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Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1905-04-26

thanked him for his invitation to come
to SantO Domingo, sent through Perez,
explained the reasons why Mrs. Reader
could not accompany me, and told him
we were not only assured of an i'm
mediate hearing at Washington, but
of the strongest financial backing in
the United States to deal with the
concessions which he proposed to give
Il was presented to Mr.. Prichard,
his minister of public works. and to
Mr.. Sanchez. his minister of foreign
affairs. 1 had an extended converse
ton on the matter in hand with Mr..
Sanchez, and the president invited me
to visit him again in a day or two.
con New Years eve 1 attended the
ball given at the Union club. Presi-
dent Morales was at the ball, and so
was United States Minister Dawson.
The next day, Sunday, l spent in pre-
pairing with greater perfection of de-
tail the documents. On Monday, Tues
day and Wednesday I had interviews
with the president at his house, and
with his foreign minister at the palace,
and we discussed everything The for
to draw up the necessary papers for
signature by the president and his
various secretaries of state, and it was
arranged also to obtain the signatures
of the president and secretary of con-
gress.
"These matters occupied a week, and
on January cabled to Mrs. Reader
in New York: Expect to obtain
everything in about a week.
Deal Is Called OFF.
ION that very day Mr.. Perez learned
that the president had received COM
municatiOn from United States Min
lister Dawson, and had in consequence
paid him visit, but what the nature
of the interview was l did not learn.
On Monday, January 9, when 1 called
at the place, Mr.. Sanchez informed me
that they had a communication from
Mr.. Dawson not to proceed with nv
negotiations, but to deal direct with
Washington.
Il asked him if this was not very
sudden and unexpected, and he seemed
confused and anxious to avoid giving
offense.
81 saw the president and asked him
why he had proceeded so far with me.
had accepted everything, and had gone
so far as to, make out the telegram
appointing Mrs. Reader as his fiscal
agent and representative in Washing
ton, if he had not intended to complete
his arrangements.
President Morales also seemed con.
fused and unable to give a satisfactory
answer"
AS to the cause of the sudden dis.
continuance of the negotiations and
the rejection Of the treaty by tne
United States senate. several expIana-
tions have been given Mr.. Cromwell
declares that he is not and has never
been interested in any San Dominican
affairs
1t is the verdict Of a great MANY
of the most prominent newspapers
that the Readers would have made an
utter failure of their undertaking. tut
they have never been able to convince
the two daring promoters Of that. Mr.
Reader declares: I'VE would have mt
Santo Domingo on new financial
footing The country would have NO
more trouble with foreign counties.
Its debts would have been attended
to and we would have arranged =
treaty with the United States.'
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Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1905-04-26

cite interest in this discovery, but the
process has been in use in the army for
two or three years. 1t is claimed that
a new cure for tropical dysentery or
Philippine fever has been discovered by
using the veriform appendix as chan
mel through which medicine can be in
troduced into the bowels without pass
ing through the stomach.
One of the operations was performed
on sergeant in the engineer corps who
was at the point of death from an aggra-
waited attack of Philippine dysentery or
acute malarial fever, of more than a
years standing. Under the direction of
the surgeon in charge at the barracks
here the sufferers appendix was reached
by an incision through the walls of the
abdomen. 1t was drawn through the
opening of the body and allowed to heal
outside of the abdominal wall Using
theappendixa as though it had been fun
mel, the surgeon poured in Quinine So
luton. The medicine reached the vital
organs affected without passing through
the stomach.
The perforations in the bowels caused
by the disease were quickly healed. As
the stomach was not affected by the
medicine, the patient could take. nour-
ishment without discomfort, and. after
a few days treatment. was convalescent.
and is now on the road to full health.
If this process becomes general the
custom of cutting out the vermiform ap-
pendix on the slightest provocation win
probably be discontinued and that little
member OF the body win be brought to
the outside and held there as q handy
channel for the administering Of medi.
cine to the bowels,
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1905-04-26

rapher WAiH three years she was
the head and sole manager of the
largest typewriting establishment in
New York, with 40 girls working for
her. Her Offices were besieged by men
who had important work to be done
accurately. From an expert operator
she became superintendent of oper-
ators. In 1896. according to her story.
she was sought by Senator Scott and
Congressman Manley, then bossing the
Mckinley campaign, to take charge of
certain private correspondence.
After that, work piled in from Wall
street. Several important assignments
came to her (she was then Miss Ella
Rawls) from the city. For reporting
the work of the Venezuelan boundary
commission she was endorsed, she
says, by the late William L. Strong,
J. Kennedy Tod. and others. Every
thing was prosperous for the young
woman who had come from the south
with nothing but ambition.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1905-04-26


how matters stand over there and what
progress has been made under the pol
icieS he initiated when governor gen.
>eral, and he has invited a party of con-
gressmen to go with him. Among the
youngsters in this party are Gen.
Grosvenor, young man of ~; Serene
Payne, boy of g.; and that spry young
lad, Speaker Joseph G. Cannon, who is
So. All these men would have been put
to sleep long ago if Dr. Osler's theory
is correct and Secretary Taft would be
deprived of their company.
This proposed trip is not to be the
ordinary congressional junket. The ex-
penses will be paid out of the Philippine
treasury, and they will be regarded as
an excellent investment Mr. Taft is
anxious that the big men in congress
who direct legislation should obtain
knowledge at first hand of conditions in
the Philippines, and what reforms and
what legislation are needed there
Speaker Cannon and several of his col
leagues in the house have accepted the
secretary's invitation, and they expect
to learn much of value to themselves
and to the country. While it will be in
the nature of rest, they intend to work
hard while in the Philippines in gaining
the knowledge and information that will
be of use to them in making laws for
those far-off possessions. The PARTY
will proceed to the Philippines by way
of the Pacific and will probably return
by way of the Indian ocean, the Suez
canal and through Europe to the At
lantic and home.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1905-04-26

are numerous and strong. One of the
principal reasons is the disarrangement
it causes in the pension Office work, as
hundreds of clerks are laid off for week
or ten days during the Inauguration sea-
ger of fire, which would not only threat
en- horrible disaster in the loss of life,
but would destroy records that could
never be replaced.
In accord with promise that was
given, the inaugural committee has
taken initial steps toward the erection
in Washington of large auditorium for
the holding of future inaugural balls
conventions and other large gatherings
1t is the purpose to solicit subscriptions
from business men, and probably to ask
a contribution from congress towards
the erection of suitable building. The
first move in that direction was taken
when congress authorized the accept
ance by the district government of the
structural steel and other durable por--
lions of the government exhibit build
ing at St. Louis The steel used in the
construction of this building is esti-
mated to be worth about 100000, and
it will cost probably $4,000 to bring it
to Washington
The government building at the ST.
Louis fair is 752 feet long and It's feet
wide. 1t is proposed to construct the
new convention hall in Washington OUT
of the material used in this building and
to provide structure about 500 feet
long and It's feet wide. 1t is calculated
that if a building of this kind were
provided national conventions could be
attracted to Washington and national
meetings of big trade organizations
would be held here. AS business enter
prise the hall is considered very attrac-
tive.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1905-04-26
Party of Elderly solons on Long Trip.

+ DR.. Osler's theory
that men should be
chloroformed after
passing the age of
GO were put into eff
feet, it would in
terfere very Sc
riously with a par
ty of statesmen
about to make a
trip around the
world. Secretary
of War Taft is go
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1905-04-26
A Convention Hall.

L is believed that
the last inaugural
ball has been held
in t b e Pension
Office building. 1t
was with great re-
luctance that con-
greSs gave its per-
mission for the last
ball to be held
there. The argu-
ments against the
use of the building
Cor that purpose
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1905-04-26

observing the details of a public cere-
senate to the east front of the capitol
and sat through the administering of
the oath and the speech of the pres
ident. AS he walked back to the SEN
ate chamber he complained to fellow
senator of feeling chilly and expe-
riencing sharp pain in his chest. Four
days afterwards he was dead, victim,
as many believe, of Inauguration day
weather.
This incident has renewed the move
ment to change the date of Inauguration
Two years ago the late Senator Hoar,
chairman of the judiciary committee,
drew resolution, submitting to the
states an amendment to the constitu-
ton to make Inauguration day the last
Thursday in April. The senate passed
the resolution unanimously, but the
house committee on judiciary got into
a squabble over it and the house never
got chance to vote on it. The COM
miSSiOnerS of the District of Columbia
appointed national committee in 1902
w
this change of date. Besides a num-
Der of distinguished men in Washing
ton, the governors from the As states
and four territories were appointed as
members of this national committee.
Commissioner MacFarland has just
issued call for meeting of this COM
mittee in order to perfect an organiza-
ton and plan a campaign in favor of
fixing date for the Inauguration when
pneumonia and other ills of cold wealth
er are not likely to be encountered.
There is scarcely an Inauguration that
does not result in number of deaths
due directly to exposure. Members of
marching clubs and citizens not accus-
toned to being out in Indictment wealth
er take great risk on these occasions.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1905-04-26
Once Despised vermiform Appendix.

EDICAL and Scien-
tific bodies have
been stirred up by
a discovery that
suggests a use for
the much despised
appendix of the hu-
man body. Two or
t b r e e operations
that have recently
been performed by
army surgeons here
n Was hin ton
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1905-04-26
Senators over-Fearful About Diseas

HERE is no body
of men more sensi-
tive about their
health or more
prone to believe
rumors about the
health of their
colleagues than the
United States SEN
ate. Every once in
awhile the senate
spends a lot of
money In having
the air IF tho son.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1905-04-26

ate chamber tested to discover whether
it is healthful or harmful. The reports
Of experts who conduct these investi-
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1905-04-26
WASHINGTON LETTER
DATE OF INAUGURATION CERE.
MONIES SHOULD BE CHANGED.
EARLY MARCH INcLEMENT
Deaths Traced to Exposure on Day
President Is Installed - Pension
Office No Place for Inaugural
Ball-Other Gossip.

ASHINGTON.-
death of the late
Senator Bate, of
Tennessee, is at
tributed to the rig
Ors of Inauguration
day. While that
day was bright and
sunshiny, t h er .
was a cold north
west bind blowing
that was penetrat-
ing and chilled one
to the bone. AL
WAYS Scrun,llOuS in
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1905-04-26

and to the authorities at Washington,
and that Mr.. Cromwell and Mrs.
Reader should then proceed to Wash
ington and commence negotiations
while awaiting the arrival of the pa
pers and my return from Santo Do
mingo. 1t was understood with Mr..
Cromwell that at Mrs. Readers request
Gen. Morales should appoint him her
legal adviser as the fiscal agent of the
Dominican government and himself be
the counsel for the government of that
republic.
Morles Willing to Negotiate.
MIR. Perez and l arrived at Santo
Domingo on December 80, 1904, and
were met on board of the boat by Gen.
Morales, who gave us a hearty well
come. 1t was not long before l had
a private talk with the president,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-09-24
AFTER VACATION.
Drop of Wild Blood In Us Calls to
 vagrancy.

From the Philadelphia Ledger.
 Nearly every one is familiar with the re- faxed and demoralized sensation which seems to be the inevitable result of va cation. The more prolonged has been the period of voluntary likeness the harder 1t is to rally from its depressing effects. We may not have been really inert during our holiday; indeed, our physical activity may have been excessive; but we have danced so long to strange piping that 1t is not easy to keep step among the regular workers.
 The single drop of wild blood makes 1t so easy to obey the primal impulse, to step aside into the green and howery ways of yagrancy. This seems to be the natural thing, yet the life we call artif- cial has become inevitable, and 1t has a strong tonic virtue. In Mary Wilkins Freemans vivid story, "The Slip of the Leash" we see a man weakly yielding to the urgings of native instinct and for salxing wife and children for the earlier | kinshp of the earth. The sane and whole some love of free ways and growing things lies somewhere between this ab- normal form of mature worship and the feeling of the town dweller who asked his friend to kick tree for him when he went to the country. For some years there has been passion for nature stories and studies and @ refreshingly human way of looking at things that were once swathed in technical cerements
 Nature may ensnare us with her loveli- ness or overwhelm us with her terrors, until we arc almost ready to accept her manifestations as the highest expression of divine regard, though we know that upon humanity creation has set her crowning seal. The rudest savage in the 1ungles, the lowest form of life in the pestilent slums, Is a miracle more com plex and amazing than Niagara or Mont Blanc.
 These rustics bore me incredibly" said the blase man of the world. "Strange" answered the social philosopher, "I feel ashamed to think that I ever thought any human being uninteresting"
 Among the country people we often see a refined and peculiarly beautiful cul- tivation and the almost extinct graces of repose and serenity. The humble rural classes often amae us with their intel lectual acumen and depth of philosophy as well as by their picturesqueness of ex- pression. Or, 1t may be that the holiday has tawen us to the most fashionable re- sorts among the exotic growths of so- and genuine humanity thrills us as 1t would thrill the old-fashioned gardener to recognize his early favorites among the strange-hued, many-petaled variations evolved by modern floral wizards Where ever the happily rounded man or woman may go the appeal of the human tran scends all other interests and attrac- tons.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-09-24

leaves and the singing brooks were call ing them to come and drink and live. The dying men were aroused. They rushed on toward this beautiful noun tain until, in a moment 1t disappeared. 1t was nothing but a mountain of optical illusions. a mountain of mists, noun tain of false hopes, a mountain which was a mirage. So will it be for those who are forever putting off their op- portunities for salvation. May God lead us, one and all, not to follow the delusive hope that in some future time we can seek pardon. He promises to pardon not tomorrow, but today. Come into the mountains of Salvation. Come into the mountains of his forgiveness, of his strength of his love. Come and stand upon the mountain of Calvary, with all its pardon, with all its atonement. There you shall find peace and joy. This Call vary is a mountain which is not a mirage. It shall never fade away.
 Copyright, 1905, by Louis Klopsch.)
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-09-24

you ever stop to think that as hills have time in which they shall die? In- deed, many of the hills of the past have died already. Once, says the legend, continent ridged with the highest of mountain chains stretched itself between the old world and the new. The Azores and the Canary islands are claimed 70 have been the tops of these very noun tains. The Mayas the original inhabi- tants of Yucatan at the time of the con- quest of Peru by Pizarro, were supposed to have been related to the ancient in- habitants of this sunken continent which was called Atlantis. Among the Mayas the historian finds almost the same kind of worship which was practced among the inhabitants of the Nile. Yucatan architecture is very similar to the Egyp- tian architecture. Every student knows how characteristic Egyptian architecture was and is today. Some of the ancient writers make mention of this strange is- land continent. Sir Thomas Moore found- ed his Utopia there. Yet the student of deep sea soundings finds that the legen- dary continent of Atlantis, with all It's mighty hills, was at last sunk in the mighty deep.
 Opportunity May Be Lost.
 In Java, few years ago, the great Kralsatoa volcano. after erupting for a few days, suddenly exploded. The is- land of Java was literally split in twain. Sixty thousand corpses floated upon the surface of the sea. A great tidal wave forty feet high arose and swept on and lifted German man-of-war and carried 1t twenty miles inland and there left 1t stranded. Java is today over 200 miles from India. There are many reasons to believe that this island was once con nected with the mainland. The inhabi- tants of India and Java have the same customs They speak almost the same language. They worship the same gods. further forests they hunt the same kinds of wild beasts as are found In India. Yet all of that connecting belt of 200 miles of land with its mountains has entirely dis appeared As the God of the hills is some day going to destroy his noun tains, some day he is going to destroy our reflected opportunities for salvation. Thus, my friends, as we look off unto the hills. as did the psalmist. from whence cometh our strength, do you not find in the future destruction of these hills the foreshadowed rejection of souls that have refused year after year to come and bow at the foot of the cross which was once planted upon the top of small mountain called Calvary?
 How many people are hugging to their hearts the false hope that the noun tains of Gods pardon will remain firm for them to climb, even from the weak ness and helplessness of a deathbedl Do not procrastinate. I have read of tray elers lost on the desert. Without drop of water, with swollen lips and thick tongues, they staggered on until they dropped. Suddenly off In the distance they saw beautiful mountain. There the streams were flowing and the rustiing
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-09-24
Peaches In Cold Storage.

From the San Francisco Call.
 Peaches from various points in the state are being shipped to Stockton and placed in cold storage. The National Ice com pany has found by experimenting that it can freeze peaches and keep them three months easily. Last year the experiment was made successfully and this year the company has engaged in storing fruit as a business. Already there arc 5000 boxes of peaches on Ice at tho local plant. Tho greater part of them came from the warm regions of Fresno. Those peaches were picked moderately green. By freez- ing them they are kept from ripening. Three months frow now they will be placed upon the market, either in Cali fornia or in tho east. Soon after the friAt Is taken off the Ice it ripens nicely By selecting a late variety of peaches 1t may be possible to preserve them till Christmas.
La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1905-06-26
NOTAS De PONCE
A los banos de Coamo. En-
ell traje de Adam. --Flrmas
para Valdivieso
PERIODlSTA ABSUELT0
Comunicaciones contradicto-
rlas. .-El fiscal Colon en-
fermo en- San Juan

Jai0 LA Lira de ORC ha sail
do hoy por la maiiana hacia los ba-
nos de Coamo, invitada por don Juan
Boix, arrendatario de aquel estableci.
miento, con motive de ser hoy su ola
onomastico. La Lifu tocara esta
noche en- los bafos y sera obsequiada
ALI con un banquete
-El Detective Gutierrez y el guar.
dia Ortiz, han denunciado cua-
tro hombres y tres mujeres que esta
madrugada la una, despues de ba'
farse en- ell rio, bailaban, q la orilla
de este, en- traje de Adam
Sc nos informa que algun pro-
tegido de Valdivieso anda por ahf re-
cogiendo frmas, de las que caigan,
para dirigir una carta 8 cosa asi q
Mr.. Post, en- favor del unpopular AL
calde de Ponce, De SECURE que los re-
publicanos tirmaran.
Sc nos dice que ell Attorney no
ha aceptado larenuncia del Fiscal Co
lom, que le concede un mes de licen-
cia por motivos de salud.
- De Ponce iran las festas de
Bari anquitas las senoritas Monsanto,
Ferry y Perez Marchsn. Van tambien la
Lird lie orc, el professor de mdsica Pc
rcis, America Marin, los hermanos
Santini, el corresponsal de LA DEMO
CRACIA, y otras personals mas.
Ha llegado Ponce su regreso
de los Estados Unidos. nuestco res
petable compatriota don Guillermo
Schuck.
Aver Sc verified en- la Corte mu
nicipal ell iuicio en- la causa por libe.
10 contra nuestro correligiorio don
Juan B. Nieves, por denuncia del doc
tor Aguerrevere, en- virtud de un arti :
Gu o que pablic6 PrsrtO Rico, conen-
tando la designation de Aguerrevere,
hecha pr Valdivieso, para Ell cargo
lie Ofcial de Sanidad de Ponce. Nieves
fue defendido elocuentemente por ell
abogado Lopez Tord, y absuelto por
falta de pruebas.
Ell Secretario del Ayuntamento
senior Canales recib una. cnmunica-
uiou ueI Secretario de Puerto. Rico, en-
la cual le dice que Sc ha manifestado
(Contin,ia en- la pdgina 5q)
La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1905-06-26

Construcciones Civiles, Pianos,
presupuestos y construcciones de ca
sas de mamposteris, cemento armada
Y MADEIRA. Mensuras. -siegos'
Ofcina; calle Forsaleza num- 10.
Apartado nur.. 1l6.
TelAfono udm l04.