The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-03-30

! If the sure footed mule can find stepping
| place Of any kind that is enough The native
cannot see what more is wanted. Time Is not
money in this country, and if 1t should take
| ten days instead Of two to get to Teguci-
| ealpa. what differences Absolutely none.
! Tomorrow is just as good as today, if not a
! little better 1t is peculiar philosophy all
| the way through and can best be illustrated
! by q personal incident. The only two modes
! of conveyance for human beings or freight
| are mules and oxen The former carry all
/ bundles on their backs; the latter, with bands
about their heads, pull heavy carts, the
wheels being solid blocGS of wood.
/ There are no spokeS nor tires, no iron nails
! or boxes. The fastenings are made by the
! strong vines of the forest, and the thing
! works as though it were created before Adam
! No grease being used, the heavy, numbering
! thing groans and strains and losses along at
the rate of nearly mile an hour. Overtak-
ing one of these OK carts on my journey from
/ the coast found it in a state of approximate
dissolution. One of the Wheels had cracked
and it seemed as though every jolt would
/ create a perfect wreck The driver was NOV
ing on wholly unconcerned. l stopped my
mule and said to him:
Your cart is almost broken down"
Isl, senor," he answered, in "a tone of sur
prise.
''Why not stop and fix it?'
"Why should 1 stop: am going on very
we'll"
But you viii certainly break down in a
little while"
sit may be SO, but [ will not offend heaven
by borrowing trouble The senior would not
eat before he is hungry. Why should 1 mend
my cart when it can go along without it,
When the accident happens will be time
enough TO worry, not until then.
| could not beat it into his head that by
fastening up his wheels with the vines he
could probably pull through his Journey
while by not doing it made a breakdown u
certainty in an hour or two. [ put spurs TO
my mule and hurried on. Looking back
saw the native curiously eying me, as much
as to say: There goes a silly americana,
who would drink before he is thirsty, and
who is rushing Oh to Pespire today when he
might go leisurely tomorrow. What fools
these foreign mortals ber'
Pespire is twenty leagues from the Nicara-
guam frontier and twenty-four leagues from
that point Of the coast whittier had started
for the capital. Ny mozo had told me the
seventy-two miles could be made by good
riding in two days, as the mountain climbing
was moderate | concluded to do it, because
for days had lived on tortillas and beans,
the native food, eating and sleeping in
tenanted huts, with naked children hungry
swine and NANCY dogs closely watching me.
1t was said that at Pespire there was a
restaurant kept by a FrenchInan and that
there | would be entertained. Visions of o
half bottle of claret, a outlet and bit of
white bread rose before me and kept me up
under the broIling sun. What hungry,
tired man rode into Pespire that night The
mozo rode before me up TO the Frenchman'a
adobe house, in the door Of which pretty
but fruuzy woman stood. II wasn't very
inviting, but asked entertainment The wo-
man sullenly shook her head. He's fighting
drunk" she said, pointing to a white haired,
grizzly object lying on the earthen floor. As
there was no other place in town to sleep,
brushed past her while the mozo led the
mules into the back yard
'You must give us food and sleep" NV
guide said, walking over the PROSTATE French
man, and the woman finally consented to let
us have two cots, which we could put out in
the yard with the beasts and the chickens
and provided Us also with dirty coffee and
the everlasting tortiilas and beans Mean
while the Frenchman awoke. He was fight
ing drunk, and ordered Us out of his house.
We refused to 90. Francisco Soldivan sent
you!" he yelled, and picking up great knife
he said: "When l see Francisco l will carve
him up. / viii cut out his heart, So" and he
made deadly thrust in the cir. Il viii spit
at him and torture him. He is a liar and a
villain. Then, after a pause ne said: Il
will, however, forgive your knowing him and
let you stay" which was quite kind Of the
Frenchman.