Richmond daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1876-1904, 1898-11-09
LIFE IN NICARAGUA.
How a Northern Fam ly Sub
sists in Central AmeriCa

The following Is an extract from
lette resent y received by n. c. Hen
ley, secretary and treasurer of the
J 1maiq1i Coffee Company, from Mr..
Isaac A. Manning, a former well
known resident of this vicinity, and
now manager of their ceffs 30 p'anta-
tons and living on the LARGEST one
known. Chauquili Grande, near Mata-
galpa, Nicaragua. and DO doubt will
DE interesting TO his friends and other
leaders of this paper. He and his
family. about a year since. visited his
parents. who reside IN Oregon, to
which visit he alludes, and says:
Il thought it would prove Of inter
est 20 you and TO our directors to know
that although we are ID a country
where the standard OF living is very
low, we have proven that II is not OF
aecessity 50. GA our return from a
visit home, | paid a man to again
start our garden, and now sfter the
yesr is about over. We can but feel
we'll repaid for our atten-
hon to these things. For over three
months have had to bay but very few
gigs. sn have had broilers whenever
We cared for them. Nov have about
20 hens and large number of young
chickens Have old ducks. one hav-
ug lst come off the nest with bak
RS dozen of young ducklings. We
AVE killed three of our pigs at good
,rofit, and the work of caring for them
,ays well. The last two times wa
ave II d, Mrs. Manning has made
,acon and ham, curing and making
hem very successfully. Ii is neces-
AIRY to remove the bone from the ham,
out tbs does not affect the meat. Yau
vill imagine how much comfort some
ming of that kind gives us, for we dc
| lot by bacon here, ii costing
IS IS cents to 81 90 per pound
| shen imported. What Mrs. Man
ing has made Is as nice as
rave ever eaten. Oar cows have been
giving us any quantity of milk. and
se have good butter aud plenty OF
| ream. We have made some cheese
out not this year. Mr.. Weiman is now
goirg to make me press, aud we viii
try our hand at cheese again.
| Our garden has been a veritable
| lettuce, young onions (although onion:
will not ripen here) radishes, cabb ,ge
and pine apples We cared for, and some
stri e beans, a few messes of aspara
gus, celery, horse-radish, carrots
beats, etc., aud have gathered few
| handfuls of red raspberr,es this year.
| Next year | hope we will have a goot
crop of these latter. Q ieq1izq ley, i
native substitute for pota-o, il
a good bearer, and we hav,
quite a good many of these. w,
also have quite good start of swee
potatoes, starting from one potato
brought from the states last year. and
We have had sweet potatoes few
times. They are doing well, and in
creasing greatly. Have nov squa She.
coming on, having planted about /,
q .artar of an acre-all could this yea,
viii have tomatoes by the opening oil
! b. dry season. From our cabbag,
We made la eask of sauer-kraut il
June, and we have had much comfor
from that, it giving US quite a chang,
from boiled cabbag Or salad.
/ I'VE have bananas, plantains anG
fruits of tn S character almost all tn,
trnavs rn1s yseaeasSsaa. ef the year tl6e
snd wild blackberries in th,
garden. and will see what success,
will have cultivating them
| picked few wild grapes along the
road the other day coming from town
and with peck bought of an Indian
woman, selling the peck at Is cents,
Mrs. Manning made nineteen cups oil
Jelly, which takes the place of currant
Jelly snd cranberry sauce and all such
things as you have.
We make our own vinegsr from
pineapples and 'dulee' (molasses)
Oar corn crop in the 'Rodeo' promises
very well, and is now beginning to
rIpen. | shall send tomorrow to pick
the hrst as we are now nearly out of
old corn.
This letter | have made almost
purely personal, but | intended it 80.
for thought it would prove Of interest
TO you and to our directors