Excerpt from Honduras and the Perry Land Grant: A New Field for the Farmer, Stockman, Lumberman and Laborer

Thousands of temperate, frugal, law-abiding people, skilled in the arts neededfor the development of a country, have found, after years of exhausting toil and exposure to the sudden and extreme changes of an inclement climate, that they can at the best get but a bare subsistence in the North. Farmers see the interest of the mortgages on their farms increasing rapidly, to in time drive them from their homes despite their most earnest efforts. Those who have courage to calmly consider their situation see that their future offers little or no hope. Competition from the virgin fields of the West is too keen. Steam has made the farmer of the deep, rich land of Dakota and Kansas close neighbor of the man who grinds his life away on the barren soil of the East. Each short summer spent in the attempt to raise enou gh to support the fam ily through the long, stormy, and cold winter only adds to the burden the hopeless strugg'e has brought.

To such people, tired of pinching along year after year in dreary ai though respectable poverty, these pages will be of interest, for they offer sure, safe, and speedy relief. They will be of value to young men who have Wisdom to carefully look ahead, intelligence to see that life in the old and crowded fields affords little encouragement to legitimate ef fort, and courage and enterprise to seek new fields where competition is not sharp, and whee by a little toil and forethought they can quickly secure all the comforts and most of the luxuries of civilized life. To all such homes are offered in a country within easy reach, where the cli mate is more temperate and pleasanter than in the most favored spot in the United States, and where there is freedom from manyr if not from all of the diseases most dangerous to human comfort and life. There the days are not hot, dry, and dusty, and the nights cold; the summers are not blistering in their droughts and the Winters terrible in their blizzards: but the temperature ranges from sixty to ninety degrees.f throughout the entire year. Nearly everything that can be grown in the United States can be more easily and cheaply raised there, and many valuable crops can be produced there which can not be profitably cul tivated where frosts are known.

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