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The United States of Central America, a Probable
Power in the Politics of This Continent.
Now comes the United States of
Central America, a nation which has
arisen out of much revolution, It is
composed of Nicaragua, Salvador and
Honduras, which have at various
times done a little fighting together
and against each other, The seat of
government has just been moved from
Amapala, the temporary capital, to
Chinandega, in Nicaragua. A con¬
stitution, which is practically that of
our own country, has been adopted.
So the new nation, pocketed between
Guatemala and Costa Rica, two States
not particularly friendly to it, has be¬
gun its existence.
Enthusiasts have been singing of
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the blessings of a union of the five
States of Central America for many
years —ever since the federation made
iu 1823 was destroyed by strife aud
jealousies. Central American politics
is an intricate game. In view of his¬
tory there have been doubts ex¬
pressed as to tbe permanence of the
present union. Yet if the Nicaragua
Canal is built there maybe a develop¬
ment aud a building up of these Cen¬
tral American States which will give
their institutions stability.
There is no limit to the effects
which may follow the formation of
this new unification of the Latin re¬
publics. The three States which are
enclosed iu the middle of Central
America are keeping at arms’ length
two nations with whom their relations
Guatemala are eonstan^P the disturbed. There is
on north and Costa
Rica on the south. Between these
two republics stretch the mahogany
forests of Honduras, Salvador aud
Nicaragua. Salvador has had several
encounters with Guatemala, and
Nicaragua aud Costa Rica are not on
0.3 peeially good terms.
Theoretically, the five States are
supposed to have a community of in¬
terests; to . be a greater republic, the
members of which are bound together
by indissoluble lies. Revolution seems
inborn in the body politic of these
countries.
The wars and internal disorders
have undoubtedly interfered with the
prosperity aud progress of the repub¬
lics. While the United States of
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American was building railroads, re- j j
claiming the wilderness and improving
harbors, Central America was pursu-
ing the game cf revolution.
stability of government, the com-
pletiou of a ship canal, the exchange of
products with the United States, may
work .w onders in this land of change
and shift.
Here is the oldest community on the
American continent and yet the last to
take to itself a government which
gives some sign of being an abiding
one. ‘Years before Jamestown was
founded Spain had planted ber colonies
here and had ground the natives under
her heel. The ruins of once wealthy
aud influential cities still attest the
story of wealth and grandeur. Struc¬
tures over the roofs of which centuries
have passed remain to tell -of the civ¬
ilization which came to the land of re¬
publics aud revolutions.
It was on tins neck of land which
Columbus set foot wheu he first
reached this continent. That was in
1502. Twenty years passed by and ;
then the conqueror of Mexico—Her- {
nando Cortes—hearing stories of the !
fabulous weatth of the countries !
which lay below, started south with j
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He reached his destination after two
years of almost incredible hardshin.
He conquered •nquered Guatemala, Guatemala. The
natives were slaughtered by the tuoa-
sand. The conqueror or his iieu-
enauts possessed the land. Granada,
in Nicaragua, was founded and a
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sided over them, Those who have
followed the history of Spain know
how the proud old land ruled her
Central American possessions.
Then Mexico gained her freedom.
Then the Cenral American provinces
of Spain demanded independence, and
in 1821 they received it. The
Federal Union of Central America
was founded in 1832, and until the
close of 1839 it held the five States
together. The States withdrew one
by one.
With this period the name of
General Marazon will always be
associated. He was one of the founders
of the Union. Even after it had gone
to pieces ho tried to join together the
fragments—to get the blocks which
formed this puzzle of five into regular
order again. He was shot at San
Jose, in Costa Rica, in 1842, whither
he had gone to attempt a coup in the
interests of a united Central America.
Several efforts have been made since
that. Unrest was the leading trait
in the political character of these re¬
publics. Revolutions sprang up from
time to time in all of them. It was
charged by each republic that its
neighbor or neighbors were giving aid
to the revolutionists which she had ex¬
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pelled from her borders. Less than
a year ago Nicaragua came very near
going to war w r ith Costa Rica on
account of such a charge. Her Presi¬
dent imjmsoned a Costa Rican Consul
at Managua. Troops were'marched
to tbe frontiers and a treaty of peace
was finally signed.
An unsuccessful effort was made by
Guatemala in 1872 to effect a union of
the States. General Justo Rufus
Barrios came very near forming an
organization in 1887. He discovered
that Salvador was treacherous and
marched against it. He conquered
the Salvadoreans, but fell a victim to
sharpshooters. By a treaty concluded
at Analapa in 1896 all five of the Te¬
publics formed a federation, which
was Central called^Jie America. Greater Republic of
It amounted to
little more than an agreement to
leave questions iu dispute to a diet of
deputies appointed from the various
republics. It will, of course, be
superseded by the formation of the
United States of Central America.
Diplomacy has sought to do every¬
thing possible to restrain jealousy and
dissatisfaction in this new nation. The
Presidents of the States become Gov-
ernors. It has been agreed that none
of them shall become a candidate for
President of tlie new Republic, who
will be chosen on December 13. The
successful candidate will be inaugu¬
rated next March. The new capital,
Chinandega, is in Nicaragua, on the
Pacific side. The temporary capital,
Amapala, was in Honduras, on an isi-
and in the Bay of Fonseca,
If the resources of this new nation
were properly developed it would be- ‘
eourn a rich and peaceful nation. The
forests of all three of the countries
are rich in ,mahogany and dye-woods;
gold and silver have been fouud, there
is an abundance of coal, and there are
fortunes in coffee and tropical fruits.
The future of this trio of republics de-
pends in a large measure as to what
policy may be pursued with an regard regaru to io
the Nicaraguan Canal. The T.— present *
concession expires next year. qRe 1
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canal routes. It is proposed boundary to use be-
the San Juan River, the and
tween Nicaragua and Costa Rica,
Nicaragua as a part of the pro-
waterway across Central
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setts, Connecticut and Rhode Island.
Honduras is about the size of Ohio.
Salvador is one hundred and forty
miles long and sixty miles in breadth.
Nicaragua has been the scene of
many conflicts. The old cities of
Granada and Leon warred for fifty
years as to which should be the capital
of the State. Leon, which is now par¬
tially in ruins, represented the liberal
party, and Granada the conservative.
General Walker, a New Orleans edi¬
tor, and a distinguished scholar, was
invited to the country in 1855. He
seized the supreme power, partly de¬
stroyed the city of Granada, and ruled
with a high hand. The neighboring
States aided his enemies against him,
and expelled him from the country.
He returned to Truxillo in 1860,
where he was shot.
Salvador, the smallest of the three,
has always been an aggressive State,
and has not been behind her neigh¬
bors in wars and revolutions. The
capital is San Salvador.
Effects of five Arc on Eyes.
The report of Tracinski, in the
.Zeitschrift fur Beleuchtungswesen
(April 30), gives the result of investi¬
gations in connection with the opera¬
tions of the Zerener arc welding
process, which is now coming into use
quite largely. The operator wears
a pair of spectacles of dark, smoked
glass, besides which he looks through
a pane of deep red glass, which is
connected with the apparatus. The
action of the light is sufficiently re¬
duced by this means, says the Pro¬
gressive Age. He tried using the
red glass alone, but it affected the
eyes for some time after. The work¬
men who are using this apparatus
continuously at first experienced pain
in the eyes at night, but later on this
disappeared; the sight, however, was
not affected. He concludes that no
permanent ill effects are produced
if proper precautions are taken, and if
the operator becomes gradually ac¬
customed to the work. It is a mis-
lake to have a new operator work a
w 7 hole day with the arc, as he should
begin with a few hours a day until his
eyes have been accustomed to it.
Only those who have healthy normal
eyes should attempt this work.
The English Moody.
At one time the Rev. Henry Varley
was a butcher. He is a noted English
evangelist, who recently came on a
second visit to this country. The way
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fi e entered upon an evangelistic career
was by addressing his felFow workmen.
Gradually he became known as a good
speaker, and went traveling over Eng¬
land addressing the people. He has
since earned the title of “The English
Moody,” which is a great complimeut,
for Evangelist Moody is as much
thought of by the religious people of
the British Isles as he is in his own
country. The Rev. Mr. Yarley has
addressed large crowds in New York
and elsewhere. He is a powerful and
eloquent speaker aud has a charming
personality. It is by the sheer force
of ability that he has risen to his high
position in the evangelistic world.
The Snel;>_in South Africa.
The snelpaardelooszonderspoorweg-
petroolrijtujg is being introduced into
progressive South Africa as into other
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Among the assets on which Spain
will have trouble in realizing is a
great deal of shop-worn diplomacy.
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To photograph a wildcat just before
shooting the animal is a feat which few
hunters have ever accomplished It
was done recently by William M. Shaw,
of Greeuvilie, Me., and the photo¬
graph has just been reproduced in the
New York Sun. Mr. Shaw, who is a
rich lumberman in tbe Moosehead re¬
gion, owns most of Sugar Island, one
of the most picturesque spots in Moose-
head Lake. On this bit of laud is
situated the camps of the Nighthawk
Club, whose membership is largely
drawn from sportsmen from New York
and Boston.
None of the campers is a more en¬
thusiastic sportsmaD than Mr. Shaw,
who combines with his tastes as a
hunter those of the artist. He is a de¬
voted amateur photographer and has
taught the art to all the members of
his family who are able to handle a
camera. On his near-by hunting trips
he is usually accompanied by his
twelve-year-old son Hugh. It was on
one of these trips that the photograph
was taken. On this occasion the
younger Shaw carried the camera.
They had had a tiresome tramp through
the woods when Mr. Shaw, lookiug up,
saw a large wildcat ready to spring,
Bailing his rifle and standing ready
to fire should the beast attempt to
spring, Mr. Shaw kept his eyes on the
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button. The result is the picture. Mr.
Shaw, the next instant, fired, and the
cat fell to the ground mortally wound¬
ed. Mr. Shaw has the wildcat mount¬
ed and he keeps it in his house.
Our Exports to Ttussia.
The American exports to Russia on
the Baltic—Northern Russia—are
made up almost wholly of cotton. In
fact, cotton constitutes four-fifths of
the present American commerce with
that part of the Russian Empire.
There is sent, too, resin to a consider¬
able amount, and there is a steadily
enlarging market for American manu¬
factured articles, It has increased
largely siuce 1895. To Southern
Russia, through the Black Sea ports,
are shipped from the United States
iron and steel manufactures, agri¬
cultural implements and some naval
stores —not much. The production of
Egyptian cotton has affected adver¬
sely the Russian market for American
cotton in the southern provinces, but
this loss is made up by the increased
demand for American manufactured
articles.
A Cliild’s Philosophy.
Lord Crewe, at an educational
meeting at Liverpool, told an amus¬
ing story of the little son of a friend
of his who refused to say his lesson to
his governess, He admitted that he
knew it well, but, said he, “If I say
my lesson, w'bat’s the use? you will
only make me learn something else. ”
That child will probably be heard of
again.—Westminster Gazette.
Stuffing Live Fowls by Macliinerj-.
Poultry raising has become a
science. No longer do the feathered
beauties ruu free picking up the suc¬
culent caterpillar and scratching for
grain. It’s too expensive.
In the first place caterpillars aren’t
good food for chickens; in the second,
grain throwm on the ground is wasted;
ir the third place, they run off their
fat if obliged to trot around and pick
up their food.
On the great poultry farms where
fowls are fattened for the London
market the birds are imprisoned in
long rows of coops. At feeding time
along comes a boy wheeling a queer
barrow that looks something like a
tool grinder’s kit, except that it has a
big hopper on top. In this is ground
and mixed food.
sion, Opening each cage door in succes¬
the boy takes out a fowl and
holds :t under his arm. Deftly he
opens its bill with his fingers, inserts
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in its mouth a tube connected with
the hopper, presses his foot upon a
lever under the barrow, and pumps
until the crop is fall—like blowing
up a bicycle tire with a foot-pump.
One charge of food is rammed down
that fowl’s receptive gullet; and back
he goes to his cage to ruminate on a
world of queer things.
Thus deprived of exercise, the birds
grow fat very rapidlv. With the ma-
chine one boy can feed 280 fowls in
an hour.
German university students have
increased in number from about 10,000
twenty-five years ago to 32,241 last
year. The increase is out of propor¬
tion to the population.
NEW YORK FASHIONS.
THE LATEST DESIGNS FOR WINTER COSTUMES
New York City (Special).—There
sever has been a season when so many
lifferent styles were in fashion, par-
;ieularly for cloth gowns, according to
Harper’s Bazar. It would almost
jeern impossible for a woman to be
unfashionably dressed, provided the
sleeves of her gown are small, and the
skirt has no particular fulness except
at the back. Velvet and cloth ave
combined in mauy of the new gowns
with very satisfactory results. A
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favorite combination of color is the
light wood-color with dark brown,
and a very charming gown of wood-
colored cloth, the cloth with a satin
finish, is quite odd in design, and is
trimmed with deep brown velvet.
The cloth is in an over-skirt or polon¬
aise, while the under part of the skirt
and the upper part of the waist and
sleeves are of velvet. There are four
rows of narrow velvet ribbon outlining
the cloth, There is apparently no
way of getting either in or out of this
costume, but the gown is fastened at
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the left side with invisible hooks and
eyes. The sleeves are small, with a
cuff of the velvet at the wrist, and are
cut so as to give the effect of a very
long shoulder seam.
A smart cloth gown that is simple in
design is made of blue Venetian cloth,
The skirt is cut with a circular
flounce effect, fitting very closely over
the hips. The flounce is not scant, as
is generally the case, but, on the con-
trary, is exaggeratedly full. It is
made in clusters of pleats at equal
distances apart, and the pleats are
only fastened a short distance, leav-
ing the flounce to flare out above the
foot. The waist has three rows of
tucks put on to give the effect of
pleats below a plain square yoke of
the deepest blue velvet that is finished
with a stock-collar and side tabs. The
sleeves are very nearly tight-fitting,
but have some fulness at the top, with
rows of tucks across the fulness,
There is no finish at the wrists and
the sleeve is very long, The belt is
of fancy metal.
A Favorite With Girls.
The pretty combination of plaid and
plain dark blue serge, shown in the
large engraving, is attractively dec¬
orated with rich ruby velvet, a color¬
ing shown in the plaid. A narrow
frill or satin ribbon matches the vel¬
vet edges of the graceful Bertha that
flare apart in frmt and back. The
stylish waist has a full front that is
gathered top and bottom on each side
of a centre box pleat. The backs are
gathered in like manner, and close in
centre with buttons and buttonholes.
The front and backs are arranged
over comfortably fitted linings faced
at the top to round yoke depth with
the plaid. A standing collar of plaid
the neck, The Bertha is
interlined with light-weight canvas
and finished at the lower edge before it
is applied around the yoke outline. A
belt of velvet finishes the waist, ovei
which the front pouches slightly, and
three decorative buttons are set at
evenly spaced distances on the box
pleat. The closely fitting sleeves of
plaid have a gathered puff of the
plain goods gracefully disposed at the
top, the wrists being completed with
bauds of velvets and frills of ribbon,
The skirt shows the very popular
graduated circular flounce, a favorite
j with girls as well as with their mam*
j mas. The skirt is somewhat of circu-
j Jar shaping and may either reach to
; the lower edge or terminate at the top
of flounce. The front and sides tit
j smoothly, gathers causing a pretty
i fulness in centre baek. The skirt is
sewed at the lower edge of waist and
i held easy at the front and sides;
it closes with the waist in centre back,
Possibilities for remodeling dresses
that have been “grown an ay from”
i ave suggested by the mode; the dress
may also be all of one material in silk
or wool and trimmed with velvet,
gimp, insertion, braid or ribbon,plain,
ruehed or frilled.
Fine tucking or all-over lace may be
used for yoke, or tbe dress may have
a low, round neck aud short puff
sleeves to wear with or without vari¬
ous styles or guimpe.
To make this costume for a young
girl will require three and one-half
yards of material forty-four inches
wtde.
Becoming Velvet Stocks.
j Very beautiful and becoming stocks
; are made of miroir velvet in all the
new shades of red, ranging from a
reddish pink to a deep, rich hue.
Folds of cream chiffon are inserted in
| 1 front used to and ornament two rhinestone further the buckles
collar,
j Tabs of the velvet stand up behind,
j and are edged with a tiny niching of
chiffon. These stocks look well on
dark gowns, siuce sometliiug light
about the neck is more becoming than
anything dark.
Styles in llairdvessinjj.
It will not be the fault of the Paris
hairdressers if finger puffs are not
worn this winter, One of the models
they show has the hair arranged a la
Pompadour over the forehead, with
three small finger puffs above the
ears. The hair will be dressed high,
as it has been, which gives another
chance for the use of the finger puffs.
Cold Weather Shirt Waists.
New cold weather shirt waists are
made of velvet, fancy plaided faille
with satin bars of contrasting color,
corduroy, English velveteen, plain,
striped or polka-dotted; silk and wool
fancies, soft French flannels almost
as finely woven as ladies’ cloth, in
rich winter dyes, anddrap d’Alma and
drap d’ete. Roman striped satins
and pretty natty silks are much
favored for dressy uses, and with
these waists is usually a club-tie of
matching fabric and pattern.
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Plain Skirts Favored.
Already the reaction has set in m _
favor of piain skirts. Some of the
most eminent fashion designers and
autocrats have emphatically declared
against so much trimming and the
consequence is) that the death knell of
fk e ultra-elaborate skirt is sounded,
We may indulge in a moderate amount
of frills, but the line must be very
sharply drawn, and under no circum-
stances is fashion to tolerate anything
that has the appearance of fussiness,
There is also some objection to the
skirt that is made m two lengthwise
sections. Very few women, and surely
no practical ones, like to cut hand-
some material into such shape that it
is absolutely worthless after the style
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of the moment has passed by. rhere-
fore, the cut-m-two skirt is always
* short lived; indeed, it- has scarcely at-
tained the prominence with which it
has been accredited,
Reddish purple violets are the
i favorites in millinery aud in velvet
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the economic Ireland,
printed in the London Spectator.
Mr. Baines believes that Ireland
vided the opportunity is furnished.
The interior of the country is now-
only indifferently supplied with rail¬
roads, and it is consequently trouble¬
some to make shipments of the goods
for which Ireland is famed in British
markets, such as farm products, live
stock, etc.
Mr. Baines proposes to make the
ancient city of Galway a transatlantic
port, aud to connect it with Kings¬
town, near Dublin, by a canal, which
would also connect with tbo present
Grand Canal that runs nearly half
way across the country.
By this means the product of fish¬
eries of the west and southwest could
be conveyed cheaply to Kingstown,
where fast steamers might rush across
the Channel' and deliver at Holyhead
to express trains that would land the
goods in London in a few hours.
This might be vastly improved upon
if the proposed tunnel is constructed
under the Irish Sea.
Mr. Baines thinks his scheme for
the canal would not cost more than
$15,000,000.
POPU LAR SCIE NCE.
A scientific writer says that night is
the time which nature utilizes for the
growth of plauts and animals; chil¬
dren, too, grow more rapidly during
the night.
Thomas Edison has stated that he
is working on an apparatus, the pur¬
pose of which will be to adapt the
telephone to making permanent rec¬
ords of cardiac aud other vital sounds.
India has, perhaps, a greater vari¬
ety of plants than any other country
in the world, having fifteen thousand
native species, white the flora of the
entire continent of Europe only em¬
braces about ten thousand.
Some Egyptian boats made of cedar,
probably in use 4500 years ago, have
been found buried near the banks of
the Nile, aud furnish an interesting
proof of the power of wood to with¬
stand the ravages of time.
An extended study of the pheno¬
mena of insomnia by De Menaceine, a
Russian authority in medicine, brings
him to the conclusion that it is char¬
acteristic of persons -who blush, laugh,
weep readily, aud whose pulse is apt
to quicken upon the slightest provo¬
cation.
The great sequoia trees of the Yo-
semite Valley, California, are exceeded
in size by the mammoth gum trees of
Australia, which are believed to be
the largest iu the world, What is
thought to be the loftiest tree grow¬
ing is the eucalyptus reguum. One
of these trees in the Cape Otway
range measured, when felled, 415
feet in length.
Where Missiii" Laundry Goes To.
“Dishonest household servants
cause the laundries no end of trouble,”
remarked an employe of a downtown
concern. “It’s a common thing for
them to annex a lew shirts or collars,
aud now and then a stray handker¬
chief from the supply of their employ¬
er, and when the shortage is discov¬
ered it is generally charged to the
laundi-y. Lots of times we know per¬
fectly well that the things daitagj&
were never sent in but pay for them
rather than have a row and lose a good
customer. A lady of this city lost sev¬
eral fine lace handkerchiefs about a
year ago and insisted that, they were
sent to the shop but never returned.
She was perfectly sincere, aud the bill
was paid. Last week the handker¬
chiefs turned up. They were sent in
with a bundle of things from another
part of the town, and when we came
to trace them we fouud they had
passed through four different hands.
The original thief was a mulatto maid
servant who had disappeared. On an¬
other occasion a gentlemen lost several
.collars and was very angry. He said
he was continually losing articles that
way and brought his negro porter
along to prove that they had been sent
in. The manager was about to band
over the value of the linen when he
happened to notice that the darky was
wearing a very handsome collar and
told him to take it off. He protested
vigorously, but it was secured and
proved to be one of the lot. The rest
were found in his trunk.—New Or¬
leans Times*-Demoerat.
Adaptability of the F.at.
Confronted with the difficulties
which modern builders and house¬
holders put in tbe way of rats in
drains, floors and skirtings, bailed, the black
rat would probably be but the
sagacious gray rat remains more or
les3 master of the situation, The
case of the rat is typical of the value
of brain power. Routine, which is
the usual condition of animal exist¬
ence, does not exist for them. They
have to force “reconstructions” of
their common surroundings at any
given moment, and their resources and
adaptability have seldom been found
wanting.
Ship rats have survived the era of
steam and steel, and recently thrived
so successfully in a big ironclad as to
make it almost uninhabitable. House
rats have learned how to cope with
gas fittings, lead floors.' pipes, brick drains
and cement “oewer rats”
have made for themselves a name
coeval with modern urban sanitation,
and others are now learning to live in
“cold stores” and to eat cailled meat
and game in an atmosphere where
breath turns to snow.
An Anti-Scandal Lm;hc.
^ anity Fair informs us tliafc we have
an An i-Sehandal League iu our midst,
xts promoters, with a shrewd knowl-
( ' • Ige as to the most promising field for
• heir labors, are circularising “So-
eiety” by the medium, • >. olood-red en-
velopes containing ceu slips,
trgiug the recipient •» < J a hership.
ts methods are nm .able, but
iay give rise to uu-- Fatness over
ie teatable. Those .i i u ar a slan-
er uttered are urgt s to “combat it
easantly” and, “if t » e, to enlist m
ie offender' as a a iocr of the
?ague.” But -uhe: youe has
fined what is “Soci > ;a k about?
ppropriately, the o' l-s rejoice
i tiie'name of Noiu. _vjucorde.—
juondon Chronicle.