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The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1911-06-03

Mir. and Mrs John HAYS Ham
mond will carry fifty trunks on their
trip to London to attend the corona
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them
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1911-06-03

Already two or more correspond
ents of the Houston Post are endeav-
oring to bring themselves into motto
riety by pretending TO answer the
article of Sam G Blythe in the Sat
urday Evening Post A gnat on the
horn Of Texas bull would attract
quite as much attention
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1911-06-03

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The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1911-06-03

F. S. Cronk Co sell galvanized
roofing cheap II
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1911-06-03

SUBSCRIPTIONS RATES
one Nauth
Sin Months u advance
One NeAr 90 ad Vance
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Boulder Marks Victims Graves.

famine of 1S47-4S in Ireland tens Of
thousands of Irishmen fed from their
native land. Some entered the United
States through the port Of New York;
thousands came to this city, some to
enter the promised land, but many
thousands of them to die here of ship
fever In the old cemetery the re-
mains of 5000 of these famine victims
are buried. Until 1859 no monument
was erected to mark their resting
places Then a band of Irishmen en-
ployed in the construction of the Vic
toria bridge placed huge boulder in
the cemetery bearing this inscriptions
'"To preserve from dissertation the re-
mains of 5000 immigrants, who died
of ship fever, 1S47-48, this stone is
erected by the workmen of Messrs.
Peto Brassey & Belts, employed in
the construction of the Victoria
bridge, 1859"
Irishmen here declare that the ap-
preparation of the cemetery by the
railroad would be an act of desecra-
ton and their attitude is sustained by
members of the race all over Canada,
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now known as Belize, or British Honduras,
which then became and still remains Brit
ish colony.
French revolutionary turmoil again brought
war between Spain and England. In the
course of this, the protectorate was revived,
so that in spite of SPANS becoming later
the ally Of England against Napoleon, the
three succeeding Mosquito kings of the first
half of the nineteenth century were crowned
as of old in Jamaica or Belize, and did hon.
age for their kingdom, the last in 1847.
In 1921, after a long struggle, all Central
American broke away from Spain, and offered
to join the United States as five states, an
offer which was at once refused, as the pop
ulation was not considered sufficient in num-
Der to justify ten seats in our senate, nor
sufficiently advanced otherwise to be de-
sirable element. The refusal stirred up bad
blood against the Engsh-speaking peoples
and dispute with England over the protec-
torate.
By the Clayton-B ulwer treaty of 1850 both
England and the United States bound them
selves not to seek exclusive rights in any part
Of Central America Again the protectorate
made trouble, and London and Washington
agreed on a treaty by which the Mosquito
coast was to be protected by treaty with the
Central American states interested, but these
refused the suggested terms, and, finally, in
1860, Great Britain concluded separate treat
les with Honduras and Nicaragua, by which
to the first she surrendered absolutely all au-
thority over the almost uninhabitable portion
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1911-01-19

"The beginnings of the troubles that wreck
Nicaragua at frequent intervals lie back to
its discovery by Columbus. small remnant
of Indians has recently been found living on
an island near Bluefelds, speaking the Ian
guage of the Aztecs and having traditions OF
ruling in splendid cities over the subject
tribes of the coast
These cities, of which great ruins remain,
at once attracted the Spaniards to the in
terror, SO that from Panama to Yucatan not
an important Spanish settlement was formed
on the Caribbean coast, and thus the coast
tribes, freed from Aztec domination, re-
NAMED almost unknown to the Spaniards,
having no property worth looting.
Loot was plenty among the buccaneers, but
fresh food and women they lacked. These the
Indians supplied. Commercial relations soon
grew up, which speedily developed into an
alliance against the Spaniards, by means of
which the Indians maintained their indepen-
dence, until their chief was carried, in 1888,
with great pomp, to Jamaica, where he sur
rendered his authority to the duke Of Abe
marie, and was then crowned and received
back his insignia a vassal king, under a
British protectorate of all the coast from
Chiviqui lagoon to Yucatan, along what is
known as the Mosquito coast.
Subject to occasional clashes with the Span
iards, matters went on thus for century,
each successive Mosquito king going to Ja-
ally in 1888, by the peace of Paris, England
specifically abandoned it's protectorate over
all Of the Mosquito coast, except for the part
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in the northern part OF the HepuOnc anu
founded the Lone Star mine. Ioday ne Is
several times over millionaire Joe La Fere'
French Canadian discovered the Bonanza
mine from which millions IN goio nave oeen
taken The Topaz Mining company is an
other having venture. The chief dlfhculty
with the mining is the matter of transports
ton.
While the earnings of the various mines
have proven satisfactory, yet it is IN the oa-
mana business that the figures presented by
American experts prove amazing; tney sno"
navment for land, cost of clearing, planting
and harvesting at the end of the second year
with an additional profit of SO per cent. on
the investment They are indeed startling but
the men who make them point to the United
Fruit company, having started business on
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n /XII24RNCZI4.N E4/ZIZY

the store, Faylng off labor in Nicaragua Is
much like taking dollar from one pocket and
putting it into another That's all right, so
far as it goes, but when the laborer-generally
an Indian or Jamaican-thinks he has too
much to do he quits. He live without
work, and works merely to please his foreman.
The foreman who can get the good will Of the
Indian is the valuable man. The superin-
tendent of coffee plantation has been trying
to get 800 men to work for the last two years.
At one time he had 130-and he is man the
natives like, too.
The manager of a big banana plantation is
having the same trouble. month or two is
frequently spent getting half hundred men
together. Indians stay close to their villages
and the hope of the planter Is the building
of these conglomerations of huts. Give the
workers bamboo covered shed in which to
live, build them a church of the same ma
terial and secure for them preacher, even
though their morals seem lax and the natives
will probably spend their lives on the planta-
ticn-working when they feel so inclined. Now
and then they want to wander away and get
all the bad whisky they can buy, but they
return in time to again take up the machete.
Good treatment appears to ba the only secret
If there be any secret of getting labor in
Nicaragua.
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of the coast claimed by Honduras, while to
Nicaragua she agreed to surrender her pro-
tectorate and recognize the sovereignty OF
Nicaragua.
Nicaragua in turn, agreed to grant complete
local self-government to the Mosquito tribes,
then of blood largely diluted with strains OF
white and Jamaica negro, and using Eng
lsh as their official language. Nicaragua
also bound itself to make a free port OF
Greytown, at the mouth of the navigabe river
by which the great central lake of Nicaragua
discharges into the Caribbean sea, and, for
ten years to pay annually to the Mosquito
Indians subsidy of $4,000
After 10 years less than half of the sub
sidy had been paid, while in violation Of the
treaty Nicaragua had imposed duties at Grey
town under the pretext that they to
pay the subsidy, and had introduced a gov
ernor and a garrison at Bluefelds, the Mo-
sauito kings capital, and was otherwise
ing the inhabitants so as to force them to
abandon the English language and their local
self-government Finally, after most inso-
lent treatment of the British consul at Grey
town. who had been appointed the Mosquito
kings agent to receive the arrears England
sent warship to Greytown. Nicaragua pro-
tested that as the British protectorate had
been withdrawn and Nicaraguas sovereignty
recognized over the coast, it was none of
Fngland's business whether Nicaragua fulfill
ed the treaty stipulations in favor of the In
dams But the captain of the warship was
not moved by this and after much parley the
entire matter was submitted to the arbtra-
ton of the emperor Of Austria.
On two points the Nicaraguana contentious
were upheld. first that the subsidy was OF
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1911-01-19
To Reclaim Lost Empire

Constantinople.-Th possible realt
cation of the project for reopening the
old empire of Nebuchadnezzar to civil
ization, project which only yesterday
was dream, is foreshadowed by the
efforts of the Turkish government to
reclaim 12,500,000 acres Of waste land
in northern Mesopotamia through irri.
cation. Should the experiment prove
successful the ancient realm of AS.
syrian and Babylonian monarchs may
be refertilized and repeopled with an
Industrious race and the worlds old
granary restored after centuries OF
desolation.
Mesopotamia's early greatness was
due to a system Of irrigation canals in
connection with the Tigris and Eu'
pirates. 1t was by their neglect that
it declined and was transformed into
a sandy plain, the haunt of nomad
races. Within recent times the en-.
gineer and the archaelogist have in.
vaded it, the former plotting the route
of the ESgdad railway, which is to
unite it with the western world, and
the latter delving in the dust-heaps
which have disclosed in turn the site
OF ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS palace, the hall
In which Belshazzar gave his feast
and the very site of Babel. TO re-
claim it to cultivation will cost $780,
600 900, and included to the scheme is
the plan for colonizing the prosecuted
Russian Jews in the redeemed terri
tory
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2RrZyYC cOEEE

knew better than any other diplomatic official that,
left alone they would never cease fighting
AS the result of his work in the service, the
United States has virtually established protec-
torate over Nicaragua. At all times an American
warship is within four hours call by the wireless.
An American postage stamp is good in Mica
ragua as it is in Louisiana. Mail for the United
States goes through the American consulates and
is carried in sealed sacks to New Orleans and Mo-
bile, or to port on the Pacific coast in another.
It is not handled by natives. There is no opening
of mail addressed to the subjects of the United
States these days, was common in the past.
That is one result of Minister Merry's work
and today he is in the 'dpomatic service in Costa
RIGA, watching his labor bear fruit
President Estrada is a good fellow Nicara-
guans go-but he couldn't last twenty minutes as
the head of people who love to fight If the Unit
ed States department at Washington wasn't hold
ing his hand over the rough places. They are
going to send commission down there in
short time to straighten out affairs and
duct the first honest election the country ever
had Then J. P. Morgan & Co. will handle the
refunding of the $40 100000 bonded debt. By
that time the United States will be well in
charge probably with Consul Moffat as minis
ter and real head of the government.
Just as rapidly as possible Nicaragua is
being made good place in which to live
American capitalists and investors are crowd
ing into the country with rapidity. Now that
the days of the revolution are ended-the ma
chete made implement of agriculture in
stead Of war-the future of the little republic
looms bright. Mines are being developed, for
ests cleared, agoons drained and homes built
Men from the north and middle western states
are causing the hustle. There are business
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1911-01-19

men from st. Louis, Kansas City and Chicago
and men from numerous smaller cities who
are interested financially in agriculture and
mining work In Nicaragua Many are already
realizing on their investments
Along the Rio Grande river there is a wide
stretch of territory covered with bamboo
some of which is planted in bananas Ship
ments of bananas were taken out of that Sec
ton for the first time a few weeks ago by the
Pan-American company, Kansas City and st.
Louis concern. There are half dozen small
companies beginning operations and within
six months fully 100000 or 100000 acres of ba-
nanas will have been planted along that river,
which is said to be the best for the culture
of this particular fruit of any in the republic.
The bananas-about 5000 punches shipped
lately were the finest taken into the port of
New Orleans.
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barnacles shining white IN the sun
light.
Only for a second, though. The
ripples on the pool had not yet died
away. the large drops of water had
not ceased tc fall upon its surface
from the soaring eagles feathers,
when the lobster suddenly awoke to
the seriousness of the situation, and
10 think with that apparently help
less creature was to act. Up came
the white barnacled claw and seized
the eagle around the neck.
There was a furious futter1ng and
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the nature of gift, and therefore that inter
est should not be added to the arrears; and,
second, that the vessels belonging to the
Mosquito coast should hoist the Nicaraguan
flag though against Nicaraguas contention
they were allowed to hoist their own along
side of it: but on every important point the
decision was in favor of England
Under this decision settlers began to come
in, especially from Canada and jamaica and
business became quite brisk. Nicaragua
failed in another attempt to induce the coast
to vote in favor of full citizenship, and mat
tiers went on merrily till few months after
Zelayas rise to the presidency, when, in
January, 1894, Nicaraguan army suddenly
appeared at Bluefelds kidnapped and sent to
the interior the chief justice and all the lead
ing men of the coast, and in their absence
ordered an election, with soldiers at every
polling place, to determine finally the status
of the coast.
In this election there could be only one
result, and Nicaragua announced that the
coast had accepted full citizenship in Mica
ragua, and, therefore, British interference
was at an end.
For ten years, in spite of occasional at
tempts at revolution, one nearly successful.
matters went on fairly at bluefelds and
business grew, but in 1904 there began svs
tematic attempts to Cypress this coast.
AS a further vexation of foreigners the
Moravian missionaries and the Church of
England rector at Bluefelds, who since the
Catholic churches have been harried out Of
existence, are the only representatives of
religion of any kind in all this region. have
had their schools closed because tuition was
in English.
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beating of wings, a melancholy
squawk, and then, tumbling and roll
ing head over heels in the air in a
confused mass, eagle and lobster
came down again into the pool.
The men rushed forward thinking
that they could, perhaps, in some way
obtain both combatants, as the splash
ing of the conflict continued in the
shallow water. But they had hardly
time to pick UP stone apiece TO
throw at the eagle before the lobster,
feeling itself sufficiently at home
again. let go its hold.
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shoestring, SO to speak "a few years ago. and
being worth a few dozen millions today.
They have tried rubber and made fail
ure, cocoanut plantations bring forth fruit
slowly, pineapples grow large, as do grape
fruit and oranges, but they ripen so quickly
and the import duty is so heavy that exporta-
ton under present conditions is hardly to be
considered. Rice does fairly WELL while cot
fee on the west coast reaches high grade OF
perfection. The coffee, diplomatic and other
officials assert, is the finest in the world.
The chief trouble on the east coast is find
ing a hillside level enough to stand on and
cultivate the product.
The labor question in Nicaragua has the
servant girl issue in the United States beaten
a nautical mile. One man will tell you he has
no trouble in getting labor If he means real
work there is plenty to be done, but from the
standpoint of the employer, the task is no easy
one. Money means nothing to the average
native. One plantation manager told cor
respondent he had 60 men working for him
and that he transacted business on 500 soils
monkey money they call it-a year. This
plantation conducts store, as do the major
ity The men are paid in the national cur
rency, which just steadily comes back into
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1911-01-19

Now, with its neck all torn and de-
void of feathers, away flew the bed
raggled eagle to a neighboring cliff,
while, still brandishing its enormous
claws in defiance, the lobster remain,
ed at the bottom of the pool.
The Strenuous Ticket.
"A lot of people are complaining
that they don't get their moneys
worth from this railroad" said one off,
cial
Well" said the other, wen rem
edy that. Well make the tickets yard
ind half longer.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1911-01-19

California is one of the western
states which shows rapid growth. The
census figures just announced give
California population of 2,377,549, a
gain of COL per cent over 1900. This
is the largest increase made by any
state from which the final census
returns have yet been received, and
shows that "the glorious climate of
California" and other allurements are
attracting settlers quite as numerous
~ as did the gold fever of 40 and
later.
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Ancient Custom in England.

London.-By virtue OF custom sc
ancient that its origin Is wholly for
gotten, it will be schoolboy, not a
high dignitary of the empire, who VIII
first acclaim the new monarch when
King George v. is crowned at West.
minister abbey. The Westminster
school is $50 years old, and for cen,
turtles the young captain of the school
has been the first to cry God save the
king,n after the coronation ceremony.
After him the peers repeat the cry.
and then it is taken up by the entire
congregation and the multitude ont.
side.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1911-01-19

Mining throughout
the country, while be-
ing pushed, is not
bringing the money
returns of fruit. Many
men, however, have
struck it rich in the
mining region. A Ca
madam by the name
of McGinnis, located
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1911-01-19
WHERE FAMINE VICTIMS REST
Huge Boulder Marks the Graves Of
Irish immigrants Who Perished
of Ship Fever.

Montreal.-The request of the
Grand Trunk Railway, made to the
Railway Commission of Canada, to
condemn to it's use the old cemetery
on ST. Etienne street, in this city,
which it claims to be necessary to
it's growing business, has aroused to
bitter opposition the Irishmen Of
Montreal and of all eastern Canada.
To Irishmen the old cemetery is
sacred ground In the days of the
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1911-01-19
Lobster Worsts an Eagle

shore watching a big white-headed
eagle soaring around in circles, when
suddenly they saw it dash down into
pool of water close by them on the
beach and reappear, holding an enor-
nous lobster in it's talons. 1t was an
old lobster, with a huge claw white
with barnacles, but the eagle had it
clutched firmly around the back, and
at first the onlookers could see the
claw hanging helplessly down. the
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1911-01-19

The story from New York that
loans to the aggregate of $5O.OOO,OOO
have been negotiated abroad indicates
that American credit is excellent, and
also that the money is likely to be
put where it will do the most good in
promoting American enterprises. In
cidentally it is proof that the money
had been supposed.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1911-01-19

An Indiana man died recently after
having lived for ninety years without
ever having had his face shaved or
his hair cut, so he claimed, but the
story seems incredible. Surely his
mother must have cut his hair when
ne was too young to put up a fight.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1911-01-19

A Chicago woman, in suing for di-
vorce, declares that her husbands
stenographer looked at him longing
~, lovingly, sweetly and invitingly.
That stenographer certainly must
have been a good locker
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tor in the Air and Regains His
Liberty.

1.-THE disappearing lobster" as fish
commissioners have termed it might
not only remain but would flourish
and increase if it always resisted cap
ture like one in Newfoundland.
A New York man and his guide
were sitting on the rocks by the sea-
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1911-01-19

A Mississippi man who put stick
Of dynamite in his pocket and then fell
down with it will recover from his in
1uries. A man so favored by pure
dumb luck" as this ought to be in
steady demand as a mascot.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1911-01-19

A man in New York bet six months
IN Jail on the election and lost. Now,
despite his efforts, he can't break into
Jail to pay the debt. A worse hard
luck tale could scarcely be told.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1911-01-19

That Long Island Judge who ruled
that $4,000 a year is enough for the
education of a sixteen-year-old girl
doubtless had in his crude masculine
mind only the useful things. Other
kinds cost more.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1911-01-19

One of the Harvard professors pa
thetically declares that Yankee blood
is dying out We suspect that the
trouble with him is that he hasn't been
away from a big town lately.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1911-01-19

A Gotham magistrate, who is a Sol
ONION in his way, has decided that a
no may take a second look at a
pretty woman without being amena-
BILE to the law for staring. This decl-
sion is doubtless based on the great
human fact that no law made by man
could ever prevent a normal, sensible
man from taking a second look at q
pretty woman
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1911-01-19

If shoyeling in coal and carrying
out the ashes were all there is to run
ming a furnace it would be excellent
exercise. But many man becomes
dangerously fatigued when it comes to
writing out checks for the coal mer-
chant
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1911-01-19

The latest thing at Newport is a
rag-time bear dinner A bull and bear
dance would look pretty lively, only
it would be unpleasantly suggestive
of SHOP"
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1911-01-19

A motorcycle ran against the rear
end of an Indiana mule the other day,
and it is reported that two or three
pieces of the machine were afterward
found almost intact.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1911-01-19

A banknote that had been washed
and ironed by fastidious woman was
pronounced a counterfeit. The public,
evidently. is familiar only with filthy
lucre.