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Show CENTRAL AMERICAN AFFAIRS. If the story tultl in 8atnrdy'a diapatchris lrova tro1. of Ihf conofaaiona made to American in Guatemala, that may aiiRgest a plan to keep down eoni-eaaiona iu Crntral America. If he 'Americana go there in force to develop Guatemala, thry will not atand any great revolution. There -a a atory. a eouplc of year ago that aome rii-h 'men of Xew York City had a ooneesaion from Honduraa through which they agreed lo pay the running expenses of the. stale as a eompennation tot their concessions, hut we have not beard mu.-h of that of late, though our government interfered last winter to put down an embryo rebellion the-v. Ilow Ihe eombina may affeet the property inler-sta inler-sta of those states we are not prepared to say, '..it It would be a merey to thousand could they rom-pel rom-pel peace there and give the poor employment ; that ia, if they want employment. Mot of them, we fear, have a greater horror of hard work than almost anything else. Maybe it ia natural. Most tropical fruits grow spontaneously, and then in at-re of bananas ran be planted iu a day, even uV a lazy man, and Humboldt said there was more ftod material in an acre of bananas than in anything any-thing else, that could be planted. But. all th" e statea have marvelously rich lands, and some :( them great mines, and it is a pity to see them kept in an almost primitive wilderness ms fhe yea-, rome and go. - |