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SHU tnffl i VEEE FOB FOUL EEPLY 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. nfflflnsaiMBMHK I and my whole family received relief from the tint small bo* we tried. 1 certainly recommend OAIK’AEMTH for Uio cures they inoku and trust they will find a place In every home. Tour* CANDY CATHARTIC GENERAL MANAGER STONE, OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, ISSUES A NOTICE TO EDITORS DISCLAIMING RESPONSIBILITY OP HIS COMPANY FOR THE PARIS CABLEGRAM STATING NEGOTIATIONS WERE OFF. f have permanent ^1 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. 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Last March I began taking OA8CARETS and since then I have steadily im proved, until 1 am ns well as lever was In my llfo." David H. Munnnr, Newark, O. FOR LAZY LIVER. “I have been treabled a grant deal with a torpid liver, whirl* pr»v duces constipation. I found CA8CA- RETB to bo all yon claim for them, and socurcd such rollcf the first trial that 1 purchased another supply and was completely cured. 1 shall only bo too glad to recommend Cancarcts whenever tho opportunity If pre- nented." J. A. kmith, FOR BAD BLOOD. , "CASOAHETSdo .)) elalmrd for them ami arc a traty wonderful medicine. 1 have eftun wished for a medicine pleasant to take, and at last have found it in CABCARUTB. * Blnco taking thorn my blood has been purified and inv complexion has Im proved wonderfully, and I feel much better In every way." Mrs. Salur E. Bella rs 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. i 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