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01 tho GomnissigD, as Cabled From Paris.
HEALTH FOR TEN GENTS!
The American Commission Presents Final Proposal,
Which is Practically an Ultimatum, and Ask
Answer Thereto By Designated Time.
FOR TNI FAMILY.
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I and my whole family received relief
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will find a place In every home. Tour*
CANDY
CATHARTIC
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A special from Pari* nays: The
Spanish and American peaoe commis
sions met in joint session at 2 o'clock
Monday afternoon. The Americans
dqolared the United States must have
the entire Philippine arohipelago and
for a treaty oession of the islands the
Americans tendered to Spain 820,000,-
000.
It ia further deolared that it i* the
purpoae of the United State* to main
tain the Philippine ialand* as an "open
door” to the world’* commerce.
On the terms named the United
proposes a mutual relinquishment of
all claims for indemnity, national or
personal, subsequent to the outbreak of
the last Cuban insurrection.
November 28th is fixed as the date
on which the United States commis
sion desires a definite response to
Monday's propositions and all other
subjects in issue.
It is also deolared that the United
States desires to treat of the religious
freedom of the Caroline islands, as
agreed upon between the United States
and Spain in 1886, and also of the
acquisition of one of the Caroline
ialands for an American naval station
and of cable landing righta at other
places in Spanish jurisdiction and the
revival of certain Spanisb-Amerioan
treaties as haretofore in force.
The Amerlcaus also refuse to arbi
trate article 8 of the protocol bearing
upon the future disposition and control
of the Philippine islands.
The memerandnn) of the American
commission embodying the above
propositions ia long and was not read
in full. The vital portions, however,
were oemmnnioated verbally to the
Spauish commissioners in practically
these terms:
Tarn). Sulimttt.,) Mr Americans.
"The faot was eited that the propo
sal presented by the American com
missioners in behalf of the govern
ment for the oession of the Philippine
islands te the United States having
been rejected by the Spanish commis
sioners, aad the counter proposal of
the latter for the withdrawal of Amer
ican forces from the islands and the
payment of an indemnity by the
United States to Spain having been
rejected by the American commission
ers, the latter deeming it essential
that the present negotiations, already
greatly protracted, should be brought
to an early and definite conclusion,
now begged to present a new proposi
tion embodying the concessions, which,
for the sake of peace, their govern
ment would, umler the circumstances,
be willing to tender. *
"The government of the United
States is unable to modify the propo
sal heretofore made for the cession ef
the entire archipelago of the Philip
pines.
But the American commissioners are
authorized to offer to Spain, in case
the cession should be agree to, the
sum of 820,000,000, to be paid in ac
cordance with the terms to be fixed in
the treaty of peace.
“It being the policy of the United
States to maintain the Philippines as
an open door to the world’s commerce,
the American commissioners are pre
pared to insert in the treaty now in
cointeuiplation, a stipulation to the
effect that, for a term of years, Spain-
ish ships and merchandise shall be ad
mitted into the Philippine ports cn the
Aame terms as American ships and
merchandise.
■'The American commissioners are
also authorized and are prepared to in
sert in the treaty in connection with
the cessation of territory by Spaiu to
the United States by a violation of the
mutual reliuquishment of all claims
for indemnity,national and individual,
of every kind, of the United States
against Spain, and of Spain against
the United States, which may have
arisen since the beginning of the
Cnban insurrection and prior to the
conclusion of the treaty of peace.”
Next followed the terms nearest ap
proaching to a formal ultimatum to
Spain. The United States commis
sioners expressed the hope they might
receive from the Spanish commission
ers, on or before Monday, the 28th,
definite and final acceptance of the
proposals made as to the Philippines
in connection also with the demand as
to Ouba, Porto Bico and the other
Spanish islands of the West Indies,
and Guam, in the form in whioh these
demands have been provisionally
agreed to. In this event it will be
possible for the joint commission to
continue its session and to proceed to
the consideration and adjustment of
other matters, including those whioh,
as subsidiary and incidental to the
principal provisions, should form part
of treaty of peace.
It was at thirf juncture that the
Amerioana notified the Spaniards that
they desired to treat of the religious
freedom of the Caroline islands, as
agreed to twelve years ago; alao of the
release of political prisoners now held
by Spain in connection with the in
surrections in Ouba and the Philip
pine islands; also of the taking over
of the island of Kusale or Unlan, in
the Oaralinas, for a telegraphic cable
and naval station; also of cable sta
tion rights at other points in Spain's
jurisdiction, and also of the renewal
of certain treaties previously in force
between the United States and Spain,
and which may have elapsed or been
vitiated by war. •
The commissions then adjourned
until Wednesday.
Final Froim.ltlon Mad*.
The United States peace commis
sioners hnve undoubtedly mado their
final proposition at the Paris confer
ence. When the conference opened
Monday afternoon Judge Day, ad
dressing Senor Montero Bins aud his
colleagues of tho Spanish commission,
recurred to the protracted negotiations
and reaffirmed the desire of the Amer
ican commissioners to reach an
amicable oouolusion. Then, handing
the American presentation to the
interpreter, Judge Day concluded his
remarks by saying that the Americans,
preferring not to break the armistice
or to resume hostilities, had deter
mined to present another and final
proposition, which he hopod would
lead to a speedy and amicable adjust
ment.
That portion of the presentation
setting forth the new proposal, the
proposal that the United States must
have possession, of the entire Philip
pine archipelago, with a tender of
820,000,000 for a treaty concession of
the islands, was then read. Without
betraying their mental attitude, the
Spanish commissioners snggested an
adjournment until Wednesday.
1 • place In «*vrrr home. Your*
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Luttrell.Tenn.
Associated Press Not Responsible.
The Associated Press has sent out
the following notice from Washington:
To Editors—The Paris bulletin sent
out shortly after noon, ois Monday an
nouncing that Sonor Montero Bios had
refused to continue the peaco negotia
tions was not sent from Paris by the
correspondent of the Associated Press.
It was not sent with his knowledge or
by his agent.
The message was received over the
wires of Campagnie Franeaise Des
patch Cables Telegraphiques (the
French Telegraphic Cable Company)
and it appears on inquiry that the
cable sheet handed in at the Paris
office was indorsed in the name of the
Paris correspondent ot the Associated
Press. The cable company was im
posed upon.
In reply to a special messnge of in
quiry the Paris correspondent of the
Associated Press says regarding the
bulletin:
“1 have sent no such statement. It
is declared, too, by the Spanish com
missioner to be untrue. Has the As
sociated Press been imposed upon by
stock jobbers?
“Melville E. Stone.
“General Manager Associated Press."
INDICTMENTS AGAINST Ql'AV.
Grand Jury at FliltadiUphla Keturn. Five
True BUI, Again,t the Senator.
A Philadelphia special says: _ The
grand jury Monduy presented to the
county court true biils of the indict
ment against Senator M. S. Quay; his
sou, Bichard B. Quay, and Benjamin
J. Haywood, ex-state treasurer. The
bills charge the defendants with con
spiracy with John S. Hopkins, late
cashier of the People’s bank, for the
unlawful use of the moneys of the
bank in the purchase of stock, and
conspiracy with Hopkins in the misuse
of state funds on deposit in the Peo
ple’s bank. Hopkins committed sui
cide by shooting himself in March
last.
The true bills returned by the grand
jury are five in number.
BACTERIOLOGIST WANTED.
Commtttrr of American Public Health A.-
i soclatlou Call. On McKinley.
I President McKinley was visited
Wednesday by s committee from the
American Public Health association
and asked to repeat his recommenda
tion of last year that a bacteriologist
commission be creuted for the purpose
of studying the cause and prevention
of yellow fever, the commission to go
direct to Cuba to do its work.
The president one year ago recom
mended that a commission of four ex
pert bacteriologists be appointed to
conduct systematic examination. The
committee told the president that a
commission is more important now
than ever before. The president
agreed with them and will repeat his
recommendation of last year.
CLEANING A BIO LIBRARY.
How tho Groat British Mmourn Is Rono-
vatod Moral-Annually.
The great British Mnseum library
In London has jnst nndergone its
semi-annnat cleaning. The treatment
is interesting. It takes 120 men six
days of full hard work to renovate the
library, and the cost of labor and ma
terials for this never fails below 81000.
Every square inch of the kauptnlieon
composition with whioh the floors are
oovered is carefully inspeoted. . Wher
ever a pieoe shows signs of'being
worn, it is out out and replaqed. A
layer of gum is spread over the floor,
and on this the kamptulioon is (aid.
Then an iron roller, of the kind used
on suburban lawns, is passed over tho
surfaoe until every wrinkle has- been
smoothed ont. When the kamptnli-
oon is all in plaoo, the washing brigade
get dowu to work. It takes a statute
mile of India rnbber piping to carry
the water to^those toilers, and this, it
must he remembered, suffices only to
eleanso a section of the vast area at n
time. When one mile of gallery and
reading room has been flushed and
washed tho hosepipe is shifted to an
other.
While the washermen are splashing
hither atyl thither the desk inspectors
and book inspeotors are not idle. The
duty of the former ia to examine' all
the desks and chair* in the library,
I and report in every ease whore repairs
1 are needed. About sixty chair* get
broken or Benonsly damaged every
half year. Nearly a hundred lose
their casters. The book examiners db
not open each volume. That is done
systematically throughout the year.
They simply remove the volnmes,
dust them, and sprinkle the shelves
with equal portions of powdered cam
phor and finely chopped tobaooo. This
is done to keep off the insidious book
worm, and the tobaeco bill of the Brit
ish Musenm annually exoeeds that of
a dozen smokers. The tobaooo leaves
are specially ohopped by a well-known
firm of tobacconists* and the dnst is
blown from a bellows-like apparatus
along the shelves.
All books whereof the bindings ap
pear in a bad oondition are either dpc-
tored ou the spot or sent out,(or re
binding. The dilapidated leather'is
plastered with paste, to fill up holes,
and the beaten yolk of an egg Is then
laid on with a sponge. Before ihe
composition dries e hot iron [is passed,
over it, and the binding looks almost
as good sb new. There are a number
of old reoipes for cleaning and reno
vating bookB, removing stains, etc.',
preserved in the library arohieves.’
These have been handed down from
generation to generation. After the
cleaning is over a regiment of women
start fires through the* rooms and cor
ridors, as damp is fatal to books. Not,
a single book was . reported mieBing
after this stocktaking; nor wsb there'
one case of wilful mutilation. 1 .
Brill.h Flag ■« Quite Full.
The novel request of the Principality
of Wales to have its arms quartered
upon the royal standard as well as
those of England, Ireland and Scot
land, has received an answer which
virtually amounts to a refusal. i •
The Parliamentary Committee of the
Cardiff corpbration was empowered
to piake the request that, a Welsh dele
gation be allowed te call on Lord
Salisbury with their claim. -Lord
Salisbury’s reply has jnst been re
ceived. He says constitutional and
heraldic chahges wonld.be necessary;
and that the roy*l standard is created
at coronations of England’s kings and
qneens only. Wales will, therefore,
have to wait until the next coronation.
POPULAR SCIENCE.
A single oyster in season prodnoes
about 1,000,000 young.
In a square inoh of the human sealp
the hairs number about 1,000.
It is calculated that the men and
women of to-day are nearly two inohea
taller than their anoestors.
An unmanned balloon whioh started
from Paris and dropped in Westphalia,
reaohed a height of about ten miles
and reoorded a minimum temperature
of eighty-three degrees Fahrenheit be
low zero,
. Along otjr Paoiflo coast there is gen
erally found a “platform,” about ten
miles broad, sloping away from the
shore nntil it roaches a depth of one
hundred fathoins, and then dropping
more rapidly.
Much is claimed for the nhw Frenoh
■explosive named “promethee,” the
composition of whioh is now made
known as consisting, in its solid por
tion', of Afty : slx per cont. of potash,
twenty per oent. manganese dioxide
and twenty per eent. ferrie oxide,
R.I1W.V Travel in China.
There is .plenty of talk abont new
railways in China. Some of those
already in existence seem to provide
interesting adventures for those who
S atronize them. Beoently there w'ere
oods at' Peitaiho. One gentleman
who went there from Tientsin for two
days was kept eight days before he
oould hear of a train going baok. He
■tarted for the station, but between
Peitaiho and the railway there are two
gullies to be negotiated, and these
were fall of water. He stripped to the
-singlet, holding his despatches in' his
month, and swam for it, leaving thq
rest of his clothes to be brought by
his boy and coolie; bnt they were
afraid to follow him, and returned to
Peitaiho. The gentleman arrived all
right at the station with nothing on
bat his singlet. Luckily the particular
train that he oaught had an English
engine driver,, who lent, him a pair of
troqsers.The train started and went
on-slowly till it came to a place where
the witter was fonr feet deep, and it
had to' pat back to Shauhaikuan,
where the passengers bad to wait two
days before they oould make another
start for Tientsin.—Westminster Ga
zette.' .7 j.- - •
The Khk1I.1i Tramp,
Whoever, queries a writer in the
Saturday Beview, analyzing the way
farer's oharaoteristios, heard a habit
ual tramp-sing, or even whistle? As
he oomes slouohiug down the srnny
side.of the road his very walk gives
the .lie to any romantic notion about
him'. He does not walk; he onerely
shuffles, ' weak-kneed and narrow-
chested, expeotdrating; freely as ho
goes. The wind on tho heath has^no
-dall for him. He hates the country,
■dud regards the open road merely as a
wearisome way from one .oommon
lodging, house or casual ward to an
other. As a representative of the true
vagabond^ to whom the wind and the
smell of the earth and the warmth of
the sup are sheer physical delights,
he is 'the greatest fraud that ever a
novelist or a eookney essayist im
agined. r Hfe is nothing bqt an un
speakably dirty and spiritless man,
prowling along with an eye to stealing
or begging enough for a lodging house
carouse with other members of his,
tribe, • . •
.< The "Mi,"- In the Nary.
Navy officers avoid as muoh as pos
sibly addressing each other by title,
employing the "Mr.” whenever official
courtesy does'not demand an open
recognition of rank.
PROBLEMS OF THE WOOD*
"What beoomes of wild animals that
die in the woods?" said the naturalist.
"I mean wild animals that die a nat
ural death. Age and disease must
carry many of them regularly as hu
man beings are oarried off, but what
becomes of their bodies? I have never
heard of any one coming across a dead
bear or deer or fox or wildcat
in the woods that had died from nat
ural causes. I have not heard of any
one finding even the skeleton of « wild
animal in the woods that did not show
evidence somewhere that the boasts
had met its death through violence.
Bat an uninjuried skeleton or body of
a wild animal without-a wound, I have
never heard of.
‘*1 found once in the woods of Mo-
Kean County,Pennsylvania, the skele
tons of two enormous bucks with their
antlers looked togethor. It was plain
that th* two animals had engaged in
mortal oombat,during whioh their horns
had beoome entangled, and it being
impossible to break the look thus made,
both .bucks succumbed to exhaustion
and starvation. Another time I found
the body of a doe in the woods, and
near by lay the mutilated remains of a
big rattlesnake. The story of the two
bodies was plain to me. The deer,
true to its nature, had attacked the
Inake, but the snake had succeed in
striking the deer with its fangs before
the sharp hoofB of the animal had
killed it. I have oorae’ upon many
other dead bodies and skeletons of
wild animals at different times in tho
woods, but never one that did not
Show unquestionable evidence that the
beast had died from violence of some
kind. So the mystery as to what be
comes of the wild animals that die
.from natural causes remains.
“Then here is another mystery of
the woods. Who ever killed a buck
that had no horns, and whoever found
a set'of deer antlers in the woods—
antlers that had been cast to make room
for a new set? I have roamed for many
years the woods where deer abound,
and I have never either killed a horn
less back or found a pair of horns.
And I hare never heard of any one
who did. Yet every woodsman knows,
or ought to know, that no buck has
even the sign of a horn until he is two
years old, and that every buok that
has horns oasts them off each spring
and grows a new Bet. Now, where do
all the backs under two years old keop
themselves. The cast-off antlers, as
every woodsman knows, are eaten by
field mice and wood mice; but that fact
explains only one of the mysteries of
the forests." .
ITUe Arctic and Antartlc Regions.
The two Polar regions differ great
ly. The Arotio seas teem with animal
life, and land animals arc compara
tively 'plentiful. There are many
birds, and mosses, lichens, scurvy-
grass, small shrubs and flowers are
found in their appointed season, and
in varieties unknown in the Antartic.
In the latter region, vegetation ceaBes
almost on the border of the Antartic
Oircle. There is plenty of animal life
in the sea, but no quadrupeds on the
land. Birds exist In great quantities,
bnt are much different from those in
the Arotio. It also is a faot whioh
seems to belittle known to the gen
eral reader, that the climate is more
severe than in the northern polar re
gions.
Among the 84,000 houses in Paris,
France, there are still 10,000 (wit)]
200,000 inhabitants) that nse
water.
Thn Laplander’s Horae.
Some Lapps keep large herds of
reindeer, and give practically their
entire attention to the oare of them.
To distinguish the herds of the differ
ent owners the reindeer are all brand
ed—on the ear. When a child is born
to the family a supplementary ear
mark is put upon the animal, which
henceforth belongs to the new mem
ber.
The herds often beoome so mixed
that in the fell a general round np
oalled a “rathkem” is held, aud they
are divided according to the brand.
It is estimited that there ere more
than 350,000 reindeer in Lapland.
Beindeer moss is the animal’s only
fodder. It takes seven years for it
to grow to maturity and it is found
under the snow. In order to got at
it the animals oleBr away the snow by
means of their broad,-, sharp-edged
hoofs, and they sometimes burrow to
suoh a depth that, a traveler mey have J
hundreds of reindeer aronnd him andf
not one visible.
The reindeer’s aroh enemy is tli
wolf. He attaoks the herd in paolj
trying to soatter them end then |
out what he wants for himself,
times the wolves destroy a herd oj
to five thousand reindeer at onof
making a rich man poor in onq
—Detroit Free Press.
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A Blank Corner In llie 1
In most human brains thh
to be one blank corner, like 1
spot on the retina ef the eyei
words that ona can[never sj
—numbers that, ard blnnif
items of knowledge, familj
whioh some peouliar idioj
never attain. An old
once suffered constant pn
degradation because he ]
member how muoh nm
made. Universal sya
felt for the poor lad-J
part of the dominie-
of “keeping in,"
in reply to the fat
tion, “Nine time'
One of out pre]
leased recently
boyhood, he
count anythin
caculations I '
fours, and hj
difficulty ini
mnltiplioatil
memory.-
That th
their strei
that such,
proved,
brown o
-formed
susoep'
causes,
bine
orfnl,
light]
er tl
caU