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Mrs. Winslow Soothing Syrup for children
teething. softensthe gums, reduces inflamma-
ton, allay pain, cures wind collie. Use. a bottle.
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FITSstnpped freeand pernanent'ycu No
fits after first day, use OF DIR. kLlEEs GREAT
NEEvEREsToREit. Free 2tr!al bo,t.ttnd treat
ise. Send to Dr.. Kline. SCI Arch St. Ihila., Pa-
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PROOF.
s'Did he tell 20

"~sprookett Is in love with Ethel
Gadsby.".
"Did lie tell you ao?"
mo, but he has replaced the pie.
ture OF his bicycle be used to carry in
his watch by her Photograph
Washington Times.
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believe Piso's Cure for Consumption saved
my boys life last suntmer.-Mrs ALLIE DOUG
LASS. Leroy, Mich, Oct. 10. 1884.
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. Glass houses Of Il very substantial kind can
now be built.
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ri A

Old Lady (.he old style)-"What,
nv dear, arsyoa aippinsint the third
volume 10 zee u they marry.
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TEE IDIOT.

81 sec that they caught the fellow
wbo broke out OF Jail last week." said
The boardar who was looking over the
paper. . r.....a,
Idiot. "a fellow who breh4:.s out is
sure to be spotted. "-1ndtnapolis
Journal.
The Opelousas courier., 1897-01-23
A QUESTION FOE PROPHETS.

Gazway-"Speaking Of tho world
being round, there's one thing that
bothers me-"
Jizney-"What's that7'
Gazway-'If it's true that it's
round, how is it possible for it to come
to an end?"-Roxbury Gazette.
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GROIESqCES.
.No: how did he do it?'

"Did you hear bow splashe. made o
big hit in posters?'
$40; how did he DO it?'
"Ie tintsd up q lot OF photographs
out OF old family albums "-Chlcago
Record.
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NO INVOLVEMENT TO STEAL.

"say, Tradeley, Why does yonr
floor walker never watch tLc bargain
counter?"
"Because things are SO cheap there
that thieves prefer to tuy and have
tho goods deliverel."-Detroit Free
Piess.
The Opelousas courier., 1897-01-23

The traveller in Mexic IS seldom out
Of sight Of mountains.
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BUDGET OF FUN,

DUUUTI UT EUN,
HohoNotS SKETCHES FROM
VARIOUS SOURCES.
va 'he o'nmp-The Land of Liberty
-correct-A systematically
Observation-Disclosures:
Herself, Etc, Etc,
Us sweet, good orator. 10 no.o
Inc prospect hat appears;
For four delicious years.
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WIN OUT"
A COMMON EXPRESSION USED BY
AMERICAN WOMEN.
Many do not Realize tho Full Significance
of Those TWO Words.

When a woman is nervous and irri-
table, head and back ache, feels tired
all the time, loses sleep and appetite.
has pains in g%roins, bearing-down
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TIC MOST remarkable canal in III" world is
th, u:i" !atwr,u Wur+'"y AMI st. i}rI'n'S. ia
| -"nrH~!iirr. Il l. -;Nt"rn "i,~ l"llG &a Is
uIui. r'rpui.i.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-04-05

and was informed that, unless on
charges, no postmaster would be re-
moved before he shall have served four
years from the date of his commission.
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. A. Bowles, of
Staunton, are guests at the Metropoli-
tan. Prof. Bowles, who was last year
elected superintendent of the Virginia
school for the deaf and blind, says he
is making little observation tour Of
the several institutions for these classes
in the Eastern States, and was yesterday
accompanied to Kendall Green by
young Mr.. Bell, of Alexandria, who is
former student of both of the institu.
tions mentioned. Here he found several
from Virginia, and as rosy as were his
expectations on coming here, they have
been exceeded by his two or three days
new experience and observation, and if
he shall see and learn even part as
much elsewhere, his trip will be most
profitable.
Lieut. ]. c. Colwell has been selected to
fill the important position of naval attsche to
the Embassy at London.
Mr. George Shackelford of Orange, Va, is
here to-day, trying to have the cases against
some persons in his district charged with VIZ
olating the internal revenue laws, compro.
missed
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-04-05
The kentucky Senatorial F,rht,

FRANKFORT, KY, April 5.-Forty
off members paired and impaired were
absent from to-day's joint session, and
by agreement only one vote was cast
for each candidate, for Senator. An
adjournment was then taken.
A Frankfort dispatch says the re-
naming chance for senatorial election
lies in the peaceful withdrawal OF
Hunter to be followed by the nomina-
ton of ex.Chief Justice w. H. Holt.
or Congressman Walter Evans, one OF
whom would certainly get the prize.
Six republicans, who have been voting
for Hunter all along are said to have
pledged themselves never to permit his
election. They have been voting for
him in the hope that they would be in
a better position to secure his with
draWal.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-04-05
FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS.
WASHINGTON, April 5.
crJATE

The resolution offered by Mr.. Allen
on Thursday last in regard to the
drum-head court martial on General
Rivera in Cuba precipitated quite an
animated Cuban debate in the Senate.
Mr.. Aliens resolution declared it to be
the duty OF the United States to protest
against this violation of the laws OF
civilized warfare.
Mr.. Hoar declared that the whole
resolution was founded on rumor, mis-.
understanding and prophesy; that the
Senator from Nebraska had no facts to
20 upon except newspapers.
Mr.. Allen retorted with some bitter
ness that in the four years he had sat
in the Senate he had never once been
able to introduce q resolution which
had met the approval of the senior
Senator from Massachusetts. For his
own part he felt so strongly on this
matter that he would grind into q
million infnitesimal bits the hearts of
the brutal Spaniards" unless they relax
ed their cruel treatment of the Cubans.
And yet because he expressed the views
in true western style and not in the
conservative manner of Massachusetts
in the judgment of the senior Senator
from that State he, (Mr. Allen) had
acted under the impulse of q heated
imagination.
Mr.. Hale moved that the resolution
be referred 10 the committee on foreign
relations.
Mr.. Morgan endeavored to draw
from Mr.. Hale an admission that there
was state of war existing in Cuba but
Mr.. Hale declined to acknowledge that
there was more than guerilla fight
and great devastation of property with
accompanying loss of life.
Mr.. GalliDger infused more gall into
the debate by satirical attack upon
Mr.. Hoar, who, he said, had disposed
of this whole question by wave of his
hand, apparently supposing that any
utterance of his embodied the views OF
all the other members on the republi-
can side of this chamber. Mr.. Calm.
ger proceeded to dispel this view.
Referring to MIR. Hoar's statement in
| previous debate that the first Cuban
revolution in President Grants time
would have been successful but for the
Incorporate resolution introduced in
the Senate, Mr.. Gallinger read from
the record to show that the first OF
those "intemperate resolutions" which
now disturbed the virtuous heart of the
senior Senator from Massachusetts pro-
ceeded from the distinguished Senator
from Ohio, John Sherman, now the
Secretary of State of q republican ad-
ministration and peculiarly charged
with the conduct of Spanish relations ct
:, the present time.
Mr.. Hale moved that the resolution
of Mr.. Aliens be referred to the COM
mittee on foreign relations. After quite
an animated debate the motion to refer
was lost Ayes 81, noes q.
After the Allen resolution was dispos-
ed of Mr.. Elkins addressed the Senate in
explanation and advocacy of the bill in
PRODUCED by him to impose tax of ten
per cent. additional on merchandise
imported into the United States on
other than American vessels; and ten
per cent. upon such merchandise if it
| be on the free list.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-04-05
FOREIGN NEWS.

Emperor Francis Joseph of Austris
refused to accept the resignation of the
ministry.
Bashi.bazouks who attacked Cretan:
who left the Akrotiri peninsula under
protection of the powers have been dis
armed.
The Paris Gaulios reports that the
Pope intends to intervene, with a view
TO etfectiug peaceful settlement of the
Cretan difficulty.
Ramsay, the American sailor, who
was arrested in Peru, and whose dis
charge was demanded by the United
States government, has been released
A semi-oflicial statement of Russia's
attitude on the Cretan question is to
the effect that the powers, having done
their best to spare Greece, must now
let her suffer.
Gen. Weyler is preparing a decree
announcing that the war is finished in
Cuba and that only small bands OF
bandits remain in the field. The decree
will be published very soon.
A dispatch from Suda says that the
powers have ordered the admirals oil
the international fleet to begin the
pacific blockade of Athens. It's under
stood at Suda that the admirals are
now considering the best way of carry
ing out the instructions.
a dispatch from Constantinople says:
The ambassadors of the powers tele-
graphed yesterday to their respective
governments the outlines of the scheme
of Cretan autonomy, upon which they
have agreed. The tenor of their pro-
posals has thus far been kept strict
official secret.
a. dispatch from Csnea, Crete, says
reports of fierce conflicts between the
Christian insurgents in various parts of
the island continue to be received there.
Yesterdays advices from Kissamo state
that active hostilities have been in
progress there between the insurgents
and Mussulmans. The Christians made
an attack on Turkish fort, and de-
termined hand-to-hand fight ensued.
Finally the insurgents succeeded in ex-
ploding heavy dynamite cartridges
under the walls OF the fort, tearing
them to pieces and involving serious
loss Of life. Active hostilities are still
in progress at Kissamo. The actual
work of disarming the Bashi-bazouks
began early yesterday morning, and
continued throughout the day.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-04-05
The Upper Mississippi FLOODS.

ST. PAUL, Mimi, Apl. 5.-The Mis-
sissipi is is feet above low water mark
1t has been raining constantly for q
hours. Dispatches from the upper
river indicate that all records are like
ly to be broken in the next forty-eight
hours. The levee at James street
broke yesterday afternoon, sending the
waters all over that part Of the city and
several manufacturing concerns have
been obliged to shut down and about
1000 people have been forced to leave
their homes.
Ortonville has been cut off from CON-
munication for four days. Lac Qui
Parle, Minnesota river, Big Stone lake
and Lake Traverse now form one lake
100 miles in length. Rain has been fall.
ing steadily for week, making the
country roads impossible and keeping
farmers Oft their fields. At Anoka
every record since that OF 1S49 has been
broken. Millions Of logs have been
floating down the river all day. North
of this point acres of farm land are un-
der from two to six feet of water, and
lucIc ale grave IOuDto do W WuCuuCi
or not it can be seeded this spring.
River men say that there will be fur
Their rise of at least six feet.
LOUISVILLE, KY, April 5.-Heayy
rains in the mountains have caused the
Big Sandy and Kentucky rivers to
overflow their banks and sweep away
all repairs to the damage inflicted by
t recent flood. Harlan, Perry, Bell
and Fletcher counties report heavy
losses and farmers will be unable to
plant for a month. The situation is
equally as bad across the line in Ten
nessee.
ST. LOUIS No., April 5.-There was less
rainfall Saturday and Sunday in the north
ern Missouri and southern Iowa tributaries to
the Mississippi river than WAS expected and
in consequence the river receded about four
inches here to day.
A slight fall is reported at Keokuk and
Hannibal, but it is rising at Alton and Dsv-
export, Iowa.
No reports of breaks in the leveo in the
lower river district have been received up to
noon.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-04-05
TO-DAY'S TELEGRApHIC NEWS
Eoreipn News.

MADRID, April 5.-The government
has cabled Captain General Weyler in
structing him to introduce in Cuba Inc
reforms which the cabinet agreed to
institute in that island. The Epoca says
that negotiations for the restoration OF
peace in Cuba are in progress, with
every prospect of successful conclusion.
LONDON, April 5-The Westminster
Gazette says that Father Smullen, the
Reman Catholic priest, the friend and
legatee of Isabel Murphy, of California,
who died from alcoholism on March
a, has refused to accept the fortune Of
ESQ, 900 left to him by Miss Murphy's
last will, and has requested that for
mer will dividing the money among
Miss Murphy's relatives be acted upon.
Miss Murphy was q daughter of the
late Daniel Murphy, of San Francisco,
and sister of Lady Wolseley and OF
the wife of Don Florencio l.. Domin-
guez, first secretary of the Argentine
Legation in London. She lived in the
same house with Father Smullen, who
who seemed to be her only friend.
CANNES April 5-The large raters Ailsa
and Britannia sailed race to-day over ten
mile triangular course, three times round, for
prize Of 5000 francs, the Ailsa winning by
minute and quarter
BUCHAREST, April ga letter received
here from reliable source in st. Petersburg
says that the Gar is mentally in very bad
way. According to common report he keeps
himself shut up IN bis bed room day after day
and has become very morose, speaking to no
body unless compelled TO do so in order to
make known his wants. His mother, the
Dowager Czsrina, who formerly had moro in
fuence over him than any one else, is now
not only unable to control him, but is not
even able to see him, and this fact is said to
be the real cause OF her Majesty's journey to
Copenhagen.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-04-05
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

A new engine in the Lawrence cement mill
at Eddyville, n. Y, broke while being tested
this morning. The force of escaping steam
pinned the doors shut and Augustus Carter
and Richard Law were literally cooked to
death Law was foreman in the Wright Ma
chine Works at Newburg where the engine
was made.
An unprecedcntly heavy snow fall is the
cause of tremendous ayalanches which are
sweeping down the sides of the Cascade noun
tsins in Washington and several miners have
been killed and others injured. At Monte
Cristo there arc twenty feet of snow on the
ground.
1t is estimated that the losses sustained by
cattlemen during the recent storm in Wyom-
ing will range from five to twenty per cent.
The snow lies one and one half feet deep in
Cheyenne and from five to ten feet in the
ravines. Much anxiety is felt for many per-
sons reported missing.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-04-05
From Cuba.

NEW YORK, Apl. 5.-A dispatch to
the Herald from Havana via Key West
says: General Weyler's two weeks ex
cursion to Santa Clara has been utter
ly without result from military point
of view, and causes bitter comment
here, as it was expected that he would
at least operate in force against the in
surgents who are positively known to
be near Arroyo Blanco, under Gomez
Rus Rivera has not yet been shot
and is not likely to be soon, unless Gen.
eral Weyler has his way. General
Weyler is said to be angry that the
Madrid government has taken a hand
in the disposition of Rivera's case and
will not permit the summary execution
of Maceo's successor. The fact is,
Rivera's life will probably be spared.
General Lees request to allow an
American to 60 after the effects of Cros-
by has been referred to General Wey-
Ter, at Cienfuegos.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-04-05

ACCORDING TO the Koran, in the
truth of which more people believe
than in the Bible, the day of resurrec-
ton cannot be far off, for its approach,
as stated by that book, is indicated by
the following signs: "The decay Of
faith among men, the advancing OF the
meanest persons to eminent dignity
that the maid servant shall become the
mother of her mistress, tumults and Sc
dition, war with the Turks, and great
distress in the world, SO that man
when he passes by another's grave shall
say, would to God were in his place"
But some store of comfort may be de-
rived from the fact that all signs fail in
April weather.
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resume business at once, that the strin-
geucy was responsible for his embar.
rassment, which will be only temporary.
The Cincinnati Elections.

CINCINNATI, Ohio, April 5.-The
municipal election to day is progress
ing with considerable interest manifest
ed as to the result which seems to be in
doubt. The elelection is purely local,
but it has such bearing on the legisla-
tive election on November that the
friends of the senatorial candidates are
taking q very active part. There are
three tickets in the field, republican,
fusion and socialist. Levi G.. Goodsl is
the republican candidate for mayor and
Gustav Tafel fusionist. Both sides con-
fidently claim victory.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-04-05

Elk PRIEST MCNAMARA.-Ex-Pr Priest
Mcnamara has been making anti-Cath-
Ole addresses in Norfolk for some days,
and so severe were some of his state
ments that representative Catholic
called on the mayor on Saturday to see
if the police could not be used to pre-
vent repetition of such statements as
those complained of. The mayor dis
approved of the statements, but said he
could not interfere unless something
was done that would provoke breach
of the peace.
Mrs. Mcnamara, wife of the ex.
priest, called on Chief of Police Dor
min on Saturday to complain that she
and her husband have been stoned in
the street. The chief was perfectly
willing to act in the matter if the guilty
parties could be pointed out, or their
names learned.
Mr.. Mcnamara recently made anti
Catholic addresses in this city.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-04-05
MONDAY lvENING, APRIL S. 1897.
No MATTER if Mr.. Cleveland did in

No MATTER if Mr.. Cleveland did IL
crease the public debt nearly two hun
dred and sixty-three million dollars IN
time of peace and thereby create a
large surplus in the treasury, that
surplus is still there, so that even II
the Dingley bill should increase reve-
nue., as the republicans say it would
but which it would not do, there would
be no use for it, except to cro"o
the treasury Golfers still further ana
TINS increase the temptations offered
TO the hooters. But though there may
be no need for money, present or pro-
spective, the poor people must be taxed
CD their necessaries in order that the
rich manufacturers Of the North may
he recompensed for the contributions
they made to Mr.. Hanna's corruption
fund last fall.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-04-05

TIE WHITE republicans in New Jer-
sey, for the first time, are proving their
protested faith by their works. In
Orange, in that State, last week, they de-
feated the denomination Of DR.. Bsyles,
a prominent and highly respected citi-
zen, and the president of the educa-
tional board, and nominated in his
place the negro coachman OF one OF his
neighbors. But whether their race
prejudice can stand the test can only
be told after the election shall have
been held. Ifthey elect their nominee,
and thereby show that they prefer d
negro to man of their own race to su-
perintend the education Of their child
rem, other people will put more reliance
in their professions of race equality than
they now do.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-04-05

SENATORS Chandler, Lodge and
FRYE, who were 80 keen set on blood
during the previous administration
that they desired to fight the whole
human race before breakfast, have now
ouieted down into peaceful and con.
servative legislators, who favor arbitra-
ton instead of iron as the means for
settling international disputes, and
think that mild answer turneth away
wrath. There is no doubt of the fact
that capital is timid, and that the re-
publicans are in the hands of the CAPT
talists was proved by the result of the
last Presidential election, and is so pat
ent as to go without saying.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-04-05

VIRGINIA BIBLE SocIETY.-The B..
BILE Society of Virginia held its eighty.
fourth anniversary meeting in Rich
mond Yesterday evening at Centenary
Methodist Church. Rev. DR.. Jabez
Hall, the president Of the society, pre-
sided. The annual report of the Sec
rotary showed that the organization
had circulated during the year 10, 42S
copies of the Bible, 700 of which were
given away to the convicts in the pen
itentiary. A. board OF managers was
elected, consisting OF thirty representa-
tive men from seven denominations.
Rev. Jabez Hall, D. d., of the Disci-
nles' Church, was reelected president,
and Rev. William S. Campbell was re-
elected secretary and general agent.
The anniversary address was delivered
by Rev. John G. Kilgo, D. D., presi
dent of Trinity College, Durham, N.
C. 1t was an able presentation of
the aims, truth and doctrines of the
Bible.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-04-05

MADE WHITE BY ELECTRICITY
'sSoon the dusky maid of the Ethiopian
race may permanently change the color
of her skin without using cosmetics, y
said Prof Blake, of Kansas University,
at lecture on ELECTRO Chemistry" in
Kansas City, Mo-, recently.
1.-THE color of the negro is due to q car
bon p gment underlying the epidermis,
and can be so transformed by electricity
as to leave the subject with fair COM
plexion. This will be done by the de.
composition of the molecules of carbon.
1t only remains to find practical meth
cd for applying the electricity to be able
to wipe out the color line for all time"
Prof. Blake said after the lecture that
he did not care to earn the reputation
OF a sensationalist, but that he had no
doubt making black people white
would soon be regular industry. He
said it was altogether probable it might
be done by immersi lg the candidate for
bleaching in a water bath, and then
running through the bath an electrical
current of sufficient intensity to decom'
pose the carbon pigment without des-
troying the tissue.