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jfjUNDS AN INQUIRY
senator Wants Light On
Cuban Postal Frauds.
m nUS * SCATHINfi SPEECH
u lHt> Grown To Immense Propor
**** * , Is Eliciting the Greatest
‘"’Concert In Official Circles.
Senator Bacon, of Georgia, made a
hours' speech in the senate Wed
esaav iu support of his resolution to
r *tieate the receipts and expendi
“ of money iu Cuba. He declared
the honor of the United States
government was at stake, and even if
\ ra „. pre no rumors or indications of
franJ anti corruption, it would be wise
, 0 investigate such a system of absolu
(ism a , .is employed ou the island, but
unfortunately the country had been
shocked by an admission of frauds of
the most sweeping character.
He saitl it was due the people of
this country to know just how affairs
(he islands were being conducted,
jnd since the disclosures of the past
few days had been made with respect
to the alleged misappropriation of
fnnds in the postal service, the obli
gation upon congress to make an in
vestigation was doubly heavy. He
urged that the honor of the country
depended upon its being able to clear
awav the fraud and corruption which,
it was charged, had been discovered.
He insisted that the government of
the United States had no authority iu
Cnba, and demanded to know how
soon it proposed to redeem its pledge
and leave the government of the is
land to its inhabitants.
INVESTIGATION DEMANDED.
Obligation of national honor de
manded that we investigate the affairs
of Cnba and see that they have been
rightly conducted. Perhaps at no
time had any people constituted them
selves the ageut for a trust such as
that we had imposed upon ourselves
in Cuba. In the degree of honor with
which this duty was performed would
the country be adjudged by the world.
If there were no rumors, he said, of
mabadministration on the island of
Cuba, the duty to investigate the bus
iness and governmental affairs of the
island would be upon us.
"Bat,” be declared, “we are not
urged alone by the voice of duty. The
facts urge the investigation to be
made. There has been iu Cuba the
most exhorbitaut and extravagant ex
penditure of money.”
Mr. B con then called attention to
the statements in reports submitted
by the secretary of war to the senate,
which showed that during the year
1899 the receipts in Cuba were $16,-
346,015, while the expenditures were
$14,085,805.
"If, said the Georgia senator, “we
had before us only the naked fact that
the receipts on the island during a
single year were more than $16,000,-
010 and the expenditures more than
$14,000,000, we would be bound to in
stigate the subject to see that this
vast sum had been properly and pru
dently handled.”
Continuing, Mr. Bacon presented a
statement showing the receipts and ex
penditures of the various states, in
ceding Georgia, Missouri and Massa
chusetts. They were in every instance
lees than those of Cuba.
Mr. Bacon discussed at length the
“ -uances made to various officers in
n>a by direction of Secretary Alger,
why allowances were not
■cade to General Wilson and General
~e e' He read the order of General
■ -cr making an allowance of $7,500
fer year iu addition to his salary to
General Brooke.
ed'f ln the office of governor general
‘ '■ a which requires him to exercise
notions of greater dignity than a
an army iu the
|( • 'that obligation was thereon
d* B° v ernment to place him in a po
. v d ce regal authority? What
’ on was there on the govern
ha oue w ho claimed to
c an official dignity in Cuba should
guest of this man?”
a‘ t! further,” said he, “within
c! *i * ' vee h the facts have been dis
ibl? \ a that brings the blush of
jj t j ue 0 the cheek of every American
eu> th at trusted officials in Cuba
L ]f Appropriated large amounts
Mv k- lUg to of Cuba. No-
how large these amounts
feOonn. nrsfc it was stated they were
to’ ’ next *t w as said thev would
B° w t j t° 875,000, and it is intimated
$400,000 the amouutß ma 7 aggregate
in the rift °uly one man was involved
o a ' 1 K ‘ u lty. Now there are many—
n la t is intimated that it
jj r j,’ nnt to a conspiracy.”
dej . Jaooa then read the order nn
•etincr er Major Kathbone was
tu<j Sa . a f of posts in Cuba,
hita b- 1 le P ower conferred upon
had r e ' fi „ u e ol | (^er was so great that it
1 e ' ln a disgraceful and mor
-7 8 of affairs.
WALNUT WOOD IS DEAR.
A Ocod Grove cf Trees Will Brin z a Snuj
Fortune Any Day.
Indiana timber land, which was con
sidered the best in the country, is be
ing so rapidly denuded of the once
splendid foresfs of hardwood timber
that speculators are seeing the advau
tage of gobbling up everything that
may be got in the way of timber
tracts.
The walnut and hickory of Indiana
and Ohio are considered the best that
can lie had, and the monster poplars
which once formed the nucleus for the
log-heap tire are now worth individ
ually more as they stand than the
acres they occupy will bring when
cleared, many a poplar tree selling for
SIOO before an axe touched it.
The walnut that was once so plenti
ful that barn timbers, house sills,
fence rails, etc., were made from it,
is becoming exceedingly scarce, and
curled walnut stumps have brought
almost fabulous prices, while hickory
of the shell-bark variety can scarcely
be found in some of the best sections.
Bast year’s purchase by a Goshen
(Ind.) firm of fifty-five standing wal
nut trees near the Northern Indiana
line for SIO,OOO and the handsome
sum they make out of the handling of
this rare clump of trees have proved
an incentive in the search for timber
in other directions. Grant County
furnished a noticeable instance in the
sale of the 1,020 acres of virgin forest
on the Wood tract, the last large for
est in Indiana, for $60,000. A New
York firm bought the walnut timber
where It stood for $55,000; 400 acres
of land, the timber being reserved by
the seller, sold for $20,000, and there
remain 630 acres of the best timber
in Indiana, the walnut alone being
sold from it. The buyers will clear
$50,000 by their deal in that timber.
Where years ago the lumbermen
went for only large tracts they are
now content with individual trees,
and wherever there is a notably fine
forest monarch of the desirable vari
ety its whereabouts becomes widely
known and the competition to secure
it is very sharp.
Tetter and Eczema.
“What will you oharge me for 1
dozen boxes Tetterine? I know it to
be a splendid remedy for the cure of
Tetter and Eczema. I would, like to
keep it for sale. Mrs. Emma Plum
mer, Waynesboro, Miss.” If your
druggist, don’t keep it, send 50c. to J.
T. Shuptrine, Savannah, Ga. ,for a box.
DEATH OF AN HISTORIC OAK.
It Saw Many Queer Sights in the Course of
Its 309 Years of Life.
Another of the historic trees of
Maryland has perished. Nearly three
hundred years ago the oak of Lloyd’s
Hill, near Hillsboro, on the Talbot side
of the Tuckahoe fUrer, was described
in a writing still extant.
There is no known record of its di
mensions, but it had a mighty trunk.
Its magnificence was in its branches,
whose amplitude was extraordinary.
The shadow cast on the ground by the
outspreading limbs under a vertical
sun made a circle whose diameter was
more than 100 yards. Decay fastened
upon the tree; then, some years ago,
an axeman made a huge wound in one
side and the tree, being too old to
heal itself, gradually rotted. Recently
someone stuffed the hollow with dry
leaves and brush and set It afire kt
night. The country for miles around
was illuminated. After the fire burned
out the remainder of the giant oak
was cut down and carted away.
The oak in these olden days was
sometimes called “The Quaker Tav
ern,” because the Delaware I* rieinls,
after having assembled at Camden,
made their pilgrimage by this route
to the Third Haven Meeting House—
where George Fox preached and Lady
Baltimore met William Penn—to at
tend the yearly meeting long before
there was any town of Easton to ex
tend to them its hospitality. The oak
on Lloyd’s Hill was their regular
noonday stopping place. Here they
would rest, and feed their horses and
unpack and eat their lunches.
Heron Island, in Miles River, is now
treeless. An old and guaried cedar,
for many years the only tree on this
barren waste of sand, was recently
cut down and burned for fuel by some
oystermen who were cast away there
in a storm. The cedar was a valuable
landmark to the river sailors. Terri
torially, Heron Island is in Queen
Anno County. It belongs to the es
tate of the late Col. Richard S. Dod
son.
The H>is io California.
The spectalcle of the ibis thoroughly
domesticated on a pool within the city
limits of Los Angeles, Cal., is sugges
tive of the mild winters of that region,
ns the ibis Is a tropical bird. These
birds were introduced several years
ago and live there perfctly contended.
Plantation Chill Cure is Guaranteed
\ \ v Ta'S.u\,<?r hY roi\Merchnnj,soWhY WotTrVlt? Price So c
••OLD TIMBER-WOOD."
Love of Satire L.ten Got Him la Trouble
With the Court.
In the days antedating railroads in
northern lowa, the days of saloons
and circuit courts, a certain ponderous
judge was for many years accom
panied on his rounds by District At
torney Wood, popularly kuown as Old
Timber-Wood. been christened
Timothy, the name was curtailed to
Tim, and by easy evolution developed
into Timber.
Old Timber-Wood was a unique and
Interesting character; rough but digni
fied, of sound intellect, gifted with a
keen sense of humor, and far surpass
ing in mental acumen his professional
superior, whom, however, he usually
treated before the world with an al
most ostentatious deference. They
were the warmest of friends, the feel
ing between them was romantically
tender, notwithstanding that they had
frequent and violent public fallings
out.
The Judge, who was entirely lacking
In personal dignity, really needed the
support of his friend's deferential at
titude to keep him 1u countenance,
and when it was temporarily removed,
Old Timber-Wood’s love of satire oc
casionally betraying him into the sac
rilege known as ‘contempt of court,”
he was stung to fury, and promptly
punished the offense. Many a tine had
the attorney been subjected to for his
incautious witticisms. Being in a con
stant state of impecuniosity, he invari
ably applied to the Judge himself for
money to pay these assessments, a fa
vor which was never refused, the fact
that he must humble himself to ask
it sufficiently restoring his Honor's
complacency. The Judge was of a
thirsty habit, and frequently left the
bench, substituting Wood in his place
—as an old-time schoolmaster substi
tuted oue of the larger boys when he
wished to absent himself from the
room—and stepped out to refresh him
self at a neighboring saloon.
On one occasion, very shorty after
a skirmish with the attorney, in which
he had finally avenged his insulted
dignity ln the usual way, he abruptly
called Wood to the bench and started
down the aisle. Wood hastily slipped
into his place, and before he had
reached the door rapped sharply on
the desk and called out, ‘‘Gentlemen,
before proceeding further with the
case, the Court wishes to instruct the
Clerk to remit the fine lately imposed
upon Attorney Wood.”
The Judge halted, wheeled about
with a very red face, ana opened his
lips to protest, but the bar and the
Jury drowned him out with a chorus
of laughter.—Harper’s Magazine.
A Nicer Way.
Grace (to little brother)—“Come,
Freddie; it is your bedtime, it is
nice for little boys to go to bed early,
you know.”
Freddie (pouting)—” ’Tain't so nice
as to sit up early, as you and Mr. Wig
gins do!”
• Alas and Alack I
Wife—How long must we wait with
our Mary? She is already eighteen
years old.
Husband —Till the right person
comes.
Wife—l didn't wait so long.—Flie
gende Blaetter.
Proposwl Alll.ince with Kurland.
If the United State* and England sr.ould
form au alliance, the combined strength
would bo so great that there would be little
elianc < for enemies to overcome us. In a Uko
manner, when men and women keep up their
bodily s rength with llostetter’s Stomach
Bitters, there Is little chance of attacks from
diseaso. The old time remedy enriches the
Kood, builds up ihe muscles, steadies the
nerves and Increases the appetite. Try It.
Would Not Sugarcoat the Pill.
Mrs. Young—Don’t you believe in managing
one’s husband by letting him think he Is having
his own way?
Mrs Strong- Decidedly not. Man should he
made to feel his Inferiority.”— Puck.
Each package of I utnam Fadeless Die
colors cither Bilk. Wool or Cotton perfectly
at one boifipg. Sold by all druggists.
A lloydl Joke.
“The king Is hard up for want of funds.”
“Yes; he says the money doesn’t know enough
to come iu during the reign.”—Philadelphia
Bulletin.
The Best Prescription for Clillls
and Fever is a bottle of CIiIOVK S I ASTKI.ESS
CHILL TONIC. It la Simply iron and quinine In
a tameless form. Xo cure—no pay. Price 50c.
Explanation of Her Penchant.
“1 notice that she has her portrait painted,
but never has her photograph taken.”
•‘Yes. You see, the camera Is so exact.”
Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for children
teething, softens the gums, reduces Inflamma
tion, allays pain, cures wind colic, !isc. a bottle.
I do not believe Piso’s Cure for Consumption
his an equal for coughs and colds. —John I'.
Bovkk, 1 rinity Springs, Ind., Feb. 15,1900.
J, C. Simpson. Marquess. W. Vs., says:
"Rail’s Catarrh Cure cured me of a very bad
case of catarrh.” Druggists sell it, 75c.
Cock of the Walk.
Mamma— l’m glal to see you playing with
good little t*>y* now.
Tommy Yes’m. They ain’t like the other
kind. 1 kin lick any one of these kids If 1
want ter.—Philadelphia Press.
LANGUID
r How are the children this spring ?
a/ J /t b ' Complaining a good deal of hcad-
ache, can't study as well as usual,
easily fall asleep, and are tired
•n 1 1 1 Ln \V7 Mr all the time? And how is it
%mmk\W with yourself? Is your
it i|| / Strength slipping away? Do you g|
jI 1 l*F \h / tremble easily, are your nerves all
wr unstrung, do you feel dull and sleepy,
yr and have you lost all ambition ?
That’s I
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r ' W WISH! WISH!! PUSH!!! |
I ) That’s the way some dealers do ! Push cheap goods 1
I because the profits are larpe. Why let a man push a I
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! There are 12,000 barmaids in Lon
don. They work from 7 in the morn
ing to 12.30 at night, with five hours’
liberty on Sunday afternoon. For
fheir services they are paid $2.50 per
week, wil'li nteals.
Carter’s Ink Is the Best Ink
made, but uo dearer than the poorest. lias
the largest sale of any ink in the world.
Girlish Playfulness.
“I wrote that girl three letters asking her to
return my diamond ring.”
• Did you get It?”
“Finally she tent me a ‘don’t-worry bution.
—Chicago Record.
To Cure a Cold In One Day.
Take Baxativb Bromo Quinine Tablbts. All
druggists refund the money If It fails to cure.
E. W. Ukovk s signature is on each box. 25c.
All That Was Necessary.
“Were your amateur theatricals a success?”
“Oh, yes; every one in them had friends
enough to convince him that he was the best
one of the lot." ‘
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GERMAN KALI WORKS,93 Nassau St , New York.
If we must be afflicted with sore,
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consoling to know
Mitchell’s Eye Salve
is always
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cure us if we follow the
directions implicitly.
Price 25 cents. All druggists.
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