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THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE 



SICILIAN CART 



Arthur H. Warner 



Pictures are painted on all vehicles and the horse wears a variety of charms to ward off the 



"Evil Eye." (See also page 1078) 



Puglia, but south of Naples the vast 

 army of the contadihi is as yet untouched 

 by new thought — or indeed any thought — 

 on industrial questions. 



Better conditions in Italy still appear 

 somewhat remote, and in the meantime 

 the outflow of laborers, once started, will 

 continue. Those who have elected to 

 believe that the portion of this which 

 comes to America is "the scum of Eu- 

 rope" will doubtless hold to that view in 

 spite of anything which persons who 



have learned to know the Italian peasant, 

 either in this country or his own, may 

 say to the contrary. 



But it may be well to recall that the 

 same arguments that are used against the 

 Slavic and Italian arrivals of this day 

 were urged with equal vehemence against 

 the Teutonic and Celtic immigration 

 when it had its beginnings fifty years 

 ago. As events have already disproved 

 these fears in one instance, so in time 

 they may in the other. 



NOTES ON TURBULENT NICARAGUA 



THERE is no spot of equal area 

 upon the globe in which so much 

 human blood has been wasted in 

 civil war or so much wanton destruction 

 committed. Nature has blessed it with 

 wonderful resources, and a few years of 

 peace and industry would make the coun- 

 try prosperous beyond comparison ; but 

 so much attention has been paid to poli- 

 tics that little is left for anything else. 



Scarcely a year has passed without a rev- 

 olution, and during its sixty-five years of 

 independence the Republic has known 

 more than five times as many rulers as it 

 had during the three centuries it was 

 under the dominion of Spain. It was 

 seldom a question of principle or policy 

 that brought the inhabitants to war, but 

 usually the intrigue of some ambitious 

 man. It is a land of volcanic disturb- 



