. If Asuncion, the
oapltal and chief city of the republic,
be taken as the traveler's destination.
There Is direct connection between
Buenos Aires, via the Argentine Cen
tral, Entre-Rlos, and Paraguayan Cen
tral railways, and Asuncion. Through
trains leave once a week each way.
Off from Buenos Aires betimes, the
train arrives at Zarate early In the eve
nlng, some sixty miles up country
where the expanse of the River Plate
has narrowed Into the Parana Here
all except the engine Is run on to a
huge Iron ferryboat for a four-hour
voyage up and across the river to
Iblcuy on the eastern shore. Nearly
all day Saturday Is spent Journeying
through the flat country of Entre-Rlos.
The orange groves increase, with here
and there tobacco fields, giving way
as the tropics are neared to numerous
royal palm trees
Possdas, the last station In Argen
tina, is reached and the train Is again
run upon a large ferryboat and car
ried across the upper part of the Parana
river to Encarnaclon In the Republic
of Paraguay. The level of the deck of
the ferry Is some fifteen feet below the
level of the roadbed, on both sides of
the liver, and It Is necessary to lower
and raise the trains down and up au
Incline by means of cables and steam
wlnchse to the proper level. After
running over a switch-back on the
Paraguay aide, Encarnaclon is reached,
some ISO feet above the level of the
river.
Room for Many Immigrants.
All through Paraguay to Asuncion
the road runs across mt tracts of
luxurious grazing land, broken her*
and there by Itnea of low, tlmber-cov
end hills. Bnlldlnga and other evi
dence* of development are few and
tlur between, oompared with the ex
teat of the country, and one la Im
preaaed with the fact that there la
ample room there for thouaanda of
home-seeking Immigrants from the
congested districts of Europe, who
wonld And an agreeable climate and
■oil fertile and extensive enough to
feed not only themselves but many of
the other Inhabitants of the world.
Timber is so plentiful In the Para
guayan country that the railways use
It for fuel. At every railway station
are huge logs and squared timbers
ready for shipment. On the hillsides
where clearings have been made, as
well aa In the bottom lands, bealdee
the rich grass, the corn, the alfalfa,
and the tobacco, healthy sugar cane
la seen.
Arriving at Asuncion at 8 p. m. Sun
day, the train runs into a large termi
nal station which, though modern In
appearance, is said to be the first rail
way station built In South America.
A British engineer constructed It about
fifty years ago, and the girders and
other parts of the framework, which
at a haaty glance one would aay are
Iron, are in fact wood that Is aa sound
today as when the building was erect
ed.
Asuncion la an Important port for
river movementa. The larger vessels
from the River Plate bring their car
goes to Asuncion, whence merchan
dise Is taken overland or tranaahlpped
In smaller boata for points farther up
the river. Although It la a river port,
over a thousand miles from the sea
coaat, the else and number of large
veaaels at the dock, or at anchor
awaiting their turn to go to the docks,
and the many smaller craft, aa well
aa the large and commodious harbor,
give it much the appearance of a sea
port
Enclosed by Big Rivera.
The Republic of Paraguay la al
most completely surrounded by wa
ter. being bounded on nearly all aidee
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by the great rivers Parana and Par*
guay or their tributaries, which fui*
nish transportation to many interior
parts of the country and provide
abundant irrigation and adequate
drainage. The soil is typically fer
tile, consisting for the most part of
red clay mixed with sufficient saad
to it porous, and oovered wUk
rich alluvial deposits. The area of
the country is estimated at about 17t*>
000 square miles, and It is divided
into two parts by the Paraguay river.
The southeastern part, which Is In*
closed by the rivers Paraguay, Parana,
and Ape, contains meet of the white
population. The northwestern part,
known as the Oran Chaeo, Is Inhabited
mostly by nomadic tribes of Indians,
and contains vaat expenses of graslng
land and Immense forests awaiting ex
ploitation. The resources of the
southeastern section alone, however,
are sufficient to engage the attention
of the inhabitants for many years to
come. It Is estimated that the coun
try haa about 1,000,000 Inhabitants,
and the government has been encour
aging Immigration as much aa possi
ble. Immigrant* who have settled In
the country have done well, especially
those from Europe.
The cllmste Is a happy medium be
tween temperate and tropical, the av
erage temperature being 79 degrees
Fahrenheit. Summer begins In Octo
ber and lasts until March; winter
stsrts in April and laats until nearly
the end of September, with an average
temperature of 64 degrees. Rarely
have there been frosts and on few
occasions has the thermometer regis
tered aa low as 24 degrees.
Asuncion s Busy City.
Asuncion, with about 80,000 Inhabl
tsnts. Is the capital and principal busi
ness city of the Republic. It Is about
880 miles north of Buenos Aires, and
Is located upon a bay-shaped enlarge
ment of the Paraguay river, about two
and a half miles long and one mile
wide, which affords-smple shelter and
accommodation for many vessels. Be
ing at the head of river navigation for
the larger river steamers, and the
place of transhipment for points
farther north, as well as the plaea
from which the principal highway*
and traila Into the Interior diverge.
It Is a center of commercial activity.
It la the termlnua of the railway froaa
the south. It has four banks, numer
ous Industrial planta. Including saw
mills, ship repair and building yards,
soap and candle factoriee, ahoe and
cigar-making establlahmenta, two
breweries, and many pretentioua
wholesale and retail mercantile
houses.
Most of the larger cities and towna
of the country are located either on
the Central Paraguayan railway or on
the Paraguay river. The most impor
tant of these is Encarnacloo, at the
southern boundary of the republic,
where the railway trains are ferried
acroea from Argentina. It has about
16,000 Inhabitants. The principal in
dustries of the district are grazing,
timber-cutting and the preparation of
yerba mate. Encarnacion la a port
of entry and la the distributing point
for the southern portion of Paraguay.
The town of Paraguay, north of En
carnacion of the railway, baa a pop
ulation of about 11,000, and la located
In a rich cattle and timber regioi.
Luque, a town of 14,000 Inhabitants,
a short distance from Asuncion. Is In
a district from which tobacco and
mtacellaneoua agricultural product*
and alcohol come. The other place*
along the railway rang* In *lx* froaa
shipping points for larg* estate* to
small communities mora or lea* Inter
ested in gracing, agriculture and tim
ber cutting.
On the Paraguay liver from south
to north among the places of Impor
tance may be mentioned Pilar, with
about 7,000 Inhabitants. North of
Asuncion Is Villa Hayes, with a pop
ulation, Including that of the adjacent
country, of 30,000. It Is on the west
side of the river in what la known aa
the Oran Chaco country. T&e princi
pal industries are grazing and agri
culture, Including a cane-sugar mill'
and a distillery. Further north on the
river is another cattle dlatrict In Con»-
cepclon, having about 16,000 '"fr-frVi
tanta. •.