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HON. LEWIS DAVIS.
WRITES OF CUBA AND ITS
PEOPLE.
He Dialates on the Financial
Question as He Finds it in
Cuba. A Newsy Letter.
Pinar Dei. Rio,Cuba, Dec. 3d.
Your letter came duly to hand
some days since, and as I was go¬
ing to leave Havana soon after I
received it, I concluded to write
you from a new point after I had
seen more of the island. I came
here three days ago, and was for
two days the only American in
the town.
I brought with me a few head of
cattle to kill on an emergency con¬
tract for the United States troops
who are expected here today.
I shall be here for about a week
longer, and then go from here to
Mantanzas or to Porto Principe.
Now then as to the country and
the prospects thereof : I have up
to date no decided opinion about
it. It is not possible for any one
in the course of two months to ac¬
quire sufficient knowledge of a new
country—its seasons; its climate,
its people, and their habits, and
customs; its products and business
methods, so as to judge with some
degree of correctness of the proba¬
ble success or failure of any venture
or undertaking contemplated there-
in.
In this island,I find much that is
good and much that is bad ; wheth¬
er not, the good predominates,
would take any one at least a year
to find out.
When I came to Cuba the rainy
season was in full force, and it
seemed to me that it was the most
accursed of all lands.
It was impossible for a stranger
to keep entirely well—no prudence,
foresight, or temperance could
ward off the acclimating sickness
always in store for strangers ; but
it would greatly mitigate the evils
thereof.
Every American who had yel¬
low fever during that period died ;
and so far as I know, only those
had it who were intemperate in
their habits; as for myself, my
health, has been exceptionally good
ever since I have been in the island ;
and my dear sir, no anchorite
monk or hermit, buried in ancient
monastaries or desert cavern, ever
was more prudent and temperate
in drink and diet than I. I weath¬
ered the storm in fine shape; and
that the rains have ceased to fall,
every day, the climate is delightful;
it is still hot in the sun, but the
mornings and evenings and nights,
are all that one could desire.
The moon and stars shine with a
brilliancy and lusture that I have
never seen in the states.
The atmosphere is so clear and
transparent, that the smallest ob¬
jects can be seen with ease, the
most incredible distance, The
mountains, some ten or fifteen miles
distant from this place, appear to
be only a mile or two. and they are
covered with coffee trees which
are plainly seen. In this prov¬
ince the rich farmers live in the
mountains and cultivate coffee.
are some large sugar planta¬
here,but not so large or so good
as those in Mantanzas. However,
here is grown some of the best and
and highest priced tobacco in Cu¬
ba, but a great portion of the land
is poor and best suited for cattle
grazing purposes. Before the war
there were thousands of cattle in
here, but now there are none—all
killed either by the Insurgents or
Spaniards.
They likewise destroyed all the
«ugar houses, and destroyed by fire
all of the cane, and left the country
as near as nature would permit a
waste. This is a town of
7,000 or 8,000 inhabitants;
K oal >' ar ticle of commerce is to-
:o.
The town *n~t.vVk y the haf.ds o*
the insurgents, who patrol and po¬
lice it, and maintain the peace and
order with negro soldiers. In fact,
more than two-thirds of the private
soldiers in the insurgent camps are
negroes. Many of the officers are
negroes ; but all of them,both black
and white, are orderly and polite.
They are much more orderly and
subordinate than American troops.
There were a great many white
people in arms at the beginning of
the war, but most of them have
either been killed or have died of
sickness.
These people, both Cuban and
Spaniard, are a source of wonder
to me. They are the most orderly
and polite people I ever saw.
A civil question always brings a
civil and polite answer. I have
never seen a riot, or any kind of
disturbance, or a drunken man,
since I have been in Cuba, and yet,
some of the most bloody, cruel and
horrible crimes the world has ever
known, have been committed in
this island, by both Cuban and
Spaniard in the last three years.
Both sides deliberately killed their
prisoners by hacking them to pie¬
ces with machetties.
The Cubans could not keep pris¬
oners, for they had no place to put
them and nothing to feed them on,
so the only solution to such a prob¬
lem was to kill them all, and many
times in their fiery madness they
spared not women or children.
The Spaniard has gone from here
and will soon be out of the island,
and it remains to be seen whether
the native is bettered by his going.
I think so myself, but there are
many even here who think to the
contrary. All of the Spaniards
living here are anxious to have the
island annexed to the United States,
and a great many, perhaps two-
thirds of the Cuban business men
also desire it. But all of the offi¬
cers ; in fact all of the insurgent
army—the working people and
small farmers are for Free Cuba.
I, also, am for “Free Cuba.” I
have concluded that the United
States does not need this Island or
any part thereof.
I fear that if she takes it, that
she will have on her shoulders for¬
ever, the “old man of the moun¬
tains.” These people are not our
people, and it will take a long pe¬
riod of time to bring them to our
way of thinking and doing. They
will continue to sleep late, work
cows and oxen instead of mules,
plow about a sixth of an acre a
day, eat fruit, be sick, live in
houses made of palm leaves, smoke
cigarettes, drink wine and dress in
gaudy colors. However, so far as
I can see,they have also many good
qualities. They receive Americans
in a most cordial and hospitable
manner, and are easy enough to
get along with. But I would not
recommend this country to Ameri¬
cans unless they could speak Span¬
ish and had enough money to live
on a year.
There is nothing cheap here, for
everything you must pay very high,
even fruit in the town with the ex¬
ception of oranges sell for about
what it would in the states.
There are three different kinds of
money in use here; Spanish,
French and in Havanna,American.
There are three or four kinds of
Spanish money in circulation,and it
is a constant source of trouble and
annoyance in keeping up with the
fluctuation of the exchange. For
instance an American five dollar
bill is worth about $5.So in Spanish
gold, and is worth now about $7.10
in Spanish silver and the same five
dollar bill is worth about $50.00 in
Spanish paper money, provided you
can find anyone who will take it at
all.
The merchants buy with gold
and sell for silver, and they are al¬
ways buying from the bank and
exchange gold to make pur¬
chases.
When I first came here a Span-
Twenty Years Proof.
Tutt’s Liver Pills keep the bow¬
els in natural motion and cleanse
the system of all impurities An
absolute cure for sick headache,
dyspepsia, sour stomach, con¬
stipation and kindred diseases.
“Can’t do without them”
R. P. Smith, Chilesburg, Va.
writes I don’t know how I could
do without them. I have had
Liver disease for over twenty
years. Am now entirely cured.
Tutt’s Liver Pills
Catarrh Leads
to Consumption.
A Forerunner of the Mo*t|
Fatal Disease.
Though its offensive features
are sometimes ,. almost , , unbearable, , , , ,
few people are aware of the danger
of which Catarrh is the forerun-
ner. Catarrh invariably leads to
Consumption. Growing worse and
worse each winter, those who rely
upon the usual treatment of
sprays, washes and inhaling mix¬
tures find that it is impossible to
check the disease with these local
applications which only reach the
surface. The offensive discharge
increases all the while, causing a
feeling of personal defilement, and
gets deeper and deeper until it is
only a question of a short time
until the lungs are affected.
The importance of the proper
treatment can therefore be readily
appreciated. But no good what¬
ever can be expected from local
applications, as such treatment
never did cure Catarrh, and never
will.
ish five dollar gold piece would
buy eight dollars in Spanish silver,
but now the price of silver has ad¬
vanced to a point where you only
get seven dollars in silver for five
dollars in gold. The cause for the
advance is the taking out of the
country by the Spanish soldiers
great quantities of silver money. It
is thereby, made scarce and of
course more valuable. It is the
operation of the law of supply and
demand.
There is no such thing here as
credit. The rule is pay as you go.
Banks do not loan money here—
it is a thing unknown in Cuba.
They buy and sell exchange, do¬
mestic and foreign, and all of them
are said to have an immense capital.
If you do any business here that
amounts to anything it will tak half
of your time to count your money
and figure out the trade of exchange.
There is nothing more provoking to
an American than the financial pol¬
icy in operation here.
As a matter of commerce our
paper currency is infinitely better
to do business with.
If you have a few thousand dol¬
lars in silver you can only take it
with you in a hack, and though
gold is much more convenient on
account of the small bulk, still you
can not lug around with you a few
thousand in gold.
It looks very odd to an Ameri¬
can to see a man lugging about
with him in a little sack,of gold in
order to do a little business. Our
paper is worth more here than the
gold, because it is more convenient
to handle and because every dollar
of American money is virtually re¬
deemable in gold. You can take
an American silver dollar—while
there is not so much silver in it as
there is in a Spanish dollar, and
get for it about $1.40 in Spanish
silver.
These people here, like many of
our people, cannot understand why
an American silver dollar is worth
more than a Spanish dollar, when
the Spanish dollar has more silver
in it than the American.
I endeavored to tell a party
yesterday that the only reason was
that our government received it as
equivalent of the gold dollar, just
as it received paper money as the
equivalent of gold,and that it was
the faith and confidence of the peo¬
ple of the states in the ability of
the government to redeem all kinds
of money in gold,which keeps all of
our money at par.
Everything here is about as bad¬
ly demoralized as the system of fi¬
nance.
Besides myself there is only one
other American in town, and the
people stare at us as if we were wild
animals. If we stop for a moment a
crowd will collect—all anxious to
see the Americanos. They express
their pleasure by polite bows, and
a few would venture up to shake
hands. Yesterday evening an old
Cubian who lived in New York 24
years ago, came to our hotel and
informed us in broken English,that
the governor of the town had sent
him to wait on us and find out if he
could be of any service to us. He
also brought with him the chief of
police, or rather the man who is in
charge of the soldiers who do po-
.. lice duty, .. and , , he said had , only ,
we
■‘I had such a. severe case of Catarrh
I lost my hearing in one ear, and
of the bone in my nose sloughed
I was constantly treated with
and washes, but each winter
disease seemed to have a firmer
on me. I had finally been de¬
incurable when I decided to
S. S. S. It seemed to get right at
seat of the disease, and cured me
for I have had no touch
Catarrh for seven years.
“Mrs. Josephine Polhill,
“Due West, S. C.”
Those who have had the first
touch of Catarrh
will save endless
suffering by tak¬
ing the right
remedy at the
outset. Others
g who have for
yjMt.. years sought re¬
lief and found only disappoint¬
ment in local treatment will find
it wise to waste no further time
on sprays, washes, inhaling mix¬
tures, etc., which are only tempo¬
rary and can not save them from
Catarrh is a deep-
blood disease. S. S. S. is
only remedy which can reach
very bottom of the disease
cure it permanently.
Books sent free by the Swift
Specific Company, Atlanta, Ga.
to ask and anything they could do
for us would be done with pleasure.
The old man had not spoken Eng¬
lish he told me since he arrived here
24 years ago.
The U. S. Soldiers have not yet
arrived. I am going now to the
depot to find out about them.
I will try and not write so much
next time, until then,
Yours truly.
Louis Davis.
Anent Dr. Watkins.
Dr. Watkins, of Gilmer,is fixing
up his fences to run for Congress.
Anybody can see that. And he
will make a right lively race of it,
* * %
too.
Watkins’ bill to cut salaries 20
per cent, all along the line, from
porter up to governor, met a signal
defeat when it was voted upon in
the House the other day. Yet there
was good reason for it to pass.
When cotton was selling at 10 cents
a pound, these officers got no more
than now. Now, that cotton is
only 5 cents, it does look as if they
might have accepted at least 20 per
cent reduction and been thankful
that it was not 50. Watkins is a
philosopher, but he found himself
in a hopefess minority in the Geor¬
gia legislature.
The above clippings are from the
Lawrenceville Herald. We are of
the opinion that Dr. Watkins would
put up a fine race for congress
when he does announce himself.
He is a good man for the place and
he is a good man to keep your
weather eye upon—especially you
Lawrenceville boys who have Maj.
Simmons and Hon. Tyler Peoples,
both good men and both of whom
cast admiring glances “ever and
anon” at Carter Tate’s nice, fat,
$5,000 job.
Mrs. W. J. Clarke, McRae, Ga., writes:
“For years I have rarely been, and hardly
know how to keep house without Dr. M.A.
Simmons Liver Medicine. It cured me of
Sour Stomach and Indigestion; my hus¬
band of Dyspepsia, and from personal test
regard it superior to Black Draught and
Zeilin’s Liver Medecine.
A Clever Piano Invention.
Signor Alessio Coradir.a, an
Italian pianist, is said to have in¬
vented a system of arranging piano
chords so that they cannot loose
the tension imparted to them or
get out of tune on account of the
weather. The invention affects all
the chords alike and preserves their
harmonic distance from each other
in such a way that, though it may
be possible for the whole pitch of
a pianoforte to rise or to fall, it is
impossible for any single note to
get out of tune. The apparatus is
simple, and said to be applicable
to all kinds of pianos.
Free Pills.
Send your address to H. E. Buck-
len & Co., Chicago, and get a free
sample box of Dr. King’s New
Life Pills. A trial will convince
you of their merits. These pills
are easy in action and are particu¬
larly effective in the cure of Consti¬
pation and Sick Headache. For
Malaria and Liver troubles they
have been proved invaluable. They
are guaranteed to be pefectly free
from every deleterious sub-
stances and to be purely vegetable.
They do not weaken by their action,
but by giving tone to the stomach
and bowels greatly invigorate the
system. Regular size 25c. per box.
Sold by E. R. Davis & Co. Drug-
gist
, ( you Iee , D „,l, Languid Voken Down, Indi-
Debilitated, have Weak Stomach or
gestion, use Dr. M. A. Stmmons Liver
Medicine.
Coui^f . JityT
coa, Nov 20, 189S.
Council met at regular monthly
meeting; present, E. E. MitcheU;
Mayor protein, T. S. Davis, E. L.
Harris and John Mcjunkin. Min¬
utes of last meeting read and con¬
firmed.
The marshal then submitted his
report for the month of November,
1S9S, which was read, received
and ordered recorded, as follows :
No. of arrests, 4; convicted, 4.
Amt. of fines imposed $S; col¬
lected and paid Treas., $4.00.
Worked on street $4.00. Collect¬
ed and paid Treas., Aug., 1S9S,
$5.00. No. of days worked out on
streets, 33. Total amount paid
Treas., $9.00.
Nov. report. No. of arrests 12.
No. convicted, 9. No. discharged,
2. Bound over to Superior court,
1. Amt. collected and paid Treas.,
$10.00. Worked out on street,
$2.00. Amt. of Self’s fine remitted
by the council, $21.65. Not c °b
lected, $1.35. Amt. of fines im¬
posed, $35.00. No. of days worked
on streets, 6. Respectfully sub¬
mitted,
J. W. McClure, Marshal.
The Treasurer then submitted his
account as follows :
Dr.
Oct. 24, cash on hand, last re¬
port, $55**74
Rec’d. W. E. Acre,s fine in
Sept., $5.00. Oct. 27, street tax,
$1.50; Oct. 29, street tax, $1.50;
Nov. 3, street tax $3.00; Nov. 11,
city tax $10.; Nov. 5 street tax,
$1.50; Nov. 7, show, $5.00; Nov.
14, street tax $4.50; Nov. 18, city
tax $15.50; Nov. 23, street tax,
city tax and fines, $24.50; Nov. 25
street tax, $1.00; Nov. 28, fines,
$5.00. Total $78.00
Cr.
Oct. 29, paid Dance & Kilgo
approved account, $5.38; Nov. 1,
paid tax assessors, $36.85 ; Nov. 2
paid J. W. McClure, acct and sal¬
ary ,$35.90; Alex Edge, lumber
acct, $12.15 1 Nov. 4,paid Edwards
and Simmons, $3.50; Nov. 5, paid
Hogsed & Garland, $5.81 ; Henry
Taylor, salary, $25.00; McClure
& Rothel acct. $4.00; Nov. 15,
Standard Oil Co., draft, $14.28;
Nov. 23, tax receipt book, $3.25.
Total $146.12. Cash on hand,
$483.62.
Respectfully submitted,
W. M. Kilgo, Treas.
On motion, ordered that a street
lamp be placed on the corner of
Sage and Currahee streets.
On motion, it was ordered that
the treasurer pay the school board
the sum of two hundred dollars.
The following accounts were
then read and ordered paid :
City of Toccoa to J. W. Mc¬
Clure Dr.$ 14.57-
City of Toccoa to Edge & Co.,
$3.90.
No other business council ad¬
journed.
E. E. Mitchell, Mayor Protein.
G. T. Goode, Clerk.
Bucklen’s Arnica Salve.
The Best Salve in the world for
Cuts, Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt
Rheum, Fever Sores, Tetter, Chap¬
ped Hands,Chilblains, Corns, and
all Skin Eruptions, and positively
cures Piles, or no pay required. It
is guaranteed to give perfect satis¬
faction or money refunded. Price
25 cents per box at E. R. Da
Co’s Drug Store.
A Chinese Mint.
From The Baltimore American.
A machine company of Bridge-
ton, N. J., has recently furnished
machinery for a mint at Chengtu,
China, which is said to be of suffi¬
cient capacity to turn out 5,000 and
18,000 coins smaller than a dollar
per hour. It is intended to make
dollars, half dollars, twenty-five
cent pieces, dimes and five cent
pieces. The same company also
supplies the machinery for a new
mintj for making copper cash at
Wuchang with a capacity of 36,-
000 cash per hour, has been opera¬
ting about two months.
The Bridgeton company deliver¬
ed the machinery for the mint at
Chengtu free on board at Ichang,
the head of navigation of the Yang¬
tze river, where it was taken in
charge by the Chinese authorities,
whose treatment of it was charac¬
teristic. They left the boxes in
which it was packed on the banks
of the Ichang, so close to the w T ater
that when a slight flood came the
boxes were under water, and cov¬
ered with a muddy deposit from
the river. In this state they taken
to Chengtu, which journey con¬
sumed two months, When the
boxes were finally opened they were
caked up solidly with mud, except
where the rats had dug holes and
I WC H>
mially put. togeth^i, 1 h« S '7? t .ifery the dies .
were so badly rusted that they
would have been condemned in an
American mint. However, the
Chinese made no objections to the
imperfections in the coins, perhaps
thinking that these imperfections
were additional safeguards against
counterfeiting.
The Secret of This Opal.
From The New Orleans Times-Demoerat.
A New Orleans jeweler tells a
rather whimsical little story at the
expense of a gentleman of this city
who plumes himself on his freedom
from superstition. “Back in the
’Sos some time,” said the jeweler,
“he bought an opal ring while on
a visit to El Paso, Texas. The set¬
ting was supposed to have come
from the Mexican mines, and was
remarkably handsome and full of
fire. It was mounted with ten
small brilliants and made .really a
very striking ornament; but as
usual the friends of its owner were
continually predicting that it would
bring him bad luck. He laughed
at their alarm and finally took a
great deal of pride in vaunting his
superiority to popular superstition.
About a month ago he lost one of
the brilliants and brought the ring
here for repairs. ‘I’ve worn this
opal for over ten years,’ he said,
‘and I’ve yet to discover that it was
responsible for any misfortune.
Plague take such silly notions, any¬
how.’ When I repaired the mount
I examined the setting carefully,
and was greatly amused to discover
that it wasn’t an opal at all, but
merely a piece of colored glass.
Opals, by the way, are easily imi¬
tated, the current belief to the con¬
trary notwithstanding. When I
told the gentleman about it, it
made him so mad that he gave the
ring to his negro porter.”
Doctors Agree
on One Thing!
Ot L
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The value of purity and full
strength in drugs and medicines.
The sound and true old saying is ;
“In medicine, quality is every¬
thing.” We are very careful about
the freshness and perfect condition
of all the drugs we use in com¬
pounding prescriptions, and equal¬
ly careful that these are filled accu¬
rately by a skilled and competent
pharmacist only. We do nothing
of the “cheap” and dangerous sort
in this department; but in the bus¬
iness end of our store, among the
proprietary and general toilet and
fancy articles we can give you some¬
thing in the way of bargains. Try
us.
EDGE & CO.,
APOTHECARIES.
“REMEMBER IE NAME.”
Mansion House
Steam Laundry.
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“Excelsior” means, “We lead,
others follow ;” this is our “trade
mark,” and it has been obtained by
the superior quality of work to
others. As a proof of this we have
twice as many agencies in the three
States, namely, North Carolina,
South Carolina and Georgia, than
any other twm laundries in the
State. Our commissions to agents
are liberal. We defy competition
in quality, quantity and price. For
particulars apply to
A. A. GATES, Prop.,
nANSlON HOUSE.
GREENVILLE, 5 . C.
L. P. COOK, Agt.,
Toccoa.
We Offer 'Aiiy lvinu
inenttoGetYour Cas
You Can Price
Goods and T:,
Them.
15 pcs. 7 ounce \\
at 1 ik per yard;
Athens Checks at
pcs Indigo Blue C:
made, at 4c ; 500 j|
Women and Childr«jL y’FlOCS
at cost. Jeans Pan*. l)r<^| c pair,
All our Wool poods
that were 65c per cut to
48c; All our 50c Goods
cut to 39c; All Dress
Goods cut to 26c per yd.
800 yds Good Yard Wide
Bleaching, worth 7c, as long
as if; lasts at 4fc. Buy some
now before lot is closed.
We have a good line of
Clothing $4.00 to $15.00 suit;
will take 20 per cent less in
order to move them by Jan.
1 st. Overcoats, $8.75 to
$18.00 at 20percent discount.
Best lot of Hosiery and Cor¬
sets in Toccoa. Everything
cut. A 1 our $1.00 corsets
cut to 89c, 75c corset cut to
67,0 50c corsets cut to 390,100
hose at 7c; 15c at 1005250
hose at 19c.
Big Bargains on our center
counter.
One lot of $2.50 Rochester
Niekle Lampsjat $1.60. One
lot of Clauss Bread Knives
worth $1.00 going at 25c for
3. Ten fine Carving sets, fine
nickel steel, with stag han¬
dles, will cost you anywhere
$2.50; we are closing them
out at $1.00 per set, knife,
fork and steel, packed in nice
plush lined case ; A nice
thing for Christmas gift. A
few imitation Cut Glass Puff
Boxes,alluminum tops, worth
$1.00 going at 45c. Four el¬
egant imitation Cut Glass
Tankard Pitchers, with heavy
alluminum tops, at $1.25,
\vorth$2.oo. Also some nice
Bronze Clocks, Match Safes
and other novelties.
Greatest line of Linen Hand¬
kerchiefs in Toccoa. Ladies’
pure Linen, hem-stitch hand¬
kerchiefs at 8^c; others, bet¬
ter grade, at 10,12J to 20c.
Gentlemen’s Pure Linen, hem
stitched handkerchiefs at 15,
20 and 25c each. These goods
are not cotton but pure linen.
SHOES.
Our stock is too large. We
will sell any shoe in the house
at 15 per cent off from our
regular price. We have laid
on our right rear counter,
pairs of Ladies’ and Men’s
fine shoes, worth from $1.25
to $2.50.Your choice for 98c,
980-980. Will match any
$1.50 shoe in Toccoa from
this lot.
GROCERIES.
We keep a staple line Li¬
on Brand roasted coffee, 10c
pound. Fine Patent Flour,
50 lbs for $1.00. We sell
Postel’s Elegant Flour. The
finest in Toccoa. It will pay
you to trade witn us.
DANCE & KILGO
CRYSTAL LENSES
TRADC MARK.
finality First and Always.
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For Sale J. H. Vickery & Sons,