Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 58, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 March 1898 — Page 2

"CUBA TO BE FREE.”

This Is Asserted by Prominent Men in Washington. MN IS NW DISCLOSED. McKinley Said to Favor a Peace Policy If That Be Possible. DATION ON A WAR F00TIN& Condition of Defenses on Land and Sea All in Ship Shape. Uncle Sam Makes a Record in Putting On His Fighting Clothes Many Ships in Commission—Big Orders Given for Ammunition Fortifications Equipped and Manned-Military I’osts Established and Regular Troops Moved Eastward— Spanish Sovereignty in Cuba Seems Doomed. Washington correspondence: Cuba is to be free. President McKinley desires that its freedom be gained without war, if that is possible, but Cuba is to be free. This declaration is made by men •o close to the administration that there fe no doubt of its authoritativeness. Special recognition of Cuban independence is simpler and more direct, and means more

POLO T. BERNABE. New Spanish Minister to the United States.

than either recognition of belligerency or Intervention. It would not be regarded as a declaration of war by other nations, and there is no cause for Spain to iso regard it. If she did insist upon regarding it as a hostile act, upon Spain would be the responsibility for beginning war. The United States will demand ample reparation for the wrong inflicted upon us by the destruction of the Maine. It will Inter on demand a satisfactory solution of the Cuban problem. With the Maine disaster cleared up, it is said in administration circles that the President prefers independence to any other form of settlement of the Cuban question. One member of the cabinet is convinced that this 1b the best form of recognition. Senator Proctor favors it, and so do several other •lose advisers of the President. It is positive!j- stated that this Government is determined to press on toward the salvation of Cuba, and that we are building for peace when we prepare for war, for there is only one way in which the Spanish can be driven, and that is by showing them you have the power to master them. Though the United States has purchased two Brazilian cruisers, and though large contracts let for projectiles •nd shells for both the army and the navy would appear to indicate the imminence •f war, ns a matter of fact the war cloud is thought not as black or threatening as it was a week or two ago. There seems • most hopeful feeling among those olll•ials who are nearest to the center of inside news. It would not bo correct to say

U. S. AGENTS DISTRIBUTE FOOD TO STARVING RECONCENTRADOS.

that danger of war has passed, but the •hancea of a peaceful settlement of our troubles with Spain is considered possible. Preparations for War. Active and aggressive preparations for war make for peace. This is the anomalons situation which a look underneath the surface discloses. The history of the week forms a splendid record of what can he accomplished by the nation in a short apace of time under the spur of necessity to provide for the national defense. Begtaning with the appropriation of ffiO.OOO,•00 to be expended by the President withsat limitation, there followed rapidly the

—Chicago Chronicle.

placing of orders for enormous quantities of war supplies, the institution of negotiations for and the actual purchase of ships abroad, the enlistment of men for the navy, the creation of twb additional regiments of artillery, the commissioning of monitors, cruisers~and rams, the manning of new posts along the sencoasts and finally the rearrangement of the great military departments to meet modern conditions in military practice. The sending of the Oregon away from San Francisco is an exhibition of farsightedness with which the Secretary of the Navy is observing the situation. The vessel’s orders are to cruise down the Pacific coast, touching in from time to time at various ports where cable connections exist, to receive any orders that the department miry have to give. In this way it is expected that she will work as far south as Valparaiso, Chili, where she will await orders. Valparaiso is very much nearer Cube and to Admiral Slcard’s fleet than Mare Island, while if it should be desired to send the ship to the Asiatic station, this can be done almost as conveniently from Valparaiso as from San Francisco. At Valparaiso therefore the Oregon will be, where she can be most usefully manipulated in case of an emergency. The Board of Naval Bureau Chiefs find it impossible to pass judgment in Washington upon the fitness for naval service of vessels that may be offered for the auxiliary branch of the navy at the various seaports, so they have been aided in their work by the creation of a special board which will undertake to visit each of the ports where ships may be offered and make a careful personal inspection of the various crafts. The War Department on Monday opened bids for one of the largest orders of

Under the new order, troops will be distributed at the batteries from Bost >n to Now Orleans, and as the defenses will all be put In fighting condition, the Atlantic coast Hue will fairly bristle with armaments.

shot and shell for heavy caliber guns ever given, including armor-piercing projectiles and deck-piercing and torpedo shells. The number and character of those are ns follows: Nine hundred and thirty-five twelve-inch deck-piercing shells weighing I.(XX) pounds each; 1,241 twelve-inch deckpiercing shells weighing 800 pounds each; 481 ten-inch armor-piercing shells; 482 ten-inch armor-piercing shot capped; 140 eight-inch armor-piercing shell; 150

eight-inch armor-piercing shot capped. These projectiles arc for the heavy fortification gun's now mounted along the aeacoast. The purchase is not to be made under the fifty million defense appropriation bill, but is in anticipation of the fortification bill, which grants $940,000 for a reserve supply of projectiles aud powder. As the making of the heavy projectiles will take considerable time the contract will be let ahead of the passage of the bill, assurances having been given from men in Congress that no question would be raised as to the regularity of thia proceeding. The entire amount is designed

SUPPORTING THE PRESIDENT.

to give all the heavy guns now installed and those to be put in place during the coming year, a full qupta of projectiles and powder. The 12-inch shot are among the largest made. The cost of a single round of this class of projectiles is ssll. Aside from the large order placed Monday the emergency bill permits additional orders to meet the requirements

EASTERN COAST DEFENSES.

of such fortification guns as may be mounted for emergency. The present order is for the actual needs of the guns now mounted, without reference to any existing emergency, although it has been made all the more imperative by the Spanish crisis. Regular Army Moved East. The whole regular army, infantry, artillery and horse, comprising upwards of 20,000 men, is being moved east to the fortified cities and ports. At Chicago Quartermaster General Lee of the department of tlie lakes, is making arrangements to transport batteries of artillery now at forts in the West to the Atlantic seaboard and Gulf of Mexico. The Western railroads having headquarters in Chicago and St. Louis and other Western cities were invited to telegraph proposals for transporting a battery of artillery from Fort Riley, Kan., to Fort Monroe, Va.; another from Fort Riley, Kan., to New Orleans, and a third from Fort Riley to Savannah, Ga.

BUYS WAR SHIPS.

Uncle Sam Secures Two Formidable llruziliiiu Cruisers. A week's negotiations closed by the purchase by the Navy Department in London of the two fine cruisers built and building at Elswick for the Brazilian Government. The vessels are named the Amazonas and Admiral Abreuoll aud are modern in every respect. Possibly the officials took more pleasure in closing up the business because of the knowledge that the Spanish agents had been striving to secure these very ships. It is said the vessels would be of much greater value to the Madrid Government in chse of trouble than to the United States. One of the ships is complete in every respect, has her coal supply and ammunition on board, and steam can l>e raised at nny time. It is said the coal and ammunition on board passed with the sale to the United State*. The ammunition 4s not nil of the kind in use by the United States navy, so the supply of ammunition is a necessary adjunct to the new ships. The other ship has been launched, but it will take some time to miQte her ready for sea. The two Brasilian Vessels. will be extremely useful additions to the United States navy iu either war or peace,

PROCTOR TALKS PLAINLY.

Vermont Senator Tells the Senate of His Trip to Cuba. Senator Proctor Thursday afternoon made the strongest argument in favor of intervention in behalf of Cuba that has ever been made in the Senate. Never were the members of the Senate so deeply impressed. Mr. Proctor made no attempt for oratorical effect. He had carefully prepared his address, and he delivered it to the Senate as an official report-of what he had observed in Cuba. He gave no opinion as to what action should be taken by this Government. He said the settlement “may well be left to an American President and the American people.” But while he did not make a recommendation in so many words, he left the impression with all who heard him that he favored a declaration by this Government of the independence of Cuba. He declared that he was opposed to annexation, and, while many Cubans advocated the establishment of a protectorate by the United States, he could not make up his mind that this would be the best way out of the difficulty. He told his associates that he believed the Cubans capable of governing themselves, and re-enforced this statement by the assertion that the Cuban population would never be satisfied with any government under Spanish rule. There was really nothing new in what he said. The same facts have been presented time and again by newspaper correspondents, and have been denounced as falsehoods. The point of their presentation Thursday was that they were detailed by a United States Senator as the result of his personal observations—of a Senator, too, who went to Cuba strongly prepossessed with the idea that the condition of the coijcehtrados had been greatly exaggerated, and who came back and declared that the scenes he had witnessed were absolutely indescribable. He said nothing about the Maine except to state that he had not formed nor expressed any Opinion on the subject of her destruction, and preferred to wait for the report of the court of inquiry. Autonomy, he asserted, was an utter failure. It came too late. There were practically no autonomists. The rebels possessed the east of the island, and even in the west the Spanish army held just what it sat upon and no more. From many view points the statement was remarkable. It had evidently been most carefully prepared. Every element of sensationalism had been studiously eliminated from it and, except so far as the facts recited were sensational, it bore not the slightest evidence of an effort to arouse the public mind, already keenly alive to the condition of affairs on the island.

HE IS A FIGHTER.

Commodore McNair, Who Is to Take Command of United states Navy. Commodore Frederick V. McNair has' succeeded to the command of the North Atlantic squadron. The position makes him the actual commander of the United States navy. He takes the place of Rear Admiral Matthews, who goes on the retired list. The coming admiral is no tyro in the matter of naval experience. He is no

COMMODORE M’NAIR.

theorist. Rather say he is a theorist and a fighter combined. He entered the Naval Academy in 1853 and was sent to Chinn. When the war broke out he was ordered home and served under Farragut. As early as 1861 he was promoted a lieutenant for personal bravery. He ran the gauntlet at Vicksburg and was conspicuous in the assault on Fort Fisher. For four years the young sailor never knew when the next moment was to be his last.

Th e Comic Side of The News

In case of war Spain will make some discoveries in America never dreamed of by Christopher Columbus. The monitor Terror has four big guns, but the Puritan has ten. The Puritan appears to be a holy terror. The Indiana Attorney General prosecuting the Versailles lynchers is trained Ketcham—-but ho hasn’t done it. It now remains for Ignatius Donnelly, who has married his stenographer, to discover who.is going to do the dictating. The Ohio Legislature is wrestling with an anti-tights bill. And yet some people say the fight against rum is weakening. The court which has decided that moat inspection by the Government is unconstitutional has had a tough subject to consider. Speaking of the dogs of wnr, there is no consolation for the Spaniards in tlie fact that all of Uncle Siwti’s big guns have muzzles. In case of wnr if the Spanish battleship Vizcaya should get into trouble the submarine boat Hofland might be found at the bottum of it. Somehow it doesn’t seem very consistent for Secretary Day to keep anything dark longer than twelve hours at a time. The Governor of Idaho seeks election to Congress on a no-necktie platform. Evidently it’s “neck or nothing" with him. Apparently the greatest menace to the peaie of the Old World just now is Japan’s impatience to try that uew navy on something. A stove trust with a capital of $10,000,(MMi Baa be.-n formed. This vlooks as though the managers proposed\o make U warm for the opposition.

WASHINGTON GOSSIP

Sir William Van Horne, president of the Canadian Pacific Railroad, estimates that from $200,000,000 to $250,000,000 will be taken into the Klondike country during the present year, and it is a problem how much Of it will be brought out. He bases this estimate upon the expectation that from 200,000 to 300,000 people will start for the gold regions, and that each of them will take an average of sl,000, which is very moderate and probably less than the amount. Forty-two steamers and twenty-four sailing crafts are how engaged between Puget sound and Alaska, and twelve British steamers and several schooners sail regularly from Vancouver. Every ship is loaded to the limit of safety with freight and passengers, and the congestion at all of the ports of embarkation is increasing instead of being relieved. * ♦ ♦ Secretary Wilson is trying to impress upon Congress the necessity of passing a pure food law that will protect the export trade in honest agricultural products from the designs of speculators and unscrupulous producers of bogus and adulterated foods. He does not demand prohibition, for that would be impracticable, but insists that all articles of food that are sent to foreign markets should bear a certificate of Government inspection and that they are exactly what they pretend to be. If filled cheese is exported it should go on the manifest as filled cheese, and the purchaser on the other side of the water should be made fully aware that he is not buying the genuine article. The same with flour, which is now being largely adulterated with cornmeal. » « ♦ The appearance of Speaker Reed in the House lobby smoking a . Wheeling “stogie,” illustrates' the extent to which that plebeian production of the American tobacco manufacturer hffs made its way into “polite society.” For many years the “stogie” has been the solace, if not the pride, of the people of the upper Ohio valley and of the lake country between Sandusky and Buffalo, but its circulation seemed to be limited to that region. About five years ago, however, it began to make its way into the vicinity of the capital, and its introduction was favored by several Congressmen. With the seal of approval given by the Speaker, the “stogie” may be said to be fully established in the favor of Washington smokers. • * * The great dome on the Capitol building moves quite a distance every day. In this connection a curious experiment was tried to show how far out of plumb it usually goes. A thin wire was hung from the inner topmost point of the dome. On the lower end of the wire was a plumb-bob, in the lower point of whicl) was inserted a lead pencil. It just touched the floor of the rotunda, on which a large sheet of white paper was laid. As the dome moved it dragged the pencil with it, and consequently left the tracing of its course on the paper. An oval fully a foot in length was marked out every day, showing that the apex of the dome of the Capitol moves that much in twenty-four hours. ♦ ♦ * Secretary Alger thinks that at least $5,000,000 can be properly expended at once by the engineer corps in strengthening the const defenses, and the President will probably set aside that amount for the benefit of certain works on the Atlantic ■and gulf coasts. This will be in the line of permanent improvements. The advancement in military science is so rapid that arms and projectiles soon become obsolete. All the beautiful artillery and muskets that were made for the war of the rebellion have gone to the junkshops long ago, where the material we are now spending millions of dollars for will have to follow in a few years. ♦ o » The late Senator Bruce had for years supported the widow and daughter of his former master, who was a planter in Virginia. They have been entirely dependent upon his bounty, and although there was no legal obligation whatever, they had treated him with great kindness when he was n slave, he had acquired the rudiments of an education from the tutor of his master’s son and felt a gratitude that expressed itself in this manner when he learned that they were in needy circumstances. » » » The Coroan minister fears that lie will have to close the legation uml go homo because he does not receive any money from his Government. The minister is very much in debt, and it is said that he has not received any remittances either dn account of his salary or expenses for a year or more, although he is n great favorite of the king and has twice saved his majesty from assassination. * * * The extraordinary feat of counting $2,000,000 in ninety seconds was recently performed by George Willnrshnll, a deputy in the sub-treasury in New York. The money consisted of United Stall's legal tender certificates of the SIO,OOO denomination. • * • One of the obstacles to the purchase of warships in foreign countries is the difference between the calibers of the guns and the United States standards, and ammunition for the foreign guns will have to be purchased in Europe. • e • Mrs. Victoria Conkling Whitney, of the Missouri bar, has been admit ted to practice liefore the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia ami the several departments of the Government. « • • All the private establishments in the country are now at work night and day and seven days in the week filling the orders of the ordnance department. • * * The President lias signed the Dill appropriating S2BO,(XX) to the Methodist Episcopal Church South for property of that association used during the wnr. It is reported in Washington that the United States Government prevented Spain from purchasing the Chilian battleship OTliggiua.

GAINED 22 POUNDS IN 5 WEEKS.

From, the By-Stander, Maco-rnb, 111, Alderman Louis W. Camp his astonished his friends by a remarkable gain in weight, having gained 22 pounds in five Weeks. “I was broken down in health,” said Mr. Camp to our reporter, “and was so badly afflicted with a form of stomach trouble that life was a veritable nightmare. ‘ r l tried various remedies during the six months of my sickness, but obtained no relief. - “About two years ago I was advjsed to try Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale People. I purchased one box and received so much benefit that I used five more

Interviewing the A[?]derman.

and was entirely cured. I gained twentytwo pounds in five weeks. Since I stopped taking the pills I have scarcely had an ache or pain. Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills restored me to health and I most heartily recommend them.” L. W. Camp on oath says that the foregoing statement is true. W. W. MELOAN, Notary Public. Following is the physician’s certificate as to Mr. Camp’s present condition: I am a regularly licensed physician of Macomb, McDonough County, 111. I have very recently examined Mr. L. W. Camp as to his general physical condition, and find the same to be all that could be desired, appetite and digestion good, sleeps well, and has all the evidences of being in a good physical condition. SAMUEL RUSSELL, M. D. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 30th day of September, 1597. W. W. MELOAN, Notary Public.

Utilizing the Sun’s Heat.

A French scientist calculates that in an average day the sun will pour or two and a half acres of ground heat which might be turned into energy equal to the muscle power of 4,163 horses. Mr. Mouchot believed that this ■ heat might be utilized and made s o de the work now done by-steam and electricity. He found that by condensing the heat playing on less than a yard and a half of ground he could boll t\vo pints of water. By arresting sunshine and condensing it small steam engines have been operated successfully in Paris, but nothing has yet been done to realize practically the great hopes of revolutionizing civilization by using directly the enormous power whict comes to us daily from the sun. This power is calculated at that of 21G,000,000,060 horses, and a thousandth part of 1 per cent, of it would run all the factories the world will ever need.

Innocent Children Sacrificed.

The “slaughter of the innocents” continues, until it is estimated that onefourth of the human race die before attaining their fifth birthday, owing to oti|' rigorous and changeable elimate. AM there are thousands of adults ia this lam) that stomach complaints are reducing to confirmed- invalidism, whom Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters would promptly relieve 'nd invigorate. Never wear a short stocking, or one which, after being washed, is not at least one-half inch longer than the foot. Bear in mind that stockings shrink. Be sure that they will allow your toes to spread out at the extreme as this keeps the joints in place and makes a strong and attractive foot. As to shape of stockings the single digital or “onetoe” stocking Is the best.

$400 FOR NEW NAMES!

The Salzer Seed 00. want suitable names for their 17-lnch long corn and White Oat prodigy. You can win this S4OO easily. Catalogue tells all about it. Seed potatoes only $1.50 a barrel. Send This Notice and lOCts. in Stamps to John A. Salzer Seed Co., LaCrosse, Wis., and get free their great seed catalogue and eleven new farm seed samples, Including above corn and oats, positively worth $lO, to get a start, c.n. Imapllng was used as a punishment In Turkey up to 18j>5. The last men so executed were four Arab sheikhs who bad rebelled. They were impaled at the four corners of the Bagdad bridge. One of them lived for nine days.

Catarrh Cannot Be Cured

with LOCAL APPLICATIONS, as they cannot reach the seat of the disease. Catarrh is a blood or constitutional direase, and In order to euro It you must take Internal remedies. Hall's Catarrh Cun- is taken Internally, and acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces. Hall’s Catarrh Cura Is not a quack medicine. It was prescribed by one of the best physicians In this country for years, and Is a regular prescription. It Is computed of the best tonics known, combined with tho best blood purifiers, acting directly on the mucous surfaces. The perfect combination of the two Ingredients Is what produces such wonderful restilts In curing Catarrh. Send for testimonials. free. F. J. CHENEY & CO.. Props., Toledo, O. Sold by Druggists, price 75c.

Quiet No Longer.

Forrester—You live iu a quiet part of the town, do you not? Lancaster—Not now. Forrester—Moved ? Lancaster—No. Got twins.—Tit-Bits.

Try Grain-O! Try Grain-O!

Ask your Grocer to-day to show yon a packaged GRAIN-O, the new food drink that takes the place of coffee. The children may drink It without injury ns well ns the adult. All who try it, like it. GRAIN-O has that rich senl brown of Mocha or Java, but it ia made from pur® grains, and the most delicate stomach receives it without distress. Vi the price of coffee. 15c. and 25 cts. pec package, bold by all grocers. Africa traces Its origin to the Phoenician afer, a black man, and tho Sanskrit ac, tho earth, a country.

TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY.

Take LaxaUvw Bromo Quinine Tablets. All Drurglstt refund Um* money If It fail* to cure. 26c. Why isn't a medical glass a sanltarj measure? Fl TS rrrmsnently J'urtvl. No flu or nervomnra artrr first daO p* o’ l>r. Kline’s Orest Nerve Restorer. Send tor FKIT.ItHO trial bottle and traatha. Ds. K. H. KLont, LUI. wn Arab St.. Philadelphia, Pk Mr*. Win-low'" SooTitnro Ftsut for Children teething; softens the sums. reaueen Inflamtnatioa, allaj i twin, cures wind coUc. 25 cents a bottls,