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Specializing.

What is your boy studying at
school now?''
"Jedein',T replied Farmer Corntos-
sci. from the way he keeps re-
mindin' me OF expenses, 1 should say
it was mostly arithmetic"
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When a husband and wife are both
Of one mind, it isn't difficult task to
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mind.
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Beautiful, clear white clothes delights
the laundress who uses Red Cross Ball
Blue. All grocers. Adv.
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This human document is published
the most remarkable letters read It was
not intended for publication originally. but
written by Mr. Johnston, who lives in the Afich
gan Soldiers Home. to his brother. an editor in
Nebraska.l
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Since the Chinese monarchy is re-es-
tablished, the emperor receives an
annual allowance of $4,000.
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It costs Great Britain on an average
81, 500 a year for each man in regular
army at the present time.
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Probably nothing dispels girlish H.
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Hard up.

us ne hard up"
'1 should say so. He can't even geA
credit for his good intentions. Fl
Judge
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And many a mushroom is a toad
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my wife would rather go to the
movies than eat"
Mine would rather 90 there than
cock my dinner.
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DEAR Brother George:
Your letter of November q is at
hand, and it warns my old heart
to think my little brother is so inter
ested in anything pertaining to my
rather uneventful past. OF all things
despise. it's an egotist. However. as
you wish to know something about
your brother Billy's early experience.
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w. b. u., kANsAs cITY, he. 5-1e1e.
Evening star., 1916-06-04

acts and great heroisms and saving
ideals of peoples, in spite of blood and
tears, more glorious than all the years
of the past, of discord and concord.
hate and love, of tearings apart and
Jennings of Europeans and other great
peoples of the world. of struggles
against the foreigner on the field of
battle. and, whatever arrive. sooner or
later. victory.
Yet the world was not warned.
"Maeterlinck is right says Nine. de
Thebes, the world was not warned"
Her own predictions were full of
chaff. She had the war ending in July,
1915. She saw Belgium, drawn into
the torment and capable of provoking
it meeting her end-'born of a con-
gress. modified by coming congresses"
and Brussels in flames while she did
not mention Louvain. She saw catas-
tropics for England bad interior enc
mics. the young Prince of Wales on the
throne and English women heroic. She
said there would be no war with Mexi-
CO. yet predicted an America shaken.
tried and disappointed. She warned
American farmers to hold their wheat
and Americans in general against fre
and water.
On her balcony the listener strains
to hear.
But there are many noises.
STERLING HEILI0
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OLD LOUIS Lo9HR1s4y HOUSE. PUERTO
LOOKS HDNY-
ID
4 4

pestilential swamps trickiing or refus-
ing to trickle across the one long
street In its stores-a few, which
have the concession to do So-one may
buy postage stamps, but not in the
post office. At that governmental
agency you may mail letter. but If
you want to buy stamps you must take
the money to the one place in Puerto
Cortez which is trusted to handle the
government money-the customhcuse.
In it's stores, too, you will get in
change coins of many countries-Chil-
can dollars. Uruguayan so centesimo
pieces, Salvadorean cinco centavo
pieces. British shilings and siXpences.
Cuban centavos. Guatemalan dos reales.
British Honduranean cent pieces and
American IS gold pieces
The British cruiser Sidney Is sta
toned in these waters, and every once
in a while. when there is shore liberty.
there is a flood of the good old British
sovereign. For Puerto Cortez is old
and famous port. the world over with
deep water beside dock actually less
than twenty-five feet from the shore,
and before the war ships came here,
bringing strangers from many lands.
But one of the most interesting
things about this shack like city. which
a breath of fire or a wave of pestilence
would wipe away again in moment,
as the sword of the conqueror has done
Evening star., 1916-06-04
BY WINGRovE BATHoN.
Special Correspondence of The Star.

PUERTO CORTEZ.
Spanish Honduras, May Is, 1916.
NIVE out of every ten men in the
IN United States probably believe
that if defaulting bank
cashier wants to go somewhere
in a hurry he heads for this place
That is mistake. 1t used to be true,
but it is so no longer for Spanish Hon
duras has an extradition treaty with
the United States-which excepted,
when it was signed one citizen of the
United States resident in this country
tieth-century civilization. except rail-
roads.
1t is one of the greatest mining and
agricultural countries of Central Amer
lea, its surface hardly scratched by the
prospector and investor and. notwith-
standing all the romantic stories that
have been told of piracy, smuggling and
filibustering with Puerto CorteZ as their
scene. Spanish Honduras is enjoying
peace with prospect Of prosperity as the
result Of the labors of Dr. Alberto Mem
breno. former minister to Washington
and DR.. Francisco Bertrand, to whom
DR.. Membreno has just returned the
presidential chair.
To these names must be added that OF
Lee Christmas New Orleans citizen of
the United States. who is now a brigadier
general on the reserve list of the Spanish
Puerto Cortez in the old mansion-the
largest and best house in the place
which was erected for the Offices and
home of the old Louisiana lottery when
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mobile truck line will prove to be the
future transportation system OF this
mountainous country rather than the
railroad
Shares in railroad companies, in fact'
are unpopular in Spanish Honduras. for
the reason that some time ago great
bond issue was authorized by the gov
ernment to build railway. Bonds were
sold. fifty-seven miles over level lands
were built, but it was eventually found
that corrupt men pocketed nearly $l.-
900, 900 a mile for a road that should
not have cost more than 10000 mile.
Tegucigalpa. the capital, $50 miles
from Puerto CorteZ. with population
largely Indian, has about fifty automo
biies. Much of the trip from Puerto
cortez must be made by mule back.
Sentinels are stationed outside of the
capital to report the approach of
strangers. One day native soldier, on
this duty. espied what to him was a
curious sight. and he reported. at the
top of his voice in great excitement:
Here comes a white woman riding
like a man. She is pretending to be
man. Shall | shoot"
Hush, you fool,' his officer hissed.
as he took a look through his glasses.
Hush. you fool, That is the wife of the
American minister. Hush, or I'll shoot
you
Spanish Honduras has other COM
munities, very attractive in their way,
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APLAlTA11oN CHURCH ON The Ho.1DuRA AS BORDER,
WITH INDIAN Pupils AND Crown -UPS.

haired and white whiskered. he seats him
self on a hand car upon which has been
placed a cane upholstered bench, and
from the heart of Puerto Cortez is pro-
PEELED by two native servants standing at
his rear down the railroad tracks which
run long way out on the dock, there to
say "How-do' to the people from home.
Grave. unsmiling and dignified. in the
white linen dress which is the white mans
Distinguishing garb in the tropics, he
formally salutes the white travellers. hav-
ing nothing to say. Lonely? Perhaps.
What stories could be written of the
exploits Of these people, Of others. too
familiar in the streets of this port, one
Of the finest natural deep water ports in
the world. among them three smugglers
who smile in a complimented manner
when they are congratulated upon the
speed of their boats. and who have made
half million dollars each.
For Spanish Honduras is filled with
men to whom big adventures are as the
little things of everyday life. none more
so than the young engineers who come
from the United States to superintend the
electrical plants and machinery of a New
York and Honduras mining company, a
concern which is building up the country,
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Bills Task.

HTENRY CLEWS. the banker. praised
III at a luncheon in New York the
governments foreign policy
Some men," he said, ARE alwaya
ag'in the government Even when
praising it. they slip in an ingenious
word that spoils all. / have no sym.
pathy with such fellows.
They remind me of the washer.
woman. Her husband was a loafer
and. when the parson called. he usually
found the man seated before the fire
with pipe and newspaper and can of
beer.
But this day the husbands armchair
before the fire was empty
Don't tell me- said the parson-
don't tell me Bills working"
"'Yes. he is. said the washerwoman
Goodness graciousr said the par
son. It's incredible. And what's he
doingr .s
"A year." RX1E
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so far as 1t can be built up without rail-
roads in a mountainous region
There is a prospect of the extension of
the railroad from Puerto CorteZ to La
Pimiento. and on beyind this are great
rich plateaus suitable for grazing lands.
where fortunes can be made in cattle
Household and agricultural implements
are wanted in Spanish Honduras. and SO
are electrical appliances for cooking, in
view of the frightfuly high cost of wood
but railroads are wanted more than any
thing else.
When communication throughout the
republic is made more easy every Hon
duranean with whom | talked declares
that this country Will be found to be
an undeveloped gold mine. The whole
country is rich in minerals, and but
one or two companies have so far en-
deaNored to develop it Because of the
lack Of communication except by mule
pack and pack train this country is the
least developed of all the Central
American republics.
Within the last few years the govern
ment has improved the road from San
Lorenzo to Tegucigalpa, the capital a
distance Of 300 miles. over this an auto
mobile transportation company IS now
operating machines, two trips week
This carries mail for the government
and passengers, and there are several
large trucks to carry freight. Many
Honduraneans believe that the auto
Evening star., 1916-06-04
The Irish Steak.

E LISHA LEE. chairman of the confer
u ence committee of railway managers,
said in a recent interview in New York:
''Our exorbitant profits are as mythical
as the good steaks of Ireland.
An American. you know, was touring
Ireland. and, stopping at a wretched inn.
he said to the young attendant sayly.
rubbing his hands.
Aha, young man, I'm as hungry as
a bear. Grill me at once one of your IA
nous Irish steaks-one of those real Irish
steaks. juicy and tender and two inches
thick-with fried potatoes and onions
THE lad stared at the traveller Then
he clumped out. On his return the man
asked
We'll. steak coming on all right"
'Bedad, sorr. said the boy, father
says that If he had a steak like that in
the house he'd ate it himself. SO he
would .
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No Longer a Haven
of Refuge for Fleeing
Defaulters Honduras
Now Has Extradition
Treaty With United
States One Man, an
American, Is Immune.
Gen. Lee Christmas
and the Old Louisiana
Lottery Mansion.
Spanish Honduras Fill
ed With Men to Whom
Big Adventures Are
as the Little Things
of Every Day Life.
Economic Conditions.
Ira de Opportunities.
Country IS Rich in
Minerals - Railroad
Graft - Magnificent
Waterways The
Town of Puerto Cor
tez and It's Splendid
Harbor - Prohibition
Among the Bay Island
ers-The President of
Honduras.
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TH PLAZA AT EoUcIGAaPA
The CAPITAL OF
SPANISH HCNpDI2AS.

the gambling scheme was expelled from
the United States.
1t was Lee Christmas, perhaps the most
famous of all the Central American fill
busters, who was asked by Bonilla. the
leader of the last revolution, to become
"jefe militar'-chief of military opera
tions-of the revolution, and every one in
Central America with whom the writer
has talked says that it was due to Gen.
Christmas strategy that the revolution
was successful in 1911. ending in a con-
vention of the opposing factions signed
in the harbor of Puerto Cortez on board
the United States gunboat Tacoma. At
any rate there has been peace in Spanish
Honduras for some time.
This is not particularly a story of
revolutions or piracy or smuggling. or
lotteries of those who absconded
from justice to Spanish Honduras when
there was no extradition treaty be-
tween this country and the United
States. But no faithful record of pres
ent day conditions in Spanish Honduras
can be written without some of the
romantic details in regard to them. for
they are bound up in its history and
in its present day life.
The first Anglo-Saxon white man on
whom / laid eyes our ship docked
at Puerto CorteZ was Gen. Lee Christ
mas, in white undress uniform. with
an automatic revolver peeplng from
under his blouse. The last time | had
seen him was when he was in Wash
ington having hard luck in getting
built number of aeroplanes the Guate-
malan government had asked him to
purchase. Just before leaving the
United States that Central American
rumor factory-of which no human
being ever knew the headquarters, but
which always has some very dull axe
to grind-was reporting Gen. CHRIST
mas presence and alleged activities on
the Observation-Disclosures border. Well,
he wasn't there and he isn't there. he
is in Puerto Cortez raising plneapples
and standing on the dock on ship days
to get the latest news from home. and
to be of service to visitors all day long
in the broiling sun.
The second Anglo-Saxon white man l
laid eyes on as our ship docked at
Puerto CorteZ was the man alluded to
in the first paragraph of this article
fathers and grandfathers as being a
fugitive from justice In the United
States, and who. when the Spanish
Honduranean authorities signed an ex-
tradition treaty with the United States
was expressly stipulated by them as
being exempted from it's provisions
He, too, comes down to meet the ships
from home at the dock, formally salut-
ing the passengers. and being highly and
respectfully regarded throughout the
length and breadth of this land. A
notable figure, patriarchal, tall, white
Evening star., 1916-06-04

"|NDVlDUALS Had Ginp Philosopher World
Was Not Misunderstanding Helg Nine Prophecies
Pans Who Made Her
Prophecies and Says
Francsc Euthqua
Evening star., 1916-06-04

Special Correspondence of The Star
PARIS. May %. 1916.
nn6O HE war was predicted"
W says Mime de Thebes. IF
the world was not warned.
q 1t is because the world
paid no attention"
50 Nine. de Thebes answers Maurice
Maeterlinck.
She Is grand old woman, on her
balcony in Paris peering. listening,
waiting at the threshold Of the future.
She has given me this interview
The Belgian philosopher agrees
with her on essentials Maeterlinck is
writing a book on The Knowledge
Of the Future" to be published after
the war. in which he takes a strong
stand. He declares that an examina-
tion of many cases of presentinents,
premonitions. predictions, etc. tends to
prove that the future really pre-ex-
lists. as fixed and deflnitive as the past"
The premonitions. etc. are glin pses
OF II. as at distance. He compares IL
to vast reservoir Of coming events
suspended over us, trickling out, duly,
as we pass in time. or ready TO burst.
The war was such a bursting II
hung over US il is astonishing. says
Naeterlinck, that it, the most enormous
catastrophe that ever upset humanity
should not have thrown its threatening
shadow on the world 1t ought to have
incumbered all the horizon Of the flu
ture. as II viii incumber that Of the
past
"A secret Of such weight IN sus-
pense in time should have pressed on
all existences. and caused PRESENT.
ments and revelations TO burst forth
on all sides. Yet there was nothing
We went about our affairs TRANQUILITY
unaware of the approaching disaster
whlch. year oy year. month by month.
day by day, was descending on tho
world. and we perceived il only when
1t touched our heads"
So writes Naeterlinck in the Figaro
He admits three extraordinary prophe-
cies. beginning with that of Mayence
or Fiensburg, whose date is authenti-
cally fxed- " was published in the
Neue Metaphysische Rundschau OF Ber-
lin FOR February. 1912, and announced
the end OF the German empire for tho
year 1913.
TT is strange" interrupts Nine de
Thebes. Most of the famous prophe-
cies which put an exact date on the
great war coincide IN the error of ad-
vanctng il year"
MaeterIinck does not quote the May
ence-Ftensburg document. He next
cites the prediction Of the cure of Ars,
the best kro~n. perhaps. in France. 1t
dates. by well known proofs. fron-lss2,
and foretold the war OF 1870, but as 1t
was printed only in 1872 fn PRO
phet1c Voices. or Modern Signs and
Predictions" OF which copies exist In
the National Ab1arya. he slc1ps the WI r
of 1870. and considers oniy'ths second
invasion" of the Germans, which the
cure of AIRS forctells:
They VIII return again ana destroy
Evening star., 1916-06-04

world. In the spring of 1914 when all
was quiet and no sign of the coming
catastrophe anywhere. rumors of a
great war ran through the humble
towns and credulous countrysides of
Suabia and Franconia. They stopped
on the edge of Brandeburg-the ''kul-
tur' killed them, but even in Berlin
the prophecy of the monk of Hehnn
circulated. Three centuries ago (they
said), 1t had announced the establish
ment of the HohenZollern empire and
the lamentable end of the third emperor
of that family l do not know if it
troubled the kaiser in spite of the as
surances of German savants that the
last paragraph was not authentic The
interesting thing is that it was said
and reported in the spring Of 1914 If
you will consult back numbers of
L'Echo du Mervelleux' of that period
you will find them full of these mat
ters."
Nine. de Thebes spoke from memory
In March or April. 1914 LEcho du Mer-
veilleux (organ of such subjects, pub
lished in Paris) recorded rumors in Po-
land Incident on the discovery of the
crown of their ancient kings in the
roots of plane tree struck by light
ming and old songs and savings con-
Meeting the re-esta bii shment of the
kingdom with the long predicted event.
In Suabia, wandering singers and in
spired tramps stirred the peasants with
the song of the woman of St Inghbert,
Cossacks drinking in the Rhine and
Elbe."
why were German and Polish peas
ants worried?" inquiries Nine. de The
bes. LAS a Frenchwoman, 1 can only
think that their lives and future. as a
whole, were threatened otherwise than
ours: and 1 will quote you the saying of
the great Ernest Renan-who was
never accused Of credulity. on the con-
trary! - concerning the prophecies
which Inundated France in the months
before the war of 1870 broke out.
For centuries past, wrote Renan,
ION the eve of great events. vague
rumors, sometimes precise and almost
always realized have warned the peo-
pie of dangers which threatened them.
We can only recognize the mysterious
instinct. without being able to explain
it,
And Nine. de Thebes adds:
TT was France. in 1869, which had
tho mass of rumors. France was
beaten. If France had no such rumors
in 1914, it was because France was
destined to via1A But do not claim
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tinns go hnar o1inn,as oi ~ eu
event" a. e.. after the war beean1
Many of them do not merit serious
u. iscoss.oh aho most OF me remainder
only those Of ST Hiideearde Dom Pos
co. Andre Bobola, the Polish monk
horzehieh,, 1he RUSSIAN monk Ihos-
NV nrsdintione ,,,
after the event." protests Nine de
I ,eoes. lhey we're publ1sned In my
and Ia13" "
Maeferl,nck admits +h,+ ..hara
not been tiyna 70 ,n.La a sar;n,,. ia
oulry." bur. in etvinp tbe d.rsest nr.dit
to all prophecies or tba va htnh
shall stand future inves,Jaation 81
remains certain thar tho uari, ~ Ir,e
was not warned
We're YOU waiting for tho w,r, Ma
your cousins know its d.ta9 MA 80.
aunt recjte nredic,ions ahn,,. 10 'out
positively no The world ~ 1.ra. ,.,a
not warned "'
Yet Maeter1inck is .,r,,,,, ,,
that while fut,r. ,,o.,;.., y-e,,
,,- ."'eS''sa ATOMS Will
Evening star., 1916-06-04

all on their passage: we shall not re-
sist them, but let them advance; and
after having cut them off, we shall
cause them great losses; they will re-
tire toward their own land, and we
shall accompany them. and take back
from them all that they took from US
AS to the date when this should hap
pen. says Maeterlinck. the cure of ars
was deemed a saint and proposed for
cauonization long ago. The good man
foresaw il. Concerning the date of the
second inva sion, he wrote: They Will
want TO canonize me. but will not have
time" Now, the preliminaries of the
canonizatiou of Jean Baptiste Nianny,
the cure of Ars, were begun, as a fact.
in July, 1914. and were abandoned by
reason of the war.
MaeterIinck's third prophecy. called
that % Leon Sonrel, may be found at
length in the "Annales des Sciences
Psychiques" for August October. 1915.
On June 13, 1914-"remark the date,
handed to NJ r. de Vesmes on behalf
of DR.. Amedee Tardieu a manuscript Of
which the following is the substance.
They are all well known people.
On July 23 1863 while DIR. Tardieu
was walking in the Luxembourg gardens
with his young friend, Leon Sonrel.
attached to the Paris observatory, the
latter had a kind OF vision. in which
the defeat. civil war, etc, with his
own death: a lot of family predictions
concerning DIR. Tardieu and others. and
ending with the fate of France in flu
ture years. AS years passed. they all
came true. as fortold And now-"I
have been waiting two years" con-
tinues the MSS. Of DIR. Tardieu. dated
June 3. 1914. and handed by Prof.
II have been waiting two years for
what follows, concerning France.
leave aside all personal predictions
concerning the family OF my friend
Leon and my personal affairs. but
they accorded, so perfectly. as they
have always done with the general
events, 1 cannot doubt that the
following prediction OF Leon is on the
point of being realized:
'Ah. my God! My dear land is lost!
France is dead, What disaster, All,
behold her saved! She extends to the
Rhine! o. France, beloved patrie. you
are triumphant. you are the queen of
nations. your genius shines In the uni
verse, and all admire you.'
Questioned, after the war broke out
DR. Tariieu replied August 12, 1914:
MY friend Leon did not AK the year
OF this last prediction. but the general
events are intermingled with those Of
family affairs in the vision, and such
private predictions still doubtful up
to two years ago. had become so Ger
tain since April, 1914. that announced
TO all my friends that war would come
before September"
And there we are" says Maeter-
linok. Such are the prophecies of the
war worthy OF some attention of
which I know. They are timid and
Iaconic."
Do they constitute q warning to the
world?
Certainly not. says Maeterlinck, al
though In these regions where the
faintest gleam of light takes extra
ordinary importance they may not be
neglected
There have been others. He learns