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HAS NOTHING
TO ARBITRATE
PRESIDENT CASTRO ANSWERS
MINISTER BOWEN'S PROPOSAL.
CABINET CONSIDERS REPLY
Finds Situation Is Not Sufficiently Ser
ious to Interfere With Presi
dent's Trip.
Willemstadc, Island of Curacao,
March 24.-It is announced from Cara
cas, Venezuela, that President Castro
today replied to Minister Bowen's final
proposall for arbitration, denying that
Venezuela has questions pending with
the Uanited States, and saying the case
of the New York and Bermudese As
plhalt company must remain in the
courts.
Washington, March 24.-Minister
Bowen cables from Caracas that Presi
dent Castro had flatly refused to aibi
trnate the pending issues between Ven
ezuela and the United ,States.
The adnimnltration 'will take no ac
tion in regard to the reply which
President Castro of Venezuela made to
Minister Bowen. The matter was fully
dtlsoussed at the cabinet meeting today
and it was determined to allow the
matter to await developments.
The situation is considered such as
not necessarily to interfere with the
departure of the president on his
soutnhwestern trip.
Will Act Vigorously.
The Hague, March 24.-The govern
mlent of The Netherlands intends,
dilther alone or in conjunction with
other powers having difficulties with
Venezuela ,to take vigorous measures
to secure the release of the five Dutch
sailors illegally imprisoned 'for seven
months 'in that country. It is thought
probable that in the event of there be
ing no material change in the situa
tlion in the far east some of the Neth
erlands' warships maintaining neutral
&ty in the Dutch East Indies can be
transferred to Venezuelan waters in
May.
Adjust Debt.
London, March 24.-The signatur.
to the-agreement between Venezuela
and Anglo-German bondholders ad.
jusbing and consilidating the exterior
debt (about $28,600,000) was complet
ed today. Sixty per cent of the cus
toms of all the ports except La Guayra
and Puerto Cabello are allowed as se
curity.
PRESIDENT CASTRO CAN HOLD
AMERICA AT BAY.
Chicago, March 23.--Walter Well
man, in a Washington special to the
Record-Herald, says:
How to deal with Castro, the jiack-ia
the-box dictator of Venezuela, wiho has
bobbed up again, its a serious problem
with the American government and
also with the governments of France
and Italy. It is a mu.ch more serious
conundrum at Washington than it is
,at Paris and at 'Rome, because the for
eign governments have a free hand to
do as they please, ahihe the adminis
tration here is compelled to ask per
mission of one or both houses of con
gress before it can do anything be
yond putting uPI a 'bluff.
cFrance and Italy, who are eager to
protect 'the rights of their citizens in
Venezuela, ruthlessly assailed by this
freebooter dictator, have intimated
that they would like the United States
government to represent them in ad
andnistering some sort of discipline to
the jadk-in-theabox.
Roosevelt Is Puzzled.
But President Roosevelt is not like
ly to accept this responsibility, be
cause he is much puzzled to know
what to do to protect the interests of
our own citizens, let alone taking up
the cudgel for other governments.
The president is greatly hampered
by the restrictions seemingly placed
upon him 'by congress during the re
cent ,session as well as by the constitu
tion of the United States. For exam
ple, he cannot seize a Venezuelan cus
tom house, even as trustee or b.y ar
rangement with the Venezuelan gov
ernment if such an arrangement were
possible, without the assent of the sen
ate. To seize a custom hous by force
would be tantamount of making war
without the authorization of congress.
Castro Holds Whip Hand.
If Castro is smart enough to refuse
aribitration and to refuse to do justice
to the American interests involved, it
is diffioult to -see what action the ad
ministration can take to bring him to
terms. The president can send war
sh4is to Venezuelan waters, but what
are they to do after they get there?
To establish a blockade by force di to
marke war. To land martdes to restore
the asphalt company's property to its
rightful owners, the American stock
holders, is to make war. To seize
Venezuelan territory or property in re
prisal is to make war.
So If Cactro has his nerve with hMm,
if he understands the peculiarities of
the American ldminiatrative system;
if he simply stands pat and refuses to
get scared when Mr. Roosevelt's war
ships arrive off his coast and parade
up and down in all their formidable ar
ray of frowning guns and steam
launches, loaded to the gunwales with
sassy ,marines, he Is master of the sit
uation. The president ma~y put up a
Sbluff. If Castro calls it, he wins.
CASTRO WOULD HUMILIATE US.
Butte Inter Mountain: "Perhaps
30,000 Venezuelans, bearing the glori
ous national 'banner, that very banner
whose floating iris illuminated the
wafters of La Plata with the splendor
of the Venezuelan fatherland to the
echo of the clarions of Carabobo. of
Bomnbona and of Ayachucho, would to
day be sufflicient to wash away the .n
sult which our glorious flas has re
ceived from North America, in tne
very waters of the Mississippi."
So begins a pamphlet issued 'by
President Castro of Venezuela to his
valiant fellow countrymen. With an
army of 30,000 'halfbreed.s, most of
whom would .go over to any enemy any
day for four bits per -man, three bat
teries of French artillery nobody
knows how to shoot, some moth-eaten
cavalry, a dingy commissariat and no
credit, this most astonishingly impu
dent creature defies the powers and
'hurs insults in the face of the United
States, whose Monroe doctrine alone
has kept him in hi's seat. The official
proclamation, 'which is amusing as
absurd, continues:
"Cunduncurca is not more dt'tant
from Venezuela than the hostile land,
and the territories which we have to
cross in order to arrive there are al
most all of the same fatherland.
"Columbia, the first of these, will
readily open its frontiers to give pas
sage (to -the sons of Bolivar, as well as
Costa Rica, Nicaragua and Mexico, the
fatherland of Juarez, the feared by
Franlce and by Europe for his formid
able and terrible patriotism.
"There can be no doubt that our
Latin brothers would willingly open
the way for the army of Venezuela, in
order that the sons of Washington
should be allowed to 'believe that few
are more valiant sand warlike than the
sons of Bol'ivar. '
"This may seem to many a Utopian
vision, ,but when we reflect that the
North American squadrons can not op
erate in the forests, and that traders
will always be traders, inept and cow
ardly in feats of heroism, our hearts
swell within us and we are willing to
take out stand in the vanguard among
the distinguished heroes of the new
world who are called once more to
rarove that Venezuela is immortal and
is the first 'to take up the glove which
is thrown down today to the whole of
Spanish America."
Copies of this proclamation were re
cetred in New Orleans the other day.
It illustrates 'the depth of the ignor
ance in South America concerning
North America. Yet, all things consid
ered, Oastro's belicose verbiage is no
,more extravagant 'than similar procla
mations issued by 'the 'Spanish govern
ment at the beginning of the late war.
America, in the Madrid gazettes, was
said to have fewer ,people than Spain,
and little money; all CGatholics would
at once rise and overthrow the govern
ment and welcome the Spanish with
open arms, because the Spanish were
COatholics; Germans, Bnitish, French,
in fact, all immigrants in America,
would not dare to take up arms
against Spain, knowing well that
'Spain would seek reprisal upon their
fatherlands, sand so on! One inciden?
In particular, related in a leading Mad
rid daily paper, illustrated the Spanish
way of exciting the common people
into a warlike spirit. It was told how
in "'the publ:c square" of 'St. Louis,
"40,000 Spanish immigrants" had been
massacred in the "most horrible man
ner," those left alive being "subjected
to the inquisition." The Spanish navy,
in an editorial in the same issue of the
Ipaper, was urged 'to land at the near
est point and send marines 't punish
the St. Loulsians, whose city, the ar
'ticle deolared, was only twelve 'miles
inland, "throngh a dense forest."
A MARTYR
TO THE STEAK I
Isn't among our cus
tomers. The sweet,
tender T bone you
get here makes you
t lament the lost time
before you began to
deal with us.
SMontana Meat Market
A MINISTER TO VANITY.
Ken and Women and Their Attitude
Toward the Mirror.
It is not always for the mere gratifi
cation of personal vanity that we
should attentively study our mirrors.
Socrates advised all young people to
look often in their looking glass to as
certain if they were good looking; that
if they were so they might strive to
make their mental attainments corre
spond, and if they were not then they
might endeavor by the superior accom
plishments , their minds to make up
for their personal shortcomings.
This is excellent advice for vanity
possessed moderns, but it is improba
ble that the high mental attitude of
Socrates is appreciated by them. How
the elaborate toilet of today could be
accomplished without the aid of the
mirror it is impossible to imagine. It
is popularly supposed that the mirror
is the woman's pet possession, but man
is by no means averse to contemplat
ing his manly charms as reflected there
in. A woman frankly confesses her in
terest in the alluring combination of
glass and quicksilver, but the man.
while voicing his scorn, proves his su
perior vanity by his concealed and se
cretive study of it. He jeers at his
wife's cheval glass. But was anything
more entirely provocative of human
vanity ever invented than the many
sided shaving glass?-London Chroni
cle?
RUSES OF BANKERS.
Devices Used to Lither Gain Time or
Inspire Confidence.
Some amusing anecdotes are told of
the devices resorted to by bankers to
gain time and inspire confidence. On
one memorable occasion the excited
subscribers, much to their indignation.
were only able to enter the bank one
by one except at the cost of spoiled
coats, as the cute manager had caused
the door posts to be freshly painted.
Another bank prevented a crisis In
its affairs by exhibiting in the win
dows large tubs apparently brimful of
sovereigns. These tubs, however, were
simply upside down and a small quan
tity of gold only piled up on their bot
toms.
But the most ingenious dodge of all
was successfully carried out in Buenos
Ayres. There was a run on a large
bank, and for several days subscribers
besieged the premises, withdrawing
money and placing it in another bank
on the opposite side of the road. It
happened, however, that these two in
stitutions had a private understanding,
and as fast as the "safe" bank receiv.
ed the deposits they were returned to
the "unsafe" one by an underground
passage, with the result that every one
marveled at its continued ability to
meet its demands.-London News.
A CAMEL'S STOMACH.
In Four Compartments It Carries
Water to Last a Journey.
The stomach of a camel is divided
into no less than four compartments,
and the walls of one of these are
lined with large cells, every one of
which can be opened and closed at
will by means of powerful muscles.
Now, when a camel drinks it drinks
a very great deal. Indeed it goes
drinking on for such a very long time
that really you would think that it
never meant to leave off. But the fact
is that it is not only satisfying its
thirst, but is filling up its cistern as
well. One after another the cells in
its stomach are filled with water, and
as soon as each is quite full it is tight
ly cl6sed. Then when the animal be
comes thirsty a few hours later all
that it has to do is to open one of the
cells and allow the water to flow out.
Next day it opens one or two more
cells, and so it goes on day after day
until the whole supply is exhausted.
In this curious way a camel can live
five or even six days without drinking
at all and so is able to travel quite
easily through the desert, where the
wells are often hundreds of miles
apart.
Oath That Binds the Burmese.
Perjury having been rife in Rangun
courts because no form of oath exist
ed which the Burman considered bind
ing, the government prescribed a form
ula which is a queer admixture of
Buddhism, Brahminism and Shaman
ism. Here are phrases from it, picked
at random: "If an untruth passes my
lips, may all the gnats that live in lakes,
ponds and brooks and the gnats of the
five great rivers of India destroy me.
May curdled blood pass my lips rather
than a lie, and may I die vomiting
blood, my body Ient in t1wo."-Rangun
Gazette.
A Caustie Retort.
Prince Herbert Bismarck had the rep
utation of having a decidedly brusque
manner in society. Once at a royal re
ception he bumped roughly agaibst an
Italian prelate, who looked at him in
dignantly. "You evidently don't know
who I am," said the German prince
haughtily. "I am Herbert Bismarck."
"Oh," answered the prelate, "if that
doesn't amount to an apology it is cer
tainly a perfect explanation!"
To Make Her Turn.
Mrs. Fondmar-Doctor, my daughter
sits and gazes into that mirror for
hours at a time. I can't get her to
take exercise. Dr. Bruff-Well, I pre
scribe another mirror at the other end
of the room.-Chicago Journal.
Easy Money.
"What are you thinking so hard
about?"
"I was just trying to figure out the
percentage of rich people there would
be in the world if fault finding paid."
Chlcago Record-Herald.
When a man wears his piety as an
ornament you can depend on Its being
paste.--Chlcago Tribune.
The Last Flower
On the Azalia
[Original.]
A broad open stretch of country, with
here and there a clump of trees, bathed
in that deep yellow afternoon sunlight
peculiar to certain portions of the west.
There is but one house in sight, and that
a log cabin. No fense incloses it; no
trees shade it. The only attempt to
beautify it is a row of flowers on each
side of the little stoop in its front.
From a well in the rear a young girl
is carrying a watering pot to give the
flowers their evening sprinkling. Her
dress is a common calico, its skirt
reaching only to her ankles. On her
back hangs a sunbonnet, thrown off
now that the sun has lost its power.
Tenderly she bends over her plants,
which seem to raise their lips to drink
in the refreshing draft. In all that
landscape there is no other cultivated
beauty.
So wrapt was she in her occupation
that she did not hear a step behind her
till it was very near; then, turning, she
saw a figure and a face before which
the beauty of her flowers paled. Till
this moment they had been her com
panions, her children, the only objects
to love in that lonely land. Hearing
a step, she turned. A handsome, good
natured, boyish face, with kindly blue
eyes, was looking at her. Amused at
her startled appearance and the pleas
ure she did not attempt to conceal, the
stranger unslung a rifle from his back
and rested it on the ground.
"Do you think," he asked, "that I
could stay here all night?"
"I'll see." And she went into the
house. When she returned to say that
he could have what he wanted she
found him pouring a fresh pot of water
on her plants, which he had been to
the well to bring. A mother seeing one
feeding her hungry children could not
have been more affected. Indeed, ev
erything about the stranger tended to
bring the girl under his magical influ
ence. Whence comes this young fellow
to sympathize with the one delight of
her life? She neither knew nor cared.
She only felt his presence.
The huntsman spent the night at the
cabin. There were no rules to govern
the conduct of the two, and they sat
out on the stoop under the stars till
t the moon rose and eclipsed her heaven
ly sisters with her greater splendor.
The man had been used to forms, but
he forgot them now. Only an hour
elapsed between his arrival and his
first word expressing what both had
felt for that whole hour.
"May I have a kiss?" he asked.
He whose manner was that of a god
to ask for a kiss from a daughter of
the desert!
In the morning he was gone. II
seemed to her that instead of the sun
rising it had set. Oh, that the hunting
grounds had lain near the cabin! But
he had promised to return that way.
She did not question that he would.
She simply waited and watched and
thought of him till he should come.
One morning she arose, threw open
the shutter and looked out. The sun
was rising, and his first soft morning
rays lent to the desolate scene some
thing like beauty. The few trees did
not look so lonely, the uncovered coun
try did not look so barren, now that
the sun's light shone through mellow
ing mists.' But if the orb of day was
rising in the east the sun of the girl's
heart was rising in the west. Glanc
ing thither, she saw a lithe figure step
ping lightly along the road. It was the
young stranger, and he carried some
thing in his arms.
When she went downstairs, there on
the stoop sat the huntsman, and near
him in an earthen pot was a plant-one
that she had never seen before.
"When on the line of the railroad,"
he said, "I sent to the city for it. Had
I not been waiting I would have re
turned earlier, for to give you one mo
ment of happiness is worth more than
all the game in the west."
"It is not in bloom," said the girl.
"No: it will not bloom till I come
again, or, rather, when it blooms again
I will come."
They spent one happy day together,
then the stranger went on. Autumn
faded into winter. A traveler stopped
at the cabin one day and, seeing a
name written on a bit of wood tied to
the plant, asked:
"Has he been here?"
"Yes."
"Look out for him, little girl; he's a
heart smasher. Hunts hearts as he
hunts deer or antelope."
The girl turned pale.
"Did he give you that azalea?" asked
the traveler.
"Yes. When does it bloom?"
"In the early spring."
From that time the girl began to wilt.
It seemed when the winter was passing
out and the azalea began to take on its
new life that it was drawing its vigor
from its mistress. Before the traveler's
arrival she had not doubted that the
giver would come when the plant
bloomed. Now she felt that he would
never come.
One morning a bud opened, then an
other and another, till the azalea was in
full bloom, emitting a rich odor. The
girl's vitality flickered as a candle
burns down into its socket. Meanwhile
the 'flowers dropped away. One even
ing she went out to sprinkle her plants.
Carrying the water exhausted her
strength. But one flower remained.
She stooped to inhale its odor and fell.
A strong arm.raised her. Looking up,
she saw the smiling face of the hunts
man looking down at her.
"t'm not too late to keep my prom
lse," he said. "There's one flower left."
"I was told." she faltered, "by one
who knows you that you would not
come."
"Love promises I have never kept be
iore. The one I made to you I could
not break." F. A. MITCHEL.
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