The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-12-31
SIDE LIGHTS ON
SPANISH: SCRAPS ! !
sLatin-American Revolutionists
Take Themselves Seriously.
Many Others That Don't
.OLD INNER SIZES THEM up
American Traveller and Diplomat
Gives the Serio-C Comic Side
of,rropical Troubles.

From Our Regular Correspondent sa4
ss8gs WASHINGTON, ID. Cs, December 3d.
! Washington is considerably stirred over
S,the latest revolution In Santa Domingo
and tho State Department Is indoubted-
~ watching II with narrowed eyes, but
Il it lis not likely that there will be any
serious results flowing from the alleged
revoluiiorarysmove President Rooae-
welt appears to take Central and South.
American uprisings with great serious
\ ness, but their frequent occurrence In the
4 little republics TO the south OF us make
them rather everyday, commonplace AFT
fairs to the average newspaper reader
And they appear TO be regarded In this
way BY the Americans who find them
9 selves residents of the countries to the
I south OF US. fss 7s Is 4 ls
'LatIn-A1nerican revolutions are much
moro serious when seen from n distance,
4 ] have .becn through d dozen Of them
I and they all seemed nothing but how.ing
I Jokes to me, - aaid u man who has KIN ock-
ed about the world a good deal, In q hosels
lobby conversation concerning the d OF ares
Y incident In Santo Domingo.
This man, who has been a consular rep
resentative OF the United States abroad,
who has lived at more than one pa Euro Y
q penn court, and who generally sees what
there Is to see. spent three years In Hon
duras as tho head Of big American
3 mining corporate lon. HI may go back
some day; therefore. for purposes of
storytelling he Is incog, MS Don Carlos
Shoes for Swells Only.
an Honduras the social 1lnes or are
Il drawn sharply. "A man with shoes Is a
gentleman. IA man without shoes, other
wise. Socks are not sine qua IA on " shoes
Y are. One need never get con- fused ns to
the standing of his fello velers. VI s$
When soldier, gets promoted to tie
an officer The gets q pair OF slloes--also3
{ the distinction OF 5Sllnforns-nnd bcgins
! TO hatch a revolut ion. While 4 was there
they average a. new presid lent every rhlc
1 months. as 4iisi b 81 VA
olicarpo was one. He was a Liberal
Il and full OF progress. He IS not so liberal
q now, n as a the spresent distator has him
chained ina dungeon. He got to be presi-9
dent and decided to a bolish capital pun
q lshment E Advisors said 1t had been tried
1 in many more advanced states. and Lad
Il proved q failure. What care "a cried
Policarpo. Honduras must do something
Y Tor the advancement OF civilization They
take themselves eriously, and Z that Is
\ why they hate Americn The American
sometimes laughs. N: s s32 N ~.
5sss5si lyOllcdrpO ran away from the
presto ency. Vanquez was not SO liberal
about punishments He caught bud
/. ir.g Yoluttons ppins one, u day and
x arrested iEs Il Among the scat chj Of conspr-s
y ing patriots was one Solo, about the
richest man In the republic. He tied
fifty-pound shot to soto's leg with a.
chain long enough for the iconsplring cap
Fl italist@ TO hold u 1t up when he walked.
n yalauez N then set his captive to work
pulling up grass from between the flags
in the plaza In front of The cathedral. He
4 was guarded by a soldier v no had or
ders to shoot Soto dead at $3.50 % clock In
the morning unless he received X word
from the palace that Soto had delivered n
thousand dollars In silver. Vanquez would
not permit lump payment. The mes
sengcr was there with the money by day
Il light every day for q month. Then a
revolution swept Vanquez out y. ~
Americans Did the Killing.
yalnauez feil before the great liberal
y Policarpo The capi Il Tagucigalpa, Il Isl
in 4 a valley surrounded ny precipitons
mountains, can be reached only 'by a wa
: ter-course at one end 8 inaccessible on
r either side and the broad end 8of the
& yalley Is guarded by IA sugar loaf HILL
Major Burke. OF II New Orleans and !