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The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-12-16

reward for your services Will give
you % per cent. OF my property and
the fruit OF this property during the
minority of the girl. II you accept
viii send you further explanations.
The prior OF tho convent where my
daughter Is stopped Is man OF all
my confidence and he know all my
secrets and Instructions. He Is an
honest man with many friendships OF
which We may be I'm need at any time.
! must tell you that owed 10 my
long staying at America suffer a
terrible Illness which oblige me 10 bs
IN bed very much time and I expect
n fatal result. This is the reason
why ! wish 10 put In order my bust
ness as soon as possible before my
daughter may be an orphan one In
order not 10 lose time / beg you 10
send eablegram 10 the city where
the convent Is stand On which convent
my girl - reelused) "a soon as you
may receive this letter and then I
viii send you the necessary expiana-
.ions and Instructions for 20 accom-
plish this important matter
The oa5legrarn must be addressed ms
follow;
"spalu-~Mr. Aware suaser--sister
teleErafos- Mlranda-W Waiting
Please 20 sing II
waiting your answer I am Sir your
oaedlent servant, RICARDO I.OPER.
Mr.. Collins would have nothing 10 do
with the letter, and he promptly Hent n
But q Bay State man, while not xulilhl.
enough 20 send money. half believed IN.
statements In his letter and opened up /,
correspondence with his relative In
spain, which was closed only when h.
submitted the whole matter 10 a man
more versed in the ways OF the wicked
world than himself. and received from the
man the advice. IF l were you | would
drop II like hot cakes"
Down on the Cape Cod coast. facing the
blue waters OF Nantucket Sound. sits a
ilttie village which for years has been
struggling against the fate that gave 10 81
the name Of Hyannis. On the north coast
q the cape, facing Cape Cod bay, IA the
illsger town Of Barnstable. Addressed 10
T. Croker. or +. Cr0cker--the initial
could scarcely be determined ship chani-
Ter OF Barnstable came letter with a
spanish postmark. There Is a Croker In
Sarnstable. but his initial is neither II.
nor r. He has. however. brother In
hyannis whose initial is F., and to him
on the advice OF the Barnstable Croker.
he postmaster Of that town remalled the
letter. The letter, upon being opened by
r. Grocker Of Hyaunis, was found to he
uAted at the Castle of Valencia. and he
gan My Dear Relative" In II Jaclpto
Aoria Esnresensedr himssae - >beina oon.
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being q commandment OF the Spanish
army he was trusted for to study the
organization OF your country's army.
There he married with Miss Mary Coll
Inns OF your family, and after a short
time they returned to Spain. where by
some disgust which ! don't know was
broken the relationship with my moth
er's family. In spite Of this my moth
er ala remember, very often, Of her
family. specially Of yourself as her
next relation.
When I began to study for TO be
soldier my mother was dead. and two
years after my father also.
was a widower. with girl when
the Cuban war was commenced. being
sent there and putting my girl on a
convent a long time before the be-
ginningH OF the war with the United
States u,Nas a colonel OF military adj
ministratioul. The general captain Of
Cuba ordered me 10 20 TO Mexico for
10 supply our army from there. where
as soon as ! arrived ] bad friendship
with tbs. spanish consul. who was the
cause OF my misfortune. During ff-
teen months ! was accomplishing nay
duty and I got a sum Of s259.0sl by
making some purchases upon myself
and BY another proper of my employ
ment without thinking about the Risks
and compromises that those businesses
should draw upon me.
As soon as preliminary OF peace be-
gan. was ordered 10 return to Ha-
hana for 20 render accounts 81 my
trust but al the same time received
letter 81 my servant saving. that the
spanish CONSUL HAD denounced ms
business, that the general captain had
ordered tn form a process and that
this yaz the reason BY which Z MAS
called % HanAnA- Owed a. this adj
Vice I phi my property On safe doing
q deposit al the Bank o. Mexico 10
be paid 70 the bearer Of the check AZ
X may be accompanied BY a coun-
tersiEn agreed with the bank aud I
hid the check into a secret drawer
Of one 81 my valises Then I went to
Hauana where ] Was arrested and
translated to Madrid Here I am ex-
tlnguishin9 candemn 81 eight years
as sou VII see IN the sentences copy
which ] Viii send you in my next let
ter
When / was arrested all my equlp-
ment was discovered as A warrant az
ny process expenditures which I must
pay before being finished mv condemn
on the contrary my vallses will ~
sold by auction but being the check
into one Of them II Is necessary n,
pay the expenses OF the process in
order 70 avoid the loss OF my property
By this report you wili see how als
feuli Is ny s.fuau5n and what beg
YOU is TO take care % my girl and IL
lend me your aid for 10 raise the seiz-
ure OF my yalise IN order to safe tha
cheek vn1Gn sou mpst rsooYAA, AAA
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broke and fled faster by several yards to
the second than II had advanced.
Every morning regularly for a week the
Yankee soldiers to the north of the river
saw the Mexicans come out. form, charge,
break and fiy. The whole Yankee camp
took lively interest in these proceedings
until they became monotonous, when only
handful of the Northern troopers would
turn out to look at the regular after rev.
ellie attack.
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One night the American regimental adj
jutants visited all the officers of the com
mand. Then there were talks with the
first sergeants. and after that the privates
got an inkling that something was up.
Later in the night a visitor TO the camp
OF the Americans, If he were a close OBJ
server. would have noticed that about
one-third of the men We're missing. In
the morning the two-thirds that were left
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fined In a prison at Valencia ~
offense. To his name wae
"a bank In London Gs6,oW ~!
Morla was anxious to 81 ~
of his motherless dauehtex 70.
studying In a college. The
motherless daughter was ~
have been Mary Croceer,
relative. Mr.. Croker replies y
In way that implied both
his possible belief. He got -
other letter from Maria. -
Spanish gentleman accepted ~ NJ
man as a relative and couveyse
ing information that Mr.. Mon
to die In prison. Again M z ::
and the letter scarcely could -
Moria before Mr.. Creckr ~
the chaplain OF the prisoa . 4 r.
Ing him that the poor prisQs.s
from earth and had Rlve1 ~
into the sole care Of his c.
tive. who was to have one-Io
fortune IL he would accept -
ship.
Then the fifteen year-od
Croker wrote from the eon
10 that man and snciosad ~
On top Of this Mr.. crocaw
authenticated paper from
court Of the fling OF the ~. II
days later a copy 81 the ~
accompanied by a translate
The will was aligned and cal1, &
and stamps Of the soyefu1
were the last words from 80
He had arranged for the CO
prison 10 accompany the gi1
as soon az some business AZ ~ Vi
ed with the estate could - ri
and here came the insvifsz
would require tl.eoo for r.
travelling expenses, ~hsch tss-.S
please remit as soon 40 c01 ss7
sooner. It was ut this stase y
that Mr. Croker ~ Hyxnnn
asked for advice. and 81
shape that he dropped ~
a hot potato.
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CURED. Another regimene q
troops emerged from the tanf!
camp had been pitched ~
and marched up and Int
They had no sooner entr1o
white-coated detachment uole
tured the place moved out.
A queer sight presented ~
diers who in one swift, und1n1
had taken the redoubt paseao
river and out OF sight inte
trees. There, stranger acy
they threw OFF the whffe flll1
republican Mexico and duNl
blue of Uncle Sam. In feW
were In some flat-bottome4
barges and we're ON their ~
river.
A contingent OF Phil 6htf1n
but little more than q heSte
had shown a regiment Of ~ a.
TO take n French fort.
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Many say that tho loves
Holland belongs 10 the
Indeed, people who have on'
speak will never forget - s
Her voice IL soft and sllsot I X
same time ii can be firm 49,
When the queen at her coE s ~11
years ago delivered her spsses 7
was loud in praislng her: ~. ~
Queen Wilhelmlna wopia - r
grand actress II only Tate y. -!
her on throne, Jules cis' ssessG r
present. said that be wouie ~ ~
the spot for his theater- y
never a public speech has ~
so well. so beautifully 70
Every word was spoken ~
should be spoken. And s1s
years OF age. II a true 49,
has done much amateur seI'n. ri >
she Is very fond. She Glen -
cipal parts. which she plsys
we'll. No doubt this has ~
use to her, to facilitate neg
.s-lsondon GeutlsWomans
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X HHENENER the Americans anu
NkY the French are mixed up, to-
\XV gether in any sort Of civil func
ton, such as the opening Of a
worlds fair building in Paris or In Chi
cago, II is always in order for the pre-
siding dignitary to mention the, tradition
al friendship of La Belle France for Uncle
Sam Then the minds Of all the hearers
revert to Lafayette. Rochambeau. De
Grasse and the others. and everybody
feels good. There probably is not
Frenchman now living, and precious few
Americans. too, for that matter. who has
the faintest idea that the hand OF the
one nation was ever raised against that
OF the other, excepting at sea during the
latter part of the eighteenth century,
when the navies of the two countries
made things exceedingly lively for each
other down the West Indies way. How
ever. there is a story, says Edward B.
Clark in the Chicago Times-Herald.
which veterans Of two United States regi-
ments tell occasionally which goes to show
that on one occasion at least the Yankees
and the French faced each other In
land battle. 1t was not until some time
after the affair took place that the vet
Grams told It. They waited until times
"effacing finger" had chance to remove
all possibility OF the French taking adj
vantage In the way of damage claims. OF
the knowledge which would then come to
them for the first time.
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lust before the French troops retired
from Mexico in 1865. following closely upon
Stewards famous communication begin
ming. I'VE view with regret" Gen. Phil
Sheridan, as everybody knows, was sent
with an army corps OF veterans fresh from
the victories attending the sweep through
the Shenandoah and the subsequent cam
paignine UP to the gate of Richmond. Two
regiments Of Little Phfl's command were
isolated from the rest of the outfit and
we're stationed on the frontier just across
the river from a place where a contingent
of Maximilan's troops held fort. Some
OF Juarezs republican soldiers started up
across country 10 take this fertilization,
which was among the last to hold out.
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HOW THE YANKEES
THRASHED THE FRENCH

A Bit Of Unwritten History.

II WHENEVER the Americans and
NAK the French are mixed up to-
NN gether in any sort Of civil func-
<t1v, c,,ob the anaui,e of a
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1900-12-28
500 Reward, 500.

The readers ofthis paper will be pleased
to learn that there is at least one dreaded
disease that science has been able to cure
in all its stages end that is Catarrh. HALLS
catarrh Cure is the only positive cure
now known to the medical fraternity
Catarrh being constitutional disease
requires constitutional treatment. Hall:
Catarrh Cure is taken internally. acting
directly upon the blood and mucous sur
faces ofthe system. thereby destroying
the foundation of the disease, aud givipf
the patient strength by building up ths
constitution and assisting nature in doing
its work. The proprietors have so much
faith in its curative powers, that they
offer One Hundred Dollars for any case
that it fails TO cure. Send for list o
testimonials. Address,
F. ]. CHENEY & Co., Toledo, o.
Sold by druggists, 7sc.
Halls Family Pills are the best.
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commerclalism.

The negro is the sorest affection this
country ever suffered and il is not the
negro's.. fault but commercialism's. Coul-
mercialism desolated towns and villages
in Africa in his capture and enslavement,
brought him to free America and polluted
the new world with slavery.
Commercialism guided our armies to
the PARKWAY Philippines and has expended
millions Of treasure and shed the blood OF
thousands to enslave another division OF
the dark race. Commercialism laid waste
and destroyed two small republics, peo-
pied with the grandest type OF free men,
in order to rob them of their gold and
diamond mines.
commercialism is threatening the very
life Of the great American republic, de.
bauching its pulpits and colleges, soiline
the ermine of its judges and degrading
vast masses of its people to wage slaves.
commercialisni is shifting this govern
ment from its original foundation of q
republic to that of plutocracy or empire,
and there is nothing to save the republic
from the fate of other free nations but oul
public schools and universal education
The educated poor will be a thinking
power in the next generation. and the
educated cannot long endure slavery ia
Uhasever disguise il may appear.
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Socialism.

Senator McComas has bad himself in
terviewed by the Sun, and says he intends
to take lively interest in securing for
Maryland the congressional assistance to
which she is entitled, and among....oth
matters spoke of the need of deeper
channel in. the Elk river at Elkton.
OF course Mr. McComas will attend to
the creeks in his district; so will every
congressman who has tide water creek
in his district struggle for an appropria-
ton to dredge the mud out it. But this
is rank socialism, and not man, woman
or child, probably with three or four ex-
ceptions, in the county is not opposed to
socialism. Suppose some farmer should
propose that an appropriation should be
made by Congress to build turnpike
through the center of the county. How
the wise ones would stare But the prin-
ciple is exactly the same.
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Friday, Dec. %, 1900.
The New Century.

Next Tuesdoy is the first day of
the twentieth century. Greater
changes have taken place in the
century just closing than any
former century of which any record
is left, and the greatest of the
changes have been mechanical and
scientific.
The nineteenth century has been
the age of invention, in this respect
far surprising any other age. The
mysteries of nature have been I'M
locked and the knowledge of her
secrets made to contribute to the
betterment of the human race.
The principal work of the TWEEN
tieth century will be to distribute
those blessings more evenly, so that
all the people may enjoy them.
rather than a few as at present,
The very abundance of those gifts
has contributed to unbalance society
and to properly adjust the balance
will be the chief work of the new
century.
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Again the Stuffed prophet" energies
from his obscurity in the Saturday
E0enimg Post of December 22d. in one OF
the most vapid, hazy papers ever type
and time were wasted on publishing and
reading, and were it not that an ex-
Presidents name were associated with it,
not magazine publisher in the world
but would have consigned it to the waste
basket, without reading it half through.
The burden ofthis foggy article is steady
haiping on Democracy and the party. He
never attempts to define his idea. if he
has any, of the Democracy or the DEM
ocratic party.
The most that can be gathered from
this ex-Presidential paper is that Grover
Cleveland should be accepted as the sun
of Democratic system and party, around
which all lesser bodies should reyolve and
receive their light from. 1t is incon-
ceivable that Wall street should have
been able to palm off such fake candi-
date as Democrat upon the party and
the party aid in making him President.
The stuff and utter nonsense of which
this Saturday Evsning Post article is
composed are ludicrous.
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This picture is the trade mark of
SCOIoI'S EMULSION, and is OH
every bottle OF SCOTS EMUI.-
SION i'll the World, which how
amounts 10 many millions yearly,
This great business has grown to
such vast proportions,
Ersf;-Because the proprietors
have always been most careful i'll
selecting the various ingredients
used III its composition, namely;
the finest Cod Liver Oil, and the
purest Hypophosphites.
SecOnd:-Because they have so
skillful1y combined the various
ingredients that the best possible
results are obtained by its use.
Third:-Because it has made SO
many sickly, delicate children
strong and healthy, given health
and rosy cheeks to so many pale,
anaemic girls, and healed the lungs
and restored to full health, so many
thousands in the first stages Of
Consumption.
If you have not tried it. send for free sample,
its agreeable taste will surprise you.
SCOTT & BOVINE, Chemists
4oe4I5 Pearl Street. New York.
soc. and 100; all druggists
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Ex-President Harrison delivered a
strong argument against McKinley's ter
ritorial usurpations in his address al
Michigan University recently. The in
stinct Of the masses condemns his usurpa.
tons, driven under the whip of the
millionaires, and the strong men of the
nation who are not under the capitalistic
class are speaking out against them. This
protest will become louder as we proceed.
Mckinley is pigmy and is in fair
way to be ground to powder-metaphor-
ically speaking between the millionaire
or commercial power, now in the saddle
and riding rough shod over the constitu-
ton, dragging Mckinley at their stirrup
strap, and the independent men ofthe
nation who are supported by the plain
people.
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A Big Standing ARMY Dangerous to
Liberty Opinions Of Jefferson
and rIadison.
INCREASE PROPOSED IN PENDING BILL
ADDS sEvFNTy-FIvE TO ONE HUN
DRED MrLLIoNsTo OUR
ANNUAL rAxEs.

OOmmuHichteu
The objections to large permanent
army are so obvious that the advocates of
the measure deny that they intend the
increase to be permanent, yet they falsify
their own denial by refusing to incor-
porate limitation as to time.
The additional expense involved-from
SIS, ooo, 900 to 500, ooo, 900 per year ex-
elusive of pensions-is sufficient objec-
ton. Another is that nation with big
army is apt to be looking for trouble, just
as the possession of gun by boy makes
him want to hunt. But the greatest OBJ
lection is the danger to our liberties.
Thomas Jefferson expressed the opinion
that banking establishments are more
dangerous than standing armies" a
statement which evidences the common
opinion of the danger of an army.
In his first inaugural address President
Madison said that an armed and trained
militia is the firtnest bulwark of a repub-
lic-that without standing armies their
liberty can never be in danger, nor with
large ones safe; and he but voiced SEN
tinient which has been until very recently
universal in our country.
The temptation to the abuse OF large
powers is greatly increased if the party
guilty of the abuse have a large standing
army at his command with which to put
down any objection thereto. The very
makeup of an army is a bad example in
republic and at war with the theory on
which it rests. The equality of men,
which is the corner stone of a republic,
has no place in an army, whose very con-
stitution is that of monarchy, with the
commander.in. chief corresponding to a
king, and the other officers to the various
orders of nobility, while the privates are
subjects whose duty is blind obedience to
the commands of a superior.
Theirs not to make reply,
Theirs not to reason why,
Theirs but to do, or die"
Indeed monarchies are supposed to have
originated in conquering armies, the gen.
eral becoming king or emperor of the
conquered country, while his inferior
officers became earls, counts, barons, ETC.,
according to their rank in the army. 1T is
said that we ought to have larger army
now because our population is larger, but
there is no relation between the number
of people and the size OF its army, unless
the army is wanted to overawe or put
down the people. The size of an army
ought to depend entirely upon the need
for it, and the need for an army decreases
as our population increases, for the
stronger we are the less likely is any
nation to attack or insult us or give us Just
cause for offense.
Year by year the need of an army to
guard against or punish Indian depreda-
tons grows less; and, today, apart from
the Philippine war, which will be over as
soon as the Filipinos hear Of Bryan's de-
feat, lat least the Republicans said SOY,
we have less need for an army than at
any time in our history. And yet the
pending bill doubles our standing army.
and empowers the President to double il
again or make it four times as large as it
was when his present term began.
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NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS., ARE
BLOOD nIsEAsEs-cura Free.

1t is the deep-seated obstinate cases Of
Catarrh or Rheumatism that B. B. B.
Botanic Blood Balm) cures. If doctors,
sprays, liniments, indicated air. blood
purifiers have failed B. B. B. drains out
the specific poison in the blood that
causes Rheumatism or Catarrh, making q
perfect cure. If you have pains or aches
in bones, joints or back, swollen glands,
tainted breath, noises in the head, dis.
charges of mucuous. liberation of the
membranes, blood thin, get easily tired,
a treatment with B. B. B. will stop every
symptom by making the blood pure and
rich. Druggists 81. Trial treatment free
by addressing BLOOD BALM CO.,
Atlanta, Ga. Describe trouble, and free
medical advice given. II
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The FIRST tag taken off by Congress was
half per cent of the tax on national
bank notes, and it Is stated. and we sup
pose it is correct, that that part of their
currency not in actual circulation, the
amount which may be held in the bank.
is exempt from even that small tax while
so held.
The dear people who voted to continue
this splendid condition of prosperity
should strive tie learn all they can about
banks and banking.
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CHAS. g. FULTON & CO.,
FELIX AGNUS, Pub,
BALTIMORE, Md.
A VERY HANDSOME PROFIT.

Making twenty five cents on dollar without
investing the dollar is certainly an opportun-
ity.. The American offers this to anyone who
wants to make money. Get up . club OF four
subscribers to the TwIcK-A.WEKK AMERICAN at
a dollar for each subscription. retain one dol
lar for your work and send three dollars to THIS
Office with the names Of tho subscribers. to
each Of whom the paper will be sent l0s times,
ing you handsomely Tor your work. ! he club
rate for all over four is seventy ave centa. Adj
dress 0. O. FULTON 4 co.. FELIX AaNUs, Man
nger. Baltimore Md.
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The Nicaragua Canal is now the ruling
fad. Judged on general principles it is a
big job scheme to get money from the
treasury. If it had any indications of
being paying enterprise the Republican
party would be only too ready to vote
some Wall street company charter to
build it and guarantee its bonds. The
Nicaragua Canol is huge humbug.
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The North 4AmeyicaN's New Year gift
to every poor child in Philadelphia is to
be pair of new shoes. What one of the
other big dailies wants to show its charity
to the poor while it advocates the policy
which insures poverty, by giving the
children pair of stockings?