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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-11-30
RACES AT NEW ORLEANS.

Winter Meeting There Will BE In
auauratcd To-day.
New Orleans. Nov. 29-The winter meet
ing will open tomorrow. There are 1.2o9
horses at the track and in the vicinity
more than have ever wintered here be
fore, and more are arriving. About ff-
teen books win do business on the opening
day A model steepleehase course has
been constructed, and me track is in fine
condition. The Old officials will again
serve The feature of the day Will be the
inaugural handicap. with $1,000 added.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-11-30
READ MIR. SMITHS LETTER.
Savannah, Ca. oct. 81, 1899.


To the Public:
Nine years ago / contracted a very bad
case of blood poison. / have employed
many doctors and taken all kinds Of adj
vertised medicines since that time with
out doing me the least bit,of good On last
FRIDAY / was carried TO the office of Prof.
Dexfer In a carriage. / was In great pain
and in a very weak and low condition, and
| thought / was going to die. Prof.
Dexter at first was afraid TO treat rue,
thinking / might die I'm his Office. After
the professor had examined me he said he
wound try to relieve me of the great pain
I was suffering FROM ] had inhamma-
tion and liberation Of the kidneys and
when passed my urine i'll seemed as IL 1t
would Kill me and / passed large quanu-
ties of blood with II. / was taken to
prof. Dexter's office about o'clock IN the
afternoon. After the professor had treated
mo for one hour was relieved OF all pain
and | dismissed my carriage and walked
home a well man, free Of all pain and
STIFFNESS. The second day after treatment
sunday / went 10 my work and have
moi lost a moments time since. / feel
that / am in the best Of health and con-
alder my restoration to health a miracle
prof Dexter Is a most wonderful man and
I cannot recommend him too highly to the
siek and afflicted. / am an engineer and
am employed by the Plant System, and
have lived in Savannah for the past twelve
wears. ] live at the corner Of Wheaton ana
OFT streets, this city, and would be please1
Ia have any one who so desires to call on
me any evening in regard to my wonder
ftlI cure Yours truly, Dennis Smith
Consultation free. Room u, Marshall
House. A noted physician assists the pro-
fessor.
The Conservative, 1899-08-31
Che Conservative.

before the troops which were drawn up
in military array. A reporter of
''L'Autorite" thus describes the scene
''Dreyfus listens in silence while a
clerk reads the sentence. General Oar
ras her says: 'Dreyfus, you are un-
worthy to bear arms. In the name of
the French people we degrade you
"Then Dreyfus is seen to raise both
arms, and, head erect, he cries out in a
strong voice, in which no tremor is no.
ticed
"'I am innocent 1 swear I am inno-
cent. Vive la France
"And the vast crowd outside answers
with a cry of Death to him!
1.-The adjutant then begins his work,
first cutting from the condemned mans
uniform his g%alloons, cuffs, buttons, all
insignia of rank, ending by breaking his
sword. During the ceremony Dreyfus
several times raises his voice:
"'On the heads Of my wife and chill
dren I swear that I am innocent. l
swear it.. Viva la FranceP
cit is wei at last, but the seconds
have beeen as centuries. We had never
before felt pangs of anguish so keen.
And afresh, clear, and without any
touch of emotion, is heard the voice Of
the condemned man in a loud voice,
crying:
"'You degrade an innocent man!
1.-The prisoner is then allowed to pass
before the line of soldiers. AS he ap-
proaches the railing the civilian crowd
gets a better view of him and yells,
Death to him
when he arrives before a group of
reporters he pauses and says, Tell the
people of France that l am innocent
"They mock him, however, crying,
bastard! Traitor Judas! Vile Jew!'
HE passes OF and comes to a group
of officers of the general staff, his late
colleagues. Here again he pauses, and
says, Gentlemen, you know 1 am inno-
cent
"But they yell at him as did the re-
porters. He surveys them closely,
through his 'pince-nez' and says calmly,
You are a set of towards There is
utter contempt in his voice. At length
the direful march is ended. Dreyfus
enters a van and is driven to the Prison
de la Sante."
That evening he wrote to his wife:
"This days emotion have broken my
heart my cell offers me no consolation
Picture a little room all bare-foul
yards and a half long, perhaps-closed
by a grated garnet window, a pallet
standing against the wall-no, l will not
tear your heart, my darling. I will tel
you later, when we are happy again
The Conservative, 1899-08-31

back roughly to the truth. The looks of
scorn they cast on me told me too we'll
why l was there. Oh, why could not
my heart have been opened by a sur
geon's knife, SO that they might read
the truth !"
On the 18th of January, 1895, he was
transferred to the prison of Saint Martin
de Re, from which two days later he
wrote:
Thursday evening, toward ten
o'clock, they came to wake me to bring
me here, where 1 arrived only last night.
1 do not want to speak of my journey
it would break your heart. Know only
that I have heard the legitimate cries of
a brave and generous people against
him whom they believe to be a traitor.
X X X If there is a divine JUS
tice, we must hope that I shall be re-
compensed for this long and fearful tor
ture, for this suffering of every minute
and every instant. \ y n l
would rather, a hundred thousand times
rather. be dead. But this right to die
belongs to o N the more l suffer the
more must it impel your courage and
your resolution to find the truth.
as to my regime here, 1
am forbidden to speak to yOu Of IT,"
At Saint Martin de Re he was per-
mitted to write to his wife but twice a
week. On Janu airy 2Sth he said
"This is one of the happy days of my
sad existence, because 1 can come to
pass half an hour with you, talking to
you and telling you of my life. have
received your two letters Of Friday and
Saturday. Each time that they bring
me a letter from you array of joy pierces
my wounded heart. n X Il l know
that you all suffer as I do, that you par
take of my anguish and my fortunes,
but you have your activity to distract
you, a little, from this awful sorrow
while 1 am here, impatient, shut up
alone night and day with my thoughts.
l ask myself even now how my brain
has been strong enough to resist so
many and so oft -repeated blows how is
it that l have not gone mad? 4 n \
And then think Of the terrible way l
have still to traverse before l shall ar
rive at the end of my journey-crossing
the seas for sixty or eighty days under
conditions so appalling. do not speak
you know it-of the material condi-
lions of the passage you know that my
body has never worried me much but
the moral conditions? To be during all
that time before sailors, the officers of
the navy-that is, before honest and
loyal soldiers-who will see in me a
traitor, the most abject of criminals
At the bare thought of it my heart
shrinks.
On the ninth day of February the
The Conservative, 1899-08-31

stand, I shall be able to hold out to the
end. 1t is not physical suffering that I
fear-that has never been strong
enough to break me down it's blows
glance off-but the torture of soul the
knowledge that my name is dragged in
the mire, the name of a man who is in
n%ocent, the name of a man of honor
cry it aloud, my darling, cry to every
one that l am innocent-the victim of a
terrible fatality"
And again he wrote:
"Oh, my darling, had not I you, how
gladly would I die! Your love holds
me back it is your love only that makes
me strong enough to bear the hatred of
a nation. And the people are right to
hate me they have been told that l am
a traitor. All, traitor, the horrible
word! 1t breaks my heart"
About this time Dreyfus thought Of
suicide, but "a persuaded from such a
step by d letter from his wife:
"7our heroism has conquered me.
Strong in your love, strong in my con-
science and in the immovable support I
find in u two families, l feel my cour-
age born again. I shall struggle, there
fore, to my last breath. 1 shall strug-
gle to my last drop of blood.
n 1 have always loved you
deeply you know it. Today I do more
II marvel at and venerate you. You
are a holy, a noble woman. I am proud
of you, and I will try to be worthy of
you. Yes, it would be cowardice to
desert life. 1t would be to faint my
name-the name of my dear children
to sully that name forever. I realize
that today but how could it be other
wise? The blow was cruel it broke
down my courage; it is you who have
lifted me up"
The day before his degradation Nine.
Dreyfus' application to see her hus-
band was granted. Of their meeting
after three months of separation Drey-
fus wrote:
"Our conversation, even through the
bars of the prison, has done me good.
My limbs trembled under me when I
went down to meet you, but 1 gathered
all my strength, so that 1 should not
fall from my emotion. Even now my
hands are still trembling Dur interview
has violently shaken me. If I did not
insist that you should stay still longer,
it was because I was at the end Of my
strength to hide myself, so that 1 might
weep a little do not believe that be-
cause I weep my soul is less brave or
less strong but my body is somewhat
weakened by three months of the prison,
without a breath of the outer air.
must have had a robust constitution to
have been able to resist these t~ortures.
\ II II AS for me, you must
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-03-09

pages, or over $50 pages per vol.
articles, averaging Ia pages each.
articles written and signed by specialists
pages written by special contributors.
full-page engraved plates, containing
over 900 separate illustrations.
maps and plans, including 237 colored
maps.
illustrations, exclusive of maps and
plans And the New American Supple
ment to this edition contains over
biographies not to be found in the orig
lnal Edinburgh edition nor in any other
Encyclopedia.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1899-03-21
Kansas Flour In the Orient.

Topeka, March 16.-The establish
ment OF steamship line connecting
with the Santa Fe railway at San
Diego and touching at Honolulu, the
ports Of Japan and China, and event.
ually those Of the Philippine islands,
will prove of great benefit to the -four
manufacturers of Kansas and the
cotton growers of Texas, Oklahoma
and TIE Indian Territory.
In discussing the matter today
General Freight Agent F. G. Gay of
the Santa Fe stated that within a
year the establishment of a direct
Pacific steamship line would make for
Kansas -four almost as much of a
market in the Orient as it now has In
Europe, thereby nearly doubling the
export shipments. 1t will greatly in.
crease the demand for cotton, and
make cotton growing in Texas, Okla
homaand theIudianTerritory, through
which the Santa Fe system runs, more
profitable than in the majority of
southern territory.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1899-03-21
The Right Remedy Will
Danish it Forever.

If you would forever be rid of
Che aches and pains, and some
times the fortunes produced by
Rheumatism, you must take the
right remedy. Those who con-
tinue to suffer are relying upon
remedies which do not reach their
trouble. The DOCTORS treatment
always consists of potash and
mercury, which only intensity the
disease, causing the joints to stiff
en- and the bones to ache, besides
seriously impairing the digestive
organs.
Rheumatism is disordered state OF
che blood, and the only cure for it is a
real blood remedy. Swift's Specific Is
8, 81 goes down to the very bottom Of
all diseases of the blood, and promptly
cures cases that other remedies can moi
reach.
Mr.. E. K. S. Clinkenbeard, a promi.
nent attorney Of Mt. Sterling, Ky,
writes:
1.-TWO years ago was great sufferer
from Rheumatism. ! had tried every
remedy l could hear of except S. S. S
] had been to Hot Springs, Ark, where
] remained for twelve weeks under
treatment, but Experienced no perma.
nent relief, and returned home, be.
lisving that would be sufferer a,
long as l lived. at time when my
pains we're almost unbearable,
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1899-03-21
winners, very handy, as far north as

winners, very handy, as far north as
Manitoba.
At this juncture my attention was
diverted from this wonderful cata-
logue by strains Of hesweetest music
| had ever heard that seemed to come
from above, looking up l beheld a
large air ship with hundreds of people
on hoard with the largest speciman of
Old Glory | bad ever seen, floating
from the flag staff on the bow OF thi.
wonderful air ship. On this flag in
letters of blue and gJld were the
words "Uuited States of Imperial
America" The booming OF cannon
from this aerial monster, at this |
awoke TO find myself still living in the
nineteenth instead of the twentieth
century. FARMER K.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1899-03-21

Here is an item from the South
Haven New Era, which we would like
TO hear gossiped around and given as
vide circulation as is given scandal.
The item sounds strange to yelling
ton people, and will cause blush of
shame, but it can be discussed in
crowds where both sexes are present
without embarrassment: Another car
load OF vitrifled brick was received
this week from Coffeyville to be used
10 sidewalk building and another car
is to be ordered right away. The
Methodist people will put in a walk
OF 100 feet In front Of the church. The
old j. R. Reid corner, now occupied
by Huffman & Bonsail, will be curbed
and bricked On the west and south BY
the township, the present owner, and
the dwelling property on the east OF
it, now occupied by Fl. Vanfossen will
also be taken through the same
cnnrspD
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1899-03-21
GraIn-O BrilRs Relief

to the coffee drlnker. Coffee drinking
Is habit that is universally INDUCED
10 and almost as universally injurious.
Have you tried Grain.O9 1t Is al.
most like coffee but the effects are Just
the opposite. Coffee upsets the
stomach, ruins tie digestion, effects
the heart and disturbs the whole
nervous system. Grain.O tones up
the stomach, aids digestion and
strengthens the nerves. There i.
nothing but nourishment in Grain. O.
1t can't be otherwise. Is and Csc. per
package.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1899-03-21
(Which Wins ?"

has already laid its grim hand upon him.
and doctor after doctor and medicine after
medicine have been tried in vain-now. per.
haps, comes some kind friend who saws
DR.. Pierce can cure you, write 10 him.
His Golden Medical Discovery has rec.
cued thousands who were further gone
than you"
He is chief consulting physician of
the lnvalids' Hotel and Surgical Institute,
OF Buffalo, N. Y; he has been at the head
OF this great Sanitarium for thirty wears: he
has probably had more experience in treat
ing severe chronic diseases than anv other
physician living. Write to him ANYWAY.
that will cost you nothing. He will gladly
and freely answer your letters with friend
lly, fatherly advice which will be of value
beyond all price!''
Now is the critical instant Will the
patient give up in despair and let the angel
of disease drag him away from wife ,nd
family and children, or will he grasp the
hand of the angel of life in one more SD.
preme effort for restoration? Are Won
standing between the contending angels3
Which wins?
Mrs. Emily Howe, of Park Avenue, Chicago
MS, writes: About two years ago nv son was
afflicted with what seemed to be SYMPTOMS of
consumption. purchased three bottles of DR.
Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery and It Cured
him completely"
The Peoples Common Sense Medical
Adviser, Iooo-page illustrated volume by
K. V. Pierce, N. D., will be sent free for
cost OF mailing only,-2I one-cent stamps
Address Dr.. Pierce, Buf2lo, N. Y. Or send
81 stamps for heavier cloth-bound COW.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1899-03-21
School report blanks
for sale at this office.
The Sexton.

Nigh to grave that was newly made
Leaned sexton old on his earth-worn
spade.
His task was done, and he paused to wait
The funeral train through the open gate.
A relic of bygone days washe,
And his locks we're as white as foamy sea.
And these words came forth from his lips SC
thin:
IL gather them In, l gather them in.
MANY are with me, and yet still I'm alone,
I'm King Of the dead, and | make my
throne
On monument slab Of marble cold,
And my sceptsr Of rule is the spade hold.
I've builded the houses that lie around
In every nook Of this burial ground.
But come they stranger, or come they kin,
gather them in, gather them in.
81 gather them in, both man and boy,
Year after year, Of grief or joy,
Mother and daughter, father and son,
Cometo my solitude one by one.
Come they from cottage, or come they from
hall,
Mankind are my subjects, all, all, all,
Let them loiter in pleasure, or toilfully
spin,
lgather them in, gather themln
u gather them in, and their final rest
Is here, down here In the aarth's dark
breast"
The sexton cessed, for the funeral train
Wound mutely over thai solemn plain;
Ano | said in my heart, when time is told
A mightier voice than that sections old
Shall sound DER the last trump's dreadful
din,
II gather them in, gather them in"
Park Benjamin.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1899-03-21
One Death Reported.

Daily Journal, Monday.
1t is reported in Wellington today
that the daughter Of VIM. Jordan OF
Bitter Creek, died yesterday of small
pOx. The report cannot be confirmed
DR.. Martin is out of the city and
telephone message from Arkansas
City awaits him. Its nature cannot
be learned until he returns, late this
evening.
The excitement over the disease in
the Bitter Creek neighborhoOd still
continues, and wholesale vaccination
is being resOrted TO by those who are
10 any way likely to be exposed to the
disease. The entire family OF Fl. ].
DOnahue of Portland, is said to have
been exposed, and the people of that
neighbOrhoOd have become alarmed.
During DR.. Martins absence today
someone left the following inscription
upon his slate:
"Mr. Martin look after these small
pOx tenant & dOnOhue has been
exposed & ashton is cornteened better
look out"
From the above it is inferred that
the people of Ashton have decided to
quarantine the town against all out.
siders. Ashton is the residence of DR..
Geeslin, one Of the attending physi-
clans upon the smallpox patients. 1t
was reported that DR.. Geesin had
contracted the disease, but the report
is said to be untrue.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1899-03-21
HOw's This2

We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for
any case Of catarrh that can not be cured BY
Halls Catarrh Cure
FL. CHENEY 4 Co., Props. Toledo, o.
we the undersigned, have known F. ].
Cheney for the last fifteen years. and believe
him perfectly honorable in all business tran.
sactions and financially able to carry out any
obligations made by their firm.
WIT d TRUAI, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo
WALpING. KINEAN & MARVIN. Wholesale
Druggists Toledo, Ohio.
Halls Catsrrh Cure is taken internally,
ac.inr directly upon the blood and mucous
surfaces 81 the system. Price 75c. per bottle.
SOLD 1y all druggists. Testimonials free.
tails Family Pills are the best.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1899-03-21

Dorsey and Cox, big cattlemen OF
Sumner county, have leased thirteen
hundred acres of grass land north of
the Chikaskia river and will fence the
same and bring their big herd here
this spriDg.-Harper Sentinel.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1899-03-21

In the next campaign, the less Re-
publican papers have to say about
nepotism and useless legislative en-
ployes the better for their reputation
for sincerity. There are more than
l40 employees in the present Republi-
can house and more than sixty of them
have nothing TO do and have not
earned s. since the session began.
Sixty employees at SO day is $3.50 a
day, and 5000 in fifty days, OF public
money deliberately wasted for politi-
cal purposes. The POpulicts were no
better; but neither were they any
worse.-Topeka Capital.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1899-03-21
Goodbye,
! Rheumatism.

CHANGED to read your advertisement
and was impressed with it so much
that l decided to try s. SIS. 1 took
eleven bottles and was entirely relieved
Of all pain and cured permanently.
When l began to take s. s. s. l was
unable to sit or stand with any ease,
and could not sleep. Since taking the
last dose / have had no return Of the
Rheumatism, and l take great pleas
ure in recommending s. S. s to any
one who has the misfortune to suffer
with this disabling disease"
S.S.S. is the only cure for Rheu-
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1899-03-21

The steamship line out of San Die
90 to Oriental ports has already been
established, but within the next three
months new vessels, now in prepare
ton, WILDE ready and semi-monthly
service maintained.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1899-03-21

The queen regent has signed the
treaty Of peace between Spain and
the United States. The draft Of the
treaty was signed in Paris on Deem
Der 10, 1898. 1t was approved BY the
United States senate by a vote of 81
to q, on February 6, and was signed
by the president on February 10.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1899-03-21

1t is very hard to stand lily by and
see our dear ones suffer while awaiting
the arrival of the doctor. An ALBANY
IN. ~ dairyman called at a drug
store there for a doctor to come and
see his child, then very sick with
Group. Not finding the doctor ia he
left word for him to come at once on
his return. He also bought bottle
OF ChamberlaiD's Cough Remedy.
which he hoped would give some re.
lief untilthe doctor should arrive. In
a few hours he returned, saying the
doctor need not come, as the child was
much better The druggist, Mr.. Otto
Srholz, says the family has since
recommended Chamberlain's Cough
Remedy tOtheir neighbors and friends
until he has constant demand for il
from that part OF the country. For
sale by all druggists.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1899-03-21

Miss Jean Crichton, cashier in the
Boston store at Wichita, won the
Christian EndeavOr Worlds prize, a
voyage to Europe during the Worlds
Fair in 1900.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1899-03-21

The law changing the time for
holding the commissioners meeting
in April will not 20 into effect in time
to effect the meeting Of the board
next month, and the meeting will be
held the first Monday after the first
Tuesday, the 10th, as under tie old
law
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1899-03-21

A terrific cyclone swept through
portions Of Alabama, Mississippi and
Arkansas Saturday, doing an immense
amount of property damage and kill.
ing a number Of people. The storm
covered a radius Of several hundred
miles, destroying telegraph wires and
cutting off communication with a
large part Of the affected country.
Cle6urn county, Alabama, seems to
have suffered the most severely, the
storm there assuming the proportions
OF tornado. The reports of fatalitie,
In the county vary from six to twenty,
and many more are said to have been
injured. At Sellers and Luverne,
Ala, much damage is reported, and
at Rob Roy, Ark, one man was killed
and several badly injured. Dumas,
Ark, was practically wiped out of
existence and several other towns In
the vicinity suffered severely. One
person is reported killed at Hickory
Flat, Miss, and as the farm houses in
that vicinity suffered heavily, it is
not unlikely that many fatalities oc.
Cured which have not been reported.