Her Vocal Selection, A wedding was recently held which was of the fashionable kind, and there were all sorts of preparations and frills. Among the "features" was a song b.v a baritone singer of con siderable local renown, and just what he was to warble was a matter of con siderable discussiou. A little sister six years old of the trice took much interest in the pro gram. "Sis." she siild, "I want to slug at your wedding." "No, dear; you can't sing," was the ■ejoinder. "But 1 can, and I want to," she pleaued. "What would you sing?" her father asked her. "'Heaven, Look With Pity!"' was her rejoinder, and her father hasn't got over it yet.—Kansas City Journal. Ladies Firstl "Scratch a southerner and you find a knightly soul" might be said to be one of the morals of the Chicago Rec ord-Herald story below. The second moral Is reasonably obvious: "What is the reason," began the ir ritated traveler from the north, "that the trains In tills part of the country are always behind time? 1 have nev er seen one yet that ran uceording to its schedule." "That, Mill," replied the dignified Georgian, "is a mattah that is easily explained. It is due to southern chivalry, stih." "Southern chivalry! Where does' that cotne in?" "You see, suh, the trains are always late In this country because they wait for the ladies, God bless them!" The Lure of the Arctics. Polar life brings sti - - -gelations. A man who is a model of amiability at homo is a savage in those high lat itudes, where Mother Nature and hu manity seem bent on revealing their crudest characteristics. When a man goes to the arctics tirst he dislikes it. Jf he is caught there one winter he *ows to himself that he will never re peat the adventure. Vet when he gets back home he discovers that the "white silence" has a compelling fas cination. I have never known a man who could resist the chance togo again, even at a financial loss. After twenty years of experience, if another opportuulty came to me, it is doubtful whether any consideration would pre vent my taking up the work again. Once the charm of those long mouths of daylight, the mysterious deathly si lence of those long nights, the white glare of that brilliant moonlight across trackless wastes of snow and ice, has been felt a man is unable to resist the siren call of the north that has be come more to him than family, home, friends or money. tHadly he takes his life in ills hands and fares forth again into those frozen seas.—Captain Ed win CofHu of Ziegler Polar Expedition in National Magazine. Bear Ague. "Speaking of 'buck fever,' " said a aurvey olßcial, "reminds me of 'bear ague.' Never heard of it, eh? Well, 1 first encountered it In Wrangel nar rows, Alaska, a number of years ago. We were on the old surveying steamer Patterson. "Just ns we rounded a ]>olnt of land jnot more than 200 yards distant a big Diack bear was seen on the beach looking at vis. Eight men took up rifles at once and were about to shoot when I told them to wait and fire all at once in n volley when I gave the order. Tliey all took careful beads on the beast. 'Ready, fire!' I shouted. "There was a rattle of musketry as the eight pieces were discharged, and every one looked to see the animal's death throes. There was the bear run niug up the hill as lively as a jack rab bit. Not a shot bad hit him. Bear ague, that's all. Every man's hand was trembling so he couldn't hit a house ISuck fever's nowhere along side of It."-Sau Francisco Call. The Fourth In the Suburbs. "Well, nid man. did you haven Fourth of July celebration out at I.oue- Sivilie "Yes; we had a great day -f it." "What did you do?" "Well, the cook read the Declaration ef Independence lu the morning." "Flue!" "My wife blew up the waitress at breafcfaxt." "Bully!" "The waitress went up In the air after breakfast " "Immense:" "We tired 'he laundress at nooo." "Croat!" "The chauffeur got louded and went *tt with a loud report >fter lunch." "Glorious!" "The coachman got full and treated t» to a bam fire in the evening. I'm t?*ying to collect the Insurance now." '•Splendid!" "I*ut that wasn't all Two bums loaded with highballs broke into the house that night aud got away with all the silver. Oh, yes, old man. there's uothing slow about I.oneUvlUe when It comes down to patriotism!"— Judge. As Expanded. A diminutive specimen of Juvenile femininity yclept Miss Muffot had placed In self ia a sitting posture upon ati article of household furniture ordi narily termed an ottoman or hassock, ministering to the gratification of her gnsi torv organs by ingurgitating ttie coagulated portion of bovine lac teal tluid mingled with the watery serum of the same which remains uft er the coagulated portiou has been segregated and withdrawn. Happening to glance downward, she observed that a specimen of the genus araneida, class arachnids, remarkable for its ability to produce filaments of extraordinary tenuity from its own interior, had taken a position upon the ottoman or hassoek in immediate prox imity to her. W hlch totally unexpected Incident aroused her apprehension to such an extent that she immediately, not to ! say precipitately, arose from her Bit ting posture and departed from the locality, leaving the Intruder in undis puted possession of the apartment.— Chicago Tribune. Karly Intelligence. Sunday School Teacher (finishing the narration)- And that is the story oI Jonah and the whale. Johnny—lsn't it xtrange they knew what a Jonah was that long ago? SURGERY I I. Stovaine Exploiters Aim Is Lessen Human Sulfering. PATIENT REMAINS CONSCIOUS Bucharest Surgeon, Who Will Demon strate In the United Ststes Use of His Remarkable Anaesthetic, Tells of a Sailor Who Talked While Being Operated On. Professor Thomas Jonnesco. head of the University of Bucharest Medical school, lu Kouinania, who recently ar rived at New York to demonstrate to eminent surgeons In the United States bow a mixture of ucuiral sulphate ot strychnine and stovaiue injected into a patient about 10 be operated on will produce a perfect analgesia, or insensi bility to pain, without any of the bad effects of the anaesthetics generally used in surgical operations, says he has nothing to sell. Ilis only aim is that of a humanitarian who wishes to increase as tar as possible tile use of painless surgery throughout the world. llis new analgesia producing mixture has been used by several eminent sur geons In Europe recently to good ef tect. Professor Jouueseo lays no claim to the discovery of stovaiue. for it was lu use long before be. as head of the medical school of the University of Burcharest. began to experiment with the effects of tin* analgesia. lie says, however, that stovaine can be used to produce analgesia successfully only on lower parts of the body where op erations are lo be performed. Its use alone in the upper parts of the body has been attended with (lire results. But by mixing the neutral sulphate of strychnine the stovaiue can be used for producing an utter lack of feeling in any part of the body Patient Not Deprived of Consciousness. Under his new method, says Profess or Jonues.-o, a patient can undergo the most difficult operation and remain perfectly conscious throughout, for the effect produced by the mixture of strychnine and stovaine does not de prive the patient of consciousness, it simply deadens the pain. It is said by those who have wit nessed his operations abroad that a patient to v hom the stovaine and strychnine ha vt been administered can and does chat with the surgeon while the knife is being used in an extreme ly delicate operation. In the case of a sailor who was operated on abroad l>r. Jouueseo inserted a hypodermic needle into the spinal canal between two of the vertebrae at the base of the neck. He injected three centi grams of the mixture dissolved in wa ter. A few minutes later the patient was placed on an operating table, and his shoulders were lowered so that the numbing fluid could past upward. The operation to be performed on the sailor was (he removal of tubercular glands from his neck. Two minutes after the llulil had a chance to spread the op eration was begun. No Pain From Knife Thrust. When tLie knife was applied tbe t>. ilor was asked if lie felt any paiu. \o." replied the man. Even then i'c surgeon's knife was deep In his ii ■< k ' Are you ijniie comfortable?" asked o • of the <urt:eons<. Yes. unite thank yuu." replied tbe |. :.-nl. Professor .lotincsco told of this oper n through an Interpreter. Due of hi- fellow country men, George Soutzo, .1 rtl as ilie interpreter, for Profesaor Jontiesco speaks 110 Eugiish. • This sailor, who was about twenty two years old. talked all the way through Hie operation." said Professor Jonnesco "Moreover, he walked away from his operating table after it was all over. Another operation which was successfully performed was on an Irishman forty-seven years old, who had cancer of the stomach. He was not so active as the sailor after the operation, but both were successful. The complete quietude of both during the operation was proof that they ex perienced no palu." Professor .lontus»co said I but his vis It to tbe L'nited States was ouly to give Americans tbe benefit of Ills dis covery free of charge To Lessen Pain Hit Only Reward. "Souie 750 patients have undergone operations by the new method since its discovery in J 008." said the pro fessor. "My reward for the discovery is only this-to lessen pain and suffer ing in the human family. It is quite euoush reward. Once my method i < adopted here in America it will bo adopted by (he whole world, for this Is the country in which great achieve ments i'i the surgical and medical win 1 are sent broadcast and are given bee.', to by surgeons throughout tho WO! .1." Professor Jotinoaco is on a three Months' \acntion and bus many en gagements •Uroughout the United States, To Grow Korean Figs. California Is to try acclimating the Korean wil 1 fig. The fig. growing on a hardy vine, ou trees, trellises and iiedgerows to a beieht of thirty feet. Is a delicious fruit gome of the seed tin* been sent to the department of agriculture, California State univer sity. The Pg grows wild In Korea atkl has proved of great value there Seeking For Danger. "I'm going to Hck Smith." "Why?" "Ho said I was a horse thief and a liar." "Did he prove It?" "No." "Then let well enough alone and don't get him any madder."—Cleve land I.eader. Lofty Expectations. "Is your husband all you thought he was?" "Just about. But ho doesn't eonif close to being rill he thought he was." / Th„ ' <'whhr: r "J '""•//):• /£?<?■■ S7 fc ' S z• "/ n,. ""<J r ""<• / V/ " " ,K ' ' r "«r.s A? " r "Jllt/i " N/ > / tiation. /, ,"" m, . ""x N " HIT.,! for tho Hi/s " ll|)IH-UHlnK i , ' />/«,... I,' ""HI r " that) any tlsl. ../.v\ ..../£.«». '"v/,,.. nf the gulf. U** l» here In summer and winter. In fall and In spring. When the flsherman contemplates his plight. when luck Is against him and a feeling of depression creeps over hltti. the mullet, always ready to give him n helping hand, rushes Into his seine and contributes to his fortune am! to (lie gastronomic pleasure of the thou sands of people to whom they are ship ped He la a regular standby. In prosperity and In adversity he Is al tvays here In abundance.—Paseagouia Chronicle. Helping Him Out. He was well groomed, sober, evi dently Intelligent, but he looked wor ried as lie approached a policeman on Broadway, near Long Acre square. "Officer. I know my name and all that sort of thing." said he. "but I don't know where I live What'll Ido about iff" "Advertise." aald the blueeoat with a fii""v stare. "What are you giving meV "Hones. " continued the worried one. "I'm a stranger in New York Got here this morning Had the address of a boarding b'*ise on a slip of paper a friend gave mo. Went there, engaged board, left my trunk and then went out on business. Now I've lost the strip of paper somehow, and I've for gotten the street and number. What'll I do?" "Advertise." repented the blueeoat but less bluntly. "Then goto a hotel and wait for an answer. Another wax is to write to the friend who gave you the rddress." "Thank you." said the lost one grate fully.—New York Globe. An Easy Job. In antebellum days Colonel Moore of Kentucky owned a large number ot slaves. One day one of the Held hands, named Jupe. was guilty of some r.eg ligenee and was sent to the woods at once to cut down and split up a black gum tree, practically au impossible task. Jupe cut down the tree and la bored hard to spill the tough wood, but in vain, lu the meantime a thun derstorm caino up. and Jupe sought refuge under a brush heap Directly the lightning struck a large poplar near by. splitting it into kindling wood. After the storm had passed Jupe crawled out from his place of security and after taking a careful look at the remains of the poplar tree, which were scattered all over the woods, said: "Mr. Lightnin', 1 wish you had just tried yo' ban* on dis black gum. Any blame fool can split a poplar!"— Clev eland Leader. A Compliment to the Minister. in Albert Dawson's work. "Joseph Parker-His I,lie and Ministry,'' there are some anecdotes of the famous min ister of the City temple. We are told that what 1 >r. Parker regarded as, in its own peculiar way. the best com pliment lie ever received came from an omnibus conductor. I lie vehicle was crossing Holborn viaduct, and when it came to the City temple a passenger alighted. "That's Ihe man.and that's the place," said the conductor. Indicating Dr. Parker's church. "I went tuere once, and I enjoyed myself so much that I'm golug again the tirst night off I have. Wo laughed, and we cried, and we had a rare time. You see.' 1 the conductor continued, "ho doesu t make religion so serious" Beeds Planted In Eggshells. Kill hulf an eggshell with good rich earth, stick lu a seed or two. stand tlia shell up In a box of earth, it warm aud moist, and then, when you think you can trust tbe weather out of doors and the seeds have sproutej, you knock the shell off and put tbe llttl» ball of earth Into Mother Earth. and there you an-. .Not a ro< t baa been disturbed, and if you choo<e a favora ble time for transplanting there will not be s wilted leaf to retard tbe growing of tilt* plant. Life's Day. The tiuir tliut has elapsed siuee the first appearance of life ou earth has been variously estimated at 100,000,- 000 to 200,000,000 years. To tax our powers of comprehension as little as possible Dr. W. Schmidt of Jena has taken the shortest estimate and has tried to make understandable the five great evolutionary periods through which life has passed by comparing them with a day of twenty-four hours This is the result: The archeozolc pe riod (52,000,000 years) is represented by 12 hours 30 minutes; paleozoic (34,- 000,000 years), i< hours 7 minutes; mesozolc (11,000,000 years), 2 hours 38 minutes: ceuozoie (3.000,000 years), 4.1 minutes; anthropozolc (100.000 years), 2 minutes If the last period, the age of man. be compared In Its subdivi sions by tbe same scale it Is found (hat tbe "historic" portion covers only o seconds, and 2 seconds are suffi cient for the Chrlstiau era. It seems Incredible, but the evidence Is con vincing that This does not exaggerate the time relations of our written rec ords with the records of tbe rocks. Cutting. Miss llomelelgh— Perhaps you wont believe It, but a strange man tried to kiss me once. Miss Cutting—lleally: Well, he'd have been a strango uiun lr ke'd tried to kiss you twice.—lllustrat ed Bits. A Great Sueoeas. First loung Wife—Do yon find It more economical, dear, to do your own cooking? Second young Wife—Oh. certainly! My husband doesn't eat half so much as be dlcL—Loudon I'uuch. To shock people Is often better thaa to pleaso them. The majority of man kind need the shocking.—Emerson. Faint hearted meu are the fruit oz luxurious countries Herodotus OF ""r.i; / 'tosses Say It May I vaniza Irafiic, /' TEL POSSIBLE Economy Been In Louis Brtnnan'i In vention, That Seems to Defy Laws of Gravitation—Speed of Ono Hundred and Fifty Miles an Hour Predicted. Chicago railroad officials who have recently returned from ixmdon are iuclined to believe thai in the mono railway, or gyroscope railroad. Louis Urenuan. Is. C.. lias an iuvention which bids fair to revolutionize some of the fields, at least, of transportation. What Iliey saw at tlie public demon - strniioiiH ai Chatham. England. of the possibilities ol the monorail way was a railroad car forty feet long, ten feet wide and thirteen feel high. weighing twenty-two tons, mounted ou a single rail and running freely around curves while safely carrying forty passengers, who experienced less vibration than would have lieen the case in an ordi nary passenger coach. The principle tipon which the mono railway operates is that of the spin ning top, which maintains its equilibri um l>y means of its rapid revolutions or gyrations I'he characteristic fea ture of this system of transportation 's that each vehicle is capable of main taining its balance upou an ordinary rail laid U|HIII sleepers on the ground, whether it is standing still or moving in ell her direction at any rate of speed.. This is done notwithstanding the fact that the center of gravity is several feet above the rail and that wind pres sure, shifting of load, centrifugal ac tion or any combination ot these forces may tend to upset it. Automatic sta bility mechanism of extreme simplicity carried by the vehicle itself endows it with this power. Principle of Mechanism. Tlio mechauisui consists essentially of two flywheels rotated directly by electric motors in opposite directions at a very high velocity and mounted so that tlieir gyrostat it* action and stored up energy can be utilized. The flywheels are mounted on high class bearings and are placed In a vacuum, so that the air and friction are reduced to a minimum and consequently the power required to keep tlieiu in rapid motion is very small. The stored up energy iu the flywheels when revolv ing at full speed is so great anil the friction so small that if the driving current is cut <>!Y altogether they will run at sufficient velocity to impart stability to the vehicle for several hours, while it «ill take front two to three days before they come to rest. The stability mechanism, whose weight is small, occupies but little space in the cab at one end of the vehicle. The wheels of the car are placed in a single row beneath the center of the vehicle and arc carried on bogv trucks which are so pivoted as to pro vide for horizontal curves on the track and also for vertical ones. This en ables the vehicle to run upon curves of even less radius than the length of the vehicles itself or to run on crooked rails or on rails laid over untreii ground without danger of derailment. The motive power of the uionoral!way may be either steam, petrol, oil, gas or electricity. in the experiments made thus far petrol has l>een used its an electric generator, he power of each vehicle t>"ii!g self contained and ready for Immediate use. Use of it any moment is made possible by keep ing the gyro wheels In constant rota tion by a current from H small accu mulator, the engine beiug at rest. In 6rdcr that the vehicle may be able to ascend steep Inclines the wheels aro all power driven, and change gears aro provided for use in hilly country. Largs Coach Made Possible. (Jreat economy is obtained by mak ing the vehicles much widev than tho ordinary passenger coach. On this point Mr. Hrenuan claims that he has plans for a passenger car 100 feet In length and 20 feel wide, lie aim* de clares that such n coach uiay be driven safely at a speed of 1(H) miles au hour while travelers sro making a trans continental Journey in rooms «« large and rn luxuriously furnished n« itioae of n modern city hotel. The rail upon which the car runs has a curved top, and its weight Is that of the ordinary rail, but the s!ee|>ers, or ties, are ouly one-half the usual size of railroad ties. It Is stated that flying lines of a monorallway can be built with great rapidity over uneven ground with but a slight expenditure of labor. The bridges required for the uso of the monorallway aro of the simplest possible construction. Hotel on Rails Predicted. The expenditure of fuel necessary i<> operate the monorallway Is very much less than it is with an ordinary rail road. This fact is due to the absence of flange friction on curves and to the vehicles running without oscilla tion or Jolting. The absence of these mine factors makes an Increase of 'JCHi or 300 per cent In the speed of the train a sufe possibility; consequently Mr. Breunau confidently declares that his dream of a transcontinental rail road furnished with a traveling hotel having rooms fifteen to twenty feet wide and carrying passengers in per fect comfort and safety at n speed of 120 to ISO miles an hour will surely I># realized. oympatny. He—lt was a frightful moment when I received your letter telling me of the insuperable obstacle to our mar riage. 1 would have shot myself, but I bad no money to buy a revolver. She—Dearest, if only you had let me know.—Simpliclssimus. Chinch Bug Costs Millions. Declaring that the annual loss to the farmers of Kansas on account of chinch bugs Is from $5,000,000 to $25,- 000,000, Dr. J. P. Ileadlee of the Kan sas State Agricultural college Is ex perimenting with methods of destroy ing the pest. Bows on Men'# Hats. Why is it that a man's hat has a band, and why is it this band has a bow Invariably on the left side? The answer is that there was a tiiue when a piece of cloth adjusted to the head and tied with a baud of other material served for a headpiece. The reasou the bow was always placed on the left side had its origin In the fact that In wielding a sword—an ac complishment possessed by nearly ev ery one of consequence at one period of the world's history—the bow or rosette If placed oil the right side would have been In the way. its prcs eut day utility is that it keeps most men from wearing their hats hind side before, and, although with most hat* that would not matter, with most heads It does.—Chicago ilecord Herald. On the Moon. The queatiou "Could a uian live on the moon?" has beeu put to an emi nent astronomer, who replied: "1 am afraid not. A man transplanted to the moon would Hud himself the loue in habitant of a perfectly lifeless orb in which eternal silence reigns. lie would have to manage without uir. water or tire. He would not need to put windows in his bouse, for there Is no wind, no rain, no dust, upon the moon. II has been truly and practical ly observed that the moon is apparent ly abandoned to death, nourishing nu inhabitants, producing nothing resetu bling trees, flowers or beautiful things of auy kind—useless, in short, except ns a mass of extinct volcanic rubbish, which drags the sea into tides and re fleets the suubeams In moonlight." The Englishman. Just ns there is no being more dis liked In his own country than the Ox ford man who displays what is (tnost unfairly) described as the Oxford man lier, so there is nobody who does more harm to our good name abroad than the Englishman who carries his insu lar eouceit all over the continent—his evident belief that the people, the country and the institutions under his condescending review are obviously and painfully inferior to those he has left behind him. That Is the sort of optimism which has to be kicked out of a man before he becomes a toler able citizen of the world —Loudon Out look. One on the President. President Tnft is not the least bit sensitive about bis size and laughs as heartily as any one over stories on this subject. Here FStrr) Is the latest: At a stop nu his recent ffL Su tour he had taken n 8,,0r ' wn lk l'> the country to view tha / scenery, but got ujffl pLI jk turned arouud and V 1 lost llis way * P1 " N, | nally he sighted a fUy K farmer toiling in 11 the sun ou the side n ant *' 1 ing to escape the exhausting climb from the road, the president hailed him. Twice the pleas ing, ringing voice of the nation's chief magistrate was heard before the at tention of the farmer was gained. The president pointed to a nearby gate and made an extra effort. "Cau 1 como In?" he shouted. "1 guess ye kin," bawled the farmer. "A lond or nay jist come turougu u." Overstocked. Madge as the oldest of a family of girls has evident) heard and taken to heart the disappointment of her par eats over the excessive femininity nl lotted by the fates to the family quiv er. Wheu recently the fifth little daugh ter was born Madge was playing In the garden with one of her sisters and us a neighbor considered, iva* decided iy rough with the chlid "Madge, don't treat your little sUtPr «o," remonstrated tin nelghhur. "Yon might kill her " "Well, if I dl v is Ihe cool re spouse, "there's pleuly more In tie house."— Philadelphia Ledger Gcing Into a Safer Business. It WHS Caesldy's first morning as newspaper carrier. From side to side of tho avenuo he hurried, dropping the moist sheets lu vstibules and running them in the spuco between the door and sill. '•'inally he caine to a house that was Hi ;arated from the sidewalk by ua urn studded yard. Cassidy open ed the Iron gate and walked up tha none path He knelt In the vestibule r.nd started running the paper tinder the door. An upper window win rala e.J. «ntl a woman's voire called: "'. tlmt volt. Harry? You are awful l.t:e I in*ir tin milk carts rattling." t'nss.ii.,- thought it bent to remain i,ili"t I'he voice coiilltnfed: Vou needn't think I'm coming down ni I, an ' n:! The n.'i.i of you, a married man. • •>.ninu home at such a time: Lost yo'ii i.ev. :i* usual? Well, catch this one A heavy piece of I :.is- shot Ivu sto ries. There was a heavy fall, and the vestibule resembled a press room. Some one I":: t| smoking Ills pipe In the "ai i-uieiit ward." "Going back to the carrier route'/" they asked. "Niver once more," responded Cassi dy "Oi'm goin' back to wur-ruk 111 th' quarry. Tlior's no fallin' kaes thor, only dynoniited rocks."—Chicago News A Hector Outhectored. A publisher's render at a literary club hectored a group of novelists. "l'ou chaps," he sneered, "must al ways be coining new words. Good English isn't good enough for you. In the last half dozen manuscript novels I turned down thero were such horri ble neologism* as 'he hoarsed.' 'she parroted.' "they shrilled,' 'he glimpsed her,' 'it mipremed,' and so fortli. Faugh!" "Let me Inform you," cried a novel ist defiantly, "that your remark shows a pitiful ignorance on your part of our mother tongue. As for 'shrilling,' Ten nyson writes: " 'With petulant thumb and finger shrilling "Hence!"' "Chapman, the great Chapman, Is an authority for 'parroting.' 'Glimpsing' has been used by Ho wells and Lowell, and 'supreme' as a verb may be found lu Shelley's letters." ■Washington Post An Ocean. Teacher—What Is an ocean? Johnny —A body of water necessitating bat- Heshlps.—New York Sun. 11 ViCTIS ® ZELAITSHATRED How He Broke Faiih to Kill Gannon and Groca. VIOLATED TREATY PROVISIONS □. 8. Holland Say* Nicaraguan Presi dent's Force* Invaded Costa Rica to Capturo the Americans—Were Not Adventurers, He Declares, but Large Property Owners. The radical action of tbe United States In breaking off official relations with the Zelaya government In Nica ragua and in opening unofficial diplo matic relations with Sen or Cnstrillo, the accredited representative of the revolutionary government of Estrada, at the name time offering to continue unofficial diplomatic relations with Setior Rodriguez, the Zelaya charge d'affaires, to whom it sent his pass ports In the letter making this an nouncement. was the direct outcome of the execution of the American clti- Ps Us \ ± j \ ItflW'ii „ J? LEiIOT CANNON, zens Leroy Cannon and I^eonard Uroce by order of President Zelaya. In severing relations with the present government In control at Managua Secretary of State Knox took the tirst step toward punishing Zelaya for the Cannon and Uroce execution and for repeated violations of the conventions of the Central American peace confer ence, which '.as fostered by tbe Unit ed States and Mexico. Mr. Cannon nud Mr. (Jroce, who were shot to death by order of Presi dent Zelaya for participation in the revolution in Nicaragua, were not Irre sponsible adventurers, but large prop erty holders In that and adjoining Central American republics, according to (J. Sneuccr Holland who has con siderable property and mining inter ests In Nicaragua and w ho returned to New York city a few days ago, when tbe situation of foreign residents not friendly to the Zelaya regime became precarious In Nicaragua. Persecuted by Zelaya. According to Mr. Holland, both Can non and (Jroce had been constantly persecuted by Zelaya in the past. Can non having been captured and cou ileinued re death in the revolution of n year ago, but secured commutation of tils sentence to n heavy tine on rep resentation* made by the American minister. At the time of his death Cannon, according to Mr. Holland, was i member of the staff of General Es truda. His exeet. >n was carried out by order of Zelaya after a plea for commutation had been made by /.eia ya's own sretierai in chief. Both iu the capture of the two Amer icans. which was effected through an incursion of Zelaya's forces Into Costa i'lcan territory, and in their execution without proper trial. Mr. Holland de clares. Zelaya violated the provision* of the treaty of 190S between the Cen tral American republics, of which Mex ico aud th» f'ulted State# wera guar antors. "Tb» present Intervention of tbe United States Is due solely," said Mr. Holland, "to the violation by Zelaya of the treaty of tbe Central American republics, guaranteed by the United States nud Mexico, in which the neu trality of the various countries, their freedom from trespass In time of war and the inviolability of the rights of residents of any one country in the territory of the others were guaran teed. Zelaya bus fretjneutly broken various provisions of the treaty and Insulted the United States representa tives by alleging in <lef» use pretenses which no schoolboy would for a mo incut deem worthy of consideration. It was because of Zelaya's insulting conduct that Mr. Gregory, the Ameri can minister, at last lost patience and left for Washington. His departure was deplored by all except Zelaya. who was more than glad to be rid of an Intelligent diplomatic representative who, with * watchful eye, understood his game. Were Large Property Owners. "There Is no doubt that .lose Oli vares, the consular agent of the United States at Managua, did all he could to prevent the recent unwarranted killing of Messrs. Cannon and Onx'e, It should be understood clearly tfest these njen were in no way adventur ers, but took a dettulte and clear inter eat Id the country where they lived and where they had acquired consid erable wealth and property When last 1 saw Mr. Cannon, in the end of October, ho had Just returned from his plantation at San Carlos, part of which had been destroyed by agents of Zelaya. He was going to join Gen eral Estrada, his personal friend, and be told me be had been appointed to a post on the geoeral's staff. "Mr. Uroce, too, had very valuable property In Nicaragua, valued approx imately at 5500,000, with about as much more distributed In Honduras, San Salvador and other republics. He was an expert mining engineer and lined lii- iii ... l.:. .wlt'uge to :he advantage <>t Ueneral Estrada. "Until tlroee and Cannon were cap tured after a decisive encounter be tween Estrada's forces and those ot Zelaya near the Kan Juan river. Ze- Inya's force, contrary to the treaty pro vision. deliberately crossed the rive* into Costn Itica. recroxsed It at an un expected point, and. api>earlng lu th» vanguard of (ieneral Estrada's force, put It to night. "Eager to Be Rid of Cannon." "Personally | have no doubt that both Caniiou aud (Jroce were taken In the net of laying mines uuder tbe river and adjaceut roads. Hut as they wer» recognized officers of the revolutionary party It was utterly finwarranted to lend them to executiou. i never be lieved they had a fair court martial, but that they were killed on tbe per sonal order of Zelaya. A cable in cipher received from friends la Nica ragua two days after the executiou tells me that Zelaya refused to talca Into consideration n suggestion of his own general in chief that their sen tences lie commuted "Zelayn had repeatedly shown him self eager to lie rlfl of cannon. Can non was captured and condemned to death in i lie lust revolution, but through tin intervention ot Mr Ureg ory. the \iiietiiau minister, his sen tence was commuted I hey confiscat ed about half his property Mr Can non lrei|Uently showed me letters lit which were plain proofs of Zelaya's animosity to lilni. lie had not h chance ot escape." Mr. Holland declared that most of the Amernau residents in Nicaragua had either left the country as unsafe or retired to their I Imitations or mines, j Most ot them, lie sam were hoping | that the I'nlted States v.i ulil tak«» | charge of the situation ai it restore or j der lor the proper development ot ttiu country's many rosnm. e.» Hoed and Hia Aunt. I While stiil a boy Thomas ilood went to Scotland for a holiday trip ant' stayed with las aunt, who was a rigid Sabbatarian lie describes how upon one occasion the old lady was too in disposed togo to her beloved kirn, tut found entertainment iu the description of the passersby furnished by lier ir repressible "nevvy"Tammy, my man, keek out—wha's that? J'bnt'i* Bailie So-atid So's daughter, num. a;nl Isn't she making desiierate love ti. young Somebody, who's walklnq t»y her side?" "The graceless Uizxte: r<l I wauk her. gin I were her limine i«t Keek out again, Tarn. there's .Mr*. Blank, aunt, and she's got on •« grand silk gowu and such a volwr mantle!" "Set us up. laddie! She. in | deed, the slllie wastrlfe In,die! She d better far pay a' she's owing. \Y;, i < nelstAnd so they would goon. : tie crabbed old Scotchwoman little so-* peeting half the "stour" proceeded from the active imagination ol ho:* "nevvy" to heighten the fun and draw her out. Naturo's Handiwork. The down upon the peach or plum is so delicate and so thickly set that one cannot touch the fruit with a ueedle's point without breaking the tender stalk, and yet the dew of the night : covers the whole surface of the fruit and disappears lu the morning, leav lng the gossamer growth more orderly j and beautiful than before. The dew covers every leaf of the, giant oak, aud the Ultgnty tree armies In tne renesu lng moisture to Its thirsty heart through millions of pores, and the iron trunk that has withstood a thousand storms is made stronger by the gentle ] strength of the dew. The silent fall of | the dew Is caused and controlled by agencies of the most tremendous pow i er. The same power which shakes a j whole continent with Its subterranean thunder Is the same as that which en circles the finest filament of thistle- I dowL h a coronet of dewy gems so ' small tha f they do not bend the deli vite stalk !h tbPir weight.—Uondoa Globe. i Knew It Wat a Canal ( Sonic of these yonugsitis who are studying physiology hive l.anl a I time as tlicir parents figuring ■ 'it t : 'e terms uacd In that profoundly luc *l - lug subject tine little uiil accord: : | to lier mentor, was asked the othe- I day to name the throe openings Into | the throat For the benefit of the gen j tie reader who may not nave studied I bis physiology recently It may be stat- I ed that the openings are the epiglottis. ' the esophagus and the alimentary ca i tin I. I The little girl had tried awfully hard | to remember th.>se names because she i had a hunch that tb« teacher would I ask her to (five them She started j bravely. | ''The . '.''glottis." she liega\ and liesl [ tafe*d. "Itlght Jon are." encouraged the ! teacher "What thea?" | "The tun— ah sarcophagus ?" she In j quired a little dubiously. , "You mean esophagus, my dear," } suggested the teacher "And the j third?" | "The Erie canal!" announced the llt- I tie girl confidently and triumphantly.— | Louisville Courier-Journal. Mau's chief wisdom consists in know ing his follies.—Rochefoucauld. lii NEW! A FLellatolo TIN SHOP, r*t all kind of Tin Rooflnft Spoutlnc nnd Conoral Job Work, • toy**, HMUri, Ran***. Fumioti, «to. PRICES THB LOWEST! QCJLITf TOR BEST! JOHN HIXSOiV SO. 11# E. FRONT IT,
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