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THE NIGARAGUAN REVOLUTION. hln rAfrnrn tn Ma Awn mnntrr ho wflff J one of the young. bloods' and declaimed so violently against the government that he was banished and joined Pres ident Barrios of Guatemala, .whose dream was to become head of all the I Central American republics, an ambi I tion that Zelaya himself afterward en- tertained. The young soldier became J a member of Barrios' staff and follow ' ed him to bis death. Zelaya then re I turned to his own country, led a revo I lution and landed in the president's chair. Nicaragua is about the size of New England - and has less than a half million inhabitants, most of whom are Indians. In the old days it was called Mohammed's paradise, but if the fol- 4uan Estrada, Leader of the Move- lowers 01 ine propnei were to see n rnent, Is the Prospective President.!"" would forswear tneir reugion. -j i ux 1L ah. u j ! Nicaragua has no roads and in the in-. Side Lights on the Man Who Had 7 ,,,., , fh j Two Americans Summarily Executed. of CoUmbus. The principal .industries ! work. Zelaya has added one other oc- WHAT SAVED THE CHERRY MINERS. Part Played fey President Ze laya, Despot and Dictator. HOW THE . UPRiSiNG STARTED. By JAMES A. EDGERTON. Jose Santos Zelaya, president of Ni caragua, has been called the mischief maker of Central America. It may turn out that when he had two American citizens shot without proper trial he made mischief once too often. As an ordinary thing your Uncle Samuel does not grow highly excited over these latin American revolutioris, but when some two by four despot like Zelaya Imagines he can Sboot. Americans in I cupatlon to those two that of paying taxes. He is a great money maker and has amassed a private fortune of mil lions. He is brave, however, . has shown some military ability and made of his army something more than the joke it is in some Latin American I countries. QUICKER TELEGRAMS NOW. I ZrmZ I 4 ' 's I t Device to Make a Telegraph Office Out of Every Telephone Station. . A revolutionary change in the tele graphic facilities of New Y ork city was recently predicted by persons holding high office in the new merger of tele phone and telegraph interests, formed by the American Telephone and Tele eraDh companv securing the Western ' Union. The messenger running, or, more often walking, to the telegraph office with the dispatch is to be elimi nated. According to these plans, it will soon be possible for the telephone subscrib er to write out his dispatch on. an electric machine, which will reproduce it simultaneously in the office of the j telegraph company. This will virtually mane a eiegrapu uiuce uui ui every telephone station and will add enor-' monsly to the facilities of the tele graph companies. , .' : .- Persons In authority said "that it would be only a short time before-such a device would be placed at the com- ' mand of all the large business bouses of the United States. - josh santos zelaya. I it is believed that such an instru- : th nm hi,-h hnndpd manner h iva 1 ment can ' be supplied to large sub- "nis own subjects it is time to put the scribers at virtually no extra expense. , fMr of Rod into his heart. t ' . ' while it will be possible for small sub- - Zfiia has hPMi lord hich boss of i scribers to have it at a relatively low Mtnannn.i rv ;-nn iranxo . TVw- la - COSt. St the official name for his job. but is I Tne cnarSe for sucn a writing ma. more nearly descriptive of it than his chne witn a dire telegraph counec fflpiai tio To hi nrwisp.. he is ion n probably in any case ex known as president and is supposed to ' cee " c"ses wuere laree Q- nf ko 1 to four hundred messages are sent mthf,,i,hiPh a mnrB (mnnrtflnt at, each day there will be no- extra ex ucuoc w ua tc v ci vuc icauu v. uio iput himself .In by bayonets and has maintained his power by bullets. True, j he fnrmn of an . election have been ' gone through at stipulated-times but nnnnitinn fnr the rpnRftn that if anybody else had dared to be . a . candidate Zelaya . would have had him taken out and shot. . ' , During much of the time he has been ' In office Zelaya has been engaged in improvement will be to provide all telephone subscribers with almost in stantaneous telegraph service, and there is no doubt that it will divert to the telegraph company a large volume of the business that, is now handled at much larger expense over the long distance telephone System. One very important development expected : to follow the working out of the alliance between the telephone company and f""1"6 "ZriliTn I tne telegraph company is the ultimate t K,ia rr .oo reduction in the expense of sending a one' of these annual uprisings or try Ing to do so at the time he got gay with the two Americans Leroy Can non and Leonard Groce and had them -shot one morning before breakfast,- It -Is hard to tell why all these Latin American executions ri occur- before breakfast. Possibly it is for the pur-" -pose of giving the executioners an ap petite, ' ' ; ' How the Trouble Begins. telegraph, message. ' : , - i Oue of the highest officers of the telephone company said that he be lieved, it would be possible after awhile for the telegraph company to accept . messages on the basis of a twenty-flve I cent charge for a fifteen wrd mes- sage, instead of a . ten word message. i -. . ...... i WEDDING THAT WAS A POEM. Owe Their Lives to Govern ment's Rescue Corps, RUSHED TO SCENE OF DISASTER As Soon as Word Was Received of the Catastrophe Men Trained at Experi ment Station In Pittsburg In Use of Oxygen Helmets Were Sent to St. Paul Coal Mine. - The ordinal number ,6f the1 present Ceremony In:. Epio Introduced by IJicaraguan revolution is not known. It may be the seventeenth or the sixty iourth, but anyway it- is something Middletown (N. NY.). Pastor, A genuinely poetic marriage was - the one at Calvary Baptist church in Mid- Jiigh. When the band plays at an unu- . uietown, w x., xne otner morning, eual time down there it is usually the ! uniting Clarence -B.'Crance, a young signal for a new .revolt. Somebody i business man of Middletown, and Miss wants to be president, and. Inasmuch I Luella May Clark, daughter of Mr. and as he will be shot If he goes about it I MfSj Isaac M. Clark. . . in a peacefulway, he tries to shoot' The Rev. John A. Courtright pastor first. - -.rr . of the church, performed the cere- This uprising vas started by the Es-' mony, which was nearly all in poetry, strada family, which has furnished ' and the service was so impressive that some of Zelaya's chief officials. There awere five of the Estrada brothers, but one of them is now dead. "The young- it promises to become a popular fad with those eligible for the ceremony, Mr. Courtright only recently assumed est of the five, Juan Estrada, is the the pastorate of the church, and bis leader of the movement and prospec tive president. The two Americans Cannon and Groce, who were large properry owners in Nicaragua and else 'where in Centra America, joined the Estrada standard, and ' one of them was placed oh the commander's staff. remarkable innovation has been a decided hit. , " : c in weddings ' Memorial to a Great Golfer. It was agreed .at a committee meet- i ing held in St. Andrews, Scotland, to erect a bronze panel representing, the Zelaya surprised the : insurgent army head and shoulders in life size of the 3y crossing into Costa Rica and at- I late Tom Morris. -The. panel will be -tacking it, and the two Americans placed on the west gable of the royal -were captured among others. Instead and, ancient clubhouse. The balance of being treated as prisoners of -war" ;; of the memorial fund after paying the they were summarily executed. It is . expenses for this erection will be used . this which has. caused the rushing of to endow1 a bed in St. Andrews Cottage American gunboats to Nicaraguan wa-., hospital to be-known. as .the Tom Mor- iters and which occasioned the. sharp rls bed and upon which golf profes note from Secretary Knox stating that j slonals and caddies are to have first -the United States would not for one i claim. w; - ' minute tolerate such action. The exe cution of prisoners unless they are ; dspies Is contrary to International law And opposed to civilized warfare." - Zelaya a Chronic Disturber. - This Is not the first trouble we have ' Aad-with Zelaya,. but on former occa sions be has evaded giving satisfac tion, on the pretense tbat''tiae'Atue'rlc'an" demands were aggressions. ' From well authenticated reports that have come . -from his dominions he has revived the -terrors of the Spanish Inquisition and tias tried to make of himself a cheap -composite of Torquemada, the Duke '. New Pin Money League. -: A number" of well known society wo men of Bloomfield, N. J.; have organ ized', the National Pin Money league. The object is to enable persons shut in by illness -to earn- money for their needs by1 making fancy articles, rugs, etc... Miss Lillian W. BabcocK Is presi dent, with headquarters at 343 Belle ville avenue, Bloomfield. it is believed by United States gov ernment officers in Washington that the miners who were recently saved from death in the St. Paul coat mine at Cherry, 111., owe their lives to the work of the government's rescue corps connected with the geological survey. These men, who are stationed at Pitts burg, where the survey has an experi ment station for investigating , the causes of mine disasters, were rushed to Cherry as soon as word ot the catas trophe was received.. Each member of the corps bad been trained in tbe-use of what is known as the oxygen helmet, an apparatus that permits artificial breathing in the pres ence of deadly gases. . Equipped with such helmets the government's life sav ers were able to enter the shaft of the burning mine and fight the fire at close range. ' " -" "' Officials said that bad the methods that have been in use in the past been employed the mine shaft would have been sealed until the fire had been smothered for want of oxygen. This, of course, would have meant a' delay sufficient to. have caused the death' of every man under ground. v : Much Time Saved In Reaching Miners. Geological survey officers said that the ability of the government's rescue corps to enter the mine, filled as it was with smoke and- gas, saved at least several days' time in reaching the en tombed men. To these officers the res-' cue- at Cherry is the .most practical demonstration ever given anywhere in the world of the efficiency of the oxy gen helmets." They asserted that this experience would go a long way toward showing mine owners and miners the necessity for having a complete equipment of oxygen helmets at each mine, together with a corps of men trained in their use. vlt is their belief that hundreds of lives can be saved in this manner and the terrible death rate- in American mines thereby 'reduced ' to a" figure somewhat approaching the compara tively low rate of casualties in Euro pean coal mines. With the government's method this agonizing wait at the shaft for the gas to dissipate is done ; away with and it is' not necessary to pour fresh air into the mine, for the members of the rescue corps in their oxygen hel mets can enter any atmosphere, how ever deadly; and remain for a period of two hours. If there has been an explosion of gas the members of the corps enter the mine at once and look for small fires that usually follow ex plosions. ; These. fires are extinguished at once, and then the ventilating cur rent is turned on :without any danger. In other words, the mine's normal con dition is restored -at the earliest possi ble moment,, and the men 1 wbo are in the farthermost recesses of the mine, where the black damp has not yet pen etrated, are Able to walk out. The station erected at Pittsburg con sists of ah explosive gallery. : where the powders used In blasting, the coal-j. are tested and standardized, and also a large room for the training of miners In rescue work. - ' . Equipment of the Rescuer. The oxygen helmet and auxiliary ap paratus weigh between thirty-five and forty pounds. . The helmet is a metal lic case inclosing - the head with an isinglass front The helmet proper is connected with tubes' leading ito two tanks of oxygen, which are carried on the back in a manner similar to a sol- dier's knapsack,- the straps supporting It goingover the shoulders, i. Each tank contains oxygen sufficient to last one hour. An indicator attached to the oxygen tanks shows the wearer of the helmet just how much time he may remain In the mine. This is abso lutely necessary, for if the rescuer has walked half a mile into a mine and it has taken him thirty minutes to trav erse the distance he must figure on thirty or forty minutes' time to return. In addition to the tanks of oxygen, there Is a cartridge of potassium hy drogen which takes tip the poisonous matter from the' breath and absorbs it, thus keeping the oxygen In Its pu rity to do the two hours' work. These helmets are in general use in Euro pean coal producing countries and are credited with saving many lives. ZELAYA A GREAT FIGHTER." President of Nicaragua, Who Executed Two American Citizens. The revolt which recently broke out ta Nicaragua came as a climax to a series of persecutions inaugurated by Jose Santos Zelaya. titular president and actual dictator of Nicaragua, against whom President Taft and Sec retary of State Knox have decided to take drastic . action for bis summary execution of the two Americans, Leroy Cannon and Leonard Groce. Zelaya Is fifty-one years old, and the wonder ful thing about his life Is that be has lived so long after making himself so many fervent enemies. Zelaya belongs to the aristocracy of his country. As a boy he was sent to Paris and received his education there, but his success has been obtained by means of the- sword rather than the pen. It Is likely that he inherited a considerable fortune, but this has been built up since he became ruler of Nic aragua until now It .must be estimated in the millions. He owns enormous coffee plantations alone and controls the exclusive rights to many of the industries. This Is not the first time that Zelaya has defied the United States. That has been one of bis principal diversions, as a matter of fact. .. Whenever the Unit ed States has sought redress be has set up the cry of aggression. Zelaya gained his ascendency in 1897 by winning a big battle. He is a fight er " and a tactician, and if he has drenched his country and the other lit tle countries that are unfortunate enough to border it in the blood of thousands of their inhabitants he has done It on a military scale that is sel dom attained In Central America. Ever since he first became president he has- been combating revolutions or else fighting with some other state that had pluck enough to resist his domineering attitude. In 1899 the Con servatives of Nicaragua rose in rebel lion and were defeated with much slaughter. He bullied Honduras and Salvador and Guatemala and even manipulated their politics. After 1901, when he was re-elected president, his rule was unquestioned. All sorts of stories have been circu lated about his cruelties. If one tithe of them have been true, then certainly Zelaya has maintained a rule that for sheer ferocity has surpassed anything alleged against Russian grand dukes. Those' for whom he had personal en mities he is said to have caused to be removed at will. He is credited with having reintroduced the methods of the .inquisition and the practices of the Spanish viceroys of the eighteenth century. The dungeon and the firing squad and trial by court martial have been his Instruments of justice. - MEMORIAL TO WASHINGTON 11 - :-V Christ mas Spe cials 0. 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Building to Be Erected In Honor -".'.-.- of First President.' The George - Washington Memorial association announced the' other 4ay that it ?had begun a campaign to raise $2,500,000 tor the erection of a memo rial building at Washington as bead- quarters for scientific, educational, pa triotic, art and literary organizations of the United States. With the support of the Washington Academy of Sciences, National Federa tion of Art. National Academy of Sci ences, American Medical , association, Association of American Physicians and other bodies it Is planned to raise by . popular subscription a building fund before Feb. 22, 1910. the one hun dred and seventy-eighth anniversary of the birth of George Washington. Senator Eliliu Root. Dr. S. Weir Mitchell. Dr. William Welch. Professor Alexanderv-Agassiz. GeneraT Horace Porter, Professor H. Fairfield Osborn andDr.- Ira Remsen have volunteered to serve on an advisory council with Mrs. -Henry F. Dimock, who is leading the movement. ' Among the 80,000,000 of Americans we feel sure we will find enougb.sup- port to assure the $2,500,000 . required to give George Washington this much needed memorial," said Mrs. Dimock, who has headquarters at 25 East Six tieth street. New York city. "There is not a national organization in the land that will not benefit by the accommo dations of tbis structure that we pro pose to rear to the memory of .Wash. ington. It has long been a constant source of shame to the American peo ple that their capital held no fit meet ing place for national and . interna tional conventions in the cause of gen era! f knowledge, . and In remedying this practical defect we can at last gratify the dearest wish of Washing ton." .-.". - New Industry In China. Among the new industries that have sprung into being in Hongkong lately is a shoe factory, where footgear for Chinese Is turned out by modern ma chinery at" a" rate unprecedented for Hongkong. In this connection the manufacture of European boots . and shoes on a wholesale scale Is In con templation.', ' : Crime Page Each Newspaper. . Placing ail the crime in a newspaper on one page was the idea presented to the Federation of Women's Clubs in annual session at, Rochester, N. T., the other day by Mrs. A. C. Fisk, newspa per and magazine writer. The federa tion after Mrs. Flak's address adopted resolutions In favor of the plan, which, if addpted by newspapers, would allow subscribers to tear out the crime page of the paper before their children could read df the murders, robberies, elope ments, 'divorces and otijer too frank "idult doings.- r: Y '": ' " "K. .Young Prima Donna. Among the- youngest prima donnas is an English girl,-. Miss : Maggie Teyte, who is now singing in London. Though scarcely twenty years old, Miss Teyte has made her debut at the Paris Opera Comiaue. There she nlav- ed Mary Garden's role of .MellSande and won a great triumph. ' - Aeroplane Omnibus Next. ' Ballin Hinde, speaking at a meeting of a cycle and motor company at Coy. entry, England. - the other day, ' said that he believed tbat within the next few years aeroplanes would be built to serve as omnibuses for the carrying of passes ger8.v i; f ' XMAS PRESENTS FOR EVERYBODY We haye been very careful in selecting a line of Holiday Goods that will please you and, at the same time, be within reach of your purse. We carry no cheap, shoddy goods, but every article is of the very best quality, such as SIMMONS' WATCH CHAINS, ROGERS BROTHERS' 1847 SIL VERWARE, ELGIN AND WALTHAM WATCHES, HOARE'S RELIABLE CUT GLASS, which has no superior. - ' We do first-class engraving that gives the effect and adds so much to the appearance of your articles. Now Is the Time to Select Your Gifts Before we are rushed, as we can give you better service, tion to give you honeat goods and honest prices. It is our inten SMITH, THE JEWELER, 151 Madison Street, Side of Postoffice. 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