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DREAD SPECTER OF THE SPANISH DYNASTY. 'TV "5 1 r\ D P-J f «§ffL mf -A ISfc^ yx^rm v /» V Mpl / *V/ v <L Lr-*k * '. } :r.^f/y : f .1# f§l O-sss-g/-^ T. r i s. ^ • o- iJmMw trsi S3 >> '■ .1 ‘ / ■* % W'<- Mm ss / m$ 4 y/ N! 1} K?; I ife^ * DON CAM (H, PRETENDER TO THE SPANISH THRONE. OOOOOCOOC0030CGOGOOOOOOCOO R..... oSPAlVSNMV MLNACh, , .... rj 3 o § o J'Uj llflM .1 r UilliJjUo \ PT HQ V/ *J\ o O 5 24 rn PlMiTFV I TlL/l-LlNI IVFiM? Lilli o 3 Q OOOOCOGOOOOOOOOGCOOOOOOcS .. q 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 Sd?$iifL fcl 5$ it L* - 7 o %• •# f vfc- f 0t\ TO ■ V wife or don carlos. 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 ■ ! 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 # v. mm 1 * J *£ % >• Pa ■av. m-' fd 1 w ViN m - - i \sf ^ .As J o o mm % iL / / * : !l i " - mi S \ : ip a I ? j MfmM f ; j i ., V. / ' — ’ | . 'iir 1 m l IPUP 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¬ ■/ 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. - 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 J 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. 5 a a BBi crT’ 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 c' 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. HW!?Fitr I i P@S 1 y fei mm “ 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." 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