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JOB WORK, THI8 OFFICE 13 THE PLACE TO BRING IT TO IF YOU WANT STYLE. TO THINK OWN SELF BK TR?K AND IT MUST FOLLOW A? THE NIGHT THK DAT, THOU OANS'T NOT THEN BB FALSE TO ANY MAN. BY ?JAYN 158, SHEJLOR, SMITH .V; BTEOK. ALL KINDS OF COMMERCIAL PRINTING AT THIS OFFICE POSTERS, PAMPHLETS, BLANKS, AC. WA?i??Al??iA, SOUTH CAROLINA, FEBRUARY ?, ISO?. NEW ?ERIRR. NO? 45.-VOLUME Ii.-NO. 6 AMEHIGANIZED MANILLA. Effects of New Coud Mons-Filipinos Surprised by Full Wnjrcs. A voluntoor army olhoor, just re turned from Manilla, talks thu? of Iiis experiences : "Tho city is rather nico appearing. Most of ibo houses aro one story, but thcro aro a number of hnndsomo buildings, including tho palace, and Bomo fino privato residences with beautiful grounds. What did wo oat? A man never asks that in Manilla, for if ho did ho no vor would oat. He'd starve. --That is, an American would. "A lot of UH dined one day at a .restaurant. Wo wero hungry. The proprietor told us ho mado tho rag out in Manilla. Wo ordered it and rico and fruits. We dined gener ously. It was tho very best stew or ragout I over eat. We wore liberal in our tips to tho landlord ; wo cov ered him with compliments and promised to make him frequent visits. Alas ! how our dreams aro sometimes ah altered. "Wo sipped our coffee and smoked our Manilla cigars. Cigars aro so plentiful that tho cafes and restau rants keep quantities ol them on a stable, freo of charge, for their guests. "Wesauntered out into thc moonlit fctrcot and into the garden adjoining tho restaurant. Wo saw, as wo thought, evidences of a cemetery. Arms, logs, skulls glistened there in tho moonlight. We all had queer thoughts. I spoko up. " 'Boys, it looks as if wc had been eating babies,' I said. All turned white. Tho shock was terrible. We stopped a passer-by. " *IB this a cometory ?' one of us asked. " 'No, sir.' " 'What are those heads, arms, legs ?' "Ile laughed and said 'Monkeys.' "Well, that was not so bad as Fili pino babies, but it was next to it. Wo wandered homo sadder but wiser men. After that wo ato fish, of which there aro many varieties, and waterox, a pocular looking animal with long horns, that lives as much ns possiblo in the water up to its neck. "Tho people are good natured, kind, lazy, but quite intelligent and can bo made good, self-supporting citizens. Under Spanish rule they wore cowed and cheated. For in stance, the firemen were paid off by one of our paymapters. One of the Filipino firemen got $22. lie kept $8 and placed tho other #14 back on the table. "'What do you mean by that?' asked the paymaster. w ' I never get hut &8,' answered the Filipino. 'Tho chief fireman gota #6, the assistant chief gets ?H and I get #8.' " 'You aro under .Americans now and you get $22 for yourself,' said tho paymaster. "Tho Filipino looked surprised, took tho money, marched ovei to ward some of his friends and ex plained matters. They hugged and kissed each other ?nd looked thor, ougbly happy and mystified. Ame rican honor, as yet, was almost be yond their comprehension. "The Spaniards are cunning finan ciers. They knew how to increase their revenues in tho Philipines. AU the servants and laborers were obliged to pay tribute. As soon as men or women' reached tho age to work or serve as servants they were obliged to get a cehula or written permission or passport from tho au thorities in their city or village, and to pay a certain feo for it. lu this way groat sums of money were col lected. It was far from fair for char acter depended mostly on the kind ness or unkindness of the employer. CorUiip, {?nos wero given for a bad Character, so even if an employee was everything ho should be, the enmity qf tho employer plight not only pre vent him from securing a better place iMlv leight also subject him lo exces sive |lnes. Thanks to American valpr, the character passport is dead apd the filipino can breath freer. ?'Ves, I ?aw many marks of cruel ty, but one of the saddest scenes I witnessed was on tho day the politi cal prisoners were released from their chains. Home ?IO0 Filipinos were in the political prison in chains for offences, or so-called offences, against tho Spanish government. T?u; prispp WHS not ovpr-presentable and every prisoner was manacled. Tho irons on his wrists were fastened together and a few were chained to / the walls or posts. An American officer liad the honor to free them from these revolting punishments. Ho first told them that their enses would bo carefully lookod into and thoy should havo full justico and an houost hearing and bo dealt with fairly aooording to tboir crimoB, if crimes bad been committed. ? cYou will novor wear obains again, but bo troated aB AmorioaiiB aro doalt with,' ho said. "The blacksmiths knookod out tho rivots, took off the band and ankle ouffs, carried away the chains, and ?100 men folt freo. Thoy said but little and looked volumes. Tboro was ono youth, hoavily chained, about 20 yoars old, careworn, almost a skeleton. ".How long have you boon hore chained ?' be was asked. M 'Twelve yo- rs.' " 'Impossible . What were you so harshly dealt with for?' " 'When 1 was eight years old I attacked some Spanish soldiers, was arrested and placed hero,' ho Bald. Ile Binilod and continued : 'Thoy must have thought mc dangerous or havo boen great cowards to have punished ino so terribly.' Thou ho broke down and wept bitterly. Ho received bia freedom on the spot and v/as selected as a servant by ono of officers, who linds him trustworthy. Such happiness was seldom seen ns the prisoners displayed. Ju tho fu ture they will be .well taken care of. "Glad to get homo? I guess so. Never saw anything as beautiful as the Pacifie coast when I first caught sight of it coming home. Yet I'd go again in a minute. Our boys have performed superb service out in the Philippines-bettor work than is generally known. Wo can civilize those people in short order: livery man out there is an expansionist, for he sees for himself what great advan tages those islands possess." How's Tills 1 Wo offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for any ease of catarrh that cannot bo cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. P. J. Cheney it Co., Props., Toledo, O. We, tho undersigned, havo known I<\ J, Cheney for tho last 1"> years, and bo licve bim perfectly honorable in all busi ness transactions and financially aldo to carry out any obligations made by their firm. West & Traux, Wholesale Diuggists, Toledo, O. Wabling, Rinnan & Marvin, Whole sale Druggists, Toledo, (). Hall's Catarrh Curo is taken inter nally, acting directly upon tho blood and mucous surfaces of thc system. Prico, 7fu per bottle. Sold by all druggists. Testimonials free. Hall's Family Pills aro thc best. A Shameful nm! Disgusting Scone. Tho scene witnessed in tho mooting of tho joint assembly in tho hall of tho House of Representatives last Tuesday, when tho election was going on botwoon i Douthit and Rollinson for a place on tho Stale Hoard of Control, was a most shameless and disgusting ono. Under tho lead of thc Chairman of tho Hoard thc hall was packed with heelers and strikers connoctod with tho big dispen sary In Columbia and from local dispen saries elsewhere to encompass Douthit's defeat. Members woro buttonholed and bullyragged in tho aisles and in their scats to volo against him. The big ma chine was fully in cvinonco and it assort ed its power and made itself felt. Wo have never felt quito ?uro that it was thc hugo political machino it? enemies claimed it was, hut wo saw thc ovidenco of it that day. Wo havo been and are yet a strong believer in tho dispensary system as tho best that lias yet been de vised for dealing with the liquor problom, and we would Uko to preserve tho sys tem, but it must bo divorced from poli tics, oven if tho big machine has to bo uprooted io do it, ?md if wo were a mem ber of tho Qonoral Assembly we would give our best thought and el?ort todo viso Homo means to tako it out of poli tics, and failing in that wo would voto to abolish lt. The whiskey business must not be allowed to bo a dominating factor in State or county polities. Wo beard some of tho staunchest friends of tho dispensary say that they were disgusted with what they saw that day.- Anderson Advocate, January :>0. -. -*fm~ Dr. M. A. Simmons' Liver Medicino, hy ox pel ling from the body tho excess of bile and acids, improves tho assimilative processes, purifies tho blood, tones up and strengthens. -???^-. In 180? it was believed by Reformers and Conservativos that the old set, whe ther Bourbons, Conservatives, Ilaskol lites, or whatever they were called, I would never get possession of tho Stato Government. They woro right. They aro pot in possession. Mol thor are tho lief oriners of 1802. rmt better than either, the pooplo of South Carolina, re gardless of faction or political bosses, are now in control, Let us all bo thank ful for that and forgive tho bitterness of the past and work for the bes I interests of the State. -The Spartan. CASTOR IA For Infants and Childron. The Kinij You Haye Always Bought Hoars tho fllgnaturo of One of tho State Senators of Utah is Mai thu Hughes Cannon. Sho ?ins served in tho State Senate for two years, is highly cultured, a physleian of recognized standing, and a Demo crat. SOME PEN PICTURES. A Galaxy of Homeliness lu tho State House. It is indood a pleasure for a homely man to visit our State capital, since the newly elected officers have gono into power, for ho ?3 mado to fool happy, at homo and handsome. To judgo from tho facos of tho publio servants whom tho pcoplo havo se lected to sorvo thom for tho next two yenrs, a stranger would think that our voters had oithor gotton thom out of a grab-bag or solcotod thom in tho dark. Wo aro told that "beauty unadorned is most adorned," but it would bc a diffioult undertak ing to impair tho looks of those offi oials by too much adornment. In fact, if you could encaso their heads in a corn sack it would bo a decided improvement. Wo have all hoard of tho homely follow whoso face would scare a locomotive off tho track. I havo never met that ungainly indivi dual, but feel assured if bo was ex hibited alongsido our Governor, Sec retary of State, and laut bnt far from least, our State Troasuror, that bo could pass among art critics for tho model from which tho statue of Apollo was carved, and bo looked upon as a thing of beauty and a joy forover. I do not bolicvo that tho Creator of mankind has any apcoial grievance against South Carolina, but whon our worthy body of Stato ofticors wcro being manufactured, all the good looks material had boon used up a.ul only somo ragged and jagged ends wcro loft over. As a consolation to wc homely mortals it is said that "beauty is only skin deep." But this certainly don't ap ply to our friends in the Stato house, for you might skin them down into the bone without reaching tho scat of their ugliness. It is just born in them, and you might run thom through a bark mill and it couldn't be ground out. They would just have to bo moulded over again. Not being endowed with nngolio beauty myself, 1 feel I have a right to comment on other people's looks, and that I am a critic on homeliness. But when I do enter our Stato capi tol, and pay my rcspocts to tho ollicors, I always return to tho hotel with a smiling face, and spend a de lightful bour in admiring my classic features in a mirror. It is like gaz ing upon some lovely landscape from a mountain top, after ascending through a rough and rugged wilder ness. We have all hoard of the pocket-knife presented to the homely fellow, with tho command that when ho found an uglier man than him self, to turn it over. Now, did the owner of the knife chanco to visit Columbia, and call at our Stato house, ho would be mystified as to the right fid ownership, there would bc so many worthy claimants. Every stylo of homeliness is there represented, and it would take a microscopic in vestigation to decide botwoon tho different contestants. Let us first take our friend, his Ex cellency. Governor Ellorbo has an open, honest face and a pleasing coun tenance. Hut there his attractions end. Tho Good Hook tolls us that man was created from the dust of tho ear; h. Of course this is truo. Hut to gaze into our Governor's face, ono is lcd to believo that beforo tho dust got thoroughly dry a dirt dauber came along and worked it ovor in all kinds of fantastic shapes. In fact, a sculptor could take a dull meat axo and a chunk of wood and in an hour hew out a most admirablo imago of tho chief executive of tho old Pal metto Slate. It was said of Joseph E. Brown, of Georgia, that ho looked like an oH rebuilt ten-rail fence, stalked and rid or od. Well, this would apply to Governor Kllorbe, if two rails were taken from that fenco and some of the stakes and riders re moved. But our Governor is by no means vain of his looks, which is accounted for from tho fact that bo always keeps a looking-glass in his office. How it has escaped hoing shivered into a thousand pieces is a mystery unexplained. It must bo a piece of polished steel armor. If Undo Sam could have the component parts of tho mirror that hangs in tho Gover nor's office analyzed, wo could havo a coating for our war-ships that a thunder-bolt couldn't phn/.o ur dont, Just across tho ball we (ind our now Secretary of State, M, K. Cooper. When I attempt to describe Mr, Cooper's personal nppoaranoo, my brain refuses to act and my pon to move Even Wooster's unabridged fails to supply words to dopiot bis appearance. In going to town through thick, red mud ovory day my buggy wheels aro constantly moulding and i '.eking up what, might pass for small olay models of my friend Cooper. 1KB hair is about tho color of puro Peruvian guano, bis eyes are out bias and fringod with a thick growth of saffron hued lashes, md wbon Cooper smiles it extends from oar to oar, and you havo a panorama of mouth and good humor. T always bunt up Mr. Cooper when in Columbia, for I loavo bim satisfied that I havo boen bloBsod with moro than ray sbaro of good looks. * Thon comos Colonol Floyd, Adju tant and Inspector Gonoral. Colonol Floyd, I think, labors under tho bliss ful hallucination that bo is a hand somo man ; but never was mortal more sadly mistaken. In fact, that a critical publio might not judgo tho colonel too harshly, I recommended to him aB armorer Davo Alloy, and besido whom an alligator would show to advantage. Colonel Floyd always reminds mo of a bald-hoadod owl, and tho peculiar way ho hos of roosting on tho lowor round of MB chairas if ho was fixing to pushsomo chicken off tho roost. The Colonel was a gallant soldior and lost an arm in battlei The Yankees evidently took Floyd for an owl and tried to wing him. I do ask my friend Floyd to some timo tako a good, square, honest look in tho glass, and perhaps his mind will undergo a chango in regard to his personal appearance. And then comos State Treasuror Timniorman. I havo always given tho doctor my ardent support wbon ho was a candidate for office, for tv/o good and suflioicnt reasons. 1st, I know him to bo a capablo and honest man, and would fill any position with credit to himself and honor to tho Stato ; and 2d, wbon I find a man aspiring for offico so much uglier than myself, I always fool duty bound to voto for him, for . 1 never want to soe tho issue of looks brought into politics. Dr. Timmer man's faco is shaped aftor tho dia gram of a claw hammer ; so mueli so that you could draw a ton ponny nail with his countenance. Ii tho doctor over runs for office on hie looks ho wouldn't get outside of hil yard gate. 1 have soon homely men, of over) degree and shado of ugliness, bul our State Treasurer blonds them all Wbon it comes to downright ugli ness, tho doctor is a gem of tin purest wator. Ho is tho right man too, in tho right place, for no burg lar would dare invade our Stat? Treasurer's office, unless ho was blind folded. In fact, tho dootor ?B no only an able treasurer, but a regula Jtne-look on tho cash drawer, for i would tako an old and desperat villain to invado his offico with Di Timmerman behind tho desk. Attorney General Bollinger is ou beat-looking Stato oftlcer,but his bear and bead remind us of a chestnu burr. But in selecting his assistant our friend, U. X. Gunter, Mr. Be' linger bad ovidontly in view tho ide of keoping Iiis department on a pa of homeliness with tho other Stat officors. Gunter always looks to ns r if he needed a dose of doadshot c vermifuge, and was afllictcd with oronio caso of colic. But wht Gnntor lacks in looks ho makes up i ability and cleverness, and these r< dooming traits cover a multitudo < ungainliness. Comptroller Dorham will pass mut tor, but you can fire into a crow any circus day and kill a half do/.e or moro better-looking men. Bi surrounded ns bo is by such an arra of high grade ugliness, Mr. Dorbai shows to much better advantage thn a casual obsorvor would think wh mot bim on tho strcot. Mr. McMi han labors ander the samo ad van tag Lieutenant Govoruor McSwoenc is another two-legged flower that wt not born to blush unseen. l)o< ?'own in his hoart McSwooncy b Hov ' himself to bo a handsome mai but novor did mortal labor under more delusivo mistake. He is ino: on tho olay-root order of beaut with an old red freo/.led roost crowing on top of it. It is worth trip to Columbia to see our Liento ant Governor's mustache, and tl m i int ic way in which ho parts 1 hair. That inustncho reminds ono a patch of over-ripo wheat 1? around an old stump in tho fiel Down in Hampton county they mu uso mud-puddles for looking glasse or MoSweeney would havo invest in a mask boforo presiding over t Sonate. T. L, GANTT. A. J. Olli, Jr., Scotia, S. <;., writes havo used Dr. M. A. Simmons' Lb Medicino in my family 10 years, lt 1 cured indigestion, dyspepsia, const! tlon, and many other ailments. --???~ It takes a polioo forco of 7,-1 men to protect tho interests of N York's population against orimo r. disorder, ? THE SURRENDER OF GOMEZ. Tho Cuban General Yields to the Ar gument of lt. 1?. Port? , JKEMEU/^S, Providence of Santa Clara, February 2.-Qon. Maximo Gomez, tho commander-in-chief of tho Cu bau army, placed himself squarely in position to-day as an ac tivo ally of tho United Slatos Gov ornmont in tho work of tho recon struction of Cuba. As a result of tho conforonoB whioh H. P. Porter, tho special commis sioner of President McKinley, has had with Gen. Gomez tho latter ca bled to Prosidont McKinley this af ternoon assuring him of hie co-opera tion in disbanding tho Cuban army, and in distributing among tho Cuban soldiers tho $3,000,000 appropriated for tho purposo of onabling them to return to their homos. Gen. Gomoz also tolographed to Major Gon. Brooke saying he would accopt tho latter's invitation to go to Havana. The success of Mr. Portor's mission greatly simplifies tho returning of tho military Cubans to tho pursuits of peace. In view of Gen. Gomez's supposed prior attitude of hostility toward tho United States Mr. Porter carno boro clothed with absoluto authority, and tho tender of the *3,000,000 was practically a vorbal ultimatum. Had it not been accepted no more ulti matums would havo boon mado. Mr. Porter mado plain tho purpose of thc Government and was gratified at tho ready response of Gen. Gome/, Tho conference took placo at thc liouso hero occupied by tho Cuban general as his headquarters since coming to town. When Mr. Porter arrived horolnsl week ho was accompanied by Sonoi Gonzales Qucsada, tho special commis sionor of the Cuban Junta at Wash ington ; Capt Campbell, of Gen Brooko's staff; Lieut. Hanna, o Gen. Wood's staff, an?! a corrospon dent of tho Associated 1*1-088. The Cuban commander was cor dial in greeting Mr. Porter an? opened the interview by rofcrring t< tho chango for tho bettor which ha* takon placo in Cuba since ho was las hero in September. He also lal streps on thc fact that some poop! wcro asking wlu're was Cuba's prom ised liberty. "Thc answer to this," said Mi Porter, "is that Cuba now has con: mercinl and industrial liberty an that President MeK inloy lins directe me, in framing thc Cuban tariff, t make no discrimination in favor < tho United States in the manner tin Spain favored herself. Cuba is fri to-day to buy in tho cbeajiost ma kot. Peoplo aro returning to tl pursuits of pence and our militai government will givo way to tl civil government ns fast as poBsiblo Mr. Porter also said that thc pu pose of the American Government to lay a firm foundation of nob governme''.c for Cuba, to givo tl Cubans all the libortios thoy hr fought for, and that Gon. Gonv must remember that and moro sti For instance, thoro are 25,000 i 30,000 Spanish soldiers at Cienfucgc who havo not loft Cuba ; that v have only been a month on tho islan and that President McKinley noedi and was entitled to thc co-operati< of all interested in tho wolfare ai future of Cuba, and that ho nccdi the co-operation of Gon. Gom abovo all othors. Thc first problem Mr. Porter tin pointed out was the disbandment thc Cuban army and tho return tho Cuban soldiers to work. Tl wns the specific mission which h brought Mr. Porter to Romod? and in which Presidont MoKinl oxpectcd Gen. Gomez's aid. Tlio Cuban oommntider-in-eh replied that ho was ready and wi mg to givo the aid requiied, li asked how he could do so. To this Mr. Portor replied tl President McKinley would be gi to havo bim go to Havana and < operate with Gen. Brooke in cl banding the Cubans and in payi ovor the ?3,000,000 appropriated that purpose. Qon. Gomez said tho amount v too small, but that was not his fai and he would make it go ns far possible, while likening it to miracle of thc loaves and fishes. "No man in history," said J Porter, "has done so much with small resources as you havo do Hence your co-operation with G Brooke will bring good results." Gen. Gomez especially roques that tho money for which Mr. 1 ter lind orders in his pockot sho be paid over to Gen. Brooke, and himself, as ho did not want tho j sonal responsibility of keeping it. Tho Cuban general thon asau ?. Capt, Campbell of his good footings, and tho formal compact was pro sontod to Gomoz by Mr. Porter and was assented to by Gen. Gomez. In brief tho compact is as follows : 1. The Cuban officers in eaob pro vinco shall assist tho American offi cers in distributing tho fonds. 2. That these officers shall at onoo moot at somo convoniont point and doviso how, when and whore the payments aro to bo mado, and ar range any othor details. 8. That tho sum paid to each man shall not bc regarded ao part pay ment of salary or wagoB duo for Bor vico rondorod, but to faoilitato tho disbandment of tho army, as a re lief of suffering, and as an aid in get ting tho pooplo to work. 4. Tho Cubans shall surrender their arms to tho Cuban Assombly or to its representative. 0. Tho oommittoo on distribution shall uso its best endeavors to distrib uto it among tho population so that all may secure work. 0. That tho $3,000,000 shall bo placed subject to tho order of Qon. Brooke, and that action in tho mat tor shall bo immediate. Gen. Gomoz was tondored a publio reception tb ie evening and Mr. Por ter was among thoso present? GOMEZ'S LETTER TO MCKINLEY. REMKDIOS, Province of Santa Clara, February 2. - Immediately after yesterday's conforonco Gon. Gomez wrote tho following lottor to President McKinley in Spanish : "Republic of Cuba, Headquarters of tho Army, Remedios, February 1. -President McKinley, Washington : It has boen a groat pleasure to mo to confer with your commissioner, Mr. Porter, introduced by my friond, Quesada, and I am now aware of and pleased with your wishes. In a short timo I shall go to Havana and confer with Gen. Brooke, BO that everything will go well. Following your advice, I willingly co-operate in tho work of reconstructing Cuba "MAXIMO GOMEZ, General." thc sarsaparilla which made sarsaparilla ?iM?MMM Tho Deaths In ?attie. Anions tho deaths in tho United States during tho year 1808 wcro tho following, resulting from othor cansos than disoaso, tho numhor killed in battle iuoluding all American noldiors and sailors killod ii any part of tho world: Accidonts.10,935 Homicides. 7,810 Suioidos. 5,020 Lynohings. 127 Killed in battlo. 280 Total.25,000 It will bo observed that tho losses in battlo which havo so improssed tho imag ination woro only a littlo over 1 por cont j of tho total. Tho numbor wounded in tho army and navy was 1,044, and tho numbor soriously injurod in railroad accidonta was 2,010, or 00 por cont moro. Nearly as many woro killod by lightning as wcro killod in battlo, namoly, 255, and moro than twico as many (020) by explo sions, by accidents in nftnos 580, and by falling buildings 500. Six times as many (1,070) lost thoir lives in lires; moro than olovon timos as many (3,110) woro drowned, not including marino disastors, which claimed 3,730 victims, 75 of thom on inland waters. Tho viotims of suioido from disappointment in lovo and domes tic infolioity woro 40 por cont groator than tho losses in battlo, or 303 in all. Army and Navy Journal. A sluggish livor causes drowsiness, lothnrgy and a fooling of apathy. Rr. M. A. Simmons' Livor Medicino arouses tho livor and cheerful energy succeeds sluggishnoss. Tho ostrich ogg woighs titree pounds and is good to oat ; it takes niuo minutes to boil and is cquivslont to twonty-flvo IIOIIB'S eggs. Whon bonton tip ono ogg will moasuro threo pints. Tho oggs that don't, hatch aro blown, and tho sholls aro much prised ns ornamants and souvenirs of an ostrich farm. Tho South watches with groat intorost tho success of tho ostrich farm in Jacksonville, i'la. O J\. *3? O Xl. 3! JUL, m Boara tb? A Ito Kind You Have Always Bought .----. -- -* . -- Somo mon aro so indulgont that they can never como homo sober. SOME SECRETS OF STATE. Demande on Spain Made In 1897-De lay to Give ns Time to Arm? Qon. Stewart L. Woodford talked to members of the Army ?nd Navy olub and their guests last night about UMHO o? tho happenings at Washing ton and Madrid, while ho was tho United States minister to Spain. Tho ocoasion was ono of tho open mootings, a sorics of which tito club holds ovory winter. Tho parlors of tbo house, at 10 Wost Thirty-first Street, woro orowdod and standing room was at a premium in tho halls. Among otbor things, General Wood ford said : "Without introduoticu 1 will try to toll you something of tho happen ings nt Madrid whilo ho who ad dresses you was your minister to Spain as tho proprieties of tho ocoa aion and tho usages of tho Stato de partment will pormit. Your mini ster carried with him to Madrid in structions from tho President to do throo things. One was to secure jus tioo for Cuba ; another was to BOO that our commoroial intorosts iu that island was no longer embarrassed, and thc third was to domaud tho withdrawal from Cuba of Qouoral Woylor on or boforo Ootobor 31, 1897, or to domaud tho passports of tho Amorioan minister. I deliv orod my instructions to tho Duke of Totuan, tho Spanish minister of for oign affairs, and ho promptly told mo that undor no circumstances would General Woylor bo withdrawn from Cuba until tho end of tho two yoars for whioh ho had beon sent there. "What the Duke of Totuan refused to do and what American diplomacy failed to secure was accomplished by providential moans. Tho conserva tivo government rosignod, tho Sngasta ministry came into powor, and on Ootobor 29, I think it was two days boforo tho sot timo for General Weylor's recall by tho Pre sident, Woylor was rcoalled. "Tho wooka drifted by and Febru ary 15, 1898, came, when our battle ship was blown up in tho harbor of Havana. Through departments other than the Stato dopartmont your minister recoivod telegraphic information on February 18, that thore was not on Amorioan ships or in the ordinance depots in the Uni ted Statos two rounds of powder por gun at that time, and I was told to exhaust tho arts of poaco until April 16, tho oarlieat dato at whioh wo could bo anywhere near ready for war ; and that at any ovont, smoke less powdor for both tho navy and tho army would bo another impossi bility. "Your minister did tho best ho could ; but lot mo tell you that, bad it not been for tho unfaltering, unchanging and loyal friendship of England and tho nttitudo of her minister at Madrid, he might have failed tx? do tho little ho did do, bo causo the representatives at Madrid of Continent.nl ICuropo woro ready at any time to interfere with tho plans of tho United States, if tho British minister will only join them. In tho meantime tho work of preparation wont on at home, and to show you how accurately tho timo was gauged, I may toll you of tho run of a soalod express train across tho continent, the contents of which train no man outside of Washington and only two mon thore know. It had tho right of way over all otbor trains. Whon it reached San Fiancisco its oargo was transferred ?.o a waiting steamer, which raced to Honolulu. There tho cruiser Baltimore was waiting, no one know for what. Tho oargo was shifted to tho Baltimore, which carried it to Hong Kong, and on April 28d tho oargo was distributed among tho Amorioan warships there, and Dowey had the ammunition b.c. wanted. On April 24th ho got his orders to sail for Manila. That am munition on May Day awokco choos in Manila bay that woro board round tho world and took from Spain an ompiro."-Now York Sun. In a suit for damages brought by Paul Addison against thc city of Elmwood, Ind., for tho death of his oight-yoar-old son, tho jury brought in a vcrdiot of $599.95 for tho plain tiff. This sum was arrived at by computing thc wages that could bo earned by a child from 8 to 21 years and subtracting thorofrom tho amount that would bo needed for food, olotbing and otbor oxponaes. c Don't wrook a lifo. From girlhood to womanhood the monthly courses should bo regulated with Simmons* Squaw Vino Wino or "ablet*. ? Terrible Cons?quences. Tho Springfield Republican satirizes in lino a ty lo the ploa of tho imperialists that for us to givo up tho Philippines would involvo "fearful coime queue o/i. It says: "Tho oonsoquonoos whioh aro spoken, of and dwelt upon, aro, tho loss 'of tho national dignity, tho ronowal of tho war, bho awful anarchy that would ousuo in tho Philippines, nud tho failure of any real 'expansion.' Two mouths ago wo nil thought wo had expansion, at loast by tho tail ; wo now find it is in dnngor. Wo ask ourselves, Cau wo boar it? Can wo dispense, at thia limo, with tho iunu tnorablo blost/ogs whioh many looal prophets havo assured us would flow from expansion? Frankly, in our opin ion, wo shall find it hard'. Wo find it hard alroady to wait for tho roport of tho President's cont mission, whioh wo shall probably now havo to do. Tho con rtuot of tho nativos in compelling our revered ruler to sond out a commission, instead of submitting thei&SdIfeti ut ouou to that proclamation, will moot with no apology from us. Wo havo always hoon on tho sido of author? ity, and wo shall so continuo. A groator Bot of rascals wo havo not oftou hoard of, oxcopt Goorgo Washington, who doflod . sovoral similar proclamations in a most unseemly manner? Lot us say, on pass nut, that tho v y this old fossil has boon puffod and boiaudod strikes us as vory silly. It was, of oourso, easy onougli to preach poaco ?nd isolation to ua whon wo woro so" small a pcoplo that wo could' not rob or bully any ono; but tho 'chook' of proaohiug poaco and honosty to a nation of 70,000,000, whioh oau rob and bully anybody it pleases, as somo of tho anti-annoxationists aro doing, strikos tis as colossal." To hoar somo of tho expansionists talk .md rave ono would supposo that tho safety and glory of our oountry doponds upon our subjugation of a soml-snvago poople ton thousand milos from tho seat of our government; that tho pillars of our constitution had boon removed from their original sotting and stuck in tho mud of tho Philippine islands.-Atlanta Journal. Prepare for Spring. Don't lot thia soason ovortako you boforo you havo attondod to tho important duty of purifying your blood with Hood's Sarsaparilla. By taking this medi cino now yon may sayo sickness that will mean timo and money as woll as suffer ing later on. Hood's Sarsaparilla will givo you rich, rod blood, good appotito, good digestion and a sound, healthy body. It is tho greatest and boat Spring medicino because it in tho Ono Truo Blood Puriflor. Its un equalled record of marvelous euros has won for it tho confid?neo of tho whole? people. Too ltioh for Uncle Sam's Blood* Following Senator Lodge, tho Tribuno says that "tho only claim mado against tho treaty is that it secures to tl?o Unitod States too muoh." Tho World pleads guilty of bringing this complaint against tho Philippino ar ticlo of tho PariB troaty. It brings to tho Unitod States 1. Too muoh oxponso. A cash payment of $20,000,000 for a uow war-and a war against a pcoplo struggling for their freedom-to bo fol lowed witli an addition of $200,000,000 a yoar to tho national oxponsos, is a bad bargain. 2. Too much assimilation. Wo havo alroady 7,170,000 ncgroos, 0,249,510 of foreign-born population, 250, 000 Indians, 000,000 Porto Weans, 100,000 mongrels in Hawaii and 1,250,001 Cubans to "assimilate." Is not this a h.? enough job for our "bonovolont" Uncle Sam? Dowe roally need a Malay pandemonium 8,000,U00 strong and 10,000 milos away? 3. Too much despotic power. A standing army 100,000 strong, with shouldor-strap satrapies, soattorod over tho world, undor military rulo, aro not only incompatible with, but dangorous to Republican institutions. 4. Too much dish action from homo problems? Wo aro aware that our groat and good President-second not ovon to Washing ton, according to Mossrs. Day and Hanna -has said that wo havo "no homo prob loms" that need tako our attention from tho noblo task of subjugating and olviliz? irv; tho inhabitants of tho thousand is lands in tho China Soa. But when wo romomhor how many homo probloms of tho gravest character Mr. McKinloy and tho Amorican pooplo thought woro involved in tho last Presi dential election, and rollect that nono of thom has boon solved or Bottled-not ono! tho conclusion is irresistible that wo still havo enough to do at homo to tax all our wisdom and our energy. Tho <,roaty is Uko Pandora's box-it yiolds too muoh !-Now YorP World. , --4 . *- - . Tho lifo preserver which has carried many ladies safoly ovor tho dangerous soa "Chango of Lifo" is Simmons' Squaw Vino Wino or Tablots. German geographers aro usually crod itod with tho closest computation of tho world's population. Tlioir latest figures aro 1,500,000,000, an addition of 20,000,000 in tho past seven years. An incienso is found in nearly ovory part of tho world. It is most rapid in civilized countries, especially ? hose that lead in tho HBO of labor saving machinery. Greenland's Ksquimo population is gre mg, but tho nativos of tho Pacific islands aro dying out. To sweeton tho breath, brighten tho oyo, clear tho compilion and insuro tho natural bloom of health, uso Dr. M. A, Simmons' Liver Medicino. --?? . --. What a pity it is that tho notnblo risos in cotton nearly nlways occur after tho far mora havo sold noarly ?ll tho cotton thoy had. Mother's trusted frlond, Simmons' Squaw Vino Wino or Tablets, comparo tho syHtoru for confinement, shorten ' l&bov and tu&k* eh lid-birth ousy, * '.