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The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1901-05-04

is said to have contained a million in
The city as such was wiped
out Of existence by the usual meth
DDS Of the Spaniards in the new world,
but the name was applied to the coun-
try about, and is retained by it at the
present day. Nature in lavishing her
,favors on this land left little for the
heart of man to desire. Though the
country lies in the tropics, almost any
climate desired may be found. 1t is
simply a matter of climbing the noun
tains to the proper altitude above the
sea level to find either a perpetual
summer, spring or autumn. There
where nature forestalls every neces-
sity, the primeval curse Of labor is a
barely perceptible burden. Fruits grow
in reckless profusion. Cattle breed
and multiply upon the fertile plains,
furnishing meat and the material for
the clothing, which become a mere
matter of -conventionality rather than
a necessity.
What the Country Is Like.
One might search far and find no
other country about which there is less
reliable information than about Mica
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1901-05-04

the dry season, January to May, is
sere and yellow. Yet it is this western
part Of the country that is the more
thicklv populated.
%Journeying westward from the At
lantic coast, the traveller crosses first
the fiat lands covered with great for
ests of tropical jungle. This land is
characterized by the black alluvial soil
which covers it at a great depth.
Gradually the land rises, and rocks and
gravel crop out Of the loan. Settle
ments are rare and human habitations
are far between, though the fertility
Of the land is SO great when once
cleared Of its stupendous growth, that
corn planted with a sharpened stick,
grows luxuriantly, and no cultivation
with either pillow or hoe is required.
This territory extending from the San
Juan river to Cape Honduras on the
north, has long been known as the
Mosquito country or kingdom. Its
sparse inhabitants constitute a tribe Of
queer brown Indians, who paint their
faces red to scare the devil, and in
dulge in a number of other more or
less curious customs and ceremonies.
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In the pride of its bustling, hurry
ing progress this country has been
wont to look upon Central America
as a congeries Of unimportant, insig-
nificant Latin-American states, chiefly
devoted to the cultivation of wars and
revolutions and scarcely worthy of a
great nations consideration. With the
increasing probability of the great ship
canal. which is to connect the Allan
tic and Pacific, one of these hitherto
insignificant states becomes of the
greatest significance, and the eyes Of
America are turned to one of the most
beautiful and easeful countries in the
world; a region where life is so joy
ously worth living that its earliest
civilized discoveries, finding a barbar-
ism more soft and generous and APP
pealing than their own civilization,
called the Nicaragua of the inhabi-
tants, "Mahomet's paradise"
Nicaragua was the name OF the great
aboriginal city, which occupied the
site of the present city of Rivas, and
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1901-05-04

ragua. It is as large as New England.
with q population less than that of
Boston. which being said. completes
the sum Of statistical knowledge. There
are no reliable statistics. No trust.
worthy census has ever been taken,
and none Of any kind for many years.
A decade ago the population was es-
timated at 100000. Recently it has
been put at half that number, a. popu-
lation Of easy-going, careless human
ity, regardless Of today as Of tomor-
row, for they know that tomorrow will
be as today and today Is but a copy
Of yesterday.
The general conhguration Of the
country has been compared to ones
right hand opened with the palm up
ward and the thumb close to the side.
On the side Of the thumb you will have
the Atlantic; on the other the Pacific
ocean, while IN the hollow Of the hand
you will hold the great lake. The ,ir-
regular lines q tho junction Of the
,N.iGt called ~ the palnnists the life
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1901-05-04

But they are harmless people. under
chiefs who make their own laws as
occasion requires.
Method Of Dispsnsing Justice.
When one Of their number has trans
crossed a council is held around their
tribal fire. the gravity of the crime dis
cussed and the penalty which the guilty
one must pay decided. Usually q. fine
Is fixed. Being notified Of the amount,
the culprit without demur seeks pas
sage tn some port where, finding en-
ployment. he remains till he has accu-
nuiated sufficient to pay the fine,
whereupon he returns to his people
with joy and thus rehabilitates him
self. AS the chief means Of conveyance
among these people is BY their narrow
dugouts, which they paddle up and.
down the numerous streams intersect-
Ing their interminable forests, they
make admirable canoemenl and are Gag
serly employed - such ct Belize, Brit
ish Honduras. BY the mahogany cut
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1901-05-04
HOW CHINESE CURE PEANUTS

They Are an American Product, but
Receive Oriental Treatment.
The trans-American railways have
their agents in all parts. of the world
commercial agents, industrial agents,
tourist agents, livestock agents, car
service agents and oriental agents, as
we'll as the regular assortment and va
riety of freight and passenger agents.
The oriental agent Of the Great North
ern railway in this city is Mr.. Moy
Wu-yen, a highly interesting China
man who carries in his pockets a hand
full of cheese peanuts with which, from
time to time, he regales his friends.
In the midst Of business he suddenly
conceals his hand beneath his blouse
and asks, 'tWill you try q Chinese pea
nut?" The hand, soft as that of q gen.
tie maiden, reappears with the nuts
and you are tempted; says the New
York Press. You yield with pleasure.
accepting one. It resembles the native
'goober," which ex-Gov. Campbell
failed to corner, but is the most de-
licious morsel in, the nut shape that you
ever tasted. Mr.. Moy laughingly tells
you, when you ask where more nuts
can be had, that they are not Chinese
peanuts at all, but the familiar old
Virginia "goober" prepared inSthe Chi
nese fashion. I'VE take the raw nut =,
he explains. "ahd dry It perfectly in
the sun, leaving 1t many days on the
house top. Then. we soak It n salt
~water-brine, you call it---for three
days, after which we again dry thor
oughly. This may take.a week. Then
we put It In an oven in g pan OF very
hot sand and continually stir until It is
cooked we'll done. That 10 all. Nothing
could be more simple. The peanuts
the Italians roast In their sheet-irou
cylinders! No ChinamlapnL wonldsssnech
one! We say Chinese peanuts sto halys
.fun with. our friends. There ars no
Chiness peanuts.s
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1901-05-04
PATENTS.

List of Patents Issued Last Week
to Northwestern I~nvent0rs.
Henry and B. B. Bienhoff, st. Paul,
Minn., vehicle; Alonzo c. Caldwell, st.
Paul. Mimi, removable denture; Fred
A. Eastman, Litchfleld, MIMI, we'll
boring apparatus: Peter Grelson,
Worthington, MIMI, wrench; Benja-
min Keeney, Watertown, s. D.. boiler
washout device; A. Macy, Harding, s.
D., cheese press; H. E. Mcconnell,
Montrose, 8. D., STRENGTHENING stove;
Hans Skreberg, Big Bend, MIMI, YER
tically-movable harness hanger.
Lothrop & Johnson. patent attorneys, oil
& 912 Pioneer Press Bldg. st. Paul. MINI.
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tiers, whose traffic is up the rapidly
flowing Belize river.
A few clumsy looking "bungoes"
cross the lake and one American-built
steamer, the Victoria, which carries
passengers to and from Granada. It is
here that the aspect Of the Landscape
changes and the great chain of mount
aims forming the backbone of the two
American continents finds its lowest
depression. The great forests of the
eastern coast have disappeared
and fertile table lands, luxuriant
groves and grass-covered prairies or
s~avannahs with rising mountain peaks,
deep ravines and roaring torrents char
a~cterize the scenery as the traveller
journeys onward. And it is here that
the sparse population Of the country
is chiefly concentrated. They are broad
ly separated into two distinct classes,
the Ladino and the Indian. Ladino is
a general term meaning the upper or
better class, and is applied alike to
all white natives, creoles and mesti-
zoes, whatever their origin. The pure
blood Indians form the most despised
class. The dark-skinned Ladino will
readily account for his dark complex
ion by claiming negro origin, while
he will sturdily deny that Indian blood
flows in his veins, so deep set is the
stigma which was cast upon the abor>
igines by the early c%onquerors.
The West Coast Indians.
The Indians Of the interior and west
coast differ from those Of the eastern
slope in their attributes as greatly as
do the varying aspects Of the country.
While the Mosquito and other tribes,
all more or less related, are a dark
brown, bu~shy-haired people, who have
made no progress in the arts Of civil
ization, those of the tablelands and the
western slope are a yellow. race, who,
at the time of the conquest possessed
a civilization closely allied to that of
the Aztecs. They are at the present day
an amiable, polite, Industrious and in
teresting people, though unprogres-
sive. Their industry is of the most
painstaking and in many instances I'M
thinking character. They do things be-
cause their forefathers did them and
consequently waste their time in slow
and antiquated methods.
The construction Of the canal will
draw thousands of foreigners to Nicar-
aqua and the effects Of this new and
heterogeneous element upon its pres
ent population is hard to anticipate.
There are vast fields awaiting owners
to develop them and indications Of
gold and silver mines to be discovered
and exploited. The immense forests of
the Mosquito, country, with all their
valuable timber and rubber, are as
yet unexplored and there are prairies
capable Of sustaining millions of cattle,
while on the higher elevations the cof-
fee tree grows in reckless p%rofusion.
In such a country, with its thousands
of square miles of ~undeveloped, Unin-
habited territory, it is not hard to inn
agine when the difficulties Of travel
are once removed, the influx of a busy,
striving population from the already
crowded centers of the old world.
which shall make of that region, so
richly favored by nature, a land of
blessing to its civilized inhabitants
Thomas R. Dawley, Jr.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1901-05-04

Large Doses.
Fortieth Friend (since breakfast.)-
By Jove, old fellow, you've got a fear
ful cold. What are you taking for it?
Sufferer (hoarsely.)-Advice.- New
York Weekly.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1901-05-04

A Cheaper Method.
Kicker-Jinks has been ordered to go
abroad to take the mud baths.
Bocker-Why don't he stay at home
and run for office?@Judge.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1901-05-04

We refund 1oc for every package Of
PUTNAM FADELESS DYES that fails
to give satisfaction. Monroe Drug Co.,
Unionville, Mo.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1901-05-04

Very Amusing.
wife-What's funny in that letter
you are reading?
Husband-It's from Bobson. He asks
If 1 don't want to pay him that SO that
I owe him.-Smart Set.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1901-05-04

Chance for thousands If you guess Can
ada's population. You may be the lucky
$1.20 may do It,
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1901-05-04

Three months subscription to the
Pioneer Press may win you q fortune.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1901-05-04

line, will represent the san Juan river
carrying of the water Of the lake to
the ocean. The area Of the country is
$500 square miles, sufficient to main
tain a population of a million people.
The great lake is a remarkable sheet
of water, 1875 miles long and from forty
miles to seventy-fve miles wide. From
the middle of the lake the shore line
on either side is invisible. There are
a number Of islands in the lake, in
Guiding the two VOLCANOES, Omepetec
and Mederia, which rise to an altitude
respectively Of $3.50 and 1900 feet.
North of this great lake there is an
other but smaller lake connected with
the former in times Of flood.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1901-05-04

All manner of extravagant expressions are possible when
q woman's nerves are overwrought.
The spasm at the top of the wind pipe or bronchial tubes,
"ball rising in the throat" violent beating Of the heart,
laughing and crying by turns, muscular spasms 0hrowing
rious arrangement Of the female organs.
Any female complaint may produce Mysteries, which
must be regarded as q symptom only. The cause, however,
yields quickly to Lydia E.. Pinkham's Vegetable Conn
pound, which acts at once upon the organ afflicted and the
nerve centers, dispelling e%fectually all those distressing
symptoms.
Mrs. Lewis Says: eel Feel Like a New Person,
Physically and r1entally."
"DEAR MRS. PnKHAM:1 wish to speak Q good word for Lydia H.
and suffered everything from nervouzness. severe he.daohe. and pain in
back and abdomen. had consulted different physicians, but decided to
try your medicine, and I soon found II was giving me much renef. I con-
and am gld to add one more testimonial to the value Of your remedy.
MRs. u. H. LEw1s. 216 Valentine Ave-, fremont, New York, n. Y.
Writing to Mrs. Pinkham is the quickest and surest way
to get the right advice about all female troubles. Her adj
dress is Lynn, Mass. She advises women free. Following
is an instance:
MS. "TIavsn's First Lst1sFsS mry:-
troubles Imfer every month at time Of mensauaNon, and dow 8 much
and for % long that become very weak, also get very dizzy. lam troubled
with . discharge before and after mensa, have pains in ovaries . bad some.
times that I can hardly get around. have sore feeling in lower part Of bowels,
pain in back, bearingdown feeling, q desire 70 pass urine frequently with
pains in passing it; have leucorThoa, headache, fMntng SPILLS M some.
times have hySeia. " blood is not in good condition Hoping to hear
Mrs. Haven's Second Letter.
"DEAR Ma. PnsKHAM ~ wish to express my gratitude for what your
P FsM9 %e hss fss, ssF 1 me; b, !, s9fs1 fs for ; f Sa t Issst oe%a T ss1d, t, 20 %3
work. Was obliged to sit or lie down the most Of the time I dootored fr
. long time. but obtained no relief. I began using your rsuedies-IYdis
and Es f 1i1sa p fa.. xsfe now Eel yG ike . a% 1 so91a .s@&ss. 1 E1a a4 az
25O8 South Ave-, Council Bluff, Iowa. Gel. !, 1907
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Foolish and obstinate people alone
suffer from neuralgia or rheumatism.
For they can always secure Wizard Oil
and cure themselves.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1901-05-04

Pile and Fistula Cure.
Sample treatment of our Red Cross Pile and
Fistula Cure and book explaining cause and cure
of Piles, sent free to any address for four cents In
stamps. Rea Bros. & Co., Minneapolis, MINI.
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Australia more meat than
any other country.
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. Hairs Cstarrh Cure
Is taken internally. Price, &c.
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Enrlands Army ana nav.

England's Army and Navy.
Il was recently stated that England's
defend herself from a sudden onslaught.
England is, in this instance. like the in
divtdual who allows disease to creep Into
his system through a stomach too weak
to properly digest the food taken into It.
To strengthen the stomach there is. Moth
ing better thar Hostetter's Stomach Bit
tiers. It cures dyspepsia, constipation, in
digestion, liver and kidney trouble, and
as q tonic. Is incompatible. +
cleanliness,
Waiter, this water is very dirty"
Il am vaire sorry, but We can not be
expect to wash re water, zare."-Tit-
Bits.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1901-05-04

What we need is more unwritten po-
ems and unsung songs.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1901-05-04

Don't drink too much water when cy.
cling. Adams Pepsin Tutti Fruit 10 an
excellent substitute.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1901-05-04

A pound Of phosphorus heads 1000, ooo
matches.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1901-05-04

MRS. windows soothing syrup.
For children teething. SCREENS the gums, reduces I'm
dammation. allays pain. cures Wind collie. $50 bottle
Poor singers and counterfeiters utter
bad :; o-s.aasgg, 4.-
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Through tho Great Forests.

Through tho Great Forests.
There is a remarkable difference in
the character of the country east and
west of the lakes. The mountain sides
and the plateaus of the eastern slope
are covered with perennial green, while
the country west of the lakes during
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1901-05-04

Pick it out and you may receive I've
thousand dollars.
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The Impolite Man.
my face is my fortune. SIR" she
said.
That's very plain" said he.-cleve-
iand Plain Dealer.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-06-08
Oil Versus
~ - Coal

Ex-Gov. Hogg of Texas, believes that
the discovery of oil in such bountiful
quantity in that commonwealth will
revolutionize the fuel question of the
whole world. He says that the manu-
facturers of this country and Europe
have not yet come to a sense of rea-
lization of what the wonderful oil dis
covery and development in the Beau
mont fields means to them. The prob
lem that now confronts the oil pro-
ducers of the new district is what shall
they do with the oil.
Seven gushers already in the Beau
mont field is a record which is adding
daily interest in the development in
the new oil region. 1t seems to be gen.
orally recognized that the great value
of the oil is its quality as a fuel,
placed by natured where it is capable
of doing he most good to the greatest
number at the least cost of production.
The special advantages which Beau
mont oil has over any other oil in the
world is in the fact that it can be pro-
duced and m.1keted at a minimum
cost. Being produced within eighteen
miles of a seaport, it can lie piped
into tank steamers at a cost SO small
as to be almost incalculable, and it
can be delivered at the seaports of the
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-06-08
Tn. Stat. Tina. Make. History.

Kansas inhabitants are among the
most active, tolerant and versatile OF
the globe. They give fads and hobbies
of all kinds at hospital receptions
Maine has had prohibition in one shape
and another for fifty years, but Kan
sas' brief experience with it has at
tracted far more attention from the
country than it won, in the half a cen
fury in which it has been in operation
in the parent state. Just now, through
that law, Kansas is contributing to
the gayety of nations The entire
gamut of the human emotions-trag-
edy, melodrama, burlesque, farce-has
been swept by the events in which
Kansas has participated. Across the
pages of the story of Kansas in the
past forty-five years have passed as
striking and picturesque characters
John Brown, Jim Lane, the guerilla
Quantrell; John J. ingalls,, Mrs. Lease
Jerry Simpson, William A. PETER, Car
RE Nation, Gen. Funston-as have fig
ured anywhere in the novels of Du-
mas. Balzac and Dickens.-Leslie' e
Weekly.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-06-08

Sahib Bahia knew the story of the
Pyramids as he knew the story of ia
cob's well and of the Sphynx and
even of the great desert So he told
the folklore as it has been told to him
by his grandmother through her face
veil, as he watched the waters digging
at the great dixie that ran across the
valley to the stretches of yellow sand
beyond. Sahib Bahia told it again, sit
ting on the stones of an ancient ruin
in the evening as the mezzuin chants
droned out from the towers of the
temples.
Many, many years ago." said the
Sahib, even before this city was
built and he swung his hand over
Cairo with its walls of marble and it's
strange people in this land, and they
were the slaves of the Egyptians.
$50 it came that king and master
died. He was loved by his people
more than any king who had gone be-
fore, and even mourned by the slaves,
to whom he was good and kind. And
there was no place fitted for the burial
Of such great man. A queen came to
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-06-08
INDIAN RELICS ARE BOGUS.


Dsutherners Doing = Profitable Busfnesa
In Their Manufacture.
There is an organized system of i'm
position in Indian relics. Very few of
those found in the cities were ever
seen by redskins; they are made by
wholesale for purpose of deceiving the
credulous. One firm in North Caro-
lima does large business in this line.
The fraud they practice is almost inn
possible to detect so thoroughly have
they mastered the art Recently this
firm tried to palm of on Rev. J. H
Frazee, d. D., of Knoxville, Tenn.
who is a collector, some of their goods.
but without success. DIR. Frazee re-
ceived a letter from the firm which
mentioned that his name had been
recommended by a prominent physi-
clan of Knoxville as a person who
would likely wish to buy some relics.
They represented that they had been
kinds of relics and had disposed OF
some, but wished to go out of the BUSH
ness, and therefore would sell relics on
hand cheap. The letter said box of
samples would be sent, which was
done. DR.. Frazee examined the con-
tents of the box and finding nothing
that he did not already have returned
them Shortly afterward a man in the
west who had heard of DIR. F'razee az
a collector of Indian relics, wrote him.
asking that he might put him in the
way of getting some Tennessee relics.
DR.. Frazee, having given little atten-
ton to the specimens from North
Carolina, and not detecting the fraud,
recommended to his western friend
this firm as having represented that it
had some relics for sale. In a short
time the western man answered and
branded the North Carolina firm as
fragrant frauds. He had already fallen
into their trap He said the relics he
had secured from the bogus dealers of
North Carolina were difficult to detect
from the real. He had the relics in
vestigated by prominent collectors in
the west, who could not determine ac-
curately as to the fraud. The relics
were then sent to government ex-
perts, who said the whole collection
was bogus. The North Carolina trick
sters have probably done an extensive
business.-Chicago Chronicle.