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First or Spanish Military Wri
ters Predicts IV hat Wonld Hap
pen In a War.
Senor Genaro Alas who is con
sidered in Spain to be the first Span
ish military writer published the
following article in La Epoca of
Madrid on March, 11 about the re
sults of a war between his country
and the United States:
"Will it be a duel in French style,
or until the first blood is shed, or a
fight to the death? In my opinion
neither one nor the other. If we are
defeated quickly we shall lose Cuba
and probably also Poto Kico, and it
is very likely that we shall have a
stronger revolt in the Philippines
and serous troubles at home.
"But suppose that at the begin
ning of the war we sink the
whole Yankee fleet and even bom
bard with success two or three Yan
kee ports. Will it all end there?
Oh, no. The Americans will not stand
it, and the nation that from 1861 to
1865 put inarms more than 1,000,
000 soldiers, raised powerful -fleets,
spent $4,000,000,000 and lost near
ly the same amount, will make such
efforts then that, in spite of all my
respect for Spanish patrotism, I cau
not believe that Spain will be able
to stand against it.
If there are those who believe in
intervention by European powers in
favor of Spain, I do not.
"A fight to the death, it will not
be, either; because the Americans
cannot conquer us with so many
miles of ocean between the two coun
tries. We may lose our colonies, but
Spain will remain. Probably that
loss, though immediately disastrous,
would be a benefit to our sons.
"Now, can any man of sense
believe that we can do to the United
States what the Americans cannot
do to tis? Is it not a nonsensical
dream to think of a conquest of
American territory? I am not doubt
ing the courage of the Spaniards,
but 1 believe that all nations of Jiu-
rope together are not strong enough
to sever a foot of land from the
United States.
"In brief, the United States will
not come to conquer us here, neither
shall we go to conquer them there.
The whole war will be reduced to
this: The Yankees will provide the
insurgents with arms and ammuni
tion, blockade the ports of Cuba,
and starve to death our army there,
that subsists now exclusively on im
ported food.
"Vhat will be tbe role of our navyr
To break the blockade in order to
provision our armv and in order to
get coal for itself; because I suppose
that our ships will not come back
to coal in Spain.
"That will be all. At the start
the Yankees may destroy bur whole
navy or we may destroy theirs, but
in the long run they will get the ad
vanage. All other things will be
mere episodes of the war. The pri
vateers on either side will amount
to nothing in deciding where victory
shall rest."'
He Was not Deaf.
Gaulois.
Joseph has gone into the service of
two old bachelors, brothers, who are so
much alike that they can hadly be told
apart, but of whom one is deaf. Think
ing he was speaking to the latter, Jo
seph brings the letters and newspapers
on his first morning, and remarks:
"There's the paper, you old buck."
What is his confusion to hear the old
gentleman answer benevolently:
"It is my brother who is deaf, not I!"
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"A word to the wise is sufficient" and
a word froni the wise should be sufficient,
but you ask, who are the wise? Those
who know. The oft repeated experience
of trustworthy persons may be taken for
Knowledge. Mr. w. M. lerry says
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ter satisfaction than any other in the
market. He has been in the drug busi
ness at Elkton, Ky.,' for twelve, years;
has sold hundreds of this remedy and
nearly all all othtr cough medicines man
ufactured, which shows conclusively that
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me pe.ipie, ana is the best.- Jror sale by
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Itlet on Oar National Honor.
Baltimore Sun.
The House of Representatives Tuesday
served notice on Southern men and wo
men that the civil war is not yet over,
and that while it is quite willing to allcw
Southern citizens to shed their blood in
defence of the country it is not willing to
do them the barest justice when they or
their relatives come before Congress with
well-founded pecuniary claims against
the government. The case that justifies
this reflection was the action of the House
on the claim presented by the heirs of
the widow of Gen. Kobt. E. Lee, for
$217,236. Mr. Evans, republican, of Ken
tucky, moved to strike the claim out of
the general bill for payment for stores and
supplies furnished to the Union by loyal
citizens of the South. The claim was for
108,000 cords of timber taken from an es
tate in Fairfax county, Va., in which
Mrs. Fitzhugh, the widow of W. H
Fitzhugh.had a life estate. Mrs. Fitz
hugh was notoriously loyal, said Mr.
Evans. No one claimed loyalty for Mrs.
Lee, and as a legal proposition, he said,
it was absurd to claim the reaiduarjr leg
atee, who was disloyal, should have an in
terest under the Bowman act Mr. Swan
son, (democrat, of Virginia,) who cham
pioned the payment of the claim, said
that Mrs. Lee was the heir of Mrs. Fitz
hugh, and he thought in this enlightened
age it was outrageous- to set up the con
tention that the blood of Robert E. Lee
could not inherit property given them by
a loyal citizen of the United States.
The House of Representatives, how
ever, agreed with Mr. Evaas, and by a
vote of 132 to 91 declared that the blood
of the Virginia Lees is too tainted with
treason to permit it, in the language of
Mr. Swanson, to inherit property from a
loyal citizen of the United States. Just
before making this declaration it had
passed, without objection, a bill to pen
sion the widow of Gen. John L. Steven
son at the rate of $30 per month. We
have no doubt that Mrs. Stevenson's case
was entirely meritorious, but while there
is always room inthe congressinal sym
pathies for one more pension claimant,
and while the country annually expends
about one hundred and forty millions for
pension claims, many of which are
fraudulent, -it has not a cent for justice,
when justice happens to be to Southern
heirs. While the House was thus put
ting itself onvrecord, a member of the
Lee family was bravely and patriotically
discharging a dangerous and delicate
dutv at Havana a duty which he dis
charges at the risk of his life. For
months he has stood at hi3 po3t there
without flinching in the face of difficul
ties and personal responsibilities which
would have shaken the nerve and judg
ment ot men of less heroic mold, and
has performed the onerous task which
fell to him with such calmness, courage
and discretion as to excite the admiration
and applause of the whole country. Yet
his blood, too, according to the logic of
the decision of the House of Representa
tives, while good enough to ba shed in
Havana in the service of his country, is
not good enough to "inherit property
given by a loyal citizen of the United
States."
WHAT RAILROADS . SPEXD.
Peculiar Abbreviations.
Nashville American.
There can be formed from the names of
some of the States of the Onion a list of
peculiar abbreviations, such as the fol
lowing: The most egotistical- "Me."
Most religious "Mass."
Most Asiatic "Ind."
Father of States' 'Pa." -
Most maidenly "Miss."
Best in time of flood "Ark."
Most useful in haying time "Mo "
Decimal State "Tenn."
State of Exclamation "La."
Most astonis-hing State ' O."
Most unhealthy State "111."
State to care the sick "Md."
Not aState for the untidy "Wash. "
State where there is no such word
fail "Kan."
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M. L. Tocum, Cameron, Pa., says "I was
a sufferer for ten- years, trying most all
kinds of pile remedies, but without success.
DeWiti's Witch Hazel Salve was recom
mended to me. I used one box. It has ef
fected a permanent cure." As a permanent
cure for piles DeWiti's Witch Hazel Salve
has no equal. J. A. Hardison.
They Have Become Tbe Great
Disbursing Agencies" OF Tbe
Country. ,
New York Sun.
The railroads of the United States
spend iu a year a sum more than
$100,000,000, in excess- of the total
expenditures of the United States
government, and this computation
does not include nearly $250,000,
000 paid in the form-of interest
upon railroad bonds or guaranteed
stock and from $80,000,000 to $100,
000,000 paid'iu the form of divi
dends to stockholders. The railroads,
indeed,are the great disbursing agen
cies of the country, handling never
less than a billion dollars in. a year
and disbursing it alit or, practcally
all, for railroads, as a rule, do not
keep large bank, accounts, and do
practically a cash buisness, turning
money rapidly.
An estimate made by one of the
scientific papers a short time ago
gave as the average annual expense
of American railroads iu maintaining
the couditiou of their roadbeds
$75,000,000, besides $35,000,000 for
the purchase of rails, ties and sleep
ers, and $15,000,000 for the con
struction of new bridges. The rail
roads of the country spent last year
for fences, signboards, signals and
watch towers $3,500,000, and for
printing and advertising $8,500,000.
Very few persons have au accurate
idea of the extent to which railroad
expenses are to be subdivided, sup
posing, probably that the largest
items of expenditure are for cars, en
gines, fuel, employes aud terminals.
Such i3 the fact, but there are other
large items, and one of the largest of
these is the item of taxes. Railroad
corporations in the. United States
are heavily taxed, aud they pay col
lectively iu a year,. it has been esti
mated, $40,000,000. There is then
another item which figures largely
in all railroad accounts, the item of
legal expenses, railroads being drawn
into almost constant litigation aud
requiring at all times the survice of
counsel. It is estimated that expen
ses of American railroads for legal
services amount in a year to about
$10,000,000, and this"is, of course,
exclusive of the sums requisite to
meet claims forpersonal injuries
or damages to property. Some of the
arge railroad companies expend as
much as a quarter of a million dol
lars in a year for the settlement of
such cases on the payment of judg
ments recovered. This item of ex
pense on all American railroads
is ordinarily put at about $5,000,-
000. A serious accident may entail
on a railroad, company damages so
large as to oset. many months of
profit, aud some railroads have been
crippled for long periods by such
cases.
There are in the United Slates
800,000 railroad employes, 100,000
station men, 35,000 engineers, 40,000
fireman and helpers, 25,000 conduc
tors aud dispatchers, 65,000 traiu-
meu, 30,000 machinists, 100,000
shopmen other than machinists, 20,
000 telegraph operators and their
helpers, 45,000 switchmen, flagmen
and watchmen and 175,00 track
men. The daily pay role on all
American railroads combined, offi
cers aud clerical staff included,
amounts to about $2,000,000 a day
Why He Would 4Jw.
Cincinnati Enquirer.
The Cautious One: I wouldn t go to
the Klondike. Already more money has
gone in there than has been taken out.
The Sanguine One: You don't say? If
the place is getting richer like that,
think I'll go as soon as I can.
What tbe Physician Said.
"When iny little boy was two the years old
eruptions appeared on the back of his ears
which a physician said were caused by
scrofula. His face became a mass of sore.i.
The doctor prescribed Hood's Sarsaparilla
ana lie tooK it until he was cured and en
tirely free from eruptions." A. J. Slater,
l'oca, W. Va.
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JOHX EVAXS IIANUEU.
He Died Fearlessly aud Main
tained Tbat He Was Iuuocent
1 the Last.
Charlotte Observer.
Rockingham, April 1. It will be re
membered that Governor Russell granted
John Evans, convicted of a brutal as'
sault upon a Rockingham young lady, a
respite to April 1st. The Governor de
clining to interfere further witn the exe
cution of the sentencfe and the time ex
piring by limitation, John Evans was
brought to Rockingham this morning at
5:30 by the sheriff of Richmond county,
Joh.9 M. Smith, and Depty AlcFerrin.
He was taken at once to the county jail
for breakfast, and about 7:30 was taken
to tbe gallows in the grove near by.
After ascending the platf jrm, which he
did. with a steady siep, in good spirits
and & cheerful countenance, he was al
lowed, upon closing the door, to speak to
the people. His speech, if such it can be
called, was substantially the same as
statements made at the Raleigh jail and
Rockingham jail.
He said: "I'm an innocent man. I
am now to die, but I don't fear death.
Christ died for me and I am willing to
die for him. I don't feel malice to any
body. I want everybody to live right
and meet me in Heaven. I've been to
the Lord in prayer and I'm now ready
to die. I told the truth. My lawyers
told me to tell the truth or I would get
my neck broken, and I told the truth
and the day w'll come when everybody
will 6nd out that I am an innocent
man."
His counsel, Claudius Dockery, was a.
his side to the last, and with others, bade
him good-bye. The drop fell at 7:50 a.
m., Sheriff Smith cutting the rope. In
aboui twenty minutes Dr. W. M.
Fowlkes, county physician, and other
physicians present, after a careful exami
nation pronounced life extinct aud the
bjdy was taken down and further exami
nation developed the fact that the neck
hadnot been dislocated, but death re
sulted from strangulation.
The crowd in town today was surpris
ingly small. There has not been ( the
least excitement. In lact, a visitor could
not tell merely from observation thin any
unusual event had transpired. Again
has the tolerance and loyalty of pur peo
ple been exemplified; again has the maj
esty of the law been recognized; again
has justice been enthroned and woman
avenged.
1 RU IFIXIO.V OF CHRIST.
Death on the Cross was a Most
Terrible Form of Torture.
"Crucifixion was a terrible death,"
writes the Ilev. Armory II. Brad
ford, D. D., apropos of Holy Week,
in an article on "Tbe Last Week
iu Christ's Life" in the April
Ladies' Home Journal. "It was
reserved for offenders of a servile
class and never used 'for a lioman
citizen. The hands and feet of the
victim were nailed to the wood, and
a kind of rude seat was provided
just enough to prevent the weight
of the, body from tearing through
the flesh. The exact spot" where
Jesus wa3 crucified cannot now be
indentified. Golgotha was probably
some skull-shaped hill 'outside the
city wall.' Thither a stauge pro
cession wended its way the con
demned with their crosses on their
backs, the hard-hearted rabble
making fun of them as they passed;
The streught of Jesus faijed before
the destination was reached, aud
another was compelled to carry the
cross for Him. This crucifixion,
like all others, was cruel and barbar
ous iu extreme. The executioners
were Ilonian soldiers, but a ho&t of
Jews feasted their eyes on the hide
ous sight.
"Such agony was no protection
against the gibes of the crowd.
With but one of His disciples in
sight, and only two or three friend
ly womeu near one of them His
mother Jesus passed the last hour
if His earthly life. Those who suf
fered by crucifixion sometimes lin
gered three or four days Jesus
lived about five hours. While haug
ing ou the cross He spoke seven
times. Soon after the cross was
raised, looking over the coarse and
brutal soldiery, aud the mistaken
fanatics who had hounded him to
that hour, lie tittered a prayer,
which has probably nvule a deeper
impression on the world than any
other single prayer, ever offered:
'Father, forgive them, for they
know not what they do.' "
ABSTRACT OF SPAIN'S REPLY
The following is a characteristic Hood's
Sarsaparilla testimonial, acts like
these have made Hood's Sarsaparilla
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"We like to tell what Hood's Sarsapa
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hid diphtheria. - From the very first our
little boy Ralph, then seven years old, was
very sick and for several days it seemed as
if he would never be any better. After a
while he began to improve and in a few
weeks was able to- go out, although weak
and miserable. - Then, gradually
All Strength in His Limbs
gave out. The physicians told ns it was
paralysis, which sometimes follows an at
tack of diphtheria. We did everything
for him, bat he grew worse until he was in
a pitiful condition. He suffered terribly
at night and complained continually of
his head, and in what little sleep he was
able to get, moaned unceasingly. He lost
all control of the muscles of his body and
limbs. He had no appetite and complained
of feeling sick at his stomach all the time.
After we had tried many different reme
dies and had . about given np all hope,
we commenced giving him Hood's Sarsa
parilla. In a short time he ceased to com
plain, his appetite improved and at the
end of three months he was able to attend
school a part ot the time. Now he is well
and quite a strong and ragged boy. Yoa
are at liberty to use this testimonial,
as we feel we cannot say too much
in praise of Hood's Sarsaparilla as a blood
purifier and building np medicine." Mks.
R. E. Anderson, Cumberland, Maine.
To Cive New Life -
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Bankrupt Spain.
Atlanta Journal. -
No nation in this time caa conduct
war with any prospect but that of early
and disastrous failure without plenty of
money.
In her lack of credit lies the greatest
weakness of Spain.
The London Economist in the last is
sue which has reached us gives an inter
esting summary of Spain's financial condition.
The three Cuban loans aggregate $450,-
000,000, the floating debt amounts to $70,
000,000, and the monthly war expendi
ture to $3,000,000. Such are the .Econo
mist's figures, translating pounds sterling
into dollars at the rate of five to one.
They are exclusive of old debt and of
the new loan of 200,000,000 psetas, equiv
alent to about $40,000,000, which the gov
ernment is trying to rai-e by- popular
subscription through the national bank.
A country like ours would not. find
any difficulty in handling and increasing
upon favorable terms a debt as large as
that of Spain, but with Spain it is very
different matter. The total population of
that country is about 18,00' ),000, but
Spain is very weak in industrial re
sources. Her total debt is now $1,613,
400,0l 0. How serious a matter this is for
Spain is shown by the fact that her 4 and
5 per cent bonds are now quoted at from
49 to 55 per cent of their face value. The
new offer of $41,000,000 of bonds is not
likely to bring into the treasury more
than $25,000,000 at most, and pn.bably
hot more than one-third of the amount
of the floating debt
Spain would have to raise several hun
dred million dollars to prepare for a war
with this country. How could she get it?
She has failed to get more than half their
face value for ftO.OOO.OOO of bonds which
were taken by her own people after
strong appeals to their patriotism. When
Spain goes outside of her own county to.
borrow moiey she will find it impossi
ble to raise any great amount at any rale
of interests There is not today a civ
ilized nation so . ill prepared for war as
Spain.
Fatili, Politics and Ieuouiina
tion on a Monument.
Charleston (W. Va.) Gazette.
For people who are making a col
lection of strange aud amusing epi
taphs the Rev. Dr. Webb of Hun-
tiugton, W. Va., has furnished a
gem of purest ray serene.
A monument is to be erected over
the graTe of the Ilev. J Wesley Webb,
D. D., who ditd of grief soon after
his sou William was murdered last
fall. The monument will bear this
incriptiou:
"Here lies the body of J. Wesley
Webb, a firm believer in the Lord
Jesus Christ, Jeffersonian Democra
cy aud the ME. Church."
Relatives state that Dr. Webb
made the above request on his death
bed. He was in the Methodist Epis
copal Conference for more than thir
ty years, ten yearg of which he was
stationed at Wheeling.
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The Spaniard in History.
Courier Journal.
We dwell with horror upon the deeds
ot the "unspeakable Turk." But they
have been far exceeded in cruelty by the
deeds of this Spanish monster. Iu the
case of the Turk there was at least re
ligious fanaticism, a kind of insanity,
to account for his acts of rapine. In the
case of the Spaniard, nothing except the
pirate's lust for plunder and the tiger's
this for blood. Even the tragedy ot the
Keign of Terror in France had a limit
set upon it, and was but nature s fren
zied answer to centuries of oppression.
He who would sate his morbid imagina
tion with tales of crime and wrong, of
useless, causeless crimi and wrongs must
turn to the history of-Spain; nor need he
go back to the dark ages of myth and
fable; to the chronicles of the Cid; to the
orgies of the demon Vaiencia, to the rule
of the Moors, which, barbaric though it
was, yet shone as heaven's gift to man by
comparison with that of the inquisition
and the Cortes, and Alfonso the Butcher
and of Pedro the Cruel, culmi nating in
the n erciless, yet cold, malignancy of
Charles V and Phillip II, at whose com
mand hell seemed to vomit up its black
est inmates to be their masters of State
and their generals in the field, Satan,
himself, in the person of Alya, leading
the vau aud marching to a second im
mortaliiy of damnation. Horrible, ghast
ly phantasmagoria of human woe! Yet
mark the soqual not surprising, ex
cept in its pages the heart-rending, the
pitiable story of the Cubans.
Kecoueenlratlon Order Revok
ed And Question of Peace
Referred to The C'nban Par
liament. Washington, April 1. The following is
given out officially as an abstract of
Spain's reply to the demands of the
United States in reference to the Cuban
situation.
-"General Woodford informs tUe gov
ernment of the United States that Geuer
al Blanco has revoked the bando relat
ing to the reconcentrados in the western
provinces of Cuba, which are understood
to be the provinces of Matanzas, Santa
Clara, Havana and Pinar del Rio; that
the Spanish government has placed at
the disposal of the governor general the
credit of three million pesetas ($(K 0,000)
to the end that the country paople may
return at once and with success to theii
labors.
The Spanish government will accept
whatever assistance to feed and succor
the necessitous may be sent from the
United States in accordance with the plan
now in operation. He proposes to con
fide the preparation for an honorable and
stable peace to the Insular Parliament,
wiihont whose concurrence the Spanish
government would not be able to arrive
at the final resort, being understood that
the powers reserved by the constitution
to the Central government are not les
soned or diminished.
"As the Cuban Chambers will not
meet until the 4th of May, the Spanish
government will not, on its part, object to
a suspension of hostilities, if asked by
the insurgents from tho general in-cbief,
to whom it will belong to determine the
duration and the condition of the sus
pension."
In connection with this official state
ment it is stated on authority that the
case as, now made up by the negotia
tions between Spain and the United
States, will c tute the case as it will
be submitted to Congress in the Presi
dent's message.
There is no present i uteniion t f pursu
ing futher uegotiaiions whwh will change
the status of the Cuban question as now
presented in tbe correspondence between
Spain and the United Slates.
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.Hortuttii Ciders Driven Out ol"
Town.
Concord Times.
Last Monday the two Mormon elders,
Gibson and Carter, who have been work
ing in this section for some time, put iu an
especial day here.makingahouseto house
canvass. It seems that they went into
Mr. W. A. Caldwell's on Spring street
and lett some of their literature, against
the protest of Mrs. Caldwell. About 12
o'clock Mr. Caldwell met Gibson coming
out of Mr. John M. Young's gate, and
asked him who gave him permission to
leave his tracts at his house. The elder
said something, when Mr. Caldwell gave
him several licks with a stick, breaking
his derby and bruising him up. The
Mormon took to his heel3, leaving his hat
and umbrella behind. Mr. Caldwell then
crossed to the other side of the street
where Carter was, and .before he could
get out of the way, gave him a rap or
two. The elders reiwrted the affair to the
authorities, but as tbey declined to get
out a warrant nothing was d me. They
got their baggage and left town before
night, aud have not been hsard of since.
Pensions Piling I p.
lJalliniore Sun.
The secetary of the interior asks con
gress for an additional appropriation of
8,070,872 for pensions during the pres
ent fiscal year, making over $148,000,000
for the year ending June 30, 1898. Over
$95,370,000 has been given to pension
ers already this year, and the cash is get
ting low. This circumstance, discourag
ing in itself, casts a shadow forward,
since it indicates that the appropriation
already made of over $141,000,000 for
the year ending June 30, 1S99, will be
entirely insufficient and will have to be
increased perhaps to over $150,000,000
to meet the demands of a constantly
lengthening pension roll.
The secretary does' not encourage us
to hope for a speedy cessation of the in
crease of outlay on pensions. On the
contrary, he informs us that the com
missioner of pensions has changed his
mind and no longer expects a decline.
"In view," he says, "of the increasing
applications for original pensions and for
increase of pensions, there will be an in
crease in the sum required for the pay
ment of armv and uavv pensions for
sometime to come." Ihe number 011
the roll June 30, 1897, was 976,014,
on February 28, 1S98, the number was
989,613, a net increase of 13,599. This
scandalous state of things promises to
become worse instead of better. By June
30, 1S98, the number of pensioners, ac
cordinz to the modeit estimate of the
commissioner, will be 996,000, or but 4
000 short of a million! This, too, 33
years after the close of hostilities. As
lhe bun recently showed, there were
2.o6.ooo individuals on the roll of the
army and navy during the civil war,
some of whom were killed iu action
some died of wotfnds, some succumbed
to disease and some have died since the
war. Assuming that all survive, about
half the whole number of patriots are
getting pensions. Assuming as seems
reasonable that three-fourths of the
men who fousht over a generation ago
are now dead, and that but 500,000 gen
uine veterans are living, with about
225,000 genuine widows of veterans, we
have a margin of over 250,000 pension
ers who may be suspected to be improp
erly placed on the rolls. Lax laws laxly
administered, under a sentiment which
terrorizes officials who would interpret
the law strictly, are set aside constantly
by congress, which at every session
passes its thousands of private pension
bills, at the rate of two or more a mm
utc. without any regard whatever for
evidence or the lack of it. Everybo-'y
yields to the clamor of pension attorneys,
and so the pension roll increases instead
of diminishing, as it ought.
Letter Written by the General
Lou; Ago Asks Appointment
for dram! so 11.
Xew York. Dispa'oh, March I?.).
Colonel Fred Grant left for Wash
ington to day to deliver to the Pres
ident a letter written thirteen years
ago by Genera! Grant, hid father.
The latter dictated and feigned the
missive at his home, Xo. 3 East sixty-sixth
street, on a day when the'
doctor told him he had few hours to
liye. It follows: -
New Yohk, April 3, 1885.
To the President of the United States:
May I ask you to favor the appoint
ment of Ulysses S. Grant, the son of
my son, t reuencK uranr, as a catu t
at" West Point, upon his application?
In domsr so, you will gratify the
wishes of U. S. Grant.
Having adjured his son to deliver
tnia letter when little L lysses
should reach the age of sixteen, the
general seemed relieved. Colouel
Fred Grant obtained this indorse
ment from General Sherman:
Xew York City, February 1, 1SD7.
To t he President of the U nited States:
It seems superfluous that any ad
dition : should be necessary to the
above, but I cheerfully add my name
n the full belief that the child
of such parents will be most worthy
of the appointment solicited
W. T. Suermax, General.
Ulysses S. Grant, third,vho is now
16 years old, has - shown military
leanings, and will be the last to
oppose ins lamous graucuatner s
wishes.
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Tiie Time of Ileueiva!. J
All nature is
renewed in the
spr i 11 g t i m e.
The sky take3
on a fresher
color, the tries
don their East
er garments,ev
ery thing seems
glad and hap
py. It seems a
pity that at such a beautiful season
so disagreeable a malady as the so
called "spring fever" should unfit a
great many people to enjoy the un
accustomed sunshine and freshness
that prevails. What is spring fever?
It is that sluggishness aud irritabil
ity which everyone takes a spring
tonic for. "Bad blood" some peo
ple call it. A great deal of "blood
medicine" is sold in the spring of
the year. The blood, the vigor, the
health must be renewed, with the
trees and flowers and grass. The
principal difficulty is, which of the
numerous spring tonics is the best?
Which will cure permanently and
remove quickly al! the disagreeable
symptoms? Kead what Mrs. Adiin
Adams, Craftou, Ky., says of IV-ru-nu:
"I was about to give up all
hopes when I concluded to take IV-ru-na.
I believe it is the best med
icine in th world. I can't speak
too highly of it,"
A book containing several hun
dred letters, similar to the one from
which this is an extract, will be
sent free to any address by the IV-ru-ua
Drug Manufacturing Com
pany, Columbu, Ohio.
Rlieaiuatisin Cured.
My wife has used Chamberlain's Pain
Balm for rheumatism with great relief,
and I can recommend it as a splendid
liniment for rheumatism aud other house
hold uso for wh'.ch we have found it val
uable. W J. Cuyler. Red Creek, N. Y.
Mr. Cuyler is one of theleading mer
chants of this village and one of the most
prominent men in this vicinity. W. G.
Phippin, Editor Red Creek Herald. For
sale by J. A. Hardison.
The War Month.
Philadelphia Bullentiu.
April is peculiarly a "war month
iu American history. The war of
independence was opened in the skir
mishes at Lexington on the 10th of
April, 1775. The war with Mexi
co was begun on the Kio Grande iu
April iu the collision between Taylor
und Amnudia. The war of the
Uuiou began with the siege of Sump
ter on the 14th of April, 1861, aud
ended with the fall of liichuiond in
April, 1865. It begins to look as if
hisory will again repeat itself.
A little boy asked for a bottle of "get np
in the morning as fast as you can," the
dmugist recognized a household name for
"DeW ill's Lin le Early Kisers," and give
him a bottle of those famous little pills tor
constipation, sick headache, liver und
slomacli troubles. J. A. ilaidUon.
.
A torpid liver robs you of ambition and
ruins your health. leVitt's Little Early
Kisers cleanse the liver, eure constipation
and all stomach and liver troubles. J. A.
llardison.
Soak Kabj, 12G Years Old.
New York Dispatch, 1st.
Noah Eaby, an inmate of the Pis
cataway township almshouse, near
Xew Brunswick, X. J., celebrated
the auniversary of his birth to-day.
He says he is 126 years old, and has
been an inmate of the almshouse for
fortj years.
He was born iu Eatontown, Gates
couuty, X. C, on April 1, 1772, he
claims. His mother was a South
Caroliuian aud his father a X'orth
American Indian. He has an ex
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blind. He sleeps well, is strong aud
eujoyesgood health.
In 1S93 my wife went East and was at
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no relief until she tried Chamberlain's
Pain Balm. Since that time we have
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and is never failing for all rheumatic and
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possible disease could be spread by the
simple act?"
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