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Spain has Teen the scene of many
rcTolutions, and tho parties op-
posed to the present Government
are preparing for another, which
they will spring as soon as they
feel themselves to bo strong enough,
Don Carlos, who regards Alfonso ns a
usurper and believes himself the true
King of Spain, recently issued from
his retreat in Switzerland a manifesto
to his supporters. In this ho ar-
raignsthe Government,seeks to inflame
llie excited Spanish populaeo against
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the Queen Regent, her sou ami her min
inters, declaring that they have per¬
mitted the Spanish standard to be
dragged in the mud.
It is learned, from Spanish sources,
that Don Carlos bus succeeded in pro
curving two large loans, aggregating
in the neighborhood of 150,000,000
frnucs, or about $30,000,000, in Lon¬
don and Paris.
Don Carlos has been endeavoring
for some time to obtain money for the
advancement of his interests in oh
taming tlio Spanish throne, aud to
pave the way with gold to the hearts
of the people of Spain. Don Carlos is
himself a wealthy man and his wife
lias many landed estates and a large
income, blit in order to carry out Ins
gigantic scheme of seizing the Span¬
ish throne, after the treaty of peace
lias been arranged and signed at
Paris by the American and Spanish
Commissioners, and finally ratified by
the two Governments, aud to equip
Ins army aud subsidize those who
would oppose him, it has become
necessary for him to borrow money.
He first began his operations to
procure a loan in Paris, but v as
“turned down," and liis scheme
would have fallen through had it not
been that London bankers came to
his rescue and engineered the plan by
which the loan has been completed
and the larger part of the money, pro’
ably 100,090,000 francs, w ill be draw n
from English instead of French capi¬
talists.
It was Bir Roger Lorelit, a London
banker, who opened up to the Pre-
tender a way iu w hich he could pro-
cure a loan from I.ondou capitalist®,
After becoming convinced that the
London banker meant business, Don
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! Carlos, together with the Marquis De
Cemilgo and one or two oilier trusted
lieutenants, went to London to ar-
range matters. They traveled incog-
nito and remained unknown, takiug
up their abode while in London in a
I H |, )n ii ] 10 t e i in Towerhamlet, where all
the conferences were held secretly.
: The loan hni been finally conautn-
j mated by giving as security the Cau-
U ry Islands for a term of years, The
papers to the loan are signed by Don
Carlos, the Marquis Do Cerralgo,
Don Tireo Glazabal and several
others Immediately following this
new negotiations were entered into
whereby a syndicate of Paris bankers
accepted and furnished 50,000,000
francs toward the completion of the
loan,
Becently the Madrid authorities
h nV o learned that Don Carlos has been
Hiving promise of high positions to
ranking officers in the Spanish army
and navy, and that he lias made other
large promises since the completion I
of arrangements for the loan.
The police have found that in the
palace of the Archbishop of Madrid
there is an office where the Carlists
have their headquarters, aud that
Seuor Alcolea, the secretary of the
Bishop of Madrid, could reveal some
starling information, if he should see
lit to do so.
Senor Sagasta, who has hitherto
been sceptical on the point, now ad-
mits that Carlism is the greatest ex- j
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DON JAIME AND THE PRINCESS MARY OF ASTURIAS.
is the eldest sou of Don Dares and she is the sister ot the little King of Spain*
They may be married iu the interest ot peace.)
lsting danger to Spain. Ihe anthon-
ties are seriously alarmed at the indi-
cations of an imminent rising. The
Carlist plans have been elaborately de-
vised, even to the extent of appoint-
ing a Governor of Madrid.
Lieutenant Genera! Correa. Min-
istei- of War, declares that the Gov-
eminent has 140,000 troops in readi-
ness to take the field in the event of a
Carlist rising, and will soon have 200,-
000 available.
The Pope has been so much im-
pressed by the alarm expressed by the
Papal Nuncio at Madrid at the possi-
bility of civil war that, with the con-
sent of the Queen Ecgent and with a
view of avoiding bloodshed, he has
opened negotiations with Don Carlos,
proposing that Don Jaime, the Pre-
tender’s son, should marry Princess
Mary of Asturias, the sister of the
King of Spain.
Don Carlos claims the throne of
Spaiu, under the well-known Salic
law, as son of Don Juan, brother of
Charles VI. of Spain, who died with¬
out children. The father always
stoutly asserted his royal rights, and,
when he abdicated in favor of his son,
the present Don Carlos, the new
claimant raised his standard in C'ata-
Ionia, Aragon and Yalentia, and
through many years of disturbance
Spain found it impossible to dislodge
his forces. When the republic ended
and Alfonso XII., eldest son of ex-
Queen Isabella, ascended the threue,
the Carlists renewed the struggle with
such stubbornness that they were not
scattered till the fall of Tolosain 1870,
when Don Carlos escaped to French
territory and has not attempted to cut
much of a figure in Spanish politics
during the present regency, though
his claims are warmly asserted Ijy a
larg’e portion of the Spanish people,
especially in the northern provinces.
His wife, who may, on some tidal
wavo of insurrection, become Queen
ol Spain, was Margaret de Bourbon,
Princess of Parma, daughter of the
late Duke Ferdinand Charles III. and
sistei of the late Comte de Chambord.
They were married in 1867, and,
through her large slice of the Bour¬
bon fortunes, Don Carlos was kept
supplied with the sinews of war. They
have five children, the Infanta Blanca,
the Infante Jaime, Prince of the As¬
turias; the Infanta Elvira, the In¬
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THE PRINCESSES A MX AND BEATRIX DE
BOURBON, DAUGHTERS OF DON CAR¬
LOS.
fanta Beatrix and the Infanta Alix—
four daughters and one son—the
youngest born in 1876. The Princess
is still strikingly handsome and regal
and popular among the higher classes
of Spain.
The position occupied in Spanish
affairs by Don Carlos is similar to that
occupied by Prince Charles Edward
toward the throne of Great Britain
during tho last century. His family
has been dispossessed for about the
same length of time and he has made
a fight just as romantic, but with more
brilliant prospects, and at the head of
the heroic highlanders, dwellers in
the Basque mountains. His followers
are the flower of Spaiu, the most
aristocratic families in the kingdom >
willing to risk all iu his support, set-
ting property aud life itself as worth
naught compared with their honor.
There is no doubt that Don Car-
los’s popularity is greater than that of
; the little King. The Queen is re-
| garded as a foreigner and the King is
too young to awaken any admiration
in spite of the fact that every oppor-
j J tunity is taken to make him do so.
That the present dynasty will en-
dure when all of the evils from which
Spain suffers are considered seems
hard to believe. Unless a miracle
happens or the powers bolster up the
| throne of the little King the people
j are relief. likely to turn to Don Carlos for
Don Carlos seems nearer the
throne than he has been at any time
during his career.
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SPAIN'S MOURNING STAMP.
Its Color an Appeal to the People—All
Mail Matter Mu*t Have One.
j As a means of paying off the war
j debt, which is claimed to be 2,000,-
j ; 000,000 pesetas (3400,000,000), the
! Spanish Government has issued a
stamp of mourning, which is to be
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Spain’s odd stamp.
used on all the inland mail of Spaiu
and her colonies. The stamp, which
is of the denomination of live cent de
pesetas (one cent), is printed in som¬
ber black, and must be affixed to ail
mail knitter in addition to the regular
postage stamp. It is of ordinary size,
with the inscriptions “Impto, de
Guerra” and “1808 09” at the top and
bottom respectively. The figure “5”
and “cent” appear in the center in a
vertical oval, with scrpll work at the
sides. The Government has occasion¬
ally issued stamps of this character,
the use of which was voluntary, but
not so with this one. Every jiiece of
mail matter for inland delivery must
bear a mourning stamp, otherwise it
doesn’t go. It is a greater tax for the
Spanish people than it would be for
Americans, for in Spain they have
been taxed year in aud year out, and
the continual drain is having its in¬
evitable result. The mourning stamp
has presumably been issued as a
sympathetic appeal to the people for
the many lives lo3t in the late con¬
flict.
The mourning stamp is not the only
label issued by Spain since that coun¬
try met the United States in battle.
A short time ago four distinct stamps
were issued by the Madrid Govern¬
ment iu its endeavor to meet the run-
ning expenses of the war. Two black
stamps of the denomination of five
cent de pesetas made their appearance
recently, but did not accomplish the
desired results. They were simply
obligatory taxes, and naturally were
looked upon with anything but favor
by the populace. Two other voluntary
tax stamps, pink and blue in color,
the latter having been issued by the
city of Madrid, were authorized at the
same time as the two above, making
five distinct stamps in the last few
months, all of which show to what ex¬
tent the Government has been forced
to raise money. Nor have any of these
efforts been crowned with success.
It is stated as an actual fact that they
have resulted in utter failures, the
number of letters posted at the Madrid
office haviug fallen off fully one-third
since the recent taxes were levied.
"From "Whence They Cau e.”
Second thoughts are best.—Drvden.
All mankind loves a lover.—Emer*
son.
There’s a glide time coming.—
Scott.
Confusion worse confounded. — Mil-
ton.
A sadder and a wiser man.—Cole¬
ridge.
Stolen sweets are best.—Colley
Cibber.
Truth is stranger than fiction.—
Byron.
Variety’s the very spice of life.—
Cowper.
The very pink of perfection.—Gold¬
smith.
His bark is worse than his bite.—
Herbert.
While there is life there’s hope.—
John Gay.
Procrastination is the thief of time.
— loung.
’Tis distance lends enchantment to
the view.—Campbell.
Necessity, the mother of invention.
—George Farquhar.
There’s nothing half so sweet in
life as love's young dream. —Moore.
There is a limit at which forbear-
ance ceases to be a virtue.—Edmund
Burke.
A tame weasel is oaeof the pets of
a farmer in Otsego County. N. Y., and
performs valuable service to its master
by keeping his barn free from rats.
A Onesided Affair.
‘‘You and Hagby are dear friends,
aren’t you?”
“Well, he has been dear to me, but
I have never cost him anything.”
Tlie World’s Supply of Wheat.
An English expert prophecies a universal
dearth in the wheat supply. He ejaims that
the wheat producing soil is unequal to the
strain that will be put upon it. Even now
when the food supply of the world is ample,
thousands die because ihelr disordered stc.m-
n hs fall to properly assimilate the food they
take. Hostetter’s Stomach Bittets strengthen
and tone up the stomach and digestive organs,
and enable them to perform their proper func¬
tions. Ibis great remedy cures dyspepsia,
torpid liver, nervousness and fever and ague.
The ordinary cigar in Porto Rica can be
bought three fora cert.
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Waits on appetite, or it should do so, but
this can be only when the stomach is in a
healthy condition. Hood’s Sarsaparilla so
tones ana strengthens the stomach that it
digests food easily and naturally and thou
all dyspeptic troubles vanish.
Hood’s Sarsaparilla
Is America’s Greatest Medicine. Price $1.
Hood’3 Pills cure Liver Ills. .-3cents.
The Siamese Twins.
En T and Chang, known as the Siam¬
ese twins, were born of a Chinese
father and a Siamese mother fa Siam,
April 15, 1811. They died in North
Carolina January 17, 1S74. They
were joined to one another by a short
tubular cartilaginous baud, througa
which their livers and hepatic vessels
communicated. They were brougnt
to America foj exhibition in 1828. and
after making competency in various
countries settled in North Carolina.
They married sisters in 18-12. 1-x
1SGD they again exhibited themselves
in Europe. The one survived the
other two hours and a half.—Detroit
Free Press.
A Mexican flu!!.
In one of the neighboring villages
there is a cemetery, over the gate of
which there is the following curious
announcement:
‘‘By order of the judge of the civil
registry only the dead who live in this
village shall be interred in this necrop¬
olis.”—M ex i can He ral d.
PERIODS OF PAIN,
Menstruation,- the balance wheel of
woman’s life, is also the bane of exist¬
ence to many because it means a time of
great suffering.
While no woman is entirely free from
periodical pain, it does not seem to have
been na-
lure's plan
that women
otherwise yifj^
healthy
Lydia E. Pink-
ham s Vcge- W
table Com-
pound the most is DlcV/xi
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male thorough regula- fa- I <Q *Yifj\\j / f
tor known to' > /J '
medical sci- ' ' ’
ence. It relieves the condition that pro¬
duces so much discomfort and robs men-
struation of its terrors. Here is proof:
Dear Mrs. Pinkham:—H ow can 1
thank you enough for what you have
done for me ? When I wrote to you I
was suffering untold pain at time of
menstruation: was nervous, had head¬
ache all the time, no appetite, that tired
feeling, and did not care for anything.
I have taken three bottles of Lydia E.
Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound, one
cf Blood Purifier, two boxes of Liver
I’ills. and to-day I am a well person. 1
would like to have those who suffer
know that I am one of the many who
have been cured of female complaints
by your wonderful medicine and advice.
—Miss Jennie R. Miles. Leon. Vvis.
If you arc suffering in this way, write
ns Miss Miles did to Mrs. Pinkham at
LynnuMass., for the advice which she
offers free of charge to all women.
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“ For sis years I was a victim ci fiye-
pej-eiu in its werst fc-im. J cou’.d eat noihine
but milk toast, aua at times my sumueb would
not. retain acd digest even tunt. Ls-t March 1
began taking CASCAKETS and since then l
have steadily improved, until I am as well as I
ever was in my lire."
David H Murphy, Newark. O.
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