Decatur Democrat, Volume 42, Number 34, Decatur, Adams County, 3 November 1898 — Page 6

Doctors Can’t Cure It! Contagious blood poison is absolutely beyond the skill of the doctors. They may dose a patient for years on their mercurial and potash remedies, but he will never be rid of the disease; on the other hand, his condition will grow steadily worse. S. S. S. is the only cure for this terrible affliction, because it is the only remedy which goes direct to the cause of the disease and forces it from the system. I was afflicted with Blood Polson, and the best doctors did me no good, though 1 took their treatment falthjMjfewSk fully. In tact, I seemed IHBk ’ to get worse all the while. I took almost Wprfirlr every so-called blood remedy, but they didnot ' ■' ■ seem to reach the disgUiHRSn ease, and had no effect ' — whatever. I was dis--ft-heartened, for It seemed that I would never be jwEkK. - cured. At the advice of x®* a friend I then took rij/r S. ■’’■ ®-’ an d began tolmvii '*•' ' ' prove. I continued the medicine, and It cured me completely, building up mv health and increasing my appetite. Although this was ten years ago, I have never yet had a sign of the disease to return. W. R. Newman, Staunton, Va. It is like self-destruction to continue to take potash and mercury; besides totally destroying the digestion, they dry up the marrow in the bones, producing a stiffness and swelling of the joints, causing the hair to fall out, and completely wrecking the system. S.SS. I ™, Blood is guaranteed Purely V egetable, and is the only blood remedy free from these dangerous minerals. Book on self-treatment sent free by Swift Specific Company, Atlanta, Ga. HE WANTS THEM ALL UNCLE SAMS COMMISSIONERS DEMAND THE PHILIPPINES. Willing to Assume That Portion of Debt Which Was Contracted For Improvement of Islands. But Not a j Cent of the War Obligations. Paris, Nov. I.—There was flying clouds, fitful sunshine, whirling leaves and raw air when the peace com- | missioners met yesterday. The Americans were removing their wraps when the Spanish commissioners entered the ante room and polite and cordial greetings were exchanged as the two groups, comingling, passed through the grand salon, where a buffet was spread, and entered the conference chamber, in which, before leaving, the Spaniards would learn the attitude of the United States towards the Philippines. Secretary Moore, upon rhe request of > Judge Day, passed to Mr. Ferguson, the I interpreter, the formulated demands of | the United Statt s regarding the Philip- j pines, which were read to the Spaniards ; in their own tongue by a rapid rendering from the English, in which they were written. Although the Spanish commissioners did not betray anxiety, their attention to the reading was keen. They had anticipated that the United j States would take over the island, but i the terms and details of the transfer liad all along been a subject of speculation. The reading disclosed the fact that the United States government had determined to possess for itself certain territory and parts of land bound by and lying within such parallels of latitude and longitude as mark the limits of the Philippine archipelago. The United States’ do not propose assuming the Philipine debt of $40,000,000 but they are willing to be responsible to Spain for a sum of money equal to the actual expenditures by Spain in the Philippines for the advantage of the islands and for the good of their people, for the permanent betterments and for improvements, both physical and mental. The reading of the presentment specifies that the United States -will reimburse Spain to the extent of her “pacific expenditures” made in the Archipelago. This phrase- "pacific expenditures” is employed to differentiate the expenditures by Spain in combatting insurrections in tlie Philippines. Such is the vital portion of the presentment made by the American commissioners yesterday, and it is to be observed that while the main proposition as to possession and financial responsibility is clear and definite, many details have been left to the developments of the discussion between the two commissions. The Spanish commissioners listened attentively, though not without some evidences of impatience and surprise at the financial suggestions in the American presentment, and finally asked until Friday to consult the Madrid government and make reply. GREAT SURPRISE Created at Madrid Over the American Demands. Madrid, Nov. I.—The news that the Spanish peace commissioners at Paris had referred to the government a formal demand of the American commissioners for the absolute cession of the entire Philippine group caused the greatest surprise in Madrid. The strongest feeling prevails that the government should protest energetically against what is regarded as a violation of the spirit of the protocol. The oldest and most curious herbarium in the world is the Egyptian museum at Cairo. It consists of crowns, garlands, wreaths and bouquets of flowers, all taken from the ancient tombs of Egypt, most of the examples being in excellent condition. Nearly all the flowers have been identified. They cannot be less than 3,000 years old.

Washington Township Sample Ballot. GENUINE BALLOT PRINTED ON YELLOW PAPER. «j-’-“'■'-■A-'., ' o .r.ts*’ X < A* j p •d few- sjh If § i v 7- , ?«'• A v u. - A ' v "vs Democratic Ticket. Republican Ticket. Gravel Road Ticket. For Justices of the Peace, For Justice of the Peace, Washington Macadamized Road and Decatur and Monroe Road. dem. ED COFFEE. rep. CLAYTON DAILEY. Building of Road, I i R I yes - dem. ELIAS G. COVERDALE, j rep. j l ' | dem. JAMES H. SMITH. rep. | gka J No ' For Constables, For Constables, ; East Washington Macadamized Road dem. JAMES ATLT. rep. SOHN WILLIAMS. Building ol Road, - I ' Igkavl yes. dem. AX ILLIAM BLAC KBL KN. rep. | I dem. MICHAEL SMITH. rep. | GRAV | No ’ INSTRUCTIONS: To vote in favor of either or both of the gravel roads, make a cross thus X, within the small square opposite the word es; o\ o e against either or both the roads make a cross thus X in the small square oppo ite the word “No” We suggest that you vote "X es and thus improve our highu as well as the value of all real estate Business in Decatur will also re grea y benefited.

CUBANS WANT OFFICE GENERAL WOODS AND GENERAL RIOS MEET. Two Factions of Insurgents Who Are Clamorous to be Recognized as Officeholders at Manzanillo—Action of Porto Ricans. Manzanillo. Oct. 31.—The visit of General Leonard Wood, governor of the military department of Santiago, has been instrumental in bringing all the elements among the Cubans to the front. No fewer than 2,000 insurgents, of whom 500 are officers, want offices and their clamor amounts almost to a demand. There are two leading factions, one headed by General Jesus Rabi and the other by General Rios. At present most of the offices are held by representatives of the Rabi faction, including the mayoralty and the customhouse inspectorships. General Wood, in order to pacify the Rios faction, has given them six positions on the rural police force and turned over to one of their people, the lighthouse at Cape Cruz, together with several other minor appointments. But neither party is satisfied, each thinking that it ought to have all the offices. General Rios does not dare express his opinion publicly of General Rabi, but he feels that this is his district, as he has had the nominal charge of it for three years, and that it ought to belong to him. so far as appointments of Cubans to office are concerned, and all the more so because he represents General Garcia. The majority of the insurgents here have no money and go about firing from hand to mouth, and wondering what will happen next. Armed men are not aUowed rations. Some of them are nearly naked, others appear in long legged, patent leather boots with silver spurs, carrying superbly wrought Toledo machetes. A few wear immaculate white suits and panama hats. Except when aboard the Hist, which brought him here, General Wood is besieged by these seekers for office. Among the interviews he has had was one with General Rios, who wanted the mayor of Manzanillo, one of the Rabi’s faction, dismissed and his own man appointed to the mayorality. General Wood asked on what grounds and he said: “Is not the mayor a competent officer? Has he not an excellent reputation? Did he not serve bravely and effectively throughout the entire war?” To all of this General Rios replied in the affirmative, hut he insisted that his own nominee was entitled to the position because he was a Rios man. The interests of the city and the locality were apparently minor considerations in the mind of the Cuban commander. It was necessary to send a detachment of the Fourth Immune regiment under a sergeant to the Rigney plantation in order to compel the armed Cubans to allow men to work there. The undertaking, however, proved successful aud 200 men are now regularly employed. The latest advices from Santa Cruz del Sur, the meeting place of the Cuban assembly, do not report the arrival there of General Maximo Gomez, but there are persistent rumors that the friends of Gomez, who are delegates to the assembly. will endeavor to embarrass General Calixto Garcia and his supporters. Lieutenant Young has formallv

claimed, on behalt ol the United States j navy, the wrecks of the Spanish gunboats that went ashore or were sunk by the United States gunboats in the memorable engagement off Manzanißo on July 1. PORTO RICO. Natives Will Make Recommendations to Submit to Special Commission. San Juan de Porto Rico, (N’t. 31.— . There was public meetings yesterday of delegates from the chief towns of the island to consider and draft recommen- s dations regarding the necessities of the ■ island for the use of the special commis- j sioners, who will be selected later to represent Porto Rico at Washington, when the time comes for settling the I administrative system. The assembly was fairly representative and there was abundant evidence of intelligent reflection on the part of the delegates and a determination not to tolerate partisan politics at this crisis in . the islands affairs. The meeting re- I ceived with enthusiasm the resolutions ■ demanding territorial rights, the ces- I sation of the present military rule and ! the installation of regular civil govern- I ment. Resolut ions were adopted, asking for an eight-hour day for the laboring man and severely denouncing the cor- j rupt system of registering deeds of land. AVAR INVESTIGATORS. At Lexington, Ky.—Fatal Shooting Over a Crap Game. Lexington, Ky., Oct. 31. —The war investigating committee arrived here from Chickamauga this morning over the Queen and Cresent railway. It is thought they will leave for Cincinnati, probably tonight. A man named Quinn, a dischargtxi soldier from the Second Kentucky volunteers, shot and fatally wounded Roy Morgan yesterday afternoon. The trouble between the two was over a crap game. Cuban Army Delegates. Havana, Nov. 1. —Advices received here from Santa Cruz del Sur say that a majority of the representatives of the Cuban army, at the meeting held there, are in favor of the dissolution of the Cuban insurgent government and the appointment of a commission to go to Washington for the purpose of thanking the American government for its intervention in favor of the Cuban and to put themselves unconditionally at the disposition of the Washington authorities, so as to enable the latter to develop their programme without any hindrance. Murder aud Suicide. Columbus, 0., Oct, 29. —Aaron BarI ton, aged 46, while mentally deranged, shot aud dangerously wounded his wife and then killed himself. Mrs. Barton is a sister of Dr. J. F. Birmingham, coroner of Franklin county. Lord Kitchener. London, Oct. 29.—General Kitchener, whose elevation to the peerage was announced Sept. 26, takes the title of Lord Kitchener of Khartoum and Aspall, in the county of Suffolk. Mrs. Botkin Indicted. San Francisco, Oct. 29.—Mrs. Cordelia Botkin was indicted last evening by the grand jury ot the city aud county of San Francisco for the murder of Mrs. John P. Dunning in Dover, Del., on Aug. 12 last. Bail was refused.

France's Imprimerie Nationale is preparing as a show piece for the ex-! hiliitioncf 1900 “The History of French Printing In the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries,” by A. Claudin, with 1,200 | plates of reproductions from rare books, j The largest lunatic aslyum in Eng- j land is at Prestwich, where the Lancashire County asylum has over 2,300 patients. Conley Hatch, in the parish of Friern Barnet, in Middlesex, six miles north from Loudon, will accom- I modate 2,250 patients. At the sale of the Morrison cameos in London a Greek gold ring set with an intaglio of Bacchus from Tarsus was sold for sl, 150, another ring with a figure of Bacchus for $925, the signet i of Asander, king of the Bosporus, from Kertch, for $2,300, the Sessa ring for $725 and a fine intaglio bust of Domitia for $420. A CONDUCTOR ON THE ILLINOIS CENTRAL ! Railroad had to give up his Position It is a Sad I Storv that we Publish that Decatur People may Profit by Mr. Beebe’s Experience. This is the storv of an ex-conductor, i Mr. XV. R. Beebe, age 67 years, who has now a prosperous grocery business in Centralia, Illinois. Here is what he says: “I was for twenty years conductor on the Illinois Central railroad, the movement and jolting of the cars injured my back and Kidneys. Five years ago I was compelled to give up a good position as conductor on account of my condition. My kidneys were so bad I would have to get up as often as a dozen times in one night to urinate, and it was attended sometimes with pain; the discharge was always excessive. I had a severe pain in my head and at times it would ache so bad I could not rest, but would walk the floor and hold sometimes hot and sometimes cold applications to it. My back was so lame that in arising from a chair I would have to have help, and then could only get up a part of the way at a time. It would often take from three to ten minutes to straighten up and then always very painful. My feet and hands were always very cold winter and summer; they would feel warm sometimes to others, but to me they were always cold. My feet and ankles would often swell, sometimes so bad I could not wear my shoes. My eye sight was very poor and I had to have three pairs of glasses for different distances and purposes. During all these years I was doctoring with this doctor and then another, but was getting worse instead of better. I also took several kinds of patent med- . icine but nothing did me any good. I j read about Morrow’s Kid-ne-oids and | got a box of them and took one after each meal for a few days and (then took two after each meal. I began gradually to get better. Ido not have to get up now: the pain in my back is i about all gone and my feet have quit ! swelling and my eye sight is better. They are curing me’ as fast as I could expect them to and I am satisfied that I will be well in a week or so. I have only b<>en taking them about three weeks.” Morrow’s Kid-ne-oids are X’ellow Tablets (not pills) and cure kidnev ailments, nervousness, etc. They are I for sale by all first-class druggists and iat Holthouse, Callow <fc Co’s drug j store at 50 cents a box. John MorI row & Co., Chemists. Springfield, Ohio.

Depew Talks. Railroad Man's Opinion of Joint Traffic Association Decision. New York, Oct. 81.— Chauncey M. Depew, having made a study of the decision of the supreme court on traffic associations, gives his opinion on the subject in part as follows: “The decision of the supreme court necessitates the dissolution of the Joint Traffic association as at present constituted. Broadly stated, the decision means that there shall be no association among railroads by which they will have any understanding or agreement in regard to rates, either the maintenance of rates or the prevention of rate cutting, or the prevention of discriminations against weak shippers in favor of strong ones, or against small localities and those along the lines in favor of the great terminal cities. “This decision will be a fortunate document if congress in a calm, broad wav will take up the whole question anil so legislate that the public and the railways and their investors and their employes may be fully protected; that large ‘freedom for agreement may be granted to the railways among themselves under the strict supervision and rigid control of the government of the United States. If the government is not equal to the task of impartial supervision of this business under these conditions, it had better retire from the thought of assuming the responsibilities for Cuba, Porto Rico, Hawaii or the Philippines. ” Washington, Oct. i».— By direction of the president, the following named officers of the volunteer army are honorably discharged from the service of the United States, to take effect Dec. 31, their services being no longer required: Captain James G. Blaine, assistant adjutant general, son of ex-Secretary Blaine; Captain Edward Murphy, second assistant adjutant general, sou of Senator Murphy ot New York; Captain Samuel W. Belford, assistant adjutant general, appointed from Colorado. Some Women TN _-,l_ 4. Many women think | JOU OL- the bearing of children is a necessary period of great pain and distress. They doubt whether any medicine can relieve their sufferings. Well may they hesitate about taking those injurious internal mixtures so widely sold. But they may place implicit faith in j* jt jt j* J* jit MOTHER’S FRIEND which is a softening, relaxing and soothing liniment for external use. Doubting women should get a bottle at the drug store for sl, and test it. There is no possibility of its doing harm, and there is every likelihood of its saving them many hours of pain, J* j* J* J* J* J* Jt THE BRADFIELD REGULATOR CO. ATLANTA, GA.

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