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KW TORK, April. r.-The Ilrst
XJ I ""iPM. v.'iiiKiinrd of the exodus
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...... i-.u,b ;n i. oiil ,tH :i ;pi V- rii
irni American revolution, re
ginning to .triigclc In. Several
i't tl. m r-nchud New y,.r 1 sa. ,.eek.
having come by way of Ntw driran from
Uluenclds, a crntral -.mint th contr.i
vpray WUccn Ni' -ir.iu and llondurn
and thp hnmp of Jove 3 -.ntos 7.r-'.yn. ;-re,.
dent of tho former mate ond v.ouldbe dic
tator of all rrn'.-al Amrrici.
"W hrtve h:.. prcitlnn tlr.irn," a il l Mr
w. i nim runti. nn AnnTlMn wirr.m
hns lived f. -r
'Hut IUu.'nV!.
happen, anil It
fifteen )"n In Ncr i;n.
i Is u-rd ti hivlnj Ui!n:
n Iu. I dlv whi'ti .me vio
In not h'ltch'.nR p n volution r i
"'ip liroinl-
ni rinii-.t n.-'-inj in nintrv.
f ' :Ji:u::-':'. 1 .-t,uL,.lv ,Uun:..; that
nvwa of 'ha rest nf the world Is low In
reaching it, and of little Interest when It
arrlvea. Tliertforn It cooks un Its own
news over n!Kbt and Its mornlnz leaner Is
Ievr lacklnir In Interest.
"What Bluctl:d3 cannot attend to In the
newamuklnir line Nicaragua nnd tho neigh
boring atuiee can. between them they
keep things Interesting."
Minefields, the cnpltul city of Mosquito
RoJerve. has figured in the hlnlorv of
' more than Central America. At one time
It wu the occasion of a slight frigidity be
tween the t' lilted States nnd Great Hritiin,
arising from the British protectorate over
the Mosquito roast. In force tunio fifty
year ago. After the protectorate termi
nated the MomjiiJto Indians, a hlnlily clvll
Ued and wealthy tribe, maintained their
own government until It waa overthrown
by the Nicarnguana. The Mosquito Re
serve has been In a st-.te of Intermittent
revolution ever since, but the Nlcuraguan
government haa always triumphed In the
end.
"I confess- I did not renllv want to
leave," continued Mrs. Pomerants. "Wc
women .In Nlearagun know as much nbout
politics as the men, for It supples tha
only Incidents that are In the least Inter
ring. Besides, the political condition has
o direct an effect on our husbands' busi
ness that, we naturally study It rloaelv.
"The warfare between th. iai I. not
a conflict of orgnnlzed armies, but lo prao-
tlcally a guerrilla warfare. President Zel-
aya's army la made up for the mont part of
tialf breeds and Mosquito Indians. So
willing were many of these men to serve
that, so I wns told, they were actually re
cruited by means of a lasso, and to be held
In the army camps often had to bo man-
acted.
"Of coure under such circumstances
there could be little patriotism and still less
valor. Most of the troops wers without
shoes, and about the only uniforms seen
were those worn by some soldiers of fortune
who had strayed In for tha fighting,
There are four distinct political partle.
In nillpflelrls Initlnna naflv r Knar.
aguans. American merchants and the gov-
ernment. Kach one hates all the others,
nd sach one plots to overthrow the others.
The rock on which they split Is the tariff.
"Pefore the first revolution, wherebv the
Indians loat their Independence, a can of
condensed milk could he purchased for 20
cents. Now It costs 80. Beans and rice.
also great delicacies, are equally high
priced. The Indians belle, ve that If It were
not for the other three pat-Mes these things
would still bs within their reach.
"The natives hate the government be-
causa It has. so they say. failed to keep
Its covenant with them. They suffer from
the extremely high duties on necessaries
and fall to see any resulting wealth coming
Into the state. They aceuso the govern-
ment officials of all ort. of private nest
feathering In anticipation of the next revo
lutlon.
"The Americans hats the government
because It stands between them and the
fortune that would quickly be theirs if
such things as duties did not exist. Ths
government, which I. represented In the
person of a single mm. President 7Iava.
... ,;r. tnee ror me tasi
rew years tney have had a virtual monopoly
of the trade of tha country. In this ..v
diverting rrim the government fund
much wealth that might otherwise n ju,i.
Clously guided there. H hates all the
other parties hcaue he knows they hate
him and would accomplish bis overthrow
if they could.
"The Nlcaraguan government believes
tn many of the good old adaces. ch'ef
among them belnr that a bird In ths hind
is worth two In tho bush. It armies that It
is 10 its anvartatre to seurs a lump sum
for tho revenues for a term of years mther
than lo swalt the slow process nf collection,
"A successful bidder 'o- the tariff con-
eesslon has the .,le rls-ht to tra-nrt fre of
charge the article desln-nted. If any ns
else Imports it. u Is the prlvl!e of tha
concessionaire to rerulnts the durv to bo
r"" mors than one
American trsdeninn virou-ly bated.
Tho whisky concer.ion we. sold f-r
v 10 c"nl " o Influential did h-
become that he wns know., as the see-nd
preildent of Nicaragua
ne ma not nnl
hi. office entirely peaceful one. however.
resented by the people, but fl'ro was th
government In the nittr that murmurlngs
Were quickly suppressed.
"There are shout ino Ame'ican fa miles
resident In Bluefl
I thereabouts. Th g
chants, with a few
resident In Bluefields and the country
gre.t majority are mer-
doctors and a few per-
oas interested in p.antatlon. or mlnea
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HY -V. ... jRVv ? , jlJ; llXAl t I fi- '-r-r ..... r ..... -
Z IT. I Y ' ' "mae aninT made tll(,lr way one b one baca tQ Bln every oasl. and tho chief .uprort of ths .impaling i Kiv mem
him tnst be found It the befer part of valor fleldSi ,0 gi;kd to homf) tna, th d)dn.t people. Indeed, on casla Is known, not by hot reception. A caravan was attacked
to remain close at home after nlzhtfall. cur, wh,t government they were under tho number of Us Inhnhlunta. but by th. hy Tafilet brigands a few days ago and an
Bluefields is the home of the monopoly. -General Rlas nerfnmwwi .1,. ....-. number of date, palms It conlilrs, snd Its Invasion seems Imminent. 8ooner or later
rt u a poor buslnrsa there that has not a act of flet,rig the co,lno. He w, ODj Inhabitants are rich or poor according at the French will have to take possession of
Monopoly. beautiful fines, or country ths date, produced sr. pood or indifferent. Tafilet or the powers of Europe will have
Ths largest concern havtng it. head- Y d h returned to hi. Mt vl " is ths date crop that l-wds th. cara- to control Its people. It has with It ur-
ouar.er. In th. town . ,, o-orw r.. f ' ' triZ Mu n v.na and It 1. th. food of toe pple. Tho rounding, a population of mor. than ....
Emory Mahogany works. Samuel SreMmsn Furne. Diaz a fiDaIh JZ' "' ln fact" h hr" nf h ,u "ad ,,n pelle an about he '
an American, ha. been the general suner- " r0 t J l P,ace' ,he Mt "t,, an Mornpco. Th. family of th. .ultan coma.
Intender.t of thl. Industrv f r more than B" 4 hV.TlU a" ,b famel ana from that "-lon an! ,h T.flletlto. hv. a
twenty years, so that It I. now known .. ' dor. pUch date, are not Ilk. those wo treat Influence over all paras of Morocci.
smth. nafve. .. Sam Oman's .ave in America. They .r. a sort of dry Th. oases , her. are du.'to cause..
. o duties levied on the ood Am..i. 6&te- which ran be .tured away and kept understand they have both aprlug. an J
Thl. comnary h.. the eone,.,lon for l .w levied on the good , c h"nerlc.n Th, dat ,,, t ,h wpl an4 that ,he Mlther , f
.11 the mahogany In the country, and a J" " 1 ,v th'm States ars of a soft variety, ao full of count, ar. w.tered by undengrr und rivers,
native cutting cr trndlni In a stnele .n.k "ducd met with curt r.f..i.. '
of It i. liable to pwecMtlon. At first thl. The native NlcaraBuans are a gentle ' ed n,h.r ateI mrh,
disposition of their ratlve fnrpsts ... rmtured. kind hearted people. Thev as. .7 . . .... 7 .
Woman
Ths American, ar there to make money
nulrpley as rossib'e and then pav.
"There nre, of c vjro, a sprinkling of
those v.hn r.evrr le.vs r.f their own volition,
Tl.py find th .lirrou.-i Jlni much mnr
:'creib!c than In the I'nlti-J Statpa and
t'.iey pmd their time disp-.a'rg of t.v funds
w'th which tltey always arrlv amply sup-
r"Pd.
"Tha Amrrirans hove lnte)y found rivals
In the Chines, who. under government
rpprnvnl. If r.ot iBtrjnajn-. have come to
thn country In n pal !' rable numbers.
Tu re are now twe-ity Chine-' t tores In
I'.iuifH I ts end the competition is k-.'i-n bc
twepri thMn and t'. Americans.
'Until- pers?i: Ore. i.e t ri.-.t the American
i-pslilrr;:) nre at . i:e Lotion- of ir..iny of
il.i? '1!-tr. 1.i:k a '.r r. j.-Mrids. An A.nn
c.in lovK a p.'o.iitn.rit ';id .;.a.o I .. j.hh
In th" flrot roviM'itimi, wnie.i oLiaunnnva
Niraragunn sovereignty over the Mosquito
lndl.tr.
"Little by little the Nlcnraguons estib
llfhcil themselves In Bluefle'.dB. Th"lr flfst
rtep was to build a club house-the Central
Amprlcan bsa a weakness for clubs t'r.e
nint Irrroslnflr structure In tha town. Ti
h" sure. It was of wv-vl. but It was p iln'ed
to represent marble, and commanded rn'ch
reupprt. I.lttl" bv little the town sn'nd
In population, all NlenrnTuans and all r"si
derts In the Immediate vicinity of the club.
"Then one fine mornlnjr the Indians
awakened to ft nd a Nlcarrtguan warship
in the harbor, and the ntreets overrun
with Nlearns-uan sld'ers. TTie club, w'.iich
Instantly changed It name to the Palnee,
nn Institution equnlly dear to the Central
American,' waa the fortified headquart-sra
of the Invaders. The Indians lost their
heads In the excitement, nnd not until
night came and they were urged to fight, it
is said, by the Americans, who saw their
cherished tariff concessions In peril, did
they ninkq any resistance. ,
"They attacked the palace and gained
entrance to It. destroying Its Interior and
furnishings. But tho Indians -turally
peaceful, fought only when i'id on.
Realising this, and tha futility of continu
ing the struggle, the Americans deter-
mined to get Into the band wagon. Galn-
,n te toP of hl11' wlth 11 th Indlar-
assemniea Deiow nim, me leaains ahioiii"
of tha town, addressed them:
" 'Are you prepared to fight?" he asked.
" 'No,' chorused back the Indiana.
' 'Then give up. You will only hurt your-
selves by resisting further. If you yield
now" J can 'cur'' concessions. If you
continue to Pght. you will secure nothing
and the end will be Just tne same, ir you
can t fight, quit.'
"The Indian, quit, and the Nlcaraguan
flag wa. raised over the Mosquito Reserve.
"The government could not be convinced
that the American, were not at the bottom
of the resistance that had been made. Be-
Sides. It needed money, and the ea.ieat
way It knew to get It was to pile the duty
n t!e Imports.
"Then ths merchants decided to rebel
nd planned a characteristic Central Amer-
lean coup. Their scheme was to nava a
revolution in Bluefields. restore the Mos-
qulto Indians to their own and establish
General Rlas. a malcontent wltn a oonsia-
erable following, as president,
General Rlas was to receive 112.000 for
his trouble. The schemers were somewhat
disconcerted, however, when In ths midst
of their conferences at the American club
the United States consul, Mr. Clancy,
walked In on them.
'When this wlld scheme goes through,'
he said, 'you forfeit the protection of the
United States flag. That Is all I havs to
.ay.' ,
"General Rial a few days later found
himself In possession of ths town, estab-
iiBned a palace and Issuing all sorts of
edct Rnd manifestoes. All went well for
a aay 0r two. Then General Rlas s curios-
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tQ what Prt,idant Zelsya was going
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"The little steamer San Jacinto was
,fh fh. ,,.Murv ,,nnlle With
equipped with the necessary supplies With
General Rlas on board the San Jacinto
started boldly out of the harbor to sea
what It could see.
"Before it bad proceeded far It saw
Just as much as It wanted to. Two Nlcar
aguan warships were sighted, which to
the little Sao Jacinto with its one little
gun took on huge proportions. Immediately
the Sun Jacinto turned back and started
for Elucflelds.
- . d . nn tuuM in. Nan jacinro
"By the time It reached that haven two
things had happened Its coal bad given
out and the enthusissm of Its backers
had auhslded. They refused to supply tho
boat witn more coal to carry on this war.
Mtlrles In the face of this rebuff. 0n-
oral Rlas gathered together the remnants
of his l,t 1,1,. tru.lt hm nn th
San Jac.n -uh h an! Tnad. lor .Vy
"Ho was pursued, but cached Monkey
Point In .afety. where h. was obliged to
go .chore. Without food other than that
afforded by the Jungle, hi. follower, founi
u dUmal work revolutlonlng. Ha:f starve 1
and completely subdued In .plrlt they
tnduftrlou. and have a deep pride of rco.
They are uneducated, for they have no
public .choola The government will not
permit anything but Spanish to be taught,
and a. no one ran under.tsnd that lan-
guag neither teachers nor pupils can b
found.
'Th. government trade, on this Ignor-
Tells of Life at Bluefields and Its Revolutionists
ne. t th Ht
election ther. w.rs
three ran Ji il atop. 0..4
was Jog, anth.-r
Santos, the thl d
Zel.iya. These ar
th namci if the
pre j dent. but th
ii-i-'
Poor
waa acclaimed the friend of th
man, and again It was Santoa.
As a result tho poor people voted for
Zelaya when they supposed they were
voting In opposition to him.
Scenes Along
(Continued from Page Three.)
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ther. are wlld nower, . of many kinds.
1110 iruunu is curyeiou wun Krtma nnu
Tne Arnb Wnow of the ftnd they
go wUh thdp nook, of , aQ
u t(J pnjlture( comlnK away wnen the
rraJg diiapparB
Qn tQ Tara , rod)J thfoufh
patjhei of thorn busnMi ,catte,red at w,de
dutance, aDart. Such vegetation 1. found
a a, th, t of tne futUm. the
moUture not Mng .ufflcient for anything
. Tl,. . of imli tcATa
on thorn bushe. as I rode by and I
stopped and made photographs of them.
Nearr th dry rlver wner, th, moK.
turo wu were thlck Dunche, ot
amskm and nfhf Hpiort nlant And
flowerg and then came the regon of date
tree 'The palms wre of a lles 8ome
wers Just sprouting and others were as
hlffh a h m v henri Others were so tall that
thelf Arab owner had to cmD them t0
cut off the bunches of dates, which always
grow at the top.
4-
Vast Bed ul Fertiliser,
The soil of the Sahara Is not like that of
any country where rain is common. Indeed,
the lack of ruin is one cause of Us great
fertility. Other lands are leached by ths
water, and the brooks and streams carry a
great part of their potash and other fer-
tlllslng mutter out to the sea. Thla is not
so here. Ths rocks may disintegrate mors
slowly, but the weathering goes on all ths
same. There Is no place here the changes
of temoerature are more sudden and
marked. The sun Is red hot during thj
day, but when It sets It becomes bitterly
cold and blanl.ets are by no means uncoin-
fortable. I alwaya carry an overcoat In my
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mmle to think that x. ) ' ':.-'..-- " '' vV ' -. ; i ' . ''.' . j s , ; . .. , ; (:'-. , 1 - ;
they wer. IndlvMu.l -"l t, ) V '',"'-V V , " '! " T ' l ' IrC- - t '-" ' ' " 'V-T-srr-l . ' , .
the presidency S'f ' V-''' ' " XV ' ' -"'V,' ' ' ! ' ' J1 "J
Jose ws .lcrMr.l nnd 't.. -il - " - - - ' W -. - .V.S " h'l
others zeny. . n V.'..., - i '. " r 'M Xff i' . - I
:li!;iit;,l!'&
Tho changes are such that tho rocks split Tafilet, like Tuat, comprises a number of
and crumble under them. The desert winds separate oases, having altogether 80 fortl
ars as strong as those of ths sea. and fled villages. Its chief town Is Abuam.
when ths sirocco blows tho sand cuts
one's face. It 'dashes the sharp grains
against the rocks and grinds them down
without the action of water, so that all the
rich fertilizing materials lie where they fall.
Tho osses will grow almost anything that
Is grown In Csllfornla. They have luscious
oranges, grapes, melons and olives, and also
apples, peacnes. pomgrunates aro pear., in
the n()rlhern gahsra they produce great
quantltles cf wheat barley. mi:iet and sor-
ghum and In the south toba-co and cotton,
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h ef pro uct however ,. a.te,
ProJuct- n0Z? a e"'
Millions of nt P-l-
Tbo date palm thrive. throiihout the Sa
hara If It can or.ly hve wat-r. It Is Ilk.
wheat in our country: the money crop of
when eaten fresh from th trees. W hav
thorn now every day; at our dinner and
served st breakfast with the coffeo and
roll.. They sre a fat yellow date, as .weet
a. auga and as plump as a prune before
It Is pressed.
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THE OMAHA SUNDAY ItEE: APRIL.
vMfifi: Srnxzr erjNTZK.
"lite foreign t.Mdent .n the counti em
ploy governesses or tutors for their chil
dren. These are usually English from Ja
maica. Most of the servants come, too,
from Jamaica or the adjacent islands. The
Route of Travel in Sahara
though their product Is not so good as the
dates of Tafllet, which lies at some dls-
. .....
ta"ce t fyom ner ,n J
Tuat Is now controlled by the French,
I has Tuareg, on camels, under th. em-
" C "
t0 keen order- and tts PeoPle hav
come peaceful and thriving
Tuat 1. not an oa.l. only. It I. torn-
ot "ve or? 0.UI, of oa,e" ,,B
very center of th Bahara" comprl.Ing 100
or petty B,ate- " U ctt"ed ovf
region as big as Indiana, and It has alto
gether a population of 130,000 Arabs, Ber
bers and blacks. The people of Tuat gov
ern themselves much as do those of Flguls.
Each oasts has its own officers, and alto
gether they are a set of little republics
with a united council over the whole, and
all subject to the control of the French,
Tuat produces opium, tobacco and cotton
and some wheat and barley. A large part
of Its date crop is brought by caravans up
the valley of the Saoora by way of Igell to
the railroad at this point and shipped from
here northward to Oran and thence to
Europe.
These oases are a great center of ths
carsvan trade. They He about 800 miles
n ,h.i ann .11..
from Timbuktu in ths Soudan, and a like
distance from Mogsdor on the Atlantic,
from Tangier, opposite ths strait of Glbral-
tar, and from Tripoli, on ths Medlter-
ranean. The French are now trying to di-
vert the Tripoli caravan trade to their
Tunisian port of Gabes, ths routs to which
Is much shorter,
Great Morocco Onals.
About the beat dates known to ths world
come from Tafilet. situated west of hero In
Morocco. They are very large and sweet
and they are shipped In great quantities to
Europe as tid bits for tho holiday season.
which has the largest market of the west
ern Sahara. It la a great caravan center
nd It sends two Immense caravans every
year to Tlmbt ktu, which lies almost 1,000
miles directly south of it. In tho past
there was considerable trade between Ta
filet and Flgulg, tne dates coming there
and ,hen golng on ,0 ha north but
this
has aw be, d.verted lo B(,n, 0unlf and
Colomb Bechar to take advantage of tho
cheaper railroad rates.
Ths poople. 0f Tafilet are Independent and
warlike; they are fanatical Mohammedans
.nd they aro now causing no end of troubl.
tq the sultan of Morocco. Th. governor of
th. oa.l. I. said to bo preaching a holy
war and to be organizing raids to cros.
over into Algeria and assault the French.
The Alegrlin paper, ar full of the
themes of these war preparations and
This town of Colomb-Bechar is at ths snd
of th railroad, and caravrtis from all this
part of the Sahara bring their good, h.r
to be shipped north, I under.tand that the
rsllrosd is paying Snd thst nothwtthstand-
Ing It was built as a military necessity.
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ZriKTS
2$, 1007.
natives are altogether too proud to work
a servants, and the Indians are too lazy.
"The native Nlcaraguan la deeply re
ligious. Many of the natives belong to
the Moravian church, and Moravian mis-
tance of 1,100 or 1.200 miles further. If
this Is done the French will have a rail-
road clear across the Bahara, and much Of
the trade which now goes on camels to
Trlpoll and to the Atlantic will be carried
over this road. The road hi a narrow
gauge, but It Is well built and It carries
considerable iretgnt. The trains are slow,
but they are lnflnltoly superior to camels,
aihlAk maUa ml., a . K -.11.. an
" ' " ,"" , " " "
hour and with which eighteen or twenty
... ... ....
miles Is a day s Journey. As It Is now. a
t a . o
hara has been diverted to ths Atlantic.
The products of the western Soudan are
carried up the Niger to Timbuktu and
Jenne, and thence sent overland to the
railroad which the French have built from
tha 'port of St. Louis on the Atlantic to
Kayes on tho Senegal river. That Whole
region Is now controlled by the French
and there are French soldiers stationed ln
Timbuktu. The southern part of the Sa-
hara is policed from that region and the
chief Imports come from Europe via ths
Atlantic ocean Instead of across country
on camels.
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temB "."" n
uuuira roaa wnicn runs aown into tne Al-
gerlan Sahara from Constantlne, not far
from Tunisia, and In time we may cross
tha Sahara by rail.
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BnrTeylnaT ths Sahara. ,
Ths French ar rapidly prospecting ths
desert They hive already laid out tho
route for a telegrsph line from Algiers to
Timbuktu and Lake Chad. It will bs tlOO
miles long. Tholr civil engineers have also
gone over the desert from here to Tim
buktu and they report that the chief diffi
culty in running a railroad between the
two points will be the question of fuel.
The coal which is now used on this line Is
briquettes, made of coal dust, each being
the size of sn ordinary building brick, and
the expanse of transportation la such that
at Colomb-Bechar good coal costs about
120 a ton. This cost will be increased as
ths railroad gos farther south. At this
writing the engineers have discovered m
coal along th. route, and I am told that
they will not continue the road unless some
cheaper fuel can be Invented. If Thomai
Edison should discover, a. he ha. been try
ing to do for many year., a way of get
ting the full energy of tho coal wlthou'
turning It into .team, thai may solve th
problem. As it I. now, fully (0 per ren'.
of tho heat energy 1 lo.t, .0 that such At
Invention would make coal ten times a
cheap as It la now. This wculd make a
Trans-Sahara railroad a possibility,
Look sit ths Caravaa.
Tho caravans which bring good, here
from th. oa.e. ars as clumsy a mean, el
transportation as can bs Imagined. Each
freight camel on a long Journey carries
about J00 pounds, and the usual rate ot
travel Is not mors than two miles an hour.
Every dosen camels has to have a driver,
snd each caravan is equipped with water
bottle, of pig skins ttnd provision, for th.
people on the Journey. The ordinary cara
van ha. only an hundred or so camels and
som from thirty to sixty, while tho larger
ones will havs as many as 600 and .cveral
hundred men to guard them. In tho past
caravan, of a thousand or more camul.
wr. not uncommon and there are aome
such caravans now on their way from ths
Soudan to Tripoli.
Many of thess caravans stop for th.
camels to feed on .ths thorn bushes as th.y
go over tbs desert. Other, carry provisions
for a part of the way. Th routes ar
always along ths lines of the oases, as
camel can only go from three to flv. days
without water. On a ' long Journey th.
beasts are kept from drinking for soms
tlms before starting ln . order that they
may bo thirsty and fill the great reservoir.
Inalds theru. FRANK O. CARPENTER.
won. are doing more to Improve the con-
dltlm of the natives nnd to rrnke Nlcara-
frui a better place to live In than nny
other single influence. The church at Blue
fields la a beautiful structure, handsomely
fuitilshed, and Is worth something Ilk i
H2.0. It was built entirely by tho na
tives, who gave their services free and
considered If a privilege- to work on It.
"At the time of one of the great flrea the
church and church house, though In the
heart of the burning district, nnd appar
ently doomed, were, slnguarly enough, un
touched by the flames a fact which the
people attrlbuto to divine Interposition.
Fire Is the terror that walks by night to
the Nicaraguans.
"It Is commonly known that In case ot
revolution the government would burn tho
towns rather than have them fall Into the
hands of the enemy. On the other hnnd
the revolutionists would cheerfully app.y
the torch if they thought that by so doing
they could advance their own cause. All
Kicaraguan merchants carry heavy insur
ance on their stocks, but as It would be
no value ln ca" they were destroyed
during a revolution. It behooves the mer
chants to preserve the peace.
- "Tho country around Bluefields Is rich
In food products, ground provisions ther
natives call them, and tha Indians live
almost entirely from the soil. Breadfruit,
casava and yams are their staples. Their
meats are wlld boar, monkey meat, parrots
and sea cow.
"Two arreat delicacies with the Indiana
are wabul and mtshla. The former Is made
by beating together water, sugar and rlpo
bananas. It I. altogether too Insipid to
please the American palate, but the In-
dlan, can almost Hvs on It. Mishla Is
made by crushing plantains to a pulp and
adding hot milk.
"The natives almost exist on turtle meat
and ovsters. and catch still more of them
for export. The Bluefle,:ds river Is full of
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turtle pens, built of rock ln the middle of
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the stream so that the water flows through
them, but the turtles cannot escape. There
the turtles are confined until enough of
them are caught to make a shipment.
"Sevoral attempts have been made to nan
the turtle meat, but the experiment lias
always failed. The Nlcaraguan oyster is
very small but of good flavor.
"There are four principal tribes of In-
dln Nicaragua. The Mosquitoes are
the aristocrats and glory In the recollec-
t,on of the,r 'ormer power. They are very
Proud, but deeply admire and closely Iml-
tato the Americans.
' The Rama Key Indians are the poorest
nl.a. TVi M IIva nn Ika I 1 . .1 n , V . . n m .
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oyster fishing.
Th SU Bias Indians are remarkable for
f .
r pil-
In Your Own Home
That's where you want to get acquainted with your
sewing machine and that's why we agree to send you a
competent instructor from our local store.
A competent instructor mind you, is not a time-driven,
underpaid clerk from a department store. This is import
ant, too; for if you get started right you will get doubU
service out of your machine everyday you use it, as long as
you nave it.
It is our instructor's busluess
to help you demonbtrate to your
self the ease and certainty and
tcofx of operation that has placed
these machines in millions of
' hon.es all round the world.
They axe built like. watch.
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their smallness of stature. None of them
Is more than five feet In helsht. but they
fire well built nnd strong nnd nro fre
quently employed as sailors on the const
Ing vessels.
"The Sumols Indians are from the In
terior, and are the most primitive of any
of the tribes. Both men and women wear
but a sln.Kle garment a strip of cloth
around the loins. They are primitive ln
their manners and customs and In their
religious observances.
"The town of Bluefields has absolutely
no sanltnry arrangements, and really needs
none. The climate Is singularly healthful
and diseases which are severe In the north
appear In very mild form there. There la
much rain, the short sharp rnlns of tho
tropics, which keep the streets of tha
town washed clenn. The climate Is equa
ble. "Bluefields' most picturesque feature Is
Its public park, directly ncross from tho
church. From one year's end to another it
Is a blaze of brilliant tropical flowera. A
stroll through the park Is ns much a part
of churchgolng as the service Itself.
"In this park the public band concerts
are held, Hnd all the town turns out to
promenade and to hear the music. The
good old Institution of1 a public crier Is
still In force In Bluefields, and be does his
work at a band concert, for he knows that
nothing else will get so many people to
gether. "So every week on concert night ths
band marches In with nil the ceremony
dear to the heart of tha Latin, and pre
ceded by a gnyly uniformed policeman,
makes Its way through tho crowd to tho
center of the park. There the policeman
takes his stnnd nnd nnnonnces to the peo
ple what changes have been made In tho
law and the government since tho last
band concert.
"On one occasion the wplmm. announce
ment was made that the duty hnd been
taken off beans and rli p. Immediately tho
rejoicing became so strenuous that It was
with difficulty that thp concert waa held.
The next week came a second announce
ment that since the merchants had evinced
no disposition to redure the price of thesa
two stanles ln spite of th lessoned cost of
Import th dntv had been restored. There
was no difficulty In holding the concert
that night."
An Old-Time Pipe
A Massachusetts man. moved by a Nan
tucket ship cerptnln's boast that he had
smoked one and tho soma pipe for twenty
two years, declares that he lias still ln reg
ular use a meerschaum pipe which he has
uaed steadily for forty-six years, or alnca
August, l&il, carrying it through the war
till he was mustered out In July, 1806.
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down to the last little screw
that's why they will do three
times as much work for you as
most people get out of job-lot department-store
sewing machines
and do three times as many
kindt of work, too.
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823 ei. 1.1th St.. Omaha.
845 West Broadway, Co. Illuffs.