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The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1899-10-02
From a Grateful Newark woman.

'VIH !" DI1I1VIUI IV"IIIH " Uilih'
"When l wrote to you l was very
sick, had not been well for two years.
The doctors did not seem TO help me,
and one said l could not live three
months. had womb trouble, falling,
ulcers, kidney and bladder trouble.
There seemed to be such drawing
and burning pain in my bowels that
could not rest anywhere. After using
Lydia E. Pinl,ham's Vegetable Com
pound and Sanative Wash and follow
ing your advice, feel well again and
stronger than ever. My bowels feel as if
they had been made over new. With
many thanks for your help, remain,
L. g., "a ANN ST., NEWARK, N. j."
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1899-10-02
What a Little Faith Did
FOR MRS. ROCKWELL.

LETTER TO MRS rrNKHAM NO. 69,ssl
." / was n great sufferer from female
weakness and had no strength. 1t was
impossible for me to attend TO my
household duties. l had tried every
thing and many doctors, but found no
relief.
My sister advised me TO try Lydia
+. PiuSham's Vegetable Compound,
which l did; before using all of one
bottle felt better. kept on with it
and to my great surprise / am cured.
All who suffer from female complaints
should give it trial. "-MRs. Rock
WELL, 1909 S. DIVISION ST., GRAND
RAPIDS, MICH
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1899-10-02

Is not recommended for
everything, butif you have
kidney, liver or bladder
trouble it will be found just
The evening times., 1899-12-13
NEW SILVER CERTIFICATES.
A. Artistic Tribute =. the America,

Navy.
tribute to the American Navy OF
striking artistic beauty. will appear on
the new $40 silver certificates. The CEN
trail feature Of the certificates will be a
steel engraving of the battleship Maine.
ploughing the seas under full steam as
she left the United States for Havana, un-
der Captain >Sigsbee, nearly two years ago.
The engraving is unusually fine in
Workmanship and spirited in conception.
The white hull stands out conspicuOusly
on the water. with the dark caption OF
the currents and heavy armament. Two
heavy guns point over the bow, which cuts
the water as gracefully as that of a yacht.
Tbs other features of the certificate are
medallions of two of the naval heroes who
made the flag respected early in the cen
tury by their victories over the British
and the pirates of the Mediterranean. The
uniform CT that time, with its gold lace
and fringed epaulettes, gives pictu-
rescue historical character to the por-
traits
Over each medallion is inclined the
partly -draped figure of a goddess. holding
a branch Of laurel These are the essen
tally artistic features of the new note
They do not interfere with the general
plan OF all the new notes. to leave a con-
siderable expanse of white paper. In which
the silk threads add to the facility for de-
tecting counterfeits.
The evening times., 1899-12-13
A GREAT TIDAL WAVE DISASTER
immense Losses Of Life In One of
the MOlucca Islands,

Immense Losses Of Life In One of
the MOiuccn Islands.
SAN FRANCISCO. Dec 1s-Mail ad-
vices from China give the first details of
the disaster caused by tidal wave, which
swept over Ceram, one OF the Molucca
Islands. between Borneo and New Guiana,
on November 2. These adyices show that
5000 people were destroyed on Ceram
alone. when the earthquakes Of November
shook the Japan coast and the lands ad-
jacent.
On the night Of November 2, the people
of Ceram were awakened by a terrific
earthquake that moved from north to
south. All fed from their houses to the
public squares. a few hours later. it was
reported that the water was rising in the
Bay of Ambonia. The sea came forward
in the shape Of a huge tidal wave, and
forced water into the bay entrance. 1t
came up fifty feet over the low lands. At
Paueoly and Samasoeroa, on the bay, the
waves swept over the tops of trees thirty
feet high. Out OF nearly eighteen thou
sand inhabitants only forty escaped.
The whole coast for miles was trans
formed. Every few rods were great heaps
of stones and powders, that had been
washed up from the sea, changing the en-
tire topography of the country. The ex-
act number of killed along the coast will
never be known. as in many cases the
bodies are buried yards under the rev
ground
The evening times., 1899-12-13
Cubn,s Rec onstruction.

| Like the building OF Rome, the recon-
struction of Cuba is not the task OF a
| day or the enterprise of season. Yet
Americas pledge to civilization requires
| that the rehabilitation shall be accom-
plished and no problem or complication
! that may grow out of that duty will re-
suit in its abandonment.
The discordant utterances of cliques or
| factions Of insular origin will neither defeat
nor modify the American programme for
| the Cuban people. 1t is not the American
habit to trembie when the howl of the dis
grrnt,ad is heard or to pause in dismay be-
1 cause few somebodies or nohodies noisily
infer that dreadful things may come about
/ II they are not permitted 10 experiment
with a helpless peoples future.
Cuba's resuscitation and salvation depend
| very largely upon the remedial influences
of education. General Wood, who is likely
to become the guiding spirit OF the re-
building era in the island. appreciates the
fact that Ignorance must be stamped out
in order to place the psople on a firm,
progressive basis Only recently. speak
ing in this city. he asserted that the i'm
! mediate need was for schools where the
| children may have instruction in the rudi-
mentary branches
Under Spanish rule, modern educational
methods had no place in Cuba; ignorance
was desirable for monarchicai reasons; the
illiterate are more easily imposed upon than
those whose brains have been developed by
an MI with LODI nd adn
cation goes hand in hand with the spirit OF
independence.
There is undeniabe proof of the willing
ness of the Cuban masses 10 escape from
the mental darkness 10 which they have
been so long consigned. The children are
especially eager to receive instruction. and
this is one of the most gratifying signs, for
upon these youngsters Cuba's future must
really depend. 1t is for this reason that
any effort to spread educational eulightsn-
ment among them will commend itself 10
the intelligence of the American nation.
Nothing could be more criminal than al
acquiescence on the part of this Govern
ment to the impatient dsmand for the wish
drawal of protective force from the island
for whose fate America is, under the cir
cumstances. inescapably responsible. The
recalcitrant element in Cuba unquestionably
prefers the opportunity for the exercise
of its coEnivirg greed to the welfare of
its countrymen, and its indifference 10 the
necessities of the hour is proof OF the as
sertion- The intricacies OF suffrage sys-
TEN are as incomprehensible to the average
Cuban today as a treatise on higher mathe-
matics. With the ballot in the hands of
the people, thay would become the legiti-
mate prey of the very persons whose pres
ent hysterical cry for independence be-
trays their anxiety for just such an op-
portunity
The evening times., 1899-12-13
AFTER NEW LANDS.
The Standard Oil Company Seeking
Them in Indian Territory.

The Standard Oil Company. through two
other corporations. is endeavoring TO get
possession Of the oil and coal lands of the
Indian Territory.
A petition has been filed with the Sec
retary of the Interior by the Cudahy Oil
Company. the Cherokee Oil and Gas Com
pany. and B. W. Pennington. asking for
the lease OF $4,000 acres of the only oil
and mineral lands in the Territory at a rem
tai of s5..i2l year. These petitioners are
all connected indirectly with the Standard
Oil Trust.
These firms have already secured leases
from the Cherokees, and, because OF loosely
defined boundaries, worked without pay
ment lands belonging to the Delawares
and Creeks.
Already twenty-five wells have been
bored on land to which they have no claim.
Oil was found in great quantities. but the
district court of the Territory forbade the
companies working the wells. and as re-
suit thousands of barrels of oil are running
to waste, going back into the ground.
The Delawares, Creeks. and disaffected
gan. of 81 William Street, New York. as
their attorney to resist the granting Of the
leases. He has filed brief with the Sec
Tetary of the Interior in which he sets
forth that the Indians would receive prao-
tically nothing for their lands.
In his brief Mr.. Logan says: The In
dian does not wish to adopt the white
mans system of trusts and monopolies.'
The evening times., 1899-12-13
DIED ON THE SIDEWALK.
A Former Austrian Consul Expire
on broadway New York

Former Austrian Consul Expires
ON broadway. New York.
NEW YORK, Dec. 13-John Reymers-
choffer, formerly Austrian Corsul at Gal
weston, Texas. died suddenly yesterday in
front of s12 Broadway. it is supposed of
Brieht's disease. He had come to this city
to meet his wife and daughter, who return
ed from a trip to Europe on the steamship
Trave last Wednesday. Yesterday after
noon accompanied by his wife, Mr.. Rey-
merschoffer took stroll along Broadway.
After walking for a short time, he COM
planned of being i'll and fell to the side
walk in front of S12 Broadway. A wedding
was being solemnized in Grace Church at
the time and a big crowd blocked the side
walk. He was carried into the store at
Sl2 Broadway. An ambulance surgeon
called there and pronounced him dead.
The body was removed to the Mercer Street
police station and later taken TO an IN
dertakers on permit Issued by GOroners
Physician Hanlon.
Mr.. Reymerschoffer and his wife and
daughter were staying with friends at IA
West Seventeenth Street. Mr. Reymsr
schoffer was fifty-six years old. He was
prominent in business and social circles in
Galveston where he was president of the
Texas Star Flour Mills and had many other
business interests.
The evening times., 1899-12-13
Is Joubert an American.

The story to the effect that Petrus Jou-
bert, the Boer General-in-Chief, is an
American. was first put in circulation
during the former war between England
and the Transvaal. It may be true. but
If SO. South African accounts of his an
eestry and early life are mythical. The
habit of claiming the production of dis
tinguished men by countries they never
have seen, is common and old. Ghazi os-
man. the hero of Plevna, declared by the
Sultan to be a native of Asia Minor, Is ney-
ertheless widely believed to be Pennsyl-
vanian. whose real name is Crawford
In the days when Garibaidi was fight
ing fer Italian unity he, too. was claimed
as native of various countries by enthus-
iastic admirers within them Thus. a
provincial Scotch newspaper asserted that
the red-shirted general was in reality a
Glasgow man, and that his name was
mere. corruption of that OF his baptism.
which was Garry Baldwin. On seeing this
statement. an Irish editor took umbrage
and declared that Garibaldi's name was
not Garry Baldwin at all, as the menda-
cious Sandylander had stated. but Baldwin
Garry, and that "the thief OF the world
was born near the Rock OF Cashel."
No doubt there is equally sound reason
for considering Joubert . Yankee. We
The evening times., 1899-12-13
FIGHTING WITH THE BoERs.
Colonel Duncan Hood Said to Have
Gone TO south Africa.

POUGHKEEPSIE. n. Y, Dec. 13.-
Duncan Hood, son of the Confederate gen
eral and colonel of one of the immune
regiments in the Spanish war, is said TO
have Joined the Boer army He was gradu-
ated at West Point in 1896. AT the out
break of the war with Spain he was the
first to suggest the idea of immune regi-
ments. and President Mckinley called him
TO Washington to discuss the scheme. The
plan was finally adopted and Hood was
commissioned as colonel of one of them.
In Cuba General Leonard Wood gave
Colonel Hood command of the district of
Holguin, near Santiago. There had been
an epidemic of smallpox in the district for
eight years. but by rigid enforcement of
sanitary laws Colonel Hood stamped out
the disease in two months. General Wood
spoke highly of Colonel Hood. ,
After being mustered out of the service
last July Colonel Hood returned TO New
York and resumed his studies at Columbia.
The Boer troubles interested him. and he
is said TO have left for South Africa just
before the outbreak of hostilities, and TO
have been commissioned in the army of the
Beers
The evening times., 1899-12-13
Fighting for an Opera Box.
{From the Pail Mall Gazette.)


For over a century past the Choiseul family
has had the right to a box at the Opera Comique,
Paris. Almost every time the theatre has changed
hands, or has moved from site TO another
and the Opera Comique has had frequent vicissi-
tudes of fortune-the attempt has been made to
suppress the privilege, but on each occasion the
pretensions Of the Choiseul family have been
confirmed. after long litigation. As is well
known, the Opera Comique has been rebuilt as
. result of the terrible fire of 1887. NJ Albert
Carre, the manager Of the theatre. is as
little satisfied his predecessors at being Obliged
to concede one of his best boxes for nothing and
far he has refused to allow the Due de Mariner
and the Due de Fitz-James, the representatives
today Of the Choiseul family, to enjoy possession
OF their free seats. In consequence, they have
brought action against him.
The box originally granted by Louis XVI
in 1881 to the Due de Choiseul in consideration
of his having built the original Opera Comiuue
at his own expense. During the Revolution the
then Due de Choiseul returned to Paris after
the Terror TO find all his property confiscated,
but his rights TO the Opera Comique box had
been left intact, so he took up his residence IN
it and slept and lived in the theatre for several
months. The last occasion OF which the rights
of the family were called in question was in
1880, when the State, which subsidizes the Opera
Comique, asked the courts to decide that the
privilege had become extinct The State, how
ever. lost its action. and n. Albert Care may
not be more fortunate.
The evening times., 1899-12-13
How Brain Worker. should Eat.

Qrom the Sanitary Record)
1t is all right for the man who labors all day
in the open air to eat freely; but the Of
sederhary habits. the brain worker, must adapt
his way of living to his needs. He must be well
nourished, for the brain is incapable Of good
work unless well supplied with pure blood, but
such man cannot possibly furnish vital force
to digest three large meals daily. II he tries it
nature will protest at every step. The chemical
changes of digestion will be imperfectly per-
formed The stomach will neither secrete freely
nor churn the food with cheerful alacrity; the
pyloric orifce contracts and allows such ehyme
to pass with grudging reluctance; the intestinal
lactreals ashamed 10 absorb such miserable
pabulum, which chokes, irritates. and coneesis
them, the large meal remains in the digestive
organs to ferment, putrefy, and steep the indi-
vdual in foul gases and depraved secretions.
But the system furnish enough vital force
to convert small meal into pabulum of high
standard. which will he absorbed without diff
Guilty. Three such small meals not enough to
keep the individual properly nourished, how
ever; four to six will be required. Each should
consist of but one or at most two articles OF
food, the diet to be varied by changes at meals
The portion Of food served must be small; the
patient must stop soon as the appetite is sat
isfed, and gaseous distention is proof positiye
that tl meals are still too large too close to-
gether,
The evening times., 1899-12-13

Since We know now that Col. Duncan
n. Hood. West Pointer, and late COM
manding a regiment OF immunes in the
Spanish war. is serving with the Beers. It
would be interesting to learn where he has
been lately. If he was with Cronje when
the Modder River battle occurred, side
light would be thrown on the tactics Of
the occasion. 1t looked as if Cronje was
proposing to repeat at Modder and Me-
garsfontein, the plan executed by General
Thomas. when he moved out from Nash
vile to meet the advance of Colonel
Hoods father. at Franklin, and having
inflicted heavy damage on General Hood
fell back within his fortified position,
to receive the unsuccessful assault OF a
weakened enemy. Young Hood. We will
suppose. has been a close student of his
fathers campaigns, and it is not likely
that the lessons of Franklin and Nash
lille have been lost on him.
The evening times., 1899-12-13

The interest which the German Govern
ment has exhibited in the report that Dem
mark had offered the Danish West India
Islands for sale 10 the United States,
strongly suggests the desirability of their
early acquisition by this country. Consid-
ering the new relations of America as a
world power. and especially the conditions
which the building of the Nicaragua Canal
will create, the proposition that all of the
Antilles should be under the Stars and
Stripes, doss moi seem TO admit of much ad-
verse argument. We certainly cannot sf-
ford TO consent TO the establishment OF any
Few European influence in the West Indies,
which scientifically do and of military ne
cessity should belong 10 the United States.
The evening times., 1899-12-13
coALING SHIPS AT SEA.
A Favorable Report On the Recently
Tested System.

Tested systen.
Coaling at sea with both collier and war
ship proceeding at an average speed has
been shown to be practicable In recent tests
conducted by the cruiser New York and the
collier Cassius. Thirty tons of coal were
transferred from the collier to the naval
ship in one hour. and under more favorable
conditions it is said forty tons could proba-
bly, be dumped in the bunkers.
The report of the inspection board con-
Quoting the trials is favorable to the sys-
TEN, while the report of the commanding
officer of the New York is even more COM
mendatory. The board found that the ap-
pliances for moving the coal worked ad-
mirably. and that the claims of the invent
ors were fully sustained. II has been
found. however that the appliances in
some respects were too light. and that per-
haps it would be better to have them made
OF heavier steel il the navy adopts the sys-
tenn.
While coaling ships at sea has been a
matter of experiment and consideration for
years. Ii was never believed any apparatus
could be found that would transfer coal
from collier TO warship much faster than
the vessels were burning il. One expense
of the system is that should the collier ac-
company war vessel a long distance it
would burn almost as much coal as it would
supply the warship. The present system
Is unquestionsbly the best yet presented TO
the Navy Department. and worked to the
satisfaction of the officials There is not
however. as great necessity for colliers
with naval ships on long voyages. owing to
the establishment of outlying coaling sta
tions and the admirable systzm of coal de-
posits along the coast. Admiral Bradford
Is said to be rather opposed for the present
TO adopting the invention. although it may
be accepted. considering the trouble and
expense OF the inventor in bringing it TO its
present state OF perfection.
The evening times., 1899-12-13
A New Kind of water Mark.

Two Englishmen who have recently secured a
method of producing water marks by means of
electrolysis thus describes the process:
IN producing disappearing and repeatedly
reyivable translucent water mark in or on man.
ufactured paper proceed as follows: Upon
platinum sheet plate forming the positive
Quoting surface place a layer Of absorbent
tened with water. On this material we place
the paper which is to receive the water mark
the paper having been previously moistened
through with water. We then pres, face down
ward, the paper platinum design of the
ter mark. and this design forms the negative eler-
trode. We keep this negative electrode in con
tact with the paper for from five to ten seconds,
according to the nature of the paper and the
removal of the electrode is n distinct and trans
lucent image of the design, which gradually.
fades the paper dries, and finally becomes
invisible. The mark, however, can be revived
and made visible often the paper is I'M
mersed in water or moistened in any other way"
The evening times., 1899-12-13
MAYOR JONES ovERTHRoWN
His Propositions to the Toledo Coun-
Gil Ignored.

TOLEDO, Ohio. Dec. 13-The city coun-
ell of Toledo has completely oveIthrown
the municipal ownership proposition of
Mayor Jones. so far as Toledo is concern
ed. Mayor Jones walked out OF the COM
mittee room today. saying. Well 1 guess
| am no longer wanted
The city council has ordered the sale OF
the Toledo National Gas Plant to J. n.
Bick for SOS. 900, although Mayor Jones
presented proposition from firm Offer
ing to furnish the city with gas at low
rate and at the end Of ten years to turn
over the city plant to the city free of
charge.
Numerous charges of bribery are limited
al and il is claimed that some persons Sc
cured 1000 each for their influence"
The vote of the council, some assert, rob-
bed the people of low rate of gas and the
profits will now go to private individuals
Instead of the people.
The evening times., 1899-12-13
COLORADO MINING INTERESTS.
a Proposition That They He Devcl-
Opcd by the state.

DENVER, Col, Dec. 13.-Mining for god
under State direction for the benefit of
the State treasury is the scheme submitted
today TO Governor Thomas by Attorney
General Campbell II successful the pan
would solve two pressing problems. 1t
would relieve the State of a financial strin
gency caused by debt of more than So
600. 600 and provide an opportunity for using
convict labor without competition with
free labor. In Cripple Creek the State
possesses valuable mining property. This
property is controlled by the State Land
Board Of which the governor is chairman.
Mr.. Campbell basing his prediction on
results obtained in surrounding mines,
thinks the gold-bearing strata can be
reached by sinking from coo to 1000 feet.
One hundred or more men from the State
penitentiary could be employed in doing
the work. which would thus be accom-
piished at a slight expense to the State
The evening times., 1899-12-13
The Eloquent Corporal.
(From the Queens service.)

''Now, then, No. - the corporal continues.
well make another start-that is, if you've quite
finished feelin' il your back hair happens to be
on straight this morning. It's you I'm talking to
third man from the LETT of the front rank. /
haven't the pleasure of knowin' your name but
expect to be writin' it down for an hours extra
duty pretty soon. Now then, look to your 'front.'
'tcliun. left dress! Turn your eyes to the left
without squinting like Chinese dummies-if You
can Stand up in the ranks. too. like soldiers;
not like measly row Of lopsided. spindle e-shank.
ed. cockney shopboys! Stick your chests out and
put your stummcks somewhere out Of sight al.
together. There's arf of you with figures like
bags of potatoes. Strike me crimson if / ever
saw such mob! Hi! you, in the ce,tre--the
glnger. headed man. l mean-don't grin like that; !;
this amt no perishin' beauty competition
BY no manner Of means."
The evening times., 1899-12-13

AS Boer despatch from Pretoria states
that Consul Macrum is about to depart for
America ''on state business there may
be some truth in the report that he has
been employed by Kruger 20 convey a mes
sage or proposition TO President Mckinley.
1t is understood-th that ,Macrum has long been
Boer partisan, which, If it be fact,
might account for the peculiarity of his re-
cent proceedings.
The evening times., 1899-12-13
Food Elements in Fruit.
(From the London Globe.

Sugar. starch. gum. dextrine. pectine, saccha-
rihable. cellulose, organic acids, and other ex-
tractive M ters are. together with water tho
chief elements in pulp fruits. The sugar is as
similable. and is a food. Fruits which contain
most Of it. as bananas dates and fgs, are true
hydro -carbonated foods Extractive matters are
also nourishng, but. in less degree, they are
not so digestble. With these and other
ceptions however, fruits. in the opinion of II.
Balland are little nutrtive. and cannot be con-
sidered as foods Their juices which please Us
by their smell or acidity, are condiments rather
4ho1t e.