MEMBERS OF THE SPANISH PEACE COMMISSION. t Exert* p \v. s \ X PMJIDENTC iit? " \ \ d. Excr-wi **{> 4 X. N fl/ftA .7r»«,r < ;.< Orwk'A "' ■ NO TRUTH IN THE STORY. lien. Brooke Emphatically Denies tliat Americau Troops Have Itceu tiuilty of Had Conduct in Porto Rico. Washington, Nov. 4.—Some of the newspapers 111 I'orto Rico have been publishing 1 articles bitterly critical <>f the conduct of the United States sol diers who liave been sent to the island as a permanent garrison. The soldiers have been accused of all sorts of mis demeanors, of ruffianism, of petty lar ceny, of the destruction of private property, and in fact of every kind of excess which might be charged against green troops in a foreign country. The charges reflected particularly upon the volunteer regiments, and were so gen eral that Secretary Alger took notice of them. It is evident if they were well founded the J'orto Ricans were likely to be alienated from their new allegi ance almost before they had become fairly attached. So a cablegram was sent to Maj. (Jen. Brooke, commanding all of the United States troops in Porto Rico, calling hi.s attention to these re ports. The answer came Thursday in the shape of the following cablegram from lien. Brooke: "Bad behavior of our soldiers in Ponce province in news to me. Col. Castleman, commanding the provi sional brigade there, is now with me and says the report is entirely un founded, New regiments coming in ■were unsettled for a few days, but are all away from there now and at their regular stations." Predicts Oreat Tilings for Klondike. Chicago, Nov. 4.—John J. Healy, vice president of the North American Transportation and Trading Co.. who has just returned from a six years' so journ in tho Klondike, said yesterday: "The truth about the Yukon country is that it will yield $30,000,000 between now and next October, and with the completion of government roads and the operation of quartz mining ma chinery the output will amount to 8100,000,000 in gold annually. In less than five years 100,000 whites will be at work in the Yukon and a hundred years of steady labor will not exhaust profitable mining in Alaska." First Alignment of Troop* for Cuba. Washington, Nov. 4.—The first as- Mynrnent of troops in the occupation of Cuba was made Thursday. The orders follow: "The secretary of war directs the following assignment of troops: Headquarters and six troops of tiie Eighth United States cavalry, and the Third Georgia volunteers, to Nuevitas, Cuba. Six troops of the Eighth cavalry, and the Fifteenth United States infantry, to Puerto Principe. Brig. Gen. L. 11. Carpenter is assigned to command the troops, with headquarters at Nuevitas." Electrocuted, Columbus, <>., Nov. 4.—Charles Nel son. colored, the Bowling Green mur derer, was electrocuted in the annex of the Ohio penitentiary at 12:30 o'clock this morning. Nelson was very cool and assisted the officers in adjusting the straps. A new device in the shape of a hood with wet sponges in the apex which fitted over the head was used successfully. Nelson killed James Zimmerman, a grocer, at Bowling Green, 0., July 8 last by striking him 011 the head with a hammer. Marchand Arrives in Cairo. Cairo, Nov. 4. —Maj. -Marchand, the commander of the French expedition at Fashoda, arrived lie*' last evening, (inly two Senegalese soldiers acconi panied Marchand, whose future move ments depend upon the instructions which Capt. Baratier brings him. The major reports that lie left all his com panions in good health and adds that they had abundant provisions and a plcnti fill supply of ammunition. Dewey's Squadron Decreased. Washington, Nov. 4.—The revenue cutter McCulloch, now with Admiral Dewey's licet at Manila, has been de tached from the naval service ?JX»< 1 re stored to the revenue cutter sjrvice. The McCulloch will be ordered to San FranciscO. Will Leave It.to Private Firm*. Washington, Nov. 4. Secretary Long said yesterday that the government would take no further steps to raise the rest of the Spanish warships de stroyeti by Admiral Schley's fleet oil' Santiago, but that the department would receive propositions to that end from any private firm tliat cared to undertake the work. Will Kecill Marchand. London, Nov. 4.—Reliable informa tion from I'aris confirms the reports that Dupuy, the premier, has decided to wash hi.-, hands 11f Fashoda and tu recall Maj. Marchand. Spain Tuts a High Price on the Philippines. A LITTLE GAME OF BLUFF I)ons Claim that Porto Rico is Sufficient War Indemnity. EXCITEMENT INJ MADRID. Newspapers of tlie Spanish Capital Protest Vigorously Against "tlie Americans* Abuse of Strength," hut Have No Hopes of Assistance from Their Neighbors. ) New York, Nov. 4.—A dispatch to the Evening l'ost from l'aris says: | "The reported rupture of peace nego tiations between Spain and the I'nited States is not credited in the French foreign office. France willingly will serve again as an intermediary in the hope of putting Spain under permanent moral as well as financial obligations, j thus strengthening her own position in the European balance of power. "Paris and Brussels bankers are taking active interest in the question of Spanish debts. The Spanish mem j hers of the commission are offended by the eurtness of the memorandum of j the American claims. "The American members probably I will welcome a change in the Spanish side, a-i they are not a match in legal | subtleties for Senor Montero Rios. Whether there is a rupture or not i Senor Sagasta is likely to continue to I dictate the negotiations. I have high ; authority for prognosticating the J course of the first dispute over the [ American interpretation of the third article of the protocol and the claims I upon the Philippines for war indemnity as inconsistent with the previous arti cles. "Senor Sagasta will say that he con | skiers that Porto Rico is a sufficient in j demnity. In the second place, if non- I suited, he will proceed to put a value 1 upon the Philippines far in excess of , any possible war indemnity, on the j ground that Germany and England, or | even France, would offer terms higher than the Americans take as the basis of negotiations. He will plead that no j Spanish ministry could live if they ae j cepteil the American terms. As a third j step he would resign office, lea ving the negotiations to begin over again under • a conservative ministry. Thus a speedy ; termination of negotiations is not ex | pected." j Washington, Nov. 4. —By way of j preparation for what may happen at the meeting of tho peace commission ers in Paris to-day it may be said that ! the officials here have 110 idea that the Spanish reply will bean unconditional acceptance of our last proposition re : lating to the acquisition of the Philip pines. On the other hand they do not expect an unequivocal rejection. What I is likely to occur is that the Spanish | commissioners will come in with a j counter proposition, the basis of which ! probably will be a considerable in j crease in the sum of money to be paid ! to the Spanish government for the Philippines. This will open a way to negotiations on that sub/cct, and inas much as the commissioßersspent about i six weeks considering the sections of ' the protocol, dealing with Cuba and j Porto Rico, it is reasonable to believe that at least a few days may be prop erly allowed for the discussion of the Philippines. Mtkdrid, Nov. 4.—The announcement of the intentions of the I'nited States | regarding 1 the Philippines has greatly I excited the public here. It is gener- I ally recognized, however, that it would 1 he futile to appeal to Europe, which j has abandoned Spain to her fate. The newspapers protest vigorously against the "incredible cynicism and abuse of ! strength by the Americans." 101 (■ lobo i exclaims: "Europe and America seem j determined to sanction by cowardice and selfishness a crime that v> ill be a blot upon the history of the century." Steamer I'acUie liurned. ( ollinyv.ood. Out., Nov. I. The paa | senger steamer Pacific, owned by the ! Great Northern Transit • "u.. luirned at I the Grand Trunk wharf here Thursday. The railway freight sheds were also J destroyed. The Pacific was valued at §115,000 and was insured for $25,000. , The loss from the burning of the i freight sheds will be very heavy. CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER io, 1898. FRENCH GRIP ON SPAIN. Tlie Relation* of tin* Two Countries llnre for u l.onjt 'i'lme lluil I'eculiarltU-a. Ever sir.ee, and even before, the days when the kings of iranee and Spain met on the Isle of Pheasants and made the treaty of the l\vren«es, one of the ehief aims of the French policy has been to obtain influence and control in Spain. It was for this that France fought, her two most bloody and also most unsuccessful wars. The war with the Spanish succession was chiefly fought out in Bavaria and the low countries, but the object of France was control in Spain, bonis XIV., in fact, defied the world, and very near ly ruined his country by insisting on his policy of controlling Spanish af fairs. It was the same with Napoleon. Though, like Louis XIV., he did not try to annex any part of Spain after the manner of his annexation in Italy and Germany—he knew how danger ous it is to "spoil the face" of a Span iard —yet he strained every nerve to obtain the control of the Iberian pe ninsula, and may Indeed be said to have maimed the empire by his de termination to make Spain a political satellite of France. But for the penin sular war X'apoleon might have es caped his final debacle. lii:t no sooner was Xapoleon finally overthrown and the Bourbons reestablished than the s#cul ir desire to control Spain reas serted itself. In 1 52.1 a French army crossed the Pyrenees and occupied Madrid, and for the time France obtained complete ascendancy in Spain. The influence thus obtained had no doubt to give away to English pressure: but it re appeared again with Louis Philippe's scheme for the Spanish marriages, the sch?me which so nearly produced a war with England and seemed to promise so much for French influence in the peninsula. Xapoleon* 111. always exercised a great deal of indirect influence in Spain, and was careful to maintain iheold policy—that of possessing what Americans call "a" pull" on the gov ernment at Madrid. It was, indeed, the fear of losing French influence in Spain that nominally produced the Franco-Prussian war. (The immedi ate cause of the war was a dispute as to the filling of the Spanish throne.) After the war France was for a tiinp too busy to pay r much attention to Spanish affairs, but it was with a reuse of deep humiliation and disgust that she learned that Alplionse XII. had visited Berlin, had accepted the colonelcy of a regiment of Uhla:>s, and that Spain was apparently slipping un der the influence of the triple alliance. Immediately the Ffench statesmen saw the error that had been made, and it became at once the avowed ob ject of 1 lie French foreign ofliee to do thing that was possible to con ciliate Spain and reestablish Fiench Influence at Madrid. Chance helped the French by the death of the king, and since then French influence over Spain has been steadily and zealously built up by every possible means. — London Spectator. SILK MADE IN AMERICA. Most of That Worn in the I nlted Stati'N Is of Home Mnniii'aeture himl of (iooil Quality. "Most of the silk worn by American women is manufacture'! in the United States," said the silk buyer in a dry goods store. "The value of the manu factured silk imported from abroad during the fiscal year ended June 30, 189S, was $23,523,110, and during the census year of 1890 the value of the s-ilk of American manufacture was $09,154,599. As during the decade from ISSO to IN9O the product of American si'.k mills doubled in value, it is fair to say that in 1898 about 80 per cent, of the silk goods sold to American women is of home manufacture. Of the silk imported from abroad nearly one-half—slo,B42.s6l —was made in Helgium, while France, with imports of $4,434,402, is a bad second, with Switzerland in third place, from which we bought $3,492,734 worth. Japan supplied $2,061,907 and China only $135,889. The reason for the small im portation from the orient is that much of their product goes to Europe to be finished before reaching the United States. "American silks of certain grades are just as good as those made abroad, and a good many of them are better. It was formerly necessary for shop keepers sometimes to pretend that silks made in America were imported, but it is becoming unnecessary nowa days, as women realize the excellence of the goods of home manufacture."— Chicago Times-Herald. Fn in Jly UeKein 111 a n ecu. "This is Mr. High bones, is it not ?" "Yes. ma'am." "I should have known you by your resemblance to your little daughter. I am Mi.-s Billings, her teacher." "(Had to know you. Miss Hillings. Yes, I am often told that Kitty is re markably like me." "I regret to have to tell you, Mr, nighboni's. that she doesn't learn well at all. I doubt if she will be able to keep up with her class." "I am sorry to hear that. I was about to say. Miss Hillings, that in many respects Kitty takes after my wife's people." —Chicago Tribune. Heart Itri-n !i i uji. Trembling Suitor —• Ah. if I only ("ari dto till you what is in my heart. Can't you «ee? Can't you guess what it is I would say to you? Beautiful Widow—Y s, I think I can read your thoughts. But, pray do not speak the words that are trembling upon your lips. Let us respect the dead. I have decided not to marry again—for at least six months. —Chi- cago Evenivw .Newt, THE BOWSERS* TROUBLES. Mr. Bowser Has a Whirl at Carpet- Heating. M. QUAD. -Copyright, I'm. "Well, but what's all this?" ex claimed Mr. Bowser, as he came home to dinner the other evening and found the sitting-room carpet piled in a cor ner and the room dismantled. "It's time for house cleaning, yo" know," replied Mrs. Bowser. "When you go down in the morning I wish you'd stop at the carpet cleaning place and have them come for that carpet." He said he would and made a note of it, but after dinner a sudden thought struck him. lie stood looking at the carpet for a minute and then said: "By George, but I'll do it! It'll not only be the best kind of exercise, but save bother and delay. Mrs. Bowser, I'll beat the carpet in the back yard this evening." "Hut I don't want you to," she pro tested. "That carpet has got togo to the cleaning works and be thoroughly beaten." "That carpet will be thoroughly beaten right here, my dear. There's a back yard, a stout clothesline, and with the aid of a broomstick I'll knock every speck of dust out of it inter, minutes." "But please don't try it. It will take two men to handle it, and nobody can beat a carpet in ten minutes. You couldn't beat it thoroughly in half a day." "Xow then, see here," he continued, as he began to remove his cuffs, "I want exercise in the arms and shoul ders. I'm as stiff as a post. Beating a carpet will be better than the dumb bells or clubs. An hour's work will make me like a top to-night." "Hut something will happen and you'll—you'll raise a row!" she fal tered. "Bosh! X'othing will happen, and there'll be no row. It's 20 years since I beat a carpet, and it will bring back the old days. Your father was beat ing a carpet in the buck yard when 1 asked your hand in marriage." "I'll pay for having it beaten out of my own money, if you'll let it alone." "It isn't a question of expense, Mrs. Bowser," he answered, "though we might as well save the two dollars as to give it to the beaters. As I said, I want the exercise. I also believe that I can knock out more microbes and germs with a broomstick than any steam carpet beater in the world. I'll shift into an old suit, and then I'll give you a few lesions on how to beat a carpet all in the merry springtime, heigho." Mrs. Bowser continued to protest but without avail. As soon as he got into an old suit of clothes, he spat on his hands and made a sudden jump and seized the monster bundle and gave r. wrench and a pull. lie was successful in worrying it along to the door lead ing to the basement, but then there came a hitch. Mrs. Bowser took ad vantage of it to offer to buy theater tickets for the evening if he would go. but he could not be moved from his purpose. "Just you go down and hunt me up a broomstick, and then stand by and see the fur fly," he responded, and she passed down ahead of him. As the bundle of carpet was larger than the doorway, it did not need much acumen to see that the one had either to be enlarged or the other com pressed. Compression seemed to be the quickest way out of it, and Mr. Bowser spread himself all over the bundle and braced and tugged until it suddenly rolled through the doorway. He hadn't planned togo with it, but somehow he did. It was an even start. Mr. Bowser was also on top half the time going downstairs, but on reach ing the hall below he was underneath, and it took the united exertions of Mrs. Bowser and the cook and the grocer's boy to set him at liberty. "Someone pushed that carpet, and I know it!" he shouted, as he got flic dust out of his throat and struggled up. "Hut we were all down here," pro tested Mrs. Bowser. "1 told you some thing would happen, and so it has. It's a wonder you didn't break your back or neck. Won't you let it alone now?" "Xever, Mrs. Bowser—never will 1 be baffled by an old carpet. 1 have set out to beat it, and beat it I will or break mv neck twice in two. It rather got away from me on the stairs, but it's all in the exercise, you know. Xow, then, out she comes!" Pie vouldn't have moved the bundle a foot but for Hie help of the boy and the cook. After a tug which tired everybody out, it was landed at the back door. Then the cook and the boy withdrew and Mr. Bowser ,-i*t about getting the carpet over the clothesline. There arc men who have done such things and lived to boast of it, but the instances are rare. Thetv is no affinity between a bundle of 28 yards ol Axmin ster carpet and a wire clothesline, and Mr. Bowser soon discovered it. By herculean exertions he could get a cor ner of it over the line, and it would stay while he held it. but that was all the progress he could n ake. After fi v e or six failures he let the corner fall, jumped on the roll with both feet and gave utterance to his feelings. Mrs. Bowser was on hand to say: "I told not- to try it. It would take the strength of three men to get the carpet over the Tine." "Woman, am I running this carpet or are you?" he demanded, as be turned on her. "But you can't lift it up." "Then I'll die trying! W hen I want your advice about beating a carpet I'll ask for it!" She went back into the house and he figured a little. He decided that if the carpft were spread out on the ground it could be beaten just as well as if hung up, and he drew a long breath and began unrolling it. He had un rolled about three yards when his feet stepped on each other and he fell down, and the number of tacks wait ing to receive him was just 17. He felt every one of them at once, and was surprised into a yell which brought a dozen heads to as many back windows to see who was being murdered. When Mrs. Bowser got out he was trying to climb the back fence, but she caught him by the legs and pulled him down and exclaimed: "Xow, then, have you gone crazy? What's the matter with you?" "Ti e blamed thing is full of tarantu las or buzz saws," he gasped, "and about a hundred of them got their teeth into me at once!" "It was tacks, Mr. Bowser. Yon ought to have looked out for them. Look at your hands! And your neck and ears are bloody! I told you in the beginning that—" lie interrupted her with a gesture, then rushed forward and kicked the roll until his legs could kick no longer. She started to tell him that all the neighbors were looking and laughing, but he froze her with a glare, and, picking up the broomstick, pounded away until it was only a splinter in his hand. Then he drew himself up and walked into the kitchen and upstairs. Phe knew what was coming, but could not avoid it. He was waiting for her, and promptly said: "Woman, you have succeeded Ii» your plans!" "M\ plans-how?" '"IV get me almost butchered nliv« and to mak? me the laughing stock of the neighborhood!" "Bi.t didn't I tell you—" "Xo, ma'am, you didn't—not a word! 1 see through the whole thing. There is your infernal old carpet out there lam going out. lam going to see my lawyer. I may never return. I bid you good-by—good-by forever!" But at midnight he came sneaking back to his home and his bed. and next morning when four men drove up in a wagon to take the carpet away he neither to see nor to hear. WoniM Hnve Different Mt nnln tz n. The history of many words which we are continually using, little think ing how old and ventfr.ble they are and what they meant originally, is curious. Take the word "daughter." This is an old, old word. Like father and mother, brother and sisier, It takes us away back to the time lonsf before there was an English-speaking people or a German people, before even the Bomans and the Greeks had be come distinct and separate peoples and when our forefathers were still simply "Aryans," living somewhere in the heart of Asia. The Germans a» well as we use this word, but they spell and pronounce it "toehter." The ancient Greeks, who were likewise "Aryans," used it, too, but they gave it still another pronunciation—"thu gatcr"—while the ancient Hindoos, who came also of this good old Aryan stock, pronounced it "duitar." Xow. the old Hindoo language is in many particulars more nearly like the orig inal Aryan tongue than any other of the languages' that descended from it, and it has enabled scholars to explain many words of which the meanings; could hardly otherwise have been guessed. Daughter is one of them. This word seems to have meant orig inally "milker." Our forefathers in that long ago were herdsmen and every daughter was a milkmaid. An other word which takes us back to scenes of rustic life, though not so old a word as daughter, is the word "pe cuniary." We use the word in relation to money matters. —-Chicago Tribune. Not (1 I'ikl ConctuMtoii. Little Bertie, aged; five, wes ready for his bedtime bath and wat'-ng for his turn musingly, when he startled his mother with the question: "Mother, isn't it awful hot in Heav en?" "Why, no; very far from it." "Oh. 1 think it must be awful hot." "Why, whatever put that into your heail ?" 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