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CABAfi '■ ^ O N D U R A S , In the lig h t o f recent de- ■ velopmente, is playing the same game aa did N icaragua, and it is expected hero th a t the firm hand o f the U n ited States w il l be fe lt in I north C e n tral Am e rican republic. Too many Am e rican interests are at stake to le t the threats o f Spanish ru le rs go unheeded, say Managua officials. One by one as these troubles arise th roughout Central jb A m e rica i t is the in te n tio n of Presi- dent T a ft and his subordinates to ssgMhL, force a lasting peace. It hasn’t been long since U n ited States M inister M e rry was chased ^ through the streets of Managua by the soldiers of President Zelaya, but conditions in these three years have w o n d e rfully changed. Perhaps no man saw fa r th e r in to the fu ture o f these Latln-A m e rl- can Republics than did M in iste r M e rry. A sea captain on a Pacific M a il lin e r, he became a stu dent of the native and his country. He probably m FOR THE COOK TO TRY RECIPES THAT ARE BOTH NEW AND SIMPLE. shoestring, so to speak ,a few years ago, and being w o rth a few dozen m illion s today. They have trie d rubber and made a fa il ure, cocoanut plantat'ons brin g fo r th fru it slow ly, pineapples grow large, as do grape fru i t and oranges, but they ripen so quickly and the im p o r t duty is so heavy th a t exporta tio n under present conditions is hardly to be considered. Rice does fa ir ly w e ll, w h ile cof fee on the west coast reaches a high grade of perfection. The coffee', diplom a tic and other officials assert, is the finest ih the w o rld. The chief trouble on the east coast is find ing a h illsid e level enough to stand on and cu ltiva te the product. The labor question in N icaragua has the servant g ir l issue in the U n ited States beaten a nautical m ile. One man w ill te ll you he has no trouble in getting labor. If he means real ■work there is plenty to be done, but fro m the standpoint of the employer, the task is no easy one. Money means nothing to the average native. One plantation m a nager told a cor respondent he had 60 men w o rkin g fo r him and th a t he tranracted business on 600 sols— m o n key money, they call it — a year. This plantation conducts a store, as do the m a jor ity . The men are paid in the national cur rency, w h ic h ju s t as steadily comes back into n&Y/HG c o r r r r knew bette r than any other diplom a tic official that, le ft alone, they would never cease fighting. As the re s u lt of his w o rk in the service, the U n ited States has v ir tu a lly established a protec torate over Nicaragua. A t a ll tim e s an Am e rican w a rship is w ith in four hours’ call by the wireless. An Am e rican postage stamp is as good in N ica ragua as it is in Louisiana. M a ll fo r the U n ited States goes through the Am e rican consulates and is carried in sealed sacks to New Orleans and Mo bile, or to a p o rt on the Pacific coast in another. It is not handled by natives. There is no opening o f m a il addressed to the subjects o f the United States these days, as was common in the past. T h a t is one result of M iniste r M e r ry ’s w o rk find today he is in the diplom a tic service in Costa Rica, w a tching his labor bear fru it. President Estrada is a good fellow as N icara guans go— b u t he couldn't last tw e n ty m inutes as the head of a people who love to fight, i f the U n it ed States departm e n t at W a s h ington wasn’t hold in g his hand over the rough places. They are going to send a commission down there in a short tim e to straighten out affairs and con duct the firs t honest election the country ever bad. Then J. P. Morgan & Co. w ill handle the re funding of the $20,000,000 bonded debt. By th a t tim e the U n ited States w ill be w e ll in charge, probably w ith Consul M o ffat as m inis te r and real head of the governm e nt. Just as ra p id ly as possible N icaragua is being made a good place in w h ic h to live. Am e rican capitalists and investors are crow d ing into the country w ith ra p id ity. Now that the days of the revolution are ended—the ma chete made an im p lem e n t of agricu ltu re in stead of w a r— the future of the little republic looms b right. Mines arc being developed, fo r ests cleared, lagoons drained and homes b u ilt Men from the north and m iddle w e s tern states are causing the hustle. There are business Orange and Grape Conserve WIN Not Gn Neglected on Table— Metheg- lin a Strengthening D rink fo r the Aged— Bisque T o rtonl. Orange and Grape Coneerve.—T o aix pounds r \ grapes allow tw o pounds raisins, fo u r oranges and fo u r pounds of sugar. C u t off the th in yellow rin d of the oranges and cook together w it h the seeded raisins u n til tender. P u lp the grapes and cook u n til soft enough to rub through a collander. Add to the skins, cook 16 m lnutea. p u t In rais ins, orange peel, Juice and sugar and sim m e r gen tly u n t il Jellied. M e theglln.— Pour over tw e lve and one-half pounds honey, eight gallons of b o ilin g w a ter. L e t i t stand fo r tw o days, s tirrin g occasionally, then add one-quarter of a compressed yeast cake, softened In a few spoonfuls o f w a ter, and spread on a slice of d r y toast. Cover closely and le t stand fo r tw o or three weeks, then rack off and bottle. This is considered a strengthening d r in k fo r the aged, as i t is the honey mead of the ancient Germans, who, ac cording to Tacitus, a ttrib u te d hea lth and great age to Its use. Bisque T o r to n l.—Make a custard, using a cream or rich m ilk, the yo lka of six eggs and a cup of sugar. H e a t the cream to the scalding point, add a pinch of\soda. Beat the yolks th ic k and smooth, add the sugar to the beat en yolks and beat again five m inutes, then s tir little by little Into the scald ing cream. The m o m e n t It chickens set o ff the fire. W h e n cold s tir into the custard a g ill of m a raschino. Put in to the freezer, tu r n the crank u n til the cream Is stiff, when the freezer should be opened and a p in t of whipped cream stirre d in to the contents of the freez er. F ill a mold w ith the m ixture, re pack In ice and salt and le t It stand to r three or fo u r hours before serving. O y s ters Au G ratln. N o w th a t oysters are In season the recipe fo r oysters au g r a tia w il l be a h e lpful h in t to the cook who has never prepared them in th a t w a y . This recipe Is enough fo r six people. E ighteen oysters, eighteen m u s h rooms, one-half teaspoon salt, one- eighth teaspoon red pepper, one cup w h ite sauce. M e lt tw o tablespoons butte r in the fry in g pan and fry the mushrooms in it u n t il they are a d e li cate brown. Put three oysters on an oyster shell w ith three m u s h room s and pour over them some w h ite sauce. S p rin k le cheese and cracker crum b s over them and bake u n til brown. Serve hot. In case It is not possible to obtain the oyster shells use the shells w h ich may be bought in th e stores fo r about 15 cents a dozen. J /YXYWAGJJAH rAJIJLY & A J V A /M £>JL/lJYT A T /0/t // V A '/C A frA G U A men from St. Louis, Kansas C ity and Chicago and men fro m numerous sm a ller cities who are interested financially In a g ricu ltu re and m inin g w o rk in Nicaragua# M a n y are already realizing on th e ir invesf-nents. Along the R io Grande rrve r there Is a wide stretch of te r r ito r y covered w ith bamboo, some of w h ich Is planted In bananas. Ship ments of bananas were taken out of th a t sec tio n fo r the firs t tim e a few weeks ago by the Pan-Am e rican company, a Kansas C ity and St. Louis concern. There are h a lf a dozen sm a ll companies beginning operations and w ith in six m o n ths fu lly 200,000 or 300,000 acres of La nanas w ill have been planted along th a t river, w h ich Is said to be the best fo r the culture of th is p a rticu la r fru it of any in the republic. The bananas— about 3,000 bunches— shipped lately were the finest taken .into the p o rt of N e w Orleans. M inin g throughout the country, w h ile be ing pushed, is not brin g in g tho money returns of fru it. M a n y men. however, have stru c k it rich in the m inin g region. A Ca nadian by the , name of M cGinnis, located In the n o rthern p a rt of the R e p u b lic and founded the Lone S tar mine. Today he is several tim e s over a m illio n a ir e . Joe La Pere, a French Canadian, discovered the Bonanza m ine from w h ich m illio n s in gold have been taken. The Topaz M in in g company is an other paying venture. The chief d ifficu lty w ith the m ining is the m a tte r of transporta tion. W h ile the earnings of the various mines have proven satisfactory, yet it is In the ba nana business th a t the figures presented by Am e rican experts prove am a zing; they show paym e n t for la n d ,. cost of clearing, planting and harvesting at the end of the second year w ith an additional p r o fit of 60 per cent, on the Investm e n t. They are indeed sta rtlin g , but the men who make them point to the U n ited F r u it company, having started business on a the store. P a y ing o il labor In N icaragua ia , much llko ta k in g a dollar from one pocket and p u ttin g it in to another. That's all righ t, sc fa r as It goes, but when the laborer— generally an Indian or a Jamaican—th inks he has too i much to do he quits. He can live w ithout j w o rk, and w o rks m e rely to please his forem a n ' The forem a n who can get the good w ill of the ; Indian is the valuable man. The superin ! tendent of a coffee plantation has been trying i to get 300 men to w o rk fo r the last tw o years | A t one tim e he had 130— and he is a man the natives like, too. The m a n a g e r of a big banana plantation ii | having the same trouble. A m o n th or tw o Is i fre q u e n tly spent getting h a lf a hundred men | together. Indians stay close to th e ir villages | and the hope of the planter Is the building of these conglom e rations of huts. Give the t w o rkers a bamboo covered shed In which to live, build them a church of tho same m a > te r la l and secure for them a preacher, even j though th e ir m o rals seem lax, and the natives 1 w ill probably spend th e ir lives on the planta tio n — w o rkin g when they feel so Inclined. Now and then they w a n t to w a n d e r away and gel ; a ll the bad w h isky they can buy-, but they re tu rn in tim e to again take up the machete, Good tre a tm e n t appears to be the only secret If there be any secret of gettin g labor I d : Nicaragua. Pie Crust. P u t one p in t of pastry flour, a lit tle sa lt and a level teaspoon o f ba k in g powder Into the sieve and sift. Then add tw o heaping tablespoons lard and chop up w ith the spoon In to chunks about the size of a nutm e g . The lard should be cold enough to bo firm and the spoon heaped p r e tty high. Then add w a ter by the spoon fu l u n til the flo u r Is all taken up. I t should be s tiff enough to stay in shape. I consider pie crust m o re wholesome w ith a little raising in it. Oommon causes of tough pie cru s t are the use of bread flour, too lit t l e shortening, too much w a ter and to o hot a fire. The heat should .be about the same as fo r cake. M M + »»♦»«♦ M e M M M M M eM M M M e i l M eet OM M M M M f M +M M M M M M M M M M M eeeee M C O U N T R Y OF C O N T I N U A L U N R E S T “ T h e beginnings of the troubles th a t w reck N icaragua at frequent inte rva ls lie back to its discovery by Columbus. A sm a ll rem n a n t o f Indians has recently been found liv in g on an Island near Blueflelds, speaking the lan guage of the Aztecs and having tra d itio n s of ru lin g in splendid cities over the subject trib e s of the coast. These cities, of w h ich great ru in s rem ain, a t once a ttracted the Spaniards to the in te r io r , so th a t from Panama to Yucatan not an Im p o rta n t Spanish settlem e n t was fonned o n the Caribbean coast, and thus the coast tribes, freed fro m Aztec dom ination, re m a ined alm o s t unknow n to the Spaniards, h a v in g no property w o rth looting. / Loot was plenty among the buccaneers, but ■fresh food and women they lacked. These the Indians supplied. Com m e rcial relations soon grew up, w h ich speedily developed in to an allian c e against the Spaniards, by means of w h ich the Indians m r.lntained th e ir indepen- •dence, u n t il th e ir chief was carried, in 1688, w ith great pomp, to Jamaica, where he sur rendered bis a u th o rity to the duke of Albe m a rle and was then crowned and received back his insig n ia as a vassal king, un<er a B r itis h protectorate, of a ll the coast from C h iv lq u l lagoon to Yucatan, along w h a t Is know n as the M o squito coast. S u b ject to occasional clashes w ith the Span iards, m a tters w e n t on thus fo r a < each successive M o squito k in g going m a lca fo r investure and to do homage, a lly. In 1783, by the peace o f P a ris, Eng] sp e c ifica lly abandoned Its protectorate over *11 of the M o squito coast, except fo r the part sntury, tq Ja- -fin - agram r now know n as Belize, or B r itis h Honduras, w h ich then became and s t ill rem a ins a B r it ish colony. .. How e v e r, it was only 14 years before tho French re v o lu tio n a ry tu r m o il again brought w a r between Spain and England. In the course of this, the protectorate was revived, so that, in spite of Spain’s becom ing la te r the a lly of England against Napoleon, the three succeeding M o s q u ito kings of the firs t h a lf of the nineteenth century were crowned as of old in Jamaica or Belize, and did hom age fo r th e ir kingdom , the last in 1847. In 1821, a fte r a long struggle, a ll C e n tral A m e rican broke away fro m Spain, and offered to jo in the U n ited States as five states, an offer w h ich was a t once refused, as the pop ulation was not considered sufficient in num ber to ju s t if y ten seats in our senate, nor sufficiently advanced otherw ise to be a de sirable elem e n t. The refusal stirre d up bad blood against the English-speaking peop^s and a dispute w ith England over the protec torate. By the p iayton-B u lw e r tre a ty of 1850, both England and tho U n ited States bound them selves not to seek exclusive righ ts in any p a rt c f C e n tral Am e rica. A g a in the protectorate made trouble, and London and W a s h ington agreed on a tre a ty by w h ich the M o squito coast was to be protected by tre a ty w ith the C e n tral A m e rican states interested, but these refused the suggested term s , and, fin a lly, la 1860, G reat B r ita in concluded separate tre a t ies\ with H o n d u ras and N icaragua, by w h ich to the firs t she surrendered absolutely a ll au th o r it y over the alm o s t uninhabitable portion of the coast claim e d by Honduras, w h ile to Nicaragua she agreed to surrender her pro tectorate and recdgnlze the sovereignty of Nicaragua. N icaragua in tu r n , agreed to g ran t com p lete local self-governm e n t to the M o s q u ito tribes, then of blood la rg e ly diluted w ith strains of w h ite and Jam a ic a negro, and using Eng lish as th e ir official language. Nicaragua also bound its e lf to make a free p o rt of Greytow n , at the m o u th of the navigable riv e r by w h ich the great central lake of Nicaragua discharges into the Caribbean sea, and fo r ten years to pay annually to the M o squito Indians a subsidy of $5,000. A ft e r 19 years less than h a lf o f the sub sidy had been paid, w h ile In vio la tio n of the tre a ty N icaragua had imposed duties at Grey- tow n under the p retext th a t they were to pay the subsidy, and had Introduced a gov e rnor and a garrison a t Blueflelds, the Mo squito k in g ’s capital, and was otherw ise vex ing the in h a b itan ts so as to force them to abandon the E n g lish language and th e ir local self-govenunent. F in a lly, a fte r m o s t inso le n t tre a tm e n t of the B r itis h consul at Grey tow n , who had been appointed the M o s q u ito kin g ’s agent to receive the arrears, E n g land sent a w a rship to Greytow n . N icaragua pro tested th a t, as the B r itis h protectorate had been w ithd ra w n and N icaragua’s sovereignty recognized over the coast, it was none of E n g land’s business w h e ther Nicaragua fu l f i ll ed the tre a ty stip u la tio n s In fa v o r of the In dians. B u t th e captain o f the w a rship was not moved by this, and a fte r much parley the e n tire m a tver was subm itted to the a r b itra tio n o f the em p e ror o f A u s tria. On tw o points the N icarqguan contentions vfere upheld, firs t, th a t the subsidy was of the nature of a g ift, and therefore th a t in te r est should not be added to the a rrears; and, second, th a t the vessels belonging to the M o s q u ito coast should hoist the N icaraguan flag, though against N icaragua’s contention they were allowed to hoist th e ir own along side o f It; but on every Im p o rta n t point the decision was in fa v o r of England U n d e r th is decision settlers began to come in, especially from Canada and Jamaica, and business became quite brisk. N icaragua fa ile d In another a ttem p t to Induce the coast to vote In fa v o r of fu ll citizenship, and m a t ters w e n t on m e r r ily till a few m o n ths a fte r . Zelaya’s rise tc^ the presidenecy, when. In January, 1894, a N icaraguan arm y suddenly appeared at Blueflelds, kidnaped and sent to the In te r io r the chief justice and a ll the lead ing men o f the coast, and in th e ir absence ordered an election, w ith soldiers at every p o llin g place, to determ ine fin a lly the status of the coast. In this election there coaid be o n ly one result, and N icaragua announced th a t the coast had accepted fu ll citizenship in Nica ragua, and, therefore. B r itis h Interference was a t an end. F o r ten years, in spite of occasional at tem p ts a t revolution, one n e a rly successful, m a tters w e n t on fa ir ly a t olucfields and business grew ; but in 1904 there began sys te m a tic attem p ts to oppress th is coast. As a fu r th e r vexation of foreigners, the M o ravian m issionaries and the Church of E n g land re c tor at Blueflelds, who, since the C a tholic churches have been h a rried out of existence, are the only representatives of re li g io n o L f ln y kind in a ll th is region, have had t l ^ t r schools closed because tu itio n was in English. X'-F C a m p h o rated Vaseline. In the early stages a cold can fre quently be broken by rubbing the af flicted parts w ith camphorated vase line. This Is especially good to re lieve the stuffy, tig h t feeling o f a co ld In the head. The grease should be w e ll rubbed In the bridge of the nose, particularly* between the eyes, and on the upper* lip and upw a rd on each side. An in c ip ie n t raw throat, often a pre-| cursos of bronchitis, is also relievedj by thorough greasing of th ro a t and; chest w ith camphorated vaseline or* oil. Both of these m ixtures can be bought at a drug g ist’s and should bej Included In every medicine closet. For| an em ergency tho m ixture can he rn ade at home; 12 drops each o f tu r pentine and sp irits of cam phor into) • wo tablespoonfuls of yellow vaseline.! Nessebrode Pudding. Peel and blanch about 40 of the na-i Uve chestnuts; b o ll u n til tender, then, press through a sieve; make a cus tard, using the lig h tly beaten yokeej of six eggs, a p in t of m ilk and three- tablespoonfuls o f sugar, and put over: trie fire ; add the chestnut pulp and «k half-cupful each of currants and care fu lly cleaned and seeded raisins; cook u n til th ick, s tirrin g alm o st constantly, then cool; when cold add a p in t o f whipped cream ; Jieat w e ll together^ flavor and freeze the same as any icej cream. Delmonlco Potatoes. Tw o tw o cups cold boiled potatoes-, cu t In one-half Inch cubes, allow one( and one-quarter cups w h ite sauce and) one quarter cup grated cheese. P u t aj layer of potatoes In a buttered baking* dish. S p rinkle w ith salt, pepper andj one-half the cheese. Pour over half! ♦ he sauce. Repeat. Cover w ith but-j tered crum b s and bake u n t il crum b e j are brow n . V e ry nics- r - .. i
