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Omaha daily bee., 1907-04-28

SONS are doing more to improve the con-
dition of the natives and to make Nicara-
qua better place to live in than any
other single influence The church at Blue
fields is a beautiful structure, handsomely
furnished, and is worth something lik ,
$1,000. II was built entirely by the ma
tives, who gave their services free and
considered II a privilege TO work on IT,
AT the time of one Of the grea. fires the
church and church house. though in the
heart OF the burning district, and appar-
emily doomed were. singuarly enough, un.
touched by the fiames-a fact which the
people attribute to divine interposltion
Fire is the terror that walks by night to
the Nicaraguans.
1T Is commonly known that In case OF
revolution the government would burn the
towns rather than have them fall into the
hands Of the enemy. on the other hand
the Tevolutonists would cheerfully Apply
the torch II they thought that by so doing
they could advance their own cause. All
Nicaraguan merchants carry heavy insur-
ance on their stocks. but as 1t would be
OF no value in case they were destroyed
during revolution, 1t behooves the mer-
chants to preserve the peace.
THE country around Bluehelds is rich
in food products, ground provisions the
natives call them, and the Indians live
almost entirely from the soil. Breadfruit,
casava and yams are their staples. Their
meats are wild boar, monkey meat parrots
and sea COW.
Two great delicacies with the Indians
are wabul and mishla. The former is made
by beating together water, sugar and riue
bananas. 1t is altogether too insipid TO
please the American palate, but the In
dams can almost live on It. Mishla is
made by crushing plantains to a pulp and
adding hot milk
THE natives almost exist on turtle meat
and ovstars. and catch still more os them
for export The Blueheds river is full OF
turtle pens built Of rock in the middle Of
the stream so that the water flows through
them, but the turtles cannot escape. There
the turtles are confined until enough OF
them are caught to make a shipment.
Several attempts have been made to can
the turtle meat. but the experiment has
always failed The Nicaraguan oyster Is
very small but of good flavor.
There are four principal tribes OF In.
dians in Nicaragua. The Mosquitoes are
the aristocrats and glory In the recoleo-
ton OF their former power. They are very
proud, but deeply admire and closely imi-
tate the Americans.
The Rama Key Indians are the poorest
class. The live on the island Of the same
name and make a miserable living in
oyster fishing.
The st, Bias Indians are remarkable for
Omaha daily bee., 1907-04-28
Look at the Caravans.

Tho caravans which bring goods here
from the GASES are as clumsy a means OF
transportation as can be imagined Each
freight camel on long Journey carries
about 800 pounds, and the usual rate OF
travel is not more than two miles an hour.
Every dozen eamels has to have a driver,
and each caravan lie equipped with water
bottles Of pig skins ana provisions for the
people on the journey. The ordinary cara
van has only an hundred or so camels and
some from thirty TO sixty. while the larger
ones win have as many as 800 and several
hundred men 10 guard them. In the past
caravans OF a thousand or more camels
were not uncommon and there are some
such caravans now on their way from the
Soudan 20 TripOll.
Many OF these caravans stop for the
oamels 10 feed on the thorn bushes as they
go over the desert Others carry provisions
for a part Of the way. The routes are
always along the lines OF the Gases, as
camel can only go from three TO 1--WE days
without water. on a long journey the
beasts are kept from drinking for some
time before starting In order that they
may be thirsty and nj the great reservoirs
inside them FRANK @. CARPENTER.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-04-28

The Americans are there To make money
as qulcFley as possible and then leave.
There are. OF course. a sprinkling Of
those who never leave 81 their own volition.
They lind the Surroundings much more
agreeable than IN the United States and
they spend their time dlsposlng Of TIE funds
with which they always arrive amply sup
piled.
The Americans have lately found rivals
IN the Chinese. who. under government
approval II not patronage. have come to
the country In considerable numbers
There are now twenty Chinese stores IN
BiuCnclds and the competition is keen be-
tween them and the Americans.
Many persons declare that the American
residents are at .Es bottom Of many Of
,Ae Disturbances ir BluaHclds. IN AMER
can sock q 5fomla.u. and Gsa"ft- psrt
Omaha daily bee., 1907-04-28
Yn.t ned OF FertiIIzer.

The soil of the Sahara is not like that Of
any country where rain Is common. Indeed,
the lack of rain is one cause OF its great
fertility. Other lands are leached by the
water, and the brooks and streams carry a
great part OF their potash and other fer
tilizing matter out TO the sea. This is not
so here. The rocks may disintegrate more
slowly but the weathering goes on all the
same, There is no place where the changes
OF temperature are more sudden and
marked. The sun is red hot during the
day. but when It sets It becomes bitterly
cold and blankets are by no means uncom-
Portable. I always carry an overcoat in my
rides over the desert for find that need
It.
The changes are such that the rocks split
and crumble under them. The desert winds
are as strong as those Of the sea, and
when the sirocco blows the sand cuts
ones face. II dashes the sharp grains
against the rocks and grinds them down
without the action Of water. 50 that all the
rich fertilizlng materials lie where they fall.
The GASES will grow almost anything that
is grown in California. They have luscious
oranges, grapes. melons and olives, and also
apples peaches. pomgranates and pears. In
the northern Sahara they produce great
quantities Of wheat barley, millet and sor-
ghum, and IN the south tobacco and cotton.
I see eggplants onions, tomatoes and GU
cumbers for sale In the markets, together
with peas. beans, turnips and carrots, The
chief product however, Is dates.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-04-28
MIIIIons III DO PrI--r

The date palm thrives throuehout the sa-
hara II Il can only have water. It Is like
wheat in our country; the money crop OF
every oasis and the chief support OF the
people Indeed an oasis ia known, not by
the number OF its inhabitants but by the
number Of date. palms II contains, and It's
inhabitants are rich or poor according as
the dates produced are good or indifferent
II 10 the date crop that loads the cara
vans. and II Is the food OF the people. The
date Is, in fact the bread OF the desert; in
some places the people eat little else. and
dates are fed 10 the camels and even to
dogs Such dates are not like those We
nave in America They are a sort OF dry
date. which can be stored away and kept
for years. The dates sent 20 the United
states are Of a soft variety. 50 fun OF
juice that they are often drained before
they are packed. other dates might be
called table dates. They are delicious
when eaten fresh from the trees, We have
them now every day at our dinner and
served AZ breakfast with the eoffee and
rolls. They are a tat yellow date. as sweet
as sugar and as plump as a prune before
II Is pressed
Among the Gases fed by dried rivers those
OF Tuat produce about the best dates. al
Omaha daily bee., 1907-04-28

ance. At the last
election there were
three candidates. Oas
was Jose. another.
Santos. the thi ~
Zelaya. These are
the names OF the
president. but the
people were easily
made to think that
they were individual
candidates aspiring 20
the presidency
I'm some places
Jose was dcridcd and
Santos praised In
others Zellya vas
called a trr2rt, whge
Jose or Stntos ~sa
laudel. Sometimes
Omaha daily bee., 1907-04-28
An Old Time Pine

A Massachusetts, man, moved by a Nam
tucket ship captains boast that he had
smoked one and the same pipe for twenty
two years declares that he has still in reg
ular use a meerschRum pipe which he has
used steadily for forty-six years, or since
August 1861, carrying it through the war
till he was mustered out in July, 1896.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-04-28
Grent Morocco oasis.

About the best dates known to the world
come from Tablet, situated west Of here in
Morocco They are very large and sweet
and they are shipped in great quantities TO
Europe as It'd bits for the holiday season.
Tablet, like Tuat, comprises a number OF
separate GASES, having altogether 800 fotti-
fed villages. It's chief town Is Abuam,
which has the largest market OF the west
ern Sahara It Is a great caravan center
and It sends two immense caravans every
year to Timbuktu, which lies almost 1000
miles directly south Of 1t. In the past
there was considerable trade between Ia
flet and Figuig, the dates coming there
and then going on to the north, but this
has now been diverted to Benz Ounif and
Colomb Bechar 10 take advantage Of the
cheaper railroad rates.
The people Of Tablet are independent and
warlike: they are fanuucal Mohammedans
and they are now causing no end OF trouble
70 the sultan Of Morocco. The governor OF
the oasis is said 70 be preaching a holy
war and TO be organising raids to cross
over into Algeria and assault the French.
The Alegrian papers are full OF the
schemes OF these war preparations and
the troops here are preparing to give them
a hot reception. A caravan was attacked
by Tablet brigands a few days ago ana an
Invasion seems imminent Sooner or later
the French win have to take possession OF
Taflet or the powers Of Europe Will have
TO control Its people. II has with It's sur
roundings population OF more than 1000.
oc and tic people are about the worst in
Morocco. The family OF the sultan comes
from that region and the Tshletitss have a
great influence over all parts OF Morocco.
The GASES there are due to several causes
] understand they have both springs and
wells and that the southern portions OF the
country arr watered by undergo und rivers,
fed by the inner slopes Of the Atlas.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-04-28
Continued from Page Three

The ground is carpeted with grass and
there are wild flowers of many kinds.
The Arabs know of these regions and they
go there with their fiocks OF sheep and
goats to pasture, coming away when the
grass disappears.
On my way to Tarla l rode through
patches OF thorn bushes scattered at wide
distances apart. Such vegetation is found
all along this part OF the Sousfane, the
moisture not being sufficient for anything
else There was a drove OF camels feeding
on the thorn bushes as 1 rode by and I
stopped and made photographs Of them.
Nearer the dry river bed where the mois-
ture was greater were thick punches OF
alta grass and other desert plants and
flowers, and then came the region of date
trees. The palms were Of all sizes. Some
were just sprouting and others were as
high as my head Others were so tall that
their Arab owner had to climb them to
cut on the punches Of dates. which always
grow at the top.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-04-28
SzUEF7EZ5s RdES6E

1.-THE nreign residents m the country EN-
ploy governesses or tutors for their chill
dren. These are usually English from ia
maica. Most Of the servants come, too,
from Jamaica or the adjacent Islands. The
Omaha daily bee., 1907-04-28
RaIIroaas Aeain.t cararan..

This town OF Colomb- Bechar is at the end
Of the railroad, and caravans from al this
part o. the Sahara bring their goods here
20 BE- shipped north, 1 understand that the
railrpad Is paying and that nothwithstand-
ing IL was built as a military necessity.
About three years ago a plan was proposed
10 push the line on to Timbuktu, a dis
Omaha daily bee., 1907-04-28

Jose was acclaimed the friend of the
poor man, and again it was Santos
AS a result the poor people voted for
Zelaya when they supposed they were
voting in opposition to him.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-04-28
American Woman Tells of Life Bueeld and Its Revouonist

m Jew YORK. April 27.-The first
N refugees, vanguard Of the exodus
that always accompanies a Cen
fEn trail American revolution, no be-
- ginning TO stragglc IN. Several
OF them reached New York lac. ,,eek.
having come by way Of New orleans from
Bluehelds. central point l- the contro-
Versy between Nicaragua and Honduras
and the home OF Jose Santos Zellya, presI-
dent Of the former state and wouldbe die
tator Of all Central America.
We have had exciting times" said Mrs
j. g. Pomcrantz, an American woman vino
mas lived for fifteen years in Ncorlrua.
But Bluehclds is used 20 hlvin- thing.
happen, and IL IS n dull day when someone
is not Matching o revolution or some prorpi-
teni citizen hccing the COUNTRY
suca7'fs = 2" temotclY situated that
The Colorado statesman., 1907-05-11
COMES TO LIFE.

Fort Worth. Texas, May s.
Word was received here to day that
John Armstrong, a Negro, was
legally hanged, officially pronounc-
ed dead and turned over to his rel
atives for final disposition of the
body, but revived after he came
into the family's hand and is alive.
A novel situation exists. Arm
strong is officially dead although
living. and it is declared by attor-
neys that the state is now power
less to enforce the original verdict
of death.
Reports say the relatives are
trying to keep the fate of the con-
demned man secret lest the au-
thorities should again seize him
and execute the mandate of the
law.
If the general Interpretation of
The Colorado statesman., 1907-05-11
new YORK LETTER

We are in receipt of letter
from Rev. j. E. Ford which was
! written in New York on April 29th
1t reads as follows:-l arrived here
safe and sound Saturday evening
and found the COLORADO STATES
MAN. 1t was awful good to get
news from Home" Denver nev-
er seems so fair as when one is
away from her and the COLORADO
STATESMAN never seems so inter-
esting as when read at distance.
/ spoke at four different New York
churches last Sunday and was lis
tened to with rapt attention, even
applauded. 1t is strange that a
rough shod Westerner should be
received and appreciated SO grac-
iously in the cultured, dignified
and magnified East Tut perhaps it
was not SO much my message as
the novelty of the thing.
| am glad to see the COLORADO
STATESMAN keeping up its high
standard of race journalism, in
comparison with Eastern papers it
takes no mean place. May Colo
radians ever push to the front.
/ sail Saturday morning direct
for Naples Italy. The North Ger
man Lloyd steamship Barbarossa
is now lying at Anchor at the Ho-
boken docks, she looks splendid
craft capable of weathering the
great deep.
shall again write you from
abroad and would be glad to have
you mail me few copies of your
paper at the above SO that | may
read Colorado news Immediately
upon landing again on terra
firma.
Remember my regards to your
Colorado readers and say to them
to keep busy for the Negro is ''sure
waking up both here in New
York and elsewhere. With con-
tinued best wishes for all friends
in Colorado, am,
Yours westernly,
JOHN E. FORD.
The Colorado statesman., 1907-05-11
GET BUSY.

EDITOR COLORADO STATESMAN:
DEAR SIR:-Will you allow me
space enough in your valuable pa
per to ask of the progressive peo-
pie just a few questions of interest
to our race?
First. Are we not overlooking
a golden opportunity by allowing
all other nations and classes to CO.
operate for the purpose of settling
the barren land SO easily accessi-
BILE to us while we stand aside do
ing nothing in that direction?
Second. Are we not neglecting
duty to ourselves as citizens not
to assist in cultivating the barren
and waste lands of the state as well
as a duty to the race by not pro-
The Colorado statesman., 1907-05-11

viding a plan for the betterment of
conditions and for the employment
of our idle labor?
Third. Do you not think the
time is ripe for some of our repre-
sentative men to look into a propo-
sition to secure few sections of
land near Denver for the purpose
of organizing a company for dis
trict and townsite settlement mot
as an emigration or colonization
scheme, but purely as business
transaction for the the benefit of
both promoter and occupant?
Everyday we read in the papers
of vast tracts of dry land being
purchased by syndicates for the
purpose of forming settlements.
Why not we too? Our salvation
is in the earth and the sooner those
of us who are adapted to the work
get at it with pick and shovel, the
sooner our worth as progressive
people will be recognized
To promote proposition of this
nature requires men of executive
ability-men who have the interest
of the race fully at heart-men
who are free from selfish motives,
but who realize that in helping
others they help themselves. There
are such men in this state, and 1
hope this important matter will be
considered by them.
Respectfully,
O. T. JACKSON,
Boulder, Colo,
The Colorado statesman., 1907-05-11
NO. 33

sang 'Songe du Poete," by Far
rari, the Prayer from "La Tosca,"
and "Pleurez, mes Yeux," from
lie Cid" while Mr.. John F.
Bryne contributed "Bedonin Love
Song" and another selection. The
accompanist was Mr.. Charles Fred
eric Morse. 1t should be noted
that all the names on the pro-
gramme are those of Americans.
The Colorado statesman., 1907-05-11

gard it. except from that of the
Naval display So rare an aggre-
CATION of the fighting craft of the
world assembled in Hampton
Roads for this event, to the num-
ber of three score or more, was a
treat seldom offered and must re-
main treasured memory to those
so fortunate as to witness the
same.
Aside from this, there comes a
general complaint of want of prep
aration in all of the many details
which go to make up the general
success of the affair and seeming
lack of adequate management and
appreciation of so large an under
taking seem to be everywhere man
ifest.
The event celebrated on the
James river is nothing less than
the three hundredth anniversary
Of the adoption Of a country by a
prosecuted people now grown great
and prosperous.
1t does seem too sad that its in
auguration should be clouded by
all the attendant ills and discom-
forts which must follow upon its
unpreparedness.
1t is said the Negro building
was not then rooted. but of course
it would not have appeared seemly
had this adjunct of the Fair been
more nearly complete than all
others.
The principal features of the
opening ceremonies was necessari-
Iy the address of the President
which was filled with historical al
lusions that could not fail to fire
the pride and stimulate the allie
glance of all true Americans.
Among the hundreds of promi-
nent citizens and distinguished for
eigners having a position of prom
inence at the exercises, were two
representatives from the Negro
Department of the Exhibition,
Mrs Curtis and Mrs. Hughes, bnt
the personal presentment of these
ladies is so decidedly fair. that lit
tie suggestion of the real Negro,
whose progress it is intended to
emphasize, could have been afford
ed by their presence
JOHN HI. PAINTER.
The Colorado statesman., 1907-05-11

South M'Alister, 1. T.. May g.
Six men alleged to be the leaders
of the mob that lynched a Negro
at Sterrett OH March 81 were ar
rested at Durant and Sterrett, /.
T., to-day by the United States
marshal, brought to this city and
held for the grand jury without
bail The prisoners are John
Williams, o H. Perkins and j. H.
Newman of Durant, and Thomas
Lawrence, Dutch" Turley and
james Hudson of Sterrett. Per
kins and Newman, who are promi-
nent business men, are under the.
guard of deputies at hotel, and
the other prisoners are in Jail.
The Negro, James Williams.
who was lynched at Sterrett, had
been arrested on charge of as
saulting Rose Misner, 14-year-
old girl, near Colbert. The mob
took possession of train at Col
bert, went to Sterrett, where depu-
ty marshals were waiting to traps
fer their prisoner to Durant, over
powered the officers and hanged
the Negro TO an oil derrick.
The Colorado statesman., 1907-05-11
RACE NEWS
Gathered from variou. Sourc...

Senator Tillman declared, in his
lecture in Springfield on Monday,
shat the Negro cannot be educat-
ed and lifted up. You can't make
a white man of Negro by send
ing him to college, Nor can you
make Booker Washington out
of a white blockhead by sending
him to college. Will Senator Till
man examine the records and pre-
sent work and standing of the
graduates of the Tuskegee Insti-
tute, for example, and give an
honest opinion as to whether or
not they have been ''lifted up?'
Boston Herald.
The Colorado statesman., 1907-05-11

the law is adhered to they need
have no fear. The execution took
place at Columbus, Texas, Friday,
April 10, the man having been
convicted of wife murder.
The Colorado statesman., 1907-05-11
AMERICANS IN PARIS.

The European edition of the
New York Herald of April Goth
published in Paris, France. con.
tains quite a write-up of a recep-
ton rendered to Americas newly
appointed Ambassador to France.
Many Americans were present and
among the number was Mrs. E.
Azalia Hackley, formerly of this
city. In part it says:
Americans especially, and Pari-
sian Anglo Saxondom in general,
gathered in very great numbers
yesterday afternoon at Holy Trini-
ty Lodge, A rue Pierre Nicole, on
the occasion of a reception to meet
Mr.. Henry White, the newly-ap-
pointed American Ambassador to
France. 1t was matter of gen.
eral regret that Mrs. White was
prevented from being present.
This was to all intents and pur-
poses, the first opportunity given
to the Ambassadors compatriots
to make his acquaintance since
his arrival in Paris, and full adj
vantage was taken thereof
4 n
No small part of the success of
the reception is to be attributed TO
the musical programme, the con-
tributors to which elicitated hearty
applause. Nine. Marguerite Sylvia,
of the Opera Comique, sang For
This" by de Koven, and the Hab-
anera from Carmen" accompani-
ed by M. j. earlier, also of the
Opera Comique. Mrs. E. Azalia
Hackley rendered "Spring," by
Henschel. and the Polonaise from
.'Mignon." Miss Jean Brooks
The Colorado statesman., 1907-05-11

Washington, April o. There
will be no strike in the office of
auditor for the navy department
because a Negro has been appoint
ed to that position nor will appli-
cations by dissatisfied clerks for
transfers to jobs in other govern
ment bureaus be favorably consid-
cred by the administration. The
word has been passed down the
line that if the clerks in that office
do not like the complexion of
Ralph Taylor, of Columbus. Ohio,
when he comes on to Washington
on June 1st to succeed Colonel w.
w. Brown of Pennsylvania as chief
of this important bureau, their
designations will be accepted.
The Colorado statesman., 1907-05-11
WashingtonD.C.

Han Army Officers Americas Guests.--Dr Lamb on the
Diseases of Races--NegrOes Misrepresented in
Conference with the President--The
Exposition Opening.
The Colorado statesman., 1907-05-11

DR.. d. S. Lamb an eminent sur
geon and medical instructor, with
an exceptionally large experience
in professional practice, has placed
himself on record as decidedly op,
posing the hitherto generally ac-
cepted theory, that Negroes are
more susceptible to disease than
the white race.
The occasion for the expression
of this opinion which is particular
ly gratifying and reassuring too,
after so much of positive assertion
of an opposite character, was the
recent meeting of the Anthropolo-
gical Society in the rooms of the
Cosmos club, this city.
DR.. Lambs address was very
much in the nature of sensation,
but his position was sustained by
facts and figures, principally gath
cred at first hand through personal
contact and investigation, and SO,
must be accepted as worthy of the
largest possible credence.
The large Negro death rate was
explained to be due to fatalistic
tendencies of the race (Which is
really, the reliance upon herds and
various species of bark as medicine)
and the quite general practice OF
delay in calling in physician un-
till the last moment.