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Show I fa . JLv VjHIe Jlvl?lv Ui J- 'j: L- 6 ff T,"T"MI'I,A. I" Ht'l't f r'c -nt de-J de-J vrluiiiiilil. Is plating tlio same ; C'y- j game ah did Nicaragua, and It ' .V , I XMil.d Inn. Hal tlie Arm hand ""' Sll,,',, v"' '", r,'!t 1,1 4 J '"''imal American republic. " 4 Ton many Aincilciiii lnt'(-H are at ?'"".' :. iTr!7 '' 1 'hfi'Hla oi' Spanish fts;fv4.3l ruler go unheeded, nay Manaciiii .U V Jj olllcialH. (Iim hy line iu tlieMU QtfV troiildra nrl.si" tlirniiKliotit (Vtitral 3 An crlra It In (lie liitenltoii of I'rehl fl di lit Tuft Slid Ills Huliordlll.lteH to Cl' fore a l ihiiryr piMfi- KJ.?'2m l IlilMI t ! II ot;i. !: fi.il .. Ktales Mini tiT M, rr w ih i !,a- tliroiu-li the strei t of M.iii.ikuu by t!i so!. I.' I -. of l'rehl li'iit elaa, lull ( rti l il lian In II m Hi' J'ars have Wolidi I lully c hai.:; d I'iiI.i;- no inati paw r utin r lain the future nf Ho hi- l-aMli Vne i I ran t'-nil il m than did M ii.isl.T Mrirv A a cai lam on a I'arlllc Mall liner, lie levamo a hiu d nt ot the native and lilx country. I f iTohahly III ' Mk-- 'J ' ' I II "j !!' . ' i J ! :? V-"! I 1 . .J4. " I!' ' ' tflrl' Lf3 mwm& t). Til tlioentrlnK, ) to hpeak ,a few yearn , ami bi Iiik worth a few do.en millions today. ' I- y Tin') have trie. I rnldior and mad.' a fall- ur'. oeoiiiiut idantatloiiH hrinn toith fmlf JrfV bluwlv, .neaiides jtruw l'ire, as do urajit' i Jfi'h fruit and mnam's, but they ri n mo 'I,-My fjlw n"'l l'niiit duty Is o heavy that i'Xnrta- ' . M'J Hon under preHent mndltiotiH Is liardly to bo I'onsi.ler.'d. Klee does fairly well, while coffee cof-fee on the went coast reaches a hUh prade of pel feet ion. The coffee, diplomatic ami other R ollirlals assert, Is the fined In the world. The chief trouble on tht' eo.t coast Is fill. I-f. I-f. a hillside level emniKll to Maud on and N cultivate the product. jjj TIm' labor (uctdto!i In NIcnruR'ia has th 1 HTVMlt Klrl issue In fie Clllt.-d St'ltes beale!l v a namlcal mile. One man will t ! 1 you he has A no iroutdo In Ketiinn inbnr. If he means real I wi.rk tin re is plenty to be done, but from the -I Htandpoint of the employer, the task Is no easy one. Moti")' means nothing to the average fh&2 nathe. Oi.e plantation maiiavter told a cor- retiponilent bo had men working fur him und that he transa4't.-d business on ""i sols inonk"y money, they call It a tar. Thin plantaijoii conducts a hi ore. in d the major-It major-It y The men are paid In the national cur-rency. cur-rency. whlih Just as steadily comes back Into - ; , ' Hi ' HGi. WJlLAfl L KJ r; - - V r, Lty . .', V f, - .i s Vt - .: ; ; . J mm 1 -mm'1!&t iiiiaiaW Vaaaaaa'' 0L- JJ5"V i2T K7 A SfA.r Mining throughout (the country, while be-tng be-tng pushed, la not bringing the money , returns of fruit. Many . men. however, have struck It rich In the mining region. A Ca- .. . 1 1 .. n ), I li a nnmA la N'v-1 In. w better than any other diplomatic official that, fiiDiiHiai-'. ,it1'JLta" ""' would never ceasn fighting. y A the remilt of Lis work In the service, th I T'nlled Stnles has virtually established a protec torate over Nicaragua. At all times an American worship U within four hours' call by the wireless. An American postage stamp Is as good In Nicaragua Nica-ragua as It Is in IouUluna. Mall for the United States goes through the American consulates and Is curried in sealed sacks to New Orleans and Mobile, Mo-bile, or to a port on the Pacific coast In another. It Is not handled by natives. There Is no opening of mall addressed to the subject of the Culled States these days, as was common In the past. That Is one result of Minister Merry's work and today be Is In the diplomatic service In Costa ItlcR, watching his lalsir bear fruit. President Kst rails. Is a good fellow as Nicnra guans go-but he couldn't last twtnty minutes as the head of a peoplo who love to flKbt, If the United Unit-ed Stales department at Washington wasn't hold-- Ing bis hand over the rough places. They are going to send a commission down there In a Khort time to straighten out affairs and conduct con-duct the first honest election the country ever l.a l. Then J. P. Morgan & Co. will handle the iclim.llnn or the fL'O.piiil.Oill) bonded debt. Ily that time the I lilted States will be well In chaise, pn bably with Consul Moffat aa minister minis-ter and real bead of the government. Just as ru Idiy as polble Nicaragua Is being made a good place In which to live. Am.'rlciui capitalists and Investors are crowd-lug crowd-lug into the country with rapidity. Now that the da a of the revolution are ended the machete ma-chete made an implement of agriculture Instead In-stead of war the future of the little republic looms bright. Mines are b"lng developed, forests for-ests chared, lagoons drained and homes built llt-n Irotti the north and ml. idle western states are causing the hustle. There are biiHluis rHKttttHHMMMtnittHH WiOUASI AS1JLY the store. Paying off labor in Nicaragua la much like taking a dollar from one pocket and putting It Into another. That's all right, so far as It goes, but when the laborer generally an Indian or a Jamaican thinks he has too much to do ho quits. He can live without work, and works merely to please his foreman. The foreman who enn get the good will of tho Indian is the valuable man. The superintendent superin-tendent of a coffee plantation haa been trying to get aoo men to work for the last two years. At one time he had 130 and he Is a man the natives like, too. The manager of a big banana plantation la having the same trouble. A month or two Is frequently fprnt getting half a hundred men together. Indians stay close to their villages and the hope of the plunter Is the building ; of these conglomeration of huts. Olve the j workers a bamboo rovi red shed In which to live, build them a church of the same ma terlal and secure for them a preacher, even though their morals seem lax. and the natives will probably spend their lives on the plantationworking planta-tionworking when they feel so Inclined, Now and then they want to wander away and get all the bad whisky they ran buy, but they return In time to again take up the machete. (ood treatment appears to be the only secret if there be any secret of getting labor In Nicaragua. of McGlnnls, located In the northern part of the Republic and founded the Ine Star mine. Today be Is several times over a millionaire. Joe I.a Pere. a French Canadian, discovered the Ponanza mine from which millions In gold have been taken. The Topaz Mining company Is another an-other paying venture. The chief difficulty with the mining Is the matter of transportation. transporta-tion. While the earnings of the various mines have proven satisfactory, yet it Is In the banana ba-nana business that the figures presented by American experts prove amazing; they show payment for land, cost of clearing, planting and harvesting at the end of the second year with an additional profit of 60 per cent on the Investment. They are Indeed startling, but the men who make them ldnt to the United Fruit company, having started business on a men from si. Ixiuls. Kansa City and Chicago and men from numerous . smaller cities who are Interested financially in agriculture and mining work In Nicaragua. Many are already realizing on their Investments. Along the Klo t!ran le rler there Is a wide stretch of territory covered with bamboo, some of which is planted In bananas. Shipments Ship-ments of bananas were taken out of that section sec-tion for the first time a few weeks ago by the Pan American company, a Kansas City and St. Umis concern. There are half a dozen small companies beginning operations and within six months fully 2oi.o.in or 3"n.no acres of ba lianas will have been planted along that river, which Is said to be the best for the culture of this particular fruit of any In the republic. The bananas -about 3.000 bunches shipped lately were the finest taken Into the port of New Orleans. |