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HISTORY REP Comparisons ^eith tn Washingi I In view of the negotiations with Spain it is of interest to recall those between this country and Mexico at the termination of the two years' war -with Mexico. That war dates from April 24, 1846, to July 4, 1848, the treaty of peace being promulgated at the latter date. In that war the United States had 112,000 anen, nearly 75,000 being militia and volunteers, who had been victorious in nearly every engagement, thongh outnum bered. Though virtually conquered before the capitulation of the City of Mexico to Gen. Scott, the Mexicans declined to enter into negotiations, as suggested by our commissioner, Mr. Trist, directly after the battle of j Cherobusco, August 20. 1847. In i concert with the commander-in-chief '. Mr. Trist continued his attempts, but > the Mexican authorities were deaf for j a while, though finally Santa Anna i being superceded and the army disin' ! tegrated there was a disposition on ? their part to treat with the victors. < Accordingly when Gen. Scott laid before the Mexican Congress at Que- < retaro in January, 1848, articles of | I treaty, that body appointed commis- < sioners at once. .These met Mr. Trist < at Guadeloupe, Hidalgo, and a treaty ] of "peace, friendship, limits and set- j dement" was conoluded February 2, ] 1818. The attested copy was sent to < Washington, and before the end of , the month was transmitted to the ? -Senate, hy which it was slightly ] amended and ratified. As amended < the document was sent by A. H. i Se vier (minister plenipotentiary) and . Nathan Clifford (afterward Justice i Supreme Court United States) as com- i missioners to the Mexican Govern- i ment at Queretaro, and it was ratified ; by both houses of Congress, and on - May 30 the ratifications were ex- ; changed by the minister of relations , of Mexico and Commissioners Sevier and Clifford. This having been done ; the treaty was promulgated July 4, ; 1848, by President Polk. By the articles of the treaty the United States troops were to be with drawn from Mexico within three months after thc final ratification, and within a month after the ex- : change of ratifications-May 30-most ; of the troops had reached their homes, the bulk of them reaching New Or leans by the middle of Jnne, and on the ensuing Fourth of July the nation celebrated the close of the war simul taneously with the promulgation of the treaty. That history repeats itself is evident hy the record of the war with Spain, many of the events, in the last few months, recalling like achievements in former years. The war with Mex ico, which was concluded half a cen tury ago, and resulted in the addition of so large and valuable territory to Uncle Sam's domain, grew out of the ?attemptof Mexico to encroach on what had been Mexican territory. Texas declared her independence in 1837, and was acknowledged by the . United States, but there was constant friction with Mexico for several years, the latter claiming much of the terri tory east of the Bio Grande. Early in 1845 Texas, through her Governor, Congress and Convention, asked the aid and protection of the United States army, and President Polk di rected Gen. Taylor, then in Louisiana, to hold his troops in readiness to move into Texas, and shortly after to move. Texas at once applied for annexation, and in December of that year the formal Act of Congress adding the Lone Star State was passed. In the meantime Gen. Taylor was marching to the western frontier and a squadron was sent to the Gulf coast. Whatever are the reasons the Gov ernment assigns as the cause of the xecent war, the general public look on it as a war by invitation, fought in the interest of a downtrodden people, the causes being similar to those which led to the Mexican war-misrule and oppression. The acquisition of terri tory, save to secure all which belonged to Texas, was, at the beginning, not thought of, nor was there such object in view in the war now closing. Vera Cruz", with its castle of San Juan de Ulloa, was taken by siege and bombardment as the base for the army, as.Santiago has been. Then we had the gallant achievement of Lieut. Parker, Midshipmen Rodgers and HynsoD, and a crew of six of the brig Somers burning the bark Creole under the guns of San Juan. Now we have the world-renowned exploit of Hobson and about the same number of men, running the Merrimac, amid a shower of shot and shell, into the harbor of Santiago and sinking her. Then we had the capture of Alvarado and Tia co tal pan and four vessels by the little steamer Scourge, Lieut. Hunter, which resulted in the court-martial of Lieut. Hunter for disobedience of orders to simply blockade the first-named port and his public reprimand. The public applauded his action, which, in view of the fact that the Mexicans had twice repulsed our attacks and Gen. Scott and Commadore Perry were then EATS ITSELF. e War with Mexico. lon Star. planning an attack by land and sea, appeared incredible and comical. Re cently we had the capture of Ponce by a few of the smaller vessels of the navy before the army reached there. Then we had the Texas Rangers, with McCullough and Sam Walker; now we have our Rough Riders. Then the -light artillery (popularly known as flying artillery) of Ringgold, Bragg, Duncan, Sherman played as important parts as Cap::on's and other batteries recently achieved. In that war many who took high rank on the Union and Confederate sides in the oivil war won their first laurels, and some have sons and grandsons in the service now. Among these were Gens. Grant, Sherman, Meade, Pope, Reynolds, Huger, Kear ney, Fremont, Wright, Emory and Mansfield and others on the Union ade, and Gens. Longstreet, E. Kirby Smith and Ewell, of the C. S. A., with Jefferson Davis, the President cd? the Confederacy. Gen. Worl.h, who was wounded re ?ently at Santiago, is the son of Major uren. Worth, who served on the staff jf Gen. Scout in the war of '12, and who made a most brilliant record in Mexico. That the son is a chip of the old bloc ? is shown by the record be made in the civil war and his con duct at Santiago. Gen. Fitz Lee, who 3omes from the "Light Horse Harry" stock of the Revolution, won his first laurels in the Indian campaign, and Dthers in the Confederate service as a general officer under his distinguished uncle, Robert E. Lee. The father of Gen. Fred Grant and grandfather of Capt. Sartoris, Gen. U. S. Grant, served in Mexico. Gen. Wm. M. Gra ham is a son of Col. W. M. Graham, who fell in Mexico leading the 11th infantry at Molino del Rey. Lieut. J. P. G. Ord, killed at Santiago, is the son of Gen. E. 0. C. Ord, who was an officor of "the-regulars in the Mexican war, who died a few years ago in Havana. Lieut. Fremont, of the navy, whose effective work onithc Cuban coas ; has made a bright name, is the son cf the modest Capt. Fre mont, of tho Mexican war, and he bids fair to mako the family name as bright in naval annals as it is in military history and civic record. The Mexican war was not only a school for young officers, who rose to important commands in the civil war, but was a stepping^tone to high places in civil life yf:' .me instances successful. Gen. T^ior, (old Rough and Ready,) crowned with laurels won in Mexico, was elevated to the Presi dential chair, while another of the generals,- W. 0. Butler, was the de feated candidate for Vice President. Gen. Pierce filled the succeeding term, defeating Gen. Scott, who had been his commander-in-chief in Mexico, and for the next term Gen. John C. Fremont was the unsuccessful can didate. The civil war, too, produced several candidates for the Presidency in the persons of Gen. McClellan, who was unsuccessful; Gen. Grant, who filled two terms; Gen. Hayes, father of Col. Webb Hayes who filled one term; Gen. Garfield, who was successful over Gens. Hancock and Weaver; Gen. Logan, defeated on the ticket with Mr. Blaine; Gen. Butler, and Gen. Harrison and Major McKinley, who were successful. Two Battlefield Observations. I have just come down from the trenches to Roosevelt's tent. The hill under the firing line looks like the. abode of cave-dwellera, so bur rowed is it with bombproofs, which are merely shallow caves dug into the side of a hill with the point of a bayo net, and covered with flat projecting roofs of planks and layers of dirt. The men dug bombproofs and trenches most willingly, especially the negro troopers. "Foh God," said one, as he swung his pick at dusk after the fight of San Juan, "I never thought I'd git to love a pick befoh!" The men up at the trenches are ready. Their cartridges are piled along the edge of the pits-in the tops of cornbeef cans, on pieces of boards, in little Kollows scooped from the dirt -and everybody is eager and expect ant. Sergeant Burrows, bronzed and grimy, is at the breech of his long dynamite gun, as keen for another ex periment as a child with a Christmas toy that he has not fully mastered. A young German stands at a machine gun not far away. "It is nervous at first," it says, ".just waiting. But after the shoot ing begins it is all right. I hear no bullets-nutting-the gun makes so much noise. Two of my men were killed the udder day, and I shoot on for two hours and not know it." John Fox in Harper* Weekly. -mm ' m... m If you can't work we?l in hot weath er, take Prickly Ash Bitters, it regu lates the important organs of the body and fortifies the system to resist the enervating influence of summer heat. For sale by Evans Pharmacy. Santiago Soldiers on Cuban Conditions. A Virginia member of the hospital department of the Second Division of the Fifth army corps, who was in Co lumbia on his way home on a furlough, chatted interestingly to a representa tive of The State yesterday about the state of affairs in Cuba. He had been in the Santiago district, arriving there the day after the big fight, and is now off on a furlough to try and recover from an attack of intermittent fever, which he contracted in Cuba. "Yes," said he, "I will talk to you about Cuba, provided you don't use my name, because I am still a member of the United States Army, and I might be punished for what I sav. "Conditions in Cuba ? Well, they are horrible. The Cubans are starv ing to death every day and their plight ?3 growing more and more serious. I cannot see anything for them in the future but wholesale death, unless our government promptly sends them food and clothing. The imagination can hardly take in the completeness of the devastation of the country there. The armies of Spain and Cuba have swept back and forth over the land, carrying ruin with the torch at every trip, so that now there is nothing but a few cocoanuts for the natives to maintain themselves on. What was missed by one army was picked up by the other. I cannot see how the Cubans are to keep alive much longer. They are starving by the hundreds daily now. It was pitiable to see those poor crea tures hanging about our camps, pick ing up hard tack and old clothes the soldiers threw them. The women and children, as well as the men, were either ragged or altogether naked, and with their faces sunken and haggard from want of food. They were the impersonation of misery. ' "There is no crop on the island, and all we had for roads were ditches, some 16 and 20 feet deep, whioh had been washed out among the under growth by the heavy rains. "Of course the soil is very fertile, and Cuba ought to make a rich and prosperous place, but it will be-a long time yet before residence there by civ ilized people will be possible, though it doubtless will in time be of great commercial importance, especially to the South. The lumber market there is especially rich. But I would not advise any one to go there just now, because of the conditions I have just told you about." "The health conditions in Cuba, however, are not any worse than they are among the soldiers in Florida. There are prevalent in Cuba all styles of fever, but there is no smallpox, and the yellow fever is of a mild type. In Florida malarial fever, and especially typhoid fever, is playing havoc among the troops, and deaths are becoming alarmingly frequent. Every day a large number of sick are transferred to Atlanta and elsewhere, but the hos pital fills up as fast as it is emptied. I will tell you two interesting inci dents that grew out of the Santiago fight among the wounded. "One of these occurrences shows the unique effect of the present day steel bullet. A private in a front rank was shot through the right lung, and, though the bullet that passed through this vital part of the body killed the fellow just behind him in the rear rank, the man with the wound through his lung is to-day as well and lively as a jay bird. The clean, sharp wound healed without" suppuration, and when I left him in Florida he was walking about out of doors as if noth ing had happened to him. "The other incident is this : A North Carolina regular just before he left for Cuba had a talk with his girl, and she advised him to take a squirrel along with him to Cuba as a mascot. He protested against the absurdity and nuisance of such an awkward mas cot, but when she insisted with tears in her eyes and declared she would never again see him alive unless he carried the squirrel with him, he con sented, although she could give no other reason than that she felt this would be his only salvation. The sol dier kept his promise to always have the little pet near him, and it rode upon his shoulder when he went into the fight. A bullet cut off the tail of the squirrel, and as he turned to see what was the matter another bullet slightly wounded him in the head. The missile would have pierced his brain had he not turned to look at the squirrel just at that time. The Vorth Carolinian is now on his way home on a furlough to tell his sweetheart about his narrow escape."-Thc State. - Some people always have a but, .which they put in the way of every thing. Enquiring of such a one the character of his neighbor he replied, "Why, he is poorly fair, clever sort of a man, but-hem!" "But what ?" "Why-ahem-why he feeds his darn, ed old horse on pumpkins." - Dr' J. I. Terry, of Trimble, Ten., in speaking of Chamberlains's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Kemedy, says : "It has almost become a necessity in this vicinity." This is thc best rem edy in the world for colic, cholera mor bus, dysentery and diarrhoea, and if recognized as a necessity wherever itt great worth and merit become known. No other remedy is so prompt or effect ual, or so pleasant to take. Sold by Hill Orr Drug Co. Coffee TS. Alcohol. It would shock a teetotaler to tell him that coffee drinking is more in jurious to the human system than whisky drinking; yet that is practi cally what Dr. Oliver P. Rex, medical director of the Penn Mutual Insur ance company, says. The medical gentlemen who guard the interests of the insurance companies have done much to teach the present generation how to live. Having the best oppor tunities of studying physiological problems they are able to draw accu rate general conclusions from the great number of individual cases which come under their observation as medi cal examiners. The physician for an insurance com pany always makes a careful examina tion of the action of the heart for organic or functional derangements. If he finds an organic trouble which cannot be removed he usually "turns down" the applicant for insurance. He finds plenty of cases with funct ional troubles, due to various causes, which may be cured in greater or less time by removing the causes. He de tects these by listening to the heart beats; and to a well trained ear the variations of these heart-beats from the rhythm of a healthy heart indi cates one cause of the derangement. It is easy, Dr. Rex said, to note the difference botween the "bicycle heart," a "whisky heart'' and a "cof fee heart." These troubles are so frequently met with by examiners that they are commonly known by the above names. The man or woman who exercises by riding a bicycle up hill or "scorching," produces an en largement, or hypertrophy, of the heart. The stimulation of alcohol, tobacco, coffee or tea affects the rhymth of the beats. A heart-beat consists of two sounds, one long and one short. In the first, blood is* filling the relaxed heart; in the second, the heart contracts, with a corkscrew motion and violently ex pels the blood through the arteries. It is essential to a healthy circulation that the first movement should be completed and the heart filled before the second is begun. Strong stimu lants disturb the'regular action, short ening the length of the long beat, and a long continuance in their use may make the derangement perma nent. The best remedy, of course, is to remove the cause, and the doctor.re ferred to several cases where marked beneficial results were produced with in short periods. He would confine the use of coffee to two cups a day. Coffee topers are plentiful and are as much tied to their cups as the whisky toper. The effect of the coffee upon the heart is more lasting, and, conse quently, worse than that of liquor. It is a powerful stimulant, and in certain cases of extreme weakness is more valuable than liquor. As a beverage it is important to use it only at the close of a meal, when it is said to assist digestion. In this respect it is unlike tea, which, by its tannie acid, prevents digestion. Men and women alike suffer from too much coffee, but men alone, in this country, at least, are the sufferers from "tobacco heart," the result principally of smoking. There is not only the stimulus which comes from smoking and chewing alike, but there is the action of the nicotine in smok iog which creates an additional dis turbance of the heart's functions. Dr. Rex has found that smoking after the day's work is done is less harmful than the morning and midday cigar. In one or two cases that he mentioned, gentlemen told him that by omitting smoking during the day they found their brains clearer for business and their digestion improved. Of course it will be understood that as the heart is the center of the cir culatory system, any disturbance of its action must affect every part of the body; and this in turn produces diseases in other organs. It is not surprising, therefore, that the exam ining surgeons of the army have re- j jected many fine looking fellows with tobacco hearts and bicycle hearts on the ground that they would break down under the strain of service in the field.-Philadelphia Ledger. When a Woman is Safe. Fogg: "There goes Mrs. Gower. When she was Miss Sweeting I came very near stealing a kiss from her." Bass: "And you didn't?" Fogg : "She was doing up her hair, a fact I hadn't noticed when I caught hold of her." Bass: "Oh, well, if you want to kiss a woman with her mouth full of hairpins, I have no objections." Boston Transcript. - T. B. Rice, a prominent druggist of Greensboro, Ga., writes as follows : "I have handled Dr. Pitts' Carmina tive for eight years, and have never known of a single instance where it failed to give perfect satisfaction. Par ties who once use it always make per manent customers. We sell more of this article than all the other Carmi natives, soothing syrups and colic drops combined." For teething chil dren it has no equal. For sale by Hill Orr Drug Co. - Thc man who starts out to look for trouble usually ends by having it thrust upon him. Barbed Wire Used in War. Many accounts of the operations near Santiago and other places in Cuba show that barbed wire plays an im portant part in the defences of the is land. It has been known ever since the revolution began in Cuba that the Spanish trocha or dead line was marked with barbed wire, but until the United States troops reached the island there were only indistinct, ideas as to how the wire was used and to what extent it became an impediment to an invading or opposing force. It was believed by many that these barbed wire abatis were simply wire fences of from four to eight feet high, but ii has been found that they are not built on the fence plan. The wire is stretched from tree to tree at irreg ular heights. Sometimes a strand will be fastened to a stump, and from there to a height of eight or ten feet from the ground. In this way hedges with six or eight strands of barbed wire are run along for miles, the construction being so irregular that one never knows where to look for the intividual strands. The whole forms a formidable barrier. This style of abetis is popular in all southern countries, and has been used wherever there has been a war since barbed wire became a commercial com modity. The only thing like a barbed wire hedge used in the civil war was a telegraph wire hedge at the siege of Knoxville. It has been said by the Cuban and South American leaders that the barb ed wire is superior to wood abatis made from limbs of trees because the wood can be torn to pieces by artillery fire, and once down the forces can march through the breech. It can also be set on fire. The barbed wire became a commercial commodity in this way, and Thomas A. Edison has suggested that a dynamo might make the collec tion of wire strands exceedingly hard to handle. But it does not appear that the scientific methods have been employed by the Spaniards, and their wire hedges were simply irregular, ob stinate, and most uncomfortable things which yielded, however, to the nippers with which the troops were supplied. The large manufacturers of barbed wire say that while great quantities of their product were sent to Cuba dur ing the last two years, they have no means of knowing how much of it was used in building defensive works. They discredit the report that the American expedition to Manilla car ried many tons of barbed wire to be used in building hedges similar to those used in Cuba. They believe that much wire has been sent there, but they say that it will be used for purposes of peace and not for war. Pop Corn in Milk. A Northern business man living in the South has found an agreeable cure for insomnia. It answered perfectly in his case, and no longer needing it as medicine he continues it as food. It is a most agreeable dish of pop corn. The corn is popped in the usual wire basket, and while hot it is put in a hot bowl. Scalding milk is poured over it, and in two minutes it is soft and ready to be sprinkled with sugar, unless salt and pepper are preferred. The addition of a little vanilla trans forms the juvenile favorite into a del icate hasty pudding. To kesp the corn after gathering, put it (on the cob) in a cool place ; if shelled it loses its moisture sooner, and after awhile will not pop. The place where other corn is kept is best to preserve it in. Pop corn hot served in bowls of hot milk is a Southern refection at card parties. He Had the Bad Ones. They were two little brothers who had toddled in from the farm, each with a neatly packed basket of peach es. The spruce old gent on the cor ner stopped the first and asked: "Say, bud, what's that basket of fruit worth ?" "Twenty-five cents,''was the prompt reply. Turning to the other youngster the old gent asked the same question and was somewhat surprised when the lit tle fellow answered: "Fifteen cents." "All right, young man, I'll trade with you," replied thc old gent, hand ing over the change and receiving the basket. "I am well pleased with my trade," he remarked as he started to walk away. "I shall remember you next time, my little man." "Yes, sir," said the youngster, "but,l plum fergot to tell you all the wormy ones wue in the bottom ov my basket." - Some time ago a little bottle of Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Di arrhoea Remedy fell into my hands, just at a time when my two-year-old boy was terribly afflicted. His bowels were beyond control. We had tried many remedies, to no purpose, but the little bottle of Colic, Cholera and Di arrhoea Remedy speedily cured him. -William F. Jones, Oglesby, Ga. For sale by Hill-Orr Drug Co. - Old Abram's wisest remark : "Ef dc descendants ob dc rooster what crowed at Peter was ter make a noise cbery time a lie is told, dar would bc such a noise in dc world dat yer could not heall dc hens cackle." ^TDO YOI A :W BILIOUS, DROWSY. MW LOW SPIRITED, M M BODY AND I m BRAIN WEARY? I ? 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On the other hand, it h? been known to have acted like the go! cure on men who had previously bee addicted to drink. Many of our soldiers in the troph have been victims of sunstroke sin? the war began, a large number of tl cases occurring on board the transpo: vessels when the men were inordinat ly crowded together pending delay A large proportion of the strokes oi curred at night. A military surgeon, who had studie heat strokes in the army for twent years, says he has seen most victin fall when the sun was obscured b clouds or mist. , Sensational reports that this wor i of the weather bureau was being don in order to be able to forecast wave of crime due to weather condition has been somewhat embarrassing t the department because there was n such purpose in view. Nevertheless some statistics lately collected tendt show that the public morals really ar at a lower ebb in summer than in wit ter. The Chicago police records, con pared with statistics of that city' weather bureau, show that foraperio of eight years marked increase of crim set in with the hot weather. The; also show that crime increases as rain fall decreases, and that the people o the Windy City are most immoral whei winds are southwest and least so whei northeast. In the Bull Creek Hills. There is a boy in Taney County, ac cording to a story which is makin; the rounds, who has a record whicl perhaps few, if any, old hunters cai match. He killed a dear with a mar ble. True, the marble was shot fror a gun, but still the occurrence may b< ranked among the most unusual o hunting events. The lad was out ii the woods shooting, and he had ex hausted his supply of shot. He ha< put into his muzzle-loader, a single barrel gun of the old pattern, a charg< of powder, when he discovered that his shot pouch was empty. The boj had in his pocket a marble which he used as a '"taw" in playing the com mon game. The marble exactly fitted the muzzle of the gun, and hardlj thinking what might result from ex periment, the young hunter dropped the "taw" down on the wadding cov j ering the powder. Strange thinga happened down in the Bull Creek hills, and on his way home the boy came upon a deer, which, at close range, stood and challenged his aim. The adventurous scion of good hunt ing stock leveled his gun, pulled the trigger and brought down the game, the marble boring a hole in the vitals of the deer.-Kansas City Journal. For broken surfaces, sores, insect bites, burns, skin diseases and especially piles there is one reliable remedy, Dewitt's Witoh Hazel Salve. When you call for Dewitt's don't accept counterfeits or frauds. You will not be disappointed with Dewitt's Hazel Salve. Evans Phar macy. - In a conversation between hus band and wife she does the talking and he the listening. You invite disappointment when you experiment. 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RODDEY, Manager, _Rock Hill, S. C. ?\TOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT. ?31 The undersigned, Administrator of the Estate of E. S. Norris, deceased, hereby gives notic- that he will on the 1st day of September. 1898, apply to the Judge of Probate for Anderson Coun ty for a Final Settlement of said Estate and a discharge from his office as Admin istrator. J. W. NORRIS, Adm'r. Aug 10, 189S 7 5