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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-10-21

.bAr ,bvsical weakness or disease is
:2.d ~; 'c'I 70 wo,nan's burden it becomes al
al-.S 80 too heavy. No woman can be
@.s.-;sjj ....-i,j or hopeful who is dragged down
:. s.'I,o continual pain and physical wretch
eGT,s' TIE special weaknesses peculiar to the
s.-;n;,e organism are comparatively easy
..'-,'s !. "rarcorlc ii the earlier symptoms are
~..r nroDer attention. But if allowed to
!, sIr Ir,rhecked, they are liable to develop
=, sedons, chronic complications.
inv woman afflicted with these delicate
,;i~:uts ought 10 have the immediate aid
.; III n Pierce Favorite Prescription. 1t is
- ,.-fect and upfailing specific for all dis
s,sss OF the feminine organs. It was de-
yi,ed ior this one purpose, and accomp-
i,hes this purpose as no other medicine
has ever done.
For nearly 90 years DR.. Pierce has been
rs;e; consulting physician of the lnvalids'
po;el and Surgical Institute, at Buffalo,
Ny. where in conjunction with his statf
Of associate specialists, he has successfully
t-.atei many thousand cases of female
complaint.
No physician living has had more ex-
tended opportunity 10 study this class OF
diseases in actual practice. No medicine
.rer invented has done for women what his
"Fayorite Prescription has.
Dr.. Pierce's Pellets cure constipation.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-10-21

Ask YOUR
DRU GGiS L
for q generous
10 CENT
TRIAL ST Il f
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-10-21

Malaria produces Weakness, General Do
bility, Biliousness, Loss of Appetite, Indges-
ton and Constipation. Groves Tasteless Chill
Tonic removes the cause which produces
these troubles Try it and you will be de.
lighted. so cents. To get the GENUINE ask
for GROVES.
For sale by CHARLES G. LENNON.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-10-21
FOR SALE.
YOU WILL BUY PROPERTY IF YOU
CAN BUY IT RIGHT.
FOR SALE.

Then read what we have to
offer you on monthly pay
ments. Our connection with
various financial institutions
enables us to sell property on
terms equivalent to what you
pay for rent.
Two Groom Frame Houses
on Queen street. Price $500
each. Terms $40 per month.
." Two Groom Frames on
south Columbus street; water
in kitchen and sewer conHec-
ton, Price 5000 each. Terms
$40 per month.
Nine Lots 17xoo' feet on
south Lee street, Price $15o
each. 81 per week.
Six-room Brick House near
Christ Church. Price $2,25o.
Terms $22 per month.
Choice business location,
corner property, 8 rooms.
Price $500. Terms SIS per
month.
Three 4-room Frames. Price
$500 each. Terms Sc per
month.
To Loan:
$4,000 in sums to suit.
M. B. HARLOW &c.,
1O7 sOUTH ROYAL STREET.
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Alexanaria @asettf,
TERMS:

PUnLIsHED DAILY AND rRI-wEKKLY AT
Building. 80 Il 812 Prince st
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-10-21
MEDICINAL
Yoke Fellows.

Many women work too
hard. There is no ques-
ton about that. If they
did not have Love for a
woke fellow they could
never endure the daily,
hourly grind and drudgery
Of life. But they bear it
chcerfully, sustained by
loving thoughts Of hus-
IL ol.II-a-
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-10-21

Thousands suffer from Catarrh or cold in
head aud have never tried the popular reme-
dy. There is nc longer any excuse, as ~
cent trial size of Ely's Cream Balm can be
had of your druggist or We mail 1t for III
cents. Full size so cents.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-10-21
CAMBRIA. VA. THURSDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 2l. 1897
FOR SALE OR RENT.

FoR RENT.
STORE AND DWELLING at the south
west corner of Columbus and Madison streets.
Together or separate. In first class order.
Apply to 7. LAPHEN,
oct7 collins 204 N. Royal street.
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ELY BROTHERS,
56 Warren Street, New York Cit.

Sc Warren Street, New fork City
A friend advised me to try Ely,s Cream
Balm and after using it six weeks l oeheye
myself cured of catarrh It is a most valuable
Iemedy.-Joseph Stewart, 624 Grand avenue
Brooklyn, N. Y.
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apo 1yl
Fire Firel! Fire (! (! !!

Protect your homo and store from de.
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steaGy stream of cartonic acidgas (which
is 40 times more powerful as a fire
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D Bendbeim s. Sons, J. b. D. Snoot & Son,
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dris Steam Bread Bakery, Alexandria Chemi-
cal and Fertilizer Co., C. o. Pullman, F. l..
Entwisle Concoldis Eotel and others who
have used them on fires with success. For
sale by
C. L. PICKIN, Agent.
22S g. Fairfax Street.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-10-21

You can't cure consumption but you can
avoid it snd cure every other form OF !nfos1
lung trouble by the use of One Minute
Cough Cure. Charles G. Lennon.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-04-04

about searching villages for food and de-
stroying It In order to bring about the sub
mission of the Cretans by starvation, OF the
commander Of an English warship threat
ening to destroy a whole village unless the
people surrender their boats; and Of a
British detachment passing chains around
some Christians houses at another place,
and then attaching cables from the war
ships that dragged the houses to the ground,
we ask In amazement IL this is the real
spirit lurking under the disguise Of Eng
lish Christianity and civilization. The reve-
latlon Ia h reverse of reAssurlng. The
murderous Turk we can understand. He,
at least, can claim the sanction of his re-
llgion, which ~enjolns on him the extermi-
nation of the Giaour, the infdel. He Is
performing an act of duty and obtaining
thereby the rewards Of paradise; n his
crime is INT calling more for the exercise
of restraint than retaliation. What, how
ever, is to be said Of the civilized savagery
going on In Crete at this hour under the 30
called Christian banner of England
As we lave shown, the influence of Eng
land Is all powerful in the councils of
Europe, whether 1t be exercised for evil or
for good. At the present time, as 1t was in
1878, It is exercised for evil, and while
Lord SALISBURY is the one mainly respon-
sible, the rest OF his Cabinet and the British
people supporting it will equally with him
be held responsible by the civilized world
and by history.
The action Of the powers in which Eng
land is participating, is creating questions
in comparison with which those of autono-
my for Crete or rectiication of frontier for
Greece, however great their immediate and
local importance for the Greeks and Gre
tans, are becoming side issues. Behind
what is going on in the waters of the
Egean is the awakening Of the con-
science Of the peoples of Europe; and
the powers, with England under Lord
SALISBURY, leading, are assiduously en-
gagged in trying to stifle the fires lighted
in the mountains of Crete before the con-
f1agration can spread to the mainland of
Europe. In proportion as the danger grows
on the Continent, so will the ferocity
toward the Cretans and Greeks augment,
until we may see a veritable war of exter-
mination carried on against a people whose
only crime is their demand for liberty.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-04-04
In Cuba-The State OF Things There
at h Opening OF April.

Tho Cuban revolution Is yet served, az
1t always has been, by a number Of very
competent commanders, the first of whom,
In rank, is MAxIMo GOMEZ. The plans of
campaign and the strategy of this General
AVE doubtless been the best that it was In
his power to devise. He has never fought
a pitched battle of any magnitude, for the
reason that the army of Spain was very
much larger and better equipped than his
own; he has preferred to attack, as often us
possible, such OF the detachments of the
enemy's forces as he had hope of getting
the advantage Of; his design has been to
wear out Spain, exhaust her resources, and
compel her to give up the wal as a failure.
The amount of success that has thus been
gained, during the two years of the revolu-
tion, may be regarded rs a justification of
the method in which he has conducted mill
tary operations.
Tn Madrid Government, however, Is able
to claim that SPANS army In Cuba has
never been defeated in a large battle,
has never lost a fortified city, and has
been successful in many of the combats
that AVE occurred. Within a short time,
Premier CANovAs has promulgated the
statement that the revolution is now re-
duced to helplessness, and that peace will
be restored a. soon ~ the rebel bands yet ut
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-04-04
Our Obligation Toward Cuba.

The Senate has instructed its Committee
OF Foreign Relations to consider and re-
port what obligations, IL any, have been
assumed by the United States toward the
people of Cuba Shy asserting and main
tanning the right to prevent the acquisition
of this island by any European power and
compelling its people to remain subject to
the dominion of Spain"
The wording Of the resolution is not in
exact accordance with the historic facts,
since we have never compelled the Cubans
to remain subject to Spain, but have only
declared against the transfer of the island
to any other European power. But assur-
eddy in doing this we incur some responsible
ity, for 1t is preposterous, under American
views of the true functions Of government,
to suppose that we have rights and duties
toward the crown of Spain, but none to-
ward the inhabitants Of the great and beau
tiful island which Spain seeks to subjugate.
The historical fact is that we have re-
peatedly taken steps toward relieving the
people Of Cubs from the yoke Of Spain.
President GRANTS Administration made a
direct offer for that purpose, proposing that
they should buy their independence, we
guaranteeing that the price should be paid.
just before our civil war it had also been
proposed to buy n annex Cuba. And now
that the Cubans have been in arms for two
years, endeavoring to free themselves, we
certainly do not discharge our duty by
"leaving them to fight 1t out" The Fifty
fourth Congress had a clear perception Of
his fact when 1t passed a resolution by
overwhelming majorities calling pom Mr..
CLEVELAND to tender the Governments
good offices for bringing peace to Cubs on
the basis Of its independence.
Mr.. CLEVELAND did nothing of the sort;
but If the Fifty-flfth Congress, which has
yet to express itself on our policy toward
Cuba, should pass a similar resolution, we
think that President MCKINLEY would not
ignore or ~pigeon-hole It. He would, doubt
less, consider 1t incumbent on him to do
exactly what Congress had indicated, and
that would be the discharge of one of several
duties which we have to perform for our
oppressed and struggling neighbors.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-04-04
The Bubonic Plague.

The April number of the North American
Reviet0 contains a valuable article by Sur
geon-General WALTER WYMAN on the
black or bubonic plague, which Is now
raging at Bombay, and which there Is some
reason to fear, may be conveyed to Mar
settles and Naples, and thence by emigrants
to the United States.
BY reason of the peculiar characteristics
to which this pestilence owes Its descrlp-
tive appellation. we are enabled to trace
most of Its periodical visitations during
WYMAN reminds Is hat 1t prevailed In
Athens in the first three years of the
Peloponnesian war, when the city is
said to have lost more than a third
Of its population. THUcYDIDEs himself
had the disease, and has left an account
of 1t in his history. The great plague re-
ported by Ivy is alleged to have destroyed
a million of persons In north Africa. In A.
ID. 4 the pestilence passed from Egypt to
Constantinople, where 1t carried Off 10, 900
persons in one day, and In the same century
appeared in Italy. About the middle of
the fourteenth century the bubonic plague
was introduced from the East under the
name OF the Black Death" and swept over
nearly the whole Of Europe. Prof. Tho
ROLL ROGERS has computed that England
lost about one.half her inhabitants from
this epidemic. Passing over other vista
tions mentioned by DIR. WYMAN, we come to
the invasion of Europe by the disease In the
latter half Of the seventeenth century. when
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-04-04

Like the frozen songs which thawed out
Of Baron MtNcHAUsEN's horn all at once, some
virtuous Indignation which should have been
expressed several years ago is bubbling out Of
the cuckoo Journals now. For example, the
Philadelphia Record makes the Populist Repre-
sentatives who refused to vote against tho
Dingley bill the target for very furious criticism.
What would the sturdy Romans have thought
OF such men as these Populists political hernia
phrodites and epicenes)." bubbles our contem-
porary in its exploding rage. "who. sent to Con-
gress to perform a political duty. fold their arms
and refuse to vote on tho only important meas
ure of the session I" Out! also. upon tho cover
weening self-conceit OF the Populists on all ques-
lions Of common concern!" Shame on their
"lordly and absurd assumption OF neutrality"
on the Dingley bill.
This diatribe, of course, is the one which was
suppressed when the Hon. GROVER CLEVELAND
sent TO Washington to perform the high politi-
cal duty Of President, folded his arms and
refused to vote" on the supreme measure of the
session, the Wilson Tariff bill. Tho Records
righteous denunciation OF tho "overweeninR
self-conceit and impracticability" Of this par
ticular Roman on that great question OF COM
mon concern" and his assumption of neutral.
ity," toward a measure shortly before execrated
bHhim az loaded with "perfdy and dishonor.' is
now being fitted to the Populists. Considering
that the Populists made no substantial declara-
ton upon the tariff in 1896, it doesn't seem to
be a very good At.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-04-04

largo shall be exterminated. Such Ia the
opinion that exists In Spain 1t this time.
The opinion entertained by the Cuban lead
ers IL Of q different character.
Several Of tho Generals serving under
GOMEZ lave become DESTROYS Of the adop.
tion Of . moro aggressive policy than he has
recently pursued. They would like to bring
together the divisions of the Cuban Army
that are scattered all over the country, and
establish them at q stronghold in some one
Of the provinces, which should serve as q
basis Of operations larger than have yet
been undertaken by the General-in-C Chief.
A few weeks 6 It looked as though Gen.
CALIxTo GARCIA was preparing for q cam
palgn Of moro Importance than any other
that has been planned since that of last
spring, In which the late ANTONIO MAcEo
carried the flag Of free Cuba from the east
ernmost to the westernmost province Of the
island, and so greatly alarmed Spain that
she made haste to reinforce her army in
Cuba to the extent of nearly 100000 addi-
tional troops.
Some weeks ago Gen. GARCIA had an or
ganized force not far from 5000 strong
near which lay other forces ready for service,
but under different command. He started
out upon an expedition in the province Of
Santiago; he beat the Spaniards In many
fights he sent them flying to their eastern
trocha; he took q number of towns, and he
held positions which the enemy never at
tempted to assail. The report Of his move
ments which he sent to headquarters, and
which was printed in THE Sun, told Of q
series Of successes that gave encourage
ment to the friends of Cuba. Since that
time, or for nearly two months, nothing has
been heard from Gen. GARCIA, though the
dispatches nave told of his receiving large
quantities of military supplies from cou
tries not under Spanish Jurisdiction.
There have been inquiries for him and
about him, but they remain unanswered.
Possibly he may be getting ready for q
movement toward the West.
1t would certainly be very advantageous
for the Cuban cause IL the revolution were
to deliver q blow before the incoming of the
rainy season, or were to engage in an ag-
gressive movement bearing some resem-
blance to that of MACEo a year ago. 1t
would be instructive to the Spanish Gov
eminent, which has recently said that the
revolution Is nearly at an end. 1t would
stimulate the spirit of Cuba.
But Gen. GOMEZ and Gen. GARCIA doubt
less have their own plans, and Americans
may properly believe that these plans are
such as seem to them the most practicable
and promising.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-04-04
suxre.,ed by h Case or SEN Rivera.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SUN-Sir: The case
OF Gen. Rus Rivera calls 10 mind a somewhat
similar one that occurred in Turkey In the
spring Of 1873. Two brothers, Gueshof, of
~Philippopolis. in East Roumelia. were arrested
by the Turkish authorities and condemned to be
hanged. Lord Derby, at that time English
Foreign Minister. without q moments hesita-
ton instructed the English Ambassador to in
form the Sultan that II these two gentlemen
were executed, the English feet, then in the
proximity Of Constantinople, would take salts
faction for their deaths. The Sultan ordered
their release, and one OF the brothers, Mr.. John
Gueshoff. is now Bulgarian Minister OF Finance.
New YORK. April 3. A TRAVELLER
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-04-04
The Way to Make a State Prosperous.

The way has been shown by our present
Legislature and by some Of its predecessors ;
and 1t may be concisely described as max
ing the State of New York uninhabitable for
rich men or associations Of them.
Drive out capital by confiscatory laws.
Make such extreme laws Of special AKA
tion that rich men will be forced to become
citizens Of other States. Rob the rich while
they are alive. Fine them for dying and
then rob their heirs.
Force men who are organizing great
business enterprises to seek in the saner
laws OF n%eighboring States the protec-
tion which the avs of New York deny
them. Send out providing committees Of
the Legislature to burrow into the pri-
vate business Of persons guilty or suspected
of being guilty Of making a lot of money.
Treat capital as a criminal to be punished.
Do these things, and at the end of a few
years you will have made the State in
which they are done prosperous or else
there is something in the avs of business
that cannot be changed by act of the Legis-
lature, and something in human nature
which Is not properly responsive to the
labors Of giant intellect in Albany.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-04-04
An Undesirable Park Commissioners.

1t had been supposed, naturally, that
when the President of the Park Board made
a bicycle path out Of a foot path, which had
been so established by a resolution of the
Board, and could not be diverted to another
purpose without another resolution, he was
In complete ignorance Of the duties and re-
strictions Of his place. The following state
ment by Mr.. MCMILLAN himself, printed in
THE SUN Of yesterday, proves this SUPPOSE
tion to have been correct:
"If the President OF the Park Board waited to Sc
euro the approval by the Board OF everything he
thought necessary to be done with reference to Park
Department property, the city might lose Thousands
OF dollars by the delay. For instance, I go up to
GRANTS Tomb and I ind that the workmen are not
following the grade in their work. I order that tho
grade shall be followed. II waited to get the con-
sent of the Board before gave that order. there would
be q large amount Of work done Improperly and n
would have to be done over again"
When Mr.. MCMILLAN likened his arbi-
trary action on the bicycle path to his find
ing a wrong grade making at GRANTS tomb,
and ordering it corrected without consulta-
tion with his colleagues, he showed that he
has neither knowledge nor sense. AL
though he has been q member Of the Park
Board for more han O year, and Presi-
dent for many months, he doesn't know
that IL the grades about GRANTS tomb
had been fixed by a resolution of the Park
Board he was bound to see that the plan
was observed, or that since the Riverside
promenade was reserved to pedestrians by
a resolution of the Board he was forbidden
to interfere with them. On his own show
ing he has not even a primary under
standing of the functions of a Park Com
missioner.
He was equally unfortunate in his state
ment, quoted yesterday that, II he thinks too
much has been taken from the pedestrians,
he will exclude the bicyclists from the
promenade during certain hours on Sunday.
He missed the point there, as he did before.
1t Is not for him to compromise with him
self and divide the promenade between
bicyclists and pedestrians. Let him take
his bicycle signs away entirely, and abandon
his illegal attempt to nullify a law of the
Board of which he Is merely a member. II
a Commissioner wants to change things In
Riverside Park or anywhere, he can begin
decently and in order by submitting a reso-
luton to the Board Of Commissioners.
There is a general rule which experience
has evolved as the key to the proper admin
istration of the Park Department. 1t may
be known as the three Rs, meaning Refer.
ence, or submission of a proposition to
the examination of an expert; Report, or
the communication to the Board of the ex-
pert's conclusions and Resolution, or the
Boards final disposition of the subject.
Resolutions hold good until rescinded, and
they nave been made the rule for the spe-
cial purpose Of guarding against just such
unwarranted and headstrong actions as this
of Mr.. MCMILLAN.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-04-04
EngIand's Terrible Responsibility

1t has generally been accepted in Europe
as an axiom In the politics of the Eastern
question, that any course of action in which
England refused to a part was fore
doomed to failure. This was s~trikingly ex-
emplifed In 1878, when the celebrated
Berlin Memorandum, which was virtually
an agreement between the member of the
old Drel Kaiserbund for the partition of
Turkey, came to nothing through the refusal
Of the late Lord DERBY. at that time Eng
lish Secretary for Foreign Affairs, to ad-
here to 1t. The result of the Congress of
Berlin. in 1878. where the English infu.
ence represented by Lords BEACoNsFIELD
and SALISBURY predominated, is a later ex.
ample of how great a weight is the voice of
England In the international European
council. The strength of the English in
huence was even more strikingly displayed
In 1880 and 1881, when Mr.. GLADsToNE's
Government, In spite of the resistance of
the r~eactionary powers, carried to a sue
cessful issue the clauses of the Berlin treaty
concerning the rectincation of the Montene.
grin and Greek frontiers.
The two last Illustrations show that, when
the power of England was in the hands of
III ~ "uo uoCu w ichBphVi
oppression; when 1t was in those of Mr..
GLADSTONE, 1t was made to serve the higher
policy of freedom to the Cypress ed. 1t was
Lord ~SALIsBURY's policy that thrust the peo-
pie ofSouthern Bulgaria and the Armenians,
who had been delivered by the Emperor
ALEXANDER, back under the heel of their
oppressor; and 1t was under Mr.. GLADSTONE
that considerable sections of the Slav and
Greek Christians Of Turkey were placed
under the flags of their em~ancipatcd ma
tionalities. Moreover, 1t was not until
very shortly after Mr.. GLADsToNE's definite
retirement from political life, that the plot
for the determination of the Armenian PEG.
pie, which had been formed by the Sultan
and his surroundings, was put in execution.
In the light of the latest recorded doings of
the British naval and land forces in Crete,
we can now form a just estimate of the
policy of Lord SALISBURY with regard to
the recent massacres of the Armenians.
When we read OF EngliSh marines going