,-&&.$??, ftri 14 THE' FTTTSBTJRG DISPATCH,- SUNDAY, SBEEBJMBEfi "'.81 1891i :i'2i i-""-' . -,. .ii SEEN IN NICARAGUA. Snap Shots Taken in the Country of Rubber and Hurricanes. A CHAT WITH THE GOVERNOR. The Indians Imagine Uncle Bam Would Be End to Their Eaco. PICTTJBES OP "CAPE GEACIAS 1 MAS $ fii, h , a init Ton THE EISrATOH. ,POU"the 14th day of April lastthreeAmer- icang, ona from New York City and two from Chicago, might h&Te been Been wend ing their way along the shore of the Car ibbean Sea, in Northeastern Honduras, Cen tral America, en ronte from the mouth of the beautiful Croach river to Cape Gratias, in Nicaragua, 30 miles away. The hard Eand of the seashore made a better path than the best sidewalk. One Indian pony to rido turn about and one to carry the haggage re duced the atigne of the trip to a minimum. On the morning of the second day, however, the broncho concluded that he could "go it alone," and alone he went for the remainder of the journey, as no one could long remain on him when he went through the wonderful evolutions known only to broncho acrobats The expression ot that beast's eyes might have been amusing had not his beholders be come too sore every way to be amused. After getting lost and sleeping on the sand one night the party arrived at the home of a Hr. Isaao Green, a "Welshman, for the last SO years in this country. He lives in an Indian settlement called Alaya, six miles above the mouth of theAVauks river, this river being the boundary between Hon duras and Nicaragua. "WithtrueEnglishhos pitality we were invited to rest in his two hammocks and await "coffee." This came in a few minutes, accompanied by cream, sugar, cakes and candy. Ifor weeks we had sot seen sugar or cream. Cakes and candy were indeed luxuries. Seated upon three soapboxes with the earth tion and with tha "freedom of the city" in ourpockets we sallied forth to see. We went first to the store of one Cobnrn, for more than 20 yean a resident. He looked the pictnre of health, although his face was as yellow as that of any Spaniard. His little box of a store, filled with the con glomeration of a country Pennsylvania store, is making him rich. .He deliberately adds 300 per cent profit to all goods sold, wo are told. An ordinary lantern costs f 2 60. Our lunches cost us 75 cents each, regular price SI 50. Canned meats were 50 cents and 75 cents. A bottle of New Orleans beer was valued at 40 cents. Duties are high at this point, and this cause may fur nish some excuse. For ten years Mr. Co burn enjoyed a .monopoly of the rubber business on the Wants river. Mr. Green is Boir getting rich out of the business. CORRUGATED IEOK ROOFS T78ZTX "We walked through the length and breadth of the town and found one school with 20 pupils in a small room listening to high-keyed instructions of their teacher. About 60 houses of small size, but bnilt American stvle, were passed and perhaps- 20 houses built Indian style, use jut. Green's, having polo sides and palm leaf or mpnkey tail leaf roofs, Were seen. Corru gated iron roofs from New York, painted red, seemed to be a favorite roofing. Wooden roofs and buildings unless painted and tarred do not endure the heat and in sects of the climate. Hence, adobe, brick and iron are used. The sights of the village are fonnd along the water front, where may be seen at all times many canoes, pit-pans, a few sail boats and yawls. Some of the canoes are of immense size and sometimes gaily painted, as well as otherwise ornamented. On this day we saw one very large canoe, hewn from a mammoth mahogany tree. It was manned by a dozen -fcr more Indians just down from the mountains with a load of rubber. This they find a ready market f6r, and return loadsd with the groceries, pro visions and dry-goods of English and Amer ican traders. TO THE HOUNDS' MUSIC Rides a Gay Cavalcade in the Famous Fox Chases of England. LUXURY OF THE HUNT BREAKFAST. The Idea of Sport Across the Sea Terr Dif ferent From Ours. PfiOSPECTB FOE THB CUSTOM HEBE WOULD COMPLAIN TO HABB1SOK, One Indian who snoke Enelish well in formed us that in a few weeks he would go to the President of the United States to in voke his aid in stopping the tyranny of the Government of Nicaragua which persisted in driving them from one place to another and in taxing them everything they pos sessed. He asked me the name of the Pres ident; how to get to him and how much it would cost "We endeavored to find some bananas, plantains, oranges or mangoes, but found the village entirely destitute owing to the hurricane. At 9" o'clock my two -companions retired at Mr. Green's. It is a .a A STOICAL HOME XW HOaUUKAS. for a fioor and a deal table to eat from we enjoyed the simple repast amazingly. Then there were actually knives and forks and spoons and dishes, things that we had also been without in the wilds of Honduras, where a real house has sever been seen by the natives c- anyone else. Through with "coffee" at last, we are invited to accom panv our host to the town of Cape Gracias a Dios, eight miles away. We consented and were soon on the way. A walk of a mile over the savanna, used by Mr. Green for his 400 head of cattle and 20 horses, brought ns to the side of the broad and fine rn er called variomly Wanks. Waux or Segovia. Here we saw several canoes, pit pans, boats something like canoes, but net so reliable, a number of Indians and two Spaniards in bathing. A sleepy alligator watched the bathers with lary indifference. A large canoe was shoved into the water and seats ot sticks wero fastened into it. We seated oursehes and the two strong In dians began their seven miles paddling trip. Wc koon shot across the river into an artifi cial canal three miles lone. How warm it was here! Not a breath of air was stirring at this point, though it should be under stood that the trade winds blow steadily every dav and make the temperature agree able at all places exposed to their sweep. The woods on both sides of this canal showed bare trees stripped of leaves and branches, the work of a hurricane last Au gust, the worst that had occurred in 20 j ears. Hermit crafcs, in hundreds, swarm in and out of holes on cither bank. No other signs of life appeared. The hurricane must have had an extremelv blighting ellect. VIEW OP THE LITTLE CTTT. At last we emerge from this stream into the broad and wind-swept lagoon. Five miles away on the southern shore we see 75 or 100 low buildings constituting the village of Gracias. At 11 o'clock we landed at the end of its dilapidated wharf. A Spaniard of true Costilian blood and grandiloquent in manner came to meet us. Had we Deen foreign potentates instead of three ordinary individuals in shirt sleeves we could not have been received more deierentiallv. Escorted by this officer, dressed in the style of a New York police captain and wearing a revolver in plain sight, we were mar ed very easy process simply doubling up in a warm hammock indoor, without coat or shoes. I preferred my ow broad ham mock and blanket, under a tree, notwith standing a Jew mosquitoes. I shall not forget that sight. Before getting to sleep, and at frequent intervals between naps I heard the most dolorons sounds that ever came from human lips. It is impassiblevto give any idea of them. The next morning even after sunrise for an hour or two the sounds continued inces santly. Our host informed me that it was the custom, of the Indians o mourn for a dead relative or friend ibr one year from 1 TUu of Caps Gratiot a Dial. the date of death. And this was done through two women, who select special nights and days for this duty. 3"or one Tear the spirit of the dead is supposed to hover around the living and to be capable of knowing whether or not his loss is prop erly lamented. THE CATTLE AXD THE RUBBER. Next day we went to look at Mr. Greens' cattle and horses, 400 and more in number. They are well attended by three or more herders mounted on swiit horses. The stock without an exception looked sleek .and fat In addition to the herding busi ness Mr. Green is engaged in the rubber in dustry. The trees and consequently the camp are about 75 miles up the Wauks river, where he stays most of his time. Indians cut the trees and bring the sap to camp, where it is allowed to congeal in holes dug in the ground. In the crude lump state, but sometimes in the sheet form, it is sent to New York and Liverpool. WALTON Fitch. Costumes of yicaragva. to the house of the Commadante (Governor) of the district On steamboat rockers in the large and airy office of this representa tive of the Nicaraguan Government we were welcomed and told to await the pleasure of the Commadante. This official soon ap peared and bade us in Spanish to be seated. Youthful in appearance, smooth faced and pleasing in countenance, dressed richly and -comfortably in American style, he seemed much at ea6e, especially with himself. Through an Englishman, who has lived here 38 years, and who acted as interpreter, we learned from his majesty that he, in the same of the creat Nicaraguan Government protested against the right of Honduras to grant a concession of land to a certain New York company, inasmuch as the land in question had from time immemorial be longed to this country. COERCED BY THE POLICE. Our New York member was requested to bear this news to the said New York com pany, nnd as the whole force of "this Gracias district consisting of eicht policemen.Were in the room armed and dressed in gorgeous uniforms, our New York member concluded not to be "sasy," and meekly agreed to do so, adding that he considered Nicaragua a great country, and her government far ahead of that of Honduras. Our interview ended with expressions of mutual admiro- Ti-tuiee, Eto. The largest stock of trusses, shoulder braces, etc., in the city. J. W. Thompson has charge of the fitting department, 609 Penn avenue, near Ninth street, Pittsburg, Pa. Open Saturday even ings. A Suggestion. There is no surer investment to capital ists or those having surplus moneys than to build houses and stores at Kensington, the new manufacturing, and residence city on the A. V. K. B., 18 miles from Pittsburg. Ten large manufactories are now located which will employ 2,500 men. Houses and storerooms are in "demand, either to rent or sell. ISO houses are now built and 100 more in course of construction. Examine the new city and its promising future. Free tickets furnished at our office, No. 9G Fourth avenue, Pittsburg. Excursion "to Wheeling. To the West "Virginia State Eoir the Bal timore and Ohio .Kailroad will sell excur sion tickets from September 7 to 11 inclu sive, good to return uutU September 12, at half rates. Pilsner Suits Customers. , That's why all first-class saloons seU this celebrated beer. It's a healthy drink. Telephone for it to the Iron City Brewing Company. Telephone 1186. Stoke and office furniture to order. Hatjgh & Keenait, 36 Water street . su Bargains In Second-Hand Pianos and Or gans 137 Federal St, Allegheny. We have a large stock of good instru ments which we have taken in exchange for the favorite Everett pianos. We need the room they occupy and will give you a bar gain. Come early and get first choice, os we are going to sell them regardless of C05t ttsu Alex Boss. wain mi ron th dispatch. .Fashion is at her best when she makes men and women love horses, dogs, boating, swimming and all out of door games when she preaches physical culture. It is a Rood thing to Bee a man play lawii tennis under a hot sun for hours; you feel that that man could storm a battery. Nothing is morp encouraging to the lover of all physical culture than the hunting, shooting, boating and driving mania in the United States. Hunting and shooting are sometimes used as synonymous terms in America. In En gland they mean quite different things. Hunting is "riding to hounds" without firearms, letting the dogs kill poor puss, as the fox is called; while shooting is to tramp over field, mountain and through forest, gun in hand, to kill deer, grouse or part ridge, accompanied by dogs. The 12th of August is the momentous day, the first of the grouse shooting. Everyone who can af ford it, or has a friend who can afford it, is off for the moors on the 11th to fill his hag. The first of September (partridce) and the first of October (pheasant shooting) are gala days, and the man who cannot handle a gun is little thought of. Even in August inveterate fox hunters meet at 4 or 5 o,' clock in the morning for cub hunting, which amusement is all over by 11 or 12. A "WINTER "WATERTJTO PLACE. As the winter comes on the real hunting begins, and lasts until late in March. In the midland counties this is a special fea ture. Melton, in Leicestershire, is a noted hunting rendezvous. People (many Ameri cans) take "boxes" there for the season, with large stables, and beguile the evenings with dinners, dancing ana card parties. It is a sort of winter watering place without any water, where the wine flows in streams everv niuht. and where the brandv flask is (ClIed every morning "in case of accidents," while out with the hounds. An enthusiast in riding can be in the saddle 10 or 12 hours out of every day, except Sunday, which is a dull day at "Melton. Once or twice during the season a hunt ing breakfast is given in the house where the meet takes place. This is a pretty scene. All sorts of neat broughams, dog carts, ana oia lamny cnariots onng tne ladies, who wear as much, scarlet as good taste will allow. Ladies with their chil dren come to these breakfasts, which are sumptuous affairs. Great rounds of cold beef, game patties and salads are spread out Ail sorts of drinks, from beer to ohampagne, and various "cups" are offered. One of the ladies of the house sits at. tne head of the table, with a large antique silver urn before her-, and with tea and coffee ready for those who wish thgse beverages. Some girls come on horseback, and look very pretty in -their habits. XKDOOB AND OUTDOOR FEAST, These Dianas dismount and cut slices of beef, and make impromptu sandwiches for their friends outside, who have not; dis mounted. The daughters of the house stand on the steps, while liveried servants hand around cake and wine, and others carry foaming tankards of ale gad liberal slices of cheese among the farmers and attendants of the kennel. The hounds are gathered in a group, the huntsman standing in the center cracking a whip, and calling each hound by his same. Two or three masters ef neighboring packs are "talking to the master of the hounds. He is one of the prominent gentlemen of the county who holds foxhunting as something sacred, and the killing of a fox otherwise than in a legitimate manner as one of the seven deadly sins. Twelve o'clock strikes, and everyone be- fins to stir. Generally the hunt is off at 11, ut in honor of this breakfast a delay has been allowed. The huntsman mounts his horse and blows his horn: thff hounds gather around him, and the whole field starts out They are going to draw the covers at some large plantation above the park. The "earths" meaning the fox holes have been stopped for miles around, so that the fox onee started has no refuge to make for and is compelled to give the horses a run. LIKE ALL ENGLISH SPOBTS. It is a mean, cowardly sport, and no fair play about it But it is a pretty sight The heunds go first, and, their noses to tho ground, search for the scent The hunters and whippers-in, professional sportsmen, in scarlet coats and velvet jockey caps, ride immediately next to them, followed by the field. In a little while a confusion of rumors and cries is heard in the wood, -various calls are blown on the horn, and the frequent cracking of whips, which sound is used to keep the hounds in order, has all the effect of a succession of pistol shots. "Hark! the fox has broken cover," and a repepted cry of "Tally Hoi" bursts from the wood. Away go the hounds, full cry, and what sportsmen call "their music," something between a bay and yelp, is indeed a pleas ant sound, heard as it always is under cir cumstances calculated to give it a romantlo character. A fox has so "tail" and no "feet" in hunting parlance, he has only a "brush" and "pads." The person who. is "in at the death" receives the "brush" and "pads." The hunt iff a privileged body in England, and can make gaps in Hedges and break down walls with impunity. The farmer never complains. The poor creature who has made such a desperate run for his life must be killed at any cost THE FATOSITE KT XKGLAlnX Shooting is, however, the favorite sport 65 all Englishmen. Both pheasants and partridges are first carefully reared, the eggs generally purchased in large quanti ties, hatched by hens, and tbe birds fed through the summer with meal and other appropriate food. The gamekeepers take the greatest pride in the rearing of these birds. The pheasant is to the Englishman what the ibis was to the Egyptian. He is petted, worshiped and killed, a sacred bird. They are let loose in the woods only when nearly full grown. When the "covers are full," and a good bag is to be expected, the 1st of October is a retmlar feast dav. a larrre party is asked, and a variety of costumes mates me scene picturesque, uentlemen dress, in red or purple stockings, knicker bockers of stout cloth or velveteen, a shoot ing jacket of rough, heavy material and stout shoes. Such is the costume. The ladies collect after breakfast !to see the party start Sout, a rendezvous is agreed upon, and luncheon, or tea brings them to gether at either 2 or 5 o'clock, under a shel tering hedge on the side of a wood. The materials of on ample meal are brought to the appointed place, and a gay picmo en sues. THE STTLBDr AMERICA. When we consider that hunting is the "fashion" which Americans are trying to foUow in a country without foxes, and with no preserves of game, we must concede that the system of American fox-hunting must be the result of considerable hard study. The "fox" is an aniseseed bag, and the stone walls, the posts of fences 4 feet 0 inches high, make a fearful difference. In .England there ore no fences; and ogam we have no parks filled with fallow deer. So we are at a uicaavautage. We can imagine, however, that in the Elk ridge hunt of Maryland, and in the park of Austin Wadsworth, Esq., at Genesco, there might be genuine sport But at the Bock away, at Cedarhurst, the" Meadow Brook at Westbury, the Westchester of White Plains, the Essex at Orange, the Richmond coqnty hunt at AVhite Plains, the pleasure must be in the breakfasts, the meets, the day in the open air, the company, the pretty girls, that game which pursues the hunter, as Balzac says, these must be the attractions rather than the fox, because there is no fox. They generally have an anisesead bag or they may have a dragsman, who imitates the motions of a fox with saturated pads fastened to the soles of his boots. Still, as an addition to the art of entertaining it is a very great beon, and a ''hunt breakfast" at the Westchester hunting club is as pretty a sight as possible. . MAY BECOMB AH TXBTM.TX1TIQX, In America the sport began In Virginia in the last century, and no doubt in our great West and South it will some day become as recognized an institution as in England. We nave room enough for it, too mncn per haps. Shooting should become, from the Adirondacks to the Mississippi, a recog nized sport, as it was once a necessity. If American gentlemen can only fix on five months of the year which they can devote to sport, as the Englishmen do, it may rival tnat o: ureal Britain, unfortunately, American gentlemen are bringing down other kinds of game in 12 months of the year. We cannot help thinking, however, that shooting a buck in the Adirondacks is a more manly sport tnan snooting one In England. No one who has ever had the privilege of .doing it vyIU forget his first dnve through the delights of an English park The herds of fallow deer that haunt the ferny glades beneath the old oaks and beeches are kept both for show and for the table, for park fed venison is a more delicious morsel than the flesh of the Scotch red deer that runs wild on the moor. White, brown and mottled, with branching antlers which serve admirably for offensive and defensive weapons, the deer Browse in groups the does and fawns generally keeping apart from the more lordly bucks. The park keeper knows them all, and when one is shot the hides, hoofs and antlers become his perquisites. ""WHAT NOBILm CALLS SPORT. The method of shooting a buck is, how- warmed and cooked before tha guest to in sure perfection. THE POLISH IDEA OP BPORt, -A. Polish officer of distinction has sent me the folio wine account of hunting In his province: "We do not hunt the fox as In England. He is shot when met in a drive, or worried out of his subterranean castle by a special breed of dogs, the Dachshund, or Texel, or if young cubs re suspected to he in the hole the exits as far as known are closed, a shaft sunk to the center, and the whole brood extinguished in one way or the other. We ride to hounds after hare, and the speed of a fox bunt is nothing when compared with a cruise of the hare, for the greyhound, used for the latter, can beat any fox bonnd in racing." The old-fashioned way to kill the wild boar is to let him run on you, then kneel on one knee, holding a huntingknife or cut lass, doume-eagea, ane noar, inturiatea dt the dogs, rushes at you. If well directed, the knife enters his breast and heart; if it does not; then look out This is what is called '"pig-sticking" in India. It is sport very different from that X have described. M. E. W. Sherwood. ever, this: The keeper's assistant drives the herd in a certain direction previously agreed upon. The sight is a very pretty one. The keeper stations himself, rifle in hand, in the fork of some convenient tree along the route. He takes aim at the intended vic tim, and at the ominous report the scared herd scampers away faster than ever, leav ing their comrade to the knives of the keep er, it is very mucn use going out to snoot a cow. There is occasionally a bit of venerie and an attempt to renew the scenes of Kobtn Hood and Sherwood forest, and the hounds are let out, but it is a anam after all, as they are trained not to till the deer. The stag in this instance is given a certain start, be ing carried bound in a cart to a certain point, whence he is released and the chase commences. Thus the same stag may be Hunted a number ot times ana be none the worse for it, which is not tho way they do it in the Adirondacks. American venison is higher flavored meat than English, and should ba only partly roasted before the fire, then cut in slices half raw. placed before each guest on a chafing dish with jelly and gravy, and J TEE MISSISSIPPI IK SAD SHAPB. Shoals in the Upper Blver Have Caused the Stoppage of Packet Boats. St. Paul, Sept 8, There is a great com motion among shippers by way of the Mis sissippi river to St Louis and other noints over the discontinuance of the running of all steamers to St Paul. Charles H. Petscb, General manager of the St Louis, St Paul and Minneapolis Packet Company, spoke bitterly against the handling of the reser voirs and dams at Pokegama, on the Upper Mississippi, which resulted in low water. When the appropriations were obtained from Congress he had understood they were to be making improvements in interest of navigation. All owners of river boats, however, had discovered that they were operated entirely in the interest of lumber men at Little Ealls, Minneapolis, Winona and La Crosse. As long as tne lumbermen controlled the water, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois and Iowa shippers along the Mis sissippi must suffer. At the office of the Government engi neers here it was claimed that there was as much water in the river between St Paul and Winona as a year ago, but that the trouble was further south; near Dubuque, Burlington, Bock Island and Davenport, It wn-s said that the shoals had been crow ing worse and worse for two years, and that navigation among them hod been extremely difficult The boats only run as far north as Davenport, la. Cotton Crop Beported Damaged. Florence, Ala., Sept C The effect of cool weather 'on the cotton crop is be ginning td be noticed now and the prospect for a good crop is more gloomy at present more than at any during the year. The August crop is shedding its squares and young bolls rapidly, whion in addition to the mat which has made it during the past week, promises to be some what disastrous to the crop. It is estimated that the crop will be 20 per cent less than it was thought to be one week ago. The damage Is general in this section, not one favorable report having been received from any point in this or adjoining counties. Employers ZJke the Chinese. Ottawa, Ont., Sept. 5. In the House of Commons to-day, on the item of $32,000 forthe administration of the 'Chinese immi gration act coming up, Hon. Mr. Bowell said that the American Government was sow in communication with the Imperial Government, asking that more restrictive legislation be passed in the Dominion in regard to the admission of Chinese. He said that in British Columbia the labor party were opposed to the immigration of Chinese more than they have ever been in the past On the other hand, with the' em ployers of labor the Mongolians are becom ing more popular. ,tsEWjx7JxnsE3aBri8. i .llV'' ' t T -T.' SCROFULA eczema, tetter, boils, ulcers, sores, rheumatism, and catarrh, cured by taking AYER'S Sarsaparilla it purifies, vitalizes, invigorates, and enriches the blood. Has. Cured Others will cure you. TQ YourBaking O lO Powder Pure f It may masquerade as " absolutely pure ; " pernaps yon' think it is ; but you may know whether it is adul terated with ammonia or not if you TCSf it k one kcapfes teaspoonful of baking-powder with one spoonful of water in a tin cup; boil thoroughly for a few moments, stir to prevent burning, and if ammonia is present you.can smell it in the rising steam. As" baking powder, when thrown into water, will effervesce, do .not mistake bubbling for boiling. There is no-ammonia, no alum, no adulteration whatever in Cleveland's baking powdery and in the laboratory and in the kitchen Cleveland's Baking Powder Stands an Tests. pnzL EXPOSITION VISITORS We are -the people that quote the . lowest prices on Furniture and Carpets. See our stand at the Exposition and you will want to see our mammoth stores. ABTIST AND PHOTOGEAPHBB, 18 STTTTT RTRUCT Cabinets, (3 to U per doeB; petites, $1 per I ozen. Telephone 173L aB8-7S-xwa H PICKERING, i COR. TENTH ST. AND PEUN AVE. 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