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48 left the cabiuet, and was chosen to represent his state in the senate. Before his term here was completed he was elected presiilent of Sao Paulo, and this office he held until he resigned to become the candidate of the republican party for the presi- dency of Brazil in 1899, to which office, a little later! he was elected bv a large majority.

CANCCHAEE, Peruvian poet, lived in the 15th century. She was, according to some authors, among the virgins that guarded at Cuzco the archives of the nation in a magnificent palace dedicated to the sun, which occupied the site where the convent of Santa Catalina de Siena now stands, but others contest this, although all agree that she deserves the name of the Peruvian Sappho. She fell in love with a priest, Yahuar Imace, who disdained her. and she bewailed her misfortune in touching and graceful verses, or yaravis, some of which were till lately occasionally sung by Indians in the mountains of Peru and Bolivia. The yaravis composed by Cancchaee were, according to all historians, graceful poems, and Ferdinand Denis proposed in 1860 to the French government to appoint a commission for obtaining the original melody from the Indians. Tradition says that Cancchaee committed suicide in the Colqui-Cocha, or Silver lake. Her poems are men- tioned by Valdes y Palacios in his " Viage al Cuz- co," by Alcide d'Orbigny in his " L'homme Ameri- cain," by Johann von Tschudi in his "Antigile- dades Peruanas " (Vienna, 1851), and by others.

CANDLER, Allen Daniel, governor, b. in Lumpkin county, Ga. He was graduated from Mercer university, and became a manufacturer. In 1861 he entered the Confederate army as a captain, continuing to the close of the civil war, when he had attained to the rank of colonel. In 1872 he was elected to the legislature, in 1879 to the Georgia senate, and from 1883 to 1890 he was a member of congress. In 1894 he became secre- tary of state, and in October, 1898, he was elected governor of Georgia. lie is the author of a biography of his great-grandfather, entitled " Col. William Candler, of Georgia," who was an officer of the Revolutionarv army (Atlanta. 1896).

CANDLER, Warren Akin, M. E. bishop, b. near Villa Rica, Carroll co., Ga., 23 Aug.. 1857. He was graduated at Emory college, was licensed to preach in 1875, and became pastor of various churches in the south. In 1885 he was appointed assistant editor of the "Christian Advocate," and three years later he accepted the presidency of Emory college, which he held until elected bishop in May, 1898. He has received the degrees of D. D. and LL. D., and is the author of " His- tory of Sunday-Schools" (New York, 1880) and "Georgia's Educational Work" (Atlanta, 1893).

CANNON, Frank Jenne, senator, b. in Salt Lake City, 25 Jan., 1859, and was graduated from the University of Utah in 1878. lie became a printer and contributor to newspapers. Mr. Cannon was a delegate to the Republican national conven- tion which met at Minneapolis in 1892, and during the same year he was defeated for delegate to con- gress. Two years later he was successful, and in January, 1896, he was elected to the U. S. senate. His term of service expired in March, 1899. He withdrew from the St. Louis national Republican convention of 1896 because of dissatisfaction with the monetary plank of the platform.

CANTARI, Peruvian scientist, lived in the 16th century. He was a native of the valley of Coeha- bamba, and descended from Ilia, the inventor of the quipos, or bunches of strings of various colors, which, among the Peruvian Indians, served to re- cord historical events. Cantari was among the few that were able to decipher the quipos, and afforded great aid to the historians, as is acknowl- edged by Anello Oliva in his " Histoire du Perou " (Ternaux-Conipans's collection, Paris, 1840), by Juan de Velasco in his " Hi.storia del reyno de Quito " (Paris, 1840), and by Ferdinand Denis in his " fitudes sur les Quipos " (Paris, 18.58).

CANTERAC, José (can'-tay-rak), Spanish sol- dier, b. in France about 1770: d. in Madrid in June, 1835. His father, a general, was executed for his fidelity to the royalist cause during the revolution of 1793 ; the son, with the remainder of the family, took refuge in Spain, where he entered the military service, became a brigadier, and in 1817 was put in command of 2,700 men, and sent to Peru with orders to touch at Venezuela and assist in subduing the island of Margarita, which had be- come the headquarters of many American, Dutch, and English armed vessels, under privateer's com- missions from the revolutionary government. On 15 July Canterac defeated the republicans after a bloody resistance, and, with the second division under Aldama, he was ordered to march against the capital, Asuncion, but was defeated on 31 July at Matasiete. He also participated in the storm- ing of Juan Griego, 6 Aug., and Villa del Norte, 10 Aug. ; but after being repelled from the latter city, Morillo, the general-in-chief, being in need of all available forces, resolved to keep the regi- ments that had been destined for Peru, and Can- terac left early in 1818 with only his pei-sonal staff. In June of that year he joined the army of Upper Peru under Gen. La Serna at Tupiza as adjutant general, and took i)art in the campaign of that province during 1819-"20, being temporarily in chief command, after La Serna's departure, from 19 Sept., 1819, to 5 Feb., 1820. In December of the latter year he was ordered to Lima bv the viceroy, Pezuela, joined in the petition for the reappoint- ment of La Serna, and on 29 Jan.. 1821, as chief of staff, was the first to sign the manifesto of Az- napuquia demanding the resignation of Pezuela. He was rewarded by the new viceroy with the appointment as general-in-chief, and when the viceroy resolved to abandon the capital Canterac was ordered to the interior against Gen. Arenales. In August, 1821, he marched from Jauja with 4,700 men to relieve Callao. but on 16 Sept. he resolved to evacuate the fortress, which surrendered to the patriots on 21 Sept., and Canterac returned in October to Jauja, after an inglorious campaign. He was promoted major-general in JIarch, 1822, defeated Gen. Domingo Tristan at I§a on 7 April, and, joining Gen. Valdes after his victory of Torata, routed the republican army under Gen. Arenales at Moquegua. 21 Jan., 1823, and was promoted lieutenant-general. He was ordered by the viceroy in July. 1824. to take the offensive, but remained in Jauja until the approach of Bolivar's army, when he marched on Pasco, but. meeting the patriot forces on the way, took position near the lagoon of Lauricocha in the plain of Junin, where on 6 Aug., 1824, he was totally defeated. On 22 Sept. he joined the army of the vicer<jy. advancing from Cuzco. who appointed him his chief of staff. After the final defeat of the royalist army at Ayaeucho, 9 Dec, 1824, and the capture of the viceroy, Canterac, as second in command, signed next day the capitulation by which Peru was evacuated. He went to Rio Janeiro and thence to Spain, where he was appointed commander-in-chief of the camp of Gibraltar. In 1835 he was appointed captain-general of New Castile, and during a military mutiny he was shot by the insurgents.