Show v vv WI I UNITED 51 STATES A TES OF COLOMBIA 2 I LUo on a 0 O ond the Rich of 5 Correspondence lI Colombia Nov oV ou desIre to exterminate nn an enemy r llio dic most torture that t te imagination mu cnn can lure lurea a to 10 the country ani In Inre Inee re ee him t to m make l e n trip up the great creat AA AA I UI river Sans Sona netting veil gloves or other protection The Thc locality Is Infested with the tho biggest mosquitos that thal ever passengers on the river boats bonts must como come ed cd with everything attainable In the way 0 or of offense and defense against I I laS S S S AAA T I ITO I ITo TO VISIT TIlE TIiE PRESIDENT I WI I I II II II I LU I x I I yr 0 a J i iI I t ta a Ji t I I 4 4 I t i 4 I m 1 1 the old MaIne Guide and warm friend ot of I hu has been n invited to Itt the President at the House MrS tra traEn En St 41 1 is d In the Invitation Th Tb e a visit wilt will be mid made In u ml ol oil art now nw the proudest pAir In N w York YorkI I them DurinG th height of oC time thc season nil all time the officers ant deck Jeck wear thIck veils over their faces close cloo around time the neck lIeck and Ion buckskin gauntlets both boll night anti antida da eVery anti window Is screened wire Iro netting with time the tunics of ro nl rilen lien thai and every known preventIve bur burden burden den time tho yet et somehow the tho enemy seems to come ort oft more or Ip less It 11 Is time the fashion hereabouts to tell storIes of ns as California boast or of tIme tho ize or of theIr fruits and time the eo lle arounI sound Bound brag or of theIr clums but I assure you OU that the tallest tall tale cnn can hard hardly exceed time the reality bad enough the year around at al seasons when blow from time the jungles tIme the mos moos 10 clouds that literally ou ob obscure th ill 11 tint the or at their I IF OS t time or of a sa sam mill Neither mon maim nov beast can with withstand stand land their attacks and It ItIs ItIs Is n a that attie and ant are frequently T D TO DI I imy ill ni I am told that ago ngo ngoa agoa a heal hent or of valuable wore being from time the United to 10 nil an U lIver ranch a 11 week of on brolle th r fastenings and over oer ll lit ru Into the everyone boom Lcd d for Cor alligators or was The Tho Ill river a art 1 pretty muc much alike time the aim cargo water wafer on tho di un on the deck is III the Fa m on eIther sIde hore that story is 18 the cap III 11 C surmounted by u a Ie Ic e Directly In front of It tIle the I are time the tall tail black n taller than the Ihl watch tower tover anti In front of Is I the i hag tafT roam from whIch time alma olom I Iii I All 11 the tipper lIpper I Inre art OIS r f nail here is b the tho to fo tint what little nil air ma many he be Life on hefted a is 19 b by no 4 g ger F er cry nt at C I time the fader your moos net nel n a tin tiny tm tray on eu which Is II a QUI up of oC black Colombia coff smi ami n a nS S IOA fOAi or at bread or Of course there Is ii no but Lut tT but If you ol havo I t feed l the Ihl t rI thre may lie hI an I orant nr r veil Il a h ell egg Bettor slit It all RII em nor I hetti II I Inot Inot not will rOil et el U 11 i iIII tit III I U 12 ammi 2 In till lor Is Ilk hike n a northern dInner nn an eee of all garlic In a 0 t I least r a 0 dozen doMn courses beginnIng th and with mini toffe Dinner at jj 0 p rn III antI is III tim of with the addition ot of lne Ine anti dessert No 0 how the Ihl days may drag dragone one olle makes n a mistake wan dO I not emot arise with the lark and the gator for forI h I tar the I Ia time the early eath morn IllS when the almost t ClUe from It Il Is II the tho power of pen en or t to 10 describe the bt beauty ut ot of sunrIse and unset In S tropical The skies are marvel aLms In their pie tints of oC sail anti gull gaul ora orang palo blue on either aids Ie 0 I who tlc Iy are ure milso In wonderful tints ot of rose IOSI purple and gra gray white storks silent and In time tile traditional attitude p nil as If losing tam tOI their pictures There Therl are bIg heron too and white ones and which by the way Invariably Ib ii from south to 10 north In time the morning never by till or cIrcumstance cu turning toward loard another or of tile And nd then about S 5 p fI rn m home they go agaIn every cven mothers bird ot of them In a line north to 10 one another you 01 pass pails a canoe hal hol out of oC tIll the trunk ot imf n a single tn Ir manned b by o Indian clr dressed In the Ihl s ot of a small white apron let mound amount time the waIst In some lire are miles of banana groves growe now stripped or of by J IO locusts have hac Leon doIng grett gret damage through out omit tho he country sometimes the lilt lard Is 18 varied 11 by ot of toll tail trees overgrown with whim blossoming ngan timer are ure s ot of span spon spontaneous In which time the yaw paw In time the time tho papa papaye ye a the mango whose fruit per Nr perfumes fumes time the Air and time the Hol Ill rr J to mm II lII and having hallIg a sIngle cluster of away at time top In hi which live maim hosts or of tints Irown and blak biek monkeY swing rain their macaws s In or of black anti and golden with long taIls fl thy screaming at the fhe steamers Two w or three limps a I da day you oU stop stoll nt at some little tor or freight or fuel tuel a emit nil 1 Ima la lives come clime on boari selling fruits eggs and curved spoons and aDd lJ buLlies of gourds In tho e places the thu seem to me tie clo all tho ho busIness and carry nit nil time burdens time the men being ornamental The ho universal cos utile tUlue of time hitter i 1 a unIt of trousers roth rod and white to toh h knees time w wearer I nho And ht beloW lot Time The omen ear car anti and a sIngle singh short cOd siant skirt ot of cu 11 00 the lIer homlet laity I al appear ar star their bamboo wailS mind roofs shaded by nearer approach h and In the midst or of I hInt black pigs And variously ly colored babies 1011 around The montel it hili hii section nt 81 with Indian Latin aid land so that lust blot blUt eee ee frt 1 akin even yeu m wool n aTh n nt amort them The lull lead a s meat mott hairy lolu k existence upon time the fruIts that grow ro will lii pro profusIon fusIon ad nil as nibble at al n a Lit Ut of ocon on II hook from the Ille of trot nl at whose hoe emit lIes 1111 t a sleepy dam dRI ey lIt list on lila hili taco farl In of nearly FOO OO talks the mouth of the nn man manthe 1 the Ihlo present terminus o of the routes Is 18 b by o means the head ot of that rIvers waters Th growing tIT has ha acquired von ron only On account or of the river trade Is ii beautifully situated nt at thu Junction ot of two tWI great streams for Cor here bee beethe the comes come rushing down to 10 joIn the Magdalena ant ant on even trY side id ru v y y Otherwise there Is nothing honda to In It ruin a 11 thousand other towns of oC pan lan lanIsh Ish merten It bus hua timo Iho plaza a and amid and ot of l house JOUr ed with ruti tiles anti cot thatched with straw all br ti cocoa trea amid or of graceful palmR Th r are a 11 few fea very et old Ings of 01 origin emir thick walls Ier vre buIlt especial to withstanding the are frequent In this but In of oC their mOat libel of at time old oh houses were long ago shaken To fo m nay mint thi Ihl Illar Interesting timIng thins ah ut time is 19 the ot of all an antique brIdge which the built In time tho your RT 1601 its 1111 quaint arches ur art yet yel and time the atomic mails on ill title show pow nOlI I tied 1100 whore stunts III uti 10 ii IIII us worship ot of ott t 11 h se stern built hullt and In time the or of their mini greed tor or gold time lIev never r forgot the outwArd tokenS loken fir If tO rc Th fh river which Is to I Colombia the mime Nile lIe h Is to Is for tor mills miles hernia It runs through nearly nil rich tale state of Tolima which be belag if lag Ing 11 m md It Its rising title tide Lit lh malay non I thi Io b lt Ill agricultural portion ot Of tin republic t I nih withIn time tile lOst te few tarS time the of Colombia export I rule lItel however hOlter two have been be mol x ly ti 1111 b t I iles being eO O nth fT f r for trade trude Ilo II f of oll time the added e of r being I lJ by I able io 80 for time lest rl ml cat tal they hc he have Leer yielding at lit two Or Of tour iro The Tiie river whIch runs h this ts is tom fOl lIht draught to 10 Call II a about Th ii miles tram from the Pacific nIUra In our favored ri hardly 1 what ht au an In It a river is II In II ft M country Time The valley is b best st na as n a level Ivol implant I being R I p ot of tU lUl nearly ft fei t above tim th sea R with whim rank Ints r It Itis is 18 mba hn laM of at v arid orld might tit be mad to cOllon offee cGee sugar lint to IHl r we 1 as al corn Orn anti 1 o OJ of th Its Iti W I is only 77 7 is r P anti Its Ita Is In WI V oeo oher 0 er I is th the Atlo whose hilti fIller is 18 like that ot of the er Ih tie 11 l tM the or of Col Colombia is II ol 70 mile mil from HondA I lint but thereto leading over the of the la f I Ic c and In can only ty a n Ii J time to Um durin lime h last North have III at time the constructIon or at It a railroad th two ome n IF miles mile of track hack have actually been laid but Ih Imio o In chance of the work hatm Men beim and again to abandon tt It on nn ot at revolutIons and amI the Impo impossibIlity 61 t securing labor laborerS laborera erS era natives will not work and so 10 ot of Po pay offered has hal been able oLle to It these time IIII en 11 liis iteen leen abandoned el ItI ing fromn Crom time Ihl ti In tin th I wily or of lint mind aim I concession It II will wiil tie Ll I ed cd time Meantime time the govern government ment on Its own account ims U Li roam to 10 and tins also RIMO a I liberal concession for tor J thc Ih ot of line time lUIU sailey nile wh lC Inh iloh cat gold In nil all Ih the are to 10 stone slime that pro j of which f I tue to j I IJ 13 t tA A AA AuA i v V V V V GILDED GAMBLERS S r rI rIi I r I U 1 Ii I C CI Cf f I f fO O f I 4 I a l lN lIt N It I I j 1 i d 11 I I Ii iii iiiI Ni NM Mi I iiiI I J D f f I I 3 MS 1 r t tt 1 t J JA j I A DI Attorney of New e York a big sensation within tn few days dars II lie to bv In hi his 1 lon wilt hint to make 1 i t on the tOt mbUa tot at Now eU York n Quent by br the C raided will be c AJ I to the 1 |