SIDELIGHTS ON CASTRO Keen Foresight of the Venezuelan President. BTUDY OT STRATEGY HIS HOBBY.

l olonfl Com.nl For Vemo■orlm mi Phllmdelpklm, Bor* HU Ck«rt Hmm Shown Mnrh ■kill In Stmtruummrhlp and CommorolnlUm. Whnl Hr Horn Done For HU CoonColond J. L DUie Barcenaa. consul tor Veuoiui-la at PhlladelpUla, who lias written an article on bis country nutl Its revolutions In the December £n», itruer!tfes In an Interesting tuanilier the elm met eristic attributes of Clprlano Castro, the president of Venezuela. who Is now a prominent figure In International questions. He sal's: The revolution led by Castro against the inimical and civil Iniquity of Andrade's administration In 1SUS was the Mow of a . patriotic, fearless man ngainst a power that was draining the healthy Interests of the republic. Straight from the Venezuelan fronthr he fought his way. a thousand miles, to • the capital at Caracas. Out went Andrade. In went Castro. It aU happened In a el agio night. Around Valencia, were scattered the rebel forces of Manuel Uemandt*. who had been a CandidateToc_thl!j?I£Sidency. Hernandez. swearing vengeancc'on^1*1* successful opponent excited the pdopip to revolt shy flamboyant speeches against Andrade, who, be said, was selected by fraud. Joaquin Crespo, who cams Into prominence during the rebellion In 1892. was sent against him with 2JOO men. Confident of victory, he met the rebel force of 500 men at Carmel eras. At the first wild fire Crespo fell forward on his face, killed by a bullet In - hls breast Hundreds who had ridiculed Hernandez now applauded. His army Increased fivefold. Crespo, as dictator, had a hold on the republic that worried the people. They rejoiced at his end. But Hernandez's military fume faded In a day when Unman Guerra, Andrade's minister of •war. crushed his rebellion In a single battle, captured him and put him In prison. Some of the routed forces Joined Castro, and Andrade fled In dismay. Assuming full power. Castro, with a - quick, unmistakable, masterly grip on the tangled reins of government began to reform the country's crippled system. One of his first acts was to release Hcruundez from prison and ele-

and the new minister acquiesced In the government's policy. Bnt be had a nagging ambition to become the country's (Chief executive. Suddenly be deported from Caracas, taking 1.500 of the men who had helped Castro to power. Experience. -he felt had added sufficiently ' to his skill to enable him to overwhelm J his quondam chief with comparative General Castro smiled. Schooled to one of the country's military academies. ho had made strategy his hobby. Hernandez fought hard for five months, dashing out from the hills End striking at Castro's forces, then dodging back where Tt was dangerous to follow him. But Castro planned better than Hernandez fought. The rebel was at last taken by surprise, captured and for the second time'lsnded to prison. • in statesmanship and commercialism Castro has shown much skill Confidence, keen foresight and an Iron self

leal eye on General Matos. Instigator and leader of the new rebellion. Matos has that dogged determlnatloa which Impresses men. As minister of finance be had gained prestige. As a losing candidate for the presidency against Taul to 1890 he attained notoriety. He 1m a general by courtesy. His wealth arid en Imposing appearance attracted sycophants without number and swayed the opinion of many mobs, ^e lacked the one thing he most desired; Executive power. He resolved to get It no matter how. and be made charges of fraod against the government to general. His knowledge of'toe financial system, he declared, enabled him to learn fiat officials were looting the

his wealth he took ss'a tribute to hit personality. The chastening rod of criticism had never been openly administered to him. Ilf became the republics spoiled boy. In Caracas bis palace, mouth, noted for Its architectural magnlfl- six mot

e of endless fesdvl-

ccncc. waa the i

ties. Under the giant palms, to his gar- - den/Mates met his sympathisers and sowtd seeds of sedition! His ambition

burned He would dra’ bfppy Venezuela np to him. . /He owned real estate to the value of <*3.000,000. bnt be bad little ready mooley. not nearly enough to carry on a revolution. He aat talking it over with 'sothe followers on the veranda one

'.night.

-m get the cash.” he exclaimed. Jonyilng up, with his fists clinched, i The words were repeated throughout jthe town, hut tb* government waa too 'anxious for a period of productive |peace to pay serlogs attention to him. ! One month later be waa.to Francs J mortgaging Ids property. He bought and armed a 1.000 too steamship. It Liberator and loaded It with Kwly purchased .guns and ammunition. With this floating arsenal be boldly art out to arm. Wa f ~ ‘ ' Castro.

transfer of the cargo to the state Ooro outoe west coast of VenesueU, he raatbed Vela de Coro, a small town on the coast, by night Five hundred men had been saermblcd outside of the town, under General Rivera, I,. Mendoa. A. Fernandes and other leaders of the discontented. The march to the dty of Ooro began. It was a mob to motley that tramped

but few whites. The rattle of a drum, the tramp of feet have a fascination for these people. Their Ideas of rebellion are as romantic and as practical as a schoolboy's notion of Indian fight-

ward ehoplln—they rush from their labors and fall Into line. Brilliant to uniform, rigid and pompous. Genera! Matos rode along, the ragged crew of rebels tagging at hla tM-cla. Id wonder at first the peaceful whites stared. Then a laugh went up over the country. Its pestering echo followed him and would not die out It Is a day's Journey by steamboat around the peninsula to the, dty of Cora It took Matos' army a week to walk. They would not be hurried, and they viewed the undertaking to •he light of a rebellion to be Introduced by a picnic. Fruit was plentiful. and cuttle were numerous. They stole the fruit and to the name of the revolutionary leaders they demanded the cattle. None but foolish men refused. for those who denied the request usually lost more than was asked. Barbecues and rtgadoona were common along the line of march. But their Indolence could not be taken as an todltfadoo of tbelr fighting capacity. Many were draperate, careless of life as they were of other people's property, and never contented under any administration. Arriving to Coro with 4JXX) men. Matos was dismayed. Castro had anticipated him. A-fle^t of right men-of-war. under command of Culmenarea, blockaded the port. Equipped with American guns, the vessels stood ready to blow the rebel army out of existence. United States gunboats were patrolling the coast. Word reached Matos that Castro, with an army of 8.000 men. was marching out of Caracas, equipped with Mausers and American field piece*. General Sarria and Castro’s brother, Cocillo Castro, were In command. Matos kept sway from the coast line and betook himself to the adjoining state of Barcelona, where be Instructed hla followers to the use of the new weapons and to the manual of anna. This revolt of Matos Is. typical of the way to which the majority of our revolutions have bid their Inception. In almost every case the results have been disastrous. Ruthless ambitions and political Intrigues are the country’s history. Jealousy and relentless enmity have played an Important part to arresting Its progress. Into tbs latest struggle Matos brought wealth, pride of ancestry and some experience. He staked them all—and his liberty and Ufe as well—on the result. Castro brought his military training and experience, his personal power and the great Influence of hla position. PRESIDENT HILL'S VIEWS. “Too Mack Spccalation low or Too Mack Boom." “The business of the country Is undergoing a readjustment to meet changed conditions,'' say< JnnSrs J. HUL president of the Great Northern railroad. "The most alarming thing la the decrease to our exports. We are Importing much more than we export This la not due to a larger borne consumption: It is because our articles cost too much. “Our people demand better things than do those of other countries, and our production has been overtaking the needs of the country too rapidly. The things we manufacture cost more than other nations will pay, end they buy elsewhere. Agricultural products, provisions and such thing* sell resdCy everywhere and are staple the world over. They are not affected by local conditions. I do not look for the production of articles of a cheaper kind to meet the demands of the export trade. I don't know what will be done. It la hoped that some adjustment will be made to meet the conditions. •There is too much speculation now or too much Jxxxn. Just bow tt will come out ! do not know."

The Rc!u Mcvccdcs «• Be Be«t*eSOrdora have been Issued by the navy department for the fitting out of the farmer Spanish warship, the Brins Mercedes, as a training ship, says a Washington dispatch to the New York Tribune. The vessel to now at Portaand tt to estimated that at least nths will be required to fit her out In the war with Spain the Belna

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sunk outride the Merrlmac, but did not block the channel. After, the surrender of the city she remained In the channel for severs] months and waa finally raised and towod to this country. Ow r tog to the loss of the Maria Thereat while on the way north she to the only remaining ship of the Spanish fleet at Santiago and posse—es historic value. She to rated as a protected cruiser.

Three American quick lunch bars are ibortly to be opened to London, accordng to the New York Herald. Already

and the Strand have bam excited by the announcement that thirty kinds of pie will be served dally, besides other ardetos of food, plain and fancy. The Lara will be run without waiter*, the customers helping tfiemseir— tog for what they wt .

NEW STORY OF CANNON How the Table* Were Turned on 'Unde Joe." VICTIM OF A QUICK WITTEE OLEBI

Wkes Ha Called For “Twe Form." Candidate For Speaker Had kmt a ■ lekel and Waa Forced Ca Bervaw Twenty Cants te Fnr Far the Treat. Since the withdrawal of all the candidates to the field against Congressman Joe Cannon of IltlnaU for the speakership of the house of representative*, assuring the election of the "old man."<aa be to affectionately styled by hla political associates, bis friends have been busy telling yarns illustrating the Idiosyncrasies of the next speaker and predicting that there will "be something doing” when be t&kee up the speaker’s gavri. One of the beet stories told of Cannon, a hitherto unpublished ooc. was related the other night to a BL Louis Republic reporter by a well known newspaper man to Washington. “It was to the latter part of 1900, about the month of September. I think," said be reminiscently, "that Mr. George C. Hooch, now local manager of the Associated I’ree# at Bt. Louts, drifted Into the Grand Pacific hotel, at Chicago, ooe morning during one of the monthly political powwows which were held at that hostelry. He ran aero— Hiram D. Fargo, Wo'htogtno eomwpondent of the Chicago Evening Post, and the two ncwsiinpcr men spent an hour chatting with the politicians gathered to the lobby. “They had not been there long before they found Congre—men Cannon. Hopkins and Lortmer engaged to a quiet conversation to a nook apart from the crowd. Fargo and Hencb seised the opportunity to quiz Cannon on current political top lea. but he waa as uncommunicative as usual, and after a few minutes the little group moved aero— the room with Congresaman Larimer, who was preparing to deport. "'Now, boys' —Id Cannon, there's nothing more to tell you. I've —Id all

tion to the two newspaper men to make their adieus, but they were not quick to accept It. Their little stroll brought them to the cigar stand. Lortmer said goodby and went out. Then Congressman Cannon, remarking that be totiered be would have a smoke, turned to Hopkins, who be well knew did not smoke, and Invited him to have a cigar. Hopkins, of coorsej declined. " ‘Then give me a good cigar.’ —id the old man. " 'What klndr Inquired the eterfc. " 'Well. 1 don't care. Just so lt*e a good ten center/ replied the congressman as be laid a ten cent, piece on the counter. He bit off the end of bis cigar, lighted tt and took a few puffs to a reflective manner. Then he turned to my friends and said, a* If it had occurred to him quite suddenly that they might desire to smoke: “ 'Well. I wont be hoggish shout this matter. I'll give you fellows a smoke, anyway. Clerk, give these fellows a good cigar.’ "By this time be presumed that be had aroused tbelr expectations to the highest pitch. Then be added, with just the suggestion of a smile. whkQ showed the keen delight be was taking to his little vengeance upon them for pressing him for news: “ Two fora will do for them. That’s good enough for newspaper"msp.’ "Probably his satisfaction would hare been complete, for they were too astonished and chagrined to —y anything. bnt for the fact that the clerk was more quick wltted than they and. besides, was ‘dead next* to the old man.' While that grim smile still twitched the corner* of Cannon’s mouth ths clerk dived Into a box of hla best two for a quarter and. giving the newspaper men the wink, passed the cigars over the counter to them:. They lost no time to biting off the ends of them and beginning to smoke them. Cannon threw out a nickel on the counter to a most ostentations manner, as If to heighten the Joke- Bnt the clerk, assuming an air of conciliation, said: H Twenty cento more, please f "Bench told ms that they had their revenge right then, for be never —w such a look of astonishment as Can-

with such an accent on the word *t ty* oa to convulse us with tougbti •Why. I told you to give those feltov two fora I’m smoking a ten center m self, but two fora are good enough f> them.’ ".‘I gav the clerk thought you meant" two for a of course.' The Joke waa on the congre—man already, but they did not realise for a moment bow good It waa Cannon began to:fumble first to one pocket and then to another for change. Finally be took out hto wallet and peered Into K to hopeful c faahlon. He was flat brofca The newspaper men —w hla predicament and offered to pay fot- the clgara. He' declined with a brusque ness that almost made them regret the whole affair. Then, turning to Congressman Hopkins, be said: " 'Hopkins, bav "Hopkins replied that be Cannon United out his appeal. " 'Well, lend me 90 canto to pay fer the— fine cigars tba— newspaper M are smoking. Boy*/ he added to theca. tea oc Da Be as easy on mo ■■ you —A.’" ^ •

GREAT WILE RESERVOIR. Advaat—r— te Be Derived Frees the As—■ Dee*. What would hare been one of the wonders of the world a century ago waa completed the other day when the great dam of the Nile at A—oust waa formally opened, says the New York Evening Poet lit Is not only one of the greatest engineering f—to of modern times but bids fair to be one of tne most beneficent public works undertaken by any modern government Completed a y—r before the coo tract time, the actual construction of this great reservoir has taken but little more than four y—ra. It makes navigation to Wady Haifa possible throughout the year by mean* of a canal around the cataract But Its main object Is to prevent lo— of the crops and a consequent fflptinc by storing sufficient water to supply the Irrigation canals even when the Nile flood fall* to bring down Its rich slit to the tillers of the soli. More than that the reservoir will make too crops a year po—Iblc. ooe to winter and one In summer, and this system of double crops Is counted on to make Egypt In time ooe of the richest countries of the world In proportion to Its area and population. No work that England baa done for the natives In any of Its foreign poesesaiona surpasses Its achievements In Egypt The excellence of Its administration to the Nila country Is Indeed the one Justification of Its failure to keep Its solemn pledge to evacuate the country. The dam is straight from end to and. and Its length is about a mile and a quarter. It* width at the top Is about 23 feet and at the deepest part 62 feet The height from the lowest part of the foundation to the top I* 181 feat The Interior masonry la rubble granite to four to ooe oemeot mortar. The Interior casing Is of square rock faced granite to two to four cement mortar. The fining of the sluices Is heavy granite asSlar or coat iron. The sluice* are dosed by steel gates, of wh!W> the greater number will work on trAe rollers suspended to frames. \_^ '

CITY OF PUERTO CABELLO.

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Bern barge ra Front Sew. The entrance to the Inside harbor at Puerto Cabcllo. to Venezuela, la through a narrow channel not more than a few hundred feet wide, says the New York Times. To the left of this channel aa one enters the harbor, situated on a low sand spit. Is the fortress which wag bombarded by the German and British crulaera it la an old fashioned structure, which waa rebuilt to the eighteenth century. Its sides are comparatively low and would offer only poor resistance to modern sheila It Is not probable that the Venezuelan government bad any modern cannoe

there.

The custom boo— at Puerto Cabello is situated oo the right, or mainland, aide of the channel. It to a long two story brick building and contain*, beside* executive office*, large warehouses Steamship* discharging at Puerto Cabello tie up Immediately ba front of the custom bouse. The towrf it—If to fiat and stretches from the water front inland to the base of the

hello is hardly more than a large bay. offering comparatively little protection to.shipping. The Inside harbor to very secure and quite commodloua Puerto Cabello aa a Venezuelan port to second to Importance to La Guayra. The trade of several interior province* centers there, and Puerto Cabello to the port of Val—cU. an Important town In the state of Caraboho. A railroad, to which British capital to large-

ENQINEER TOOTS A HYMN.

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Men have mastered the clarinet and tortured the trombone, fretted the fiute and murdered Jthe French born, but a Richmond man can play an sir

air. "There's With hla band on the throttle, as tbs engine swings into the darker** the engineer plays with the skOI of a trained m the op—tog bar of the old It to hto parting —tote to hto

Within a few months the postoffice dspartment will have ready for delivery a new tosoe of stamped envelopes radically differing to form from the present envelop—, —ys n Washington special to the New York Tribune. Four styles are to be made to sell for 1. 3. 4 and 6 cents- At present the stamp on the stamped envelope to elliptical to shape. It to Intended to make one of the new stomps .rectangular, another will be round, still another will be elliptical. and the other will probably be square. The full details have not yet

nor hare the deffigttol)

submitted. It to determined, bowel to have each of the new envelop— i Unct to appearance from the other*, eo

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From the report In the London Times of Emperor William's speech at Oar-

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LEE ON CUBAN TOPICS Weyter'B Officers, He Believes, Blew Up the Mslne. OFTEN MENACED BT AB8AB8IN8.

termer Oeoeal — Havau Hseelred Tweaty te Thirty Letter* • Dor Tttrettemleg Btee With All Ktm*m of Defffih* Hi* Story •« the Bee— *f Gee Orel Feaetoa te the Oehea Capital. •The United State* and Cuba" was the subject of an addre— that waa delivered by General Flte-Hugh Lee before the Paula dub of New York to the Hotel Savoy the other evening. Says the New York Tim— The general talked of Cub* from hto four years’ knowledge of the country—firet as coo-

stories of bis service# to Cubit and related how be —red General Funston from death there and helped carry him through a subterranean passage lead tog from hto office to the river front and then to a steamship bound for this dty. He—id to part: "Prior to the war with Spain, when I wo# consul general to Cuba, there were repeated attempt* to assassinate Wherever I went I had to alt with my beck to the wall and my hand on my •lx shooter. I received twenty and thirty letters a day to which I was threatened with all manner of deetha Some threatened to waylay and strangle me; other* to string me up to the nearest lamppost, and still others to tie me to a horse's tall and drag me around the streets of Havana. "Five Spanish women called at office one afternoon and handed n totter from some Spanish officers to which they threatened to come to t office, tie tne hand and foot, put i aboard the Maine and drive me out of the harbor. I received report* that > the Cuban* wanted to kill me beo they believed that by so doing war with the United State* would surely result "When some of these reports were current a man came Into my office one day with the purpose, as I thqpgbt of killing me. He moved towa^f me inch by Inch. an^Bust aa be came within reach I bad tom covered with my gun. I asked h!si what be wanted, and to my surprise he said to English: 'I have Just come from General Gomes's camp, suffering from a wound to the thigh. I want to leave Cuba. I want to go beck to the United State*.’ I asked him where he came from, and be said to the drawllcst kind of a way. 'From Kansas.' That man- waa General Frederick R. Funston. So you a— I had much to do with the later capture of Agulnalda" General Lee then related the Incident* that followed the blowing up of the battleship Maine and told of General Blanco's actiooa “I want to —y here and for all time," he continued, “that General Blanco and his officers had do more to do with the blowing up of tiup-Mklne than had the people of New York city. It to my belief that earns of the young officers left to the arsenal by General Weytor blew up the Maine. It was they. I am sure, who planted the mine that sent the Maine to its destruction. Tn view of our great buslue— enl prises throughout the world and i growing Industrie* we should Increase the navy to protect these Interest*. Who even supposes that this great country will fold Its arm* and allow European countries to posse— the trade of the seat do not give a proper consideration to the history'of nations fighting for trade. In view of recent event* we may be to deep water before we know It. perhaps Inside of a year. You knot what I,mean. I think it to beat under the Circumstances that we have the right kind of men at the bead of government"

Unhappy je^aterners desirous of getting dlvorc— aa easily and quietly aa possible are not the only appllcai be found to the court* of South Dakota. On the docket of the divorce court to Chamberlain. 8. D, there are six Indian caa— Eagle Roy. got a divorce from Pipe Eagle Boy because the Utter (who. to spite of the name, to a lady)

•baaed him. Moreover. "

that he waa her seventh husband, and she had aasurod him at the time of their marriage that he waa her first Burnt Prairie la another Indian who bak found relief for the —me can— The testimony to thto ca— showed that since he begap as a young man to get married he had gone through ttS eare-

tnony thirty-six times

One *t J, r, Movffna*s Aff—lrer*. J. P. Morgan has an ardent admirer

and a warm friend to the. Italian fruit peddler, confectionery dealer and cigar man who dispense* hla war— from a little niche at the side of the doorway to Mr. Morgan’s Wall street office, says the New York Evening World. The cu-

rious friendship between the 1

inultlmiiiblo Ital-.’’ a Every

tan protag* has tasted for y—ra morning when Mr. Morgan steps <tot of hla cab at hto-office door he wav— a ting to the Italian, who to never too busy selling chewing gum or candy to

Four opium smoking rooms are a remarkable f—tore oo the new steamship Siberia, that Baited from New York recently for Ban Francisco, lb* rooms are for Chin—e passenger* who can’t

All Millinery at Cost We offer you all sizes of Misses' Vests, worth 25c. for 17c, Lots of Ladies' Flannel Waists

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LACEMAKIHQ. ha 014 b—reoff T*l»« Telle •* the Uriel a of the Art. Lecemaking te by no mean* so old an Industry — most persona suppose. There is no proof that it existed frevtous to the fifteenth century, sod the oldest known painting to which It appears Is s portrait of a lady to the academy at Venice painted by Ca» paccio, who died about 1523. The legend concerning the origin of the art to aa follows: A young fisherman of the Adriatic waa betrothed to a young and beautiful girl of one of the tolea of the lagoon. Industrious as she was beautiful the girl made c new net for her lover, who took It with him 00 board hto boat The first time be coat It Into the era he dragged therefrom an exquisite petrified wrack gras*, which he hastened to present to hto fiancee. But. war breaking out. the fisherman was pro—id into the service of the Venetian

last gift to bir. But while absorbed In following the Intricate tracery of the wrack gran she began to twist and plait the threads weighted with small beads which hung around her net. Little by little she wrought aa imitation of the petrification, and thna waa created the bobbin lace.

The Thermometer la Siekaeoe, Currie of Edinburgh employed a thermometer to the treatment of typhoid fever patients with the cold douche as * early as 1797. He waa ridiculed by hto German contemporaries aa an Instance English medicine, ippllcation of the thermometer was made by Santorins of Padua. He invented a thermometer open at the end. After being held by the patient It was plunged Into cold water. Boer have taught the Importance of the thermometer. De Haro (1704-1776) must be given the honor of introducing the thermometer into current use at the bedside. It waa not until 1850 to 1870 that tt came Into

Has a »d HU Crttle. Victor Hugo once made a queer mistake to "Travallleur* de hyMer” when he mentioned the Firth bf Forth as the "Premier de Quati fused the word “firth"' English translator of the book was at the pains to point thto out to the great man to • letter, but Victor Hugo waa Indignant at the Impertinence and absolutely declined to have the mistake

worn by the farmers’ wive* white working to the fields during the rainy ■—•cm. The— extraordinary coverings are often aa much as seven feet long and five feet broad and protect the body as effectively as any umbrella could da

A certain London restaurant baa this remarkable sentence displayed In vari■ua porta of Its dining room: "Any .Incivility or Inattention on the port of any of the employe— of this seta bltohment will be considered ■ favor

Attorney—Ignorance of the law ewCllent—Except of coot— a lawyer.— Town and Country.

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