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' ' ' rfcJ li Vye -" v---I ' 1 I '.- r V tnrp i I Hil-jcrT '"I' I v . Ak "Well, her mother is dead. Felhafn V'-'y . KLf tt'''! "r TV V "'': '- ; I I A J-V A . r- . I So7 , - I hVM J dead. There. U nothing In England ' - . a Avjv. ' ?t ryi .in. , - i' i I - - i "p ' Tt : .' i 117 vsj ' ' : ,or b,r nw " " mo " S!T f T tJ "VS. v i 1 I S V ' OeW L'l I II i 'Yl I I1 . ' i - ' ummor ln.VlrnU near bar eld homo ' pjgz "' ; '" ''" 'jf '''' 1' ' 'I' thara nowrtfW ahort time J hope Tp command Wraa paaaad aa quietly- aa practicable along the line f akirmlaM- . era aa they reached the edge of the . thick Wbod bordering on the grounda et - the eld mansion of Sackett'e Landing. In the ahade of a great tree on the lawn were; a number of chalra, and tin gerlng there In the grateful olneaa . were two lad lea whoae attention had " - ben- drawn to the wood by the alight , notae made by the advancing eklrmlea i era. r, . . The two of flcera Ueutenanta Pl r ham, of the artillery and Page of the Infantry advanced cautloualy Into the , opening, algnallng with their bandker ' chlefa to the ladlea, who, going to the ' barn, which aheltered them from view Irom the river, awaited the officers. Lieutenant Faga, the elder and more lmpoalng of . the officer, althoagh not - In command, acted aa apokeaman, chief ly because it waa expected of tolm, and explained that they were reconnoltertng - r tot a position from which a battalion ef . artillery might fire, on the Yankee gun ', kn&ta lv1n in the James, with the ob , vlous purpose of eaverlng the landing of troops from tne aoutn aioe. ; , -: "We have been told," amid Page, "that ha bluff to our left will answer that ' purpose, aa the guns of the vessels eaif net be elevated to such a degree M te barm the artillery posted mere, wnue It might pour shrapnel or sven canister ; tfown upon their decka, . rt ! true." said the elder lady, qui "the ahtDa may be destroyed from ' that point It would be much for the ' ' miu. hut hard for as' Hard, surely." aald the daughter, " with much animation. ."It would mean the destruction of our home. One of . my brothere has died for the cause, and my father and the only brother left are at the front, - "Not five minutes before we aaw you Cantatn Stanley and three of his offl- cere left as. They were sitting In those chalra and they came to tell us ms ne had ordere, If they were fired upon . rom the bluff, to turn thel guna on : our house. We should be left without . a roof to shelter us. Is It not snough ' that we ahould give to the cause all our men all that la dear to as n tne -'Oh, It Is very hard, air. You must pare ue our borne. Why. even Captain utanlev. Yankee) that be is, waa so al fected when be told ua of bis orders ' that tears cams Into bla eyes. "It would be Just aa If yon burned our house ts ths ground yourself you. ;- ene of our ew snen. whoes eluty It Is to protect ue who have given so much " to the cause. It le dreadfult It la shameful, air! Yon must not do It," aha eaelalmed, petulantly, and then the beautiful no? let evea were In tears. - "It la not I. Mlse eekett," exclaimed .. Page, "who. will have anything to say In the matter. I bars no authority: It Is - he, the - adjutant, Lieutenant Pelhara, ' who la In command, and who is to make the report la . the clreumstsnoss I would report ths position aa nnflt but I ' have nothing to ssy, no authority. It ' Is be" pointing to ths small, cloaa-sut, ,' beardless adjutant "Oh, air. you who are scarcely older '.' than myself, cannot be so cruel! 'For more than a hundred years the. BacSetts have lived In that house, and our dead 7 are there .yonder under the trees. I ., could never be happy anywhere else. ' If you destroy our home I shall never forgive you!" she cried with a. flash Of ; anger. ' "If," aald the adjutant quietly, "I - find the position available I ahall have to report accordingly, but I ahall make . a full explanation of the circumstances. 1 can do no lees than my duty." ' "The adjutant Is right," said Mrs ftsckett "We are little as compared with the cause. Your father, Virginia, would burn the home himself If It were hla duty. Go, gentlemen, do your duty at whatever coat to na.' The cause Is great" "It la ehameful," aald Lieutenant "PBgeTTaklrig the Mriddnhir"y6ung woman. "I will do what I can tor you. .' and I think It may bVaomethlng. ' r The command waa given and they ad vaneed ts the bluff. . "Yes, our lady of ths Inscrutable vlo ' let syea and distinguished mien has a ' history. Presently I will Introduce you." said ths hostess to ths gray ad mlral. "This wag la Washington In ths early - slghtiea, at Wednesday afternoon of , the leader of society, ths wifs of Jus ' tics Blank. . . It Is Admiral Stanley, the gray ad mlral." but he la not so old, aa you will find after you had talked with him for a while. He Is very rich, very clever, hot a wamea hater, but, tar reason beat known te himself, a confirmed bachelor." " -Thte Is hfra. Pel hem. idmlral n lejt jroa Uuui4 hao.w. saeb oUer(" sai4 : . 'v-:' :-: v. - , ' ths hoe teas, as (he moved away to other gueeta. "It seems to me,", said ths admiral, "that I havs known you at soma time. and yet" - . '"And yet" said the lady, "It may be so. Many corns Into one'a life and paas out and en, ts be aeen no more." "Yet It Is without- ths continuity of ths story teller in bis world they must come in again or be. aa the lawyers say. Irrelevant tnoonsequent" ' i-.eaiiy, n la vers Tragmentary, ad miral one'e life, mads up of unrelated bits mere sketohes, so to apeak.",. "And still, madam, when ths atory of one's life widens out Into othsr exist snees we think must coma ts ue, or maybe) havs been, before, the plot may prove compact and structural, aa the work of a good playwright or novelist ' Transmigration you believe , 1n thatr , , X. : "It Is thinkable even logical, and one at tlmea is almost forced to believe In It Even now it seems to me I have known you Somewhere, thst you have had some vital thing to do-with 'my life, and yet It could not have. been. In England, my visits bars been so-brief and few." ; . "In ths Impresslonabla period of youth. Admiral, one Is so apt to color, with color of one's swa Imagination, the Image of a thing aay of personal Ity and love, or hate It for years, and then find, when ths . Image la com pared with ths fact, that what one has held to has been little mors thsn a fig ment of ths Imagination a falss Invi age." . f ' "I am given to Imege making myself. have cherished one for so many years that It haa some to be more real to me than any actual thing of life and more beautiful. I often auspect than the reality in which It had Its spring could have been. You aee I am a bit of aa artist by nature and training, and have the habit or eliminating what don't want, and adding what I do. that trrthe and the thing 1 create may bo littls like ths model from which It wss drawn. - "And mors lovable, perhaps, because ef the elimination of non-eaaentlala .that disturb ths harmony of a personality or bit or nature.- - r"StUL thajreal: artist, being human and having- constantly to refresh his Imagination In the sprints 'of nature must long mors than other men to find there a realisation of eome one of his Ideals. . at least. "But they are so exacting through training and' habit that a few human beings may -expect to live up to their expectation a. Their sensitiveness la greater than their affections, and they had beet go on holding to Ideals that may never bo realised out of the books they writs or the plotures they paint' . "Perhaps perhaps you are right' said ths Admiral, medltaUveln acid rather sadiy. '-'in, '.".. 'v'''-- "What, la ths history of Mrs. Pel bamr aaked ths Admiral of Mrs. Blank after a years absence, "You havs not for got ten T That Is unusual - with yrfu. Admiral." 1 'An unusual woman you muat admtl ons not easily forgotten. I Imagine, and then I am unable to recall when and where it waa I havs known her be fore. ' Somewhere, sometime, I am aura. but It is sn Illusive pereoneHty enig matical It could not have - been In England, for ' 1 1 can recall quite dis tinctly .all my acquaintances there.' - "Virginia Pelham Is nsmed after -her own etate; she Is an American, a Vir ginian." . . j And who was Pelham T" - J.,jr5hsresjpelhsnii, the novelist, whose posthumous fame la eogreaC' I see. , ane - married an nsusn, man." "No, he, too. wag aa American a Virginian." ."That Is ftewa." ' 4. fTo the public, yea." "Why should It ba sof "There was an Incident" ' ' ' ' "Of an unpleasant nature" - -' "Rather. Yon may recall ths shoot ing of Carter Page by Berkley Pelham." -Of which Mlaa - Beckett was the saucer - v "Partly.". ; .' ' ' - ' . - : "Ahr - ', "Too see, although acquitted by ths Jury, td which It was made clear the ehootlng waa done In self-defense, it waa a dreadful thing with which to be identified. So - when he went to Lon don Charles -Berkley Pelham waa ad mitieq to tne bar aa Charles peihem end his Identity concealed from all but a few Mends." . -. "And he married Mlaa Backett there r tie cr.zcoN Sunday journal, poiiTLAND, eu::b.Y- r:c-::x::'i : aucuit 1 "Ths marriage waa a happy one? . : "I imagine not from the fact that they lived apart mostly, hs on ths con tinent and she In the lake regions with her mother, whoae health waa better there." . " - - . "They never 'returned to their coun try?" . - . .' . . "No; they had nothing to ' come to. The father of tha two brothere perished In the war, and eome of you gentlemen Of the navy deatroyed their home at Sackett'e Landing. They felt more at home In Englend, wVlero they had family connections, and here nothing but sad and traglo memories." "I recall the destruction of the Back ett mansion one of the many deplorable lncidenta of the war,' - , . CASTRO, THE RIDDLE OF REPUBLICS (Continued from First , Section.) Page of thla lsck of restraint peculiar to- himself. Impulsive and daring to a degree.: hejipepf, hla daya. in the saddle and tninas a long way ahead and haa a keen eye to solid, resulte. -His visionary and overwhelming ambition haa hypnotised him Into believing that ba la specially ordained by hlsMakertoTgtorsthe fallen fortunes of Veneauela and - weld Into one - harmonioua whole the scattered fragments got grand Colombia. Hla dominating individuality waa manlfeeted from the earliest daya of hla precocious boyhood. The eon of typical Veneauelan peon, who bad given Indiscriminate) birth toTumerou progeny, hs waa watering mulea and selling aguardiente at a . ranchmen's rendesvoua about the age when Ameri can boya begin to attend school, in the little - Tacblran village of Cepalcho, where he made hla unceremonious ap pearance In lltO, among the wild hills on tha border ' of Colombia, every one Is proud of "el chloo," the kldewho never took a - dare - and who could ride and shoot as straight and hard aa any man. They tell how, when yet a mere strip ling, rough and uneducated, he domi nated "the village and waa feared for miles around for hla cat-like agility and sxiu witn tne anire. - .' Castro alwaya i alms high, and the manner In which he entered the political sphere well Illustrates thla peculiarity, la hla native village he had resisted the graft of the local alcalde, who, true to South American traditions, measured hla exactlona only by the taxable ca pacity of his victims; but beyond the narrow limits of his own district the present ruler ef Veneiuela waa unknown. Yet he strove for the highest prise within his reach. He determined to -go )o Caracas as deputy for the state of Tscnira. - ho got hla- rnende together and displayed wonderful organisation In making them canvass votes for him. He and they scoured the country on horseback, and so, forcibly did his pro gram and personality appeal to the elec tors thst he heeded the ticket and was ant to Caracas and congress. . A National Orator. There his marvaloua natural gift of oratory compensated for his entire lack of culture. Ill at ease In tight-fitting broadcloth and squeaky patent leather, he, at ons moment aroused the -con temptuous mirth of his colleagues by removing his boots and placing them on hla desk to serve as paper welghta, and the next held them spellbound by his commanding eloquence. - - Few men have such sn astonishing flow Of language as Castro. He robes his strong original Ideaa In a wealth of rhetoric that dasslee and overcomea. He hes a splendid voloe and la at tlmea alluring or peremptory, humorous or psthetle. '.. ...... f . . caraquenlans wars still smiling at the unoonventtonallty ef the black-eyed ewarthy little andlno, when It aaw. a Castro party rlae In Its midst. . Attracted by his magnetic personal ity, adhererite gathered quickly, and It la'but fair to aay that to thla day Cas- Jrvjbfirujk, jow wlji t .tJioss' .who "One that It muat havs bees hard to recall without. bitterness, and that waa aggravated by the fact that It was done by an officer who had accepted the hos pitality of .these ladlea won their re epect snd, aa I have reaaon to believe, the love of Virginia Backett" ' "Yea, the of fleer on the strength. of whose report the artillery that aunk the gunboats waa posted near the mansion." "But did not ha know what would be the result of thia report T" il . ' -"Yea, he or Carter Page, who com magVd the Infantry of the reconnoiter Ing party, were told, and Page used every Influence to prevent It. going so far even as to urge that the position waa unfit and dangerous, which led to bis degradation . to- the' ranka . and befriended him In his early struggle. Castro's visit to Caracas opened hie eyes to ths paramount - Importance of aome kind of education, and when the accession of Crespo drove him Into exile he hied himself across the Colombian border with a young wife and a goodly stock or book a For elx yeara he led the life of a .frontier ranchman. ..He bla nlghta in atudy. Even ' If "Castro's ambition Is but a dream, It la a glorious dream, part of wnicn haa already become true. He is undisputed" master of Veneauela, and out of seemingly ,lnextrlcable chaos has evolved eometning approaching order. He haa Instilled fear Into the hearte of his enemies at home, and, by diplo macy, won the respect of foreign , na tions. For three years his country has enjoyed the blessings of perfect peace, a' thing It had not known for genera tions, and ha Is rapidly curing foreign ers of their once firmly aeuled belief that they could drain tha country's wealth with impunity. The day may yet come when he will reunite Vene auela, Colombia and Ecuador Into one vaat republic, aa they were at the be ginning of the last century, thus form ing the nucleua for a United States of South America, , , , , The Keynote of Success. -( Castro's absolutely dauntless nature, which never stops to count difficulties or dsngere, was ths keynote of his suc cessful raid upon the presidency. - When Creepo fell, Caatro came to Caracas and offered his cervices to - Andrads to cleanse Veneauela from the then pre vailing corruption. But financial in terests were too. strong, and hia prof fered aid was .refused with an Intima tion that the administration had no need: for half-caste dreamers. . Thla rebuff stung the little andlno Into action,' and the next alx montha of hla life can ecerce be equaled In the pages or fiction. He hied himself In high dudgeon to hla mountain home. and, calling together his moat trusty friend, told him he was going to Caracas to wrest the prealdeney from Andrade: that . with "new men. new ideala and new methods," the- Ood-ordatned work of reatoratlon might be begun. ' , On May ft, 1811. at tha head of to followers, Castro started out. 'without money or ammunition, for a eoo-mlle dash across wild and hilly country, to overtnrow a eirong government, having eome 14,000 troops and the financial backing of ail the wealthy foreign cor porations, . -' Hs led his men over the roughest of mountain trails and depended for sup port aolely on the villages and towns along hla route. Every day, before he could reed hla men or reet hla horses he had to Win over a village or subdue It by force. With his dust-laden band. he would swiftly reach the market place. and rrom a muie-cart or empty riour cask addreas the crowd." If the authori ties ahowed Tight, he would go-at them like a wildcat and make bloody work of It; but when oratory won even the pass ive support of the people, he was con tent to take only those supplies of which be stood in absolute need. He got recruits every dey, and his fores had swollen ts some 400 men when he reached Paparo, There.he fought hla first Important sngagament, and, with out artillery or even decent weapons. jouj,d ths gtron colum enf, agaloat eventually to his death, for from fnat time on his Infatuation for Miss Beckett grew without encouragement. She su spected. If she did not Jove, the man who had courage to do hla duty, which ex cited the Jealousy and hatred of Page to. the extent of driving hlra to- the act which resulted In hie death. Of course, the disgrace and humiliation of his Ill judged effort to save the Backett hthiee had much to do with It too." 'You think, then, that Miss Backett did not -love Peine mT" "She may havs thought so for a time, but lt'waa possibly never more than a feeling of pity pity they say la akin to love."' "". -.. . "Bo that Is ths story r v . "Yes.": v , -, ...;' "' y AMERICAN him. ' Hs seised a large quantity of stores and ammunition, and, better atll, enrolled practically all of the beaten troops, saying that he wished no barm to any Veneauelan who was willing to fight for hla country. He avoided Basqulemento, whore the bulk of Andrade' a army waa quartered. and fell upon a amaller detachment of government troops. Again he was vlo- toiioua. . On September 14 he reached -Toeulto, near Valencia. His fores now numbered nearly 1.000 men, but he waa opposed by 1.000 6rTO(rsTBoraiefafhSg6VerfiV ment could place In- the field.' He had got auffldent Mausera to arm moat of his men. but they had little Idea of tha tremendous slower of modern firearms Mausers are no joke at 100 yards range, and before" nightfall more then 1,000 men lay on the ground. In the hour of victory Castro's horse was shot and It fell on him, breaking hje leg. . He was picked up snd placed in a hammock, whence be continued to direct the fight The government troops fell back, ignorant of tha fact that the little man was wounded snd thst hs had ex pended practically all hla ammunition. The next day he waa carried Into Va lencia, where ha repaired his arm a, aelsed all the atores tha place contained and organised for his sttsck upon the capital. . ' - t -.- . Andrade only had about 4.000 men In Caracas, and these he aent to meet Cas tro. Their chiefs were none too anxloua, however, to fight the wiry mountaineer, and when he offered not only to apare them the humiliation of being driven Into the sea but to accept the aervlcee of all who would help him to carry out ial Kestauracion, tney went , to mm without. firing a ahot . - - Then Manuel A. Matoo. who waa min ister of finance, seeing his only chance waa to accent the inevitable with what- ever good grace hs oould muster, Invited Caatro to enter Caracas, and Andrada fled to Barbados irt the only war vessel he could boast 'of, on October St, exactly five months after- Caatro had started out. - - . - '','.. - From ths bottom of their hearts the highly refined snd cultivated -Careque-nlana hated their new master, and It needed all hla Iron will and commanding personality to impose himself aa he has done. Seventy houre after hla first proc lamation as president Of tha republic was issued "the ' flrat revolution wad started agalnat him: -- In ths first three yesrs of his presi dency, Caatro crushed no leaa than 11 distinct revolutions, during which, at the lowest eatlmate, 11,000 men were killed. Th Matot Revolution. '; .y! ' Finally Matos took the field at the head of the beet organised and moat for mldable movement sver attempted In South America.- Matoa, aa minister of finance, had eome lnt close contact with all the great financial intereets In Ven eauela. As la manners, he Is an Ideal gentleman aa well aa diplomat hs got ths support of sll ths Interests menaeed by Castro, who had already started out on a campaign to force foreign corpora tions to comply strictly with their obli gations toward the atate. - The -asphalt trust furnished him with ths where withal to purchase and fit out the Ban Rich, the revolutions- vessel whteh tild auch hkvoo on the coast line. . The French Cable company placed Ita line at, hia aijpaal ai4 organised, a aoryjee rv "X am told.' said the admiral to Mrs. Pelham on tha Arst ocoaslon offering for inore than casual conversation, "that you are reaiiy an American." ; "I freely admit It now." ' "Then there waa a. timer v - ' "When I wished to forget i :." "And did not?" , "One may not forget but how good It Is that time softens ths bitterness, heals better sense of proportion of relative1 valuea." - .-v.'1, ,,.;','..-.. "You have found It sof - "Yea, whan I went with my mother to England 'shortly after ths close of the war, I left nothing behind. All was lost; the cause, father, brothere. home. , We had nothing but sorrow and regret and bitterness of spirit to take with ua to our new plaoe. When we aaw tha pallid cliffs of England rise out of ths sea, our hearts went out to meet them. Here long, long ago had been ths horns of our people and- ws felt thst ws wars going back to our own, not to a foreign land, but to our own place, to be happy and rest after a troubled exile that seemed like an ugly dream." ' ' "And you were escaping the Yankees" "Yea, . ths dominion of ths odious Yankees the false, cruel Yankees, who had robbed ua of all we loved." "Were your expectations realised T" - "Are the expectattona of youth sver realised, admiral?" ' j ' - "Seldom, I Imagine." "We learned to lovs England the people, who were hind to us. and the land, for what It waa. possibly, mors than for what It la. Bo much of human glory la buried there that Is sacred soil ons treads upon In that Island.". "Glory -rand shame." ssld the admiral, gravely. "yea. shame, that la everywhere, un fortunately, and not alwaya burled, but we learned, little by little, to turn from, that eld country, with Ita great hlatory, Ita noble and ahameful past, to the new one with a aenae of Joy In Its newness. and hopefulness, and ita freedom fronsf- oM forma. Mr mother lies there now In a peaceful churchyard, with peoplo of long ago. and I am here now, glad to be of my own country, and with the liv of Information whereby he was kept posted on every move of ths government troops. 1 ne company wem wo am.t mm to refuse to transmit Castro S m sagea, and even violated the secrecy of his commandera' telegrams - It looked very much as If Matoa would auoceed, and after tha fight had been raging for months, bs waa prac tically In poaaeaalon of the entire coun try. Tet Caatro did not move from Caracas. He waited till Matoa waa In easy reach of the capital at La Victoria, Caraquenlans expected every day to hear that the final advance had begun. The main body of Caatro's troops had been sent to meet Mstos and only a few hun dred men remained. One afternoon at the hour when Caraquenlana love to con gregate la their cafes, 1 Castro. whe never aurrounda himself with guards. strolled Into La Francla alone. He at ones surrounded by groups of men who wsnted to know If It waa true thst Mstos, with- 10,000 men, was at Li Victoria. Caatro was pleased to - Inti mate that he believed that waa a fact but he Intended going out ther him self on the morrow and would wipe them out for good. 4l Victory at La Victoria; He kept his word, and If sver a fight was won by aheer bravery, It wss that one. - For six days, in a temperature of lis degrees, with lass than 4.000 men, Caatro held a little eminence agalnat the- fiercest hand-to-hand onalaught of more than twice the number of well armed, carefuly drilled troops They aay, he alept leea than to hours during the whole time, but hs infused auch con fidence Into hla men that they seemed almost aa indefatigable as htmaelf. But It his men held out their ammunition was limited, and when all was blackest. a general went In aearch of Caatro to ten him that the last wagon was eome up. He found the small khaki-clad fig ure, black with powder, lying in a ditch with a Mauaer and joking with his an- oinos as ns nrea. - - , . . At the news that ha had no more am munition, Caatro Jumped to his feet shook oitaeeir ana caning to bis men. Berore tney ruuy realised what had hap. pened, led them 'whooping down upon the center of the enemy. . Hla whole array, followed, even cams rouowars ana women joining In ths mad rush. He wss tha first man In the enemy's lines, with a rifle In ons hand and a machete In the ether. Matos' men prone ana nea ana wnen night esme 1,000 dead wars lying on ths field, but revolution aa a meane te pe4lttoal powsr waa stampea out in veneauela for Just so long aa Castro lives.. - . When ths Mstos revolution was at Its height ons of ths few accurate ob servers who hsve visited Caracas wrote of the position of the country: "Busi ness Is at a standstill, the ' city la empty; but for beggars and country folk who havs fled from deeolated estates. Trade Is dead, money Is unsafe and valuable property la worthless because Insecure. This etate of affairs will con tinue until Caatro auppreeeea the revo lution or la auppreaaed by It" , The above quotation showa better than long argument what a teak Caatro haa had to grapple with. With a ruined people and an impoverished country he managed, how no one exactly knows, to keep his foreign engagements snd to pay off a heavy load of debt the legacy of. former administrations - Aa he himself somewhat Irreverently wrote In a meaaage te oongreae, "history in say or me ss of our Savior, that with five loaves I havs fed 1.000 peo- ing, not with the dead, r The past passed and I am alive." ,"An the bitterness i, ..... 'i ,. . .. nmm nni u loat In a T..llnr n exultation that toy father and brother ua -or a tiling tn which they believed something greater than self." . - 1 Ml "And you i feel' also .that-their enemle did no least" ' " . : -"NO leas. War ia cruel. ' know. Admiral It la hellr ma n..oJ which leavea fewer exalting memories. or.me great unsemshness of heroism What your people did. and what mv pla did, that waa noble In that great waf haa added priceless heritages to the common country of which I am now sJ "And this great country',' madama,"wll not cease to be proud of you and thi nany like you and your mother, on botij eldee, . whose suff srinss. and herolsnl were mors than those of the men yoil inapirea ana eem out to fight May . hops now. with your better idea of rale tlve values, Mrs. Pelham, that you have; a aue appreciation of. how bard It was, for Admiral Stanley, tn the performance of duty, to destroy your homer 1 "Yes. I think I can now. I thlntf Admiral Stanley had much rather hav4 gone down with hla ships. ., :. -"Admiral Stanley can vouch for that madsrae. It was ths hardest duty hej was svsr called upon to perform, and he has often regretted that he did not gd flown witn bis snips and snd it all theri and there." , "With hops of a happier, fats In some! reincarnation T '-. -, "with tha hops of being forgiven, al least" I "Well Admiral Stanley need not trans-l migrate for that Mrs. Pelham can ssjf that Miss Saokett forgave him long agd and for many years suffered unceaalng-j ly, for aba believed always thst that particular Yankee waa neither cruet noil false." - " . - "If Mlaa Backett could know Toy hoW many years, that Yankee tried to-find her and for how long he mourned'' the! ons women hs loved, as dead, and cher-l lahed her Image In hla heart aha wouM be glad that ehe forgave and pitied him That Imago haa been his ons eonsola-l tlon, - his only - happiness more real J more beautiful by far, than anything! alee." ., , - -., .u. . ... I .."And. la ths Image gTeaUr-Ttnore tcl him than the faetr '.''.'..''.'.' , " , , I . . "Far less . Thess years havs beeri llkef night" . . .-.i,..,'., "And now?" "Ths stars are pale, ' , They fade; behold the phantoms fad That kept the gates of day." ,. . Caatro la fond of comparing himself! la the Deity. On a recent tour through the atatee he publicly reminded the Bishop of Ctudad Bolivar that Ood had made heaven and earth In , alx days and on the aeventh day reated and aaw that His work was good, but thst he. Caatro, had labored for alx years to re store the fortunes of Veneauela and on the aeventh year 'rested not, but- saw that 'hla-work waa very good, - i With all his Idlosyncraalea. there are many noble traits In Castro's charac ter. He Is never mean or treacherous. and - has - such . . unbounded confidence In his own power that ha never thought of entering into conspiracies so usual among Latin Americana. - He loves a fight but he would rather not win at all than win unfairly. He la generous and liberal to a fault. Once a man ahot at him. in the street -Castro whipped out his own gun and put a bullet through the fellow's leg, but afterward forgava his assailant and even sent his - own doctor to look 'after him. , -. . . ' .- His- attention-was recently called to tha fact that an old soldier who had fought In the war of Independence when Veneiuela seceded from Colombia waa In want, and he aent ths man 11.000 be canae "brave men deserve to die happy." Caatro loves bull fights, but he won't allow my horses to be drsgged Into the ring and gored. . Hs says It Is cruel to the horses and wastes ths bulls' strength. With him It haa got to be a real fight between ths man and the bull, with a fair field and no favor, and although he will liberally reward a daring and skillful matador, hla '-'bravo toro!" la whole-hearted when the bull gorea a man. .. . But to really Judge Caatro It la neces sary te see him dance. He Is aa light aa a cork upon water, every movement la original and Ilka the workings of the man's brain. He dances aa he fiehts. with all his might and main, but with out apparent errort , y Castro's Dally tlfe,'.' y . " Hs sleeps. Just off the patio In a little W Iron cot. Ths magnificent marble baths at Loa Teques hs never Uses; he calls them "si bans del doctor." the hatha of Doctor Torres Cardenas, long mi private secretary, now minister of the Interior. He takes his morning dtp 'under a tap in .the yard and abakee himself dry as ha waa wont te In hla boyhood. He rises every morning at a little arte and his flrat care is for his pet birds. Hr feeds- them -himself attired" In a gold-embroidered working-oap. . He thsn gate hla black coffee, and at I la at bla seek, witn nis aiae ae camps tn at tendance. He works straight en tin It going through all his correapondence oimaeii. Then he- receives the mAXtnt -i Cfonatltutlonal" and dlaouaaea the leading article for the next day. Often he him self furnlehee ths rough draft. Then hla Intimate friends dros In and ha haa a short chat till lunch. He loves black nana ana mus una eggs ana the fru gal fare of his country home. . A ahort aiesta or aome other ri... tlon follows and at I o'oleck hs Is ready for sfflclal receptions and any other business that needs hla attention i. half peat 4 he Is In ths saddle and goer I for a ride with asms of hie frianri. ulAJ I. W I. . tlft.lA W -, . . - - 1 " " yw.ur er win tne papers ere read to him. If there Is time be fore dinner, he recelyee again, but at T the svsntng meal, as simple as hla lunch. Is rapidly , swallowed, and If there Is sny mors work te bs dona tack and does it,. , ' - - ' ' 4
