The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1894-03-27

Mr.. W. G. Mccarthy, OF Chicago, is
registered ut tho Hotel Windsor, Mr..
Mccarthy is Interested with an uncle
in silver mines in Spanish Honduras,
Central America, and he has beon home
from there bu. few weeks. When no
lett the outcome OF Dorlla's war on tho
government was not definitely known
in Honduras, and Mr.. Mccarthy says it
Ia easier to keep trace OF affairs in that
country through tho newspapers hero
than it is for a resident OF the couatry
outside Of tho capital.
An lST&LLlGESCER reporter yesterday
had long and interesting chat with
Mr.. Mccarthy. who thinks there ID no
other land so richly endowed by nature
as the Honduras The soil, he says, is
the most productive and the spoatanc.
Gus products tho most varied and best
fitted to supply the wants Of man.
The waters teen with fine food fishes.
and tho forests with monkeys, which
arc caught aud killed for their meat,
which is much like chicken. Bread
fruit, grape fruit, bananas, yams, Cocoa
nuts and Il pcC'iliar vino which yields
cool, palatable water in great quantities
for the mere trouble oil sucking it out,
furnish almost everything man can
desire, and as TO clothing, pain hat.
cotton shirt and duck trousers will last
man year. The average native wears
nothing else.
The mines yield rich returns, and the
coffee plantations are profitable invest
mcnts. Bananas and other fruits tind
4 ready sale along the coast ut good
prices.
As 10 the climate, too, Mr.. Mccarthy
gives good account. Honduras has
the wet and dry season OF tho tropics,
and on the lowlandI the heat is opprcs.
sive, but in the mountains, Tor instance
where Tegucisalpa is located. the
temperature Is Gquab!e, and while the
SUMS rays are hot in the shade 1t is con-
sianily pleasant, and the night ai7 Is
cool. In the coast towns fever is 2reva-
lent, but in the highlands the health is
good.
"With such 4 picture Gs you paint
Mr.. Mccarthy" said the reporter, "how
do YOU account lor the lack oil prosper
itv, the backwardness OF the nation and
its pcople?
simply because it was manaau
country-mmtGE0 is Spanish Tor to-mor-
row; nobody there will do anything to-
day that he can put of till tomorrow.
The climate Is somewhat to blame.
Why should man exert himself when
he doesn't have to? feel myself get
ting lazy every time 90 there.
Then, there is the unstable govern
ment. Ii Spanish Honduras had MS
good n government as ours-bad as
ours is just now would 20 back there
and never come away"
" henevcr there is an election in
Spanish Honduras, Mr.. Mccarthy con-
tinued, the defeated candidate Tor pres.
ident, ii he Can raise any following at
all, starts revolution. In the last one
he thinks justice was on the side OF
BoniIla, ;he defeated man. as Nasquez
the victorious, used all sorts oil unfair
devices to win, and he was glad that
BoniIla won. lie thinks he is an en-
terprising, able and progressive man
and will make Il good ruler
Mr.. McCarthys chat was delightfully."-
diversified, 4 suggestion on ANY theme
being sufficient to open wide field OF
information. lie illustrates the charac-
ter OF the people bya story: \ native
rowed out to steamer and brought 4
passenger ashore, Tor which service he
received fifty cents. Another man want
cd to board the steamer, but the native
would not row him out for fifty cents.
\ dollar was Otlered-''no." Then grad
ualy the leo was increased 10 s.. but
every addition was refused, and finally
the native guve the man to understand
that he had enough money.
Monkeys are caught in peculiar
way. Cncoanut shells are punctureG