Show r c 7 r Z TRL FI Ft ft C fl I I 2 tn It L i V I 4 r r Ii IiI IiI i 1 I I ci b fTh z j t I I t q 4 V Wi I iN JI I I J it I t L 1 T t lj t c I 1 r CALL w PH MY M MEN AND AN OR TO At t YOU fou Out YOU i L A fer GUY cuY cu CHALMERS oI years yeatS ears It jo o the president of ot tte UK tM SC 0 of f Nicaragua wa w ait SU t with kf cabinet o in I his room rin in tile the Ut city of Gt Mann Mana Managua Magua gua They bey were waiting t to greet their genera who had bad just entered the city at nt the head of f his hie army after quelling a revolution TIle The general g entered a line fine stalwart soldierly man with cold gray eya ens and aDd anda aDda I a steely eel glance At Me W there Uteri fol lowE d a mob nb of lila 1118 officers chul c like Uke most moat w in a queer q eer medley ley of t i and b voId gold latee laie As they tried tri to into the room after him bIns he gave pye ca them one angry glance and they tumbled down clown staiN in a greater hurry kurtt hur than if he lund had shouted a dozen oath at them The Tb president pre ide t began bean n to thank hint him in inthe inthe Inthe the fulsome language l so Si dear to Span Sp n je Ame B gea tYs illus tUU illustrious patriotism and magnificent hero bero heroism lam ism he declared dec ted had Jt d th the republic j lie lic The general silenced him by a wave of or the hand ban deew A aad ant rap rapped ped pe on the table bIe sharply with the butt The faces face of the cabinet officer turned pale dead silence reigned re ed in the tb room The revolution to iIIi dead dad d announced I the general after playing silently with Ida his frightened for a full uIl min minute ute as a cat plays va with a moue monee Long live Uve the revolution I am ant BOW I the tile re revolution Do Th you yu th k t O tha revolution for you Ne No senors H My I army holds hold the town and the country The soldiers are devoted to me It is useless for tor you TOIl to protest pro r rest resist Today you must muSt all 11 leave tto ita city under escort for the t cooM And you yon will depart for tor the tile Untied United by the ue t steamer If you fuse you yer tr will be he shot I They The left There was something in Iii inthe the generals rals glance which alch stopped even I l r rt fIt tit I protest pretest much less Ies e Two or three of the kh cabinet officers offered t serve under the new new president pr nt but he curtly refused ed their offer I hove haare nty own o n men me H he be said If you de Th sert ert your present leader you would de dc desert sert lert me meOne meOne meOne One man remained importunate The general took him by the arm ama and anti led lad him to a window wind w fronting on the street Do you eee see that tree he be naked asked If it you say wy another word I will call caU I lit my men and nd order them t em to lead you out ott and shoot you be beneath eath it Thus it was that General Jose Jo e Santos Zelaya the reigning president of Nica Nicaragua r came caine into power He Re has been the Caesar of this country for tor five live or six years and from present pr e indications seems likely to have as long a tease of office as aB Guzman Blanco had bad in Vene Venezuela Venezuela zuela There is nobody in sight strong enough to overthrow him Several Sev prominent have a tried and d nan ha good re reason to o regret their temer temerity ity Uy 3 t t No sooner was Zelaya firmly seated S SIn in power Power than he began Degan to sigh r fresh freh fr h conquests ts He induced the neigh beM g g republics pf pt Honduras and Sal Salvador Salvador vador to join Nicaragua in a federation under the title of The United States of Central America Nicaragua of course being the dominant nt partner The fed fad federation was agreed to by a treaty tr aty signed at Managua on August 27 1 But it soon became evident that Zelaya Zel ya intended to be president of af the new re re republic republic public and n d rule it autocratically auto C r as a he herule h rule i his own OTTO country months mont to prove the futility Qt tl scheme chene and on November 39 It the th fed federation federation was WY dissolved dissolve Honduras and Salvador resuming g their sovereignty as s independent republics Ever Wt since then thea ZeI Yag ambition n nI has been to weld into one federation I the live five republics of ot Central America Nicaragua Honduras Salvador Cos Coo Costa Costa ta Rica RIe and Guatemala and to make himself the ruler rul r of that ThIs ambition of or his bis has had ha led to several petty wars and revolutions and set the whole of ot Central America by the ears I A t 11 fl 7 J qi j 0 I 4 t t a S E j y 1 i i wi j L i if S f I J i I Nearly every month some of the republics end and niE ajaj all Ih f ur chant has large commercial in int are threatening to fight others oc occasionally 0 t trets re ts In Ii apt of f Ch world atone alono but more frequently I u Whenever t out In any anyone in alliance Sometimes it is Nicaragua ui one of the fiva r erfa if against Honduras sometimes Nicaragua 2 is Cen either for you may be ague agua and Honduras against Guatemala mer sure lie he has had a linger finger in the pie ff r r Zelaya is I a great fighter r and nd has lian proved prove rove l his personal nal courage ge many manya a afield field of battle In a a skirmish with some Game revolution revolutionists r soon roan after he became pre ft ent said an Englishman who lived for soY sev several eral oral years in Nicaragua he heby was b t t by seven of the enemy who rushed upon him suddenly from fram an ana while he be was watching the fight from frem a distance through a pair pall of af es esHe He Ie shot four fout of them with his hip re revolver revolver revolver volver and put the others othero to night Thy Th y fired at him several sever l times s at the distance of a few paces but only one bullet touched him wounding him slightly on the left let ear Since then the themore themore themore more Ignorant and alid a d superstitious of it the Nicaraguans ara ans have h we believed that ne le 1 is in league with the devil and is in invulnerable invulnerable Invulnerable vulnerable to t and ana swords C Certainly r his bis many marvellous escapes 8 on an ant the t tj battlefield and from plots to assas assassinate a innate sinate him lend color colar that belief S me people H aay y that he shares self Gel GelN News N ws was brought to Zelaya by b his spies in the q summer u mer of f 1899 that a ar revolution r was being organized In which several of the officers of his army y were yere involved They The were to tott tt at th ho i on that evening lo to arrange arrange the final details of ot the uprising While they were eagerly the best way to seize eIze the president pr the door opened and nd in jn walked th U president himself Good evening gentlemen he le id HI I heard beard you y u had bad a aher P Pher her here this evening and an I thought t ou ht I would In and ht fU i uIt a distinguished gathering g therin bT my officers Om You all seem to be very vel serious Dis Discussing cussing cUt military matters I suppose S SAnd And Ang so he W aW ton n chatting c at n affably for tor an ho more ma alone loie in Inthe the a score so re of enemies They were racked with fear and BUS JUS J orse Did he h know nw Most of 0 them suspected that tha t he did and wondered whether wh it would not be better bett to o end the business s fiEf putting a bullet into him Yet he b seemed eo so thoroughly at or u ease e so o O absolutely unconscious oC or any pItt pl t t tt at t they tIte hesitated Presently r he poured PO out some come wine win winand and an lifted his glass glaCiS X I will slice glue you yoi a toast D H he h said atM HerTs U lire Ure to the president of U and aid confusion contusion to t all traitors t u rf As s he spoke sp sp ke the words h he throw threw the glass against the th window i hare It mashed smashed into pieces with a l I Oh Instantly the door opened Red aw it as thirty or forty fatty soldiers who tad Mad bee w outside for the signal rushed ranked MJ in All AH AllI I the plotters were arrested bpi the president dealt dett leniently with them Some ome were imprisoned and other were deported from the country This for playing upon the fears of men fa Is one of the Oaf marked traits t ts of character r When he is la in want of funds to t suppress a revolution j he b assesses ues the rich rIe men meet of Managua urn and nud calls upon them to make loans for forthe tori the good of the commonwealth 7 Jjr A wealthy merchant receives an to dine with the president Of course he dare not refuse Zelaya treats trents him with the greatest courtesy gives S him an excellent dinner and con congratulates congratulates congratulates him Warmly upon the sac suc success cess c ss of his Unfortunately i very bad your our excellency protests prote ts the mer mci merchant chant The disturbed state of ot the coun country try Js is ruinous to commerce commer I am arn run ruri running ning at t a loss Ices l sd and nd eating up UR my capi capital cap capital tal c You Yau do Injustice to tott r business talents taIe t my dr dear d ar friend rentes ies Zel I 1 am given to t d Wat it t teat last mouth month tur ft se si many thousands of ot dollars which would give gift A tf f jp g te exact s The merchant merch nt is 10 obliged to acknowledge edge it I IThen Then Zelaya suggests merchant mer but that he is no doubt anxious to contrib contribute ute out of his wealth td t the cause of 5 I country and names what he considers t a fitting unx And th UK tu merchant inc reliant usual usually S i ly b 13 pays the be merit assessment t de 1 La lQ an dictators a ae e glad elf to k their ther perilous pests as soon as they have made a tot for fortune tune on which they qan an n live Dve comfort comfortably ably m in Puns Pari for the rest reat of their lire livee But zt eases casas mote mose for power than for mosey money mOB Y He stays in Nicaragua year after acter year Working and utI incessantly in Izi the hope that some day y yI he will wIn be able to realize realise his hie Breton of becoming autocrat of the United States SUt S I of Central America Amend Copyrighted 11 1 by B L B D W |