The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-04-17

nave found Warmers Safe Cure of high
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TEN to perform its duties. and whenever
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and full Of pains, I advise them to try
Warmers Safe Cure, feeling assured that
they will be satisfied with the result
Miss Buffum's experience can be yours.
VIII you not also enjoy it?
with Nicaragua Sin the year ONE but no
one treats it seriously. FREDERICK Mora
is the only difficult question before US,
and his career is so well known that he
cannot stir up a seriously difficulty.
Mora, it will be remembered, is the
noted counterfeiter who served two years
in Sing Sing after endeavoring to shin
bogus bills from the United States to
Costa Rica. His idea was at the time to
food the country people of Costa RIGA
with false money in the hope that he
might, in their extreme ignorance, blame
the government. Then he would avail
himself CT their discontinue and organ
ize revolutionary movement, placing
himself at the head of the republic Some
of these bills were sent to accomplices
in Costa Rica and We're presented to the
bank for redemption. The director of the
bank, who is a Costa Rican, clevecIv re-
deemed the notes. although they were at
once recognized as spurious. He then adj
vised the government, and steps were
taken to discover the counterfeiters.
Encouraged by the ease with which the
first bills were passed, a larger number
was forwarded through the aid of a
beautiful young woman from Pittsburg
She had in her luggage a large sofa, the
lining Of which was filled with bills. The
sofa was seized in the custom house of
Port Limon, but the woman made her
way to San Jose before she was finally
exiled from Costa Rica. AS she arrived
in Limon on her return to board the
steamer for the States, she found a squad
Of police awaiting her. She simu' ated
great embarrassment, but sympathetic
American who had been on the train
with her from San Jose, offered to car
~ her bag not understanding the cir
cumstances. She graciOusly assented d
and while she was taken to the govern
ment house and her luggage searched, the
eCliLiNAle1li ullS kICNItAlSlS CSt4 ilttl q BS5
Of counterfeit bills through the custom
house. The woman went unpunished ex-
cept for exile from Costa Rica, and Mora,
since his release from Sing Sing, has
been posing in Nicaragua as a political
martyr and is operating with other po-
litical exiles to stir up the indictments
Of Costa Rica-
There has. in fact. been but one seri-
Gus revolution in the country for a period
Of thirty years. Costa Rica is little
troubled by political disorder, as there
seems to be but one political party, which
is subdivided into factions simply advo-
eating different men for power and place
Alighting from the street car like
coaches that bore US over the narrow
gauge railway from Limon, We 'immedi-
ately discovered San Jose to be under
martial law. About 300 soldiers. well
drilled but poorly uniformed, were
marching I'D the main street to the oris-
on ike barracks. a false rumor to the
effect that Nora was planning an :nva-
sioT. was the occasion of the pcecaUtion
but martial law in San Jose. as rue,
7 have since discovered, means eur little
ceedng. and all business goes on unln-
terrupted
The standing army is composed cf
Costa Ricans exclusively and Differed by
them. The uniforms are made of blue
denim, with stripes of red cotton stuff
down the trousers. Most of the men are
without shoes or stockings. aud alto
gather the army is not much sought az
ter. 1t is even said that the most OF the
volunteers are sent in to San Josa by
neighboring governors. bound hand and
foot, with some such expression as
Herewith find 50 many eager volun-
teers."
\ man from almost any country may
hear his native language spoken IN san
Jose. although the same Spanish pa,ois
We heard in Limon is the familiar ad-
dress
The streets are paved with cobble stones
and brick. and are beautifully clean.
There is a general atmosphere OF COM
fort and elaboration. Here. too. one
/ sees the quaint OK carts. but there Is also
an occasional carriage Of ancient make.
/ and some good horses. There is rot a
/ carriage building concern in Costa Rica,
and only few Of the Weather families
! possess modern eQuinaSes.
( The one fcrbidding feature IS tia grsa,
number Of turkey buzzards which latest
/ the streets. or spread their bat-like wings
and osrch on the gallery outside ones
/ window. waiting I-1e so many uldarlak-
( e-s Tor some one TO die
I AT i o'clock every one breakfasts. The
/ shops are closer and the streets deserted.
4 Fruits. meats and sweets, with plenty OF
wine, are we'll served in successive
| courses by the agile poems.
Immediately after dinner. which IS
| served az 5. all San Jose ccasregates in
| the plaza q park in the center Of town,
u attend the band concert given nightly.
/ The music. chosen from the French and
! Italian. Is extremely good. and il is q
relief after the ''rag-time" and popular
/ airs one hears in public az home The
members Of the band are al Costa
/ Ric2ns.
There are probably no more beautiful
women IN the world than those ore sees
! in san jose In the plaza OF an evening
! is the place 70 see them as they seldom