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Two bottles of Piso's Cure for Consump-
ton cured me Of u bad lung trouble.-Mrs. =.
Nichols, PRINCETON. Ind March 10. 1928
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WAS Josephine popular at your sum.
mer resort2' POPULAR The landlord
had to pay her to retire at night"
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When you We're at the seashore didn' I
you enjoy studying the peopleZ' when
| am at the seashore 1 always study tho
hotel clerk.
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Some bachelors voluntarily Join the
ranks of the benedicts and some are
drafted.
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-, Year n.-.i. win c..e.r.,.

I, ratssrtss, ezrr eousslpAtiez forever
Z Tc & c tan. sraexisss rofusa sseosy.
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''Shafter did not get within three miles
of the front of battle at Santiago" well
that Is at least 1900 miles nearer than, You.
were
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ANY unique features at your entertain
ment last nfght?' yes: the Japanese
lanterns didn't get on fire.
The Lamar register., 1898-10-05

Mrs winslow's Soothing syrup
For hildren teethinE sotens the reduces fnnh-
matcn, ,aILSys pain wind collie. rs cents bottle
The Lamar register., 1898-10-05

To Cure Constipation Forever.
Take Cascarets Candy Cathartic 10c or go
II c. C. c. fail to cure. druggists refund money.
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swift development of our country and
Of the world. within the fast generation:
and unsound business, so far as there
is such a thing, is also caused by the
swift changes due to invention and
transportation facilities. Sound bust
ness and social stability depend alike
on slow but STEADY development of a
country S resources, so that moderate
fortune can remain in the hands of one
man OF conservative and cautious dis
position and be developed by him SO
that he can keep his own friends and
employees in their places, without their
being tempted to better ones. As far as
industrial discomfort and political cor
ruptiOn are concerned, those also are
due to a large variety of causes, and
they go hand in hand. In New Eng
land, the development CT the West and
South, which has crowded New Eng
land farmers and mill OPERATIVES out of
the field, is the matter. In other places
these evils may be traced to huge
masses of foreign population, and in
still ether localities, to the greed of
syndicates and corpora, s. We
should have had the corpC ion and
the syndicate without any war; gold
would have been mined in California;
the great West would have been open
ed up. and hCrdes of immigrants from
Europe would have poured into our
vast unoccupied territory il there had
never been such a thing as slavery or
secession. The Tribune has tumbled
into the trap Of a sweeping statement,
made for the sake of rhetoric, and must
climb out Of it as best ii can.
AS for the effects of foreign war at
this time, some of these evils of which
the Tribune complains would be miti-
gated by such an event. and some Of
them might be increased. although that
is not likely. There would undoubtedly
be speculation-there is now. The OPP
portunities for money making, how
ever, would be increased. and the I'M
fortunate Spectator would have more
chance to retrieve his fortunes than he
has at present. War may be murder.
as the Tribune pathetically quotes Low
ell to prove, but it is a question if the
Industrial slavery in which the mill
operative and the miner are often fore
ed to live is any the less murder because
the effect is slow. The monopolies
which are at present swallowing our
civilization could probably be condemn
ed by the New Testament just as easily
as could war In fact. there is, in the
Old Testament at least, some justifica-
ton for war, and there is none at all
for grinding the life out of the poor.
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The Decentralization of War

The New York Tribune, the gray
headed mentor of the New York news
paper world, has gone to moralizing
about the evils which our last war left
in its wake. 1t names among these
evils disordered currency, reckless
speculation, unsound business. social
shoddyism, industrial discomfort, and
political corruption-alI caused by that
war.
AS a matter of fact, although We are
undoubtedly suffering from a good
many evils today, to ascribe all of
them TO the civil war, in a country the
size of this, reminds one of Mr. Inger-
soils proposition that civilization was
caused by plug hats and suspenders.
1t would be just as untrue to say that
ali our national prosperity was caused
by the war as to say that all our ma
tional Generalization must be ascribed
to that cause. As for the currency
problem, that is rather too large TO be
discussed in a sentence, but there would
be very grave doubts in the minds Of
almost any believes in free silver, BIZ
metallism or The cold standard as to
that problem being altogether the re-
suit OF the war. As to reckless specu-
lation, that is an inseparable adjunct
Of sudden prosperity. 1t is due to the
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& Last Sabterfuge.

The Presidential message is con-
structed in a manner to make it look
passing fair upon its face. There is
| one thing about it, however, that all
the power Of language to conceal
thought and intention cannot cover,
While Mr.. Mckinley leaves the whole
Spanish situation to Congress in terms,
in fact he asks Congress to dele gate its
war-makiRg power and all control over
the crisis to him.
That will not do, The country will
not have il. Mr.. Mckinley has been
weighed in the balance and found
wanting. We will not stop TO criticise
his motives. but there is no chance
for doubt that his accomplishments
have been a failure and disgrace to
the nation. AT every step he has al
/ lowed himself to be placed in false and
| humiIiatin9 positions by the diploma
cy Of Spain. He has supinely surren-
dered every logical advantage that this
country has possessed, and, what is
worse. he has outraged the American
sense Of justice and honor by attempt
ing to ignore the Maine massacre as a
cause of war, and appearing Indifferent
to the mute appeals for vengeance
which go up from sightless, voiceless
forms down among the sharks of Ha-
vana harbor.
What is more, there is a popular
belief that he has done this at the be-
hest of one who represents those other
sharks of the Spanish bond conspi-
racy. No, a thousand times no. Con-
gress must not surrender its war
making power. nor yet its supervision
of this situation to one who is pitia-
bly, and ridiculously responsible for its
existence; for the menace of an invited
European interference; for the first as
sault upon the Monroe doctrine, and
for ali the blunders which have made
America the laughing-stock OF the
world for the past six weeks.
1t is Congress to which the American
people look! Not to Congress repre-
scented by Mark Hanna and ]. ]. Nc
Cook. because that is exactly what
the delegation of power, authority and
discretion asked for by Mr.. Mckinley
means. That and nothing else.
What the national legislature shall do
in the matter will settle a question
which is being asked from the Atlantic
TO the Pacific today: Is Congress full
of American patriotism, or is it full cf
Hessian corruption and Tory treason?
Remember the Mainei
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senator Thurston's Opinion.

In a statement published in the New
York World of Sunday Senator Thurs
ton of Nebraska takes a position on
the Intervention question which is
sound in logic and, moreover, in COM
plete agreement with the national view.
1t is as follows:
NV opinion is that il we intervene in Cuba
after recognizing the independence OF the Suoahs
we will not be responsible in any way for the
Spanish bonds for the application OF the
Cuban revenues TO the payment 81 the bones.
Nor would we be responsible for any loss o,
injuries to property or persons in the island
not resulting from our own acts.
But if we intervene without recognizing Cuban
independence, will find ourselves on the
island assuming the right for the time being
10 govern. We deny the right OF Spain to
further sovereignty. Until we recognize the
independence of the belligerents we deny their
right Of sovereignty, and we necessarily assume
the duties and all the responsibilities of soyer-
eighty in the island. We would certainly be
liable TO the citizens of other countries for
whether committed by the Spaniards or the in
surgents
Ii we should drive the Spaniards out we would
stin have to deal with the insurgents, and if
they would not accept such terms we might
offer would either have to put them down
or else get forces out of the island
Ii is a singular thing that all the influences
and the vast pressure which has been brought
TO bear TO prevent any action our part is
actively at work to prevent the recognition
Of Independence. Believing that Intervention is
certain, they are bringing all the influence to bear
upon members of Congress TO induce them to
give up the recognition resolution.
There Is a strong feeling that the delay from
last Wednesday until Monday has been almost
entirely used for this purpose. The whole OBJ
iect of this influence is 10 leave the question
OF recognition of the independence of Cuba an
open one, 50 that this Government can at any
time force she Cubans TO submit to autonomy,
or what would be almost as infamous, TO as
sumo the Spanish debt a condition OF indie
pendence.
If we recognize the independence now our &C.
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DIXIE" SETS THEM ON FIRE.
A New York Audience Wildly Cheers
the Southern Air.

New York, April 11.-There have been
some lively scenes in the theaters of late
when the Star Spangled Banner was
played. but none of them equaled the
extraordinary demonstration last night
at the Metropolitan Opera House when
SOusa's band played the national anthem
and then swung into Dixie"
1t was Sousa's last Sunday night con-
cert, and the house was packed with an
audience that made even the top gallery
black with a dense crowd. 1t had been
announced that Sousas 1.-THE Stars and
Stripes Forever would be given during
the evening. and that the principals and
chorus members of the De Wolf Hopper
and The Bride Elect" companies would
take part with the band. The audience
had come with the idea of letting itself
loose" when the proper time came, but
they did not wait for the advertised num-
Der. but caught at the first opportunity
that presented itself.
In response to an encore after a suite
played by the band, Sousa gave a medley
of such airs as Yankee Doodle and
Marching Through Georgia. and the
house was fairly on fire with enthusiasm
in an instant Men began to beat time
with their feet and pound canes, while
rattle of applause that grew louder and
louder almost drowned the music.
When SOusa finished there was a roar
of cheers from the house. and the band
at once began THE Star Spangled Ban
ner."
In an instant the entire audience. from
orchestra rails to top gallery sprang to
their feet. whirlwind of cheers going up,
and hats, handkerchief and canes being
waved in the air
During the playing of the entire piece
the demonstration kept up, and when it
came to conclusion with the final crash
OF music from the band the scene beg
CARED description. An encore was de-
manded. but Sousa stood calmly awaiting
quiet before he would go on. Then, when
he could be heard he said:
Ladies and gentlemen, ii seems as
though the only appropriate encore that
l can give in these days is Johnny Get
Your Gun but there's another air we all
will cheer tonight" and. turning TO his
band the musicians swung into Dixie -
III there had been orderly enthusiasm
before there was bedlam let loose now
and while the cheers went UP as hearth
ly as ever there burst from certainly a
thousand threats the famous rebel yell.
1t came from all parts of the house For
quite time this continued men and wom-
en- joining in the uproar the ladies lean
ing out of the boxes and waving their
handkerchiefs while the Southern air was
played.
The audience had hardly quoted when
a man in one of the boxes leaned over
the rail and yelled. "Who says we are
not ready for war;" and the house went
wild again, with another combination of
Union cheers and rebel yels" Then
some one in the orchestra jumped into
the aisle and called for three cheers for
our flag and our country, the North and
South-We're all readyi' and the previ-
Gus scene was repeated.
When The Stars and Stripes' was
sung there was still another demonstra-
ton, and then 5000 tired and hoarse indi-
viduals took themselves home
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BLANC0 INSULTS LEE.
lie Sends Curt Message and refuses
to See Our Consul General


Key West, Fla. April 11.-''You may tell
General -Blaneo for me that the Fern is
the last ship of the American Navy that
will ever go out of Havana harbor while
the Spanish flag flies over MORO"
This was the message that General Lee
sent back to General Blanco as he steam
ed out Of Havana harbor last night Lee
was indignant at the insults heaped upon
his head by the Spanish officials and the
populace. He had been snubbed at the
palace by General Blanco and affronted
by DR.. Congosto.
As the Fern bearing our consular rep
resentative. left the harbor there were
cries Of 'Fuerai' "Begone'-from thou
sands of thrOats, and Vice Consul SPRING
er made gesture in reply which meant.
We will come again" and cried "Esper-
en- wolverines '-"Await our return"
When General Lee went to the palace
yesterday he was accompanied by the
British consul, Mr.. Gollan. who was to
take unwilling charge of the American
consulate. Mr.. Gollan is Spanish sym
pathizer, and refused TO take charge until
peremptorily ordered to do so from Lon
don.
General Lee sent in his compliments to
General BlancO, with a request for an au-
dience. He was still consul general. and
desired to say that he took leave pending
his return from the United States.
Instead of General Blanco came DR..
Congosto. with the curt message that the
captain general did not desire to see Gen
eral Lee again. General Lee was dumb
founded. COngOsto bowed and withdrew.
leaving General Lee boiling with indig-
nation.
Consul Gollan, instead of leaving with
General Lee, made an excuse that he had
to see DR.. Congosto on a personal matter.
and remained behind.
AS General Lee passed down the crowd
ed staircase the Spanish subalterns and
attaches made way for him, muttering in
suits and crying "Fuera-' 1t is the duty
of soldiers out of the Palace when con-
sular representatives appear to stand at
attention AS General Lee passed the
soldiers remained lounging about.
SO many threats had beeen made and
so gross had been the insults that Cen
eral Lee decided to remain no longer in
Havana and went on board the Fern.
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After repeated and criminal delays,
the Spanish-Cuban question at last is
in the hands of Congress. 1t ought L
have been there long ago, but it is
there now. and the nation is thankful
for the fact. It will be less so if the
Congress does not rise to the situation
and meet public and patriotic expecta-
tons
The whole matter is in the Keeping of
the war-making power, where it be-
longs The country viii hold Con-
gress to full accountability. Heretofore
the entire subject has been within con-
troll Of the President, and from the out
set he has been cajoled. humbugged
and beaten at every point by the subtle
and lying diplomacy Of Spain, until he
has given away every advantage and
surrendered every point connected
with our interest, rights and honor
that has been possible to him.
The American people will have no
IlDlt Ol tiidA SDIl u lOloNN OAA Allt pa L
Of Congress. Neither will they brook
without protest, and perhaps something
more. the slightest attempt at further
delay. Intervention is suggested. They
demand of their representatives instant
and armed Intervention. Not interven-
ton after days in which Congress does
nothing, or does something; but armed
intervention and a declaration of war
now, and distinctly in retribution for
the Maine massacre. Nothing less will
satisfy them. Nothing less viii placate
them, and he would be a senator or a
member of Congress bent upon political
slicide who should not accept and act
UPON this mandate, irrespective of the
Executive, of falsely threatened Eu-
ropean interference, or of the price of
stocks in Wall Street and London.
The point of friction has been chang
ed from the White House to Capitol
Hill We warn Congress. as hitherto
we have admonished the President, that
affairs are rapidly reaching a crisis
where only the choice viii be presented
Of Furnishing and evicting Spain or of
fighting nine hundred and ninety-nine
one-thousandths of the citizenship of
America.
Remember the Maine,
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A special to the New York World repre-
sents Gen. Fitzhugh Lee as mad with
eagerness to go back to Cuba at the head
of column of Virginia boys, in satisfac-
ton OF his just resentment for the hor-
rors he has been compelled 10 witness,
through the pusillanimity of his own Gov
eminent He should be given the chance
but will he? 1t is not agreeable to the
man in power, as rule, to witness the
rise upon the public horizon of a national
hero. Such things seem TO promise
trouble in future Presidential campaigns.
and the like of that. Remember the
Mainei
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RUDDEN'S LOSS HEAVY.
seventh Street Furniture HOuse
Damaged $4,000 by Fire.

The fire which visited John Ridden
furniture establishment, No. 513 Seventh
Street, yesterday afternoon resulted in a
total damage of over SIS, 600 Besides in
juring the contents of the furniture store
the smoke and water damaged the stores
of Hecht & Company, No. Sis Seventh
Street, and John Stanzinger, No. Sill
The fire had gained considerable head
way in the Ridden establishment before il
was discovered. A valuable st. Bernard
dog was seen running back and forth in
the front of the store and barking furious
ly. This resulted in an investigation,
which showed the rear of the building to
be filled with smoke. Flames soon burst
forth and enveloped the building.
The fire department quickly responded
to an alarm, and the police reserves has
tened to the scene.
During the fire Privates Jeffries Roby
and Sullivan, of Truck Company c, were
overcome by the smoke and had to be re-
moved to the Emergency Hospital for
treatment.
The building occupied by Ridden be-
longed TO the Lowery estate and was
damaged 5000. The furniture stock, with
an insurance of $4,000, sustained a dam
age of $4,000. 1t is thought the fire was
caused by the crossing of electric light
wires.
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JULIETs GOWN HER sHRoUD.
Funeral of Miss Margaret Mather
the Actress. at Detroit.

the Actress. Detroit.
Detroit Mich, April 1-Margaret
Mather was buried yesterday afternoon
beside the grave of her aged mother. in
Elmwood Cemetery. Thousands of per-
sons were at the cemetery. The last
home coming of Margaret Mather was in
contrast to her departure twenty years
ago. Then she was unknown, except by
those who daily purchased papers from
the little newsgirl Today when the coffin
was opened in the parlor of her aged
fathers clearinghouse it was surround
ed by those who knew Margaret Mather
the actress. All day. until the coffin was
closed. a stream of visitors gazed on the
actress face.
Miss Mather was buried in the gown she
wore as Juliet, which was of white satin.
trimmed with pearls. The coffin was hid
den under the profusion of roses hya-
cinths, and Easter lilies, sent by actors
and actresses.
The burial service was held in a little
chapel in Elnwood Cemetery. which was
surrounded by crowd long before the
funeral procession arrived. Men and wo-
men fairly fought with one another for
a sight of the coffin, and the police were
obliged to use force to make a passage
for IL. As the chapel doors were closed
the crush was so great that a womans
foot was damned between them and
badly injured.
Members of the "Geisha' Company and
Otis SINNERS Company were present
and from them had been chosen the pail
bearers. The Rev. c. A. Fulton con-
Quoted a simple burial service. Many of
Detroits representative citizens were at
the chapel.
Miss Mather left daughter five years
old, who is with the childs father, Gus
tave Pabst, in Milwaukee.
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DISORDER IN MADRID.
Denominations Against an Armis-
tice Alarms Spanish Government

Madrid. April 1.-THE demonstration
made in the streets of Madrid last night
directed against the government for or
dering cessation of hostilities in Cuba.
did not end until after midnight. Order
and comparative quiet were then restor-
ed.
No arrests were made. though the
crowds were exceedingly turbulent. but
the troops were ready at their barracks
to sally forth at the word of command
had it been necessary to call upon them
Many persons were crushed and buried in
the demonstrations, but no one was seri-
ously hurt so far as reported
In view of the uneasiness displayed by
the populace the government issued a
proclamation today exhorting the people
to calmness and prudence
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ton will be followed promptly by other ma
tiops. Any kind of autonomy. will then he
out of the question, and it would be impossible
TO force the Cuban government, once recognized,
to submit TO the payment of blood money as the
price of liberty.
Just as long as recognition of independence
is delayed, all these schemes will be pushed
with vigor, and the diplomacy of the world will
be brought into play to do this great injustice
in Cuba. II the committees of the two houses
report the resolutions as bad practically been
agreed upon, representing the judgment of Con
gress. declaring fer independence and interven-
tion, they will be passed with but little delay
and. ] believe by a unanimous vote.
II this pressure prevails on the committees
and they report for intervention but not for
independence, a contest will follow. i believe,
in both houses-certainly in the Senate, and in
the House if the curb bit Is not put ON. The
question will be fought out and voted upon with
out regard TO party lines.
Senator Thurston's argument is too
convincing on its face to require the
least editorial comment.
Remember the massaered sailors of
the Maine.
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CANToR's BODY GOING HOME.
Suicides brother Coming to Remove
Ii to New York.

Louis Cantor. a brother of James Can
tor. the New York man who committed
suicide Friday night by swallowing poison
will come TO Washington today and re-
move the remains to his home No. 81 Full
ton Avenue. Brooklyn.
The body is still at the morgue at No.
police station. 1t was identified yester-
day by a variety-theater actress known as
"Evalyne."
When she viewed the man who had fol-
lowed her from New York the woman be-
come hysterical and after raving cOnsid-
erably. she fell in a swOOn in the station.
In speaking Of the dead mans identity
the woman insisted that he was brother
OF State Senator Cantor of New York.
Inspector Mattingly advised the chief Of
police of New York of the affair and this
morning a telephone message was receiv-
ed. saying a brother would come today
TO claim the body.
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Poughkeepsie. N. Y. April 11-Col. Oil
yer Thomas Beard died suddenly at his
home in this city last night. Col. Beard
was the father of William and Arson NJ
Beard, well-knOwn students and athletes
of Yale. He was a noted lawyer and was
the author of several books. He was born
in BROOKLYN. November o. 1888 the son Of
William Beard. and was the oldest of
twenty-four children. He went to Cali
fornia in 1919. with the first rush to the
gold fields.