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met ministers, as he promised to do
| when he enlisted them in THE con-
| zuelan President has had before. Thus
he is able to maintain his power, al
though he is the best-hated man in
| Venezuela.
Wherever one goes in Caracas-in
| club, in cafe, in ballroom, in hotel
| one hears curses, mot loud, but deep"
| of Castro. But the cursers look care
fully around to see that no Andino
officer is within hearing. They hate
Castro and his Andinos intensely, but
they fear them more.
1t is not easy to form an estimate
of Castro's character. He is many
sided The more one sees of him the
harder it becomes to judge.
Readers of 1.-THE Autocrat of the
Breakfast Table" will remember the
three Johns--the John known to him
self, the John known to other people,
and the John only known to his
Maker. There are more than three
Castros. The most obvious Castro is
Castro the Conqueror, the warrior
who has faced his foes and backed his
trends, the ruler who has pillaged
merchants. ruined trade. reduced a
large part of his country to a desert,
who has been responsible for the
death of thousands of men, and
brought upon Venezuela the scorn of
the world and the wrath of the great
Powers. This Castro is a tyrant.
But there is also Castro the Demo-
crat, accessible to the meanest Of his
people, anxious to provide for their
enjoyment such acceptable festivities
! as bullfights, band concerts in the
"plaza," picnics and dances. This
| Castro is a kind Of Venezuelan big
Bill Devery, who likes nothing better
than blowing" everybody in sight.
The writer has seen him dancing and
drinking beer with peasants at pic
mic, mingling affably with the crowds
who promenade in the "plazas" of La
Victoria and Caracas in the evening,
and suddenly inviting everybody in
the square to come up to the palace
and enjoy an impromptu dance.
When he returned to Caracas from
the "crowning glory" of La Victoria,
he kept open house at Mirafores Pal
ace. Anybody, down to the lowest
beggar, who cared to walk in, could
swim in champagne and "aguadiente, ="
If he chose. Half Caracas suffered
from a headache afterwards.
No ruler on earth is more accessi-
BILE than Castro. He has made hum
dreds of bitter personal enemies. as
well as thousands of political ones,
but he never hedges himself about
with guards or secret service agents.
Anybody can walk straight into the
patio" of his palace, without chal-
lenge. Likely enough, Castro will be
standing there, chatting to his officers
and casual visitors: or, perhaps, play
ing billiards or feeding his numerous
pet birds.
quering sixty" and they repay him
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opponents were damned FOOLS"
He paused moment, thinking about
the battle, and went on. 81 never
could have won If my enemies had
possessed the least military ability
They outnumbered my troops more
than three to one, and they We're much
better supplied with ammunition than
1 was.
Look at this map for moment.
This is where was, holding very
strong position. If they had placed
small body of troops here, and a
second here, and a third here, they
would have surrounded me- and then
their main body could have marched
on and taken Caracas without oppose
ton.
Instead of doing that, they wasted
their energy and their men by making
a lot of stupid frontal attacks on my
strong position. They fired away all
their ammunition uselessly, and then,
when my fresh supplies came, I sim
ply led my men right at their center,
and there was nothing for them to do
but to retreat as quickly as they
could. Do you wonder that / hold
them cheaply ?-that am confident of
my ability to crush them, or any
J others like them?'
| But Castros officers say that the
battle was won through his courage
and generalship, not through the folly
of the other side.
When all seemed blacklist, when his
men were falling all around him like
| ninepins, and defeat was imminent,
Castro caught up rife and dashed
| from the trenches up the mountain
| side toward the heart of the enemy's
position, yelling to his men to follow
him. The shock Of that wild charge
was irresistible. Scores of men were
shot down as they clambered up the
| mountain, but with Castro leading
| none could turn back. He was the
| first man in the enemy's trenches, rag
| ing among their gunners like Viking
of old. The position was captured and
| the battle won by sheer force of his
magnetic courage.
Castro's power rests upon his
| strength of character and the loyalty
| of his friends-not upon any star.
| Former Presidents Of Venezuela have
| fallen through the treachery of men
whom they trusted and placed in high
/ positions. Castro has surrounded
| himself by his fellow Andinos-men
| men who were among "the conquer
| ing sixty" as they are called in
] Caracas-the sixty with whom he start
| ed his fight for the presidency.
/ The average Venezuelan is apt to
| be treacherous when placed in posi-
| ton of trust; but the Andino is famous
/ throughout Venezuela for his loyalty.
/ The Sikh is not truer to his salt, the
| Scottish Highlander Is not more clan
nish.
| Castro knows this. He is true to his
old friends, and they are true to him.
| He has made them generals and cab
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Castro followed his star without hes
itating a moment. Like all good gen.
erals, he appreciates the value of time;
he does not believe in 'manana" when
there is work to be done. His army
grew like a SNOWFALL rolling down hill,
with each new victory, and before the
government had made up its mind
what to do he was within striking dis
lance of Caracas.
At that critical moment he fell from
his horse and broke his leg, but the
accident did not tame his fiery spirit
From his sick bed he directed his
troops; from his sick bed he bought
over the general commanding the gov
eminent army. The President, Senior
Andrade, fed the country, and Castro,
suffering agonies from a badly-set
fracture, but indomitable as ever,
was carried into Caracas on a
stretcher at the head of his victorious
army. And so he made himself Presi-
dent.
To-day Castro rules with a rod of
iron. He is the only man who counts
The Savannah morning news., 1904-02-14
BY MARY GAY HUMPHREYS.

the advantage of an exclusive official
society, it could never hope to rival
the gayety and cosmopolitanism Of
Shanghai as the London of the East.
So there are larger and smaller mat
tiers of interest which the dentist may
impart between the strokes of his
mallet, and the piano tuner while he is
wrestling with the wires.
Kipling has celebrated the banjo as
an explorer, but the piano is almost as
ambitious. It is found in the most UNI
expected places. Chinese carriers will
transport it over numbers of miles as
easily, and more jauntily, than is done
by any of the mechanical appliances of
a great city. You may leave 1t in your
town house in the morning, and in the
evening dance to its tinkle in some far
away Buddhist temple that has been
taken for the summer months.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-02-14

Copyright, 1904, by William ThOrp.)

At ball in the city of Caracas two
DEFENDERS ago an understood, swarthy,
keen-eyed Venezuelan, whose face
plainly showed his Indian blood, took a
tall beautiful American woman out on
to the piazza to enjoy the cool tropic
night after the heat of the ball room.
The woman was chatting brightly>about
social trifes, but the man did not lis
ten. His thoughts were far away. Sud-
denly he broke in upon her talk:
DO you see that starr" he asked,
pointing to one of the fixed stars which
twinkled brightly in the soft, velvety
sky. That is my star. When that star
falls, shall fall. Not before"
The man was Cipriano Castro, Pres
ident of Venezuela. The woman was
Mrs Herbert Bowen, wife of the Amer
lean Minister to Venezuela.
At that time England Germany and
Italy were blockading Venezuela's
coasts and threatening to land troops
and seize the custom houses. Three
fourths of the country was in the hands
of the revolutionists, who sought to
overthrow castro. COLOMBIA was pre-
pairing to help them by invading Venez-
uela from the west Nine men out of
every ten in Caracas cursed Castro,
under their breath, as the evil genius
of his country. 1t seemed impossible
that he could remain in power another
month, so thick were the troubles and
perils which surrounded him.
Castro did not worry. Like Napoleon,
he believed in his star. He told people
that he was going to be another Ma
poleon-of whom, by the way, he is al
ways fond of reading and talking.
Like Napoleon" he once said to the
writer, when he was Castros guest at
La Victoria, II am the Man of Des-
tiny. Yes" he repeated, evidently
pleased by the phrase, II am the Man
OF Destiny for this part of the world
Does not my career show that?
No wonder Castro the Conqueror
thinks himself another Napoleon, and
believes in his star; he has never
known defeat. Fighting, time after
time, against enormous odds, he has
always won.
Life in some of the South American
republics makes fiction seem gray and
dull. What could be more fantastic
tnan Tor peasant, a mere muleteer
living at the back of beyond in the
Andes, to throw down his whip and
his hoe and say to his mates:
Come along, boys! I'm sick of this
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'"-' For PRETTY FEET.

Are Literally Covered with EIabO-
rate Handwork and Floral De-
signs I'm Intricate and Delicate
Patterns.
The slipper has at last felt the infiu-
ence of the elaborate handwork that
has held a woman's fancy all winter.
The plain satin slipper is now rarity.
The decoration on a pair of pink
MORE shoes is representative of the new
style slipper. A small wreath Of flow
ers, the upper part of which was mere
ly a small spray, was embroidered in
ribbon embroidery through the silk on
the instep. The flowers, perfect in form
but very small, were pink roses with
forget-me-nots interspersed and several
of the palest shades Of green forming
the stems and leaves Just a hint of
brown appeared in the little leaves.
The spray Of flowers extended on the
sides OF the slipper along the top toward
the back, the flowers being small and
close-set.
A pair Of white kid slippers had for
get-me-nots worked in ribbon all over
them, the wreath design being carried
out. Small pearls were mingled with
the flowers. A black satin pair was
adorned with wheat heads and a gold
thread cobweb, worked with a single
thread, and studded with gold beads
OF a very small size.
Silver, steel, pearl and gold beads are
popular for beading wreaths and small
floral patterns upon silk. satin and kid
slippers. They are used to dot both
fine machine-made lace appliques and
the fashionable lace slipper cover, made
all by hand, that fits entirely over the
slipper and Is made by a design spe-
cially prepared for the woman who 10
70 wear H.
Nothing is more stylish. however,
than the dainty and exquisite ribbon
embroidery IN pompadour colors upon
all sorts Of silken shoes and slippers.
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in Venezuela. because of his immense
self-confidence, his energy, and his
dash. The aforementioned quality is
the most valuable of all in a Latin
American country. Bravery is a
common attribute among the Vene-
zuelans; but the Anglo-Saxon quality
of dash is rarely found south of Texas.
The revolutionist generals were al
ways waiting for reinforcements or
more ammunition; they were always
going to do something "manana."
Meanwhile, Castro, laboring under
immense disadvantages, fighting
against desperate Odds did something
to-day, until eventually he crushed
them.
The writer asked Castro once: How
was it that you conquered in that
great five-day battle at La Victoria,
the turning point OF the revolution?
BY all the rules of war, you ought to
have been easily beaten"
IT won," replied Castro, smiling sar-
donically, because the God of Battles
fought upon my side, and because my
The Savannah morning news., 1904-02-14

Not Robinson Crusoe or the ac-
complshed parent of the Swiss Fam
lily Robinson could have easily acquir-
ed dentistry or piano tuning. Yet
Wherever western civilization gets
foothold the necessity for these two
vacations arrives.
There are very few places in the
Orient in which the foreign popula-
ton is large enough for a man to earn
MS living practising either dentistry
or piano tuning. There are not
enough of either teeth or pianos The
consequence is that both dentistry and
piano tuning are peripatetic profess
slons, and the master Of each finds mis-
clients from Singapore to Niewchang
he has his periods and his dates. He
Coihes with the springtime to Annoy;
me me rainy season finds him at Manila.
ne is due at Chefoo when the summer
reputation is at it's hight; he reaches
"eoul during its inspiring autumn.
Meanwhile, the various foreign
colonies await his coming, and coax
ana humor their toothaches and rusty
wires until he appears. He comes 10
oIlng not only healing and ameliora-
,lon to the two-legged or the four
iegged, as the case may be, but he
orlngs with him a fund of entertain
hent and gossip from the Straits,
from the towns of the Yellow Sea,
me China Sea, the Gulf of Pechili, and
lhe river Han. He knows who has
married, who has died, who has a year
Oh at home. and lot of gossip much
more racy than these details offer.
For, however. commercially impor-
lahat are the cities of the East, social
they are so many villages strung
along the waters, and their inhabitants
are sufficiently limited FOR each to
nave good working knowledge Of
we other, each having also certain
Iostered. While Hong Kong enjoys
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as to trunks and belongings lest he suf-
fer violence.
On the other hand, the medical mis-
sionary, through his dispensary and
work among the poor, is one of the
blessings that the West has conferred
upon the East. He Is found on his
bicycle in the most unused paths miles
from home, where he has held q clinic
or has been called for an operation. 1t
is, perhaps, not realized what distinct
commercial advantage he has been to
this country by means Of his introduce
ton of different drugs in the Orient. 1t
would be interesting to trace the in
crease yearly in sales of such medicines
as quinine and sentonine in the Orient
sionary on his beneficent mission OF
healing
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by such faithful service as no vene-
1t is no breach of Venezuelan eti-
| quette to go straight up and talk to
| him. He is always affable and courte-
| Gus, whether the visitor be a foreign
minister or merely an itinerant pediar
trying to sell books or boot-laces.
On one of the most critical days
| of the recent international blockade
several persons were at the palace
waiting to see Castro.
He came into the patio" with sew
eral of his Ministers, crossed over to
them and said.
Twill you kindly wait little longer?
Some important cablegrams have
come from Washington. and we have
to hold a meeting of the Cabinet to
consider them"
He passed, with his Ministers. into
the reception room. at the doorway OF
which the visitors were sitting. and
the Cabinet sat round in a circle for
the conference. Naturally, the visitors
rose to go; but Castro jumped up and
politely begged them not to disturb
themselves-the conference would
soon be finshedl
Before he sat down again. beggar
boy, who was lounging in the patio"
"butted in" to the Cabinet circle and
asked the President of his Republic
to buy some knitted socks. Castro
laughed, chaffed him, and gave him a
dollar. Then tho Cabinet council
went on. within earshot of score OF
loungers.
Such is the way in which public
affairs are transacted in Venezuela.
What else can be expected when one
of the country's principal officials Is
Castro's old barber from the Andes? ?,
He still shaves the President when he
+, has leisure from his other duties as
a general and a statesman.
Castro the Tyrant and Castro, the
Democrat have each his good points.
but there is also Castro the Dreamer,
best known to himself. who is full OF
national pride and patriotic fervor,
who knows the possibilities OF Vene-
zuela and sees visions of her as a
great world power, bound in close
alliance with the other American
states to resist the aggression OF
Europe.
The writer had a glimpse of this
Castro two years ago at La Victoria,
when he unfolded scheme for Pan
American defensive alliance against
Europe, which ne evidently consid-
cred to be within the realm Of prac-
teal :>oiitics.
This Castro has Napoleonic ambi-
tions, which are fed by a crowd of
fatterers who tell him that he is the
since Bolivar Looking back on his
career of persistent victory, he be-
lieves them and plans for the conquest
of Colombia, and the control of the
Panama canal situation. He wants
to be to South America what NapoT
leon was to Europe.
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The Washington times., 1904-08-15
PROPOSALS.

OFFICE OF THE COMMISSIONER
D. g., Washington. August Is. 1904
SEALED PROPOSALS will be received
a this Office until L O'CLOCK NOON,
MONDAY. AUGUST p. 1904 for laying
Of 1000 square yards or more Of cement
sidewalk HENRY b. r. MAGYAR
LAND. CHESTER HARDING (Actlng),
Commissioners Of the District Of Co
lumbia. aul5-6t
SUPERINTENDENT OFFICE. L. s.
CAPITOL BUILDING AND GROUNDS,
Washington. ID. c., August 6, 1904-PrO-
pOsals viii be received at this office on
SATURDAY, AUGUST 20, 1904. and
opened at O'CLOCK =. NJ. for steel
shelving and cases for the office Of the
Recorder of Deeds and for STEEL con
stTuCtiOn. concrete work, tireprOOhng. tin
roofing plastcrinB etc. incident 10 the
reconstruction Of the roof at the Court
House, District of Columbia. Plans and
specifications for the steel shelving and
steel roof work are now ready for dis
tributiOn. and the plans and speCifica-
tons for the other classes Of work will
be issued later. For information relat-
ing 10 the above work apply TO the
above office. ELLIOTT WOODS, Super
intendent l.. 5. Capitol Building and
Grounds. aus II. 1915
The Washington times., 1904-08-15
BACK To RICH MOTHER
AFTER YEARS OF POVERTY
William Geier Returns to Washington
From Miserable Existence
in Indiana.

LAPORTE, Ind. Aug. 15.-After spend
ing thirty-tive years in a struggle with
poverty. William Geier. who for the last
ten years has lived the life of a recluse
At Alexandria, this State. is at the
home of his mother at Washington,
=. G..
When he was fifteen years old he left
his home i'm the East because he did not
want to accept the gratuities Of a step
father. A few weeks ago he learned Of
the death OF his sJeDfather, and he at
once wrote 70 his mother. He proved
his identity and Immediately received
money by telegraph TO make the jour
ney to Washington.
Cieier. griZzled and gray, left to meet
his mother and find ii home. He said
his mother is worth 100000. and he
knows that his days Of want were ended
with the family reunion at 1913 II Street
northwest, Washington, d. 9.
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NEWS AND GOSSIP
OF STOCK MARKETS


Washington Street Railway bonds
moved up another point today. the best
price of the day being S27s. $1,000 being
sold at that figure. $4,000 at T.. 5000
mt q. and $1,000 at 81 Tho preferred
stoCI advanced d over fridays best
selling price. Only fifty shares were sold
at Goes, and POO al G6Is The closing
quotations for the bonds were S3la bid
and S324 asked, and for The preferred
stock 66la and g., respectively.
Washington Gas was exceptionally ac-
tive, the sales amounting to $50 shares.
The price ranged from 57za 10 Is. and the
stock closed at SIS bid and y asked.
Mergcnthaler was strong. although no
unusual number OF shares was sold.
The price ranged from rs 10 1872. and
as high as $50 was asked for three
shares.
Lanston held its level of 81. 1870 shares
being sold at that price.
Ten shares of metropolitan Bank
stock were sold at 410, which has been
the bid price for some time.
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NEWS FROM GEORGETOWN.

j. r. Daniels, white. about thirty-five
years of age. died Saturday afternoon
at the Georgetown University Hospital
as the result of Il fracture OF the skull.
received q few hours before his death
About II o'clock in the morning he was
driving a heavy wagon down NJ Street
and on turning TO cross the Aqueduct
Bridge ne fell from his seat beneath
the wheels of the wagon. Two wheels
passed directly over his head, crushing
his skull. lie was carried TO the hos
pital in the patrol wagon. where It was
found that the injuries were Of such "A
nature that death would result in "A few
hours. a last effort was made TO save
his life. however. by performing an
operation. but without success.
Deceased resided in Langley, Va, but
was employed in LewinsviIlc, Va. His
remains have been removed To his home
from which place the funeral will take
place tomorrow afternoon.
The Washington times., 1904-08-15
4 JOCKEYS SALARY.

For the past two years George Odom,
the leading jockey Of America. has been
under contract to Capt. s. S Brown,
the pittsburg millionaire, WHO pays him
an annual retainer Of $4,000. Then no
sells what is known on the turf as
second call" to John Madden. for ar
amount approaching half Of the first
contract price When neither owner is
starting a horse. OdOm has the privi-
Icge of accepting outside mounts. From
this source a rider Of his skill accumu-
lates as much money as he receive.
from regular contracts. In gifts ana
prizes I'm special races. he receives an
additional amount OdOm cannot give
the exact figures Of his income this sea-
son until. at the end Of the year, he
has summed up his outside mounts auu
perquisites. Safely he may count on
$4,000 "a g the figure which he may credit
for one year OF wearing the silks ana
satins and riding American racehOrses
20 splendid and sometimes unexpected
viC.OTy.